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Senator Lindsay Graham: So Consistently Bad
Posted by M. C. on November 4, 2023
The Ron Paul Liberty Report
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The Jewish American Dilemma
Posted by M. C. on November 4, 2023
The Democratic Party has decided it’s okay to use the law in bad faith to persecute and jail its political opponents. The Democratic Party has destroyed Americans’ faith in the federal courts, the Department of Justice, and the FBI. The Democratic Party allows an invasion of millions of unvetted aliens across the border, quite a few of them possibly bent on making mayhem here as global tensions careen into hot war.
If they really want to repair the world, it’s time for Jewish Americans to get out of the Democratic Party and re-assimilate into an American common culture — a consensus about reality — that is consistent with running a successful, orderly, and just society.
James Howard Kunstler
“In a world that is not conforming to the narrative of continuous Progress, the response from self-declared progressives has been to try to rewrite our past into the multicultural utopia that they wish to see realised. This will not end well. The war on reality cannot be won.” — Luke Dodson
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At this moment, when there is an awful struggle over the Hebrews’ place in the world — so dire that you’re waiting for World War Three to vaporize everything you’ve ever cared about — one observes the Jewish American scene with trepidation. Since I am a Jewish American, I’m just going to flop this one on the table like so much meat to see what kind of animals it brings out of the woodwork to fight over it.
The Hamas war has exposed a deep current of animosity against Israel and against Jews generally world-wide, even here. This, you understand, is happening at a time of what we might call epic global political mental illness. A mass formation psychosis appears to grip many population groups, each in its own way, but often expressing itself as a longing for death, ranging from the economic suicide of Western Europe to the rise of Jihad to the desolate nihilism of American nose-ring youth.
Jewish Americans have played a leading role in American intellectual and political life through the 20th century and into this one. We Jews increasingly dominated the arenas of literature, academia, medicine, law, news media, and show biz. Business and government, too. In America, we mostly overcame (or seemed to) the deep, old-world superstitions against us, thanks to successful near-total cultural assimilation. I, for example, came from a Jewish family far more interested in baseball than Talmud, who put up a Christmas tree in the living room, and ate sweet-and-sour pork frequently. Perhaps this made us “bad” Jews, but frankly, it was more important to be good Americans — that is, people who cared more about our country than our ancestral origins.
American Jews have also been major players in the political Left through the past hundred-odd years, and especially within the Democratic Party. Lately, it appears that the Democratic Party is bent on destroying the country, so one is naturally left to wonder how this happened and what is the role of American Jews in this. I will offer a hypothesis.
Old World Jews, scattered in diaspora among alien nations, were united for centuries by the longing to return to Jerusalem, the ancestral homeland. “Next year in Jerusalem!” is the toast that concludes each Passover seder. The modern activist manifestation of that, starting in 19th century Europe, was Zionism, the political movement to reinhabit the Bible land of the Middle East. The label Zionism has recently been confabulated with a notion that it stands for Jews wielding a disdainful sense of superiority against non-Jews.
This is, of course, a false understanding. Mostly, it is an envious projection because Jews succeeded so well in America, and they succeeded, as I averred above, largely because they assimilated so completely. How else can you explain a Jew such as Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmuel Gelbfisz, later Samuel Goldfish) of Gloversville, New York, rising to run Hollywood’s MGM studio and turning out movies like Gone with the Wind that showed the rest of the nation what America was about? Or Irving Berlin who wrote God Bless America?
For the Jews who arrived here in the late 19th and early 20th century, America became even more of a promised land than that sliver of Biblical real estate on the Mediterranean. They succeeded here beyond their wildest dreams. Why dream idly about returning to the Middle East when the USA turned out to be the real Land of Milk and Honey? Hence, a revision in American Judaism became necessary. Next year in Jerusalem was replaced as a central animating principle by an alternate shibboleth: tikkun olam.
