Luke Ford

Blog: #AmericanLivesMatter
This is, obviously, a take off of #blacklivesmatter. Regardless of your views on the righteousness (or not) of the BLM argument, at least 75% of Americans would like to move beyond it, after the BLM-inspired tragedies of Dallas and Baton Rouge. The easiest way to do that is not with the neo-reactionary #whitelivesmatter or the traditional #bluelivesmatter but, instead, with a slogan that unites all of these while, at the same time, proving the (sadly) necessary other for people to unify against. The most natural such grouping, in the context of a US Presidential election, is Americans. Hence: #AmericanLivesMatter.
Although Trump is the most natural proponent of such a slogan, Hillary Clinton is due for a Sister Souljah moment and could (easily?) pivot to ALM from BLM at the Democratic Convention. Perhaps presidential speech writer Jon Lovett ’04 knows someone in the Hillary campaign?
Or perhaps #AmericansMatter would be better. Or #AmericaMatters. These shift the focus away from an implicit repudiation of the BLM movement while still using the key word americans/america. Readers should feel free to chime in! What slogan/hashtag is most likely to win the presidential election for the candidate who first embraces it?

* Tweet: “The Japanese like Japan: its language, its culture, its cuisine, & its lack of illegal immigrants that hate Japan!”

Comments:

* Another popular fallacy is that American can’t do anything prudent about immigration policy, such as cutting back on new immigrants, because that would enrage the old immigrants so much that they will kill us, or something. So therefore we need more and more immigrants, and then more and more and more immigrants the day after that to keep tomorrow’s immigrants from killing us.

* One of the weird things about listening to the Limbaugh show is that it features PSAs from HUD talking about how great diversity is. Unfortunately, I can’t find a link to or transcript of any of them, but here’s a message at the HUD site:

“DIVERSE NEIGHBORHOODS PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT … AND BEST OF ALL, FRIENDSHIP.
Neighborhood diversity promotes a greater sense of engagement, teaches that stereotypes are wrong and better prepares our children for the global community.”

Every single assertion in that statement is factually incorrect. Obviously, its only purpose is to humiliate us, as Dalrymple has pointed out.

* I drove a cab in NYC in the late 60s and early 70s and all the cabbies were loath to pick up blacks.

* Sailer: There were huge pro-law & order demonstrations by NYC cabbies, most of them immigrants (I would imagine) in the early 1990s to protest that they were being murdered at a rate of about 40 cabdrivers per year. Thousands would get together and drive up Park Avenue honking their horns.

It’s been forgotten because it doesn’t fit in the Narrative.

I spent a couple of weeks at 12th Street and 4th Avenue looking for a job in the summer of 1992. It was fine. Of course, you didn’t go more than a few blocks east. I can’t remember if the border was the middle of Second Avenue or the middle of First Avenue, but there wasn’t anything on the other side of interest unless you wanted to buy drugs. Alphabet City was then a wholly theoretical geographic concept, like the moons of Jupiter.

I can remember visiting Brooklyn once in 1982, eating dinner at an outdoor restaurant that was next to the Brooklyn Bridge and overlooking the skyscrapers of Wall Street across the water, and thinking this place is great, somebody could make a lot of money gentrifying Brooklyn.

One reason for Trump’s popularity among New Yorkers is he bet heavily on New York City when it was in the dumps — e.g., he started constructing a hotel on Times Square in the Taxi Driverish late 1970s.

There are a lot of similarities between Trump and New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who was convinced in the 1970s, against the reigning conventional wisdom that New York ought to be the #1 baseball town in America.

From the Chateau:

* I said in the shoutbox earlier that contemporary society encourages snark about things that should be considered sacred, and sentimentality about things that call for hard headed realism.

* It’s all part of the leftoid SWPL’s escape from any reality that would challenge their concocted religion: Equalism, and its core tenets Race and Sex Creationism. In practice, it means a complete turning of their backs on their ancestors and their heritage, and a betrayal of their descendants (what few they leave).

