Ana Kasparian is a Fighter, an Advocate, but also a Valley Girl having an existential career crisis by MRG Staff

I actually wrote most of this before the election, but I had got really busy in my personal life, but things have been good. Also, I would recommend watching videos by The Vanguard on YouTube about what is going on by Ana Kasparian.

But something is going on with Ana Kasparian.

Ana Kasparian published an article about how she is “leaving the Left”. To be honest I wasn’t that impressed by it. [Article: https://kasparian.substack.com/p/independent-and-unaligned]

She has also been ranting about criticism she has gotten on Twitter, though I suspect Ana…is being a little sly here. I will explain more later.

Maybe her current flare up against the Left will fade away as far as drama with Ana Kasparian being angry at Left Wing commentators and content creators such as the Serf Times (I believe), The Vanguard, etc. I do not have an X account, so keeping up with drama is hard to do, but better for my health.

Ana has been praised by Right Wing commentators who never give any kudos to liberals or the Left such American Justice Warrior, Tim Pool, etc., for her recent flare ups at the Left.

Maybe Ana is playing some sort of “four-dimensional chess” and by having a slight right leaning pivot she knows that any controversy will drive views, clicks, etc., which is vital in a competitive online media landscape. If she gets “cancelled” by the Left (which seems to be a comedian’s wet dream on another note), she will become a right-wing darling.

On a more moderate tangent, even if she courts Right Wing talking points, she is able to grow her own reputation, the audience of TYT, and possibly prep for her own separate audience in the event she goes full solo in the future. Ana blowing up at X (Twitter) comments seems to be her being an opportunist and needing pretext, a false flag, etc., to create top cover for her own and TYT’s business agendas.

Or, maybe Ana is being reactionary and living in her own echo chamber?

Ana is a human, so she is complicated whether she wants to openly admit it or not.

I would want Ana to reach out to other progressive contributors more so. I know she has a good working relationship with Emma Vigeland of the Majority Report with Sam Seder, but I think she should livestream with The Vanguard, The Serf Times, The Humanist Report, FD Signifier, etc. Showing your eagerness to learn is what I think what Ana is missing for herself personally and for her perception. If Ana is tempted at the Dave Rubin or Ben Shapiro models, which are successful in their own right (i.e., they can afford L.A. County home prices), I think this is the wrong decision by her.

I have always wanted to be a firm supporter of Ana Kasparian, but I can only handle her commentary in doses, and this is even before her recent drama with her “leaving the left”. I have witnessed Ana blow up, mispronounce or stutter her away through her segments, and generally make her own personal frustrations with grasping progressive concepts seem like it is a larger issue outside of herself, etc. I believe the frustration part for some on her audience is that the Political Right know exactly who they are whether they admit it or not, but the Left is trying to create a more unified front to combat conservatives, yet, it seems like Ana is airs her frustrations with the Left (embarrassing it) rather than linking up with more progressives that are popular online to learn, converse, share ideas, etc. You rarely if ever hear Tim Pool, Tomi Lahren, Dave Rubin, Candace Owens, The Red Elephant, Charlie Kirk, etc., question conservatism. They are cheerleaders for it. Their unwavering support for conservatism seems to attract more loyal followers somehow.

Yet, I have also seen Ana be one on the most personable media figures, and she has been an advocate and defender of progressive causes.

So, I suspect what she’s doing now is partially personal as she has a slight career crisis about her future and what she has accomplished.

However, personally, she has admitted publicly that all she knows is the Young Turks media outlet, she has no kids, etc.

Ana seems to be going thru a mid-life crisis looking back at her life and asking if she were as productive than she had hoped for. Feeling these feelings of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and probably thinking she is smarter than newer commentators who have benefitted from easier means of making money online (e.g., Serf Times, The Vanguard, etc.). She seems to be throwing the Left under the bus rather than understanding criticism comes with the job of being an activists and ally in order to make a career move. That is, it. She has to asks herself is she a newscaster or a real political activist? I think she wants to branch out on her own but is using criticism against her to gaslight her critics to make her run towards whatever future she sees for herself.

But that is a maybe and I could be wrong. Sometimes it seems she and Cenk seems to be having their Howard Stern and Robin tensions akin those depicted in the movie Private Parts, i.e., there are professional tensions, though there is a deep friendship between the two.

I think the Zodiac is corny and weird, but Ana seems like a bull-headed person.

Also, Ana does possess a level of professional envy such as towards Hasan Piker.

She has said some low blow things towards Hasan to minimalize his success as a political Twitch Streamer. Ana bought into Cenk’s idea of being an online news outlet, yet TYT did not adapt to the new arena of live streaming on platforms such as Twitch, which Hasan ran away with and capitalized on. Hasan is actually in the trenches of where the culture is, more so than where the news is. That’s the difference. Hasan understanding interfacing in real time is what younger people want, and it is the youth who are the ones most politically active now. TYT at this point is from mid-to-late twenties to mid-forties people, with some deviations in both directions. However, will TYT or a TYT host ever be on a panel on live TV asking presidential candidates questions? Is every single politician kicking down their doors to get a brief interview? However, we should be happy to have TYT because they are combating the likes of The Blaze, The Daily Wire etc., yet even these are somewhat obscure compared to mainstream media that many Americans still trust and watch.

Yet, Ana instead of praising and collaborating with Hasan, Ana unleashed her “Tracy Flick” on him. Even Hasan’s uncle in Cenk has helped collaborate with his nephew, though they both seem to understand they have different prerogatives.

Ana in a video titled Cenk Uygur Answers Tough Questions About His Past, published four years ago, stated she has full editorial control of the program now, and this was in the midst of Cenk’s eventual unsuccessful political run. I think Ana was hoping that Cenk would win his race, hand her the keys, and then they establish a direct pipeline network with him in political power and her running the media business. Yet, Cenk didn’t win and I suspect retained his original role of power within the company, likely at the cost of Ana’s perceived leadership amongst the TYT staff. Ana being loyal was maybe hoping to be the Queen Bee of the organization but with Cenk not leaving, her role was essentially reduced to co-equals. Compound this with the stellar rise of Hasan Piker being interviewed by major news outlets about his career. Ana may be asking herself “did I make the right decision for my career”.

This is going to sounds harsh starting off but it is just better to get this out of the way.

Ana seems to be kind of a… daddy’s girl and Valley Girl from a relatively sheltered existence who has a worldview that centers around Los Angeles County. The issue with being from a place like L.A. or even NYC is that these places are so large and layered that it creates the optical illusion that truth, standards, etc., must arise from these places. These are self-sustaining places that suck in resources from everywhere else and then spits back pop culture, media, and entertainment to everywhere else.

Playing detective, Ana (based on her social media activity) wants to be a salsa-dancing, L.A. hot wife, who catches up with Cat Power listening friends over mimosas and brunch, but who also has 2nd Wave to 3rd Wave feminist ideals, i.e., she wants to be an empowered working professional with her own financial security and wants to smash glass-ceilings, but she also does value traditional femininity. And…there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but maybe she needs to be honest with herself and maybe her audience (if she is comfortable with that) that this is who she is.

She and TYT call themselves progressive, but progressive is a sentiment and not necessarily a defined political position. A Progressive can be a person who rejects capitalism outright and wants a world of progressive social sentiments, or a progressive can possibly be a person who has capitalist bourgeoise leanings who wants a world of progressive social sentiments. Ana is more in the capitalist bourgeoise camp, and I would her call a Democratic Capitalist or Social Democratic Capitalist and not a Democratic Socialist, Communists, etc.

I think she is having an existential journey about where she really fits, yet I think she maybe acting reactionary based on Twitter or YouTube criticism, rather than seeing the criticism of her has potentially valid.

I like to say that “being critiqued isn’t being oppressed”

TYT is progressive but that’s broad. But being broad is good for business for them. Cenk however has stated publicly that he isn’t a socialist, but he doesn’t ascribe to conservative allegations that anything social in nature is socialist. But an issue with TYT trying to be the news rather than an activist organization is that at a certain point they will have to grow and scale which means becoming more center.

I believe TYT thinks they can shift the Overton Window more left wing by pulling more Right Wingers to the Left by agreeing with them, so the new center is more far left than what it was, but by doing so TYT faces a dilemma of throwing true hardened Leftists under the bus. Ana’s freaks out furthers the process of making the Left, Social Justice, etc., seem like a failed freakshow.

Better put, Ana, keep your frustrations to yourself in pivotal moments because showing a disunited front on the Left does more harm than good, especially considering TYT likely talks to left leaning yet independent voters who are just one issue away of abandoning the Left. Better put even more, Ana is a role model, so her acting this way insinuates there is more chaos on the Left than there needs to be, when really instead of freaking out she needs to “reach out”. Say it with me. “Don’t freak out. Reach out”.

This moderation of TYT seems noble but I think it actually be detrimental because in order to appeal to moderates, you may have to play into the conservative framing of leftists which insinuates they are cartoonish, dangerous, “postmodern”, etc. Also, can you really trust the conservatives? They are constantly looking for “one of the good ones”, i.e., a black person who spouts condescending talking abouts used by white supremacists about black people, or a woman who decries feminism as means of reconstructing men’s wounded egos.

Back to what I suspect her actual life and upbringing were like, Ana seems like the pre-teen and teenager who watched a little Sex and the City on HBO here and there, but being a 90s and early 2000s kid she was raised on the post-Cold war prosperity of MTV, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, etc., yet the issue with 90s – coming from a black person’s perspective – is that even though we were trained to live in a post-MLK racial harmony-type world (which I was raised in and made many good memories within), the truth is that the 90s was defined by commodifying racial differences. Simply because Raven Simone was the black girl in Zenon Girl of the 21st Century, and youth white girls sang to Destiny’s Child, or non-black people tuned into In Livin’ Color, Martin, or the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, or non-black people knew Tupac lyrics, this does not somehow mean we “solved racism” or that “things were better”.

Reading her blog post about why she is leaving the Left, I noticed a tinge of nostalgia, which interestingly is something I notice as being a key tenant to conservative and MAGA politics. The myth that things were simply better back then because we didn’t question things or “get offended by everything”. Conservatives want to go back to racial jokes not because they’re simply funny, but because they do reinforce differences that were innate to a society built from a colonial and racial caste system. They want to go back to “don’t be so sensitive” so they can reinvigorate F-bomb dropping homophobia and “boys will be boys” get of out jail cards. A big part of why people are voting for MAGA which Ana doesn’t seem to get while see feels sorry for herself is that they are simply voting for him out of spite. It is a middle finger vote to knowing they are losing arguments but want to feel right in being wrong. They don’t want to admit people call the police on black people for simply existing sometimes. They don’t want to admit that society is largely about protecting male’s egos. They don’t want to see how the hot dogs are made but rather want to feel like a King for a brief moment by sending perfectly good food back to the kitchen, simply because they can.

Many are voting for Trump to double down on their first vote for him. They can’t be negotiated with.

They voted because they think they are right and will be right, and even if the data proves them wrong on certain issues, they don’t care. They have shown themselves as easily descending into dues ex machina thinking with conspiracy theories such as Qanon mythology. They voted for Trump not because they want their beliefs to be compromised with, but they want them to be the standard. Contrary to popular belief, is that you can be conservative in a liberal or progressive world, but you can’t be liberal or progressive in a conservative one. Vengeance (cleaning the swamp, purges, mass deportation, locking her up chants), fear, cruelty (e.g., mocking Haitian refugees as voodoo worshippers who eat people’s pets), mockery, and nostalgia are what underlies the logos of MAGA. Period.

And what is interesting is that the last paragraph I wrote above, I did so before the election. And I think I am right in what I said.

[Back to what I wrote pre-election] When we as a society did not get offended by everything was because we as American consumers were not trained to see how the “meat in the hotdogs” were processed, but rather to simply consume things. The 80s and 90s was in part about covering up the radicalism that occurred in the 60s and 70s. For example, I remember thinking back to hippies as being these failed oddballs like the bus driver on The Simpsons, rather than people who had tangible and merited criticisms of the status quo. Hippies, Black Panthers, feminists, etc., were turned into TV show caricatures trying to hurt the delicate balance of Al Bundy beer-drinking-with-hands-down-his-pants America. I am almost forty. I feel like Al Bundy, so when I say that pop cultural quote, I really mean it.

Moving on, Ana being the children of Armenian immigrants, to me means her understanding of the USA is not genealogical [and I would make the same assertion of Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker — where Hasan often has a condescending tone towards Americans].

Her understanding of issues such as race, class, etc., are not nuanced by having generations upon generations of ancestors within the United States who relate to these issues, e.g., the existences and consciousness of foundational African Americans (and many foundational White Americans) being explicitly linked to the questions of race within this country (slavery, Jim Crow, the very founding of the USA, etc.).

She knows racism, slavery, police brutality are bad, but based on her upbringing and background, her understanding of these issues can at best only be described as sympathetic and text-book level rather a deeper level grasp of the issues. I believe this is also a point of frustration for her. As a person who has to talk and ask a lot of questions, she seems to be scared of being in spaces where she has to listen.

For example, even if I were to move to Armenia, my understanding of the historicity and gravitas of the society would be limited, though as a human capable of feeling, I would be able to feel for Armenian people, but I would have to humble myself into not thinking I am an expert on deep cultural nuances, feuds, genocides, etc., that occurred there.

But, also back to her immigrant experiences is, that Ana does come from a literal Caucus Mountain, old world, patriarchal culture. A part of the world defined by ethnic feuds, good foods, and territorialism. I don’t want to minimize her ethnic culture, and I admit that I am making assumptions here, but I can assume that her Armenian heritage probably played a role her worldview such as emphasizing a strong, manly, bravado projecting masculinity in her desired partner, but also with a vocal matriarch who is the keeper of her home. Los Angeles has strong Armenian, Turkish, Iranian, Azerbaijani, and Jewish communities who set up in places like Reseda, Burbank, Topanga, Woodland Hills, North Hollywood, etc.

The world that Ana was raised in while in the San Fernando Valley is akin to the TV show, Cobra Kai being based in The Valley. Strip malls with some great secret find ethnic restaurants, car dealerships, ethnic newsletters in a people’s indigenous language, 1960s or 1970s ranch style homes, dingbat apartments, Cal State Northridge, and rumors here and there about how so-and-so from high school is now making hardcore pornography filmed in the home of a person who moonlights as a production assistant for TV studios down in Burbank where Unsolved Mysteries was made at.

