Nathan Myhrvold: “I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That's Actually a Bad Strategy”

Nathan Myhrvold: “I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That's Actually a Bad Strategy” (People I (Mostly) Admire, Ep. 6) - Freakonomics Freakonomics

"‘You could build a fast breeder reactor that has this U-238 as its fuel, is stuff that we would classify today as nuclear waste. And just like the candle, it prepares its own fuel as it runs.’

‘You encase this fuel, you put it underground, and it burns like a candle for a bunch of years?’

‘Our main approach, the preferred approach, you put the fuel in, and you don't take anything out for 60 years. Now, that's very different than a conventional reactor. Conventional reactor, you have to refuel every 18 months. And then when you take the stuff out, a lot of it is much less radioactive than conventional waste is today, because it's already lasted for 60 years. And its half lives have run down. And so a lot of the nastiest stuff is gone. And then you have the possibility if you wanted to, you could actually reduce some parts of it and burn it for another 60 years. Now, here's the interesting thing. In Paducah, Kentucky, there is a US government facility that stores nuclear waste. In particular, it stores this U-238 waste. Well, there is enough waste in containers in Paducah that US taxpayers are paying people to guard that you could take earth to zero carbon and run it for hundreds of years. Just with the waste that's currently there.’...

‘We had just written Super Freakonomics, Stephen Dubner and I, our second book. And we had worked with a bunch of environmentalists on global warming. And we had this chapter where we talked about global warming, and I think it was a thoughtful and honest chapter. And we predicted correctly that the Copenhagen climate meetings were going to be a pretty much complete failure, and that this moral suasion approach to fighting greenhouse gas emissions wasn't going to work. And ultimately, we argued that we'd need technological solutions to solve the problem. And we never imagined that this would just launch a firestorm of controversy, that he and I would become a Public Enemies number one and two of the environmental movement. And what was so interesting is that all of the other scientists in the face of this mob faded into the background’…

‘If we abandon rationality, in the face of gigantic problems, what the hell are we going to do? Just panic? You have to be rational about it. And unfortunately, when problems become politicized, the political aspect will add a non rational aspect to it. The problem that people had is if you talk about a technological solution, they feel that that takes away from their fire and brimstone is the way I like to describe it...

Pizza is baked with light. It turns out that the air temperature in your pizza oven basically doesn't matter. All of the cooking of the pizza is done by infrared radiation bouncing off the ceiling, the walls and the floor of the oven. And that's true, primarily because you are putting in a very high temperature. In fact, in most woodburning, pizza ovens, it's very funny, the wood is put towards the back of the oven. And the way fresh air gets into the fire, which of course it must do in order to feed the fire is to run right over the pizza. So the pizza actually has a stream of room temperature going it. But in fact, it's the infrared light from the ceiling that does all of the cooking. And we came up with a clever way to do that. We have a little device that makes a shadow over the pizza. Still let the air circulate. And of course, the pizza is raw, where the shadow is’"

 

People get very upset when you threaten their religion since they'll lose meaning in life

Links - 3rd January 2021 (2 - George Floyd Unrest)

Toronto city council approves renaming Dundas Street due to namesake’s connection to slavery - Toronto - "Ridding Toronto of the Dundas name will cost an estimated $5.1 million to $6.3 million. Costs include renaming Yonge-Dundas Square, two subway stations and all related signage, the report noted.  The city also plans to make room in its budget to support people and businesses affected by the change."
Virtue signalling is not free

Henry Dundas descendant defends ancestor's record - "A direct descendant of Henry Dundas has said the slave trade would have been abolished decades later had it not been for his ancestor.  Bobby Dundas spoke out after a row about an 1827 statue of Henry Dundas... after a failed attempt by politicians to get the abolition of slavery through parliament, "the only way to get it abolished and a majority vote through parliament was to insert the word 'gradual' into the legislation".  He adds that had it not been for this amendment - made by Henry Dundas - the slave trade "could have been about for decades to come".  Bobby Dundas added that his ancestor was a "politician of vision and integrity" who had "no personal involvement in the slave trade". Prof Brian Young, of Oxford University, has also written about Henry Dundas.  He described him as "a lawyer with a sense of the possible", who "saw that the immediate abolition of slavery was impossible: there were simply too many established interests".  Prof Young added that Henry Dundas inserted the word "gradual" into the legislative proposals to ensure it made it to the statute book and that slavery would ultimately be abolished.  "Anything other than this would have been a provocation that would have put back the cause of abolition by decades", he added."

Kelly McParland: Can we rename everything in Toronto after Wayne Gretzky? - "If Henry Dundas held questionable views on the slave trade, a point on which there is some contention, George Yonge was a waste of space so monumental he was dismissed by one historian as representing “incompetence, ignorance, and the very worst impulses of colonial British aristocracy.” Dundas insisted he was no friend of slavery, but argued that banishing it from British territories overnight would simply drive it to other locations, and that gradual elimination was more likely to succeed. Yonge, on the other hand, proved so consistently incompetent he was eventually hustled off to the Cape Colony in today’s South Africa, where he quickly established a reputation for greed and corruption, and helped organize a scam enabling him to seize slaves from passing ships and sell them as his own. Or how about Wellington and Wellesley streets, both running east-west off Yonge in the city’s core, both named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who may have defeated Napoleon and saved the nation, but went on to become so unpopular as a politician — as prime minister he staunchly opposed extending the vote to the working classes and other such riff-raff —  that mobs twice lay siege to his London home, hurling rocks through the windows... If you hate all the offshoots of a past that intrude on modern rectitude, you’ve got to dump the Wellingtons, the Victorias and the Yonges, along with the Ryersons, Jarvises, Baldwins, Osgoodes and other locals who either failed to recognize they lived in a time that wasn’t as enlightened as 21st-century Toronto, or didn’t do enough to revolutionize thought when they had the chance... It’s all gotta go, and we’re going to need new names for the whole kit and caboodle. Simple, innocuous, unblemished replacements that can stand the test of time, meaning, first of all, no politicians, and preferably no one human, given that humans are prone to imperfection and thus unsatisfactory for praise and recognition. Oak Street, Pine Street, Elm Street, that sort of thing should do. Or, even easier: Main Road 1, Main Road 2, Side Road 3, like they do in rural areas where no one gets all that worked up about statues and such.  Once Toronto is done we’ll have to move on to other crime spots. The town of Dundas, of course, will have to go. Ditto London, Ont., named after World Headquarters for the British slave trade and all its grubby appurtenances. Ottawa is an absolute cesspool of honours dedicated to figures from a hateful past: Elgin, Albert, Wellington, Gladstone … I don’t know who Catherine Street is named after but if we look hard enough maybe we can find something to disqualify her, too.  It won’t be easy and it won’t be cheap, but good works never are. If we stick to it, though, we may some day be able to look back on a Canada cleared of anyone who had anything to do with anything, other than maybe Wayne Gretzky, though there are still a lot of people in Toronto bitter at that 1993 playoff result, when he really should have been called for high-sticking."

LILLEY: Public supports renaming Dundas St. until they look at the cost | Toronto Sun - "Those aged 18-34 are most likely to support the name change at 74%, followed by those who are the most educated at 65%, and those with the highest annual income of $100,000 per year or more at 64%. The support for changing the name drops, though, once people think about the cost to both government and those living and working on the street about to be renamed. Once those factors are presented, suddenly, a majority of 61% oppose the city renaming Dundas St. and Dundas Square. Those aged 18–34 still offer up strong support for renaming at 63% but those who are the highest educated drop from 65% support to 48%, while those earning over $100,000 per year drop their support from 64% to 40%...   The cost of renaming Dundas St., Yonge-Dundas Square, two subway stations, and more is pegged at $5.1 million to $6.3 million dollars. Governments spending money is nothing new; they do it all the time and often in ways that would make a drunken sailor blush. But having to change every card, legal document, mortgage, business card, and more … that hits people.  A city staff report states that there at 4,970 properties on Dundas St. as well as 4,510 businesses, 48,975 dwellings, and 97,673 residents.  Add to this the fact that there are 60 more streets that city staff have said, “could require further examination,” including 12 named for slave owners, and you start to see that this could be an extremely long and cumbersome process. Other streets that might need to be renamed, if we continue on this path, include Yonge St., Jarvis St., and Wellesley St. — all of which were named for people with stronger ties to slavery and the slave trade than Henry Dundas. Yet, it’s likely most Toronto residents could not have told you who Henry Dundas was or that the street was named for him — most in this city don’t know that these streets are named for long-dead people... We’d be far better off spending all those tax dollars on things that mattered, including reconciliation efforts.  Few people from the past look good through today’s lens.  All changing the street names will accomplish is making the young, the rich and the woke feel better without actually improving society."
Actually it will embolden the young, rich and woke to grievance monger even more

Need a new street name? I could go on all day | The Star - "Streets can’t be named after people because people popular in their own time can repel later generations. A public housing block in London named Cecil Rhodes House — Rhodes was the real deal in Victorian misogyny and race hate — was to be renamed Mugabe House in the woke 1980s. Mugabe was a tyrant who brought Zimbabwe to collapse. Missed a bullet there.  It has been renamed Park View House. Because there’s a park and people can see it from their house. I used to live on Southwood Dr. because there was a wood and this was the southern bit. Other streets in the Beaches were named after trees, like Beech, Balsam, Spruce, Silver Birch, Willow. There was Main St., because obviously, and a Beaches Park because it’s the Beaches and there’s a park, and Woodfield because there was wood in a field.  Perhaps Toronto streets should be named after trees. Who’d object to 61 Toronto tree names? Are there enough native trees, though, and will they survive global heating? I have a Stewartia pseudocamellia but it’s Japanese (remember the war, plus cultural appropriation) and it’s named after a 16th century Scottish botanist (tree thief, I bet).  My Katsura is native to China/Japan so that’s fraught. My dogwood is basically Mexican and the boxwood is going to die in the current box mass death. Spruce Pine, I think not, what with ongoing beetle devastation. Forget trees.  Perhaps Toronto’s streets, parks and incidentals could be named after moods. Good Road. Ambivalent Lane. Incandescent Ave. Passionate Intensity Blvd. Cordial. Stormy. Bleak. Vehement."

