tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post408616999873512028..comments2024-03-29T00:24:13.128-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Life in Post-Truth AmericaDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-20076185185507271232014-12-29T15:29:32.987-05:002014-12-29T15:29:32.987-05:00It's not a justice system that the destruction...It's not a justice system that the destruction of truth makes impossible. Without truth you can't have such a thing as a contract. You can't have a job, or a marriage, or children, or any property at all. You can't get a patent or an invention or write a newspaper article. It is the dead end of civilization to abandon truth. Without it we are just hairless apes scratching in the dirt for roots.Brian Yoderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10570592912380834276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-82925720144111026052014-12-29T13:07:07.925-05:002014-12-29T13:07:07.925-05:00And how can we expect a justice system to work in ...And how can we expect a justice system to work in a country where there is no such thing as fact?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8659640804985000452014-12-20T08:37:54.603-05:002014-12-20T08:37:54.603-05:00We need a pithy number sticker and hand gesture? H...We need a pithy number sticker and hand gesture? Hands up, I'm gullible? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-25077699625191587972014-12-20T08:35:55.666-05:002014-12-20T08:35:55.666-05:00It's easy to spot the lies. When they are talk...It's easy to spot the lies. When they are talking, they are lying. The more outrage, the bigger the lie, because volume trumps truth every time in a 24 hour news cycle. Not just limited to progs, it is some sickness that comes with political power. The "greater good" is all that matters. That the greater good is NEVER defined.... Saddest part is that the purveyors of this sickness are the least moral creatures on the planet. They aren't very smart either, just possessed of a great willingness to do the bidding of the adversary. Our job is to call out the lie, to not comply. Laugh at the hands up and other mindless gestures and give them the ridicule such infantile manipulation deserves. If they aren't in charge, they are just mind numbed members of the death cult, after all, this,ends in death.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-48175590516926476412014-12-18T01:54:39.760-05:002014-12-18T01:54:39.760-05:00Oh, wow, it's been that long since that man wa...Oh, wow, it's been that long since that man wagged his finger in our faces and talked to us like we were stupid children? I remember the moment so clearly! I wasn't very politically aware at that time. But even then, I KNEW I was being lied to by this man. I knew he was playing word games. I remembering feeling so insulted and angry at his condescending tone and that finger wagging. I remember thinking what a liar, what an evil man this was.<br /><br />And Clinton's an angel compared to the man sitting in the White House today.<br /><br />Every world of this article is gold. I am so glad someone else understands this and sees it. <br /><br />We long ago gave up on the notion of truth. "Everyone has their own truth" has been the mantra of our culture for years now. That's what you get when everyone has their own truth! Lena Dunham says she was raped by some Republican guy called Barry. That's "her truth". Whether it actually happened is irrelevant. The same with all the other examples you listed. <br /><br />Michael Brown was an innocent black man murdered by a white cop, while he was surrendering, for no other reason than because of he was black. Every bit of that sentence is factually false. Michael Brown was not innocent. He was not surrendering. He was not murdered. (Justifiable taking of a life in self defense is not murder.) And Officer Wilson did not kill him because he was black.<br /><br />But none of these facts matter. All that matters is that people "feel" it's true, and so it's their truth. And therefore it can never be questioned.<br /><br />How can you even REASON with people like this? I type until my fingers literally hurt sometimes, trying to set the record straight with facts. None of it ever matters, because no one cares about truth anymore. They don't even believe truth exists.<br /><br />What do you DO at that point? Monoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-82764091777418152582014-12-17T15:49:55.804-05:002014-12-17T15:49:55.804-05:00Brilliant, as usual. I thought back then when Cli...Brilliant, as usual. I thought back then when Clinton lied to the nation, that it would take a generation, to feel the effects on truth. <br /><br />And here we are...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-42521142543671007252014-12-17T15:17:41.439-05:002014-12-17T15:17:41.439-05:00Don't forget Kant. This is precisely his view...Don't forget Kant. This is precisely his view of truth in action.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10654146880228178474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-20207824972270705942014-12-17T09:13:01.174-05:002014-12-17T09:13:01.174-05:00It's actually worse than mere lying:
