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The Two Minutes Hate (New Normal Edition)

CJ Hopkins

Today’s edition of the Two Minutes Hate, brought to you by GloboCap, Inc., and featuring an all-star line-up of GloboCap Goldsteins, will begin shortly. Please take your seat and switch off your remaining critical faculties. We’ve got a butt-load of hate in store for you today. First, though, a few important announcements.

First, due to the increased number of Goldsteins threatening the very fabric of democracy, and GloboCap, Inc., and its global partners, and their assorted subsidiaries, agents, and assigns, the Two Minutes Hate has been extended beyond its traditional two-minute running time and will henceforth be presented more or less around the clock until further notice.

Also, in a departure from the original Two Minutes Hate in Orwell’s 1984, we’re going to skip the opening “this is our land” part, which is (a) dated and (b) unacceptably unrepresentative of the racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of the New Normal Reich…

…and get right down to the “shrieking hatred at the images of Goldstein” part.

Please be advised that the following content contains material designed to whip the masses into a mindless frenzy of hatred, which some audiences may find distressing. Other audiences might find it amusing. After all, there’s no accounting for taste. Regardless of which audience you feel you are a member of, viewer discretion is not advised. In fact, exposure to the following content is pretty much mandatory, and is physically inescapable, unless you live “off-grid” in the woods somewhere, which you don’t, or you wouldn’t be reading this.

OK, that’s it for the pre-show announcements. Time for the hate! Ready? Here we go.

New Normal Goldstein Number One

Goldstein Number One is obviously Trump, who is both a Russian asset and literally Hitler. The fact that Trump is literally Hitler was conclusively established in 2017 by Ron Rosenbaum, who apparently wrote a book about Hitler, and is a “world expert on the Nazi leader,” according to The Independent.

But, even back in 2016, before the Russians “hacked the election” and stole the presidency from Hillary Clinton by “weaponizing African American voters” with anti-masturbation memes on Facebook, everybody already knew he was Hitler …

Plus, Jason Stanley (the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University!) and The New York Times proved it in this 2018 video! And the BBC found a random “German guy” who said it, so what more proof do you need? Even his former lawyer now confirms it!

But it isn’t just that Trump is literally Hitler, he’s also a literal Russian asset, as Jonathan Chait reported in New York Magazine in February of 2021!

Of course, by that time, everybody already knew that he was a Russian operative, and a treasonous traitor, and Putin’s homosexual lover, as The New York Times revealed in this charming little animated film!

And all that was before he ordered his underground white-supremacist Putin-Nazi forces to try to overthrow the US government by frontally assaulting the Capitol Building with two or three hundred unarmed bozos and assorted federal agents in MAGA hats!

As Michael Fanone, a former DC cop who was brutally assaulted during the rioting, and who is currently a “law enforcement analyst” and an on-air contributor at CNN, put it when the latest indictment of Trump was announced…

“I felt proud to be an American, much of the way I did when when I learned that our military had killed Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden was a terrorist who committed a horrific act against American people and against our Republic. I believe Donald Trump is a terrorist who committed horrific acts against the American people.”

So, shout it out: TRUMP! TRAITOR! TERRORIST! PUTIN’S COCK HOLSTER! OSAMA BIN HITLER!

New Normal Goldstein Number Two

Goldstein Number Two is RFK Jr, the infamous anti-vax conspiracy theorist, who is also Hitler, or is aligned with Trump, who is literally Hitler, and Osama bin Laden, and a Russian asset!

Yes, that’s right, in addition to all his conspiracy-theorizing and anti-vaxxing, Bobby, Jr. has been tweeting secret “Nazi dog whistles,” presumably at the behest of Trump, who is presumably taking direct orders from Putin!

Also, according to The New Republic, not only is Bobby an anti-Semitic, Putin-loving, woman-hating transphobe, but he more or less drove his ex-wife to kill herself! On top of which, he is going around saying that the CIA assassinated JFK!

Their sources are reporting that he is back on the heroin, and has joined some sort of GOP-funded Satanic neo-Nazi death cult!

