My niece's GF is from North Carolina and she (niece) was telling me a couple of weeks ago there's some curfew or other in place that no-one's paying any attention to and everything's going on pretty much as normal. The GF's family (not her) don't really seem to believe it exists...
Fucking hell
One of my step-relatives posted a link to this article on his facebook page. It’s getting a lot of support from his other contacts.
It’s nasty ugly shit dressed up as a pantomime version of something intelligent thoughtful. I see a lot of people defriending contacts because they post shit like this. While it makes me feel sad angry and dirty to read it, I think it’s important to see what’s inside their heads. This article covers a lot of ground in short order and gives me a glimpse of what they really feel.
Right at the start of this pandemic I was saying that America would be a shit show, that the hidden schism would open and the supperating wound at the heart of American society would crack open. The BLM movement has precipitated it, but it was happening anyway. This was always going to play out along these particular lines.
I can’t see how this can end well. I can’t imagine any good outcome to this. I see disaster on all sides. Win lose or delay/cancel the election, there will be deeper and more violent dissent. The long-standing gun culture sets dangerous, deadly parameters. The virus will continue to expose binary thinking and arseholery. As the machine feels itself collapsing it will work furiously and with increasing self-destruction to salvage something.
Hopefully out of the chaos something hopeful and clean can emerge, but I highly doubt it will be soon.
Some of my family are talking about leaving their home state, leaving America altogether . I wish they would do that now rather than waiting. My friend who works in the WH (not in the current administration) is telling me how likely a delayed election is (increasingly).
Hate is being emboldend.
Black Lives Matter reveals a generation of damaged straight, white women
The Black Lives Matter movement and the subsequent riots by Antifa, the Democrat party's domestic terrorist arm, have shown Americans what leftism is — an ugly combination of social and government coercion, racism, violence, and anti-Americ...www.americanthinker.com
I’ve C&P ‘d the whole article here but you’ll have to visit the site to see the videos mentioned.
Black Lives Matter reveals a generation of damaged straight, white women
The Black Lives Matter movement and the subsequent riots by Antifa, the Democrat party's domestic terrorist arm, have shown Americans what leftism is — an ugly combination of social and government coercion, racism, violence, and anti-Americanism. It's also revealed that the American left has been using American blacks as a vehicle for political power without any regard for actually improving black people's lives. Instead, the left destroys their communities and doubles down on damaging policies.
What few have pointed out, though, is the way BLM protests have revealed the damage that decades of leftist messaging have visited on straight, young, white women. To set the stage, here are some videos of the hysterical young white women who keep showing up in the front row of the Black Lives Matter movement, whether screaming at police, arguing with black people, rioting, or groveling:
Those videos are just a fraction of the footage showing frenzied white women taking the lead in BLM. They are deeply involved in this movement and in the ugliest way possible — and therein lies a sad tale of the leftist takeover of straight, white women.
The root problem is that these women are receiving mixed messages that would make even the strongest person go crazy. Beginning in high school, or even earlier, they're told endlessly that they're both victim and oppressor.
These mixed messages make straight white girls distinct from other students. White boys are told they're evil, toxic oppressors of both women and minorities. It's an ugly message, but a consistent one. Boys lucky enough to have countervailing influences shake it off and become the men they should be. The boys who don't have better influences, interestingly enough, become feminized, even if they're not gay, as if trying to escape that awful toxic masculinity.
Meanwhile, everyone who is non-white and/or non-straight, whether male or female, or something else, is told that he, she, or it is a victim. White privilege, racism, homophobia, transgenderism, misogyny — all of them define how non-white and/or non-straight people suffer endlessly at the hands of straight whites.
And then there are the straight, white girls. On the one hand, they're...well, white and straight. That means they are evil oppressors who have benefited unfairly from white privilege. In the morality play that is leftism, they owe the world big-time. On the other hand, they're women, which means men have victimized them from time immemorial to the present.
That relationship with men is made more toxic by the fact that the young women are told simultaneously (a) that, as liberated women, they should be part of the hook-up culture and (b) that, as biological women, they're the victims of all men's rapacious, rapey sexuality. Given these mixed messages, it's no wonder that these confused young women willingly sleep with the guy at night and then accuse him of rape in the morning. Others avoid this confusion by embracing a trendy lesbianism.
These same women are also betrayed by the leftist culture's refusal to accept that motherhood is (a) biological destiny and (b) worthy insofar as creating and raising a human being does give meaning to life.
Once upon a time, women had no life choice other than motherhood. In a pre–free market, pre-industrial world, if one ignores the infinitesimally small number of wealthy women, any search for meaning in life was overwhelmed by the endless struggle to survive. Women didn't have time to compare their lives to men, especially because the men were also fighting for survival against the untamed forces of nature and other men.