Gad Saad on Twitter - "It has come to my attention that the founder of @Yale was a slave trader. Given the Noble Cause of erasing from the history books ALL individuals/institutions who were participants in any slave trade, will Yale be toppled from our collective conscious? #EraseYaleForJustice
I believe that several other universities have founders who were directly linked to the slave trade. Perhaps use their endowments as reparations? I'm sure that the universities, all of which are bastions of progressive thought, will support such a Noble Cause."

Raymond James employee fired after confronting Black Lives Matter supporter writing message in chalk - "Financial firm Raymond James said Monday that employee Rob Larkins was terminated after he and a woman were captured on video questioning a man painting the Black Lives Matter slogan on what he says is his own property."
Vandalism is good. Opposing vandalism is racist

thebradfordfile on Twitter - "Antifa and BLM terrorists have been burning cities, assaulting innocent people, destroying businesses, and hunting police officers for months, so naturally Chris Wallace focused on “white supremacy.” Our media is an abomination."

Andy Ngô on Twitter - "What’s it tell you when a section of Americans openly wish death to the elected President of the United States and the First Lady, while protesting for the lives of violent criminals, thugs and rapists?"

Proud Boys leader arrested, accused of destroying D.C. church's Black Lives Matter sign
I bet the Proud Boys' activities are much more than 93% peaceful

Facebook - "White police officer cleared of charges in Wisconsin shooting of Black man"
"Look at Reuters leaving out the crucial fact that Blake was armed with a knife and refused to drop his knife in the Facebook post's headline. Fact can only be found in the main text. It's clear this is no longer the old, unbiased Reuters, but one that's desperate enough for outrage clicks as to want to hide the central fact on which the case turned upon, even if it results in misinformation that will cause cities to burn."

Michael Tracey on Twitter - "To me the wildest story of 2020 is still that the most widespread and destructive riots in at least 50 years occurred and it basically got covered up"

Federalist Perspectives - Posts | Facebook - "Guy defends himself and his business from rioters. Prosecutors agree that he defended himself. Charges get pressed anyway, out of concern for public pressure. GoFundMe removes his account. Suicide."
On the Omaha bar owner. Liberals will say that his suicide shows he was guilty

Black Teenager Is Fatally Shot in Argument Over Music, Police Say - The New York Times - "A Black teenager was shot and killed last week in Oregon by a white man who had confronted him in a hotel parking lot for playing loud music... Chief O’Meara said the department was looking into whether the shooting “was driven by race,” adding that a racial motive had not been “legally substantiated.”"
Race makes you play loud music?

BLM removes website language blasting 'nuclear family structure' - "Black Lives Matter scrubbed a page on its website this week that disparaged the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure,” prompting a former NFL lineman to blast critics who accused him of previously misinterpreting the organization’s incendiary message.  The group, whose co-founder Patrisse Cullors has described herself and fellow co-founder Alicia Garza as “trained Marxists,” removed a page titled “What We Believe” that included its public policy positions as well as describing itself as part of the “global Black family”... “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable,” the website formerly read.  The page, which was no longer available Thursday, also said BLM aimed to “dismantle the patriarchal practice” that leads to mothers having to work double shifts to make ends meet...   A central tenet of Marxism is the dismantling of the “nuclear family structure.” The language was removed days after a poll found support for the group dropped 12 percent this summer as some of its protests descended into looting and violence. The change prompted former NFL lineman Marcellus Wiley to blast the group, saying his criticism of its mission statement back in June was misconstrued while reiterating that he’s a product of a tight-knit household.  Wiley, a 10-year league vet and co-host of FS1’s “Speak For Yourself,” shared a news story about the sudden change to BLM’s website as he took the group to task.  “Heard too many people tell that I was wrong for misinterpreting BLM’s mission statement and I took their words out of context,” Wiley tweeted. “You were saying?”  Wiley took a second shot at BLM a day later, accusing some of his critics of forgetting his roots.  “Seems some have forgotten I navigated from the bottom of this system,” Wiley, a 45-year-old native of Compton, California, tweeted to his 325,000 followers. “I planned & worked to succeed by any means, whether by using my brain or my body! Blessed to be an example of how important a nuclear family is to reaching your full potential. My experience is my expertise.”  A message seeking comment from BLM regarding its website change was not immediately returned Thursday."

Matt Walsh on Twitter - "Can we just take a minute and laugh together about this? BLM attacked Boston Pride, a gay activist group that's been around for 50 years, claiming that they're too white. Boston Pride responded by apologizing and disbanding its entire organization in shame. Just fantastic stuff.
BLM just comes in and nukes its own allies for no discernible reason at all, and everyone on the Left is powerless to stop them or even voice an objection."
"Intersectionality"

Catholic Nancy Pelosi Indifferent To St. Junipero Desecration - "After House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy shamed Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, for not standing up to the mobs who have been tearing down statues of St. Junipero Serra in California, Pelosi dismissed the critique of her silence.   “Given that today is the Feast Day of Saint Junipero Serra, her condemnation of mob violence would be especially timely,” McCarthy said. “Today should be a day for celebration. Instead, we’ve recently seen a violent left-wing mob tear down the statue of Father Serra in Speaker Pelosi’s district in San Francisco, California.”... a mob of about 200 people vandalized and toppled a statue of Father Junípero Serra in Pelosi’s hometown of San Francisco in Golden Gate Park. A day later, in downtown Los Angeles, more protesters yanked a Saint Junipero Serra statue off its pedestal at a park near Olvera Street.   Pelosi’s indifference to a hero and saint to Hispanic-Americans and canonized by the first Latin American Pope, Pope Francis, is a sharp turn from 2015, when Pelosi and presidential candidate, Joe Biden, honored St. Junipero’s statue during Pope Francis’ historic visit to the US and canonization ceremony with Pope Francis inside the US Capitol. From 1769 to 1782, Saint Junípero Serra founded nine Spanish missions in California. Father Serra served the Indians by evangelizing, educating, providing food and shelter, and even jobs. He was instrumental in teaching the Indians about agriculture, which allowed them to advance beyond a hunter-gatherer society.   Saint Junipero Serra, a Franciscan, was a defender of Native Americans against the violence and prejudice of Spanish government authorities, displayed as he vigorously upheld the rights of native tribes. When a friend and colleague of his was killed by an Indian, the Indian was executed. Serra was morally opposed to the execution and fervently argued against the death penalty, saying that he founded the missions to save lives not take them. Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles points out, that Serra’s argument was one of the first denouncements of capital punishment in Western culture. Pope Francis stated that Father Serra, “sought to defend the dignity of the Indigenous people he evangelized.”   The Hispanic Council, a think tank whose mission is to share and preserve Hispanic heritage of the United States, said in a fiery statement, “This new attack on his figure lacks historical rigor. It’s also an attack on the Hispanic legacy of the United States and California, which must be respected and cherished, as Junipero himself represented in his time of dedication and service to the native population.” Even the Spanish Embassy to the United States pleaded on Twitter with the United States to respect St. Serra’s legacy and the positive role he played in US history... Instead of addressing the flagrant disrespect and diplomatic incident, San Fransisco Mayor London Breeds sided with protesters in a statement writing, “There is very real pain in this country rooted in our history of slavery and oppression, especially against African-Americans and Indigenous people. I know that pain all too well.”"

Meme - "I'M CHINESE. MY PEOPLE WERE SLAVES IN CALIFORNIA IN THE 1800'S MAKING RAILROADS. YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT BECAUSE WE NEVER ASKED FOR HANDOUTS OR BLAME WHITEY FOR OUR FAILURES"

Meme - *police motorcycle* "Normalizing violent racism at a CHILDREN'S MUSEUM. Police donated this vehicle. The hostility was palpable."

It's Nicole - "Honestly you can not separate canine politics and anti-black racism. From police dogs, to pit bull bans, our relationship with dogs and the black community is fraught with violence and prejudice. Anyone who says that conversations surrounding BLM don’t belong in spaces typically designated for discussions about dogs (ie: your blog/ instagram/ work, etc…) is wrong. First of all the basic fundamental right of human beings is always relevant. Second canine advocacy is not as far removed from the topic as you may choose to believe. I personally have no time for those who believe animals deserve more compassion and decency than people."
Liberals want politics to infect everything

Meme - "Me getting a vasectomy at the doctors office, potentially stopping a future oppressor from being born #blacklivesmatter"
And we are told white liberals don't hate white people

Meme - "My white guilt is so prevalent that i dont feel comfortable with the idea of having 100% white children. I dont want to potentially contribute to the problem"

Meme - "The KKK: "whiteness gives you an advantage over POC no matter what."
Woke: "whiteness gives you an advantage over POC no matter what.""

Facebook - "Since we removing racist statues, which books are we taking out of our curriculum?"
"Asking for a friend #decolonizeyourcurriculum
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#teachersofinstagram #teachersofig #urbaneducation #blacklivesmatter #resist #blackeducators #youngblackeducators #blackstudentsmatter #representationmatters #socialjusticeeducation #literature #literarycanon #iteachela #iteachsocialstudies #counternarratives #decolonize #iteachhighschool #iteachmiddleschool #iteachelementary #educolor #teacherresources #elateacher #criticalpedagogy #culturallyresponsiveteaching #antibiaseducation #antiracist"
Weird. Liberals tell us that decolonising the curriculum isn't about removing anything, but adding new perspectives

Petition · Remove Memorials/Statues of Black Nationalist Malcolm X - "Malcolm X is known as a controversial figure who preached racism and violence against the white race. Malcolm X also considered and called himself a Black Nationalist. The very thought and idea of Black Nationalism has racist roots as it is a type of political thought that seeks to promote, develop and maintain a black race and identity for people of black ancestry. Black nationalist activism revolves around social, political, and economic empowerment of black communities and people, especially to resist assimilation into white culture (through integration or otherwise), and maintain a distinct black identity.  Furthermore, Malcolm X was as known Black Party member and Black Panther Party member, both organizations having their roots in racism. These organizations pride themselves on emphasized black pride, economic empowerment, and the creation of political and cultural institutions for African-American people in the United States, a modern from of segregation. Malcolm X should NOT be a widely celebrated figure within African-American community as he stood for racism in America and promoted racism against white American people."
How silly. Don't they know that accountability is only for white people?

