They're afraid we're making fun of them, because we are. We must continue to mock them with memes, sarcasm, and humor at every opportunity, despite the censorship. Otherwise these humorless pricks will start to control our very thoughts.
Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do - will destroy them.
The most famous one was in Peel Region (western suburb of Toronto). Defenders will claim the date is arbitrary, and just a guideline to remove books that are either poorly circulated, or in the case of those that are popular, likely to be in tatters.
The same board, however, is known to have adopted the woke/DIE ideology in other aspects of its operation.
The FBI's stopped publishing crime statistics broken down by race and race of victim that year, too. The thought police are trying to erase anything which is in any way counter to their narrative, which is, of course, everything.
You need to give more details, ( links? More specifics?) including which exact school district. Otherwise we have no way to ascertain the accuracy of your statement. Thank you.
I still have Tommy Robinson’s books on my Kindle and Peter MCullough and John Leakes’s books and RFK’s books. Mostly these bans are reversed and you can leave negative reviews in a good reads without being cancelled.
Absolutely! I was banned from reviewing after I accused Amazon of and condemned them for altering a publication from the past by removing a chapter about The Elders of Zion - which they had done! I have an original copy and the chapter was missing from the new one ordered. Bezos didn't want his methods known the shady bastard
If history is the narrative of what has happened, they are indeed creating it. If history is the truth of what has happened in the past, they are definitely trying their best to obliterate that.
Which is ironic since the owner of Amazon also owns the paper with the motto Democracy Dies in the Darkness. Someone should let Jeff Bezos' newspaper know that its getting darker and darker over there at Jeff Bezos' internet store.
Amazon is my last resort for anything purchased anymore. I dislike everything they stand for and will put in the time and effort to find area-focused competitors when I can. The only time I really can't avoid them is on cheap mass-produced Chinese products that I have occasional need for.
Some. But the"Western culture" you're talking about there, isn't. Today's "culture" is a perversion of the one left us by the disciples of Jesus Christ.
For the moment it seems that only Amazon.de is blocking reviews -- you can currently make reviews (of the German edition, as well as the translations) on Amazon.com, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, Amazon.es, and no doubt others.
we can watch if the others will block critical reviews as well. That will give us a bit of a hint which countries are honest about their no - block promise.
These people are so fragile. They all share one thing in common. They're so lacking in self-awareness that their brains are incapable of asking the most simple question when analyzing someone elses opinion:
What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
In other words, we live in a society that has selected against wisdom.
Because of this, none of them can see that wisdom grows in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.
"we live in a society that has selected against wisdom"
Actually, RG, if your reference is to our would-be our lords and masters, we have somehow established that perceptible displays of "wisdom" are no longer permitted.
Only irrational, out and out stupidity is acceptable.
Thus do they eliminate every vestige of self awareness.
Update: there's now one 1-star review on the UK site. Short & sweet, & rounded off with an excellent piece of advice:
"How the first woman Chancellor of Germany, in office for four terms and a popular leader, has managed to write a biography of such banality is difficult to comprehend. She betrays no narrative skills whatsoever and provides no reflection of her time in office. She also shows no real appreciation of historical context or how to engage her readership. Give it a miss!"
Rather than chalking this action by Amazon as "business as usual" in our current climate where the voice of the people is supressed, censored, and deplatformed, we should all acknowledge that we are in the fight of our lives. As control of opinion slips from the desperate hands of those "in control," this will only get worse unless we take notice and fight against it. Thanks for leading this effort, eugyppius.
After the last 4+ years of scamdemic (and unbelievably still ongoing) people should clearly be able to see how dangerous censorship really is... look at how many people ended up willingly poisoning themselves with a bioweapon on account of being blocked access to information that would/could have helped them avoid the poison darts.
That is one way that censorship kills, but now imagine in the near future, when they have even more or total censorship control over information, how they would be able to go into areas and wreak havoc without anyone outside that area knowing about it (think of the Carolinas, so far there are independent outlets able to put out news of what is happening there, but soon these information sources could also be squelshed, as the ruling oligarchs are hard at work trying to accomplish with new legislations).
