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They’ll Ruin Your Country Then Piss on You for Sayin’ So

by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 16, 2023 | Blog

It should be no surprise that the faux-conservative "Rich Men North of Richmond" at the National Review don't approve of the meteoric rise of singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony. "Just what is it this time?" you might ask—did he oppose slaughtering a million Iraqis? No, he wrote a few songs about the plight of the working man. In doing so, he placed the lion's share of the blame exactly where it belongs—at the feet of Washington D.C. The National Review's response is to belittle Mr. Anthony and suggest that the economic hardship he sings about—by proxy, the economic hardship that the "other...

The Rise of the Information State: Woodrow Wilson to the Twitter Files ft. Brandan Buck Ep. 261

by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 15, 2023 | Vital Dissent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abSY1qujTIs Patrick is joined by Brandan Buck to discuss the US government’s fight for the control of information throughout its history. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Brandan P. Buck on twitter BrandanPBuck.com Feeling Manipulated? How Uncle Sam Perfected the Information State by Brandan P. Buck Brown Scare, Red Scare, Fake Scare, Who’s Scared? By Brandan P. Buck Enemies Above: The FBI and the Creation of the Brown Scare Myth by Brandan P. Buck Merchants...

The Gov’t Sterilized the “Feebleminded” in My Hometown

by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 15, 2023 | Blog

When I was in middle school, the bus route would take us past a mysterious, old campus with an array of decaying brick buildings. I always thought it was dark and ominous looking. Little did I know, a century prior, hundreds of people had been committed and sterilized there. See, back in the Progressive Era, the campus was known as "the Wisconsin Home for the Feebleminded." Indeed, it was just one of many facilities like it across the United States. These facilities were the policy of Progressive Era eugenicists who, in a practically religious way, saw the State as being the primary vehicle...

The Trinity Test Killed Babies…Yeah, You Read that Right

by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 14, 2023 | Blog

The wanton and reckless disregard for human life shown by the Manhattan Project boggles the mind. Despite my criticism of the Christopher Nolan Film "Oppenheimer," it did include the infamous fact that Manhattan Project scientists believed there was a chance that the first nuclear bomb would ignite the Earth's atmosphere and end all known life. Of course, they pressed the button anyways. If that bothers you, just wait, the hits keep on coming—even eighty years later. Earlier this year, scientists from Princeton University and the University of Colorado at Boulder conducted a study of the...

The Army Panicked When it Discovered This Shocking Fact

by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 13, 2023 | Blog

In 1947, Brigadier General SLA Marshall made an announcement that shocked the military world and changed combat forever. The startling news came when Marshall published "Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command," a study that he conducted during his service as a military historian during WWII. The study's bombshell finding was that, in any given engagement with the enemy, only 25% of US servicemen fired their weapons. Marshall made this conclusion after conducting a survey of individual soldiers soon after returning from combat. The results were uniform across hundreds of combat...

You’ll Never Believe this Fact About Dr. Seuss

by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 10, 2023 | Blog

During WWII, a children's author and cartoonist smeared American's largest political organization opposing US involvement in WWII. It may surprise you that this children's author was none other than Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss. But just what was this group Dr. Seuss was smearing? And why was he smearing it? The American First Committee brought together a broad coalition of different political groups. Because local chapters had a great deal of autonomy, it was difficult for the higherups to vet who was being admitted. This resulted in a number of members joining the American First...

This Superpower Will Give You An Advantage Over Almost Everyone

by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 9, 2023 | Blog

In 1987, a columnist at a small New Mexico newspaper discovered a story that would win her the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. How did she do this? She had a superpower. She actually read things. But, Patrick, you're thinking to yourself, almost everyone can read. Yes, but do they actually do it? In 1987, Eileen Welsome was reading an otherwise boring report on the Air Force's effort to clean up its nuclear waste sites. While reading, she discovered an inventory list of radioactive materials buried at Kirkland Air Force Base. The list included animal carcasses. This discovery made her wonder why the...

This HORRIFYING Film is Exactly What the World Needs To See Right Now

by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 8, 2023 | Blog

Last night, I finally got around to watching the terrifying 1984 film "Threads" by Barry Hines and Mick Jackson. The film was a straight-to-TV production that punches way beyond its £400,000 budget. In short, this British film is an ultra-realistic depiction of what nuclear Armageddon would look and feel like. Through the lens of the film, it is easy to see how the spiraling escalation over Ukraine could reach its final destination. It makes this worst case scenario look plausible. In the film, the Soviet Union invades Northern Iran in response to a US-backed coup. The US reacts by occupying...