four, five, still alive

Josephine Mathias: The Truth about Leftists and the Black Community

2020-09-16T13:43:10Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jF5C0tN3zk

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Josephine Mathias (Contributor, National Post) about #leftists and the black community, the #culture on #college campuses, #intersectionality, and fake outcries.

Wealth, Poverty, and Politics

2020-09-16T13:40:38Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGYl17DiEwo&ab_channel=HooverInstitution

Recorded on September 18, 2015 Hoover Institution fellow Thomas Sowell discusses #poverty around the world and in the United States. Poverty in #America, he says, compared to the rest of the world, is not severe. Many poor people in poverty in the United States have one or two cars, central heating, and cell phones. The real problem for the poor is the destruction of the family, which Sowell argues dramatically increased once #welfare #policies were introduced in the #1960s.
He is correct and it was done on purpose, #marxism (and all the ideologies that stem from it) and #feminism mean to destroy the family unit.

Thomas Sowell on the second edition of Intellectuals and Society

2020-09-16T13:38:05Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyufeHJlodE&ab_channel=HooverInstitution

On the occasion of the publication of a new edition of his book Intellectuals and Society, Thomas Sowell returns to Uncommon Knowledge for a wide-ranging interview.

Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality

2020-09-16T13:36:15Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS5WYp5xmvI&ab_channel=HooverInstitution

Recorded on November 15, 2018

Thomas Sowell discusses economic #inequality, racial inequality, and the myths that have continued to falsely describe the system of poverty among different racial and economic classes. He explains the economic theories behind these pervasive myths and proposes fact-based solutions for seemingly intractable situations.

Sowell discusses his early life as a high school dropout and his first full-time job as a Western Union messenger delivering telegrams. He admits to flirting with #Marxism in his early twenties as he first tried to grapple with the housing inequality he saw across the neighborhoods of New York City. Marxism, he says, was the only explanation he could find at the time. He went on to serve in the Marine Corps before continuing his #education in economics at Harvard and earning a master’s at Columbia and a PhD at the #University of Chicago.

Sowell’s first job after his receiving his PhD in #economics was working for the Department of Labor, and he says it was there that he realized Marxism was not the answer. He argues that the #government has its own institutional interests in inequality that cannot be explained through Marxism. He began to be discouraged by Marxism and the government in general and began searching for better economic #ideas and #solutions (the free market).

Robinson and Sowell discuss Sowell’s written works, his ideas of racial and economic inequality, the state of the United States today, and much more.

Conversations | Stephen Hicks | Postmodernism and Nazism

2020-09-16T13:33:26Z

Prof. Stephen Hicks is a philosopher who is well known for his expertise in demystifying postmodernist #ideology. His insights into #postmodernism and #politicalcorrectness have extra significance today as we see #university #progressive #activism spilling out into the streets.

Why Public Schools and the Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down

2020-09-16T13:32:03Z

https://youtu.be/6CDaflxJJ0g

In this video we examine how public #schools and the #mainstream #media have contributed to the growth of a passive citizenry, thus paving the way for the rise of #tyranny. We then look at the role of so called anti-authoritarians (sjws, progressives, feminists, activists, media) play in a free and flourishing #society.

Get the government and leftwing activist ideologues OUT OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM

MEETING THE ENEMY A feminist comes to terms with the Men's Rights movement | Cassie Jaye | TEDxMarin

2020-09-16T13:25:02Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WMuzhQXJoY

By facing long-held assumptions, one woman reevaluates her own gender biases. Documentary Filmmaker, The Red Pill

Cassie Jaye founded Jaye Bird Productions in 2008, which has since produced a collection of documentary films that have been praised for being thought-provoking, entertaining and respectful in representing multiple competing views within each film. Jaye is known for tackling complex and often controversial subject matters. Her latest film is The Red Pill. Prior to “The Red Pill”, Jaye’s most notable films were the award winning feature documentaries “Daddy I Do” (which examined the Abstinence-Only Movement versus Comprehensive Sex Education) and “The Right to Love: An American Family” (which followed one family’s activism fighting for same-sex marriage rights in California). Both films showed that Jaye’s interview style is to allow people to share their views honestly, openly and candidly while allowing audiences to come to their own conclusions.

Stephen Hicks: Why Postmodernists don’t see their own Contradictions?

2020-09-16T13:23:19Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYabDlZSWOE

What motivates postmodernists? Why do they not see their own contradictions? How can they reconcile their epistemology with their socialist policy?

Stephen Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.

In 2004 he wrote a book named "Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault" which was e.g. recommended by Jordan Peterson for understanding #postmodernism.

