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June 20, 2020
At the Hope-and-Optimism Café...
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He's fired.
When the squicking is done, Hope and Optimism reside in the Reservoir Tip.
Don't be a Splooge Stooge.
I am Laslo.
Angela Davis was a communist and probably still is.
The Communists murdered 100 Million people. See French scholars, Black Book of Communism by Courtois et al.
So, since Ms. Davis associated with Communist murderers, nobody cares what she says about other things.
I'm going to go to bed tonight thankful for my collectivities. Whatever they are.
Angela Davis! Now there's a Zelig.
Hope and Optimism are in short supply in Seattle CHOP. They deserve all they got.
Commentators, here and elsewhere, who have argued that Dems will vote for Joe in spite of his dementia have it wrong.
They will eagerly vote for Joe because of his dementia.
It guarantees full prog control in the most leftist administration possible.
Angela Davis is a communist.
I discount anything she wrote/said accordingly.
Collectivities of broken glass, reservoirs of plywood.
Interesting
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/127453629888846643
Her sister teaches just these atrategies of mind subjugation
Collectivities of gulags, reservoirs of zeks.
Angela Davis thinks that's where hope and optimism are found?
Ever wonder what's been found inside her Big Wow Afro?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R2BIZy0HScM/maxresdefault.jpg
What did the millions of people murdered by the communists find? I'll bet it wasn't "hope & optimism".
So businesses still closed eh? Nice
Try again:
https://mobile.twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1274533276749836289
Sorry, my collectivity has been consigned to the trash heap.
translation:
after we threaten to burn your business down,
the money we shake you down for thru race-hustling (collectivities)
will fill our "reservoirs of Hope & Optimism" (coffers)
Good grief, Angela Davis. Was it hope and optimism that led her to supply firearms to the thugs who took over the Marin County court in 1970 during which four people got killed. Or maybe her hope and optimism traveled with her as VP of the American Communist Party to East Berlin to play kissy face with Honecker and later on to the Soviet Union to pick up her Lenin Peace Price. Do people in Madison know and understand ANY history of the past century outside of Madison in 1969? Hope and Optimism. Pardon me while I wretch.
Yes, damn that American individualism! Leftists yearn to be faceless cogs in The Collective.
I never used to watch Trump rallies, but I watched tonight. Both Trump and the crowd were having fun. He delivered a message of optimism and strength. What do the Dems have but anger, hatred and viciousness?
Screw the polls. Americans like optimism. They like presidents who love America.
All Dems have to peddle is race baiting and fear. They side with the people who want to destroy our country. I feel much, much better about Trump's odds tonight.
No, there won't be a debate. Trump would demolish Slow Joe in 5 minutes.
Jon,
That’s old news.
Plus, did you read it. Strauss is in. IOW, that corruption plan failed because Berman wouldn’t take the bribe of a move so that Clayton could join the hack-law and hack-order team. You do realize that’s huge loss for DJT corruption, right?
Anywho, as if that result wasn’t enough hope and optimism for this thread, how about some more fun:
https://twitter.com/BCMatth/status/1274532060577714176
And right next to the Kaplan Testing Prep Office. Where the white rich go to pay for high SAT scores that cheat minorities. Because if whitey was not a Kaplan customer he/she would get the same SAT score as minorities. Chuck Schumer DNY worked at Kaplan long ago. Why did they put The heroic Davis quote next to the Kaplan office, a source of oppression?
Good grief
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShidelerK/status/1274514300816830464
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/angela-davis/
Some highlights:
"A devoted Stalinist, Davis was a staunch supporter of the USSR during the Cold War era. Of the many people who had suffered so terribly in the gulags administered by the Soviets under Stalin, Davis once said: “They deserve what they get. Let them remain in prison.”
In 1968, as Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring,” Davis, who fully supported the Soviet invasion, joined the Communist Party, voicing her belief that “the only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.”
Davis developed a belief in violence as an acceptable means of dealing with one’s enemies. This was true, she maintained, not only for a world power like the Soviet Union, but also for individual human beings. Indeed, she once stated: “For the black female, the solution is not to become less aggressive, not to lay down the gun, but to learn how to set the sights correctly, aim accurately, squeeze rather than jerk and not be overcome by the damage. We have to learn how to rejoice when pigs’ blood is spilled.”
Also in the 1970s, Davis was a passionate admirer of the Rev. Jim Jones, a committed communist who had gained considerable fame as a faith healer and cult leader of the People’s Temple, a jungle-based commune in Jonestown, Guyana. In the mid-Seventies, Jones initiated friendships with Davis and some other left-wing activists in the San Francisco area. On September 10, 1977, Davis spoke via radio telephone “patch” to members of the Peoples Temple. “We are very deeply obligated to you for what you have done to further the fight for justice, to further the struggle against oppression, to further the fight against racism,” she said. Davis also warned them that a conspiracy was being planned against them “because of your progressive stand.”
