tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91498205149466425982024-03-05T10:53:24.425-08:00thickerthantalkFreedom, economics, truth, politics & belief from a mostly confused Irishmanthickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-26255597465422815582023-02-28T18:14:00.002-08:002023-09-09T05:59:35.071-07:00The Burke Dilemma<p>Enoch Burke stands alone outside Wilson's school this morning, keeping his lonely vigil. He was there yesterday & barring nuclear annihilation will be there tomorrow. He stands there alone, stubbornly, peacefully, having served 109 days in prison and with almost €30000 of fines waiting for him. Burke neither needs or wants me to make a case for him & he manages in his stubborn self righteousness to make doing so a thankless task.</p><p>Enoch Burke is acknowledged to be an excellent teacher but his beliefs would not allow him to agree to a school policy that young males who decided to be female or young females who decided to they were male must be addressed both in name & pronoun by their chosen gender. He went as far as to opine that not alone could he not do this in conscience but that doing so was harmful to children involved.</p><p>The public facts of this case are not so much at issue as the questions it raises. What rights of conscience does a teacher or any employee have? Is there a difference between the rights a teacher might have to that of his brother working on assembly line with no interaction with minors & little with others as part of the job? If we are free to have beliefs only if we never act on them are we free? That would be an odd salvation without both faith & works out but apparent compliance with the zeitgeist in.</p><p>Far too often freedom to believe only what is fashionable is mistaken for freedom of belief and those who have no conscientious beliefs are astonished that there are people stiff necked enough to die for a principle. Transgenderism has the overwhelming support of the Righteous On Tendency. Believing in dimorphic biological sexes is ignorant & old fashioned. Enoch Burke doesn't, it appears, cite science, but faith & conscience to justify his rejection of the school policy so this is a straight forward clash of religious beliefs. A fashionable belief held by the powerful against a now dowdy old faith held in its most irredentist form by an awkward man does not seem an equal contest.</p><p>Burke is dismissed from his job & dismissed as a crank, a nuisance to be mocked but Christianity has two thousand years of serious philosophical thought and writing. Transgenderism is an evolving, poorly intelectualised cult with a sacramental language & a list of heresies. Enoch Burke is quietly secure in his faith.</p><p>What it lacks in a thought-through theology Transgenderism makes up in sweeping assertions to be scientific. Such assertions are based in the idea that the utterances or agreement of professionals from disciplines that involve science are themselves scientific. This isn't science but Scientism, a faith that treats those working in science as a priestly caste with the better known or media savvy as hierarchs. Almost all of the quasi-scientific scaffolding claimed for transgenderism is a set of endorsements from heavily politicised professional psychiatric organisations glued together with the outrage of adherents. Those adherents hold that Transgenderism, with its slight of hand flip flop between sex & gender, is not open for discussion or scientific analysis because transgender people's lived experience validates the conceptand entirely. One might counter so does the lived experience of flat earthers validate their's but the important take away is that it is an underdeveloped religious cult.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk5M2CAdyEHUDjDdFh732iC_2IGw7_4l9jSI8e3szaIGN-w23Z_XIqbL3KzZ4USHjMwsu3p0gcq8wH5NTPjNloSMyvKABPhQl0r_XioO7wXkKU-5iSvNx8XnyJhD6XKvrZ2tOYPswlfs9fZfDF8XdlD_G51eASAXauB6QL4rwn-pl2awRuuXePAzSY/s255/oie_9DukFhsVJnTE.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Enoch Burke photoshopped on to the trans flag" border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="255" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk5M2CAdyEHUDjDdFh732iC_2IGw7_4l9jSI8e3szaIGN-w23Z_XIqbL3KzZ4USHjMwsu3p0gcq8wH5NTPjNloSMyvKABPhQl0r_XioO7wXkKU-5iSvNx8XnyJhD6XKvrZ2tOYPswlfs9fZfDF8XdlD_G51eASAXauB6QL4rwn-pl2awRuuXePAzSY/w200-h178/oie_9DukFhsVJnTE.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />At Wilson's we are witnessing the clash of two religions. Enoch Burke has been deprived of his livelihood & his students of his stellar teaching because he is a pagan, a refusnik who will not stay quiet. He was free to believe what he wished to believe as long as there was no evidence in his life that he held to wrongthink. What was demanded of Burke was that he sever his thought from his speech, that he publicly acquiesce to things with which he profoundly disagreed.<p></p><p>What really matters is this constructs a very dangerous precedent not just for teachers but any employee. Where faiths collide are we to be forced to collude to keep a job? At what point do we say we will not sign up to an untruth because it is my name I sign, like The Crucible's John Proctor? What may we believe if Enoch Burke may not believe his faith? Conscience & dissent are vital to a flourishing, free society, not just an expression of that freedom but a bulwark against all and any tyranny. Enoch Burke, prickly, contrary & awkward is also everyman, you, I & your neighbour Maura, forced to conform, forced to hide what we think. </p><p>Enoch Burke will stand alone outside Wilson's School tomorrow morning. He stands there for his right to hold a job and keep his conscience. If we were wise we would go stand with him</p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-78418304071945052032022-09-09T17:32:00.002-07:002022-09-10T12:07:59.895-07:00Burke's Mexican Standoff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXpkRW5chOadpdCgwmKlNrgn0qgcvDALBFirEFNpmxde_7-X0wB84v5NyphtoM5PJdwpGyOfRL_dnZKfDxol-CCcA2HEKNErhliq8Z7W3V9sEwnwZFUcSQ89WjK_4hJ25qRE8rDDUo0zBNnyc3id2nxh5RQoeXZMMiszXfYByR-h9czJXDRuegyBV4/s225/download.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo of thexfront gate of Mountjoy Jail. Large stone enterance with full double door painted dark blue" border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXpkRW5chOadpdCgwmKlNrgn0qgcvDALBFirEFNpmxde_7-X0wB84v5NyphtoM5PJdwpGyOfRL_dnZKfDxol-CCcA2HEKNErhliq8Z7W3V9sEwnwZFUcSQ89WjK_4hJ25qRE8rDDUo0zBNnyc3id2nxh5RQoeXZMMiszXfYByR-h9czJXDRuegyBV4/w200-h200/download.jpeg" title="The Joy" width="200" /></a></div><br />Enoch Burke is in jail and for the first time the Irish public is realizing a little of the horror of the trans cult. This is a good thing but Mr Burke is wrong and my friend, Killian Foley Walsh, writing in Gript, is wrong too.<div><br /></div><div>Yes, the policy of the school was stupid, dangerous and bad but it is the policy of every school or at least the vast majority, to indulge, confirm and thus trap children in the trans-cult. School boards, like the people who boil your eggs too hard in hotels, work on the basis of least resistance and they have been told repeatedly that any opposition to a child besotted with the trans cult will result in suicide. School governor's, in general, would rather not be blamed for a child's suicide. You get hard eggs because even the people who like soft will eat them but the hard egg brigade won't eat soft. School boards will stomach insanity and child abuse before child suicide.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nobody is born into the wrong body and nobody can change their sex. Neither should anyone be able to mandate others to abuse the English language to indulge their fantasies or decree a private set if pronouns. These are the modern self evident truths which sadly are none to self evident in a country where, like the policy of expensive housing, the trans cult has the support of all political parties.</div><div><br /></div><div>Enoch Burke disagreed with the school policy as was both within his rights and a sensible and proper child safety stance. The trans cult dictates the use of untested puberty blocking drugs with the known side effect of permanently sterilizing prepubescent girls, double mastectomies for teenage girls and castration for teenage boys. When a school is complicit in that kind of child abuse opposition isn't a choice, it is a duty. (What do you do when this is the policy of your country and your government?)</div><div><br /></div><div>How is such conscientious opposition to be performed within in schools? What ways can a teacher express their complete rejection of this savage child abuse and are schools to respond and house such dissent? I don't have useful answers to these questions but I know that it's not in the way Enoch Burke went about it nor how the school that employed him handled his opposition. Enoch Burke is right about the abusive trans-cult but importantly he not the parent of the child for which the school adopted the policy. He is a stranger, a concerned stranger but a stranger.</div><div><br /></div><div>Schools must have the right to control their own premises. If Drag Things descend in a religious school can the school rely on the courts to vindicate its rights to decide who can or cannot be on school grounds? Even at the cost of hauling a painted and bewigged gentleman to jail? </div><div><br /></div><div>Burke is not the start of Pastor Niemoller's declension because nobody came for him just as nobody is coming for Killian or John McGuirk or Eilis O'Hanlon. Enoch Burke is not jailed for using the wrong pronouns or claiming (rightly) that boys can't turn into girls. Burke is jailed for disobeying a court injunction that he not trespass into a school. Pretending that Enoch Burke is jailed for his rightful opposition to the trans cult and the danger to a child is dishonest, unfair to the court and confusing to the public, empowering the trans-cult by giving the incorrect impression that speech is censorable on this issue. </div><div><br /></div><div>When Enoch Burke was asked not to attend the school he was the one that insisted on trespass, over and over and over. He insisted in it even when the court injuncted that trespass. There were many avenues for him to pursue his right to his work and his job but the one he choose had only one possible outcome. That outcome is a mess.</div><div><br /></div><div>Enoch Burke is, like all his siblings, bright, stubborn, courageous, conscientious and self righteous. Jail is a nasty and uncomfortable place but he has no intention of doing the only thing that can unlock his cell: undertaking not to attend the school. This is a martyrdom he has sought and he is not putting down his cross. The court can't release him until he does because it would be to become a vague advisory body, futilely issuing Willy Wonka type stopdon'ts. It is a legal Mexican standoff that can run for months. </div><div><br /></div><div>There must be a negotiation, a set of compromises between the two parties originally involved, the school and Enoch Burke. His job back and his opposition tolerated, on his side the undertaking not to disrupt the school and its running with that opposition? Mr Burke is not a man to whom compromise comes easily but there is also the matter of a child and that child's education and whether any compromise acceptable to Mr Burke would be wide enough not to disrupt that. Howver much we are horrified by the tran-cult and reject complicity with it's abuses there has to be a limit on how we oppose it in a free society. </div><div><br /></div><div>Enoch Burke's imprisonment, however long it goes on, should start a wider discussion on the horrible trans cult, the outrageously dreadful 2015 Gender Recognition Act, the anti democratic anthitisis of replicanism that is the Secret Review process built into the Act and now completed, the child abuse entailed by puberty blockers and surgical mutilation as well as the nonsense of individuals mandating pronouns. There is only one possible outcome to a free, open discussion of those horrors and that is complete rejection of the tenets of the trans-cult. In that case Enoch Burke may yet be the hero that does the state and it's children some service. </div><div><div><div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-69477045766160625022022-09-08T16:04:00.008-07:002022-09-08T16:40:58.180-07:00A Lady in History<p>There was a period in the Summer months of 1940, after Western Europe had fallen to Hitler's armies and Britian stood alone against the huge grim war machine, that terrible necessity is said to have dictated a drastic plan for a young princess and, unspoken but understood, an even worse one for her father.