That Hope Yet Lives

Please pray for the repose of the soul of a member of my family.

Siiigh. Please pray for the repose of the soul of a different member of my family.

As schools around the country consider ramping up security efforts in response to recent school shootings, a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis suggests that increased surveillance is having a detrimental impact on academic performance.

Heightened security reduces test scores in math, reduces the number of students attending college and increases suspensions, said Jason Jabbari, research assistant professor and co-author of the study “Infrastructure of social control: A multi-level counterfactual analysis of surveillance and black education,” published online Sept. 20 in the Journal of Criminal Justice.

In addition to being used to preempt school shootings, the authors found, surveillance measures may have increased schools’ capacity to identify and punish students for more common and less serious offenses, which may negatively impact the learning environment.

Am I missing the part of this paper where they adjust for local crime levels or income or anything to tell causation from correlation?

Also, lols, tell me you live in a wealthy red-lined suburb without telling me you live in a wealthy red-lined suburb "The best way to end violence in schools, Jabbari and Johnson suggest, is to support students’ mental health, socio-emotional attachment, and feelings of belonging to schools and to end re-traumatizing students through systemic racism in schools."

Getting ass-beat at school is traumatizing. Getting raped at school is traumatizing. Getting a cap popped in your ass at school is traumatizing. Being forced by the police to share a building with violent gang members is traumatizing.

Calling singing kumbiya as a solution is privileged bullshit.

Also kinda wonder what the security measures are. There are a lot of security measures in the world.

Enough psychoanalysing why people have kinks. We need to psycholanalyse why they don't. Like you don't enjoy getting tied up? Clearly your tumultuous upbringing has given you a patholgical need to be in control at all times. Don't like fauxcest? That's because your petite-bourgeois class background means you view the nuclear family as a pure and sacred institution, automatically reviling anything that undermines or subverts this. Not into piss? That's easy; you're scared of the piss gnomes

This post has recently made its way into some radfem circle or another, which is really great because they've been saying very entertaining shit in the reblogs. Like this person who tried to pwn me with an epic zinger

Or the "feminist" who sees it fitting to talk like a Gamergater

And the absolute genius who seems to think that someone making a joke post about something automatically means they genuinely partake in it (with their love for nonsensical and reactionary sexual terminology providing additional evidence of deep and nuanced thinking)

Like I think this sort of response provides an insight into how viciously reactionary the sexual politics of these people are, flying into an indignant fury at the mere suggestion that contemporary normative sexual values are not automatically the "healthy" and "natural" state of all sexuality. There's such an underlying rage and insecurity that an obvious joke has them talking like this; they either got too mad to reach the punchline or they're genuinely scared of the Piss Gnomes. These Rad-Fem responses reveal much more about them then it does the thing they're responding to

But all that aside, this is also just funny to me. Like Tumblr is great because its crop of open reactionaries are all so insanely stupid and pathetic. Their love of empty posturing and meaningless words makes it feel more like I'm trying to communicate with a Spore creature than with another sapient human being. So attempts to threaten and harass just turn into free entertainment. It's not high quality of course, but I guess you get what you pay for

I have few to no kinks because I have striven to live a pure life and look at the specific proper purposes of sex with clear eyes. I have worked to eliminate atavisms and disordered desires, the results of original sin, from my mind.

My upbringing as a human being, a child and creation of God, has lead to me to recognize what the acceptable category of family relations is and to regard proper family relations (which include but are not exclusively the nuclear family) as pure and scared institutions, recognizing their creation by God.

I have certainly had no interest in polluting my body with harmful excrement which God has given those who have not corrupted themselves a correct and beneficial revulsion for.

You know, in terms of paraphilias being taught, that's not always the case. Sometimes your wife accidentally plants her foot on your chest while she's adjusting and in the midst of her apologizing you're like "Actually, do it again."

And as long as it's not dangerous it's really not a huge deal.

That sounds like discovering the existence of a paraphilia, not the development of one.

Dangerous is one of the ways that something can be bad or ethically wrong but not the only one.

Screenshotted for criticism.

The actual criticism:

- is this the part of your plan where you talk about your plan? Do these people not know the the Internet is forever as far as counterintelligence goes? Apparently not based on people talking about turning off tracking on their phones.

- the area study type stuff here is legitimately a very good idea (though I have no confidence in this person)

- Poisons? Really? Eating plants? Really?

- a lot of this seems like a Tumblr teen version of right wing preppers who fantasize about bugging out to "the woods" with their AR and no more food than can be carried in their pack.

- this seems like a weird kitchen sink straddling of different levels of things you might do.

