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“Is it really "Christians" United for Israel, at this point? No. It's Jews masquerading as Christians. The only Christian involvement is that it's their money funding it.”
–@LostMyHats
What most Americans don't know is that whenever you see "evangelical support" for Israel, somewhere behind it is Jewish funding, Jewish organization, and Jewish lobbying.
For example, "Christians United for Israel" has a Jewish co-director and Jewish co-founder. That money funds a team of Jewish lobbyists in Washington. Those lobbyists get legislation passed that confiscates American paychecks and gives that money to Israel.
It's like the miracle of the loaves and fishes, except the 11 million dollars that Christians gave CUFI, and CUFI then gave to lobbyists, was magically turned into 14.3 billion from U.S. taxpayers to Israel in the last funding bill. That's how the grift works.
Is it really "Christians" United for Israel, at this point? No. It's Jews masquerading as Christians. The only Christian involvement is that it's their money funding it.
But long before John Hagee's CUFI, before Israel bought Jerry Falwell a private jet to spread Christian Zionism, and long before Israel was paying to fly in a thousand U.S. pastors to have Mike Huckabee tell them God demands their support, the "Father of Zionism" was lobbying the U.S. President for a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine.
No, not Theodor Herzl. The OTHER "Father of Zionism."
William Blackstone was a preacher who had embraced the newly-made Dispensationalism heresy, and his "Blackstone Memorial" was a petition demanding the creation of Jewish Palestine. It was billed to the American public as a grassroots evangelical movement.
It wasn't.
The document was signed by wealthy elites like John Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Cyrus McCormick, the then-sitting Speaker of the House, and the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Pretty impressive for a grassroots evangelical movement, right? Wrong.
Rabbis helped to direct, write, and fund the petition. They got their wealthy friends to sign it, including the business partner of the Rothschild Banking house in London. They paid for its propagation. And, it turns out later, that the Rothschilds had recruited Blackstone to help lobby for the creation of Jewish Palestine.
When the petition reached President Harrison's desk in 1891, Herzl had not yet toured Europe to pitch Zionism to national leaders. The First Zionist World Congress had not yet met.
But in 1891, most Americans had never heard of Zionism either. Before Scofield, most had never heard of Dispensationalism except, perhaps, in some preaching from Dwight Moody. Even then, they didn't recognize it.
The idea that CHRISTIANS, of all people, should support Jews was utterly new to them. Why would Christians support the enemies of Christ?
For many people, the Blackstone Memorial was the first time they had encountered this novel, new concept or had ever been pitched the idea that Christians should support the establishment of a nation for people who hate Jesus.
They first heard about it in a political lobbying effort from whom Jewish leaders themselves called "The Father of Zionism," William Blackstone.
Yes. He had the title BEFORE Herzl. A Dispensationalist preacher infatuated with a novel prophecy fetish and working alongside the Rothschild dynasty with the same goal.
Dispensationalism, you see, didn't introduce the country to Zionism. It was Zionism that introduced Dispensationalism to America. And with it, the bizarre concept of Christian Zionism for the first time.
All brought to America courtesy of Jews using evangelicals as a megaphone to accomplish their political objectives. And as CUFI shows us, that grift continues today.
Read more at Insight to Incite. Link in bio. Audio available.
"the overwhelming majority of the 0.1% instances of actual antisemitism are caused by Israel's genocide and warmongering"
–@caitoz
I noticed this in Mearsheimer/Walt's Israel Lobby. They document previous instances of "antisemitism" tracking with Israel doing horrible things.
So, if your top priority is ending antisemitism then the action is obvious: Stop Israel starting wars and mass murdering people.
Ran into one of those liberal Zionists who poses as pro-Palestine but spends half their time concern trolling about "antisemitism" in the pro-Palestine movement. He tried to get me to engage him in this subject and I told him this:
Address the fact that 99.9% of the time “antisemitism” gets mentioned it’s in reference to criticisms of Israel and Zionism. Address the fact that Israel and Zionism cause many orders of magnitude more damage than the 0.1% instances of actual antisemitism. Address the fact that the overwhelming majority of the 0.1% instances of actual antisemitism are caused by Israel's genocide and warmongering and would go away if Israel stopped butchering children under the banner of the Star of David. Explain how it is possible to have a “serious discussion about antisemitism” while these three things are happening.
