The emphasis of this site and this author for the past little while has been trying to make the paradigm shift that is necessary to understand events around us in one specific way. That is the undoing of the intellectual sleight of hand known as ‘Hanlon’s Razor’. This is one of the more pernicious cons, as it allows people to see the consequences of profoundly damaging policy, even right in front of you, or that affects you directly, and dismiss it as mere chance due to incompetents. You get the satisfaction of thinking you are smarter than the people creating these circumstances, but are, by the same rhetorical tactic, self paralyzed into inaction.
Hanlon’s Razor goes like this: “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence”. Or a dozen variations of the same theme. Some of them are as simple as, ‘Trudeau cannot possibly be doing what you are saying he is doing cause he is not that smart!’ This is fallacious on a couple of levels. For one, it is as already stated, a variation of Hanlon’s Razor. His intelligence is assumed to be low, therefore his policies must be well intentioned, but incompetent, The other is that great intelligence is required. But great intelligence is not a necessity at all.
Think of a 5 year old child in Peking speaking perfect Mandarin, or at least as perfect as a 5 year old would. Then think about the effort it would take us to learn Mandarin to that level if we didn’t speak a word of it now. We would have to use a lot of effort and intellect to learn it even close. So it goes with dialectical thought. It is a different system of thought, and easy if raised in it, but very difficult if not, and doubly so if you find it a repugnant way of thinking. Which it most certainly is.
Still, failure to understand the intent of the destructive policies around us and dismissing it as idiocy, (while often it may seem like a great comfort) is why no one mounts a defence. Even those who do understand the issue in depth have to be careful how to address the intent, as even those who wish to initiate a solution will swell with sanctimony and object to any solution that might actually work for failure to understand the intent of these policies. For example, people who might say that recognizing Islam as a threat doctrine, monitoring mosques, deporting any and all Muslims who preach sedition and jihad and insurrection and so on, will be met even from people who think they are on the side of the West with insults or sanctimonious defence of freedom of religion and other related but misapplied Western liberties. And just to crush this one right out of the box, The United States declared Political Shinto illegal after Pearl Harbour because, as the reasoning goes, one cannot use the Constitution to undermine the Constitution. The same is easily applied to Islam.
It is with this in mind that I post this older video from some point after Obama/Biden term 3 restarted the destruction of the US along Cloward Piven lines. The fact that Biden offered up for sale parts of the US border wall that President Trump built in his first term was more than even what is below. It was a direct insult to the American people. An act of contempt. Something we have seen from Obama/Biden numerous times now.
The Houthis of Yemen are depicted as pathetic, starving POC who suffer frequent bouts of cholera.[*] So when the Saudis tried to stop them from bombing their population centers and oil facilities, they were demonized. Understand who they are:
The Current and Future Houthi Threat to the Middle East
“The Houthis have (with strong Iranian backing and encouragement) exploited the enfeeblement of the Yemeni government since the Arab Spring of 2011, expanding through military conquests and seizing the capital, Sanaa, from the internationally recognized government in a September 2014 military coup.
“Since then, the Houthis have overrun Yemen’s Red Sea ports, and tried to seize the port city of Aden and the energy hub of Marib. With sustained military support from Iran, they remain postured to lunge forward at any time to snuff out the last strongholds of the internationally recognized government of Yemen.
“The Houthis are a clan-based military junta whose leaders have modeled their movement on Lebanese Hizbullah. Their ideology is supremacist, in favor of their own genealogical caste over all other Yemenis. In their motto, they curse all Jewish people and openly pledge to seek the destruction of Israel and the U.S.
“The Houthis draw military, intelligence, and financial support from Iran, Hizbullah, Iran-backed militias in Iraq, the al-Qaeda and al-Shabab terrorist organizations, and reportedly also the Russian Federation. Inside Yemen they have committed gross human rights abuses: indoctrinating child soldiers, unlawfully detaining and torturing opponents, and diverting vital humanitarian assistance…
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/sites/default/files/pdf/KnightsTestimony20241230_0.pdf
[*]Cleaning toilets is for Untermenschen.
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Gil Troy, Prof. Emeritus McGill University
How Israel should respond to the Houthis: Make them fear us more than we fear them
The Houthis’ ongoing missile barrage provides the moral clarity Israelis need in battle – and the motivation to keep fighting this multi-front war we spent years trying to avoid. Anyone anxious for the war to end should pressure Hamas and their Qatari bankers to release every hostage, insist that Hamas terrorists free Gaza from their grip, and demand that the Houthis and Iranians stop firing deadly missiles.
