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Hmm. deflationista seems to need to tell us that we’re poopy-doodoo-cacaheads. Now we’re Nazi/Nazi rationalizers. Maybe I should start beating my wife again: might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb.
I wonder what it is about us that attracts this kind of thing.
‘scuse me but I have to mask up now so that I can legally buy legal cannabis. Thank god my mask doesn’t have a swaztika on it. That would be so un-American. Not like wearing a mask and submitting to a mandatory vaccination program likely to be far more dangerous than the mystery bug it allegedly protects me from.
“How is this even tolerated??”
Simple: people don’t fight back. They take cellcam movies and talk online about justice and “proper peaceful protesting”. THey rely on law enforcement to do their dirty work… and then law enforcement does dirty work on them.
Forbidden fruit is very appealing. Anything Nazi is forbidden and therefore appealing to some mindsets. Transgression is a necessary part of attaining freedom. ALways someone telling you what you can’t wear.
The net is falling apart like everything else, according to some Mysterious Master Plan… i.e. greedy incompetence, including ours.
deflationista: we are interested in actual info, not the dispernsers thereof. There are books, and there are covers…
“Ruhani secured his freedom by telling an administrative review board that he was a ‘simple shopkeeper’ who ‘helped Americans’. State Department documents confirm that Ruhani was one of the very first prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, the Cuban-based military prison meant to cage the world’s most dangerous terrorists. The documents show that he spent five years there, from 2002 to 2007”
5 years of gitmo would turn me into a Talibani too.
“On the news this evening was a report that a lot of the double-jabbed in Holland who are catching Covid have weak immune systems, nothing to do with the vaccines, mind you, they just have weak systems due to cancer treatments, co-morbidities or born with plain bad luck. There are 100,000s of them. Just jab ‘em more often, that’ll fix it.”
The viciously circular illogic is now complete. The vakzine designed especially to protect those with weak immune systems is now excused for not working on the people with weak immune systems that it was supposed to help because they have immune systems.
KInda like saying the sky is blue because the air above your head is the color of the sky.
“The only thing worse than Xtianity is not-Xtianity.”
Tell that to the few surviving aboriginal tribes with their own religious belief systems that don’t claim humans have dominion over the earth, etc. Tell that to a Jain Hindu. Tell that to a Celt in 400 AD when Xtianity was shitting itself nuts killing off heretics and developing the Divine Right of Kings nonsense.
I like Xtianity, and feel that it has unique explantory power about themes as old as what 2001: A Space Odyssey opens with and as current as the state of the world today as we head toward environmental apocalypse with or without nuclear armageddon. But so does Hinduism. The idea that Xtianity made the world a better place is laughable, even when expressed by the likes of Chesterton, whom I adore. Xtianity killed its goddam leader, for Chrissake. (I think that’s a Triple Word Score bonus for taking the Lord’s name in vain?)
Moral supremacism is nastier, much nastier than mere racial supremacism or national supremacism. This very much includes Xtian moral supremacism.
You’re making me smile, Oroborus. You’re obviously on a roll.:)
Regarding the Aussie PM’s shark-jump, here’s something I shared yesterday but resonates so well with the inane insanity of modern governance:
Portland officials say a 21-year-old man admitted urinating in a Mt. Tabor reservoir early Wednesday, forcing the city to take a key water supply off line.
Police responded but did not cite the man or his friends. Video surveillance and reports written by police and the Portland Water Bureau will be submitted to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office for possible criminal charges.
“It’ll kind of depend on what the surveillance video shows,” said Sgt. Pete Simpson, a police spokesman. “He’s not out of the water yet.”
Covering Portland’s open-air reservoirs has been a politically charged topic in recent years and the Water Bureau is working to comply with federal regulations. Last month the Portland City Council approved an $80 million contract to build a new reservoir at Powell Butte that will eventually help mitigate closing open-air storage at Mt. Tabor.
David Shaff, administrator for the Water Bureau, said about 7.8 million gallons of drinking water will be discarded because of the incident. He originally said that will cost the bureau about $600,000 in lost revenue but later clarified that his math was very wrong, and that the water would have sold for a retail price of almost $28,500, and disposal fees are expected at about $7,600.
Shaff said the Water Bureau regularly finds dead animals in the same drinking supply but doesn’t dump the water. “This is different,” he said.