Although, does it really matter if they are able to suppress information of their wrongdoings or not, considering the state of complacency of the general populace?
There is no lack of information and evidence of the global bioweapon democide and the ongoing injuries caused by the injections, and there are plenty of doctors talking about the ongoing immunosuppression and autoimmunity pathogenesis that is going to lead to large waves of more injury and death in the coming decade, but amazingly everyone seems to think that we are going "back to normal" and so few seem to feel an urgent need to address the ongoing stealth WWIII ongoing democide that is not stopping despite its exposure for all to see. WTF???
I am dismayed by the dumbing down of so many. Oh they can hold jobs like good little soldiers. Lacking is the depth of thought, logic, coping skills, new ideas to help crawl out of this mess. We've really got a problem if the mentality of the representation of the other half of voters on bluesky is any indication.
Norman Dodd was the chief investigator in 1953 for the Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations (commonly referred to as the Reece Committee) and explains their efforts at destroying the American Constitutional Republic.
Two interesting quotes coming from the tax-exempt foundations' own documents:
"We shall use our grant-making power so to alter life in the United States that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union."
"The future of this country belongs to Collectivism, administered with characteristic American efficiency."
Mr. Dodd also goes on to describe how the foundations, after having failed to corrupt Charles and Mary Beard, two of the most per-eminent historians of the period, went on to "create their own stable of historians".
Another article here explaining some of the shenanigans played with American education:
Be thankful. It's this bubble wrapping of center-left discourse that got Trump elected. The blob is simply unable to understand what normal people are thinking.
We suffer here in Canada where his eminence trudeau can't understand why the citizenry is revolting.
I would not permit Canada to join the Union, unfortunately. Canada, as the largest state, would have the most electoral votes, and I fear your votes would go to far-left presidential candidates. Maybe we could admit your heartland provinces and territories, excluding Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia.
You understand. But yes, take us Albertans. Alberta is the Texas of the north. We are conservative, free market, freedom loving, fiercely independent, and we have oil. LOTS of oil. There are significant numbers of us who are sick to desperation of the treatment the elites down East foist on us. They screw us endlessly. But if you ever get the likes of a Kamala Harris or A.O.C as President I don't want in; they are even worse than Justin Trudeau ... if that is possible.
FREIHEIT. It reminds me of the projected light message on the shaft of the TV tower of one German city (perhaps Leipzig, but not sure) In 2021. IMPFUNG=FREIHEIT. VACCINE=FREEDOM. That freedom is the one Merkel is writting about, I guess.
On a brighter note, my own book - a unique phenomenological critique of modernity through the lens of economics, grounded in Thomism - just passed 300 pages of finished manuscript and is more than half done. It will be finished sometime in the second quarter of 2025. If eugyppius ever deigns to review it, I am sure he will find it a much more enjoyable way to spend a week.
It’s a nice reminder that Amazon is in the censorship game.
Amazon did the same thing for Renee Diresta's book, unironically called "Invisible Rulers". She is a censorship Stasi AWFL like Merkel who ran the Stanford Internet Observatory. Censoring critiques of censorship is Progress! https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/invisible-rulers-renee-diresta-book-review
When queried for the reason for recently (finally) cancelling my WSJ subscription, I entered Renee DiResta’s name in the column marked ‘Other’.
right on. they're in the game of obliterating history.
There is a school district in the USA that removing any book published prior to 2008 for 'equity'.
Unreal.
The past is not a burden, it's a toolkit to shape the future.
Its always the same throughout history; if you don't learn history (or are taught false history), you have no future...but also no past.
What they are afraid that people will learn from history, is that they are being taken advantage of by the same old con game.
They're afraid we're making fun of them, because we are. We must continue to mock them with memes, sarcasm, and humor at every opportunity, despite the censorship. Otherwise these humorless pricks will start to control our very thoughts.
Exactly.
exactly. that's why it's far better to read things from a century or millennium earlier and know that all those same things are happening now too.
Precisely
Interesting, as the same is happening in some school board libraries in Ontario, Canada......right down to the same year 2008.
To avoid being called a conspiracy theorist, I will chalk that up to "coincidence".
The education curriculum in Ontario was seized by the Trotskyites as early as the 1960s. I know, I attended OISE.
