This discussion nails it. Robin D’Angelo gets paid $12,000 per session to give a two-hour lecture to corporate employees on “anti-racism” so that corporations so pose as do-gooders while continuing to grind down the working class.
Author: Keith Preston
Ohio City Offers to Accept Removed Statues, Including Columbus Reply
LOL. “Statue Sanctuary Cities.” It had to happen.
By Emily Czachor
Newsweek
A northeast Ohio city has offered to accept statues that have been removed from other areas of the United States due to their controversial ties.
An Economist Looks at 90: Tom Sowell on Charter Schools and Their Enemies Reply
This is an interesting discussion of education.
Joe Rogan Experience #1501 – James Lindsay Reply
James Lindsay is arguably the best critic of the modern totalitarian left there is. This lays it all out pretty well.
This Land is Your Land? Reply
When I was a kid we used to sing a variation of “This Land is Your Land” with the revised lyrics: “The land ain’t your land/this is my land/I got a shotgun/And you ain’t got one/I’ll blow your head off/If you don’t move off/This land is private property.”
Dr. Fauci Warns Of Needless Suffering And Death If America Allowed To Continue Reply
Once again, The Onion proves to be the most accurate news source.
The Onion
WASHINGTON—Emphasizing the dire consequences should the sovereign nation remain in existence, NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci warned the public Tuesday of needless suffering and death if America were allowed to continue. “Let me be clear, if the United States of America persists into 2021, not only will many people die, but left unchecked, this federal republic will unleash untold destruction on the world,” said Fauci, adding that the North American country was already too far out of control, and that only way to stop the devastating effects of its spread was to eliminate it as quickly as possible.
The Thin Bread Crust Reply
The 46 Percenters Were the Real Winners in 2016 Reply
The Stonewall Blues (Still Dreaming of a Queer Nation) 1
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade
Exile in Happy Valley
I should be such a happy Queer, shouldn’t I? At least that’s what I’m told. After all, aren’t all the other Queer folks just so goddamn happy? The ones on TV certainly appear to be, and even the ones I know seem to agree that shit’s getting better and I suppose in many respects it is. Then why do I find myself feeling like a genderfuck Charlie Brown every July, once the parades have gone home? This year’s Pride Month seemed particularly festive, even with the much hyped specter of COVID lurking just behind every glory hole.
Prominent Conservative Thinks Republicans Will Be ‘Hunted’ Under Biden Reply
I am increasingly coming across this kind of rhetoric from both Red Tribe and Blue Tribe partisans: “They want to kill us!” Does the US have an Iraqi, Yugoslavian, Rwandan, Northern Irish, Lebanese, or India/Pakistan future awaiting?
America Can’t Take Another Four Years of This Lethal Idiot Reply
The Red Tribe and Blue Tribe increasingly view each other as existential enemies.
Eudaimonia
I’m going to say something that you probably already know. Another four years of this — the dystopia America’s become under Donald Trump — is unthinkable and nightmarish. Like I said, you probably know that. Yet I think right about now, everyone could do with a moment of reflection on precisely why.
What If Black America Were a Country? 2
This is some interesting data. If “Black America” were a country, it would be the 31st largest nation in the world per population size, roughly comparable to England, Canada, Mexico, Japan, or Iraq. “Black America” would be 46th in income per capita, between Italy, the UAE, Russia, and Mexico. The United States as a whole is number two per capita (behind only Qatar) and number three in population size behind China and India.
The Atlantic
In a recent debate with a CNN contributor, the conservative radio talk-show host Larry Elder declared that “if black America were a country, it would be the 15th-wealthiest country in the world.” His math proved incorrect, and his invocation of “black America” was followed by a refutation of the concept by a fellow black conservative. Shortly after Elder’s remarks, the Republican strategist Ron Christie argued that there is no such thing as “black America” and, further, that the very notion of it is antithetical “to our national motto of E Pluribus Unum.”
Racist Police Violence Reconsidered Reply
Quillette
Tony Timpa was 32 years old when he died at the hands of the Dallas police in August 2016. He suffered from mental health difficulties and was unarmed. He wasn’t resisting arrest. He had called the cops from a parking lot while intoxicated because he thought he might be a danger to himself. By the time law enforcement arrived, he had already been handcuffed by the security guards of a store nearby. Even so, the police officers made him lie face down on the grass, and one of them pressed a knee into his back. He remained in this position for 13 minutes until he suffocated. During the harrowing recording of his final moments, he can be heard pleading for his life. A grand jury indictment of the officers involved was overturned.