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Jeff Bezos Exits Left-Wing Seattle For New Home In ‘Low Tax’ Miami
Posted by M. C. on November 4, 2023
While Bezos stated in the post he wants to be closer to his parents and Blue Origin’s new operations at Cape Canaveral, we suspect what spurred his exodus from the progressive state, like other wealthy folks, is the move from a high-tax state to a low-tax state. Florida does not impose a state income tax, estate tax, or inheritance tax.
We all know what taxes are…and no one likes theft.
by Tyler Durden
Florida has gained some extremely wealthy residents, like Citadel’s Ken Griffin, in a post-Covid era. Joining the migration of billionaires to the Sunshine State is none other than Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Bezos announced his big move in an Instagram post on Thursday night:
Seattle has been my home since 1994 when I started Amazon out of my garage. That’s my dad behind the camera in this video, touring Amazon’s first “office.” My parents have always been my biggest supporters. They recently moved back to Miami, the place we lived when I was younger (Miami Palmetto High class of ’82 — GO Panthers!) I want to be close to my parents, and Lauren and I love Miami. Also, Blue Origin’s operations are increasingly shifting to Cape Canaveral. For all that, I’m planning to return to Miami, leaving the Pacific Northwest.
I’ve lived in Seattle longer than I’ve lived anywhere else and have so many amazing memories here. As exciting as the move is, it’s an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart.
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Hezbollah vs. IDF — What Happened Last Time?
Posted by M. C. on November 4, 2023
This time? Maybe no one will be around to find out.
It looks like the parable of David and Goliath is about to re-emerged on the world stage. Ironically, the previous battle cast the Israeli State as the heavy. The “David” of the piece was decentralized “4GW” (4th Generation Warfare) as deployed by an estimated 3,000 Hezbollah fighters.
The outcome of that battle was a serious blow to central governments everywhere. If one of the most effective government militaries in the world couldn’t deal with 3,000 militiamen, what good is it? The inevitable outcome of the ill conceived U.S. Government actions in Iraq and Afghanistan delivered two much more lethal blows to Goliath.
The uncivilized, barbaric ferocity of the actions against Fallujah — and against ISIS in Mosul and Syria — demonstrate the consternation and fear hierarchical organizations experience when confronting non-hierarchical opposition they’re unable to understand – – –
“The central secret to Hezbollah’s success is that it trained its (global) guerrillas to make decisions autonomously (classic 4GW), at the small group level. In every area — from firing rockets to defending prepared positions to media routing around jamming/disruption — we have examples of Hezbollah teams deciding, adapting, innovating, and collaborating without reference to any central authority. The result of this decentralization is that Hezbollah’s aggregate decision cycles are faster and qualitatively better than those of their Israeli counterparts.” Global Guerrillas, Sunday, July 30, 2006 THE SECRETS OF HEZBOLLAH’S SUCCESS, Organizational Improvements
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We Are Ruled By Sociopaths And Morons
Posted by M. C. on November 4, 2023
Hamas is just what you get when you create an intolerably abusive apartheid state which keeps millions of people in a concentration camp whose inhabitants are cut off from basic human needs and make peaceful revolution impossible. Hamas isn’t the disease, it’s a symptom of the disease. The disease is an apartheid settler-colonialist project which cannot exist without endless violence, warfare and abuse.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/138446482
The response to the Gaza crisis from western leaders and media outlets and celebrities shows very clearly that we really are led by the least among us. The least wise. The least intelligent. The least compassionate. The least insightful. We are ruled by sociopaths and morons.
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You are being offered two narratives to choose from:
- Palestinians in Gaza are evil orc-like savages who just want to murder Jews and must therefore be caged and killed.
- Palestinians in Gaza are thinking human beings who are reacting to intolerable abuses inflicted upon them.
Which is more believable?
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We’re being told that Israel needs to wage a relentless bombing campaign which is killing civilians by the thousands in order to eliminate Hamas, because Hamas must be destroyed to achieve a lasting peace. Every part of this is transparently false.
