Posted on 10/02/2024 2:38:36 PM PDT by Rummyfan
From Matt Taibbi:
So let me pause to say something about America’s current intellectual class from which the anti-disinformation complex works. By the way, there are no working class censors. The dirty secret of content moderation all over the world is that it’s a tiny sliver of educated rich correcting everybody else. It’s telling people what fork to use, but you can get a degree in it, basically.
The problem is America has the most useless aristocrats in history. Even the French dandies who were marched to the razor by the Jacobins were towering specimens of humanity compared to the Michael Hadens, John Brennans, James Clappers, Mike McFalls, and Rick Stengels who make up America’s self-appointed speech police. In pre-revolutionary France, even the most drunken, depraved, debauched libertine had to be prepared to back up an insolent act with a sword fight to the death.
. Our aristocrats pee themselves at a mean tweet.
These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism, which is unique to them, no loyalty, no dreams, and no accomplishments. They are simultaneously illiterate and pretentious, which is very hard to pull off.
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That was a joy to read.
Brilliant. I have placed in my list of quotes for further use.
A great piece.
Bump!
Great statement of where we are!
Thanks for posting it.
It’s going to be my tag line for a while.
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Yup. I’ve pondered how such an incompetent ruling class can remain in power for so long. I think marching them out to the guillotine would be a concise means of shall we say extinguishing them totally and for once and for all.
The downside would be as it was in the French Revolution. Once you gets started it’s easy to get a bit carried away. For example, I voted for Carter twice. If the poop strikes the rotors that along might be enough to get me axed.
. Our aristocrats pee themselves at a mean tweet.
These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism, which is unique to them, no loyalty, no dreams, and no accomplishments. They are simultaneously illiterate and pretentious, which is very hard to pull off.
His writing reminds me a lot of P.J. O'Rourke.
“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”
Amen!
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Brutal takedown...
Matt Taibbi: “So let me pause to say something about America’s current intellectual class from which the anti-disinformation complex works. By the way, there are no working class censors. The dirty secret of content moderation all over the world is that it’s a tiny sliver of educated rich correcting everybody else. It’s telling people what fork to use, but you can get a degree in it, basically.
The problem is America has the most useless aristocrats in history.
Even the French dandies who were marched to the razor by the Jacobins were towering specimens of humanity compared to the Michael Hadens, John Brennan’s, James Clapper’s, Mike McFall’s, and Rick Stengel’s who make up America’s self-appointed speech police. In pre-revolutionary France, even the most drunken, depraved, debauched libertine had to be prepared to back up an insolent act with a sword fight to the death.
Our aristocrats pee themselves at a mean tweet.
These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism, which is unique to them, no loyalty, no dreams, and no accomplishments. They are simultaneously illiterate and pretentious, which is very hard to pull off.
They may have one idea, and it’s not even an idea, but a sensation. Fear. Rightly so, because they snitch each other out at the drop of a hat.
They’re afraid of each other. But they’re also terrified of everyone outside their social set, and they live in near constant dread of being caught with even one original opinion.”
America has the most of these useless aristocrats in history.
BUMP!
All true, but then what to do about it?
Jealousy is a big part of the liberal mind set as well.
“These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism, which is unique to them, no loyalty, no dreams, and no accomplishments.”
I’ve got to repost that. It’s absolutely spot on.
I remember hearing a tape of Hillary trying to sing the national anthem—she is tone deaf. Ever since I’ve wondered if tone-deafness was a trait of psychopathy. Also, remember the Whitehouse events held when Obama was in power? They were, with occasional exceptions, festivals of mediocrity.
All in all, the dominance of leftists has brought about the abasement of art.
So as an artist the “no poetry, no art, no humor...” really hits home, confirming what I’ve always suspected. The other points might explain this.
Because leftists have “no honor, no belief... no patriotism, no loyalty, no dreams, and no accomplishments” they are tone-deaf and color-blind.
I believe the latter condemns them to the former.
It’s a powerfully insightful observation.
John Kerry. The most worthless, pompous ass, elitest this country has ever produced.
“...They may have one idea, and it’s not even an idea, but a sensation. Fear. Rightly so, because they snitch each other out at the drop of a hat. They’re afraid of each other. But they’re also terrified of everyone outside their social set, and they live in near constant dread of being caught with even one original opinion.”
He nails it.
That makes them the perfect useful idiot for Satan to use up and throw away.
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