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The Great Covid Class War

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 The Great Covid Class War, https://www.thebellows.org/the-great-covid-class-war/
05:00 Greg Gutfeld on L.A Times Virginia Heffernan: We need Trump supporters.. they know how to fix things
30:00 Vaush on homo fascism
31:00 Destiny DESTROYS the LEFT while WATCHING VAUSH
40:00 Babs joins
57:10 Elliott Blatt joins
1:57:00 Civil Discourse and America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2-JOINlddM
1:58:30 Gandalf joins
1:59:00 Steven Pinker, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker
2:16:30 Mark Steyn on Thomas Friedman, China
2:21:00 Why Israel Leads the World in Vaccinating Its Population, https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2021/02/03/why-israel-leads-the-world-in-vaccinating-its-population/
2:24:00 Nigel Farage, Mark Steyn on Covid killing conservatism
2:28:00 Redbar on Jordan Peterson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwnkJksRurI
2:33:00 Ivor Cummins on Covid, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cjgicrA504
2:35:00 Covid in Ireland: lockdown sceptic promises crowdfunded documentary, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-in-ireland-lockdown-sceptic-promises-crowdfunded-documentary-d2mn0cxjp
2:38:10 Tucker Carlson on Big Tech censorship
2:44:00 Babs joins to discuss Covid lockdowns
2:54:20 Glenn Greenwald on media censorship
2:57:00 Closing song, https://twitter.com/isExtinct/status/1359292368873115651

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Apricot Sky (1995)

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Luke Ford

In late 1994, I had a starring role in an independent straight-to-video film that did not get distribution.

I don’t think anyone in the film went on to an acting career.

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‘The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry’ (2-8-21)

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 The spiritual lessons of the Super Bowl
05:00 Eldritch Dennis Prager (feat. Dave Rubin), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbwE5zLiWNY
10:00 Luke interviewed in 2015 about sex and Orthodox Jews, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH7gHuh86l8
15:00 Dooovid joins, https://twitter.com/RebDoooovid
16:00 Dooovid on Week in Review breaks out his pimp hand, https://t.co/fhUCX8MbFu?amp=1
16:40 Abraham J. Twerski died, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_J._Twerski
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale-and-censorship
18:00 New York Times obit on Abraham J. Twerski, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/science/abraham-j-twerski-dead-coronavirus.html
19:00 R. Abraham J. Twerski combined Hasidic Judaism with the 12 Steps, https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Americanization+of+Mussar%3A+Abraham+Twerski%27s+Twelve+Steps.-a059120281
27:30 Elias Davidsson: I Sued a Zionist Wikipedia Editor for Slander—and Won!
29:00 Many Jews look at Christianity as akin to QANON
29:30 The Noahide Covenant, Christianity and Idol Worship, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHm_VSnqHts
33:00 Michael Cohen’s Prison of Choice: Well-Known to Jewish Offenders, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/nyregion/michael-cohen-otisville-prison.html
34:00 Rabbi Pleads “Stupid” For Trying To Blackmail Steve Cohen Because He’s “Rich” And “Jewish”, https://www.businessinsider.com/rabbi-pleads-stupid-for-trying-to-blackmail-steve-cohen-because-hes-rich-and-jewish-2010-11
40:00 Trump Lawyer Asks to Pause Impeachment Trial if It Runs Into Sabbath, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/us/politics/trump-impeachment-trial.html
1:00:00 Greg Gutfeld commentary on column: What can you do about the Trumpites next door?, https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-02-05/trumpite-neighbor-unity-capitol-attack
1:08:00 Steve Sailer back from Twitter jail, https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1358900796339884033
1:11:00 CPAN video of Luke in 2007 asking Christopher Hitchens a question about religion, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=255
1:15:00 US-China relations, https://www.rollcall.com/podcasts/cq-future/cq-future-us-china-relations/
1:31:00 Richard Spencer on Tom Brady being a god
1:36:20 Defying COVID restrictions | Thousands of Orthodox Jews attend rabbi funeral
1:44:00 What is the source of transcendent morality?
2:10:00 The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows, https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale-and-censorship
2:18:10 Mark Steyn on the new attempt to impeach Donald Trump
2:58:00 The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election, https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

