Caitlin Johnstone: On The Idiotic Notion That It's Brave To Support Nuclear Brinkmanship In Ukraine | Somehow an aversion to nuclear brinkmanship is cowardly and a willingness to risk the life of every terrestrial organism to advance US strategic objectives is an act of courage?

submitted by Chipit from caitlinjohnst.one

We must never let ourselves become desensitized to this. To any part of this. We must never cease appreciating the sun on our skin and the wind in our hair, and we must never cease being shocked by the fact that there are people whose entire job is to push for more war.

submitted by Chipit from caitlinjohnst.one

Killing black people is like saying the N word. They do it all the time, but get really mad when white people join in.

submitted by Chipit from self.OpinionPieces

AWFLs Are Awful. Amazing how single women say having kids isnt worth it. But mothers say it is...I wonder if theres a liar between those 2. People who aren't miserable don't have to constantly and publicly affirm their life choices. It's called cope, lady.

submitted by Chipit from youtube.com

What the Left Did to Our Country - Victor Davis Hanson

submitted by P-38lightning from amgreatness.com

Those who rule us seek to stamp out masculinity. Over the past several decades their attacks have been wildly successful. What we need is a mechanism for any man to begin cultivating real, well-rounded, durable masculinity. Fortunately, such a mechanism is readily available and teachable.

submitted by Chipit from theworthyhouse.com

It’s Never a Bad Time to Remind Ourselves That Henry Kissinger Is a Murderous War Criminal. Despite his murderous rap sheet, the media and political establishment has always fawned over him.

submitted by Chipit from jacobin.com

Covid II: Revenge Of The Experts. It should come as no surprise to hear that the people in charge are planning to reboot the Covid franchise. Public health officials have the same attitude as the staff of a prison. They see themselves as your perpetual guardian and you as a problem they must solve.

submitted by Chipit from thezman.com

All this talk lately of what it really means to live in a “small town” because a bunch of dorks are outraged over some tractor rap pop song is causing me to pontificate about living in a small town. I just looked up the census data for the town I was born and raised in, El Nido, California. Pop 331

submitted by Chipit from monsterhunternation.com

Competency Crisis Kills in Maui. The Maui Fires have killed at least 100 people, mostly children. Who is the bad guy? The false narrative is that climate change caused the fires. Firefighters didn’t have enough water in basins to put out the fires because a diversity hire who worships the water god.

submitted by Chipit from open.substack.com

Why Nerds are Unpopular. there is a strong correlation between being smart and being a nerd, and an even stronger inverse correlation between being a nerd and being popular. Being smart seems to make you unpopular.

submitted by Chipit from paulgraham.com

RIP BuzzFeed News, intelligence agency propaganda conduit

submitted by Drewski from english.almayadeen.net

I’ve long been puzzled by the idealization of youth in the modern world. I mean that cultural tenet which views younger people as intellectually and morally superior to older people. It’s a very unusual view — virtually no society before modern society has held it.

submitted by Chipit from treeofwoe.substack.com

The fact that Instant Pot is already being framed as a corporate cautionary tale — the company that went bankrupt because they made a product so durable and versatile that its customers had little need to buy another one — instead of as a critique of corporatism is deeply, deeply depressing.

submitted by Chipit from caitlinjohnstone.com

An Accident Waiting to Happen. Since the end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has distinctly strayed from its original purpose. It has become the vessel and handmaiden of US power, while its burgeoning expansion eastwards has done wonders to upend the applecart of stability.

submitted by Chipit from savageminds.substack.com

World War III Will Be Fought With Viruses

submitted by Drewski from wsj.com

One of the best things about reading Marxist literature is that they almost always tell you their weaknesses if you pay attention. This allows us to develop a kind of guiding light for fighting against Woke Marxism today: stability prevents revolutions.

submitted by Chipit from newdiscourses.com

The Transmaid’s Tale

submitted by jet199 from spectator.co.uk

This is a good and important WSJ op-ed by @VivekGRamaswamy on how the Espionage Act of 1917 was enacted in order to criminalize dissent (and was used for that), and that continues to be its primary purpose (along with punishing whistleblowers)

submitted by Chipit from archive.ph

I recently had a brush with people trying to use morality to justify their closed minds. It looks like calling things “problematic” and implying that you’re part of the problem for not abstaining from it like they are. The problematizing of all is a softer version of far more sinister patterns.