Meme - "Protesters called the fire department about the dumpster fire."
"This had to be the most demoralizing moment of their lives when the "autonomous zone" had to call 911 & move their cute barricades so the real first responders could come put out their dumpster fire."
"Haven't been a country a week and they are already asking for foreign aid."
On CHOP/CHAZ

Peter Boghossian on Twitter - "Murders in larger US cities will skyrocket. Virtually everyone will claim to be mystified by this, or blame it on factors that have little or nothing to do with it. Question: do people who deny the actual cause of the spike in homicides care more or less about black lives?" - Jun 11, 2020
The Associated Press on Twitter - "Still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and protests over the George Floyd killing, cities around the nation are facing another challenge: a surge in shootings that has left dozens dead. Experts say the spike in violence defies easy explanation." - Jul 8, 2020

Meme - "Black Lives Matter"
"Do Black Police Lives Matter?"
"No"
"Do Black Conservative Lives Matter?"
"No"
"Do Black Chicago Victims Lives Matter?"
"No"
"Do Unborn Black Lives Matter?"
"No"
"Do Black Small Business Owners Matter?"
"No"
"So Which Black Lives Matter?"
"The 2 Criminals Shot By the Police"

Escape The Echo Chamber - Posts | Facebook - "If you haven’t followed the trend, protectors that block traffic are now regularly armed. Not just with handguns, but with rifles, and they brandish these firearms to prevent them from leaving. It’s time the politicians end this escalation of felonies and stop these illegal and violent actions that put innocent people at risk. A man just trying to get home shouldn’t suffer six broken bones in a mob beating.
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“It’s unclear what started the standoff, but videos circulating on social media show the resulting confrontation between people in a crowd and the motorist, Joseph Hall, who remains hospitalized.”… “Hall, 53, said he’s a handyman who was headed home from his repair work at a nearby apartment complex when he swerved on Alberta Street to avoid a moped that cut him off.”…"

Meme - "*Joker* LIBERALS IN 2019: "NOOOOOO!!!! YOU CANT RELEASE THIS MOVIE! IT WILL CAUSE RIGHT WINGERS TO COMPLETELY MISS THE POINT AND BE VIOLENT AND CAUSE UNNECESSARY DESTRUCTION!"
LIBERALS IN 2020: *Joker holding ACAB sign*"

Meme - "President Trump: Retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn was killed by 'despicable looters'"
"I'm sorry, but do you have anything at all to say about the murder of George Floyd? Or any of the other murders of unarmed Black civilians at the hands of police officers who are then neither fired nor prosecuted? Looking at your profile, you have made plenty of posts about material objects. Nothing about these lost lives, nothing about institutional racism, nothing about what you might be able to do to help. I also have to wonder why your priorities are so squarely centered around the destruction of objects and not the taking of human lives. Pianos can be replaced, buildings can be rebuilt. No one can breathe life back into the Black and brown bodies left in the wake of a militarized police force."
Dead black policemen are material objects, apparently

Robert Sepehr on Twitter - "Dear white #BLM activists, I'm with you in your anti-slavery crusade. Keep in mind there was slavery in Africa BEFORE the European slave ships arrived, black tribes sold other Africans to them, and there's still slavery in Africa TODAY. In case you're not just virtue signaling ✊"
"The Native Americans who owned slaves"

Meme - "By u/northernrob2019: The Young Mother Shot by B LM for Saying 'All Lives Matter' Should be National News
Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/unpopularopinion...
Rule 4: No trolling/satire. This is not an appropriate subreddit to express your inner troll."
Trolling = disagreeing with a liberal

Meme - "While y'all are at it, tear down this monument, which represents decades of systemic exploitation, grooming, subverting, and ritual abuse of women and children. *Hollywood*"

Rep. Jeff Duncan on Twitter - "Great news! @realDonaldTrump has DENIED Minnesota's disaster request to repair half a billion dollars in damage from the riots. Governors and Mayors who ordered police to stand down and watch their cities burn shouldn't get a penny in taxpayer aid!"

Louisville protest shooting suspect ID'd as Steven Lopez: What we know - "Steven Nelson Lopez, 23, is facing charges of murder and first-degree wanton endangerment, Louisville Metro Police officials said Sunday after releasing his arrest citation... Lopez has been a frequent sight at the protests, which have rocked the streets of Louisville for a month.  Several Courier Journal reporters have seen him among the crowd in recent days, and a speaker at a Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression press conference Sunday morning said he'd been among the crowd for the past 12 days at least."
Liberals will still claim that the far left has never killed anyone

Louisville park shooter was homeless, has history of mental illness: 'He wasn't aiming for Tyler'
Weird. Liberals tell us that it's only mental illness when it's a white guy. And how come they're not reporting that he's really a member of the Proud Boys or a police infiltrator?

Meme - "Rogan O'Handley @Dcdraino: Friendly reminder that Democrats think DACA aliens shouldn't have to "pay for the crimes of their parents". but white people with no relation to slave owners should pay reparations. Makes sense"

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Welcome aboard Hair Force One - "Tax exile Lewis Hamilton has applauded the toppling of statues and called for all ‘racist symbols’ around the world to be removed.   He did so while wearing a baseball cap bearing a large Mercedes badge.   The Formula One champ must have led a sheltered life. Otherwise he might have known that during World War II, under the Nazis, Mercedes used 40,000 slave labourers.   The company even built Hitler’s car.   Hamilton is reported to be paid £40million a year by Mercedes, a firm which made vast profits from slavery.   Now he’s aware of their racist past, shouldn’t he give the money back?"

Cisco fires employees criticizing Black Lives Matter | The Post Millennial - "Tech giant Cisco has reportedly fired a number of its employees for making comments critical of Black Lives Matter, including the statement “all lives matter” in response to the popular refrain."

BREAKING: Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel Peace Prize | The Post Millennial - "The nomination was put forth by Norwegian MP Petter Eide. BLM riots in the US led to the deaths of at least 25 people."

Activists call to change provincial name of British Columbia due to colonial past | The Post Millennial - "British Columbia may be getting a makeover as many people are now calling for the province to be renamed, according to The Tyee, as the name doesn't honour the Indigenous people's that lived there before the arrival of Europeans. It also glorifies explorer Christopher Columbus. In the wake of George Floyd's murder, many activists are calling for the statues of controversial historical figures to be taken down and names of cities and streets to be abruptly renamed. The term for this procedure is "iconoclasm" which is the practice of breaking down past idols. The idea is to delegitimize the values of a previous culture and to replace them with new ones... Much of the two nation's history is being unearthed to show that Columbus's first thoughts on meeting people of the Caribbean was that they would make good slaves or that Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. MacDonald helped to destroy First Nations by creating residential schools. A statue of MacDonald was removed from in front of city hall in Victoria, B.C. two years ago.  Now the latest wave of iconoclasm is looking to go after anything and everything that nods to North America's colonial past. Several statues of Christopher Columbus have been toppled down by protestors or removed by city council over the last couple of weeks and now activists are petitioning to have the names of cities Vaughan and Kitchener changed, and now the province of British Columbia as well. No alternative names have been suggested yet for the province."

Wokal Distance on Twitter - "Don't force your beliefs on people, not everyone celebrates Christmas. *BLM mob trying to force someone to join in the chanting*"

Two months since the riots, and still no “National Conversation” | by Michael Tracey | Medium - "There is a reasonable argument to be made that these riots were unprecedented in U.S. history — or at the very least, since the 1960s. Yet if one surveyed the national media today, you’d barely even know anything happened. Nor would you likely be aware that those who bore the brunt of the destruction — largely minorities whose sensibilities don’t fit into any neatly-delineated ideological category — are still acutely suffering from the fallout.  Yes, civil unrest has of course occurred before. But the riots of 2020 exhibited features which belie any easy historical parallel. For one thing, consider their enormous geographic scope. While the most extreme riots in cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and particularly Minneapolis did receive considerable attention — however fleeting, incomplete, and unnecessarily inflected with knee-jerk partisanship — there were also smaller-scale riots in surprisingly far-flung places that you hardly would’ve known about unless you lived in the area, happened to visit, or intentionally sought out what remains of the bare-bones local media coverage... These riots exploded with such intensity, across so many jurisdictions, and within such a contained period of time — roughly speaking, a one-week stretch beginning May 28, the day the chaos in Minneapolis/St. Paul reached a grisly apex — that no other instance of past civil unrest seems quite analogous. Complicating matters is that the riots occurred in tandem with a protest movement now believed to be the largest ever in U.S. history — one which saw demonstrations, vigils, and general rancor extend even into the most unassuming expanses of suburban and rural America... the severe ramifications of these riots have been widely ignored — if not consciously obfuscated — by a media class that was near-unanimous in its approval of the accompanying protest movement. That they could have so quickly “moved on,” particularly from the wreckage of Minneapolis/St. Paul — where residents commonly told me that their lives are still in “agony” — is galling. I’m not a rocket scientist, and it doesn’t take some kind of profound journalistic acuity to walk around riot-affected areas, talk to citizens, record their stories and impressions, take some photos and record some video, and compose some tweets. And yet, I heard from hundreds of people across the United States and world who were shocked that they’d have never been aware of what happened in Minneapolis/St. Paul if not for my dinky little Twitter thread. When I visited a month after the peak of the riots, much of this major American metropolis still lied in ruins. Not that normal life hadn’t mostly resumed; it had. But it’s resumed in the way that war-torn areas configure some ad hoc routine that enables the resumption of semi-normal activity amidst the rubble and despair. In speaking with locals, many of whom have lost their livelihoods and/or had to plead for their children not to be burned alive, it often seems like the extent of the ruination they’ve experienced was barely ever appreciated in the first place... Many people online have made it clear that they don’t believe me, but I swear I have not “cherry-picked” any of these interviewees. Of the dozens and dozens of randomly-selected black Americans that I have so far spoken to across the United States, only two expressed what one might call a “positive” view of the riots, and they were both young men. Everyone else I have encountered is unabashedly scornful of rioting, and many even express apprehensions about the basic logic of a movement referred to as “Black Lives Matter,” which incongruously appears to them to have caused increased suffering in their predominantly black neighborhoods... they were almost uniformly supportive of the deployment of National Guard to quell the chaos — unlike journalists and activists, who tend to portray the deployment of military forces to urban areas as an unambiguous sign of fascist terror... Residents of Chicago’s predominantly black South and West sides remarked that the looting appeared to begin at apparel stores like Foot Locker, and then branched out from there. Here’s how one man described the progression. Opportunistic “looting” should generally be distinguished from the more ideologically-motivated “rioting,” as those who “looted” were generally locals (mostly but not exclusively blacks) who simply took advantage of an unprecedentedly chaotic situation to seize goods. Whereas “riots” motivated by consciously insurrectionist ideology — consisting of arson attacks and other actions intended to maximize chaos — appear to have been largely instigated by left-wing activist whites. You could possibly group both activities under the banner of “rioting,” but it’s worth drawing a distinction between these two different kinds of conduct which arise in a riot context... One worker said they’d been told by an ad-hoc activist group to proclaim themselves “black owned” (the owner is, in fact, black) so that people don’t get the wrong impression when they see mostly Hispanics working there... An open question is who actually initiated the arson attacks in Minneapolis. According to multiple accounts relayed to me, those who instigated these most extreme acts of destruction appeared to be white left-wing activists who were not from the area. This then consumed municipal resources and created a vacuum that enabled a portion of the local, largely black and minority populations to engage in opportunistic looting... Does the ubiquity of these types of signs, in which owners declare their ethnic or racial status, seem healthy to you?... A low-income housing project that had been under construction, now effectively destroyed:. One of the early promoters of the former “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) in Seattle had triumphantly used an image of the building set ablaze in her/their Twitter bio... The man, an immigrant from Sierra Leone, said the following: “I grew up in a war zone, and I’ve never seen anything like it.”"
Weird. Liberals claim that the riots only involved a few blocks

