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Buy Large Mansions

1909: “Socialism … It’s a grand scheme. You work for the equal distribution of property and you start by collaring all you can and sitting on it.” P.G.Wodehouse (comic author), ‘Mike and Psmith’.

2021: “I practice Marxism by getting rich and supporting my family.” Patrisse Khan-Cullors (BLM co-founder), TV Interview

Buy Large Mansions‘ was not something I expected to see added so soon to ‘Black Lives Murdered‘, ‘Bullshit Marxist Lies‘ and other clarifications of the acronym. It was obvious from the start that Chavez and his family would become stinking rich as Venezuelans starved, that Mugabe’s wealth would grow as his country’s vanished, but usually the socialists themselves say it openly only a good many years after seizing all power, not just a few months after stealing an election.

I think it was de Toqueville who said of nineteenth-century French revolutionaries: “I had the impression they were play-acting the French revolution much more than continuing it.” The same impression led Karl Marx, echoing Hegel, to write that history happens twice: “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” In that sense, Patrisse is indeed realising Marx’s vision.

She is also embodying P.G.Wodehouse’ joke. Foreseeable, avoidable tragedy is farcical. National Socialism conquered Germany, then Europe, before being pulled down by almost all the combined strength of the remainder of the world – and that was shameful, Hannah Arendt pointed out, because it was also ridiculous. The current state of the western world is less grave (as yet), but it is already shameful – because it is already ridiculous.

32 comments to Buy Large Mansions

  • Shlomo Maistre

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/facebook-bans-sharing-new-york-post-report-blm-co-founder-home-purchases

    Facebook has barred users from sharing a New York Post report from last week about the controversial property acquisitions by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors.

    Users of the social media giant noticed on Thursday they could not share the link to a story that shed light on Cullors’ multi-million-dollar splurge on homes. Fox News can confirm that an error message appears whenever users try sharing the article on their personal Facebook page or through the Messenger app.

    When users attempt to send the link, an error message alleges that the article “goes against our Community Standards.”

  • Russtovich

    ‘Buy Large Mansions’ was not something I expected to see added so soon to ‘Black Lives Murdered‘, ‘Bullshit Marxist Lies‘ and other clarifications of the acronym.

    Such as Burn, Loot, Murder. 🙂

  • Shlomo Maistre

    https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/12/twitter-suppresses-tweet-about-blm-founder-buying-1-4-million-home-in-mostly-white-neighborhood/

    Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors purchased a $1.4 million home last month in Topanga Canyon, a secluded area of Los Angeles whose population is reportedly less than 2 percent black. The self-described Marxist is now facing criticism for the extravagant purchase, including from Jason Whitlock, an African-American sports journalist.

    Whitlock tweeted about the controversy last week, writing, “Black Lives Matter Founder buys $1.4 million home in Topanga, which has a black population of 1.4%. She’s with her people!” He added a link to the story on the celebrity property blog The Dirt. Twitter quickly deleted his post and locked his account for “violating our rules against posting private information.”

    The story about Khan-Cullors, however, is far from private, given that she is a public figure, the story had been reported by many news outlets, and the controversy has even sparked calls for an independent investigation into global BLM finances.

  • Stonyground

    If the information in this article is true then it is no surprise that Patrisse prefers to live with the deplorable.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/12/nolte-rural-trump-voters-already-live-in-the-safe-tolerant-utopia-leftists-claim-to-want/

  • bobby b

    “Whitlock tweeted about the controversy last week . . .”

    Twitter hates uppity blacks.

  • Shlomo Maistre

    Twitter has reinstated Jason Whitlock’s account. In its email to Jason notifying him of being reinstated, Twitter apologized for locking his account and said it was done “in error”. Sure it was. Jason’s first tweet upon being reinstated was to retweet what got him banned. Jason is a role model.

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/04/16/jason_whitlock_on_twitter_ban_never_apologize_to_these_satanic_motherfckers.html

  • sch

    FWIW $1.4M will not buy a “mansion” in Cali, particularly NOT up any of the canyons. Pix I saw of the house
    looked pretty ordinary. Yes it is impressive and worthy of note that the lady can ante up for that kind of real estate splurge
    and presumably afford the taxes/maintenance/upkeep that implies in Cali.

  • Paul Marks

    Both Facebook and Twitter are trying to censor this story – Big Business generally are fanatical about protecting their Marxist allies (that the Big Corporations and the Marxists are allies is the madness of our time). CBS (Viacom) even edited out a firearm of the film of a boy in Chicago – so they, and the rest of the international media, could pretend that the dead boy was unarmed (murdered by the police – for no reason). So editing out houses will not be a problem for them – “the White Supremacist, Running Dog, Insurrectionists of January 6th, say there is a vast house here – but as you can see, there is just a green field” will say ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN (and so on) as they point at some “digitally enhanced” electronic pictures.

    Still I found the story HOPEFUL.

    I want the BLM Marxists to steal the money Big Business gives them – far better the Marxist leaders spend the money on houses (and jewels and all the rest of it) than spend the money paying people to loot, burn, rape and kill.

