Posted on 06/04/2018 1:10:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Liberals want to win the victory they cant achieve at the ballot box by using their cultural power to systematically marginalize and exclude Normal Americans from every aspect of society and we cant let them. From the business world to Hollywood, we are seeing them react to their utter repudiation in recent elections by trying to intimidate us into silent conformity as the price of us being allowed to participate in the non-governmental institutions of society. We must therefore have a two-part response to this act of cultural warfare not only must we get right back in their smug little faces, but we must also build our own cultural institutions, ones that they cant control.
The militant Normals built this country; they can build their own institutions too.
Now, of course we cant always build parallel institutions right away. Sometimes we need to force the existing ones to behave. Social media platforms like Twitter (in which I own stock) and search engine institutions like Google are so humongous that they are difficult to replicate (but Gab and engines like Duck Duck Go are trying). The fact is that social media is becoming our societys primary public forum, and excluding conservatives is essentially excluding conservatives from participation in politics. Thats unacceptable, meaning we will not just sit there and accept it.
So when the social media companies start deplatforming conservatives, and engines like Google start up with antics like listing the GOPs ideology as Nazism, we need to respond to their exercise of their power with the exercise of our own power via our elected representatives. A GOP bill requiring social media platforms to explicitly and clearly explain their content policies, to disclose to banned people their exact violation, to provide a rapid, meaningful appeal process, and to provide for lawsuits (with fee awards to prevailing plaintiffs) to remedy violations is just the first step toward a regulatory solution.
The Fredocons will whine that this is not a conservative solution. Oh. Well, we tried submission and that doesnt work for us. My conservative principles include fighting fire with a firestorm. Dont want none, dont start none if you exercise your power, well exercise ours. I dont want to do it, but the two choices are 1) open, free, and unregulated platforms, or 2) platforms regulated to protect our rights. Maintaining platforms that exclude Normals is not an option. So, choose wisely Silicon Valley.
But for most institutions, we have alternative options that dont necessarily involve leveraging our government power. When companies start deciding they want to modify our behavior by refusing to do business with people the libs hate, like NRA members, we can boycott them. We can also choose to support businesses that dont disrespect us. There are lots of banks that dont discriminate against those exercising the Second Amendment. By supporting companies that respect us and not patronizing ones that diss us (like Dicks Sporting Goods) we are effectively building parallel institutions. But we can also create our own businesses from the ground up.
And we need to. Who isnt sick of Starbucks and its insufferable limo lib condescension? Theres a space for a coffee house chain that doesnt tolerate druggies, vagrants, and bums Ill have a venti hobo with an extra shot of bindle.
How about someone starts an objectivist coffeehouse chain called Galts? You can order, but the barista will make you a cup of fancy joe according to his personal vision of what your drink should be, and if you complain he will give you a 50,000-word lecture on how he wont ever compromise his heroic java artistry. Plus, not just conservatives will love its restroom policy. Whos in Galts john? Paying customers only!
Insurgent coffee houses can distinguish themselves from woke bean water joints by welcoming all Americans, not just the ones who are assimilated into the Samantha Bee hive mind. That goes for every kind of business. How excited would you be to patronize a company that has the mob show up and says, Yes, some of our customers are outraged by what [whoever] said. We sell [whatever] and we think you can make up your own mind about politics. We are not excluding anyone. Thanks!
Hollywood is likewise willfully alienating customers by taking sides. Think what you want about Roseanne herself, but her show touched millions of overlooked people and the show employed hundreds of people who are now out of work. Solo, which was not woke at all, was wokeness-fatigue collateral damage because many of us expected it to be another boring lib lecture with ray guns after the last three iterations of Jedi Girl Ghostbusters in Space.
Luckily, technology is breaking down the barriers to entry into the entertainment field. Networks are no longer gatekeepers heck, they are barely relevant. We can make our own entertainment, and we need to. How about Adams 12, a gritty crime procedural with conservative superstar Adam Baldwin as the grizzled leader of a dozen elite cops and prosecutors? The best part would be how the criminal always turns out to be the gangbanging scumbag everyone originally thought was guilty, instead of having the hackneyed Law & Order twist where the villain is revealed to be the rich businessman, the conservative radio host, or the pro-life activist. You know, just like in real life.