</p><p>If Germany were to invade Elizabeth would be evacuated with speed to Canada. The King would not just remain in England but in London. He would not, could not, be taken alive in the event of Nazi success. Churchill might have been right about fighting the Germans on the beaches and the streets but nothing indicated that such fight would be any more successful in Britain than in other countries. A dead King meant a live Queen. </p><p>Elizabeth succeeded to the throne in less fraught but hardly gentle circumstances in 1952 when Churchill was back as Prime Minister, Stalin still ruled Russia and she was in Kenya. Her death this afternoon is a closing bell on a vast history and may toll a knell for the British monarchy itself given that she is succeeded by the stupid, insipid and indiscrete Charles III.</p><p>The Republicans who have no understanding of custom, tradition and even law (by their fruits you shall know them) night well consider those months in 1940 before they take the opportunity of what will be an entirely unfettered and wildly over the top press coverage of the Queen's passing to carp at her "privilege", complain that monarchy is fundamentally undemocratic or to bore us with what we already know of the horrible faults of her children. </p><p>Elizabeth outlived the great tyrants of the twentieth century, most of her critics and many of her fifteen Prime Ministers. Age didn't need to lend her gravitas but it allowed the figurative smoke to clear so she could be seen. She went on doing what she did, being her country's monarch exactly as her conscience and deep faith dictated, for a very long time. Her visit to Ireland showed that there are worse ways than hereditary to choose a head of state. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1hvKzZXf0ZBb6eXFzbXUW6175w84sxK4Hi597aqLwUFwV8AqPLn2GWZNMa9oE8bQKVp3yn2_05ioiS30hqiP9WbxFrjLzLwQHzjxNCi-IhVOzOnaJIz0OBSLMSQ_10X4LBDIqB716YEzW4K9ET-qjdzY_9UWMry7048nSEm7ySlrMgTW9m2rM69pp/s225/images.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo of Queen Elizabeth wearing black coat and black hat and mask in a pew at Prince Phillip's funeral in Windsor Castle" border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1hvKzZXf0ZBb6eXFzbXUW6175w84sxK4Hi597aqLwUFwV8AqPLn2GWZNMa9oE8bQKVp3yn2_05ioiS30hqiP9WbxFrjLzLwQHzjxNCi-IhVOzOnaJIz0OBSLMSQ_10X4LBDIqB716YEzW4K9ET-qjdzY_9UWMry7048nSEm7ySlrMgTW9m2rM69pp/w200-h200/images.jpeg" title="Queen Elizabeth obeying COVID regulations at Prince Phillip's funeral" width="200" /></a></div><br />When Prince Phillip died in April 2021, Elizabeth was photographed, a frail little old lady, alone in an ornate pew in the Hall of Windsor Castle, strictly obeying her government's COVID regulations through which her boorish Prime Minister was driving a steam train. It is fair to say ní bheidh a leithead ann arís because the world that made her, Christian, duty bound and honorable, died a long time ago. We live in its ruins . At the end of her long and well lived life may she rest in peace in the eternal light of God.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-70199240640726436512022-09-08T10:36:00.007-07:002022-09-08T19:44:49.234-07:00Kill the Kulak<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7dstLS1BltTBK2-G7T8iG80Iu_ITmc09PBNEzhEJoAUfGr3ZIKLM-RJQhi-54UxZWzbg5BO-zcEWYglfWrs8ZZ_n0kEAlSGaRt1q8TzPixoeJvTNV05CSwj3L9-wQvI6S_srKvFaMTZ-WKMy8jQeE-Zj0-Nc_7W-qpGbSX5D34ZMevAb6Iay7vU_g/s569/get_the_kulak_off_the_collective_farm.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="USSR propaganda colour poster showing Kulak being driven by a fist from collective farm" border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="569" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7dstLS1BltTBK2-G7T8iG80Iu_ITmc09PBNEzhEJoAUfGr3ZIKLM-RJQhi-54UxZWzbg5BO-zcEWYglfWrs8ZZ_n0kEAlSGaRt1q8TzPixoeJvTNV05CSwj3L9-wQvI6S_srKvFaMTZ-WKMy8jQeE-Zj0-Nc_7W-qpGbSX5D34ZMevAb6Iay7vU_g/w200-h146/get_the_kulak_off_the_collective_farm.webp" title="Its all the fault of the Kulaks, thats why youn suffer" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">If wealth is treated as an evil and profit as a sin we will all be poor. The hounding & resignation of Robert Troy leave a terrifying glimpse into a possible future where the ordinary pursuit of business and wealth is seen a criminal enterprise, a thieving from fellow citizens. Marx's stupid, bitter and impoverishing precepts have soaked into the public consciousness reviving older Irish attitudes that all wealth was utimately stolen, not created rather than missaproprtated in a zero sum world. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Troy was not forced out because he had done a poor job on his Standards in Public Office form, which was relevant only as a piece of stupid bureaucratese. Troy was hounded for his wealth and that's a tragedy for Irish public life. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">SIPO doesn't ensure standards in public office nor does it even attempt such a task. It's not about standards at all. If it did then it might seek the removal of a Tainiste who peddled a confidential negotiating document to a gay friend for reasons unspecified and announced he wanted to destroy the legal status of marriage. Instead SIPO bureaucratises the the declarations business interests of public office holders and donations to political parties. SIPO has about as much to do with standards as as a Green voter has with intelligence.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The Tut-tutting media, their faux horror at Troy's most grave since only matched by their distaste for anybody who makes money in property, found a peeve that the public loved. Troy had sold a property to his local county council and made money on on it! Troy owned eleven houses! The horror! Revealed as the very worst type of Kulak, Robert Troy vainly tried to explain how he'd gotten the SIPO declaration wrong, speaking on RTE Radio as if that was his sin rather than his being a Kulak, a landlord, a greedy thief who stole houses from the general welfare and ground the faces of the poor into the tarmac. And all of this during a housing crisis. "Robert Troy doesnt undersand his PRIVILEGE" opined a termially ill-informed and stupid lady journalist in The Times.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">"He shouldn't just resign he should go to jail" was one of many comments as the mob rose sans culottes, sans reason and sans law. Now the precedent has been established, only the wo/men/non binarypan species without property will be safe in politics and to rent housing is to exploit the proletariat.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Ireland has a horrible shortage of housing because scarce, expensive housing is the policy of every political party and they hold this appalling policy for your good. You are forced to pay a vast bureaucracy whose job it is to slow and prevent the building of housing and another equally expensive bureaucracy to find ways to make that building effort more expensive and the houses more unaffordable. This too, is for your good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">That jointly held policy, that housing should be as expensive as possible is a brutal burden that allows politicians have patronage of various sorts and triggers a vast transfer of wealth from the working poor to the determined social welfare class. Young workers who can't even rent a property let alone buy a house are forced to subsidise and house those who will neither work nor pay. While the Expensive Housing Policy is vicously anti family, a secondary effect of the subsidised and free housing is that men in receipt of it can have several groups of their children housed with their mothers as they practice serial monagmy. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">As Sinn Fein slouch towards their Bethlehem and the hatred for those who rent out housing grows, landlords are selling houses. These are being picked up by first time buyers but the poor, those that will never be able to mortgage and the young, all those who need to rent, are in an iron maiden of scarce rental accommodation. That hardship and suffering is going to get worse and more painful but at least, like Stalin, we can blame the Kulaks. Its all their fault.</span></p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-92028507942339475212022-09-08T10:08:00.000-07:002022-09-08T10:08:26.559-07:00Gorbachev<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Mikail Gorbachev, heir of Stalin as the last president of the Soviet Union, has died. His was both the fortune and misfortune to arrive in the Presidency of that tyranny as its defeat to America and its allies in the Cold War became brutally obvious. Gorbachev didn't end the Cold War, he merely signed the surrender. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGrvluZPd5WK_AhBVDqOtOZ2iNlalrAvGlpjy-I0FiAz977yStX6idq9-f4qBVZLMqAqjXWEb0VsQ8c8AfJ3EFIHQxdO06RI4Ulg8zoUn_06j2A85pmT_rcphTmEPzNwcTs_bn5gXx9Qm4eNAtp_9RbBR-a26O1Kysphw--Vl7UbjtqxsaxCG9AjSt/s300/mgorby.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo of Mikail Gorbachev as General Sectretary of the Communit Party of the USSR in 1986" border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGrvluZPd5WK_AhBVDqOtOZ2iNlalrAvGlpjy-I0FiAz977yStX6idq9-f4qBVZLMqAqjXWEb0VsQ8c8AfJ3EFIHQxdO06RI4Ulg8zoUn_06j2A85pmT_rcphTmEPzNwcTs_bn5gXx9Qm4eNAtp_9RbBR-a26O1Kysphw--Vl7UbjtqxsaxCG9AjSt/w320-h179/mgorby.jpg" title="Mikail Gorbachev" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br />His best efforts at Glasnost (openess) and Perestroika (reform) were both far to late but also fundamentally impossible in the context of a communist tyranny. Freedom works and the USA could spend a tiny fraction of its huge GDP in defense to build lavish and wonderful military while communism, with its barbaric rejection of human initiative, had to spend a vast percentage of its tiny wealth just to keep US efforts in view. Communism with all its insistence in the primacy of the material world, had reduced vast swathes of the population of the world to poverty. That poverty was its undoing in the race for weaponry.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The charming and capable Gorbachev became General Secretary the Communist Party on March 11th, 1985 after the death of the ailing Constantin Chernenko the day before. He would last a mere 6 years in the job from which retirement was unthinkable but that six short years were so momentuous in world history that the very reason Mikail Gorbachev mattered was swept away and the massive apparatus of tyranny that was the USSR blew away like dust on the wind. Almost nobody under forty has any sense of its terrible teatment of the unfortunate populations that lived under its power or the terrible threat it was to what we used to call the Free World and now it merely lives in memories, human, paper and digital.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">That this great apparatus died peacefully, without fire, slaughter or war is tribute to Gorbachev. Tyranny rarely ends well but his deep humanity, his genuine desire for a better life for the people of the USSR and his realistic assesment of its shortcomings meant that the end, however inglorious, was peaceful. The anti Gorbachev coup that triggered the dissolution of the USSR would, had it succeeeded, brought the world a much worse fate. Instead it brought a drunken boor to power in Russia and ended Gorbachev's poitical career.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Born in 1931 when Stalin's brutality was in full flight, he was just young enough to survive the conflageration of WWII and went on to study economics, Communist economics. That left him gloriouly ignorant as to how a free market coordinated itself as the famous story of his puzzlement as to how London was fed showed. Thatcher told the story but famously she had said after meeting him "I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business with him." