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“I’m still reading the Urantia book, little by little.”
I lack the patience these days for such an undertaking. Perhaps the tao te ching’s greatest virtue is its brevity? 🙂
Is this anomie? Asking for an enemy.
First, watching Vlad’s expressions versus the reporter’s uber-flat affect (a Japanese specialty), is priceless. Vlad knows right away what this guy is, and probably who. Watch him smile at first. Cheer himself up for the odious task of deflecting yet another barbed-tinfoil tangle of disinformation. Watch him then become very serious but calm.
Secondly, watch him return fire with an opening shot that blows the reporters head off before Vlad proceeds to dismember what’s left of him.
LIke that old Russian fairy tale says (courtesy Vladimir Nabokov): WHich arrow flies the farthest? The one that hits its mark:
“These will be removed to appease the individuals in power who have an arsenal of overwhelming tools at their disposal, and are actively engaged in using them. COVID-19 has activated and authorized emergency powers that have weakened our constitutional rights. Sadly, cyberwarfare and authoritarian forces are beyond our abilities to withstand, and this is now our only way forward.” (from cloudhidden’s link)
I will go way out on a limb down the rabbithole and ask us to ponder that perhaps Dr. Mercola is, in the end (but not necessarily the beinning or middle), another “sheepdog” like Bernie Sanders proved to be. Crawling carefully back from that devil’s advocacy, I’ll quote from the same article:
“Local food, local democracy – our local community strength is the best way to achieve peace moving forward, and to stop authoritarian technocracy. I also believe we are at our strongest when we can care and maintain respect for each other. This is how we can make our most important decisions in life.”
If he is just another sheepdog, he’s disobeying orders, and rounding people up into local affinity groups which are stonger and much harder and expensive to maintain in herd equilibrium.
Another PTSD “hero” in the making. Let’s hope his soul makes it home with him.
Australia and Britain, apparently being the most authoritarian in their covid response outside China and a few satellites, strike me as being the logical most likely to experience full collapse socioeconomic collapse first. China is used to author/total-itarianism, so the effect is different. My take on them is first they will win a Pyrrhiuc victory over the likes of us, then fall into the crater (strictly metaphorical) they’ve made of us.
deflationista:
“This is what it looks like when you do due diligence:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1422044335076306947.html
Also, I appreciate his conclusions and feel the same way.”
That’s nice. Now we know what “due diligence looks like”. How very superficial. How about you tell us what it means. Seriously. You’ve read it and understand it, right? Well, summarize it. Show us the money quotes, explain in simplified terms the statistical issues. That’s what we do most of the time with studies from, for examnple the likes of Phizer/CDC.
Make a contribution along with your challenge. That’s kinda the fiat lucre around here.
“So if i’m reading the smoking jab correctly, it sounds like if you don’t get your booster every so many months you’ll essentially die. So a subscription service essentially. And seeing how the past few years have gone with people being denied services due to view points, yeah sign me up!”
What’s so sad is that this perspective is as supported by the broad swath of readily available evidence as not. What’s even sadder is that equally valid is the perspective that it’s as much or more caused by bureaucratic vapor-lock: that they could be killing us off in a controlled systematic manner and not even realize they’re doing it. Meanwhile, the likes of Soros giggle with glee until they begin to notice that tsunamis and hurricans and wildfires and angry mobs and foreign militaries and corp/gov alliances are also dying off in a controlled systematic manner of which they are not in control.
Who’s in control? Fate, tao, god. Something like that. Not us, not them. Me, I can barely control myself. Most of us submit personal control to work schedules, street lights, curricula, job requirements, preset social parameters, and off-the-shelf packaged entertainment distraction/relaxtion hypnosis modules. (Huxley’s prophecies came true about the time he published his propehtic book.)
We gripe that an overarching economic system, based on a few getting rich off the rest of us, would have the gall to require tracking us like the subjects we already are and readily submit to, often without questioning it or even realizing we could question it. But… we’re SUBjects, see? We’re not SUPERjects:
superject noun
su·per·ject | \ ˈsüpə(r)ˌjekt \
plural -s:
an individual or an actual entity that progressively emerges through feelings and the attainment of satisfactions // for the philosophy of organism, a subject emerges from the world a superject rather than a subject
— A. N. WhiteheadI will point out some technical issues regarding your post, deflationista:
One, there is little mention here of Trump, period. He is acknowledged as a factor but is not a rally cry for the crowd. We have our Trump fans and our Trump detractors. Discussion of Trump exceopt for analytical purposes was discarded awhile back. SO that’s one major straw man.
