I’m not a technological fatalist. Just because writing exists doesn’t mean all governments must make lists of enemies to send to camps. Just because boxcars exist, governments aren’t compelled to round up Jews. We humans decide to use these tools these ways. I have enough optimism about human nature that communism/fascism/CRT/BLM isn’t inevitable.

You thought you could have [public homosexuality | feminism | socialism | …] and [ free speech | freedom of religion | freedom of assembly | …] you can’t.

Even more interesting, David, is that you submitted that review the day before Jan 6th.

:-/

Another “mother-lode” twitter-roll that adds several more layers of complexity—and anxiety—to the elaborate scheme.

Thanks…

SCOTT:

This is what Viva Frei refers to as “Confession through Projection”.
😉

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1441094231854968835.html

Since Neustar has/had access to the metadata of all mobile calls and texts in the US since 1977, they were who law enforcement would query when they wanted records on someone’s calls and texts. That would give Neustar a database of just who every law enforcement officer and agent was investigating and who the officer/agent was who was doing the investigation. That’s a powerful database to have.

Instead of “1984” we end up with “That Hideous Strength” where the people pulling the wires do so at the behest of a possessed, reanimated, decapitated head (sorry about the spoiler if you didn’t get around to reading it in the 60 years it’s been out).

“The warm hand of God”–perhaps. But it wasn’t the warm hand of God that defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. It was B-17s, B-29s, lots of ordnance, the atomic bomb, and air-sea-land combat that killed almost 500,000 Americans. Faith is good. Ammunition is essential. Here’s an imagined dialogue between the fictional Eugene Sledge and the fictional Robert Leckie on that very topic, from the HBO miniseries “The Pacific”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI8TzsQfRm4

Zaphod: I’m familiar with Solzhenitsyn’s views on Russian-Jewish relations. I’m also familiar with Dr. Kevin MacDonald’s views on Jews and their (in his opinion) baleful influence on Western civilization. My quick take AAJ (As A Jew), echoing Barry Meislin’s comments in another thread: left-wing Jews have done a lot of damage to this country and other countries, including your former country (the Slovo-Suzman Effect). Furthermore: left-wing Jews are incorrigible. They are impervious to argument and evidence. Finally, they are relentless. So: what to do? There are actually answers to this problem that stop short of a bullet to the back of the head or one-way helicopter rides. We applied them as a country in the 1940s and 1950s, just as we addressed illegal immigration around the same time through Operation Wetback and similar roundup-and-deportation programs. The question is, Can we muster the cultural confidence and other forms of grit to do so again? You seem to think not. I’m somewhat more optimistic.

David Foster: thanks for the reminder re: “Red Plenty”. I bought it a while ago. Read the first chapter and liked it, but set it aside for other things. Will pick it up again.

It took me a couple sentences to understand the meaning of “shadow prices” as being manipulated by a computer program in order to simulate variable pricing in a society that only has fixed prices.

I especially like the part about how the understanding and data going into the computer program is suspect; “But the program should still work.” Ha!

Having talked to many researchers who have worked with massive computer models I’ve gotten the impression that the confidence in these models is roughly proportional to the amount of time, effort and lines of code invested in them. Well, confidence is what they advertise to the outside world, but a desperate attitude of “there is no alternative” is what they might communicate in private over a couple beers.

(But what if they don’t NEED any wheels?…)
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/09/22/its-all-falling-apart-for-biden-and-democratic-leadership-in-d-c-n1480604