Bifurcation of banking continues apace.
Archive Link: https://archive.is/rOXhg
Original Link: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russian-court-orders-seizure-jpmorgan-chase-funds-vtb-lawsuit-2024-04-24/
Im sure further details will emerge.
However, it gets worse for DC Comics, as he writes, “DC had a pretty bad year, with their lowest sales since 2004 – down 25% from 2022 in the bookstore market – even with their highest ever number of titles in the total list. In 2023 they had only 14 titles in the Top 750; in 2013, ten years ago, they had 130. That is a huge and troubling drop – but maybe laying off nearly your entire sales and marketing team is not a great strategy for growth? If someone had been been making a concerted effort to dismantle DC Comics, they couldn’t have been more surgical – luckily, DC still has talented execs like Marie Javins, Jim Lee, Annie de Pies and the rest of the staff who have thwarted those plans. And from what we’re hearing, 2024 will see some more moves to reverse this concerning trend.”
I wouldn't hold my breath.
103 reviews as I sit here typing this out, with a 89% fresh score.
I'm not going to see it, but I am definitely there for the woke reaction to it. I've got the popcorn ready. :D
Andy Ngo is mentioned at the end of the film because some of his archival footage was used, and far left twitter is having the predictable melt down over it.
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmEj42q8vlM
Looks like it is an independent effort, so it probably wont be well acted, but still, looks like this might be worth seeing, just based on the trailer...
John C Wright has a post up on his blog discussing an interview he gave in 2019 over the Sad Puppies campaign:
Q: What do you think is the primary artistic/cultural difference between the pro-Sad Puppies and anti-Sad Puppies camps? What is the primary political/ideological difference between the two groups?
JCW: The two camps are divided by a very clear and deep difference, which is neither artistic nor cultural. It has some political aspects, but the difference is more fundamental than any disagreement over laws and policies. There are ideological excuses given for motives, but the true motives run deeper, to the very core of the soul, and ideology is only a surface feature.
The divide is a religious war.
Do not be deceived by phrases like political correctness and social justice warfare. Politics and society are side effects of deeper differences, which are essentially religious in the sense that religion springs out of a man’s most profound beliefs about life and death, man and morality, cosmos and chaos and the ultimate causes of all things.
Political correctness is a religion in everything but theology. It provides the cultists with answers to all life’s basic questions, gives meaning and purpose to their lives, and forms the basis of their social interactions with others. It is their atmosphere.
Religious war are not fought over this issue or that issue, over this parcel of land or that. Such wars are fought over the eternal fate of men’s souls. They are fought over all things together as a whole. They are fought over the universe. No one thing is at stake. Everything is at stake.
Go read the rest. Understand that what he talked about then is even worse. They aren't even trying to hide their service to evil now, they celebrate it. Realize, down to your bones, that this will come to a physical fight, eventually, because evil cannot tolerate good, and that you best take the time now to learn everything there is to know about such people near you so that when it does go physical, you don't have to go anywhere to do something about it.
Mark Kern posted this on his X feed:
Archive link: https://archive.is/WNiDl
Original link: https://nichegamer.com/dlsite-temporarily-blocks-major-western-payment-processors/
DLSite, a website which sells doujinsoft manga, video games, and more has seemingly been forced to refuse major western payment processors Visa and Mastercard.
The article goes on to report that American Express has been added to their blocked policy.
Visa and Mastercard strike again. What was done to Gab in 2018, and others since then, is spreading overseas, to other places.
I'll add another thing, something that Sundance at CTH has posted about several times.
The economic sanctions regime levelled at Russia is not designed to erect a wall against Russia, it is designed to erect a wall around US. It is designed to keep us from escaping their control. You are watching the mechanisms for that be put in place as we speak.
Ed Piskor was hounded into suicide over #meto accusations. He named names in his suicide note.
Ethan Van Scriber talks about it on twitter.
I read about this on Ace of Spades
This was posted over at Ace of Spades blog, and is a comprehensive debunking of warmista dogma. Some bullet points:
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The world has historically been much warmer than it is now. We are at a near-historically cold period and just emerging from an ice-age.
