The Kafkaesque Phaseout of the Pandemic Penal Colony ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Promyka5 · 2024-08-15T10:51:32+00:00

Luckily, they've already developed a vaccine for that. Some would call that foresight. Others, however, would call it mendacious exploitation with depraved indifference.

Promyka5 · 2024-08-14T01:41:46+00:00

Citation?

Promyka5 · 2024-08-12T11:47:04+00:00

I particularly like the way Thomas Kuhn's idea of the collapse of paradigms is brought in at the end of the article to illustrate the collapse of the prior ideological regime. Remarkably apt, and speaking as one who experienced that collapse keenly (following my political exile due to the dissolution of party political bonds just a single election cycle before), I can say that this both articulates and reinforces the feeling I had, but hadn't yet fully assimilated and expressed.

Promyka5 · 2024-08-11T13:48:12+00:00

Kick some MORE ass, Nick!

Promyka5 · 2024-08-01T16:45:43+00:00

Israelis have no standing any longer to make accusations of rape in order to discredit and delegitimize their adversaries.

There are consequences to weaponizing rape as a tool of warfare.

Promyka5 · 2024-07-20T02:17:13+00:00

If the "Rule Of Law" really means anything, Israel will be voted out of existence by the UN. But the fact that it won't is more valuable: it unambiguously indicates that it was all a farce the entire time, at least, to those who are paying any attention.

Promyka5 · 2024-07-09T11:09:35+00:00

As a formerly loyal but now alienated and disaffected Democrat, two words spring to mind....

Promyka5 · 2024-07-03T12:12:26+00:00

Reports like this one warm the very cockles of my heart.

Promyka5 · 2024-06-16T17:08:17+00:00

I love the smell of burning draft cards in the morning. Smells like... victory.

Promyka5 · 2024-06-08T13:45:27+00:00

To go along with other treatments like ventilation (a virtual death sentence for the majority of patients who received it for COVID) and Remdesivir ("run, death is near").

Promyka5 · 2024-06-07T17:04:19+00:00

As long as they can include the votes of dead people who vote for Biden and exclude those of dead people who vote for Trump, there should be no problem.

Promyka5 · 2024-06-07T16:47:21+00:00

It must be the virus, because these cancers seem to affect the vaccinated, and all of them got COVID after they received the jab. Logic.

Promyka5 · 2024-05-19T00:20:22+00:00

Oh no -- someone activated the canine Hamas sleeper cell!

Promyka5 · 2024-05-17T11:49:09+00:00

You've missed my satirical point: I was lampooning the way antiSemitism is concocted by the Zionists to promote their own agenda. The more they gin up the appearance of antiSemitism, the more "justification" for Israel's existence they think they're producing.

Promyka5 · 2024-05-15T03:20:51+00:00

My very first thought when I saw the thread title was: "Dear god, please let this be true...."

Promyka5 · 2024-05-09T17:02:00+00:00

I just find it shocking that the guy being interviewed would so openly admit to hating Jews the way he did.

Promyka5 · 2024-04-23T17:39:46+00:00

Somehow censorship is wrong NOW and must be resisted NOW and is an enduring, inviolable principle NOW, but maaaaybe not so much when there's a DEADLY* VIRUS RUNNING AMOK!!!1!1!!!1!!1111!!!! (*not so much, kinda more like a cold or flu, really)

I have to say, I'm with Hopkins on this one. Fuck your remonstrations against the threats to freedom of expression if you were a Covidian for the last few years. Also, and in a similar vein, if you're now hyperventilating about the overturning of Roe v. Wade after conclusively proving that you never really supported "my body, my choice" when you were on the wrong side of COVID vaccine mandates, I find your consternation HILARIOUS. FUCK YOU.

Promyka5 · 2024-04-15T12:21:46+00:00

Looks to me like the abortion issue most Americans care about is the abortion of the 2020 election outcome.