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">There was a lot to like. Cultured, affable, determined and obviously in love with his wife Raisa, Gorbachev had been affected by his relatives deaths in Stalin's genocidal Ukrainian famine The Holdomar and the brutality meted out to both his grandfathers by the NKVD but he was a true believer in Communism. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Mikail Gorbachev was a good man in a bad job at the right time. The Russians will bury him quietly, he is out of favour with the current tyranny and the horrible little poisoner will speak no eulogies at his funeral. We all owe Mikail Gorbachev a debt for for the fact that he left the world a far better place than he found it. May he meet his beloved Raisa and Rest in Peace.</span></p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-16738641675940454962022-06-02T01:37:00.000-07:002022-06-02T01:37:13.381-07:00Dear Community Member...<p><br /></p><p>Dear Paddy,</p><p>Thank you for using joining the Googbookwitter Community. We are delighted you have joined the millions of others Googbookwitter community comrades get the best out of the internet and make the most use if your internet capable devices. Remember if it's on the 'net, Googbookwitter can find it but we also supply you with email, maps and location services, online documents, the platform to build your own business but much more importantly, a huge interactive community of comrades. Googbookwitter is here for you!</p><p>Sincerely,</p><p>Your Googbookwitter Service Team </p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Paddy,</p><p>We at Googbookwitter hope you are enjoying the services that Googbookwitter is providing. We've noticed that you don't seem to be making full use of the amazing resource that is the internet and our team came up with some suggestions for your browsing. </p><p>www diversity.com</p><p>www thegreenparty.ie</p><p>www.activistsunited.org</p><p>www.climatejustice.org..</p><p>We at Googbookwitter really value you as a member of the worldwide Googbookwitter Community and we want you to have the very best internet experience you can have. </p><p>We are better together!</p><p>Yours lovingly,</p><p>Your Googbookwitter Service Team.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Paddy,</p><p>We are sorry this is an unattended email account. The massive volume of Googbookwitter users makes it impossible for your service team to answer individual emails but we use our servers to take keywords from emails for follow up trouble shooting. Unfortunately "Hi-Tech Fascist Arseholes" did not match any keywords from the Googbookwitter community. Please see our comprehensive FAW for answers and there's always out community forum where comrades will help you get the most from your Googbookwitter experience.</p><p>Sincerely,</p><p>Your Googbookwitter Service Team </p><p>Dear Paddy,</p><p>We at your Googbookwitter Community are still concerned that you are not getting the most from your Googbookwitter experience. </p><p>Much of your internet time is spent on sites that are either far right or agressively promote values completely at variance with those of the Googbookwitter Community. Our servers tell us that in the last seventy two hours you've accessed several transphobic hate sites and even some anti choice sites. </p><p>Paddy you know in your heart that women's rights are human rights and that transpeoples rights are the most human of rights. We want you to grow with our community and not be influenced on the internet by purveyors of bigotry and misogyny. </p><p>Our team has drawn up this short list of sites you might want to include in your browsing experience.</p><p>www.plannedparenthood.org</p><p>www.transwomenforchoice.com</p><p>www.theirishtimes.ie</p><p>We look forward to deepening your internet experience!</p><p>Your Googbookwitter Service Team </p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Paddy,</p><p>We are sorry this is an unattended email account. The massive volume of Googbookwitter users makes it impossible for your service team to answer individual emails but we use our servers to take keywords from emails for follow up trouble shooting. Unfortunately "Spying Assholes" and "Abortofascists" didn't match snykeyword active in your Googbookwitter Community. </p><p>Sincerely</p><p>Your Googbookwitter Service Team</p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Paddy,</p><p>We at your Googbookwitter Service Team are deeply disappointed that you have visited none of our site suggestions but even worse twice in the last twenty four hour you've attempted to transfer funds to an anti choice site. </p><p>The Googbookwitter Community is a huge and diverse community united around common values one of which is a woman's right to choose. You hurt all women when you try fund such misogyny. We have contacted your banking service provider who has blocked the funding transfer and will return the money to your account in 3-5 days.</p><p>Sincerely but Saddened,</p><p>Your Googbookwitter Community Service Team</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-90283706122323099432022-06-02T01:36:00.002-07:002022-06-02T01:36:30.599-07:00The China Syndrome.<p> Central planning doesn't work, if it did Putin would be chairman of the politburo of the undissolved USSR and what we call Eastern Europe, but it's inhabitents see as Middle Europe would still be a socialist workers paradise run by self serving glib scroats like Pat Rabbit </p><p>Government planning doesn't work because the very few people, a small self selecting group of confident wrongly educated collectivists, involved do not have the information and ideas that is distributed amongst the millions of people doing their business and getting on with their lives minute by minute. Always the assumptions will be wrong, the ideas merely artistic and the end result hardship, chaos and impoverishment. Government ordains, it does not plan in any real meaning of the word </p><p>Thus has not stopped the Irish government from attempting to emulate the ugly, inefficient Chinese Tyranny by having a National Planning Framework that dictates how much various towns should grow in the next eighteen years enforced by a dictatorial busybody hive, geandiosily titled the Office of The Planning Regulator.</p><p>Under this plan and following the intervention of this nearly unknown and utterly unaccountable bureaucracy land to build over one hundred thousand homes has Ben dezoned, reduced to growing grass at a time when houses are scarcer than a free marketeer in the Irish media and more expensive than a footballer's mistress </p><p>This land was almost all in the main commuter areas of Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow and Meath. The effect will be to move this housing further out, to make existing housing in these areas more expensive and impose longer, more brutal commutes on young working people, keep parents in their cars when they should be with their children and deprive people of the freedom to live where they choose. Chaos, hardship and impoverishment merely to gratify a group of well connected little Emperor's.</p><p>The market, the decision of people themselves looking for buying houses should be the sole decider of "spatial strategy". It is the job of government to enable people's decisions, not dictate them </p><p>Nothing in the Irish Constitution confers the power in government to decide where people will live. Let freedom work.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-42869295045536774372021-12-15T00:22:00.006-08:002021-12-15T00:27:10.803-08:00Tomorrow belongs to Sinn Fein<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SDuHXTG3uyY" width="320" youtube-src-id="SDuHXTG3uyY"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>We are in the final months of Ireland's ridiculous Wiemar Republic and waiting for for their tomorrow are the hardline National Socialists of Sinn Féin, the men of balcavas and broken bodies fronted by a motley crew of obedient mediocrities and dullards who will be our TDs but the representatives of the Army Council of the IRA.<p></p></div><div>Sinn Féin are coming to power not because they are clever, capable or have interesting new policies, every single policy they have is a cliche that has failed wretchedly before, several times, but because this grab bag government is so unendurably dreadful. Fine Gael rotted in opposition and their record in government is appalling, Fianna Fáil rotted in government and wete a useless opposition. The Greens, the eco Nazis condemning thousands of old people to a wretched, frigid death over the next two winters were never anything more than a religious cult followed by those stupid enough to be capable of believing paying more tax would improve the weather. They make the weirdest cargo cult look like an ancient and beautiful faith. Nothing could have prepared us for the sheer, wretched awfulness of Martin's givernment but it has become horribly, more than the sum of it ugly parts. </div><div><br /></div><div>Historians will puzzle over the fact that a vicious, entitled, unpleasant American lesbian became a totem for a hitherto serious political party but they will be utterly mystified by the desire to employ the woman as a free speech envoy when no such position existed and she utterly opposed free speech anyway. Martin forcing his sorry bunch of political deadbeats through the lobby to support Coveney was the deathknell of Fianna Fáil. It is no consolation that Coveney, now revealed to have the same relationship with truth as he has with intelligence, is finished or that the person who leaked the story will very likely go to jail. In voting for confidence in Coveney the Fianna Fáil TDs sacrificed any integrity, honour, party loyalty and their political future. Barry Cowen, dismissed because his story had become a distraction, trooped in with the rest, like a whipped cur, to vote confidence in a man who is a rolling avalanche of distraction. The green harp on Fianna Fáil stationary is now yellow </div><div><br /></div><div>This tired, jaded, confused and apathetic government will limp on, stinking of political death. Donohue is shopping his CV around Europe with the fervour of a man who would take a junior management position in his local Lidl and Silver spoon Coveney is clearly tired of having to respond to the riff raff. His beloved tyrannies do it so much better. </div>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-72166467091998732842021-09-11T15:50:00.002-07:002021-09-12T08:34:03.815-07:00Twenty Years After<p>It's that day again and once more we do the ritual remembering where we were when we heard the news that there had been an attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, once more, now straining, to remember the unfolding horror. The flames, the smoke, the trapped then the awful finality of the collapses. We watched a the unfolding horror in real time, only barely aware of how bad it was. </p><p>Twenty years dulls the recollections. The orphans are now adults, many with children of their own. The consequences are more clear than the memories. There is nearly an entire generation whose memories are constructs, stories they have heard and footage they have seen rather than a memory of watching it on a screen in real time or the shock of those following days and the endless b-flat strains of Barber's Adagio for Strings.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDkh1B35ILNU7LWSroEItDGYH_vIgn_cWLJroV0ppfk9rpavgCfIiiaRfgdHfMb5YzsrapUdefAv985wx3ppPeUPrmr9eHD1bIBSjDYSnLMjedUdIl1KWf_0zGXda0uKUsYuRqnmaCPE/s167/download.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDkh1B35ILNU7LWSroEItDGYH_vIgn_cWLJroV0ppfk9rpavgCfIiiaRfgdHfMb5YzsrapUdefAv985wx3ppPeUPrmr9eHD1bIBSjDYSnLMjedUdIl1KWf_0zGXda0uKUsYuRqnmaCPE/s16000/download.jpeg" /></a></div>Images endlessly repeated get burnt into the public mind. Where no image exists we rapidly forget. The falling man. The fire fighters. The trapped in the roof. The fire fighters. Three hundred and forty two NYFD fire fighters died but Cantor Fitzgerald's offices were above the impact on the North Tower and six hundred and fifty eight of that company's employees perished.