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Designating corporations as tax collectors lets us cook the books and tell you we aren’t raising your taxes. Especially lets us claim not to be raising taxes on the poor. Kind of like how the government hires soldiers as “contractors” and then only cites soldier, not contractor deaths, to keep the body count down in reporting on conflicts/wars
Designating corporations as tax collectors lets us cook the books and tell you we aren’t raising your taxes. Especially lets us claim not to be raising taxes on the poor. Kind of like how the government hires soldiers as “contractors” and then only cites soldier, not contractor deaths, to keep the body count down in reporting on conflicts/wars
The Terrorist Offensive In Aleppo Is Meant To Deliver A Coup De Grace To Syria
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/terrorist-offensive-aleppo-meant-deliver-coup-de-grace-syriaSo what you’re telling me is, a powerful, well-supplied and armed, well-organized and led group of Islamic terrorists armed with drones and other high tech weaponry, in the midst of what the Muslims are calling a genocide of Muslims, attacked Syria as opposed to Israel. Makes sense.
Bureaucracy is the fundamental layer just below Civilization which enables its development.
There is agriculture without cities or writing. There are no cities or writing without a complex system of irrigation, which emerges from having enough of a bureaucracy to administer it.
Try running a nationwide cellular network without bureaucracy. Put your own hubcaps up on telephone poles and whatnot – get something going.
So yeah.
But the guy entrusted with the entire granary starts giving it away, maybe first on a generous impulse – hey, there’s so MUCH stored up here! – but eventually he learns he gets favors, better treatment, makes “friends.” Essentially embezzlement, just not in coin, but in benefits.
So he develops methods of hiding what he’s doing and methods of expanding what he’s doing to increase his benefits. Maybe he has scruples and gets bumped off, replaced by someone with less scruples. It becomes easy to find ways to skim the actual grain or money from the operation.
And eventually the expansion of programs to expand the grift necessitates establishing dominance over things that are better done by someone else. And to maintain that dominance and money/influence/benefits flow, you have to shut down competitors – people will naturally choose a real service over your fake grifting service. Not just better done, but ACTUALLY done by someone else would be obviously better.
Soon you’ve got all these reports of lots of things being done and their costs but things keep getting worse and mysteriously, you get no value out of your spending when, looking at the dollar value, you could literally have streets paved in gold (a year or so ago, I calculated the square-footage cost to install gold leaf, the square footage of Phoenix’s road system, and found that a single govt program in Phoenix COULD completely cover every street and road in gold leaf for the same or less $)
It’s as stupid to complain that there IS a bureaucracy as it would be for an AI to complain “It’s all just switches deciding between 1 and 0!!! Aggghhhh!!”
But then most people complain about bureaucracy as a shorthand for the above process.
Biden Moves to Subsidize Ozempic With Medicare, Generating $25BN Liability Overnight
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-11-29/biden-regime-moves-subsidize-ozempic-medicare-bucks-generating-25-billion-liabilityQuickly! QUICKLY!!!!!!!!
Bury people in infinite money!
Bury the very people we wouldn’t give money to but take money FROM less than 2 months from now! Money EVERYWHERE!!!!!! Well… not for YOU hahahaha.
Totally no money laundering, kickbacks, any of that going on. Unimaginable.
It’s totally not weird at all the Elensky is buying bugattis and resorts and his wife is going on multimillion dollar spending sprees in Paris. Surely he had that money from the worldwide royalties on his successful ukrainian-language TV show.
And anyway, IF it’s happening, it’s not all that much, probably just him and nobody else doing it, and anyway, it would be a good thing actually.
On the upside….
Elon Musk Says DOGE Will Audit The IRS
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-says-doge-will-audit-irsPerson: Wait I just thought of something. What if I just don’t pay you. Like, what if I don’t think this relationship is working and decide to leave.
IRS: Nobody leaves me.
Person: But I’d be keeping my money. I guess under the circumstances if I’m significantly better off, it’s ok to have you mad at me and thinking there’s still some relationship.
IRS: No. I’d take your money anyway.
Person: Well, I just wouldn’t give you cash, wouldn’t give you my financial information, and you can just pound sand then, can’t you.
IRS: I have the ability to just go into your accounts and take the money I want
Person: Without my permission? Without my even telling you my account numbers????
IRS: Yes.
