Goodies from Ol' Remus

Ol' Remus

 

                     1939. Filming the field hospital scene for Gone With The Wind.
The scene presents wounded soldiers at the railroad depot in Atlanta. Scarlett has come looking for the doctor to help with Melanie's delivery and is confronted with the magnitude of the war. Filmed on the Selznick backlot, the wounded in the distance were dummies, some manipulated by strings for small movements.

   

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 Francis Porretto at Liberty's Torch on why compromise with the Left is all but impossible:

The Left’s goals and its model of its adversaries make impossible a lasting agreement of any sort with them, even if such an agreement were morally acceptable. Indeed, the more candid ones have said that those of us who can’t be “re-educated” must simply be eliminated – executed. Their goal is absolute an unbounded power in perpetuity: a position that absolutely forbids the toleration of even a single dissident.
They have already sanctioned the use of calumny, harassment, intimidation, vandalism, and personal violence against us. They will not withdraw the use of those tactics as long as they seem to get them closer to what they seek – and therefore, they will take any sort of concession or “compromise” as reinforcement for those tactics.

Really, really, really long time readers of Woodpile Report remember I used to dwell on how Appalachians are demeaned and taunted without consequence. No insult is out of bounds, in the media or casual conversation. And it's been going on for all of living memory.

Alas, instead of tapering off, it expanded to include all white men. This phase happened quickly, it's pretty much complete. Now white women are feeling the precursors.

Just as with Appalachia, the left's problem with whites is our intractibility. We're not hated per se, we're a menace to navigation. We don't "cling" to our values, we embrace them and live them, despite the constant sliming. They hate it. 

Donald Jr. and his family spends most weekends at his cabin in the Catskills near tiny Roscoe, New York, where they often take a meal at the Riverside Cafe. He buys his ammo at Big Dog Arms and bait at Catskills Flies. Downtown Roscoe—Stewart Avenue—is one block long.  

Revenge, Taki's Magazine - Incapable of the merest self-reflection, the modern left merely ramps up the false premises and baseless moral histrionics. It’s these levels of needless dementia and raging paranoia over a nonexistent threat that are dangerous, especially when these perma-geeks have been working themselves into justifying all sorts of violence against their childhood enemies for years now. The fact that these turd nuggets are so far down the Delusion Hole that they’re willing to start bombing places because they lost an election is a sign we’re dealing with the mentally afflicted. Anyone who wishes that America would merely have the same immigration policies as the rest of the world is a “fascist” and a “white supremacist” and a “Nazi.”

  Naïvecons, American Greatness - The expulsion meme has become popular among the naïvecons. They are increasingly frank about who they’d like to expel: the more rural you are, the redder your state, the lower your income, the more working class your background, the more you cling to guns and God, the more you vote Republican, the more you deserve the boot. For those on the actual Right, merely arguing that the United States enforce existing laws is to be called a Nazi, heckled in public, and picketed at one’s home. But the pro-illegal immigrant, anti-native-born Left can vent their spleens and prosper. They despise you. They hold you in contempt. They want you kicked out of your own country and replaced by foreigners. They are your enemy.

Gang rule, Z Man - There may be rules, but what matters is who enforces the rules and on whom the rules are to be applied. In this case, the wide ranging criminal organization known as the Democratic Party will never let their people get punished by the Republicans. Those rules about complying with a subpoena from Congress only apply when the gangsters with power can enforce them and they will only enforce them when it suits their interests. This is gang life. This is the gangster state. The people inside these agencies have a primary loyalty to the gang, not to the laws of the country or the alleged institutions charged with promulgating and enforcing the laws. In gang life, you are first loyal to the gang.

Identity, Tablet - For many, no defense or condemnation of cultural appropriation is required, because such complaints are almost beyond the realm of comprehension in the first place. Without cultural appropriation we would not be able to eat Italian food, listen to reggae, or go to Yoga. Without cultural appropriation we would not be able to drink tea or use chopsticks or speak English or apply algebra, or listen to jazz, or write novels. Almost every cultural practice we engage in is the byproduct of centuries of cross-cultural pollination. It is by considering the power dynamics at play that the logic of cultural appropriation starts to become clear. 

Bombing Russia, National Interest - On August 23, 1939, Germany and Russia signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In Allied eyes, the Soviet Union had changed from Germany's nemesis into Germany's ally. So why not strike the Soviet Union and kill two birds with one stone? Thus was born Operation Pike. Flying from Allied bases in Iran and Syria, as well as neutral but anti-Soviet Turkey, more than a hundred British and French bombers would continuously attack Soviet oil fields in the Caucuses in a night strategic bombing campaign. This was more than idle planning. Unmarked British reconnaissance planes flying from Iraqi airfields actually photographed oil installations at Baku and Batumi in March 1940.