That, or else he’s actually a covert “conspiracy-mongering Republican plant” or “a useful idiot for MAGA demagogues,” or some other type of science-denying, democracy-hating, Nazi traitor, which is Walter Shapiro’s current theory, also published by The New Republic, which is giving The Guardian a real run for its money as the go-to mouthpiece of the Ministry of Truth.

So, shout it out: RFK! ANTI-VAXXER! TRAITOR! TERRORIST! CONSPIRACY THEORIST! HITLER!

Assorted Other New Normal Goldsteins

OK, you’re probably wondering why Putin isn’t Goldstein, being the Ultimate Source of All Evil, as he is, and the Hitler of All Hitlers, and the Antichrist, and so on. Well, there’s actually a very simple explanation.

See, the thing is, Goldsteins have to be traitors. It’s essential to their Goldsteinness. Putin, evil though he definitely is, is not a traitor, not “a cancer, an evil tumor, growing, spreading in our midst” (see original Two Minutes Hate).

The Two Minutes Hate is designed to condition the masses to unleash their hatred against the traitors, the Judases, the dissidents, the apostates, the deniers of Reality, the deniers of Truth, the science deniers, the Covid deniers, the climate-change deniers, the deniers of … whatever. The “racists.” The “transphobes.” The “anti-Semites.” “Anti-vaxxers.” “Conspiracy theorists.” “Far-right extremists.” “Insurrectionists.” “Terrorists.”

There’s no shortage of Goldsteins in The New Normal Reich. There never is in any totalitarian system … not even one that masquerades as “democracy.” The essence of all totalitarianism is conformity, and mindless hatred of non-conformity, and demonization of any form of dissent, and, ultimately, the criminalization of dissent. It’s the Goldsteins here at home that need to be dealt with! The disinformationists! The malinformationists! The “free-speech” subversives who want to debate us!

New Normals don’t debate or argue with Goldsteins. They shun them. They “cancel” them. They censor them. They report them. They delegitimize them. They vaporize them. They vent all their pent-up hatred at them…their crippling self-hatred, and their shame, and their rage.

Because the other thing The Two Minutes Hate is designed to do is direct that rage and hatred at an appropriate official scapegoat. Totalitarians need to blow off steam. Mindlessly following senseless orders and robotically parroting official propaganda that you know is a bunch of lies is no fun.

Repressing the rage and shame that produces, after a while, can make you want to … gosh, I don’t know, take some folks out in the woods somewhere and shoot them in the back of the head, or lock them up in a camp, or something. It’s better to get all that out of your system in a structured, emotionally-supportive setting, or on a DHS-moderated social-media platform, or the balcony of your Central Park South apartment, as Keith Olbermann did back in 2021.

So go ahead, shout it out one more time! Fill in the names of all the Goldsteins in your life … or, you know, formerly in your life. The traitors! The deniers! The anti-vaxxers! The Russia-loving far-right extremists! The racists! The transphobes! The anti-Semites! You’ll feel so much better once you have … or at least you’ll feel a little relief that will get you through until the next Two Minutes Hate!

All right, that’s it for today’s Two Minutes Hate. I hope it wasn’t too emotionally distressing. Oh, yeah, and if you’re a member of one of those “other audiences” I referred to above … well, I told you I thought you might find it amusing. I would probably keep that to myself, though, if I were you. You never know when The New Normal Reich is going to go full-blown totalitarian again!

CJ Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His dystopian novel, Zone 23, is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. Volumes I and II of his Consent Factory Essays are published by Consent Factory Publishing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org.

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Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Aug 9, 2023 8:53 PM

mastershock
mastershock
Aug 8, 2023 4:42 PM

Is TDS still being diagnosed.?  😀 

Albert Anderson
Albert Anderson
Aug 8, 2023 11:10 PM
Reply to  mastershock

What is TDS to you? Trump is deranged, end of story.

John Ervin
John Ervin
Aug 8, 2023 11:28 PM

Off-hand, if not offguardedly, I can’t think of any figure in world history I would like less to lionize than The Donald. I’m sure there have been much worse, but his promotion to front row center, or close enough, and way way too often for his indescribably light-weighted worth, at best, is an inimitably and incredibly disgusting sight, for me, in my dotage.

Just thought I’d get that off my chest, offchestedly.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Aug 8, 2023 11:41 PM
Reply to  John Ervin

Well, by this your disgust we also notice your preferences.

