the process is the punishment
one need not be right to punish one's enemies, only powerful
[Remind you of the Coutts Four? It should,]
"many folks forwarded me james howard kunstler’s recent piece entitled “Whatever it Takes Won’t be Enough” that got picked up by ZH and in which certain notorious internet felines got a shout out. i found it provocative and insightful, so i’d like to see if i can add to/extend some of his ideas somewhat.
"i think james is very much onto something with this "lawfare" idea of weaponizing courts and judicial process against we the people. this practice seems to have been a soros centerpiece for some time in his push to dominate DA races and judgeships as a cheap way to have big effects, grant license to the favored, and criminalize dissent.
"in a legalistic technocracy such as ours, the power to determine what is and is not investigated and what is and is not charged is the true prerogative of princes.
"it determines who may act abhorrently and who must be always looking over their shoulder for fear of a tap from leviathan.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-process-is-the-punishment
Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........