The Valley is true suburban (not exurban which is what most people think suburbs are) existence in a megalopolis such as L.A., where one’s own neighborhood could effectively be considered its own city. These areas are often defined by socio-economic and racial lines.

The LAPD has a budget on par with the militaries of small lesser developed nations. The mayor of LA, the LA Sheriff’s office, the LA Public School Superintendent are powerful positions that would make lower-level federal a bureaucrat blush.

L.A. when Ana was a child was home to the notorious Rodney King Beating, O.J. Simpson trial, the Bloods vs Crypts beefs, Huntington Beach Skinheads, the LA Riots with the “Rooftop Koreans”, etc., but also positive things such the 1992 Olympics, etc. The world of her childhood was likely defined by an insular suburban protection away from the real social unrest affecting late 80s to early 90s Los Angeles. A city defined by real world issues yet glossed over by projecting images of Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210.

I was reading her blog post about why she is leaving the Left and I felt that she was more sheltered than what I had suspected.

Think about everything I have just said and then add on her personality type

I have mixed feelings on Ana Kasparian, but I mostly lean as being supportive of her. She is (not has been), but is an ally of progressive causes, but I wouldn’t call her a Leftist necessarily. However, a big dilemma in most debates centering around politics is that to be Left Wing means to be part of a larger spectrum, e.g., center left versus leftists.

Ana’s freak outs aren’t helping in building consensus on the Left. But building consensus is for activists, not necessarily for newscasters.

It’s on her to figure out which one she is.

Is the Angela Carini vs Imane Khelif boxing scandal a larger Russian disinformation campaign? Did Western conservatives fall for a stress test on how effective Russian soft power can be? by MRG Staff.

Notes: (1) The Russian controlled, International Boxing Association, who may pay Carini reward money after her lost to Khelif, has largely been discredited and was banned by the International Olympics Committee. The IBA in response has banned Ukraine for example. Thus, the IBA vs the IOC is a part of the larger West vs Russia conflict, but conservatives jumping to Carini’s defense so quickly proves the effectiveness of Russian psychological operations and infiltration campaigns into Western conservative politics to the delight to the Kremlin.   

According to Greg Beacham (2024) of the Associated Press as published by PBS, stated that the Olympics has tightened rules relating to gender such as since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the World Aquatics (organization), World Athletics, and the International Cycling Union having changed rules on the matter. These new restrictions span from banning athlete’s born male who went through male puberty but transitioned to female after puberty, and to testing testosterone levels of people assigned female at birth who may have more masculine characteristics, e.g., being intersexual, not trans-sexual.

So, we are in an Olympic games where qualifying international organizations clamped down on possible trans-athletes, but…that still hasn’t prevented conservatives from threating the Paris Olympic Games as a showcasing for “the fall of Western Civilization”.

But this paper I am writing is about a theory I have.

The theory being (1) Russia worked a deal with Angela Carini – who outside of boxing is an Italian cop – to be a plant to throw the fight, to help Russia in their psychological war with the West. By Carini being beat by Khelif it would enrage many Christians, conservatives, Right Wingers, etc., and help paint the West as a decadent, immoral, ungodly, woke, etc. The Russia led International Boxing Association, i.e., the IBA, would then pay Carini outside of the Olympics for her throwing the fight and would make it seem like Russia cares about women’s rights and fairness in sports. This is the same IBA that disqualified Khelif from the 2023 IBA World Championship, or (2) Carini wasn’t actively involved but the IBA intended to use her regardless for their own propaganda campaigns.

The irony of Russia “defending femininity” is that Russia legalized domestic abuse. See article by Jenny Stallard of the British Broadcasting Corporation [Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/0dd0ab91-145a-4137-bf87-28d0498c8d56]

The only reason why I may suspect the number one theory of Carini possibly being complicit is that Carini did appear to “flop” when fighting against a Turkish female fighter Busenaz Suremeneli (the current defending IBA world champion and Gold Medalist at the Tokyo Olympics) in the 2022 IBA Women’s World Champion Boxing event. So that’s two events that Carini has been caught up in some form controversy, or suspicion by onlookers, etc.

At minute 4:09 you can see Carini slip against Busenaz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medalists_at_the_IBA_Women%27s_World_Boxing_Championships

According to Beacham (2024) of the Associated Press, “Kremlev (leader of the IBA) also said he intends to award $25,000 to Italy’s national federation and $25,000 to Carini’s coach after her dramatic opening-round exit against Khelif.  Further, Kremlev regarding Carini said, ““I couldn’t look at her tears,””.

Russia, who oversees the International Boxing Association, was disqualified from the Olympics for their invasion of Ukraine and has a gripe with the International Olympics Committee (IOC) for the banning of Russian athletes suspected of doping at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games.

Russia has also been proven as having tried to infiltrate American conservative and right-wing politics, e.g., Trump Tower Meeting, Trump Bayrock Scandal, Tucker Carlson & Alex Jones being platformed by Russian State media, Marina Butina with the NRA, the Neo Nazi group – The Base – being in Moscow and ran by an American in exile, David Duke having an apartment in Moscow, etc.

Also, Russia has been doing ongoing irregular warfare campaigns against the United States and European NATO allied nations. By irregular warfare I am referring to online warfare such as troll and bot farms, sometimes posing as American’s and Europeans across the political spectrums to sow unrest, tension, foster culture war, etc. Yet, it is not only the Russians doing this irregular warfare but the Israelis (who have some ties to the Russian state, both politically and culturally), Iranians, Chinese, Cubans, North Koreans, etc. Russia has diplomatic ties with all these nations that are hostile to the United States, and often steps in to be a savior to these pariah regimes when the larger international community condemns their actions.  

If Imane Khelif, who beat Italian amateur boxer, Angela Carini, were to be a male, many people are assuming that all men are stronger than females. However, Imane Khelif is a woman who was assigned that birth, and this gender is on her passport, but she has more masculine features. Imane Khelif has lost to women before such has having lost to Ireland’s Kellie Harrington during the Tokyo Olympics and had been on the international circuit for some time now, even having been assigned as a UNICEF Ambassador (according to Beachman, 2024). So, in theory Angela Carini had a possibility of putting up a fight or even beating Khelif, yet, Carini called the fight herself in less than one minute. Currently, Khelif will square off next after the Carini fight against Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamouri who outright said she isn’t scared of Khelif and Khelif isn’t even considered the best in the games.

People’s instant, unresearched reactions are more about instilled implicit biases which paints women as being scared, feeble, and weak and that men have automatic advantages across the board over females, even if the females are better trained, conditioned, etc. In other words, the world is using the scandal to project their patriarchal sentiments and ambitions onto others. The out of shape, balding, middle-aged divorcee can feel a sense of accomplishment knowing that he can beat women no matter how much they accomplish, sort of thing.

 To me this means that Carini, may just be…soft. Yes, I said it. If Khelif was beat by other women, then maybe Carini wasn’t as tough for what a female Olympian is expected to be.

Yet, Carini has already been coddle by far-right, Pro-Mussolini Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who as a candidate won on the larger wave or Euroskeptic, Anti-EU, far right politicians that swept over Europe in the wake of the European Financial Crisis (onset by the poor financial management of Greece and others) and the refugee crises of the Syrian War, Libyan Civil War, Arab Spring, and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

People are using this boxing “scandal” to be political, with the critics being opportunistic and trying to weave this the woodegy-boodgedy narrative of the “ungodly, Neo-Marxist, Luciferians” who are trying to attack, flatten and distort the godly, hierarchical, traditional order best typified by Western (often synonymous with White, Patriarchal, European) Civilization. This scandal is just shy of the earlier Olympics opening ceremony scandal that featured either a depiction of the Last Supper or the Feast of Dionysius, or a combination of both, that featured gender-bending drag queens, queer people, and plus size models. That scandal had already activated the masses of Christians – many who have adopted a conspiratorial mindset in our post-COVID 19 post-lockdown world – but, now with this boxing scandal the hungry masses were already primed for more blood.

The irony of conservatives jumping on this scandal and pretending to defend Carini is that many Right Wingers, notably the men within it, don’t care about women’s sports. These are the same type of men that you can see on any WNBA post making fun of the WNBA and how it isn’t as profitable as the NBA. These are the same people within the larger contemporary conservative movement who…repealed federal abortion protection under Roe vs. Wade, are pushing the “Trad Wife” lifestyle where women don’t work or control their finances, and admire a leader such as Donald Trump who called Stormy Daniel’s “horseface” (even though he had unprotected sex with her while his wife was pregnant), was civilly charged with sexual assault, and of course was caught on camera talking about “grabbing women” by the p-ssy.

The Right-Wing men often speaking on this boxing controversy are not defending women’s rights to support women in being free or equal but are trying to get women to reject feminism and comeback to the overlordship of patriarchy which requires rigid gender conformance (largely to coddle and inflate the male’s ego and sense of self-worth). The men often commenting on behalf of Carini, first off spoke without hearing all the facts, but that is irrelevant because they already have their agenda in mind. It is fake sympathy with hidden intent. The intent being of convincing women with the tactic of “See, I told you so”, so come back to men protecting women because you (women) can’t protect yourself.

However, there are plenty of women as you can see online commenting that are embracing this patriarchal framing of the matter. These women span your run-of-the-mill, freaking out at PTA meeting, 1980’s -like Satanic Panic Karens, to this new movement of “Biblical Femininity” “Trad Wives” (women who want to live at home and not work despite technology having replaced the duties of domestic work such as microwaves, dishwashers, laundry machines, grocery deliveries, etc. – note, yes, being a stay at home mother is not just about cooking and cleaning), and, of course the Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminists (TERFs). On TERFs, I find TERFs to be nonsensical because they claim to want to “destroy patriarchy” so they’re at odds with conservative men but they are in agreement with conservatives on excluding trans-people, though trans-women specifically have voluntarily given up their male privilege in order to fit into and honor femininity (some going as far as getting bottom surgery). The fact that radical feminists believe in destroying patriarchy, you would think they would ally with someone who voluntarily gives up their male privilege, but TERFs are in theory adjacent to purist supremacist forms of fascism.

But what does this boxing scandal have to do with Russia? The paranoia and backlash feeds into the larger anti-West propaganda in part from Russia to label the West as decadent, liberal, but the Russians as being strong, Orthodox, traditionally masculine, etc. Which is ironic because Putin has tried to pay people to have children. No, seriously. He had to ordain a baby-making day to encourage Russians to have babies. If Russians were as much of a caricature as Putin and Western conservatives wish the Russian people were, then they wouldn’t need any problem pushing out children in a very homophobic culture.

Further, is the fact that Angela Carini is being paid by the International Boxing Association which is now based in Russia.  According to Greg Beacham of the Associated Press, as quoted in an online article by PBS on 2 August 2024, “The IBA is controlled by Umar Kremlev, who is Russian and brought in the state-owned energy supplier Gazprom as its primary sponsor and moved much of the governing body’s operations to Russia.” The irony of the Gazprom connection is that Gazprom’s football club, FC Zenit, has been accused multiple times of racism and xenophobia, and was later banned form European competition.

It is important to know that Khelif was disqualified by the IBA in 2023 for “failing unspecified and untransparent eligibility tests for women’s competition from the now-banned International Boxing Association” (Beacham, 2024). Her 2023 disqualification came interestingly after Khelif beat Russian Azalia Amineva in 2023 according to Beacham (2024).

I can’t prove it, and it does seem conspiratorial, but it could appear that Angela was promised to have been paid by the IBA if she threw the fight with Khelif, and by her throwing the fight it would feed into the narrative that Khalif was transsexual and beating up on a “poor, innocent, beautiful” women who trained her whole life just have it taken away by the “woke, Social Justice” mob. This therefore feeds back to the Kremlin’s psychological warfare operation of trying to posit themselves as the saviors of Christendom against the “failed experiment” of liberal democracies where “women have rights”, “white populations are in decline” “LGBTQ+ aren’t forced to live in hiding and are able to get married”, etc.

The talking points regarding the west being “degenerate” are straight from Putin intellectual Aleksandr Dugin, a man who became a key foundational figure of the Western Alt-Right movement (alongside other figures such as Juilus Evola). Dugin has been associated with Right Wing conspiracy theorists, Alex Jones and Jay Dyer, but also former Fox News contributor, Tucker Carlson, and even white supremacist Lauren Southern, who was platformed by Fox’s Australia outlet, Sky News.

According to Thomas Saintourens of Le Monde (2022), Umar Kremlev has ties to Putin, in which Kremlev, a former Russian military man who is a member of the Order of St. George (Russia’s Medal of Honor) used Russian troops for ceremonies for his International Boxing Association. Further, Saintourens (2022) mentioned that Kremlex is part of the patriot biker association known as the “Night Wolves”, and in 2004 and 2006, the former amateur boxer was convicted of violence. “Under the chairmanship of Mr. Kremlev, the IBA hoists the Russian colors high up in boxing rings around the world and defies the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Mr. Putin himself has made the case a personal one in a long-distance fight against IOC president, Germany’s Thomas Bach, in retaliation for sanctions imposed on Russia following the disclosure of a “state-sponsored” doping program after the Sochi Olympic Games (2014). Overseeing amateur boxing, which is a popular sport on every continent, is seen as an opportunity to promote Russia’s soft power.” (Saintourens, 2022).

Sources:

Saintourens, T. Putin’s ally running world amateur boxing looks to uphold Russian soft power. (2022) Le Monde. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sports/article/2022/12/11/putin-s-ally-running-world-amateur-boxing-looks-to-uphold-russian-soft-power_6007349_9.html#

Beachman, G (2024). Boxer Angela Carini could receive $50,000 award from banned IBA after her loss to Imane Khelif.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/boxer-angela-carini-could-receive-50-000-award-from-banned-iba-after-her-loss-to-imane-khelif/ar-AA1oaFDz?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Beacham, G. (2024). Who is Olympian Imane Khelif? An Algerian woman boxer is facing gender backlash. Associated Press, published by PBS. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/who-is-olympian-imane-khelif-an-algerian-woman-boxer-is-facing-anti-trans-backlash

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Revisiting my Starship Troopers Thesis. How Javier Milei’s quest to Dollarize Argentina mimics Heinlein’s novel and Verhoven’s film. On Dollarization in a post Petrodollar World by MRG Staff (Original 2024/07/08)

(Update 9/28/25) Since I wrote this, Javier Milei is taking a $20 billion bridge loan from Trump, which to me strengthens my argument relating to the dollarization of Argentina.