Or perhaps we could do a show about a guy on a mission worthy of Superman patriotic actor Dean Cain starring in Dean Dean Cain, about the new conservative head of a liberal arts college fighting for free speech and campus carry against student SJWs and a commie faculty led by a bitter, lonely gender studies professor played by Alyssa Milano. Yeah, shed take the role she needs the cash.
Certainly Normal Americans would binge watch Nick of Time, where acting legend and bane of Twitter liberals Nick Searcy could play a conservative avenger who wanders the Red states, stepping in at the last minute to save Normal heroes like gun makers, born-again Christians, and people who work to support their own families, from oppression by wicked villains like uppity hipsters, angry atheists, and malevolent bureaucrats.
The truth is that the walls really are coming down what good is a gatekeeper if you can just walk around the gate? Technology makes production accessible at a fraction of what it used to cost, and the ravenous Internet is starving for content. Theres nothing to stop us conservative from stepping in and doing it ourselves.
The same is true in the world of publishing. While some traditional publishers will take a chance on conservative books (like my Militant Normals, dropping in October and Derek Hunter's excellent Outrage, Inc, out in two weeks), technology like Amazons Kindle and publishing on-demand has let me reach many thousands with my conservative action novels about America torn apart and patriots fighting back against tyranny. And more conservatives are taking advantage of this opportunity because they are being systematically driven out of the public sphere as the old players refuse to meet the needs and wants of the Normal Americans they hold in contempt.
The best solution would, of course, be a free market in which the cultural and commercial producers supplied content solely in accordance with demand that is, where their goal is the laudable one of just making some bucks. After all, conservative money spends just like liberal money, so theres no incentive to discriminate. Freedom happens when the motive is profit, not ideology.
But as we keep seeing, money is not the only motivation to those temporarily holding sway over our cultural institutions. They will take a hit in the pocket book to score their cheap little points against us. We need to confront that nonsense, hard, and raise the cost of liberal virtue signaling high enough that they will think twice before trying it. But we also need to build our own institutions, institutions that meet Normal Americans needs, not the needs of some Silicon Valley socialist or Hollywood pinko. And if we dont, we may well find ourselves exiled from our own society.
Every one in the military is bound by the same rules.
Those who can’t abide by them have no place in it.
The military is supposed to set an example for society and isn’t meant to be a social service agency.
Its not about feelings, its about duty.
I meant that as a free people we have the privilege of defending the freedom of others as soldiers.
That’s been unique to America until relatively recently in history.
Only free men can defend a free country. When we lose sight of it, only then will we no longer have freedom here.
>>But peoples off-duty lives are their business. The two are different things.
Are you a veteran of a seagoing or combat force?
Case in point: Harvey Weinstein (among many). The man was considered a "god" by the movie industry.
He could do no wrong by Hollywood's flawed standards.
Weinstein stupidly believed that approval of his business success was approval of him personally.
He thought he could do whatever he wished when he wished to any woman he wished.
He is a much wiser man today facing jailtime and business bankruptcy.
Same for pervert and sexual deviant, onetime NYAG, Eric Schneiderman.
He had the world on a string.He was going places politically and cashing in bigtime.
But he had despicable weaknesses that he inflicted on his bedroom partners.
Now he, too, is in No Man's Land, facing an uncertain future.
I could go on and on.
Also, there’s none of Ayn Rand’s particular rendition of objectivism in military duty. Empathy is mandatory and absolutely necessary. Otherwise, courts martial, unnecessary deaths and lost battles would result.
I’ve also made sure that members of platoons had everything that they needed for their health before marching and watched them closely for problems during training (mandatory, the law). No one is allowed to get sick, injured or to be left behind.
We didn’t even own ourselves. We were the property of the U.S.A. with commanders administrating us as property. That’s the law that we lived under. We could have been punished for getting a sunburn without taking measures to stop the sunburn from happening.