Just to mention one: Trump was the only President who didnt start a war for many generations of US Presidency, and Biden killed more civilians overseas in 4 weeks than Trump did in 4 years.

You are feeling more secure, the more blood a Politician show you, and you are the majority.

Albert Anderson
Albert Anderson
Aug 9, 2023 11:30 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

That is such a bs retort Erik, about how he didn’t start any wars. Good grief.

Mongo Thrapwortle
Mongo Thrapwortle
Aug 9, 2023 12:47 PM
Reply to  John Ervin

The peculiar thing about Trump is that he pushed mainstream western politics further towards the left, more than any political before or after him. Such is the power of the controlled hate figure, millions were unwittingly influenced simply by going against everything Trump said. It doesn’t matter if you hate them if you all say their name. Psych!

Jerry Alatalo
Jerry Alatalo
Aug 8, 2023 12:23 PM

New Normals don’t debate or argue with Goldsteins. They shun them. They “cancel” them. They censor them. They report them. They delegitimize them. They vaporize them. They vent all their pent-up hatred at them…their crippling self-hatred, and their shame, and their rage. * of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, Harold Pinter, expressed similar sentiments in his acceptance speech: “The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven. Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes… Read more »

judith
judith
Aug 8, 2023 12:40 PM
Reply to  Jerry Alatalo

I read this sometime ago.
It’s frightening in its accuracy.
But I would counter that it is “the crimes of the United States GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY have been systematic, constant, vicious…”
And I guess, the folk controlling the United States Government and the Military?

les online
les online
Aug 8, 2023 7:08 AM

Is This The Way… In France for three months now their approach to digital banking is simply fantastic. I’d like to share a bit about it. A very well known supermarket here decided to go cashless. A group of 50 people got together and agreed that they would all do a big shop on the same day. Piling their trolleys to the brim and each person getting to the checkout – the human checkout, not the machines – and having everything scanned before bringing cash out. The staff were absolutely overrun. The management in a complete tizz, everyone respectfully, calmly in a very organized and polite fashion as if they knew nothing. No edges, no rudeness, no humiliation. Offering no other payment than cash, willing to leave the trolleys behind if cash was not accepted… The supermarket reinstated cash. Restaurants: groups of friends going out for dinner and nobody taking… Read more »

Jerry Alatalo
Jerry Alatalo
Aug 8, 2023 6:56 PM
Reply to  les online

A small amount of superglue/adhesive surreptitiously applied to sensitive areas of digital money scanning equipment can transmit a very loud message, indeed. Not that we would advocate any such actions, of course…  😉 

Jeffrey Strahl
Jeffrey Strahl
Aug 8, 2023 7:08 AM

Oh, did i mention that RFK Jr’s tweet asserted that tests have shown “SARS-CoV–2” to affect different groups differently, hitting “Caucasians” and black people but sparing Ashkenazi Jews, Finns and Chinese. First of all, given the absence of proof that”SARS-CoV-2″ has ever been physically isolated and purified (see Christine Massey’s FOI requests and the written responses), how can the effects on anything be known?

And second, it there really a uniform “Caucasian” genome? How is it different from that of Ashkenazi Jews, who are descended from the same genetic sources that other Europeans? How are “Finns” different” Is there a uniform “Chinese genome”? And how come Africa was largely skipped in Spring 2020? That tweet is totally about pseudoscience.

judith
judith
Aug 8, 2023 12:43 PM
Reply to  Jeffrey Strahl

That opened a huge can of worms, didn’t it. Curious.

mgeo
mgeo
Aug 9, 2023 8:05 AM
Reply to  Jeffrey Strahl

The politicians and activists have come a long way from “no difference between races” – except in some aspects of medical treatment. They have almost reached “no difference between any self-declared gender”.

Clive Williams
Clive Williams
Aug 9, 2023 8:11 AM
Reply to  Jeffrey Strahl

Like us the Finnish people like being outdoors allweather, I remember. Americans get stuffy and sickly with the way they turned outdoor into an indoor living standard.

Johnny
Johnny
Aug 7, 2023 10:40 PM

The combination of ambition, hubris and narcissism ensures that EVERY leader is corrupt.