According to Newsweek, “Trump Admin’s $20 Billion ‘Bail Out’ for Argentina’s Milei Raises Eyebrows” (Published Sep 25, 2025 at 03:06 PM EDT, updatedSep 25, 2025 at 04:17 PM EDT0:12), by Mandy Taheri.

“The Trump administration says it is working to provide tens of billions of dollars to Argentina’s President Javier Milei, in a financial bailout that many critics say clashes with President Donald Trump’s “America First” platform.The U.S. State Department told Newsweek Thursday that the America First Foreign Assistance programs must align with administration policies and advance concrete U.S. national interests.Why It MattersOn Wednesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed the United States is in talks to provide $20 billion to Milei. The announcement comes months after the Trump administration dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in an effort to instead support programs aligned with Trump’s “America First” agenda.” https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admins-20-billion-bail-out-for-argentinas-milei-raises-eyebrows-10780604 (End of update).

Intro: See my past posts

Is Milei a stooge of the global banking syndicates simply trying to implement austerity measures as a means of handing over the Argentine economy to corporations?

Is he a faux populist who is handing Argentina’s monetary policy over to the US Federal Reserve, International Bank of Settlements, etc.?

Or is Milei a genius who is making a tough short-term decision in order for Argentina to finally see sustained long term growth?

Disclaimer: I am just writing. I do not think that there is necessarily a direct correlation or grand plan to bring to life the fictional world of the book or movie Starship Troopers.

However, what is happening in Argentina does mirror – softly – what appears in the 1997 film of Starship Troopers, even if we are speaking in mere analogous terms.

Yet, approaching this post from a literal or analogy standpoint, we can still help to grow our perceptions, deconstruct history, categorize and organize data, etc., particularly pertaining to understanding fascism, racism, imperialism, etc.

One thing that is certainly real in our real world, is that there are doubts about liberal democracy, and there are demographic shifts where the Anglo post-colonial New World is merging with the Latin post-colonial New World, but there is also the eerie 1920’s or 1930’s rise of autocratic leaders.

One of my big ideas on this site is that books such as Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein and the Ender’s Game Saga by Orson Scott Card eerily foreshadowed real world political events or attempts at alliances, etc.

So let’s talk about how Argentine President Javier Milei plans on “dollarizing” the Argentine economy.

According to Valentina Demalde (2/15/2024) of the Business Review at Berkley (BRB), “Dollarization as a potential economic strategy for Argentina presents several compelling advantages. Foremost, it promises currency stability and inflation control, a precious commodity in a nation with a history of hyperinflation and devaluation. This stability can instill trust among investors and the public, offering a predictable economic environment. With a stable U.S. dollar, Argentina may enjoy lower interest rates, a boon for businesses and individuals alike, making borrowing more affordable. Furthermore, adopting the U.S. dollar can attract foreign investment, with investors favoring countries with stable and widely accepted currencies. This influx of foreign capital can stimulate economic growth. Additionally, businesses engaged in international trade would benefit from reduced transaction costs, as they would no longer need to navigate currency exchange. Finally, dollarization can promote financial integration with the global economy, potentially increasing trade and investment in Argentina.

Dollarization in Argentina presents several potential drawbacks. Most notably, it entails relinquishing control over domestic monetary policy, a vital tool for governments to manage economic challenges— Milei sees this as an advantage due to a lack of trust in the government’s management. The prospect of dependence on the U.S. economy is concerning, as it would make Argentina vulnerable to U.S. economic fluctuations and shocks. However, Milei’s plan to increase trade with the U.S. aims to address this issue. Dollarization also carries a risk of exacerbating short-term social inequality, as those with access to U.S. dollars may initially benefit, although proponents like Milei argue that the long-term effects of a stable economy will ultimately improve the overall situation of society. The loss of seigniorage, while viewed as a pro by some, poses a significant drawback as it could limit the government’s capacity to fund public spending. Finally, the transition to a dollarized economy could trigger political unrest and opposition from stakeholders invested in maintaining the status quo.” [Source: https://businessreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/javier-mileis-dollarization-vision-a-new-era-for-argentinas-economy/#:~:text=He%20emphasizes%20a%20gradual%20approach%20to%20dollarization%2C%20driven,align%20with%20the%20preferences%20of%20the%20Argentine%20population.]

Does Milei’s dollarization effort by proxy absorb Argentina into the sphere of American power and hegemony?

Yes and no.

American dollars were already in high demand in countries such as Argentina because of their purchasing power, so Milei’s idea could be argued as institutionalizing what people have already been doing out of necessity to survive.

Argentines get dollars often but not always from black market currency dealers, but since it is illegal, dealers can sell at higher rates than what banks offer to exchange, yet Argentine banks limited how much currency you could covert thus creating the black market.

Yet, even if Milei’s idea will work, there could be certain ramifications – for better or worse, once Argentina accomplishes full dollarization.

Despite having focused on economics in my undergraduate business education, I am no expert economist by any means. However, let’s logically think through somethings.

Argentine Pesos are less valuable that American Dollars, so American dollars are far more expensive to obtain.

If you have a lot of something that is near worthless and you’re trying to get something that is far more expensive, you’re only going to be able afford a smaller amount of that more expensive product.

So, dollarization seems deflationary in nature. It is essentially the argument of gold standard advocates to go back to the gold standard, but rather instead of using gold, which is truly deflationary.

There’s not enough fungible gold in the world to prop up the sheer size of the global economy as well as fund future innovation which is often funded by running government deficits as a form stimulus.

Milei is treating the US Dollar as something akin to gold.

The USD is relatively stable, people trust America’s banking system (even when it collapses on itself such as post 2008 crash), the US has the most sway over the SWIFT banking system, it has a strong military with fast striking capability that not only has strong air/space superiority but also protects the high seas where global trade happens via shipping, etc. Oil is also priced and transacted in dollars.

The United States has also affected the world as far as fashion, music, language, art, etc., where everyone on Earth is a little bit “American”.

For example, the relatively racial (not ethnic) homogenous Chinese and Russian populations do not have the cultural vigor and gravitas that the USA does (i.e., dynamism as Zbigniew Brzezinski, author of the Grand Chessboard (1997), may have said), since American culture is largely a melting pot glued together with an Anglo English (lingua franca) logos largely defined by pragmatism. India with Bollywood has more sway than any art coming from China or Russia into the West.

Yet, by deflating the money supply, there will be less money as far as volume goes.

To have more of something that is worthless, or to have less of something that is worth more?

The goal it seems to have less of something that is worth more because once you get it, you have something people are willing to transact with, thus this move could help promote future growth and investment.

It is as if he is whacking down a forest with blight, just to invest in more expensive seed and hope a healthier forest grows back sooner than later.

But dollars just won’t just fall into the lap of the Argentines.

They will have to purchase them or earn them. Or, be gifted them.

By earning them, they can sell their products (exports) and demand payment in only US dollars and then not reconvert those dollars they earn to Argentine Pesos or hold those US dollars in bank vaults but peg the circulating pesos to the number of US dollars held in reserve.

Or they can take out loans at US dictated interests’ rates and then use those dollar-backed loans to stimulate economies, hopefully make money, and use parts of their profit to pay off interests or principal payments; yet, if they do this, it could create a cyclical effect for the better, because if they are able to use those dollar based loans to stimulate economies enough to attract foreign investments, they can dictate those investment also be done in dollars, thus increasing the overall volume of US dollars in circulation, thus increase overall value of the overall economy as a whole.

Yet, the issue with borrowing US dollars (taking out loans in US dollars) is that interest rates are not historically low anymore and institutions can add on top of the base federal funds rate, i.e.., the Fed sets a base rate, but a bank may add onto that base rate to develop their Annual Percentage Rate/Annual Percentage Yield’s on consumer credit.

The United States since it has so much sway over the IMF (International Monetary Fund) which has a debt plan already with Argentina, it may be beneficial to “give” Argentina dollars since the US can print money.

In the wake of the expiration of the Petrodollar agreement between the USA and Saudi Arabia, the world is relatively calm.

I noticed watching certain stock news outlets and programs on TV, that no one talked about it.

The only people talking about it were doomsday cryptocurrency advocates, who of course want fear just like gold speculators to bolster their price of their own assets.

But, with the petrodollar scheme having expired (assuming the Saud’s won’t want to re-enter a newly negotiated agreement), the US dollar will need other means of propping up its currency in a multi-polar world where once emerging economies are rising powers such as Brazil, India, Nigeria, (outside of China) etc.

The USD is fine. If the Euro is fine, the USD is more than fine considering the global influence the US has, including already established relationships with oil producing countries who can fill the void (diversify the role) where the Saud’s left off. If anything, this move by the Sauds may move them closer to China and thus Russia, but that thus pulls them away from the Western influence they may have had, and pushes the USA closer to friendly and more conducive oil partnership nations with Norway, Canada, Mexico, Nigeria, etc.

The USA is also a net exporter of oil as well itself, and is transitioning to alternative energy sources such as lithium based EVs (which Argentina has lots of as far as lithium), nuclear power, etc. Also, in a dreamworld, the USA would have an improved relationship with Venezuela and get them to play a larger role in a new type of petrodollar role, such as them doing oil transactions in US dollars and investing excess oil into US treasuries in exchange for foreign direct investment, lifting sanctions, and debt cancellation from the USA and other international creditors. It makes no sense that Donald Trump can talk to North Korea and the conservatives don’t lambast him, but the moment someone tries to talk to Cuba, Venezuela, etc., all of a sudden you become unpatriotic.

Milei’s idea may work. Tough times will a happen as the money supply deflates (evaporates) thus hurting the working classes who need…money, even if it’s the less valuable peso. Yet, if Argentina can dollarize, the nation will de facto act like any other US territory. Argentina would likely have to enter into a free trade agreement to make it all worthwhile and better sync its economy from top-to-bottom with the United States which would include correlating its business/trading day to that of the USA; expanding sister city agreements with US cities and establishing exchange programs for students; expanding student visa agreements and entering into comprehensive research agreements with college institutions; voting in favor of the USA on international governing bodies such as the UN; entering in mutual security and law enforcement pacts; implementing more stringent US food and safety standards on consumer goods and foods, and possibly even permitting the US to house troops in Argentina to conduct joint-exercises (which could be a way of bridging any historical tensions between Argentina and the British), etc. We already have Messi in Miami… This sounds cheesy but a big part of diplomacy is sports, culture, etc.

If so, in a weird way, this sort of goes back to my “Starship Troopers” theory I have written about earlier, which is essentially how Starship Troopers is happening notably the Hispanicization of the USA, Argentina’s role in the 1997 film of Starship Troopers (and its real-world history of fascism), the militarization of feminism to support the Military Complex. Also, my Starship Trooper’s thesis involves rising tensions with China, exacerbated by the Trump Administration’s Steve Bannon of the Council on National Policy and this administration’s odd connections to The Epoch Times, Falun Gong, Guo Wengui. Note: Erik Prince, worked for Hong Kong based security company, Frontier Services Group, led by Johnson Ko, where both Ko was a board member of Cambridge Analytica’s successor company, Emerdata, where Cambridge Analytica was used by Steve Bannon with funding from the Mercer Family – owners of Breitbart Media – to help Trump in 2016. Second Note: Tiawan was founded by the Right-Wing nationalist leader Chiang Kai Shek, and Taiwan was later headquarters to the World Anti-Communist League, which was an organization known for admitted ex Nazi war criminals.

Also, there is the Republican Party’s courting of Russia which is an autocratic society (this is similar to the Russian Anglo-American alliance in the Starship Troopers universe). We cannot also forget the rise of Right Wing Kookery as best seen in the social network surrounding pop figures such as Joe Rogan who has invited speakers that span John Birch-like paranoid Right Wingers such as Alex Jones, Theosophists, UFO believers, shamans, Jungian advocates such as JB Peterson….a lot of things which can lead to Neo Nazis.

The books of scholar Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke studied the occultic roots of Nazi in books such as The Occultic Roots of Nazism (1985) and Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity (2022), the role of oddball Darwinist billionaires such as Elon Musk, etc. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(Goodrick-Clarke_book). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Occult_Roots_of_Nazism].

Robert Heinlein had a syncretic political worldview. It seems contradictory if you get hippies but then also some radical pre-Alex Jones John Bircher’s liking your works. Inspired by both left wing and right-wing thought, his views could be considered 3rd Position or 3rd Way. He was influenced by Upton Sinclair’s socialism, the early basic universal income ideas (social credit) of C.H. Douglas, but the later adopted a more conservative, hawkish worldview. Heinlein was a libertarian in older age but sympathetic to socialism in his youth and he seems to have blended both, which is best viewed in the film adaptation of Starship Troopers in 1997 in my personal opinion. Heinlein to me represents the transition of Socialism’s acceptance in pre-WWII America, which in itself was a response to the Great Depression and embrace of earlier Progressive Era sentiments, to the post-WWII indictment of anything socialism, notably communism. This post-WWII shift of the late forties to early mid-fifties was a time where some very patriotic Americans who were socialist, shifted towards anti-socialist thoughts as hostilities arose with the USSR.

Heinlein’s emphasized personal responsibility and individual rights/liberty, yet did believe in the state, yet seems to have believed more in a populist as opposed to totalitarian type of state.