You will answer all four questions I asked you in their entirety if this conversation is to proceed. Until you have thoroughly addressed them all, the conversation you are trying to have is nonsensical.
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"the traditional propaganda function that is employed by, you know, the BBC, the Daily Mail, etc... can be encapsulated by AI processes."
–@JulianAssange in 2017
@caitoz quotes Zionists who are working with Big AI to re-establish narrative control.
I keep thinking about a talk I listened to by @JulianAssange back in 2017 where he warned that one day AI could be used to facilitate the propaganda interests of the powerful by manipulating news media and information in ways that are too subtle for the human mind to notice.
Assange described a future where AI-powered algorithms serve us a customized feed of information based on data collected about our search queries and interests, calculated to appeal to our biases and construct a worldview for us which advances the agendas of those who control the machines.
He explained that sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence systems could arrange this information with more subtlety and complexity than human perception can pick up on, in much the same way a computer can outperform any human brain at a game of chess.
Here’s an excerpt from Assange’s remarks, delivered via video chat at the Meltdown Festival in June 2017:
“What I think is probably the most important development that is happening as far as the fate of human beings is concerned is that we are getting close to the threshold where the traditional propaganda function that is employed by, you know, the BBC, the Daily Mail, etc... can be encapsulated by AI processes.
“Now, if you think about when you’re playing chess, already we’re in a situation where AI can do better than any human chess player. So you can see a certain number of moves ahead. And someone moves a piece onto the board and you go ‘Why did they put that knight there?’ And you start to think what is the intentionality behind it, and you try and look several steps ahead to work out what the intentionality was and then counter it: Okay, they want to manipulate me into moving here so this will happen and so I will lose.
“We take these considerations already when we’re — well, some of us — when we’re reading stories in the press. What is the intentionality of this story? Why is this particular information being pushed to the public and not some other form of information? Who’s the name of the author? What publication is it appearing in? What language? Etc. Well, possibly the reason is because someone wanted to promote a particular agenda, therefore we should read it in a different light.
“But when you have artificial intelligence programs harvesting all the search queries that people have on their phones, all the YouTube videos that human beings have uploaded etc, and it starts to lay out perceptual influence campaigns 20 to 30 moves ahead, this starts to become totally beneath the levels of human perception. And once a computer-augmented organization such as Google is able to engage in influencing human beings 20 to 30 moves ahead, keeping each move beneath the level of human perception, there’s nothing we can do about it, because we can’t see it.”
I keep thinking about these remarks nearly a decade later because this does seem to be the goal. It’s becoming clearer and clearer to everyone that these new technologies are not intended to improve the lives of ordinary people, but to serve the interests of the oligarchs and empire managers who rule our world. That’s why they’re being rammed into existence at breakneck pace despite the obvious fact that they’re making life worse for most people without advancing human quality of life in any meaningful way.
A big part of the agenda seems to be to re-centralize the control of information that was temporarily lost with the advent of the internet. Revolutionary sentiments are rumbling around the world as our species becomes increasingly discontented with the abuses of capitalism and the US-led world order, assisted by humanity’s unprecedented ability to network and share information around the world in real time.
Artificial intelligence’s usefulness in re-centralizing information in ways that can be easily manipulated has already been noted by the Israel lobby.
At an American Jewish Committee event this past June, Santa Clara University’s Maya Ackerman argued that generative AI presents an exciting new opportunity for imposing pro-Israel narratives on public consciousness, because AI companies can be lobbied directly to push pro-Israel narratives since their leaders can control what information people see.
Here’s a transcript of what she said:
“The really cool thing about AI is that while it can become a great ally for our enemies, if we act early it could be exactly the opportunity that we need after missing the boat with social media. AI is now becoming the dominant source of information — the main source of information. People trust AI more than anything else. They trust AI more than social media. They turn to chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini instead of using Google. And young people use these bots instead of Google in very, very very large numbers. So this is becoming the main source of information.
