Why Bertie's Teapot?

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Bertrand Russell - "What I Have Lived For" (1967) > .

"A later conviction for publicly lecturing against inviting the United States to enter the war on the United Kingdom's side resulted in six months' imprisonment in Brixton Prison (see Bertrand Russell's political views) in 1918. He later said of his imprisonment:"

I found prison in many ways quite agreeable. I had no engagements, no difficult decisions to make, no fear of callers, no interruptions to my work. I read enormously; I wrote a book, "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy"... and began the work for "The Analysis of Mind". I was rather interested in my fellow-prisoners, who seemed to me in no way morally inferior to the rest of the population, though they were on the whole slightly below the usual level of intelligence as was shown by their having been caught.

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“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." ~ Bertrand Russell.

Bertie's Teapot .. 

Bertie's Politics of Logic ..  

Oligarchy & Greedy Oligarchic Partisanship ..

Russell's Teapot Thought Experiment ..

Rapid Romp Through Philosophy ..

Atheism . Authoritarianism . Bertie . Books . Cognitive Forays . Dicktionary . Education . Historiography . Humor . Information . Media . Neo-Puritan Damage . Personality Dysfunction . Philosophical Ramblings . Politics . Religionism & Superstition . Resisting Prejudice . Sociopolitical Malfeasance . Written Bloopers .

State-Sanctioned Scapegoating

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How Joseph Goebbels Weaponized Anti-Semitism During WW2 > .

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24-10-7 Konstantin Kisin Off the Fence About Israel’s War - Triggernometry > .

24-8-21 [Hamas, NOT Israel, committing war crimes & threatening g-cide] - U > .

24-7-12 Melanie Phillips: Britain chooses Labour [Danger to Israel, West] - JNS > .     

24-5-26 The TRUTH Behind Antisemitism - JLI > .

24-5-25 Why We Cannot [Easily] Stop Dictators - Versed > . 

24-2-15 Bari Weiss c Natan Sharansky: Epidemic of Weakist Antisemitism - Free > .

2017 Far Wrong In The US And Europe | The Politics Of Hate (2017) | Full Film > .

24-2-15 Harvard wins Lifetime Censorship Award - FIRE > .

Ruscist Indoctrination 

24-8-9 [Popadantsi - Ruscian Imperialist Domestic Pulp Fiction] - Adam S > .

> Europe >>   

19-6-3 Death of Europe - "Madness of Crowds" [DEI] Douglas Murray - Hoover >> .

Antisemitism | TBN Israel >> .

Antisemitism, Explained - Unpacked >> .

Antisemitism: History - Alētheiai >> .

Antisemitism: From its Origins to the Holocaust - Yad Vashem >> .

Antisemitism in the the Islamic and Arab World - Yad Vashem >> .
Antisemitism Today - Yad Vashem >> .

Apathetic Disapproval & Sociology of Mobs ..

Brainwashing, Thought Reform →

Free Hearts Free Minds (Escaping Islam) ..

Free Speech vs Censorship ⇻

Genocidal Islamists ..

State-Sanctioned Scapegoating ..

Stating the OBVIOUS ..

24-10-27 Inciting Fascistic Violence

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24-10-28 [WARNING: DUH's Sickening Sociopathic Rally at MSG] - Schmidt > .

24-12-10 Researchers report stunning surge of misogyny after the election - PBS > .

24-10-29 [Puertoriqueños] Island - Lincoln Project > .

24-10-29 [Pootin's Puppet] Will DESTROY America If Elected - Schmidt > .

24-10-29 Fight Like Hell ["Stop the Steal" = Insurrection] - Meidas > .

24-10-29 [Vengeful Wanna-Be-Dicktator Drunk on] Power - Lincoln > .

24-10-29 Country Over Party - Lincoln Project > .

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1939 "Pro American Rally" Madison Square Garden, New York City - Lincoln > .

2025 Blueprint for Theocracy - αλλο >> .

2025 NeoPuritan Blueprint for Autocracy - Shrink Rap >> .

Агент Оранж: Despot 2025 - Present Tense >> .

