Ad Aspera per Astra

FINALLY!!

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:33:22 -0400

FINALLY!!

Does it seem to you that other states always blaming Californian refugees shitting up their state sounds a lot like blaming a bogeyman rather than acknowledging the shenanigans they've always had in their own state? Sorry if this was strangely worded - it's just so hard to put this feeling into words

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:22:47 -0400

Not being from the southwest I’m not really sure. It’s difficult to discern the truth and there’s a lot of conflicting information I haven’t taken the time to digest. I would say that California’s quasi-militant sanctuary posture makes that accusation plausible.

I’m an open borders guy myself though I’m nuanced enough to recognize the conflict between this position and a state using migrants to become increasingly authoritarian. A state that has set up generous welfare programs and government/corporate industrial complexes to feed on masses of illegals at the expense of the citizenry they abuse as tax mules is a big fucking problem.

This doesn’t seem that complex of a relationship to comprehend but for whatever reason this is a debate where people are stacked on the extremes.

Either you’re absolutely open borders or you want to build the wall.

As long as there are progressives using social strain and various government programs and complexes to concentrate power in the state, I understand completely the desire/need to control immigration.

What I wish many on the right would recognize is that the vast majority of migrants are just looking for a better life like most of their own ancestors who immigrated to the states in the last 200 years. Don’t be hostile to them, be hostile to the government that’s using them.

“Fucked up ‘need to defend yourself’ mentality” This mentality is so foreign to me that I can’t empathize with it on any level. Self preservation is a requirement for a successful species, otherwise it goes fucking extinct. I’m so sick of these adult-children.

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:22:07 -0400

All I can say is that the post-war United Kingdom has been completely subverted by the illiberal fabian socialists of the Labour Party. This is a fundamental rejection of classical liberalism that was born there and led to the casting off of monarchy and slavery across the European continent and the Americas. I believe England’s history of monarchy and aristocracy helped make the population susceptible to this backsliding.

I bring up dystopian literary tropes quite often but this recoiling we see at the idea of an adult human being carrying simple tools or self-defense as a “fucked-up need” reminds me of the warning of Aldous Huxley with respect to human conditioning.

In Brave New World the government has developed a caste system that’s forcibly entrenched in the psyche of the general population. From the time of their mechanical birth through rounds of regimented conditioning and strictly enforced social boundaries the classes are separated and conditioned to have certain proclivities and specific unfounded but widely held fears.

This is an excerpt from the book that deals with the conditioning of the lowest caste, the Deltas. It has always stuck with me because I see it in irrational positions like those widely expressed in the UK. I also see elements of it in the university with radical feminism which often seeks to terrorize the students into becoming stunted radicals themselves;

“INFANT NURSERIES. NEO-PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING ROOMS, announced the notice board.

The Director opened a door. They were in a large bare room, very bright and sunny; for the whole of the southern wall was a single window.

Half a dozen nurses, trousered and jacketed in the regulation white viscose-linen uniform, their hair aseptically hidden under white caps, were engaged in setting out bowls of roses in a long row across the floor. Big bowls, packed tight with blossom. Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble.

The nurses stiffened to attention as the D.H.C. came in. "Set out the books,“ he said curtly.In silence the nurses obeyed his command.

Between the rose bowls the books were duly set out–a row of nursery quartos opened invitingly each at some gaily coloured image of beast or fish or bird.

“Now bring in the children.” They hurried out of the room and returned in a minute or two, each pushing a kind of tall dumb-waiter laden, on all its four wire-netted shelves, with eight-month-old babies, all exactly alike (a Bokanovsky Group, it was evident) and all (since their caste was Delta) dressed in khaki.

“Put them down on the floor.” The infants were unloaded. "Now turn them so that they can see the flowers and books.“

Turned, the babies at once fell silent, then began to crawl towards those clusters of sleek colours, those shapes so gay and brilliant on the white pages.