- if you think you're going to need this skill why wouldn't you cross a border?

Enough psychoanalysing why people have kinks. We need to psycholanalyse why they don't. Like you don't enjoy getting tied up? Clearly your tumultuous upbringing has given you a patholgical need to be in control at all times. Don't like fauxcest? That's because your petite-bourgeois class background means you view the nuclear family as a pure and sacred institution, automatically reviling anything that undermines or subverts this. Not into piss? That's easy; you're scared of the piss gnomes

This post has recently made its way into some radfem circle or another, which is really great because they've been saying very entertaining shit in the reblogs. Like this person who tried to pwn me with an epic zinger

Or the "feminist" who sees it fitting to talk like a Gamergater

And the absolute genius who seems to think that someone making a joke post about something automatically means they genuinely partake in it (with their love for nonsensical and reactionary sexual terminology providing additional evidence of deep and nuanced thinking)

Like I think this sort of response provides an insight into how viciously reactionary the sexual politics of these people are, flying into an indignant fury at the mere suggestion that contemporary normative sexual values are not automatically the "healthy" and "natural" state of all sexuality. There's such an underlying rage and insecurity that an obvious joke has them talking like this; they either got too mad to reach the punchline or they're genuinely scared of the Piss Gnomes. These Rad-Fem responses reveal much more about them then it does the thing they're responding to

But all that aside, this is also just funny to me. Like Tumblr is great because its crop of open reactionaries are all so insanely stupid and pathetic. Their love of empty posturing and meaningless words makes it feel more like I'm trying to communicate with a Spore creature than with another sapient human being. So attempts to threaten and harass just turn into free entertainment. It's not high quality of course, but I guess you get what you pay for

I have few to no kinks because I have striven to live a pure life and look at the specific proper purposes of sex with clear eyes. I have worked to eliminate atavisms and disordered desires, the results of original sin, from my mind.

My upbringing as a human being, a child and creation of God, has lead to me to recognize what the acceptable category of family relations is and to regard proper family relations (which include but are not exclusively the nuclear family) as pure and scared institutions, recognizing their creation by God.

I have certainly had no interest in polluting my body with harmful excrement which God has given those who have not corrupted themselves a correct and beneficial revulsion for.

On the topic of Leftist Andrew Tate and other mythical creatures of the liberal mind

ID: Two screenshots of a Twitter thread by Joth @ jothwip with text reading:

"The reason men are turning fascist is because the feminist and workers movements of the past decades have made it harder for them to own women as property, with current movements threatening to rid them of power they still have. Not because lesbians are mean to them

"When you talk of "The left alienating men" you are either buying the fascists at their word, or suggesting feminists compromise by not abolishing the power men have over women. Either option puts you on the same side as them"

End ID.

I just don't think it's true that "men" as a whole are turning fascist

I don't think that's really the argument here. It's specifically Western cishet white men, particularly men of the middle and upper classes, who are acting on this sense of aggrieved entitlement that the world that was "supposed" to be theirs is now telling them they must share it with others, and that women are not their reward for good behavior but in fact their equals. and so many of these guys believe themselves to be feminists, but can't wrap their head around the idea that their hurt feelings and bruised egos are irrelevant in a conversation about women, particularly marginalized women, losing their political rights. scratch a male ally and an MRA bleeds🤷‍♂️

My problem with this is that many millions of women also support right-wing, far-right, and fascist causes. Personally I've played a part in disrupting "For Britain" when their leader, a woman, tried to hold a launch meeting in my city; Meloni and Le Pen are women; when I've had to go help defend a nearby hotel housing refugees or help organise the counter-demo to the attempted islamophobic pogrom in August there were plenty of women on the other side -- clearly motivated by the supposed threat of refugee sexual violence, i.e. on a feminist basis. Some 45% of American women voters voted for Trump along with 55% of American men voters. So there is a gendered difference, and the stuff described here probably makes a difference to that margin, but it's clearly a secondary cause at most of the rise of the far right.

Also just a deep failure to imagine any position on sex and gender less than 'the specific kind of progressive leftist feminist that I am' and greater than 'fascist who wants to own women as slaves'

This is a particularly extreme form, but I see an awful lot of stuff in this vein that seems to think that the 1880s, the 1920s, and the 1970s all happened, like, last decade and right-wing men are just responding to this now.

For the dems who do not seem to understand: it does not functionally matter what party you vote for, the us empire rolls on and continues to do the same things. Putting on your Klan hood when a minority group votes for Trump does not do anything but make you very racist.