<p></p><p>The terrorists who planned and executed the attack couldn't have imagined how successful the operation would be. Slamming passenger planes into iconic bulidings wasn't a militarily useful operation, it obeyed Lenin's words on terror, that its purpose is to terrorise. The WTC towers proved to be more vulnerable than anyone had thought, with cascading collapse taking down three towers, gifting Osama Bin Ladin's suicide squad with a destruction and slaughter beyond their dreams. </p><p>Those rapid collapses birthed an "inside job/controlled demolition" conspiracy theory which has been endlessly refuted but twenty years on has been revived and repurposed for the Covid era. The fact that the virus itself almost certainly is the result of "gain of function" research at the Wuhan Virology Lab, funded by the US Centre for Disease Control (irony thine name is a government agency) provides fetid manure to the theorists. Conspiracy theories are Zombie Ideas, always rising from the dead. (The Anti Semite's theory of Jewish responsibility and long term planning, based on a Torah and airplane on an Israeli Shekel with the twin scrolls of the Torah as the Towers, has reappeared on social media in all its deranged nastiness).</p><p>New York is the world's great cosmopolitan city but over one sixth of those who died were either Irish or counted Irish ancestry. Irish America tasted the bitter fruit of terrorism and the murdering Marxist thugs of the IRA were caught between their US fanbase having a change of heart and the US government taking a much dimmer view of terrorists in general. After 9/11 there was no going back to civilian massacres.</p><p>America, like Austro Hungary in the Summer of 1914, saw little choice but invade when Afghanistan refused to extradite the planners of the attack. The invasion was relatively easy, the greatest military might on earth against a third world country, it was the occupation that was the problem. The Taliban simply melted into the the landscape and America's generals and politicians were incapable of devising a strategy to beat them. This was complicated by Bush's insane invasion of Iraq, sucking manpower and strategic thinking into an entirely extraneous war. Iraq would not have happened without 9/11 although Al Qaeda and the Taliban had no time for the secularist savage, Saddam Hussein. </p><p>There wasn't just one mistake, of course. There never is in truely bad history. Those twenty years are littered with poor decisions, stupidity and a failure of strategy, tactics and imagination on a colossal level. This was crowned by Biden's deranged, chaotic and supine high speed withdrawal. The seven children killed in the drone attempt to rewrite the defense of Kabul Airport were victims of Biden's appalimg, vicious incompetence. Once more the Taliban are in charge of Afghanistan but now they believe they are invincible.</p><p>The Iraq war created ISIS. Twenty years of war in Afghanistan will create a herd of rough beasts slouching towards Kabul to be born. Once more the most ugly interpretation of Islam is empowered, encouraged and ready for blood. The Yazidii suffered the consequences of the Iraq Stupidity, slaughtered, raped and enslaved. We won't know who or how the victims of this new wave of Islamofacism will suffer, it's too early to tell and tonight isn't the time for prognostications.</p><p>Tonight we simply remember the men and women who died in the awful events of that day. People, individuals, with lives, dreams and families who suffered terror pain and death because evil men wanted to make a point. The future will sort itself out. </p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-67318686886209158892021-09-09T10:22:00.007-07:002021-09-11T08:16:07.763-07:00The Lynching of Larry Elder<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHPQw2KjGD7JJO8DALijZde70sQSCZ8ppJ2ai2c3BDMN1FlI8_am3s0EjVdl1bDvQ8x6AywvOFvxdj0rY1GHLZkhmXp7c73d72fS4Sb3csxtMBFD4qY9ca-RvdbmBPsLxlPZjI6d-ZpA/s600/larry-elder-homeless-encampment-california-governor-recall.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHPQw2KjGD7JJO8DALijZde70sQSCZ8ppJ2ai2c3BDMN1FlI8_am3s0EjVdl1bDvQ8x6AywvOFvxdj0rY1GHLZkhmXp7c73d72fS4Sb3csxtMBFD4qY9ca-RvdbmBPsLxlPZjI6d-ZpA/w200-h133/larry-elder-homeless-encampment-california-governor-recall.webp" width="200" /></a></div>This week a white woman, wearing a gorilla mask, threw eggs at Larry Elder, the black candidate for the governorship of California. The violent, racist thug was making a forceful point but it has not been openly acknowledged despite the incandescent semiotics.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe3r5FfLHULf4UA4YIssPArPnbd9oNqTwsuhPlcs4G5CUJ0VPxUXgXcLgAyxUQMtPe7yqMtSQb7EeZ9i0nDT0swRF-Xie_GCGkc_bz8KJ0_f7gM2sX2OiBVPuI7BJHsmSGY0X4jJb25XM/s283/download.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Vile racist monkey cartoon" border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="178" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe3r5FfLHULf4UA4YIssPArPnbd9oNqTwsuhPlcs4G5CUJ0VPxUXgXcLgAyxUQMtPe7yqMtSQb7EeZ9i0nDT0swRF-Xie_GCGkc_bz8KJ0_f7gM2sX2OiBVPuI7BJHsmSGY0X4jJb25XM/w126-h200/download.jpeg" title="The incandescent semiotics of wearing a gorilla mask while attacking a black election candidate" width="126" /></a></div>It is merely another incident in the hysterical, dangerous and racist campaign against Larry Elder by America's white illiberal elite but had a similar attack and with similar semiotics been made on Obama, Ikea could not have provided enough swooning couches nor the Main Steam Media enough coverage in the available 24 hour news slots. <p></p><p>Instead the Divider in Chief and second worst US President of the 21st century (nobody is beating Sh*t Show Joe for the No 1 slot) recorded an attack ad on Larry Elder focusing on Elder's opposition to involuntary mask and vaccine mandates. The ad was recorded barely two weeks after Obama held a massive, unmasked birthday party at his Martha's Vineyard mansion compound...</p><p>That ad happened because the campaign against Larry Elder is ramping up to full insanity as it becomes clear that privileged corruptocrat Gavin Newsom is now likely to lose the recall election, installing Larry Elder as Governor of California.</p><p>Neither Obama nor any Democrat, including Trudeau clone Newsom have condemned the racist attack nor are the likely to be asked to do so by Main Steam Media as the praetorians rally round to protect their politicians. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzC_JhzK0KgfcJa2PrJKHlJGe0DaanlUEVdRryT-1BtO9t-uVDnoYDxMZrRgiLFTbLwYlDqV8Uh4PlbFJrnmuXDCH0VgiCG586ml6_iYIOJjZTKQGPV2vvMcOXePsVq_1dK974CqzcqXE/s294/Larry_Elder_at_Camp_Pendleton_in_2013_%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="220" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzC_JhzK0KgfcJa2PrJKHlJGe0DaanlUEVdRryT-1BtO9t-uVDnoYDxMZrRgiLFTbLwYlDqV8Uh4PlbFJrnmuXDCH0VgiCG586ml6_iYIOJjZTKQGPV2vvMcOXePsVq_1dK974CqzcqXE/w150-h200/Larry_Elder_at_Camp_Pendleton_in_2013_%25281%2529.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Larry Elder is everything American white liberalefties hate and fear. He's a black man who made it without them. A working class black man who became a successful lawyer, a hugely articulate talk show host who refuses to accept the given mythologies and shibboleths of the left (gender ideology, gender pay gap, structural racism, abortion) he is at any time a walking talking blue pill. In threatening to take the governorship of California he has become their AntiChrist.<p></p><p>White "liberals" have spent weeks denouncing Elder as, of all things, a White Supremacist. This deranged, disconnected-from-any-known-reality line probably works inside their heads and whatever echo chambers they inhabit but it has not worked as a persuasive argument with voters to keep Newsom. Their attempts to keep him of the ballot was deemed an illegal exclusion and had to be reversed. That transparently racist attempt to stop the most popular black candidate should have resulted in the immolation of the career of Xavier Becerra, California's Attorney General. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Q73YeRi5d8BH7shHsTj85RwU7z-viY4YmeOhCTEJqzAsLSejQnHJa5Ptx3Zot1MuOnRU5GwmfrE61EqBxfQ6uWJ50PyjOY3wum5UIT3rOC-zM2bxZqG4jY-BgZJjnDkEJynBlJtJrLU/s225/imakklanges+%25281%2529.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Q73YeRi5d8BH7shHsTj85RwU7z-viY4YmeOhCTEJqzAsLSejQnHJa5Ptx3Zot1MuOnRU5GwmfrE61EqBxfQ6uWJ50PyjOY3wum5UIT3rOC-zM2bxZqG4jY-BgZJjnDkEJynBlJtJrLU/w200-h200/imakklanges+%25281%2529.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><br />In following Larry Elder in a gorilla mask the Newsom fan dropped the Democratic party mask and exposed the shameful racism of White Liberals in all it's nasty, patronising horror. Larry Elder is a black man who has wandered off plantation and an example needs to be made of him lest others get the idea that they are free to think and act for themselves. White Democrats in masks attacking successful, independent minded black men on behalf of rich white politicians is nothing new. We just were fooled into believing it had been left in the past.<p></p><p></p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-53106427924299806412021-07-25T05:34:00.002-07:002021-07-25T05:58:11.231-07:00A Septic media is a growing threat to what's left of Democracy<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sTs9NA4PeHU6hFqP9324MMA2SBRbR00HH_vKhEpzJLASg_6-pkbTzl_-_WYSSAf0hpONALhAAizNCPsFAU1nxvKBtKa3GHN7xVVBxeSZMkxH6wNCSPTTno0Vx8zuIVfR-1aJ7XDPZYE/s936/219849678_141503058116098_1815442629395017054_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="936" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sTs9NA4PeHU6hFqP9324MMA2SBRbR00HH_vKhEpzJLASg_6-pkbTzl_-_WYSSAf0hpONALhAAizNCPsFAU1nxvKBtKa3GHN7xVVBxeSZMkxH6wNCSPTTno0Vx8zuIVfR-1aJ7XDPZYE/s320/219849678_141503058116098_1815442629395017054_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>(Thanks to Irish Peasant on Facebook for the image.)<p></p><p>Three supposedly separate media outlets using the precise same words in precisely the same order is not a coincidence of reporting. It is not even even the convergence of propaganda. This is a sick collusion, a copy and paste of a centralised message. </p><p>This should be the story. Always now in Ireland it is the scandalous, open propaganda that is the meta-story that dwarfs the actual event. In any funtioning democracy this level of media scripting would be a a national issue and other media would mock it and investigate it.</p><p>Instead the lazy propaganda is merely accepted and repeated in the septic swamp that is Irish Media. "Far Right" used to mean tattoed young skinheads with a BNP membership card and a violent dislike of colored people, now it means anybody disagreeing with the coterie of media operatives (NOT journalists!) and effete politicians. Notice not one participant in a large protest was asked to explain their point of view or write about the purpose of the protest? Compare that to the hagiographical coverage of the completely illegal and utterly ludicrous Black Lives Matter protest held in defiance of strict lockdown last year and you will have some idea if the childish level of political bias in Irish media.</p><p>These are headlines about a large (10,000 people+) protest in Dublin yesterday attended by a politically diverse audience united on in their rejection of the governments cackhanded handling of the end of the pandemic and the attempt to use Covid to accrete state power. Indeed if the media operatives really believed there were that many neo-Nazis in the country we would see genuine panic. This is about demonization, not reporting. </p><p>Media is how a democracy talks to itself. No conversation is now possible in Ireland because the media, aside from a few marginalized internet voices, are as frighteningly monochrome as that of Stalin's Russia. Silencing dissent, pretending disagreement does not exist, kulackising opposition does not make it go away. Instead great lake of distrust is growing behind the media dam and it's God help us all if that lake is forced to wash away the dam and flood the carefully tended plains. </p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-43060440302102890582021-04-30T04:56:00.004-07:002021-04-30T05:00:18.671-07:00The People's Democratic LGBTFQIA Republick<p> When I was a child, somewhere around the early middle ages, vast areas of the map of the world were given over to things called "Democratic People's Republics". These are, except for the brutal tryrannies of China, Korea and Cuba, all gone now but their central ideas have floated down, second hand and bloodstained, into everywhere on the map.