As they approached, the sun came out of a momentary eclipse behind a cloud.

The roses flamed up as though with a sudden passion from within; a new and profound significance seemed to suffuse the shining pages of the books. From the ranks of the crawling babies came little squeals of excitement, gurgles and twitterings of pleasure. The Director rubbed his hands. "Excellent!” he said. "It might almost have been done on purpose.“

The swiftest crawlers were already at their goal. Small hands reached out uncertainly, touched, grasped, unpetaling the transfigured roses, crumpling the illuminated pages of the books.

The Director waited until all were happily busy. Then, "Watch carefully,” he said. And, lifting his hand, he gave the signal.

The Head Nurse, who was standing by a switchboard at the other end of the room, pressed down a little lever. There was a violent explosion. Shriller and ever shriller, a siren shrieked. Alarm bells maddeningly sounded. The children started, screamed; their faces were distorted with terror. "And now,“ the Director shouted (for the noise was deafening), "now we proceed to rub in the lesson with a mild electric shock.” He waved his hand again, and the Head Nurse pressed a second lever. The screaming of the babies suddenly changed its tone. There was something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to which they now gave utterance. Their little bodies twitched and stiffened; their limbs moved jerkily as if to the tug of unseen wires. "We can electrify that whole strip of floor,“ bawled the Director in explanation. "But that’s enough,” he signalled to the nurse.

The explosions ceased, the bells stopped ringing, the shriek of the siren died down from tone to tone into silence. The stiffly twitching bodies relaxed, and what had become the sob and yelp of infant maniacs broadened out once more into a normal howl of ordinary terror.

“Offer them the flowers and the books again."The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror, the volume of their howling suddenly increased.

"Observe,” said the Director triumphantly, “observe.”

____

This is what I see in these Brits who think self-defense is insane and that you’re a criminal if you carry a knife or screwdriver much less a firearm.

Humor me, but the scene was so poignant that years ago I clumsily painted one of those delta babies as it was conditioned to hate the rose.

When discussing knife bans in the U.K, I was told that it was weird for Americans to be carrying knives, especially knives that "people mug other people with", and that only psychos or weirdos carry knives that aren't pocket knives around. It was only later that I realized they just answered their own question about why to carry a knife that just looks intimidating like a steak knife. There are many blogs out there on how to carry knives in the U.K by citizens who also think the law is nuts.

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:21:19 -0400

Being one of those sane people has to feel like they’re living in We Happy Few.

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:20:53 -0400

association-of-free-people:

blackberryshawty:

jack-roscoe:

keanu reeves drinking a corona & having an existential crisis

Big mood

thinking about his immortal life without his dog

association-of-free-people: equestrianrepublican:What in the...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:20:39 -0400

association-of-free-people:

equestrianrepublican:
What in the absolute fuck.

mfw i refuse to see females as sexual chattel if i can’t see their shoulder.
#respect
you know this guy is one of the face book foot stalkers

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:19:52 -0400

guns-garlic-and-glory:

“Assault weapons” is a made up term. Military weapons are not only poorly made, but generally assumed to be full auto, which are not easily obtainable by civilians. An AR-15 chambered in .223 or 5.56 is perfectly fine for hunting deer or self defense, as most home invasions are carried out by multiple intruders, and the second amendment wasn’t designed with either deer nor home invaders in mind, but tyrannical governments, and also, James Woods is a savage and I love him.

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:19:27 -0400

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:19:07 -0400

association-of-free-people:

bluehayabusa:

association-of-free-people:

nnekosan:

noelleian:

association-of-free-people:

the-one-true-nugget:

association-of-free-people:

ranger-lord:

moonlandingwasfaked:

oh thank god our brave policemen saved us from the meancing maintenance man across the street

Holy fuck, Britain is a fucking joke.

I have a kitchen drawer that’s like a nuclear arsenal in the U.K.

Most people in the US do

Brits will never invade the continental united states because we retain the right to own grill utensils. I would chop a redcoat in half with my battleaxe / spatula.