Person: (throws down hat, mashes it with angry stomping) Well goddamn it if you’re just going to take the money NO MATTER WHAT, why don’t you goddamn TAKE THE MONEY and be done with it! Since you already know what’s right and you already know you’re going to take it no matter what, and you already know my accounts and everything, why don’t you get rid of all that paperwork, all those court cases, all those investigations and hate mail and all that stuff. If you’re going to just take it, then by god goddamn just TAKE it!!!!! Stop wasting everyone’s TIME!!!!!
IRS: You don’t get it.
IRS: …so to sum up, just gather all your info from the entire year, go over it, read all these rules, be careful to follow those rules EXACTLY, decide what you owe us, and then send in your money and paperwork
Person: Oh, but then what happens?
IRS: I’ll let you know if you got it right.
Person: Uh… what happens if I got it wrong?
IRS: Any number of things. Frozen assets, jail time, interminable court time and costs, inability to work a range of jobs due to criminality. I might surprise you with something you couldn’t predict, but basically stuff like that.
Person: So you look at the paperwork I send and from that, you decide to do these things or not?
IRS: No, no, nothing like that. I know what I expect from you right now.
Person: Then why don’t you just tell me what you expect and why?
IRS: No, no. Then it wouldn’t feel real to me.
Person: But if it ends up being the same dollar amount anyway, I’d be happy to pay it like normal and it would be the same dollars and cents, wouldn’t it? Same either way! Cash money.
IRS: No, I want it to be real. I want it to feel sincere, like it’s really happening.
Person: Well, I guess if there’s some avowal of sincerity I can check off on the form I use to pay… I guess that’d be a little humiliating, but if we can straighten this whole thing out so you tell me what you want up-front, I’d be happy to checkmark a few words that make it more uh… real for you. Yeah, I guess that’d be easy to do for you. Sigh.
IRS : No, no, you’re not getting it. I want to see it – no, I want to feel it coming from you. Doing performative lip service is so low-value, so ick. You need to treat me right and you need to make me feel like you really mean it. I can’t tell you what I want. What I need. It has to come FROM YOU.
Person: Are you ah… sure that you’re all right? …and in the right line of business? Seems like running one of those game shows where you guess stuff – like letters get revealed or dollar values of objects have to be guessed or mysterious suitcases get opened to reveal someone’s fate after they guess, stuff like that…. seems like that’s what you’re into.
Wouldn’t you just be happier getting what you want because you chose the right career? Like, then you’d be SURE of having these dramas you want to play out always playing out.
IRS: You don’t get it. You just don’t get it.
P.S – all Educators, Government employees of all levels, and NGO employees of all levels must adhere to these rules as well. Anyone possessing a trust fund as well. Regardless of income.
Bloomberg Ruins Thanksgiving: “Gobbling Meat Is Fueling A Climate Crisis”
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/bloomberg-ruins-thanksgiving-gobbling-meat-fueling-climate-crisisThis just in – Area Call Center Worker proposes sure-fire plan to save the most precious, sacred, and holy thing of all – The Planet
1. All yachts longer than 50′ are prohibited. Existing yachts beyond must be turned in for demolition. The incentive of a free Big Mac is offered for all who comply.
2. No primary structures larger than 1600 sq ft are allowed within 50 miles of any coast.
—this includes seas, oceans, and other large bodies of water such as the great lakes
—one primary structure is allowed per property
—various limitations on other structures such as gazebos and sheds to lower-class sizes
—no contiguous multiple properties with same ownership
—various other laws to prevent mansions within 50mi of the coast by any subterfuge or semantic or legal trickery3. No private jets. No chartered jets. No jets used for private use. No jets for personal use as an officer of a corporation or NGO. No wiggle room to use jets privately in any way. No more 1st class seating on jets. No more business class seating on jets. No semantic wiggle room. Passenger jets go from airport to airport nowhere else. No VIP routing into out of passenger jet travel on any stage of the journey. ALL pass through TSA and the LINES FOR tsa.
4. No more homes above 2nd homes. No 2nd homes above 1600 sq ft. No use of homes as if 2nd homes owned by NGO’s, corporations, trusts, etc.
5. No more than 2 living rooms per dwelling. Living room will be any room able to seat more than 2 people comfortably. (the rich usually have 5-10 living rooms, have made kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, even CLOSETS into living rooms)(
6. No more showers in private residences able to accommodate more than 4 people. (rich people are creepy and have showers able to accommodate 20 people -FOR WHAT, SIR?)
7. All making more than $160,000 will be followed by a team of patriots with multiple video and audio recording devices ensuring they ONLY ever eat crickets and grasshoppers.