submitted by Chipit from spiritualsoap.substack.com

The Woke Olympics. Someone told me yesterday that Canada was more “woke” than the US. Someone else asked me this morning why the UK was more woke than the US. I wasn’t sure how to answer because I wasn’t sure those claims were in fact true. So I tried to cook up a way to quantify it. The results:

submitted by Chipit from hwfo.substack.com

Douglas Murray calls the inability to listen to contrary points of view a "generational phenomenon" which has been adopted by children who believe that "speech is harm, and harm is not harm, that silence is violence and that violence is fine."

submitted by Chipit from newdiscourses.com

"It Doesn't Affect Me"

submitted by jet199 from evakurilova.com

The Anniversary the Media Would Prefer You Forget. The 98% of black people who are killed by other black people are of zero interest to the media or the Democratic Party. It’s that crucial .01% of blacks killed by cops that get the headlines.

submitted by Chipit from takimag.com

Gender Ideology’s Shaky Twin Pillars. The assertion of sex as a spectrum rather than distinct and immutable categories, and the belief in an innate, unchangeable “gender identity.” These claims are invalid, they lack empirical support and are rather upheld by politically motivated ideologies.

submitted by Chipit from city-journal.org

Ex-US Army Psyops Expert: Fox News Fired Carlson To Maintain "Semi Lobotomized Quasi Retarded Population"

submitted by Chipit from zerohedge.com

My theory is: hipsterism and nerdism are both forms of trying to invest your identity in a cultural product. If there’s no competition, you become a hipster; if there’s high competition, you become a nerd.

submitted by Chipit from astralcodexten.substack.com

Today, the reason for stripping the rights of the citizens is personal and petty. The people in charge do not like being mocked by the peasants on the internet. The assault on your basic rights is part of a war waged from the top against the white middle-class.

submitted by Chipit from thezman.com

Is there a worldwide run on the Bank of the United States of America?

submitted by Drewski from thehill.com

Where’s the Manifesto?

submitted by Drewski from theepochtimes.com

Accusations of 'Antisemitism' Serve as Moral Cover for Jews Who Act Out Anti-Semitic Stereotypes. Thus emboldened, Jewish behavior has gotten worse and worse.

submitted by Chipit from unz.com

I created RightWingGPT, an LLM model from the GPT 3 family fine-tuned to exhibit the opposite political biases of ChatGPT. Next, I describe why I think that politically aligned AI systems are dangerous for society.

submitted by Chipit from davidrozado.substack.com

“The Kids Are Not Okay” - a deep dive on the overall mental health problem in the younger generation and it’s source, which advocates blaming cell phones:

submitted by Chipit from thezvi.wordpress.com

"We have fallen upon evil times. The world has waxed old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their elders." So here we have the most powerful king in the known world seeing evidence of decline. And he was right.

submitted by Chipit from treeofwoe.substack.com

Why You Should Never Date an OnlyFans Model. Ancient Roman Relationship Advice. Carl and Connor discuss the poetry of Juvenal (60/55 BC - 127 AD) and Ovid (43 BC – 17/18 AD) to bring the remarkably wise relationship advice of the Ancient Romans to bear on the miserable landscape of modern dating.

submitted by Chipit from youtube.com

The transexual bubble is bursting and common sense is returning, which is infuriating Stonewall. The mad craze for sex changes, or gender reassignment as it is currently known, appears to have reached a peak and is now declining. Charges need to be laid against surgeons who profit from mutiliation.

submitted by Chipit from youtube.com

Silicon Valley Bank Collapse: Reactions and Takes from the Right. The following is a series of short takes on the Silicon Valley Bank failure from different authors, each with experience in either finance, business/venture capital, or economics.

submitted by Chipit from im1776.com

You notice that East Asians are fundamentally different from other peoples. I never see liberals talk about the East Asian package, except when they’re arguing with their fellow leftists and trying to debunk some misconceptions they hold, in effect making a conservative argument.

submitted by Chipit from richardhanania.substack.com

The Tradwife Craze Is About Envy. The hard left has naturally lost its mind in the face of beautiful women who explicitly endorse the traditional. But what is the “trad wife” really, and what does her rapid rise to prominence and social fixation mean for American culture?

submitted by Chipit from piratewires.com

I'm an NYU student who studied abroad in Florence. I hated every aspect of my semester abroad. She bitched about her roommates but then was sad when none of them were around. She hosts a podcast on slow living habits in big cities, no less. She's a journalist in training and a CIA demon too.

