Category: There Goes The Narrative

Let Them Eat Taser

Basic Dictatorship Let Them Eat Taser Mischief Is Important There Goes The Narrative 18 Comments

Autonomous Truckers;

Court proceedings for a number of those involved with the Coutts Freedom Convoy protest will be resuming soon; pre-trial hearings for Tony Olienick and Chris Carbert resume on March 18, and the trial of Marco Van Huigenbos, who had become the de-facto representative of the protesters at Coutts, and a number of his co-accused, get under way on April 2.

Pre-trial hearings for Van Huigenbos and Co. wrapped up recently, and some interesting responses from the Crown to defense applications took place.

Bookmark it for new developments.

Ezra was following the jury selection yesterday on X.

While we’re waiting for the next juror, the scene:

1. One judge.

2. Five clerks.

3. Three defendants.

4. Three prosecutors.

5. Four defence lawyers.

6. Two cops.

For a mischief trial.

More Pavilions At Folkfest

Great Moments In Socialism More Pavilions At Folkfest There Goes The Narrative 24 Comments

Population growth as an economic driver is the most ponzi of all ponzi schemes.

Non-European immigrants to the UK are far more likely to be long-term unemployed or economically inactive, especially those from the Middle East, South Asia & North Africa. In England & Wales, 27% of working age immigrants from the Middle East have never worked. That is more than 5x the figure for the native-born (5%).

In total there are 707,000 working age immigrants who have never worked, 1.2% of the entire population of England & Wales. All of these figures exclude students.

How were so many duped into believing that the key to economic success was mass unskilled immigration from the third world?

Queer Theories

Groomers There Goes The Narrative 25 Comments

Have a glance at this well-written and concise commentary that dives into the deeper philosophical roots of the gender fluid movement, roots which are heavily intertwined with Marxism and assorted post-modern thinkers. No matter how you look at it, the message is clear: the individual is nothing but a helpless “social construct” who needs to sink into the abyss of nihilism.

This is a work so embedded in neo-Marxism it’s impossible to grasp it without accepting its collectivist and revolutionary premises. For Butler, in matters of sex and the body, nothing is as it appears, the individual has no independent existence or capacity for reason outside social and cultural forces, and even the basics of anatomy, like a penis, are just socially constructed all the way down. There is no independent, stable variable like nature or biology or evolution that can help us understand our bodies, and our sex. Everything is in our heads, and our heads are entirely created by others in the past and present:

Nature is not the ground upon which construction of gender happens. Both the material and social dimensions of the body are constructed through an array of practices, discourses, and technologies.

 

Sock Puppets for Sock Puppets

It's Probably Nothing Shiny Pony There Goes The Narrative 17 Comments

When even Ed the Sock throws in the towel on Justin, you get the sense that the end has to be near.

As an aside, I remember when Ed used to be genuinely funny.

Your Tax Dollars At Work

Khmer Noir Shiny Pony There Goes The Narrative 33 Comments

Via @visegrad24: One of the main gangs in Haiti just released a high quality propaganda video



In this video, we can see men in uniform, well armed, equipped with almost new vehicles displaying a logo displaying a dinosaur head, the symbol of this criminal group. This raised countless questions. The simplest and certainly the most important: where did these materials come from and how were they able to arrive so easily at their destination? In a country like Haiti where no institution functions, the people will never have an answer.

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Media There Goes The Narrative 18 Comments

Update: And another one bites the dust.

A company that owns nearly two dozens newspapers in Atlantic Canada has debts of almost $100 million and is filing for creditor protection.

SaltWire Network made the application in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, according to court documents filed on Monday.

The court documents said SaltWire has more than $94 million in debt, with roughly a third of that owing to its lender, Fiera Private Debt Fund.

SaltWire also owes more than $7 million in unpaid HST to the Canada Revenue Agency, while the Chronicle Herald owes $2.6 million for missed pension plan payments, the documents said.