But Heinlein did support military and certain levels of government force when it comes to national defense and also “protecting us from ourselves” notably in regard to nuclear weapons. It seems confusing, but the best way to try to figure out “Heinlein-ism” as I might call it, is to play with terms such as calling it “right leaning, yet inclusive, global autocracy with an emphasis on the voluntaryist state that blends elements of both libertarianism and socialism, where the right of the franchise (voting) is granted to those willing to die to protect the body politic”. By Right leaning, I mean a devotion to the military and meritocracy, yet inclusive in that the meritocracy transcends notions such as race or nationality. [Note: There is a theory that neoconservatism was created by ex-Trotskyites, which has some basis in reality, but this theory seems more created by antisemitic paleoconservatives best typified by figures such as Pat Buchanan. See article by Bill King, 2004: https://enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0304/0304neocontrotp1.htm)

In 1959, Robert Heinlein published the science fiction novel, Starship Troopers. The book details a world after World War III where war veterans take over the governments of the world and establish a world federation based on meritocracy where in order to vote (the franchise) one must serve in the military. Per the novel form memory, the Anglo-American and Russian Alliance (which oddly reminded me of Trump’s aspirations with Vladimir Putin in previous writings) went to war with China, yet the Western powers essentially lost and settled with the Chinese at the Treaty of New Delhi. Yet, veterans were sprawled across the planet, and many having made it back to their homeland (with feelings of betrayal), found that modern society was decaying. A few veteran groups in order to combat violent crime and lawlessness started taking justice into their own hands (eerily harkening back to the post-WWI German veteran groups of Bavaria, the Weimar Republic, etc., which later evolved into the Nazis and their Brownshirts). Having established a quasi-governmental faction in their own right, this veteran collective eventually overthrew the scientists who were running western democracies. [Note: Blanquism is a form of putschism and it is interesting to note that the Nazis tried their own putsch with the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923]. Yet, these scientists attempted a Blanquist coup against the veterans in the Revolt of Scientists yet were beat. [ After that, the world slowly became a world federalist government ran by veterans, where in order to vote one must service the state with military service. Those who serve are called Citizens and those who do not are called Civilians. Citizens can vote, hold public office, etc. The new government that is established is the Terran Federation where differences of nation, race, gender, etc., don’t seem to matter but rather if a person serves in the military or does not, does matter. After this human world government is established, humans find themselves in conflict with an alien species, i.e., Arachnids from a planet called Klendathu.

In the 1997 film adaption by auteur director Paul Verhoven, is a satire of Heinlein’s presumably serious political treatise laid out in the 1959 book. Paul Verhoven and Ed Neumeier, who both worked together on the classic sci-fi film of Robocop (a scathing indictment of unfettered capitalism during Reagan’s nineteen-eighties), directed and wrote the 1997 film adaptation. The film has the main character Johnny Rico’s backstory (Juan “Johnny” Rico in the book) being based in …. Buenos Aires, Argentina. The film version expands upon the rights of Citizens such as the ability to go to college (at least for free), have children (possibly beyond a dictated limit), etc. Verhoven et al, cast good looking American 1990s TV drama actors of the Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, MTV era. These fitness-like models were cast as a means of Verhoven paying nods (satirically) to the 1935 Nazi propaganda piece Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl. My opinion of 1997 film by Verhoven, for which I have been a fan of since I was a child in the fifth grade, is that Verhoven chose these very “whitewashed’ characters as a satire on the spreading of American capitalism, beauty standards, etc., i.e., a nod the colonizing and homogenizing effects of corporate culture, etc. It seems to be the case that the former United States had the most power within the Terran Federation’s establishment, so it’s already strong real-world culture laid the basis of this fictional government. Hence, American Vernacular English, its pop culture, etc., as is the case in our real world would have colonized the rest of the world.

Argentina is also important because it represents an extension of “whiteness” with the context of New World, post-colonial intersectionality. In our real world, the United States for example has a large swatch of the political base driven by fear of “white replacement” by way of immigration, challenges to traditional white male power, etc. This can be heard on cable news by figures such as Tucker Carlson, who dog-whistle to news watchers to inspire a sense of white fear, grievances, etc. Since globalism and cosmopolitanism are a part of our world and not going away, the definition of whiteness is moving the goalpost of what actually is white as a means of retaining statistical and numerical majorities. Hence, the United States as it undergoes the process of “Hispanicization” is shifting the definition of whiteness from the traditional definition of European, notably Northern and Central European (e.g., Anglo-Saxon stock), to include white Hispanics, where Latin America has its own complicated history with racial categorization (where one could say it is more fluid, yet also ironically rigid in certain ways since there is an aggrandizement of Eurocentric values as opposed to Indigenous, Afrocentric, multi-racial sentiments, etc.).

Yet, the film doesn’t address race and racism is not a part of the utopian world of Starship Troopers, nor is gender inequality. The world is a pure meritocracy.

But to expand on the Nazi influences that drove Verhoven’s satirical work, Argentina plays an important role because historically, Argentina as well as other South American nations harbored Nazi War criminals who were able to blend into the existing German and Italian immigrant populations. These Nazis used “rat lines” to enter Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, etc., sometimes with the help of sympathetic Catholic priests assisting. For example, Klaus Barbie was active in Bolivia providing military training assistance to dictators involved in the early cocaine trade, which later assisted the powerful Medellin Cartel of Pablo Escobar via Roberto Suárez Gómez. Barbie was so emboldened that he had his own terror death squad in the country called the Fiances of Death and assisted in coup called the Cocaine Coup in Bolivia. Josef Mengle, the Angel of Death, was in South America. Otto Skorzeny (who later did assassinations for Israel’s Mossad as a means of not being hunted down and killed by them) even provided security detail to Argentina’s Juan Peron, husband of the famous Evita Peron. The infamous cult, Colonia Dignidad, created by Nazi and pedophile Paul Schäfer, was in Chile, and it is important to insert that Chile did have a pro-Nazi element with figures such as Esoteric Hitlerist Miguel Serrano. This cult has ties to the Pinochet Regime, which was a regime supported by the United States, corporations (such as the ITT Corporation, founded by Sosthenes Behn, which was later bombed by the radical Leftist Group, the Weather Underground for their participation in the overthrow of Salvador Allende), Richard Nixon all the way to Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher, and the CIA, as a means of hindering Left Wing movements on the continent during the Cold War.

Do Democrats want to lose because they and Republicans both represent liberalism, capitalism, etc.? Trump may win by MRG Staff

Prepare for Trump 2024….

It’s unfortunate but I think Donald Trump is going to win and the inner elite of Democrats may want this. The rich, Zionists, cops, most churches, crypto bros, the gun lobby, Russians, Saudis, corporations, Elon Musk-rats (fan boys), many old Boomers, Neo Nazis, the men of all colors who revolted against feminism, Hoteps, angry bosses who hate telework, right wing conspiracy theorists, anti LGBTQ demographic (TERFs included), and even conservative first generation immigrants, etc., all want him to win.

I suppose he’ll pardon himself and all his buddies. He’ll load the courts with more conservative cleric judges. He’ll ease up on Russia but then increase tension with China, despite Russia and China being allies, so easing up on one just helps the other elsewhere attempt to expand their hegemony.

But…

Perception is everything, but unfortunately not only are Democrats losing the perception battle, they are losing the reality battle as well. The only thing the Democrats have is saving us from Trump, and the unhinged stable of salivating conservatives he will give power from Marjorie Taylor Greene, JD Vance, Jerome Corsi, etc.

Despite, offering amnesty to undocumented peoples or asylum seekers or promising to cancel federal student debt, the Biden Administration despite wanting bipartisanship, are looking like a party that is compounding social issues for the worst ranging from crime, drug use, homelessness, inflation, etc. Further, even to their own party, the Biden Administration seems as if they are placating conservatives. Sure, these aren’t all the faults of Democrats. These are often global issues that have spanned decades, yet, perception is important. Trump for example can’t fix the root causes of immigration.

Democrats are in a rock and a hard place, because they actually try to juggle positions (Israel and Palestine, BIPOC community needs to that of the white working blue collar class, female liberation/empowerment, but notably…capitalism versus progress).

For example, the murders of women by illegal immigrant, aliens, what have you, does sting the public, as it should. Rachel Morin, Kayla Hamilton, Laken Riley, Mollie Tibbetts, Ruby Garcia, etc., were killed by undocumented immigrants.

Do Democrats want to lose? Or, are they more strongly positioned than given credit for?

If they lose, by doing so, corporate democrats will be OK, the Zionist lobby can continue its razing of Gaza and push forward in the establishment of its ethno-state (to the glee of Evangelicals on the Right Wing side of the aisle who want a Tim LeHayLeft Behind (book series)” Doomsday End Times scenario), and then Republicans can storm in and accelerate corporate domination/destroy central government, plus they can blame the Progressive wing of the Democratic party as being the reasons they lost (with people such as Bill Maher on the bullhorn for centrists blaming progressives).

The Democrats losing sets the stage for Democrats to seem disappointed and ready to “put up a fight” (get donations) and continues the Jacobean revenge narrative that is parroted in the mainstream news, i.e., a sort of manufactured beef between both parties though both parties vote with each other on bills that benefits their mutual benefactors.

But, it is wild that Trump can even still run for President.

I like Biden but he is very old, and yes, I know that Biden has a marked past. Yet, I will likely vote for him because, I can’t vote for Trump, because of him just being him, even though I admit that I’m fairly conservative on borders and immigration. Voting third party or not at all is a waste. We are in the “lesser of two evil” options, and voting for him is the best thing most likely.

On Trump, way back before he dropped the Latinos are rapists comments in 2016, I didn’t see much difference between him and Bernie as far as populist candidates – i.e., I admit I thought there was some hope in him, but after that comment it started downhill for me. It’s his ability to be so unfiltered that he ends up proping up opposition.

Trump kept further doubling down on his snarky quest of simply trying to prove his critics wrong, even if it meant endorsing divisive and controversial subjects.

Also, Trump will flood his administration with extremists spanning right wing libertarians, the Christian Right, anti-environmentalists and Climate Change deniers, prayer in school advocates, tax payer support for religious education advocates , Project 2025 advocates funded by the Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society endorsed circuit court judges with life appointments, Zionists, etc.

Further I am not voting for him because of the fact I think he did conspire with Russia (which is different than believing in Russia-gate which was more a DC beltway initiative against Trump that likely mixed fact with fiction) and most certainly conspired with Israel in some capacity (Netanyahu, Jared Kushner, Chabad Lubavitch, Republican Jewish Coalition with Eliot Brody, Joel Zamel of Psy Group in Israel, etc.) in some capacity to assist him with the 2016 election.

Note: I think Russia-gate was largely a distraction because if the Feds knew of Russia involvement beforehand, they shouldn’t have said something before Trump won. Yet, I can only speculate that this was the case as a means of springing a trap against Trump which was a way of indicating to foreign intelligence such as the Mossad and Russians, that the American intel community will orchestrate a take down of its own President if it means preserving the USA. However, we can’t ignore the fact that Russians infiltrated the Republican Party such as 1) their strange arrival at the National Prayer Breakfast, 2) Marina Butina’s infiltration of the NRA, 3) the fact that white supremacists during the Unite the Right rally, chanted the song “Russia in our friend”, 4) dozens of Russian spies caught in the USA, 5) Capitol Rioter and Neo Nazi, Riley June Williams attempting to steal Nancy Pelosi’s laptop and send it to Russia, 6) Alex Jones being broadcast on Russia State TV, 7) the writing of Aleksandr Dugin having inspired the Alt-Right such as Lauren Southern going to Russia to interview him, Jay Dyer, etc. The truth too is that hate group, The Base, is located in Russia and was founded by an American defector, and David Duke even had an apartment in Moscow. There seems to have been a concerted effort by Russia post the Fall of the Berlin Wall to shift from trying to infiltrate Left Wing groups and instead infiltrate Right Wing politics, largely by appealing to a sense of connected whiteness, Christianity, etc. Yet, Putin looking out only for Russia, is likely using this strategy as a means of furthering division in the United States (such as promoting racial divisions with bot farms, etc.) in order to help expand Russian power back in Europe (destabilizing NATO, the EU, and conquering buffering states). For example, according to DW (a German news outlet), Putin confidant Viktor Medvedchuk has helped facilitate talks with Germany’s Far Right AfD (Alternative for Germany, i.e., Deutschland) Party.

Also, another reason I can’t handle Trump, is the general vileness of many of his pundits ranging from Charlie Kirk, Matt Walsh, Candance Owens, Steven Crowder, Nick Fuentes, Lilly Gaddis, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, etc. Oh, and how can we forget January 6th, the Fake Elector Plot, and him now being a convicted felon….

Trump has been found guilty and is a convicted felon regarding his misuse of campaign funds to pay adult actress and director, Stormy Daniels.

Alex Jones is going bankrupt for his involvement in terrorizing the lives of those who lost loved ones during the Sandy Hook Shootings and may lose is InfoWars empire.

Steven Bannon, a general chaos agent with deep international links spanning Hong Kong to England’s Cambridge Analytica and European Far Right Parties, as being the brainchild behind Trump’s 2016 election and likely a planner of the fake-elector plot during the 2020 election, has been ordered to jail.

Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager with shadowy ties to offshore banks in Cyprus was indicted for financial crimes and failing to disclose foreign lobbying efforts in 2018. With the assistance of Microsoft Copilot, another campaign manager, Brad Parscale, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, was hospitalized on an involuntary hold after he threatened to harm himself while armed with a gun at his Florida home. The incident occurred on September 27, 2021, and police released a video of his arrest. Multiple January 6th insurrectionists have been arrested and jailed. With more help from Microsoft Copilot, Riley June Williams, a far-right extremist who was “obsessed” with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, received a three-year prison sentence for her role in storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. And, we can’t forget the MAGA Shaman.

Despite, all of these convictions, conspiracies, etc., it seems….a good chunk of America doesn’t care. Why? Republicans strongly have encircled the aesthetics of Americana ranging from the Stars Spangled Banner, militarism, etc. Also, MAGA does have an appeal to nostalgia similarly to Reagan’s nostalgia of the 1950s during the 1980s, and many older people don’t see the world like younger generations where Millennials, Gen Z, etc., were raised with a critical lens and the ability to deconstruct, notably being critical to American exceptionalism, unfettered capitalism, etc. Yet, despite your average older voters who boil down politics to oversimplified matters of “government bad” “cheap food good” “foreigners scary” “taxes, no-no”, etc., there is a legitimate conscious racist wing of MAGA politics who want a fascist state and the overthrow of democratic institutions.

But, let’s be real…

It seems like Democrats want to lose because the truth is they are liberals and so are Republicans.

That’s what people seem to have a hard time understanding as political pundits play a linguistic shell game throwing around the work “liberal” to explicitly mean the Democratic Party.

