This is our rule for commenting. For the most part our readers have followed this rule very well. There are very few times when we’ve had to remove a comment or worse still, ban a commenter.

Shortly we are going to a membership model. Commenting is a membership feature.

If you are a member, you will be able to comment. The “Don’t be a dick rule” will still be in effect.

So there are somethings that are obviously dick moves:

• Doxing somebody.
• Threatening somebody
• Verbally attacking somebody
• Implicitly or explicitly suggesting that we, as a group, will act in violence

For those that don’t know, doxing is the act of giving out contact information on somebody. This does not mean public contact points for politicians or other public people. I.e. it is ok to give the phone number for the Senate office of a Senator. It is not ok to give the private cell number or home number of that same Senator. Don’t be a dick.

It doesn’t matter if you hate that person, don’t make threats. Even jokingly. “I’m going to X such and such” is a dick move. It doesn’t really matter what “X” is. Don’t make threats.

We don’t all march to the same drummer. That is one of the wonderful things about this community. That means that we have disagreements. When we are disagreeing it is ok to attack an opinion, it is not ok to attack the person. “If you think that water is wet you are an idiot” is a dick move. Don’t do it.

If the only way you can counter an argument is by calling the person making the argument names, you’ve lost the argument. Stop now, don’t be a dick.

Implicitly or explicitly suggesting that we, as a group will act in violence is making a statement that can be read as a threat. “Well she’s going to be room temperature soon.”, “They better make sure their fire insurance is up-to-date”. The first isn’t a direct threat, it is a statement that somebody is going to kill her. The second isn’t a direct threat, it is a statement that somebody is going to burn something down.” Implying that we, as a group, are going to react to somebody’s past action is a dick move. Don’t do it.

The quote is: If we were as violent as the left thinks we are, there wouldn’t be any left.

When somebody within our community, or somebody posing as being within our community makes threats of violence it just looks bad. Don’t be a dick. Don’t do it.

These are examples. They are not a list of “don’t do this.” There is only one rule “Don’t be a dick”. We are not going to play wack-a-mole with somebody playing rules games. We don’t promise a warning. If someone violates the rule, admin will do what they feel is appropriate.

This post is a direct result of one commenter implicitly suggesting that we, as a group, were going to commit arson and murder. They were given warning for the first. This serves as their second warning. They will be banned if they violate the commenting rule again.

-Signed: GFZ Admins

BREAKING: Surveillance video from inside Robb Elementary School shows that police never attempted to open either of the two classroom doors that housed the shooter-mass murderer and his victims-children/teachers.

— BNN Newsroom (@BNNBreaking) June 19, 2022

“In the 77 minutes between the time a gunman entered the rooms and massacred 21 people and officers stormed in and killed him,” the San Antonio Express-News reported, citing “a law enforcement source close to the investigation.”

— BNN Newsroom (@BNNBreaking) June 19, 2022

This contradicts previous statements that police attempted to gain entry by using a ring of keys from a janitor.

— BNN Newsroom (@BNNBreaking) June 19, 2022

The Uvalde School Police lied to the parents, they lied to the press, they lied to the public, but most of all they lied to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

I don’t know how things work with an official investigation like this but I suspect that the police lying to Texas DPS is probably illegal.

The Uvalde School Police are fighting to keep their body cam footage away from the public, and now we know why.

This was a cowardly cluster-fuck and it was captured on video.

Now we need to see all the video to know just how bad it really is.

I saw this thread by Jessica Valenti:

The more I read these panicked articles about places like NYC and San Francisco being 'unsafe', the more I realize it's not about crime at all – just discomfort with poverty being more visible

— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) June 16, 2022

Go in and read it if you want, but in a nutshell she says that if you don’t like seeing vagrants on your streets it’s because you’re a bigot who hates poor people.

All of of modern Leftism is about turning vice into virtue.

Are you a pedophile drag queen showing your anus to litte children?  Well have Pride and know that you’re expressing your “authentic self.”

But among the ugliest of this trend is wealth Leftists figuring out how they can turn their own selfishness into virtue.

In the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, it was a moral compunction for the wealthy to contribute to society for the point of bettering society.

The Robber Barrons, for all the awful things they did, built universities and libraries and art centers.  They created beautiful edifices for the masses.  They felt it was an appropriate use of some of their largess to uplift the poor and ignorant and make them better.

Many of those institutions still exist today, e.g., The University of Chicago (founded by John D. Rockefeller), Rockefeller Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Hall, etc.

These men created, along with their business empires, the idea of the philanthropist in it’s current use.

Lesser wealthy people also contributed.

It was a social movement to give what you could to uplift the lower classes by being a patron of the arts, literature, or education.

Now look at the wealthy Liberal elite today.

They tell you that if you try to clean the poop off the streets, move the homeless out of tent cities, or educate the poor and downtrodden you are a bigot who hates poor people.

It’s a virtue to let the homeless live in squalor because that’s not judgmental.

It’s a virtue to let some poor black child not learn math, proper English, and behaviors that will lead to success, because that is respecting his black culture.  You’re a white supremacist if you try to teach him the principles of whiteness like getting the correct answers in math and writing in complete, grammatically correct sentences.