Civics & Incivility - Bonum V. Mālum >> .

Countdown 2024 with The Lincoln Project >> .

Defending Liberal Democracies - Bonum V. Mālum >> .

DUHnocchio - Shrink Rap >> .

Electile Dysfunctions - Alētheiai >> .

Far Wrong - Bellum Fallax >> .

Felonious tRUMP - Bonum V. Mālum >> .

Hillbilly Perfidy - Shrink Rap >> .

Insurrectionists - Present Tense >> .

Lincoln Project Ads >> .

MAGAcide - Shrink Rap >> .

Make America Grotesque Again - Tzu Pow >> .

'Murican Xharia Law 2025 - Bonum V. Mālum >> .

Political Ideologies - Illustrate to Educate >> .

Political Theory & Philosophy - Ryan Chapman >> .

Steve's Warnings - The Warning with Steve Schmidt - Podcast >> .

'Twas Always Burning - Shrink Rap >> .

∞ DUHnocchio ..

Patriotism vs Nationalism

 "Le patriotisme c'est l'amour des siens. Le nationalisme c'est la haine des autres. ... Si l'on retranchait du patriotisme de la plupart des hommes la haine et le mépris des autres nations, il resterait peu de choses." [Charles de Gaulle] 

Translation: "Patriotism is the love of one's own. Nationalism is hatred of others. ... If we extracted the hatred and contempt of other nations from the patriotism of most men, little would remain."

More simply: “Patriotism is love of one's own; nationalism is hatred of others.” [Charles de Gaulle]

“Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved. By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.” [George Orwell]

“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.” [Sydney J. Harris]

Poopagandistic Self-Delusion

23-2-25 “Ruscians fell victim to their own propaganda” | Starsky | Times > .

F is for "Foul, FAUX, Fake, Fetid"

23-6-19 The Murdoch Succession - Led By Donkeys > .

Religionist Theocratic Ambitions

22-8-15 "Religious Freedom" is Neither - Betty > .

24-2-15 Bari Weiss c Natan Sharansky: Epidemic of Weakist Antisemitism - Free > .

Project 2025 / Christofascism / Christian Nationalism 

2025 Blueprint for Theocracy - αλλο >> .

2025 NeoPuritan Blueprint for Autocracy - Shrink Rap >> .

Агент Оранж: Despot 2025 - Present Tense >> .

DUHnocchio - Shrink Rap >> .

Far Wrong - Bellum Fallax >> .

Hillbilly Perfidy - Shrink Rap >> .

Make America Grotesque Again - Tzu Pow >> .

'Murican Xharia Law 2025 - Bonum V. Mālum >> .

Political Ideologies - Illustrate to Educate >> .

Free Hearts Free Minds (Escaping Islam) ..

Religionist Dangers: Theonomy ..

Woof Whiner Infantility

22-8-8 Hilarious Hysteria - cfc > . 

Benny Hill Military > .

This is BrexTWIT

22-3-24 This is Brexit - Led By Donkeys > .

Starkey Slices & Dices

22-5-8 Crisis Rooted in West's post-1945 "Universal" World Order | David Starkey - ncf > . 

Karens' Narcissociopathic Syndrome

(With apologies to all the nice women whose given names have been appropriated to describe Ultra-Malevolent-Females.) RepuGNicanism (distinct from Republicanism) is a particularly odious manifestation of narcissistic-cum-antisocial personality disorder ...

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GURL, YOU'RE A KAREN - A Randy Rainbow Parody > .

23-4-23 Psychopathy - DW Doc > .

23-1-19 Why psychopaths rise to power | Brian Klaas - Big Think > .

DISrupter-in-Cheat Religion

An odious symptom of USian religio-cognitive dysfunction ... the most despicable candidate to usurp a flawed system

22-3-30 t-RUMP Religion: Could his return spark civil war? | 60 Min > .

22-5-21 Religious Extremists Mix tRUMP Worship With "Christian" Nationalism > .

