watching the progressives.

watching the current legislative session in nevada is... painful. Yet, enlightening.

Currently, my state has democrat majorities in both houses and a democratic governor. Despite some vacancies because several democrats think campaign donations are personal paychecks (and there's another half dozen under investigation now. It's endemic. It's democrat. It's WHAT THEY DO)....

Well. We have the "eliminate the electoral vote of the state and vote "national majority" movement going on. There isn't even a HINT of debate on the democrat side, which is stupid.

And now we have a bill in committee to make it a felony to modify firearms in just about any fashion, including competition triggers and such.

Another bill, which I hope isn't going anywhere, to police social media as a justification to deny civil liberty (not just the second amendment, first and fourth as well. Fifth, too, actually)

The good news is that, if you pay attention, you have a CRYSTAL FUCKING CLEAR PICTURE of what progressives intend to do.

The bad news is, if you DON'T pay attention, if this goes national, .... there's going to be a lot of violently unhappy people.

--
Christof-

Elizabeth warren, part 666

Elizabeth Warren is among the worst potential presidents we have right now. Not the worst, but among them. For various and sundry reasons, but this is one of the cuter ones.

For all the time this ultra priveleged WASPy nouveau new englander has played games with using minority status for gain, she's also one of "THOSE" lawyers. She did a bit of home based work on will and real estate, but is almost purely an "academic lawyer". Which is a bigger condemnation to me that this stupid shite.

But here, for your enjoyment, sis the stupid shite. (if you cannot actually read breitbart because you have been programmed not to, try the boston globe or politico.)



https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/16/elizabeth-warren-was-celebrated-as-first-woman-of-color-at-harvard-law/

terrorism and normalization

After the terrorist attack sequence in New Zealand, I’ve been involved and and watched several conversations and news reports about the events.

the New Zealand government and US media have cooperated in a series of censorship events to prevent both the video [1] and the manifesto, as well as associated discussion, from being published or discussed.

I’ve been told, directly, that the new NZ “gun ban” coming into effect is the best available move as it is far simpler than preventing radicalization or eliminating opposing viewpoints.

I’ve been told than NZ has a “mass shooting problem” - notably because of the Gray shooting in 1990.

People are conflating a few WIDELY separated events with a mass shooting problem.

In 1990, in the wake of the WTC attacks, the United States decided that a large singular event was a problem. And thus, we got the Patriot Act and associated legislation. To many people, this was a serious over reaction and erosion of basic american rights and core identity.

NZ has had a fairly serious terrorist attack. equivalent to successful attacks in most SE Asian countries, France, or other western European nations. Their response will undoubtedly be at the same level of overreaction as the Patriot Act.

It should not be surprising that many of us look at the level of reaction, and the stated goals of the terrorists, and see some problems.

Some, displaying a total lack of respect for and knowledge of foreign culture and sovereignty, have already deduced that it is “too late” for the US, and that the level of reaction is necessary for NZ to protect from the Enemy. To “save” NZ from the right, gun owners, and the “opposition”. [2]

Look, even the US doesn’t actually have a mass shooting problem, and certainly not a significant terrorist problem. We have a media problem (one of the main reasons NZ just suffered a terrorist attack, in fact.) But most western European nations have significantly more mass shootings per capita than the US. (In fact, it’s a testament to how resilient we are that we in the US have so few considering the blatant attempts to split us into warring factions, the socio-economic problems, the incompatible cultural diversity issues, and other problems)

Comments are made about eliminating the arming of the enemy. I have a few dozen friends and acquaintances in NZ gun and veteran culture. Mostly from various forums I frequent about hobby gunsmithing, veteran interests, and military history.

I find the idea of directly treading on a very valuable and important subculture of a nation with a VERY strong tradition of “Kiwi can do” to be disturbing.

I find the excusing of it as “easier than” preventing radicalization to be… playing into the hands of the terrorist. openly.

A lot of the “conversations” going on surrounding this- from the US legislators blaming the NRA, to the attacks on candace owens, to attacking “the darkweb” or blaming Jordan Pterson, etc- are strengthening, or legitimizing some of the viewpoints of the terrorists.

The terrorists start with a basic claim that core western cultures, individual subcultures, ethnic cultures, and the broad overall “western cultural tradition” are under attack.

This is basic, indisputable, and core to political divisions in the West right now. Call it “colonialism” or “the patriarchy” or “christian civilization” or whatever- it’s definite that it is happening. Individual ethnic identities? Absolutely. Every attempt to legitimately maintain an ethnic identity by Europeans or Europena descendants is attacked and equated with “nazism”, “fascism”, and etc.

THIS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM

Because using the attack to make that worse, legitimizes the attackers. Censorship doesn’t help that. Because censorship does not and can not work in an internet civilization. All it does is make things worse.

The best thing to do is acknowledge and resist the utter evil of the terrorists. Yet, much of our media, vocal progressives, and activists seem hell bent on putting half of our population on the side of the terrorists.

Pray to your deities and ideologies that you are not successful

–
Christof-

[1] There are several good reason to watch the video, and several bad reasons. While I think “violence porn” is a sick idea, I also think people should be left to make their own decisions. In some sense, the video is a memorial to the victims, even.

[2] And, yes, that is how it is being phrased by many. There’s a serious problem with this. You have just put a significant portion of your population ON THE SIDE OF THE TERRORISTS.