Promyka5 · 2024-04-13T20:08:13+00:00

Those "in charge" will ultimately have to use them against us, since no one worth his salt will stand to defend them, and they are congenitally incapable of physically defending themselves. The enormous genocide necessary to kill the masses and leave only themselves behind will thus simply have to be automated.

Promyka5 · 2024-04-08T23:49:00+00:00

Maybe not so certainly.

Promyka5 · 2024-04-08T23:31:50+00:00

I understand Israel is recruiting, too!

Promyka5 · 2024-04-08T23:29:41+00:00

Best of all, the seemingly random violence (directed, of course, by shady operatives who seek to undermine the Liberty of the American People) can be parlayed into full-blown martial law, just like in New York City!

Watch for more lady punching, coming to a small town near you!

Promyka5 · 2024-03-30T00:07:32+00:00

I saw it as potentially the theme song of WotB!

Promyka5 · 2024-03-29T14:20:52+00:00

Don't let the lid hit you where the good lord split you during your six-foot ride down.

Promyka5 · 2024-02-28T02:42:31+00:00

I have, up until the last few years, supported a government-as-single-payer health care system. My concern after the COVID debacle is that, given the appalling behavior of the medical community during the "pandemic," it is quite possible that any health care provided might well be conditional on each patient receiving it complying with a set of requirements, including (especially) the jab, among other questionable procedures, before their right to healthcare is fulfilled. I, for one, do not wish to become a subject to Big Pharma, which is likely to have an outsized role in the provision of treatment.

I want healthcare provision placed directly in the hands of the citizenry, with direct democratic control over its operation, with government as a citizens' tool to direct it to their own ends, rather than to some nebulous ends decided by some obscure board or a body of elite shareholders seeing to their own interests at the expense of the citizenry.

Promyka5 · 2024-02-27T19:46:14+00:00

Is it perhaps in part because the ultra wealthy didn't get the jab?

Promyka5 · 2024-02-06T23:27:23+00:00

She should just fly commercial. Problem solved!

Promyka5 · 2024-02-02T19:07:39+00:00

"So you won't help to enable our genocide? We'll show YOU!"

Promyka5 · 2024-02-01T04:04:39+00:00

What a blow to his reputation.

Promyka5 · 2024-01-29T23:50:36+00:00

Wow, who dug up that old relic?

Promyka5 · 2024-01-29T11:50:34+00:00

Supreme Court, Abortion, and TRUMP, oh my!

...aaaaaaaaand so on.

Dig in your heels. Say no. Repeat if necessary. Let the burden be on them to try and convince you with their twisted arguments about how "you don't vote Biden for yourself, you do it for other people." It's a lot harder for them to breathe life into a bullshit argument than it is for you to say NO and stick with it. This is the hard-won lesson I learned from the "pandemic."

Promyka5 · 2024-01-27T03:53:39+00:00

You mean like focusing on mutual aid rather than on the contradictions of capitalism?

Promyka5 · 2024-01-27T03:48:44+00:00

I remember back in 2016, after he had retired in 2015, thinking, it's too bad we don't have Jon Stewart to make fun of Trump. Can't believe that was really me.

Promyka5 · 2024-01-23T04:00:19+00:00

The tune by Five Times August at the end was the most fitting selection possible to put this film into context. If there is in fact any justice remaining in the United States, their litigation against Pfizer will succeed and real consequences will ensue.

Promyka5 · 2024-01-21T20:59:22+00:00

Yeah, that might work better. I recognize the gatekeeping function of the Church that had to be overcome at such great cost at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Rennaisance (Galileo's recantation, for instance), but the overpowering influence of the Church had waned considerably by the time Marx wrote his Opiate line, explaining why he might have chosen that word over another word, like 'straitjacket' or 'cudgel.'