    After all both CNN (Time Warner) and NBC (Comcast) paid members of “Insurrection USA” (an Antifa off shoot) to stir up trouble (and to damage the building) at the Capitol on January 6th – it would have been much better if the Marxists they paid had just gone to a bar and got drunk with the money. Then the (totally corrupt and politically motivated) FBI would have had to do the work of damaging doors and windows itself.

  • pete

    The western world is the least ridiculous part of the planet.

    That’s why so many people from other parts are so keen to emigrate to it.

  • Exasperated

    Wow, I thought BLM and Antifa were just the latest iteration of Chicago’s infamous ACORN. You say ACORN, I say Extortion; it’s a hustle, a racket.
    They also get lot’s a money through Go Fund Me.

  • Penseivat

    I understand that there were recent BLM instigated riots (and looting of course) in Portland after Police shot and killed a WHITE man. Are these Bigoted Lying Morons now accepting that white lives matter as well (after previously attacking people who claimed the same thing) or are they just proving that they are a bunch of Left Wing organised terrorists who delight in trying to destroy civilised society?

  • Fred Z

    Re Marxism and large corporations.

    Marxism is a philosophy of thieves.

    Thieves go where there is lots of money and property to steal and protection is weakest.

    ie. Large corporations and government.

    There are many ways to steal much more sophisticated than picking a pocket. Taking a job and not doing it even though being generously paid is a good one and is what I see Marxist moles doing everywhere in business and government.

  • David S

    $1.4 million is hardly extravagant. A decent sized house but by no means a mansion. This is a tad overblown.

  • The Wobbly Guy

    @pete

    Actually, I suspect many people would like to emigrate to Japan, but they are not suicidal like the West.

    Ditto for China in the near future. It may be fascist like hell, but given the choice between ‘woke fascism’ and ‘functional/pragmatic fascism’, I think many people will opt for the non-woke version, especially if it resembles Singapore’s.

  • This is a tad overblown.

    No, not in the slightest. When some race-huckster Marxist piece of crap buys a property, private non-collective property, no amount of hostile criticism is overblown.

  • This is a tad overblown.

    No, not in the slightest. When some race-huckster Marxist piece of crap buys a property, private non-collective property, no amount of hostile criticism is overblown

  • bobby b

    “No, not in the slightest. When some race-huckster Marxist piece of crap buys a property, private non-collective property, no amount of hostile criticism is overblown.”

    $1.4 million? One of four properties she bought, using monies donated to a charity? That would be theft even were she a capitalist.

    Nothing to see here . . .

    (Perhaps for the top 1%, $1.4 million is an average house.)

  • John Lewis

    Even if her property portfolio has been funded in the “usual” establishment way i.e. book advances, consultancy contracts, payments for speeches etc some damage will still have been done to the previously Teflon blm brand. Major corporations will think twice about making large self-righteous donations in future.

    Obviously I hope that she was nicking blm funds but the chances of proving it are slim to none with the US media in full prevent mode. After all it’s not as if the likes of Sharpton have ever been held to account.

  • Snorri Godhi

    Actually, I suspect many people would like to emigrate to Japan, but they are not suicidal like the West.

    I can assure you that people are not suicidal where i live. At a guess, only the Anglosphere and Sweden are suicidal.
    Although Germany is trending that way.
    And there is a risk for every country, not just ‘Western’, to trend that way.

  • Snorri Godhi

    In related news — or rather, predictions:

    If a Democrat-run city polices crime, BLM and Antifa will destroy the city via non-stop rioting and anarchy.

    If a Democrat-run city backs away from policing crime, the city is doomed to a future of urban blight, one where everyone who can gets the hell out, while the poorest of the poor and those who prey on the poorest of the poor remain.

    Basically, we are looking at a future with a whole bunch of Detroits.

    This is what i thought soon after resigning myself to President Biden:
    There is no need for conservatives to start a civil war, BLM is already doing it.

    We need another neologism after Corbynization: Detroitization.

  • bobby b

    “There is no need for conservatives to start a civil war, BLM is already doing it.”

    And our police and governments are helping.

    In Brooklyn Center last night, four blocks away from thousands rioting and screaming and hundreds of cops sitting around and letting them, and I get pulled over because “your license plate is dirty and partially obstructed” and they were nasty about it, especially when I mentioned in passing that there seemed to be enough to keep them busy nearby.

    Maybe they CAN all lose.

  • Nicholas (Unlicensed Joker) Gray

    I liked a lot of Wodehouse’s books. He proved that you can write clean comedy, and still become filthy rich.

  • JohnInFlorida

    $1.4M her purchase … $178K my purchase … good neighbors and good weather in either … I’m sure glad I’m in Florida instead of Cali …

  • Mtn Geek

    Maybe because your vehicle could have been ferrying “mostly peaceful” rioters or munitions closer to the action, and the gendarmes needed a pretext to get a closer look.

  • Snorri Godhi

    Hi bobby!