The Persian Empire: Everything You Wanted To Know

The Persian Empire: Everything You Wanted To Know | HistoryExtra Podcast - HistoryExtra

 "‘What was the Persian view of the Battle of marathon? Did they think it was a big deal? I suppose, within that question is the idea. You know, the Greco Persian Wars or the Persian Wars mattered hugely to the Greeks. Did they matter as much as the Persians?’

‘No. No, absolutely not. They really didn't, though, you know, the Persians are not really going to record defeat in their inscriptions anyway, okay? So we're not going to expect to see the lamentations about you know, coming home with your legs between your legs any more than you find in Roman sources or Egyptian sources for that matter, okay, it doesn't work like that. But it would be very wrong to think that the Persians thought so highly of these, what are after all, border skirmishes. Marathon in particular is nothing more than a border skirmish. And I think if Darius had hung around long enough, he probably could have taken Greece there and then. But Darius wanted to move his men away from Greece because he had far bigger fish to fry. And that was India. He needed to, to capture India... Without the sort of thorn in the side of Arese [sp?], at that point, India could have fallen completely, the whole subcontinent possibly to Persian control, but the forces were dissipated.

Now when it comes to the the campaigns of Xerxes, there is a something of a different agenda, of course, because here we do have a king who's leading his armies into war, as was typical for Achaemenid monarchs. That's what they were supposed to do, anyway. So while he failed to cap, *something* failed to capture the whole of Greece, if you think about the the achievements that he had, they were quite remarkable. So, first of all, of course, we must acknowledge that not all Greek city states were anti Persian, and many of them marched at the side of Xerxes. When he gets to Thermopylae, it's mission accomplished, he kills a Spartan King. Now for a king to kill a King, I mean, that's ideal. Okay, that's what that's what it's all about. He marches on Athens and burns it to the ground, mission accomplished. Okay, so then it goes wrong in in the sea battles, and one land battle afterwards, and Xerxes decides to go home, but he decides to leave.

Mainly because, again, there's a bigger problem in the Empire. And that's a revolt in Babylon. Babylon is always a fractious city. And so Xerxes needs to put more of his attention there. But I don't think it was ever the kind of loss that the Greeks wanted it to be. So for instance, Aeschylus in his great play, Persians, Persai, 472 BCE, of course, has Xerxes returning to Susa in rags, you know, pale and wane and mourning for his losses, presented as the most hubristic of kings. I don't think that ever happened. And I think we can maybe draw our attention back to a very famous passage in Herodotus where Darius the Great supposedly instructed one of his table servants, that he was to whisper in Darius’s ear every night before dinner, Sire, remember the Athenians. Now it's really only an Athenian or at least an Athenian lover, who could possibly have written that because I don't think Athens was on Darius or Xerxes’ minds very often at all...

I do not think [the Greeks] were greater soldiers and the Persians. You know, where's the evidence for, for a Greek Empire of the size of the Persians?… [they had] many Greeks fighting in a Greek style so we can't say that there's an easy answer to this, to that. There was no Persian style of fighting or Persian arms and then Greek arms… one thing I want to stress about the bigger picture of how Persia is presented from Greece, right, the way through to modern historiography, is this whole idea of a rise and fall scenario. You know, already by Plato's time Plato was talking about the glory days when Xerxes and Darius were there. And then there was this slide into depravity. Harem intrigues and orgiastic kings were, of course, of course they lost control because the Persians were no longer men, well, this kind of thing is still being trucked out in in popular history writings, even today, there was no decline in the Persian Empire...

Now, we know from really dealing with indigenous sources from Iran, from different parts of the Empire, including from Bactria, that is modern day Pakistan and Afghanistan, where Alexander went, after the destruction of Persepolis. Now we know that the Empire was in a very fine state of being, and that Alexander inherited an empire, which was strong and vibrant and working, in terms of the economy, in terms of communications, and we know that because Alexander didn't change a thing. Everything that was, was up and running under Darius the Third, he continued...

[Women] within the heartland of Persia itself, is their almost complete absence from the iconographic record, so you can look in vain for an image of a woman on the walls of Persepolis, for instance. They simply are not there. In fact, there's only one female thing at Persepolis. And that's the image of a lioness. And she's only there because she's got her cubs with her too. What does this mean? It doesn't mean that women were not agents in their own right, did not have power, did not have status. What I do think it suggests is that women lived in or occupied a kind of, it was a kind of harem mentality. And what I mean by harem mentality is not you know that they were sequestered away and lived their lives in pleasure on scattered cushions and stroking Persian kittens. It's not about that. It's a bit of this idea of public visibility. Today, I think we are so obsessed with the idea that, that to be known to be powerful, you have to be visible. In antiquity, for women, there was no honor in visibility. Maintaining your invisibility, your sort of sense of purdah from the public sphere is where your power and your status actually sits. To bring you back to the Book of Esther, for instance, you know, the very thing that kicks off the story of Esther, is when the king, the Persian king, Xerxes demands that his wife Vashti, comes out from the harem and shows herself her beauty to the drunken men at his banquet. Now, what the biblical author is really telling us there is this is unacceptable behavior on the part of the king, and the part of the ministers of his court who want to look at this woman, they are dishonouring her by doing that’"

Links - 3rd January 2022 (1 - Covid-19)

California school district president caught on hot mic telling parent 'f*ck you' during school board meeting | The Post Millennial - "the president of the Los Alamitos Unified School District Board of Education was caught telling a parent "f*ck you" after she criticized the possibility of a child vaccine mandate in the district. Lauren Roupoli, who identified herself as a concerned parent, demanded that the school district oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandates for school children, arguing that the vaccine has little health benefits against a virus with an extremely low fatality rate in that age range."

Bhavan Jaipragas பவன் on Twitter - "#Singapore didn't have a Covid comms prob until recently. Last year big msgs were delivered by PM himself. Now it's being done by 3 covid task force "co-chairs". Naturally ppl parse diffs. Add daily FB posts by PM's unelected but influential wife, and it can be quite confusing."

DHS Labels Opponents of 'COVID Measures' as 'Potential Terror Threats' - "Underneath the headline “terror threats” are listed as those who are opposed to “COVID Measures,” believe “Trump can be reinstated,” and “9/11 Anniversary and Religious Holidays.”"

Moers: Gelber Ansteckknopf wirbt fürs Impfen.
"Yellow button advertises vaccination"
From Germany. Appropriate.

Facebook Blocks Aussie Orange Vests From Livestreaming Protests - "An Orange Vest demonstrator in Australia claims Facebook is deliberately preventing activists from livestreaming protests.  Melbourne has been rocked with unrest all week after a construction workers union demanded that all employees get the mandatory jab or face losing their jobs."

Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States - "In summary, even as efforts should be made to encourage populations to get vaccinated it should be done so with humility and respect. Stigmatizing populations can do more harm than good. Importantly, other non-pharmacological prevention efforts (e.g., the importance of basic public health hygiene with regards to maintaining safe distance or handwashing, promoting better frequent and cheaper forms of testing) needs to be renewed in order to strike the balance of learning to live with COVID-19 in the same manner we continue to live a 100 years later with various seasonal alterations of the 1918 Influenza virus."
This suggests that covid vaccines don't reduce infection. No wonder covid hystericists love to obsess about cases, to keep their Doomsday Cult going

 Chakras, crystals and conspiracy theories: how the wellness industry turned its back on Covid science
I thought it was racist to discount other "ways of knowing"

NHS accused of 'lying' about Covid stats to promote vaccination - "NHS chief Amanda Pritchard claimed that 14 times as many Covid-19 patients are in Britain’s hospitals as this time last year. However, even the NHS itself has admitted that Pritchard’s claim uses misleading figures."