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‘GameStop was a warning: Elites are weaponizing censorship to keep the outsiders out’

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Luke Ford

David Sacks writes:

First, the digital distribution platform Discord banned the WallStreetBets account after the close Wednesday for “hate speech, glorifying violence, and spreading misinformation.” (For a moment, it looked like Reddit had also banned the group, but they resisted pressure to do so.) If the quoted justification sounds familiar, it’s nearly identical to the one given by Google, Apple, and Amazon for deplatforming Parler just three weeks earlier. Echoing Amazon, Discord said it had sent the group repeated warnings about objectionable content before deciding, on that day of all days, to shut them down.

Meanwhile, WallStreetBets investors were locked out of their trading accounts by online brokers such as Robinhood on Thursday morning. Based on new collateral requirements that it says were imposed by an industry consortium, Robinhood forbade its users from buying GameStop and other stocks that WallStreetBets had identified as short squeeze opportunities. Users were allowed only to “close their positions”—in other words, to sell to the shorts desperate to buy. When angry users registered their disapproval by leaving over 100,000 one-star reviews of the Robinhood app in the Google Play Store, Google deleted them.

Normal trading was allowed to resume Friday, but the hedge funds used their 24-hour sole ownership of the battlefield to fortify their positions, covering the most vulnerable shorts. Wall Street then sent in reinforcements, as new short positions were taken at these high price levels, virtually guaranteed to pay out when, inevitably, the air leaks out of the balloon. Faced with a game that, for once, they couldn’t rig in their favor, it appeared that the insiders tipped the board over and started a new game. As a massively decentralized online group of scrappy outsiders, the only tools at WallStreetBets’ disposal were online trading and social networking. Both were frozen at the crucial moment, and the hedge fund insiders were let off the hook. The weaponization of censorship is a big part of the reason why.

Down the Slippery Slope

Some of us warned of a slippery slope when Parler was taken down and a sitting president was systematically ghosted from every online speech platform. But we could not have foreseen how slippery the slope would be, or how fast we would slide down it. We were told that the curbs on speech of President Trump and his supporters were necessary to prevent further “insurrection” and protect the peaceful transition of power. However, much like the troops and barricades that still ring the Capitol, these speech restrictions remain in place well after the transition of power has occurred. The censorship power is always justified in response to a genuine outrage or crisis, but it is rarely relinquished once the threat passes. Rather it gets weaponized to protect powerful, connected insiders, as the GameStop fiasco illustrates.

How do we suppose Discord chose that moment to enforce its “Community Guidelines” against WallStreetBets? Almost certainly, one of the hedge funds whose ox was being gored combed through their message boards looking for anything that might violate the terms of service. And surely they found it, as these boards contain the same raunchy language you would hear if you visited any trading floor or boiler room on Wall Street. They presumably reported the content to Discord, which took the group down.

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Time: The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Luke Ford

Dissident Right Twitter lit up Friday with commentary on this Time magazine piece to the effect that it proved the 2020 election was fixed. I wonder if anyone who said anything like this actually read the article? There’s not a word in here about the election being fixed. Instead, it shows that diverse groups worked together to insure the integrity of the election in difficult circumstances that included Donald Trump’s unhinged attacks on the integrity of the process.

Molly Ball writes for Time Feb. 4:

A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.
The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.
Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump’s ouster.
A second odd thing happened amid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”
In a way, Trump was right.
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

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WSJ: ‘How a Census Bureau error led Democrats to assume they were on the right side of inexorable demographic trends’

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Luke Ford

From the Wall Street Journal, Feb. 5, 2021:

Remember the “coalition of the ascendant”? National Journal’s Ronald Brownstein invented the phrase in 2008 to describe the “growing elements of American society” that had elected Barack Obama and given Democrats commanding majorities in both congressional houses: “young people, Hispanics and other minorities, and white upper-middle-class professionals.”
Republican successes in 2010, 2014 and 2016 called the coalition’s durability into question. But the 2020 election— Joe Biden’s victory notwithstanding—may provide the greatest reason to doubt it. Compared with 2016, President Trump and congressional Republicans improved their standing significantly among Hispanic voters and made smaller strides among other groups, such as Asian-Americans, blacks and Muslims.
“The majority minority narrative is wrong,” says sociologist Richard Alba, referring to the idea that nonwhite Americans will outnumber whites by 2050 or so. In his recent book, “The Great Demographic Illusion,” Mr. Alba, 78, shows that many “nonwhites” are assimilating into an American mainstream, much as white ethnic groups did before them. Government statistics have failed to account for this complex reality, partly for political reasons, and in doing so they’ve encouraged sloppy thinking about the country’s future…
The difficulty started as the federal government prepared for the 2000 census and sought to recognize the small but growing number of multiracial Americans. The Census Bureau decided to let people like Mr. Woods check off more than one racial box on their forms. Leaders of liberal civil-rights groups lobbied against the change. They feared a recognition of multiracialism would dilute the numerical strength of minorities and make it harder to enforce antidiscrimination laws.
The Office of Management and Budget devised an ironic solution to the dilemma. The OMB, whose responsibilities include maintaining the consistency of data across federal departments and agencies, revived a version of the old “one drop” rule from the Jim Crow era, according to which a single African ancestor made a person entirely black. The OMB decided that Americans who designated themselves as white and something else on their Census forms would be classified as nonwhite.

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Free Britney

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Luke Ford

I was watching this New York Times documentary about the extraordinary situation of pop singer Britney Spears, 39, who’s been in conservatorship for 13 years.

According to Wikipedia: “A guardian or a protector is appointed by a judge to manage the financial affairs and/or daily life of another due to physical or mental limitations, or old age.” Apparently, the only way out of conservatorship, in almost all cases, is to die.

According to Wikipedia: “Spears entered a psychiatric facility amidst stress from her father’s illness that same month.[245] The following month, a podcast titled Britney’s Gram alleged that Jamie had canceled the planned residency due to Spears’s refusal to take her medication, that he had been holding her in the facility against her will since January 2019 after she violated a no-driving rule, and that her conservatorship was supposed to end in 2009.”

I feel like the West has been in conservatorship since 1945. Upon seeing that the working class voted for the Nazis, the elites decided that politics could no longer be trusted and that all sorts of things such as national identity that were once the domain of politics are now off-limits to politics. Philosopher Tracy Strong wrote in his Foreword to Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political: “An intellectual consequence of the experience with Nazism was to effectively shrink, perhaps one might say homogenize, the language and terms of political debate in the subsequent period. As the Nazi experience fades from consciousness (at just over sixty years of age, I am among the last to have been born during the war and to have been taught by those with adult consciousness during the war), so also possibilities excluded by the specter of Auschwitz have returned. The revival of interest in Schmitt is consequent, I believe, to this increasing distance from the 1930s.”

* You could look at Gamestop trading where plebs were told they don’t know how to buy/sell stocks and the leading apps restricted trading, and social media companies cut off access in what looks like a coordinated attempt to snuff out a pleb revolution.

* Covid. You can’t say anything about Covid on the leading social media platforms that violates WHO guidelines. The WHO has acted as a mouthpiece for the CCP. Elites keep changing their minds on Covid, but they seem to always speak as though they are the experts and the plebs need to get in line to obey and there are only a narrow number of views good people are allowed to hold or they get get censored by social media.

* Race. Only a narrow range of views are allowed or you get censored and hounded.

* Martin Gurri writes: “There is an implicit ideology of the news. It rests on three claims: one, that consumption of news produces the omnicompetent citizen supposedly required by democracy; two, that news is a special form of information, complete in scope and objective in tone; and three, that the mission of news is to act as the voice of the people against the predations of power and wealth. As with most ideologies, these propositions are not internally coherent—but note that they enable news practitioners to feel morally superior both to the public (which must be educated) and the political class (which must be exposed).”

* Civil rights legislation means we no longer have freedom of association, in choosing who we rent to, employ, and live around. We are in conservatorship.

