As to the first video very funny. But also sad.
A woman I work with had a daughter who passed away last week. For the past 3 months the daughter was in and out of a coma. I don’t know the cause. But because of COVID 19 they weren’t allowed to visit, sit by her side, hug her, touch her. There was a camera hook up in the room and that’s how her loved ones checked up on her. It’s how they said good by to her.
After all this is over we need a constitutional amendment that prohibits the politicians from meddling with our lives like this again.
Agree with Eva Marie.
Here is a heart felt appeal to us to get together from a lady who saw her country go down the tubes as hatred was fanned by ruling elites.
Very interesting video.
My solution is a bit different. Those of us who support Pres. Trump need to change the mind of one voter – to either vote for Trump instead of Biden or vote 3rd party instead of Biden. I did this prior to the last election and I think I was successful. This election I’m concentrating on a non voter who I hope to convince to vote Trump. If we all do this then Trump will win. It’s tedious work because the aim is NOT to win an argument. The aim is to affect behavior. But it’s worth it.
I was about to forward that last video – until the vulgarity of the last few seconds. A real pity, and a wasted opportunity.
Eva Marie:
That’s my approach this year as well.
Maybe I’ll write a post about it.
GONE WITH THE WIND: Olivia de Havilland dead at 104…
Some material to help Eva Marie and others … not that there’s a lack …
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/389630/
MOSTLY PEACEFUL RIOTS:
Radio host mocks Trump by claiming Seattle is peaceful, then rioters torched his apartment building.
JimNorCal,
Yeah Paul Gallant is being mocked and rightfully so. He is a sports radio host here in Seattle and from what I’ve heard he’s not a big time lefty. He has even gently pushed back gently(gotta be mindful of the roving Karens) against the insane overreach of the lockdowns and the reaction of athletes ( young, healthy, extremely fit at low risk).
But his tweets last night fit perfectly so he has to take it.
The first video is hilarious but, like the Babylon Bee, its irony would be lost on most progressives. They believe what SCIENCE!(tm) tells them. And “SCIENCE!” is defined as “anything said by specific journalists, activists and bloggers (very few of them with any scientific background) who hold to a sufficiently ‘woke’ worldview (but could be insufficient tomorrow for any reason or no reason at all) say on that specific date and time (subject to change in five minutes)
As to the second video: yep. The irony is, again, lost on most white progressives but glaringly obvious to the rest of us. Other than the ultimate question: which race should be on top, Pitchfork Ben Tillman would be thrilled with most of what the SJWs are promulgating.
Looking at MLB kneeling it isn’t so hard to know how Hitler (and Stalin in the begining), had everyone giving the heil salute… We are on the border of destroying businesses by one race, or not hiring them, or all that…
remember i said it first long before it got this far
invest in ovens…
I hope you do Neo. It’s so important that we all focus like a laser beam on getting out as many Trump voters as we all individually can. And then if we can each all just bring in one new Trump voter, the election will be won. The Yugoslavian woman in the 3rd video – I really took her message to heart. This is such an important election. But how do you change people’s minds? It’s a subject I never really thought about until Rush Limbaugh discussed it on his show a number of times. How do you shift another person’s thought process to accept a different idea.
With rabid antiTrumpers this is the tactic I use. After they list Trumps faults, I say, “Well you know I love Trump but why do you think the DNC is doing everything it can to get him re-elected?” That usually stops them. “This election should be so easy. The best argument against Trump is that he’s so old. Even I’m open to that argument. Why do you think the DNC went out of its way to pick a candidate that is even older. Does that make sense to you? The DNC wants Trump to win.” That often stops the conversation. And if they keep listing Trumps faults I keep repeating, “Then why is the DNC doing everything it can to re-elect him?” It takes the focus off defending Trump. Possibly it makes people start to think.
Ben David – the last few minutes are to point out that “woke” lefties are as anti Semitic as any racists – that they have that in common with each other.
Great suggestion Eva – I’m in the process of trying to do that with a few of my friends in America who I visited.
I think it best to have more humor, and especially not mere Trump fan-boy stuff. “Why is the DNC trying to get him re-elected?” seems like a great question.
For me, the Free Speech stuff is more important.
But Reps need to be attaching the Wokeness religion with humor.
I mentioned the death of another outspoken black conservative on the Dershowitz post, and found out this week-end that a second one had been attacked, but fortunately not killed.
Recent news brought two alarming stories. In Milwaukee, an unknown person shot and killed Bernell Trammell, a black Trump supporter. In Portland, an Antifa member attempted to kill Andrew Duncomb, aka “Black Rebel,” a black conservative. Since we currently don’t know who shot Trammell, we can’t say with certainty that his murder was tied to his politics. Nevertheless, the fact that two black conservatives were targeted over two days is deeply troubling.