Anarchy: Rules WITHOUT rulers is incorruptible. It’s how nature works.

Maxwell
Maxwell
Aug 7, 2023 8:34 PM

Why does anyone need a leader? That is a very dangerous position and one of the many things that get IN THE WAY of movements. Worship of leaders is a technique of indoctrination that goes back to the crazed George Washington cult of the 18th century and to the Reagan cult, to the truly lunatic Obama Hopium cult, up to the present day deranged Trump cult. The Kennedy/Camelot cult is another example of this indoctrination. Once you get into these waters you are no longer speaking about a movement you are speaking about a “cult of personality.” The current adulation of either Trump or RFK is a sign of desperation and a mentally dysfunctional body politic. Presidential politics is a form of social control. It preserves the illusion that people have a say in matters of The State in this capitalist dictatorship. Voting in the United States isn’t about “democracy”—it’s about perpetuating the illusion of democracy. That’s part of… Read more »

turesankara
turesankara
Aug 7, 2023 9:43 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

Exactly.

“Don’t vote. It only encourages the bastards.” PJ O’Rourke

Don’t vote. Revolt!

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Aug 7, 2023 11:49 PM
Reply to  turesankara

Revolt………to get what? Anarchy.

Habitualminer
Habitualminer
Aug 8, 2023 4:42 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Corruption builds and must be violently purged at some point. It is another cyclical phenomenon but the results are never going to permanent.

DOA
DOA
Aug 7, 2023 10:11 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

Great comment as usual Maxwell.

Johnny
Johnny
Aug 8, 2023 4:33 AM
Reply to  Maxwell

Maxwell ?
We, the undersigned, nominate you as the CEO of the PDS.
The Psychopath Disposal Squad.
How say you ?

Jeffrey Strahl
Jeffrey Strahl
Aug 7, 2023 6:09 PM

Meanwhile, in the real world, Max Blumenthal nails it, calls out Bobby Jr., who has charged Blumenthal with pushing false information about the Israel/Palestine conflict. Bobby Jr has asked Morton Klein, one of the leading American pro-Israel zealons, to become his adviser on Israel and Jewish matters. RFK Jr. Agrees (Again)To Interview w/ Max Blumenthal About Israel!, The Jimmy Dore Show, 8/5/23. 16 minutes. “When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently appeared on The Jimmy Dore Show, he expressed a number of wildly pro-Israeli talking points and spin, depicting Palestinians as terrorists and Israel as the injured party in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jimmy suggested RFK take the issue up with Max Blumenthal, and Kennedy agreed. He later appeared to backtrack on the commitment, but during Friday’s show texted Jimmy to say he would follow through. Jimmy and The Convo Couch’s Craig Jardula talk to Max about whether RFK will be true to his word or he will duck… Read more »

Howard
Howard
Aug 8, 2023 3:27 AM
Reply to  Jeffrey Strahl

The question that needs answering is whether every American politician is afraid to offend Israel because of campaign financing or because they fear for their lives.

Jeffrey Strahl
Jeffrey Strahl
Aug 8, 2023 5:24 AM
Reply to  Howard

This goes way beyond “not offending,” he has embraced several out-and-out pro-Israel zealots, denounced Roger Waters,…….

Clive Williams
Clive Williams
Aug 8, 2023 11:11 AM
Reply to  Howard

You don’t matter anymore we service you you don’t service us. I was served by a girl from Nepal yesterday, beautiful smile lol! me from Britain her from Nepal in PA. It could be anywhere in America Lol!
You may get a brain Trip speaking Yankie China Dollie Dutch Herman German African American White Chaulkie…..”Say…. where are you ‘Guy’s from?”🤡
Europe…India……☺☺

Clive Williams
Clive Williams
Aug 8, 2023 7:58 AM
Reply to  Jeffrey Strahl

Do people a favour drop the “Junior” from the 20 hundred comic readers.. for the rest quote,..of the world….It’s mind melting sick universal to think of this old Man as Bobby Jr.
A Historical rendition 19 hundred females found Adolph Hitler…The New Sexy..further on The New Labour Bliar was New Sexy. It is referred to as the English Atlantic Propaganda “Twist and Shout”. Ya Know….☺
Once MORE thank you…America..
Cheers.

