The Algorithms of Erasure

The problem with California is that the oligarchy that runs it is committed to turning diverse nations and cultures into totally undifferentiated human matter.

The broad definition of the word algorithm is “a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end.” This term is a perfect metaphor for the process unfolding around the world wherein, step by step, national identity and individual competence are being erased in a process that is implacable and relentless. In some cases, this algorithmic erasure is literal, expressed in every microtargeted image that hits our ubiquitous screens. But whether it’s literal or a metaphor to describe the culture being imposed upon us, our erasure is happening as if it were driven by an algorithm without a soul.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oligarchy"

How China burned German industry

Nationalism will rise from the ashes

“Today’s Germany is the best Germany the world has seen.” So effused the Washington Post columnist George F. Will five long years ago. It’s hard to imagine anyone — even a German — writing those words today. The country is in crisis. On Monday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a humiliating no-confidence vote, and now Germany is hurtling towards a divisive snap election in February. The nation’s economy has barely grown since 2018, and it is de-industrialising at an alarming rate. The unfolding calamity represents a strategic opening for China and Russia which the West cannot afford to ignore.

At the root of Germany’s industrial woes is electricity, which is now nearly twice as expensive as it is for their American counterparts, and three times more expensive than in China. Prices have been rising since the early 2000s, but a policy embraced by the German government in 2011, following the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, sealed the nation’s fate. The proponents of the Energiewende (“energy revolution”) policy made the astonishing argument that Germany could rapidly abandon both fossil fuels and nuclear energy without losing its industrial edge. This was, as one Oxford study put it, a “gamble”. Or a game of Russian roulette, a cynic might have added.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Germany

Women trapped by sharia: ‘I must pay my husband ransom to divorce’

The future of 100,000 marriages in Britain fall under the control of the Islamic authority, which is banned in 23 majority-Muslim countries, including Egypt

After suffering an onslaught of psychological abuse from her husband and increasingly unhappy in her marriage, Aisha finally decided she wanted a divorce.

There was one problem, however: her husband refused to allow it unless she paid him a five-figure sum covering all the money he spent on her during their marriage.

She offered instead to return her rings but he demanded the money they cost, a sum of thousands of pounds she could not afford.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

US ‘prepared Syrian rebel group to help topple Bashar al-Assad’

Fighters funded and trained by the US and UK tell The Telegraph they had advance warning the regime would be overthrown

The United States prepared a rebel force to join the offensive that overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad, fighters have claimed.

British and American-trained fighters in the Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA), a group aligned against Islamic State, were told “this is your moment” in a briefing by US Special Forces before Assad was ousted.

In the first indication that Washington had prior knowledge of the offensive, the RCA revealed it had been told to scale-up its forces and “be ready” for an attack that could lead to the end of the Assad regime.

What could possibly go wrong?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSyria, USA

Justin Trudeau Should Resign – Under his leadership, Canada’s Liberal Party has devolved to something like a cult of personality.

The problem with criticizing Justin Trudeau is not where to begin but where to end. Trudeau’s proclivity for gaffes and vulgarity was established long before he became prime minister. And this fluffy, insubstantial side even seemed like it might have an upside as he formed a government: as long as Trudeau focused on annoying stunts and virtue-signaling, he would have little time for screwing up the country. Sadly, however, his government’s long procession of scandals and missteps has proven that theory wrong.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Justin Trudeau is the political issue, despite all the others

The polls tell us the top political issues in Canada are jobs and inflation. But the burning issue for many Canadians is Justin Trudeau.

After Monday’s political bombshell, the new Finance Minister and still Public Safety Minister, Dominic LeBlanc, gamely soldiered on Tuesday by announcing a border-security plan with cabinet colleagues.

But just about everyone around them in Ottawa was thinking about Mr. Trudeau. Will he resign? Will his own party force him out? Will he hang on?

I bet he will, he is just too vain, too small and mean of character to resign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Jamie Sarkonak: Chrystia Freeland is no martyr for women

For once, Chrystia Freeland did the right thing. She had been told by her boss Friday that she would be taken out to a foreign-affairs-related pasture after releasing one last fall economic statement. On Monday, she quit before the press lockup could even begin, making public her concerns about the government while sending the government scrambling for a plan B.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

HUNTER: ‘Immigration consequences’ unlikely for man linked to deadly 401 crash

Manpreet Gill – will miss pooping on Wasaga beach

Like an indulgent parent, an Oshawa judge warned Manpreet Gill that he could face “immigration consequences.”

Well, we all know the word “consequences” has been redacted from the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.

Even for a repeat convicted criminal with a cameo role in one of 2024’s most egregious horrors.

There is no excuse keeping human garbage like Manpreet Gill in Canada, he should be airdropped over his native shithole.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", WTF?

Islam conquers Europe and Jews flee

For years, writers like Douglas Murray, the late Christopher Hitchens and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have been warning us that radical Islam is the greatest threat to the West, to our cultural and physical security. “You don’t have to be paranoid or bigoted to be alarmed,” Hitchens said.

And the canary in the Western coal mine is Europe, which is disintegrating into enclaves, while the numbers indicating Islamization continue to grow.

“Islam is advancing and I see in the West a desire to disappear,” Michel Houellebecq told the Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Whittaker Chambers’ One-Man War Against Communism

There are lessons to be learned and warnings to be heeded from Whittaker Chambers’ fight against communism.

In April 1939, ex-communist underground courier Whittaker Chambers was hired by Time magazine to review books for Henry Luce’s flagship publication. Chambers began his journey into communism in the mid-1920s. In the early 1930s, he joined the underground, accepting and passing secret U.S. government documents from traitorous New Dealers to his Soviet handlers in Washington, D.C. He broke with communism in 1937-38, then joined the staff at Time, where for the next decade he fought a one-man literary Cold War against communism at home and abroad, including an effort to warn the country about the Chinese communists during World War II and after.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Communism, Communists, USA