Not saying there is anything fishy about Adams and Marcus, but it’s no wonder here are “shy voters” not answering polls or posting signs in their yard.
Suspicions about Justice Scalia and Andrew Breitbart still linger, though.
And Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Taking off the tin-foil hat for a moment, there is no end of posts on the internet about The Texas Ranch Murder, although most date from the time of Scalia’s death.
This one from 2016 admits that the suspicions are understandable, but concludes they are false. It does that quite cleverly, by never actually citing any evidence for its conclusion, while explaining very thoroughly why people’s beliefs often don’t depend on evidence.
Following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on February 13, a former criminal investigator for Washington, D.C.‘s Metropolitan Police Department named William O. Ritchie took to Facebook.
“My gut tells me there is something fishy going on in Texas,” he wrote.
With those words, Ritchie helped draw national attention to an emerging conspiracy theory: that Scalia may have been murdered.
According to The Washington Post, Ritchie continued that he was “stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia,” before pointing out the many flaws he saw in published accounts on the subject.
Ritchie wasn’t the first to float this conspiracy. Conservative radio talk show host Alex Jones suggested as much in a video he posted to Facebook on the day of Scalia’s death (“The question is: Was Antonin Scalia murdered?”).
The next morning, the Drudge Report pointed out that the judge was found with a pillow over his head, presumably providing additional evidence of foul play. Conservative political commentator Michael Savage also weighed in, wondering “Is it a conspiracy theory to ask questions that are so obviously in need of answer, or is it just common sense?”
But as someone who has studied how and why misperceptions emerge and spread, Ritchie’s words struck me as noteworthy. Unlike Savage or Jones, Ritchie’s livelihood isn’t dependent on appealing to a conservative audience or making shocking allegations.
To the contrary, this is a man who made his living investigating crimes through the accumulation of evidence and the judicious use of reason. It is at least plausible that his primary motivation is to ensure that the truth is known.
The Scalia conspiracy theory is likely to strike many – especially liberal Democrats – as hard to fathom. [see * below]
… Taken as a whole, research suggests that even thoughtful individuals with good intentions – including Ritchie – are prone to embrace claims for which there is little evidence, and to defend those claims in the face of contradictory evidence. This is particularly likely when stakes are high, when outcomes are hard to explain or accept, or when a claim is consistent with one’s political values. The evidence suggests that Richtie’s speculations are wrong, but there is nothing surprising about his suspicions.
I won’t speak to the arguments about Scalia’s death, but decided the article was important because it outlines in some detail the elements that contribute to conspiracy theories, entrenched beliefs, preference bias, and so forth, which are part of the tool-kit for trying to change people’s minds, and thus we need to know in attempting to move some of our friends and family back to the right.
It also is an excellent example of how to impart stealth-spin on a subject:
Ritchie’s doubts were published in the WaPo, so they have to be addressed (but, really, he’s no different from Alex Jones!); his motivations are plausible (but wrong!); and questioning assertions is the same as refuting them.
*”The Scalia conspiracy theory is likely to strike many – especially liberal Democrats – as hard to fathom. Why should anyone by surprised at the death of a 79-year-old man when the average life expectancy of a man in the U.S. is 77? Why is the decision by Scalia’s family not to have an autopsy performed met with skepticism? And why second-guess the U.S. Marshals Service, an agency charged with protecting justices of the Supreme Court, when it concluded that there was no foul play?”
* * *
This site being new to me, I snooped around their archive to try and get a better sense of their own biases. In a very random sample under the Politics tab, I found articles that:
Claimed Twitter should do more to ban hate-speech aka gun-talk.
Agreed that most of Oklahoma was still under Native Tribe sovereignty (includes a very good map).
Claimed that the recent Supreme Court decisions about abortion limiting laws give “Roberts the kind of cover he needs to chip away at abortion rights.”
So, although the tone of the site is sedate, the format of the posts up-scale academic, the bias carefully discrete, and the content sometimes informative, the orientation is pretty clearly leftward.
Kind of a more respectable Vox, IMO.
This one, I thought Ymar particularly might find interesting.
The author believes that the group is actually healing people through “egalitarian work, education and legal systems, all structured on the principles of equality and justice,” but the admiration is based on a lack of historical awareness typical of most people today (mostly on the left, but no small number on the right).
The Valley of the Dawn’s beliefs are fantastical, but their practices may be less otherworldly than bemused journalists have often suggested. My scholarship on Brazilian religions and research at the Valley of the Dawn finds that some of the group’s rituals speak directly to the harsh realities of the modern world.
…
Outsiders often dismiss the Valley as a cult. A BBC journalist who visited the community in 2012 called it a “refuge for lost souls.”
But my research offers an alternative explanation of why some people might find the Valley of the Dawn appealing: It offers a more progressive, egalitarian version of modernity.