Stephen Hicks: Nietzsche Perfectly Forecasts the Postmodernist Left

2020-09-16T13:21:21Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbA9ALOrHaA

Stephen Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.
In 2004 he wrote a book named "Explaining Postmodernism: #Skepticism and #Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault" which was e.g. recommended by Jordan Peterson for understanding #postmodernism

How the Left Got the Facts Around Inequality Completely Wrong | Prof. Terrell

2020-09-16T13:18:42Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWCXt1ZqiI

The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer. Inequality rises, and the US is fairing pretty bad in it. Is that narrative actually true?

Timothy Terrell is professor of economics at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina and addresses the facts about inequality in this talk.

#inequality #Terrell

Mises University 2017. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2017.

Jeff Deist: How the 2020 Crisis will Change US Education and Politics Forever

2020-09-16T13:17:10Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9JZp3n2Qi0

Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, gives the talk "Coming Apart, Coming Together" about the 2020 crisis and how it will change American education and politics.

#Crisis #Deist

Recorded in Orlando, Florida, on August 29, 2020.

Patrick Newman: Why Progressivism is just Cronyism

2020-09-16T13:15:12Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-50qA00xQ&ab_channel=PhilosophyInsights

Prof. Patrick Newman explains why progressivism is just cronyism and not a machinery of public interest as it is sold by public intellectuals.

#progressivism #cronyism

Disgusting

2020-08-27T01:44:48Z

On Twitter Blue Checkmark Leftist activists and democrat celebrities calling the minority speakers of the RNC "tokens" and making fun of their accents. they think they "own" minorities. Some things never change, I mean the dems are the party of segregation and the kkk. And fun fact and reminder the party "switch" is a lie.

Wow. The true colors of the left are shown this year. I mean I knew the truth years prior, the bigoted hypocritical left calling black conservatives "uncle toms" and "coons" and attack right leaning lgbt people like Blair White and Milo for having "wrong think".

#Walkway

Interesting....

2020-08-27T00:14:29Z

The civil war has been going on for a long time. It started in academia decades ago with post-modernism and post-structuralists attacking logic and language itself. Decades down the line "unpack" and "deconstruct" are common terms in the leftist lexicon, and gives you silly arguments like redefining "racism" to be the privilege-power paradigm which functions to exonerate people from personal responsibility(re: rioting, re: actual widescale insurrection with corporate sponsorship).

It's a cultural war, and what you're seeing with the DNC is widespread cognitive dissonance, leading to them tearing themselves apart. Let's just get on with it already, because the theatrics are exhausting.

Even right now the vast majority of rioters are still "only" trying to force their will on others through non-lethal force. You could call that civil unrest with the ever-present threat of escalating violence. War is the point where the mainstream, status-quo belief is that the only way to end the violence is to kill the enemy. When that point is reached I promise you that you'll know. A cultural war where ideologues try to gain political power by taking over institutions and control discourse is just regular peacetime corruption, and it could have easily been dealt with through peaceful means if people hadn't been sleeping on it.

The post-modernism of Foucault and Derrida was more or less exhausted as an academic concern by the late-80s. However, it was integrated with Critical Theory to produce what we may now call Critical Social Justice based on ideas about intersectionality by Crenshaw, and Robin DiAngelo and her ideas about 'White fragility' and 'White privilege' are very fashionable right now. Many Progressives parrot these ideas with probably very little understanding of their genealogy and certainly no understanding of their very shaky basis.

A Genealogy of Amorality, if you'll indulge a shitty allusion. There are many crossroads there, but critical(race) theory, third wave feminism, and even overt Marxism converge heavily at various points, almost to where they cannot be divorced from one another.

IIRC Critical Race Theory is the close cousin of a lot of Progressive thought right now but is itself much more rigorous than the latter having come from legal circles. My main issue with a lot of what may loosely be called Critical Social Justice (with Robin DiAngelo being one of most well-known exponents) is that it puts itself beyond all scrutiny with any criticism of itself being accounted for internally within the theory and auto-rendered invalid. At bottom, it says that these or that facts about oppression are true because of the 'lived experience' of the oppressed; that's the only way to decide what's true. No wonder it seems to appeal to latent-authoritarians.

CRT functions as a closed system which contains it's own memetic "antivirus," if you'll suffer that framework for expressive purposes. I did read an interesting abstract not too long ago regarding CRT, specifically regarding intersectionality and conceptual alignment with third wave feminism and Marxism.

TLDR;
The liberals, feminists, activists, the Left and Democrats are thoroughly brainwashed and have devolved into a cult. The refused to acknowledge it because they avoid discourse and keep to their own cozy bubbles and above all have a superiority complex - they think they are correct thus above scrutiny and see themselves as saviors (via deconstructing/destroying "evil christian white straight hetero capitalist patriarchy"). Deeply severely delusional self serving hypocritcal destructive bunch.