I think that the contemporary function of the Church (or rather, the splintered collection of denominations and sects that we might instead refer collectively to as 'churches') might be more accurately viewed as supporting dissidence rather than as oppressive to it. Remember that churches were systemically shut down at the opening moment of the lockdown in 2020, probably to reduce dissidence to the naked authoritarianism, dissidence that they might have suborned. Although I'm not religious myself, nor a member of any congregation, I recognize that a considerable source of such dissidence in discussions of this and many other issues in our contemporary social milieu is that collection of various congregations that we call churches.

I think the cell phone and social media serve such a function to a much lesser degree, and serve the function of suppressing independent thought to a much greater degree.

Promyka5 · 2024-01-21T14:20:20+00:00

That whole "religion is the opiate of the masses" thing really gets me. I know socialists still say this sort of thing, but it seems reflexive rather than reflective to me. If the Church had been nearly as effective back in the day as smartphones and social media are today at marginalizing and ostracizing dissident voices (read: CANCELLING), there would never have been any socialist revolutions at all.

And imagine reading a story from an 1882 newspaper about a devoutly religious person being run down by a horse and buggy because he was crossing the street without looking up from his Bible! How would the editorial take then (and people's opinions) differ from a story now about a pedestrian run down by a car because he was looking down at his phone!

Promyka5 · 2024-01-21T04:00:25+00:00

I saw the Due Diligence fellas cover this on the Jimmy Dore Show. I was wondering why they'd cover something done by someone I assumed was a mainstream figure, and then I saw it. Wow. I wonder what proportion of the black vote he might represent. I suspect it's fairly high, and if so, I'd say the Dems are going to have to do something drastic.

And I wouldn't put it past them.

Promyka5 · 2024-01-21T03:37:34+00:00

Unreal. Thanks for that link.

Promyka5 · 2024-01-19T04:51:33+00:00

I for one am glad he's overtly taken the position he has. His doing so unapologetically reveals the most important information about Kennedy as a candidate, information we all need to know.

Based entirely on the position he took during the COVID debacle, I would have supported him to the ends of the earth, all other positions of his notwithstanding, had they remained nebulous. But knowing that his concerns over the vaccines' formulation, their being unjustly mandated, and the subsequent suppression of any dissent, all in the service of individual Liberty of medical choice, are all tempered by an unapologetic support for an evident genocide with no criticism or circumspection, I now know all I need to know in order to make my choice: I will cast no ballot for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

It pains me to say so, but I was nearly ready to follow another political hero, when I thought I had learned my lesson after Bernie Sanders. Thank you, RFKJr, for startling me enough to regain my senses.

Promyka5 · 2024-01-17T16:11:46+00:00

Imagine this is a story from a 1950s-era Georgia newspaper, and replace "indigenous" and "Palestinian" with "Negro," and "Israeli" and "Jewish" with "White."

See? A spot-on match!

Promyka5 · 2024-01-15T14:23:57+00:00

Did he expect his treatment by Israel would be any different to that of the young Germans who spoke out against the Nazis in the early 1930s?

Promyka5 · 2024-01-15T14:19:13+00:00

Is a queue of vaccine enthusiasts beginning to form yet? Because I'd like to walk along that line handing each of the recipients of the new vaccine a white lily.

Promyka5 · 2023-12-28T02:52:27+00:00

It exists in that distant country known as the Past. The party was known as the Democratic Party, and they featured such populist figures as Roosevelt and Huey Long. They were enormously popular, established such beloved institutions as Social Security and Medicare (considered third-rail issues), supported unions and workers' issues, and thereby built the broadest, sturdiest political coalition in the nation's history.

Coincidentally, there's also a party that calls itself the Democratic Party these days. I don't understand much about them really, but suffice to say they suck.

Promyka5 · 2023-12-09T17:30:49+00:00

This photo goes some way toward explaining RFKjr's stance on Israel. It's all beginning to become clear to me now.

Promyka5 · 2023-12-09T03:10:13+00:00

The highest level of public safety? Why does that not sound comforting?