Brazil, with its corruption scandals and savage social inequalities, has not always lived up to the motto “order and progress” as inscribed on its national flag. It is not alone. Across much of the West, the promise that modernity would bring higher living standards, greater personal freedoms and a more just society remains largely unfulfilled.
Instead, the 21st century has created low-wage jobs with little security and government institutions that too frequently benefit the richest and most powerful. Individualism has supplanted community, leaving people increasingly isolated and lonely – and that was before coronavirus and social distancing.
The Valley of the Dawn, in contrast, offers a collective life that members find gratifying.
I’m sure the members do like their collective, but the idea that modernity’s promises “are unfulfilled” is true only if you have an idealistic perfect world as your goal. That people today do NOT have “higher living standards, greater personal freedoms and a more just society” than those of the past is laughable, but common, ignorance.
Okay, NOW there is something fishy about Adams’ death.
Eva Marie – the people i would have forwarded to can handle antisemitism. But when the video used the word “cuck” (or was it f.ck) that was a deal breaker. And they had already mentioned interracial couples as one of the absurdities.
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As to the first video very funny. But also sad.
A woman I work with had a daughter who passed away last week. For the past 3 months the daughter was in and out of a coma. I don’t know the cause. But because of COVID 19 they weren’t allowed to visit, sit by her side, hug her, touch her. There was a camera hook up in the room and that’s how her loved ones checked up on her. It’s how they said good by to her.
After all this is over we need a constitutional amendment that prohibits the politicians from meddling with our lives like this again.
Agree with Eva Marie.
Here is a heart felt appeal to us to get together from a lady who saw her country go down the tubes as hatred was fanned by ruling elites.
Long, about 15 min, but watch a few min and see what you think.
Lessons from Yugoslavia
https://files.catbox.moe/jvb9sx.mp4
Very interesting video.
My solution is a bit different. Those of us who support Pres. Trump need to change the mind of one voter – to either vote for Trump instead of Biden or vote 3rd party instead of Biden. I did this prior to the last election and I think I was successful. This election I’m concentrating on a non voter who I hope to convince to vote Trump. If we all do this then Trump will win. It’s tedious work because the aim is NOT to win an argument. The aim is to affect behavior. But it’s worth it.
I was about to forward that last video – until the vulgarity of the last few seconds. A real pity, and a wasted opportunity.
Eva Marie:
That’s my approach this year as well.
Maybe I’ll write a post about it.
GONE WITH THE WIND: Olivia de Havilland dead at 104…
Some material to help Eva Marie and others … not that there’s a lack …
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/389630/
MOSTLY PEACEFUL RIOTS:
Radio host mocks Trump by claiming Seattle is peaceful, then rioters torched his apartment building.
JimNorCal,
Yeah Paul Gallant is being mocked and rightfully so. He is a sports radio host here in Seattle and from what I’ve heard he’s not a big time lefty. He has even gently pushed back gently(gotta be mindful of the roving Karens) against the insane overreach of the lockdowns and the reaction of athletes ( young, healthy, extremely fit at low risk).
But his tweets last night fit perfectly so he has to take it.
The first video is hilarious but, like the Babylon Bee, its irony would be lost on most progressives. They believe what SCIENCE!(tm) tells them. And “SCIENCE!” is defined as “anything said by specific journalists, activists and bloggers (very few of them with any scientific background) who hold to a sufficiently ‘woke’ worldview (but could be insufficient tomorrow for any reason or no reason at all) say on that specific date and time (subject to change in five minutes)
As to the second video: yep. The irony is, again, lost on most white progressives but glaringly obvious to the rest of us. Other than the ultimate question: which race should be on top, Pitchfork Ben Tillman would be thrilled with most of what the SJWs are promulgating.
Looking at MLB kneeling it isn’t so hard to know how Hitler (and Stalin in the begining), had everyone giving the heil salute… We are on the border of destroying businesses by one race, or not hiring them, or all that…
remember i said it first long before it got this far
invest in ovens…
I hope you do Neo. It’s so important that we all focus like a laser beam on getting out as many Trump voters as we all individually can. And then if we can each all just bring in one new Trump voter, the election will be won. The Yugoslavian woman in the 3rd video – I really took her message to heart. This is such an important election. But how do you change people’s minds? It’s a subject I never really thought about until Rush Limbaugh discussed it on his show a number of times. How do you shift another person’s thought process to accept a different idea.
With rabid antiTrumpers this is the tactic I use. After they list Trumps faults, I say, “Well you know I love Trump but why do you think the DNC is doing everything it can to get him re-elected?” That usually stops them. “This election should be so easy. The best argument against Trump is that he’s so old. Even I’m open to that argument. Why do you think the DNC went out of its way to pick a candidate that is even older. Does that make sense to you? The DNC wants Trump to win.” That often stops the conversation. And if they keep listing Trumps faults I keep repeating, “Then why is the DNC doing everything it can to re-elect him?” It takes the focus off defending Trump. Possibly it makes people start to think.