You can be as wrong as you like when you’re a Covid pessimist - "After predicting that 100,000 Covid cases a day were “almost inevitable” if the Government went ahead with “freedom day” in England, Professor Neil Ferguson later admitted that he had got it wrong, but his words were telling. “I’m quite happy to be wrong if it’s wrong in the right direction,” he said.  He must be a happy man because he and his fellow modellers could hardly have been more wrong this year. Time and again, they produce a range of scenarios with such broad margins of error that almost any outcome short of the dead rising from their graves seems to be covered. And yet they still manage to be wrong – and always wrong in the same direction. Always too pessimistic.  Remember when reopening the schools in March was going to lead to a surge in infections? Didn’t happen. Remember the claim that October would see 7,000 Covid-related hospital admissions a day in England unless the Government brought in a “basket of measures”? Admittedly, 7,000 was at the top end of their projections and Sage said it was “highly unlikely”, but even their most optimistic scenario projected 2,000 admissions per day. In the end, October came and went without admissions ever reaching 1,000.  Back in February, modellers at Warwick University projected at least 1,000 deaths a day if the Government removed all restrictions in July. Even their “best we can manage” scenario – in which “freedom day” was delayed until the start of September – led to 750 deaths a day. In reality, there hasn’t been a day since March when it reached 150...   There was no apology because there was no threat of comeuppance. The people who falsely claimed that herd immunity had been reached last summer became laughing stocks, but those who have been consistently “wrong in the right direction” (i.e. pro-lockdown) have lost no status whatsoever. The Today programme still has them on speed dial.  It is not as if pessimism comes without consequences. Ferguson’s prediction led Keir Starmer to oppose the lifting of restrictions in July. So-called Independent Sage called for the reintroduction of Step 2 of the roadmap (no meeting indoors). Thankfully, the Government ignored these demands, but what if it hadn’t? It would have cost the economy billions and ruined what was left of the summer.  With the same people now lobbying to ruin the winter, let’s keep their track record in mind. The “direction” in which they erred isn’t important. What matters is that they were wrong."

Analysis: Why the second Covid wave is nothing like the first - "Dig into the data, and the narrative that the current wave is deadlier than the one that hit in the spring begins to unravel... at least 20,000 people who died from coronavirus last year would have been likely to have died from something else. The figure is likely to be higher because many more people have died from the impact of lockdown and cuts to NHS services, which will also be caught in the excess figures...   Looking at crude death figures also fails to take into account the changing population. In recent years, the population of England and Wales has grown and its average age has increased. This would have led to deaths in England and Wales rising by around 1.5 per cent between 2019 and 2020 anyway, even if mortality rates did not change – an increase of nearly 8,000.  Some commentators have also pointed out that 2019 had lower levels of death than normal, two per cent lower than 2018, so we entered 2020 with a more vulnerable population than usual."
From January 2021. Didn't stop all the hysteria and lockdowns

NEW Meme - "German quarantine breakers to be held in refugee camps, detention centers"
"That's what the US should do but we don't have the balls"
Concentration camps are only wrong when the left decides so
Comments: "The same people that thought for sure Trump was going to put people in camps four years ago are the same ones so eager to do it today."
"But... don’t they think trump is hitler? Or something about border detainment? It’s all so tiresome"
"In a decade when it’s out of hand and is a mistake on humanity, they’d pretend they were against it all along"
"Man... the anti-authoritarian party is surprisingly pro-authoritarian here lately"
"germans and camps do not go well together"
"Didn’t we do something similar with the Japanese and people still bring that shit up today. Can only imagine what nationality will be in the camps the most....."

Gene Weingarten on Twitter - "Is there a point at which the "unvaccinated" need to be prosecuted?"
Soon, being against this will mean you are "anti-vaxx". Of course, anyone making Nazi comparisons is deluded

Glenn Greenwald on Twitter - "This is demented beyond words, but as I wrote yesterday, a punitive and sadistic desire to see people imprisoned who dissent from their worldview is an increasingly central and defining feature of American liberalism"

Popular Democrat Operative Bill Palmer Calls For Forced House Arrest Of Unvaccinated Americans - "In a July 19 tweet, Palmer made a suggestion for controlling the pandemic that got hundreds of replies from among his 398,300 followers. He tweeted, “Place unvaccinated people under house arrest until the pandemic is over. It they don’t like it, they can get vaccinated. Problem solved.”...   “If people are afraid to get covid they should self isolate until pandemic is over,” BlameItOnTheRain tweeted @MiliVanili2020. “I’m vaccinated but your take is stupid. You’re infringing on persons right to dictate their health. That’s the most personal of choices.”"

Unvaccinated will have ‘miserable, very lonely life,’ top Australian doc warns - "The head of the Australian Medical Association in Queensland has issued a dark warning to those who refuse anti-Covid vaccination, saying they not only face fines and fraud charges, but will be separated from the rest of society.  “Life will be miserable without being vaccinated. You won’t be able to hide,” Dr. Chris Perry said... Even those who have an exemption from mandatory vaccination will face difficulties, as they “won’t be able to get a doctor to sign [that] off,” Perry said during his speech, warning clinicians of possible fines for deciding to exclude someone from the jab"

ÖVP politician describes the unvaccinated as “angel of death” - "The Styrian ÖVP health councilor Bogner-Strauß causes outrage with statements about unvaccinated nursing staff. Now she is rowing back."
From Austria

Meme - "Joe Rogan is NOT a doctor. And now, a special message from Big Bird about boosters."

Google Censorship Is a Danger to Public Health - "The banning of the informal research paper fit with a larger push by Google and other leading tech companies to actively regulate information in the name of “public safety”—a self-assigned brief that began with the coronavirus but seems unlikely to end there. In an appearance on CNN’s Reliable Sources, Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube—a subsidiary of Google—described how the platform’s publishing policy calls for “removing information that is problematic.” Examples of “problematic” information cited by Wojcicki included people advocating vitamin C and the spice turmeric as cures for the coronavirus and “anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations”—a category which at various times during the pandemic would include wearing masks, travel bans, and asserting that the virus is highly contagious... The supposedly authoritative study that led the world’s leading public health organization to ban all clinical trials of one of the only drugs suggested as a possible treatment for COVID-19 was based on fraudulent research carried out by Surgisphere—a fly-by-night company with barely any presence on the internet. Among the six employees listed on Surgisphere’s website, one was an apparent science fiction writer and another was an adult model/events hostess.  None of this back-and-forth, you may have noticed, actually tells us whether hydroxychloroquine is in any way an effective treatment for a disease that has already killed more than half a million people and may kill several million more. What it does show is that WHO—whose recommendations are as good as law on the YouTube, according to its CEO—was duped into changing world health policy by a shoddy con job; one that was exposed, in part, by someone whose own work was deleted by YouTube’s parent company, and who was widely derided by the press as a MAGA conman.  Perhaps the most messed-up thing about the case of the purged Google doc is that no one seems to care that it happened, aside from those publications that celebrated the monopolist’s censorship. And since no one cares, Google has zero incentive to answer questions about its actions or scrutinize the precedent it is setting. It’s a private company, right? And they’re on our side. And they own all our data anyway. Protest is futile. Besides, we want Google to censor us—meaning, we want Google to censor the views of people we disagree with, and not just their views, but any evidence they present that an activist and openly partisan press tells us is false. There is a class of people who you might expect to take a professional interest in such matters: tech journalists. The problem is that tech journalism is not an autonomous, independently funded enterprise able to investigate the technology sector without fear or favor. Far from it.  All forms of business journalism have always included some degree of industry capture... With the collapse of the journalism industry, much of the money and space that had once been devoted to a citizen-based approach to the operations of power now goes into the cheap manufacture of grand opinion narratives and status-anxious, in-group gossip. Often these two categories are intertwined, as is the case with tech journalism’s sneering commentary about “tech bros”—which, when you step back from it, sounds a lot like the pizza delivery guys bitching about the personalities of the managers at the local Pizza Hut. They may be right, but they are unlikely to give you much insight into the corporate operations of Pizza Hut or the nutritional value of their pizza. Again, ask yourselves: Did you know that a Google doc you created can be deleted with no warning or explanation by Google? If the hydroxychloroquine white paper was so dangerous it had to be voided out of existence, shouldn’t Google educate the public about that danger—and take ownership of whatever process they used to make their determination? Does Google conduct its own research studies and clinical trials? Is Google an arm of the U.S. government with the power to censor speech, and on what laws does it base this authority? Now ask yourself why you didn’t hear any outcry over any part of this. Part of the answer is that the journalists who might have been putting pressure on Google in fact work for Google and other monopoly speech platforms... The question for many isn’t “did Google purge a Google document?” It’s whether it purged the right one, which is not how free societies are supposed to work. But hey, clearly Google’s intentions were in the right place, and having the global surveillance operating data monopolies censor the internet beats depending on Donald Trump for information about science. That is, unless the next document that is disappeared contains information that you believe is vital to making decisions about the safety of your family—like the fact that the next WHO recommendation is a danger to public health, or the next Lancet study is a fake."

How fatal is covid-19 compared with seasonal influenza? The devil is in the detail. - "Accurate assessment of the chance of death following exposure to covid-19 is important, since this statistic has been used by governments to direct lockdowns in an effort to mitigate these deaths. In correspondence to the BMJ, professors Baker and Wilson, both proponents of New Zealand’s lockdown, have criticised our assertion that the infection fatality proportion (IFP) of covid-19 is similar to seasonal influenza...   Evidence for lower mortality comes from countries that have many covid-19 cases yet few deaths. At the time of writing, Singapore had 57,883 recovered cases and 28 deaths, yielding a case-fatality proportion of 0.05%. We believe, because of Singapore’s adherence to the case definition when assigning covid-19 deaths, its numbers more reliably assess mortality, and illuminate the bias present elsewhere. Further, the denominator is large, likely due to aggressive testing. If serology were estimated, the IFP of this city state would likely be lower still... an eightfold increase in positive antibody prevalence in Tokyo occurred during summer, rising from 5.8% to 46.8%, yet little increase in fatality from the virus occurred. So, what is a reasonable IFP for covid-19? The overall corrected median IFP from 61 studies in a meta-analysis is 0.23%"

Yes, The Vaccine Changes Your DNA. A Tiny Bit. That’s A Good Thing. - "Many articles have already been posted explaining that the vaccine can’t alter your DNA, including a wildly popular piece at Forbes and explainers by the CDC and UNICEF... It’s true that Covid-19 vaccines don’t directly alter your DNA, and it’s true that they don’t invade the cell nucleus, where your DNA resides. But that’s not the full story."
Once again, yesterday's conspiracy theory is today's fact

Meme - Blaire White: "If it was about your health they wouldn't close gyms.
If it was about your health they wouldn't promote obesity as beautiful.
If it was about your health they wouldn't lie about treatments they don't profit from."