And regardless the group that voted highest for trump by percentage was still white people so perhaps maybe all of you should commit suicide before going any other avenue

I continue to be bewildered by the idea that they are putting on their Klan hood rather than their Commissar cap.

This isn't subjugation of the inferior races. It's liquidation of unreliable elements. I can't believe you can't recognize it.

I thought about this nonsense reply for like a day and I can't possibly think of the thought process behind it. All I know is I wish we could liquidate you, because you are a pederast who gives me a headache.

Have you tried ibuprofen?

I am familiar with the idea that people wish to kill me; I rejoice because I am not easy or safe to murder and so they are dismayed and complain.

But really, the thought process is very simple.

You are a tankie, someone who defends the infamous authoritarian Communist regimes which are known for their viciousness towards groups viewed as tending to dissent or resist their rule.

You accuse the liberals of having become racist in response to the minority groups failing to act as supportive clients. But their actual response isn't so much racist, as simply aggressively and violently hostile to dissent.

To someone who is familiar with the idea of "scratch a liberal and a tankie bleeds", the comparison is obvious.

This is the prerogative of someone who who has never had the slightest bit of suicidal ideation and receives the endless kill-yourself commentary of the Internet with little impact.

Apparently Nick Fuentes started saying this and a bunch of people have allegedly been harassing people by saying it.

It then became a huge thing on left wing social media.

Maoist Standard English is my favourite language.

@tektology

How can such a person even relate to the majority of most humans ever?

Practically speaking I think most of the time the sort of person who says this shit on the internet believes this on a distant, intellectual level - they despise a concept of people, an abstraction in their head.

But when there's a person actually standing there in person confronting that idea by just existing in front of them, that you're interacting with personally, they usually can't help but take them as an actual person and kinda temporarily push the abstraction to the side for the duration of the interaction.

So it goes; the typical genocidaire is not a crazed man who casually shoots people and lives in a house full of dead bodies and rotting gore.

Presently they go back to their computer and say the same thing as they said earlier.

For the dems who do not seem to understand: it does not functionally matter what party you vote for, the us empire rolls on and continues to do the same things. Putting on your Klan hood when a minority group votes for Trump does not do anything but make you very racist.

And regardless the group that voted highest for trump by percentage was still white people so perhaps maybe all of you should commit suicide before going any other avenue

I continue to be bewildered by the idea that they are putting on their Klan hood rather than their Commissar cap.

This isn't subjugation of the inferior races. It's liquidation of unreliable elements. I can't believe you can't recognize it.

Since we're getting into "did you know that Santa's eight tiny reindeer are a reference to the eight legs of Odin's steed?" season once again, remember: while there are some elements of Christmas (or Hallowe'en, or Easter, or...) observations that are probably pre-Christian in origin, before one believes any of that this-is-really-100%-just-a-Pagan-holiday-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off stuff, one must consider all of the following possibilities:

Don't forget #9:

Someone with zero percent of the facts who could not find Jerusalem on a map and has no idea that languages other than English exist decided to randomly look at stuff that seems similar if you really squint.

Not scratched. Corrupted.

Maoist Standard English is my favourite language.

@tektology

How can such a person even relate to the majority of most humans ever?

We’re going to hear a lot of stupid bullshit over the next few days/months/years about how Harris/the Democrats failed to win over men, or young people, or uneducated voters, or those worried about the economy, or whatever….but the truth is this: this country hates women and minorities; its citizens understand fuck all about the economy; and the people are incredibly susceptible to outright lies, scams and fascist values

Yeah it's always been that way and there aren't people worth "winning over," there's just a country overwhelmingly clogged with trash to eliminate.

>the people are incredibly susceptible to...fascist values

>there's just a country overwhelmingly clogged with trash to eliminate

Oh! I see!

It was their rhetoric first you doormats. They chose to be fash like the supporters of every other fash machine in history. Name a single time that problem was solved by kindly talking them out of it please. At minimum they have to be driven to leave.

Actually, this is something I forgot to bring up in the other reblog, but:

Nothing has made me suspicious of centrists quite like the way they're so obvious about how much more comfortable they are with fascists than antifascists. Show 'em a guy who talks about removing degenerates or some shit about jews running the banks and it's dead silent. Show 'em a guy who says "hey all this stuff about degenerates and the supremacy of the white race seems like pretty dangerous talk, maybe we should get this guy out of here" and they won't shut up about knowing who the REAL fascist is now. It doesn't matter how genteel or polite you are about it, they always, always hate it and they'll let you know every time.

This is, fundamentally, a warped perception. You ignore how your own side is, frequently, just a different group of psychos.