> Europe >>   

19-6-3 Death of Europe - "Madness of Crowds" [DEI] Douglas Murray - Hoover >> .

Despite Wrong-Wing Propaganda ...

20-7-27 Anti-fascists linked to zero [one] murders in the US in 25 years: As t-RUMP rails against ‘far-left’ fascism, new database shows leftwing attacks have left far fewer people dead than violence by rightwing wrong-wing extremists.

Over the same time period, American white supremacists and other rightwing wrong-wing extremists have carried out attacks that left at least 329 victims dead, according to the database.

More broadly, the database lists 21 victims killed in leftwing attacks since 2010 , and 117 victims of rightwing attacks in that same period – nearly six times as much. Attacks inspired by the Islamic State and similar jihadist groups, in contrast, killed 95 people since 2010, slightly fewer than rightwing wrong-wing extremists, according to the data set. More than half of these victims died in a a single attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016.

20-10-22 Editor’s note: Since this piece was published in July 2020, the data has changed: domestic terrorism experts now link one homicide in the US to a self-described anti-fascist, the first such killing in 25 years.

White supremacists behind majority of US domestic terror attacks in 2020:

White "supremacists" and other rightwing wrong-wing extremists have been responsible for 67% of domestic terror attacks and plots so far this year, with at least half of that violence targeting protesters, according to a new analysis from a centrist thinktank.

The report found only a single deadly “far-left” attack in 2020, the shooting of Aaron Danielson, a rightwing wrong-wing activist, by a self-described “anti-fascist” during a protest in Portland this August. Experts on extremism said this was the first killing linked to an anti-fascist in the United States in 25 years.

Violent rightwing wrong-wing actors were responsible for 41 politically motivated attacks and plots this year, while “far-left” actors were responsible for 12, according to analysts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), who have assembled a database of domestic terror attacks going back to 1994.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/27/in-america-far-right-terrorist-plots-have-outnumbered-far-left-ones-in-2020 .

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/us/michael-reinoehl-killing-investigation.html .

Totalitarian Dystopias

2021 1984 Becoming a Reality? - George Orwell's Warning - Academy > .

Warnings of Totalitarian Dystopia - Not a Jot >> .

23-3-25 Collective Stupidity -- How To Avoid It - Sabine Hossenfelder > .

23-2-8 [Propaganda - Effective Emotional Manipulation] - OBF > .

22-12-17 Fake News, Echo Chambers & Polarization: Social Media - SH > .

22-3-15 Bari Weiss: Post-Mainstream Media, Culture War Battles - Hoover > .
22-5-5 Ukrainian Journalists Fighting Rascist 'Fake News’ > .

22-8-26 How Xina wages an unseen war for strategic influence | FT > .

2021 How Online Conspiracy Groups Compare to Cults | WIRED > .

21st Paranoia Pornographer: Black Pigeon Speaks Spews LIES > .

Paranoia Pornographers - Kraut >> .

Megalomaniacal Sociopathy

Any analyst of geopolitics who ignores the cognitive dysfunction of the "powerful" is doomed to error.

22-3-9 PooTin's Road to War: Julia Ioffe (interview) | PBS Frontline > .

24-12-10 Researchers report stunning surge of misogyny after the election - PBS > .

24-10-22 Democrat vs Republican brain scans - Jack Gordon > .

24-5-25 Why We Cannot [Easily] Stop Dictators - Versed > . 

24-4-28 (Realistic) [Ruscian Demographics & Economy Imploding] - Inside R > .

24-3-31 Dark Nature of Online Trolls - Magee > .

24-2-15 Harvard wins Lifetime Censorship Award - FIRE > .

23-12-17 [Authoritarian Societies] Psychology of Violence (subs) - Katz > .

23-8-29 Dictatorships: From Spin to Fear | Ruscist Regression (subs) - Katz > .

23-2-19 Ruscia's Grand Strategy & Ukraine - P00's geostrategic disaster - P > .

23-4-23 Psychopathy - DW Doc > .

23-1-19 Why psychopaths rise to power | Brian Klaas - Big Think > .

