I know how it's said in English

How do you say “Gleichschaltung” in Mandarin? China requiring churches to praise communist government, sing national anthem in order to reopen after lockdown.

In English:

Gleichschaltung or in English, co-ordination, was in Nazi terminology the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society and societies occupied by Nazi Germany "from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education".

For today, (tomorrow’s code word will be suppiled when it’s decided upon) you can just say “BLM”.

Of course, there’s always Esperanto

Good – fire their asses

BLM on our faces and in yours

But instead, I’m sure Whole Foods will cave.

Protesters boycott Whole Foods over BLM facemasks

Critics are calling on Whole Foods Market to change its policy banning workers from wearing Black Lives Matter masks while on the job, saying there should be “no place safe for racism” in corporate America.

More than 40 people protested Sunday outside the chain’s Cambridge, Mass., location, where seven employees walked off the job June 25 after being turned away when they showed up to work wearing BLM masks, the Boston Globe reported.

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One of the employees who was turned away, Suverino Frith, 21, accused company officials of being “careful people” who don’t want to take a stand either way on the issue.

“They don’t want to alienate anyone,” Frith told the crowd. “They don’t really want to choose a side; they just want to seem like they are. Only that’s too bad, because we’re choosing a side for them.”

Reached for comment Monday, a Whole Foods spokesperson confirmed that employees are barred from wearing clothing with slogans or messages that are not company-related in order to operate a “customer-focused” environment.

“Team members with face masks that do not comply with dress code are always offered new face masks,” the spokesperson said in a statement to The Post. “Team members are unable to work until they comply with dress code.”

Starbucks, meanwhile, reversed its policy banning Black Lives Matter masks and apparel worn by employees after similar backlash.

Not that I shop at Whole Foods, but wherever I choose to spend my money, I don’t want to be confronted by some 21-year-old illiterate whose highest and best use is grocery bagging lecturing and accusing me of racism, which is indeed what the BLM mob is proclaiming: “I’m a racist, you’re a racist, and ain’t we got fun!” Young Master Frith may ridicule Whole Foods desire “not to alienate” its customers, but that just exposes his ignorance of how retail works: no customers, fella, then no one to pay your cashier’s salary.

Another 21-year-old, Ms. Samantha Kinzer, who sorts bananas for a living despite [sic] graduating with a degree in environmental studies and public policy, claims that her employer’s refusal to let her wear a political banner across her mouth is “silencing our support for black lives [and] is silencing the customers and communities we hold dear.”

That’s the whole point of a face mask, Samantha: to keep you muzzled while you’re interacting with your employer’s customers. I’m sure you’re a wonderful, kind-hearted young woman, much loved by your parents and all who know you, but leave your politics and home and go spray paint Lincoln on your own time.

Back on the market after a three-year benching

534 Riversville Road, 1900 house last renovated in 2007, now priced at $9.208 million. The owners tried selling this in 2013 for $15.9 million but after four years it expired in 2017, still asking $12.995. I said back then I like the house and its 10.8 acres but hated the price. My dislike has lessened with this latest incarnation, but it hasn’t entirely dissipated.

New to the market

Hillside Road

29 Hillside Road, $8.295 million. I remember this as a beautiful home back in 2005 when Joe Barbieri had it listed at $13.5 million, but it needed work, and finally sold in 2006 for $9.8 million in 2006 (ah, the good old days).

It remains a beautiful 1920s home, now renovated, and still retains its 2.8 acres, which makes it special for this area. Best of all, the new owners will be able to just stroll across the street to enjoy the new, expanded Cardinal football arena, due in a few short years.

Real estate news (!)

Yes, we really do cover real estate here, but not when everyting’’s shut down for the holiday. But the GAR office has reopened and there’s now a little activity to report.

36 Butternut Hollow

Contract: 36 Butternut Hollow Road ($3.395 million). 138 days on the market, it previously sold for $3.498 in 2015 and $3.675 in ‘02.

10 Stepping Stone

Pending: 10 Stepping Stone Lane ($1.795 million). 607 DOM, started at $1.980. In the years BC (Before Covid) this house had a hard time finding buyers. It sat on the market for 923 days back in 2012-2015, starting at $1.825 and finally selling to these owners for $1.1 million. It needed a lot of work back then, and that work was done, but I think it was the current panic that saved it from the ignominy of breaking its previous DOM record.

circa 2015

Police go on rampage over july 4th weekend

Look, there’s a kid now! Shoot her!

