At this point, I’m very thankful that my children being in private school means that although they’ll have their own problems as a result of the perpetual masking, ever-presence of plexiglass, and an environment where distancing is fairly rigorously adhered to, they won’t be part of the generation left behind.
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2021-02-16 ::
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And people somehow think it’s some kind of mystery that people question the intelligence within the ivory tower. Zero Hedge:
Participants decided that Churchill was “the perfect embodiment of white supremacy”, and labelled the British Empire ‘morally poorer than the Third Reich’.
The academics involved agreed that it is a “problematic narrative” that Britain was ‘virtuous’ in comparison to the Nazis.
Wait, what? Okay, I’ll give you the benefit of doubt here. Churchill was an avowed believer in the goodness of the British Empire and strove to keep the empire intact. I’m sure there’s some juice there. Let’s hear it.
Another panelist, Dr Onyeka Nubia, claimed that Churchill promoted ‘white supremacy’ because he used terms such as “English Speaking Peoples” and “Anglo-Saxon”.
Oh. You mean he spoke about his ancestors and those others who spoke his language? Or maybe drew a metaphor between Anglo-Saxon attacks on the British Isles throughout the early Middle Ages with Germany attacking Britain during WW2? How fucking awful. I mean, the goddamn nerve of that guy.
Apparently metaphors are the equivalent of systematic genocide of an entire people.
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2021-02-14 ::
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It’s simply amazing that this stuff wasn’t caught until just after the inauguration of Biden. The Daily Mail:
In a remarkable confession made during a conference call with state Democrats, obtained by The New York Post, DeRosa, secretary to Cuomo, admitted that officials ‘froze’ in August when former President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice asked for the data, before rebuffing the request.
DeRosa told lawmakers: ‘We were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.’
The data remained secret for months until January, when a shocking report from New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office said the state had undercounted the number of nursing home deaths by as much as 50 percent.
It forced New York State’s Department of Health to reveal that the true death toll among nursing home residents was 12,743, rather than the previously acknowledged 8,711.
New York had previously only counted residents who died in nursing homes, and left out 4,000 residents who were taken to hospital and died there.
A conference is expected to be held discussing rescinding Cuomo’s emergency powers – which granted him the authority to suspend existing statutes or effectively create new laws – a new report states.
I’m sure these badges are about as effective as masks. Atlas Obscura:
While most badges depict religious motifs and scenes related to specific saints and shrines, a not-insignificant number are sexual in nature. Anthropomorphic vulvas and penises sport arms, legs, or wings. Vulvas ride on horseback, dress as pilgrims, roast a penis on a spit atop a vulva grease trap. Penises parade a crowned vulva on a processional bier.
The sexual badges, catalogued by Dutch collector H. J. E. Van Beuningen, date from 1350 to 1450 and were discovered during archeological excavation of urban areas in the Netherlands and France, with a few found near London. Many scholars believe that these badges were thought to serve a specific function: protecting against disease and disaster.
Seems like bullshit is never in short supply.
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2021-02-10 ::
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It may seem counterintuitive, but health officials say that even after you get vaccinated against COVID-19, you still need to practice the usual pandemic precautions, at least for a while. That means steering clear of crowds, continuing to wear a good mask in public, maintaining 6 feet or more of distance from people outside your household and frequently washing your hands.
How about you fuck off with that bullshit? I’ve suffered your Covid Theater performance art for a whole goddamn year. I won’t suffer it a day longer than necessary.
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2021-02-08 ::
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Information about the actions, or alleged actions, of individual rioters is becoming public in bits and pieces as prosecutors file charges against them. Some facts about the injuries sustained by police are also available in filings in those cases and in statements from the Capitol Police union. And anyone can get a partial picture of what happened through dozens of videos on the internet. But that is just stitching together information from here and there. Capitol Police officials, whose officers were the main force that tried to keep the rioters from breaching the Capitol, have not made any sort of comprehensive statement about what happened.
And this absence of information that would normally be almost instantly available hasn’t gone unnoticed. Chris Haynes, an anchor at MSNBC made a similar observation on Twitter.
And yet despite weeks having passed, we still have virtually no verifiable information about what happened. We can’t even get an accurate count of the numbers at the protest. What, exactly, caused the death of those who died? We know the “hit over the head with a fire extinguisher” story was nothing but wishful thinking bullshit on the part of Democrats, but we don’t know what actually happened. What sorts of physical damage were actually caused? Do we have anything more than vapid, exasperated “re-tellings” of “lived experience” from those who weren’t even in the capitol building when it happened?
Apparently not anything that fits the narrative enough to put out, or it would have been put out, which is a key tell that the narrative is bullshit.
And not solidifying the story with verifiable facts is not an accident. It’s the whole fucking point. “Truth outweighs fact”, apparently, in which truth is some function of “remembered trauma” or facts mixed with feelings. It’s no coincidence that we have virtually no verifiable information on the riot at the capitol. This obfuscation is by design. This way the event itself becomes the canvas, and they can project whatever narrative they wish on it without worry that their story can be contradicted or questioned. If there is no “official” story with facts, the narrative cannot be challenged, and that’s what matters. What actually happened, be damned.
For instance, the “fact” is that during the riot AOC was in a completely separate building across and down the street where not a single protestor entered, and was never in any danger for even a single second. The “truth” according to the narrative is that AOC was almost murdered, and they’re sticking to it, despite admitting the fact that she wasn’t in the capitol and was never in any danger. Not only is the narrative glossing over facts, things that actually did or did not happen, but the narrative is emphasizing “truths” that NEVER happened.
Whoever could have guessed that in the age of “vaccine passports” and other such bullshit, that this would happen?
In many parts of the world, travelers must show a negative Covid-19 test before catching a flight, but a number of recent arrests suggest the results won’t all be authentic.
Authorities in Indonesia, France and the U.K. say they have arrested the purveyors of falsified coronavirus tests.
No shit?
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2021-02-07 ::
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