James II
James II
Aug 8, 2023 12:30 PM
Reply to  Clive Williams

Tards on the right, tards on the left stuck in the middle….

Penelope
Penelope
Aug 7, 2023 5:59 PM

COVID OP WAS ESSENTIALLY A COUP AGAINST WESTERN GOVTS BY INTELL
[& those behind them of course]

This important work traces the steps; also its relationship w CCP [Chinese Communist Party]
Rather like what intell routinely does against foreign govts.

I recommend it highly– good supplementary info to your present understanding.
https://www.michaelpsenger.com/p/the-unwitting-coup-was-the-response posted

eliger
eliger
Aug 7, 2023 5:50 PM

Woke right satire faking it as trying to be funny making out Mr billionaire TV actor In being persecuted and was maybe interesting 7 years ago…
But hey, it keeps the $$ coming in with the Republicans who donate to read this crap.
The only time anyone hears about Mr billionaire TV actor is on theses type of affiliated sites.

YourPointBeing
YourPointBeing
Aug 7, 2023 4:31 PM

The man killed by cheese:

Some of the wheels reportedly fell about 10m (33ft)

YourPointBeing
YourPointBeing
Aug 7, 2023 4:36 PM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

Meanwhile, in the real world, England beat Nigeria on penalties.

Its a shame that Englands appearance in a World Cup final didn’t attract such attention. They lost against Australia in the Netball WORLD Cup Final

Funny that women, playing a womens game doesn’t attract the same media furore than women playing a previously mans game.

CAN YOU SEE?

YourPointBeing
YourPointBeing
Aug 7, 2023 4:42 PM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

But if you want a laugh, imagine todays over paid cry baby male footballers playing netball.

Just imagine

underground poet
underground poet
Aug 7, 2023 8:08 PM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

Even though Barbara did wear the pants over there.

Clive Williams
Clive Williams
Aug 9, 2023 2:45 AM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

There’s one World Cup we’ve had it. Dollie National Lampoon’s boys and girls.
Americans are Puffs. All their Pollies Smoke Cigars. 🤡

Howard
Howard
Aug 7, 2023 4:04 PM

Hate is far too valuable a commodity to waste on trivial pursuits like those The Two Minutes Hate targets.

Unfocused hate (i.e. focused by someone else rather than the hater) is the same as unfocused anger: it consumes the one who initiates it because it never gets dispelled. How can it when its object is merely a surrogate?

Only children are capable of pure, unadulterated hate. At the time they say “I hate you!” they mean it – and no amount of coaxing will convince them to displace their hatred from its object to some other object.

The self-styled “ruling class” has always managed to use man’s natural tendency to hate for their own benefit. Two Minutes’ worth of Hate? How about two millennia worth?

Iris Björk
Iris Björk
Aug 9, 2023 3:43 PM
Reply to  Howard

Agree. I don’t think hatred is the problem, it comes from somewhere. Isn’t it the nature of abusive relationships that what abusers do towards their victims causes a self defence reaction in the victim: hatred and anger about the abuse. Like the child hating her coercive parent. But since fighting back is rendered impossible in the abusive agenda, the victim’s anger is pushed down inside or displaced. Either you’re the problem, it’s your competitors fault, on the same level or lower on the abuser’s made up hierarchy. (Turn on your family member that didn’t get injected, hate your children for being wild and free, and so on). Or, let’s make up this 2 minute abstract hate enemy in the news. They want us to fight ourselves or amongst ourselves, never directing the hatred where it’s supposed to be: towards the villains.

Martin Usher
Martin Usher
Aug 7, 2023 3:50 PM

Trump isn’t relevant to US politics any more. He can muster a base; how big and how relevant it is is a matter of speculation. He is vowing retaliation, threatening prosecutions against “the Biden crime family” right and left but all this has done is earn him a rebuke from the court system for attempted intimidation of witnesses. Overall, Trump’s in deep legal crap and this is largely due to his inability to STFU. He would assume the trappings of a dictator given the chance but I suspect that ‘the deep state’ — that is, “we the people” — won’t give him one.

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 7, 2023 3:59 PM
Reply to  Martin Usher

Trump is very relevant. He’s the Satan/Hitler figure necessary to link all opposition to.