“Do you want to drink pee?” he asked bluntly.
When questioned about scientific data and the small amount of urine in such a large reservoir, he interjected: “Answer the question. It has nothing to do with scientifically.
“Most people,” he added, “are gonna be pretty damn squeamish about that.”
Count Portland city Commissioner Randy Leonard, who oversees the Water Bureau, among those. After hearing about the incident, he quipped, “I think I’m going to have a Coke with my lunch today.”
According to a Water Bureau incident report, officials spotted five people and a dog near reservoir No. 1 at about 1:30 a.m. Some of the people threw objects into the reservoir and one person “walked up to the reservoir fencing and urinated into the reservoir,” according to the report.
The Oregonian is not naming the 21-year-old because he was not arrested or charged with a crime.
Once officials contacted the group and confronted the man about urinating, he reportedly said, “It was a stupid thing to do,” according to the report.
When told he urinated in Portland’s drinking water and his actions were disrespectful, he reportedly said, “I didn’t mean to show disrespect. I thought this was a sewage treatment plant.
<end>These cretins are in charge of public drinking water safety. While evil exists, and appears to abound at the highest levels of wealth and power, the army, as they say, is run by the sergeants. Looks like we’re up to our armpits in seriously stupid sergeants, from the dogcatcher to the presidents and prime ministers and dictators of our governments.
Dead animals fine; a bit of harmless wizz, not. Also: Portland has been having a major drought. Over 60s days with only two very slight rains.
“bang, bang, mine. bang, bang, mine. bang, bang, mine”
So old it’s time for it to become hip again:
Mighty fine omnibus today, Dr. D.
“As the BTC video yesterday, PetroDollar is murder-backed, by U.S. Army power protection projection. So if we can’t protect anyone, what’s the US$ worth? So we may be counting weeks now. Rosh Hashanah Sept 6, followed by 9-11.”
This guy — https://halfpasthuman.com/ — does a unique form of semantically based prognostication based on internet verbal traffic. He predicted a month or three ago that late Sept would see massive inflation kick in hard. HIs reasoning was very arcane, per his method. Not something you write editorials with. But his method impressed me and it looks as if he might be right.
I especially liked this from Dr. D:
““coordinate their response, which at the time I thought would lead to some form of regional secession”
“This is how it’s SUPPOSED to be. That IS the Constitution, with a WEAK central government. We’re going back there, real fast. And thank god, since the Federales are going to collapse and be unoccupied. Like, can’t pay their employees and all go home. That WOULD normally be bad. But in our system, power and control simply devolves to the States and Governors, which have more than adequate tools to carry on. That is, stop riots, keep order, enforce rule of law, and protect property so people will feel safe continuing to create goods and trade them. And that IS the economy, not “money”. Money is irrelevant, an accounting chit.
“Disruptive, yes, but necessary, and no reason it should go badly. They are so violent, oppressive, and extractive, getting them off our back should lead to an unexpected boom of prosperity. Default on the debt alone would liberate more cash than the whole planet had before 2000.”
Not that I think the disruption will be mild, but I do like the Constitutional refresher course on this matter. I don’t see an unexpected boom of prosperity although possibly a brief illusion of that for a bit.
Same logic applied to Xtianity by chooch applies to the USA Constitution and the nation for which it provides primary scaffolding. That said, Xtianity got its real fangs on when it combined with politics in the Holy Roman Church.
Same thing applies to the scientific method once governments realized it could make better weapons and stuff made in vast amounts locally to be sold around the world. The milindustrial complex is power by science not religion, although it snorts religion like a kinky drug, especially the Dominionist brand.
Rational critical thinking has been reduced to “anything but hokey religion”, and that has empowered a wide range of dangerous nonsense to fill the space marked Rational Empiricism.
The preacher in the pulpit versus the talking head on TV, now combined in venues like this:
Methinks China is the next domino:
I’m sure that most of the non-Han Chinese population are sick of the ruling Hans. Xi is probably in a position analogous to Nixon’s in the 70s: the party’s over, reform beckons, will probably fail, and then they get their Reagan after a populist like Jimmy Carter finds himself drowned by corruption.
I wonder when Putin will begin distancing himself from China now that it’s clear that the only threat the USA poses is nuclear.