Two, the fact that political branding exists in the anti-vakzine/oaficial narrative is hardly surprising nor itself damning. Most people gather together and label themselves. They don the apparel that best fitrs a compromise between their detailed personal beliefs and the team which they seem to most feel fits those beliefs. Next thing you know, Great Reset is a household name. The branding isa necessarily sloppy, and so are the branded: human beings. Another straw man.
My impression is that most folks here know that Taibbi and Greenwald worked within certain limitations. I’ve felt that way about Taibbi since his early forays.
I suggest you keep your liberal-loathing to yourself. It doesn’t sell here although most folks here seem to associate more with conservatism than liberalism. Intersting how you open that paragraph with ‘I loathe liberals’ and then proceed to denigrate conservatives by association with a radicalized element and an event that happened when everyone and their mother was rioting, but those conservatives, “who don’t even pretend to care” (mindless dreck, that statement, a universal tar brush that gets as much on you as your canvas) were the ones smart enough to treat it for what it was: lawlessness in the streets, whose existence “justifies” response with same, even if those “loathsome liberals” were, in this incident, behaving peacefully although elsewhere, BLM protestors, too often didn’t: BLM attacks customers enjoying dinner in Dallas. Furious black MAGA supporter captures it: ‘This is what Cultural Marxism looks like’
Headline obviously expressing the branding associated with its perspective, ho-hum, yadi ya…
I’ve striven to stimulate an attitude of open-mindedness toward your appearance, deflationista. I like rogue wolves, being one myself.
But I don’t see you stanbding and delivering. I see you more doing that Tyler Durden thing at the end of that movie I hope never to see:
Which is not to say that you’re shooting yourself in the foot, although that is true, imo, but that you’re venting your own self-frustration because it hurts so bad and you’re tired of punching yourself as you watch your dear mother die. I don’t mind the ranting; I rather enjoy it in fact; and the basic echo chamber syndromes you point out are indeed real.
But so is yours.
deflationista:
“We want scoring, we’ll watch the Olympics.”
Although I rather did enjoy scoring deflationista’s methods, it’s not a thing I’d care to repeat nor did anyone ask for an encore. Instead, my rating system got rated. As is only apt. 🙂
“Also regarding the comments issues – WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS. ”
Once you label a thing as something, one is less able to see how that thing, like all things, drifts away from what the label states. Team Good Guy rapidly becomes Team Pogrom.
I didn’t think Raul’s remark was funny. I thought it was pointlessly exclusionary, an example of the kind of group disapproval, clique chauvinism, that is easily exploited by Big Brothers into a Daily Hate.
The guy made an honest technical mistake quite common here, and expressed the usual paranoia… in the form of a question not an accusation, and did so after making it clear he first assumed responsibility: What am I doing wrong here?
Suggestion: you won’t form meaningful political solutions using snark as glue.
I know: let’s form apparatchiks! Dueling apparatchiks! We can get team uniforms!
deflationista:
p.s. I remember Brain Food from the old days. There was plenty of teh dumb there-then too. Including from Jay himself, but then, we were, as we are here now, dealing with topics that overwhelm our cognitive faculties. Overarching global power systems are hard to understand even for advanced simians culturally conditioned toward electronically mediated tunnel vision.
“Nicole Foss used to be part of this beautiful place. Trump ended that.”
Uh, Nicole ended that. Let’s keep this reality-based.
Sorry for your troubles, deflationista. Yes, everything gets filtered through personal ego and bias on the net as in reality at large.
But you haven’t provided anything of substance that gives me reason to revise my views on things like the covid vakzines.
Yes, a wide range of opinions are found here, most of them in agreement that the Official Narrative is bunk. From there, things vary widely, and mostly with the above-mentioned biases intact. Yes, many of those opinions show a degree of paranoiac rationalizing rather than genuine rational critique, just like the pronouncements coming from the authorities, from Kunstler, from me, and most certainly from you… which is fine: we’re fucking human, just like you, although this rubber human face mask I wear isn’t to hide my lizard skin but to protect me from exotic miocrobial pathogens. 😉
Yes, we’re all tired of dumbness. I am especially tired of my own, and I could join MENSA if I liked, and won’t, because I’ve met them and they’re too dumb. In the end, all one can do is stand and deliver.
deflationista’s post isn’t up in my part of the web. no deflatiionista here. Looks like it’s a distibuted architecture issue? The cloud acting cloudy?
“No wall high enough, no ocean large enough to protect us from the vakzine…” says Joe “Tailgunner” Biden
The Freudian slippage grows tectonic.
“Just over half of Americans who remain unvaccinated against Covid-19 still believe the vaccine is more dangerous than the coronavirus — despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, according to a new survey published Wednesday.” (from some worthless CNN article not worth linking.)