8. No more than 2 cars owned per capita for persons earning $160,000 or more. ALL cars owned by persons earning $160,000 or more must pass strict environmental guidelines.
with these measures in place, the future security of the planet is assured.
The people earning $160,000 or more are the ones most for these environmental policies. Only by adhering to their own values and setting an example can the planet be saved from total meltdown. Surely.
As far as accusing people of being evil Jews or Jew-sympathizers or whatever — if you do this from a place of integrity, surely you’d WANT to bring the receipts. Quotes would be the most obvious one.
You can’t actually argue with someone if you don’t actually address their position. Ultimately, if you wanted to act with integrity, you’d have to not only use quotes, but take your opponent’s description of their actual message into account. And if you believe they are insincere, then you’d have options such as drawing contradictions out of them in discussion. As opposed to just flinging poo.
Goes the other way too. Someone quotes you or says “you seem to be consistently working your way towards xyz thing” and total silence in response, never addressed, as if it never happened. That’s decidedly unnatural in an argument or discussion, as most people want their objective or beliefs, position to be understood — if they have integrity. People without integrity “argue” for a goal but want their purpose or beliefs to NOT be understood.
You tend to see people, accused of something they do not like, do not believe, do not stand for, enthusiastically disavow it because, of course, it’s something they don’t like. If a person disavows genocide, then advocates for 10 different genocidal things, you’ve got them then, haven’t you? So a person who will NOT disavow an obviously objectionable thing is a bit of a red flag as well.
IGNORING SOMEONE’S DISAVOWALS – AND NOT USING THE DISAVOWAL TO CATCH THEM LATER – would indicate lack of integrity as well. You want xyz good thing but somehow magically never ever do the thing that gets you it the easiest most effective way. Weird.
If you want to display yourself publicly as having no leg to stand on and/or a secret agenda, do those two things in an argument and get de-pantsed. And if you keep going with your pants down like all you have to do is avoid discussion (because not-discussing is winning) and everything is fine, well…
Dr D. Dragons are banks. They hoard gold and valuables far away in caves and have spells and wipe out entire villages with the breath of flames that sucks the oxygen out of all endeavour. They covet in the dark.
That was fucking awesome
When people are making an argument, they typically take great joy in and go to great pains to bring the receipts that prove their point. Where are the receipts?
Or are you not making an argument?
Diego Garcia – a totally non-civilian target. UK territory. Might have intel passing through it related to Ukraine. Its elimination also gives a little help to Yemen and Iran.
If the UK does more things Russia considers a provocation, that would be quite a high value target.
Moreover, what is the UK and US going to say to their populations about where Diego Garcia is and what it is used for — will they get enraged – “Remember The Diego Garcia!!!” Or will they be like why did we have that stupid island on the other side of the world packed full of our shit in the first place?
Closer to the Caspian than London.
Intel Awarded Nearly $8 Billion For US Chip Factories
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/intel-awarded-nearly-8-billion-us-chip-factoriesQuickly! Shove unlimited money into the hands of those who will do it for free if you wait a couple months!
Surely no one is getting a kickback or doing money laundering.
Technology of the 21st century – just in case you need any more suggestions and if it has not been mentioned – intertia negation
They may already have figured out how. Remember those reports of undersea objects racing past at, apparently, faster than is physically possible?
It would be possible if inertia could be negated or dampened.
20-50 years of apparent stagnation in physics. If it hadn’t stagnated, maybe we’d have it right about now.
Commuting in a rocket that takes off immediately at 20g and brakes at 20g instead of taking an airplane would be a piece of cake with inertia negation. Traffic accidents would cause no damage. Fighters and missiles could start/stop abruptly from/to most any speed and so could subs and torpedoes. Spaceships could travel at close to lightspeed. Heavy lifting into orbit or beyond would be super easy barely an inconvenience.
Kintetic energy weapons (eg bullets) would need to turn OFF inertia negation before impact or they would harmlessly bounce off.
They were already working on a particle responsible for gravity. Why not inertia?
“Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccines
Children used to die of diseases far more gruesome and deadly than we remember.”
The main thing with the new hypersonic weapon, as far as I can tell, is that NATO has been purposely launching (By setting everything up, providing the weapon, and doing the satellite guidance and possibly telling a Ukrainian “go ahead and press the red button now”) missiles which the Russians cannot tell are conventional or nuclear, forcing them to repeatedly decide whether WW3 is starting or not. At 3am with minutes to decide.
So now, with these hypersonic medium range missiles able to reach London in 19 minutes, the entire NATO command structure and civilian governments can now ALSO have the pleasure of getting that phone call at 3am asking whether to begin WW3 with only a few minutes to decide. Over and over.