“And so when I say this, I still find Jewish people being discouraged, they say ‘Oh, but Wikipedia is already so antisemitic and social media is so antisemitic — why bother? The AI just learns from all of this data.’ So, you know, whatever, not much we can do.
“But that’s not true, because over the past two years the AI companies have been moving towards alignment. So instead of algorithms sort of honestly representing what’s in the data, we’re finding that these chatbots and the text to image models are increasingly showing us exactly what the companies want us to see.
“Okay, so it’s becoming intentional. Which means that instead of trying to control the whole world and trying to somehow manage what’s happening in this big blob called Wikipedia and social media, we can go directly to the companies with clear technical and advocacy solutions. For the first time, there is a path to correcting the digital world.”
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt recently confirmed that this was the Israel lobby’s new MO, saying the ADL has been “working with” all the top AI companies and pushing them to into alignment with the pro-Israel agenda.
Speaking at a Jerusalem Post conference last month, Greenblatt said the following:
"So we've been working with the frontier labs — OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet the company that runs Gemini, Google, Meta who runs Muse, and others, X, who run Grok—testing their models and using the results to push them to do better."
“Look, we’ve had excellent collaboration with Silicon Valley. These companies want to improve ChatGPT and Claude. We’ve got to help them. So we’ve run the tests and seen where antisemitism shows up and helped them develop strategies to tackle it right in the source code.”
If the Israel lobby manipulators are doing this, then we can assume that all the high-level imperial narrative managers are doing it as well.
In January 2018, Assange tweeted the following:
“The future of humanity is the struggle between humans that control machines and machines that control humans.
“While the internet has brought about a revolution in our ability to educate each other, the consequent democratic explosion has shaken existing establishments to their core. Burgeoning digital super states such as Google, Facebook and their Chinese equivalents, who are integrated with the existing order, have moved to re-establish discourse control. This is not simply a corrective action. Undetectable mass social influence powered by artificial intelligence is an existential threat to humanity.
“While still in its infancy, the geometric nature of this trend is clear. The phenomenon differs from traditional attempts to shape culture and politics by operating at a scale, speed, and increasingly at a subtlety, that appears highly likely to eclipse human counter-measures.
“Nuclear war, climate change or global pandemics are existential threats that we can work through with discussion and thought. Discourse is humanity’s immune system for existential threats. Diseases that infect the immune system are usually fatal. In this case, at a planetary scale.”
Anyway, just some things we should keep in mind as we make our way into this strange new future.
“mid-century families fled the cities for the suburbs in search of physical security… Today a different migration is under way. Families are moving to live near strong parishes and congregations, in search of spiritual security.”
–@JohannKurtz on how to rebuild.
Leave the Anti-Christ League.
Stop supporting, or committing, child abuse, child murder and genocide.
““Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the LORD.
Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people:
“You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them.
Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD...
I will set shepherds over them who will care for them,
and they shall fear no more,
nor be dismayed,
neither shall any be missing,
declares the LORD.”"
In conversation with @Littoria14, Alessandra Bocchi goes through the numbers (rent, bills, etc.) facing young Italians trying to form families. It is grim, especially due to the impact of the Russia/Ukraine War.
Zionists are strangling us and our cousins in Europe.
79 minutes.
I remember going to a well-reviewed art house film with my girlfriend back in the early 1990s.
We were taken aback as we realized it was a gay porn film.
All European peoples should revisit what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. Let’s avoid that.
“Arguments require understanding. Accusations don’t.”
–@LostMyHats
Tom Buck has repeatedly warned that Christian Nationalists are teaching "dangerous" things. He's not specific about what that is exactly, and he's explicitly stated that they are not false teachers.
But, you know. Just trust him. They are DaNGeERouS.
And yet, I've never seen a more dangerous statement than what Buck recently tweeted in a virtue-twerk in an applause line that, if taken seriously, would ruin not only the United States, but Tom Buck's town of Lindale, Texas.
You're about to see "dangerous" for real.
Buck tweeted, “I am more than willing to have anyone who will be a citizen with me in heaven to be a citizen with me here on earth!”
