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A Modest Proposal In Response To a "Dangerous Faggot"

<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-alt:"Times New Roman"; mso-font-charset:77; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:auto; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal">Milo Yiannopoulos is not the man you've been told he is. He favors regulating Twitter as a public utility (he's been banned for life), is not a leader of the alt-right, isn't racist (he's sympathetic to reparations), and is a Jewish, not white nationalist (he's a staunch Zionist). In short, if he's any kind of "fascist," it's of the Jewish supremacist variety that enjoys the longstanding and nearly unanimous support of political Washington. How did such a man become the scourge of the establishment?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Easy. He said that a grown man having sex with a 13-year-old <i>wasn't</i> pedophilia, adding that in his case it improved his fellatio skills immensely, for which he is eternally grateful. Naturally, such comments could not be received sensibly in the anally retentive USA, so the media predictably went nuts on the assumption that Yiannopoulos was justifying child molestation. He wasn't. He was merely trying to make points about terminology and the importance of not getting hysterical. The men Milo had sex with at 13 were <i>hebephiles</i>. Pedophilia is sex with children that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">have not gone through puberty yet.</i> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For the record, he’s <i>against </i>pedophilia and does not favor a change in the age of consent laws. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Free speech figures prominently in Yiannopoulos's political crusading, and he's particularly disgusted by the perpetually aggrieved proponents of identity politics, who seem intent on reducing university study to a four-year therapy session, and hardly a First Amendment friendly one at that. For these boundlessly fragile "snowflakes," trigger warnings must precede any presentation of controversial material, which these days can mean anything from rape to failure to use the proper gender pronouns in referring to an ever-lengthening list of sexual identities. Safe spaces are also mandatory, so students can feel confident they will not be exposed to anything fundamentally upsetting, especially ideas that "invalidate" the experience of "marginalized" groups. Such heresies must be condemned as "microaggressions" and rooted out.</span><br /><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That such ideas are flatly incompatible with the entire point of university gives Yiannopoulos his opportunity to be wildly popular for taking an easy position. </span><br /><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I’d prefer a world with no identity politics," he says, sensibly enough, and that "we judged people according to reason, logic and evidence." Dreamy! Reason, of course, suggests that "if you are going to divide everyone up, you have to accept that straight white men are going to want their own special party too." Enter Donald Trump, whose election Yiannopoulos enthusiastically endorsed (he calls him "Daddy"). </span><br /><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">An improbable Mario Savio of the right, Yiannopoulos is firm in his determination that free speech must win out over every kind of political dogma.</span>  “People like Charles Murray (author of The Bell Curve) deserve to have their voices heard, and my divinely appointed job is to toughen up these (college) kids so they can properly engage in the big debates." Fair enough, and one can only hope there are no special exceptions, as Yiannopoulos insists there aren't: “My support of dangerous memes holds," he says, "even if your desire to explode polite taboos includes taking aim at the Holocaust." Unfortunately, he embraces open-mindedness more for its entertainment value than its educational effects: “I understand why so many young people find jokes about the Second World War attractive: they drive establishment types, especially conservatives, absolutely crackers. And I will defend to the death their right to tweet jokes about gas ovens, no matter how badly their words may burn.”<br /><br />But why waste time on cheap jokes? Let's get Yiannapoulos in touch with the Committee For Open Debate on the Holocaust, which has long tried to simply raise questions about the canonical Holocaust (like why there is no forensic evidence of mass homicidal gas chambers), earning not a fair hearing but near universal condemnation and persecution. With a little backbone, Yiannapoulos's campus hecklers should be able to beat him at his own game. <i>Why the taboo on questioning the existence of homicidal gas chambers?</i><br /><br />Perhaps because the presumed existence of mass homicidal gas chambers makes Jews a special class of victims. For all his criticism of competitive victimhood, Yiannapoulos can't resist special pleading when the topic is Jews:  “I happen to disagree, strongly, that anti-Semitism is just like racism or sexism," he says.  Jews represent "a unique case" because of "a particularly virulent history of bigotry against Jews." For as long as there have been Jews, "it has always been dangerous to be one, somewhere in the world." Aside from the frankly prejudicial stance itself, Yiannopoulos neglects to note that the most dangerous place in the world to be a Jew these days is Israel, which was created as the place Jews go to be safe. In other words, the solution to the anti-Semitism problem has created more violent hostility towards Jews than at any time since the Nazi era, and this, not because increasing numbers of people <i>hate Jews for who they are,</i> but because they can't stand the Jewish state <i>for what it does</i>. Special case, indeed. <br /><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But rather than focus on this, Yiannopoulos prefers to eagerly bait Muslims and their defenders, denouncing Islam as a source of homophobia, patriarchy, street harassment, and intolerance. He accuses "leftists" of hypocrisy for opposing these practices in the abstract while defending members of a religion that condones them. Nowhere does he note, however, that promoting LGBT rights as a kind of political battering ram against Muslim dominant countries long subject to Western and imperial brutality regularly culminating in mass killing of Muslim civilians, is a far more serious kind of hypocrisy. If he doesn't want to see mass migration of Muslims to the West, and he insists this is an ongoing disaster, then why doesn't he publicly condemn USrael's endless outrages against the Arab and Muslim worlds? For campus activists, criticizing him on these grounds makes a lot more sense than impotently shouting, "racist, sexist, Islamophobic."</span><br /><br /></div>