Evacuation plans needed before the coming of Oreshnik.
Indeed. Zoom out on that map showing 20 minutes to London.
Then grab a compass, put the pencil on London and the pointy bit in the Caspian, and draw that circle all the way around.
Easily covers the Middle east. In fact, every single potential target in the Middle East would have LESS time than Warsaw’s 12 minutes.
It also covers a very large chunk of africa, all of central southern Asia.
Also, Diego Garcia appears to get less advance warning than London, based on the infographic.
And I know of no reason why 30-40 MIRVed nuclear warheads (I read they used 37 reentry vehicles for the recent strike) could not envelop a carrier group in the Baltic, North Sea, Bay of Biscay, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, a big chunk of the Indian Ocean, or anywhere in the Mediterranean Sea.
During the Georgia crisis, I recall mentioning on Tickerforum – in response to some puffed up neoconish talk – that fleets are the only significant military target – being out on the ocean not to mention in international waters – that is guaranteed to be a PURELY military target, thus could expect to be nuked to oblivion quite easily as a separate consideration from the type of concerns that go into nuking inside the territories of belligerent countries and starting a general nuclear exchange. They sank my battleship, therefore let’s begin wholesale global thermonuclear war???
They had no specific analysis in response, just showing the whites of their eyes while rolling them wildly with maximum flaring of the nostrils, and a general frothing “But then I’ll go totally nuts. I’ll go nuts if that happens” So ah… you’d escalate by being the first to initiate a nuclear exchange against civilian population centers and inside the territory of countries? “I’ll just go nuts! Nobody does that to the US! You don’t even know the hell the US will unleash if we go nutz” Uh, they will shoot back you know. “Doesn’t matter, I’ll go apeshit”
Looks like Russia has thought long and hard about how to support allies within its sphere of interest. The USSR was willing to send tripwire troops into Czechoslovokia in 1938 but no one would let them through. Unable to project force. Significant challenges to supporting even Syria due to geography. Not anymore. They can support those they promise to support in 15 minutes or less. As quick as Domino’s Pizza.
I think this is like in military meeting-engagements from everything from 1000’s of years ago to Napoleonic times.
Two groups showing up at the expected battlefield around the same time. Some strategic spot – a ford, a hill, a bridge, a ridge – is spotted and there is no time for deployment – getting units organized, figuring out where they should line up etc. Units go in at whatever speed they can arrive at and try to take that hill asap. Where that hill fits in the line, we figure out later – it’s manifestly obvious it will be important.
Non-Blob commenters have thrown up their hands in exasperation, calling Blob/Bluesquare/Whatever-the-fuck-it-is “Anti-Human”
You want a worldwide super-holodomor, totally unnatural behavior, appearance, etc to be considered natural, all natural normal stuff to be considered low-value, icky, cancelled, no one to be able to even THINK an opinion let alone speak it, get rid of all farmers and workers that do actual stuff, want to ignore all reality as policy and make sure everyone not only refrains from verbally bringing up reality but refrains from perceiving it….
Holy #%#% I have no idea what they are doing, what they are thinking, or anything. I give up trying to figure out rational motivations for them. I cannot even empathize myself into any comprehensible understanding of their feelings. They seem to be simply Anti Human
That term “Anti Human” was making the rounds post Trump election. Whenever a commentator was trying to explain to astounded, offended Democrats how they could have possibly lost the election.
So now we have institutions like Churches pointing fingers, screeching “Anti-Human” at the most conservative ie most Christian political party. When the people doing the pointing and screeching are probably 1000% on board with policies that would starve and freeze their congregations to death.
I guess they’re just moving aggressively to capture the words. We own “Anti-Human” now. Anyone who is against Anti-Human activities, kneel to Zod. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. Your distinctiveness will be assimilated and you will service our needs. Is there anywhere to go FROM here in terms of irony? Have we finally dialed it up to 11?
German Lutheran Church Bans AfD Members From Committees, Calls Party ‘Anti-Human’
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/german-lutheran-church-bans-afd-members-committees-calls-party-anti-humanGermany’s Lutheran Church will now exclude members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party from any leadership positions
“Anti-human (pro human), xenophobic (anti unlimited illegal migration from countries thousands of miles away, pro German in any way…) and anti-Church (pro Christianity) positions are incompatible with holding office either in a parish council or in other leadership positions of our church,” county bishop Friedrich Kramer announced at the beginning of the church’s autumn synod, adding that membership in “extremist parties” is against the church constitution. (so if we call people holding positions recognizable as Lutheran for the past 450 years “extremist,” then Lutherans are instantly incompatible with the “Lutheran” church, just name-call them and done!)