Joe Rogan Experience #1494 – Bret Weinstein 1
Bret Weinstein is far, far more centrist than I am, but this interview is worth watching. His characterization of the critical theory left as “neo-Maoist” and how the anarchist left has been overrun by them is spot on. What we need is a “Maoism-free” anarchist movement that also manages to avoid the “libertarian to alt-right pipeline” from the other end of the spectrum or co-optation by centrist establishmentarianism.
As It Should Be… Reply
Now, this is more like it. Black and white, left and right, marching with guns is how you scare the piss out of the ruling class.
PHOTOS: Today armed Black Lives Matter and “boogaloo” protesters joined forces for an open carry rally against police violence and government overreach in Richmond, VA. HD Video upcoming.
Photos by Ford Fischer
Preacher Enters The Nation Of CHAZ & Is Assaulted And Robbed 1
Kicking out the missionaries is something the CHAZians and the Sentinentalese Islanders have in common, I guess.
Dare to Keep Cops Off Guns Reply
Facebook is out of control. If it were a country it would be North Korea Reply
The important takeaway from this article is that it describes how Big Tech has now become the dominant wing of the capitalist class, as Joel Kotkin has pointed out (along with the national security state and financial sector). The ruling class is not a unified monolith, but comprised of competing interests. Nor is there egalitarianism among the ruling class, which is stratified into layer hierarchies in the same way as the general society.
By Carole Cadwalladr
The Guardian
There is no power on this earth that is capable of holding Facebook to account. No legislature, no law enforcement agency, no regulator. Congress has failed. The EU has failed. When the Federal Trade Commission fined it a record $5bn for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, its stock price actually went up.
Which is what makes this moment so interesting and, possibly, epochal. If the boycott of Facebook by some of the world’s biggest brands – Unilever, Coca-Cola, Starbucks – succeeds, it will be because it has targeted the only thing that Facebook understands: its bottom line. And if it fails, that will be another sort of landmark.
‘We’ve got to do something’: Republican rebels come together to take on Trump Reply
The Republican wing of the Neoliberal Centrist Party attacks the Trumpists.
By Daniel Strauss
The Guardian
Kanye West Announces 2020 Presidential Run Reply
Hollywood Reporter
Kanye West announced on the Fourth of July that he plans to run for president in 2020 — potentially to make good on a promise he made five years before during the 2015 MTV VMAs.
“We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States,” West tweeted Saturday evening, along with the hashtag #2020VISION.
The announcement was quickly endorsed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk who tweeted at the 43-year-old, “You have my full support!”
Having leaned more into politics in recent years, including a handful of meetings with Donald Trump, the announcement follows numerous statements by West in the past about his intentions to run for the highest office in the land — most recently last November at Fast Company’s Innovation Festival. The difference with that announcement was his presidential sights were set on a 2024 bid.
Kanye West Tweets That He’s Running for President Reply
By Brian Doherty
Kanye West, the hip hop and fashion mogul whose public moves in the past few years have included a controversial flirtation with MAGA-ism and a turn toward pure Christian messaging in his music, chose the nation’s birthday to announce this via tweet:
The Federal Election Commission’s website shows no sign yet that he’s done any of the legal filings to really run for the office. But he has already cleared what may be the most important hurdle toward such endeavors: the public support of his wife, Kim Kardashian West, who retweeted his announcement with apparent approval, adding merely a flag icon to her husband’s declaration. Tech mogul Elon Musk is also already backing Kanye’s candidacy.
As I pointed out in a 2019 Reason story, despite his oft-repeated fandom for President Donald Trump, the only specific policy issues West has been public about supporting are criminal justice reform, getting more jobs into American cities, and gun control. He and Kim Kardashian West have been effective lobbyists for prison reform, both generically and in the specific matter of getting the nonviolent drug offender Alice Johnson out of prison.
The Articles of Unity – A Patriotic Plan to Save our Republic (Bret Weinstein) Reply
Bret Weinstein seems to be a guy whose “heart is in the right place,” as a sentimentalist might say. His core idea is correct, i.e. building an anti-establishment movement that rejects incompetent/corrupt elites while rejecting dangerous authoritarians from the far-left and far-right.