Sometimes it’s good to be a kook.
^&*
deflationista:
I seem to have no problems posting. If ye like, send them to pastmastergeneral@gmail.com and I’ll try posting them for you.
Freedom Fighter Court VICTORY! Ends Masking, Shots, Quarantine in Alberta!
Could we have a bit less chit-chat about whose chit-chat is better/worse than others? We want scoring, we’ll watch the Olympics.
There’s no departure from the strict punishment of whistleblowers. They’re doubling down, like their partners in crime, China, on suppression. It won’t do them any good.
Ex-contractor jailed for leaking US drone attack secrets
Daniel Everette Hale, 33, worked as an Air Force intelligence officer developing targets for drone strikes in Afghanistan in 2011-2012, an experience he said left him emotionally scarred.
After leaving military service, in 2014 he worked for a defense contractor for eight months which gave him access to top secret documents detailing the US government’s secretive drone assassinations in Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia.
July 27, 2021·2 min read
A former intelligence analyst was sentenced Tuesday to 45 months in prison for leaking secrets about the US military’s drone attacks that were the basis of a powerful 2015 news expose.Daniel Everette Hale, 33, worked as an Air Force intelligence officer developing targets for drone strikes in Afghanistan in 2011-2012, an experience he said left him emotionally scarred.
After leaving military service, in 2014 he worked for a defense contractor for eight months which gave him access to top secret documents detailing the US government’s secretive drone assassinations in Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia.
He fed the documents to The Intercept news outlet, which used them for an eight-part series that shook the administration of president Barack Obama, raising broader questions about the increase in drone strikes and the killing of innocent non-combatants.
“Archduke Ferdinand was visiting Ft. Detrick, Maryland, in late spring 2019, when…”
Real footage from Fort Detrick’s biology lab campus
God, that looks yummy.
John Day
I rather enjoy Hudson’s brand of fiery religious conservatism as he expresses it although I’m on the other side. He needs large massive institutions to ease his secular aches; I like a few wee books and a whispering wind. He’s no G.K. Chesterton but that’s good because he is a great Hudson.
He’s one of this kind:
^&*
ezlxa1949
I suppose it’s more about the quality of officially armed minions and the population they serve, with weapons et al being a distraction from the real issue of power.
I think the Archduke of Austria was assassinated, metaphorically speaking, again in summer/fall when, evidence strongly suggests, China/Euromerican espioanage agents caught each other doing the same thing over a very short time frame. WWIII began, as many others have said, at that point. I thoink maybe I see the cocking mechanism for that trigger?
Needed a new feather in my tin foil fedora.
Oh, youtube knows me — and us — so well. How curte that this showed up in my youtube feed:
CDC Reports People Not Realizing They’re Dead
‘It seems unusual, but the persistive vegetative state from long-lerm long covid can keep people blinking and breathing days after being pronounced dead.’
“Of course their real fear is ADE with waning vaccine ‘protection’ – they know what’s coming!”
I’m so used to viewing “them” through negativelt biased lenses that the idea of them doing something at least somewhat logica*l and relatively benign, never even occurred to me. That, me thinks, could be part of our answer for Why the huge vaxz push? Are they that stupid or that evi? questions.
*(I said ‘at least somewhat logical’… in the way that the “fix” for the Boing Bros’ 737 disaster wasat least somewhat logical, since they weren’t going to fix the actual design flaws.)There are numerous Catholic buildings housing priests known to have violated countless children. Everybody knows this. We are a nation of guns, it is said. This is to protect us from tyranny and each other.
I have never heard of a militia commandeering a seminary and dispensing justice to these maladjusted doers of destruction. Haven’t even heard of a lone nut gun incident. I do recall the burning alive of parents and children in a place called Waco. Closest thing to an insurrection was a comedy review in the Capital last January 6th.
The concept of direct action, peacefully or violently, but especially violently, has been so far removed from our sense of what is voluntarily possible that putting actual manacles on us would be liberating: we might at least recognise our abandonment of personal autonomy in exchange for Authority of the Group.
I of course include myself in the “we”s above.
Just a wee bit of direct action, both singly and in group concert, would change things so fast your head would turn a revolution/counter-revolution: a double-take.
But we are silly beasts. Told not to eat the Forbidden Fruit, we plunge right in. Given a means to govern ourselves (Constitution ain’t half bad a format, you know), we quickly file politics under Boring except when prodded. (“Get out the vote!!!”)
