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Jon Letendre

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  1. 13 minutes ago, stansfield123 said:

    That's just as collectivist as the flip side: "I care because I'm Jewish", or "I care because I'm Muslim". You're still justifying your views with a shallow, irrelevant political identity.

    I'm also not Jewish or Muslim. The reason why I care about what happened on October 7 is because I'm a human, with a soul. Which means I have a comprehensive, consistent sense of justice, which causes me to feel revulsion when something so revolting happens.

    Not collectivist. In - “I really don’t care about this conflict” because I have no dog in the fight, or words to that effect - I read simply that it doesn’t involve him, doesn’t involve his interests. It may as well be a battle between good and evil a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. “But which side is good and which is evil, you gotta decide!!” No, we don’t have to. We don’t have to be interested or care at all. There are too many conflicts today and it would take too much time. Not collectivist. Focused on what affects us.

  2. Cited approvingly? I don't even know what his argument is. What background he means, what event from history he means to say is being avenged.

    Macgregor is a prominent figure who said these things on the show of most watched media personality (Tucker Carlson) in the world. I agree with him that the fervency is spectacularly mismatched to the known circumstances and so there is likely something much deeper going on.

    How is openly discussing such a major event of our times and comments by prominent experienced military figures addressing that event, "hitting rock bottom?"

  3. 13 hours ago, whYNOT said:

    https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=82124&post_id=137202849&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=20l79l&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMjE5MjE1NDUsInBvc3RfaWQiOjEzNzIwMjg0OSwiaWF0IjoxNjk1MTcwNzk0LCJleHAiOjE2OTc3NjI3OTQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi04MjEyNCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.IgbX4CmcJxdEz1v8pMRJthspP2PaKmL1NB5w_1-5VWs

    A look at the nuclear brinkmanship phenomena from the comments of a narcissistic Hollywood showman.

    Caitlin has this right. She has more guts than many.  Besides, it requires Objectivist integrity (and guts) to know what you know and honor your knowledge and values against mass opinion; continuing life on this planet demands that Western leaders do NOW what they could always have done many years ago - de-escalate. Listen to the opposition. This is bigger than them. They are culpable for - knowingly - inciting this conflict. Could they cease acting like tough-guy movie heroes who always beat the opposition?

    "Not self, but the absence of self, is closer to the root of all evil". N. Branden

    Good article.

    Colonel Douglas Macgregor forwarded a theory about what is really behind the belligerent and irrational stance so many take toward Russia, in his talk with Tucker: he said if you look into the ethnic background of the most fervent, in the US, in Europe, around the world, they seem to share an ancient gripe with the Russian nation. He implied they are attempting to settle a very, very old score. I'm not entirely sure what history he refers to.

  4. If you are curious about why there are no big marches on DC in reaction to reversal of Roe, curious about what could be driving the support for abortion restrictions accross the country, curious as to how what's coming could really be coming, then reflect on the blatant evasion and dishonesty tactics such as above and consider how various forms of scumbaggery on one side is considered to be quite telling, whether you like it or not, by people on the fence and on the other side.

  5. If I recall correctly, it was complete intact heads he wanted, maybe it was a specific organ.

    She explained that it was very time-consuming getting what he wanted completely intact and that her clinicians would have to develop wholly new techniques in order to satisfy his needs. Thus, "You'll have to really pay. I want a new Ferrari."

  6. 3 minutes ago, tadmjones said:

    I'm sure he was speaking hypothetically ... but what a boon that much fresh tissue would be on an open market.

    Remember that gross lady from Planned Parenthood on hidden camera drinking cocktails cackling like a demon at a bar and bragging about how she wants "Ferrari prices" for the quantities and tissue preservations sought by the guy she is negotiating with?

  7. The politicians who should not be voted for are those boosting the decriminalization of murder. Such as Northam.

    I am one thousand times more comfortable with people who would ban every abortion than I am with people who promote murder, than I am with people who vote for and make excuses for and in conversation evade the existence of, Northam and his disgusting actions.

  8. 99% of murder victims are over the age of 5.

    Therefore, people who express concern with the 1%, as though it was a real problem, are just engaging in, you know, sales trickery.

    Just as 99% (claimed) of abortions are early, therefore, people who express concern with a law that would allow murdering newborn human beings, are engaging in a form of trickery.

     

    Philosophy.

    Logic.

    Ethics.

     

  9. How about that governor of Virginia in 2019 who was asked what happens under the bill he supports if a late term abortion fails and there's a live baby on the table?

    Response: "The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother,”

    Northam, I think. Big Moloch energy with that governor.

  10. 3 hours ago, EC said:

    I don't know anything about any of those things and am not a victim of them

    Then you are in for quite a ride. SRA victims usually don't remember anything until later in life. They discredit, immiserate and/or eliminate the ones who remember and speak out. Paraphrasing Dave Chapelle: 'maybe next time you hear about a star going down in flames, running down Hollywood Blvd naked, shooting his 9mm into the air, maybe instead of thinking damn, another one so spoiled they gone crazy, maybe instead ask yourself if someone was doing things to him. Maybe ask whether the system is doing things to these people.'

    I had to look up Skinwalker. Our overlords withhold technology, especially if the tech has military application. They develop and explore new tech secretly. They get seen doing such. They're happy to let the public think they are as baffled as we are by what has been seen. They want smart people who get curious and make videos to stop.

    3 hours ago, EC said:

    I would never have thought something so evil could be going on in this country until just recently.

    You think you are in shock now, wait 'till you understand it is millennia old and globally entrenched.

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