Promyka5 · 2023-12-03T13:57:03+00:00

This exactly. People who talk about animal rights are talking out their asses, because animals do not have rights; if they did, shouldn't a lion have the right to a speedy trial for the violation of the rights of the water buffalo it killed? Corporations don't have rights (despite Mitt Romney's protestations) because, if they did, presumably those rights would have to include the right to own other people (corporations), which they do now, and if so, presumably the right to own you and me as well. And yes, countries do not have rights, though all persons within the borders of that country do have inalienable rights.

Where the rights of countries come into conflict with the rights of humans, the humans ALWAYS lose.

Promyka5 · 2023-11-30T03:02:47+00:00

Ding! Dong!

Promyka5 · 2023-11-28T17:06:42+00:00

Agreed. Begin with Netanyahu, the worst perpetrator in this case.

Promyka5 · 2023-11-27T16:36:11+00:00

I still value her voice. On issues like these, she is a force of conscience to drive the moral aspects of the story into the awareness of all and sundry. But as much as I've looked to her voice as a source of enlightenment, her absence during the COVID imbroglio amounted to a painful lack of support when it was sorely needed.

Promyka5 · 2023-11-27T13:01:08+00:00

Caitlin's voice is strong on this issue, and the morality of her position is clear. Her influence is welcome and undeniable.

I just wish to god that she had been as vocal and forceful during the COVID lockdowns and "vaccine" mandates. She wasn't.

Promyka5 · 2023-11-16T02:53:02+00:00

Sometimes fucking underage girls on Epstein's Lolita Express saves lives, too, I guess.

Promyka5 · 2023-11-14T12:31:51+00:00

Having a tribe to tell you what to think not only eliminates the agony of moral dilemmas by making issues unambiguous, but it also dramatically reduces the energy you have to expend in thinking for yourself. A hivemind of idiots will obvioulsy be wiser than a single idiot all alone.

Promyka5 · 2023-11-14T12:21:44+00:00

I'm holding out for a third party.

Promyka5 · 2023-11-10T04:17:33+00:00

"Pro-Hamas." Really. Why should anyone suppose I support a militant organization which is funded by Israel, hmmm?

Promyka5 · 2023-11-09T12:21:14+00:00

We must do the humanitarian thing and avoid such a ceasefire at all costs to save lives, up to and including continuing to ceaselessly drop bombs on these civilians whom a ceasefire would endanger.

Promyka5 · 2023-11-07T12:35:44+00:00

Only human beings have rights. States do not, nor do corporations or animals.

Human beings are the only beings with the inherent right to exist. States that operate to violate that right are illegitimate.

Promyka5 · 2023-11-07T02:53:03+00:00

Couldn't you just paint swastikas on them, you know, something less obnoxiously offensive? What about the Synagogues of antiZionist Orthodox Jews, will they have to be blown up as well now that the Orthodox are no longer considered to be Jews by fanatical Zionists?

Is there any conceivable way this plan could go tragically sideways for this extremist Rabbi and his ilk? Nah, they've probably spent copious amounts of time working out all of the possible contingencies. I'm sure it'll work out just fine. And it will be easy work without a conscience to get in your way.

Promyka5 · 2023-11-06T13:07:25+00:00

I'll second all of that. I'm just glad that this disaster didn't wait a year until after RFKjr's miraculous ascencion to the Presidency, but happened now while there's still time to observe his true colors and make another plan.

Promyka5 · 2023-11-06T12:24:20+00:00

The anti-Jewish sentiment we're seeing is as a result of a) the inhumane actions of the State of Israel against unarmed civilians during their frequent military assaults in residential Gaza, and b) the deliberate conflation of the responsibility for these actions by that state with the responsibility for these actions by all Jews everywhere. To attribute the motivations of protestors demanding the recognition of Palestinian human rights to hatred of Jews is equally as disingenuous and cynical, and anyone singing that song knows it, including RFKjr.

