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ATTENTION BEARS

Do NOT respond to an email that looks like it is from Owen. The Reddit Gammas are trying to harvest your email addresses in order to harass you by sending out emails that appear to be from Owen Benjamin.

Notice that “laugh” is spelled “lauhg” in the example below:

From: Owen Benjamin [whydidnttheylauhg@gmail.com]
To: [REDACTED]
Cc: “whydidnttheylauhg@gmail.com”
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2020
Subject: Patreon Lawsuit

Those squirt boys at Patreon are bluffing. Hang in there. But save your money because we will need it to put up a good fight against these grabblers.

-BB

Trump vs NFL, Round Two

You can almost hear the NFL media’s collective voice shaking even as the sportswriters continue to cuck for Black Players Matter:

President Trump will again make NFL players kneeling during the national anthem an issue this year.

Responding to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s statement that the league was wrong not to be more supportive of players’ protests, Trump tweeted late on Sunday night that he still considers kneeling during the anthem to be disrespectful.

“Could it be even remotely possible that in Roger Goodell’s rather interesting statement of peace and reconciliation, he was intimating that it would now be O.K. for the players to KNEEL, or not to stand, for the National Anthem, thereby disrespecting our Country & our Flag?” Trump wrote.

I think that can be not unreasonably described as a warning shot across the bow.

It always begins with a lie

“We, the National Football League, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of black people. We, the National Football League, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. We, the National Football League, believe Black Lives Matter.

“I personally protest with you and want to be part of the much-needed change in this country.

“Without black players, there would be no National Football League, and the protests around the country are emblematic of the centuries of silence, inequality and oppression of black players, coaches, fans and staff. We are listening. I am listening.”
– NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell

The corporate cancer has metastasized. Let the decline begin. It should be very amusing to watch all the self-satisfaction over their social justice posturing turn to horror as whites and Hispanics turn away from the league in droves. Since I already dropped the NFL GamePass, this year I’m going to stop putting up the weekly NFL discussion posts here.

I haven’t made up my mind about dropping out of a longtime fantasy football league yet, and I’m sure that I will watch the occasional Vikings game. Regardless, at this point, I have already reduced my financial contribution to the league and league-related enterprises from ~$300/year to zero, which is a considerable reduction for a former owner of two Vikings season tickets.

A police-free Minneapolis

This should prove to be more than a little amusing:

Minneapolis City Council members have announced their intention to make radical changes in the city’s police department in the wake of violent protests that were sparked by the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died in police custody.

Nine of the council’s 12 members appeared at a rally in a city park Sunday afternoon and vowed to end policing as the city currently knows it.

The council members ended up standing before hundreds of people on a grassy hill and pledged to begin the process of taking apart the Police Department in its current form.
Council Member Jeremiah Ellison promised that the council would ‘dismantle’ the department.
At another protest on Saturday, Rep. Ilhan Omar declared ‘it’s time to disband the Minneapolis Police Department. I will never cosign on funding a police department that continues to brutalize us and I will never stop saying, not only do we need dis-invest police but we need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department,’ she said.

Of course, they may not have any police willing to work there much longer anyhow. One friend was speaking to a longtime officer today and it appears that a significant percentage of the MPD is now eligible for retirement and is increasingly inclined to take it.

He mentioned he had been on the force for nearly 30 years and had concerns about others that are “retirement-eligible” resigning – some have already in light of the recent events and almost 20{105b5945f2a7891a3dd860d3a09046b26c32f8a07d097b566642738deee8841e} of the force is currently eligible. 

At some point, it is going to occur to the general population that the ever-present problem is not the police.

