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Mar 10·edited Mar 10Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

The divide and conquer strategy is succeeding. Vax v Antivax, Black v White, Woke v Hate, Climate v Hoax, Trump v Biden, Trans v Women v Men, Virus v No virus. When will the gullible wake up? The only war that counts is Elites versus Everyone else!

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Mar 10·edited Mar 10Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

I, a "South Asian," hated -- yep, hated -- that "Stop Asian Hate" slogan in particular. It's 100% designed to cause antagonism. Just like so many other social justice slogans. Some excellent examples of insanity in here, thanks.

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Mar 10Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

"Speak only if your words are better than the silence."

Attributed to Buddha

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Mar 10·edited Mar 10Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

The hate speech legislation that passed under P Clinton in the 1990's without much reasoning or much support was the beginning of official controlled speech in the US.

That the government determines what hate speech is exactly like the government determining what misinformation is. It is the giant gov't blob that wins the prize of both hate speech and misinformation, think "safe and effective," or "two weeks to slow the spread."

I just wish the rigged game with the ever-shifting rules was transparent to everyone and not just to a few. If more saw through this the blob would not be able to get away with their idiotic manipulation of everything.

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Mar 10Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

Divide and Conquer - it works

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Thanks for reporting, and for bringing some sanity to the whirlwind.

Re: "Such zealots (all of them “vaccinated,” maybe?)"— funny, that was the first thing that crossed my mind.

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Mar 10Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

Their ability to be the biggest exploiters of the most vulnerable populations while pretending to be their defenders. No one is buying this B.S. anymore. C.J. Hopkins said it right, it's a wonder anyone can talk to anyone anymore. Exactly what they wanted.

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Mar 10Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

All by design. All according to plan. Clearly, “hate” and 'fighting hate” are simply “elite”-directed weapons of division in their vast divide-and-conquer arsenal. From https://redpillpoems.substack.com/p/versus ...

Unwaveringly true to the fools

the fates have us play in this life

sadly we slice and dice ourselves into tribes

at the stealth behest of our rulers;

into tribes shrewdly maneuvered

by the-powers-that-be to prevent

we-the-plebs from uniting and fighting

the possessed point-oh-one percent.

“Such unawareness is especially egregious among CRT zealots and others (like Spike Lee) who hold that “black people” can’t be racists...” — Yup! Here's a poetic take on this grift you're sure to like… https://redpillpoems.substack.com/p/shades

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Mar 10Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

What a list! 😳. I’ve found Love of all life to be much stronger than the hate squirrel of the moment. One positive from all this mess has been honing my discernment 💕😎. It’s so much easier to chase one’s tail of the current outrageous assault on so many fronts.

Thank you Mark C M !

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ya forgot the "commie hate"--now sure, we in the US don't wanna be USSR or CCP but (inconveniently) many of our most brilliant writers, thinkers, labor organizers an' "good eggs" intellectually an' otherwise were "commies" (later changed their stripes... 'er sickles...) from John Steinbeck ta Woodie Guthrie, Clifford Odets--an' (oy vez mir) today the Jews ("Chews!") are bein' blamed for RUININ' America an' all of Western Culture AND "All White People" b/c a lott've 'em were commies -- denyin' their change of heart an' the natural invalidation to "do something don't just sit there!" (ingrained in even the secular...). Them "Protocols" (aka "protoCULLS" are back like bums on the Bowery on a Wednesday mornin' after a Tuesday night bum rush!)

ALSO Mark Twain, Dick Gregory, Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Joan Rivers -- I LOVE LOVE LOVE all'ev 'em--none "peecee" (wull I ain't neither) -- an' yup, they took out Joan over "Michael" which wuz too bad cuz she loved her gay follow'erz--genuinely! (I think it wuz the deep state risk as the lady was more of a homophile than the oppy-site). May she--an' all've'em RIP. (RIP to ALL the great non-peecee comedians--Red Foxx, Richard Pryor, Belle Barth!!!!! an' of course Carlin!!!!)

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The 3 most misunderstood (and most important) words in the New Testament:

"resist not evil".

"resist" = fear and/or hate. Which are really the same thing.

As soon as someone reacts with fear or anger they are feeding into the negative energy and doing exactly what the perpetrator wants. It's like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.

The best way to deal with a Bully is to ignore the Bully.

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Mar 11·edited Mar 11Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

i've worked with and been friends with some colleagues over the years who had terrible views on certain demographics. i found it was always better to jokingly call them out on it rather than react in a serious chastising way towards them. by being light hearted about it, it got them to talk more and they would listen better to your responses. nobody likes to be schooled but it's good to be able to bring taboo topics to the surface rather than hidden away where they only grow like a cancer.

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Mar 11Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

When you step back and watch, it's exactly like a world full of angry drunks. That hangover is going to hurt.

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Mar 11Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

Really brilliant essay. Around here we used to say "You've got to let the Nazis march in Skokie," one of the cruelest plans by cretins to traumatize Holocaust survivors, yet saying that was a kind of deference to principle, despite there being someone who you wanted to silence (or worse) with every proverbial fiber of your being. The last eight years and the internet have eroded that deference. The wonderful thing about this essay is that it is almost koanic in how it disrupts the online mind's entrained wish to object to some position or other. Quite powerful. Like a secular sermon for our dark age.

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Mar 11·edited Mar 11Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

Here I will give you the Dickens:

“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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Mar 11Liked by Mark Crispin Miller

Very thought provoking post. Thank you. I thinkthat hate whether justified or not is a human emotion. The inferred opposite is love. I think both words are being used for political advantages. The word love is also being used to push the Trans agenda. I'm not going to wade into that societal quagmire but it is a favorite slogan on placards at their rallies/ parades/ protests. It's all in the name of love. When society uses the word to further a social and political agenda it cheapens the word and deprives it of its true meaning. We have elevated hate to the same level. I looked up several definitions of hate tonight and one that resonated with me was " hatred or hate is an intense emotional response towards certain people, things or ideas. So what does that actually mean? Particularly when it comes to things or ideas. Is it merely a difference of opinion and unfortunately in our current time in history it doesn't fit the narrative.

The idea of trying to regulate hate is akin to thought control. At different times in our past it is possible that hate used as an emotion may very well have contributed to our survival. It may have been a preservation instinct.

As for the word love as an appeal to our emotions to achieve a political agenda, it too fails at all levels. Both words have been cheapened and have become nothing but buzz words to further achieve political agendas.

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