Beware my salad tongs of Doom™

You scoff, but I could probably lightly scratch you on the nose with these babies.

However, a British teenager would never be able to waltz into a high school with an assault rifle and shoot whoever he saw.

Just sayin.

There’s a better chance that I’ll win a million dollars at a slot machine than be a student involved in a school shooting. In fact it’s ten times more likely that I’d be killed riding my bike to school and that’s across the entire student population, not just kids who ride bikes to school.
However, you can be stopped, searched without cause, and go to prison for carrying a screwdriver.
Just sayin.

Jesus Christ, when I was in art school everyone had a box cutter and an xacto knife on them, and depending on your major/medium, a bunch of other potentially harmful shit, too. What about chefs going to work with their knife bags? I don’t understand, are the people banned from having these things just under 18’s? I saw on sky news that they’re trying to crack down on people carrying “corrosive substances” used in acid attacks. How am I gonna get a bottle of drano home? Are they going to mandate security seals on the bottle so you can’t legally have an open bottle in public?

Where does this shit end?

You cannot buy knives, including butter knives, if you’re under 18. It is criminal to carry knives or anything that may be interpreted as an offensive weapon on your person regardless of age. This includes so-called “points” and blunt force items like batons or blackjacks.

association-of-free-people: Mueller raids the office of the attorney that supposedly paid stormy...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:18:26 -0400

association-of-free-people:

Mueller raids the office of the attorney that supposedly paid stormy daniles. lmao.

This started with a buzzfeed dossier about muh russians and the FBI is just going to keep making it up as it goes. Imagine if the deep state had this kind of hard-on for the Clinton regime.

association-of-free-people: optimistic-red-velvet-walrus: syngon...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:18:19 -0400

association-of-free-people:

optimistic-red-velvet-walrus:

syngoniums:

verylargefrogs:

plaid-flannel:

Seen in the window at Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine.
Photo: Bill Roorbach

Hmm. How about erase the colonial view that the Americas were simply available, undeveloped, uncultivated lands before the arrival of white settlers. Indigenous people live(d) on that land, engineered it, and had highly complex interactions with it. Large-scale environmental destabilization, deforestation, and pollution as we know to did not begin until the period of settler colonialism. Capitalist exploitation continues to destroy the land and the indigenous peoples on that land. Maine, for example, did have set territories of indigenous communities (Miqmaq, penobscot, etc.). Modern borders of settler nation-states do not correspond to these original territorial bounds.

What I’m saying is that people need to stop thinking that human occupation is responsible for the disastrous environmental situation we have today. There are specific cultural views of land, land use, and production that cause it. These views are not universal to human societies. Indigenous communities are more than capable of occupying land without laying waste to it, and did so for thousands of years.

All of the above, plus wtf @ the bizarre implication that a huge chunk of North America was homogenous New England-style forest, and not a tremendous diversity of vegetation well suited to their respective climates! Loving nature is not a replacement for thinking critically about how colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism have shaped how you conceive of wilderness, humanity, and the relationships between them!

throwing some stuff out:

european colonial settlers marveled out how the trees were conveniently wide apart enough for humans to travel through easily and all the fruits conveniently grew along these ‘natural’ paths.

at the same time, they wrote journals about how when approaching the american east coast, the skies above the forests were often black with smoke, without connecting the controlled wildfires to how humanly convenient the forests were

the amazon is as human-made as it is ‘natural’. we have evidence of its cultivation, with indigenous folk building islands of rich soil to stand over flooding waters, like the chinampas of aztec agriculture. we no longer have the knowledge to recreate terra preta, which is the uniquely rich soil created by indigenous agriculture that makes cultivation possible in the amazon

maize and potato, two crops that basically saved europe from starvation, are the result of long artificial selection by central and south americans

the idea that indigenous peoples did not cultivate the land or act upon it was a way of removing their agency and history and justifying the seizure of their land from them. adam smith wrote that the americans were hunters with no agriculture because the small maize plots they grew did not count (???) vs the advanced economy of britain