Ben David – the last few minutes are to point out that “woke” lefties are as anti Semitic as any racists – that they have that in common with each other.
Great suggestion Eva – I’m in the process of trying to do that with a few of my friends in America who I visited.
I think it best to have more humor, and especially not mere Trump fan-boy stuff. “Why is the DNC trying to get him re-elected?” seems like a great question.
For me, the Free Speech stuff is more important.
But Reps need to be attaching the Wokeness religion with humor.
(conservative) UNC Wilmington professor Mike Adams found dead in his home
https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/controversial-unc-wilmington-professor-mike-adams-found-dead/
Lloyd Marcus, the brilliant black “Unhyphenated America,” passed away Friday.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/god_bless_you_lloyd_marcus__you_will_be_missed.html
I mentioned the death of another outspoken black conservative on the Dershowitz post, and found out this week-end that a second one had been attacked, but fortunately not killed.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/07/25/black-trump-supporter-executed-in-broad-daylight-n2573120
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/are_leftists_targeting_black_conservatives.html
July 26, 2020
Are leftists targeting black conservatives?
By Andrea Widburg
Not saying there is anything fishy about Adams and Marcus, but it’s no wonder here are “shy voters” not answering polls or posting signs in their yard.
Suspicions about Justice Scalia and Andrew Breitbart still linger, though.
And Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Taking off the tin-foil hat for a moment, there is no end of posts on the internet about The Texas Ranch Murder, although most date from the time of Scalia’s death.
This one from 2016 admits that the suspicions are understandable, but concludes they are false. It does that quite cleverly, by never actually citing any evidence for its conclusion, while explaining very thoroughly why people’s beliefs often don’t depend on evidence.
https://theconversation.com/making-sense-of-the-scalia-conspiracy-theory-55083
I won’t speak to the arguments about Scalia’s death, but decided the article was important because it outlines in some detail the elements that contribute to conspiracy theories, entrenched beliefs, preference bias, and so forth, which are part of the tool-kit for trying to change people’s minds, and thus we need to know in attempting to move some of our friends and family back to the right.
It also is an excellent example of how to impart stealth-spin on a subject:
Ritchie’s doubts were published in the WaPo, so they have to be addressed (but, really, he’s no different from Alex Jones!); his motivations are plausible (but wrong!); and questioning assertions is the same as refuting them.
*”The Scalia conspiracy theory is likely to strike many – especially liberal Democrats – as hard to fathom. Why should anyone by surprised at the death of a 79-year-old man when the average life expectancy of a man in the U.S. is 77? Why is the decision by Scalia’s family not to have an autopsy performed met with skepticism? And why second-guess the U.S. Marshals Service, an agency charged with protecting justices of the Supreme Court, when it concluded that there was no foul play?”
* * *
This site being new to me, I snooped around their archive to try and get a better sense of their own biases. In a very random sample under the Politics tab, I found articles that:
Claimed Twitter should do more to ban hate-speech aka gun-talk.
Agreed that most of Oklahoma was still under Native Tribe sovereignty (includes a very good map).
Claimed that the recent Supreme Court decisions about abortion limiting laws give “Roberts the kind of cover he needs to chip away at abortion rights.”
So, although the tone of the site is sedate, the format of the posts up-scale academic, the bias carefully discrete, and the content sometimes informative, the orientation is pretty clearly leftward.
Kind of a more respectable Vox, IMO.
This was an interesting and neutral post (the Environment tab assumes Climate Change Bad as a given).
https://theconversation.com/modern-tomatoes-are-very-different-from-their-wild-ancestors-and-we-found-missing-links-in-their-evolution-130041
This one, I thought Ymar particularly might find interesting.
The author believes that the group is actually healing people through “egalitarian work, education and legal systems, all structured on the principles of equality and justice,” but the admiration is based on a lack of historical awareness typical of most people today (mostly on the left, but no small number on the right).
https://theconversation.com/brazilian-mystics-say-theyre-sent-by-aliens-to-jump-start-human-evolution-but-their-vision-for-a-more-just-society-is-not-totally-crazy-132730
I’m sure the members do like their collective, but the idea that modernity’s promises “are unfulfilled” is true only if you have an idealistic perfect world as your goal. That people today do NOT have “higher living standards, greater personal freedoms and a more just society” than those of the past is laughable, but common, ignorance.
Okay, NOW there is something fishy about Adams’ death.
https://justthenews.com/government/local/conservative-professor-mike-adams-found-death-north-carolina-home
https://justthenews.com/government/local/conservative-unc-professors-death-ruled-suicide
Eva Marie – the people i would have forwarded to can handle antisemitism. But when the video used the word “cuck” (or was it f.ck) that was a deal breaker. And they had already mentioned interracial couples as one of the absurdities.