These virtues allow the wealthy to not donate money and not donate time and not contribute to society while convincing themselves they are good people for it.

Only the wealthy Leftist can step over the vagrant with a needle in his arm and past the minority child who can’t read at grade level and say “these people are living their authentic lives, how dare I give up my time and money to force my White values on them, it’s best that I spend my money on myself and not be a bigot.”

These people should be called out for what they are, selfish narcissists who use Leftism to justify their selfishness as a virtue.

This was inspired by yesterday’s post…

https://twitter.com/jnyboy/status/1538195496757518336?t=wDAdzTTFPzmJ8DZLj2_0Rg&s=19

Via the Holland Sentinel: Letters to the Editor: How can GOP candidates ask for our support when they don’t accept truth?

We all live in our bubbles. Information bubbles where we hear what we expect to hear and anything outside of our expectations can be ignored.

My Lady does Tarot readings and she has multiple decks she uses. She’s pretty good at it. But she says I’m better at it than she is, even though I’ve never done a Tarot reading. What she does is what is called a “cold reading”. She says something and looks for a response in the person she is reading for. Those subtle body hints are then used to create a more and more accurate telling of what the person is looking to hear.

In the end the person that got the reading walks away, amazed at how accurate the reading was. They then look forward to the predictions coming true. That prediction that good fortunate will come her way takes six months but when it does, she looks back in amazement that my Lady was able to predict the good fortune.

This works because the predictions that don’t come true are forgotten. The one that did come true is remembered.

When we live in our bubbles we lose sight of what is outside and can easily ignore it.

For the conservative side our bubble isn’t very tight. There are just too many places where we are forced to see the opinions of others. It is forced on us at every step.

We KNOW that there are huge numbers of people that are sure that Trump tried to over throw the 2020 election. We can’t escape it. We know that there are large numbers of people that believe that there was no cheating during the 2020 election. There is no belief we hold that we aren’t aware that there are all those on the other side that believe differently.

Even if all we did was read GFZ and watched Fox News we would still be exposed to other opinions and points of view.

Those on the left can exist in a bubble that is so strong that they have never had to even hear our opinions. If they have, they have heard the straw man version. The version where their sources tell them what our sources said, did or believe. Without ever given the actual words or actions.

At the top of this article is the link to this persons actual words. You can go read them for yourself. You don’t have to trust me.

I inquired as to what this was trying to convey, and he said that due to the Biden Administration’s irresponsible spending we were currently experiencing sky-high gas prices. I patiently explained to him that — no, the current administration, or any administration, is not responsible for gas prices. Oil is an international commodity, and is susceptible to the vagaries of the global economy.

I am growing impatient with this cheap, disingenuous and wrong-headed spin Republicans are using to criticize the Biden Administration. This is a lazy way to get Republican voters to the polls, and it’s actually disrespectful to the electorate for assuming that the voters are dumb enough to fall for this. The price of gas has very, very little to do with any administration.

This is a person speaking from inside their bubble. I don’t know Annie Sterken of Holland, MI. I can make some good guesses. I am willing to bet that three years ago when the Democrats were screaming about high gas prices and blaming Trump, she was blaming Trump.

She goes on to tell use that the price of gas is driven by the price of crude oil and that the administration doesn’t have control over the price of crude oil. That it is world wide pricing and as such the current administration can’t really effect it.

She blames inflation on all sorts of things, none of which has anything to do with what the current administration has done.

This is the bubble that the left lives in. It is a bubble so strong that they can hold four conflicting opinions at the same time and not see anything wrong with any of the four. They can do this because they will take each of those four opinions and only look at it in isolation. With the very next opinion, they will totally ignore what they said just minutes before.

The recent Scott Adam’s meme shows exactly this: “According to CNN, America is the kind of country in which the citizens will bring loaded firearms to any sort of occasion except for attempted overthrows of their own government.”

Annie goes on to say “We are now experiencing a very strong economic recovery, and economic growth also has a strong impact on oil consumption.”

She’s correct about economic growth having a strong impact on oil consumption, but we aren’t in a strong economic recovery. Article after article in all media talks about how inflation is here to stay and that it will get worse. The tea leaves certainly indicate that there are going to be food shortages soon.

The problem is that you can’t reach people that live in this sort of bubble. Any indicator or fact you use to show the administration’s policies are causing economic hardship and inflation will be met with denial and blame shifting. It doesn’t matter what opinion they have, no fact counter to their opinion makes it through the filter of their bubble. You can see the same thing from Senator Warren. Every bit of inflation is caused by greedy corporations and the only fix is for her to have more control over those corporations.

Do your best to talk to people. Remember they live in a bubble and they think you are the one with no outside the bubble view. There is a short video from Last Man Standing that fits this completely. Ryan is helping Eve(?) study for a debate. He has to present both sides of an opinion. For the liberal side he does a good job, as he is a liberal. When it came time to represent the conservative side, he put forth a one line straw man.

In the show, Ryan, much like Annie, had no way of seeing the conservative point of view in any way while knowing they completely understood conservatives.

I know, we are going to Hell.

And in case you are wondering what the heck is a tepuy, here a photo of one: Roraima.