Alt Left: The Essential Contours of the Deep State: Its Private Sector/Operations, Army, Intelligence, Diplomatic, and Disinformation/Propaganda Arms

Rambo: Bechtel, Halliburton, the so and so group (can’t remember the name right now, maybe somebody can help), all CIA-National Security type companies that supply government officials.

Sure, Bechtel, Halliburton, etc. and especially the Carlyle Group (Is that the name the commenter was looking for?) could even be considered part of the Operations Arm of the Deep State, the Deep State being defined as the Foreign Policy Establishment of the US, if we include the Pentagon as the military arm of the Deep State, the intelligence agencies being its spy network, the State Department being its diplomatic branch, and the mass media its Disinformation or Propaganda Arm.

Bechtel, Halliburton, and especially the Carlyle Group essentially are parts of the CIA or US intelligence agencies.

Alt Left: Ever Wonder Why North Koreans Hate the US So Much? Here’s Why

Only half a decade after the WW2 armistice, we got involved in the Korean War. Before that war started, we turned a blind eye to and even directly assisted South Korea’s Syngman Rhee’s genocidal massacres via execution of 800,000 “Communists” from 1945 until the start of the Korean War.  These were actually leftwing guerrillas and their civilian supporters waging a legitimate war against Rhee’s repression.

The guerrilla was set off by the massacres of peaceful civilian protestors on Jeju Island in 1947. Outraged, the islanders took up arms. Rhee, with close US support, waged a brutal counterinsurgency, razing most of the capital city, killing 30,000 people, mostly civilians, and forcing almost the entire rest of the population to flee the island in terror.

During the Korean War, the US committed the most unspeakable crimes against humanity, including using chemical and biological weapons against North Korea, similar to what Japan had done to China 10-15 years before. In fact, we got the idea for this directly form Japanese war criminals, most of whom were immediately hired by the Pentagon and intelligence agencies after the war, in part for their knowledge of WMD’s.

Even the bombing campaign against North Korea was probably one of the most criminal acts of the 20th Century. A general bragged that every human being walking openly and any standing building in Korea was a target to be destroyed or killed. General MacArthur (I always hated him) demanded and almost received permission to drop 40 atom bombs on China after the Chinese entered the war.

Pyongyang was burned to the ground with incendiary weapons like napalm similar to the firebombing of Tokyo in 1945 in which we murdered 100,000 Japanese civilians with firebombs in only a few days. Most of the houses were actually made of a form of paper, so the firestorms caused by the firebombs raged wildly through the city.

We actually killed 3 million North Koreans in that war, which was 1

If you want to know why North Koreans hate and especially fear us so much, there’s your Goddamn reason. General Mattis was terribly worried that he would have to implement a war plan involving dropping 40 nuclear bombs on North Korea in case of a North Korean attack, so you can see that if we  fight another war against North Korea, we will just as vicious and evil as before, if not much worse. This why you see the near-fanatical hatred and fear of the US, along with the frenzied mass buildup of one of the  impressively militarized North Korean army, the 4th largest military in the world.

Alt Left: The War Crimes and Depraved Murders/Massacres/Genocides of America Began Immediately After World War Ended

Scarcely were the lights out on WW2 when we started recruiting “ex”-Nazis for our military and intelligence agencies.

We started setting up Operation Gladio or the Stay Behind Network, composed almost purely of Nazis and other fascists, to defend Europe after a possible Soviet invasion and conquest. They would form the behind the lines resistance against the new Soviet Order in Europe.

We started setting up and funding “ex” Nazis and Nazi collaborators all over Eastern Europe to serve as similar stay behind networks to wage guerilla war in parts of the USSR, especially the Baltics (the Forest Brothers) and Ukraine. These guerrilla wars lasted until 1956 and were very brutally put down, mostly by the NKVD.

 

Alt Left: Most all Foreign Policy Stories (Especially about Armed Conflicts) You Read in the Media Are Biased, Distorted, or Often Flat-out Lies

So much of what you read in the media about foreign policy is pretty much lies.

It’s all run through a filter called:

Good for US foreign policy = play it up, exaggerate it, make it up altogether, twist it completely so it that it seems much more important than it is, assign malice or malign intent to US enemies where none exists, lie about it to make it seem a lot worse than it is; in particular, make US enemies seem like incompetent dufuses.

To fight against the “evil truthtellers like yours truly: Deny all “conspiracy theories” = stories that are actually just reporting the truth as it happened. Attack people pushing the truth as “conspiracy theorists” – crazy, deranged, unstable, malign their politics – call them racists, fascists, Nazis, sexists, perverts, pedophiles, criminals, expose their deepest and most embarrassing sexual, etc. secrets.  Make them look bad, dig up any dirt you can on them and smear it all over the place.

If we massacre people, say they attacked us first even if they didn’t, and you can even make up a big lie that says they did. If we commit some evil crime, either it didn’t happen or we blame the enemy and say they did it. I think of lot of these depraved crimes the US commits are just false flag attacks, something we do quite a bit of.

Bad for US foreign policy = Simply don’t report it, report it in a different way so it makes the enemy look bad, divert the blame onto a patsy state, group, or individual such an enemy of the US that can be better blamed. If our enemies pretty much kicked our ass, lie about it, deny it, say someone else did it, blame other people such as patsies.

The Deep State and consequently the US media use patsies all the time. JFK was nothing new. James Earl Ray was absolutely a patsy – he had nothing to do with it. And Sirhan was probably a patsy too. And Russia and Iran have been used as patsies in a number of US attacks during wartime in Syria and the Gulf of Arabia.

A vast amount of the foreign policy stories you read in the media and foreign policies of the US state are biased, twisted, distorted, manipulated, intellectually dishonest, sophist, lawyer-like, weasel-worded, or completely false versions of actually existing reality. Bottom line is it’s mostly (((propaganda))). Thank you  (((Edward Bernays))). Talk about psychopaths.

Alt Left: The Nature and Murderous/Genocidal Impulses of the US Deep State

The Deep State is nothing more than “the foreign policy establishment of the United States.” These people run this damned country.

They killed JFK.

They probably killed RFK.

They killed MLK.

They probably killed Paul Wellstone.

And the behavior of the American Deep State is unspeakably wicked, depraved, and sociopathic. You could support it if you were a vicious psychopath who liked to tell lies and hurt or even kill people you see as your enemies. And that’s the problem. The US treats the citizens of enemy states as if they were our personal enemies. That’s how we can harm and even  kill them. Easily.

For instance, we have already killed 100,000 Venezuelans with these new sanctions we put in. We killed 500,000 Iraqi kids before the Gulf War and the psychopath (((Madeline Albright))) said it was worth it.  We recently started a  Nazi-like war of aggression against the Iraqi People (the Iraq War – I call it The War Against the Iraqi People) that has killed 1.4 million Iraqis.  We invaded and conquered Afghanistan and started a war there that has killed 1.1 million Afghans. All of that blood is on our hands.

America is basically a genocidal country at its core. That’s one way we’ve never changed from our basic core values and impulses. We’ve been pretty genocidal from the start, with some brief interludes where severe repression was substituted for genocide (Jim Crow). In the 20th Century, we’ve perpetrated or caused massacres and genocides all over the globe for a variety of excuses that all come down to US imperialism, which is making the world safe for super-exploitation by US corporations and the US rich.

Alt Left: A Reasonable Project for “Soft” Taiwanese Independence to Assuage PRC Fears

Vicmund the Han: What do you think of Taiwanese based on your observations?

You’re going to hate me for saying this, but I think they should go independent. But I would like a peace treaty with China beforehand, an economic agreement, CCP military bases in Taiwan dual staffed, Taiwanese military bases in China dual-staffed, perhaps some sort of integration military or econonomic-wise like the CIS or better yet, Belarus. Transform it into a deep alliance and work together. The radical independencists will have to be sidelined.

The main thing is to make it so an independent Taiwan is not a military threat to China. No US military bases in Taiwan, integration of both nations’ policies towards the US and maybe on a lot of other things. Brotherly countries with a strong alliance who agree to disagree on certain things, but when they do, they are “brotherly opposition.”

There is only one China. There are two countries, Taiwan and China. Taiwan is not China. It’s Taiwan. The only China is the People’s Republic. Two Chinas policy was insane, but one China policy is crazy too as it says that Taiwan doesn’t even exist!

The problem is that most  Chinese, including the CCP, are stark raving nuts about this question, so I am really worried that they will not want to put this project into effect. China sees Taiwan as a rebellious province of China. Well, it’s a part of China that fought a war and  achieved their independence from China via military might. So it’s not a rebellious province anymore. It’s like Eritrea split off from Ethiopia. It’s a new country.

Chinese nationalism is ok in a sense, but it’s also ethnic nationalism in a sense and it’s definitely ultranationalism in a revanchist way. You can’t go back and retake land you lost in wars. That’s what those world wars were all about. Irredentism and revanchism have got to go. Chinese nationalism suffers from a lot of the insanities, toxicities, and mental disorders of any nationalism. It is fascist in a sense that all extreme nationalisms or patriotardisms are, though only in a very broad sense of wanting a restoration of a Chinese empire.

It’s nation-state nationalism or patriotardism like exists in many countries, including the US.  It differs from almost all fascisms in not being ethnic-based and in not being part of a nation-building project where all non-Chinese Han/non-Mandarin speakers have to turn into Chinese Mandarin-speaking Hans. They all have to get rid of their languages, ethnic identities, and religions and cultures and become Hans in a sense. Chinese nationalism doesn’t work like that.

It’s inclusive rather than exclusive, offers autonomy instead of forced assimilation, and retains in a sense the notion of self-determination of nations in that nations in  China are free to  speak their languages, practice  their cultures and religions, etc. Pretty typical of the national policies of many Communist countries, though certainly not all of them! It’s more like Soviet nationalism. The Soviets went after breakaway provinces too you know.

Eastern Europe was quite hostile to minority languages, ethnicities, and cultures. Polish and Yugoslavian nationalisms were nation-building projects. I’m not sure how minorities were treated in Slovakia (Hungarians), Romania (Germans), etc. There was much persecution of the Rusyns in Poland, ethnic Germans everywhere, and Italians and Chakavian-speaking Istrians on the islands in Croatia after World War 2 of course. They were accused of siding with the enemy.

More On Irritable People

It could also be a “cold, hot” thing where they like and dislike you. It’s certainly hellish. Either keep the faith for an eventual turn to hot or get out.

That’s typically what’s going on. I will be absolutely convinced that one of these shitty people hates me, but then they get control over their irritability, and they act like your best friend! In that case, no, they don’t hate you, and yes, the reason they acted that way was completely down to them.

Think: Did you act any different when the person was being irritable towards you than you do when they are being nice? You were probably acting nicer when they were being irritable! That’s because my reaction to an irritable person is to try to say things that I know they agree with or that they can’t possibly disagree with.

