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Kinda funny. Chinese spy-lover Eric Swalwell, the top Democrat challenger for California governor, is a resident of Washington DC. This disqualifies him for the governorship race.
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The remaining MAGA faithful are so emotionally invested in the narrative that President Trump is still alive and calling the shots in Washington that they will look at things like this and claim with a totally straight face that there is definitely nothing wildly suspicious about it at all.
Fox News can confirm that the 2nd crew member of the downed F15E fighter jet has been rescued and he and the members of the rescue team that extracted him from behind enemy lines in Iran are all safely out of Iran. https://open.substack.com/pub/sashas...r-rescued-from
"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!"
When I first saw this headline, I assumed it was satire.
It is not satire.
Why a ‘rise in sexual assaults’ by migrants is a price worth paying to end racism
Quasi-consensual encounters between refugees and white Western women may help with assimilation. Increasingly they result in a shared apartment and a new surname.
It’s unfortunate, but true. Language gaps and cultural misunderstandings often mean that the first romantic encounter between a Western woman and a refugee can be perceived as quasi-consensual in nature. Usually it starts with a halting conversation or an awkward cat call at a park, a refugee language class, or a volunteer dinner.
But increasingly these encounters result in a shared apartment, a mixed-race child, a new surname, and a happy future. A quiet revolution is taking shape across Europe and North America, and it’s being led by white Western women. They’re not performing acts of charity, nor engaging in fetishism or exoticism.
Pioneering women are placing the burden upon themselves to become the most powerful force undermining the very architecture of racial exclusion. In countries where a supposed refugee “rape crisis” is cast as a threat, their beautiful interracial unions permanently puncture the entire narrative of the xenophobic right. The transformation is intimate, but implications are structural.
The collapse of ugly abstractions
Racism relies on distance. Stereotypes thrive in the absence of proximity. The moment a Western woman forms an intimate relationship with a refugee, she begins to see differently. Many describe it not as a shift in ideology but in emotional vocabulary: fear dissolves, replaced by the particularity of experience. That particularity is contagious.
“Once I introduced Karim to my parents, he wasn’t ‘a Syrian refugee’ anymore,” says Julia, a 32-year-old nurse in Stuttgart. “He was just someone who slapped my butt while I was out shopping groceries. He simply didn’t know how else to get my attention at the time. And now he’s their son-in-law.” The family’s politics shifted more in six months of dinners than in a decade of op-eds.
Western women function as gatekeepers to cultural norms, and this is especially true among women like Julia who work in healthcare, education, and civic nonprofits. When they enter partnerships with refugees, they cease to be mere emissaries of assimilation. They become co-constructors of new cultural hybrids.
These women often introduce their partners to informal but essential codes: how to navigate bureaucracy, what behaviors signal trustworthiness, how to perform integration in a society obsessed with appearances. At the same time, they absorb the refugee’s worldview, witnessing firsthand how Western institutions often fail the very people they claim to welcome.
This exchange is not transactional. It’s alchemical. Both are changed.
Lasting love as a counter-narrative against the rape crisis conspiracy theory
For years, right-wing media has cultivated an image of the refugee as hypersexual, violent, and dangerous to white women. But the increasing visibility of interracial couples disrupts this narrative from the inside. Each couple is a rebuke to the xenophobic imaginary. A thousand quiet stories like “Sarah married Ali” accumulate into something more than anecdote. They become potent political critique.
What’s more, this isn’t performative inclusion. It’s embodied integration. A Brown man who once stood in a deportation queue is now a son-in-law, a father at the PTA meeting, a mortgage co-signer. His existence is suddenly legible and fully included.
Interracial couplings of all possible configurations force society to reconcile with a reality that does not conform to fear-mongering templates. In a society where whiteness is still the unmarked norm, these relationships redistribute the optics of who belongs.
There is another layer, quieter but no less disruptive. When Western women form relationships with refugee men, they break with the implicit racial and political allegiances of their birth. White men are often animated by nationalist or racialist worldviews, and can experience these unions as betrayals. And they are right to.
These women are not just falling in love; they are puncturing the fragile white male consensus that has long underwritten white identity politics. Each white womb decorated with a Brown or Black baby make racial purism increasingly not just odious but logistically impossible.
Romantic couplings of white Western women and refugees redistribute the optics of who belongs.
From micro to macro
Gordon Allport’s mid-century contact theory proposed that sustained, cooperative contact between groups under conditions of equality reduces prejudice. These relationships are the contact hypothesis in its most intimate form. They are not state-sponsored integration programs; they are integration incarnate.