23-1-19 Historian Anne Applebaum - How R-U war will end | DW > .

23-2-18 Critique of Realism - Kraut > .

22-7-27 Rationality, Cooperation, Pooti and the Security of Others - Frog > .

23-2-13 Navalny's Defiant Impact Can Only be Judged in Retrospect - Katz > . 

23-1-19 Kremlin's Bizarre Ideological Mission for 2023 - Vlad > .

22-11-22 Why [the Ruscian Federation] cannot become a democracy - Caspian > .

22-3-16 The Tyrant: Will Vladimir Pootin spark another world war? | 60 Min Aus > .

22-9-22 How many troops can [desperate] Russia really mobilize? - Binkov > .

22-8-22 P00ti’s Secret Neo-Nazi Armies | Decade of Hate | VICE > .

Far Wrong In The US And Europe | The Politics Of Hate (2017) | Full Film > .

Ideological Dysfunction - Bonum V. Mālum >> .

Pootin and the Presidents: Interviews | PBS >> .

Ruscism - Guy Lewis >> .

APD - Antisocial Personality Disorder →

Wrong Wing Polemic

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1978 [Turner Diaries: Dangerous Dystopian Racist Wing SciFi] - Shadows > .

Far Wrong In The US And Europe | The Politics Of Hate (2017) | Full Film > .

~ Bari Weiss: Why DEI Must End For Good - Free Press > .

24-2-15 Harvard wins Lifetime Censorship Award - FIRE > .

24-1-23 “Treason of the Intellectuals”- Niall Ferguson | Uncommon Knowledge > .

The Turner Diaries is a [despicable] 1978 fiction novel by William Luther Pierce, a neo-Nazi and the founder and chairman of National Alliance, a white nationalist group, published under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. The Turner Diaries was originally published in a serial form in the National Alliance publication Attack! between 1975 and 1978, with one chapter released per issue during this period. Enthusiastic reactions among racist sympathizers led Pierce to self-publish the story as a paperback in 1978. The main story was originally set in the 1980s; Pierce changed it to the 1990s when the series was compiled to be published as a book in 1978.

The Turner Diaries depicts a violent revolution in the United States which leads to the overthrow of the federal government, a nuclear war, and ultimately a race war which leads to the systematic extermination of non-whites and Jews. All groups opposed by the novel's protagonist, Earl Turner—including Jews, non-white people, "liberal actors," and politicians—are murdered en masse.

The Anti-Defamation League identified The Turner Diaries as "probably the most widely-read book among far-right extremists; many [of them] have cited it as the inspiration behind their terrorist organizing and activities." The Policy on the Classification of Hate Propaganda, Sedition and Treason of the Canada Border Services Agency has classified The Turner Diaries as hate-propaganda literature that cannot be imported to Canada.

The Turner Diaries was described as being "explicitly racist and anti-Semitic" by The New York Times and has been labeled the "bible of the racist right" by the FBI. The book was greatly influential in shaping white nationalism and the later development of the white genocide conspiracy theory. It has also inspired numerous hate crimes and acts of terrorism, including the 1984 assassination of Alan Berg, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and the 1999 London nail bombings. It is estimated to have influenced perpetrators in over 200 killings.

The phrase "day of the rope" has also become common in white nationalist and alt-right Internet circles, referring to an event in the novel where all "race traitors" are publicly hanged.

Xina's Bullying Diplomacy

Nations' governments can exhibit personality disorders. 60 Minutes Australia obviously realizes that overblown coverage of controversy will attract viewers. China appears to believe that bullying will induce other nations to cooperate. I rather doubt that Xi's odious notion of Wolf-Warrior diplomacy will prove effective, particularly with Australians. 

2021 Prepare for Armageddon: China's warning threat to the world | 60 Min Aus > .

22-11-17 US-Xina-Taiwan relations (G20 2022) - Update > .

22-10-27 Xina is "Pretty Much Screwed" - laowhy86 > .

22-10-25 Xina's Q3 details - Update > .