But they will always find a way to twist whatever you’re saying around to where it’s somehow hostile. I used to joke about my father that I could tell him the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west, and he would find some way to disagree with it.

Often you will find the person wildly arguing with you, and when you stop and think about the nature of the argument, you realize that you both agree with each other, but the irritable person is somehow twisting your agreement into  you disagreeing with them.

Sometimes they say you are taking the opposite person that you are. Other times they will contradict themselves in the same argument just to disagree with you. You can say something you know they will agree with, and they will take the opposite position just to be an asshole. Then you get frustrated and argue the other position, and then they fight you on that one. They will literally take both sides of an argument and argue with you from both points of view! If you point out that they are contradicting themselves, they will usually deny it, blow up, or walk out of the room.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve yelled at these idiots, “But you agree with me! I agree with you! We agree with each other! Why in the Hell are you arguing with me if we agree?”

These people are just “spoiling for a fight.” They’re like pigs, excuse me,  cops. They’re “fight-pickers.” They “pick” on people and the weaker the person seems, the more they will pick on them. So many times I remember saying something that they could not possibly disagree with, and I could see them shifting in their chair uncomfortably. They were mad because I said something they could not disagree with! They wanted to fight and I was making it hard for them by trying to get along!

I’ve even seen them search around for an argument when I say something innocuous. They are thinking wildly, “I want so badly to disagree with him, but I can’t find anything to disagree with!” Finally they will grasp on one part of whatever you said and make some stupid argument about it.

Another problem with saying inoffensive things is that the irritable person will resort to, “What a stupid question!” type of responses. That’s pretty shitty. I never accuse anyone of asking a stupid question. Most questions are worthy of an answer. I don’t think there’s such a thing as a stupid question.

Another thing you will notice about irritable people is that they argue with every single thing you say. It sometimes takes a while to figure out someone is arguing with everything you say because our minds (or at least my mind) are optimistic, and we always want to think things are going fine or going to work out even when they’re not and they won’t.

So someone will be arguing with everything you say, but due to our built-in optimism and tendency to reject unpleasant interpretations of reality, it will take a while before your defenses drop enough to where you can figure out that, “Yeah, they are arguing with everything I say just to be assholes.”

Most of the time, I’ve found that with irritable people, it’s just them. They feel bad internally but it is intolerable to admit that, so they project it out. Instead of saying, “I feel bad (and it’s my fault for not controlling my feelings better,” people will prefer to say, “No, I’m fine! I don’t feel bad inside at all. I do a great job of controlling my emotions! And everything would be fine except for this one jerk-off who is trying to talk to me and is really pissing me off.

In particular though, the one thing you need to do with someone who is arguing with everything you say is to simply get away from that person. The problem with that is that people are social, and escaping from others often leads to loneliness. I’m living with an irritable jerk-off right now, and I just figured out that, yep, he’s irritable again this afternoon, though it took me a while to figure it out.

So I decided to just stop talking to them. So they are sitting in the other room, watching TV, and I am here in my room typing on a computer. If I were alone here it would not feel bad, but when you are in the same house with someone you are avoiding because they are so unpleasant, the loneliness is rather painful. Here’s a person I can talk to, right in the other room, but I can’t because they’re a huge asshole! Part of me keeps wanting to go in there and say something, but the other part of me keeps saying don’t do that.

If they are truly arguing with everything you say, there’s no way you will be able to talk about agreeable or inoffensive things enough to keep them from doing that. Arguing  with everything you say. Read that. See where it says, everything you say? Well, that means everything. Not only that but they will also act annoyed by everything you do too, so if you go out where they are and just do some things silently, they will keep looking over at you in an annoyed way and often will yell at you for something you are doing.

So you can’t even act silent around them. You pretty much need to isolate yourself away from them. I prefer a door with a lock because once I click that lock, I feel so much better for some reason. They don’t barge in anyway, but hearing that lock click makes me feel protected, even if the feeling is irrational.

How Irritable People Are Like Insects with Feelers

I now think that irritable people are like insects. Ever seen those feelers a lot of insects have that extend above them and seem to be sampling the world around them in some way? Or maybe like radio transmitters scanning the spectrum for a signal. They have these irritable feelers out here probing around in the world, basically looking for something to get angry about. If an irritable person is not angry, that feels bad because people like this actually enjoy being pissed off.

Well, if you are looking around at this Clown Sphere, especially in the Current Year, for things to get mad about it, I would say that you are likely to find just that. The feelers are going out all over the world sort of like wayward periscopes, looking for things in the environment to attach themselves to so they can get angry. They feelers usually will attach to anyone in the same room with them. They will attach to various objects in the room. That is why you see people cursing out toaster ovens and kicking couches.

Alt Left: Why Identity Politics Is Alive, Has an Individual Ego, Does Not Wish to Die, and Is Essentially Fascistic at Its Core

Polar Bear: The Social Left is more loony and emotional than ever. “Whites need to be silent but we also need to end White silence.”

Sure, I work in mental health, and I assure you that the Social Left is essentially mental disorder spread out over an entire movement. People don’t understand. They think only individuals get mentally ill. It’s not so.

Entire groups of people get mentally ill at once. We call it a shared disorder. Entire ethnic groups or societies can become mentally ill, and the disorder looks exactly like it does in an individual. In that sense, groups themselves actually have egos, psyches, etc.

What is an individual? An ego. What is a group of individuals? A mass of egos all together. As an individual can become egotistical, paranoid, projecting, etc., so can a group. In that case the amassing of individual egos creates something like a “group ego.”

So we can see entire ethnic groups and nation states as having “individual” egos, defense mechanisms, projections, psyches, and mental disorders. Every part of an individual’s psyche can probably become part of the group psyche. In this sense, entire ethnic groups and even nations are like “people” or can be constructed as a person, the way turn of the century cartoons had avatars that represented entire countries, for instance, France represented as Beatrice.

And this is why nationalism  is so dangerous. All Identity Politics is just nationalism and suffers from all of the problems(and I would argue mentally disordered thinking) that goes along with nationalism. For Identity Politics is just the “nationalism” of whoever your identity nation is.

Normal nationalists may be Syrians, Turks, Russians, Chinese, or whatever, but in IdPol, people are members of the Female Nation, the Gay Nation, the Black Nation, the Jewish nation (although this blurs with actual nationalism), the Woke Nation, and even, yes, the White Nation because White nationalism is just as insipid and mentally disordered as any other IdPol, except it’s probably worse because the hatred is so severe, on the surface, and often acted out with violence.

Politics can become nations. Communists are often members of the “Communist nation,” being all Communists. Antifa adherents are members of the Antifa Nation, to the extent such a thing can exist at all with anarchists. Even politics now, ordinary Left and Right, seems like forms of nationalism. Democrats are members of the Liberal Nation or Democratic Nation. Republicans are members of the Conservative Nation or Republican Nation.

What is interesting is that all of these IdPol groups will behave precisely like the nationalisms of ethnic groups or nation-states. Look at how nationalists act, especially ultranationalists, which is another word for fascists. Look at the similarities with IdPol.

This is how IdPol in its extremes seems fascistic.

Feminazis anyone? But feminazis often call themselves socialists. Ever heard of Gay Nazis? Black and Hispanic nationalists can seem fascistic, though they often call themselves Communists. Look at Farrakhan (a “Black Nazi”) and the Azteca Movement (“Hispanic Nazis”). Both look surprisingly fascistic, all the way down to the typical antisemitism of so many fascist movements.

In this way, a lot of “Communists” in the imperial core are actually fascists. Any “Communist” who supports separatisms such as female or lesbian separatism, Black separatism with a Black state in the South, or Hispanic separatism with an Aztlan state in the West is really just a fascist. If you were a real Communist, you wouldn’t be shutting the door to other workers just because they’re White or men or whatever.

Communism and Left Populism tends to be inclusive and led by the oppressed or underdogs.

Fascism and Right Populism tends to be exclusive and led by privileged or ruling groups who bizarrely say they are being discriminated against by their own minorities! Mostly they are afraid of losing their power due to some economic, political or demographic threat.

Hence, “Communism” in the imperial core, with its support for the various mental disorders known as Black, Hispanic, female, and lesbian separatism, has always been more fascist than Communist. This is probably one reason why it has failed so badly. It demonizes far too many proletarians for having the wrong skin color or genitals.

White nationalists of course have always been true fascists and often more or less Nazis in one way or another.

Although they really aren’t, conservatives call Antifa fascists. They’re more Communists but you can see above how these fascist movements often cloak themselves in the colors of socialism and Communism because they see themselves as oppressed.

Antifa is exclusive as it deliberately excludes and discriminates against Whites in some places like the Autonomous Zone in Seattle, and their “fascism of the oppressed; i.e. Western Leftism” is really not a whole lot different from the true fascism of a ruling group threatened with the loss of its power either politically, economically, or demographically. For an example, see American White nationalists. They’re coming from completely different places, and they typically want to murder each other, but really they’re more alike than different.

Zionazis? Ever heard of people calling Israelis fascists? Israel is indeed a fascist country, especially now under Netanyahu, a classic fascist on the model of the fascism of the 1920’s, which is he reduplicating via his heir Jabotinsky. See The Iron Wall by Jabotinsky, 1921. Not only does Jabotinsky express admiration for existing fascists, he lays the blueprint for a Jewish fascist state. And the project in the book looks like a printout of the Likud Party’s positions.

The group is alive. All groups are alive. As individuals don’t want to die, groups often don’t want to die either. That’s why movements like feminism and gay rights won’t just disband and take off already even though they’ve gotten most of what they want.

“Feminism” is like an individual person; the movement itself is “alive” like a person is alive. In addition, many mentally disordered people (this is especially prominent in feminism where almost all of the women are disordered) gain a sense of identity or even have their entire identity tied up in the movement.

Furthermore, the movement, while being an extension of their own disorder, also needs to stick around in order to keep the disorder going. Typically the disorders in movements like these are characterological, and at any rate, they are very ego-syntonic. No woman is wailing about how some part of her is forcing her to become a feminist against her wishes. That would be a neurosis or ego-dystonic anxiety disorder.

Without the movement, these people tend to flounder. They are quite characterologically disordered, so this gets in the way of a lot of real relationships in actual Meatspace, itself being different from the “space” inhabited by the movement. They get quite lost and typically start looking around for another movement to attach themselves to gain a sense of purpose in what is now a purposeless life.

They  often grab the nearest movement that comes along, even one in complete contradiction to their previous one, to attach to like a remora onto a shark. This is why you see people flipping from fascist to communist and vice versa (the turn from Far Left in university to Far Right at 40 is typical of many upper class Latin Americans). You see feminists becoming radical anti-feminists. You see far Leftists like David Horowitz and many other neocons doing complete flips and becoming raving reactionaries, albeit with a Wilsonian window dressing to cover their “humanitarian massacres.”