* Covid in the EU shows the failure of conservatorship to deal with reality. Martin Gurri writes: “I confess that I found it astonishing to see Angela Merkel, apostle of open borders, suddenly shut the gates to the entire country of Germany. Yet that was the reaction of every government in Europe. The EU was erected on the assumption that no existential threats remained in the continent. When the coronavirus crisis arrived, national governments immediately moved to protect their people: it was as if the EU did not exist. When Viktor Orban used the crisis to allocate extraordinary powers to himself, there was only silence from Brussels. When Italy desperately needed medical equipment, Brussels and the European nations looked the other way.”

Martin Gurri writes: “The behavior of the institutional elites during the pandemic recapitulated all the causes of the crisis of authority. They spoke with confidence from on high, as if they alone possessed the relevant information – but in fact the institutions of government and the health establishment lumbered slowly, handicapped by bureaucracy and a maze of regulations, while the digital public tracked the progress of the virus at the speed of light. The elites claimed to have the technical expertise to protect the population – but in fact they contradicted each other and not infrequently the same expert contradicted himself. In the US, for example, Dr. Anthony Fauci denied the need for a quarantine then a few weeks later mandated one; he also flip-flopped on the need to wear protective masks. The elites wrapped themselves in the mantle of science – but science isn’t a religion, and scientists turned out to have as many opinions as politicians. Thus the noise surrounding Dr. Didier Raoult in France, advocate of hydroxycloroquine treatment, who railed against “the tyranny of the methodologies” and has been labelled a “medical populist.””

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Our Problems Are Not Our Problems, They’re Just Symptoms Of Deeper Problems (2-5-21)

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Luke Ford

Richard Spencer tweets Friday: “I’m taking a substantial break from posting on Twitter, though I might check back in occasionally to see news and such. This site has taken too much of my energy for years now, and it’s time to focus on more important stuff.”

if you are spending too much energy on Twitter or on extreme sports or on talking to the secretary at work or in caring for homeless dudes, that’s not the problem. That’s just a symptom of a deeper problem of a lack of connection. When we connect normally with ourselves and others, these things naturally sort themselves out. When we attack symptoms, we’re just going to play whackamole.

If you have somebody or something that is taking too much of your energy for years, then that person or place is not the problem. It’s just a symptom. If you’ve got a problem in one area of your life, e.g. tweeting too much to get that dopamine rush, you have the problem (dopamine chasing leading to unmanageability) throughout your life. That does not mean it is a bad idea to quit something cold turkey or to permanently abstain from a process or substance, but you are only dealing with symptoms not root causes, which will inevitably get back to selfishness and lack of normal human connection. My dad would often say, “It is easier to abstain than to be moderate.” True, but what is even easier is to ignore the root of a problem and only concern yourself with the shoots. If you can’t handle social media or chocolate or wine or politics or TV sports without indulging to excess, then you’ve got miswiring problem and the solution is to rewire. You’re reacting to stimuli in ways that don’t serve you, so rewire your reactions. I often hear people say how much better they feel when they abstain from social media or TV or politics, but it is the toxic way one compulsively and helplessly uses these things that is the problem. If you can’t stop yourself doing something that is bad for you, you need help. Usually people have to hit a wall or pass the age of 40 to become willing to do the work to get recovery. Ideally, one would not need to crash to get help.

Richard Spencer, who earlier in his life wanted to devote himself to theater, appears motivated by attention seeking and uniqueness seeking. I think I recognize that because I have the same tendency. I don’t like analyzing people by their motivations, but if you can come up with one explanation that seems to explain otherwise mystifying behavior, then you are using abductive reasoning aka reasoning from inference. You are behaving like a detective in a genre detective story. You start with observations and you seek the simplest and most likely conclusion from the observations.

I don’t think I live stream out of compulsion. If I have nothing to say, I don’t go live. I don’t tweet, blog, make content out of compulsion any more because I’m learning to come to peace with myself. If you are wasting your energy, you are not at peace with yourself. How would one know if one is live streaming or tweeting out of compulsion? It will interfere with the rest of your life, not complement it. It will produce unmanageability. When I want to meet up with a friend, I usually move around my livestreaming not vice versa.