Methinks the Taliban will be largely left alone so long as they don’t foment their religious shyte beyond their borders. Entitiies like China can, if they wish, take control of small (very small) regions for mining purposes, etc. But the logistics of even that make it economically unfeasible. Rather like trying to run a sugar factory in the world’s biggest ant hill.
As for opium: China extremely dislikes that aspect of Afghanistan. Something about two Opium Wars. If the Taliban tries smuggling opium in large quantities into China, it may find itself overrun by Mongol hordes: China has LOTS of people and doesn’t seem overly squeamish about genocide. Not to mention that it’s literally right next door. Supply line issues for China would be much smaller than ours, even with the Himalayan massif.
I doubt China will annex Afghanistan; I doubt the Taliban will make trouble; and I don’t think the Taliban’s power will last very long without an invading foreign Great Shaitan to justify their excistence after bringing it into power in the first place.
While people argue whether the climate is a problem caused by humanity, a position marked by high moral dudgeon easily exploited by the usual suspects, or is natural, a position marked by casual acceptance and shoulder-shrugging bordering on apathy while nonetheless screaming about how the usual suspects are making a killing selling gangrene energy, the climate continues making life harder every day.
But we’d rather argue opposing political positions on the issue rather than do something about it.
It’s like complaining about how God made the world fflawed but focusing not on the world but on what a poopy-head God must be to make a world like this. FInd someone to blame rather than deal with the problem. But isn’t that what we usually do?
I wonder how badly this fuckup will fail:
US Special Forces Deploying to the Congo The US will help the DRC fight the Allied Democratic Forces
“However despite getting jabbed, students in the eight council areas will not – unlike their peers – return to the classroom from 16 August.
They will instead return at an unspecified later date.
Year 12 students from other parts of Sydney will return to school on 16 August for essential education as well as wellbeing support.”
I like to read this as an awareness on some authorities’ part that they know the vakzines don’t really work. Wadda maroon! I tellz myself. Hope Springs Eternal, my favoprite tourist trap.
“Australian Officials Institute Mandatory Sex Education for ALL Australian Children by Actually Having Sex with Them
Parents will not be allowed to watch
Good on ya mate!”
Well done!
Apparently, the vax vs job plight so many are facing affected me. Yesterday, working on fiction, I opened a page and tore it a new one:
“Oh, he was just a snakeskin in a sharksuit. He told me to do it or he’d fire me. I ignored him. Took him awhile to realize I wasn’t doing what he’d said.
‘Pack your stuff and leave,’ he said.
“I ignored him. He grabbed me by the shirt. I swiveled my chair and stomped on his instep. He didn’t like that. I grabbed his nuts, squeezed, then elbowed his face as he stooped over.
“‘If you’re not gone by the time I take lunch, I’ll make you fire me again, spitlicker.’” Something like that. You could see the incomprehension in his eyes. I took my pistol out of my personal drawer and a few odd’n’ends. Dumped the rest of my drawers, and my files, on him as he lay clutching his nuts. Kinda buried him.
“ ‘Fuck with my paycheck or my royalties or I’ll come back to work for you, I swear it.’ ”
<end>Belief is awesome stuff… so long as one remebers that it is belief not proven knowledge of itself. One can believe in what one knows and know what one believes. Same with magical thinking (which overlaps considerably with believing): amazing stuff, vitally crucial to me, but must not be mixed with rational empiricism and all that critical thinking jazz.
“I believe in nothing, for everything is sacred, and I believe in everything for nothing is sacred.” Tim Robbins
“The people of France spray liquid horseshit on the French president’s house.”
You just made my day, Oroborus.
A single unified pushback would be a revolution. We have this strange notion that we can peacefully gather en masse and change things. The Gandhi mythology spread this concept. India was a unique case. Most of the time, that nonviolent stuff will get you killed.
A single unified pushback would likely manifest as something like the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
We are, and ever have been, a nation divided against itself. We have mostly united, as human groups usually do, when provided some Other to hate and hurt. We slaughtered ourselves to end slavery when letting petroleum and science (already in motion at that time) prevail would have ended it without the carnage. Our Melting Pot mythology, the “Behold I set my lamp beside the Golden Door” mythic ethos, united us against foreign nations starving their peasantry: other nations were BAD, USA was GOOD.
Then, once we felt satisfied with ourselves as Better than Them, we began the overseas imperialism we now see evaporating. They were BAD and needed our GOODness.