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CO2, which is the trigger causing global warming according to the alarmists, is low by historical standards, and dangerously close to the low level that causes a die-off of life on Earth, because CO2 = plant food = life.
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In the past when the Earth was much warmer, CO2 levels were much higher, indicating that higher temperatures cause an increase in CO2, not the reverse.
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The post-war cooling period that precipitated the “New Ice Age” panic of the 1970s occurred despite rising man-made CO2 after WWII.
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Outside of increasing temperatures in urban areas due to the urban heat island effect, there is virtually no change in temperature records at stations located in rural areas over the past century. Satellite and ocean temperature records don’t corroborate the rising temperatures found in cities.
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There are no increases in “extreme weather” events. That is simply fear-mongering hyperbole.
Rumble link: https://rumble.com/v4k2ij6-climate-the-movie-the-cold-truth.html
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55n-Zdv_Bwc&ab_channel=TonyHeller
Michael Mann presented his flawed hockey stick graph to Congress while I was in high school, and my initial reaction to the proclamations of the warmistas in the 1990s was always to doubt what they said due to their proscribed solutions (communism) to the problem of AGW. The rise of the internet has allowed me to see how flawed AGW is as a hypothesis, as every bit of the underlying data supporting their hypothesis was shown to be erroneous, and more importantly to me was how extreme the reaction was to those pointing out these errors. Any scientific hypothesis that has to be defended with personal attacks, censorship, and career destruction has achieved dogma status, and once the "consensus" narrative was put forth I knew that AGW had achieved cult status.
Sundance from CTH has read the text of the TikTok ban law, and notes that what is in the bill is radically different than what is being reported.
If TikTok data collection was the issue, the law would be structured to ban foreign data collection. That’s not what this is. This is a law written to give the Executive Branch the power to define any platform as “foreign owned” by the service provider (even if domestic) and the substance of the content contained and/or distributed.
Read the text of the bill yourself here (PDF warning!)
Make no mistake, they mean to control information. This is bigger than TikTok.
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I've actually read the bill, and it doesn't do what was asserted it does.
I was catching up on the latest happenings regarding the SBI think, and I had a thought as I was watching a Yellow Flash video about that non-profit defending SBI with a Homeland Security grant.
If you can recall, I have said several times before that the D.C. bureaucrats really do believe the bullshit they spout when they talk about "extremism." OK, I can hear you asking, how does that apply here?
Well, Official D.C. has settled onto the belief that gaming fosters "extremism," and that gaming developers need resources to counter this "threat."
In short, Official D.C. doesn't view a gamer as much different than a Trump supporter.
I think that a lot of commentators covering the SBI thing on our side are cynically rolling their eyes over the way government is getting involved with this, and are not taking the threat represented by such involvement seriously. If government gets involved with this, as it increasingly looks like it will, well, GG won't be just a cultural movement in gaming any more.
If you want to know what it looks like when Government goes after "extremists," look at what is going on with Trump, and more importantly, what Official D.C. is doing to Trump's former staff. Going after law licenses via Bar complaints for nothing more than daring to represent Trump in court, and throwing not a few of them into jail on process crimes.
A white girl is in the hospital after she was mobbed by back students, and one of them beat her head on the pavement. The video has been making the rounds on X for the last few days, and some people are doing some digging.
Remember how race based discipline problems gave us the Parkland shooter and Treyvon Martin?
Well, it seems that St Louis suburb Hazelwood has the same policies in place:
https://nitter.poast.org/libsoftiktok/status/1767286332932411467
Minneapolis has these polices, too, and teachers have been complaining constantly about being assaulted by their own students.
Been watching this and reminiscing as SFU hits the highlights of GG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTuZNYzvBDM
GG is directly tied to the current SBI scandal currently unfolding on Steam. In fact, the founder of the steam group is in this stream
Haley wins with 1,274 votes out of 2,030 votes cast. Trump comes in 2nd with 676.
Yes, you read that right. Out of a city with a population of 678,972 people, only 0.3% of the population voted in the Republican primary.