This cult is NOT new

Not being a Christian, the Z-Man doesn’t recognize the nature or the source of what he otherwise quite correctly perceives as a new cult of inclusion and social justice:

This cult we are seeing evolve in the empire is much more like the Cult of Reason, in that it has no gods and elevates abstract concepts like inclusion, diversity, cooperation and openness. When activist chant demands for justice, for example, they are not talking about legal justice or even moral justice. Justice is one of the many words to signify this collection of concepts at the center of the cult…. To the insider, a cult is a world where the internal rules and beliefs of the cult perfectly explain the world. To the outsider, the rules and beliefs of the cult seem amusing, bizarre or possibly dangerous. That’s what is happening in the empire. Most of us are outside this ruling class cult, so their chants, declarations and actions strike as strange and crazy. The destruction of the cities makes no sense. For the cult, these riots are purifying rituals. To outsiders, they are wanton destruction.

This may also explain the bizarre behavior over the Covid virus. It was obvious a long time ago that something other than science and a concern for public health was driving public officials to stoke the panic. The elaborate game of make believe has now been made plain. People are barred from Christian services, but BLM protests and homosexual parades are now permitted. The destruction of civil society from the top down was the elite’s version of the urban street riots.

What we may be seeing is this weird religion of inclusion and cooperation quickly morph into a suicide cult that seeks to level existing society. First the elites try to destroy society with the lock downs and elimination of personal freedom. Now the rank and file are doing their part by devastating the cities. The new faith will not rest until every trace of the old has been erased. That includes the people. Those who represent the old, with their white habits and white ideas must be destroyed.

Like those medieval peasants who woke up one day to learn their king was part of a strange new cult brought in by a couple of bald guys in dresses, normal people in the empire are seeing the mass conversion of their rulers. Just as Christianity could only tolerate the old ways for so long, this new faith is increasing intolerant of the old normal ways of American society. It now exists to expunge every trace of civil life. This cult has declared total war on the rest of us.

This cult is not new. It is a very old religion which has taken different names and forms over the centuries. It is the temple of social justice, it is the church of antiracism, it is the syncretic heresy of churchianity, holocaustianity, and judeochristianity. It is the cult of Babel, it is the religion of the Pharisees, of the Gnostics, and of the Prometheans. Jesus Christ called it the synagogue of Satan. And it all harkens back to the old promise of the snake in the Garden of Eden.

That is the very ancient lie that men will be as gods if they will only submit to the god of this world and worship him in the place of their Creator.

The superiority of homogenuity

It’s mildly amusing to see the neocons feigning indignation over the fact that foreign enemies of the United States are utilizing its internal unrest against it, in much the same manner that the USA has utilized the internal unrest of other nation-states for the last 60 years:

Foreign propagandists are exploiting the death of George Floyd to question the legitimacy of the U.S. political system and deflect concerns about their own human rights abuses.

China, Russia, Iran, and other authoritarian regimes have offered wall-to-wall coverage of the Floyd protests and ensuing riots on their propaganda outlets, using the unrest to paint democratic systems as prone to turmoil. The propagandists—as well as top-level government officials—have also exploited the Floyd protests to smear specific pro-democracy or anti-regime movements within their own countries, associating the movements with scenes of chaos and disorder in U.S. cities.

The spate of propaganda coverage and public statements are indicative of how foreign adversaries are manipulating an American tragedy to delegitimize anti-regime voices in their home countries. This is especially the case for China, as the Floyd protests served as a welcome diversion from the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and public outcry in Hong Kong, where demonstrators are out in the streets opposing a new national security law that would allow the Chinese government to crack down on anyone conducting what it considers seditious or terrorist activities.

It’s actually much worse than that, of course. The champions of alternative societal systems of are pointing, very convincingly, to the intrinsic instability and structural contradictions of the current post-Christian, post-European, diverse, multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-culturalWest, in order to demonstrate the observable superiority of their more homogenous approaches.

A portrait of a non-story

I know you’ll probably be shocked to learn this breaking news, but Republicucks who never supported President Trump are going to continue not supporting the God-Emperor:

Growing numbers of prominent Republicans are debating how far to go in revealing that they won’t back his reelection — or might even vote for Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee. They’re feeling a fresh urgency because of Trump’s incendiary response to the protests of police brutality, atop his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private discussions.