Democrats and Republicans are both liberals in that they descend from the liberal enlightenment traditions which advocate for democracy, republicanism, individual rights, separation of church and state, and commerce. Republicans in a very oversimplified way could be considered “classical liberals” with a penchant for traditionalism – hence they have a conservative moral set – and less regulation on business class (where if we apply intersectionality, this naturally comes off as more white, male, etc., since that was the traditional core of economic and political power dating back to colonial times).

Democrats are “modernist liberals” with emphasis on pragmatism (which in part morphed in bureaucratic managerialism to deal with the residual effects of the Industrial Revolution such as child labor, unionism, etc.), cosmopolitanism (the emphasis on cities, immigrant communities, etc.), and negotiating between the business class and the worker class (juggling unionism, wage increases, etc.). Modern Democrats are descended from the goal of expanding the franchise dating all the way back from the Democrat-Republican split during the times of Andrew Jackson’s expansionism, where this era was later heavily influenced by the mid-to-post Civil War Era of Northern political machines who extended the expansion of the franchise to new immigrant groups, e.g., the Irish and Italians in the late 19th and early 20th century, and later African Americans in the mid 20th century. Democrats were also influenced by Progressive Era philosophies of John Dewey and the living document doctrine of Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Court.

Yet, since Democrats are still a pro-business and a capitalist party like Republicans (despite Republican linguistic shell-games using terms such as “the far left” to define Democrats), they, i.e., Democrats would rather side with Republicans, even if it means they lose.

This is because Democrats and Republicans both have the same business and corporate donors. In other words, win or lose, the party’s head honchos still win and same goes for Republicans in reverse. By losing, Democrats still get paid by the big corporations to help pass legislation that increases their power over the population, yet they can obfuscate and blame Republicans which is vital in continuing campaign contributions for our American election cycle, helping the news cycle between CNN/MSNBC vs Fox News, etc.

What I am getting at is, that in the upcoming 2024 it seems that either Democrats feel entitled with a sense of Hillary Clinton-esque arrogance into thinking people will simply vote for them because of the “Trump, bad” angle, or Democrats want to lose because they are being paid to lose, and by being paid, I mean exactly that. However, I am not discounting people that are true believes in Biden as being a saving grace against Trump. So, there are really three angles to see.

But paid by whom? Corporations from across the board (notably big Pharma, defense, agriculture, etc.) but also the Zionist lobby considering the Zionist camp likely thinks Trump can push them over the line in their conquest of Gaza, despite Joe Biden doing a decent job of hopscotch P.R., for them as he battles their needs versus the anti-war and humanitarian groups. Democrats as a “big tent” party that incorporates a lot of different visible groups have had to play the hard card of juggling corporate donor expectations with the needs of people, yet Republicans who are anti-welfare, wage increases, etc., don’t have to negotiate with Big Business because they are the party of big business. Republican tenants such as small government, less regulation, and lower taxes may sound good to the individual who has been convince their unique individuality matters, but the truth is that these tenants disproportionately benefits corporations which are legal people with rights such as Citizens United and even being allowed to vote in municipal elections in states such as Delaware.

Democrats have a generally harder job than Republicans. They take the blame a lot more because they have more to balance and juggle.

Democrats if they lose will be able cry about how they lost, but also use liberal grumps such as Bill Maher (an Eastern seaboard elitist with faux nods to the working class, despite still standing up to conservativism) will gaslight the true Left. The true Left are different than liberals (Democrats, Republicans, etc.), because they are critical if not outright opposed to capitalism, i.e., this is when we start drifting towards socialist territory (where communism is a type of socialism, but not the only type of socialism, i.e., democratic socialism or reformist socialism is different than Marx’s theories of Communist socialism).

There’s something sinister relating to Trump’s possible return. Christian nationalism trying to implement Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation, MAGA’s links to Neo Nazi groups such as Nick Fuentes Groypers of the America First Movement (which branched off from Charlie Kirk’s mainstream Turning Point USA) and residuals of the Unite The Right rally, Israeli Zionism (note: I support the state of Israel, though there’s a sinister direction that Netanyahu has taken his country on), a world slipping back into right wing authoritarianism, attacks on women’s rights, attacks on LGBTQ understanding, etc.

I’m not sure where our beloved nation is headed

The more fascist it becomes, just means the more insignificant it is. And, a lot of us don’t get this point.

Do, I totally understand climate change, feminism, LGBTQ? No. But I understand hate. And I can see it ooze from Trump’s being.

Does “Black Philosophy” Actually Exist? On the Establishment of a Southern School of Philosophy by Quinton Mitchell

Being a Black American, I noticed that a lot of the more vocal, fiery, and/or analytical voices within Black Liberation politics often attempt to be at odds with “Western philosophy”, yet, they are indelibly… Western through and through.

Most Black Liberation Politics centers around Continental Leftist and or liberal (in the classical sense onwards) types of ideology centering around concepts such as deconstruction, post-structuralism, Critical Theory, existentialism to many extents, anti-colonialism, post-colonialism, and some degree postmodernism (e.g., hip hop as a late stage capitalist form of music that blurs high art with low art, pastiche, hyper capitalism, the subjectivity of morality, pop culture, etc.).

But, for those within Black Liberation politics, stretching from the Ivory Tower college seminars with the stereotypical dred-locked wise sage professor, to YouTube video essayists with their evermore ridiculous thumbnails to attract eyeballs (yes, I am talking about “Foreign Man in a Foreign Land”, etc.), and all the way to fringe cults pushing antediluvian Black Supremacist origin stories (even throw in a few UFOs or mad scientists, e.g., The Nation of Islam, Nuwabians, Hoteps, etc.), what I notice is…. there is no real black philosophy.

Rather, we what we have is blackness expressed through Western philosophy.

What I’m saying is….is that most of the Black Nationalist or liberation types who are quick to call another person’s “blackness” into question, even going so far as using white supremacist Antebellum slavery monikers towards each other, i.e., house slave, house negro, coon, Uncle Tom, the N-word, etc., but these Black Nationalist and liberation types are….living in the “House”, i.e., the house is the Western civilization including its philosophy.

So, to appear to be at odds with the West, when in essence we are products of the West, including using its language, didactic, etc., is ironic. In other words, don’t pretend that you’re higher or holier or more “organic” simply because you push pro-blackness when we are all living collectively under the roof of the house. The only way to truly alleviate this dilemma is to…leave the West.

Full unplug form the West or rather attempt at establishing a coherent “Black Philosophy” or “Southern Philosophy” that with academic rigor pools various indigenous African philosophies under one umbrella. No conspiracy theory, no anti-white girl paranoid black female nonsense, no toxic masculinity, but literal hitting the books and creating a framework that spans ethics, logic, etc.

I say Southern philosophy because we obviously know that Eastern typically represents Asian and/or Indian Subcontinent frameworks spanning Hinduism, Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, etc., whereas Western philosophy touches upon everything from the Sages, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Continentals vs Analytics, etc. In other words, we live under a global “Eurasianist” viewpoint, which isn’t bad necessarily, but the problem is that it excludes the philosophical frameworks of other parts of planet, so we can’t have a truly united human specifies until we include other frameworks or test them at least.

My call, yes, Quinton Mitchell is saying, that there should be a Southern Philosophy that emphasis the major categories of philosophy such as Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic, and Aesthetics. This could be done my using game theory, Artificial Intelligence, computer regressions, etc.

Escaping the Dialectic. Transcending everything. Understanding the Construction of Blackness in Simple Terms by Quinton Mitchell

Before I start this, I don’t like “Dr.” Umar Johnson, I don’t like the Nation of Islam cult, or generally most black nationalist movements. However, I want the best for black people.

Blackness in the context of Western Civilization was intended to be the “antithesis” to the “thesis” of white supremacy, colonialism, exceptionalism, deification, etc. Better put, blackness is the “yang” to the “ying” of whiteness. Though this is a manufactured dialectic, an engineered binary, etc., which was intended to create a caste system for the benefit of generating wealth for a top-down hierarchy between the ruling class and the peasantry – where race was used as a layer of division to disunite the common human proletariat – the truth is that the dialectic has sunken deep into the ontology, consciousness, what have you, of Western civilization. Even if the dialectic isn’t purely from a wealth accumulation standpoint, the truth is we are all human laboring under the illusion of self, etc.

As a result, blackness as personified by African bodies that were forcibly absorbed into Western civilization during the Trans-Atlantic Slavery and Colonial periods, notably of the Americas and continental Africa itself, is…black. By black, I mean nihilistic.

Blackness is the personification of Western nihilism that was constructed to give purpose and meaning to “solution” of “whiteness”. Black bodies are seen as “challenges” to be triumphed against, trained for, brutalized, humbled, etc. Black culture is seen a reminder of the civilizing tendencies of “white culture”. Black de-valuation is seen as an easy means of boosting “white valuation”, for example, impoverished whites seeing themselves as more in alignment with the white upper class rather than black lower class, i.e., whites at the bottom can appropriate upwards, whereas black people who succeed are continuously dragged down by the “black bottom”, etc. Yet, the irony is that black culture is all of these things, i.e., black people also choose to live in the binary of being polar opposites just for the sake of it, and as a result, the system gets what it wants…an easily agitated and divided public.

The further construction of blackness is the tendency towards self-annihilation, and by that I don’t mean breeding or baby making, but rather the cannibalistic and infectious nature of toxic masculinity (street law, street justice, etc.). To me a black man for example means to push out emotion, care, sympathy, honor, etc. Black men brutalize each other each day as black men jockey over petty squabbles of maintaining societal notions of masculinity, but not just any notion, but this purposely crafted dialectical notion explicitly intended for black people.

(Flowing Thoughts) On Foucault, Privatization, Homelessness and the Mentally Ill by MRG Staff

Wow, I was probably nearly a year ago when I was living up in Seattle.

I was sitting in a restaurant for lunch and noticed a man outside pacing around a fairly busy intersection. He was speaking to himself, his pants sagged, and was walking in a defensive posture, as if he was defending himself from the world, a world of his possibly damaged psyche. He held a rod of some sort and twirled it around defensively at imaginary threats, who seemed to be after what few belongings he had on a rollable cart.

Yet even though my defensive senses were raised, I looked at the guy with a bit of sadness.

See NPR Article by Samantha Raphelson (Published: NOVEMBER 30, 20171:15 PM ET): https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567477160/how-the-loss-of-u-s-psychiatric-hospitals-led-to-a-mental-health-crisis

As I left the restaurant, I crossed eyes with the man, and I saw fear in him. His eyes had the pinkish redness of a crying toddler or that of an adult on the verge of tears – the eyes slightly burning. Maybe he is freaking out over the fact he doesn’t know where his next meal is coming from, where he will sleep, or if his meds might run out? You never know.

This erratic behavior seems to have been a defensive reflex. Maybe he “looks scary” because he has to? He likely was a mentally ill ex-prisoner fighting for survival, but now is basically a homeless man with shellshock roaming the city, fighting whatever demons he has.

Yet, even as he paced around, people walked right past him.

No one is going to call the cops, because people fear that cops might see a mentally-ill black man and treat him like a violent criminal possibly leading to his death. Police in general in the wake of the Summer of 2020 seem to be not doing their jobs as well as they can because of pride, i.e., they want the public who called them out to crawl back to them.

It seems our current times are this odd mix of dialectical (bipolar) tension. The Left is softer on crime, yet way more understanding about the factors that leads to social issues, whereas conservatives are tougher on crime but being tougher on crime doesn’t fix crime, but simply sweeps it away, just for it to reappear later, especially since crime isn’t simply a matter of oversimplified morals (right vs wrong). The conservative approach is to simply to lock up people, evict people, put them on buses to far away states (liberal ones), etc.

But, seeing people simply walk past him and not make much of a fuss, even as the man tried destroying a sign of an ice cream parlor, it made me think of Michel Foucault.

I’m no expert on the guy. Never read him. I’m aware of him. He’s one of those people who was so influential that you sort of gain his knowledge by osmosis since elements of progressive culture, similar to the impact of Herbert Marcuse, was so influential.

One idea that he was notable for writing about was how systems created a clinical gaze towards the mentally ill, whom previously had been a part of the overall community, e.g., the town-square drunkard or babbling homeless guy, but this modernist clinical gaze created inadvertently a new type of oppression, a type of reductionist viewpoint, resulting in mentally ill people not be treated holistically but being attacked by systemic violence that marginalizes their existences (solitary confinement, forced medications, strip searches, showers by hosing, experimentation, shock therapy, lobotomies, sterilization, etc.). Further, Foucault spoke about the prison style known as the panopticon which is a euphemism for the spy and police state.

Foucault seems to have been trying to say is that the mentally ill still have thoughts, even if their thoughts aren’t conventional, and maybe in some strange way, there’s certain levels of wisdom there, similar to how older or more ancient cultures might have looked on a mentally ill person, such as one suffering from what we consider to be schizophrenia today, and figured they were communicating on higher level.

It seems safe to say that Foucault’s then controversial views have made the world a better place by questioning ableism. For example, Greta Thunberg instead of seeing her Aspergers as a crutch, she rather embraced her condition as a superpower, and she shows she can still be a productive member of society who wishes for its well-being.

It seems that cities with progressive policies are today still subconsciously influenced by Foucault’s anti-ableist analysis and are tolerant of the mentally ill in public.

And, sure, let’s say that is all fine. The only issue is that this tolerance is still inhabiting a capitalist system, where I would argue that the capitalist system is making more mentally ill people, so we end up never getting ahead of solutions but always reacting to issues. Since liberals are still related to classical liberalism, it seems that the charity towards the mentally ill gets monetized and absorbed into bureaucracy, more so intent on provide jobs and administration, rather than fixing the underlying problem.

The pressures of working jobs where performance metrics are becoming more and more draconian on the grounds of maximizing profits; a materialist culture designed to emotionally, physically, and even sexually manipulate us into making consumer purchases to maintain our status in hierarchal social systems; the rising cost of living where most of a person’s income goes toward rents thus to entertain themselves they might self-medicate more (the cheaper option) or dissociate into digital fantasy landscapes, and, let’s not forget the postmodern implications of the internet spewing every conspiracy theory, hyper-real depictions of violence, etc.

We need to fund with taxes overnight and/or court-orereded mental health facilities, because A) they provide a place for people to sleep, eat, be safe, etc., and B) mentally ill people aren’t thrown into jails where they can be prey or harmful to others.