Not that I’m advising anyone to tilt at those windmills with an assault popgun. Certainly not urging this at all. Nor am I urging anyone not to. I’m urging people to stand in the place where they live, qeueue the R>E>M tune in your head while I sneak in a brilliant vocalist doing an old chestnut:
John Day, I believe, told us awhile back how the Postal Service was saddled with an impossibly leveraged pension plan capable of financially ruining it, fwiw. It’s possible that Ms. Pelosi considered dieoff of, say, the disability demographic in her considerations, but I find it hard to believe she based her decision on this alone. For all I know, she deludedly thinks this will swing some votes from the right.
If one removes, from the imaginary scenario, the idea that Pelosi and her ilk have a cogent plan for the consequences of their actions, their actions make more sense, I feel, for what they most resemble to me are desperate acts of the congenitally clueless.
It’s not like she can stop military pork or welfare. Maybe she’s running out of places to strip without getting major flak for it. Maybe she closed her eyes and pinned a choice blindly with her finger.
We make a zillion assumptions about people whose lives and careers aare mostly hidden from us, and what is revealed come through a magic smoke screen.
Duration of life is overrated. Living to a ripe old age is difficult, usually painful, and builds a fortune of regrets and repentances (not all of them failed). Quality of life is massively hyped, mostly as a means to sell junk products including political candidates, but in reality is way below even sub-standards. Modern life plain sucks, period. Reality is grand and fantastically meaningful and rewarding if often risky, but this world we sit and type in, it sucks. I know: I have been inside a minivan with several kids for many hours. Trut me. 😉
Reality is, despite all this, quite readily available. JUst step off the smooth narrative track and rediscover your life’s legs… well, that’s how I do it. 🙂
“Our fear of death is how “they” control “us”, and their fear of death is what drives them to do so. ”
Aye. A life one isn’t willing to die for is not worth living much less dying for.
Defiance, Not Compliance: Turning the Other Cheek
Not the only dimension Jesus meant when He spoke of other cheeks, by far, imo, but one too little known:
“Wink goes on to examine the phrase “if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also.” Why, Wink asks, does Jesus reference the right cheek specifically? The answer is both challenging and enlightening. Jesus lived in a right-handed world where left hands were reserved only for unclean tasks. Therefore, we can assume that the person doing the hitting would have used their right hand. The only way to strike someone on the right cheek with your right hand is a backhanded slap. Such a blow connotes an insult, not a fistfight, and was a normal way to reprimand someone over whom you had power (e.g. masters to slaves, husbands to wives, Romans to Jews). To strike your equal in such a manner was socially and legally unacceptable, carrying with it a huge fine.
With this new understanding of the context Jesus was speaking in, picture the scenario with yourself as the oppressor. You are a wealthy, powerful person whose slave has displeased you in some way. You reprimand your slave with a backhanded slap. The response you expect is the response you have always received from your slaves – the response you yourself would give if someone higher than you treated you the same way. You expect your slave to cower, submit, and slink away. Instead, your slave defiantly turns their other cheek and challenges you to hit them again. What can you do?
You would like to give your slave another backhanded slap to show them their place, but to do that you would have to use your left hand which would admit that your action is unclean. You could hit them on their left cheek, instead, but it would be embarrassing to hit your slave the way you should hit your equal. You’re confused. You don’t know what to do. Flustered, you could order the slave be flogged, but the slave has already made their point. They have shown you that they are a human person with dignity and worth. You don’t own them, you cannot control them, and they do not submit to your rule.
And so, in light of Wink’s insights, Jesus’ instruction not to resist evil and to turn the other cheek transforms from an instruction to accept injustice into a challenge to resist systems of domination and oppression without the use of violence. Rather than ignoring an evil situation and hoping it will go away, Jesus is telling his followers to find creative, active, and nonviolent ways to assert their humanity and God’s love in the world.”
Now THIS is a shamelessly persopnal post but it nonetheless communicates to the heart of the problem most people perceive: overwhelming authority:
Again, as I do almost every day, I thank fate, god, your evil-hearted mother-in-law, for my adoptive father, Jim Morrison, smacking me in the face unjustly, childishly, apologizing for the slap but not the reason behind it, which was the only thing that really hurt, and then kicking me out of the house a week or so later cuz I wouldn’t kiss his ass. He was right in his wrong way, and the thing he did most right — kicking me onto the streets at age 16 unless I submitted to his rule* — is the thing everyone else in the family said was so wrong. (*I’d done nothing wrong, but authority must never pretend it’s anything less than power or else it becomes toxic manipulation)
Bless you Dad. I wish you could come down and smack some more sense into me now. I gonna need it in the coming years.
One more time, sir, please.
Some call it turning the other cheek.
On TPTB, slavery, and vast global schemes:
“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would
basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream
of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitude.—Aldous Huxley”And so on, these things jigsawing together into a problemmatic survival puzzle.