Slave Driving Under Capitalism and Other Things

Upset cause your boss is so mean?  He has to be that way cause he’s under pressure from whose above him.

Upset cause people are making the world into a gold-digging rat race?   Well, that’s just human nature – whether it be the Wall Street guy, the internet marketer, the guy wanting more promotions, the guy wanting a more college education.  It’s not the way it should be, but that’s a religious problem.

Irritable People Are Worthless Pieces of Shit

Everybody thinks it’s so cool to be irritable, and here in this stupid country, you can never accuse anyone of being irritable because the person you tell it to you will always blame you! They will say, “Oh you are saying and doing things to make this person angry.” I’ve been living with these pure scum my whole life, and I can’t put into words how much I hate them.

One thing that might well be true is that an irritable person may well not like you. If people don’t like you, they act irritable when you try to talk to them. That’s one way to tell if someone likes you or not.

But usually it’s never you. It’s always internal to them. In fact, most things people do are internal to them. Nobody ever admits it because everyone externalizes their internal thoughts and feelings, especially the negative ones. No one wants to admit that they have bad feelings inside of them and that those bad feelings are 10

Instead, if someone feels bad inside, they will look around for someone, anyone, to throw their bad feelings onto. Often they will just pick fights with others. Other times they will shut down every conversation you try to have with them.

How to Tell If People Don’t Like You and What to Do about It, If Anything

If people are giving you stone faces and one word or one sentence answers, bottom line is they don’t like you. I’ve almost never had anyone who started out cold like that start liking me after a while. Almost always people start out hating you and they just keep hating you forever. I’m not sure why this except that first impressions are very important.

I’ve tried everything with haters. I’ve been nice to them, kissed their asses, never fought back against them, always smiled, thanked them – it was all completely worthless. You are just going to have to realize that a certain number of people are just always going to hate you.

A lot of it is probably just discrimination. Now that I am an older man, women in general and young women in particular are quite shitty to me. They’re almost all somewhat cold. It was the opposite when I was younger. Only difference now is age. I act exactly the same and in fact, my Game is better than ever. Lot of good it does me at age 62 though.

So they are just prejudiced against me because of my age. Apparently most women and especially young women really hate men my age.

Problem is if you tell people about people who seem like they hate you or don’t like you, everyone will just say that they’re fine but you are doing or saying things that are making them hate you. I wondered for a long time why people do that. I now think it is just another defense. When you tell someone that someone or people hate you, that’s a scary thought. Most people like to walk around the world with this stupid attitude of, “I like everyone and everyone likes me!” Well, I’ve got news for you. It’s not true.

There are always assholes who don’t like you, and it’s almost always totally fruitless to try to figure out why. I have gone round and round about this my whole life trying to figure out why some hater acts that way, but I’ve almost never been able to figure it out. You can try to put together clues, but haters usually don’t give you clues about why they hate you. So it’s probably pointless to wonder why because you’ll never find out anyway.

If you confront them about it, they will always deny that they are angry or that they hate you and make up some dumb excuse instead. Then they will always say you are paranoid or hypersensitive.

So don’t go around asking haters why they hate you. Maybe you can ask someone else who also knows them, but that might not work either. I did that once and mutual friend said that the guy who I thought hated me, my boss, actually liked me! “He likes you because he thinks you’re a punk, a punker, a punk rocker,” he said.

I’m probably the most inoffensive person on Earth. It’s a mystery why anyone would hate me, but a lot of people sure do. I find this as baffling as I ever have.

On the other hand, I get along fairly well with men of all sorts of ages these days. This is a good clue that there’s probably nothing wrong with me. Men are treating me well, but women are treating me like crap. First of all, do I have any issues with women. Believe it or not, I don’t. When I interact with women, I am usually very friendly with them because, well, I like women. I love women. The sexual attraction or fondness takes over and everything else goes by the wayside.

You hear me talking shit about women on here sometimes like any real man does, but I never think things like that when I’m dealing with real life women. Walking around with an obviously misogynistic attitude just doesn’t work. I went through a phase like that decades ago and all I got were women fighting back against me all day. One scratched up my briefcase! Another put a piece of chalk in my coffee cup!

So there’s nothing wrong with my attitude towards women. I treat them just like I treat men. But the women are being hostile while the men are being friendly. That means there’s something wrong with the women, probably the prejudice I discussed above. Because if there was a global problem with my behavior, the men wouldn’t be nice to me either.

If you are getting bad vibes from people, the first thing to do is look around and try to analyze it. First of all, you need to look at yourself with the clear light of reason. Lying to yourself does no good here. Was there a time recently when you acted just like you are now but a lot of people liked you? Do you act any different now? There’s  probably nothing wrong with you.

Do a lot of people still like you and act friendly and it’s just some who are shits? There’s probably nothing wrong with you there either because if there’s something badly wrong with you, just about nobody’s going to be nice. That’s how you can tell that the problem is you.

You have to analyze all of this stuff and you have to be objective.

Bottom line is if you are seriously screwing up in life (in my case, 35-40 yearss ago, basically an anxiety breakdown with a full-blown anxiety disorder that lasted years), people are going to let you know. In fact they will let you know exactly how you are screwing up.

If you’re too sad, they’ll let you know. If you’re too mad, they’ll let you know. If you’re too nervous, they will definitely let you know.

Not only that but you will keep hearing the same message over and over, albeit in different ways. If your problem is sadness, you will keep hearing people commenting on your obvious depression in various ways. If your problem is anxiety, you will keep hearing people remarking about nervousness. Often when people make these remarks, they are very oblique about it, so you have to have good social skills to pick up on it.

Often they won’t comment on you specifically. They will talk in a roundabout way, maybe about someone else, but they will be looking at you the whole time they are saying it. You’re supposed to figure out if they are really talking about you and pretending to talk about this other person. And no, it’s not paranoid to do this because people definitely comment on others to their face in this oblique, hard to figure out way.

I remember one time I was in a park 35 years ago talking to a group of people, and one guy kept talking about “someone else.”

Yeah, he’s really fried, he’s really weird, he’s really nervous, he’s really crazy.

I was in pretty bad shape then, albeit only with an anxiety disorder, but when anxiety disorders get bad, people can appear very strange or maybe even appear psychotic, often with odd looks in their eyes like stares, blank stares, thousand-yard stares, etc. So I’m afraid he was definitely talking about me, though it’s painful to admit it and remember it.

Another time when I was breaking up with a girlfriend, she kept bringing up this “Vietnam veteran” she knew. She claimed he hated everyone and everything in the whole world. She was absolutely mystified at how he could be so full of hate and she kept saying,

Well, it’s just a waste of a life, that’s all I think. You’re wasting your life being like that.

Apparently she was saying this is how I felt, and she was also saying that it was a waste of a perfectly good life for me to be this way. It didn’t feel like that at the time, but maybe I did, who knows?

I could go on and on like this forever with all sorts of quite painful examples.

Bottom line is sometimes they are talking about you, either behind your back or otherwise. Sometimes they don’t like you. And on some rare occasions, they may even be out to get you. All these things really happen, and you’re not paranoid if you recognize that. You’re only paranoid if you are imagining things. The trick is figuring out if these fears are really happening, in which case you aren’t nuts but merely observant, or if they’re not, in which case, yeah, you’re being paranoid. Teasing out whether fears are based in reality or paranoid imagination is not such an easy thing to do!

Game/PUA: Go on a Date with Two Women at Once!

These are always fun, sort of chance of a lifetime scores if you can ever pull them off. You don’t even have to have sex with both of them, but there should be some sort of sexual interest or possibility otherwise it’s not much of a date.

I remember once in the mid-80’s, I had what was more or less turning into a date with a fellow teacher at my school. She lived in Hermosa Beach and I went to her place for I have no idea what reason.

We were in the supermarket looking at food to buy for dinner and for some weird reason, she started looking at bananas! I suppose the horniness was already getting started because that had to be a sign. She was going through the bananas and casting some of them aside, saying, “Nah, that one’s too soft, that’s one too soft and wimpish. I want one that is strong, firm, and hard.”

And looking at me while she said it. Well, she was saying that I was a great big puss, but on the other hand, she was also considering having sex with me by even looking at the bananas in the first place. Looking back, this was probably a shit test. It’s important to spot shit tests when they happen and respond to them appropriately. You have to respond different ways according to the test. Sometimes if you get mad, you fail the test. This was probably one of those.

I didn’t fall for it and get mad. I ignored her and refused to rise to the bait, so she dropped it.

We decided not to buy food but to go out for Arabic food with her and this total bitch teacher friend of hers who had come over to the house at some point.

We all three piled into my friend’s van and went to the restaurant. I was making stupid jokes during the whole dinner. I would say, “Can you pass the humus?” instead of, “Can you pass the hummus?” You pronounce the two words quite differently. Humus is dirt. Hummus is an Arabic dip that you put in various things, often felafel burgers.

I was also saying, “Can you please pass me the feel-awful?” instead of, “Can you please pass me the felafel?” Felafel is an substance you use to make veggie burgers out of ground up chickpeas. Feel-awful, of course, does not exist. It’s just a joke on the name of the food.

So basically I was saying the food was crap, and it was making me sick when it wasn’t straight up dirt from the ground. Of course, I didn’t believe it, as the food was great. I was just being silly. I repeated these dumb jokes a few times with an absolutely straight face, and the woman I was with kept laughing and correcting me, “It’s hummus, not humus! Humus is dirt!”

Every time she said it I would act confused and baffled like I didn’t understand what she was talking about. Then I would point my finger in the air, and say, “Ah-hah! Oh, yes! That’s right! It’s hummus, not humus! Thank you for correcting me. I’m sorry! How could I be so stupid!” All with a completely straight face as if I was dead serious.

Then a few minutes later I would ask for humus again with a completely straight face like nothing had happened or I had already forgotten about the previous incident. She would giggle and correct me again, and I would act stunned and apologize for my mistake again as if it were all happening for the first time.

If you’re going to do stupid jokes like this, it’s very important that you do them with a straight face. Also a bit of exaggerated acting helps. Like above where I did the same idiot routine a number of times, each time acting like I was hearing her explanation for the first time, and then making the same dumb apology every time, then of course several minutes later making the same stupid request as if the previous incident never happened.

Obviously this is totally Three Stooges dipshit slapstick type of humor of the lowest quality, but if you are a really get actor, really get into the role, and especially keep a straight face, it can be pretty damn funny.

