“Patty” refers to Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, who became famous for her kidnapping and brainwashing by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. To my knowledge, Stella Morabito (Why Do So Many White Women Hate Themselves?) is the first to make the comparison between Hearst and the woke white women torching and terrorizing our communities and verbally abusing policemen — including policemen of color (POC). She contends they have been similarly brainwashed and convinced to hate who they are….
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When people in place don’t understand or believe that they do have a rich history and an identity worthy of embracing, that tragically leads them to try to imitate other places they think are worthy. This accounts for the curious fact that while every company tries its hardest to convince you of how much different and better it is than every other company in its industry, too many cities try their hardest to convince you that they are exactly the same as every other city that’s conventionally cool. In that, they embrace and tout the trappings of unbearable sameness: bike lanes, microbreweries, coffee shops, and so on. These are all great parts of what today’s thriving cities have, but they fail to capture the magical uniqueness that makes each city a place of its own.
The American Midwest is perhaps the most tragic victim of this loss. The cities of this region were dealt a massive blow by deindustrialization and struggled to reinvent themselves for the knowledge economy in the way that coastal cities did. Their default response was one of shame, of shedding their agro-industrial heritage in a vain attempt to imitate the Portlands and Brooklyns of America.
A French bus driver who was badly beaten by passengers after asking them to wear face masks in line with coronavirus rules has died, his family said.
His death has sparked tributes from political leaders who condemned his “cowardly” attackers.
Philippe Monguillot, 59, was left brain dead by the attack in the south-western town of Bayonne last weekend and died in hospital on Friday, his daughter Marie said, after his family decided to switch off his life-support system.
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Some conservatives tend to say, “Sure the colleges and universities are bad, but…” There is no but. With rare exceptions, they are worse than you can imagine. Unless they are studying to be an engineer or a doctor, most people would be better off to avoid college altogether, learn a trade, and read books on their own. Which is the way it used to be.
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Twitter censored author James Lindsay the day after he discussed Cancel Culture with podcast host Joe Rogan.
Lindsay, who calls himself the “Leading expert on Wokeness,” was temporarily suspended from Twitter after discussing cancel culture on Rogan’s podcast. Lindsay gained notoriety when he and two other authors pranked numerous academic publications by writing papers satirizing social justice causes. Seven of their articles were actually published, enraging academia. He discussed many controversial household issues with Rogan, including how Cancel Culture has become a powerful religious ideology that dominates modern society.
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Reuters notes in its report from Dubai last night regarding an explosion in western Tehran today: “There have been several explosions around Iranian military, nuclear and industrial facilities since late June.” Jerusalem Post intelligence correspondent Yonah Jeremy Bob has filed the intensely interesting column “How have Iran’s intelligence forces broken down in face of explosions?” Subhead: “What the world is witnessing right now is someone hitting Iranian nuclear and conventional weapons and IRGC facilities practically at will.” Debkafile has more in its characteristically speculative July 5 report.
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Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is throwing some of his money at a plan to provide universal basic income for Americans. Dorsey tweeted Thursday that he is donating $3 million to Mayors for a Guaranteed Income.
I’d be more in favor of this if I didn’t know that it’s just a big step toward making taxpayers pay for the greater program if the results can even possibly be spun in that direction.
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I was in the diner picking up my lunch and they had ESPN playing on the television in the main seating area. They used to have CNN playing during the panic, but that was when they were not allowed to seat customers. I’m pretty sure when they were allowed to seat people again, those people complained about CNN, so they changed it to something they thought was neutral. The lunch crowd at most places, especially old-fashioned diners, is going to be old and white.
Of course, ESPN is now hate-whitey all the time. I have not watched the channel in so long I no longer recall when I last watched it. Probably a sporting event of some sort back in the before times. While I was there, they had a parade of famous blacks on to complain about white people. The absurdity of rich blacks moaning about racism is lost on the blacks, but I suspect it is not lost on whites. There were more than a few angry faces looking at the television while they chatted at lunch.
I remember that my father habitually wore a hat until some time in the early 1960s, and then never did again. Nowadays it is very jarring to see e.g. Roger Stone wearing a hat in public; makes you wonder what he’s up to.
It seems that the only people who wear hats these days are the goobers who wear ball caps in restaurants. I hate those guys.
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As Pride month drew to a close, The New York Times was busy informing readers that after decades of progress, the gay rights movement was still not as inclusive as it needs to be.
“Transgender women of color led the uprising at the Stonewall Inn 51 years ago on Sunday, but they were never put at the center of the movement they helped start: One whose very shorthand, ‘the gay rights movement,’ erases them,” began a recent Times report.
The problem is that it’s hard to erase what wasn’t there to begin with.
While the old adage says that money can’t buy happiness, several studies have determined that the more your income increases, the happier you are, up until US$75,000 a year. After hitting that threshold, more income doesn’t make a difference.
