The decline of functioning society - What's going on?

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Forget about the fridge. Where can modern man find a trad wife like that?

The 1956 model looks like a winner to me.

Something about that alabaster skin with the black hair is a charm like no other, a rare find these days that's not covered in stinky inky tats and mutilated with piercings. This commercial model is likely wearing red lipstick too, she'd be a supple, tupper wife who puts 99/100 of the hogs we are forced to visually tolerate to infinite shame. The fridge is perfect too.

 

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Via Vox Day, "The World They Knew is Gone"

Kurt Schlichter explains why conservatives are intellectually and emotionally unequipped to deal with the realities of the world today:

Conservatives, being conservative, like to think they live in an ordered world with norms and rules and that if they rely upon the norms and rules, they will be protected. They won’t be. The genius of cultural Marxism is how it attacks those foundational premises that conservatives believe in, perverts them, and then uses them as a suppository on the befuddled cons…

And now we have the sham system of today. But dumb cons cannot comprehend that systems only function if all the cogs are working correctly. If one component is flawed – like a leftist DA pursuing a specific agenda – you stop having a system. But dumb cons do not want to accept that the justice system has been corrupted so that there is no justice system anymore. They seek the false comfort of illusory normalcy so they do not have to face the ugly reality.

Get it through your thick squish heads – there is no justice system to preserve or protect anymore.

The past is history. The fallen world is what it is. They say that you can’t go home again, and that is particularly true in a societal sense. The USA of 2023 is not the USA of 1950, or even 1980. What was once normal is no more. Those who are civilizationists, those who are Christians, those who are committed to the Good, the Beautiful, and the True, need to recognize that the USA is now the center of The Empire That Never Ended.

We are no longer the culture. We are no longer the society. We are now the counter-culture and the minority. Adjust your expectations and analyses accordingly.

The World They Knew is Gone - Vox Popoli

Kurt Schlichter explains why conservatives are intellectually and emotionally unequipped to deal with the realities of the world today: Conservatives, being conservative, like to think they live in an ordered world with norms and rules and that if they rely upon the norms and rules, they will be...

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Do Not Fall for the Normalcy Presumption – Nothing Is Normal Anymore​

Conservatives, being conservative, like to think they live in an ordered world with norms and rules and that if they rely upon the norms and rules, they will be protected. They won’t be. The genius of cultural Marxism is how it attacks those foundational premises that conservatives believe in, perverts them, and then uses them as a suppository on the befuddled cons.

Let’s look at the phenomenon of the Soros DAs. Why did the leftist zillionaire decide to spend a ton of money in otherwise obscure local races? Because he found a weakness in the American political system and decided to exploit it knowing that dumb conservatives would be slow to understand how his actions destroyed the system and keep acting as if the old system was still in effect long after it had been demolished. Here’s how it works.


District attorneys, and other prosecutors, have incredible discretion to charge or not charge crimes. In normal times, this was not a problem, because while a prosecutor position was typically an elected office, it was not a political position in the usual sense. Republican, Democrat, whatever – the DAs usually prosecuted bad guys relatively fairly and squarely. Sure, sometimes they got stupid and went after enemies, but generally they were not partisan. My mom became an assistant DA in San Mateo County in the 1970s. She went in to meet the DA, Keith Sorenson, a legendary prosecutor.

He told her that her job was not to convict people but to do justice, and that he expected her not to prosecute cases where the result would be unjust or the case could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. To this day, I cannot tell you if Keith Sorenson was a Democrat or a Republican, and it did not matter. He ran his office like it should be run. Most DAs did – that was why prosecutor offices were once respected institutions. That was why it was safe to give prosecutors massive discretion. We could rely on them to do their duty.

But what if Keith Sorenson was a communist catspaw?

