Hegelian Dialect is all around us these days.
For those unfamiliar with HD, it's this: Thesis, synthesis, antithesis. The powers-that-be use this endlessly, and often to their own detriment. Take Max Schauf, for instance, federal felon and former mayor of Bridgeport, as our local example.
Thesis
Max decided at some point in time during his second term that he was going to start up a city trash pickup service. The locals balked; they already had their choices of trash service, and didn't want to use a city service, which was higher than, say, JAMAX trash. So Max was left in the cold with his thesis that the city could pick up everyone's trash and make a fortune off it.
Synthesis
Instead of backing off the idea, greedy Max (who ultimately was charged federally with stealing from the city, which is how he became a federal felon) instead began changing the rules within the city of Bridgeport. He changed the axle weight restrictions on trucks, for an example, and then began fining JAMAX' trucks then they were loaded down, issuing citations through city police who were specifically directed to stop just the JAMAX trucks. This synthesis usually works - "You can't fight city hall!" - but, this is small-town stuff, here, folks, and JAMAX got a gutful (this would be the "contradictions" part that comes up often between thesis and synthesis). However, JAMAX decided to go ahead and fight city hall...and they did. Successfully, despite the antithesis part coming up.
Antithesis
The antithesis - the outcome - should match the thesis: Max wanted the income JAMAX was receiving, but nobody wanted his services, so he attempted to force those taking away "his" services completely out of business by making it impossible to do business in his town. At the end of this, the thesis was to ensure that Max' trash pickup was the only game in town, forcing the residents to have their trash picked up by the city service, or not picked up at all.
That wasn't to be the case, however: When JAMAX fought back, they won. They filed a federal lawsuit, pointing out that other similarly-axled, heavily-laden trucks - those belonging to the grain companies, as an example, bringing grain to the elevator by the tracks in town - weren't being cited and fined. Through this they successfully convinced a court that they were being targeted, and the only reasonable conclusion that could be reached would be that Max was violating their 14th Amendment rights to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, which also covered "doing business." JAMAX won, and Max' Hegelian Dialect attempt failed.
Hopefully, that's what will happen in the case of Gab.com
Gab, many of you may already know, is a social networking site that largely favors conservative viewpoints but allows some of the freaky among us out there as well to voice their nuttiness; kinda like Tumblr, only fewer SJWs. One of those freaks was Robert Bowers, the man being held in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting massacre. We're not going to go into what we believe regarding that issue; we will say that there were several news outlets who noted weeks and weeks ago - when the Kavanaugh hearings were underway - that the anti-Trump people would spring a mass shooting on the public if the attempt to derail Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice failed. It failed, and here we are. It's not that the people who predicted it are prescient. They're not. The people who perpetrate these atrocities are, instead, highly predictable. And this was predicted....so again, here we are.
What does this have to do with Gab?
Bowers' alleged indicators leading up to the shooting - including the last comment he made, "I'm going in," which pertained to his alleged entry into the synagogue to shoot em up - were all comments being posted to his Gab.com page. Gab allows anti-Semitic (against Jewish people) comments and views on their page, unlike Fecesbook or Twitter (unless, of course, said comments are issued by Louis Farrakhan, then it's okay), largely because having anti-Semitic views isn't against the law. Jewish people aren't a race (like black or asian people), they're not even an ethnicity (like hispanic). They're an ideology based on a theocratic belief system. They aren't really even a "protected class," despite what the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) wants to push. People who "don't like" Jewish folks excuse that feeling based on thousands of years of disinformation/misinformation, most of it slanted negatively (I mean, look at what Hitler did, after all, based on same.) Nevertheless, a person can hold those views, and even express them openly online in certain forums. It's only when it crosses the line into an actual act - especially one as horrific as what happened this weekend - that it becomes a matter for law enforcement and the courts. Online expressions aren't arrestable offenses; shooting people is.
But of course, since Bowers made those expressions on an independent site (as opposed to a site that actually works with the government, like Facebook or Twitter), the powers-that-be apparently thought that just snuffing out Bowers' online presence wasn't enough...they went after the site that hosted his rantings. And so Gab.com is now shut down.
Gab's message when you click their link
They're trying to get an alternative hosting site right now...but we here at Disclosure know how difficult that is; if we didn't have our hosting set up like we do, we'd be constantly getting taken down (not that we haven't in the past; we were especially under attack when in August 2015 we first started writing about the Chess Club, Bill Bonan and Dale Fowler, which attacks went on until we ultimately had a credit card hacked, at which point we found out what was going on and got it all under control, about February of 2016. That's where you get your IP blocks, people...remember that we had to install that app to prevent hacking, next time you get a message that states "Your IP has been blocked!" and you start griping at my admin). But as of this afternoon, Monday, October 29, Gab's still not back online. They are one of the few remaining social networking pages we have left (along with Minds.com and Twitter...and I really don't know why we're keeping Twitter, but that's what the staff voted to do); we dumped Fecesbook for this very reason (and Tumblr because we despise SJWs, and the rest of them out of principle.) You can hit this link to see their message or read it above if you're not attachment-challenged.