Aaaaaand there, we have it. Russell Moore argued that immigration is good because importing lost people is evangelistic. Tom Buck argues that immigration is good because importing Christians is loving.
One flaming leftist says it’s Christlike to bring the lost. And one flaming leftist says that it’s Christlike to bring the saved. Follow the advice of these blind guides, and we’ll have the whole world here. Which is exactly what will, and what is already, happening.
It's one of the most flatly dangerous sentiments expressed in the evangelical ecosystem that I’ve ever seen. But I’m not going to ask you to take my word for it. Let's do the math.
Buck, of course, was commenting on the deportation of Samuel Sey. And that’s the first thing you need to understand about Tom Buck and the BoomerCon movement in general. They don’t think long-term or systemically. They react. They don't think.
They’re basically automatons, capable only of reflexes. They largely have the minds of children, in which history began the day they were born, the future is whatever they wish it will be, and the realities of the present are overshadowed by their imagination. These are men catechized by 30 years of Fox News, whose Bible is Enlightenment philosophy, and whose religion is Post-War Secular Liberalism. And when Sean Hannity is your oracle of truth, and Mark Levin your prophet, you’re used to just consuming the day’s headlines and screaming back appropriately in the daily Orwellian Two Minutes Hate.
Tom Buck lives in Texas, a fact he’s quite proud of. But in Texas, the year Tom Buck was born, the population of White people in the state was 71%. Texas was still Texas back then, and when you saw a stranger in the street, they were most likely a fellow Texan. But in 2020, it was 39%. That’s a 44% reduction in population share. Has he not noticed this?
Texas is turning blue right in front of Buck’s eyes, which he’s likely not noticing because he’s fixated on the Dallas Cowboys’ stats and retweeting James White. That reason is immigration.
Twenty years ago, Republicans were winning by an average of 22% in Texas. Eight years ago, they were winning by 5 to 6 percentage points. And tonight, they’re not winning at all. The Democrats are. In that same period, Texas’ foreign-born population has doubled.
Tom Buck will no doubt lament this today. Probably, he’ll do so publicly, talk about the world going to hell in a handbasket, complain that Christians didn’t vote their principles (like Christian Nationalists, in other words), and then move on to whatever topic pastors talk about it when it’s not election season.
What he will not do is ask why. It’s an answer he can’t tolerate. It’s that America is not a Christian Nation governmentally; its clergy demands secular pluralism, and they believe the Great Commission is relegated to passing out Jack Chick tracts. That’s why. And even more to the matter, it’s because Americans have been taught that it’s uncouth to advocate for our own self-interest.
It’s because BoomerCons don’t care what’s coming to the pike because they’re only one metamucil sip away from an eternal vacation, and because evangelical pastors use their influence to virtue-signal their piety by excusing the indefensible instead of using it to take dominion over the world around them.
Here's the math: Take a nation at random. Let's do the Republic of Congo, just for grins. That nation has 92 million Christians. Polls show half want to escape it and come here. That's more people than the three largest U.S. states. It's three times Texas' population.
Now, imagine that you're a hard-working man in Lindale, paying the average rent of roughly $1300 for a two-bedroom apartment in that town, and have three kids. It's increasingly hard to put gas in the tank and food on the table. Imagine his wages being suppressed basically his entire life, mostly thanks to foreign labor. And then imagine he hears the idiot preacher say that we should let in the Third World because they're Christian.
There's no love for Tom Buck's neighbor in that. It's hatred. But at least he got some applause on social media, right? Golf claps, everybody.
Lindale, whose income per capita is 19% of the national average and with 7,500 residents, would be overwhelmed and would crumble beneath the weight of only a thousand of those Congolese Christians. Why are pastors giving the dumbest hot takes on the Internet?
It’s here that Buck and his defenders will guffaw and huff and say, “He clearly wasn’t being literal.”
I know. He was being stupid. Dangerously stupid.
That’s the whole problem. Here we are, trying to have a serious conversation, sort out the truth, find the right path forward, and work on real solutions for real problems that our children really face, and Pastor Jesus Juke over there is dropping sophomoric, shallow slogans. And it’s even worse because of why he’s doing it.