</p><p>Of course these ugly entities were not, democratic or republics but countries where the state, in the person of the ruler or rulers, decided every thing, allowing no dissent or diversity of opinion within the borders. (Or without. Menachem Begin was tried and sentenced in the USSR for running a boy scout organisation in Poland before he fled the Germans). Yesterday, in Dail Eireann we saw Rosín Shorthall in an exchange with Leo Vardakar use the same Stalinist ideas in an attack on the Catholic Church for teaching mainstream, ancient religious teaching on sexuality. Her target is of course the Catholic Church, to question other faiths would be sectarian or Islamaphobic. </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD9s6D7T2lSAqlRFVQ7OxnApSoqZ8bL8lSnHUeIQ2pgQyRQ9ORMJ9r25u38jjchG01lzsd9MF7nEOMBpX10Dpnd8qHaHvL2mE_KA_HP6QK-_k71ZGG62EnxwT5ZuNgccRtSBlTyWgcbrE/s647/001-social-democrats-ge.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Roisín Shortall" border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="647" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD9s6D7T2lSAqlRFVQ7OxnApSoqZ8bL8lSnHUeIQ2pgQyRQ9ORMJ9r25u38jjchG01lzsd9MF7nEOMBpX10Dpnd8qHaHvL2mE_KA_HP6QK-_k71ZGG62EnxwT5ZuNgccRtSBlTyWgcbrE/w200-h105/001-social-democrats-ge.jpg" title="Roisín Shortall" width="200" /></a></div><br />Shorthall, one of Ireland's preminent prigs, is upset that the Catholic Church is insisting on teaching that marriage is between a man and a woman. <span face="Georgia, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">“</span><span face="Georgia, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">“Tánaiste, teaching children that relationships can be placed in a hierarchy, depending on sexual orientation, should be anathema in any modern republic...” </span></span><p></p><p>Here the word modern has no agreed meaning except what Costello assigns to it, it isn't so much a word as a codifier in Newspeak, part of an almost private language that she speaks. Modern is good, modern is unopposable. It would be a brave man who would remind Ms Costello that Robespierre, Stalin and Hitler were modern in their day. </p><p>Costello is brutally trying to eliminate any other ethos but her own, developing, ill defined experimental one, while resolutely maintaining that the missionaries for this weird, ugly dogmatism are bringing the light of science to bear.</p><p><span face="Georgia, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">“Sex education needs to be fact based, and facts do not have an ethos.” proclaimed the woman who insists that the tenets of her own ethos are facts. The state has redefined marriage and in the best tradition of the People's Democratic Republics no other teaching can be allowedbecause the state owns the "facts". Costello is for empowering the state in a way that far from being "modern" is a replica of Stalin's 1920s. </span></p><p><span face="Georgia, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Of course like all want-to-be tyrants Costello brutally repressing other opinions for the best intentions. "Do we really want LGBTQ plus children in schools, who may be struggling with their sexual orientation to be taught that their relationships are in any way less were they, meaningful, loving, or deserving of respect than their heterosexual peers..." It's for the children, of course, and their relationships that's she's bravely battling for as she uses her makey up catch all term to yoke them to her chariot. What Costello's "we" wants is irrelevant. Parents chose the ethos in which their children are educated, not Costello untill we abolish the constitutional limitations on state power and make her chairman of the politburo. </span></p><p><span face="Georgia, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">In Costello's Absurdistan the state is to be all powerful in the most personal of issues. This same state can redefine and change the dogma in an ever developing insanity in which boys are girls, marriage is merely an adult cohabitation agreement between any assorted group of individuals and gay sexuality merely the expression of internalised transphobia but Costello merely teaches facts....</span></p><p><span face="Georgia, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">The state is not just a poor guarentor of freedom, it is it's enemy. Only when the state is kept in it's box and dissent and diversity and alternate loyalties exist are we truly free and safe. Vsevolod Meyerhold cheered the October Revolution in 1917. Twenty three years later Stalin's torturers dragged him, both legs broken and one eye gouged out, to his execution. Don't be Vsevolod Meyerhold.</span></p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-2184156777050796032021-03-12T20:27:00.003-08:002021-03-13T21:10:08.315-08:00What do we believe? <p>What do Christians believe? We say we believe in God but is this merely a statement we are used to repeat or something we really mean? If it's not just a comforting cliché then it is something horridly discomforting. </p><p>If we believe in God then that belief has terrible ramifications. The brotherhood of man. Forgiveness. That which you do onto the least of these you do on to me. Jesus is an awkward Deity, the Crucified King who makes such terrible demands. But we say we believe and if we do then His Sacrifice on the cross, His life and death are not just stories to nod our heads along to but the central truth of our world. </p><p>Christianity is a shared responsibility, we belong to Church, we pray and celebrate His Eucharist not alone but as a congregation, as a community. That means we cannot go on not having public worship. We cannot even if the great and good tell us we must not and even if they threaten us with arrest and public shaming we must go back together to our Churches. </p><p>Four weeks is the central feast of Christianity, Easter. Almost two thousand Passions, Deaths and Resurrections have been celebrated, despite the most fearsome of persecutions and by people living under the most brutal of oppression. There is no reason, no evidence and no excuse why Christians in Ireland should not Celebrate our Redemption in our Churches, Chapels and Cathedrals this year. The prohibition on worship is unfounded scientifically, legally non existent and the quasi legalistic intimidation in the absence of clear legislation is constitutionally dubious and a brutal infringement of basic human rights and good law. </p><p>If we believe, then we have a duty to go back as a community to our churches. If priests won't celebrate Mass then we can sit and pray in silence, bereft, deprived but there witnessing what we believe as a people. If the Bishops tell us not to we must go anyway, obdurate in our faith and simple in our insistence that in church is our place at Easter, even if that entails removing the doors that they lock against us. If the government says it will send the Gardai let us stay silent but in our hearts say that they will need a bigger force. When men that campaigned for abortion tell us we must not, silently sing we must, and go. </p><p>This Easter be disobedient together, as a community and as congregations. Use your community whatsapps and text messages. Tell your neighbours you are going. Arrange to go to your churches, masked and socially distanced as required, at the time worship should happen on Saturday and Sunday. Celebrate the great Alleluia of Easter Saturday by kneeling in pray as a people. Let no one deter you or order you elsewhere. We have waited too long. </p><p>Open your Church this Easter. </p><p><br /></p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-71528349960736343722021-02-09T06:50:00.007-08:002023-03-01T21:50:50.208-08:00A Plague on Both Your Houses<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">For his opinion piece in Gript on Google’s foreign dominated employment (<a href="https://gript.ie/more-than-70-of-google-jobs-dont-go-to-irish-people-yet-theyre-crowding-dubs-out-of-the-city/">More
than 70% of Google jobs don’t go to Irish people</a>), Dr Matt
Treacy ended up being attacked by that most predictable of wokettes,
Neale Richmond TD, on Twitter, as “xenophobic”. It should be a
matter of public shame that a TD, even from a party as unserious as
FG, uses Twitter but the cheap, dismissive,
too-stupid-to-make-an-argument step sister of shouting “racist”
merely made Richmond sound as stupid as...well Neale Richmond and
John McGuirk, the Editor of Gript enjoyed the opportunity to take the
TD to the woodshed in a subsequent column titled “<a href="https://gript.ie/do-better-deputy-richmond/">Do
Better, Deputy Richmond</a>” (making hilarious use of the woke
liturgical language). Unfortunately Richmond’s silly intervention
left Matt off with a collection of bad ideas yoked together by
sentimentality when he ought to have been answered on a </span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Matt contends that a that Google and
other High Tech HQs based in Dublin are bad for the city as they
bring in a high paid workforce which “has led to a situation where
ordinary Dubs are priced out of buying or even renting in the city
where they were reared.” If the just short of two thousand foreign
workers are creating that much disruption to a city the size of
Dublin then there is something seriously wrong with how we are
running the casino.</span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">The housing shortage in Dublin is neither
Google’s nor its workforce’s creation, it is an entirely home
made and Government manufactured horror show. Houses are made scarce
and expensive by an utterly underdeveloped sewerage system, a
planning system which is secretive, byzantinely slow, subjective,
corrupt and beholden to nay-sayers at every turn. Worse housing is
saddled with regulation that would make the most jaded Brussels
eurocrat orgasmic with delight. While the starter property in most
cities is the bedsit, Irish authorities in their wisdom have banned
anything smaller than 65 sq m lest the young get their foot on the
property ladder. North facing apartments are equally verbothen, lest
someone buy them more cheaply. It’s the equality, innit, said the
man from Coolnamuic. When native Dubliners cant buy housing in the
city blame those that make the rules not those adding to the economy.</span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Yes Google’s workforce, all two
thousand seven hundred of them on Matt’s count, will compete for
housing especially in the North Wall. This is, by any reckoning, a
very good thing. Cities live on competition and change. It is the
very nature of a city and of a working economy that neighbourhoods
change and are recycled in purpose over time. There is an ugly
sentimentality attached about Dublin that has Noel Purcell playing
Rashers Tierney and Maureen Potter dancing jigs on an endless loop
while a choir croons Dublin in the Rare Ould Times but that is not
reality. The North Wall could be preserved in the aspic of poverty
for a short while but that would be bad for Dublin and terrible for
Ireland asit degenerated into a barren slum. The 70% of Googles work force who come from abroad come
educated and ready to work at no cost to the Irish Tax payer and give
some of their best years paying taxes here while using the large
purchasing power to drive local economies. That’s good for all of
us.</span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">We get Google and others and their highly
paid staff because we sensibly don’t tax businesses heavily in
order to encourage them to be here. We would gain far more out of
this arrangement if we freed our housing market and ate the Greens
instead of voting for them but that is not an argument to stop the
very sensible policy of having well paid people work in our economy.