With the industrial era and the development of free-market capitalism, things changed. In the West, ordinary people had time for leisure, contemplation, and the search for meaning.
That fundamental change led to the post-industrial, pre-modern cult of motherhood. Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, who lived in Rome in the Second Century B.C., leaped into prominence. People in the 18th and 19th centuries loved that, when catty friends asked why Cornelia wasn't wearing jewels, she pointed to her sons and said, "These are my jewels."
Today's young women are told to focus on a career. In college, though, they take liberal arts classes that don't prepare them for anything useful but do reinforce their status as both victims and oppressors. They leave college, uneducated and unskilled, which leads them to unfulfilling jobs. At those jobs, they work hard while dating frantically. When they find the right man, they get pregnant, drop out of the job market, and resent their husbands' careers. They take all the energy that was meant for their professional success and pour it into hyper-motherhood and activism. (See those raging Portland moms above.)
None of this is healthy; it is, instead, tragic. Straight white women hate themselves for being white; hate their men for being oppressors; hate their meaningless careers; and, even though they love their children, they hate the seeming meaninglessness of motherhood. This profound cognitive dissonance has finally found its most disturbing outlet in their shrill, existential screams on the streets of the Black Lives Matter protests.
Image: Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, by Philipp Friedrich Hetsch.
I think an unintended consequence of the post-Thatcher (other national equivalents are available) move to neoliberal thinking has been the collective individual notion that "I can't be wrong", alongside another: the "I'm all right, Jack" mentality. We've legitimised that as a viewpoint to the extent that people not able or willing to think things through feel very content to take the "I believe it, so that's my truth and screw you" line. I know it's not new - it's an essentially human characteristic - but it's much more a part of how "society" thinks now.
One of my step-relatives posted a link to this article on his facebook page. It’s getting a lot of support from his other contacts.
It’s nasty ugly shit dressed up as a pantomime version of something intelligent thoughtful. I see a lot of people defriending contacts because they post shit like this. While it makes me feel sad angry and dirty to read it, I think it’s important to see what’s inside their heads. This article covers a lot of ground in short order and gives me a glimpse of what they really feel.
Right at the start of this pandemic I was saying that America would be a shit show, that the hidden schism would open and the supperating wound at the heart of American society would crack open. The BLM movement has precipitated it, but it was happening anyway. This was always going to play out along these particular lines.
I can’t see how this can end well. I can’t imagine any good outcome to this. I see disaster on all sides. Win lose or delay/cancel the election, there will be deeper and more violent dissent. The long-standing gun culture sets dangerous, deadly parameters. The virus will continue to expose binary thinking and arseholery. As the machine feels itself collapsing it will work furiously and with increasing self-destruction to salvage something.
Hopefully out of the chaos something hopeful and clean can emerge, but I highly doubt it will be soon.
Some of my family are talking about leaving their home state, leaving America altogether . I wish they would do that now rather than waiting. My friend who works in the WH (not in the current administration) is telling me how likely a delayed election is (increasingly).
Hate is being emboldend.
Black Lives Matter reveals a generation of damaged straight, white women
The Black Lives Matter movement and the subsequent riots by Antifa, the Democrat party's domestic terrorist arm, have shown Americans what leftism is — an ugly combination of social and government coercion, racism, violence, and anti-Americ...
I’ve C&P ‘d the whole article here but you’ll have to visit the site to see the videos mentioned.
Black Lives Matter reveals a generation of damaged straight, white women
The Black Lives Matter movement and the subsequent riots by Antifa, the Democrat party's domestic terrorist arm, have shown Americans what leftism is — an ugly combination of social and government coercion, racism, violence, and anti-Americanism. It's also revealed that the American left has been using American blacks as a vehicle for political power without any regard for actually improving black people's lives. Instead, the left destroys their communities and doubles down on damaging policies.
What few have pointed out, though, is the way BLM protests have revealed the damage that decades of leftist messaging have visited on straight, young, white women. To set the stage, here are some videos of the hysterical young white women who keep showing up in the front row of the Black Lives Matter movement, whether screaming at police, arguing with black people, rioting, or groveling:
Those videos are just a fraction of the footage showing frenzied white women taking the lead in BLM. They are deeply involved in this movement and in the ugliest way possible — and therein lies a sad tale of the leftist takeover of straight, white women.
The root problem is that these women are receiving mixed messages that would make even the strongest person go crazy. Beginning in high school, or even earlier, they're told endlessly that they're both victim and oppressor.
