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They Want Us Dead

So, today on X a PHD student at George Mason University published the following manifesto on his substack:

When Must We Kill Them?

I do not wish for this essay to be a mere catalogue of outrages. The conduct of the present administration is as well known to you as it is to myself, and can be understood by any sensible person. On it, no further comment is ventured.

What remains for us to decide is when we fight. If the present administration wills it, it could sweep away the courts, it could sweep away democracy, and it could sweep away freedom. Protest is useful only insofar as it can effect action. Our words might sway the hearts of men, but not of beasts.

If the present administration chooses this course, then the questions of the day can be settled not with legislation, but with blood and iron. In short, we must decide when we must kill them. None of us wish for war, but if the present administration wishes to destroy the nation I would accept war rather than see it perish. I hope that you would choose the same.

There's more, but the grievances are imaginary leftist talking points. That doesn't really matter. What matters is that there is a real and growing movement on the left to normalize political violence. I am very much afraid that there is not much we can do to stop it at this point. GuerrillaLogistician has some thoughts:

Bleeding America

Just like in the past, our politicians and population decided the best way to fix the problems of our nations was to compromise.  Where in the past, Kansas was allowed by popular vote to either allow or prohibit slavery, we have done the same with ludicrous socialist agendas like DEI.  As many of you know, DEI is the modern way to separate the bourgeoisie and the proletariat to create the flames of revolution they want.  How do you compromise with people who are generally out to murder you over erroneous politics that don’t affect them as much as they think it does? Sure, you cannot believe me, you can feel that all of these little issues are dispersed over time and space enough that it’s just the media hyping up events because blood sells.  You aren’t entirely wrong, either. This happens all the time, and we have to be cautious of that, but there is a point of no return, and there’s a point where you need to start looking at how things are shaping up.

The two assassination attempts on Trump alone should have been a sign to everyone where this was going, then the car bombing in Vegas. With all this going on, what has happened is that the media downplays everything that doesn’t fit the narrative they are seeking to reinforce. They will do anything to mitigate the political differences that an ordinary person would see in these actions. The leftists and socialists out there will defend everyone they can who is politically aligned with them and will wholesale lie to achieve their goals. This does not mean that the conservatives have not done the same thing; however, they have been highly scrutinized since Trump has been in office. I think it is a good thing until you consider that both sides are not being treated equally.

Spend any time looking at the troubles of Northern Ireland. You’ll see that the Catholics and Protestants probably could have lived together and coexisted with minimal issues if the political machine hadn’t started to treat the Catholics differently from the Protestants. What ultimately happened was a conflict in Ireland that never should have occurred in the first place. So, can we compromise with an ideological group that doesn’t see reality like the general population? That said, most of the general population isn’t even looking at the issues and probably won’t until it affects them. The reality is, though, the problems continue to grow daily, city by city.

Now, I see folks on the right scoff at leftists like this little twink all the time, and one-on-one he's not much of a threat, the guy looks like he'd lose a fight with toast. But it won't be a one-on-one fight. It will be random attacks like the one on the congressional softball game. And it'll be bombs, the left loves their bombs. It's already started with Tesla dealerships. You say you're armed, and you can take any pinko punk who comes at you, and even if that's true, how are you going to defend against a Molotov cocktail tossed into the store you're in because the leftist propagandists made it the target of this week's two-minutes of hate for whatever reason? How do you defend your kids against an Antifa drive-by at their Catholic school because religion is bad, m-kay? How will you react when we're living through “the troubles” in Northern Ireland or Bosnia in the mid-90s? It's not going to be the Battle of Manassas. If the dam breaks, it's going to be way worse. It's worth thinking about.

Related: Reality Isn’t Nice. It’s a 2×4 to the Teeth.

RIP 4-Chan

No link, but 4-Chan was hacked and taken down this week, and it looks like it's not coming back. The software is a decade out of date, and a surprising number of the admin accounts had a .gov email address (Hmmm. Was it always a psyop?). In any event, they were always good fodder for ONT posts, and I find it hilarious that this may very well be the final post ever made on 4-Chan:

Heart Flight

This happened in 1986, but it's still a feel good story.

Honoring the F4 Hooligan's heart flight

His name is Andrew De La Pena, and he is now 32 years old. He was born in California, but has significant ties to North Dakota. At just 5 months old, Andrew was in desperate need of a heart transplant. Word came from Fargo through the Red Cross that a 4 month old had died from crib death....his heart had been resuscitated. This opened the door for a life saving organ donation for Andrew. The challenge was getting the heart to California within hours. It was a few days before Christmas. The Lehrjet parked at Hector International Airport in Fargo, that was supposed to take local doctors and the heart west, wouldn't start. That's when a desperate early morning call was made to then Governor George Sinner. Sixteen minutes after Governor Sinner was notified, a call went out to the North Dakota National Guard base in Fargo. An F-4 fighter jet with the North Dakota Air National Guard was scrambled. Brig. General Bob Becklund, who was a first lieutenant at the time and on duty, would be the pilot.

Fargo to San Fran in just over an hour and a half, all to save a life. That F-4 jockey was burning holes in the sky, God bless him.

Bibliophiles Unite!

Hundreds of Volunteers Form a Human Chain to Get 9,000 Books to New Location for Indie Bookstore

Serendipity Books and its owner Michelle Tuplin had a problem: it was moving day, and 9,100 books needed to be packed up and sorted in the new location. She faced the prospect of closing down for several days at least—never a good thing on the tight margins of a bookstore. Taking to social media and putting out a call for volunteers among her many followers and customers, Tuplin received an overwhelming response, as 300 people showed up to lend a hand. That’s when Tuplin came up with a novel idea: a human chain, or rather, two. “It was just a joyful experience,” Donna Zak, one of the volunteers, told NBC News. “We were passing the books and noticing and commenting to each other, ‘Oh, have you read this one? I really enjoyed this one!’” Fortunately for everyone involved, the new space was just 350 feet from the old one, and in just 2 hours, the entire collection had been moved and stocked—in alphabetical order no less.

Good for them.

Yuck!

House Comes With Dungeon, A Real “Handyman's Special”

I discovered a ‘torture dungeon’ of hidden rooms and passageways under my house

“Found a network of tunnels and rooms under my house,” the gobsmacked fellow wrote in a viral Reddit post alongside screenshots of his spine-tingling find.

The photos depict stairs leading down into a basement, various dark passageways, and a maze-like area with multiple doorways.
Also shown are some very macabre-looking quarters, including a dingy, cell-like room with a grate on the floor and a shaft of light poking through the ceiling.
Another chamber features exposed piping and a single LED light illuminating the shambolic surroundings.
“The tunnels just keep going,” exclaimed the Redditor, who estimated there were five rooms in total, some of which featured running water while others had power.
The purpose of these subterranean chambers is unclear, but he pointed out that there were “many stained blankets, with perhaps blood.”

Looks like a basement to me, but Reddit never found anything it couldn't sensationalize.

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