Just modern left NPCs that all think the same.
Nuance is not in their vocabulary.
It is to the extent they want to eliminate nuance
They want to eliminate context, without which nothing makes any sense at all.
everything has to be reduced to a binary - ism and anti-ism... except human sex, that isn't a binary.
Bible - New International Version: Jude 1:10
Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do - will destroy them.
We will destroy them with nuance!
Do you know which boards are doing this in Ontario?
The most famous one was in Peel Region (western suburb of Toronto). Defenders will claim the date is arbitrary, and just a guideline to remove books that are either poorly circulated, or in the case of those that are popular, likely to be in tatters.
The same board, however, is known to have adopted the woke/DIE ideology in other aspects of its operation.
Same deal/processes in Aussie Local Grubberment "Council" Areas, aka LGAs.
They would be better off removing all books published AFTER 2008.
exactly right!
The FBI's stopped publishing crime statistics broken down by race and race of victim that year, too. The thought police are trying to erase anything which is in any way counter to their narrative, which is, of course, everything.
I remember hearing that story on the agenda earlier this year. It happened in Canada as well.
Too bad you didnt NAME the school district, now I don't know if its the one I live in
good grief
I'm familiar with that story, and find it breathtaking.
You need to give more details, ( links? More specifics?) including which exact school district. Otherwise we have no way to ascertain the accuracy of your statement. Thank you.
It’s actually a school district in Canada, not the US
I still have Tommy Robinson’s books on my Kindle and Peter MCullough and John Leakes’s books and RFK’s books. Mostly these bans are reversed and you can leave negative reviews in a good reads without being cancelled.
Absolutely! I was banned from reviewing after I accused Amazon of and condemned them for altering a publication from the past by removing a chapter about The Elders of Zion - which they had done! I have an original copy and the chapter was missing from the new one ordered. Bezos didn't want his methods known the shady bastard
The same man who paid for the most expensive divorce in history, and didn't even upgrade.
If history is the narrative of what has happened, they are indeed creating it. If history is the truth of what has happened in the past, they are definitely trying their best to obliterate that.
Very well said, Mitch.
Which is ironic since the owner of Amazon also owns the paper with the motto Democracy Dies in the Darkness. Someone should let Jeff Bezos' newspaper know that its getting darker and darker over there at Jeff Bezos' internet store.
Amazon is my last resort for anything purchased anymore. I dislike everything they stand for and will put in the time and effort to find area-focused competitors when I can. The only time I really can't avoid them is on cheap mass-produced Chinese products that I have occasional need for.
For books I look to original publishers and other sources, not Amazon, like even Barnes & Noble.
For books from Mises Institute, I order from mises.org, even though they link to Amazon
They get a percentage I think, that way, but I prefer the direct way.
They all are. Even the ones who say they aren't. _Especially_ those ones
You mean, like SubStack?
I am sure they are. Once you have a reputation for not censoring, you have a lot of leeway to skew things at the margins without people noticing
🎯
All Western 'culture' is social engineering by evil idiots.
I disagree. Some Western 'culture' is social engineering by evil geniuses.
Some. But the"Western culture" you're talking about there, isn't. Today's "culture" is a perversion of the one left us by the disciples of Jesus Christ.
Indeed, all the modern Western world's elite is in the 'censorship' game: [https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/heresy]
[https://www.kritischegesellschaftsforschung.de/Journal/Article/65/50/pdf]
[https://freeblackthought.substack.com/p/event-censorship-in-the-sciences]
For the moment it seems that only Amazon.de is blocking reviews -- you can currently make reviews (of the German edition, as well as the translations) on Amazon.com, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, Amazon.es, and no doubt others.
This suggests that it was the German government leaning on Amazon to block reviews by Germans in Germany.
we can watch if the others will block critical reviews as well. That will give us a bit of a hint which countries are honest about their no - block promise.
These people are so fragile. They all share one thing in common. They're so lacking in self-awareness that their brains are incapable of asking the most simple question when analyzing someone elses opinion:
What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
In other words, we live in a society that has selected against wisdom.
Because of this, none of them can see that wisdom grows in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.