22-10-24 Xina's Ailing Q3 Economy | Li Qiang - Update > .

22-10-18 Xi absolute power through Party Constitution and XXP princelings - Lei > .

22-10-20 XiXiPee Congress Final Day - Hu Jintao "Removed" - Update > .

22-10-20 XiXiPee Congress Day 3 - Update > .

22-10-18 XiXiPee Congress Day 2 - Update > .

22-10-17 XiXiPee Congress Day 1 - Update > .

22-9-9 No, China is Not A Peaceful Nation - laowhy86 > .

22-8-26 How Xina wages an unseen war for strategic influence | FT > .

22-8-24 How Dare You Question China's Military! - cfc > .

22-4-7 Fair-Weather Buddies Xίna not supporting PoooTin in Ukraine - VisPol > .

2021 Aggressive, Embarrassing - China's "Wolf Warrior" Diplomats - laowhy86 > .

2021 War with China: Are we closer than we think? | 60 Min Aus > .

2021 Hong Kong is being beaten into submission by China's regime | 60 Min Aus > .

2021 Former journalist on fight for free speech in Hong Kong | 60 Min Aus > .

2021 Gao: Nuclear subs deal means Australia will be 'targeted’ | ABC News > .

2021 Xi Jinping’s Dilemma | Dr John Lee on China - geopop > .

2020 Is China taking over the South Pacific? | 60 Min Aus > .

21-12-14 CCP recruiting, training Wumaos - Focus > .

22-2-14 Arrogant Bullying Punishment of China's Enemies - VP > . skip ad > .

22-3-2 Has China Been Played by Putin on Ukraine? - TLDR > .

22-3-2 China Wants Ukraine War! Celebrates Invasion Online! - serpentza > .

22-3-1 Chinese and Russian Propaganda are Joining Forces - cfc > .

22-3-12 China Is Already at (Hybrid) War With America - Uncensored > .

Ideological Dysfunction - Bonum V. Mālum >> .

GSI - Global Security Initiative - X ⇼

Χίna ➾ Taiwan 2022 ⇼

"The message coming out of China is getting louder by the day. It doesn't like other countries, especially Australia, ganging up and meddling in its affairs. As we know Beijing is currently doing its best to punish us economically, but in the last few days President Xi Jinping has also ratcheted up the rhetoric by warning of the perils of a new cold war. A loose translation is if we don't stop poking the panda, we'll face serious consequences. Now it's worth taking the threat seriously because Xi controls the largest military force in the world, and as one of his supporters cautions tonight, the cost of conflict with China could be Armageddon."

Victor Zhikai Gao (born 1962) is a Chinese international relations expert and translator. He is a Director of the China National Association of International Studies and an Executive Director of Beijing Private Equity Association. He is best known for his position as the late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping's translator and currently an international expert on Chinese issues. Victor Gao is the vice president of the Center for China and Globalization.

The Center for China and Globalization (CCG) is a Chinese think tank based in Beijing. It was founded in 2008 by a committee of the Western Returned Scholars Association, an organization under the United Front Work Department. CCG is a member of an alliance of think tanks, coordinated by the International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party, that support the Belt and Road Initiative. [Meaning that Gao's posturing threats of "nuclear Armageddon" are party approved. I suspect that Australian media might be using this smug little martinet to stir up anti-Chinese sentiment.]

How the BuyBull dictates Crook-in-Chief's ME policy

How BuyBull Twisters shape the Authoritarian IDiot's ME policy > .

Where ignorance reigns "supreme"

Opening a Country With a Closed Mind > . 

22-5-21 Religious Extremists Mix tRUMP Worship With "Christian" Nationalism > .

The developing world and America demonstrate that religiosity is inversely proportional to educational levels.

Americans poison themselves after DUH’s ‘disinfectant injection’ suggestion > .  

Free Hearts Free Minds (Escaping Islam) ..

America's Truth!

21-8-5 America's Truth! - Pie > .

24-2-15 Harvard wins Lifetime Censorship Award - FIRE > .