16 shot dead, 69 wounded in Chicago, dead include 7-year-old girl, 14-year-old teen

8 dead, 46 wounded in NYC

2 dead, 26 wounded in Atlanta, including an 8-year-old girl.

Of course that’s not really the toll taken on the black community by the police, but blacks shooting blacks.

Black Lives Matter? Not hardly.

New rules for FWIW commenters

Twitter has helpfully supplied a guide to offensive/racist/hurtmyfeelings words that must no longer be used in company communications. Twitter’s sensitivity to the nuances of wokespeech and inclusivity is second to none, so I’ve decided to bow to its superior knowledge in these matters and incorporate them here.

You’ve been warned.

It's not a revolution, it's a reactionary putsch

The once and future kings strike back

The establishment fights back

I don’t completely agree with the author of this essay; cowardness and the presence in corporate boardrooms of the products of the Frankfurt School of indoctrination account for part of what we’re seeing, but he’s certainly right that the establishment: media, educators, politicians of both parties, is furious that they’ve lost their hold over the chumps and want that power back. Witness the “Lincoln Project”, the very definition of the GOP: it’s endorsed Biden and is now running attack ads against four Republican senators (including Susan Collins, for cripe’s sake, the very model of a milquetoast Republican of the old school).

Here are excerpts from the essay:

America is not in the middle of a revolution — it is a reactionary putsch. About four years ago, the sort of people who had acquired position and influence as a result of globalization were turfed out of power for the first time in decades. They watched in horror as voters across the world chose Brexit, Donald Trump and other populist and conservative-nationalist options.

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But when national institutions bow (or kneel) to the street fighters’ demands, it should tell us that something else is going on. We aren’t dealing with a Maoist or Marxist revolt, even if some protagonists spout hard-leftish rhetoric. Rather, what’s playing out is a counter-revolution of the neoliberal class — academe, media, large corporations, ‘experts’, Big Tech — against the nationalist revolution launched in 2016. The supposed insurgents and the elites are marching in the streets together, taking the knee together.

They do not seek a radically new arrangement, but a return to the pre-Trump, pre-Brexit status quo ante which was working out very well for them. It was, of course, working out less well for the working class of all races, who bore the brunt of their preferred policy mix: open borders, free trade without limits, an aggressive cultural liberalism that corroded tradition and community, technocratic ‘global governance’ that neutered democracy and politics as such.

Conservatives generally don’t tend to pay much attention to class analysis. But in this case, it does help to explain what’s going on. And it helps to illuminate the true nature of social movements that pose as, and can get mistaken for, revolutionary leftism.

Does anyone seriously believe the American establishment — Walmart, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, the trustees of Ivy League universities, the major sports leagues, even Brooks Brothers, for God’s sake — would sign on to a movement that genuinely threatened its material interests? And yet these and many other firms and institutions are falling over themselves to express solidarity with the ‘uprising’, ….

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The goal isn’t to rectify concrete economic injustices: massive inequalities in wealth, health and job security. The goal is precisely the opposite: to mitigate, to defer, to smooth over, to mask these substantive disagreements, and instead have battles on procedural mechanisms for upholding manners.
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“Bullworth” was on to this all the way back in 1998

I did my own search, and Bernstein's right (and so was David Borge back in 2013)

David Berstein:

THE AMERICAN PRAVDA: I had to go to an Australian news source to discover that the driver of the vehicle that sped into BLM protesters in Seattle is an African American. (Apologies if one of my colleagues at Instapundit covered this, I have been away for the holiday weekend.) I have to assume that American media outlets know this, and decided intentionally not to mention it to create the implication that this was a racist murder, rather than a guy driving recklessly on what he thought was an abandoned highway. I increasingly feel like I’m living somewhere akin to the former USSR, in terms of the way the media are dedicated to a particular narrative regardless of the facts. At least unlike in the USSR I can access alternative sources to our equivalent of Pravda.

LA Times, NYT, ABC, CBS, all silent. Interestingly, only NEWSONE, a black news site, updated its initial report to add the information that the driver was black. It posted that update Sunday morning at 7:15 AM; the mainstream outlets mentioned above were all datelined later than that so yes, they had the information and deliberately hid it.

Why does the race of the driver matter? Because it completely changes the narrative: the propagandists in charge know that, so hide it.

This is all so damn confusing

Black man runs down white transgender BLM protester.

PJ Media’s Victoria Taft sums it up nicely:

The situation in which a black man is charged for the death of a white woman demonstrating for Black Lives Matter has sent millions of people to the Woke Version of Political Rock Paper Scissors.