Too many Americans keep asking: “Why is Israel still fighting?” The real question is: “How can Israel stop now, with so many homicidal maniacs still trying to destroy the Jewish state?”
Since Oct. 7, Israelis have scrambled for shelter 31,333 times as over 27,000 rockets were launched at the Jewish state. Yet, we’re the aggressor. Palestinians launched 6,349 terror attacks. Yet we’re the oppressor.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-835595
Why thank you, yucki, no one has ever actually described the Houthi. Really, all we had heard about them was the name.
So, were the Saudis making war on the legitimate government of Yemen, on the Houthis taking over (in the same way Jolani’s HTS has taken Syria), or on both?
First, this reminds me of the constant warring and shifting alliances of the medieval kingdoms of Europe or the Amerindian tribes who sided with the British or French prior to America’s Revolution (and her split with Canada.)
Dialectical thought, itself, reminds us that people really do think differently, that is, their neurology is wired differently. Such difference means they respond the same cues differently…such as allying with one side or another in a conflict.
That Eeyore explains dialectical thought as a taught dialect, one that can literally change a mind outside of racial proclivities, is a brilliant bit of work. That culture (nurture) can indeed be over nature, or exploit it in a certain direction, adds a new dimension to political/religious conflict. It seems to be a software conflict rather than merely primates fighting over territory. Kudos to both Eeyore and yucki.
ps- Also forgotten is that the “legitimate government of Yemen” is itself a product of a civil war. For a time, there were two Yemens.
I know nothing beyond rare mentions of that civil war, not about the nature of the conflict, nor who won.
I can only offer this 16 minute history on a nation that never was – Kurdistan – to get some gist of the nature of Mideast conflicts.
Why this country was erased from history (Kurdistan)
https://youtu.be/H3VvJRKZFHc?si=5G_rBMenB4r8NvG4
Kurds are the largest ethnicity – over 30M – who have no country of their own.
They come in all flavors: Both Shia and Sunnis, Christians, myriad sub-ethnities, like the Yazidis, and – yes -Jews. (The latter live in Israel now, of course.)
Just as varied in their political orientation, they fall prey to slander, blood-libels, and savage media.
~ty for your kind words~
Yemen ugh – lots of historical baggage.
The Saudis and Emiratis supported the “legit” govt of Yemen, never all that great. Saudis defense against feral Houthis included subsidizing Sunni al-Queda operatives who had retired to the mountanous region in the north.
Houthis are a tribal subset of Zaidis. They’re pretty terrible, but here’s a rather sympathetic snapshot: https://minorityrights.org/communities/zaydi-shia/
I like the Minority Rights Group Group simply because it includes minorities other than those favored by Qatar-funded Western entities.
From a Sana’a thinktank:
The Houthi Movement from a Local Perspective: A Resurgence of Political Zaidism
https://sanaacenter.org/publications/analysis/11925
But of course it’s deliberate.
War being waged on humanity by the internazi bankster class way above Turdo, Biden, Putin or Trump.
Their puppets, like the dumb narcissistic psychopath Turdo, are naturally skilled in applying the dialectic newcommie weaponry, even in instances when they’re not directly controlled by the strings they’re hangin’ on. Sure it’s not incompetence: it’s competent malice, because it’s CONSISTENT. And it’s not just the turdo, it’s a globalist Comintern strategy all over the West that dumb narcs are chosen for their low-level frontmen to herd the flock. So their being dumb, far from refuting it, just underpins the claim about the deliberate nature of the demolition.
As someone raised in a religious tradition that runs parallel and perpendicular to Islam in its complexity of logic as a form of worship, perhaps this type of thought cames easier to me.
The religous issue isthat New Years is a pagan holiday, “worthy” of desecration. The obvious response to curtail miscreants would be for a religious leader of stature and authority to proclaim that that exact same day happens to be an observed feast on the lunar calendar when corrected for seasonal solar perturbations. If we haven’t heard a fatwa in that direction, then there is no effort being made to limit destruction.
Doesn’t it correspond to the day the infant Jesus was circumcised?
— Still, failure to understand the intent of the destructive policies around us and dismissing it as idiocy, (while often it may seem like a great comfort) is why no one mounts a defence. —
I submit that in the majority of cases, the “failure to understand” is willful. Sometimes it’s even deceitful. Partisanry really can go that deep.