As capitalism continues to eat away at every aspect of modern life, commodifying everything in its path, it is no surprise that we in the United States live with crime, homelessness, disparity, mental illness, communicable diseases, police altercations, gentrification, etc., are growing in scope and scale.

The problem is that our society has merged three things which should be separately funded and managed which are prisons/jails/halfway houses/juvenile detention centers, drug rehab centers, and mental health facilities (i.e., formerly called asylums).

The “merging” is likely due to privatization as former government ran institutions were slowly “contracted out” to free-market businesses, where many are public, thus they have a responsibility to maximize shareholder value. The easiest way to maximize profit is of course to cut costs, reduce quality, and merge job specialties, which are argued for with fancy business lingo or phrases such as achieving economies-of-scale, lean management, maximizing shareholder value, reducing redundancy, etc.

The problem is that the scope of prisons, mental health facilities, and drug rehabs are often merged.

Drug addicts are thrown in jail and many become indebted to criminal gangs, and the inability to pay debts might lead people to be physically or sexually assaulted (pimped out, sexual slavery), etc.

This increases risk of contracting communicable diseases, even if no sexual activity is occurring, e.g., being in a bloody fight with another inmate, being stabbed, etc.

Further, mentally ill people might be exploited outright, and even more so if they have drug addictions. The way the system is designed, it creates a toxic ecosystem. Drug addicts fuel the gang activity, and gang activity is often but not always racially segregated, thus increasing risks of riots and radicalizing inmates who will take their hateful ideology to the public to recruit more people, etc. Many gangs require life commitments, so some inmates once released, potentially fearing for their lives or those of their loved ones, help sustain criminal activity on the inside, .e.g, sending money, smuggling drugs, committing violence against enemies or informants, etc.

Former prisoners often state that the guards purposely created racial division, or rather they sustain it. It’s not uncommon to hear stories of guards watching prisoner fighters, betting on fights, setting up informants to be attacked, assisting in criminal activity such as smuggling, turning a blinded eye to sexual assaults, sexually assaulting inmates, etc.

On top of all these factors, many former inmates have hard times finding jobs or places to live, so drug addicts and/or mentally ill people, or people in general who are on hard times, often become homeless, thus causing another problem. Many inmates once released are given a bus ticket and told good luck and find themselves landing at every seedy bus station in every American city.

Since the night is much more dangerous than the daytime, homeless people might sleep and eat in the day, but are on guard duty the entire night, and many turn to drugs to stay awake.

In other words, everything is connected and understanding those connections and giving each step of the process is the only way to truly bring forth systemic reform. For example, when waging war, counties rarely factor in the high costs of taking care of veterans, and many of these veterans find themselves in the cycles I’ve been mentioning.

We need to fund society, i.e., the people’s government, and not simply take tax money and hand it over to contractors who bloat costs, because bad procurement processes/monitoring by auditing agencies doesn’t do good due diligence.

This is where we come further into conflict with capitalism.

State governments pander to corporations so they come to their state by cutting tax rates, and this ends up leading to a race to zero amongst the state governments. This results in “national austerity” placing long-term pressure on residents and workers who cover the load of taxes to fund society because corporations will threaten to leave if not given what they want. Yet, many people vote for these neo-liberal policies out of desperation, but also good propaganda methods by conservatives who decry big government in favor of “personal freedom”, but they fail to mention that the freedom for a corporation is more powerful than the freedom of a person.

Corporations sell this idea of freedom to the working class so corporate personhood can go untouched. It’s that simple.

Sure, your state might get jobs, but you’ll have underfunded public services, which cost more and more to fix if the problems get too out of control, ironically since private businesses fill the void and there’s no to little control over what they charge for services. The jobs promised by the companies might not pan out, with many creating fewer jobs than they promised to community leaders.

Also, it’s a myth that states without taxes are better off. States that can raise capital through taxes have the ability to invest in the public good, i.e., expanding wi-fi access which helps the poor or young search for jobs or obtain online certifications/education. Well-funded infrastructure is simply good for business. States that invest in mental health and drug reform might see improved relations with communities who see that police aren’t just enforcers of a capitalist system, but rather helpers in the community who can help refer people who need help to the right agencies.

Sure, Texas has a powerhouse economy, and no hate to the state objectively, but it also executes more people than any other state, its separate power grid failed during a winter storm, and I really can’t fathom the amount of pollution or cancer causes by the fossil fuels and corporate farming industry.

How much money did Fortune 500s lose due to Texas’ energy grid disaster? Or, how many Fortune 500 companies have decided to stay in California despite the price because California has the government power to try new things, which has resulted in attracting a skilled workforce?

Every state should have some type of income tax to help fund/hedge public services that serve all people regardless of their identity. States need to stand in unity so all states have some type of income tax so corporations can’t pit the states against each other. This state competition for jobs by reducing taxes causes mass migrations, which can have even more of an impact on social issues.

For example, the popular California vs Texas divide.

Many Californians are leaving the state due to lack of housing (building codes, increased material costs, property taxes, home owner associations, zoning laws, short-term rental market – AirBnB, Vrbo, etc. – which takes homes off the market, and foreign nations buying whole neighborhoods for portfolio assets), taxes, fees, overcrowding, lack of blue collar work, forest fires, state universities prioritizing out-of-state students so they can be charged more money with out-of-state tuition rates, etc.

Yet, the issue isn’t that California has an income tax but it might be an issue of the rate they charge, and the issue with Texas is they have no income tax to create the proper nest-eggs, rainy day accounts or emergency funds, thus corners are cut.

A state like Washington State which is traditionally Democratic doesn’t have an income tax, which is more so to appease the conservative elements of the state, while also appeasing big business who have to deal with Washington’s traditionally strong unionist workforce (IBEW, dock workers, aircraft mechanics, teachers, etc.). Yet, in all my travels and having lived all over the United States, I always noticed the West Coast has a strong homeless or vagabond culture, where people often attribute this to the fact that the West Coast the last destination of the Continental United States. However, Washington State like many other states have been privatizing mental health. A former court-ordered mental health facilities called Western State near Lakewood/Steilacoom WA was closed.

Does YouTube have a Nazi Pop problem? How the algorithm promotes the glamorization of Nazism by MRG Staff

Hitler, the Nazis, the Holocaust, have become, sadly, and oddly, a form of pop culture, and not just any pop culture, but a hyper-real form of culture perpetuated by the omnipotent and fate-sealing power of the “algorithm”. Quinton Mitchell

I call it Nazi Pop.

I understand that history should be taught and preserved. I also understand that having different content creators helps analyze topics form different perspectives. However, I think there should at least be more disclaimers relating to Nazi content or at least some sort more intensive vetting process including but not limited to peer-review for YouTube videos on the subject. Also, creators of such content should have to disclose their public identity rather than hide behind avatars.

A large chuck of the profit percentage should go to charities such as those dedicated to Holocaust education or hate-group watchdog groups.

https://www.adl.org/take-action/ways-to-give

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

It seems many content creators have learned that making videos about Nazis is an easy way to get paid, yet many people don’t care about the money but rather they are potential Nazi sympathizers who have adapted to not seeming radical but instead brand themselves as “amateur historians”. For example, the YouTube pages such as the Zoomer Historian and History-at-War.

Sure, not everyone talking about Nazis are bad and the intent is often educational. Yet, even with these good faith actors the need to make money off Nazi content still stands. For example, let us look at lovable and iconic YouTube creator, Simon Whistler.

Simon Whistler is known for having many and I mean many YouTube channels (see article, titled: The Many Channels of YouTuber Simon Whistler by Shelly Lawless from CultureSlate. Link: https://www.cultureslate.com/lists/the-many-channels-of-youtuber-simon-whistler).

When I type in Simon Whistler Nazi on YouTube I see the following videos. Why Did So Many Nazis Choose Argentina to Flee to After WWII? (on Today I Found Out); Why Did So Many Nazis Choose Argentina to Flee to After WWII? (on Into The Shadows); Adolf Hitler – The Rise of a Fanatical Fuhrer (on Biographics); The “Nice” Nazis (on Sideprojects); War and Drugs – WWII Soldiers Go Mad on Meth (on Brain Blaze); Inside the Meeting that Engineered the Holocaust (on Into the Shadows); The Rise and Fall of the Nazi War Machine (on Warographics); The 1936 Olympic Games: Nazi Germany’s Gambit (on Into the Shadows); The “XX System”: How MI5 Made Fools of the Nazis (on Into the Shadows)…and honestly, there is at least 20 plus more.

I must stress that I think Simon Whistler is a legitimate content creator interested in sharing snippets of lost history.

Him aside, we have to be real there are likely Attomwaffen SS sympathizers etc. secretly making ambiguous pro-Nazi videos.

This is what I am saying. Is it education or entertainment? Sure, I have hope that humanity has learned its lessons but…we do live in a world that does seem to be dangerously flirting with a nostalgia for strong-men fascism, largely as a means of curbing the externalities of global capitalism (mass migration, free trade, etc.), which ironically is controlled by those who often fund…fascism.

In other words, the elite capital class are responsible for most of the world’s social ills but while they make profit, they also fund isolationist, nationalist, and often racist regimes because these fascist regimes often side with capitalism, especially as a means of opposing egalitarian ideas such as communism.

Elon Musk is the avatar for everything negative I am stating or insinuating in this post. An alleged “autistic savant”, Sorrow of Young Werner, edge lord, “Sit on my face” (Grandma’s Boy film reference), billionaire capitalist who panders to right wing grifters because they are more so aligned with the economic ideology that enables him to exploit, loot, scam, borrow, fake it till he makes it, and profit, etc.

I call this tendency to make Nazi videos for money on YouTube as being Nazi Pop. Nazi Pop Culture.

There seems to be something going on. There are a lot of “historical analysis” videos dedicated to “studying” (cough – worshipping) the Nazis, especially with a target audience comprised of Millennials, Zoomers, and this odd new “Newsweek”-coined generation called “Generation Alpha”. It is as if there is a bot farm spewing out these Nazi historical analysis videos as a means of subconsciously brainwashing a new crop of unwitting racists, “race realists”, etc., notably in the wake of a world that is unfairly – in my opinion – rallying against “wokeness”, where said “wokeness” is often, but not always, code-word in conservative circles for anything that is not white, straight, male, capitalist, selfish and likely Christian.

“Whiteness” has cleverly positioned itself as an “oppressed” status group, however, the political left often can’t help but to not use “whiteness” as the target to most of its own philosophical juxtapositions.  Adding to this, because of the burdens of globalism, climate change, poverty, and wars, many refugees have fled into the Global North, thus causing race realist nationalism to rise.

The political left – though not wrong in its political and economic analysis of contemporary issues, at least from a pure analysis standpoint, as opposed to real life political experiments – often uses whiteness as the focal and starting point for many of its analytical arguments, and this, therefore, helps create a situation that actual white supremacist can exploit by providing a “safe space” for the often lost, frustrated, guilty, etc. White people who are tasked with analyzing their privilege but then rejecting the guilt associated with it when they feel they are being unfairly singled out, and at worst, disarmed from self-defense from the basic truths of human nature beyond race or color.

In other words, many white people feel they can’t defend themselves while also being blamed for the ills of society, and many people reject these feelings and are often recruited by bad faith actors who want to inculcate them into race realism, racism, Nazism, etc. Yet, the left or liberals can often be dismissive of this sentiment, but being dismissive doesn’t mean it goes away. However, this does not mean we need to coddle or excuse the truths of toxic masculinity, entitlement, the hypocrisies of patriarchy and the male gaze onto the female form, racism, etc.

I am not saying that whiteness, colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, etc., as is, as they are linked in our contemporary society, are not topics worth studying, however, the folly of let’s say…Marxists analysis…is that it reduces everything to base “non metaphysical” material that is in need of study, analysis, etc. Yet, my argument is that human nature is sure able to be understood, yet most humans are not thinking too deep about social issues besides simply trying to survive in peace. Also, my rebuttal to a full acceptance of applying Marxist analysis is that life is inherently…nonsensical and absurd. The Marxist tries to reduce everything to realist, evolutionary struggle in a sort of godless universe where no objective truths actually exist besides the truths we can analyze based on our evolution as a species, here and only here on Earth, based on understanding the crux of class throughout space and time. Sounds somewhat reasonable.

But why do we make art? Why do we do anything? What’s the point? The point is there is no point but there is a point. Life has purpose and in theory doesn’t. Life is a walking contradiction but because it is, we naturally apply some level of metaphysical justification to our actions. Sure, we can debate about the scope and scale about how we apply metaphysical explanation or justification to sustain our existences, yet, still humans often operate indifferent to being “analytical nerds” where everything is seen as a mindless construction of petty human efforts.

The tin-foil hat in me thinks that our current racial situation is in part manufactured. A sort of dialectical warfare situation where those at the top, typically the capital owners, use race as a means of disguising the institutional power that ironically helps maintain the one percent. The left thinks it is immune to this, but I suspect this is not the case because those at the top, are smarter than given credit for, considering that the left spends so much time in analyzing them. The one percent needs a racially divided proletariat in order to maintain the systems that maintains their power, yet, oddly, when someone says that “things are rigged” notably in matters of race, I notice the political-left itself is often dismissive of this allegation (which I can understand because such as allegation can be used lazily as a means of not deeply analyzing systemic power, however, it is naïve for the left to not admit that pitting the races against each other has always been a key strategy in debasing proletarian and labor-centric power). However, those on the Left don’t want to be dismissive of marginalized groups voices by prioritizing class consciousness over intersectionality, so if anything, it’s on said marginalized groups to accept that such divisive strategies are possible, but it may ironically not be good strategy for historically oppressed groups to acknowledge this considering the status quo can use this as a means of furthering silencing specific causes. Just one of the many seemingly, damned if you, demand if you don’t Catch 22’s we live under.

With the toxic revolt and reaction against diversity and inclusion, I, as black man who grew up largely in predominately white environments (which, I admit were often positive experiences, but yes I have experienced blatant racism), I notice on YouTube that many “content creators” are uploading videos dedicated to studying Nazism.