If you live for sports or politics or gambling, you live to escape from your life. Extreme fandom means you are a marginalized loser. The more you need to bask in reflected glory, the less glory you are building for yourself. If you are good with God or with yourself or with others, you probably don’t need as intensely to bask in the reflected glory of others.

The more intense your emotions about sports or politics, the more messed up you are. Notes this article: “Fans invest time and energy into sports because it’s an escape from the other parts of their lives. Fans are fans, because they are part of the team. Fans are fans because they want to be a part of the story.”

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The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Won the 2020 Election (2-5-21)

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 World premiere Monday for Apricot Sky (1995)
03:00 Richard Spencer quits Twitter, https://trad-news.blogspot.com/2021/02/spencer-goes-into-dopamine-rehab-in.html
05:00 Our problems are not our problems, they are symptoms
18:00 The psychology of sports fans, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201112/the-psychology-sports-fans
26:00 Saagar Enjeti: Ted Cruz’s EMBARRASSMENT Shows Why GOP Is Completely SCREWED, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8UeC8OAfkc
1:14:00 Babs joins
1:21:00 Ricardo joins
2:11:00 Volksgmeinschaft, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksgemeinschaft
2:15:40 America at a Crossroads | Benjamin Ginsberg and Rick Hasen with Pam Fessler, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO-z8MaOlzU
2:16:30 Electoral law scholar Rich Hasen, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Hasen
2:18:00 NICK FUENTES AMERICA FIRST EP. 753, https://www.bitchute.com/video/A0C33XfB7Xcv/
2:32:35 They so horny? Professor Hamamoto has a dream that one day Asian men will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the character of their penis. https://www.cc.com/video/b97ic9/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-they-so-horny
2:47:00 The case for short sellers
2:52:00 Lou Dobbs fired
3:27:30 Angelo John Gage’s platform: This is not a game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkcPM16Q2H4

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America Will Dominate The 21st Century More Than It Dominated The 20th (2-4-21)

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Why are dissident right streamers down on America?
03:00 Law as enforced vs law on the books, https://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/30821470/the-best-super-bowl-preview-read-barnwell-makes-chiefs-bucs-prediction-picks-storylines-watch
08:00 The case for holding (NFL not enforcing laws against it), https://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/30629058/want-advantage-nfl-playoff-teams-hold-every-play-officials-calling-it
15:50 “The Future of the Liberal International Order” with John Ikenberry and John Mearsheimer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHdE8z_ur6A
18:00 Woman does Dance Workout During Myanmar Military Coup
21:00 Roundtable on ‘Unrivaled: Why America will remain the world’s sole superpower’, https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/roundtable-on-unrivaled-why-america-will-remain-the-worlds-sole-superpower/
34:00 Do you want to appeal to the best in people or the worst?
39:00 Why Do People Believe In Conspiracy Theories?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136851
43:00 Why This Could Be an Illiberal American Century, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-10-06/illiberal-american-century-rogue-superpower
1:08:00 Keith Woods: WallStreetBets, Anarcho-Populism And Collapse, https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1458&v=HFKP4VK1LOY&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=KeithWoods
1:15:40 Why our enemies support dissidents (Fuentes, Enoch, Striker, etc.) and vice versa, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YriP-CCxmnQ
1:24:00 We choose what we focus on
1:46:30 FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS – 1/31/21 E. MICHAEL JONES & DR KEVIN BARRETT, https://www.bitchute.com/video/aAp7dN04dmuc/
1:57:50 NWG: LONDON MARCH: UK PATRIOTS’ MISTAKE WAS THAT THEY DIDN’T UNDERSTAND WHO REALLY HOLDS THE POWER., https://www.bitchute.com/video/olPfOHh9QyHD/
2:15:00 PAUL GOTTFRIED JOINS US AT THE JOLLY HERETIC TO EXPLORE THE NEW THEOCRACY, https://www.bitchute.com/video/6d8h5Wm5IZsT/
2:37:00 ABC Australia Day/Invasion Day Bungle
2:42:00 The internet rewired our brains, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html
2:59 Abide With Me, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFll6fIgRGQ

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