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Peter Sachon's avatar

After the last two years, I feel little sense that most large institutions in America have retained much credibility anyway. I have to actively seek out the news from small private sources, because I cannot rely on newspapers or television news. The Twitter files show us that an array of government agencies has been actively censoring speech in the public forum for years, and continues to do so, yet somehow my friends and colleagues have no idea that this is even occurring. I do not trust anything the government says, whatsoever. It all used to make me angry, but now I just feel sad because it sure seems like the unavoidable endgame around this movement will be violence; either from them when they insist on their Maoist policies, or from people like me who will refuse them no matter what.

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Mike R.'s avatar

I believe the creation of confusion and anger is the point of the exercise. It is a kind of "..how many fingers am I holding up..?" emotional bludgeon. A passive-aggressive ploy, developed by toxic feminism and co.opted and expanded by totalitarian surveillance state finance.

For instance, I assert some ridiculous statement from a hateful and ignorant false moral high ground ( "..all men are rapist's.." or "..men can get pregnant..") that assails and violates human reason and any response you make other than toady complicity and 'party line' compliance allows me to denounce, 'other' and remove you. It serves the totalitarian aim of the obfuscation and subversion of a healthy national dialogue while allowing the insertion of an across the board commissariat into all vital public institutions. This in turn allows the destruction of the life and career of any potential rational voice of opposition. Meanwhile the self-righteous members of the commissariat are well paid and spend their time fronting their faux idealism, which in fact, serves the totalitarian goal of suppressing free speech and thought.

Applied as a psyop on a national level it creates fear, trauma, distrust and a kind of confused emotional anomie in the citizenship while screening the tyrants looting of resources and the economy. The end result is a battered, impoverished, uneducated citizen completely disconnected from himself and his history, culture, heritage, voice, personal agency or the ability to act on his own behalf. It was perfected in the feminist war on men and family and has simply been expanded to include all American's. It is already largely successful in Europe where arrest's for thought crime and speech, restriction's on travel, mass forced migration to ensure cheap labor and the expansion of euthanasia laws to include the crippled and depressed have been put in place.

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Stefan Mochnacki's avatar

No, not all of Europe is suffering as much from the successor ideology. The Anglosphere has it worse, in questions of race and particularly sex. In matters of sex, the European languages cannot be easily changed since they are strongly gendered. In Polish, for example, even the verbs are gendered (I'm living in Poland). This linguistic stiffness in my opinion reduces the effectiveness of trans activists. Although there definitely are ideological currents on the campuses of Continental Europe and some signs of illiberalism (e.g. against anti-abortion speakers), and the young tend to support LGBT pride parades, disruptive actions tend to be more by far-Right elements. The pro-Hamas demonstrations appear to be driven mainly by immigrant Moslems.

I don't see much evidence for the whole DEI package being adopted: European countries (excluding Britain and possibly Holland) tend to want to preserve their culture and history, and immigration is rapidly being restricted (again excluding Britain), even by the more "progressive" governing parties, to counter the far-Right anti-immigrant parties rising in the polls. Nevertheless, as the credibility of the Church crashes, I do see a philosophical vacuum developing and I don't know what will fill it, though no doubt a very likely general war will concentrate minds powerfully on sheer survival, as did WWII, with clarity following.

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Mike R.'s avatar

Nice to hear from someone across the water. In my opinion the world would benefit from an international conversation powered by and reflecting the lives of average men and women across the globe.

My concern is the many reports from Europe about arrests for thought and speech crimes, the averse effect of mass forced illegal immigration and the seeming complicity of its elected political leadership and its service too the EU/Davos crowd.

In America (TFP) there are constant reports on DEI collusion in kangaroo court innuendo powered persecutions of worthy individuals. It is the mal psychology and the method used that infects not only the DEI but corporate fascist/woke organizations in general that frightens me. It is obviously a criminal pathology that pretends virtue in order to rationalize its own greed and avarice. And it is international in scope.

Stay strong. Stay clear.

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Dave Slough's avatar

Excellent post 🎯

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Bruce Miller's avatar

And the saddest thing of all is that there is ample historical precedent for it and, still, the latest incarnation is not laughed off the national stage.

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Dave Slough's avatar

Armor up America

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Skinny's avatar

You not wrong Tileman

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Yes but it does explain why our major institutions - government, big business and education - no longer work and produce shoddy work and products, when they produce, at all.

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Dave Slough's avatar

Boxes checked vs hires based on meritocracy. It explains the actions of our current administration ~> Clueless

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