Meme - Defiant L's: Amy Siskind: "Trump is taking a page from Putin's playbook, and trying to bully the FDA into making a Covid-19 vaccine available before Stage 3 of testing is complete! HE WILL KILLL US ALL!!""
Amy Siskind: "Boosted! Had an appointment I made last week. Listened to, and read advice of our public health officials - they are unanimous on the need to get vaccinated and keep up with vaccinations. Trust science!"
Meme Amy Siskind on Defiant L's: "I reported this account, and encourage you all to as well. It is a nub for disinformation, which has bands of trolls that follow its lead for targeted harassment. It is also a spoke for vaccine disinformation. Please take the time to report!"
Showcasing liberal hypocrisy is harassment. Recalling what liberals said about the vaccine when Trump was in charge is disinformation
A liberal with TDS (but I repeat myself) defended this sort of hypocrisy by claiming that all these people were right in 2020 because of Trump's "rushed rollout", but ignored me when I asked what had changed about the vaccines to make them dangerous in 2020 but safe in 2021

Meme - Barbara Malmet: "As a New Yorker born and bred, I don't want your stinking vaccine, Donald Trump."
Barbara Malmet: "If you are not vaccinated you should have zero contact with the public."

Meme - Pat Burke: "How friggin tragic that a little girl has to sell lemonade to pay for her brain surgery. This isn't a feel good story, it's a story of national shame. Every American should have a right to quality healthcare."
Pat Burke: "I'm introducing a bill that allows insurance providers to deny coverage for Covid related treatment to those who refuse to be vaccinated. Do your part or pay your own way. Freedom isn't free."
A right is something that you only have until a liberal decides you shouldn't have it anymore

Meme - "Gov. Charlie Baker: President Trump's Coronavirus Plan To Suspend Immigration 'Doesn't Make Any Sense"
"Gov. Charlie Baker Says Biden's Air Travel Restrictions Are 'The Right Move'"

Conservatives cry hypocrisy after Biden bans travel from 8 African countries - "

Joe Biden on Twitter - "A wall will not stop the coronavirus. Banning all travel from Europe — or any other part of the world — will not stop it. This disease could impact every nation and any person on the planet — and we need a plan to combat it."
Covid: US joins EU in restricting flights from southern Africa over new coronavirus variant

Facebook - "My entire life my views have been extremely uncontroversial.
I am against:
- suppression of debate and dissent
- forcing people to undergo medical procedures against their will
- Government having more power than it needs
How did this all become "controversial" in a year?"

Meme - "Glass ceiling
Vaccine ceiling.
BIPOC women already have enough hurdles in the patriarchal workforce. Don't add Covid-19 vaccine to requirements to the burdens they shoulder.  
“Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people rather than policy. It's a pretty easy mistake to make: People are in our faces. Policies are distant. We are particularly poor at seeing the policies lurking behind the struggles of people.”  ― Ibram X. Kendi
Black Lives Matter"

What changes the unvaccinated minds? Fear. - CNNPolitics
Meanwhile, in the UK, it was recognised that it was unethical to manipulate people with fear

Austria to Target the Unvaccinated in New Lockdown - The New York Times

Austria plans compulsory Covid vaccination for all - "Those refusing to be vaccinated are likely to face administrative fines, which can be converted into a prison sentence if the fine cannot be recovered... While countries including Italy and France have made vaccination against Covid-19 mandatory for health workers, Austria will be the first country in Europe to apply such a requirement for the society at large. Outside the continent, Indonesia, Micronesia and Turkmenistan have a vaccine mandate for adults."
Vaxholes cheer this, even as not too long ago they pretended this would never happen and that it was a paranoid far right conspiracy theory. What they'll do is still pretend that it's not mandatory, since their strawman idea of a mandatory covid vaccine is someone physically strapping you down and forcibly injecting you, while in all other contexts they still apply the liberal definition where the slightest encouragement is oppressive

Despite Covid, the Swiss are reluctant to surrender the Alpine good life | Financial Times
Weird. The Swiss vaccination rate is even lower than in Austria. Yet they're not anywhere as near to panicking. Amazing what political will does. My friend who lives in Switerland points out they are very freedom loving: I think they're the only place which had referenda on covid measures

Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory - "Germany on Thursday announced a nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated, as its leaders backed plans for mandatory vaccinations in the coming months."

Teenagers from remote NT community arrested after escape from Howard Springs COVID quarantine facility - "the teenagers, aged 15, 16 and 17, tested negative for the virus yesterday.   He said all three were from the Binjari community near Katherine and had been sent into quarantine as close contacts of positive cases.  NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker said officers found the trio on the edge of Palmerston and arrested them after a chase on foot... The facility is housing people affected by the  Katherine region COVID-19 outbreak as well as returned travellers from repatriation flights, including a man who tested positive for the Omicron variant on Monday... He also said health teams would discuss whether some people in the facility could have more contact to combat the isolation that "may [have been] a trigger" for the young people's escape.  "I also want to point to the overwhelming compliance that we've had, given several hundred people have been placed into the Centre of National Resilience linked to the clusters from Robinson River, Katherine, Binjari and Rockhole""
Apparently to the left, covid is more important than anti-racism or being against "concentration camps"

New Zealand to ban smoking for next generation in bid to outlaw habit by 2025 - "Legislation will mean people currently aged 14 and under will never be able to legally purchase tobacco"
I reminded a covid hystericist praising this that he dismissed concerns about covid apartheid and its implications

Twitter Censors American Heart Association Article on mRNA Vaccines and Cardiac Health - "On Nov. 8, 2021, the American Heart Association (AHA) journals published the abstracts that researchers and clinicians would present during online scientific sessions beginning on Nov.13. The scientific sessions are rigorous events, and content must be submitted and selected. One of the abstracts published in the journal Circulation dealt with mRNA vaccines and cardiac health. When Twitter users tried to share the information in the abstract, people interested in reading it encountered a warning that it could be an unsafe link. Astonishingly, Twitter content moderators feel emboldened to censor information published in a journal maintained by a well-respected, mainstream professional association. Further, the data appeared in a rigorous online conference for medical professionals. It also seems to provide a signal for potential vaccine side effects that are not terribly surprising and reasonably strong.   Dr. Steven R. Gundry of the International Heart and Lung Institute wrote an abstract that raised a concern about mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 potentially raising the inflammatory markers in the blood. Gundry’s group has been conducting a long-term study of the risk for a new Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). Patients in the clinic have received a clinically validated measurement of multiple blood protein biomarkers called the PULS score every 3-6 months for eight years. The study began before the pandemic and has accumulated a significant history for participants. But Twitter decided the information that the group found is dangerous.   An increase in the PULS score means the patient is at increased risk of suffering from a new ACS, an acute illness that impairs blood flow to the heart in the next five years. According to Gundry’s analysis, a PULS test drawn two to ten weeks after the second COVID-19 mRNA dose more than doubled the ACS risk from pre-vaccine levels. The researchers concluded that the mRNA vaccines might dramatically increase inflammation on the cellular lining of the heart and blood vessels and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle. This type of inflammation may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination. The FDA has already acknowledged the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis following mRNA vaccines. Both illnesses are cardiac diseases caused by inflammation. Gundry’s study signals the underlying cause of these illnesses and possibly other cardiac and circulatory side effects. The signal strength is decent and worth acknowledging and investigating for a few reasons. First, it involves 566 long-term subjects with a robust historical data set. Second, it reinforces information that the FDA has already provided to the public. A finding like this should be a part of the risk/benefit analysis considered by patients with their doctors.  Additionally, health bureaucrats and the media are pushing boosters. Researchers and regulators do not know if the potential for side effects from the vaccine is a cumulative risk. This would mean the risk of experiencing a side effect goes up with each additional dose. The PULS is a readily available test that researchers could deploy before and after giving booster shots to provide a partial answer to that question. Doctors have used the validated PULS test since 2013. Gundry’s group found the changes incidentally in the course of other research. Americans should expect our regulators and public health agencies to undertake a deliberate study and share the results. The idea that Twitter decided that users should not view this information interferes with the public’s ability to hold our public officials accountable to investigate further. It also interferes with Americans’ ability to make a personal risk assessment about their healthcare. It is an astonishing amount of arrogance from Big Tech and could, as the company warns about the AHA link, lead to real-world harm.  Two researchers that have experienced censorship and public attacks for dissenting views on COVID-19 are Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorff"
Science that goes against the narrative is not Science but dangerous misinformation only dangerous and deluded far right conspiracy theorists believe

