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The Perfect Example of How Hell Works, The Jewish Left’s Sudden Encounter With Reality

Posted: October 14, 2023 by datechguy in catholic, culture, Israel, middle east, war
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I was in conversation with my priest this morning after mass and confession and I noted how today’s 1st reading from Joel was almost a blueprint for what is happening and going to happen in Gaza.

As we continued to talk we discussed confession. To get the forgiveness of God paid for by Christ one must be willing to look at oneself in the light of truth. The knowledge that you have sinned and contrition for them is what drives a good Catholic to confession. This is why before absolution one recites an act of contrition like this one.

O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because of thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin. Amen.

There are those who are unwilling and incapable of looking at once self in the light of truth. Who are in denial of their sins. This is why Hell is in fact a mercy of God. Demons under compulsion during exorcisms have bluntly admitted they understand the love of God and the decisions they have made but when asked if they would change their choices they’ve replied emphatically NO! Their pride will not allow it.

Thus do people put themselves into hell as the merciful alternative to admitting a reality that they can’t bear to admit. Pride the ultimate sin.

And that brings us to the pains that parts of the left, particularly the Jewish left is now feeling.

You see many of on the right, particularly folks like Pam Geller and Robert Spencer have been talking about the antisemitism of the left in General and the Muslim left in particular for many many years. For their troubles they were called bigots and hate mongers by all the “right” people of the elite left. How DARE they suggest that any people of the left might think this way! Any such statement was “hate” speech and “violence”.

And then came the Hamas attacks and the slaughter and worse of not only of men but of women and children.

That was painful and awful, particularly to those who had argued for the Palestinians (although a lot more painful for some and even fatal for others) but the pain increased when in colleges around the nation and the world groups (particularly groups heavy in the DEI defended hamas and the slaughter of woman and children. As Victor Davis Hanson put it:

In Australia you actually had the spectacle of people publicly shouting “Gas the Jews” while the only person taken into custody was a single Jewish counter protester with an Israeli flag. In America the highest bastions of Education openly supported these murderous bastards.

To some on the left, particularly the Jewish left it was an eye opening moment. A moment of clarity that shows their “allies” for what they actually are and have always been. Ready to decry “microaggressions” of any of opposed them but declaring that loud public support for the mass murder of woman and children is “free speech’ to be protected and/or excused.

To these people comes the great decision. Do they divorce themselves from this barbarians, do they admit that those of us on the right have been telling the truth all along or do they hate us on the right so much that allying with folks who support their own murder is better?

But for all the angst that this decision will bring their situation at least they now see beyond the bubble and are in a position to make a choice.

There are others on the left who still maintain denial, both of the acts of Hamas or that they bear any responsibility for them.

You see for those folks acknowledging any of these things means they must face the possibility of being wrong. They mustn’t see things in the light of truth it is more then they can handle. Much better to live the lie and remain in the bubble.

How these groups will respond to the reality will define them for the rest of their lives. The question: How many will rather suffer the hell of denial than the pain of reality?

Pray for them all.

Suddenly Uncle Sam Wants White Males Again

Posted: October 13, 2023 by datechguy in culture, middle east, war
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Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap. 
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit. 
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Tommy, 'ow's yer soul? "
But it's " Thin red line of 'eroes " when the drums begin to roll
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's " Thin red line of 'eroes, " when the drums begin to roll.

Kipling: Tommy 1892

One of the side effects of the Hamas attack on Israel is you aren’t hearing a lot of talk about “toxic masculinity” or microaggressions or even the horror of “misgendering” from our friends on the left.

This is as predicted by CS Lewis who wrote about pains and pleasures:

The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man who feels them a touchstone of reality. Thus if you had been trying to damn your man by the Romantic method…you would try to protect him at all costs from any real pain; because, of course, five minutes’ genuine toothache would reveal the romantic sorrows for the nonsense they were and unmask your whole stratagem.

If you’re a man insisting your a woman, or if your a person who declares themselves “nonbinary” or declares that their “pronouns” are “ye” or a BLM activist decrying white supremacy it’s very hard to declare yourself a victim of “violence” when a person refuses to call by your desired gender or pronoun or orientation or enforces the law when during the same week when men, women, children and infants are slaughtered and abused and the images of this slaughter is on every TV channel and video platform as it exposes you for the shallow self loathing narcissist that you are.

