Guest Post by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
NASA to rename insensitive cosmic objects
You may think NASA’s mission is to take humanity to Mars and beyond.
But remember, we no longer live in a society which prioritizes actual advancement.
Far more important is making sure no one is offended.
So we may not make it to Mars, but at least the Innuit people will not be offended.
NASA announced that it will rename the “Eskimo Nebula” as well as the “Siamese Twins Galaxy” because they include racially insensitive terms, apparently rooted in colonialism.
But what about the constellation Orion– named after a Greek mythological hunter god who is alleged to have raped the Princess Merope.
Or the constellation Gemini– named after Green twins Castor and Pollus, who were part of that Argonaut band of capitalist swine who terrorized ancient civilizations in search of the Golden Fleece. . .
And isn’t the name Mars also offensive– because it celebrates the patriarchal, heteronormative violent God of War?
What about Jupiter– a notorious rapist who slept with his children?
In fact, every planet named after a Roman god should be considered offensive– Rome was the biggest colonizer of its day and routinely enslaved captives and lower class Romans.
Luckily the Visogoths held a ‘peaceful protest’ in Rome in the year 410 which resulted in much more equality– everyone was equally impoverished and defeated.
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California to raise income taxes RETROACTIVELY
California just doesn’t seem to understand.
The rich continue to flee the state in droves. Companies like Tesla are out. Moving companies are overwhelmed.
And what does the state legislature do? Raise taxes on the rich. Retroactively.
A bill passed the Assembly that proposes increasing tax rates on high income Californians by up to 3.5%.
And if the bill passes, it will be effective retroactively to January 1, 2020.
California already had the highest income tax rate of any state in the US by far. But this tax hike will bring the top rate for those earning more than $5.9 million to 16.8%.
On top of that, yesterday several state lawmakers introduced a wealth tax– which would take a slice of someone’s net worth, instead of just their annual income.
Most of the people who are subject to paying these taxes are already working from home and incredibly mobile. They can easily leave the state, which will result in a tax LOSS for California. Another victory for socialism!
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Kindergarteners in Thailand sealed in plexiglass cubicles
Thai kindergarteners’ days are so structured now because of Covid, that any semblance of free play and exploration is gone.
Take a look at the pictures from one elementary school, and you will think you’re looking into a dystopian future– maybe that’s where we are.
Children are separated by plexiglass barriers at desks, and isolated in plastic cubicles to play. They stand where they’re told and wear masks and face shields all day long.
This is not an education– it is indoctrination.
But in Thailand, just like in the US, homeschooling is legal– no one has to put up with this.
Especially when the psychological factors may be worse than the disease.
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Cop can’t fit handcuffs on 8 year old arrested in school
Body camera footage has been released from an incident in December 2018 where a police officer arrested, fingerprinted, mugshotted, and charged an 8 year old boy with battery.
It took nine months in court before it reached a rational adult– a judge who dismissed the case.
To be clear, this is a different incident from others we have discussed, like the cop who arrested a six year old girl in school, and a cop who handcuffed an 8 year old autistic boy.
But the similarity in every case is that no one stepped in to say, “hey maybe we shouldn’t be arresting children for basic childhood misbehavior.”
In this case, the boy wasn’t sitting properly at lunch, whatever that means.
A teacher thought it was appropriate to intervene physically, upon which the boy yelled, “don’t put your hands on me!” and punched the teacher in the chest.
She wasn’t injured because this is a tiny eight year old we are talking about.
Still, that was enough for police to respond, and attempt to handcuff the boy– but the boy’s wrists were too small.
Then the officer pats down the crying boy, putting his hands all over him, and escorts him to a police car. Meanwhile the cop seems to delight in telling the boy that “this is very serious” and “you’re going to jail.”
Apparently there was no sane adult to be found anywhere in this school or police department.
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“Kindergarten Cop” cancelled
We thought the 1990 Schwarzenegger movie Kindergarten Cop would be cancelled at some point for insensitivity to non-conforming-gender identity.
At one point in the film, as Schwartzenegger teaches, a boy exclaims, “boys have a penis, girls have vaginas.”
But no, that’s not why Kindergarten Cop is being cancelled.
A planned 30th anniversary drive-in showing of the film was cancelled because it apparently glorifies police officers.
The sentence was passed, you guessed it, in a Tweet from an angry local author:
“What’s so funny about School-to-Prison pipeline . . . in which African American, Latinx and other kids of color are criminalized rather than educated. Five- and 6-year-olds are handcuffed and hauled off to jail routinely in this country.”
As the last story shows, we also recognize the problem with overzealous cops in schools. (Not that it should matter, but the boy from the last story was White.)
We’re just not sure censoring a playful Schwarzenegger film is going to deliver the revolutionary change required to tackle the problem.
But homeschooling might.
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Math “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy”
First it was a PhD student studying mathematics who Tweeted that 2+2=4 is “because of western imperialism/colonization. . .” (we wrote about this last month.)
But this idea is catching on.
