RSSIf a narrative collapse happens and the media fails to actually report it while big tech runs cover by preventing people from discovering it, did the tree make a sound?
Narratives never collapse. Never.
If a narrative collapse happens and the media fails to actually report it while big tech runs cover by preventing people from discovering it, did the tree make a sound?
Well, it's a great question, but the answer is probably what you don't want to hear.The short answer is "the 14th Amendment created this problem." Prior to the Civil War, the Bill of Rights was understood to limit only the actions of Congress -- not the states. Meaning that the states could pretty much damn near do as they pleased if their state constitutions allowed it. Establish religion? Yep. Ban prayer meetings? Yep. Allow people to own slaves? Yep.In other words you had no recourse beyond your own state courts if you had a problem with a policy in your state. The 14th Amendment was ratified by Radical Republicans in 1868 to force states to abide by what had previously been the federal-only Bill of Rights, for the purpose of protecting freed blacks from state governments. And the jurisdiction for enforcing this fell on the federal courts.The 14th Amendment has, over the past century-and-a-half, allowed the federal courts to run wild over state policies in ways the Madison and Hamilton would never have dreamed of. That is why seemingly every state case sooner or later ends up in the federal courts.The "simple language" of the antebellum Constitution would have required that the case in question originated in, and stayed under, the jurisdiction of the California courts and the state constitution.Replies: @anon215, @schnellandine
I am so sick and tired of state cases that wind up at SCOTUS; and (5-4?!) Ivy educated, lawyer-judges who can’t understand the simple English of the constitution.For reasons too dull to mention, every sort of CA legal case with “issues”, after it has been heard in multiple state courtrooms, winds up in the federal courts.
>>>”The 14th Amendment was ratified by Radical Republicans in 1868 to force states to abide by what had previously been the federal-only Bill of Rights, for the purpose of protecting freed blacks from state governments. And the jurisdiction for enforcing this fell on the federal courts.”<<<
Wrong. The jurisdiction for enforcing the 14th Amendment fell to Congress, under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment:
“The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
The Supreme Court is only supposed to police the boundaries of power granted to Congress under Section 5.
Excellent point, you are quite correct in pointing that out.
Wrong. The jurisdiction for enforcing the 14th Amendment fell to Congress, under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment:
“The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
Probably just a 2 for 1:
1 – Street cred with the woke mob
2 – Lower wages for pilots
This David Cole article from 2018 explains so much about the fabrication of The Narrative:
Since Vermonters seem so find of BLM, let them have infinity Africans. Perhaps the cold weather will reduce their murder rate to only double or triple that of whites.
Ok then, I’m black. Prove me wrong.
A cabinet that looks like Mos Eisley Cantina.
The important thing to know is how many whites are being killed as compared to the pre-Floyd era? It’s none of my concern if 35 (pre-Floyd) or 50 (post-Floyd) deaths are all slum-dwelling ghetto hood rats. After all, peanut butter has already been invented.
I can comment with authority on the “Fishtown” shooting, as I lived in that neighborhood for many years and just recently moved out.
First of all, the neighborhood is nothing like what it was when Charles Murray wrote his book. The old-stock white trash has been displaced (we would call this gentrification if they were black), being replaced with avacado-toast eating hipsters in recent years. 2-story, 700 sq ft. rowhouses went from $60k to $350k in the past decade.
Secondly, those clubs along Delaware Avenue are NOT inside of Fishtown proper, and are mostly frequented by blacks. Trust me, if there was a shooting at that golf & social club, it was blacks. I know the place well.
Bullying is to blame, of course! He was bullied by People Without Color, so he snapped! Yes, that must be the reason!
Solution: All Whites should identify as black on all future Census questionnaires. And all Whites should also identify as black on their employer’s EEOC forms.
We could reach 100% diversity. All of us could get reparations. Problem solved.
It does not matter that this guy was a Muslim. White supremacy is still to blame because reasons.
...because nobody was killed during the "racial injustice protests." That only happened during the Capitol "riot."Replies: @Mr. Blank, @Jus' Sayin'..., @anon215, @Cloudbuster, @Corvinus, @Curle
During military training sessions to address extremism in the ranks, some service members have challenged why the Pentagon is not treating the violence during racial injustice protests last summer as equal to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.
If this is how it’s gonna be then I say we just sit back and let the blacks and latinX’s be our soldiers from now on. They get a paycheck to go overseas and kill people for Israel (with no benefit to us) while we sit comfortably at home.
I can only hope that future historians will look upon the current “woke” craze with the same puzzlement as we do today toward the Salem witch trials.