You see only in a country that is rich and comfortable and safe can you get away with and even become rich declaring yourself a victim of violence that is either in your own head or due to enforcing of laws that you are breaking.

But there is another thing that has been noticed lately, in fact I’ve noticed it myself while watching the baseball playoff. Suddenly the armed forces seem to be changing their ads, it seems that white heterosexuals males with the masculine desire to protect are in.

This is likely due to failures to meet recruiting goals in the services.

The whole DEI scam and the left agenda is all well and good if all you need is a force for virtue signaling, but now that there is a real prospect of fighting well you need people who can FIGHT.

The only problem is, are potential recruits going to forget the Army’s war on it’s own men?

I think not

Harvard, Columbia, NY Law et/all about to Become Post War Germany & France

Posted: October 11, 2023 by datechguy in business, education, middle east, war
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Frank Perconte: Hey this guy says he’s not a Nazi. All of Germany and I haven’t met one Nazi yet

Band of Brothers 2001

For a long time after World War Two there was an enduring myth that the French Resistance to the German occupation of their country was larger than it was. This myth was advanced for political reasons but the reality that nobody wanted to admit that the vast majority didn’t want to get involved as:

  • Finding basic necessities like food was a priority
  • It was a great way to get yourself killed
  • Until late in the war it seemed unlikely that the Nazi’s were going anywhere

In fact there was a great one line joke in France concerning the “resistance” that I first heard in the 1970’s I recall it went like this:

If everyone who claimed to be part of the [French] Resistance [to the Nazis] had been a member there would have been nobody left to collaborate [with the Germans].

This was similar to a phenom in Germany where you were hard pressed to find either:

  • A Nazi
  • or
  • Anyone who knew what the Nazi’s had done.

It brings to mind a scene in the movie Judgement at Nurenburg, not the famous one between Spencer Tracy & Marlene Dietrich but one where Spencer Tracy’s Character asks the servents at his house Mr. & Mrs. Halbestadt what it was like to live under National Socialism. After making a point of saying how apolitical they are he continues…

Judge Haywood: For instance, there was a place called Dachau… which was not too many miles from here. Did you ever know what was going on there?

Mrs. Halbestadt We knew nothing about it. How can you ask if we knew anything about that?

Judge Haywood: I’m sorry.

Mr Halbestadt: Your Honor, we are only little people. We lost a son in the army… and our daughter in the bombing. During the war we almost starved. It was terrible for us.

Judge Haywood: I’m sure it was.

Mrs. Halbestadt: Hitler did some good things. I won’t say he didn’t do some good things. He built the Autobahn. He gave more people work. We won’t say he didn’t do some good things. But the other things… the things they say he did to the Jews and the rest… we knew nothing about that. Very few Germans did.

Mr. Halbestadt: And if we did know… what could we do?

Judge Haywood: But Mrs. Halbestadt said you didn’t know.

Judgement at Nurenburg 1961

Apparently it was almost impossible to find anyone in Germany who knew anything that was happening at all.

And that brings us to the present day and US universities:

It’s been an ironic week in these expensive bastions of learning. These are places where identifying someone by the wrong pronoun can get you blacklisted but supporting Hamas as they rape women and behead children, that’s was fine:

Zach Kessel has documented statements of support for Hamas from groups at

  • George Washington University
  • NYU & NYU Law
  • Ohio State
  • Brandeis (of all places)
  • Georgetown
  • University of Virginia
  • Swarthmore
  • University of Illinois
  • University of Michigan Law School
  • Northwestern
  • Columbia
  • University of Chicago
  • Tufts
  • and of course Harvard

These folks were proud to stand with Hamas even when they were beheading babies, and then this happened:

followed by this:

and now this:

Fallout from a controversial statement published and initially signed by about 30 student groups at Harvard University continued Wednesday as two trucks circled Harvard Square for much of the day, featuring the names and photos of students linked to the statement.

The billboard trucks, funded by the conservative news group Accuracy in Media, featured LED screens that changed throughout the day to feature at least a half dozen Harvard students under the words, “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites.” The trucks also linked to a website, HarvardHatesJews.com, which directs users to send messages to Harvard’s board of trustees.

“Tell them to take action against these despicable, hateful students,” the website reads. “Each and every one of these students should be expelled and their student organizations should be kicked off campus.”

