I wasn't there. It appears to be true, however. Border control agents were whipping at refugees with reigns. But I did not put an "only" in there (to excuse it). You're the one doing the excusing, calling using horses to herd humans an effective way to control a crowd.
Something having been done for thousands of years doesn't make it right.
Regarding the second video... Russell Brand is a sap. Proof is that he listens to Glenn Greenwald. USED to be a fan. You're probably a fan of this dupe's misinformed political commentary. You love leftist saps like Russell Brand, Jimmy Dore, Krystal Ball, Matt Taibbi, etc.
Also... from Twitter...
Carmela@denise_yak Sep 20, 2021: I wish the FBI would reopen the investigation into Alfa Bank/Trump servers. Who "cleared" the Alpha Bank/Trump Tower communications? Brian Benczkowski, Barr's DOJ head of Criminal Div. He worked for Alpha Bank before he was hired at DOJ.
Something having been done for thousands of years doesn't make it right.
Tell THAT to Nietzsche. For you want to me lie to a new social convention.
Insofar as the individual wants to maintain himself against other individuals, he will under natural circumstances employ the intellect mainly for dissimulation. But at the same time, from boredom and necessity, man wishes to exist socially and with the herd; therefore, he needs to make peace and strives accordingly to banish from his world at least the most flagrant bellum omni contra omnes. This peace treaty brings in its wake something which appears to be the first step toward acquiring that puzzling truth drive: to wit, that which shall count as "truth" from now on is established. That is to say, a uniformly valid and binding designation is invented for things, and this legislation of language likewise establishes the first laws of truth. For the contrast between truth and lie arises here for the first time. The liar is a person who uses the valid designations, the words, in order to make something which is unreal appear to be real. He says, for example, "I am rich," when the proper designation for his condition would be "poor." He misuses fixed conventions by means of arbitrary substitutions or even reversals of names. If he does this in a selfish and moreover harmful manner, society will cease to trust him and will thereby exclude him. What men avoid by excluding the liar is not so much being defrauded as it is being harmed by means of fraud. Thus, even at this stage, what they hate is basically not deception itself, but rather the unpleasant, hated consequences of certain sorts of deception. It is in a similarly restricted sense that man now wants nothing but truth: he desires the pleasant, life—preserving consequences of truth. He is indifferent toward pure knowledge which has no consequences; toward those truths which are possibly harmful and destructive he is even hostilely inclined. --- We still do not yet know where the drive for truth comes from. For so far we have heard only of the duty which society imposes in order to exist: to be truthful means to employ the usual metaphors. Thus, to express it morally, this is the duty to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie with the herd and in a manner binding upon everyone. Now man of course forgets that this is the way things stand for him. Thus he lies in the manner indicated, unconsciously and in accordance with habits which are centuries' old; and precisely by means of this unconsciousness and forgetfulness he arrives at his sense of truth.
-Nietzsche, "On truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense"
The Biden administration isn't going to allow it any longer. You can contact them with your Nietzsche quote, but I seriously doubt it will change their minds.
If any border control agents did any of those things they'd be charged with murder, convicted and sent to prison. If any president approved such measures they'd be condemned by the international community and charged and convicted of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.
East Germany militarized the entire border with the West, laying more than one million land mines and deploying around 3,000 attack dogs. The wall between East and West Berlin was nearly 12 feet high and approximately 27 miles long, with 302 guard towers and 55,000 anti-personnel explosive devices (landmines).
I don't think that Stalin/ Kruschev/ or any of their successors were ever prosecuted by the ICC.
btw - In what year will Russia be compliant with signed Chemical Weapons Conventions? Answer - They were in 2017. It's us that are struggling with a 2023 deadline. We've still 1,713.8 metric tons to go (as of March 2020).
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ReplyDelete^^He's gonna go get vaccinated and masked up to bully the scary black people^^
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ReplyDelete^^Whipped Haitian migrants on horseback^^
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ReplyDelete^^claims that they were only reins, not whips...^^
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ReplyDeleteI wasn't there. It appears to be true, however. Border control agents were whipping at refugees with reigns. But I did not put an "only" in there (to excuse it). You're the one doing the excusing, calling using horses to herd humans an effective way to control a crowd.