Most of what optimistic whatever guy is saying is heavily biased or wrong. Native communities were all over the board with how technologically advanced they were at the point of European contact.
The most advanced extant civilizations were in central and South America at the time. The mound builders of the Mississippi basin collapsed prior to the arrival of Europeans.
In North America there were tribes that were practically naked nomadic hunters and gatherers, there were sedentary tribes that farmed maize and there were seasonal migrants that would follow the movements of game and seasonal food sources like pecans, oysters or prickly pears. There were also language groups with multiple dialects living in proximity to one another that were completely different and unintelligible from one to the next. There was war and slavery. It’s not “removing their agency” to assess honestly the condition of the continent in the mid 15th century. To view it in this way is to look at it through a lens biased by modern attitudes.

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:05:55 -0400

association-of-free-people:

libertarirynn:

masonsofthe2ndmass:

libertarirynn:

theultradork:

metalcatholic:

lol what

…my god how do you get this stupid?

Me: Hmm I think I’ll do some scrapbooking with my scissors

Regents Park Police: *kicks in door* NOT TODAY FUCKER

its a real tweet too i checked lol

Not only is it real, but I took a quick glimpse at this and related UK Police accounts and hoooooooly shit. If I didn’t know any better I would swear these were parody accounts meant to exaggerate how authoritarian the UK has become.

nice use of a camera filter to make it look even more dystopian

US has no evidence of Syrian use of sarin gas, Mattis says

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:05:24 -0400

US has no evidence of Syrian use of sarin gas, Mattis says:

association-of-free-people:

hattersadventures:

Now here we are again in 2018

Trump says we are leaving Syria.

“Assad chemically attacked his own people”

When he almost had his region entirely clear?

When we were just about to leave?

When we admitted we didn’t have evidence the first go around?

When we bombed people for a bullshit reason?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

association-of-free-people: libertarian-lady: smellyoldblanket: ...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:05:15 -0400

association-of-free-people:

libertarian-lady:

smellyoldblanket:

ostdrossel:

Who wins the shiny birb contest?

Grackle, I’m not a fan of starlings 🤬

They are both beautiful and they both win

Grackle. Starlings are terrible invasives

A barber in Australia is being sued for refusing to cut a girl's hair

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:05:10 -0400

A barber in Australia is being sued for refusing to cut a girl's hair:

association-of-free-people:

eltigrechico:

perspectivemax:

rickjameskinkshame:

nunyabizni:

wynterroseskye:

nunyabizni:

Sam Rahim, who has his own barber shop on Sydney’s North Shore, became embroiled in the scandal late last year, when a customer walked into his workplace with a request that Rahim said was unusual. She wanted Rahim to cut her daughter’s hair.

“I refused politely,” he told Australia’s Channel 9 News, when recalling the start of the dispute, which is now set to go to court over the next couple of weeks. “I explained I’m not qualified to cut women’s or girls’ hair. I’ve never done it,” Rahim said, claiming that the woman, a lawyer, did not accept his explanation and filed a complaint accusing him of embarrassing her daughter.

“She might have been more embarrassed walking to school if I’d butchered her hair,” Rahim said. “The skills are different. Look up barber and it says ‘a place where men get their haircut’.” The barber said the angered woman “kept pressing him” to “just do it,” but he refused and she stormed out.

The claimant, who preferred not to be identified for fear of revealing her daughter’s identity, disputed the barber’s account, saying that Rahim “never said he was not qualified to cut women or girls’ hair.” This, she argues, is something the barber has incorrectly reported to the media.

“Mr Rahim’s explanation was that he wished to keep his barber shop for boys and men only,” the woman alleged, confirming that she has filed a claim in court, which accuses the barber of breaching Australia’s Sex Discrimination Act.