Former President George W. Bush won’t support the reelection of Trump, and Jeb Bush isn’t sure how he’ll vote, say people familiar with their thinking. Senator Mitt Romney of Utah won’t back Trump and is deliberating whether to again write in his wife, Ann, or cast another ballot this November. And Cindy McCain, the widow of Senator John McCain, is almost certain to support Biden but is unsure how public to be about it because one of her sons is eyeing a run for office.

None of them voted for Trump in 2016, but the reproach of big Republican names carries a different weight when an incumbent president and his shared agenda with Senate leaders are on the line.

In related news, water is going to continue to be wet and Americans are going to continue not caring what George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, or Cindy McCain think, do, or say.

Please clap.

The Promethean playbook

The Atlantic is literally spelling it out for those who are too slow to recognize the obvious pattern of a color revolution playing out:

What the United States is witnessing is less like the chaos of 1968, which further divided a nation, and more like the nonviolent movements that earned broad societal support in places such as Serbia, Ukraine, and Tunisia, and swept away the dictatorial likes of Milošević, Yanukovych, and Ben Ali.

And although Trump’s time in office will end with an election and not an ouster, it is only possible to grasp the magnitude of what we’re seeing and to map what comes next by looking to these antecedents from abroad.

As in the case of many such revolutions, two battles are being waged in America. One is a long struggle against a brutal and repressive ideology. The other is a narrower fight over the fate of a particular leader. The president rose to power by inflaming racial tensions. He now finds his own fate enmeshed in the struggle against police brutality and racism.

The most important theorist of nonviolent revolutions is the late political scientist Gene Sharp. A conscientious objector during the Korean War who spent nine months in prison, Sharp became a close student of Mahatma Gandhi’s struggles. His work set out to extract the lessons of the Indian revolt against the British. He wanted to understand the weaknesses of authoritarian regimes—and how nonviolent movements could exploit them. Sharp distilled what he learned into a 93-page handbook, From Dictatorship to Democracy, a how-to guide for toppling autocracy.

Sharp’s foundational insight is embedded in an aphorism: “Obedience is at the heart of political power.” A dictator doesn’t maintain power on his own; he relies on individuals and institutions to carry out his orders. A successful democratic revolution prods these enablers to stop obeying. It makes them ashamed of their complicity and fearful of the social and economic costs of continued collaboration.

Sharp posited that revolutionaries should focus first on the regime’s softest underbelly: the media, the business elites, and the police. The allegiance of individuals in the outer circle of power is thin and rooted in fear. By standing strong in the face of armed suppression, protesters can supply examples of courage that inspire functionaries to stop carrying out orders, or as Sharp put it, to “withhold cooperation.” Each instance of resistance provides the model for further resistance. As the isolation of the dictators grows—as the inner circles of power join the outer circle in withholding cooperation—the regime crumbles.

This is essentially what transpired in Ukraine in 2014. When the country’s president backed away from plans to join the European Union, a crowd amassed in Kyiv’s central square, the Maidan. The throngs initially had no avowed intention or realistic hope of overthrowing the kleptocratic president, Viktor Yanukovych. But instead of letting the demonstrators shout themselves hoarse in the thick of subfreezing winter, Yanukovych set about violently confronting them. This tactic backfired horribly. A movement with limited aims became a full-blown revolution.

Essentially… there is the key tell that assures us the writer knows he is misleading his readers. The Maidan protesters were not “violently confronted” by the Yanukovych regime, they were murdered by mercenaries in the employ of the people who were pulling their strings, the very same people who are now pulling the strings of BLM and Antifa in the USA’s own would-be color revolution.

That’s why there are now anti-sniper snipers in position around the White House and other protest locations. They are not there to shoot the protesters, they are there to prevent the puppets from being publicly sacrificed by the puppetmasters.

Patreon plays dirty

As I mentioned previously, Patreon has taken the highly unusual tactic of attempting to sue its customers for doing exactly what they are required to do in the terms of use, and in the process, it has publicly admitted to its deceptive practices in the legal filing.

We’re clearly not dealing with the legal equivalent of rocket scientists here.