On Bulls...It's actually worse than mere lying:<br /><br /><a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7929.html" rel="nofollow">On Bullshit<br />Harry G. Frankfurt</a><br /><br />The driving dynamic is overselection for abstract-thinking aptitude leading to Gnosticism. The cure:<br /><br /><a href="http://qz.com/180247/why-google-doesnt-care-about-hiring-top-college-graduates/?utm_source=fb1205_5" rel="nofollow">Why Google doesn’t care about hiring top college graduates</a>Desideriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12068424457665874295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-67010607771287344002014-12-17T06:35:40.467-05:002014-12-17T06:35:40.467-05:00Lying politcians are nothing new but I agree that ...Lying politcians are nothing new but I agree that the Clinton lie was the catalyst for a new era of ethical degradation and moral relativism. Others might point to the Viet Nam war. My mother in law used to blame it on the Beatles.topshothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02940310323787453055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-62250033417373291232014-12-17T02:01:11.303-05:002014-12-17T02:01:11.303-05:00This goes 'way back, to the academic deconstru...This goes 'way back, to the academic deconstructionists who teach that there is no truth, only narrative, and before them to Marx and Nietzsche and the privileging of "revolutionary truth" over factual/historical truth. Progressives have been immersed in this stuff for 100 years. Once you accept that there are no facts as such and that whatever helps you get your way is true, you are capable of anything. It seems that the leadership of the Democratic Party has reached that point.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05957553963422292205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-77475457847524543552014-12-16T13:22:46.875-05:002014-12-16T13:22:46.875-05:00Spend enough time marinating in the Left's alt...Spend enough time marinating in the Left's alternate reality and you can empathize with poor Lou Costello, faced with Bud Abbott's verbal meanderings.<br /><br />It makes their skit crystal clear in comparison. (Did you know that they somehow overlooked naming the guy in Right Field? On the other hand, perhaps WE are all just political "Right" fielders, forever wondering Who's on First....)Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10988194376723420616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-85547568633337306442014-12-16T11:35:17.588-05:002014-12-16T11:35:17.588-05:00You guys in in such deep denial you don't even...You guys in in such deep denial you don't even have an inkling of your love of lies. The left is wrong on social issue but if you think the right does lie about economic issues you are a delusional lover of liesNorthern Observerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17045356734818450229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-67269723986085523242014-12-16T11:30:27.388-05:002014-12-16T11:30:27.388-05:00Your eloquent analysis is spot on. Your explanati...Your eloquent analysis is spot on. Your explanation of their lieing for a greater purpose exactly defines the elitist mindset. The end justifies the means. The only means to accomplish their utopian society is to put forth a. Godless ideology, contradictory to truth and freedoms bestowed by the God. A frightening scenario of a world given over to a Godless neophyte who rises from obscurity was written in 1906 by Robert Hugh Benson, "Lord of the World" a must read. How a writer in 1906 could have had the insight to describe Obama, his cult of personality is amazing, prophetic and scarey. You will be convinced we are at a crossroads and we are on the right side of history.Tjspeakshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14967414707286571075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-46387052429097735542014-12-16T11:18:39.075-05:002014-12-16T11:18:39.075-05:00Since I was in Vietnam and Johnson stopped bombing...Since I was in Vietnam and Johnson stopped bombing the North while we still had men getting killed, I haven't believed one thing the government says or does. They are all rich people getting richer and we are little people (Ginsberg called us that) and we just don't matter. Clintons are some of the biggest criminals this country has ever seen. She should have been tarred and feathered for saying they were poor when they left the White House. What a joke. It's impossible anymore to tell what is true and not true. The bad part is most people in America can't find their state on a map.We're pretty much screwed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09518677967627217789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-90304851628727031002014-12-16T10:13:57.482-05:002014-12-16T10:13:57.482-05:00Congresswoman Holmes-Norton, when asked about whet...Congresswoman Holmes-Norton, when asked about whether she read the evidence in the Michael Brown (Ferguson, Mo.) case said "I did not, and that is not a concern". - this after doing the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" (w/ other members of the Congressional Black Caucus) stunt on the floor of the House of Representatives.<br /><br />But, hey, they have a hand gesture now, which always seems important for their type of movement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-61499864600397383742014-12-16T01:02:35.830-05:002014-12-16T01:02:35.830-05:00No one goes after Obama (comment above) because 50...No one goes after Obama (comment above) because 50% of the government likes what he is doing and the other 50% is afraid of being called racists.GunnyGhttp://www.theantiliberalzone.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-47815234333775477272014-12-15T23:36:26.669-05:002014-12-15T23:36:26.669-05:00Hands up!