On May 18, 1978, Jones led the some 914 inhabitants of Jonestown — including nearly 300 children — in committing mass suicide by drinking a grape-flavored beverage laced with cyanide. The FBI later recovered a 45-minute audio recording of the suicide in progress. On that tape, Jones could be heard telling Temple members that the Soviet Union, with whom the Temple had been negotiating a potential exodus for months, had decided not to accept them. Moreover, he told them that agents of intelligence organizations would soon “parachute in here on us,” “shoot some of our innocent babies” and “they’ll torture our children, they’ll torture some of our people here, they’ll torture our seniors.” To avoid the suffering that such a catastrophe would bring, Jones explained, it was vital for everyone to commit “revolutionary suicide” by drinking the poison. When some members cried out in distress and fear, Jones counseled: “Stop these hysterics. This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die. No way for us to die.” At the end of the tape, Jones concluded: “We didn’t commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.”
Davis ran for Vice President of the United States in 1980 and 1984, alongside Gus Hall, on the Communist Party ticket.
there's actually more.
Crappy third world graffiti on other people’s property. Will they ever get around to tearing that crap down?
And to show that she is down with the struggle in Madison, is Angela Davis going to supply guns, like she did for the Marin County Civic Center attacks?
BTW, Angela Davis had no problem with Commie regimes jailing political prisoners. GUARDIAN CHARACTERISATION OF ANGELA DAVIS AS A “CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST” IS ABSURD.
Finally, even Davis’s record on the narrow issue of political prisoners is one of ideological extremism and profound moral hypocrisy. Davis was a communist who openly supported the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and even refused a Czechoslovakian dissident’s plea, in 1972, that she express support for true prisoners of conscience in their Soviet bloc country. (Angela Davis reportedly believed that those jailed in Eastern Europe were trying to undermine their governments and that those who went into political exile were attacking their own countries and, thus, undeserving of her support.)
I don't think anyone will ever put up a statue of Angela Davis. She's as ephemeral as the graffiti on the plywood covering a bankrupt store.
Trump doesn’t want his supporters to get sick and die. He just doesn’t give a shit.
Hmm:
https://mobile.twitter.com/OptimisticCon/status/1274545073460441088
Parts Of NYC Rife With Empty Apartments; Real Estate Experts Say Pandemic Causing Buyers And Renters To Reevaluate Priorities.
No mention of a bunch of marxist animals burning and looting.
But everyone knows why people are fleeing democrat controlled cities.
Col-lec-tivity does more today you know,
Than it did many long years ago.
My collectivities are standing at the junction of intersectional-itites, and anti-intellectualism.
I'm waiting for that dog-faced pony soldier Chelsea to declare the new talking points.
Seen all over:
Democrats Have Torn Down, Desecrated or Burned:
- George Washington
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ulysses S Grant
- Thomas Jefferson
- St. Junipero Serra
- Francis Scott Key
- Winston Churchill
- WWII Memorial
- Lincoln Memorial
- St. John’s Church
- The US Capitol
- 1000’s of businesses
On the other hand leftists have created new hoaxes such as the Park Police used tear gas (spoiler: they didnt) and Oakland officials found "nooses" in an Oakland park (Spoiler: they were workout bands put there by a black resident and used by the kids who wanted to play).
Or as Howard might say: these were workout bands of oppression concocted by white supremacists and placed in a park as a means of terrorizing the black children (who were last seen giggling and doing flips and spinning and swinging) by western colonial oppressors.
BAG: "The Communists murdered 100 Million people."
Recall that Inga, on this very blog, called the claim of 100 million murdered by her "spark of divinity" commies a literal "conspiracy theory".
I suspect she did that because she hadnt yet figured out a way to blame hawaiian shirt wearing mythical boogaloos for the lefty global mass murders over the last 100 years.
Still, give her some time and I bet she comes up with something.
Angela Davis is wrong.
In fact, Angela Davis has always been wrong.
Indeed, communism did kill some 100 million people.
If the 20th century taught us anything, it is that collectives lead to suffering and death.
Christianity is nothing without an collectivitianity.
As I've said before, Justice Thomas is the greatest American we can now learn from.
I doubt he agrees with me, namely that all taxes fund systemic racism and ought be abolished by EO then litigated so Roberts has to claim, on par with his other absurdities, "not paying taxes didn't affect anyone who had previously paid their damn taxes" or something, but that is the way it goes.