Medical News Lies About Doctors Who Notice Lockdowns Didn’t Work - "In October 2020, with Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University, we authored the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD). With multiple concrete proposals, we argued for better protection of high-risk older people while letting low-risk children and young adults live near-normal lives to minimize the collateral public health harm. Ours is a middle path between lockdowns and a let-it-rip strategy.  Unfortunately, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other President Trump government officials (save Dr. Scott Atlas) failed to engage seriously with our ideas. Fauci labeled the GBD’s focused protection strategy “nonsense,” claiming it was impossible to implement well-established measures to protect the elderly.  Indeed, the lockdowns did not protect the elderly; nearly 80 percent of COVID deaths were among people age 65 and up. Instead, they protected younger, low-risk, work-from-home professionals such as administrators, journalists, and scientists.  In a recent article about the newly formed Brownstone Institute, Medpage Today takes this pro-lockdown propaganda one step further by falsely claiming that the GBD “promoted the spread of COVID-19.” That is just as dishonest as claiming that work-from-home journalists promoted the spread of Covid-19 by ordering home delivery of pizza.   Medpage Today also falsely claims the previous White House “embraced” the Great Barrington Declaration. Public health scientists have an obligation to politicians of all stripes. In late August 2020, we met with President Trump, Vice President Pence, and others at the White House, with no effect.  The federal government and most governors continued to rely on the advice of the White House Coronavirus Task Force members Drs. Deborah Birx and Fauci. Our failure to sway White House officials was one reason we decided to write the Great Barrington Declaration a month later. The most dangerous example of the politicization of medical news is the attempt to smear opponents with the false anti-vaccine label. Contrary to the claim by Medpage Today, the benefits of COVID vaccines are “readily accessible on the Brownstone website.”   The three GBD authors all favor vaccines, two have long careers as vaccine researchers, and none have spread any “vaccine misinformation.” To publish a claim that falsely alleges that the anti-vaccine movement has the support of professors of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford universities is damaging for vaccine confidence. Such a false charge is highly irresponsible, damages public health, and is unworthy of Medpage Today.  All journalists can make a mistake, but Medpage Today has refused to correct these errors... it was the non-medical editorial staff who refused to make the factual corrections. Just like the non-scientist Big Tech “fact-checkers” who censor public health scientists, journalists have taken over the dissemination of medical information, blindly following Fauci’s edicts. We think the politicization of medical news has led to increasing distrust in public health and medical professionals. If public trust in medicine is to be improved, trade publications have an obligation to provide accurate medical and scientific information from a variety of perspectives.  The first step should be to correct errors, a minimal obligation of all ethical journalism. A second step requires more balanced reporting about the pandemic by, for example, honestly reporting about the success of the pandemic strategies employed by Florida and the Scandinavian countries. The alternative is a continuing erosion of trust in medicine and public health."
The definition of "anti-vaxxer" grows by the day. First if you were against mandatory vaccination you were an "anti-vaxxer". Now if you're against lockdowns, you're one too
Many "skeptics" don't care about this since it challenges their beliefs, and go on shooting fish in a barrel like Dr Oz

Links - 2nd January 2022 (3 - Waukesha Parade Attack)

BREAKING: Suspect in Waukesha ‘mass casualty incident’ identified as career criminal Darrell E. Brooks | The Post Millennial - "A suspect has been identified and is in custody for the 'mass casualty incident' in Waukesha, Wisconsin when a red Ford Escape plowed into a holiday parade. So far, five have been confirmed dead, more than 40 injured... 39-year-old Darrell Edward Brooks Jr. has been arrested as a suspect in the incident. Brooks is a career criminal with multiple priors and was released from jail two days prior to the incident after posting a $1,000 bail for three misdemeanors and two felonies. He has a history of resisting arrest, obstruction, battery, statutory sexual seduction, strangulation and suffocation, property destruction, illegal firearm possession, bail jumping, domestic violence, drug related charges and is a registered sex offender."

TV Anchor RIPS Eyewitness Who Identified Driver in Christmas Parade Attack as 'Black Guy'

Meme - "Me waiting on CNN to show the mugshot, criminal history and name of the Wisconsin Parade killer, knowing it won't fit their agenda."

Facebook - "It was a RED SUV. That’s an important point to cover. All of the media reports I’ve seen confirm the colour of the vehicle that ploughed into a Christmas parade of grannies and schoolchildren killing at least five people in Waukesha, Wisconsin.  Reading the circumlocutory language of mainstream media reports when these things happen is almost as depressing as the murderous events themselves. The words ‘killed’, ‘murdered’, ‘slaughtered’, ‘mown down’, ‘terrorist’, ‘savage’, don’t appear, let alone any moral judgement along the lines of ‘evil’, ‘vile’, or ‘hideous’.  Instead we read that “an incident” occurred in which “some fatalities happened”. We might get a “tragedy” or a “pray for Waukesha”. But we don’t get who the murderer was, what their politics were, what groups they supported or were affiliated with. There is an absence at the heart of the reports, with dainty steps all around the key facts.  If we have been paying attention and know what a sewer the mainstream media is, we know why that absence exists. Police on the scene may say “the investigation is fluid”. Politicians may say “we don’t know yet”. Media may give us nothing more than “a person of interest has been detained”. But we know. We know what this curious reporting that is not reporting means.  We know that the colour of the SUV isn’t the key bit of information here.  Omission is now revelation. If it had been ‘a white supremacist’ (that largely imaginary breed that is akin to an urban unicorn) or even a Trump voter, a Republican, anything that might be or seem ‘white’, we’d have a name, a photo and ten thousand lengthy articles on his voting record by now. We wouldn’t have this evasive, non-judgemental language in the reports (which is consistent in ‘rightwing’ media as well). We wouldn’t have murder described as if it were not the result of human evil, but a sort of natural phenomena that spontaneously occurred, that few details can be gathered on, and that is just a very sad thing that we should pray about and then forget. In the era of climate hysteria and race hypocrisy, natural events are human evil, and human evil is a natural event. And when reports don’t tell you the colour of the killer, call murder, murder, or focus any attention on the person doing it, you know that they will be non white, or Antifa, or BLM, or Muslim, or all of the above."

DuPage Democratic Party’s social media director fired over Waukesha parade tweets - "DuPage County Democrats fired their social media director following “callous and reprehensible” posts likening the driver who plowed into a Christmas parade Sunday outside Milwaukee — killing five and wounding 40 — to Kyle Rittenhouse.  “It was probably just self-defense,” Mary Lemanski tweeted Sunday on her personal Twitter account...   “Living in Wisconsin, he probably felt threatened,” Lemanski tweeted about the SUV driver...   In later posts Lemanski expressed sorrow over Sunday’s tragedy in Waukesha, Wis.  “I’m sad,” she said. “I’m sad anytime anyone dies.”  “I just believe in Karma and this came around quick on the citizens of Wisconsin.’  She also tweeted: “You reap what you sow, Wisconsin.”"
On the liberal media Facebook pages, I saw a lot of muppets throwing shade at Rittenhouse, claiming it was self-defence

Meme - Mary Lemanski: "Nobody cared about me like my whole life. My mom used to leave me for hours at a time alone in my play pen. I've put out music for 20 years nobody gave a shit. Why do people all of a sudden care about a stupid remark? I can't believe my 15 minutes of fame is for this shit."
@MaryLemanski: "This account doesn't exist Try searching for another."

WeaponizedSmirk on Twitter - "Good news, the media that has spent the last 5 years blaming everything on white people and white supremacy assured us that the black man that ran down and murder white people at a Christmas parade had nothing to do with race. Whew! I was getting real worried there."

WeaponizedSmirk on Twitter - Tariq Nasheed @tariqnasheed: "why are so many people making this Waukesha incident racial? Is there any proof race was a motivating factor?"
"The guy that makes everything about race suddenly doesn't want to play that game anymore."

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on Twitter - "The man in custody over the mass casualty incident at the #Waukesha, Wis. Christmas parade has posts on his social media in support of BLM causes, George Floyd & black nationalism. He also has a post about how to get away with running people over on the street."

Facebook - "Risking my account by sharing, but has to be said.  The perp who ran down children, high school cheerleaders and dancing grandmothers appears to be an anti police, BLM radical. He has a 22 year long rap sheet, but has apparently benefited from a some strange force that makes it politically incorrect to lock him away from civilised society. Social media giants have commenced the scrubbing, and it is remarkable how there is still no wall to wall media coverage that would have happened had the situation been flipped, and the perp been linked to "white supremacy"."

Thread by @oaktreeupheaval on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "the face of #BlackTerorrism
he's also a registered sex offender. #BlackTerrorism
seriously there's like 25 different mugshots of this guy from multiple states. this sort of black criminality where it goes on for years and years yet he keeps getting out on 1k bail to do it again is the sort of #BlackTerrorism Americans face everyday...
turns out he's some dirtbag lowlife no name rapper. another shocker
you can see the car used in the terror attack in the back of one of his black rap music videos from his facebook
sure looks like he's a big fan of BLM/kapernick and a bunch of other causes that would indicate an anti-white motive.
"we start bakk knokin white ppl TF out ion wanna hear it" - Darrell Edward Brooks...
the FBI is going to cover this up as a "Criminal fleeing a crime"
these social media posts indicate a racially motivated anti-white terrorist
Say it with me "Racially motivated anti-White terrorist"
did @Kaepernick7 extremist anti-white content motivate the terrorist who attacked white people at a Christmas parade today?
He's a HUGE fan of him...
Posts indicating black nationalism and other lunatic shit indicative of an anti-white racist
a couple more BLM posts and a post about the @BubbaWallace nascar car... very likely that the sex offense committed by the terrorist was against children as well... here's some more, celebrating BLM burning down the police station and George Floyd shit...
just a reminder, this isn't the first instance of #BLACKTERRORISM this year
noah green killed a captiol police officer and had a very similar ideology. the media moved on quick and the feds were hush hush about it
here's a wild post about hitler and "the real jews"
pretty common for black nationalist type stuff...
in summary
#Waukesha terrorist Darrell Brooks is a sex offender (likely a pedo) who is violently anti-White, a black nationalist, supports BLM, loves @Kaepernick7 and @BubbaWallace, has been arrested many times (but keeps getting out)...
post in support of NFAC (a black nationalist militia). a NFAC member killed a florida police officer this year. media barely reported it...
i dont know how you read some of these posts as anything other than raw unfiltered anti-White hatred
this post clearly refers to White people as an "Enemy""
Clear proof BLM is peaceful and "white supremacy" is the only enemy

Meme - "Claude
>open my news extension thing
>there was a car accident in a crowd, people injured, we don't know who did it or why
>open 4chan/KF
>there was a car incident at a Christmas market, at least 5 dead, here is the car of the guy, his name, his face, his youtube, his twitter, his political views, his criminal history, the DA that freed him, and what his dog ate yesterday This is just silly at this point."
"Citizen journalists > mainstream media"

Meme - River Everdeen @NaffStuff: "I'm not trying to minimise the tragedy of #waukesha AT ALL
But FFS,Why not a trump rally? Seems like a win win to me
Rest In Peace beautiful souls that were just having a family day out
This is seriously heartbreaking but guessing the driver will plead self defence... right?"

