-
Round trip
Suddenly this year, plenty of people who were stoutly defending absolute free speech “rights” have turned into censors. Before October, these “conservatives” had been smashing “liberals” for turning into censors. What makes this particular reversal salient is the round trip. 9/11 turned many “freedom”-loving people into censors against Islam. I was among that crowd. Afterward,…
-
Debtoleth = deatholeth (reprint)
Reprinted from last year, edited and sorted. = = = = = I came across an 1883 text on banking with lots of nice clear history on banks, governments, and debts. An extremely simple pattern holds true for a thousand years. Governments use taxes to finance popular policies. People are willing to PAY taxes when…
-
Strong point by Batya
I always appreciate Greenwald’s clarity. He’s the only big-time journalist who maintains rigid and precise objectivity about all questions. He has lots of tribal loyalties and biases, but he rigorously separates his private life and private feelings from The News. In this clip he’s talking with Batya and other Jewish activists. All agree that the…
-
Timeless guide
In 1949 REA published a guidebook for co-op employees who were assigned to advocate for electricity. It’s a wonderful general guide for activists and advocates and teachers of all kinds. It covers public speaking, demonstrations, dealing with the media, dealing with coop boards, and recording and evaluating your own results. I wish I’d heard some…
-
Two-sided company
Last week I pasted my long record of bureaucratic chatbot tangles with CenturyLink. Two months of frustration and fakery. Endless fake appointments with great detail, nothing ever happened. Just after writing the record, I finally got a real live visit from a tech, who explained that they had switched to fiberoptic and weren’t maintaining the…
-
Insatiables vs Deplorables from the start
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START REPRINT: An interesting bit of history from the Lea book on the Inquisition that I was citing earlier. This part isn’t emphasized in conventional wisdom nowadays. Before the Inquisition ran wild and expanded into an all-consuming pogrom of Deplorables, it began as an…
-
Not a paradox 2
Things have definitely changed! Lady Edgar was the PERFECT CATHOLIC IN EVERY WAY. She insisted on hiring other PERFECT CATHOLICS as her assistants, and copied the techniques of the old Inquisition. Now the FBI is infiltrating and inquisitioning “tradcaths”. Not a paradox. From 1300 to 1500 the church was also inquisitioning tradcaths who wanted to…
-
70 years in reverse 2
Continued from previous. The New Deal had three purposes: 1. Smash Wall Street. 2. Restore Main Street. 3. Restore farms. Henry Wallace was in charge of restoring farms, and the TVA and REA worked on the same goal. REA news in 1936 quoted a speech by the head of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau….. =…
-
New understanding
When TARP happened in 2009 I was naively shocked by the utter corruption of both “parties”. I soon started learning more about finance and corruption, but I still haven’t figured out some of the reasons behind the crime. This clip of a current hearing in the senate gave me a rare moment of clarity. The…
-
Of course not.
When I saw headlines saying ‘Boris Apologizes’, I wondered for one picosecond whether he was apologizing for his evil deeds. Of course not. Demons never regret torturing and killing millions of people. They only regret that they didn’t kill more and torture more. This fits with his support of Brexit. At first I thought he…
-
Inexorably converging
Even though it’s still strictly subscriber-driven, with no advertising at all, Substack is inexorably converging to the social media norm. When they introduced Notes as a Twitter competitor, the whole flavor changed abruptly. Notes instantly became Twitter, with most activity from meaningless disputes and bullies. Because Notes was the best way to gather clicks, the…
-
The ultimate AI point-missing
Via MindMatters as usual, the usual offbase question. Can AI create beauty? That’s not the danger. Most commercial art and writing was never meant to create beauty, even when it wasn’t weaponized by monsters. Now mechanized or offshored skills, whether in art or manufacturing, are meant to KILL PEASANTS. Nothing else. The Hollywood writers and…
-
The ultimate sucker filter
A company surveyed potential buyers and found that 67% wouldn’t buy Xlon’s nightmarish infantile bizarre CBRTRK. I’m amazed that 33% of ANY SAMPLE could like such a grotesque monstrosity and want to pay $100k for it. Proves that the current crop of rich fuckheads are the stupidest creatures in history. Stupider than bacteria, stupider than…
-
One little difference
In 1948 Chevy produced a film trying to ease the impatience of customers who were feeling the end result of postwar adjustments. It explains all the economic and material factors involved in restarting production after a NECESSARY WAR. The movie is objective and SYMPATHETIC. Our present situation is similar except that we are feeling the…
Polistra's Mill
Be your own beacon.
Polistra's Mill 