The message you're reading could very well be the imposition of another Hegelian Dialect. The thesis is to shut down social networking platforms that support REALLY free speech; not the watered-down platforms that shut users out of their account if they so much as make an obvious statement as "The reason why they're called 'illegals' is because being in the country illegally is ILLEGAL" (this happened to one of us. Unbelievable.) On Fecesbook and Twitter, the "protected classes" are not just Jews, Black Lives Matter folks (NOT all blacks; there are several black individuals we know of who promote conservative viewpoints and have lost their pages because of it), any and all hispanics, and of course, any group of people who believe they're some kind of oppressed minority but are actually the fringe element and came into their "group" out of mental illness: Trannies, race- or other trend-bending freaks, people who believe they're actually children in an adult's body, people who believe they're actually animals in a human body....the freakishness is endless. This is what we get after 8 years of Obama, folks. Welcome to it. This very paragraph could get us fined in the UK, you know. Because they're so sensie over there. You're not allowed to use words like "trannies," "faggots," "freaks," and you're especially not allowed to make memes about any of it. It hurts peoples' widdle feewings, you know. Can't have that. So you punish those who "might" hurt widdle feewings by pre-emptive moves such as fines over memes.
And therein lies the Hegelian Dialect against Gab.
Because the government can't pull Gab's strings, because they can't exactly charge Gab with being an accomplice (oh and believe me, if they could, they would) in the Pittsburgh shooting, they're going to do the next best thing: They (like Max Schauf tried to do to JAMAX) are going to make it impossible for Gab to do business. But unlike what Max did to JAMAX, in Gab's case, this is accomplished by de-platforming, crushing their ad revenue, crushing their payment options, etc. We know all about that. We were de-monetized about a year ago by a service we can't mention here or we'll be de-monetized further. If we're de-monetized further, we'll have to shut down. You can't run a business at a loss. If you don't have much revenue stream to begin with, damming up that stream will be devastating. So you have to come back in another form.
We (the conservative voices online) are all getting pretty good at doing end-arounds when the PTBs come up with another way to block our information from getting out. However, the noose is tightening. As long as there remains one person out there who will do something horrible in exchange for whatever (money, notoriety, favors for a particular political party in exchange for his relatives getting something of value while he sits in jail/prison), we who cover the news of those horrors HONESTLY, with ALL perspectives noted and not just the ones that fit the agenda of the powerful, are going to run into brick walls...and it also gets us put on the radar of the PTBs, which is not always a good thing, believe it.
The Hegelian Dialect here involves stifling free speech. It's not about Jews or anti-Semites; it's not about Robert Bowers; it's not even about violence. It's about using all of those as a means to an end. "Never let a good crisis go to waste," you know. That premise is about the only thing that's going to stifle free speech...because the things the libwhacks want to stifle aren't violations of free speech. As you can see in this article, "racism, sexism, religious bigotry, as well as anti-LGBTQ and anti-immigrant animus, among other activities," are the things the looney left want to make into "violations" of free speech...and folks, it's not against the First Amendment to speak out against these things. It's not against the law. It's not a hate crime. But "they" are trying to make it so. There are forces out there that will do anything, use anything, to bring about their ultimate goal; in this case, the ultimate goal isn't necessarily to shut down Gab so much as it is to show the POWER they have to shut it down. Then they use the example OF Gab to dangle in front of the next person who dares try an independent platform of free speech. You know, kinda like a large monthly independent newspaper that ran the public officials in a third of a particular state ragged for 15 years. The powers-that-be couldn't shut us down - First Amendment and all - despite harassing vendors, advertisers, even people who just walked into a store and legitimately purchased a copy. So they teamed up and went after an aspect of our lives that proved to be a tender, vulnerable spot. They lied, and they got a certain contingent to believe the lies. They sold that lie package, and because we couldn't talk about it in detail and explain the reality of it, far too many bought the lie package. Buying the lie package hurt us, and compounding that with the other fiscal issues we ran into, voila! No more print product.
And if the PTBs don't stop with the suppression of free speech online, there might not be a website, either.
So far, our end-arounds are working. We don't tell you everything that happens to us behind the scenes here. Suffice it to say that if we go a few days without a whole lot of posts, we're struggling with an attack of some sort. We're not deliberately not posting. We're being KEPT from it by situations beyond our control. And we're sick of it.
If we go, we're not going to leave you hanging. As Dan Fogelberg wrote in his 1979 album 'Phoenix," "like a Phoenix, I have risen from the flames."
Here's a warning to those who are continuing to try and harm free speech.
Be careful what you ask for, and how you behave when you get what you think you wanted, jumping up and down with glee. Because sometimes, when you think you've killed something off, it just comes back stronger than ever.
Be watching.