And, sure, there’s a lot of unpackage there, but I often suspect more sinister intentions. The phenomena are similar to the notion or trop of the “edge lord”.  Instead of seeing what the Nazis did as bad, rather the Nazis are “pornified”. From their Hugo Boss uniforms, their innovations (rockets, synthetic oils, jet engines, the interstate systems, intercontinental ballistic missiles, propaganda, etc.), their national unity, etc., there is something that many people seem to deeply want to emulate. That is the sad thing about these YouTube videos for example. Many but not all seem to be about nostalgia rather than analysis of evil.

We must remember than since 2012 for example, which was the era that kicked off the police brutality riots – often against black people – than many college age people were children. Many have adopted the tenants of social justice to varying degrees, but others see social justice as establishment. This therefore opens the opportunity for actual Neo Nazis, who have innovated into doing video essays online, owning video game Reddit communities, etc., the ability to recruit a new crop of followers or apologists.

At first, the book White Noise by Don DeLillo creeps up in my mind. In that book, the main character, Jack Gladney, is the professor of Nazi Studies at some Midwest college, yet the character of Gladney was used by DeLillo as a means of detailing how even a monster such as Adolph Hitler became a sort of pop culture commodity in a postmodern and post-capitalist world. Even Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane pointed fun at this with his Hitler talk-show in his cartoon.

Even atrocities of wars gone by and the lessons thereof which should humble us as a species, instead become commodities or a means of gaining an income.

DeLillo’s prophetic words in his 1985 National Book Award winning novel (which were not done with justice in the 2023 movie adaptation in my opinion) sort of became reality. Hitler, the Nazis, the Holocaust, have become, sadly, and oddly, a form of pop culture, and not just any pop culture, but a hyper-real form of culture perpetuated by the omnipotent and fate-sealing power of the “algorithm”.

Also see: https://mitchellrg.com/2021/07/14/helping-save-white-men-from-radicalization-progressive-notes/

Contradictions in American Conservative Logic from Conspiracy Theory, Guns, COVID, Foreign Aid etc by MRG Staff

(1) Many Christian conservatives often fall into conspiracy theories, yet, isn’t obsessing over conspiracy theories a sign of not having faith? If their faith is so strong and God is in control, then it seems that Christians don’t really believe God…is…in…control. Once could go further and say that Christians who engage in conspiracy theory are actually engaging in blasphemy because people are still trying to control things rather than having faith in God making things right.

(2) It’s funny how people say the Second Amendment is about protecting us against a tyrannical government, yet, if that’s the case then why did so many white people not pick up arms to liberate black people from Jim Crow? Or, at a minimum be supportive of black people taking up arms to liberating themselves? Maybe it’s because what is “tyrannical” is subjective, i.e., just because you don’t like something you call it tyrannical, but what’s tyrannical to one is not to another. A lot of people seems Ok when a segment of the population was being oppressed.

(3) It’s interesting how conservatives said that COVID was a hoax, yet, the only way how Trump kept out migrants and refugees was through acknowledging that COVID existed with his use of Title 42 laws (the ability to keep people out of the USA because of public health concerns). So either COVID is real and was a real threat, or the Trump Administration used a hoax per conservative logic to keep out migrants, and in theory, per the law, violate the ability for people to seek asylum.

(4) Republicans say they want to bring money home, such as when talking about the Ukraine Russian War, etc., yet, this is the same party…. that wants to cut public education, raise social security (thus, increasing the chance of not getting it since you’re closer to dying, etc.).

(5) Conservatives are trying to argue that religion should not be separate from state, yet this just leads to xenophobia because society therefore becomes a battle of which religion has more power over the other because people don’t want to be rulee by a religion they don’t align with. Christian Nationalist also wanting secular power also negates their faith because in theory God is control and has a plan, yet it seems Christian Nationalist want to control the plan because deeply they don’t have faith and/or their faith is “bad faith”, i.e., for selfish, racist, sexist, etc., reasons. Which church would even rule? There are thousands of Protestant churches. Will we be…Church of God, Southern Baptist, Missionary Baptists, Anglican, Episcopalian, Methodist, African Methodist Episcopalian, Seventh Day Adventist, Unitarian, Roman Catholic, Coptic Christian, Orthodox, Quaker, Mennonite, Amish, etc.?

(6) Conservatives say they dislike government, despite hailing police agencies which are government institutions. Not saying that is good or bad, but just admit that conservatives do like elements of government.

(7) Conservatives want to ban adult content yet state they value free speech. Right Wingers will defend white supremacy as free speech.

(8) Conservatives were saying All Lives Matters or say “I don’t see Color” but then freak out when a person of color is cast in movie in a role that was traditionally played by a white person.

(9) JD Vance, Trump’s Vice President, made fun of modern, independent-minded women by calling them “childless cat ladies”, yet, his benefactor, Peter Thiel is a gay man (not a crime) who can’t have children. Vance claims that people without children don’t care about the country, yet Peter Thiel is his benefactor and mentor.

(10) It’s interesting how much the Blue Lives Matter crowd is silent when it comes to supporting Kamala Harris who was a prosecutor helping cops get convictions

(11) Conservatives are saying now that the Democrats are warmongers, yet, Republicans have made it very clear they are willing to go to war with Iran, and some even with China. They also pretended to care when Biden left Afghanistan. So… they wanted us to stay in the war in Afghanistan, yet are saying the want to end wars?

(12) Many American Christians are capitalist, but you can’t bring your money into the afterlife, and what is the point of making a lot of money if you want End Time to happen?

(13) When people see black people dancing or celebrating they’ll call it “ghetto”, but when you see white people in trucks going mudding and being half-naked, it’s just good clean fun.

Umar Johnson’s Afro-Fascism and his advice to suppress black votes. His many inconsistencies and a rare example of the Horseshoe Theory by MRG Staff

#fascism #umarjohnson #blackstudies #politics #voting

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First off, black people can be racist despite this insane notion these days that black people cannot since black people “lack power”. But to believe this actually defeats Black Nationalist claims of supremacy and fosters a victim mentality, yet being ambiguous between victim and bigot is a form of power but being deceptive about it. Believing black people can’t be racist ironically is dehumanizing which defeats the claim of being empowered. Black people can be racist yet the scope of that racism is lesser if talking in terms of systems. So it’s not that black people objectively can’t be racist if we’re to entrain this often leftist notion, but rather their racism has little impact on larger systems; however, within smaller or interpersonal dymanics, of course black people can be racist within the context of tjem being minorities. Not holding us to the same standards is proof that certain forces want to instigate and perpetuate the racial divide. Everyone can punch but some punches have more weight behind them.

Regardless, I don’t want to hate Umar Johnson. I feel his intentions to want to help are correct but his prescription to solve the problems facing black people are unnecessary. He is playing the racial dialectic game without realizing that in many ways that is…the point of America, i.e., to keep the black-white binary (or, black-white and white adjacent binary – which includes white Hispanic, Arab, Asian, etc.) in perpetual struggle as a means of dividing the public, where such division notably amongst the traditional white poor (and, more recently the social climbing first to second generation Latino still figuring out where they stand in the racial hierarchy scheme) serves to protect the capitalist ruling class of predominantly white or white adjacent men.

Instead of a true class struggle beyond identity politics, figures like Umar Johnson exploit the more-so Left Wing (anti-colonial and self-deterministic) sentiment which calls for the need for certain communities to have their own “incubation period to resolve the issues of colonialism”, etc.

Umar usurps this calling for what I call the “incubation/healing phase” for oppressed groups and instead hijacks it to create a version of black supremacy and what I would argue is black fascism.

Hence, why I say Umar Johnson is the perfect example of the Horseshoe Theory, i.e., in the case of Left-Wing politics, if you go too far Left (for example through “woke territory”) you end up at the opposite end of the spectrum and wind up in Right Wing territory. Same can be said if you go too Right Wing, i.e., what we see to be white racial collectivism abandoning notions of individualism as seen in the liberal tradition in exchange for dictatorial leaders who oversee an expansive police-government state, i.e., a sort of Communist totalitarian state.

In theory, Umar is an unwitting agent to give the system what it wants (a continuation of the colorist and racial caste system needed for divide-and-conquer purposes over the proletariat) because it wants segregation and will use anything, including the political left or wokeness on top of the traditional right-wing methods to achieve that.

I do not think that black people attempting to incubate our own wealth and prosperity is bad thing at all considering the truth of our history, yet, you can do this without being a racialist, colorist, patriarch, etc.

One simple flaw that black people or activist seem to make without realizing it is that they don’t have to call every initiative that attempts to help black people as being “black”, because we already know who the initiatives are for, and often “the system” uses such “exclusive-seeming marketing” as a means of encouraging the further solidification of white supremacy. For example, White Power actually was a reaction to Black Power in the 1960s through white supremacist figures such as William Luther Pierce (author or The Hunter and The Turner Diaries), and sure, of course, we know that Black Power and White Power are two different things – at least in their origins and original intent – but still, black people need realize strategically speaking that marketing every helpful black movement as explicitly black, ironically and systemically is used to continue the oppression black people.

Yet, many black activists would reject my analysis on this because to them they are wanting to make a firm statement and they see anything that doesn’t go “hard enough”, i.e., seen as being un-apologetically black, as not being authentic.

However, my rebuttal to such an accusation would simply be…don’t broadcast all your moves, i.e., don’t put a target on your back just to make a moral or figurative statement. In other words, do not make this about prideful proclamations when you can achieve more without people noticing you often.

For example, “white companies” which are the majority don’t market themselves as “white owned” even though it is understood that most of the profits are going into white hands. Yet, black people wanting to make a powerful statement, flaunt, flex, etc., to prove “we can” always want to slap the “black” this or that label on everything, which ironically limits one’s market-size and potential for market capitalization because…most people will think it’s “only for them”. This is ironic because white or Asian business firms will take money from everywhere rather than just their own respective race or ethnic group, and thus have more capital to assert their dominance over institutions. For example, if we are to accept that hierarchies form naturally in society, then self-segregation limits the scale thus power of your “pyramid”.

And that last paragraph brings me back to the adage of “By Any Means Necessary.” By Any Means Necessary does not necessarily mean “by our own means only”.  

Regardless, back to Umar, he cherry picks from the Marxist or Communist/Socialist or Critical Theory analysis of intersectionality and class struggle (spanning black leftist figures from Cornell West, Angela Davis, Huey Newton, Omali Yeshitela, Bell Hooks, etc.), yet, inserts his deep-rooted desires to have a conservative, Right Wing, “blood and soil”, male-driving nationalist community.

The mixing of Left-Wing analytical methods with that of Right-Wing concepts such hierarchies, firm binaries, hyper masculinity, etc., is textbook…fascism. We cannot forget that Mussolini started as a Communist before becoming a fascist. We cannot forget that even though Nazis were not “true Socialist” according to many socialist, notably the Communists because the Nazis hated Communism, we still must realize that early Nazi ideology was influenced in part by post-WWIs strong socialist sentiments. Hitler just so happened to reject the Marxist interpretation of history and co-opted socialism by infusing it with a Right-Wing traditionalism, which interestingly became advantageous to the pre-existing capitalist and industrialist class (i.e., Nazi economics was essentially corporatism ruled by a dictatorship of profit seeking industrialists operating in state-sponsored cartels who owed allegiance first and foremost to the German people and state, i.e., state capitalism nuanced by a cultural or racial supremacy).

Many fascists though they agree with concepts of collectives particularly on a racial-cultural sense, often reject the erosion of hierarchies. Fascist economics could be seen as a “Third Way” or “Third Position” framework where they combine some elements of socialist or egalitarian thought but often reject the Marxist view of history (class struggle), yet, through a type of Will to Power (coopted from Friedrich Nietzsche) via an unconscious “spiritualism” (e.g., Carl Jung’s emphasis on subconsciousness and archetypes) in the “zeitgeist” (i.e., collective spirit as in the writings of Hegel) apply a Right-Wing political framework that justifies the needs for rigid hierarchies, notably in a world of cyclical disorder (e.g., the Kali Yuga in Hinduism which inspired the Occultism elements of European fascism) and where people-groups are engaged in perpetual battle (for example through Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga

https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3581/

Book Details

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3137450

This is why fascist countries, though seeming to emulate elements of socialism are effectively “modern feudalist states” shrouded with cultural imagery, religious devotion, etc. Yet, feudalism evolved into capitalism and capitalism into corporatism, thus current definitions of fascist countries could be defined as “hierarchical corporatist states”.

This is what Umar really wants. A black fascist state, but he could only achieve such goals by band-wagoning or “Trojan Horse-ing” off of current black Left-Wing movements such as Black Lives Matter or even the capitalist inclusion of black empowerment as a marketable product with Disney-Marvel production such as the Black Panther franchise. For example, we live in the era of hashtags such as #staywoke #BLM #wakanda or #wakandaforever. Yet, like most aspiring autocrats, they are often failures at something in their buried past they wish not to be discovered. They also lack the technical expertise to achieve their goals so instead they rely on fiery rhetoric to convince enough smart people to accomplish their goals for them.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/farrakhan-sees-a-new-opening-for-black-separatist-message.amp

In other words, Umar wouldn’t be the Umar we know without him using the current chaos of political discourse and Left Wing wokeness though he opposes the Left Wing and liberalism. Like fascism which has caused many debates about its actual definition, Umar represents a sort of logical ambiguity yet expresses emotionally his deep-rooted desires and dreams of grandeur. He splices ideology to achieve a fascist conclusion.

https://polcompballanarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/Black_Fascism

Scars, Traumas, Wokeness and Excuses

There are a lot of scars and traumas within the Black Community and in theory that is what wokeness attempts to heal.

Wokeness simply means aware, i.e., being aware of topics such as systemic racism, voter suppression, lack of access to capital markets, police brutality, gentrification, mass incarceration, the complex systems of industrial scale slavery, Jim Crow, Jim Crow’s effects on the modern prison industrial complex, unauthorized and/or inhuman experiments on people such as the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments or how economically weakened African nations are given foreign aid to fight diseases such as HIV/AIDs or malaria, etc., only on the condition they remain cheap resource depots for the “imperialist powers”, etc. We can go on and on. WTO, IMF, World Bank, etc.

I purposely rapped off all that because…that is what wokeness has become. Knowing so much but what does knowing do once it reaches a logical conclusion? It either A) creates a depressive state in a person once they realize how “smart they are” but how helpless they are, B) it creates anger and radicalism to resolve said problems of A, or (C) it creates a manic rollercoaster ride between A and B.