And suddenly you have all kinds of Harvard students who where going to be lawyers are suddenly resigning from the student groups and/or claiming they never read the statements before they went out. To wit:

https://twitter.com/DanniDKM/status/1711838922320318854
and this
https://twitter.com/MohiniTangri/status/1711987537533612322

This brings an obvious question:

As a commentator at Instapundit descried this sudden Volte faca

“The lesson is that luxury beliefs vanish the instant the luxury is threatened. How much of our fake politics would turn in an instant if we didn’t have institutional enforcement and narrative policing, and everyone just had to stand on their own behind their own thoughts? What if radical chic consistently cost something? What if tenured communists had risk?”

I predict that by the end of this week students at all of these schools will be saying this.

And by April or May of next year when students get ready to graduate or apply for internships all of these students at these universities will like Germans after 1946 insist they were not political, that they did not know about these student organization or their statements. By the time we get to 2025 there will be so many students and graduates who claim to have been opposed to the statements supporting Hamas there will scarcely have been enough students left to have drafted them.

But whatever happens make no mistake. It was the prospect of future lucrative careers being beheaded over those statements not the reality of Jewish babies being beheaded by Hamas that will be the sudden cause of these denials

Five Israel Thoughts Under the Fedora: Only Shocking if you Didn’t Pay Attention, 2A case closed, Updates, Going the full Sherman and Priorities

Posted: October 9, 2023 by datechguy in Israel, middle east
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I am shocked SHOCKED at the number of media people and pols in places from Australia to Canada to New York who are shocked SHOCKED at the number of Muslims in their countries who are all for kidnapping women, gang raping them , murdering them and the desecration of their bodies.

All you had to do is pay attention to what they’ve been saying for years to know this.

A basic rule that every Sicilian knows is this: If someone says they want to kill you, believe them.

of course given the Tom Hagen math of Islam in America I suspect the outcry against this by Dems will be at brief at best.

I was actually rather shocked to find out that Israel had loosened their guns laws in the wake of the Hamas attacks. Not because it was a bad move but I naturally presumed that a nation where almost everyone serves and is constantly under terror threat already had their civilians well armed.

That they have not is a tribute to wishful thinking and idiocy.

However it has provided an answer to the question oft asked by the left: “Why does anyone need an AR-15 and if they suggest that the US is not Israel all we have to do is show pictures of those marching in New York and DC and elsewhere in support of murder, gang rape and kidnapping.

Apparently there will be regular updates from Israel on how the fighting is going, this is the first one:

I’ll be watching this daily, you should too.

Yesterday I suggested that Israel needs to fight General Sherman’s War and to consider the hostages dead and not hold back based on them ,of course if they can save them they should but not at the cost of destroying Hamas. :

The only way to prevent this from happening again is to destroy their ability to make war. It will be messy and it will be horrible, but it will end the threat from Gaza once and for all.

They need to take to heart these words by General William Tecumseh Sherman

  • You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. 

And those curses need to be poured out in Gaza to all those who aid abet and cheer Hamas’ actions in the same way that Sherman poured those curses on the people of Georgia and the Carolinas. What are your critics going to say that they aren’t already saying about you now? Sherman again:

  •  “We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and we must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.” The hard war was here for Georgia. “We cannot change the hearts and minds of those people of the South, but we can make war so terrible . . . [and] make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it.”

The time for mercy is after the enemy is defeated and helpless at your feet, until then the war should be fought hard until it’s won.

Well I don’t have the readership I once did in Israel but it appears somebody took this advice to heart:

Israel has decided that its attacks on terrorist targets in Gaza will be carried out with great force and breadth, even at the cost of harming Israelis who are being held captive in Gaza, a senior government source tells reporters.

The source clarifies that if Israel has precise intelligence information on the location of Israeli captives, it will of course refrain from attacking in that specific location. But so long as no such information exists, all Hamas targets will be attacked.

So will will be Sherman’s War instead of the old game after all. Given that the left has always accused Israel of genocide I can’t think that their cries are going to make much of a difference.

Finally one might wonder how one of the supposedly finest intelligence agency in the world got caught off guard and how the US got caught off guard as well.

Given the US armies priorities of transgenderism and progressive indoctrination and the FBI’s giving priority of targeting parents at school board meetings, Trump voters and Catholics who regularly attend mass I’m not shocked that they had no time to watch for this kind of thing.

But now I understand that the Mossad was concentrating on fighting Bibi these days.

Might I suggest that taking a page out of the American left’s playbook is always a bad idea.

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