"we live in a society that has selected against wisdom"
Actually, RG, if your reference is to our would-be our lords and masters, we have somehow established that perceptible displays of "wisdom" are no longer permitted.
Only irrational, out and out stupidity is acceptable.
Thus do they eliminate every vestige of self awareness.
Wisdom is elitist!
I'm well aware that I'm a complete fool, and therefore must be very wise. Ryan, I believe you might even be a bigger fool then me.
Maybe we're just both on the same fool's errand?!...;)
There is a much simpler way of putting that - a four-letter word; E V I L.
'the most simple question when analyzing someone elses opinion: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?'
Good advice which should be shared widely.
I hope I passed that test with that comment!....lolol
Aaaahh!HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!HAHAHAHA!!!!
Dear Amazon: Please disappear the hurty words and the bad thoughts.
Sincerely, your subservient Mother
More like Your domineering Mother.
Well, self-hagiography is the best, ain't it? Little danger of that saucy wench Truth crashing the party.
"... that saucy wench Truth ..."
Heh! I like your turn of phrase; I'm having that.
Credit to Ryan Gardner from yesterday's threads.
Wir schaffen das!
On Amazon.co.uk there are zero customer reviews, but a 5-star rating.
Update: there's now one 1-star review on the UK site. Short & sweet, & rounded off with an excellent piece of advice:
"How the first woman Chancellor of Germany, in office for four terms and a popular leader, has managed to write a biography of such banality is difficult to comprehend. She betrays no narrative skills whatsoever and provides no reflection of her time in office. She also shows no real appreciation of historical context or how to engage her readership. Give it a miss!"
It sounds like she wasn't even present for her own chancellorship. She seems to be a non-entity.
Surely the woman could have hired a ghost writer - or a decent editor!
Proving yet again that the Amazon rating system is one of the great mysteries of our time.
It's no mystery. Money goes in but never comes out. Simple business model.
Rather than chalking this action by Amazon as "business as usual" in our current climate where the voice of the people is supressed, censored, and deplatformed, we should all acknowledge that we are in the fight of our lives. As control of opinion slips from the desperate hands of those "in control," this will only get worse unless we take notice and fight against it. Thanks for leading this effort, eugyppius.
After the last 4+ years of scamdemic (and unbelievably still ongoing) people should clearly be able to see how dangerous censorship really is... look at how many people ended up willingly poisoning themselves with a bioweapon on account of being blocked access to information that would/could have helped them avoid the poison darts.
That is one way that censorship kills, but now imagine in the near future, when they have even more or total censorship control over information, how they would be able to go into areas and wreak havoc without anyone outside that area knowing about it (think of the Carolinas, so far there are independent outlets able to put out news of what is happening there, but soon these information sources could also be squelshed, as the ruling oligarchs are hard at work trying to accomplish with new legislations).
Although, does it really matter if they are able to suppress information of their wrongdoings or not, considering the state of complacency of the general populace?
There is no lack of information and evidence of the global bioweapon democide and the ongoing injuries caused by the injections, and there are plenty of doctors talking about the ongoing immunosuppression and autoimmunity pathogenesis that is going to lead to large waves of more injury and death in the coming decade, but amazingly everyone seems to think that we are going "back to normal" and so few seem to feel an urgent need to address the ongoing stealth WWIII ongoing democide that is not stopping despite its exposure for all to see. WTF???
I am dismayed by the dumbing down of so many. Oh they can hold jobs like good little soldiers. Lacking is the depth of thought, logic, coping skills, new ideas to help crawl out of this mess. We've really got a problem if the mentality of the representation of the other half of voters on bluesky is any indication.
https://odysee.com/@N1755L:7/NormanDoddOnTax-ExemptFoundations
Norman Dodd was the chief investigator in 1953 for the Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations (commonly referred to as the Reece Committee) and explains their efforts at destroying the American Constitutional Republic.
Two interesting quotes coming from the tax-exempt foundations' own documents:
"We shall use our grant-making power so to alter life in the United States that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union."
"The future of this country belongs to Collectivism, administered with characteristic American efficiency."