These mixed messages make straight white girls distinct from other students. White boys are told they're evil, toxic oppressors of both women and minorities. It's an ugly message, but a consistent one. Boys lucky enough to have countervailing influences shake it off and become the men they should be. The boys who don't have better influences, interestingly enough, become feminized, even if they're not gay, as if trying to escape that awful toxic masculinity.
Meanwhile, everyone who is non-white and/or non-straight, whether male or female, or something else, is told that he, she, or it is a victim. White privilege, racism, homophobia, transgenderism, misogyny — all of them define how non-white and/or non-straight people suffer endlessly at the hands of straight whites.
And then there are the straight, white girls. On the one hand, they're...well, white and straight. That means they are evil oppressors who have benefited unfairly from white privilege. In the morality play that is leftism, they owe the world big-time. On the other hand, they're women, which means men have victimized them from time immemorial to the present.
That relationship with men is made more toxic by the fact that the young women are told simultaneously (a) that, as liberated women, they should be part of the hook-up culture and (b) that, as biological women, they're the victims of all men's rapacious, rapey sexuality. Given these mixed messages, it's no wonder that these confused young women willingly sleep with the guy at night and then accuse him of rape in the morning. Others avoid this confusion by embracing a trendy lesbianism.
These same women are also betrayed by the leftist culture's refusal to accept that motherhood is (a) biological destiny and (b) worthy insofar as creating and raising a human being does give meaning to life.
Once upon a time, women had no life choice other than motherhood. In a pre–free market, pre-industrial world, if one ignores the infinitesimally small number of wealthy women, any search for meaning in life was overwhelmed by the endless struggle to survive. Women didn't have time to compare their lives to men, especially because the men were also fighting for survival against the untamed forces of nature and other men.
With the industrial era and the development of free-market capitalism, things changed. In the West, ordinary people had time for leisure, contemplation, and the search for meaning.
That fundamental change led to the post-industrial, pre-modern cult of motherhood. Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, who lived in Rome in the Second Century B.C., leaped into prominence. People in the 18th and 19th centuries loved that, when catty friends asked why Cornelia wasn't wearing jewels, she pointed to her sons and said, "These are my jewels."
Today's young women are told to focus on a career. In college, though, they take liberal arts classes that don't prepare them for anything useful but do reinforce their status as both victims and oppressors. They leave college, uneducated and unskilled, which leads them to unfulfilling jobs. At those jobs, they work hard while dating frantically. When they find the right man, they get pregnant, drop out of the job market, and resent their husbands' careers. They take all the energy that was meant for their professional success and pour it into hyper-motherhood and activism. (See those raging Portland moms above.)
None of this is healthy; it is, instead, tragic. Straight white women hate themselves for being white; hate their men for being oppressors; hate their meaningless careers; and, even though they love their children, they hate the seeming meaninglessness of motherhood. This profound cognitive dissonance has finally found its most disturbing outlet in their shrill, existential screams on the streets of the Black Lives Matter protests.
Image: Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, by Philipp Friedrich Hetsch.
That's not how I understand it. They reduce the risk of both catching, and transmitting the virus. What they don't do is eliminate the risk of either, just substantially lower it.
It's not really about masks. It's extremely bad for Americans that it's being expressed through mask refusal of all the goddamn things, because the virus is spreading faster and faster, but it's really not about masks at all. It's about people adopting a narrative that makes them feel like they have some control over their lives. The idea of a shared society or a government that is working to protect or help people in any way is dead in America. There is little trust in any institution and those on the right have only their individualist ethos to carry them through their days. Not wearing a mask and arguing that you have a right not to is a way of asserting your individualism and independence, of feeling like you have some control and power over one little thing when you feel adrift and alone.
That's a really nice offer, but there are a few other things keeping me here at the moment besides just the borders being closed. I only mentioned it because it was on my mind a lot and related to covid. Thanks for all the sympathy everyone, but I'm doing fine really compared to most people. I've got secure housing and someone to lean on. Most people have it worse, I'm just anxious by nature and a little overly emotional recently because I haven't been in love for a while
Throw in Facebook/social media feeding these people the stories they want to hear from fellow fucking idiots, backed by relentless a stream of lunatic 'news' and unchallenged nutjob YouTube videos that expertly pander to their prejudices, and you've got the perfect storm for sheer ignorance winning over common sense and logic.
Sounds an awful lot like the argument that's used against "socialised medicine"This is grim.
Texas hospital forced to set up 'death panel' as Covid-19 cases surge
A surge in coronavirus cases in rural Texas has forced one hospital to set up ‘death panels’ to decide which patients it can savewww.theguardian.com