How to Tell If You’re Making a Woman Horny – She’s Laughing at All Your Stupid Jokes

I’m showing you this incident because I’m pointing out that this woman liked me, and not only that, she was starting to get horny. When a woman starts laughing at every dumb joke you tell, even when you repeat the dumb jokes over and over, bottom line is she wants to fuck. It doesn’t mean she’s going to fuck you, of course.

It just means you’re making her horny. Women get horny all the time all through their lives, and a lot of the time they get horny, they decide not to have sex with the guy. Just because you’re making her horny doesn’t mean she’s going to fuck you! It means she wants to, or her body wants to at least, but her mind may not, and women’s bodies and brains are at war even in the best of times.

No woman who isn’t getting horny, usually to the point of wanting to fuck you, is ever going to act that way towards you. Get them laughing like that, and they are halfway into the bed. It’s up to you to fill out the blanks in the rest of the form.

Then it came time for the bill. They had suggested that we go out  to eat earlier, and I just said, “OK, sure!” Problem was I was broke and I knew it at the time. But I really wanted to eat dinner with these chicks, and if I sprang the empty wallet on them, I figured they’d decide not have to dinner with me. What woman wants to eat with a deadbeat loser, right?

I decided I would tell them my money situation if they asked, but if they didn’t ask, no harm done, right? I figured I would just dumbfoundedly spring the empty wallet on them when we were done, act shocked, apologize profusely, and throw up my hands. I wisely shut up and hoped they didn’t ask me about money when we were done. I have no idea why I was broke, as I was making pretty good money at the time.

Well, it came time for the bill, and the two women got their wallets out and started throwing in bills. They looked at me. I got my wallet out with exaggerated swaggering confidence like it was full of money, and I was going to pay for everyone. Then I opened it and acted shocked, stunned, and embarrassed that there was no money in it. I apologized profusely but I was chuckling a bit as I was doing so. I acted like this was all a hilarious joke.

I said, “Look! I have no money! I’m broke!” The woman I was with asked, “Well, did you know you were broke when we decided to go out to eat?” I said of course I did.

She asked, “Well, why didn’t you tell us?”

I said, “Number one, you never asked me if I had money to go out to eat, and number two, I wanted to eat dinner because I was hungry, and if I told you I was broke, you wouldn’t let me eat with you. So the only smart thing to do was keep quiet.”

That was a completely assholey, dickwad thing to say, but after I said it, I laughed in this subdued, chuckling way. I kept chuckling like that the whole time this scene was going on.

I was sitting there with my empty wallet open laughing right in both of these women’s faces and telling them I didn’t have any money, and they would have to pay my way. I kept shrugging my shoulders with this “innocent little boy who dindu nuffin” look on my face.

When I said, “You never asked me,” I would chuckle right in their faces like an asshole. After a bit the woman I was with started giggling and she couldn’t stop. I was being an asshole, but I was being a funny, arrogant asshole and not being aggressive, and women often like dicks like that. I don’t know how well being an asshole works, but being a funny asshole often works wonders especially if you are not angry or aggressive.

It also seems to work to laugh right in women’s face, once again, not in an angry or aggressive way, more in a dismissive sense, like, “You just a stupid woman. What do you women know anyway. We men laugh right in your faces, you know that? You’ll come to your senses soon enough.” That’s sexist thinking and I don’t necessarily believe it, but women often respond to a certain type of male sexism by getting horny, believe it or not.

When I laugh in their faces, they are often shocked and almost lurch backwards. Then they get this defiant angry look on their faces like you challenged them to a fight. Then for some reason, the expression changes and they seem to like it. This devious little smile comes over her face, and she starts laughing too in this very quiet way.

If you are laughing in her face, you are displaying abundance mentality. Most men are pathetic pussy beggars. They’re pathetic, and women think they are just that. By doing this, you are the opposite of a pussy beggar. You are laughing her face, basically  laughing and saying you don’t care if she sleeps with you or not. Women are often shocked by this mentality because they are so used to pussy beggars and pussywhipped guys who never fight back because they don’t want to cut off the pussy supply.

I’ve had women look at me with wonder as if they were thinking, “Jesus Christ, this guy doesn’t even care if I fuck him or not. He’s laughing right in my face like an asshole, and if I walk out of here right now, he will just say bye and laugh at me some more. That’s amazing.”

A lot of times they seemed to be thinking, “Oh man, you are such an arrogant asshole! I should slap your face!” But then they seemed to think a bit and it’s as if they were saying, “But you know what? I like that.”

Anyway, my teacher friend couldn’t contain her laughter at me for being such an arrogant asshole as to stick them with the bill and then laugh right in their faces and pretty much ask them, “What are you going to do about it?” She was a bit mad at first in a somewhat disgusted and annoyed way, but the more I laughed and clowned it up, the more she started chuckling like she liked this display of humorous assholery.

What I did was completely audacious and most men would be nice guys and honestly say they didn’t have any money before you went out to eat or else act pathetic when they saw that they had no money  in their wallets.

I was being an asshole, but I was being a funny asshole. After all, face it. What I did to those poor women was pretty damn funny, right?

Her friend was some fat bitch teacher, single, probably hadn’t been laid since the last Ice Age. Seemed like a feminist or even a lesbian. My friend told me that her friend really, really hated men and giggled when she said this. I laughed at her friend when the teacher told me that like it was a hilarious joke and commented about what a stupid idiot her manhating bitch friend was. See? I didn’t get mad when told she was a manhating bitch. I just laughed at her and acted like she was an idiot for hating us men.

When she learned I had no money, her bitch friend was totally outraged at my assholery, as it seemed to confirm to her that we men are a bunch of bastards and assholes after all. She sat there stone-faced the whole time, sputtering. “We’re going to make you wash the dishes in this restaurant to pay it off!” Every time I looked at her stone face, I started laughing a little bit.

To get mad would have been a bad idea. After she said that, I laughed right at her and almost fell out of my chair laughing. See? I didn’t act scared when she bitched me out. I just laughed right in her face like she was a harmless, pathetic, and stupid woman, which frankly she was.

Somehow we were in my friend’s van, the three of us. My friend kept saying over and over, “Let’s rent a porn movie!” She was giggling the whole time while she was repeating this. Her friend for some reason was not against this. Of course, I was fine with it.

I was thinking, “Damn, I’m going to get laid tonight!” We went to a video store and I pick out Behind the Green Door Part 3, a really gonzo and dirty movie for that time. I told her I had seen it, and it was great. She acted intrigued that I had seen the movie enough to give a review of it. There were a couple of middle aged Black women looking at porno movies too, and also I recommended it to them. They acted very interested and thanked me very much, probably because I had two chicks with me once.

Any time you have two women with you at once and things are going smoothly, everyone quickly gets real quiet and respectful. The other men give you these looks like, “How the Hell do you do it, anyway?”

Sometimes they quietly try to take you down a peg in a subdued voice. Don’t fall for it. It’s a sort of male shit test. Just act like you didn’t hear him.

When you have the two women with you, don’t act like a showoff or an idiot. Don’t call attention to yourself, ridicule the other men, or act like you are better than they are and they are stupid inferiors. Instead, simply ignore all the other men with the attitude of, “Competition? What competition? I don’t see any competition, do you?” Act nice and friendly. You would be surprised how many men will approach you to talk when you have two women with you.

Another thing to do is to act like this thing, having two women with you, is completely normal, on the level of breathing, walking on the sidewalk, or drinking a glass of water. Act like this is something you do so often that you don’t even think about it anymore. The other men won’t seem to be threatened. If you see any men who look at you in a friendly way, give them a conspiratorial smile and a wink, but don’t act superior. Act like he’s in with the plan somehow.

Any other women around will become extremely interested in the stud who has two chicks with him, so even when you have the two women with you, other women will be staring at  you the whole time.

More than you would think walk right up to you with the two women and start talking to all three of you, often flirting right in the faces of the other women. Women are competitive and they love to fight with other women over men. They also love to steal other women’s men. Women are man-stealers! I assume there is some cavewoman reason why they are like this, but I don’t know what it is.

We rented the movie, got back to the house, settled in on the couches, and put it in the VCR. My friend was giggling like a schoolgirl in this silly, mischievous, playful way the whole time we were doing this. I had no idea why this bitch friend was going along with this plan to watch a porn movie with her friend and a man.

I was wondering what this night was going to be like. I was thinking maybe something might happen sexually with me and my friend, and like a moron, I started worrying that maybe I wouldn’t be able to get it up (Dumb, huh?)

Any time a woman says, “Hey, let’s watch a  porn movie,” I guarantee she wants to fuck. Period. Now she’s not just horny but she actually wants to fuck. You can still blow it of course. You can always blow it at any time in seduction if you are stupid enough, but the deeper the seduction goes and the hornier she gets, the harder it is to screw up, and she will start forgiving or looking the other way at any of your errors.

Why do they do this? Because…guess what? Women like to fuck too! A lot of them really, really like to fuck, almost as much as we do, and many women have sex drives that are so high that you would be shocked. And once they start getting pretty horny, a sense of urgency develops about them where they resolve they are going to have sex one way or another, come Hell or high water.

They will even get mad and impatient if you go too slow or start delaying, which I’ve been doing my whole life. There have been a number of times when women asked, “Are you going to kiss me or what? or “Come on, let’s go!” or “God-damn it. Are you going to fuck me or what?”

Back to the scene in the living room. I was wondering what’s going to happen with the manhating bitch friend. Was she going to get in on the sexual behavior somehow, assuming there was any?

I was thinking somehow I had to try that, that if the teacher and I started getting hot and horny with each other, I was going to look over at the shocked friend and make fun of her for missing out on all the fun and sitting over there all by her lonesome, laugh in her face until she either got mad, in which case I would leave her alone more, or joined us, which could get real weird but also real interesting.

I thought it might be fun to drag this manhating bitch into a threeway with another woman! How the Hell would she act? Was she a dyke? Was my friend bi?

Anyway, the video didn’t work for some reason. The night was over, and I was going home. I went to the door and my friend was still giggling away at the whole absurd evening, and her friend was glaring at me with pure hatred. There wasn’t any sex at all, but it wasn’t a sterile date with no sexual vibes – rather the opposite – It was a lot of fun anyway and way better than sitting at home.

Alt Left: A Bit More on Breonna Taylor

Kareem: The cops were plain clothes instead of uniform. That’s a huge mistake on their part. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the boyfriend to shoot at a plains cloths person who is breaking down their door in the middle of the night. If that’s not standing your ground then i don’t know what is.

I feel like the cops should be held account for this one. They really goofed on this

I think they have to be plainclothes in these drug raids, but I’m not sure. They don’t want to alert the people that they are there because then the people in the house get rid of the drugs, etc. But I’m not sure if they have to be plainclothes.