The money they spend on housing, food, leisure, even coffee is a boon
to the city. Demand is good, demand creates opportunity to supply. Cutting demand impoverishes us, allowing free enterprise to supply demand makes us all better off.</span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Its a sensible, productive policy that
really annoys our snobbish, racist and high spending European
neighbours, particularly the French. How dare the potato eaters leap
frog them in wealth creation? And in a single generation? Sadly there
is a small contingent of vicious leftwing ideologues and much larger
group of left-leaning naifs for whom taxation is both the ultimate
good and only contribution business makes. It is a thinking that puts
government revenue at the heart of economic calculations at the
expense of the economic lives of people. These willing echo the anti
business and anti Irish sentiments of the French socialists (all
French are Socialists, thats why France is in terminal decline) who
simply are engaged in a brutal tax grab.</span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Matt complains bitterly that Google
recruit a mere 30% of its workforce from the “indigenous people”
and asks are Irish computer graduates not good enough. The figures
answer him. In a global high tech hub almost one third of the
graduate employees are Irish. That is an astonishing figure given the
language, skills and cultural knowledge needs of a unique business.
Taxing businesses higher or putting nationality quotas on businesses
wont help Irish people however much better it might make Matt feel.
Reducing the size, scope and interference of government would allow
us to get far more benefit from our thriving open economy. Please
dont kill the goose because politicians wont let her lay!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Matt is utterly dismissive of
Googles <span>€</span>300m investment in
their new campus. That is a vast amount of business generated in the
economy for those “ordinary Dubs” he professes to champion, the
men in workboots who will build, the businesses who will fit it out.
We have become jaded by prosperity when that scale of business is
chaff. I’m old enough to remember a poorer country and a more
desperate time and very many who will work on that project have more recent memories of not having a future.</span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">If Matt is that wrong how is The Wokette
Richmond worse? If Richmond really believed that Matt Treacy was
wrong on the economics he would not have tried the woke scare tactic
of calling him Xenophobic. "Phobic" is always the flag of no argument.
Richmond believes Matt is right on the economics but that we have a
reliious duty to be “diverse”. Labeling Dr Matt Treacy's article as phobic puts it outside the normal discourse, a leper of the dialectic. It is one of the odd things about the
Wokeness faith that Nigeria and Kenya have no diversity obligation,
in fact the reverse while Ireland and Hungary are saddled with a
diversity quota of incalculable magnitude. For Richmond Irish people
suffering for diversity is merely atonement for original sin.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span>They are both wrong, Matt Treacy on the
economics, Richmond on everything. </span>
</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-51274635618899626252020-12-21T07:26:00.003-08:002021-09-09T09:11:48.769-07:00A Thoroughly Modern Thug<p> An 18 year old has been jailed for eighteen months for breaking a vodka bottle over the head of another teenager who had beaten to the ground by his friends. He then stabbed the downed teen, an entirely innocent stranger, at least six times in the neck with the broken bottle while his friends videoed the attack for use on social media.</p><p>Use? Yes use because they were making a point forcefully. They were telling other 17 year old lads to be afraid, that they could cut their throats and be untouchable. 18 months for a brutal if unsuccessful attempted murder is a derisory sentence which is about as useful as a deterrent as Willy Wonka's "Stop Don't" as children tried out his inventions.</p><p>Bad as the attack was the press coverage is worse. Although it is now perfectly legal to name and photograph the thug involved the presstitutes are sticking to the line that he can't be named. Our thug belongs to some protected group or he would not be afforded such a cover up. If Ireland journalists didn't have double standards they would have none</p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-15610200577220573972020-11-17T20:01:00.029-08:002021-09-11T02:19:17.881-07:00Eight Rules<p> These are eight rules to help you understand life and they are offered in no particular order.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRz4c9G9bGOfHpZ0o7sTmMzy8NRAwMDc6kV1vXWkzGhKJhQkGr8lt_YQaT2BvDXB9B4r7X-Z-hVbJwZYp3wELpTALdNxBnamP3gd-KzCx91MJkMqtv5Hxm5Xp8LVSxn6kD4u74J-f3bg/s225/images.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="224" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRz4c9G9bGOfHpZ0o7sTmMzy8NRAwMDc6kV1vXWkzGhKJhQkGr8lt_YQaT2BvDXB9B4r7X-Z-hVbJwZYp3wELpTALdNxBnamP3gd-KzCx91MJkMqtv5Hxm5Xp8LVSxn6kD4u74J-f3bg/w199-h200/images.jpeg" width="199" /></a></div><br />1. The more certainty with which a prediction is made means the less qualified the predictor is to make it and the more likely the prediction is nonsense. Thus in forecasting certainty means inaccuracy. <p></p><p>2. The chances that someone using the hash tag #bekind is a sociopath rise each time they use it. After the third effort to signal that they value kindness, those chances rise to a certainty.</p><p>3. A male feminist is always a creepy, groping, wannabe rapist. Many succeed. It's called Sneaky F**ker Strategy and is practised by liberals and some inedible fish.</p><p>4. When a politician weeps he is about to make Nile crocodiles look honest and benign. Never vote for a weeper.</p><p>6. Socialists no longer say power to the people, they claim to want to save the planet. People, it turned out, rejected socialism when they discovered that too many starved or were murdered under its rule. The Planet doesn't get to do that kind of rejection to the children of constant childhood affirmation. </p><p>7. People who say violence solves nothing are generally great advocates for the continuous and ultimate violence that is the state. This is because they can pretend that the state isn't violent because we have accommodated ourselves to its savagery. </p><p>8. Modern journalists patrol the media lest the truth leak out and patrol other journalists lest anyone writes about sonmebody who tells the truth. A journalist's job is to keep people in the dark. The vast majority of people cooperate fully with this objective.</p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-86215146911411763012020-11-02T13:47:00.009-08:002020-11-03T06:50:34.485-08:00Trumpslide! <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijUCUCB0wWxR2FANJ7-2jR_YBEb22iWpafliyOCbsGODNoeAWB93SlJQmgZD2lgrtils9-2uxSw4Dg4gZ-5WUqtfeB0inxTckPXjzq3s5k2yLVz9imWUJTnXSyjgrp23ICAXMG0mr0dcU/s1040/oie_Jn3WkMifjQHf.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijUCUCB0wWxR2FANJ7-2jR_YBEb22iWpafliyOCbsGODNoeAWB93SlJQmgZD2lgrtils9-2uxSw4Dg4gZ-5WUqtfeB0inxTckPXjzq3s5k2yLVz9imWUJTnXSyjgrp23ICAXMG0mr0dcU/w184-h200/oie_Jn3WkMifjQHf.jpg" width="184" /></a></div><br />America is about to go to the polls to select a President and the choice is not just between to candidates but between two visions of the world.<p></p><p><br /></p><p>On one hand Biden, the partly senile, utterly corrupt, entirely mendacious, lifelong politician offers an unconstrained vision of government. He's going to fix, right, ordain, ban, transform and re-order because government planning large swathes of the economy makes absolute sense to him and his vicious idiot running mate. Leaving aside their seriously flawed personalities, difficult as that is, Harris-Biden are running on an unconstrained vision, on the ludicrous and failed idea that government can fix everything with enough regulation and interference. </p><p>Trump, for the most part, promises less regulation, less government and simple freedom to Americans. He has, in his four years in office, delivered on his promises and then some. Repealing and ending his Marxist predecessor's job killing regulations and taking the US out of the insanity of the Paris Climate Agreement paid huge dividends for the American economy, even making it more resilient in the face of Xi's Disease and its weaponisation by Democtatic governors like the homicidal maniac Cuomo in New York. Originalist judges have been appointed in spades culminating in his jewel in the Crown replacement of Ginsberg with the stellar Amy Coney Barrett. </p><p>Trump changed the very limited rules of engagement inflicted by his incompetent predecessor on the American military which contributed to a defeat of ISIS a full seven years ahead of Obama's estimate. The icing on the cake is his reset of Middle Eastern politics with country after country signing peace deals with Israel, the inevitable outcome of which will be that the recalcitrant and corrupt Palestinian leaders will be forced to do the same. Yes, most days it would be better if he didn't even open Twitter but Trump is a historically great president and Americans know it.