It is not when we are unified, when we stand together when wre are good; it is when we stand tall as individuals that we stand together in a way that serves rather than harms us and others.
“The average American is alright. It is the ideal American who is all wrong.”
The average American is for hirself. The ideal American is for some abstract group identity (conservative/liberal, for example), which group then bosses around average Americans… who don’t stand up for themselves. They stand up for each other, which is an egregious example of minding others’ business rather than your own.
10 Americans standing upo for themselves can easily disperse and dismiss a crowd of 100 ideal Americans (antifa, teabaggers, etc.). Things will resolve into their next recognizable form when enough average Americans stand up for their god.damn.selves rather than this or that cause or group or some flag or lifestyle or currently fashionable notion of What’s Good Enough for Today’s Whatevers.
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John Day: magnificent advice to Herr Werner and all looking at similar challenges.
“The current ruling western Insiders know that society does not exist, only merit defined by money matters.”
That is a perfectlly accurate and concise description, I thiunk.
“I read your piece about Germany, but my use of Germany in 1932 was a completely apt comparison for the point I made, which was the boiling-frog-deciding-to-jump dilemma. It’s about the same to the frog.”
I agree. I probably phrased my remark thoughtlessly. Color me clueless. I just meant to say that while the modus operandi of das kovid and the Nazis are VERY similar, the foundations under their respective modus O’s are headed in the opposite direction.
Bit of a kneejerk on part in reaction to all the Orwellian assumptions I often read around here.
Eyes, nose, mouth: humans do it too, but usually only when making genuine love. We have, imo, so distanced ourselves from what we evolved to be, that we can hardly even look each other in the eye casually during a subway commute.
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Herr Werner: be sure and tell them, pls, that when they come begging for you to return to work, your rates will go up substantially.
John Day stars in The Deer Whistler.
btw, The Song of the Lark is one of my very fave paintings.
It’s my desktop image now.
“As Raul points out so well, mRNA vaccines alone cannot end the pandemic.”
Best I can tell, they can only exacerbate it. And I remind us again that these are not vaccines. They’re an experimental genetic therapy designed to mitigate symptoms while (probably unintentionally) designed to perpetuate the virus via augmented selection for surviving variants.
And we will all become victim to something or other. A dear friend of mine lost his wife to the ’14 flu. His son lost HIS wife to the same flu same year. But he’s not hollering for widespread vaccination, much less mandatory vakzination.
Russia has it right. (God, I sound like a Russophile but frankly, I prefer Bartok to Stravinsky.) Non-genetically experimental vaccine, no mandates but strong encouragement from a respected, even beloved leader. I would gladly voluntarily submit to genuine vaccination of the sterilzing immunity kind, period. At this point, with ADE almost certain, I’d probably take the Russian vaccine if made available. None of the others. Not USA’s, not China’s.
“In sociology, anomie (/ˈænəˌmi/) is a social condition defined by an uprooting or breakdown of any moral values, standards or guidance for individuals to follow.[1][2] Anomie may evolve from conflict of belief systems[3] and causes breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community (both economic and primary socialization).[4] E.g. alienation in a person that can progress into a dysfunctional inability to integrate within normative situations of their social world like to find a job, find success in relationships, etc.
“The term, commonly understood to mean normlessness, is believed to have been popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide (1897). However, Durkheim first introduced the concept of anomie in his 1893 work The Division of Labour in Society. Durkheim never used the term normlessness;[5] rather, he described anomie as “derangement,” and “an insatiable will.”[6][need quotation to verify] Durkheim used the term “the malady of the infinite” because desire without limit can never be fulfilled; it only becomes more intense.[7]
“For Durkheim, anomie arises more generally from a mismatch between personal or group standards and wider social standards; or from the lack of a social ethic, which produces moral deregulation and an absence of legitimate aspirations. This is a nurtured condition:
“Most sociologists associate the term with Durkheim, who used the concept to speak of the ways in which an individual’s actions are matched, or integrated, with a system of social norms and practices…anomie is a mismatch, not simply the absence of norms. Thus, a society with too much rigidity and little individual discretion could also produce a kind of anomie…[8]”
Is this anomie?
Mind your fucking manners, dude!
“UNMASK THEM! UNMASK THEM ALL!”