Mr. Dodd also goes on to describe how the foundations, after having failed to corrupt Charles and Mary Beard, two of the most per-eminent historians of the period, went on to "create their own stable of historians".
Another article here explaining some of the shenanigans played with American education:
https://www.faithchristianmin.org/2010/07/the-education-bloc/
These people have been deliberately, systematically dumbed down, indeed.
Please take note of our next President's sage words (aka badass threat): https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/trump-fires-warning-shot-at-censorship
Be thankful. It's this bubble wrapping of center-left discourse that got Trump elected. The blob is simply unable to understand what normal people are thinking.
We suffer here in Canada where his eminence trudeau can't understand why the citizenry is revolting.
I think Trudeau perfectly understands that the citizenry is revolting. That's why he hates them so much 🤣
"King, the peasants are revolting!"
"I know, they should take a shower some time"
How do you feel about becoming the 51st state (she asks jokingly)? Seriously, Trump is a hoot!
YES PLEASE AND TWICE ON SUNDAYS!
I would not permit Canada to join the Union, unfortunately. Canada, as the largest state, would have the most electoral votes, and I fear your votes would go to far-left presidential candidates. Maybe we could admit your heartland provinces and territories, excluding Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia.
You understand. But yes, take us Albertans. Alberta is the Texas of the north. We are conservative, free market, freedom loving, fiercely independent, and we have oil. LOTS of oil. There are significant numbers of us who are sick to desperation of the treatment the elites down East foist on us. They screw us endlessly. But if you ever get the likes of a Kamala Harris or A.O.C as President I don't want in; they are even worse than Justin Trudeau ... if that is possible.
Justin Pierre James Trudeau anagrams to 're due premier juju Satanist'.
AOC has the word 'satanical' in her full name and Kamala has 'Devil'. Not much to chose betweem them.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/silly-saturday-sovietk-turdo-the?utm_source=publication-search
I forgot. Take Saskatchewan too. They are almost like Alberta.
FREIHEIT. It reminds me of the projected light message on the shaft of the TV tower of one German city (perhaps Leipzig, but not sure) In 2021. IMPFUNG=FREIHEIT. VACCINE=FREEDOM. That freedom is the one Merkel is writting about, I guess.
I was thinking the freedom reference was more allusion to "Arbeit Macht Frei”.
Mmm, could also be true!
Or Arbeit, Freiheit Und Brot
It makes sense — refuse the jab and they’ll take away your freedom freedom
To be fair, review bombing is rapidly approaching Mutually Assured Destruction these days.
See: the case where Goodreads suspended reviews because Ukrainophiles made an astroturfed attack on a fiction book that had a Russian cosmonaut in it (two in fact): https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/goodreads-suspends-ratings-after
Exactly. It's in the nature of Homo sapiens to game any system, which is why we can't have nice things.
I was really pissed about the case of Orbital.
I’m going to try and comment from the US side 😊
Have you read the book?
No I haven’t but I submitted a comment as if I did lol- I included her legacy of censorship and open immigration 😄but it needs to approved first
let us know if it worked. sometimes they don't allow comments if you did not buy the book. if it goes through I will post one too LOL.
It’s currently under review- but some other one star reviews have suddenly been posted!
Currently has 21 reviews in total with an average 2.5 stars.
yep...but guessing it's the same here....
Is there such a word as “autohagiography”?
She puts the 'hag' in autohagiography
Ah thank you, I have been looking for good anagrams of her full name, Angela Dorothea Merkel.
eek a troller, a demon hag
Genius!!
I think that sums it up perfectly
There is now. It's so good id trademark it.
"I’m hard at work reading it. Yes, I am going to review it"
Your tolerance for pain, dear fellow, is astonishing.
On a brighter note, my own book - a unique phenomenological critique of modernity through the lens of economics, grounded in Thomism - just passed 300 pages of finished manuscript and is more than half done. It will be finished sometime in the second quarter of 2025. If eugyppius ever deigns to review it, I am sure he will find it a much more enjoyable way to spend a week.
Vrouw aan het stuur, bloed aan de muur. (Woman behind the wheel, blood on the wall.) Very woman unfriendly Dutch saying, but in this case very true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR8k3N6S5P4 great meme