Firstly the premise that Hamas must be eliminated to achieve peace is fallacious; peace can be achieved by eliminating the abuses and righting the wrongs which gave rise to Hamas in the first place. There’s no rational reason to believe Hamas would continue to exist in its current iteration or keep waging violent resistance if the theft and injustice from 1948 onward were rolled back, refugees had the right to return, apartheid abuses were ended, and people were no longer kept in a giant concentration camp where they are deprived of basic human needs.
Secondly the premise that you can bomb people into accepting an abusive status quo is self-evidently absurd. Even if Israel kills every single member of Hamas, there will be hundreds of thousands of survivors of this onslaught who see the depravity of Israel and refuse to accept it. You think all these orphaned boys and all these men who saw their loved ones ripped apart by military explosives are just going to be cool with the status quo from here on out? Of course not.
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Don’t Fall for Biden’s Latest Talking Point | Mises Wire
Posted by M. C. on November 3, 2023
The problem with this thinking, Bastiat and Hazlitt explain, is that it cites only the economic activity that can be seen to result from the broken window. What goes unseen is the cost—all the economic activity the shopkeeper would have instead spurred had he not been forced to buy a new window.
And because the shopkeeper would have preferred to spend the $50 elsewhere, the breaking of the window can only be considered a net loss. The glazier benefits from the shopkeeper’s loss, but the shopkeeper and therefore the overall economy are made poorer.
https://mises.org/wire/dont-fall-bidens-latest-talking-point
As the long-hyped Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia stalls and a new war in Gaza draws the world’s attention, American support for funding Kyiv’s war has waned. In an effort to reverse this, the Biden administration is changing its messaging. A Politico report from last week details how White House aides are now telling members of Congress to sell Americans the lie that continuing to send money and weapons to Ukraine is good for the economy.
President Joe Biden made this point himself when he introduced a $105 billion proposal to send military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan:
We send Ukraine equipment sitting in our stockpiles. And when we use the money allocated by Congress, we use it to replenish our own stores, our own stockpiles, with new equipment. Equipment that defends America and is made in America. Patriot missiles for air defense batteries, made in Arizona. Artillery shells manufactured in 12 states across the country, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas. And so much more.
With this new talking point, the Biden administration is echoing Senator Mitch McConnell, who has for months been saying that the war in Ukraine is an excellent deal because American companies get paid, the Russian regime is weakened, and only Ukrainians have to die.
Setting aside the morality or practicality of Biden and McConnell’s foreign policy ambitions, the argument that all this military spending is good for the American economy relies on one of the oldest, most pervasive economic fallacies in our political discourse—the broken window fallacy.
First outlined by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his essay “That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen” and later expounded upon by economic journalist Henry Hazlitt in his book Economics in One Lesson, the broken window fallacy is the false belief that spending money on restoring things that have been destroyed can make an economy richer.
To make this point, Bastiat used the example of a broken shop window. After his careless son breaks a pane of glass, a shopkeeper is forced to hire a glazier to repair the damage. A group of bystanders reflect on the situation and question their impulse to condemn the boy. After all, they ask, “what would become of the glaziers if panes of glass were never broken?”
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Biden Is Finally Regulating AI … for Equity? – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Posted by M. C. on November 3, 2023
The Left wants to remake artificial intelligence in its own woke image.
https://spectator.org/biden-is-finally-regulating-ai-for-equity/
If there is one thing artificial intelligence should be great at, it’s treating everyone equally. As far as the algorithm is concerned, everyone in the human race can be represented by 0s and 1s. AI doesn’t necessarily see black and white, male or female; it just sees a human: that person’s experiences, criminal record, resume, and social media account — pretty much anything available about them online.
Or, at least, that’s the theory.
But some scientists and philosophers — and President Joe Biden’s administration — think differently. The trouble is that while AI might treat everyone equally, it won’t necessarily treat everyone equitably.