I can't think.Hands up!<br />I can't think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-27276837458943907782014-12-15T23:21:52.040-05:002014-12-15T23:21:52.040-05:00"Why is Obama reading and executing on books ..."Why is Obama reading and executing on books written by Adolph Hitler?"<br />Because fascism and socialism are two sides of the same coin. They have the same agenda, just a slightly different path to get there.Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-62799840358776045852014-12-15T18:10:34.489-05:002014-12-15T18:10:34.489-05:00proggtardia explainedproggtardia explainedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-73453151542001383452014-12-15T15:35:59.864-05:002014-12-15T15:35:59.864-05:00It was written about in the book "Mein Kampf:...It was written about in the book "Mein Kampf:" Tell a simple lie, keep repeating the lie, eventually people will believe the lie. Why is Obama reading and executing on books written by Adolph Hitler? Rex Crouchhttp://rexcrouch.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-12346800879623684742014-12-15T15:07:03.125-05:002014-12-15T15:07:03.125-05:00Hands up, don't shoot!Hands up, don't shoot!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-80447631762814350322014-12-15T13:46:25.318-05:002014-12-15T13:46:25.318-05:00Thanks for the article.
The hallmarks of the Left...Thanks for the article.<br /><br />The hallmarks of the Left are:<br /><br />Subjectivism - There are no values or morality. Everything is a matter of opinion.<br /><br />Multicuturalism - No culture is superior to any other. Therefore, the West with its emphasis on freedom and individual rights is no different than either socialism with its emphasis on malevolence, violence, and obedience to Left wing authority, or Islam with its emphasis on outright slavery and death.<br /><br />Political Correctness - Since in speaking one's mind, one might hurt someone else's feelings, the government must regulate, or abolish, freedom of speech.<br /><br />In that context, it's not surprising that the Left embraces and practices lying at every opportunity.<br /><br />They have nothing else to offer and no place to go but evasion and deceit.Doug Mayfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14620167852028046807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-40537722766459194952014-12-15T13:09:34.744-05:002014-12-15T13:09:34.744-05:00The wolves you pretend aren't there may eat yo...The wolves you pretend aren't there may eat you anyway. <br /><br />Another great analysis. Thank you, Daniel. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-66815656228245235162014-12-15T11:15:32.896-05:002014-12-15T11:15:32.896-05:00This is one of the best among many. Terrific anal...This is one of the best among many. Terrific analysis and I have liberally borrowed your phrase "the deconstruction of reality," because that is what is going on in this world where evil is good, lies are true and perception is reality. Thank You. You are brave and brilliant.meggy8868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-58131959134422868672014-12-15T11:15:30.525-05:002014-12-15T11:15:30.525-05:00Is there any coincidence that many of the leftist ...Is there any coincidence that many of the leftist strongholds are also in the more corporate areas of the country. Manhattan can be absurdly leftist. It also has people whose daily lives is lying because the corporations they serve are big enough to remove personal responsibility in favor of responsibility to the organization. The same people who are shipping jobs offshore because it creates a momentary bump in the balance sheet so they can pump and dump stocks while ruining the company's ability to produce are the same people who pretend to care oh so much about income inequality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com