Border Control
A reminder, should one be needed, that we live in an age of ironies:
WATCH: Community defenders stop an out of state vehicle at the filter blockade, run the plate through a database, and confirm whether the vehicle is affiliated with abductors before letting it through. pic.twitter.com/20ygmoclDt
— jerrynmn1 (@jerrynmn12) February 2, 2026
“Papers, please. I see you’re not from around here.”
Update, via the comments:
Rafi adds,
Well, you’d think that on just a thematic level there might be some dim flickering. But apparently not. And so we get psychological misfits setting up their own checkpoints and harassing random drivers.
EmC asks, not unfairly,
They do seem to think they’re in charge of who may travel where, which laws may be enforced, or indeed broken, and which election results can be ignored.
Update 2:
Just in case the above isn’t sufficiently telling:
BREAKING – A Black ICE agent is going viral after asking a leftist if they are a man, causing leftists around him to crash out and call the agent a “house n*gger” as they drive off. pic.twitter.com/qaSYsK0C8q
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) February 3, 2026
Note the epithet chosen by these, like, totally anti-racist titans.
Update 3:
With a hint of incredulity, commenter Aitch adds,
Ah, yes, but those murderers, armed robbers and child molesters add so much local colour. They’re the lynchpins of the community.
In the searchable archive linked above, there are, I note, 75 pages of illegal criminal migrants – close to 1,000 perpetrators – under the child molestation category alone.
But hey, you fight the power, man.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
That sure looks like a clear violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241, “Conspiracy against rights.” Specifically, those road blocks constitute an unlawful detention which is a violation of the 4th amendment. Maybe the DHS ought to send a team to arrest those participating in this insurgent cosplay. I’m sure that their lawyers will be happy to explain the issues involved in ignoring the US Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Martinez-Fuerte (1976).
Good story etc…
The Master and Commander series, wherein I learned that the proper way to avenge oneself is via dissection.
That was one of the key reasons I let all my sf magazine subscriptions lapse.
That was the other. And when Locus fellated Mao I wished I could have retroactively canceled all the subscription money I gave them.
It’s a wonderful feature. I make extensive use of it.
“Jack, you have debauched my sloth!”
‘… they have chosen their cake, and must lie in it.’
‘You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.’
‘No, no, it is not quite that, neither. I mean – I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.’
At double speed I’m certain.
The Dresden Files are, unfortunately, an example of “no real life experience beyond his college D&D campaign”. All of the characters, situations, tropes &c. are taken lock, stock and barrel from TTRPGs, which means you get rather a lot more rapid escalation of the power curve and magic-as-supernatural-artillery than the genre warrants.
As alternatives, I would highly recommend Simon R. Green’s Nightside novels, Randal Garrett’s Lord Darcy novels, the HBO film Cast a Deadly Spell, and the original John Constantine comics. Those are occult detective stories written by authors who actually understand both genres.
If you complain about them blocking your path, they’ll argue you’re a hypocrite because you want to enforce immigration law. That’s the Kafkatrap.
Check your local state’s laws. Post-Floyd, there are a number of states that allow you to floor it right through such barricades with a strong legal defense, if not outright impunity.
This is one of the things I lament about the demise of blogs in favour of social media videos. I can read orders of magnitude faster than I can listen, and most 10 minute YouTube videos would be a page, page-and-a-half blog post.
I haven’t been playing close attention to what is going on there. I mean while I am quite aware, I don’t read much about it unless someone gets shot. My suspicion is that these set ups, especially ones like this that seem to be run by soccer moms doing a fill-the-boot fund raiser, are a performative virtue signal for the neighborhood. Do they think the pallets they are carrying have magic SUV-stopping powers? Have there been any instances where these road blockers have stopped an actual ICE vehicle and not their friendly neighbors? Seems like those would be great fun!
I strongly suspect you are allowed only if they start banging on your car. The mere presence of a barrier, no.
I never got into those games. That may explain while I find the books entertaining.
Thank you for the recommendations. I will definitely look into them.
A recent Graham Lineham essay describes this phenomenon.
They don’t care about the irony they are shoveling. They want to be in charge. That is all.
But the other guy is the fascist?
They’ve been “fighting fascism” by acting like brownshirts for decades now.
They call us fascists so they can attack us. They don’t care about the irony. Caring about irony would require some degree of personal integrity.
Instead, they’re Cluster B.
People low in conscientiousness will be much less troubled by internal contradictions. I was also reminded of something that Stephen Hicks, author of Explaining Postmodernism, once explained to me:
If you’re a fairly conscientious person, even just normally so, it can take a while to wrap your head around the mindset of people who do not share those obligations and restraints.
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No laughing at the back.
Funny how easily the mask slips.
Again, they don’t seem overly troubled by internal contradictions.
They’re Our Betters, you know. They say so themselves.
A question on many lips.
They’re protesting AGAINST safer streets.
Speaking of protests, a school “walk out” of note, the dedication to the cause is palpable.
This guy again, I can’t imagine why he might have gotten a BCD. (Caution, every other word starts with F)
Clearly what he needs is some Trauma-Informed Yoga to help calm down, not sure that is available in a federal slammer.
But those murderers, armed robbers and child molesters add so much local colour.
There are, I note, 75 pages of illegal migrants – close to 1,000 perpetrators – under the child molestation category alone.