The kind of centrist rhetoric in the real world that you perceive comes at a time when the center, specifically rule of law and limited government and social peace, is trying to hold against different opposing factions of extremists, some more blatant than others.

And it fundamentally responds to the "defensive" faction trying to delegitimize the rule of law, threatening anyone who doesn't submit to them, and trying to wildly escalate the conflict.

(This is especially the case when the first group of extremists isn't actually blatantly talking about genocide, but the responding group is.)

Frequently it becomes obvious that the illustrious Anti-Badguy Squad (you know they are good because of their name!) is mainly interested in power and violence for its own purposes.

Because it is never just about getting "that guy" out of here.

Exhibit A, ladies and gentlemen!

The paradox of tolerance really is just a Manchurian candidate code phrase that makes centrists out themselves as actual fascists.

The "paradox of tolerance" is something that people twist into a justification for considering tolerance to not be a desirable thing *at all*.

I'm not gonna lie, when I called you a closet fascist I didn't expect your slam dunk comeback to be "I can't be a closet fascist if I'm openly one."

Points for the curveball but that wasn't exactly the victory condition in this argument.

That's because that's not at all what I said.

I think your overall concept where fascists are eeevvvvvveeeerrryyyywhere is nonsense that would make you a tiny faction at war with most of humanity.

My guy, you literally responded to me saying "I think centrists are closet fascists because they're way more comfortable with fascists than with antifascists" with "of course I'm more comfortable with fascists, they hide their violence in euphemism and the rule of law."

Like, you were told in no uncertain terms what I was going to think of you if you did the single exact thing you did, and you still couldn't keep yourself from doing that one singular thing. Your opportunity to be Surprised Pikachu that I think you're a fascist is long gone!

I think you read a different post than the one I posted.

My argument is "so-called antifascists who try to tear down centrism and the rule of law, are actually just another violent extremist faction to be resisted along with fascists".

We’re going to hear a lot of stupid bullshit over the next few days/months/years about how Harris/the Democrats failed to win over men, or young people, or uneducated voters, or those worried about the economy, or whatever….but the truth is this: this country hates women and minorities; its citizens understand fuck all about the economy; and the people are incredibly susceptible to outright lies, scams and fascist values

Yeah it's always been that way and there aren't people worth "winning over," there's just a country overwhelmingly clogged with trash to eliminate.

>the people are incredibly susceptible to...fascist values

>there's just a country overwhelmingly clogged with trash to eliminate

Oh! I see!

It was their rhetoric first you doormats. They chose to be fash like the supporters of every other fash machine in history. Name a single time that problem was solved by kindly talking them out of it please. At minimum they have to be driven to leave.

Actually, this is something I forgot to bring up in the other reblog, but:

Nothing has made me suspicious of centrists quite like the way they're so obvious about how much more comfortable they are with fascists than antifascists. Show 'em a guy who talks about removing degenerates or some shit about jews running the banks and it's dead silent. Show 'em a guy who says "hey all this stuff about degenerates and the supremacy of the white race seems like pretty dangerous talk, maybe we should get this guy out of here" and they won't shut up about knowing who the REAL fascist is now. It doesn't matter how genteel or polite you are about it, they always, always hate it and they'll let you know every time.

This is, fundamentally, a warped perception. You ignore how your own side is, frequently, just a different group of psychos.

The kind of centrist rhetoric in the real world that you perceive comes at a time when the center, specifically rule of law and limited government and social peace, is trying to hold against different opposing factions of extremists, some more blatant than others.

And it fundamentally responds to the "defensive" faction trying to delegitimize the rule of law, threatening anyone who doesn't submit to them, and trying to wildly escalate the conflict.

(This is especially the case when the first group of extremists isn't actually blatantly talking about genocide, but the responding group is.)

Frequently it becomes obvious that the illustrious Anti-Badguy Squad (you know they are good because of their name!) is mainly interested in power and violence for its own purposes.

Because it is never just about getting "that guy" out of here.

Exhibit A, ladies and gentlemen!

The paradox of tolerance really is just a Manchurian candidate code phrase that makes centrists out themselves as actual fascists.

The "paradox of tolerance" is something that people twist into a justification for considering tolerance to not be a desirable thing *at all*.

I'm not gonna lie, when I called you a closet fascist I didn't expect your slam dunk comeback to be "I can't be a closet fascist if I'm openly one."

Points for the curveball but that wasn't exactly the victory condition in this argument.

That's because that's not at all what I said.

I think your overall concept where fascists are eeevvvvvveeeerrryyyywhere is nonsense that would make you a tiny faction at war with most of humanity.