Math professors and PhD candidates from various academic institutions eagerly agreed on Twitter–
One professor who teaches math education at Brooklyn College said: “um, ya’ll must know that the idea that math is objective or neutral IS A MYTH.”
The professor also claimed that math “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy. . .” (nevermind that many early advances in arithmetic were from Persian, Arabic, Indian, and Chinese mathematicians.)
This was met with agreement from a professor of Sociopolitical Perspectives on Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Illinois; a Harvard University PhD student; and others.
In line with everything we have been saying this week, the actual objective reality that 2+2=4 takes a back seat to the “woke” belief that math is yet another racist tool of oppression.
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San Francisco Covid relief includes funding meth lab
San Francisco has put up 2,500 homeless people in hotel rooms as part of an effort to help them social distance during Covid lockdowns.
That provided the opportunity to, for instance, start a meth lab in a tax funded hotel room.
Run a business during Covid? No.
Start a meth lab with taxpayer funds? Yes.
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Kindergarten Cop cancelled…Storyline & Written by Billy Salem, now dead from AIDS. Used to date his sister Diane. When Bob Dole was running for Prez in ’96, she sez, “I hate everything he stands for.” I sed, “Does that include suffering debilitating injuries to save other soldiers’ lives?” No response, we broke up a week later.
She’d fit in fine with the Portland crowd.
Did you at least get to fuck her once?
Can you image the beatdowns these 5 and 6 year olds will be taking from police and administrators because they are sick of wearing their horrible masks at school….or worse, if they touch another student (already a capital offense in some school districts)?
There is a rather obvious solution to people questioning the universality of mathematics. Simply reduce their salary by 90% and see how they articulate their complaint. Let them calculate how much you owe them and then question the validity of subtraction. Point out that it is not just math, but money itself and most things you can buy for money that was invented by white sexist racist homophobic men. A principled opposition should avoid all those things.
Brilliant!
and entertaining!
It should be a criminal offense to put a white child in a predominantly black school.
Can you imagine the amount of abuse They will receive this fall from all the racist low IQ blacks that have been fired up to hate Whitey….
EVERY FALL….not just this one.
The Boy in the Bubble: A Warning to Humanity
“In 1971, the ultimate germ-free animal was created: a human. David Vetter was born with severe combined Immunodeficency (SCID), and his doctors were ready. They had, in fact, anticipated his condition, as his parents had a 50-50 chance of passing down the genetic defect. In an act of remarkable hubris, they convinced the parents to conceive the child, reasoning that a bone marrow transplant from his sister would cure any SCID. When he was born, however, his sister turned out not to be a match, and David would live the rest of his life in a plastic bubble. He became famous as the ‘boy in the bubble.’
The doctors had hoped to learn what happens to germ-free humans, but the setup was not appropriate for any reasonable findings. David didn’t take long to realize that he was doomed to be cut off from the world , and he started questioning life. He was depressed,but whether that was from being germ free or just because he lived in a plastic bubble with no physical human contact is debatable. By the time he was 12, medicine had advanced enough to try a marrow transplant from his sister, even though she was not a perfect match. Sadly, she had an undetected virus, and within weeks of the transplant, David was dead. In David’s final days, his mother was able to touch his skin for the first time in his life.
The public was taken aback by this human experiment that had gone so wrong, and at a stroke, it seemed we awoke from the dream of a germ-free world. David, freed from his germs, was not a superkid. The microbes had won a reprieve.”
The above is a passage from a wonderful book by Scott C. Anderson titled ‘The Psychobiotic Revolution’ which is about the role of the microbiome in human immunology. A very important book indeed given what is going on in the world today. The title at the top of the extract is mine because I see the case of David Vetter as a warning to humanity that we are not at war with germs on the contrary we desperately need them to survive. Creating six foot social bubbles for ourselves is not the answer. The answer is not less human contact but more human contact and contact with the world in general. I recommend this book highly. I wish our Medical leaders would read this.
For as long as EVERY species has existed on this planet, it has lived in symbiotic “harmony” with every other species on the planet – most importantly the microscopic organisms and viruses. They make up the primary defense living on the surface of our skin, and the primary defense living in our digestive tracts. It is the same for virtually every other multi-cellular organism. It was already bad enough with the plethora of anti-microbial soaps and other products, along with the mass distribution of antibiotics that have created anti-biotic-resistant superbugs, but now with the plannedemic, the situation is completely out of control. I have seen many advertisements for products that claim to keep killing 99+% of bacteria on surfaces for days, and the fear mongering for these products presents every surface everywhere as the source of all death. We CANNOT survive as a species without the good microorganisms protecting us from the deadly microorganism we also live around. These are all non-selective killers, like many powerful antibiotics. Add to that the masks that are forcing the rebreathing of dead anaerobic bacterial bodies and viral fragments that would otherwise be expelled, and the weakening of the immune system from lack of “exercise” via exposure, and we are surely in for a deadly future. But of course that is the plan…isn’t it? The wave of death from the common cold or seasonal flu will simply be blamed on Covid or something new, while nobody will take responsibility for setting our species up for the fall. Gonna take a lot of lead to cure the disease that plagues us.