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Prepare to be Assimilated a Blast From the past From November 22 2015

*I will continue the post on the bind we’re in, but tomorrow is a really busy day, and someone asked for this. So, here is my post from 2015 on acculturation. – SAH*

Prepare to be Assimilated a Blast From the past From November 22 2015

Yesterday I was surprised when Dave Freer sent me a post that echoed almost exactly what I’ve been thinking.  In a late night (for me.  He has temporal privilege, living in Australia) conversation last night, I found that we agree in more than one thing,...

The Coils of Oikophobia

Of all the weird problems for our age to have oikophobia is probably the most bizarre.

Throughout history humans called their tribe “human” and everything else “the others” and bizarre ceremonies/sacrifices/rites developed out of keeping that distinction clear.

Our people hurray-good. Your people not even human. This is the beginning of human associations, and the basis of tribalism, which to an extent is the curse of mankind.

For all that I’m the first to say things like “Governmen...

Reading Tea Leaves

We are in such a complete and accelerating chaos that most of us are suffering from confusion and just wanting to know what comes next, or have SOME sense of normalcy.

I have bad news. It’s not going to happen.

This is because the chaos has at least three different sources. I expect this will be a series of posts, and this one I lay out the types of chaos we’re facing.

1- We are under a governance that loathes the nation it governs. Partly I think, because they are well aware we did...

Radio Free Colorado (In Exile) Rocks You Into The Very Smoky Night

Memeing At the Apocalypse

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Shooting Your Own Foot

I’m tired. I’ve been up since six thirty am. Didn’t sleep very well. And the morning has been a long slog, save for feeding and petting the tiny kittens.

The older cats got in the office supply closet. No, you don’t want to know.

But please, do take into account I’m tired. I’m very tired.

Part of what I’m tired of is the American right’s obsession with “electability” “Dignity” and “acting presidential.”

Trump is apparently listening to “consultants”. Heaven knows why. You can tel...

Fear And Despondency

Pardon me. I wasn’t going to write a post today, but this has been bugging me all night. I’d wake up, think about this, go back to sleep.

I have a headache, feel like I have a hangover — which is very bad, since I haven’t had alcohol in months (no, not on purpose, but I don’t like drinking alone, and husband doesn’t drink, so since the boys moved out I practically don’t drink.) –and am in a mood. So, you’re surely going to have to excuse me.

(Steps up to the stage. Turns the huge pictu...

Weird!

The new slur of the left for those of us who won’t conform is “Weird.”

Apparently “Deplorables” has lost its sheen, and “ultra Maga” (Ultra Maga assemble!) is no longer working, so now we must be stigmatized as weird.

To say this is bizarre is an understatement. It’s also a symptom of their losing the etymological war. Oh, and the ontological war too, while we’re at it.

You see, for years now, the left has anchored its power on two things:

1- being able to define what “bad word” ...

A Fatal Misunderstanding

Yesterday I came across this from Power Line Blog, and I agree with their call for lawfare against this attempt at gaslighting.

However, what stuck out at me, perhaps because of my own experiences was how they assume someone is financing a blog run by lawyers in their spare time.

That first stuck out to me when people — not this outfit I don’t think, though it’s possible it did, and I ignored it — started sending me emails asking me who paid me and how much I made. Sometimes accusatory...

The Cost of Your Self-Image

I’ve already done a post on this. And M. C. A. Hogarth did an excellent post on this. So, why do the third? Well, because we’re talked about the effect of the deeper game in not fighting back against the let’s unrelenting, ceaseless attacks.

But we’ve not talked about the effect on those who fight. Or what you’re doing to them. Yes, you. That the enemy will attack them, is a given. That you choose to condemn them to whatever the other side wishes on them is however on your conscience. An...