Instead of enforcing the law, the Austin Soros DA – like Alvin Bragg, George Gascon, that idiot in Atlanta, and so many other scumbags seeded in blue cities across the map – decided that he would choose not to prosecute crimes that the legislature enacted laws against, not on the grounds that the individuals were innocent but on the grounds that the Soros serf did not like the law the people’s representatives had enacted. They protected regular criminals, and they especially protected Democrat agents who rioted and looted, making it possible for Democrats to use violence to achieve their goals.

And they decided they would, unlike typical felonies, go full throttle on shaky and legally dubious cases against political opponents (like Trump) and those exercising the (leftist-disfavored) right to self-defense. They took that broad, unfettered discretion DAs had been entrusted with and used it in the service of cultural Marxism instead of the people.

And now we have the sham system of today. But dumb cons cannot comprehend that systems only function if all the cogs are working correctly. If one component is flawed – like a leftist DA pursuing a specific agenda – you stop having a system. But dumb cons do not want to accept that the justice system has been corrupted so that there is no justice system anymore. They seek the false comfort of illusory normalcy so they do not have to face the ugly reality.

Get it through your thick squish heads – there is no justice system to preserve or protect anymore. That’s why you look at a sham prosecution like Daniel Perry in the blue enclave of Austin and you do NOT shrug and say, “Oh well, the jury has spoken.” That is the normalcy bias – you cannot assume this is normal because the presence of a leftist DA pursing a leftist agenda destroys the system.

The great @IowaHawk, before he got totally disgusted with politics and began tweeting primarily about old cars, called it with a tweet made famous by PJ Media’s own Instapundit Glenn Reynolds. He tweeted:
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
#lefties

The city and county district attorneys’ offices were once respected institutions, not perfect but generally trusted enough to be given a huge level of discretion. Then Soros saw their unfettered discretion and identified the system’s vulnerability. The Soros candidates jumped into the normally low-energy races with millions from their patron and won them. Next, they proceeded to kill and gut the institution by politicizing it. They then wore its pelt pretending that nothing had changed and that they were still entitled to the same respect and deference the non-political prosecutors enjoyed. And stupid conservatives nodded along.

You owe these institutions no respect because they are not the institutions that had once been worthy of respect. They are a simulacrum of the old institutions, a fraud, a scam, a clever ploy to get people who default to assuming everything is normal to go along when everything is not normal. And the left counted on that normalcy bias to defeat any resistance.

But some of us know what time it is. Governor Ron DeSantis gets it. He fired a Soros DA and passed laws to limit the ability of pinkos to perpetrate their violence. Governor Greg Abbott promised to pardon Daniel Perry, rejecting the notion that we are obligated to pretend that a Soros DA’s actions have any legitimacy at all. And Jim Jordan is going to investigate that slob Alvin Bragg. Republicans in Congress investigating a DA in a Democrat city? Why, that’s against all the norms! No, it’s not, because the norms only apply when you do not have nakedly partisan prosecutors using their power to interfere in national elections. Change the system by changing a component, and you change the rules. You don’t get to defend your rejection of normalcy by demanding that we pretend that everything is normal.

This is the way.

Understand what has changed and stop pretending it has not changed because you really wish everything was normal and you think that if you shut your eyes and pretend hard enough, it will all be normal again. Soros found a loophole – prosecutorial professionalism that meant we trusted prosecutors with expansive powers. Well, we need to fix that. In every red state there are blue cities where this crap happens. Time to rein these communists in. In red states, we have the power of the state, and we can take the power the left exploits away from the leftists and retain it for ourselves to protect the citizens who are being plagued by unpunished crime and threatened by unfair political prosecutions. Red states must:

1. Invest red governors with the power to remove DAs who refuse to do their job.
2. Pass broad laws that expand and protect the right to self-defense, like presuming it exists where mobs exist or when the citizen is trapped in his vehicle.
3. Create procedural protections, like the threshold motions to dismiss already available in some states, that force the prosecutor to present actual evidence that could potentially be believed beyond a reasonable doubt before the prosecutor can proceed to trial where there is a claim of self-defense
4. Create penalties and incentives to force DAs back to their proper role, like forcing city/county governments to pay not only attorney’s fees but damages to citizens who successfully assert a self-defense defense.
5. Expand pardon powers for red governors – too many states force them into complicated administration proceedings before they can issue pardons, and the people can pass judgment on the red state governors’ use of the power at the ballot box

And the most important thing – red state leaders and our GOP pols in the federal government must understand and accept that this situation is not normal, and that different realities call for different measures. Thirty years ago, our prosecutors could generally be trusted to do something like the right thing, but thanks to Soros’s exploitation of that trust, we cannot say that today. We Republicans need to stop pretending that everything is normal. It’s not.