Wokeness is a mixture of factual analysis but also an emotional desire for self-empowerment in the face of a civilization that defined blackness to be the “antithesis” to the thesis of whiteness. Woke is also not inherently political but just so happens to lean to the Left. For example, figures such as Joe Rogan who often expresses Right Wing views could be considered “woke” himself because he too engages in the “factual rapping” of statistics or events to explain how our world works, why its oppressive, and why systems should be seen with suspicion.

So woke is not bad, however, the constant deconstruction, Critical Theory, qualitative studies, anthropology, intellectualism, and faux intellectualism, has not really achieved the goals of what communities such as the black community wants, because in many ways there is an underlying notion that someone owes us something or the reason why we can’t build ourselves up is because no one is providing us our “just dues”.

It’s a contradictory sentiment. We preach how strong we are to not need anyone but then often want someone to help us, and this contradiction can be heard in Umar Johnson’s rhetoric. Also, wokeness meaning aware does not actually mean intelligent, and if so, only means intelligent enough to sense things, but not necessarily to do anything about it.

What I mean by that is the black community needs science, technology, engineering, and math to navigate the complex challenges of the modern/post-modern world, yet, the resounding resolution within most woke circles is simply more…analysis, i.e., an emphasis on social sciences, political science, history, video essays, book publishing, etc.

Better put, wokeness has only solved a fraction of the problem, i.e., we know how to see the sickness within the body (problems within the community) but often don’t push for technical skills to do the surgery. Umar wants to get credit for organizing the surgery though he too is helpless hence he overcompensates with toxic rhetoric. In other words, he’s in his feelings.

For example, why would Umar Johnson start an all-boys residential school that will likely not going to achieve accreditation from any governmental body, when he could have had an online education model? Why invest in physical property with taxes, safety guidelines, health guidelines, FDA and Department of Agricultural school meal guidelines, etc., when he could have had a collective of certified educators via online subscription service? Yet, when Umar was talking on VLADTV, Umar made more excuses by saying that black people in charter schools can’t teach because they need professional certifications. But…wouldn’t you want educators to be certified? Also, there’s plenty of educators with certifications. The thing is, is that Umar wants a school with no accountability so he can craft it in his own image, but to do so he must simply blame the system for not giving him what he wants, though this is on the belief that the rules of the system aren’t there for good reason. For example, we don’t want an Aryan Nation Nazi Schools with no accreditation and un-certified educators teaching children about the superiority of the white race and teaching pseudo-science such as…white people are from Madame Blavatsky root races who once lived on Atlantis or some nonsense.

Umar Johnson at this point is just trying to stay relevant with his racist bombastic style.

I honestly think he is crazy, and I mean as far as mental health. I can’t prove it on the clinical front, but he seems to have some sort of narcissistic personality disorder (dreams of grandeur and with an emphasis on being chosen) and I suspect it may be childhood trauma induced (since he rarely speaks of his past, family, etc.). His professional work involves studying the effects of ADD/ADHD diagnosis on black male youths, which is a noble endeavor, but I’m suspecting that Umar (Jermaine) was one of these kids and held a grudge about his possible experiences. But, this is speculation. He’s set himself up like many online figures to not be criticized because he’s stitched himself to the movements he’s co-opted, so to many people criticizing Umar now somehow means…criticizing black empowerment, but this is the fault of certain segments of the black community for consistently searching for what I call…a “Fuhrer” or Chosen One.

As a side note, this emphasis on looking for a chosen one interestingly can be seen in hip hop with figures such as Tupac (who depicted himself on the Cross in Killuminati – The 7 Day Theory, i.e., Makaveli), the Biblical Ezekiel-like prophetic rage of DMX, and of course the current Charles Manson-like delusions of Kanye West (Ye) who associated with Nazi like figures such as Nick Fuentes.

Umar hiding his past to me is a sign of distancing one’s true identity, a possible sign of embarrassment, etc. This seems especially true since he specializes in family and childhood counseling. In other words, he is not providing any examples of his home life, experiences, traumas, over-comings, etc., to explain or relate to the advice he is giving. If anything, Umar (Jermaine) doesn’t practice what he preaches which will be discussed in this section of my post/paper.

I stumbled upon a video on Instagram by user ” Commonsenseeli” in which Umar is in a room filled with clutter with some odd speech patterns (repeating the same thing over) but he says he was moving to Wilmington, Delaware – where his school for black boys is at. I assume he was just practicing a speech or pitch.

As far as absurd rhetoric, recently he has told black people not to vote in the USA and South African 2024 elections, adding to the already cynical and paranoid public (post CV19 lockdowns, Donald Trump & January 6, the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the riots over George Floyd, etc.) as if not voting will somehow mean someone won’t win and won’t take power.

Even if black people do not vote, you are just increasing the odds of having a party that has openly said anti-black rhetoric or at least uses coded language to criminalize black people. In other words, he is suppressing the black vote or getting black people to suppress it themselves. But, Umar just like Elijah Farrakhan (who won’t die) want this because they are advocates for…Race War.

I personally think that how Marcus Garvey admired the KKK, Umar admires the modern Alt Right and GOP (defined by MAGA). He’s not a liberal. He admires power and a patriarchal form of it. Imagine Umar with unlimited power. It would not be a good thing. [See Article: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/garvey-must-go-campaign/%5D

It is as if the GOP and its wealthy donors realized the Candace Owens, Turning Point USA, etc., route can only work so much with black – especially “hood black” – audiences, so the GOP is getting “multi-racial and religious” in its caucus such as using patriarchal, anti LGBTQ rhetoric etc., within certain elements of black and/or Muslim political discourse.

For example, Patrick Bet David while hosting Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA advocates for including more Muslims into Republican politics despite a likely apprehensive Kirk realizing a big element of right-wing, predominantly white, and Western liberal (in the classical sense) politics has anti-Islam as a key cornerstone (e.g., the European Identitarian movement, the Deus Vult movement of Right Wing Catholicism — typically defined with an anti-Pope Francis undertone for his progressive and reconciliation views).

Culturally, the online space as of 2024 is a mix of “Capitalist grind culture” (which is nuanced by the concept of “manifesting”, i.e., the belief in using psychic power to create your dream reality — which thus links to Zodiac, astrology, and New Age beliefs), memes, A.I. videos pushing conservative tropes (e.g., Thomas Sowell, Pat Buchanan, Milton Friedman talking points, etc.), Jordan B. Peterson musings, the anti-feminist Manosphere/Men’s Rights movement, conspiracy theories with often pseudo-science and religious undertones, etc.


Many black people – some not doing too well economically – seem to be “chronically online” and find themselves absorbing information from the Black spaces of the Red Pill space.

Umar’s core demographic is “woke” people from low income urban areas, black women (despite his patriarchal overtones), and maybe many Africans or Caribbean peoples with online access to black American media. Yet, these African and Caribbean cultures often apply what we would consider in the West to be pseudo-science such as spiritual medicine, witch doctors, but also the residuals of Christian missionaries where many pastors in Africa and the Caribbean use faith-healing, etc. You can also add on indigenous “pagan” religions, Rastafarianism (which has nods to Zion, i.e . Blackness as ordained since Ethiopia for instance has a biblical link) etc.

What we are witnessing in “woke” black culture something similar to European white reactionary politics which also “rejects modernity” and strives for a “racially pure”, organic, etc mindset.

For example, the Fresh and Fit podcast despite being hosted by two black men where one is a Muslim, are linked to figures such as “Rollo Tomassi”, author of the Rational Male, who has ties to racist figures such as Stefan Molyneux, who therefore leads to figures such as Lauren Southern, which therefore links to figures such as Jay Dyer who has contributed to Alex Jones’ InfoWars. We know Alex Jones is the kink between the conspiracy Right Wing to the MAGA movement, with Alex Jones even being on-site with Kenneth Chesboro of the Trump fake-elector plot scandal.

Popular black YouTuber, DJ Akademics (of a conservative Jamaican heritage) is a vocal Trump supporter and he’s collaborated with Fresh and Fit thus by proxy Andrew Tate, Kevin Samuels, and Rollo Tomassi. All are Trump supporters. This thus creeps further and further down the Rabbit Hole leading to the Young Americans (whose clips have been used by Fresh and Fit), the Alt Right, and back to literal Nazis.

In other words, figures like Charleston White, Umar Johnson, Fresh and Fit, etc., represent the “Red Pill of Black Culture”, but the Red Pill community is adjacent to conspiracy culture across racial lines, since conspiracy theories often have the underlying agenda of preserving the status quo by vilifying progressive movements.

Who is Umar Johnson?

But, who is he? He was born Umar Rashad Ibn Abdullah Johnson (Jermaine Shoemake) on 21 August 1974 to a father named Jamal Abdullah Johnson. Doing a simple Google search of Jamal Abdullah Johnson, I see a Jamal A. Abdullah-Johnson, Appellant,v.William J. Henderson, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service (Allegheny/Mid-Atlantic), Agency.

Umar’s possible father filed a suit against the US Postal Services in 1998 alleging discrimination for his race, religion, and mental health issues. KryeirBut this Mr. Abdullah Johnson was denied. Could this possibly have influenced Umar? Umar in an interview admitted to having a disciplinarian father.

I also found online Jamal Abdullah Johnson who served in the US Marine Corps from 1975 – 1985. Possibly, if this is Umar’s dad, that means his dad enlisted just after he was born and possibly after 10 years, went to work for the Postal Service, likely working there for a long time before he had his lawsuit. So, possibly a Black Nationalist, intense Marine, postal service worker father but had a gripe with the “white man” and government. His marine only served 10 years and not the 20 years required a pension. Also, there’s a chance he also didn’t service his 20 years as a postal worker which would give him a pension.

Yet, Umar’s real name may be Jermaine Shoemake, according to a Facebook post I had found, his name was changed by his father per this post when he was in the 3rd grade while in North Carolina. The idea of changing your child’s name when he’s already at least seven years old insinuates his father was a true believer in the Pan Africanist cause.  

Philadelphia has always had issues with race like many Northern cities which emphasize racial/ethnic neighborhoods, yet poverty, crime, drugs, etc. are rampant. From New York, Boston, Philly, D.C., Baltimore, etc.

Philadelphia is where the 1985 Move Bombing happened in which the Philadelphia Police Department dropped C4 on the home on the MOVE organization. MOVE is an Afrocentric, anti-government, and naturalist movement founded in 1972 by US Army veteran Vincent Leapheart, i.e., John Africa. 61 homes were destroyed, 250 homeless, and 6 adults with 5 children were killed.

Umar’s possible father if he was the US Marine left the military in 1985, the same year as the MOVE bombing. So, if Umar was born in 1972 by the time, he was 13 the MOVE bombing happened, but Umar’s father likely got involved in similar Pan Africanist movements earlier in the 1970s. I am sure such as event played a role in the Umar, we see but would have likely influenced his father’s beliefs as well.



On VLADTV, he stated he grew up in North to North-Central Philadelphia.
He attended George G. Meade Elementary School in Philadelphia. Per a Facebook post, he also attended at least two other elementary schools in the Philadelphia area such as Hartranft and Duckery Elementary. But he didn’t go to an HBCU, which could’ve been for various reasons, yet there are many HBCUs in the Mid-Atlantic such as Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Delaware State, Morgan State, Bowie State, Howard, etc. I assume this is because interestingly, Umar may have benefited from some sort of affirmative action or racial scholarship to attempt Millersville.

In the interview, he stated he went to the Scotland School for Veterans Children which I found is near Chambersburg, I Pennsylvania. According to Matthew Christopher (2019) of Abandoned America, “According to a state website, “Founded in 1895, SSVC is the only residential school in the nation specifically designed and accredited to educate and care for the children of Pennsylvania military service veterans.”

This would validate the possible link to Jamal Abdullah Johnson.  

In the same VLAD interview, Umar said his goal is to open an all-boys residential school…

When I googled Scotland School for Veterans with the word “abuse” a few articles comes up.



I have said aid this before but Umar as an aspiring Right Wing black authoritarian is a rare example of the “Horseshoe political theory” being true in which contemporary progressive discussions/movements of the Left opened the Pandoras box of fringe Afrocentrism which is ironically ultra conservative (patriarchal, homophobic, etc.) and contradicts reason because it is often in alignment with New Age conspiracy theory/cults.

He has a doctorate in osteopathic medicine which is widely considered pseudo-science using practices such phrenology.

Also, for all of his racial division standpoints, Umar claimed descent from Frederick Douglass (which has been denied by the Douglass estate) yet Frederick Douglass had a white wife despite Umar being so against interracial marriage. So, either Umar is a partial descendant of European ancestry (common among some Black Americans) or he hates (well, per his own theory) his family…for being interracial?

Further, Umar says that a “non-African” can’t be good at things “created by Africans or black people”, but sports like basketball were created…by a white guy. Yet, I am sure Umar’s rebuttal is to simply say…black people invited this or that, etc.

Umar also continues to live in a multi-racial country which is 60%+ white and could leave anytime he wants just as Marcus Garvey – who Umar wants to name a school after – would have advocated for. Umar says he respects Kanye because of his antisemitism (a lazy way of explaining the complex issues affecting the world), but Kanye was married two non-black women.

He says the “Prince of Pan Africanism” (a clear sign of narcissism) but then wants to rep Foundational Black Americans who are theoretically opposed to Pan Africanism since there’s an inherent territorialism to FBAs.  For example his xenophobic comments about Daniel Kaluuya. 

Further, he plans on opening a school, which in theory is noble but…who will accredit the school especially with a curriculum that could be argued as fostering racial supremacy? Not getting accreditation would make the children’s education be worthless as far as higher education, etc.


https://casetext.com/admin-law/jamal-a-abdullah-johnson-appellant-v-william-j-henderson-postmaster-general-united-states-postal-service-alleghenymid-atlantic-agency

https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=TrainingExt&ID=60378

https://www.abandonedamerica.us/scotland-school-for-veterans-children

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0nUV85fQokyMYWHo7Kf2hoYBCA5CirzEF2WUXpZozdNZU9BQUFb3TEMALxjEB57L2l&id=238278969571713

https://m.facebook.com/umarjohnsonfraud

https://youtu.be/fE2sIu1EI9o?si=FZHP8YBOaaqZOB2p