He’s dropping those pearls of absolute pig-feces because he’s attacking Christian Nationalists in favor of immigration enforcement and the deportation of Samuel Sey. And I’m going to level with you on this. That is more dangerous than importing 45 million Congolese.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a fight for survival. And by “we,” I mean both Western Civilization, as a whole, and the United States. And this fight exists not because America will finally flush down the toilet of God Almighty’s wrath into the sewer tank of history. It exists because, unlike Buck, we’re concerned about our kids.
I can hear him now, “I wasn’t being literal.” Or perhaps, “I wasn’t being serious.”
We know. Believe us, we know. We’ve heard your droning on for years now, without anything resembling an argument. We know.
But we ARE being literal. We ARE being serious. And we ARE making literal and serious arguments about what kind of home we want our children to inherit. So if you can't be serious, for the love of all that is good and holy, please shut your wicked face. We’re trying to have a conversation here.
I’m really struggling here to convey my contempt. God did it way better, anyway:
“As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock."
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“Even if those men were wolves, hypothetically, polemical pastors must draw distinctions between leaders and followers. Joel Osteen is fair game for anyone who wants to take a polemical potshot. But his followers, as naive and lost as they are, shouldn’t be treated the same. They should be pitied and evangelized, and probably not beaten with sticks.”
–@LostMyHats
I’ve always been bothered by frustrated people bitterly talking about “sheeple”. If people are being led badly then lead them better!
Tom Buck has repeatedly warned that Christian Nationalists are teaching "dangerous" things. He's not specific about what that is exactly, and he's explicitly stated that they are not false teachers.
But, you know. Just trust him. They are DaNGeERouS.
And yet, I've never seen a more dangerous statement than what Buck recently tweeted in a virtue-twerk in an applause line that, if taken seriously, would ruin not only the United States, but Tom Buck's town of Lindale, Texas.
You're about to see "dangerous" for real.
Buck tweeted, “I am more than willing to have anyone who will be a citizen with me in heaven to be a citizen with me here on earth!”
Aaaaaand there, we have it. Russell Moore argued that immigration is good because importing lost people is evangelistic. Tom Buck argues that immigration is good because importing Christians is loving.
One flaming leftist says it’s Christlike to bring the lost. And one flaming leftist says that it’s Christlike to bring the saved. Follow the advice of these blind guides, and we’ll have the whole world here. Which is exactly what will, and what is already, happening.
It's one of the most flatly dangerous sentiments expressed in the evangelical ecosystem that I’ve ever seen. But I’m not going to ask you to take my word for it. Let's do the math.
Buck, of course, was commenting on the deportation of Samuel Sey. And that’s the first thing you need to understand about Tom Buck and the BoomerCon movement in general. They don’t think long-term or systemically. They react. They don't think.
They’re basically automatons, capable only of reflexes. They largely have the minds of children, in which history began the day they were born, the future is whatever they wish it will be, and the realities of the present are overshadowed by their imagination. These are men catechized by 30 years of Fox News, whose Bible is Enlightenment philosophy, and whose religion is Post-War Secular Liberalism. And when Sean Hannity is your oracle of truth, and Mark Levin your prophet, you’re used to just consuming the day’s headlines and screaming back appropriately in the daily Orwellian Two Minutes Hate.
Tom Buck lives in Texas, a fact he’s quite proud of. But in Texas, the year Tom Buck was born, the population of White people in the state was 71%. Texas was still Texas back then, and when you saw a stranger in the street, they were most likely a fellow Texan. But in 2020, it was 39%. That’s a 44% reduction in population share. Has he not noticed this?
Texas is turning blue right in front of Buck’s eyes, which he’s likely not noticing because he’s fixated on the Dallas Cowboys’ stats and retweeting James White. That reason is immigration.
Twenty years ago, Republicans were winning by an average of 22% in Texas. Eight years ago, they were winning by 5 to 6 percentage points. And tonight, they’re not winning at all. The Democrats are. In that same period, Texas’ foreign-born population has doubled.
