TheEncogitationer

Reg,

Good to hear at least that your friends made a better choice of destination (for now) than Manchester:

The terror of the anti-Israel machine
Manchester was the result of a years-long campaign
Jacob Howland
https://unherd.com/2025/10/the-terror-of-the-anti-israel-machine/

As the Late Rabbi Sacks would put it: It won’t end with the Jews.

Reg,

Calling for a military presence in Portland is political theater and completely unnecessary. It inflates problems into existential crises when, in reality, the city operates with schools, businesses and daily life as normal.

I fully concede on the Military being unnecessary as law enforcers, as well as illegal under The Posse Comitatus…[Read more]

Unseen,

Looks like somebody has moved from a Gish Gallop to a Gish Warp. Whether unaided or with help from AI, it is a wonder to behold.

Either way, Mayor Keith Wilson has only 3 months to accomplish his stated goal:

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson opens up about first 9 months in…[Read more]

Unseen,

Portland’s Impact Reduction Program does document reports of encampments. However the reports have increased every year since 2015, and the number of removals only matched the number of reports in 2015. Every other year, removals were only a small fraction of the reports.

Impact Reduction Program Data Dashboard and Performance Measures…[Read more]

Unseen,

That is a profoundly DUMB statement.

Four years ago there were wandering mobs of protesters in the central city which included unwanted anarchists who broke store windows and otherwise vandalized property.

What’s going on now are protests at an ICE facility and while a few throw a rock or otherwise misbehav and get themselves a…

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Fellow Unbelievers,

RFK JR’s brain worm is not content to deprive us of vaccines, Tylenol, and 5G WiFi. Now the brain worm wants to eat up our food supply by banning GMOs, banning glyphosphate and atrizine, and mandating “Organic, Biodynamic” Agriculture:

MAHA: Make Agriculture Harder for…[Read more]

Strega and Unseen,

I am no fan of the Military serving as domestic law enforcement.

At the same time, I seriously doubt that Portland has improved from what it was 4 years ago, as shown here:

Is Portland Over? From CBS KOIN Channel 6

And another “Autonomous Zone” could pop up at any minute if local…[Read more]

Jake,

Simon isn’t it presumptively bad faith to silence someone> I mean maybe not if it is the far left and the speaker is opposed to the lefty mythology. Or if it is Trump it is always in good faith to silence his opposition.

You do bring up a great point, albeit in a different thread. What is meant by “good faith” and “bad faith?”. And how c…[Read more]

Reg:

The goal should not be the absence of disagreement, but the presence of robust dialogue.

And preferably over a cup of robust Nescafé:

Of course, Goya’s Warning System has broken down when people get shot over their spoken thought or have their broadcast licenses pulled in the name of…[Read more]

Jake,

Enco i don’t see it.

I read a book about the Concordat and it is fuzzy now but the support from both Lutheran and Catholic Church was strong. Yet it was not i think indispensable. You might wonder what would have happened if it had been denounced by either superstition.

Thing is irrational thoughts tend to come in bunches, and tend to r…[Read more]

Robert,

As if city life is worse now than the 60s and 70s. Then the cities were deprived of funds during the decades long white exodus out to the burbs but when that was found the be too boring, the trend reversed and wealthy whites wanted back in, redevelopment and rents went up, the propaganda started when Karens and Kens smelled too much…

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Jake,

And it was not primarily a Christian movement or spurred by it notwithstanding Lutheranism or the Concordat.

Here’s where you’re mistaken about Nazism. It couldn’t have gotten as far as it did without support from both Catholic and Protestant religion. The Nazis also got support from Occultism such as Madame Blavatsky, who gave them the…[Read more]

Robert,

I don’t know how to post a reply to an update, so I’ll have to post it here.

Trump would have no pretext for using the National Guard or Military on cities if the Mayors and City Councils and Judges had a handle on things.

What happened to Irina Zarutsa in Charlotte, NC is just a single example of how rotten life in U.S. cities can…[Read more]

Jake,

Enco there are maybe 5 people who are regular contributors. And how many read our scribbles? Twice that? None. IDK. Gotta be negligible. Am i rite?

You might be right, but I did want to practice some alliterative allusions and maybe get some creative call back. I guess “scribbles” and “negligible” in close proximity counts.