They should require all military personnel to have their heads shaved bald. That would put an end to all of this bullshit once and for all.
I’ve NEVER seen any white person ask a black person if they could touch their hair. It simply doesn’t happen in the real world. Who would want to touch a greasy pile of Brillo Pad fur anyway?
Remember, the Great Replacement is just a figment of the fragile white mind. White Erasure is NOT a thing!
Superman was never really yours to begin with.
Remember, the Great Replacement is just a figment of the fragile white mind. White Erasure is NOT a thing!
Do you still own a television?
Remember, the Great Replacement is just a figment of the fragile white mind. White Erasure is NOT a thing!
If there were such a category, 100% of the unarmed blacks shot by police would be in it, because it’s ALWAYS the case.
From now on, I will wear t-shirts with images of Christopher Columbus statues, the Andrew Jackson statue that was recently taken down from Jackson Square in New Orleans, The Jefferson Monument, etc.
I hope this becomes a trend.
Jackson's statue in Jackson Square hasn't been taken down.
...the Andrew Jackson statue that was recently taken down from Jackson Square in New Orleans...
Clearly the solution to blacks shooting each other with handguns is to ban AR15’s. Things such as aggressive quality of life policing & stop-and-frisk would *never* work, and don’t you dare notice that they worked just fine up until May 25th of last year.
Arbery charged at a guy who already had the gun in his hands. If the gun were a pistol in his waistband, he probably wouldn’t have been able to draw and fire in time.
I’ve given up on guns for self-defense. They’re just going to charge you with murder no matter the circumstances.
I’d like to see an actual study of which groups tend to tip well and which don’t. I’ll hold my breath.
Umm, excuse me sir – you neglected to capitalize ‘Black’, and I strongly suspect it wasn’t done without forethought. For that I thank you! 🙂
Gofundme blocked Kyle Rittenhouse from using their service to fund his legal defense. I’m sure they’d do the same to Ricky as well.
Wait for a quiet night, go outside, listen closely, and you’ll hear them laughing in China.
Wait for a quiet night, go outside, listen closely, and you’ll hear them laughing in China.HunInTheSun, i LOL'd because Ron doesn't have a "Cry Out Loud" button.But so true. China should have to be scrapping and clawing its way to the top. Instead, with minoritarianism, we're committing suicide and they are just sitting back being handed leadership of the world on a silver plater.There are simply no words to describe the cancerous stupidity of minoritarianism and the scale of its destruction.
The woke don’t want to do the actual work of climbing. They just want to waltz in and seize control of the functional institutions put in place by centuries hard work. None of these parasites have lifted a finger to contribute anything of value. They can only extract from the commons for their own gain.
Consider Haiti (Haiti is what happens when you kill all of the haters) – they’ve had since the early 19th century to make something nice for themselves. How has that worked out?
It’s hard to disentangle the damage done by BLM from the damage done by COVID-19 (unless you read iSteve!). The latter will get most of the blame, of course.
White women with purple hair and “problem” glasses (easily 50% of BLM) will always live in urban hipster Green Zones, so there’s probably not gonna be much impact on housing prices in those areas.
Steve, the Twitter link you posted has already been memoryholed. You should use screenshots and/or archive.is links from now on.
I agree that we should have racial equity. That’s why I identified myself as Black (with a capital B) in the 2020 Census, and also on my company’s HR EEOC forms.
Gibsmedat!
Such a “handsome” woman!
Don’t forget the two black guys who did the “DC Sniper” thing back in 2001…. John Lee Malvo was the one guy’s name, I think.
Every guest “profiler” on every news station was wrong – they were all fixated on looking for a white guy in a white van.
Meh. So what? So she’s not a real, indiginoidical BIPOC.
I’m black on the 2020 census and on my employer’s EOO. And I’ll continue to insist that it’s true with a straight face. Why shouldn’t I?
Just go by geographical region. Population centers first. Why is this even being debated? Just do it.
Think about this – We now live in a time where you can be *fired* from your job simply for wearing a t-shirt with a picture of Christopher Columbus on it.
The goalposts are shifting even further now, far beyond Columbus. Fairly recently, I joked about Thomas Jefferson being cancelled. I was only half serious, but now that time has come to pass.
I’m having some t-shirts made. If we can’t have statues, we can at least wear reminders of our heritage.
Actually, we *should* prioritize blacks first. They’re the ones I see – almost everywhere – using face masks as “Chin Diapers”. Those that I see with masks over their mouths almost always have their noses out. And rather than leaving their kids at home while they shop to reduce exposure, they always seem to have several in tow.