Opposed to the vax? You’re with Trump!
“Denying” climate change? You’re with Trump!
“Denying” transgenderism? You’re with Trump!

etc.

Big Al
Big Al
Aug 7, 2023 10:27 PM
Reply to  George Mc

No, no, no. Trump supporters, i.e., the Trump cult, are not opposed to the vac, they are in full support. The Trump cult has joined with the Big Pharma cult. They need to be called out.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Aug 7, 2023 6:25 PM
Reply to  Martin Usher

‘the deep state’ — that is, “we the people”

For Pete’s sake, the “Deep State” is the very anti-thesis of “we the People”.

FWIW, Trump had 4 years to act as a dictator. Some dictator. Biden is putting him to shame on that count.

We’re headed for a real dictator.

eman
eman
Aug 7, 2023 8:32 PM
Reply to  Martin Usher

Trump’s allegiance went to the man who ran Las Vegas. this man was a shrill for Israel, but that man has died. Trump may be convicted on all Title 18 counts in the last indictment. based on the information presented in the indictment. Those violations, while seemly trite may be sufficient for the government to prove the claims. IANAL. but I do agree with you Trump is non longer relevant, he had his chance to change things, and instead of appointing real Americans to his staff, his pick did not include one true blooded American? Trump failed the people who voted for him. . Governed Americans need to elect to the USA, people, willing, able and hell bent on taking transferring and redistributing the wealth from the top 50% and redistributing it to those in the bottom 50% of the wealth. That someone needs to transfer back into the public… Read more »

wardropper
wardropper
Aug 7, 2023 3:16 PM

More relevant to the average person than these icons of modern lunacy are the comments sections of YouTube and the like, which sentimentally, solicitously and sickeningly praise any ‘celebrity’ who actually gets the attention he has spent his life craving.

The masses who adore the most unremarkable people in the world spew clotted puke desserts as if every clichéd word of adulation would guarantee them an extra few seats in Heaven for their atheistic and nihilistic children and grandchildren…

Those comments are truly terrifying to behold, and it’s quite easy to stumble upon them accidentally if you check in to see what your most evil enemies are saying this week.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Aug 7, 2023 6:55 PM
Reply to  wardropper

Some of the comments may be real, but I get the feeling most are bot or state actor created to push the agenda further. With no followers it falls flat on it’s face.

Thom
Thom
Aug 7, 2023 7:35 PM
Reply to  Thom Crewz

It is fairly clear that only positive comments are promoted or even allowed at ‘You’Tube now. I like a lot of older music and movies, and looking at the comments it doesn’t matter how bad or substandard the performance or piece of work is – everyone (or indeed, perhaps, everybot) is saying it’s the best thing since sliced bread. We’re not even allowed to throw banana skins at entertainers these days, which tells you a lot about the entertainment business.

wardropper
wardropper
Aug 8, 2023 3:16 AM
Reply to  Thom

Yep. That makes sense.

At least some really good stuff gets praise from people who obviously know what they’re talking about.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Aug 9, 2023 12:36 AM
Reply to  Thom

I’m with you, Tom. But as I said, how many of those positive comments are created by a real person in this golden age of deception. Ghost accounts perhaps. Who knows.

Add hiking your viewer count by simply logging in and the removal of the thumbs down to the long list of tweaks. Is it really a calming measure or just another attempt a dumbing down the audience I wonder.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Aug 7, 2023 10:54 AM

Matthew 6:14-15 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your father who is in heaven will forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive you your trespasses.

Mark 11:25-26 “And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your father who is in heaven forgive.”

Matthew 18:34-35 “And the master was angry and he handed him over to the jailers until he pay back all he owed. So will my father who is in heaven also do to you if each one of you does not forgive his brother from your hearts.”

Fixed for all you guys. No hate!

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Aug 7, 2023 1:16 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

The only thing that happens to you if you forgive unrepentant bullies and thugs is that they beat you up again.

Christianity is a charter for self-hatred, non-resistance to violence being committed against you.

People need to see if for what it is: a bully’s charter until you die of either old age, the effect of violent thugs or ending things via suicide.