But in a new analysis of more than 40,000 U.S. adults aged 30 and over, my colleague and I found an even deeper relationship between money and happiness.
Because the survey data spanned five decades, from 1972 to 2016, we were also able to see if the link between money and happiness changed over the years. That’s where things got interesting: Today, money and happiness are more strongly related than they were in the past. It seems money buys more happiness than it used to.
The toys have gotten a lot nicer.
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A .17 HMR varmint round is pretty gross. It goes into an animal and blows up immediately. It’s not great for going deeply into a big creature like a human being. Most experts claim deep penetration is crucial for incapacitation, but anything that goes in a couple of inches and then wrecks a baseball-sized region of flesh is likely to discourage a 20-year-old racist snowflake who thought it would be easy to enter your home, cleanse it of scary genocidal pancake syrup, kill or enslave you and your family, and set up housekeeping.
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A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said “all lives matter.” In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics.
She won a huge audience as she intended. But her video also came to the attention of the company that was going to give her an internship later this summer, Deloitte, which decided it didn’t want to add an intern who threatened to kill strangers who said something she didn’t like.
This wouldn’t have been much of a story. But then the narcissistic Harvard alum posted a very different video—one that showed her weeping in a near-fetal position.
She fought back tears while complaining how unfair the world had been to her. Her initial TikTok post had earned cruel pushback from the social media jungle she had courted. Deloitte, she sobbed, was mean and hurtful. And she wanted the world to share her pain.
Energy Transfer LP said it’s not making any moves to empty its Dakota Access oil pipeline after a judge on Monday ordered the conduit shut while a more robust environmental review is conducted.
The Dallas-based company run by billionaire Kelcy Warren said it’s also accepting requests for space on the pipeline in August. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia had ordered the pipeline to be drained by Aug. 5.
“We are not shutting in the line,” Energy Transfer spokeswoman Vicki Granado said in an email when asked if the company had begun emptying the pipeline. Judge James E. Boasberg “we believe exceeded his authority and does not have the jurisdiction to shut down the pipeline or stop the flow of crude oil.”
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This ‘wrong side of history’ is almost (TM)Proglodyte. Like Marxists (where I think they got it), they believe that there is this irresistible wave going from NOW to FUTURE and that they are riding it.
And when reality reaches out and bites them on the ass , they ignore it because It Just Can’t Be Happening That Way … until everything goes to shit, and then they wonder what happened.
The Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies (CAREN) Act would make it “illegal for people to contact law enforcement solely to discriminate on the basis of a person’s race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity,” according to USA Today. Individuals who are victimized by the calls would reportedly be allowed to sue the caller for damages up to $1,000 dollars.
I wonder whether it would apply to ‘noose’ and other race hoaxes.
I give you the CARES Act news headline equivalent of “dog bites man” or “water still wet”: “Small Business Loans Helped the Well-Heeled and Connected, Too.”
Seriously, is there anyone who has studied government programs, any government programs, for at least five minutes that is surprised by this news? It reminds me of its cousin headline: “big firms gets small business loans, too.”
In ideological societies, truth is a very dangerous thing, not because it gives the doubters ammunition. Truth is dangerous because it undermines the zeal of the believers. That’s the real motivation behind this race war unleashed by the ruling class. They needed to inspire the faithful.
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It is tempting to conclude that they cannot keep up this pace for long and will at some point exhaust themselves. That is probably true, but that point may be well beyond where we stand now. Look at the way they have reacted to the rioter in Seattle being run over and killed. Instead of sobering them up, it is becoming something of a blood sacrifice. The new religion has no limiting principle, so the limit of their fanatical zeal may turn out to be physical reality.
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Steve Sailer deals with some pretty blatant cultural appropriation.
Before I finally watched Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s colossally popular Broadway musical depicting the Founding Fathers as rapping Men of Color, I had never heard that it’s so childish. I don’t know how to judge hip-hop, but after a while the endless rhymes about the Constitutional Convention started sounding less like Eminem and more like Dr. Seuss. Hamilton is like if The Butter Battle Book took two hours and 45 minutes to recite.
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What America needs is an annual Homicide Awards show where cities compete over their Achievement in the Field of Homicide. Winning mayors would receive from celebrity presenters like O.J., Phil Spector, and Ramzan Kadyrov 2-foot-tall figurines of a criminal firing a Hi-Point held sideways, the Homie.
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‘Black Lives Matter’ Has Been Explicit About Its Goals. These Are Their Demands Notice that they are always ‘demands’, when they aren’t ‘nonnegotiable demands’.
Juan Williams Calls On NAACP, Black Lives Matter To Put ‘Same Emphasis’ On Stopping Black-On-Black Crime He’d better talk to his fellow Halfricans Don Lemon and Trevor Noah.