Couple this with the fact that whites are terrified to say anything to them for this reckless behavior (for fear of being labeled “racist”), and you can see how it might be better for everyone if we gave the shot to blacks/BIPOCS first. As an added bonus, it’ll give the rest of us time to see if there are any dangerous side effects with little risk to ourselves.
The popular narrative these days is that those evil “Karens” are refusing to wear masks, but this has not been my experience.
I have already identified myself as “black” on the 2020 Census. And I was able to log into my employer’s HR page and change my race to “black” as well. I now have that sweet, impenetrable cocoa armor.
I’m now eligible for every sort of gibsmedat from the government. And I’m last to be laid off in the event of a “reduction in force” layoff at work. AND I’m more likely to get the Coronavirus vaccine first!
EWWWW! Just look at that hideous, hermaphroditic creatre for 2 seconds and you might catch the AIDS!
Hopefully a whole bunch of people wake up and begin using Matrix protocol with Riot (now called Element in the app store) or good ‘ol PGP. Telegram and Whatsapp are for low-effort retards anyway.
Even if Element/Riot are banned in the app stores, they can always be side-loaded as APK through FDroid.
Always use a VPN, or something like Whonix or Tails Linux, while on the internet.
Yes, and this is precisely why murders have gone up by 53% in EVERY country where people wear masks.
At this point it would be totally appropriate to begin planning mass expulsions.
How could anybody see that video and conclude that this was “police brutality”?
I’ve never known a single white person whose parents bought them any test preparation materials or hired tutors. I’ve always scored in the 90th+ percentile of standardized test takers, despite the fact that I’ve never had access to any of the tutors or test prep books we all supposedly have.
Got any more excuses, Ibram X?
By the way, Ibram X Kendi’s books are available for free on Library Genesis. Just thought I’d mention that here.
Wokeness is, to borrow a term from the woke, *Systemic* Anti-White Racism. Don’t forget to call it what it really is: Systemic.
So I clicked the link…. and to no one’s surprise, comments are disabled. How I miss the early days of the internet!
Few people know this, but the “fifth Beetle” was actually a black man named Clarence:
Durer’s rhino engraving was based on a description narrated to him of what a rhino looked like. It’s pretty incredible how close he got: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrer%27s_Rhinoceros
How about we just go back to aggressive quality of life policing, stop and frisk, traffic stops in strategic areas where criminals tend to be, use GIS maps with crime stats to deploy resources where problems exist, and other proactive measures to remove undesirable people from our midst? You know, the things that actually work.
Oh yeah, we can’t do that because black.
Finland doesn’t have these sorts of problems because WHITE.
And what’s up with “Jacob Blake, who is Black….”? Why do they always feel the need to point out the blacketyness of these “victims”?
I’m sure she’ll be replaced by a person without color who can pee standing up.🤪
I would have continuously coughed in her face until she left the store.
At this point, any white person who watches sportsball should be ashamed.
How many Unzers cucked for the NFL tonight?
Did you watch it while sitting home alone wearing a mask?
Were you loving “the Black national anthem”?
BLM signs on the field?! Only thing missing is the Black American flag aka the watermelon flag.
BLM is a racist marxist organization run by homosexuals who want to end the nuclear family as described on their website.
Sounds good to you, right cuck?
Will you patronize the giant corporate advertisers who paid for commercial time? Will you go and buy your Pepsi and Burger King and KFC products like a good little slave? Yes you will.
WHO THE HELL WATCHED THIS SH!T TONIGHT
Loathsome cucks that’s who.
Amen, bruvah! I’d rather watch paint dry than a bunch of black guys in tights running with balls in-between corporate-sponsored BLM propaganda and struggle sessions.
Read some books instead, you fucking grug-brained lick-knobs!
I too masquerade as “African-American”. I’m listed as such with the HR department at work AND on the 2020 Census.
I act white, and look white, but how dare anybody assume my preferred identity!
I look forward to effortless promotions at work. And reparations checks.
“ Michelle Obama has said that, to many white people, black people ‘don’t exist’ — while citing a story about a time a white woman cut her and her daughters in line when she was incognito.”
This absolutely did not happen. Here in the real world, I rarely go though a single day where a black person doesn’t attempt to cut in front of me in line, taking advantage of my Anglo tendency to queue up properly and politely. Should that also be considered a “racist micro aggression”?
If one of these diners winds up shooting these people, I would hope that there are enough of us out there to make sure the jury can’t convict.
