Philosophy is important, because it concerns the meanings of concepts, not words. Indoctrination works through redefinition of words. Much of what goes under the name of democracy, decentralization, tolerance, and safety are no such thing. -> | via startthis.org/?p=699
But most people hate philosophy. It's hard, and they haven't been trained to do it; this makes it possible for them to be taken in, and when they see criticism of the Establishment, it looks crazy to them.
This is why the KSF will be launching a course (finally) next month about the methods of Internet freedom and decentralization. A lot of people have a lot of things to learn—and unlearn.
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7 May
A BLM founder is totally flattered to have her book compared to Mao's Little Red Book. Here's the text of said book: marxists.org/reference/arch…
"People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but...
...they have their liberalism as well - they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work." --Mao, 1937
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24 Apr
Lately I have often had the impulse to post, "The world is going absolutely insane!" But then I stop myself, because it's boringly obvious. | via startthis.org/?p=671
Why don't I make a list of insane things?

Everyone is wearing masks, despite the fact that the science has not indicated they do much good—except that we're supposed to believe that all the scientists and policy-makers en masse around the world have come to the same conclusion.
We're supposed to believe that "just in time" for this global pandemic, a new kind of vaccine just happens to be ready to be developed in a matter of mere months, and then administered to everyone, and scientists agree that it is effective, and all of humanity must take it.
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17 Apr
I noticed Jim Caviezel was trending. I wondered why. I did a search. So he mentioned adrenochrome in a recent appearance (the context is interesting). So I searched for "adrenochrome". I guess Twitter didn't want me to do that.(I'm not saying they're drinking baby blood, mind.) ImageImage
In other news, Newsweek reports that blood from young people might slow aging.

newsweek.com/2021/04/16/can…

And you know, it's not exactly news that people, especially rich old people, have wanted to beat death from time immemorial.

I'm just sayin'. I don't believe in this stuff.
I think this might be the time to pull out my famous thread about cannibalism. Because the world is much bigger and more horrific than many of you knew. Sorry. I learn things and then, being a teacher, I teach.

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13 Apr
Mick sure has a lot of energy for an old guy.

The Rolling Stone comes out as a lockdown skeptic, joining Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, and other people you used to think were cool before they...became...counter-cultural?

lockdownsceptics.org/2021/04/13/mic…
I mean...we're talking about Mick Jagger and other rock icons, not exactly conservatives, coming out against lockdowns?

What can it mean? Maybe that being forced to stay locked up, muzzled, jabbed, and increasingly surveilled is...inconsistent with the freedom they represent.
That generation is now old, but some of them sure don't want to participate in this fearful, stodgy, controlling old attitude.

Not the Rolling Stones, but certainly from the same generation:
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13 Apr
Defund the police! Because Black Lives Matter!

Never mind that widespread, enthusiastic hostility toward policing as an institution, together with official Democratic tolerance of violent rioting in inner cities loosely directed at police, has resulted in a 33% rise in murder.
Never mind that in Chicago alone, from 2020 to 2021, that will mean a rise in murders from approximately 769 to 1023, i.e., in that city alone, these righteous causes resulted in the deaths of ~254 more people. Most of them, of course, were (will be) black.

Black Lives Matter!
Source: the CNN article says there was a 33% homicide rise in Q1 2021. If this rate continues throughout 2021, then since that Chicago had 769 homicides in 2020, they'll see ~254 more murders this year.

Is leftist self-righteousness worth it?

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/c…
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28 Mar
Satanism isn't real. It's just people having fun triggering conservative Christians.

Right?

Golly, they sure do spend a lot of time, money, and energy triggering those conservative Christians. Why is it so fun to them?
But children are his core audience, he said in January.

npr.org/2021/01/05/953…
That was just before he released this video, in which he is portrayed first as being corrupted by the serpent in the Garden, then as an angel falling all the way to Hell where he has sex with Satan (in the video). YOU'VE BEEN WARNED:

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