Liberals Flock to Twitter to Defend Waukesha Attack as Updates Continue to Come In - "German-American journalist on Twitter ‘Chris Wiggins’ mocked the attack and was quickly hit with a ratio by conservatives and anyone with an actual sense of humanity. In his Tweet, user CWNewser sarcastically justifies the potential terror attack to make a point about the Rittenhouse case, saying that the driver was only acting in self defense against the children that he mercilessly mowed down.   After receiving hefty backlash for his Tweet, he seemingly got entertainment out of the backlash, claiming that right wingers were ‘triggered’ over his justifications. Many more leftists have continued to mock the attack in a sick and twisted way to try and ‘own’ conservatives about self-defense laws in Wisconsin in response to Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal"

Meme - jaynegreppin @jaynegreppin: "well they don't really care about laws, so, maybe karma."

CNN roasted for tweet saying Waukesha parade attack was caused by 'a car' that drove through parade - "CNN appeared to place the responsibility on Brooks’ vehicle, making no mention of the career criminal behind the wheel... “Someone (Joe Rogan?) is radicalizing cars,” former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles tweeted."

The Washington Post on Twitter - "Just before midnight on Aug. 25, tensions peaked when a 17-year-old named Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum. Moments later, Rittenhouse shot two other men, one fatally."
Woke Washington Post is blasted over claim Waukesha tragedy that killed six 'was caused by an SUV' - "The newspaper's article chronicling the events of the massacre, failed to mention Brooks until the fifth paragraph.   It also repeatedly referred to the SUV as action-driver, not Brooks who was behind the wheel... 'Since it’s the serious position of the @washingtonpost and @nytimes that an SUV was to blame for 6 deaths and 40+ injuries in Waukesha are they going to advocate for them to be banned?' questioned podcast host Benny Johnson."

Meme - *SUV-headed Brooks in court*

Meme - "A child has died in relation to the Wisconsin Christmas parade incident, prosecutors say during the suspect's first court appearance, bringing the death toll to six "
"Police name the driver of an SUV they say plowed into a Wisconsin parade and say he was involved in a domestic disturbance before the incident"
"Initial charges are expected to be filed Tuesday afternoon against the suspect in Sunday's fatal incident at the Waukesha Christmas parade."
"The suspect in the deadly Waukesha parade crash has been charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide"
"There are indications the person held in the deadly Wisconsin parade incident was fleeing another scene, sources say."
I haven't seen so much talk of "incidents" since I visited the Yasukuni shrine

Meme - Bishop Talbert Swan @ @TalbertSwan: "The hell with you and every other lowlife piece of trash commenting on your tweet justifying the 17-year-old, radicalized, white supremacist, terrorist, murdering innocent people. #Kenosha"
Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan: "What does the Waukesha #ChristmasParadeMassacre have to do with race?"

Police: “Some fatalities” after vehicle plows through Waukesha Christmas parade, person of interest in custody - "Fire Chief Steven Howard says there were 11 adults and 12 pediatric patients taken to six area hospitals for injuries."
Weird way of saying "children"

Meme - Priest: ""YoU HAVE BEEN FoUND GUILTY oF "MISSING A TURN AND NoT USING YoUR BRAKES WHILE BARRELING THROUGH A CHRISTMAS PARADE..."
Priest: "... KILLING SIX PEOPLE, INCLUDING CHILDREN, AND INJURING MoRE THAN SIXTY OTHERS."
Priest: "Do YoU HAVE ANY LAST WoRDS?"
Car: "Hoooonk"

Meme - "No charges to be filed against driver at Wisconsin holiday parade accident as he didn't cross state lines."

Meme The Daily Beast: "The 17-year-old shooter's Facebook page ge showcased photos with Blue Lives Matter- style pro-police slogans and imagery, as well as of an Armalite rifle similar to the one he appears to have been photographed carrying Matter in Kenosha"
The Daily Beast: "How big-time right-wing trolls Andy Ngo and Tim Pool tied the Waukesha killings to Black Lives Matter"

Cernovich on Twitter - "Nearly every corporate media ran with the false claim that the Wisconsin massacre driver had been in a knife fight and was fleeing police. This, as the Chief said today in a press conference, was disinformation. Here is WaPo lying. They all lie. All they do is lie."

Liberal media ignores Waukesha Christmas parade horror: Devine - "There’s a reason that MSNBC and CNN and CBS refer to it as merely a “parade crash” and quickly move on to other news.  There’s a reason that President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have not prejudged the violent, racist, BLM-supporting career criminal charged with murder for driving his SUV deliberately into a Christmas parade in the mostly white Wisconsin town of Waukesha on Sunday, killing six innocents, including an 8-year-old boy, and injuring 62 others.  There’s a reason the media are incurious about the hate-filled, anti-white social-media posts of suspect Darrell Brooks.  Waukesha is of no interest to these people, not just because the story does not serve their political purposes, as the Kyle Rittenhouse case did when they wanted to paint Donald Trump as a white supremacist.  No, they are burying the Waukesha story because it threatens the very core of the progressive revolution convulsing the country: criminal-justice “reform.”  Six people would still be alive if Milwaukee had not been hijacked by progressive prosecutors.  “The Milwaukee experiment,” it was called in a gushing Jeffrey Toobin article in the New Yorker in 2015, praising Milwaukee’s Democratic DA John Chisholm. Elected in 2006, Chisholm is a leading light of the progressive prosecutor movement.  His office let out Brooks on $1,000 bail Nov. 16, after he allegedly punched his girlfriend in the face and deliberately ran over her with the SUV he allegedly used in Sunday’s attack. Brooks’ criminal record is over 50 pages long.   Chisholm feigns dismay at the low bail now, but it was part of his plan.  He knows what happens when you let violent, recidivist criminals out of jail, if you handicap police and strip them of their powers, if you break the adversarial system, turn prosecutors into social workers, and close prisons. Everyone knows. Crime and violence skyrocket, along with mental illness and homelessness. There is nothing compassionate or equitable about progressive criminal-justice reforms. They tyrannize the weakest and most vulnerable, the elderly, the infirm, and women and children...   Chisholm wasn’t elected as a progressive, but his priority immediately became eliminating “racial disparity.”   He didn’t care if more black people were committing crimes. It was all about the outcome.  Today, he boasts he has almost achieved his goal of eliminating racial disparity in jails: “In some areas there is almost no disparity,” he told a panel March 11, when he appeared with notorious San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin talking about the “Progressive Prosecutor movement.”...   The only obstacle he says he faces now is “fear” of crime in the community, which drives state legislators to make “bad law.” With 191 homicides last year in Milwaukee alone, “it’s really hard to make an argument.”  “We’re at a time in our nation when violence is simply overwhelming the sense of our perspective of safety . . . People do not feel that they are safe.”  I wonder why that is... "'It’s about being ‘decarceral.’ ”  This means abolishing prisons.  This is not what Americans want. But it’s an article of faith for progressives.  You just had to watch Rep. Rashida Tlaib trying to justify her prison-abolition bill in an interview this week with Axios’ Jonathan Swan to see that the policy is so absurd she has no way of justifying it. Although her bill explicitly would release everyone from jail, she simply denied that that means child molesters and violent rapists will roam the streets.   Progressives pretend that everyone in jail is just there for smoking weed, while showing callous disregard for the victims of crime.   In case you were under any illusion that this all is not an ideological strategy to destroy law and order, take a look at Boudin’s revolutionary pedigree.  He is the son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, Marxist terrorist members of the Weather Underground, who were jailed for the murders of two police officers and a security guard during the Brink’s robbery of 1981 in Rockland County. Boudin was 14 months old at the time and was brought up by Barack Obama’s radical mentor and Weather Underground luminary Bill Ayers.  Last year, Boudin successfully lobbied then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to commute his father’s 75-years-to life sentence and Gilbert was released this month. His mother was released in 2003 and immediately given an honored position as an adjunct professor at Columbia University where she works on — you guessed it — dismantling “mass incarceration,” and transforming the criminal-justice system. These people are embedded in the establishment.   Guess what else domestic terrorists affiliated with the Weather Underground did on Nov. 7, 1983? They bombed the Capitol in Washington, DC, blowing a hole in a wall and pulverizing, windows, chandeliers and furniture. Yet President Biden tells us that the worst attack on democracy was the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 this year.  One of the convicted conspirators for the 1983 Capitol bombing, Susan Rosenberg, had her 58-year sentence commuted by President Bill Clinton in 2001.   What did she do then? She was instrumental in founding and fundraising for Black Lives Matter, a self-declared Marxist organization that advocates for the abolition of the nuclear family...   Progressive criminal-justice reforms are not about equal justice. When it comes to Trump supporters, such as Kyle Rittenhouse or the Jan. 6 defendants still in pretrial detention in a DC jail, progressives are viciously punitive.  They are weaponizing the criminal-justice system to terrorize their ideological opponents and create mayhem.  This is a revolution, and we will all be its victims unless we wake up."
When the left advocates for terrorists and want to dismantle law and order, it's pretty clear what their agenda is

Thread by @JesseKellyDC on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "A racist black nationalist just mowed down over 40 white people with his SUV and he did it on purpose and he did it after a national media backlash to an obvious trial verdict where they once again demonized white people.
Do not ever ask me to demonize “dangerous rhetoric”.
Communist rhetoric almost killed Steve Scalise. Communist rhetoric killed 6 people in Waukesha. Including an 8 year old boy.
Communist rhetoric kills people. They have dehumanized you in the minds of tens of millions of Americans.
“Nazi”
“White supremacist”
These things have been repeated for years now by the American communists. Words are powerful. Words have an affect on the mind. That’s why propaganda works. It’s why advertising works.
Weak, violent minds will respond to these words and people will die. The communist knows this. That’s why he does it. He wants to hurt you for what you believe.
They won’t stop either. Doesn’t matter how much we complain. They love it. Joe Biden hasn’t even made a statement about the largest domestic terrorist attack in some time. Didn’t even offer condolences. This is beyond outrageous. So no, I will never police the rhetoric from my side. I’ll never care about anything they do. Go get 15 DUIs for all I care. I know the game we’re in now and I know what it means if our enemies win.
Death and misery comes with these people. Death and misery.
Never let them have complete power or your kid’s kids will still be paying for it.
That’s all. "
"Dangerous rhetoric" is whatever is dangerous to the left's agenda