Unlike most of these cases, this was just a tragic mistake, almost like an act of God. Things just fuck up due to no one’s fault sometimes. That’s just how life goes. Sometimes when one person kills another, it’s just a straight up accident and no one’s at fault or more commonly, it’s a justifiable homicide. But in this case, though it was a justifiable homicide, I still think it was tragic.

The family already won the Ghetto Lottery and got $12 million. I thought that was ridiculous and outrageous, but whatever. If we have to pay these Blacks off to keep them from rioting, I almost say just do it.

Unlike almost all of these idiots getting killed though, I don’t think Breonna was a terrible person. She wasn’t an angel, but I’m not going to call her a scumbag like the rest of the. I wouldn’t say she was a good person, but I wouldn’t say she was a bad person. She was a little of both.

Mostly she seems to be a woman who had terrible tastes in men and picked a really bad man for a boyfriend. Getting involved with that guy for four years was nearly reckless behavior on her part right there. A lot of people aren’t really good or bad people. We’re just neutral. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

Also, it seems to me that a lot of these scumbags were committing suicide by cop. Get in fistfights with cops? Fight with the cops? Are you fucking insane? I grew up in White suburban culture, but I lived as a criminal and a drug dealer for many years (14 years). I can see why men want to be criminals. Being a criminal is fun! It’s a blast to be an outlaw especially for a permanent rebellious adolescent like me.

I mostly just did victimless crimes like selling pot and psychedelics, but did I commit some victimizing crimes against my enemies, and you bet they deserved it. I never hurt any of them, though I probably should have. I just terrorized them and destroyed their property.

Anyway, I grew up in an outlaw culture of White counterculture hippie dealers, mostly of pot and psychedelics, who regarded the police as the ultimate enemy. Al;so I would like to point out something else. Unlike dealers nowadays, we actually thought we were doing a good thing. We were making society a better place because pot and psychedelic use was good for individuals and society. We actually had ethical codes that we abided by. Check out, “The Righteous Dealer,” by Timothy Leary for more.

One thing I was told over and over, as far back as the 1970’s, was “Don’t fuck with cops! They’ll kill you!” The message was don’t mess with them, don’t fight them, especially physically, just go along with what they ask, even you do so in a begrudging or angry way. Don’t resist. If you fight the cops, the cops will simply kill you.  We had bad problems with brutality even back then in all-White Orange County, so it’s not just a Black thing. Cops are just pigs and they do this to everyone, no matter what your race is.

I do like these new reforms they are coming up with because it has the potential to make cops act less like pigs and more like just cops or even humans.

I don’t hate all cops. I think mostly I am just scared or even terrified of them and generally regard them as people to be avoided at all costs. When I have a cop behind me on the road, I often pull over and let him go in front. I don’t like having cops behind me. They’re just pigs and a lot of times just having them in back of them leads them to find some stupid BS reason to pull you over. Plus most of us are not exactly perfect drivers.

I’ve been arrested a couple of times, and they were mean as Hell to me (a White guy), and I’ve never forgotten it.We were hippies and punkers and cops really hated hippies and later punkers back then. My Mom says they still hate hippies. I have no idea. I know a lot of cops look at me with contempt or even hatred. My Mom said it’s because I look like a hippie (my hair’s pretty long). I have no idea.

When they arrested me, they were straight up fucking sadists! I’m never going to forgive them for that unless some cops tell me those guys were wrong. I just got banned from Protect and Serve for no particular good reason. I did write a post that was provocative, but it wasn’t really cop-hating. After they banned me, I’m starting to think they’re just pigs again.

Also, cops are just nothing but trouble. I guarantee that if you are having any interaction at all with cops, odds are it’s not a good sign. I do meet some cops I like in my town, more than I thought I would like. Sometimes I call them to report someone. I was a victim of a crime once, and the cop who came out was extremely nice. They often act like angels around crime victims. But I keep meeting quite a few cops who are just pigs. They’re hostile, like they are trying to pick a fight for no good reason at al. They’re fight-pickers.

Alt Left: More Fake News from the UN about Venezuela

A UN probe alleges that Venezuelan police and security forces carried out extrajudicial executions and otherwise massively violated human rights. Caracas argued the UN action against it was part of a hostile US-led campaign.

More dishonesty from the MSM and the despicable corrupted UN. Yes the neocons have finally succeeded in even corrupting the UN itself! I told you that no barrier was too low for them to slither under it somehow. Slimy snakes can crawl pretty good, you know.

About the article above, it’s not so much dishonest as it’s out of context.

I know the situation in Venezuela extremely well, so I can comment on this. Of course, I support Maduro and the Chavistas, however, I am also an honest person, and I will criticize them where it is due. This report is very badly politicized. What you are getting out of it is that the police and security forces apparently run beating, torture, and murder squads against dissidents.

That’s funny because dissidents regularly rally up to hundreds of thousands of people in Eastern Caracas and nobody lifts a finger against them! The opposition press can only be glimpsed by imagining Fox News if it was an order of magnitude worse than it is. It has a lot of blood on its hands and for a long time, it issued regularly calls to assassinate Chavez. This is the sort of fare that they traffic in day to day in this “dictatorship.”

Yet the Chavistas let them say whatever they want, including stuff that would probably even get them shut down even here in the US. 7

The opposition is mostly made up of open traitors who have attempted repeated violent and undemocratic coup attempts at the democratically elected governments. Yet almost all of them roam about free. A few were forbidden from running in elections for 15 years because they were behind extremely violent repeated coup attempts against the government. In any normal country, most of the opposition figures would be in jail for treason and sedition.

You think the US would tolerate repeated violent coup attempts against it? The Chavistas put up with the most outrageous opposition on Earth, and they barely lift a finger against them. Almost no nation on Earth would go as easy on an openly putschist opposition as Venezuela has. This is because Venezuela realizes that if they lift a finger against the opposition, the US will come down on them hard.

I actually believe that Venezuela is one of the freest and most democratic countries on Earth, as almost no other country would put up with a violent and traitorous opposition like they have.

In addition, Venezuelan elections have long been the gold standard against which all other elections must be measured. Venezuelan elections are simply one of the finest examples of free and fair elections you can find on Earth.

Once again they did this because they realized that if they acted even

Now, on to the charges. The charges of beating, torture, and killings by police and security forces are sadly correct. However, all of the people being subjected to this abuse are suspected criminals, almost all of whom are probably guilty of terrible crimes. As you may know, Venezuela has one of the highest crime and especially violent crime rates on Earth. It’s almost all located in the poor neighborhoods that are hotbeds of Chavista support. The crime and violent crime is off the charts in these areas and has a lot to do with the drug trade.

So this is a case of state police and security officers beating, torturing, and executing violent criminal suspects, almost all of whom are probably guilty. Chavistas have been complaining about this for a while, but not much gets done. There’s a long culture of impunity in the police.

Every other nation in Latin America dealing with this exact same out of control crime wave is behaving in the exact same way, and a number of them have been doing so for a long time now. But there’s no context in the report. There’s no “Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil are doing the same thing.”

In fact, the UN “forgot” to write reports on these countries because they are US allies! So all we get is “evil Venezuela” without the context that this is cops versus criminals and every other nation in the region dealing with a disastrous crime wave is behaving the exact same way, so Venezuela isn’t unusual after all, so there’s no need for a stupid politicized report.

Political Prisoners

I can think of one case of abuse of a political prisoner. A top military officer was arrested and charged with being one of the top figures behind a coup attempt. While being interrogated, he “fell” out of a top story window and died. It’s pretty obvious he was pushed. But this man was a top military officer, possibly a general, who committed violent treason against the state. So the state killed him. What do you expect the state to do? These are the kind of “political prisoners” who are being mistreated or killed and their numbers are not large.

Political Death Squads

Venezuelan Special Forces Agents Arrested for Extrajudicial Killings

The Chavistas don’t run political death squads. Only rightwing US allies do that, always with hands-on CIA assistance.

However, there were two murders of radical left Chavista local grassroots radio journalists. The security forces who murdered them have been arrested. These officers were apparently turned by the opposition and were essentially working for the opposition, in effect running a rightwing death squad within the Chavista security forces. The Chavistas have never once murdered the Left opposition to themselves. Put a few in prison, yeah. Murdered? Hell no.

These weren’t even Chavistas. These were just Guaido’s traitors in the security forces doing some of his dirty deeds for whatever reason.

But I’m sure that those American whores at the UN who wrote that report are going to use that incident to say that the Chavistas are running death squads to kill their own opposition on the Left. Which of course they would never do, but never let facts get in the way of some good propaganda.

Alt Left: America’s Salad Days, or When America Ran the World, 1945-60

The UN has been an American province for a long time. Let’s take after World War 2 for example. Sure, there was a UN. But from 1945-1960, the UN and the US were pretty much synonymous. Hence the pussilanimous and disgustingly murderous behavior of the US proxy called the “UN” in the Korean War. After World War 2, we had not only defeated all of our adversaries but most of our allies lay in ruins too. We weren’t running the world before the war – Germany and Pax Brittanica were vying for that honor – but we sure were after the war.

Some people think we allowed our allies to get destroyed on purpose so we could, in our usual slimy way, end up sidelining our allies and running the world, the World Dictatorship Ruled by the US being the main US project since 1945. I don’t know why Americans think it is groovy for the US to be this swaggering, belligerent, out of control outlaw organized crime gang that rules the world.

Do Americans really think that’s cool or something? Because that’s exactly what we are. We aren’t even a country. We’re an Outlaw Empire ruled by an Organized Geopolitical Crime Gang that happens to be the top gang in the world right now?

Anyway from 1945-60, the world was our oyster. Of course, we fucked it up like we fucked up everything. Even the Marshall Plan and the rebuilding of Japan reportedly had sleazy Mafia-like subplots going on. After that, we finally started getting some good hard pushback from China and the USSR (Thank God and it was about time!), first in Cuba, next with the Missile Crisis and the Gary Powers affair, and especially in Vietnam.

The cycle of anti-imperialist revolutions followed in Algeria, the Philippines, Indonesia, Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, India, Guatemala, Peru, Chile, Palestine, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Dominican Republic, South Africa, Ireland, and Guyana. Argentina, El Salvador, Honduras, Mozambique, Angola, Rhodesia the Basques followed suit. Arab nationalist revolutions took Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq by storm.

The Shah fell in Iran in what was actually very much an anti-imperialist revolution. A revolution rocked Afghanistan.

But 1945-1960 were the America’s salad days.

Alt Left: A Chinese View of Time

Rambo said: Deng Xiao Peng said he could see democracy happening in China in a relatively short period of time. He was asked, ” what do you think, another 25 or 50 years maybe?” To which he replied, ” I could see it happening in maybe a thousand years.” To the Chinese, 1,000 years is looked upon as a short time. You’re talking about a nearly 5,000 year old country that has never known freedom and democracy. That’s why when countries like the U.S. negotiate with them, that has to be kept in mind.