Do cops not read the papers? Watch the news? I’m surprised that any cops, in this the Summer of George, would even bother to really take a call like that seriously. A domestic dispute in the Hood? Why didn’t they just show up, look around, say “Here’s a number to call for counselling. You all have a nice day.”, and then leave.
Must *everybody* issue a statement of fealty? What a disgusting display of cuckery! It costs nothing to just remain silent, yet you have to sell your soul to The Cathedral just to be a “Goodwhite” on social media for one moment.
This is not a new idea to me. I’ve been identifying myself as “African-American” to HR since 2007. EEOC rules changed to allow people to self-identify rather than ‘Visual Survey’, where an HR employee looks you up and down and decides your race for you. It’s as simple as logging in to the HR website at work and checking a different box.
As for the U.S. Census, that too is as easy as checking a different box. There is no DNA test involved, and if reparations ever happen, you might even get some free gibsmedat.
If 100% of whites identified as “African American”, we could be 100% diverse here in America.
I wonder what would happen if a crowd gathered outside of his house and gave him the same treatment. They’d probably be arrested immediately and sent to prison with the quickness.
Actually, the Staple Singers did a version of “For What it’s Worth” and it’s REALLY good!
That wasn’t the A-Team’s fault. It was those damn Mini-14’s that couldn’t shoot straight!
“LaShawns” are well known to be avid readers, after all…
I learned just a few years ago that three sassy black women made the Mercury Missions possible by literally inventing the maths to calculate trajectories! Of course the book said no such thing, but the movie was good enough for the “LaShawns” to demand the complete re-writing of our history books.
Most of the “Karens” I see in the real world tend to have hooked noses and have a very “Goldblatt” look about them. But don’t expect anybody to notice this out loud.
That’s the point she’s trying to convince the reader of. Deep down inside, she knows that these evil White men sometimes get it right, and that we can’t have that!
Let’s bump it up a notch and go with ALL CAPS. Blacks can have the capital B, but we’ll have “WHITES”!
Mr. “theMann”,
Brave talk for a pseudonymous post. Care to share your real name and address?
Unfortunately, keeping quiet is no longer an option. These diversity struggle sessions are carefully designed to ensure that all attendees are forced to participate. And you’d better affirm their mantras or else!
The new strategy for dissidents should be to enthusiastically agree with the woke diversitards…… just a little bit too much. Make them wonder if you’re actually on board, or just mocking them sarcastically.
How about Alaska and Continental US? We could simply confine all of the gibsmedat programs to Alaska and give free plane tickets.
This is why I logged into my HR site and changed my race to “African-American”. This should inoculate me with the cocoa armor I need to protect myself from such things.
We may all be surprised at the outcome of the election. After all, the secret ballot is the revealed preference of those who can hide among the crowd after pulling that lever in complete privacy. That “Hate Has No Home Here” sign is nothing more than cover, used to hide within the herd.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!
My plan to close the wealth gap: White people should check the “African-American” box on every loan application, identifying themselves as black. As their loans get approved, it’ll improve the statistical outcome for blacks. If enough whites do this, our wealth gap “problem” will be Solved!
“Avid bird watcher”. Yeah, ok.
At this point, please do refund the police. Completely. At least then we could defend ourselves without being persecuted. And we could end this in 2 weeks flat.
Why do I have a creeping suspicion that by the time this thing actually gets built, it’ll look like a Google search for “American inventors”?
I’m relatively young compared to the average iSteve reader, but I’m old enough to remember this old Dave Barry piece:
Dear Mister Language Person: What is the purpose of the apostrophe?
A. The apostrophe is used mainly in hand-lettered small- business signs to alert the reader that an “S” is coming up at the end of a word, as in: WE DO NOT EXCEPT PERSONAL CHECK’S, or: NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ITEM’S. Another important grammar concept to bear in mind when creating hand-lettered small- business signs is that you should put quotation marks around random words for decoration, as in “TRY” OUR HOT DOG’S, or even TRY “OUR” HOT DOG’S.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1936919.html#storylink=cpy
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Where’s the accompanying hategraph?
Anticipating all of this, I went ahead and identified myself as black in the 2020 Census. For good measure, I logged in to my company’s HR page and changed myself to black there as well.
I’ll take my chances. I’d rather have the vaccine first, and when the COVID furloughs happen at work, it’ll be nice to have that suit of cocoa armor to protect me.
Would you want to be the next cop arrested for “brutality”?*
*Brutality: the act placing a non-white person under arrest without that person’s consent.
