McChuck: So, LF Baum’s MIL was a pagan harridan whom he used as the basis for the Wicked Witch of the West? That’s what I’m getting from this article.
bob sykes: I believe the 1852 convention was held in West Chester, Pennsylania. Another was held in Seneca Falls, NY, but I don’t know when. (My wife is a feminist.) There is a considerable literature on the meaning of the Wizard of Oz, and it is generally interpreted as a Populist diatribe: https://wr.english.fsu.e du/College-Composition/O ur-Own-Words-The-James-M .-McCrimmon-Award/Our-Ow n-Words-2005-2006-Editio n/The-Wizard-of-Oz-More- Than-Just-a-Children-s-S tory-by-Lauren-Houlberg The...
longarch: It would be interesting to see exactly what the group says about Q and the anons. Do they claim to be admirers of Q? Do they even cite Q as an influence? Or do they just echo many of the claims of Q, e.g. governments are blackmailed by evidence of sex crimes?
Wang Wei Lin: By definition then, the founders of the US would now be considered domestic terrorists.
Gavin Longmuir: Jim! Jim! Jim! You are too optimistic. Reality is much worse than that. :(
Jim: The United States is run by the same people as ran the Soviet Union. It is perhaps no surprise then that that body corporate is a totalitarian dictatorship masquerading as a Potemkin clown show masquerading as a legislative democracy, perched, gargoyle-esque, atop a country currently undergoing social, economic, and demographic internal disintegration and collapse without precedent in the annals of the world. Its satellites are similarly structured.
Gavin Longmuir: When the Soviet Union was collapsing, National Public Radio referred to the hard-line extreme-left Communists who tried to stage a coup as “right-wing Communists”. In WokeSpeak, “right wing” simply means a group with is disapproved by the far-left Ruling Class. And the term “left wing” is never heard.
Altitude Zero: The constant invocation of the word “democratic” by our ruling class is very reminiscent of the way the Communists used the word in the 20th century – anything that was “The People’s Democratic Republic of Such and Such” was always anything but. It’s interesting that as both the US and its European allies become far less democratic than they used to be, in any real sense, the word is trotted out more and more…
DJF: I have no sympathy for right-wing terrorists, but a “free democratic basic order” is not an accurate description of the German Federal Republic — to put it mildly. After another decade or so of a Democratic presidential administration, it won’t be an accurate description of the US, either. Of course, the powers that be will use the arrest of this pathetic cell of nutty, delusional terrorists (assuming they posed a real threat) to smear AFD, and anyone else who questions what the...
Jim: Chedolf: “Yes, nerds/weaklings tend to panic when faced with any kind of physical threat, including disease.” Altitude Zero: “It’s been obvious for quite a while that a lot of Yarvin’s outlook is driven by his terror of street crime.” https://i.ibb.co/GRgXxqQ /tenor.gif
VXXC: Casey Handmer H8′s Musk and perhaps wanted to be an astronaut and can’t, so he’ll piss on the whole thing. Why is he getting play? “It’ll never fly” they told the Wright Brothers. People like this need to be sterilized.
Light: His King awaits. And he will kneel before him.
Faze: In the book Beau Geste, the walls of the fort are defended by the bodies of the dead, propped up in the crenelations with their rifles.
Adar: Krak of the Chevaliers, if you can, is a must-see in your life time. With the war there now, it’s more or less impossible.
PM: Fun fact: Caerphilly Castle in South Wales (https://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Caerphilly_Castle #In_popular_culture), the second largest castle by area in the UK (after Windsor) had a peacetime garrison of approximately 30.
Altitude Zero: It’s been obvious for quite a while that a lot of Yarvin’s outlook is driven by his terror of street crime; if you read his old “Unqualified Reservations” columns, he makes it clear that there is no right that he would not give up in order to insure safety and public order, and I guess that his take on Covid was kind of an extension of this. Yes, he’s still an interesting and innovative thinker, and if I had a young daughter like Yarvin does, I might feel the...
Chedolf: Curtis Yarvin spent at least a year shamelessly advocating a brutal Ronavirus police state total surveillance regime. Never forget. Yes, nerds/weaklings tend to panic when faced with any kind of physical threat, including disease. Yarvin is still worth reading. You just have to keep in mind his biases and blind spots. (Sailer, Cochran, Razib and Jayman have similar flaw.)
Albion: Shame Yarvin was ‘on their side’ in that horrible time. I do like a lot of his stuff however, is I will continue to read it. All I can say is the fear of what was widely proclaimed to be the greatest pandemic ever that would wipe humanity from the face of the earth made a lot of people run for moral cover. A lot still do, though if they are socialist or lefty-crazy they love a police state whatever the reason. At least Yarvin probably doesn’t want it all the time.
Jim: Curtis Yarvin spent at least a year shamelessly advocating a brutal Ronavirus police state total surveillance regime. Never forget.