China Steps Into The Abyss

This is scary. Very scary. 

China’s Communist government is rolling out a plan to assign everyone in the country “citizenship scores.” According to the ACLU, “China appears to be leveraging all the tools of the information age—electronic purchasing data, social networks, algorithmic sorting—to construct the ultimate tool of social control. It is, as one commentator put it, ‘authoritarianism, gamified.’ ” In the system, everyone is measured by a score ranging from 350 to 950, and that score is linked to a national ID card. In addition to measuring your financial credit, it will also measure political compliance. Expressing the wrong opinion—or merely having friends who express the wrong opinion—will hurt your score. The higher your score, the more privileges the government will grant you.

Everything we email, post on FB, instagram, twitter, everything we post on this forum and others...the state knows us. Big Brother is watching. Could this happen here? Political scores for what? The privilege of buying a house or car? Of having vacation time? Having a child? Or even...buying food? And water?

The whole thing sends a shiver down my spine.

Nice Shirt

Did you hear about the black Miami Dolphins safety who dared to express a thought?  The poor guy was beat to the ground by the NFL and the Dolphin organization for expressing an opinion on Twitter. When the openly gay, nominally talented Michael Sam was drafted by the Rams at the very, very, very end of the draft, Sam planted a liplock on his beau, with the ESPN cameras zooming in for a close up of the momentous event.  Don Jones, the black safety from Miami, tweeted "OMG!" and "Horrible!". Did I mention that Don Jones is black? Well, Michael Sam is too, and this is helpful in establishing the ground rules of thought crime. Black gay trumps black straight.

Actually, I'm beginning to think that gay is the ace of hearts in the thought crime deck. The media is cray cray over anything and everything that smacks of gayness or rainbows. 1-3% of the population, depending on who you ask, is gay. How can such a small minority drive the national agenda to the point of ostricization and real-world consequences for not bowing to the rainbow god?  This is a good question that no one ever asks. Maybe they don't want to know. Maybe they're afraid to ask.

It's really too bad that Don Sterling isn't gay. His "racism" may have landed him a much softer fall from grace, and perhaps he would be able to keep the team he's built. But no. Sterling is white, Sterling is a Jew, and the players are mostly black. The thought police will wrest his team away and award it to....wait for it...black owners. Because black. Because da Joooos have all the money.

Most people stood idly with their hands in their pockets when white guy quarterback Tim Tebow was viciously torn limb-from-limb for daring to verbalize his Christian beliefs. The media whipped themselves into a frenzy, with Tebow's blood dripping from their snarling snouts. It was, quoting  Don Jones, "horrible". Even after the ESPN hyenas ripped him out of the NFL, the attacks continued. I can deduce from this that white Christian men are the deuce of clubs in the thought-crime deck.

Here is a soft tomato for the "tolerance" and "inclusion" crowd; you get bonus points if you splat a Christian or a Jew in the face. By the way, nice rainbow shirt, bro.