Do Not Fall for the Normalcy Presumption – Nothing Is Normal Anymore

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter Conservatives, being conservative, like to think they live in an ordered world with norms and rules and that if they rely upon the norms and rules, they will be protec…

www.theburningplatform.com

 

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Here's one component: they're deliberately trying to groom youth to create chaos and not be functional.

 

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Via Vox Day, "The World They Knew is Gone"

The World They Knew is Gone - Vox Popoli

Kurt Schlichter explains why conservatives are intellectually and emotionally unequipped to deal with the realities of the world today: Conservatives, being conservative, like to think they live in an ordered world with norms and rules and that if they rely upon the norms and rules, they will be...

voxday.net

Do Not Fall for the Normalcy Presumption – Nothing Is Normal Anymore​

Do Not Fall for the Normalcy Presumption – Nothing Is Normal Anymore

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter Conservatives, being conservative, like to think they live in an ordered world with norms and rules and that if they rely upon the norms and rules, they will be protec…

www.theburningplatform.com

The article is great but it doesn't go far enough. Most institutions and that includes certain churches and 99/100 corporations have been infiltrated and destroyed or are being destroyed from within.

His normalcy bias observation is an astute one. Most older people still think the system works.

 

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Here's one component: they're deliberately trying to groom youth to create chaos and not be functional.

This woman gets it but what she herself doesn't get is that Beanie Boy himself has built a lucrative career around belaboring and debating the constant drama and deconstruction of society. He's not interested in changing the status quo. Tim Pool is nothing but a vulture riding the wave of the Marxist take over.

 

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This woman gets it but what she herself doesn't get is that Beanie Boy himself has built a lucrative career around belaboring and debating the constant drama and deconstruction of society. He's not interested in changing the status quo. Tim Pool is nothing but a vulture riding the wave of the Marxist take over.

Tim Pool makes more than $50,000 per month from YouTube/Google. He is self controlled opposition. He balances saying enough to keep his supporters on board but stays far away from anything that will jeopardize his money train.

 

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Tim Pool makes more than $50,000 per month from YouTube/Google. He is self controlled opposition. He balances saying enough to keep his supporters on board but stays far away from anything that will jeopardize his money train.

The system is designed to present two options from which the public can choose. Any viewpoint outside of these is often regarded as fringe, extreme, and potentially detrimental to democracy.

The choices are akin to selecting between cookies or chocolate, within a controlled environment.

There's no room for ambiguity; one is either in one of these hollow shells progressive or conservative, left or right.



We are constrained to function within specified ideological spectrums, each with their unique yet differing bandwidths.

Any ideological bandwidth outside these is mocked, belittled, ridiculed, labeled as extreme, naive, or even criminalized as hate crimes. Tim Pool, for instance, operates within the right spectrum of these ideological bandwidths.

There is no choice, this in infantilism, only little kids should fall for these false choices.

Conservatism is an empty shell, I have absolutely no clue what it consists of, other then "things used to be better", "I like old stuff", "people should all just behave to the rules". But progressivism is just as dumb. Actually I just feel tired talking about it. I think conservatism is being allowed to wear a red tie or kaki pants when relaxing.

And there is no normality. There is just Truth or lies.

The rulers pick the tight frequencies in which the media is allowed to operate and the public is allowed to think.

As long as other frequencies are small, there is no problem, people can say what they want. If they grow, they will be dealt with.