“The basis of the claim is that the barber shop refused to simply run the clippers through my daughter’s undercut, because she was a girl,” the woman told the broadcaster in a statement. “I indicated to him that I did not need him to style, cut or trim the rest of her hair, which is styled in a ‘bob’.”

“The matter remains before the Court and it is inappropriate for me to provide any further comment at this point in time.”

In turn, Rahim has said that he fears financial losses as a result of legal bills. “I haven’t been able to sleep. My wife hasn’t been able to sleep. I don’t understand why someone would do something like this,” he said.

The case will be decided by The Federal Circuit Court of Australia over the coming weeks.

Well this could be interesting

Man fuck this country the dude doesn’t know how to cut women’s hair, women like extremely complicated styles men usually just want a nice trim. They’re two entirely different artistic practices and if he hasn’t trained himself to have and I for cutting woman’s hair then he is not going to have a knife for cutting woman’s hair. That is completely reasonable

It’s a big old he said she said at this point, but yeah if he’s not qualified to cut girls hair or doesn’t feel comfortable doing girls hair he shouldn’t have to risk the inevitable outrage that would come from that.

If he’s telling the truth, which I think his side is more reasonable than hers.

Even if he’s lying and he actually said “fuck off you stupid cunt, I hate all women and girls” that’s his right as a human being

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO FORCE SOMEONE TO CUT YOUR HAIR WHO DOESN’T WANT TO????

BECAUSE OF THE FEELS

U.S. Navy Destroyer Armed With Tomahawks Arrives Off Syrian Coast, "Harassed" By Russian Warplanes

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:04:04 -0400

U.S. Navy Destroyer Armed With Tomahawks Arrives Off Syrian Coast, "Harassed" By Russian Warplanes:

association-of-free-people:

what in the fuck are we doing.

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:03:56 -0400

triggeredmedia:

studyblr-bri:

englishlit-chic:

kaciart:

stanfordetc:

ohthekorean:

gogomrbrown:

https://openstaxcollege.org

FUCK CAPITALISM! This didn’t cost tax payers anything. You don’t need to be a governing body with a police force to do decent things.

stanfordetc freedomofscreech

THANK

Just going to pop this here for you guys.

Important ☝🏼️

REBLOGGING THE FUCK OUTTA THIS

This is fucking hilarious.

OP was a Russian troll.

Capitalism is why the service exists. Charity and helping people is very capitalist idea. As long as it’s voluntary,

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:03:40 -0400

The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:03:23 -0400

The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake:

thinksquad:

The page, titled simply “Black Lives Matter,” had almost 700,000 followers on Facebook, more than twice as many as the official Black Lives Matter page. It was tied to online fundraisers that brought in at least $100,000 that supposedly went to Black Lives Matter causes in the U.S. At least some of the money, however, was transferred to Australian bank accounts, CNN has learned.
Fundraising campaigns associated with the Facebook page were suspended by PayPal and Patreon after CNN contacted each of the companies for comment. Donorbox and Classy had already removed the campaigns.

Wait, I'm confused. Are you for or against escalating in Syria? Your 1st post (the one about the "white supremacists" being against going to war with Syria) makes it sound like you're against it, but then you reblog it calling Richard Spencer controlled opposition and show him saying he's against it, which makes it sound like you're for it, because why would you feel the need to insult someone for being for something you agree with?

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:03:18 -0400

The fact that they’re propping up a “white supremacist” as being anti-war is an attempt to directly associate that sentiment with a social/cultural pariah and thereby suppress or disparage it in the public consciousness. The collectivist political culture is tailor made for this type of lemming manipulation.

The image above Spencer in that post is a diagram of the Hegelian Dialectic. It is a visual illustration of the framework used for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution or outcome. Spencer is a prop in this machination.

X: “I’m opposed to war in the Middle East and war in Syria.” Z: “sounds like something a Nazi would say.” This is a meme based on this type of manipulation.