Tom Buck will no doubt lament this today. Probably, he’ll do so publicly, talk about the world going to hell in a handbasket, complain that Christians didn’t vote their principles (like Christian Nationalists, in other words), and then move on to whatever topic pastors talk about it when it’s not election season.
What he will not do is ask why. It’s an answer he can’t tolerate. It’s that America is not a Christian Nation governmentally; its clergy demands secular pluralism, and they believe the Great Commission is relegated to passing out Jack Chick tracts. That’s why. And even more to the matter, it’s because Americans have been taught that it’s uncouth to advocate for our own self-interest.
It’s because BoomerCons don’t care what’s coming to the pike because they’re only one metamucil sip away from an eternal vacation, and because evangelical pastors use their influence to virtue-signal their piety by excusing the indefensible instead of using it to take dominion over the world around them.
Here's the math: Take a nation at random. Let's do the Republic of Congo, just for grins. That nation has 92 million Christians. Polls show half want to escape it and come here. That's more people than the three largest U.S. states. It's three times Texas' population.
Now, imagine that you're a hard-working man in Lindale, paying the average rent of roughly $1300 for a two-bedroom apartment in that town, and have three kids. It's increasingly hard to put gas in the tank and food on the table. Imagine his wages being suppressed basically his entire life, mostly thanks to foreign labor. And then imagine he hears the idiot preacher say that we should let in the Third World because they're Christian.
There's no love for Tom Buck's neighbor in that. It's hatred. But at least he got some applause on social media, right? Golf claps, everybody.
Lindale, whose income per capita is 19% of the national average and with 7,500 residents, would be overwhelmed and would crumble beneath the weight of only a thousand of those Congolese Christians. Why are pastors giving the dumbest hot takes on the Internet?
It’s here that Buck and his defenders will guffaw and huff and say, “He clearly wasn’t being literal.”
I know. He was being stupid. Dangerously stupid.
That’s the whole problem. Here we are, trying to have a serious conversation, sort out the truth, find the right path forward, and work on real solutions for real problems that our children really face, and Pastor Jesus Juke over there is dropping sophomoric, shallow slogans. And it’s even worse because of why he’s doing it.
He’s dropping those pearls of absolute pig-feces because he’s attacking Christian Nationalists in favor of immigration enforcement and the deportation of Samuel Sey. And I’m going to level with you on this. That is more dangerous than importing 45 million Congolese.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a fight for survival. And by “we,” I mean both Western Civilization, as a whole, and the United States. And this fight exists not because America will finally flush down the toilet of God Almighty’s wrath into the sewer tank of history. It exists because, unlike Buck, we’re concerned about our kids.
I can hear him now, “I wasn’t being literal.” Or perhaps, “I wasn’t being serious.”
We know. Believe us, we know. We’ve heard your droning on for years now, without anything resembling an argument. We know.
But we ARE being literal. We ARE being serious. And we ARE making literal and serious arguments about what kind of home we want our children to inherit. So if you can't be serious, for the love of all that is good and holy, please shut your wicked face. We’re trying to have a conversation here.
I’m really struggling here to convey my contempt. God did it way better, anyway:
“As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock."
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Note to myself: If I get back to Salzburg, home of my favorite castle, I should give the cathedral a visit. The very one that Mozart was baptized and wrote this for.
“The solution is not to voot harder or find someone somewhere outside the administration to blame, it’s to build parallel systems. You can’t do anything about electoral politics, so don’t get hung up about them, frens. That's all we've ever suggested.”
–@AydinPaladin
Since the Iran war started, we warned people about the downstream effects that it would have on the economy, not just on petrol prices, but in all the things made using petrol; in the cost of food as fertilizer would skyrocket. We warned people that Iran was not Venezuela.
People vote based on the recency of political events. They vote based on the state of their wallet, the price at the pump, and “vibes” – this is overwhelmingly demonstrated across decades of scientific evidence.
ICE and deportations? Charlie Kirk? These things are now distant memories in the minds of people trying to just make ends meet, dreaming of owning a home the placated GOP Boomer base will never part with for less than 300% of what they paid for it during Covid.
Any wins that you can attribute to the Trump admin are phantom remnants in the economy of the now.