#criticaltheory, #leftism, #dnc, #marxists, #democrats, #marxism, #leftists, #politics, #feminism, #cults, #brainwashing, #feminists, #academia, #corruption, #activism, #extremists, #ideologues, #ideology, #subversion, #leftwing, #liberals, #indoctrination, #education, #progressives, #progressivism, #criticalracetheory, #authoriarians, #zealots, #sjws, #socialjusticewarriors, #intersectionality, #socialjustice, #socjus, #deconstructionism, #radicals, #cult, #liberalism, #regressives, #racetheory, #genderstudies, #womenstudies, #sociology, #socialsciences, #college, #university, #universtities

me:

2018-12-19T18:24:32Z

It Snowed Last Night...

2018-12-19T18:23:45Z

8:00 am: I made a snowman.

8:10 - A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snow woman.

8:15 - So, I made a snow woman.

8:17 - My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman’s voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.

8:20 - The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead.

8:22 - The transgender man..women…person asked why I didn’t just make one snow person with detachable parts.

8:25 - The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.

8:28 - I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.

8:31 - The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be covered up .

8:40 - The Police arrived saying someone had been offended.

8:42 - The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.

8:43 - The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.

8:45 - TV news crew from ABC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I replied “Snowballs” and am now called a sexist.

9:00 - I was on the News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.

9:10 - I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services.

9:29 - Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding for me to be arrested.

Moral: There is no moral to this story. It is what we have become, all because of snowflakes.

got_no_strings @ 2018-12-20T05:22:00

2018-12-19T18:22:52Z

got_no_strings @ 2018-12-20T05:22:00

2018-12-19T18:22:27Z

There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence. They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary.

— Bill Whittle

got_no_strings @ 2018-12-20T05:21:00

2018-12-19T18:21:43Z

Cults further restrict dissent through decreased contact with non-members. Outsiders are likely to raise critical questions about the leader and the group’s activities, thus weakening the group fantasy. In addition, as discussed earlier, outsiders are a threat because they may be sources of support, self-esteem and comfort, offsetting the need for the group. Research suggests that the fewer social ties a cult convert had before joining, the more likely it was that he or she would remain in the organisation.
— Page 124, The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering Cult Behaviours in American Society

reminds me of feminism (aka fem marxism)

got_no_strings @ 2018-12-20T05:21:00

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got_no_strings @ 2018-12-20T05:20:00

2018-12-19T18:20:28Z

The American elite

2018-12-19T18:19:51Z

The American elite … is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush – sophistry washed down with Chardonnay.
— Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

the postmodern contradiction

2018-12-19T18:19:16Z

Well the postmodern contradiction to me has always been very fascinating that they say “there’s no such thing as objective truth and virtue but everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi who should be punched”. You know if there's no such thing as truth and goodness why are you opposed to racism? I mean I’m opposed to racism, you’re opposed to racism but that’s because we have a moral standard that’s not purely subjective and so this combination I think that they teach you “there’s no such thing as the good and the true and the beautiful” so that you have no defense against their vicious French Revolution style defamatory attacks. I think that they want to weaken your sense of morality so they have more control over you.
— [source]

FEMINISM IS COMMUNISM IN A SKIRT & MARXISM IN DRAG

2018-12-19T18:17:47Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PulfEkq4NkI

communism/marxism/feminism, the most sexist and anti human nature ideologies in existence

Wow, pretty accurate results

2010-12-13T01:21:28Z

Advanced Global Personality Test Results

Extraversion	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Stability	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Orderliness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Accommodation	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Intellectual	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Interdependence	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	40%
Mystical	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Materialism	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Narcissism	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Adventurousness	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Work ethic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Conflictseeking	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	40%
Need to dominate	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Romantic	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Avoidant	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Anti-authority	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	60%

Wealth	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Dependency	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	40%
Change averse	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Cautiousness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	60%
Individuality	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	40%
Sexuality	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	40%
Peter pancomplex	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Histrionic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Vanity	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Artistic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	60%
Hedonism	\|\|	10%
Physicalfitness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	40%
Religious	\|\|\|\|	20%
Paranoia	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	60%
Hypersensitivity	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Indie	\|\|	10%

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Stability results were low which suggests you are very worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious.
Orderliness results were medium which suggests you are moderately organized, hard working, and reliable while still remaining flexible, efficient, and fun.
Extraversion results were moderately low which suggests you are reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive.

trait snapshot:
paranoid tendencies, irritable, anxious, fidgety, dependent, worrying, emotionally sensitive, prone to regret, depressed, second guesses self, somewhat fragile, dislikes change, prefers organized to unpredictable, suspicious, phobic, not a risk taker, very sensitive to criticism, unadventurous, does not make friends easily, defensive, obsessive, low self esteem

The Trait snapshot was not 100% accurate but pretty close to hitting the nail on the head, atleast now I know what to work on.
^___________^