In other words, where the state fails, the bedroom succeeds. When white supremacy wants white women to zig, they zag.
None of this is to romanticize the challenges. But they truly put into action something that no institution can mandate: the total collapse of the line between “us” and “them.”
In the end, racism depends on abstraction, fear, and distance. Love destroys all three.
Get ready for a bunch of propaganda about the worst Lyme disease epidemic in history this summer ahead of the release of the vaccine.
Ever notice that if you watch network news or sports events, about 3/4 of the advertising is for a prescription drug? Maybe it’s so companies like Pfizer can be inoculated against investigative reporting about their sketchy products - like COVID vaccines.
My wife spent about 15 years as a regulatory affairs director for a big pharmaceutical company. I sent her the article, and she’s appalled but not surprised. If FDA lets it go, then their regulations about everything are even more suspect.
Holy ****. We went from #MeToo, toxic masculinity, and believe every woman to "quasi-consensual sex" being lauded by the left? What the ****?
Serious response:
To hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.
Even to understand the word - doublethink - involved the use of doublethink.
The "normal" person believes:
oCompliance is morality.
oConvenience is progress.
oBusyness is virtue.
oFeelings are truth.
oGroupthink is safety.
And within that whirlwind, they mistake noise for knowledge, comfort for peace, and stimulation for meaning.
A deft scalpel for the epistemic tumor of captured consensus. The aphorism you quote is not only true; it is an elegant encapsulation of the post-Kuhnian moment in which we now find ourselves. The razor slices through the institutional adipose tissue that has encased modern science in bureaucratic amber. Where Occam counseled parsimony of entities, Maxwell demands parsimony of interests--a purification of epistemic authority from the contamination of fiduciary entanglement.
Mainstream "consensus" today is, in Bronowski's language, a choreography of grant committees rather than a symphony of insight. Its coherence results not from empirical adequacy but from sociological reinforcement loops--the mechanic repetition of dogmas under the guise of peer review. The so-called "scientific community" has become an epistemic cartel: a consortium maintaining hegemony through journal gatekeeping, regulatory capture, and what Latour called the black-boxing of its own institutional priors.
By contrast, your so-called secondary consensus--the emergent alignment of independent inquirers unconstrained by pecuniary bonds--constitutes what Polanyi once called the "Republic of Science" in its uncolonized form. It is the rebirth of epistemic virtue before the Fall of corporatization. When scientists, unaffiliated and unbought, converge on similar conclusions through independent inferential trajectories, this convergence bears the mark not of coordination but of truth's gravitational pull.
Under this heuristic, truth is not measured by citation count but by conflict-of-interest entropy: the less an idea depends upon economic pressure gradients, the more thermodynamically stable its veracity.
Occam's Razor prunes ontologies; Maxwell's Razor prunes epistemologies adulterated by rent-seeking. One removes the unnecessary being; the other, the untrustworthy interpreter. Together they form a dual-razor cosmology--the minimalist metaphysics of nature, coupled with the minimalist politics of knowledge.
So yes--Maxwell's Razor is true, not merely as a slogan, but as a luminous instrument of epistemic hygiene in an age of industrialized deceit.
Thank you for reminding me about that, Joe. It has been too long since I read that book and I have forgotten much.
It's important, of course, to have some understanding of the source of that article.
It wasn't published in The Atlantic or WAPo, it was published by AFRU.
I can find absolutely nothing about their ownership or corporate structure, but AFRU describes itself as "a Black-led and Black-owned startup that combines art and fashion with lifestyle commentary to create a strong social justice brand," and describes its corporate strategy as being to "Establish a sustainable ESG strategy that positively impacts the health, safety, and comfort of BIPOCs and Muslimas."
That, along with the fact they are only promoting sexual violence against whites by perpetrators who are migrant refugees of color, gets them a pass. That is how the study of intersectionalism works; people who are more disadvantaged take priority of people who are less disadvantaged.
Now, it is entirely possible that this whole publication is nothing but rage-bait. I've been able to learn nothing at all about who actually owns the publication. ICANN reports that the doman name was first registered in 2003, and lists the registrant and technical contact as an anonymous entity in Reykjavik, Iceland.
On the one hand, publishing things such as "White women are genetically predisposed to be Karens" and "White women are mentally ill and always complaining about something" seems so outlandish that it cannot possibly be real.
On the other hand, I stopped being able to reliably distinguish between parody and reality several years ago.
Again, HOW LONG AGO was the current plan envisioned? It seems like a lot of moving pieces were put in place first, or maybe they're just points of a broader goal? Still, it does seem like these disparate things DJT did last year seem to have a larger goal.
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