Homeless Americans Grateful For Government's Compassionate Financing Choice

Would you like NASA to fly a drone across Saturn’s largest moon, or to send a probe to collect samples from a duck-shaped comet? From a dozen proposals to the agency’s New Frontiers competition — not unlike an interplanetary “Shark Tank” for a forthcoming robotic mission — NASA announced those two as finalists. Each team will get $4 million and about a year to flesh out its idea. NASA will decide in mid-2019 which one to build, and the launch is expected by the end of 2025.

The Master Race of Self Chosen People of All Identity Groups Rules The World: Between Its Ears

Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Breaking News Alert December 21, 2017NYTimes.com »BREAKING NEWSIn a stinging rebuke, the U.N. General Assembly condemned the U.S. decree on Jerusalem. The vote was 128 to 9, with 35 abstentions.Thursday, December 21, 2017 12:30 PM ESTThe overwhelming majority of the world’s nations voted to approve a nonbinding resolution demanding that the United States rescind the Dec. 6 decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, ignoring President Trump’s threats of revenge.Between Its Collective Ears

Jews R Us?

Postcard to Democrats re Russian Interference in U.S. "Democracy"

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In Alabama, pseudo-democracy’s outcome found the candidate charged with child sex abuse defeated by the candidate not yet charged with child sex abuse -  but -  subject to future charges of ageism if only being attracted to younger victims. Vegas, media pundits and Wall St. brokers anxiously await results of background checks and paid informants to see how long until new senator becomes victim of old charges.
Meanwhile, in answer to a great new market need, venture capitalists are forming support therapy group start-ups  offering help to all the women who had contact with the abusers but were never abused by them. The anonymous multi billionaire creator of the fart-belch-vomit app to make gluttony more relaxing said:
 “These women may be suffering great pain at not seeing themselves good enough to attract these pigs with hand problems. How would you feel if all your friends were  molested and you were not? There has to be some help for these rejected women, and we are filling that market need, with compassion, new psycho-neurotic breakthrough treatments and great investment opportunities for  capital too long tied up in old ideas like used food delivery and catered pet funerals.”


 Silicon Valley multi-trillionaire Jed Bozo has introduced a new app which allows buyers to shop while asleep. Investors are lining up to get in on this at holiday time.
 “No need for lulls while resting; this app saves your waking thoughts about commodity consumption and brings them into reality while you sleep, enabling shoppers to borrow more funds and consume more even when less conscious than usual.”
Wall St, the Pentagon, the Israeli lobby and the rest of organized crime in America are calling Trump’s presidency the  greatest political fund raising event in American history. Political, Psycho-Neurotic, Religious, Online and other Trivia Groups have raised  billions for the American democracy market and used nationalism to manipulate local and state minority voters.
While Trump and Netanyoohoo wore skull caps to cover their pointed heads, the two american parties owned by capital expressed joy at the news of biblical prophesy finally being acknowledged, but most of the foreign puppets, lap dogs and hustlers formerly obeying every american order have expressed opposition. Fears of losing weapons and taco-pizza-burger customers are causing some concern.
New law suits from the American majority charge abuses by the 1% causing shame, pain, homelessness, hunger, psychosocial disorders and worse.
 “They put their hands in our wallets and pocketbooks, against our wishes, and then sneered and laughed when we demanded a democracy to put a stop to their abuse”, said a union leader awakened from historic slumber by the demands of a newly formed majority of people without power. The majority has not been able to find a lawyer yet, most being busy with defending rich and powerful men from charges of sex abuse.

Anonymous Woman answering to the name Mother X charges her children with sexual abuse committed while she was giving birth. "They elbowed me, kicked me, touched all of my insides with reckless disregard for my physical and mental feelings ..it was awful". This historic case could finally end the human race. Identity groups cheer. “It’s about time; this stupid humanity concept has been holding us back for far too long” 

UK Refuses American Offer Of Nerve, Poison and Fart Gas

UK turns to sanctioned Russian project for its winter gas supplyUK homes are set to be heated over the new year with gas from a Russian project targeted by US sanctions, as the shutdown of a key North Sea pipeline slashes domestic output and sends utilities and traders scrambling for supplies.The first tanker of liquefied natural gas from the Yamal project in Russia’s Arctic, which was opened by president Vladimir Putin last week, is making its way to the Isle of Grain import terminal in Kent as UK gas prices soar.