Nixon asked Chou En-Lai in 1971 what he thought about the French Revolution in 1790. His reply?

It’s too soon to tell.

Which is pretty similar to what Deng said. The Chinese always take the long view, unlike us dumb Americans. And that’s smart of them and dumb of us.

This is literally how the Chinese think. All stages of the past are completely blurred together, and all are together with the present. I’m not aware they talk much about the future. I know this because I did a lot of research on their forums. Absolutely fascinating people. People would be talking about their family lineage, as their ancestors are very important to them. In fact, their basic religion is probably some form of ancestor worship.

They would be talking about their family lineages and drift back and forth between the present day, the 20th Century and then back to the 16th-19th Centuries, making historical references all along the way. And of course there were all sorts of references to the old dynasties like the Shang Dynasty (probably the very first Chinese dynasty) and many others. And now we are going all the way back to Old Chinese thousands of years ago.

I don’t understand Chinese history so I can’t make sense of these dynasties, but the Chinese’ view of time was fascinating. The year 400 was yesterday, today is 1600, and tomorrow is the 19th Century. It’s as if the past, present, and future were all happening at the same time, which is actually an interesting philosophical way to look at time. This is in fact how I view Time.

 

Chinese Long Term Thinking Versus American Short Term Thinking

The Chinese always take the long view, while here in the US we are addicted to the crack of short-term thinking in terms of immediate profits and getting off now, the Hell with the long term view of the economy or our bodies or really anything at all, dammit. Now get off my lawn! NIMBY! Here comes Karen!

And what of the future, oh American sensei?

We’ll deal with that when the time comes. Why bring down the party when it’s ripping along? What are you, some Debbie Downer?

Nope, I’m a guy who doesn’t want to set a time bomb today that will blow up five years from now because I may well be around then, and even if I’m am not, I’m not so sociopathic as to be that callous to my fellow humans who follow in my footsteps.

I am them. They are me. That’s the only and best way to look at your fellow man, hard as it is to make our egos believe that.

Do that line of coke now! Drink a six pack, fuck three whores in a row, get three hours of sleep, and then do it again! And don’t forget another line!

What are you, some party pooper? You’re the guy who always has to throw a turd in the punchbowl, right?

Nope, I’m just some guy who, every decade, decides he’d actually like to spend another decade on this 3rd Clown Rock from the Sun.

Fatalism and Lack of Agency in Spanish Language and Culture

As I mentioned in another post, we Americans act like tomorrow is a sure thing. It’s almost as real as the present and for those of us who use like me who the defense of fantasy, it’s probably even more real. But of course the future doesn’t even exist. We are treating something as real that’s not even there.

Other cultures like the Arabs or the Spanish-speaking countries engage in regular use of a phrase called ojala que.. which means “God willing that…” they put this phrase in front of all sorts of discussions about the future. I mentioned the Arabs and this was actually, as one might guess, a borrowing from Arabic and possibly from Arabic culture too. The Arabs after all do tell to leave it all up to God.

There’s something to be said for that. We even have a phrase in English for when someone is stuck in an impossible mind-rut, “Let go and let God…(take over and do it himself).” This is also similar to the Spanish language fatalistic denial of agency that I will get to in a bit.

Ojala que manana seria un mejor dia means “God willing, tomorrow will be a better day.”

The future is completely uncertain and not only that, for a lot of us, it won’t even exist at all even when it happens because we’ll be dead by then, so for us it never happened. The world could blow up tomorrow. Then what of the future, Mr. Can-do American Boosterist? It won’t exist for any of us because we will all be dead.

I’m still not sure how the constant use of the subjective in the Spanish language plays into this, but I suspect it’s part of this fatalistic worldview. Yes the French language uses the subjunctive too, and I don’t know if they are as fatalistic as the French or even if any language that uses a subjunctive a lot develops fatalism as a result or if a fatalistic culture gives way to frequent use of the subjunctive. But I’m getting all Sapir-Whorfian here, excuse me.

We actually have a subjuctive in English in the form of the verb to be: were.

As it were, the Queen ended up ruling all of her Kingdom

If I were king, I would clone 10 copies of Selena Gomez to be my concubines, and I would live happily ever after or until my Viagra supply ran out, whichever came first.

As you can see, we barely use it as we are anything but a fatalistic culture and in fact we have contempt for such cultures and refer to them as lazy and irresponsible. We are a “Carpe diem!” society after all.  You don’t sit around and wait for God or the government to get around to doing something, you get off your lazy ass and do it yourself, slacker!

But enough about us. Back to our relaxed cousins to the south. Spanish tends to use the subjunctive far more than it ought to. They literally sprinkle it all over the place. The subjunctive in any language means “maybe, hypothetically, possibly, etc.” and the excessive use of it in Spanish implies to me that something like Ojala que is going on. Spanish speaking Catholic cultures do tend to be pretty fatalistic, and Catholicism, perhaps the ultimate fatalistic religion, surely plays no small part in that.

In another possible element of fatalism or “leaving things up to God,” the Spanish language offers speakers a way out of a lot of mistakes by saying the person who failed in whatever they failed in lacked agency at the time, hence their failure was an act of God and therefore not their fault.

I don’t “fall down,” in Spanish, instead Se me cayo or “It fell down itself to me.” I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have God fall my sorry ass down than be on the hook for doing it to my own self.

I don’t forget anything of course, instead Se me olvido or “It forgot itself to me.”

I didn’t do it, the falling and forgetting did it to me, dammit! It’s not my fault! I was just an innocent victim! Quit picking on me!

I suppose you could say this makes Spanish speakers irresponsible, but it doesn’t seem to have that effect. Instead it seems to have a “don’t sweat the small stuff” effect, and indeed they do seem to take it pretty easy, maybe even too easy with all those siestas and always showing up an hour late to anything.

Another Way of Looking at Time

A book by Guy Murchie called The Music of the Spheres was published in 1961. It’s recommended in one of Kurt Vonnegut’s books. I forget which one now. And yes, I think Vonnegut

It’s little known nowadays and that’s too bad. It’s not that it’s an unambitious endeavor!

From the publisher’s blurb about it:

The first half of the book–Moons of Rock and Suns of Fire–deals with major astronomical phenomena viewed poetically from an imaginary earth satellite. In the second part the realms in which physics holds sway pass in review; the forms and nature of matter, the atom, waves and music, light and color, space and time.

I don’t know about you but I like the second part. Now focus on the last word in that blurb, “time.”

In that book, Murchie posits a fascinating notion. Instead of the past, present, and future all being separate and discreet things not a whole lot related to each other, Murchie says that in terms of physics, the past, the present, and the future are all simultaneously occurring right now as I write this. I know what you’re thinking. There goes Bob with another of his nutty ideas. But hold your horses a second, Hoss, and listen up for a bit.

I think there may actually be something to this and what follows is my version of Murchie’s theory:

The past has the seeds of our present and future within it already, so the present and future are contained in the past. We can say that the past contains the dual tails of the present and future in it. Of course when the past was happening, it had its own past and future embedded in it.

The present was brought here by the past and the future will contain the seeds of the present, so the present contains both the head of the past and the tail of the future in itself.

The future obviously doesn’t even exist. Think about that a bit as most folks don’t realize that. We Americans treat the future as if it’s a sure thing and often as if it will be better than the present. But we are thinking about something that doesn’t even exist yet. But even if it did exist, the future would be literally an outgrowth of the present, which, like it or not, is literally an outgrowth of the past, so the future would contain the heads of the present and future in it. The future of course contains the growth from the seeds of the past and the present, otherwise it wouldn’t even be there.

Your move, commenters.

Alt Left: No, Of Course Socialism Has Not Been a Failure

Transformer: Hey Robert, I would like your opinion about black libertarians Thomas Sowell and Walter E Williams. Do you think they make arguments that are difficult to refute? Here is Sowell saying Socialism is a failure.

I’ll get to Williams in a bit.

Of course I don’t agree with Thomas Sowell. I’m not even sure that Communism has been such a failure, or socialism if you will. I really like the Chinese Communist Party’s new definition of Communism or socialism or whatever. The words Communism and socialism don’t have any meanings. They mean whatever people who use them say they mean. In other words, people can keep changing the definitions of these things all they want to and say, “Well, Communism and socialism used to mean this, but now it means this new thing.”

Anyway, I really like the Chinese socialism with Chinese characteristics model of Communism and I believe China is absolutely a Communist country and I would say that they have figured out how to make Communism actually work. The Vietnamese model is quite similar and even that works quite well. So does the Laotian model.

I will admit that I am not sure if the classic model of state socialism or Communism is capable of producing a functional economy. I worry that it doesn’t. But that’s why I say redefine the word and decide that socialism and Communism are these new things that the  Chinese and the like are doing instead.

We decided the old model didn’t work, so we went back to the drawing board and made a new model. And everybody screams and yells and says you can’t do that because the only way to do your model is the old way, so the new model isn’t even the model anymore and instead it’s something else. I think these people are engaging in magical thinking.

What’s wrong with that?

Iran has a very socialist system and it works great. So does Belarus. Russia is a lot more socialist than you think, way more. I like the new Cuban model too.

And I think the Venezuelan model works great too. The problems they are having down there have to do with sanctions and an embargo that are completely wrecking the economy. Just to give you an example of how evil the US is, Iran shipped four ships of gasoline to Venezuelan and the US intercepted them on the high seas and out and out stole the cargo. They brought they ships to Houston where they are stealing the cargo right now. So you see, we’ve made it impossible for them to make their own gas and when anyone tries to send them gas, we seize the ship and steal the cargo.

Almost every single country on Earth is on paper at least some form of social democracy. I think only the US and Botswana are not. I’m not sure about Canada, but it’s way more SD than we are. The Democratic Party’s social liberalism and its cogener in Canada are not social democracy. Social democracy is rather to the left of both of those things.

Why even read those guys unless you are still figuring out your basic views on political economy? Well, if you are still figuring that stuff out, by all means, go ahead, read the right, read the left, read everyone. But that rightwing stuff is very brainwashing, and almost all of it is a lie in some form or another.

Alt Left: Absolute Meanings and Arbitrary Meanings

People are funny when it comes to definitions. You mention some completely abstract concept with no real hard meaning – something that means whatever people say it means- and people dig in their heels and say that the definition of the concept 50 or 100 or 1,000 years ago or yesterday is the only actual meaning of the word, and no other definitions are permitted. Why aren’t new definitions permitted?

Did God divine those definitions for those words? Of course not.

Let’s go lower on the bar.

Did science give us a pretty damn precise definition of those words like science has given us definitions of rocks and trees? Of course not. The Humanities are barely even sciences anyway. Physics envy is a thing and the current replication crisis is not surprising at all and is instead to be expected in any nonscientific enterprise (such as the Social Sciences).