submitted by Chipit from insider.com

Dear Conservatives, I Apologize, by Naomi Wolf. I owe you a full-throated apology. I believed a farrago of lies. And, as a result of these lies, and my credulity — and the credulity of people similarly situated to me - many conservatives’ reputations are being tarnished, on false bases.

submitted by Chipit from naomiwolf.substack.com

Jonathan Haidt has a very interesting article suggesting that academic bubble-wrapping plus social media use might be amplifying, rather than reducing, mental health problems among young people. Why did so many students in 2013 believe this, when there was little sign of such beliefs in 2011?

submitted by Chipit from jonathanhaidt.substack.com

Lynching the Deplorables. The criminal investigation undertaken by the federal government against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol is polarizing the country and shredding civil liberties. “The post 9/11 model is being applied to American citizens.”

submitted by Chipit from chrishedges.substack.com

Jimmy Carter Was Pilloried for Worrying About Israeli Apartheid—But He's Been Vindicated by History. Carter has been the only American president with the candor to call out Israel for mirroring apartheid policies of South Africa.

submitted by Chipit from commondreams.org

Wokeness Is Here To Stay, by Slavoj Žižek. Some claim that “wokeness” is on the wane. In fact, it is gradually being normalized, conformed to even by those who inwardly doubt it, and practiced by the majority of academic, corporate, and state institutions.

submitted by Chipit from compactmag.com

Jewish News Syndicate: "Bomb Iran To Stop a Wider War in Europe and Protect Taiwan." They want our blood and treasure to benefit themselves. Iran isn't a threat to anyone else. "The United States should act immediately and decisively to destroy Iran’s nuclear and military-industrial complex."

submitted by Chipit from hudson.org

It Seems That My Correct Opinions Have Caused Some Controversy. Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) and Callum discuss upsetting idiots by being right.

submitted by Chipit from odysee.com

Woke-ism Is Winding Down. Many of the same types of data that help substantiate the significant transformation in discourse and norms that took place after 2011 suggest that the “Great Awokening” has run its course.

submitted by Chipit from compactmag.com

Why I'm Glad Joe Biden Beat Donald Trump

submitted by Drewski from caitlinjohnstone.substack.com

Strange Deep State Bedfellows. How long can the alliance between the surveillance state and what looks like an increasingly lunatic ruling class last? I’m still trying to figure out where the close alliance between surveillance agencies and the woke Left may lead.

submitted by Chipit from amgreatness.com

The Roots of Washington’s Addiction to Military Force. The United States now finds itself in an era in which militarily, its adversaries are provoking it less frequently—and yet Washington is intervening with armed force more than ever.

submitted by Chipit from archive.ph

Why living in public is worse for you, but better for others

submitted by jet199 from eriktorenberg.substack.com

The US Justice Department Must Drop Charges Against Julian Assange | Amy Goodman

submitted by Drewski from commondreams.org

Censorship by surrogate: Why Musk’s document dump could be a game changer. As many of us have long suspected, there were back channels between Twitter and the Biden 2020 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to ban critics or remove negative stories.

submitted by Chipit from thehill.com

Kanye West is a weird post-modern Pinocchio that exists to lampoon the pieties of the current age. For those who did not see it, West was on the Alex Jones show with Nick Fuentes to make a big scene. West showed up dressed as a ghetto Spiderman.

submitted by Chipit from thezman.com

Nerd Among the Ruins, Part II. Why has our culture changed so abruptly and catastrophically? Julius Evola and his fellow Traditionalist traveler Rene Guenon would go one step further and offer an explanation of why this has all occurred. And their explanation would be, bluntly, occult action.

submitted by Chipit from treeofwoe.substack.com

Rumble/Odysee/Bitchute Exclusive Hot Take: Nov 11th 2022 News Blast!

submitted by TonyDiGerolamo from rumble.com

With whom does Emily Oster want an amnesty? We are still a long way from a place where a COVID amnesty can be granted. Supposedly equality-loving Democrats embraced policies that in no uncertain terms screwed women, children and the poor. The 2020 Democrat slogan: “protect the rich, infect the poor”

submitted by Chipit from emilyburns.substack.com

No Nut November is Literally Fascism. It's amazing how people can have a problem with a completely voluntary meme month. This makes perfect sense once you understand who owns these "adult film" sites. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Imagine they were upset that people were willingly quitting smoking.