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Well this certainly convinced me to go
have a hissy fitprotest.It’s shameful to see that there’s 3 pages of scumbags from the UK, though half of them don’t look very British tbh.
“Jack, you have debauched my sloth!”
I’m on my third reading of the series. I still laugh when I get to that line.
It’s my escape from the malevolent idiocy that permeates everything these days, the OP for example.
But those murderers, armed robbers and child molesters add so much local colour.
What a happy little database!
Trauma informed yoga sounds interesting. I assume Somali illegal immigrants are welcome? They do love lycra, you know. What can go wrong?
The Dem party is a criminal enterprise:
1) encouraging violence and even funding it
2) resisting legal federal enforcement actions
3) direct plundering of the treasuring via USAID etc to their NGOs
4) indirect plundering vis ignoring huge fraud
5) self-enrichment via various means (e.g., AOC and Omar both became rich with no visible means to do so)
6) massive voting fraud
It’s not exactly cheery reading, but it does offer some context.
Laughed, not sorry.
Just tbc, there are forms of muslim violence that I can whole heartedly endorse.
“Racial hatred,” says he.
Yeah, he’s not like those authors that have tons of real-world experience with the practical applications of magic and its use in combat….
…is a TTRPG trope. Wizards as mobile artillery because that’s how D&D does it.
Part of the problem here is that D&D ate the fantasy genre alive around 1983 or so and increasingly all fantasy literature has shriveled to unconsciously recycling and repeating its tropes endlessly, eschewing any outside inspiration, like an ourobouros devouring its own tail, getting smaller and smaller with each iteration. Brandon Sanderson gets paid somehow to teach university-level writing classes – but what he’s actually teaching is how to write a gameable TTRPG setting or sourcebook, not how to write a novel.
It’s not good for any literary genre to become so diminished. Imagine if all detective fiction were limited to endless recycling of the hardboiled P.I. noir genre. No cozy mysteries, no genteel Victorian detectives, no gritty police drama – just endless shades of Sam Spade, over and over again.
Also, “because elves” is a bullshit argument and everyone knows it.
“Racial hatred,” says he.
From some Swede, to which Wayne says he can’t even tell if it’s sarcasm.
Wanting every race in the world, but especially the demographically incontinent races who’ve fouled their own nests, to freely settle in Sweden, and not even to allow Swedes indigenous rights in their own homeland, with the inevitable result that the distinct Swedish people and their distinct Swedish culture will go extinct, that’s their idea of racial love.
Who’s got racial motives? Every human who’s ever been born. Who are the racial haters, haters meaning people who you can hate without your conscience being troubled? Whites who modestly don’t want to be erased in their own homelands, most of whom are so propagandized that they can’t even acknowledge out loud that they have an “our” and they have a “homeland”. Races who unapologetically talk racially about themselves and their rightful homelands don’t get condemned as racist. Funny how that works.
Until they get that, and also agree about it, timid whites will keep on trying to justify themselves to little ideological policemen, to ask permission for their own survival in what they goofily take to be the policeman’s own liberal principles (diversity of interesting cultures, equality for women, stewardship of the environment, etc), only for anything they say to be put into in snarky quotes as coded racial hatred. That stupid game can stop, and that whole cadre of mediocre ideological policemen will just disappear from the discussion, as soon as whites start standing up for themselves like any other race.
Not all.
Try Juliet E. McKenna’s Green Man series.
Or Patricia Wrede’s Frontier Magic trilogy.
And, depending on context, ‘because elves’ is perfectly valid.
There are a lot of hard-core communists in Sweden.
There are Swedes who assert that Swedes have no culture and therefore nothing to cherish and defend. Quislings. Wormtongues.
Well, that’s depressing.
Yes. Widely praised.
Wiener delivery system.
Takeoff! and Takeoff, Too! are fun.
Wanye comments:
The words of John Derbyshire and Scott Adams come to mind.
There has been a lot of crazy these days, but this bint is going for heights beyond the thermosphere.
None that don’t belong in a canvas camisole with wrap around sleeves.
The minute venue was moved downtown, no one believed OJ would be convicted. And it was more than mere payback to yte ppl … it was about feeling that Nicole got what she deserved for being a white woman marrying a black man.
There were brief bits I remember of jurors asked about the evidence like the DNA and the reporters were laughed at … “everybody got DNA, so what”? It was jury nullification all the way down.
I thought they were trying to undo the narrative that if a black man makes it big in the world, THEY will just take him out, because that just can’t stand.
We can’t have successful black people in the world, see. But what I remember of OJ, he was big popular and not at all resented. He was a football star! He was “the Juice”! No cop alive would have tried to frame him, because he was a hero, a movie star, a personality.
They also point to Bill Cosby as someone THEY had to take out because he got too big. I suppose THEY took out Kobe, too.
So, according to our adamant Swedish chap, Mr Ahola, any discussion with him will be “frankly difficult” unless you pre-emptively defer to his own sweeping and rather question-begging redefinition of racial hatred. According to which, any qualms about scenarios like this, and these, are simply inadmissible. Thoughts one cannot think. Facts one must not notice.
And he dares to use the word honest.
Other people’s weird racial hang-ups can be exhausting. It’s wearying just to keep track of each new twisted manifestation.
‘dim flickering’
Band name.