How Liberals Breed The Reactionary Right: A Zionist Shock Jock Explains

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The Market Forces of Sexual Abuse

The unbalanced relations and divisions of labor between the sexes dates back to long before patriarchy and had as much to do with nature, originally, as it has to do with power relations of money, at present. In the earliest societies men did not hunt and women gather due to any political dominance but to the physical realities that enabled men to run after and hunt animals for sustenance while women carried new life within them and had to stay closer to the nest gathering while developing what would become agricultural skills. It’s also likely that matriarchy existed due to the seeming powers of creating new life which were held by women, with possibly millennia passing before consciousness revealed that men had something to do with the creation of that life. But like so much else, the advance of what we call civilization has brought us both higher levels of material possibility and unfortunately lower levels of morality, both due to the commodity based relations forced on all humans, of all cultures and both sexes, by capitalist market forces in pursuit of private profit.
While living in a warfare state in which global destruction is threatened by nuclear powered adversaries, especially the USA which is both the inventor and only user of such murderous powers, much of american consciousness is occupied with this issue reduced to sometimes idiotic propaganda, while other issues become the stuff of surreality tv, fake news, and greater profits for the media, legal and psychology business community. Thus, we surround Russia and China with armadas and military bases while being told that Russia has destroyed our fictional democracy and China threatens our economic empire, and are given around the clock coverage of the renewed discovery that some men are pigs in relating to women, while some charges and countercharges of wrong doing have far more to do with the political and economic power of those making or resisting the charges.
Almost daily allegations, sometimes revelations, of things ranging from sexual indiscretions to abusive sexual practices lead to scandals causing powerful men to be reduced or quit their positions of power due to the public scorn which is both bad for men in business and good for women sometimes in the same business. The fact that women in some of these cases have waited many years before revealing such secrets is all due to what is seen as male power and rarely indentified as market power. The entertainment figures who have “come out” in the case of Weinstein all allowed his piggish behavior because they wanted-needed-aspired to the financial success his power might assure them but would possibly be denied if they had told him to buzz off or smacked his face when he dared disrespect them. It is pitiful for humans to be reduced to such groveling and submission before power, and all due to finance. It is also safe to imagine that if Weinstein looked like Brad Pitt, some might brag about attracting his attention at the time or be accused of wishful thinking if revealing it years later. The most important thing to consider is not just the male power exercised but also the economic power that serves as its foundation, obscuring any sense of self-respect on the part of victims, all at the upper end of the financial spectrum.
Tens of thousands of women suffer such disrespect, and much worse, while laboring in bars, restaurants, malls, coffee shops and other places of lesser financial reward collection, and usually do so in public silence, even if the outrages are common knowledge not only to those who suffer but often seen as the price that must be paid to get-do-succeed at the job. Playboy “Bunnies”, Hooters “Servers” and other women whose work totally depends on being subjectified as sexual merchandise, are part of the enormous and profitable sexual marketplace relatively invisible to those programmed to act in outrage at the treatment of those in service to a higher echelon at our collective sex mall. But the reduction of humanity in the pursuit of survival for the worker and profit for the owners is no different, in essence, at the bistro, the movie studio, the political palace, or the taco-pizza-burger joint. Those who need jobs are frequently reduced in humanity but have to go along in order to get or do the job, and socialized-to-be mistreated women reduced in stature by socialized-to-be mistreater men should remind us of the common state of humans reduced by market relations to perform in grudging acceptance of such disrespect in order to survive.
We should also consider the notion of justice alleged in believing an accuser simply because we agree with or have experience of what someone is being accused of. Our all but totally dependent on double standards culture makes it profitable for lynch mobs of thought or deed to form very quickly, emotionally and thoughtlessly, at the provocation of what some of us define as the Deep or Shallow State. Why is one person deemed a crook-liar-thug for doing what another person gets away with by being labeled a hero-heroine-savior? How does one president performing as a sexist slob become heroic when another who speaks like a sexist slob becomes a villain?
The social role of male and female is not a simple biological matter, and even that is being subject to all manner of stress and strain by market forces which enable some of us to buy sperm or rent wombs and become parents of new life which never knows one parent. That force of the market, dominant in all our lives but too often reduced to individual heroes and villains, needs to be considered in all these matters. If being able to afford profiting a law office is what amounts to justice, or being able to afford profiting an insurance company is what amounts to health care, then tolerating sexual abuse will remain a social reality. Far more than a person or a sex need to stand up against the systemic forces that keep us apart and at wars with each other, and worse, with nations, but if women need a model that is sex based, they should consider what happened 100 years ago when women took social action. They worked in a factory and while they may have suffered personal indignities their common cause was being overworked and underpaid. When they could no longer tolerate it they shouted, that’s enough – no more. Their walkout was one of the first actions in an experience that shook the world. It was called the Russian Revolution, and American knowledge of it is on a par with our ignorance of what market forces do to all of us, on both sides of the profit-loss ledger, with the losers growing in number and the profiteers growing wealth beyond reason. We need to become a collective people of reason who act as a democratic human race and not simply a sex or other identity group, to assure our survival as humanity before we are abused out of existence by being forced into continued action as racial, cultural and sexual commodities.

Stunningly Vicious Commentary From a Raving "Hate-Monger"

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