I can't speak for Spoon, but I can speak for myself in that I was not honest about these things because it gave me some perverse pleasure - at the end of the day I'm a statistician and I call things as I see them in the data. Being right is actually quite rarely fun.
For most of my time doing YouTube it’s been people on the left who’ve been angry at statistics and observations of human behavioural psychology, but for the past year it’s been those on the right because they didn’t want to see the writing on the wall. I won’t stop calling things as I see them just because “my side” doesn’t like the answers for the same reasons I would never do so to mollify the left’s same liberal priors.
I hope people see now that we weren’t “black-pilling” for the sake of it. I’m often wrong, but the outcome here was not just predictable, it was carved in stone in February. What happened in the US midterms is why we told people for the past 8 months what was coming – to psychologically prepare people for what was inevitable and over which they had no say nor control.
Because this is democracy working as intended. The purpose of a machine is what it does. Political energy is siphoned and then dissipated into the ether, and by getting psychologically invested in “winning”, all of which is orchestrated without our individual capacity to affect or influence whatsoever, catastrophic cognitive dissonance is unavoidable.
The solution is not to voot harder or find someone somewhere outside the administration to blame, it’s to build parallel systems. You can’t do anything about electoral politics, so don’t get hung up about them, frens. That's all we've ever suggested. Don't be blackpilled, be clearpilled.
Become ungovernable.
It’s gonna be an interesting post-mortem on Broken Crown tonight.
UPDATE: 62% of voters say the war in Iran was the wrong decison; 74% say it was a "crucial" or "major" factor in their vote.
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“If genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid do not bother you, then you are unlikely to have ethical qualms about communicating without intellectual honesty.”
–@caitoz
Israel apologists are unique in the way literally all of them constantly pretend to believe things they don't actually believe.
Over the years I've argued with members of every political ideology on earth, and I've never encountered any group who does this like Zionists do. Other ideological factions might hold idiotic and downright evil beliefs, but for the most part they tend to actually believe the things they are saying.
Not so with Israel supporters. I've been interacting with them for years, often over extended conversations just to understand their arguments and their worldview, and what stands out the most in these interactions is the way they constantly lie about what they think is true.
They'll pretend to believe a given high-profile critic of Israeli atrocities hates Jews just to help marginalize their voice. They'll pretend to believe Iran is on the cusp of developing nuclear weapons in order to help drum up support for war. They'll pretend to believe antisemitism is one of the most urgent and dangerous threats to our society today in order to push for more laws against pro-Palestine protests. They'll pretend to believe every human rights group on earth is lying about Israel committing genocide in order to help Israel commit more genocidal crimes against humanity.
Over the years I've interacted many people who misrepresent my beliefs and the beliefs of other people, but Israel supporters are the only ideological group I've ever encountered who consistently misrepresent THEIR OWN beliefs.
I've seen it over and over and over again. I'll corner them on one of the claims they are making about what they believe, completely dismantling their given reasons for why they believe what they claim to believe, and they'll just shift to some other reason justifying the existence of their belief.
And this should not be surprising. If you would support genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid, of course you would lie about your own beliefs to advance those agendas. Bad people do bad things. If genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid do not bother you, then you are unlikely to have ethical qualms about communicating without intellectual honesty.
These days I mostly just respond to such people by saying "You don't really believe that. You're just pretending to believe that in order to advance the interests of a genocidal apartheid state." It's the only way to deal with a group who literally never engages in good faith on any level.
Israel supporters need to do this because their worldview is not grounded in truth or morality. They don't hold their position because it is morally or factually correct, they hold it to advance personal agendas like career advancement, ladder-climbing, getting into Heaven, getting those tasty hasbara bucks, or winning the approval of their Zionist friends and family.
In a healthy society, supporting Israel would be as culturally toxic as loving Adolf Hitler or advocating the legalization of child sex trafficking. But we do not live in a healthy society. We live under a murderous, globe-spanning empire that is held together by lies and endless bloodshed. Zionism is rewarded and amplified because its evils are shared with the evils of the rest of the western imperial power structure which is choking our world to death.