For all intents and purposes D.C. is a Democrat party company town.
I was going through my YT feed, and I came across this long video about the Tucker/Stewart beef. It is over an hour, but I think it really puts John Stewart Leibowitz into proper context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlIynbYUA1Q
I had never seen those Crossfire clips before, so watching Leibowitz lecture Tucker on his moral failings was all new. I don't know how Tucker put up with his moralizing ass, I would have tossed him out almost instantly. I couldn't stand Colbert or Leibowitz back then because of how blatantly one sided and disingenuous they were, but I can see what Leibowitz is doing a lot more clearly now. It isn't about politics, it is about moral lecturing, and he cloaks it in comedy.
52 minute long interview that goes into the corruption of academia by woke cult, and how pervasive plagiarism is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy3Lhl1uG0g
It just reinforces my belief that a university degree issued since about 1995 is not only worthless, hiring anyone that possesses one awarded from that date is basically functionally identical to bringing a live 2000lb bomb into your organization.
TL;DR: Amazon is doubling down on DEI so hard you could get diamonds out of it.
If you have an Amazon prime account, still, you need to cancel it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmjRZT5PgMg
Links referred to in that video (archived of course):
This just came across my Gab feed:
Nitter: https://nitter.tux.pizza/Austen/status/1752026149624959041
Twitter https://www.twitter.com/Austen/status/1752026149624959041
This is one of the craziest things I’ve ever read.
First, the FAA gave secret code words to students in the Black Caucus of Federal Aviation Employees to put in their resume that would skip them to the front of the line.
In another instance of the signals to go to the front of the line was to say the high school class you received your lowest grades in was “Science.”
Yes, they literally shot you to the front of the line if you said your worst grades were in Science.
This one contains an email from the National Black Caucus of Federal Aviation Employees:
nitter: https://nitter.tux.pizza/tracewoodgrains/status/1751824863612825954
twitter: https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1751824863612825954
Gee, I wonder if there is such a thing as National White Caucus of Federal Aviation Employees? There should be, if there isn't one, and sue anyone who tries to stop it into the poorhouse.
This was posted to KIA2 on reddit by windowcrashuser, but we all know how reddit is, so I am bringing it over here.
Long video about this, but he spends most of it reading the article, so I am going to to link to the article itself:
Original Medium link was deleted by the author.
Read the article, it confirms everything GG has said about SJWs since the very beginning.
And they call us toxic, holy shit.
Federal investigators asked banks to search and filter customer transactions by using terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" as part of an investigation into Jan. 6, warning that purchases of "religious texts" could indicate "extremism," the House Judiciary Committee revealed in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital Wednesday.
Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick's Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Bass Pro Shops and more.
farther into the story it mentions that it was Bank of America that handed over their records without being asked, which is yet another reminder that if you bank with BofA, you are terminally retarded.
If you don't use a local credit union as your bank by now, you are also retarded.
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Forgot a link, here is the archive of the original fox story https://archive.is/hQpeU
Could this guy be any more of a Bond villain?
I mean, seriously, is he just acting? How does he think that is going to work?
Reddit post on this.
Apparently PC Gamer is reporting a 15% CPU usage spike, on top of the throttled buffering.
Louis Rossmann has a video on it, too.
Today's black pill moment:
No one, anywhere, should cooperate with the FBI, about anything, ever again. If you know an FBI agent socially, tell them you won't ever talk to them again, and tell them why.
Credentialed public health "experts" are just like martial arts styles, fakes and frauds that cannot face real questions that challenge base assumptions.
This was a good read, I highly recommend it.
Some great quotes:
it took team reality 3 months to go from “never looked at this before” to basic parity with public health and in 3 more, it had overrun the discipline.
And later:
the “experts” have had a REALLY bad 2 years. their credentials and lazy appeals to authority did not stand up to the arena. and they stopped wanting to talk to us at all and adopted epithets like “denier” and stances like “the science is settled.”
Where have we seen that language used before?
Oh yea, climate science. Funny, isn't it, how the credentialed always do the same thing when the amateurs pull their fancy pants down to their ankles?