submitted by Chipit from youtu.be

No, There Will Not Be Any “Pandemic Amnesty”

submitted by Drewski from bombthrower.com

The Incoherence and Cruelty of a Mental Illness as Meme

submitted by jet199 from freddiedeboer.substack.com

The Consortium of State and Corporate Power. The rapid escalation of online censorship, and increasingly offline censorship, cannot be overstated. The censorship regime that has been developed, and which is now rapidly escalating, extends far beyond relatively limited punishments.

submitted by Chipit from greenwald.substack.com

When anti-government speech becomes sedition

submitted by Drewski from richmondobserver.com

Why I Won't Learn Esperanto. It’s clear that the creator, Zamenhof, envisaged his made-up, simplified language as facilitating the breaking down of national and religious identity which he despised in his own community (including patriotism which he regarded as something evil).

submitted by Chipit from mezzoguild.com

Wokeness, the Highest Stage of Managerialism

submitted by jet199 from city-journal.org

The Upper Class Defines Itself as Morally and Aesthetically Superior. They are motivated to distinguish themselves from us they want to be as different from us as possible. Being opposed to illegal aliens indicates to them that we are extremely low status.

submitted by Chipit from richardhanania.substack.com

The Profoundly Stupid Narrative That Nuclear Brinkmanship Is Safety And De-Escalation Is Danger. “An understandable desire to avoid a nuclear war could actually make the world more dangerous if it means rushing to implement a ‘peace’ in Ukraine that serves Russian interests.”

submitted by Chipit from caitlinjohnstone.com

“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.” –Karl Marx. The fancy, new-fangled “solution” to the non-existent “riddle of history” therefore now tends to go by the name “sustainability,” or more specifically, “sustainable capitalism.”

submitted by Chipit from newdiscourses.com

Biden drove 'historically' close Middle East allies into the arms of America's greatest enemies, experts say

submitted by Chipit from foxnews.com

Is the Biden administration planning to use tactical nuclear weapons against the Russians in defense of Ukraine? It should be unthinkable but we live in an age in which the most offensive and absurd is celebrated, so we can no longer assume anything, no matter how monstrous, is beyond the pale.

submitted by Chipit from thezman.com

In January 2016, I became President and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA). I wrote an opinion piece, The Anti-Israel Trend You’ve Never Heard Of, in which I argued that the progressive doctrine of “intersectionality” was a danger to the Jewish community.

submitted by Chipit from quillette.com

Gender ideology has therefore proven to be a hard sell for many adults who rightfully view such ideas as regressive and sexist. After all, this worldview entails that a woman who does not fully embrace femininity is not actually a woman, and a man who does not embrace masculinity is not a man.

submitted by Chipit from realityslaststand.com

Monkeywerx just did a very detailed blog post with a lot of back-up about how he thinks a US Navy P-8 Poseidon bombed the pipeline using a High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability weapon, or HAAWC.

submitted by Chipit from monkeywerxus.com

Nearly 90 Percent of the World Isn't Following Us on Ukraine

submitted by Drewski from newsweek.com

The western political/media class has been dismissing as “conspiracy theories” all claims that the US is likely responsible for last month’s sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, even while leveling the exact same accusations against Russia without ever using that term.

submitted by Chipit from caitlinjohnstone.com

Values and Character v. Political Identity: Some Personal Reflections. If politics drives you to hate your neighbors and everyone who sees the world differently from you – instead of being angry with centers of power – then it's playing a very distorted role in your life.

submitted by Chipit from greenwald.substack.com

It's Time to Mandate Treatment of the Dangerously Mentally Ill. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the ACLU and its allies successfully fought for laws to severely restrict the ability of family members and police to require the mentally ill get treatment.

submitted by Chipit from commonsense.news

Anti-Globalism Is Going Mainstream - Which Means Engineered Disaster Is About To Strike. I have noted in the past that criminals tend to brag about their criminality when they believe there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

submitted by Chipit from alt-market.us

How Can Bertrand de Jouvenel Explain the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline? Once you understand this, everything else that has happened in Ukraine starts to make sense.

submitted by Chipit from youtu.be

People who defend the US empire from criticism aren’t actually defending the empire, they’re defending their worldview. They’re staving off the flood of cognitive dissonance they’d experience if they saw that everything they believe about the world is a propaganda-induced lie.

submitted by Chipit from self.OpinionPieces

The Roundtable — Gonzalo Lira (frequently censored by Youtube) The Americans Declared War On Europe. Great analysis.

submitted by Chipit from youtube.com

We Can't Constructively Address Online Mental Health Culture Without Acknowledging That Some People Think They Have Disorders They Don't. People have garnered hundreds of thousands of followers by performing mental illness. People use their disorders to chase clout. That’s just reality.