</p><p>Enthusiasm for Donald Trump is far greater than that for Reagan in '84 and despite the very best efforts of Silicon Valley and the legacy media organisations that enthusiasm is going to pay off in a Trump landslide. </p><p>Some of those efforts can only be described as coming from a very crazy place. Trump is denounced as a Nazi proto-dictator by people who should know better, a racist by people who have turned the term into a meaningless epithet and promoting hate by people who create mobs to riot and burn on Americas streets. It should be regarded as odd that Mr Trump was never any of these things until he ran against a Democrat. This time he runs against a Democrat who was forced out of the 1988 race because not alone did he lie with the fluency of Ted Kennedy about his academic record, Biden plagiarised Neil Kinnocks autobiography when writing his own! The Donald is blessed in his opponents. This time he runs against George McGovern plus fifty years, without McGovern's honesty, patriotism, intelligence and ability. </p><p>Trump is going to win. </p><p>The wailing and whining of the left on both sides of the Atlantic will be a joy to behold, Beijing's Politburo will mourn in private. His win will terminate both Biden's and Harris's career and Biden may well find himself facing charges for his career corruption. Harris who was so unpopular inside her own party that her campaign didn't even make it to the Iowa caucuses, will return to the senate the same talentless smarmy grifter she always was. More than that it will mark the beginning of the end of the cultural Marxist project, it will be Communist China's Pearl Harbour and begin the second American Century.</p><p>The Basket of Deplorables will save the world, God Bless America! </p><p>PS It looks like there's a very large turnout happening. That's in Trumps favour. Also I'd be grateful if anyone would share this to social media, I'm precluded from doing so on any platform now.... C'mon man</p><p><br /></p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-38521484816737364582020-10-23T11:55:00.001-07:002020-10-23T11:55:47.780-07:00An Gardai, Police Force or Liberal Praetorian Guard? <p>Drew Harris, the Garda Commissoner, presides over a force demoralised, disorganised, tainted with corruption, under trained, under managed and becoming more ineffective with each suspect promotion and cultural Marxist trope it adopts. An Gardai fails the members of the force with its astonishing descent into chaos but it is the straight female Gardai who suffer the real brunt of the disaster. Once a woman is outed as straight, especially by marriage to a man, her chances of promotion are less than a Hoover Biden Baby Mama receiving unlitigated child support or Kilkenny lifting the Sam Maguire after a 3 23 to nil victory over Kerry.</p><p>Imported to address the disastrous state of the force after the scandals such as the Gardai bugging the Garda Ombudsman's Office and the efforts by many senior Gardai to impress on on politicians and press the disgusting lie that Maurice McCabe was the untouchable, a child abuser, Harris had an enormous job of reform to do. Sadly not alone is it beyond his capabilities, it appears to beyond his very limited comprehension.</p><p>Instead as a kind of distraction Harris has led the force into being the Praetorian Guard for ilLiberalefty Ireland. He holds press conferences about "hate speech" and declares he has a working definition of it, effectively cutting short public discussion of this nonsense term by having the police make the law, the very definition of a police state. The force has adopted all the tropes of the very worst British and American police forces, (following on from its pre~Harris disgraceful conduct during the Anti Marriage Referendum in 2015) marching in political parades, painting up Garda cars in political kit colours and making it very clear that this is a thoroughly politicised police force.</p><p>When, during the height of the previous draconian (and entirely useless) lockdown more than six thousand people marched through Dublin in a demonstration of Marxist power Harris neither investigated nor had arrested a single person for flouting what we were told were vital, life saving public health rules of quarantine. Now, in a brazenly political move, having sent the members of the force in to intimidate and break up a demonstration against the second lockdown Harris announces that it was organised by "extremists" and the organisers will be found. At the same time he says that the demonstration has no actual group or organisation behind it and arose spontaneously from shared information on social media. The message is very clear. Very large Cultural Marxist protest in the from of the city burning cop killing BLM is good, spontaneous demonstration by concerned citizens is very, very bad. </p><p>An Gardai need reform as badly as the Green Party need to be exposed as human hating weirdos but Harris has chose the path of distraction over accomplishment. Under him things will get much worse, as always in Ireland now because his very stupidest ideas are shared by the media. Instead of reporting and questioning the presstitutes will applaud each new stupidity and illegal power grab. </p><p>Any young Garda who wants promotion in this chaos should declare themselves transgender at the earliest possible opportunity. In the Praetorian Gardai it will get them a superintendent's epaulettes as faster than Varadkar can grab a headline. </p><p><br /></p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-7716227864410041812020-10-20T12:55:00.002-07:002020-10-20T14:15:24.838-07:00No, This is Not The Way.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_4Lhuwh_Etb3iBnk80UhyphenhyphencJNjYOhsh03JAN1wZlvxCv6c1tPOgbeQ9zg9XDrb2Ch16jPlLo00JG4Is2FReA0_lkqTk7SSKD-P8aR0yQxcwAo86bWXjcxkkgmAQGr93GHbNIyupix-JM/s225/download.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="224" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_4Lhuwh_Etb3iBnk80UhyphenhyphencJNjYOhsh03JAN1wZlvxCv6c1tPOgbeQ9zg9XDrb2Ch16jPlLo00JG4Is2FReA0_lkqTk7SSKD-P8aR0yQxcwAo86bWXjcxkkgmAQGr93GHbNIyupix-JM/w199-h200/download.jpeg" width="199" /></a></div><br />Predictably as the country opened up after the insane lockdown case numbers for Xis Disease rose and once more the incompetent little tyrants of the Health "Services" called for the mass incarceration of the inhabitants. Equally predictably the spineless fool who is taoiseach caved in to them and now we are faced with the government enforced shutdown of life in Ireland. That this wretched idea is backed by at least one third of the population shows us the power of state propaganda, ignorance and fear. That longing for a nanny state solution to fear has survived the utter chaos of the Government's regulation. When you couldn't travel more than two kilometres from your home, tourists could come from the most infected cities in the world. A nine euro meal protects from the virus while funerals and religious services bring it on but a Marxist protest confers not just immunity from the disease but from the rules the rest of us are forced to obey. <p></p><p>Never mind that the highly paid incompetents now driving policy have not gotten a single thing right about this epidemic, from their springtime refusal to protect the vulnerable on the basis that "panic is worse than the virus"* or their homicidal policy of moving old people back to nursing homes after stays in hospital or their utter, insane inability to make anything like a reasonable prediction of infection numbers, none of this matters in the light of their ability to create fear blackmail. Faced with making a decision Martin and his rabble of gobshites folded lest the presstitutes turn on them. The decision was not taken on evidence but on fear of a small gaggle of semi literate Liberal journos for whom Holahan has become a secular Saint. </p><p>Martin chose to carpet bomb the economy because he lacks the balls to stand up to the press and we are expected to ignore the poverty, hardship, deaths and misery this bizarre decision will cause. Weirdly for some our suicidal lockdown policies and our world leadership in sacrificing freedom and the economy has become a matter of perverse pride. Xis Disease is a threat but it is the job of government to balance threats and benefits. </p><p>There is now far more data on infections from Xis Disease than we had during the panicked days of early March but the Little Tyrants have neither collated that data nor set to data mining it. Instead they use the press to advocate for nuking the country in a stupid, barbaric, evidenceless and unnecessary shutdown. </p><p>The shutdown is also utterly futile. It will, of course, lower <i>immediate</i> case numbers just as machine gunning swathes of the population would. Once it ends, in the absence of well informed evidence based policy, rapid testing and competent contact tracing, an absence of which we are only to well aware, numbers of infections will rise, prompting the Little Tyrants to seek further lockdowns. It is worth reminding the dim incompetents of the HSE that the Nigerian hospitals traced the contacts for Ebola patients through the 23 million person 36 hour traffic-jam chaos that is Lagos. </p><p>So what should we do? We should, as we always should , rebel. It is the duty of the citizen to be utterly ungovernable in the face of stupidity and tyranny. They can't arrest us all. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-7141299439576264812020-09-12T02:50:00.007-07:002020-09-13T11:09:04.159-07:00Trump, For World Peace & Prosperity<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCMloRZStsmNA5sBmBHpI5vZMKz8MtFp_BDoGmmqctMJ6stjkcuvSEQi7DUBDbVF8W6NuFP7p96AMF2Fba_1jPbOFoPY2KF7ychKMpbhK-Gy-PxMRBfVXvtC2yKPdSZU5ZmQI2dxzJni4/s253/dotrumpload+%25281%2529.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="199" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCMloRZStsmNA5sBmBHpI5vZMKz8MtFp_BDoGmmqctMJ6stjkcuvSEQi7DUBDbVF8W6NuFP7p96AMF2Fba_1jPbOFoPY2KF7ychKMpbhK-Gy-PxMRBfVXvtC2yKPdSZU5ZmQI2dxzJni4/w157-h200/dotrumpload+%25281%2529.jpeg" width="157" /></a></div><br />The stooges that lost Ireland the EU Trade Commissionership at the height of the Brexit Negotiations now want Donald Trump out of the White House. At least they are consistent in their choosing political car crashes.<p></p><div>
Trump has been a superb President not just for America but once more restoring the office to that of Leader of the Free World. Unlike our political stooges Donald Trump's consistency is in choosing the best for America and because of the nature of those choices, for the world.