The good news, if there is to be any, is that the SWPL Equalism religion, founded on a falsifiable view of their relationship with the material world rather than on a transcendent view of one’s relationship with the supernatural world, won’t last very long. Factual counter-evidence too conspicuous to ignore or sarcastically dismiss will inevitably, after an initial frenetic burst of indignant piety upon confrontation, hollow out the emotional bond liberals have to their equalism religion and many will drift from the flock, harmlessly neutering themselves and the social damage they’re capable of inflicting.

For the others, those too committed to their virtue signaling and delusions about humanity to ever lapse from their pattern repudiation faith, the stone cold material world they uphold as their malleable Heaven will crush their hopes, over and over, until the will to life abandons them. Something we see already happening in the cratering birth rates of the most zealous Equalism followers.

From the Chateau: Post-Nice, post-Dallas, and post-…well, pretty much every mass killing that’s happened in the last five years, I’ve been hearing a lot of comments from shitlibs bemoaning the “exhaustion” they feel over all these events, and how it’s more important that ever to keep hope alive and tell people to love each other.

This is the classic shitlib retreat to sentimentality, coupled with a gnawing sense that surrender is about to subsume them, that happens when near-daily doses of reality put the lie, bluntly and relentlessly, to their equalism religion. Liberals retreat to sentimentality when inconvenient facts are freely aired, and surge forward with snark when facts are suppressed. As a Twatter reader observes:

Leftists I know:
2009 – happy, hopeful
2013 – angry, gloating, bullying
2016 – tired, confused, afraid

Why are shitlibs exhausted? Because they’re losing their religion. Religious beliefs — and make no mistake the typical shitlib’s belief in race creationism and autonomic White perfidy is as piously felt and immune to contradicting evidence or reason as any radical muslim’s belief in the teachings of the koran — are hard to dislodge without causing extreme emotional distress.

Religious fanatics, when emotionally distressed by an uncooperative reality, double down on adherence to their beliefs. We see this happening all over the West, as shitlibs and the cucks who lap their runny effluvia come to sound more like gibbering lunatics than sensible classical liberals as the mountain of evidence discrediting their kumbaya worldview crushes them into a brainless paste.

But there’s a stage after the doubling-down. That’s exhaustion. It’s when you’ve lost that loving feeling for your Synagogue but you can’t yet let go of everything you’ve believed in since you were a wee shitlib bouncing on your libdaddy’s lap. Exhaustion, the feeling of it or the claiming of it, is how a shitlib reconciles her cognitive dissonance. No more fighting, now. No more raging against the BadWhites. Just sweet release into the long slumber of empty, nihilist, emotional vacuity. Rest your weary head on that inviting id-pillow, sing “Imagine” in a low whisper, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll wake up tomorrow to a fresh injection of ego-assuaging feelz. Usually this ego reaffirmation takes the form of the shitlib clinging to her rare outlier while ignoring overwhelmingly common instances of the opposite occurring.

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Related, media shitlibs have taken to cooing stuff like “We can’t let fear and anger dictate our policies.” Newsflash, fear and anger are justified responses to endless violent attacks by enemies within. Fear and anger motivate actions to defend oneself from continuing attacks on one’s countrymen. If you aren’t fearful or angry, you’re holding a useless candlelight vigil and hoping the next truck doesn’t run over you and yours.

Snarky, juvenile language allows media shitlibs to emotionally disengage from a credible threat to one of their own. To wit, shitlibs also like to say “let’s not reduce this problem to something simplistic.” No, of course not. Complicating a rather straightforward horror show — muslim aggression against infidel White Westerners — is the rhetorical legerdemain that allows shitlibs to maintain a facsimile of faith in their Equalism ideology. What the shitlib mistakes for simplicity is to the sane mind known as clarity. More clarity, please, and don’t stop with the clarity until every last shitlib is too exhausted to fagslap the shitlord army as they’re assuming control of the main engine room.

Executive summary:

Houellebecq was right.
Powell was right.
Raspail was right.
Juvenal was right.
CH was right.
Modern liberalism is wrong.