    In Brooklyn Center last night, four blocks away from thousands rioting and screaming and hundreds of cops sitting around and letting them, and I get pulled over because “your license plate is dirty and partially obstructed” and they were nasty about it, especially when I mentioned in passing that there seemed to be enough to keep them busy nearby.

    It’s called anarcho-tyranny.

    Maybe they CAN all lose.

    That is not an unrealistic wish.
    Be aware, however, that Detroitization means that lots of decent Americans such as yourself will have to move to other parts of the country, selling their homes at a loss.

    Which is why i believe that it is unwise to invest in real estate, even if you live in it.

  • Paul Marks

    Perry – as you know, had you not already been banned from Twitter your last comment would have got you banned.

    Twitter, Youtube (Google) and the other corporations are clear that we must not mock the financial corruption of the Marxists – the fact that they are spending the money on themselves (buying houses, jewels and so on) rather than the Revolution. Not that I have a problem with what the BLM Marxist leaders are doing (I just wish they would steal ALL the money Big Business gives to “the cause”).

    Tesco and the other supermarkets are still pushing books on Barack and Michelle Obama (all favourable, non hostile, just as all the books they pushed about President Trump were hostile – none favourable) – there is a new one “Becoming” for children (rather than the adult version) – because these people are both black and leftist they MUST be noble, according to Big Business. Being black and NOT leftist is evil – one will not be seeing Candice Owens books in British stores any time soon (although it would be nice to be proved wrong about that), ditto Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams.

    “The Culture of Corruption” (the exposure of the corrupt activities of Michelle Obama over many years) is unlikely to appear in Waterstones or other book shops – and the little question “how did these people get so rich?” is forbidden.

  • Paul Marks

    Snorri – what I fear is that all of America will end up ruled like New York City, a mixture of tyranny and chaos (they are not opposites – they are close kin, under a tyranny the police act the same way the bandits do).

    Presently bobby b can move from Minnesota to South Dakota – but he faces the same (utterly corrupt and evil) FBI and Federal “Justice” Department – wherever he goes. And the same IRS and so on.

    The Federal Government is totally out of control – it is utterly partisan (Democrat) and has no real limit on its de facto powers.

  • Snorri Godhi

    Paul: I, too, fear that all of America will end up ruled like New York City.
    But, for now, bobby does have the option of moving to South Dakota, or other relatively sane States. Unless there are strong personal reasons for him to stay in Minnesota.

    If things get really bad, bobby can move abroad. Everybody should be ready to move abroad, in my view. Everybody should be thinking of where to move if things get bad where one lives.

    For now, i would not recommend moving abroad to Americans; but i would definitely get the heck out of any Blue State if i lived in one.

  • bobby b

    Move? And miss all of this fun?!

    (Just got stuck in a traffic jam for two hours on the downtown Minneapolis freeway. Several long convoys of large National Guard carriers and tactical jeeps full of troops – hundreds of vehicles, felt like war, filling the roads and the shoulders as they slowly pour into downtown – interspersed with many out-of-town LEO vehicles, all coming in to help quash the riots now that the Chauvin verdict has been announced. You can’t have fun like this out in the red states!)

  • The Wobbly Guy

    However, I keep thinking, what does all this portend for the generations-old rich elite dreams of gentrifying the valuable urban areas of cities?

    For quite some time now, there was a concerted effort by Dems to push blacks out to the suburbs so that their inner cities would no longer be blighted by their anarchic behaviour, and that valuable estate would be redeveloped and occupied by the rich elites and their activities. Stop-and-frisk, heavy handed policing, all these were useful tools to make it happen.

    In the light of BLM, that does not seem very likely anymore.

  • This seems the right place to record that not only does Patrisse “practice Marxism by getting rich and supporting my family.” but she also seems a bit confused about another aspect of socialism:

    “Trained Marxist” and BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Says Outrage Over Her Personal Wealth is a “Tactic of Terror”

    (h/t instapundit).

    Of course, if we accept the theory that all this professed concern about racism is really a form of class war by the powerful against the common people, then it makes sense to redefine the historic task of Marxism to be defending the inexplicably and suspiciously rich against the objections to their rule of those who are obliged to work for a living.

    In Patrisse’ case, however, the ideological subtlety of the attempt is somewhat lacking. If your taste in comedy is for farce then you may find Patrisse every bit as comic as

    All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

    However that line occurs at the end of Animal Farm, not the start of chapter 3. Patrisse (I very much hope, despite the sad news of BLM’s trial intimidation) is so far from the end of this story that she is helping rewrite it.

  • Snorri Godhi

    it makes sense to redefine the historic task of Marxism to be defending the inexplicably and suspiciously rich against the objections to their rule of those who are obliged to work for a living.

    This is the present-day task of ‘cultural Marxism’: to provide the (pseudo-)intellectual justification for the present-day Establishment.
    Historically, the task was rather to justify eliminating the capitalist class (or kulak class where capitalists were not available) and replacing it with a ‘new class’.