If Jewish students on college campuses feel unsafe, it's because they choose to be on the wrong side of this issue. Plenty of Jewish students are also involved in protesting the actions of the State of Israel; have they been asked whether they, too feel unsafe?

Promyka5 · 2023-11-04T01:58:37+00:00

Today I bought Peter Gabriel Plays Live second hand on nearly pristine vinyl, and I was over the moon about it!

The first track I put on when I got it home was this homage to an Apartheid martyr from an earlier era, Stephen Biko:

Peter Gabriel -- Biko

Promyka5 · 2023-11-03T01:11:07+00:00

Zionism has its roots in antiSemitism. Here in this video is further proof of its corruption of Judaism, becoming a stridently anti-humanist ideology. My heart breaks knowing that there are such people in this world, god help us.

Promyka5 · 2023-10-24T20:20:52+00:00

This dangerous fool is likely to succeed in getting a genocide, only not the one he's looking for.

And here I thought that everything was upside-down before this business....

Promyka5 · 2023-10-21T00:49:58+00:00

I've been on a massive Indigo Girls kick lately. I recently bought Come On Now Social, second hand of course, and it's currently in heavy rotation in the car. I've dug them since the very beginning, and I doubt if I could think of a single dud of theirs, even if pressed.

Indigo Girls -- Andy

Here's another of my favorites, this one from Swamp Ophelia:

Indigo Girls -- The Wood Song

Promyka5 · 2023-10-19T01:43:57+00:00

Zionism isn't a bad word! It just means that if you support Palestinians' human rights, then you hate all Jews everywhere forever, you disgusting antiSemite.

Promyka5 · 2023-10-15T22:21:35+00:00

Great. Now I have to make 1000 sock puppet accounts just to be able to upvote this as many times as it deserves.

Promyka5 · 2023-10-14T01:24:17+00:00

I saw this segment earlier, and it made me furious. How could the country let one of its most celebrated Olympic champions fall into such a state of destitution? Every time I think the US could not fall into further disrepute and ignominy, it says, "hold my beer." Repugnant.

Get well soon, Mary Lou. I'm pulling for you as hard now as I did back when you were on top of the world.

Promyka5 · 2023-10-12T21:08:20+00:00

Schrodinger's children?

Promyka5 · 2023-10-09T05:45:45+00:00

What the actual fuck. Some people say that Donald Trump broke Democrats' brains. It looks like it actually assimilated them all into a Borg hivemind.

Promyka5 · 2023-10-06T23:21:35+00:00

This sentence is false.

Promyka5 · 2023-10-05T12:10:21+00:00

Man, if Democrats were so pissed off about Trump's wall way back in 2016, just wait until they hear about this!

/s

Promyka5 · 2023-10-05T00:04:16+00:00

To think I used to listen to Hartmann's show religiously, breathlessly awaiting Friday's Brunch With Bernie segment.

Now I have respect for neither of them.

Promyka5 · 2023-09-30T01:54:21+00:00

Catherine MacLellan -- Sparrows (live)

Promyka5 · 2023-09-30T01:48:17+00:00

Traffic -- John Barleycorn

Live in Santa Monica, 1972

Promyka5 · 2023-09-30T01:39:57+00:00

Simon & Garfunkel -- America (live)

Promyka5 · 2023-09-29T22:47:32+00:00

That's the rumor I've heard, too. Most of us regard the Libertarian Party as a sort of laissez-faire, economically right-leaning party, and for decades it has been. Kennedy will certainly run from the left, but I don't imagine that will be terribly contentious in a party that no one would characterize as doctrinaire.

I'm still not convinced that our way out of this mire is via electoral politics, and Bernie Sanders is the very last instance of my hitching a wagon to any candidate in hopes of a savior. In the words of the late, great Tina Turner, "We don't need another hero." Best of luck to Mr. Kennedy, but he'll have to earn my vote. I'm watching very carefully to see where this might go.