Making AI Equitable
On Monday, Biden signed an executive order that not only established some vague ground rules for regulating artificial intelligence but also included an entire section on “Advancing Equity and Civil Rights,” which aims to ensure AI doesn’t discriminate against individuals applying to rent a house, receive government assistance, or be awarded a federal contract.
The order states that Biden will provide “clear guidance” to services using AI to screen applicants; tasks the Department of Justice and federal civil rights offices with providing training and technical assistance in “investigating and prosecuting civil rights violations related to AI”; and commits resources to developing better ways to use AI in detecting, investigating, and punishing crime. (READ MORE: Physiognomy Is Real, and AI Is Here to Prove It)
At first glance, this might make sense. There’s always the possibility that AI could err in its automated screening processes. For instance, in 2018, a man named Chris Robinson was denied a rental application to a California senior living community because the artificial intelligence system that ran his background check mistook him for another man with the same name who had been convicted of littering in a state in which Robinson had never lived. But while Robinson’s case qualifies as an instance of unfair (and accidental) discrimination, it certainly isn’t one of “inequity.”
And the Biden administration isn’t trying to fix the kind of mistake that resulted in the denial of Robinson’s rental application. Instead, it wants to ensure that AI adjusts to a woke worldview that filters decisions through past wrongs — real or imagined.
The ‘Principle of Autonomy’ Is ‘Inequitable’
The Left has decided that the problem with AI is that it views humans autonomously. In one study published by Topoi, an international review of philosophy, authors Sábëlo Mhlambi and Simona Tiribelli argue that the very “principle of autonomy” is flawed. It’s a construct rooted in “Western traditional philosophy,” they argue, and “[a]dherence to such principle, as currently formalized, … fail[s] to grasp a broader range of AI-empowered harms profoundly tied to the legacy of colonization.”
In practical terms, AI systems tend to predict crime statistics that woke leftists don’t like. For instance, as AI research group Prolific reports, the Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) used AI to predict “the likelihood that US criminals would re-offend.” The system noticed that individuals who were black were more likely to fall in that category, and, because AI isn’t politically correct, it reported exactly that. (READ MORE: People Are Working on Using AI to Steal From You)
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Normalizing Ugliness and Subversion
Posted by M. C. on November 3, 2023
New fountain in Vienna expresses contempt for the city and its inhabitants.
Note the revolting distortion of what appears to be a vaguely female figure wearing a mask. This is an expression of pure hatred and contempt for humanity. The poor people of Favoriten who walk past it every day will eventually grow accustomed to the dread and unease they will feel when they see it.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/normalizing-ugliness-and-subversion
I’ve often wondered what someone who grew up in Vienna would think if he were suddenly transported to once beautiful San Francisco and confronted with the spectacle of thousands of homeless people living on sidewalks and using them as latrines.
I believe he would be so shocked by the squalor, ruin, and indignity of it that he would scarcely believe it possible in a country that considers itself civilized. He would literally say to himself, “This can’t be real.”
For a while in the 1990s, the City of Vienna tolerated drug addicts loitering around the Karlsplatz subway station, but eventually changed the policy because the city’s inhabitants objected to it. By longstanding tradition going back to the Vienna’s rapid growth in the 19th century—guided by very talented and civic-minded urban planners—the inhabitants of Vienna have come to regard their city a beautiful, clean, and orderly place, celebrated in the popular folksong “Wien, Wien, nur du allein” (Vienna, Vienna, only you alone).
Those who now run the City of Vienna seem to understand that the spectacle of dehumanization, expressed by actual humans living in abject squalor on the streets, would not be tolerated. Another approach to normalizing ugliness and the subversion of dignity is to express it in a public monument.
This morning I saw the news that the City of Vienna recently unveiled a new fountain in the Favoriten district near the West Train Station on which it spent 1.8 million Euros of taxpayer money.
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