Human values
Human values
Aug 7, 2023 2:29 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

Yes, it sounds like a way to martyrdom in a death cult.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Aug 7, 2023 2:43 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Aug 7, 2023 3:13 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

I struggled with this dilemma too. If someone during a life time have called Rhys Jaggar “a charter for self-hatred”, “Ohh do we have to go through Rhys Jaggar’s 3000 years old book again….in 2023”, “Rhys Jaggar is obsolete, man”, “can Rhys Jaggar’s stupid son provide the Chinese population with rice? (Xi)”. “Why are we paying for all Rhys Jaggars stupid buildings and servants over our taxes”. “Rhys Jaggar is dead man, he doesnt exist”, “Why did Rhys Jaggar didnt do something about all the misery in this world while we were skiing in Rocky Mountains drinking champaign”. Imagine you Rhys Jaggar have build up this society housing, wine farm, brewery, ski sport center, to hear all these jerks smearing you for not having done enough for their free use, exploitation and comfort. So Rhys Jaggar says, not that we are not allowed to defend yourself against psychos, but only… Read more »

Human values
Human values
Aug 7, 2023 3:44 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Please Lord, help me make sense of this, I asked.
No, the Lord saith..

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 7, 2023 3:52 PM
Reply to  Human values

It reminds me of the Dave Allen joke about the boy who can’t get into Ian Paisley’s church and prays to God to be allowed entrance. God replies, “Don’t worry. I can’t get in there either!”

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 7, 2023 3:50 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Rhys Jaggar isn’t the problem.

underground poet
underground poet
Aug 7, 2023 8:12 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

cept when it comes to the law, you fight, you lose.

Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Aug 7, 2023 3:27 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

if you only look through an earthly lens and not an eternal one..

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 7, 2023 3:54 PM
Reply to  Paul Watson

The only “eternal lens” I know is through the bottom of a beer glass.

wardropper
wardropper
Aug 7, 2023 3:41 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

But it’s so important to distinguish between Christ and Christianity:

“I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ…”
[Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western European religion]

For all his faults, Gandhi achieved more than the Reign of Terror did.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Aug 7, 2023 4:24 PM
Reply to  wardropper

Gandhi was a wise man who could see.

mgeo
mgeo
Aug 8, 2023 5:49 AM
Reply to  wardropper

Gandhi’s on what he thought of Western civilization: “I think it would be a good idea”.

MehNotGreat
MehNotGreat
Aug 7, 2023 4:06 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

Forgiving and not hating doesn’t mean being a doormat. See: Crusades, Cristeros, the Vendee and other cases of Catholic resistance to bullies.

Violet
Violet
Aug 7, 2023 4:54 PM
Reply to  MehNotGreat

Viva Cristo Rey!!!

Howard
Howard
Aug 7, 2023 4:08 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Question: does forgiveness really dispel hatred? Each of the passages you quote merely says to forgive; they say nothing about not hating.

But then, the Bible is filled with trickery. Those wacky Apostles! Always playing fast and loose with language, huh?

MehNotGreat
MehNotGreat
Aug 7, 2023 4:20 PM
Reply to  Howard

You can’t hate anyone, except Demons and those who are condemned. The reason is you can’t hate the creation of God, except those that are separated from him through eternity through their own will, Demons and the damned.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Aug 7, 2023 4:41 PM
Reply to  Howard

No its opposite. We play with words. See it from God’s stand. I think most people are looking in the bible to find something to myself my ego. But the bible is seen from God’s stand point, and if you do what the bible/God tells you, you are on the right way. I dont recall the place, but the bible actually says if you hate this world you are on the right track. God created this place. You couldnt keep one simple order. Thus he concluded you could’nt manage paradise, you were kicked out and he sent 10 more commandments down to you, to advise you on how to function in HIS garden. You were pissing all over these commandments again. Yes? So what. He gives you a last chance. Show me where your heart is, and you can get absolution. Here we are today. Those who are with the… Read more »

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Aug 8, 2023 12:47 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

All right, pls allow me to finish the discussion from where it started, with Rhys Jaggar’s claim:
“To forgive unrepentant bullies and thugs is that they beat you up again, Christianity is self-hatred.”

But YOU yourself was and are the unrepentant bully and thug against God in HIS garden, and it is YOU who beat God up again and again every time he forgave and forgive you.