It is interesting, though, to study political demographics and different ways of socializing...and anti-socializing. The discussion reminds me of study of conspiracy theory adherents.
Hope you have a good day despite my arguments. I’m objective, too, but not apathetic in the tradition of some demographics in Eurasia.
And conservatives must declare that Demonicrats have demonstrated themselves to be lying abortion-murdering traitors.
DEFUND socialist/totalitarian collectives, foreign and domestic. It’s easy to...
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——Thats what most of us believe. ——
That is not reflected by the Presidential election. Hillary won the popular vote. There are more of them than of us. Were it not for a very charismatic leader emerging, we would not be in power.
At best the conservative/moderate coalition is at breakeven.
The other side isn’t having children.
Places like SF and Austin have more dogs than kids.
In Chicago, they’re gunning down the next generation.
This may be liberalism’s high water mark.
Intersting and salient point
The point I try to continuously make is that our margin is thin and we must not become complacent.
“So when the social media companies start deplatforming conservatives, and engines like Google start up with antics like listing the GOPs ideology as Nazism, we need to respond to their exercise of their power with the exercise of our own power via our elected representatives. A GOP bill requiring social media platforms to explicitly and clearly explain their content policies, to disclose to banned people their exact violation, to provide a rapid, meaningful appeal process, and to provide for lawsuits (with fee awards to prevailing plaintiffs) to remedy violations is just the first step toward a regulatory solution.
The Fredocons will whine that this is not a conservative solution. Oh. Well, “
And you just watch as that comes back and bites us in the ass someday.
Once you have their bias in writing, then what? Oh yeah, just smug satisfaction, and you are still censored.
In the end, no amount of mental gymnastics can require any social media platform to platform whomever outside of their final say, like it or not.
This is a matter of not being a lazy whiner, and looking for the state to “fix” a website. All Google has to do is string together a word salad of legal jargon, and they are free and clear anyway.
What he can do is take the money you gladly invest in Google, and get together with other conservatives and fund the creation of a new platform.
Unless he is saying we are too stupid or broke to do this?
All of this is great, but it will not work until we take back the educational system and return it to studies where kids actually learn things without indoctrination. That means these school books designed with falsities have to go also. The lying has to stop.
Has to be done asap too.
All of this is great, but it will not work until we take back the educational system and return it to studies where kids actually learn things without indoctrination. That means these leftist school books designed with false and reinvented history and science have to go also. The lying has to stop.
Has to be done asap too.
“Who’s in Galt’s john.” Brilliant.
You are an idiot then. Can you admit that it is a crazy thing now? Libertarians tried to pawn off their f'ed up semi liberal globalist up ideology as conservative - IT IS NOT. We true patriots are rebuking it daily. Limbaugh has been gas-lighting 'normals" for yeas trying to get them into thinking libertarianism is the same as conservatism. He is dead wrong.
I think that "conservative this" and "conservative that" have become the most hated words in the American political lexicon - by those who hold conservative tenets, because they precede pandering to liberals and condescension to one's presumed political supporters - I mean where are you gonna go - Pelosi? I have no clue where many of Trump's policies fit on the political spectrum because while everyone else is arguing political labels Trump is trying to argue practicalities and common sense (which stopped being big-C Conservative values with the passing of Reagan and certainly with the passing of WFB).
I personally cringe whenever I see a pol waving his "C" in my face. I grab my wallet, close my ears and head for the exit - you know like when Ryan said that we need to pass the budget so we could turn to "our [what's this royal we stuff] Conservative" agenda - the out of control budget being at the top of the little-c conservative agenda.
First, a foxhole or the crowded crews quarters on a ship, is not a "private" bedroom, and this is an issue that goes to the heart of unit cohesiveness and military effectiveness.
Second, I think that I have rather strong libertarian views myself, and among those tenets are common sense and a strong grounding in natural law. What's between your legs is just a given and the relationships between men and women and family and society are pretty much givens. Corroding those relations is what the international communist conspiracy is about, and communism is utter anathema to libertarians, which is why libertarians believe in defense of boarders and defense of country.
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