I wonder what would happen if I were to scratch an MLK statue with my fingernail. Would the authorities stand by and allow *that*?
Beat me to it. That Sobran quote came to my mind as well, and it so perfectly explains the situation we’re in today.
The answer is mixed. My mother actually believes that Michael Brown had his hands up in the air, begging for his life, and then Darren Wilson just executed him for no good reason. She simply discounts any other information which might challenge that narrative, and she TRULY believes in that narrative. It’s as if the TARDIS Perception Filter is real.
Obviously, a big part of the problem is that the internet has become even better than the old print/network media was at narrative manipulation.
Consider this: Unz.com is one of the last remaining corners of the internet with an open comments section, and Google has effectively hidden this site from public view. Do you remember when every major news site had an open, somewhat unmoderated comments section, where everybody was free to call B.S. and drop some hatestats, hategraphs, and hatefacts as counterargument to each article? It was an actual revolution. A breath of fresh air and a taste of freedom.
Now we’re back to square one, but it’s even worse. It’s not longer an option to simply stay out of it. You MUST positively affirm the agenda or you’re Literally Hitler ™.
True, you can back up your Kindle content, but it’s encrypted. You need to break Amazon’s DRM and then convert it to DRM-free epub or mobi format.
I did this with Calibre and the Apprentice Alf plugin.
I learned my lesson after Amazon deleted The Turner Diaries from my Kindle. Not only did they delete the book, but they also deleted the record of the transaction, as if I never purchased it. This happened at around the same time when they were apologizing to Kindle owners for deleting unauthorized copies of 1984 and giving them refunds.
BTW, I bought 2 paperback copies of Camp of the Saints fairly recently for about $15/copy.
He should have bumped it up a notch and explicitly stated that he would be relocating his business as far away from black population centers as possible.
Wow just wow I can’t even. Imagine making that very same statement with just one minor word substitution!
But you miss the point entirely. These people would not be in line in front of us AT ALL if they were instead waiting in line at the government-run food distribution warehouse. It would be a breath of fresh air. Shopping would be so much more pleasant!
Furthermore, they always seem to have cash on hand for electronic gizmos, video games, etc, which they have to pay for in separate transactions while you wait behind them in line. Remember – Walmart sells food AND all of those other things, all under the same roof.
And this raises two more questions:
1. Wouldn’t a food distribution center ensure that these low IQ poors are getting proper nutrition? I mean…. how many times have you seen one of these spandex-clad land whales in the checkout line, paying for half a dozen gallons of colored sugar water with one of those SNAP cards? And with the consumption of said sugar water, what are the hidden costs to our healthcare system? It would be better to give them FREE water filters!
2. Every dollar spent on video games and other electronic gizmos could have been spent on necessities, such as food. I understand that every dollar spent into the economy contributes to GDP, but come on.
And this concludes my evil, hate-filed rant. Thanks for listening.
Like I said in the other thread – we should discontinue direct subsidies (food stamp/SNAP cards) and let these people wait in line at government-run food distribution centers.
The rest of us can breeze through checkout lines at the big box stores, as we’ll no longer have these people holding up the line with their antics.
They want to have their cake and burn it, too.
After a night of looting, the locals showed up the next afternoon at their favorite stores, which they had just trashed and burned down, to buy their evening dinner.
We’re often lectured about food deserts, and how life-sustaining businesses such as grocery stores unfairly seek market share only in the more profitable (white) areas.
I no longer want to hear these sermons. The next time some smarty-pants Noseberg with a sociology degree starts blabbering on about it, I’ll be quick to remind them exactly why that is.
I hope these joggers are reduced to waiting in line for hours at government-run food distribution centers to be handed rations. At least then I wouldn’t get stuck behind them in line at the regular stores anymore.
Since our health gestapo said no shopping without face masks I have learned the joys of instacart.I endorse instacart and have had no problems with them in five weeks except they cannot bring a completely intact carton of eggs which even I cannot do without fail when shopping for my own eggs so that is probably too much to ask for. I eat almost no meat and I guess things would be very different if I did need to buy a lot of meat.
At least then I wouldn’t get stuck behind them in line at the regular stores anymore.
AMLO should let them Continue North because… reasons.
Hundreds? So perhaps 3600 or 3700 of the 4000 were sent on to the U.S.? Tragic!
the caravan, which as of mid-January included about 4,000 people, many of them women and children. In the end, hundreds were detained, sent back to Guatemala or deported to Honduras.
Yet another fabrication that we are obligated to pretend to believe or else…