God should forgive this is love, but you should not this is selfhatred.
Thus we have:

“neither will your father forgive you your trespasses”.
“neither will your father who is in heaven forgive”.
“your father in heaven will hand you over to the jailers until you pay back all you owe, if you does not forgive your brother from your hearts.”

Pura matemática.

Clive Williams
Clive Williams
Aug 9, 2023 6:13 AM
Reply to  Howard

Lo!l post 1918 Bible encyclopedia comics for childern.

Edwige
Edwige
Aug 7, 2023 10:47 AM

“I felt proud to be an American, much of the way I did when when I learned that our military had killed Osama bin Laden.”

How did he feel when he found out the “body” had been dumped at sea off an aircraft carrier? And how did he feel when he learned the Navy SEALS team responsible had also died? You know the one, where they were all herded aboard the same helicopter in defiance of usual operating procedures which happened to be the oldest helicopter in the US military (so old it had served in Vietnam). Here’s how one of their fathers felt:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/oppermanreport/charles-strange-seal-team-6-deaths-extor_1

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Aug 7, 2023 11:43 AM
Reply to  Edwige

There is even a foundation established for him. He volunteered. Petty Officer Strange volunteered. America’s boundless hypocrisy:

Killing 2 mio Afghans without mercy because Taliban banned US poppy fields and heroine business from their land.

Then you mourn and seek justice for a single US officer who volunteered to kill an CIA scapegoat for US own genocide and US own internal crime on its own population.

wardropper
wardropper
Aug 7, 2023 3:53 PM
Reply to  Edwige

He never read the sort of article, or visited the sort of site, which would have told him that the ‘body’ had been dumped at sea and the Navy SEALS team had died.

How did he feel?
Like anybody else who never reads anything: Ecstatically happy in his ignorance.

After all, being “proud to be an American” is not like anybody else being proud of anything else…

It’s exceptional, because it’s quarantined.

It’s stupid, because it came from something which, as George Carlin reminded us, is called “The American Dream”, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

It’s ignorant, because it depends upon never studying anything from more than one perspective.

Clive Williams
Clive Williams
Aug 7, 2023 8:54 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Poppy nature grew in our eastern front and back gardens facing East across the North Sea around down across the Channel. A great uncle was a long time dying in agony 1926 after returning from The Western Front before Christmas 1918. We tend look after US Men whom did not return West in our Eastern Front Garderns after Blitzkrieg was over and switched to Total World War 1941. They are Dead you are Not,..Your Arse needs to be injected with Common Sense. Dont worry it doesnt hurt one blitz Bit., you won’t feel a Thing baby….☺ ok…….good.
Now you owe me a drink a stiffy…cheers.
Cheap Pricks….

George Mc
George Mc
Aug 7, 2023 9:35 AM

I now find it almost impossible to read these media hit pieces on the threat of the far right, conspiracists etc. I see the terms, “reactionary, anti-science, antisemitic, white Supremacist, anti vaxxer, hate-filled …” etc. And it’s now descending into utter hysterical gibberish that recalls nothing so much as Lovecraft:

“Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl!”

mgeo
mgeo
Aug 8, 2023 5:53 AM
Reply to  George Mc

All the labels you listed mean just one thing: “You are resisting us”.

Johnny
Johnny
Aug 7, 2023 9:15 AM

Rumour has it that Barbie and Ken are Nazis.
Blonde, photogenic, role models for millions, ruthlessly ambitious, shallow, conniving, manipulative and potential world leaders.
Be scared, very scared.

DannyO
DannyO
Aug 7, 2023 10:48 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Yes, most folk don’t know that Barbie is her surname. Her full name is Laura Barbie, granddaughter of the butcher of Lyon. Don’t know much about Ken, though I’ve heard he’s one of the WEF’s young global leaders and there’s a rumour that his father was Japanese and his full name is Kendo Nagasaki. Well that’s what I heard! 🕵

Howard
Howard
Aug 7, 2023 4:10 PM
Reply to  Johnny

So you’re saying Ken is NOT gay? This changes everything!

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Aug 7, 2023 6:50 PM
Reply to  Howard

Bi-Curious, allegedly.