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Ripping up the horrible, poverty generating Paris Climate Accord, a Neo Marxist attempt to regulate the world into wretched fuel poverty and control by unaccountable international organisations was enough to win him Leader of the Decade. But the Paris Accord is still in operation whinge the people who think a man can become a woman by clicking his ruby heels and flouncing? No. Without the Americans doing the ritual penance for prosperity the Treaty is deader than a Chinese dissident that laughed at Xi.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeVyU-ftj90JoAtKsHsejm0PsNYdFWyqLoYjTd6pQs3gATMaSOdlDFD3eA4nPBkl20mWNVIIcOMMBntL_VslB5BMMypgprA8KFDdE8j0dAzyRX_FZXOGrY6mf3xtfYojh9pxqkfywzktY/s192/download.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="144" data-original-width="192" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeVyU-ftj90JoAtKsHsejm0PsNYdFWyqLoYjTd6pQs3gATMaSOdlDFD3eA4nPBkl20mWNVIIcOMMBntL_VslB5BMMypgprA8KFDdE8j0dAzyRX_FZXOGrY6mf3xtfYojh9pxqkfywzktY/w200-h150/download.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><br />Getting rid of Obama's Treaty To Enrich the Iranian Mullahs curtailed the brutal, cruel Iranian regime but responding to their constant terror attacks by killing the vicious Qasem Soleimani, a mass murderer inside and outside Iran, while the killer was organising terror in Iraq, was a gut punch to one of the cruellest regimes on earth. Should governments be engaged in assassinations? Of course not. Should terrorists kill with impunity under the protection of a murderous, tyrannical government? Iran's mullahs wanted covert war, Trump reduced them to sinking a plywood copy of a US carrier...in their own shipping lanes. <p></p><p>Trump is already the century's peace maker, not just because he is bringing American troops home from the mutiple theatres where his war-hawk predecessors got involved but radically changing the political landscape of the Middle East with domino effect peace treaties. Incredibly peace with Afghanistan and an American withdrawal now looks to be within his grasp. If Trump is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize the Norwegian Parliament is signalling the effective end of prize that had been devalued and besmirched by it being given to Gore and Obama.</p><p>This would all be a fine slate of achievement if The Donald was using it to distract from failing domestic politics but his success on the domestic front had been even greater. Cutting through regulation and restoring confidence in an economy battered by eight years of not just of incompetence but deliberate attacks under his appalling predecessor (there may have been a worse President but not in my lifetime) drove growth and employment. Up to the shutdown caused by Xi's Disease unemployment for all "minority" groups was at historical lows. Trump had done more to make Black Americans prosperous than Obama ever tried. A prospering America is good for all of the world, particularly Ireland. </p><p>By appointing highly qualified judges who actually believe a constitution serves a purpose other than being a peg on which activists can hang any half baked idea Donald Tump has restored the rule of law and proper functioning of the courts. His clearing the dangerous nonsense of Critical Race Theory from the state apparatus restores sanity and his consistent opposition to the horror of abortion has been a joy to anyone whose moral framework excludes killing the innocent. </p><p>All of these are reasons enough to hope Donald Trump gets his second term but there are two reasons to hope he gets it by a landslide. The first is the nature of the alternative. Biden is a candidate so flawed that he was forced to withdraw from the 1988 primaries for plagiarism in his <i>autobiography</i> and constant dishonesty. Thirty two years later he has added senility, being politically beholden to the far left, massive corruption and the utterly dreadful Kamala Harris to his campaign. Harris is utterly amoral, vacuous and without a single achievement or redeeming quality. It's no wonder Leo Varadkar thought her a great candidate.</p><p>The second reason bears on that first one. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnBlSKwv_T1O2ya8IJ0GLYezucf1JE-jOrMYh7kB0Qn4FDsg3rx8ilEq1MZKQ0k6Z5oN8vi1wxvhziVZc9seMhRP6q69x2NTNe46_TT4xsxn2Kaz6xOvD4tDRCjINhFsD46N9ILj4Y1c/s500/a639b5fe-e9db-42b5-9353-409059f249ce-500x250.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="500" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnBlSKwv_T1O2ya8IJ0GLYezucf1JE-jOrMYh7kB0Qn4FDsg3rx8ilEq1MZKQ0k6Z5oN8vi1wxvhziVZc9seMhRP6q69x2NTNe46_TT4xsxn2Kaz6xOvD4tDRCjINhFsD46N9ILj4Y1c/w200-h100/a639b5fe-e9db-42b5-9353-409059f249ce-500x250.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />Xi's China is not just brutal, tyrannical and expansionary. China is engaged in a savage internal holocaust against many groups but particularly against the Uyghurs, the fifteen million Turkic minority in Xinjiang Province. Forced abortions, sterilisation, murders in forced organ donation, slavery, mass torture in concentration camps, Xi is engaged in Genocide. The very best hope of standing up to China's internal and external tyranny lies with Trump. Beleaguered, crazily courageous, doomed Hong Democracy protesters know this. That's why they support him.<p></p><p>You should too.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-18542126483286321742020-05-09T15:21:00.000-07:002020-05-19T11:24:26.748-07:00Enough! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It has gone on long enough.<br />
We have paid a terrible price for the utter incompetence of the HSE whose initial WHOist approach to Xi's Disease was "panic is worse than the virus". Think no fire sirens, lung cancer warnings on fag packs or anti-AIDS campaigns, after all we can't be having panic among the proles, Karen... The evil clowns that created that sickening mantra are no better at checking Xi's in early May than they were in early February, we have just ceded to the mass killers of the nursing homes more power over our lives.<br />
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It had gone in long enough and the most spitefully anti-Faith government both in Europe and in Irish history has had it's way long enough. Govermofarce created 35 huge, costly, heavily guarded and staffed "test centres" which are almost entirely redundant because we don't have test kits. Results from those dangerous and idle centres are taking up to 3 weeks to process, a third world comedy not a health policy initiative. Viciously stupid Harris, a man so ignorant and dim that he believed<br />
CoViD-19 had 18 previous corona virus predecessors, should not be deciding when churches open. When that stupid Abortion Maggot claims "science" the correct response is loud and sustained guffaws.<br />
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It has gone in long enough and while our economy freefalls into death dealing poverty, Coveney is virtue signalling with our money by quadrupling our contribution to WHO, the UN subsidiary whose dire, Chinese approved leadership played a huge role in creating the crisis. Coveney, in his rush to use our money to make himself a beacon of liberal virtue, didn't require WHO to seat <br />
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Taiwan, the country that warned us about Xi's Disease, or drop its demands that children under 4 years old are taught about masturbation.<br />
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It has gone on long enough and just because the servile and beholden propagandachiks who staff Irish media won't ask questions doesn't mean ordinary citizens can't. Why is a tiny, cooperative island population wracked by one of the world's worst Xi's Disease outbreaks? Could our Xi's Disease disaster be in any way connected to the utter incompetence of the political leadership and health service bureaucracy?<br />
The lock down was always a crude and illiterate tool, in the light of what we now know about the virus it is ridiculous. Masks, hygiene and care are needed, not the wholesale destruction of our rights and our economy.<br />
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It has gone in long enough and it is time that that Christians reopened their churches and their places of worship. At the very best of times our cooperation with this government of ignorant antiChristians should be minimal, now it is time to defy their edicts and brave their wrath. Open the churches, together let us pray.</div>
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Simon Harris, who thinks that the "19" in CoViD-19 indicates there were 18 previous corona viruses ( no you can't fix stupid) claims to have a "model" predicting the spread of Xi's Disease but he won't publish it. In a democracy the people are entitled to to this information. Decisions wrecking their lives and livelihoods are been taken on foot of a statistical model, two months out of date, which cannot be examined, by a government that was dumped by the electorate. Any further references to this "model" should be regarded, along with most of what the fool says, as lies.<br />
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As always the story is the reporting,with journalists for the main media organisations acting as government spokes people and a presstitute praetorian guard. We can look forward to the closure of many of these bastions of rightthink over the next few months. <br />
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thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-56452768914954782742020-04-20T14:59:00.002-07:002022-09-08T16:34:01.402-07:00Not Subsidy but the Sword<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You think the internet is a wild place, where freedom thrives and you are wrong. The internet is plagued by plaza kings, police termites and scardey truckers.<br />
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Plaza Kings limit access to the plazas they own and their power is we all want to be in the same plaza. Police termites are the liberaleftie piglets the plaza kings employ as enforcers. They are keyboard warriors with power and their job is to weed out dissent and protect the privileged classes (trannies, journalists, lefty politicians and professional homosexuals) from insult, injury or questioning. Scardey truckers are the owners of web farms and rentable servers. They have only one interest, continuous rental to hundreds of sites so the rich can use the courts to scare them into removing material.<br />
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The lesson is simple. The Big Plazas and their termites are the enemy of freedom so get off them. Form communities and networks outside of the Facebooks and Twitters. Don't expect that the net is free unless you have your own server. Even at that they'll cut the lines to you. When the product is free you are the product....<br />
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A billion Chinese are only allowed look at what their stupid, brutal communist party tyrants think they should see. Your government looks on that system with envy and the propagandachiks employed by media organisations long for such a controlled environment. That way they get to decide what you hear and what it means. They and the maggots we elect believe censorship is good for us.<br />
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The incoming Fianna Gaillee government will tax us to subsidise their propagandachiks in the media. It will be done on the excuse that we are too stupid to choose what media to pay for ourselves and wise, capable ministers must do it for us. Subsidy turns every media organisation into Pravdaíní, making an already bad situation worse.<br />
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Free markets work, allowing bad companies to fail and better ones to use the wreckage. Propagandachiks have killed media because nobody trusts them. The answer is to let these organisations die from their own poison. Learn to code, Ellen.</div>
thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-40031451650020527912020-04-14T12:36:00.001-07:002020-04-15T06:48:36.298-07:00Xi's, a crisis not wasted.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The misery of Xi's disease with death stalking the old, millions in an enforced lockdown of dubious medical value but of definite economic destruction is compounded by the fashionable hype of collectivism running as a parallel infection.<br />
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Everywhere we are exhorted in a Chinese communist fashion that we are "in this together" creating some collectivised "we" from individuals at once the victims of collectivism's most brutal and stupid state, China, and victims of the modern Irish faith in the police nanny state.<br />
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It's not enough for every single spokesperson for this diselected government or the hideously incompetent HSE to indulge their collectivising fantasies in an effort to to remain the Pigs in our ghastly Animal Farm, every commercial entity has taken up the theme of anti individualisation as some kind of advertising fashion. We-ness has replaced the hideous diversity schlock in every corporate announcement.<br />
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Dunnes Stores yesterday evening was a continuous aural assault as the store played some high-camp twit hectoring shoppers in a way that would make any sane adult long for a fatal dose of the Chinese virus. The message appeared to be around one quarter store opening hours, one quarter self promotion of the camp clown (I suspect some RTE Muppet, I don't watch) and the rest an ugly attempt to use Xi's to reduce the captive audience to a Orwellian Collective.<br />
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There is no "we". The assholes attempting to use Xi's Disease to push a virtually huggy-we-are-all-in-this-together schlock are ruthless and clear sighted. Their agenda is a post Xi's state where your questioning power or dissenting are not welcome. They are vicious statist warriors. Nowhere was that more obvious in the ugly attempt to hijack Easter with a their meaningless atheist candle in the window for Xi's on Easter Saturday Night. Close the churches, hijack Easter, from Hell Mao is grinning.<br />
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One of the upsides to the economic devastation will be the bankruptcy of media organisations in its wake. Those bastions of liberal power are dying of Xi's and good riddance. The propagandachiks who work in them will be trying to pivot of the enforced collectivism to force you to subsidise their ruthless propaganda factories. Threaten your public representatives with death if they force you to subsidise state media. Threatening the scum with votes has no effect whatsoever now.<br />
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thickerthantalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604534746959098352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149820514946642598.post-12429501117348365212020-04-14T12:36:00.000-07:002020-04-15T06:52:15.600-07:00Googleapplex<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Two of the richest, most powerful and most evil corporations on the planet are trying to exploit Xi's Disease to expand their reach into people's lives and they are doing it under the pretence of helping.<br />
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Apple and Google, both of whom have worked hand in glove with the murderous, stupid Chinese Tyranny responsible for the outbreak of the Corona Virus, want to put their people tracking app on every smart phone.<br />
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This app, the final nail in privacy and personal freedom, resembles something their brutal ChiCom friends would come up with for their slave population. Not alone is it not an app you should have, it's the signal to ditch the smart phone, perhaps permanently.<br />
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This app is not about helping control Xi's Disease, it's about leveraging the corona crisis to turn every smart phone into a data generator for Apple and Google, tracking everybody with whom users come in contact. The crisis allows the two corporations to suspend the pretence that they are competing and launch their personal data harvester together.<br />
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Smart phones are beautiful, addictive objects but they are tracking devices in an unparalleled scale. That we hold them voluntarily is an index of our stupidity and carelessness. Turning that much personal data over to these evil corporations is insanity.<br />
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Stop being insane.</div>
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