Promyka5 · 2023-09-29T18:51:53+00:00

It's quite possible that, with the name Weinstein, he's conditioned to be excessively sensitive to perceived biases toward Jews, and thus he mistakes Waters' legitimate critiques of the Israeli state for antiSemitic remarks. He explicitly states that the perceived antiSemitism he is pointing out is nothing more than one man's opinion. I happen to disagree with him, and I, like Waters, am also intensely critical of the inhumane treatment of the Palestinians at the hands of Israelis.

On the second point I agree entirely. Let anyone and everyone speak their mind, regardless of the position they might take. Why wouldn't anyone prefer someone's antiSemitism, racism, misogyny, or any other prejudice to be evident to all rather than sequestered in small pockets of like-thinkers to fester and intensify? Let those prejudices receive their full airing in open discourse. Did anyone think they might somehow be refuted while being whispered in private conversations in closed rooms among avowed racists? Sunlight, as they say, is the best disinfectant. Argue rationally with a racist and you might not change his mind, but you might influence the views of fence-sitting onlookers.

Promyka5 · 2023-09-26T01:02:23+00:00

What's to apologize for? Calling patriotic truckers Nazis, then turning around and giving a standing ovation to a man who fought under a Nazi flag and in a Nazi SS uniform against the Allies while deporting and murdering Jews? If only you could see through the eyes of a shitlib, you'd understand that all's right with the world.

Promyka5 · 2023-09-23T15:29:30+00:00

Astonishing to think that nearly 20 years ago, this man was probably popuarly elected to the Presidency, then got cheated, then elected to let the matter drop without contesting it.

In the words of Kurt Vonnegut, "No great loss."

Promyka5 · 2023-09-23T03:16:01+00:00

Woody Veneman -- I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore

Promyka5 · 2023-09-17T00:05:31+00:00

At least the DNC isn't posting thousands of dollars in Facebook memes in order to hack the election. Like the Russians did. Which Dems screamed and raged about for four solid years. Hence their obvious commitment to democracy.

Promyka5 · 2023-09-15T16:47:39+00:00

I find it astonishing to have just read an article extolling the virtues of trade unionism, complete with videos of Union songs by Billy Bragg and Pete Seeger, on Breitbart. It's hard to believe how much the entire world has come to more and more resemble a scrambled egg since 2015. My head spins.

Promyka5 · 2023-09-14T20:30:46+00:00

Wasn't a criticism of your comment, just an observation that, as you say, a willingness to sell yourself (a lack of scruples) in one context extends into all others.

Promyka5 · 2023-09-14T14:05:17+00:00

However, the two aren't mutually exclusive, and if you've already got experience selling yourself in one context, why not another as well?

Promyka5 · 2023-09-14T11:36:08+00:00

Stellar political analysis by MSNBC that indicates Biden losing support among this or that demographic. Why? It's a total mystery why anyone "of color" would cozy up to a fascist white supremacist. Which Trump is. Because we know it and knew it already for a while so no point bothering to indicate how it's known. What does he stand for? Well, hate, I guess. And what does Biden stand for? Hmm, doesn't say here anywhere. But better stuff, surely, because anything is better than raw, inchoate hate, which is all Trump stands for. So why is he losing ground among a particular artificial demographic? Get out your Tarot cards and your Ouiji board and your divining rods if you want to plumb the depths of this great mystery.

Promyka5 · 2023-09-12T01:33:31+00:00

Not doing that shit. I'll just steal instead.

Promyka5 · 2023-09-10T04:53:07+00:00

The tyrants are still moving full-bore ahead with their agenda, apparently ignorant of the fact that the spell is already broken. Few people now blindly accept the pronouncements of any of the official media organs. Skepticism is the new pandemic! It's catching quickly! And that is intensely problematic for them, since, as Caitlin Johnstone likes to remind us, they still require our consent, which is why they even still work so hard to manufacture it.

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