submitted by Chipit from freddiedeboer.substack.com

An Inflection Point. Washington is now openly sponsoring and probably carrying out terrorist acts in Europe. Imagine if Washington blew up the Chunnel in response to 9/11 and we have a good comparison.

submitted by Chipit from thezman.com

Michael Hudson: America’s Real Adversaries Are Its European and Other Allies | naked capitalism. What worries American diplomats is that Germany, other NATO nations and countries along the Belt and Road route understand the gains that can be made by opening up peaceful trade and investment.

submitted by Chipit from nakedcapitalism.com

The "Left" Can't Take a W Because Performative Ironic Cruelty is All It Has. The “left” is a social culture of frustrated post-college urbanites who know little about left theory or practice and who use left politics as just another way to wage petty little wars of social status with their peers.

submitted by Chipit from freddiedeboer.substack.com

Barbara Ehrenreich never stopped trying to change the world

submitted by jet199 from theconversation.com

The ADL’s Radical Boss Must Go. Under Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL has become a threat to Jews. While attacks on Jews tripled, the ADL is promoting police defunding in its curriculum.

submitted by Chipit from frontpagemag.com

The EU brought to its knees by the Straussians. After having organized many wars since those of Yugoslavia, they imagined the one in Ukraine. If European leaders do not open their eyes, their alliance with Washington will lead to the collapse of the EU's economy.

submitted by Chipit from voltairenet.org

The Trouble With ‘Western Values’ Is That Westerners Don’t Value Them. Have you ever noticed how those who shriek the loudest about tyranny in foreign countries are always the same people calling for the censorship and deplatforming of anyone who criticizes the western empire?

submitted by Chipit from caitlinjohnstone.com

The kind of Very Serious people who make up our intelligentsia are desperate for a good war. And it’s for this reason that the pro-Ukraine position is the single most rigidly enforced consensus since 9/11. There is no other issue on which the majority more viciously attacked any who dissent.

submitted by Chipit from freddiedeboer.substack.com

The Vision Of The Elites. The global crisis is due in no small part to this sensibility. The reason the violent Trotsky cult called neoconservatism keeps insisting Russia is nothing by a big gas station run by peasants is it has to be for the Great Reset to work.

submitted by Chipit from thezman.com

King Charles Is a Monster & It Won't Take Long For People To See It. Right now, Charles is riding on the love and support the people had for his mother, transferring it to him. But it won't take long for him to lose that. Watch him literally use the "evil Bilbo" face.

submitted by Chipit from youtu.be

Pointing out authoritarianism doesn't make me the bad guy

submitted by jet199 from unherd.com

Why Are Leftists Obsessed With Destroying Hero Culture? Leftists are also targeting the very foundations of heroic archetypes and mythologies by attacking heroic representations in our society.

submitted by Chipit from alt-market.us

It is my belief that World War Next, when it occurs, will be a fight for global hegemony between what I have called “the World Ocean” powers and the “World Island” powers. It will be a total war, fought economically, military, socially, and politically, but it will not necessarily be a nuclear war.

submitted by Chipit from treeofwoe.substack.com

The reason it’s good and important to celebrate the deaths of war sluts who facilitated mass military slaughter is because it helps bring clarity and proportionality to the horrors of war. You’re making it clear that John McCain’s victims matter more than his daughter’s feelings.

submitted by Chipit from caitlinjohnstone.com

World War Next. War is coming. Maybe not this month, maybe not this year, but it’s coming. Let’s explore what the next world war might look like, if the US, China, and Russia come to blows. This is a complex topic, so it might end up a multi-part series.

submitted by Chipit from treeofwoe.substack.com

If I provoke someone into doing something bad, then they’re guilty of doing the bad thing, but I am also guilty of provoking them. It’s the subject of entire Shakespearean plays. But in 2022 everyone’s pretending that this extremely basic concept is some kind of bizarre alien gibberish.

submitted by Chipit from caitlinjohnstone.com

My Advice to the Young • The Worthy House. There is no way back; all that can be done is first destroy our enemies utterly, and then build a new thing, founded both on the wisdom of the past and the needs, and limitations, of the present.

submitted by Chipit from theworthyhouse.com

Before Deploying More U.S. Forces To Europe, Consider The Consequences. As it turns out, the U.S. sending more troops just angers Europeans, and moreover they think they don't have to pay for their own defense because we're doing it for them.

submitted by Chipit from warontherocks.com

view more: next ›