Going to collect threads written by people who are becoming aware of how much the media lies while watching the KR trial. If you’ve seen a good one, drop it here.
Private jets and long motorcades of SUVs to attend climate summits, anti-school choice while sending their kids to private schools, demanding diversity hires while keeping their positions of power as white people, mandating masks while going without, enforcing lockdowns while
continuing to party with their friends, suggesting you eat bugs while they eat steak, condemning your protest while applauding someone else’s riot, policing speech and thought while claiming tolerance, poisoning our kids’ minds and calling us terrorists for wanting to stop them,
hiding and distorting information while labeling any views they don’t like as misinformation, lying about biological reality and calling you hateful if you don’t go along, bragging about ‘fortifying’ elections while accusing others of assaulting democracy,
When I was 12, my brother (15) went on a school field trip at a lake. No one saw what happened but my brother ended up under water for more than 10 minutes and when they found him he was dead. They spent ~30min resuscitating before he breathed.
At the hospital they gave little hope for survival. The odds were stacked too high - pneumonia from lake water in lungs, swelling of the brain, etc etc. Days turned to weeks that we were told every day to expect him to die.
He was transferred to a much bigger children’s hospital in the nearest big city. Top pediatric neurologist was flown in to evaluate: told my dad, “I’m 100% sure he won’t make it. Wouldn’t say this in front of him if I weren’t sure. The compassionate thing is to pull the plug.”
“Patrimony and patriarchy was, for elite and common man alike, the primary allure of institutional marriage, and a profoundly gynocratic regime has obscured and warped the sexes’ natural relationship to one another.”
“Life inside the home, inside the matriarchal longhouse, is already controlled, micromanaged, fat, and easy.”
'As a child Tolkien found delight in the variously coloured fairy tale books of Andrew Lang. Especially he enjoyed "The Red Fairy Book", for it contained Lang's retelling of one of the greatest dragon stories in northern literature, that of Fafnir from the "Volsung Saga."'