In brief, Patreon required users to first talk to them, and then go to arbitration if the matter could not be resolved by the discussion.

We encourage you to contact us if you have an issue. If a dispute does arise out of these terms or related to your use of Patreon, and it cannot be resolved after you talk with us, then it must be resolved by arbitration. 

Patreon created the dispute by deplatforming Owen and intentionally interfering in the relationship between him and his supporters. So, Owen and the Bears talked to Patreon about the dispute as required by the terms of use. Their response was to shriek that they were being extorted… in at least one case by someone who had never had any contact with them. Since the issue could not be resolved, Patreon was informed that Owen and the Bears would be going to arbitration. But before the arbitrations were filed, Patreon surreptitiously altered its terms of use to bar one specific thing: one of the issues that it had been informed would be involved in the arbitration claim, namely, its tortious interference in the separate economic contract between Owen and his supporters. On December 19, 2019, Patreon slipped this little change into its terms of use without notifying anyone.

This clause does not limit either party’s ability to file an action in a court with jurisdiction to seek injunctive or other equitable relief for disputes relating to intellectual property, proprietary data or to enforce this dispute resolution clause, including your agreement not to assert claims related to the suspension or termination of another person’s account. In any such action, the court rather than an arbitrator must decide whether such a claim is arbitrable and must decide whether the party is entitled to the requested injunctive or other equitable relief.

Now, this is clearly a Deceptive Practice under 1770, which bars the insertion of an unconscionable clause into a contract. No contract can require your agreement to accept tortious interference or any other violation of your civil rights. That wasn’t the only Deceptive Practice committed in Patreon’s alteration of its terms of use, but that is the only one relevant here, so we won’t go any deeper into that subject for the time being. Furthermore, both the arbitration company and various arbitrators have already, and repeatedly, ruled that the claims are arbitrable.

On January 3rd, the Bears filed for arbitration, separately, as required by the terms of use. So what Patreon is now asserting is that because those users filed demands for arbitration, they did so in violation of the revised terms that were deceptively changed 12 days earlier in direct response to their initial contractually-required notice… even though Patreon didn’t notify them of the change. If that sounds exceptionally stupid to you, that’s because it is. Patreon’s legal situation is actually even more precarious than I’ve described it here, because the whole point of requiring individual arbitrations in the first place is to avoid class-action lawsuits, but Patreon has just filed a lawsuit against a class, both aspects of which are specifically barred by the contract. In other words, in this very lawsuit, Patreon has actually done what they falsely accuse these Bears of having done.

Since a lawsuit is a matter of public record whereas an arbitration is not, the Owen-haters on Reddit have just published all the names of the Bears being sued by Patreon. Needless to say, the Legion is on it and we will be legally retaliating very strongly in order to see that Patreon and their lawyers are severely punished for this despicable and unexpected tactic. But the doxxing has already taken place, so if any of you experiences any blowback from this, please be sure to document everything and let us know right away so that the Legion can include everything in their future filings concerning this element of the matter.

If you’re one of the Bears concerned, please don’t worry about anything. It’s going to be fine. The Legion – and more – are on it, and everyone will have your back, just as you have had Owen’s. This is an absolutely desperate move by Patreon to try to further delay your arbitrations against them because they are losing very badly. And if you’re wondering how this joke of a lawsuit can be a matter of public record when you haven’t even been served, exactly. As you can see here, Patreon’s lawyers are not following any of the rules of either the legal or the arbitration processes, which is one of the reasons they are losing so consistently and comprehensively.

Anyhow, I’ll be doing a Darkstream today and will address questions about the matter from everyone. The key right now is to remain calm, remain together, and have faith that we will be completely victorious in the end. This is not our first rodeo. We will win. And while we didn’t anticipate this level of utter lunacy from Patreon, or their desperate refusal to accept the inevitable, the enemy always gets a vote.

So, it is increasingly looking like there either won’t be a Patreon by the end of the year or Owen and the Bears will own it. It’s rather like finding yourself fighting a duel with someone who genuinely believes his most effective attack is to disembowel himself.