Then the cops come and everyone runs. I have no idea what they think they’re accomplishing each other. Doubt they do either.
Not everyone is willing to jump the fence, but some do:
“Then it looks like we will have endemic coronavirus and it’s going to be everywhere and we will need annual shots to protect us much like the flu.”
Well, non-mandatory safe flu shots are fine. Maybe we even “need” them. Mandatory won’t fly. To the extent that it succeeds, it will destroy the entity mandating them… along with a bunch of people, of course.
I’m trying to think of an established, historically respected mainstream English-language news/magazine that is still capable of comprehending non-mediated reality. I fail.
““I think there is a danger that democracy will retreat in 2021. I’m hoping eventually we will be able to get widespread vaccine out there and that will make it easier for people to gather together and organize, which is what you need to be able to do if you are going to resist tyranny.””
Submission accomplished!
Historically tonedeaf award goes to this headline:
“Kamala Harris to promote ‘America is back’ message in Singapore and Vietnam”
We’re back! Ah’ll be back. Apocalypse Again!
I haven’t seen the government do anything that WORKS in a long time except use the existing SSI/IRS system to give us money to stay hme and breathe masked air.
ctbarnum:
The Constitution’s Seven Money Clauses
States can print money if they so choose*, although it would be Constitutionally challenged, I’m sure. State-level currency is by itself a form of secession. Naturally, the other states, and federal gubmint, don’t have to accept it. Last I heard, states have militias. Whether the National Guard chooses to protect their respective states from the federal government remains to be seen, but I suspect many will choose their home soil over something run into the ground by the likes of Biden or Trump. Maybe they would like a state currency that reflects their local economy, not de facto junk bonds floated by the Federal Reserve/milindustrial complex.
It’s not as if federal digi-paper will last much longer. It’s already removing coinage bit by bit.
Seeing as how our currency is entirely fiat, which also challenges the Constitution, the whole thing is shredded once the fed guv becomes as useless and weak as it is now.As for reserve currency, that’s doomed, and I suspect will collapse sooner than we anticipate. I’d rather it didn’t but so it goes… and that said, the collapse of the US dollar will facilitate state secession, which seems the only remotely sane path available to us. These crazy federal emperors have to go, and in fact already flushing themselves out of power.
I’ver said it before: the only thing the government has left is the money power (we lost the last shred of our military power to men with impressive facial hair and a perverted form of Islam), and they blew that money power to shit this past year. Hyperinflation will make state-level currency an attractve alternative. Most soldiers aren’t paid enough as it is, and the prospect of nifty retirements with health care etc. is failing fast. Enlistment rates have fallen for some time even with entry standards seriously diminished.
I mentioned the Constitution, didn’t I? As if it matters any more. But it’s a handy reference tool.
You’re so cute sometimes, Bill7. Everything has to be part of a conspiracy that fits in with your worldview. If it pleases you to think I’m some kind of operative or paid troll, knock yourself out. In turn, it pleases me to think that you’re an hysteric. I tell you what, tomorrow you be Batman and I’ll be Joker. We’ll take turns!
P.S. Siri tells me all your secrets. My, isn’t this fun. We could cut each other down all day rather than form mutual understanding and working alliances. Why, from that perspective, I should think of you as a paid operative or such: you do an awfully good job of dividing people via us vs. them and all that.
We are hilarious.
“DeSantis cannot print money, he can only withhold it.”
Times like these are when new forms of funding appear. After all, the existing currency is the biggest monetary bubble the world has seen, only needing a few more punctures to deflate faster than they can pump money into it.
Worship is partly an act of fear. “Fear God”, for example. We are warned not to worship false idols. If today’s USA currency isn’t a false idol, then Biden is mentally competent and Clenis goes for older broads. (TPTB have to be ridiculsouly desperate for Biden to be the only one willing to take the job and follow orders. Trump at least stormed the GOP nomination. Biden as deliberately shoe-horned in, it apparently being the best they could do… and that’s laughably bad.)
Notice how most of them have to use special digital visual aids to watch what’s happening.
There used to be state-chartered banks. Still are. So you can’t pay taxes with other forms of currency. Oh well. Sucks to be a collapsing federal government that has to pay itself to go out of business.
My point: face difficult facts but don’t feed them. Money is like ammo: it only works when you’re not firing blanks.