ReplyDeleteYou're the one doing the excusing, calling using horses to herd humans an effective way to control a crowd.
ReplyDelete...as the rulers of every country in the world have done for thousands of years.
Something having been done for thousands of years doesn't make it right.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the second video... Russell Brand is a sap. Proof is that he listens to Glenn Greenwald. USED to be a fan. You're probably a fan of this dupe's misinformed political commentary. You love leftist saps like Russell Brand, Jimmy Dore, Krystal Ball, Matt Taibbi, etc.
Also... from Twitter...
Carmela@denise_yak Sep 20, 2021: I wish the FBI would reopen the investigation into Alfa Bank/Trump servers. Who "cleared" the Alpha Bank/Trump Tower communications? Brian Benczkowski, Barr's DOJ head of Criminal Div. He worked for Alpha Bank before he was hired at DOJ.
Something having been done for thousands of years doesn't make it right.
ReplyDeleteTell THAT to Nietzsche. For you want to me lie to a new social convention.
Insofar as the individual wants to maintain himself against other individuals, he will under natural circumstances employ the intellect mainly for dissimulation. But at the same time, from boredom and necessity, man wishes to exist socially and with the herd; therefore, he needs to make peace and strives accordingly to banish from his world at least the most flagrant bellum omni contra omnes. This peace treaty brings in its wake something which appears to be the first step toward acquiring that puzzling truth drive: to wit, that which shall count as "truth" from now on is established. That is to say, a uniformly valid and binding designation is invented for things, and this legislation of language likewise establishes the first laws of truth. For the contrast between truth and lie arises here for the first time. The liar is a person who uses the valid designations, the words, in order to make something which is unreal appear to be real. He says, for example, "I am rich," when the proper designation for his condition would be "poor." He misuses fixed conventions by means of arbitrary substitutions or even reversals of names. If he does this in a selfish and moreover harmful manner, society will cease to trust him and will thereby exclude him. What men avoid by excluding the liar is not so much being defrauded as it is being harmed by means of fraud. Thus, even at this stage, what they hate is basically not deception itself, but rather the unpleasant, hated consequences of certain sorts of deception. It is in a similarly restricted sense that man now wants nothing but truth: he desires the pleasant, life—preserving consequences of truth. He is indifferent toward pure knowledge which has no consequences; toward those truths which are possibly harmful and destructive he is even hostilely inclined.
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We still do not yet know where the drive for truth comes from. For so far we have heard only of the duty which society imposes in order to exist: to be truthful means to employ the usual metaphors. Thus, to express it morally, this is the duty to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie with the herd and in a manner binding upon everyone. Now man of course forgets that this is the way things stand for him. Thus he lies in the manner indicated, unconsciously and in accordance with habits which are centuries' old; and precisely by means of this unconsciousness and forgetfulness he arrives at his sense of truth.
-Nietzsche, "On truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense"
The Biden administration isn't going to allow it any longer. You can contact them with your Nietzsche quote, but I seriously doubt it will change their minds.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the new border patrol policies. Tasers, water cannons, tear gas, and rubber bullets are much more effective than horses.
ReplyDelete...maybe they can try out those new sonic and heat deterrents on the illegals.
ReplyDeleteWhat about flamethrowers? That's how your fellow White Supremacist (the now deceased) Franco wanted to "greet" desperate refugees.
ReplyDeleteScalp bounties work the best.
ReplyDeleteI prefer land mines.
ReplyDeleteIf any border control agents did any of those things they'd be charged with murder, convicted and sent to prison. If any president approved such measures they'd be condemned by the international community and charged and convicted of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.
ReplyDeleteReally?
ReplyDeleteEast Germany militarized the entire border with the West, laying more than one million land mines and deploying around 3,000 attack dogs. The wall between East and West Berlin was nearly 12 feet high and approximately 27 miles long, with 302 guard towers and 55,000 anti-personnel explosive devices (landmines).
I don't think that Stalin/ Kruschev/ or any of their successors were ever prosecuted by the ICC.
ReplyDeletebtw - In what year will Russia be compliant with signed Chemical Weapons Conventions? Answer - They were in 2017. It's us that are struggling with a 2023 deadline. We've still 1,713.8 metric tons to go (as of March 2020).