These people seem to be engaging in some sort of magical thinking. They are confusing the words for things with  the things themselves. There are words and there are things that the  words represent. You can’t blur the boundaries. That’s called magical thinking.

They seem to think there is something special about words and that all words have some sort of ultimate Platonic essence or meaning and that all words can always mean only one thing and never another thing or that meanings of words can never change, as they are set in stone. Heidegger talked about this a lot. Sure, when you say the word rock or tree, you define and actual thing that’s not likely to change a whole lot, if at all.

So those words can’t be messed with – they are what I would call absolute meanings. You can’t decide that the meaning of rock is now tree, and the meaning of tree is now rock. You can, but not in a true philosophical sense. Can we say that the definition of a tree or a rock is whatever people say it is? Not really. I can’t say I’m a rock, and this keyboard is a tree. That’s because those terms have hard and fast meanings or absolute meanings and describe things that aren’t likely to change much if at all.

But what about Communism, socialism, on and on? Those words are not like rocks or trees. There’s no precise definition of what any of those are. Those are just models of political economy that people came up with and defined them by some utterly arbitrary definitions. In other words, those terms have utterly arbitrary meanings (Heidegger goes on about this at length). The meanings of things like this are more like little tags that we put on things to say a this is a this, and a that is a that. We can pull the tags off old concepts and go put them on new concepts all we want to -redefining concepts – because these concepts never had any true or absolute meaning in the first place.

Of course you could decide that communism and socialism now mean quite different models than they used to? Why not? These things are potentially ever-changing, not like rocks or trees.

Alt Left: Most Everyone in a Capitalist Society Is Basically Not Living in Reality

Capitalists are degenerates. They’re incapable of being honest. Sinclair Lewis said it’s hard for a man to be unbiased when he has a monetary interest or his job depends on how he answers the question. Capitalists have an interesting epistemology. How do we know if something is true or not? If it’s good the capitalist and it makes him money or more money, then it’s a fact. If it makes the capitalist look bad and makes him lose money, it’s not true, a falsehood.

So this is how capitalists do “science.” That’s why every time you get capitalists involved in science or anything that demands that we learn the facts and know what’s true or not true, the capitalists blow up the whole system and wreck everything, leaving only confusion, disaster, tatters and especially chaos.

The latter, chaos, is especially loved by capitalists because they use destruction as a building block to build stuff by destroying perfectly good stuff and rebuilding a bunch of stuff that didn’t need to be rebuilt. Even capitalist economics works on the principle of chaos, disorder, and entropy, and the economic system itself is constantly being blown up by its own internal contradictions or actually its “logic”. These explosions are beloved by capitalsts as this anarchy is part of some glorious “science of chaos” called the Business Cycle.

I am convinced that if aliens landed and we described capitalist economics to them, they would find it so insane and irrational that they would either fall down laughing, shake their heads and conclude that we were all insane, or simply shrug their shoulders, decide there was no intelligent life here, and pack it up and head back home.

Try describing capitalist economics sometime to a kid who’s just old enough to understand it. I bet even most 10 year olds would tell you that it’s irrational and most would say it’s completely insane and doesn’t even make sense.

And in a hyper-capitalist society like ours, that’s why living here is living in what I call Lie World, where one is barraged by out and out falsehoods and lies all day long. It’s literally worse here than it was in a lot of Communist countries. All day long people are yelling at you, insisting that a bunch of things that are obviously true are flat out lies, and a bunch of ridiculously false ideas are straight up true. So there ends up being two realities:

An Actual Reality, where true things are true, and false things are false, where things that happened happened the way they did, and the things that didn’t happen never occurred, or the World of Science, Truth, Honesty, Professionalism, Skepticism, Sane, Non-Partisanship, Pragmatism, Logic, or Atheism.

An Other, False, or Fictional Reality, where true things are false, and false things are true, where things that happened either didn’t happen the way they did or didn’t happen at all, and where the things that never happened actually did, or the World of Pseudo-Science, Falsehood, Lies, Charlatanhood, Magic, Mental Disorder, Politics, Ideology, Emotion, or Religion.

Bottom line is in a capitalist society, just about every single person is not even living in reality at all! They’re living in some fictional reality, like something out a story, a book, or a movie, or an alternate reality, like something out of the Matrix. They’re literally not even living in the real world and all. Instead they are living in a world or Pure Delusion where almost nothing is true or real, and in a sense, just about everyone you meet is flat-out psychotic in a sense.

Alt Left: The Young Turks’ Nation-building Process Killed Almost As Many People As the Holocaust

Rambo: What about the Armenians? Since you didn’t mention them, and the Armenians always insist they be mentioned or you’re insensitive to Turkish genocide against them in 1915 and thereabouts, could it be said that the Ottoman Turk empire is in denial regarding its’ treatment of Armenians or not? Your thoughts would be most instructive.

Yes, the Turks are absolutely in denial of the genocide of the Armenians (2.5 million people!) along with the genocide of the Assyrians (1.75 million people!) and the genocide of the Greeks (725,000 people!). All of these occurred in roughly the same time-frame and coincided with the Young Turks’ nation-buidling project after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. In part, the massacres also coincided with World War 1.

If you notice, it’s no coincidence that all three were Christians. In the process of nation-building, the Turks simply slaughtered the vast majority of the Christians in Anatolia. This was done under the rubric of them being 5th columnists and traitors and working with the enemy during wartime (World War 1), but there was never really any truth to that.

Even Ataturk condemned the massacres in 1924, saying they were crimes against humanity. As you can see, the Turks massacred 5 million Anatolian Christians, mostly in the space of 10 years, 1915-1925, with most of the killings happening at the beginning of the period. The Turks like to call this mutual ethnic conflict, with both sides massacring each other, but there’s no truth to that. The Anatolian Armenians and Assyrians hardly killed a single Turk, and the Greeks killed a mere 15,000 Turks, all in response to 700,000 of their own getting killed.

As a result of these massacres, Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks are quite scarce in Turkey now, whereas they used to have large populations – the Armenians and Assyrians mostly in the East, with the Assyrians bordering Syria, Iraq, and Iran where they lived alongside Kurds and the Armenians bordering the Russian Empire and the Caucasus. The Greeks were mostly living in the Far West in Izmir.

The Greek massacres are disgustingly referred to as “population exchanges,” as most Turks left Greece, and most Greeks left Turkey.

The slaughters of Hindus and Muslims in British India at the beginning of independence and the nakba of the Palestinians in 1947-48 are also disgustingly referred to as “population exchanges.” Very nice, liberal Jewish people will look you right in the eye and talk about “the population exchanges” during this time, but there was a difference. The Arabs didn’t want to leave their lands and wish to go back, and the Jews of the Arab World were more than happy to take off and don’t want to go back. So it’s not the same thing at all.

Every time you hear some Indian, Turkish, or Jewish jerk talking calmly about “population exchanges” as if they were some sort nice human swap meet keep in mind that that phrase is always hiding behind massive ethnic cleansings and massacres, even worse, typically genocides.

Alt Left: Viewing the Kurds through the Left-Right Prism

Turkey itself is a fascist state, and probably 8

The Grey Wolves are at the extreme end of Turkish ultranationalist fascism. Basically Turkish Nazis. There are many outside of Turkey in Europe, especially Germany, but there are many more in Turkey, including vast numbers in the military. Even worse, I am convinced that there is more than a little Grey Wolf in 8

A lot of Kurds are Communists and Leftists, but not all of them. The PKK is Leftist and has 6

“Kurd” isn’t a racial classification in Turkey. Turks don’t do ethnic nationalism in a racial sense like that. Turkish nationalism is more assimilatory. Quit speaking Kurdish and give up Kurdish culture and speak only Turkish and embrace Turkish culture, and wa-la! A Kurd becomes a Turk. See how that works?

The PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) started out Marxist as a typical Marxist revolutionary group seeking independence. If you look at revolutionary nationalists all over the world, you will see that they come in two varieties – a hard left, socialist or Communist type; and a hard right type which looks like some form of fascism. Those are the two directions revolutionary nationalists seeking self-determination can go.

If a group is very repressed, they often go for Left revolutionary nationalism because this logically appeals to them. Examples are present in the West where the Hispanic and Black ultranationalists are basically Commies because they see themselves as repressed. White ultranationalists in the US are basically fascists because they are on top.

Fascism is about preserving the interests of the ruling class and the capitalists in a time of extreme pressure from the Left. It is “a popular dictatorship against the Left” and its basis is “palingetic nationalism” (MAGA, anyone?) – picture the Lazarus bird rising from the dead. Fascism promises a return to the blood and soil glories of the past during a time when the nation has badly deteriorated. The claim of resurrecting the greatness of the ancestors is very appealing.

The PKK were formed in 1986 out of a long history of Kurdish Leftism as a typical Left revolutionary nationalist independence group. Their leader, Abdullah Ocalan or Apo, was a Marxist. They’ve recently renounced Marxism but they are pushing some sort of Libertarian socialism that looks pretty communist.

The Syrian Kurds are Leftists of the Libertarian socialist type.

The Iraqi Kurds are divided into a more typical Left and Right, neither of which is extreme and both of which are frighteningly corrupt. The Right is more traditionalist and the Left is more modernizing. They’ve sold out their own people to the Turks and have let the Turks set up bases in their land and bomb their own people all the time. All for money apparently. Or possibly fear. Or probably both.

The Iranian Kurds are also Leftists.

The Iraqi, Syrian, and Iranian Kurds are already with the US, and we are with them. Just to show you the insanity of geopolitics, the same group we support in Iraq, Iran, and Syria, we label terrorists when they happen to be in Turkey, where we help Turkey kill them. When this group is fighting our enemies, they are good guys and get our support. When they make the mistake of fighting our friends, they are our worst enemies.

There are no good guys in geopolitics. There are bad guys and worse guys, and that’s it.

Antifa loves the Kurds because antifa are anarchists. The Syrian Kurdish project was seen by anarchists as close to anarcho-socialism (Libertarian socialism) or anarcho-communism. That’s why they support them.

People claim, falsely, that the Kurds and Turks have been fighting forever. They must either have short memories or they never bothered to open a history book. I’m not sure that the Kurds and Turks fought much during the Ottoman Empire. The fighting all started with the breakup of the empire and Ataturk’s ultranationalism. In the last 100 years, Turkey has literally massacred hundreds of thousands of Kurds. Of course, genocide is something the Turks do very well. Hitler is even said to have modeled the Holocaust on the Turks’ genocide of the Armenians.

Alt Left: Meritocracy and Crime in Communist Countries

In the West, there is this idea that the Left hates the idea of a meritocracy. They’re not wrong. Meritocracies end up creating inequalities among races and genders, and we can’t have that. So we have to rig the game to make sure the lesser are the same as the greater and that way, everyone’s nice and equal.