Tik-Tok Teens and K-Pop Stans users sent fake orders for free tickets to the Tulsa Trump Rally which convinced Trump and nose-ringed followers that a million supporters would risk health and life to come see The Donald cry in his beer. Now we know that the Zoomers are smarter than Trump - so as they say in HBO's "Watchmen" - tik-tok, tik-tok ...
I hope I'm never left with only hope.
Colletivities have a way leaving you nothing else. It's kind of their thing.
Wikipedia says: "Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, Marxist feminist, and author."
Isn't that slander, or libel, or at least down right mean to say about someone after what we know from the 20th century?
My partner likes to buy collectivities. She calls them tchotchkies. I just call it hoarding.
The Donald "needle threader" Trump.
Certain beliefs result in horrible conditions people flee from.
For those people then to demand to describe to the previous colonizers the only way to go forward, in what is henceforth treated as a foreign land, ought be considered stupid racism.
Anti-Americanism is now racism, there can be no other way.
John Roberts agreed until he bought children from abroad for some reason. Maybe he just likes foreign-born kids better than black American children without a home?
This guy has got a lot of answering to do.
So far he has personally divided the nation and created infinite more questions going forward than answers.
He has failed his job tremendously, like George W. Bush.
Collectivities! That’s the answer! Snuff out all that individual dignity stuff.
Davis should love our system. She got away with murder. Guilty as hell, free as a bird.
Angela Davis provided the rifles to blow a judge's head off while holding terrorized jurors hostage. Two jurors were also wounded. She was a professor of philosophy at the time.
She also helped prop up Soviet oppression of satellite states in the Sixties by touring there to support Stalin -- yes Stalin's camps set up for dissident polotocoans and intellectuals. I know people who got out. They said she was a rock star for the most opressive leaders of the Soviet power structure.
Now she leads Critical Resistance, which demands the release of all blacks from prison, even rapists and murderers.
So, if you like that sort of thing...
Is "collectivities" even a word? I'll defer to Ann on this one.
Communists are taking over, and the left is all giddy. Enjoy the downfall!! At least your murals are pretty.
There's something about Hope and Optimism in a building boarded up to protect from looting.
Either commies or fascists could used that slogan. Fraternal twins, both evil.
A dog believes his master is at the door. But can he also believe his master will come the day after to-morrow? - And _what_ can he not do here? - How do I do it? - How am I supposed to answer this?
Can only those hope who can talk? Only those who have mastered the use of a language. That is to say, the phenomena of hope are modes of this complicated form of life. (If a concept refers to a character of human handwriting, it has no application to beings that do not write.)
- Wittgenstein
And right next to the Kaplan Testing Prep Office. Where the white rich go to pay for high SAT scores that cheat minorities.
Whites have the lowest rate of test-prep use; blacks the highest.
Try again.
And right next to the Kaplan Testing Prep Office. Where the white rich go to pay for high SAT scores that cheat minorities.
Whites have the lowest rate of test-prep use; blacks the highest.
Try again.
Now we know that the Zoomers are smarter than Trump - so as they say in HBO's "Watchmen" - tik-tok, tik-tok ...<
Yes, the CCP pulled a stunt to interfere in an American election and you are all for it.
It was good they did it early so counter measures can be developed. No problem for Biden. His basement is not crowded.
"Is "collectivities" even a word? I'll defer to Ann on this one."
The OED has it going back to the late 1800s. The first appearance is in something about Hinduism and after that it comes up in the discussion of socialism.
With the meaning "The collective body of people forming a community or state," you get:
1881 Standard 21 Mar. The State is the real collectivity—the State is everybody, it is the country.
1884 J. Rae Contemp. Socialism 140 An omnipotent and centralised political authority—call it the State, call it the collectivity, call it what you like—which should have the final disposal of everything.
“Whites have the lowest rate of test-prep use; blacks the highest.
Try again.“
Sorry, my sarcasm dial was set too high to be understandable.
Are the businesses all still closed in Madison? Or is this a matter of no one wanting to be the first to stop clapping after Stalin's speech?
"Sorry, my sarcasm dial was set too high to be understandable."
Oh, he understood you alright. He just took it one notch higher. Fernandenande's sarcasm dial goes to 11.
Apparently there is a limit to the craven spinelessness of the American corporation. The Macy's employee who was the victim of an unprovoked attack by a black thug who claimed he had used "the n-word" has not been fired!
The End of the Beginning?
Collectivism is the collective term that ties communism, socialism, fascism, Nazism, racism, and cultism together. They all subjugate the rights of the individual to the whims of the group.
"Collectivism" is one of those words whose existence rather highlights the problem. Fuzzy thinking.
I think I'll misspell "politicians" as "polotocoans" from now on.
It sounds more onomatopoeitic.
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