Matthew J. Peterson

I will administer the program under condition that the libraries in the malls have physical media that people can borrow in Blockbuster-like areas. And there will be trad Pizza Huts.

@CalFreiburger The last thing I want is more crackpots on the tl

I can assure you it is not. We have reported Venezuela ties out there to the Kirk shooter’s trans pals and of course longtime mainstream reports of warnings by the IC about Iran wanting to assassinate the President. People want to rule out any outside influence. Just to be sure. Otherwise you get unhinged conspiracy claims gaining traction. Where’s the stupidity in any of that? At present even mentioning wanting to tie any of these possibilities off or even just get clear on what radicalized the shooters garners name calling.

Again: there's no innocent motive for Peterson to pretend to be this dumb. This is a conscious play for the crackpot audience.

When you are lucky enough to find an employee like this scribe, you immediately ask around about them, meet with them, and then move them into the right position with a bump so they can just do their wild and crazy thing all the time. It’s a great joy to do this.

Women hating men and men hating women = wearisome stupidity. The problem of the last century is that the consequence of various harmful ideologies wearing Christianity as a skin suit and eroding the actual meaning of hate and love exacerbates actual hatred when people discover they were lied to and abused in some fashion, without any sort of moral compass or grounding in anything they can count on as real. In such cases, however, the world is still actually being perceived in terms of a shallow liberalism without any villain but the oppressors, whoever one chooses as the bad guy. Truly hating humans in the abstract for how they were born is a sign of disfigurement of soul. Yes, this applies to ethnicity but also humanity itself. The anti-human sentiment we see today often arises from discovering that people are fallen in various ways, after being told repeatedly that they are all the same and good, without flaw—and that flaws *only* come from outside oppression—and then encountering sordid reality and settling on a scapegoat. The flip side is being told for years that *you* are the scapegoat and either accepting it, or similarly realizing that you’ve been lied to, and finding another one instead. The scapegoat, in other words, can be some kind of Other but it can also be the Self. In one way the most logical bottom of the black-pilled spiral, given the unanchorable lies people have been taught, is ultimately to hate humanity itself, which of course is a form of self-hatred. Sometimes, based on individual experience, the turn toward actual hatred is more understandable than not, but it’s *always* self-destructive. The point I’m making doesn’t resolve disputes about differences, of opinion or otherwise, but that the simplistic totalizing will continue until societies find the ground and the sky again. Life is more wild and weird and varied than all this. The good more good, the evil more evil. Touch grass. Stare at the stars.

The epistemology of Locke was rejected by the Scottish enlightenment types who taught many of the founders. What they took from Locke was very real, but on their own terms. They were formed not by Catholics, of course, but by older notions of western civilization that they developed on their own on their own terms and in their unique circumstances. By ideas that had evolved naturally in Great Britain. Rejecting the (Protestant) notion of divine right of kings, for instance, but anchoring the flow of “modern” ideas about consent of the governed and so forth into older frameworks that were still the basis of British understanding.

@docMJP Term Paper Assignment: Compare and contrast the writings of Thomas Aquinas and John Locke with the ideas expressed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

I very quietly came to something like this conclusion a few decades ago. Few scholars like anyone saying this. Pisses everyone off. But Aquinas has a more nuanced view about regime forms than monarchists or liberal admit. Good on Knowles for saying it. But very important caveat: it’s not the ideal regime for Aquinas (and many of the founders), but the most practical one.

The subtextual problem with all the Fox “rah rah” to counter doomer lies and distortions and Drudge Report’s “The walls are closing in!” is that it reeks of insecurity in the heat of moments like this. Calmly walk through what we seem to know about what’s happening and make a case against the best of the other side. Adults inclined to your side don’t need the cheerleading. This isn’t a football game.

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@walterkirn People gotta be in person with each other. Especially now when the screens surround us when alone. I feel this in my bones these days.

One of the puzzles I find myself mulling over -- too often -- is the question of why artistic genius springs up in geographic clusters rather than in some broad, roughly predictable way. So many great musical talents from Seattle all at once? Whatever may be behind this phenomenon, it doesn't seem to operate with AIs, whose outputs don't arrive in this irregular, qualitatively "lumpy" fashion.

Then Dune 3 trailer we should have got.

@StanleyKrauter The “divine right of kings” arose from protestantism and died after a little over century after its birth.

@docMJP Christians, not Christianity, created Western Civilization.  Even freedom of religion had to come out of the barrel of a gun before it could be found in the Bible.  And the divine right of kings was a standard Christian doctrine until Oliver Cromwell cut off King Charles' head.

I think the argument that American interests and Israeli interests are not aligned in this conflict needs to be countered with realist arguments for most people who are not paying close attention—or weren’t until recently—but are convincible either way. With Americans not inclined towards intervention in the Middle East in mind. That’s all I’m trying to say.

@PotencyandAct @TACollege Which I think was not quite his, to be clear.

@docMJP Yes, your mate from @TACollege mentions you and your position.

Love you, but the larger point is outside of Kent has little to do with Israel and everything to do with the FBI tamping down on anyone looking at outside influence. Telling DNI to back off looking at any foreign links was publicly reported, and what I saw at the time and the way it was all done deeply disturbed me. The troons in Kirk case have Venezuela a tie, for instance. That’s also out there. Like BLM. That may be nothing - just a visit - or may be something more. Re Butler, Kent himself noted as did mainstream journos and ic sources that Iran had threatened and it simply needed to be looked into. It does no good to clamp down on any speculation or investigation and instead fosters an eternal conspiracy festival. In both cases, we need serious investigations as to any potential influence on the killers, with maximum transparency possible, not only do justice but to help tamp down insanity and restore trust.

So the reason we haven't gone after antifa as hard as we should have is because the counter terrorism director has been watching Candace Owens and is obsessed with Israel. Just shoot me at this point

lmao

@txdrawbridge @TuckerCarlson @joekent16jan19 To be very clear: it’s not OK.

@docMJP @TuckerCarlson @joekent16jan19 Another anitsemitic-hate Israel/Jews NWO Deep State operative exposed. Iran & its proxies murdering Americans & Israelis for 47 years with no retaliation by U.S.; since when is it OK for Iran to have nukes/nuke hypersonic missiles aimed at U.S. & Israel?

You can disagree with @TuckerCarlson and @joekent16jan19. But do so after listening to what they’re actually saying and directly respond rather than calling them names. Marginalizing them is not going to work. This isn’t a joke. These aren’t unserious concerns or questions.