The thing is that this was never a Left notion. All of the former and absolutely all of the present Communist states were complete meritocracies, even multiracial ones like Cuba. The claim is that racial politics disappears under Communism. The idea is that all of that has been taken care of by economics already, so there’s no need to do anything more. I’m not sure if that’s true, but Communism definitely lessens racial and ethnic conflict. Look at the Balkans.

The USSR, China, the Eastern Bloc, Cuba, all have or had extremely rigorous testing procedures, and their educational systems were quite good. You didn’t cut it on testing in the USSR, you were out of that track, but they would just find another one that suited you better. No Communist country ever lowered standards to even things up. Just because they’re Commies doesn’t mean they’re stupid!

Cuba definitely has a Black problem. Not like the one we have here, but it’s there nonetheless. Cuba has quite a prison system and they imprison quite a percentage of their population. I saw a photo of a Cuban prison once and there were mostly young Black male faces. However, Cuban prisons do operate on a rehabilitation, not a punishment model. In spite of the full prisons, Havana is probably the least dangerous large city in Latin America, and it’s full of Black people!

The Cubans have adopted a 60’s sociological “culture of poverty” theory based on Oscar Lewis’ theories of the 1960’s (see The Children of Sanchez for more) to explain Black behavior.

One thing that is interesting is that the Blacks in Cuba are not particularly violent or crime-prone compared to American Blacks. I’m convinced that the viciously competitive capitalist system in which so many Blacks are doomed to be on the bottom no matter how hard they try results in envious fury in Blacks (and who could blame them?) and probably causes a lot of the crime and violence here in the US.

American society says if you’re not making good money, you’re a loser and a POS. Black culture or biology or both makes it hard for them to get ahead. Every time the Black guy turns on the TV, it’s screaming in his face, calling him a loser because he’s not rich. You know that’s got to hurt. The Black guy swears that he’s going to get rich one way or another, come Hell or high water. Hence, crime.

There are absolutely many great things about capitalism (Hell, even Marx admitted that), but crime is not one of them. The link between capitalism and crime is robust. Basically, more capitalism, more crime. Less capitalism, less crime. Greed makes people do a lot of bad things. Even Jesus knew that.

Alt Left: If They Can Get You Asking the Wrong Questions, They Don’t Have to Worry about the Answers

Ever notice all these corporations getting on board the Cultural Left stuff? There are several reasons for this.

  1. First is that they can use fake progressivism (the Cultural Left) to gain progressive credentials and woke points, both great for public relations.
  2. While they are at it, they get to divide the workers into squabbling factions who are too busy fighting each other to fight their class enemies.
  3. And of course it is a grand diversion. Look over there! Let’s talk about transsexual bathhouses for all ages. Let’s not talk about economics or foreign policy. This is known as changing the subject to avoid talking about unpleasant subjects.
  4. And last but not least, this is a form of “progressivism” that doesn’t cost them a nickel!

First there was greenwashing, fake environmentalism by corporations, now there is wokewashing, fake progressivism by corporations. Same animal, different subspecies. In this way, corporations can “launder” their “illegal” moral failings into “legal” woke points.

It’s also a classic diversion tactic: get people talking about something else. Shell says let’s not talk about Ben Saro-Wiwa, murdered under our watchful eyes. Let’s talk about our support for the woke 1619 Project instead!

The theme here is basic to power politics, and straight out of Parables for Paranoids (h.t. Tom P.): If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.

Alt Left: Recommendations for White Nationalists

I’m not a White nationalist, so this is coming from an outsider.

Their much-vaunted “White ethnostate” is never going to happen, certainly not in this environment.

Let’s try for first things first. How about promoting race realism and encouraging the adoption of this view among the population? Even that’s an incredibly tall order. Of course, I would support such a thing, but you really wonder what the people would do with such knowledge. It the fear that people will develop some very bad politics that keeps the Left lying about the realities of race.

In a way, I don’t blame them. They think that if the people believe in race realism, the Whites will all go racist. The Blacks and Browns will never believe in it anyway, and the Asians probably already do. The last country that believed wholeheartedly in race realism just happened to be one of the evil regimes ever. The Left figures that if you have to lie to stave off a re-run of that horrorshow, then so be it. I can’t say they’re wrong.

But things are pretty absurd now. You can’t even say that Blacks as a group are objectively less intelligent than Whites as a group. That’s not even race realist as it doesn’t say what’s causing the gap.

It’s just scientific truth.

At the moment, according to the Left, facts are not factual, truth is not true, and science don’t science.

The first thing we could do, even before race realism, is establish the nonsense behind the insane idea that there are such things as hate facts, hate truths, and hate science.

Logically speaking, there cannot be any such thing. Facts carry no subjectivity, itself being necessary for hate. Facts are just sitting there, proven ideas floating in the ether, completely untainted with emotion. Facts only gain emotion when people start putting emotional labels on them, and apparently this is the source of the Left’s anxiety. But alone, facts are emotionless.

Alt Left: The Republicans Fear Their Base, but the Democrats Hate Their Base

Remember Rahm Emanuel in his conversation with Obama about the base: “Those fucking hippies!” That’s what they think of us. The only difference is the Republicans say we have no right to eat, while the Democrats toss a few slices of bread out of the limousines they tool around in. Emanuel himself, net worth $13 billion, takes a limo everywhere. See that $billion sign next to Emanuel’s name? That’s who the Democratic Party really represents. Just a different, more culturally liberal, group of billionaires.

The Democratic Party base has a seat at the table now, which is both good and bad. The DNC types like Biden go full left on cultural BS, while making only some tinkering around the edges incremental changes on economics and foreign policy, the true red meat issues.

By the way, Kamala Harris was known as “the Senator from Wall Street.”

Joe Biden has long been “The Senator of the Credit Card Companies.” Notice all those banksters hightailed it to Delaware? That’s because Delaware put in the most lax regulations in the land that lets the banksters fleece their customers and investors.

No one in the base of the Democratic Party thinks Biden is anywhere on the Left, except maybe on cultural nonsense. Almost all true progressives really dislike him and say he’s just another Republican. Harris is somewhat better, but the base isn’t wild about her either. The base doesn’t elect the Democratic candidate for president, though. That’s done by the corporate Democrats in the smoke-filled rooms of the DNC.

Alt Left: Starting to Really Wonder about (((Antifa)))

*Note: in the text below, Jews means Israel unless otherwise noted. I’m actually not referring to the Jewish people in the Diaspora themselves. Yeah. I’m conflating your shitty little country with your tribe, dammit! Why shouldn’t I?

Ever notice anything? BLM or even antifa never go after the Jews* (Israel) even one time. I’m actually convinced that antifa is running cover for the Jews. Anyone with the balls enough to stand up to the Jews gets labeled “fascist” by antifa. Getting labeled fascist by antifa means they have the right to beat you up, kill you, invade your country, kill your people, etc. Antifa are this generations Trotskyite traitors.

I am starting to think that some of these Western Commies (mostly the antifa-allied loons) and the antifa anarchists are some sort of weird (((controlled opposition))) to divide the Left. Gee, I wonder (((who))) could be behind that? I’m not saying that antifa is a Jewish project. Maybe it just ended up that way. I actually think it has more to do with the fact that antifa is swarming with (((certain people))). Some of their biggest propagandists are Jews who are obviously running interference for the Jews, all in the name of anarchist revolution!

Antifa is absolutely obsessed with anti-Semitism to a degree that few on the Left are. That strikes me as odd.

Of course, we know why BLM never says a single word against the Jews. I believe it has something to do with their (((donors))), you know what I’m saying. Ah, yes! The eternal (((donor))) question, the graveyard of all US progressive movements. Someone really is behind the scene pulling the strings of the puppets. It’s the “money guy.” It’s no conspiracy theory either. If you want to explain most things in politics, geopolitics, etc., it’s pretty simple: follow the money. Jesus was right. It is the root of all evil.

Though some of their top spokesmen are absolutely anti-Semites. But they are the bad kind (Nazi conspiratorial antisemitic racist nonsense) and not the good kind (in opposition to (((that shitty little country)))).

Antifa and the Western Commie lunatics:

Hate Russia. It’s “fascist.”

Hate China. It’s either “authoritarian,” “fascist,” or “capitalist.” The last two are not true.

Absolutely hate Assad and actually support Al Qaeda and ISIS’ war against Syria! It’s all part of the (((Syrian Revolution))), brother! Syria is “fascist” and “anti-Semitic.”

Hate, hate, hate, hate Iran. Iran is run by “fascist mullahs” and “antisemites.” Support the (((Iranian revolution))).

Hate Hezbollah. Hezbollah is “fascist” and “antisemitic.”

Mostly hate the Palestinians from what I can tell. Apparently all Palestinians are “antisemites.”

Hate North Korea. Murderous, I guess.

Hate the Lebanese government. It’s run by “fascist” Hezbollah, don’t you know? Support the (((Lebanese revolution))).

Support the traitor (((Kurds))) in their war against the Syrian people and the theft of their land, all the way to allying with US imperialism and the Jews, believe it or not.

Support the war in Afghanistan against the “fascist” Taliban.

Not one single peep about Israel, ever. Kinda like how (((Isis))) never attacks the Jews. Ever notice that either?

Not one single peep about any US ally!

Not one single word against the (((Gulf States))).

Not one single word about the real Nazis running Ukraine and the Baltics. Actually antifa supported Nazi Ukraine in the recent war with Russia!

 

Alt Left: Donald Trump, Ultra Neocon

In the below text, the Jews means Israel unless otherwise noted.

Found on the Net, and this list is not complete by any stretch of the imagination.

  • Trump attacked the Syrian government (on purpose) (for the Jews) for the first time ever.
  • He almost assassinated Assad (for the Jews).
  • He blew up Soleimani while he was on a diplomatic mission to meet with the Iraqi PM (for the Jews).
  • He talks about ‘taking’ Syrian and Iraqi oil every time he gets.
  • He reneged on the JCPOA (for the Jews).
  • He threatened genocide against North Korea because Kim Jung Un called him fat and old.
  • He detained Iranian passenger planes and Iranian ships (for the Jews).
  • He ramped up drone strikes across the board.
  • He ended the opening to Cuba.
  • He started trade wars left and right, etc.

The fact that none of this has escalated into greater conflicts is sheer dumb luck, or people think that he’s crazy enough that they don’t want to mess with him because he won’t follow the normal escalatory ladder. Either way the Trump presidency feels a lot like playing Russian Roulette.

Wow, look at all those coincidence marks up there! I’m sure glad Trump’s not an errand boy for the Jews or anything like that! Whew! We sure dodged a bullet on that one, didn’t we, boys and girls?

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