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November 30, 2024
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I think it's kind of interesting that the Russian MOD claimed to have killed about 50 American and French technicians in Ukraine and to have destroyed 5 ATACMS launchers, I saw video of three of them being destroyed, just before Biden comes out with his statement about how we will not be deterred by Russia's "horrific" and "outrageous" attacks on .... Ukraine's energy infrastructure. The first thing we do when we invade a country, or just attack a country, is to take out their electrical grid. That's not "horrific," that's war. It's strange that we haven't seen any denial of Russia's claims, just an angry response from Biden that seems to confirm it.
Early in the war, Russia claimed to have killed several score of French soldiers in Ukraine with a missile attack, and France denied it, but then Macron made a scathing speech about Russia and threatened to escalate the conflict.
I guess the ball is in Ukraine's court whether we are going to see any more attacks with US weapons and technical assistance into Russian territory. Maybe the attack by our pet. terrorists in Syria was the response.
Found this on Instapundit:
Wokism is the New Face of An Old Heresy, And It Can Be Defeated Again
It's long article, but here's the part that makes the most apt comparison between Albigensianism and the Woke" movement:
"Those closest to achieving this [level of enlightenment] were known as the Perfect, who took on the full weight of Catharist moral discipline. Its chief component was renunciation of marriage and children, which were regarded as wicked insofar as they perpetuated the evil natural order of things. Meat and dairy products were also eschewed, given their connection to procreation. Private property was rejected. Capital punishment and war were condemned as intrinsically immoral. Yet suicide was not only permitted but commended for those judged ready for it. Infanticide was sometimes practiced. And as the murder of the papal legate illustrates, the Cathars would sometimes resort to violence in order to protect the movement itself.
Most adherents of the Cathar movement (the “Believers” rather than the Perfect) were not expected immediately to adopt its austere ethic in its entirety, though. Hence, while complete abstinence from sex was considered the ideal, sexual indulgence was tolerated among Believers as long as it did not lead to procreation. Indeed, sexual practices of the kind that carried no risk of pregnancy were judged permissible, and extreme debauchery was frequently a part of Cathar life. Whereas the Church favored sex when it was procreative, the Cathars favored it only when it was not procreative."
Continued...
More from the aforementioned article:
"It is also important to note that none of the medieval or modern variations on Gnosticism and Manicheanism constitutes a tight, well-defined system, nor do they all contain exactly the same theses. But certain themes and a general frame of mind recur, such as: the conviction that the existing order of things is evil to the core; a revelatory gnosis that uncovers this purported truth and the radical means of remedying it; and a Manichean division of mankind into the good and enlightened, who accept this gnosis, and the wicked, who resist it.
[Snip]
The “deny-it-a-name” maneuver
As I’ve said, the religious pathology I’ve been describing has, historically, seen multiple iterations and gone under many names – Gnosticism, Marcionism, Manicheanism, Paulicianism, Bogomilism, Catharism or Albigensianism, and so on. Part of the reason for this is that, again, it is less a coherent, systematic body of doctrine than a hodgepodge of more loosely related themes and sensibilities. And part of it is also that these same themes and sensibilities can manifest in different ways depending on the larger historical and cultural context.
Here too, wokeness is similar. There is no one name that its adherents and critics agree on. The word “woke” itself is now used less frequently by the movement’s advocates than by its critics. Other labels that have been proposed include “identity politics,” “critical social justice,” “social justice politics,” “social justice warriors,” “political correctness,” and “the successor ideology,” but none has gained universal acceptance. There is also the fact that the movement encompasses many sub-movements and ideologies, each of which also often goes under multiple labels – “anti-racism,” “Critical Race Theory,” “post-colonialism,” “LGBTQ,” “gender studies,” the “transgender” movement, “fourth-wave feminism,” and so on.
But the terminological confusion also seems to be in part deliberate, a rhetorical tactic aimed at keeping the movement’s critics off-balance. And it is the flip side of a companion rhetorical tactic of subverting elements of normal human life precisely by labeling them in ways that make them seem open to challenge."
I've seen this on action where relatives who are of the "woke" persuasion deny that it's about politics, but excoriate me for not being in line with their way of thinking, and use false accusations to deflect from the real issues while ignoring facts as presented.
Kash Patel named new FBI director. Wray to be fired.
Trump has no trust in the FBI and who can blame him?
You take great photos sometimes professor.
Out standing 'cry havoc...you know the rest
Can’t happen soon enough
I like it
good!
How many times do I have to explain to 'Jaq' that there are three major factions in Syria, and the anti-Assad faction that we support is not the same as the anti-Assad faction that just captured Aleppo? We support the Syrian Democratic Forces and their allies, including most of the Kurds and Yazidis, who hold the northeastern angle of Syria. The Islamist HTS, which captured Aleppo, is a designated terrorist organization, and is supported by Turkey, which certainly does not support the Kurds whom we support. Here's the official Biden administration statement: link. The Kurds and their allies have expanded a bit in the last few days as the Syrian armed forces ran for their lives, but are keeping their distance from HTS, while sending buses to rescue Christians trying to get out of Aleppo in fear of the Islamists. (Many of them are from the east, and were going to college in Aleppo.) There is great danger of the HTS turning on the SDF and Kurds, but so far a wary truce seems to be holding.
Of course it would be impossible to conceal the death of "50 American and French technicians" in Ukraine. Even in totalitarian countries, such disasters can be tracked by checking home-town newspapers for military funerals clustered around specific dates. Conclusion: it never happened, and only fools and shills will say it did.
Some people have utterly shameless double standards: Dozens of reports of North Koreans at the front, some with pictures? Elaborately costumed fakes by Ukrainian thespians! (Hey, Zelenskyy was an actor!) Russians say they blew up 5 ATACMs and 50 western technicians? Absolutely no reason to imagine that they might be lying!
DJT tweets, as repeated by Jack Posobiec: I have an immunity but I need Kash now
Hilarious, but now that earworm won't leave me alone...
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