Related: – Laid-Off Journalist Sits On Street Corner With Sign Reading ‘Will Call You Racist For Food’

Crumbling Narratives

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing There Goes The Narrative 75 Comments

When I saw Peter Zeihan speak over a year ago, he openly derided the Russian war effort and confidently claimed that they were critically short of transport vehicles to even get troops to the front. A year later, it appears that the Ukrainians are the ones who seem to be running out of all sorts of stuff.

The Russian advances come in the face of a deep crisis in munitions for the Ukrainian military, creating a near-existential debate for frontline troops who must ration ammunition and are questioning how long they can withstand Russian pressure.

In another sign of the mounting sense of unease, the new commander of the Ukrainian military, Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, twice in the past week scolded his subordinate officers for poor performance on this key front line.

On Thursday, Syrskyi criticised “certain shortcomings” and “miscalculations” by commanders on the Avdiivka front lines “which directly affected the sustainability of defence in certain areas.”

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Media There Goes The Narrative 6 Comments

Ken LaCorte stirs the ashes;

It was a company built on the sizzle and BS of founder Shane Smith, who dressed like one of the Blues Brothers and sold a great story to “traditional” news executives. Its pitch: Vice understood the secret sauce of capturing the next generation of news consumers, the ones fleeing mainstream media. […]

An early, important investor was my ex-boss, Rupert Murdoch, whom Smith reportedly told, “I have Gen Y, I have social, I have online video. You have none of that. I have the future; you have the past.”

It worked. Murdoch invested $70 million in 2013, pushing Vice’s valuation to $1.4 billion.

A few months later, I noticed a problem. At the time, I ran FoxNews.com and was looking to boost our social media presence. Analyzing other media outlets, it became apparent to me that Vice’s Facebook numbers were inflated to the point of nonsense. The company had millions of supposed followers, but its posts generated a tiny number of comments and interactions. It was a clear sign of either bot accounts or, more likely, overseas “users” who would follow a Facebook page for pennies.

Since the boss had just dropped $70 million, I thought I should give him a heads-up. After a meeting, I mentioned what I had found to Rupert, summarizing it as “they’re full of s**t.”

I expected him to be perhaps a tad bit worried, but that wasn’t in Rupert’s DNA. He just chuckled and said, “Of course they’re full of s**t.”

The next year, a venture-capital firm and A&E invested $500 million, raising Vice’s valuation to $2.5 billion. By 2017, another $450 million investment pushed its worth to nearly $6 billion.

Money like that buys a lot of video production, articles, and audience. With it, Vice spawned two feature film studios, a publishing arm, a cable TV channel, and more.

All gone.

More via Ed Driscoll.

Down The Memory Hole

Climate Cult There Goes The Narrative Unsettled Science 20 Comments

Irreversible climate change catastrophe along with mass death will be upon us within twenty years, apparently.

Oh, wait,… that prediction was made twenty years ago.

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.

The Sound Of Deplorable Science

The Deplorables There Goes The Narrative Unsettled Science 21 Comments

It was known for decades that the Appalachian culture was inbreeding because of all the birth defects that were in the culture that turned out to be… bad nutrition. (Which was why, BTW, the DOD introduced the School Lunch Program back in the late 1940s. To cut down the rate of 4F from childhood nutrition deficiencies.)

Now, with DNA, we can peer into the past of the Appalachian culture and show that those toothless (from poor nutrition) rednecks were…

Not actually sleeping with their daughters. The DNA shows no higher rate of actual incest in traditional Appalachian culture than in the general background of the US.

h/t

Socialist Boomerangs

nannystate There Goes The Narrative 15 Comments

It’s a basic fact of economics that it’s not the entrepreneur who determines wages, but the marginal consumer. Gig workers in Seattle are discovering that truth the hard way.

The Pay Up Legislation, as the city regards it, was meant to improve wages for gig workers by entitling them to “minimum pay,” or in other words, pay based on the time worked and miles traveled for each offer.

“Sundays before the ordinance,” Lardizabal. “You know, we’d be thinking breakfast. Today, I didn’t even touch it. They’re not going to order. It is definitely backfiring.”

“Assuming that you are working constantly, then yes, you’re going to be making that much money. But that’s not what’s happening right now. Because people are not ordering as much anymore. The tips are going down because they think we’re making all this money.”

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