I tried the Unitarian Universalist church a few years back. After I watched an entire sermon mean-girling their founder Thomas Jefferson into total irredeemable icky deplorableness, I gave up on those guys.
…but because I was on their mailing list, a year or two later, I got all these incessant emails detailing some weird emerging scandal with the 2 pastors having an affair and cheating on their spouses while doing meth, so the new pastor had to leave, but the female pastor stayed and continued preaching! I went there for like half a year and her sermons were generally just LGBTQ – sometimes she would get stuck in some sort of fugue state and just chant the letters up there behind the pulpit.
The church council did not kick her out (or couldn’t kick her out?) People bring their kids there for sunday school, day care, etc because the building and the names follow the old forms from churches from 1995 or 1985 or 1935. When I drive by there now, there’s an ever-increasing number of LGBT and Antifa-BLM paraphanalia – a slow, ever-creeping escalation that, due to seeing it fairly often, does not shock, but if you went from 2015 to present, you’d be shocked wtf bro. Banners, rows of quasi totem poles, various other things. No sense of alarm, wariness, moment of skepticism?
Weirdly, the first thought that popped into my head after seeing the Lutheran Church hating and cancelling Lutherans was – they’ll cut off natural gas, coal, etc for us, they’ll require us to use only electric cars on a power grid that cannot power them but they will not upgrade, they won’t build new nuke plants for us, but they WILL do all those things for AI without hesitation or question. Maybe it was their “anti-human” accusation.
Increasing generation and consumption of power isn’t bad per se, but it is wasteful to use it on humans.
I was thinking about the Jaguar ad some more. There’s a lot more implicit messaging than I even recognized yesterday.
The persons in the ad are all implicitly queer, nonbinary, etc. a given of course, no special insight there.
They are MARCHING down there in the bunker. They carry themselves NOT like normal people hanging out together. Their bearing is inhuman.
The exact opposite message of the 80’s and 90’s. Normal folks like you and me, just with different sexual preferences. Good decent folks. Better than you, really
The projected image is of totally inhuman alien-ness. How does this PROMOTE queer people to a general audience? But why assume that promotion is the goal anymore?
The long-used stereotype across multiple genres and decades is to show that fascism has taken over by showing some variation of goose-stepping Prussians marching down the main street of Paris. They did this, for instance, idiotically in the Battlestar Galactica reboot, having ROBOTS do a prussian march down the “main street” of their crappy tent city. Made zero sense in-world, but it is so understood to be shorthand for “fascist conquest” it just gets used without thought or worry.
So perhaps it is understood that way, they march, they assemble in a formation and march together. They’re using the shorthand. The anti-fascists see the shorthand for fascism as the easiest and automatic way of communicating successful, unmitigated conquest?
They ascend very much NOT like a bunch of friends going on an outing together. Or even awkward humans in an elevator together.
They emerge from the bunker into a blasted world in which NOTHING else exists. Not other people with other lifestyles, not a tree, not a squirrel (poor Peanut!) ONLY them. And some multicolored scrubs permitted to exist presumably as trans-celebrating decoration? Were they dead and spraypainted?
They were just doing a cheap backdrop? They were just being “creative” and “artistic”? Oh really then why the underground bunker, why the marching and inhuman bearing?
They seat themselves in a haughty, lordly fashion, their facial expressions matching what the Greeks would have portrayed for Darius during the Greco-Persian wars. The only free man in all of Persia. Able to on a whim, “grasp a man by his girdle” and pronounce his death with no preliminaries and no reasons needed. Able to order people to flog the ocean for being naughty.
From expressionless marchers to haughty king-of-kings in reaction to seeing the evidence that absolutely everything else has been wiped out. A sense that they have inherited the earth and are its sole autocratic possessors, owners. No other human expressions in evidence.
What does conquest look like? For the past 6,000-8,000 years? For all the time we know of?
The conqueror hangs their banners, flags, and other symbols everywhere in the conquered territory.
They clear out the monuments, flags and other paraphernalia of the conquered nation.
Headline for the related article: The Pride flag is not a threat to you, so cry harder, snowflake
Nothing is happening and also cry harder? Communication in the language of a child abuser? With such strong evidence of nothing happening such as being encouraged to weep, how could we doubt that nothing is happening?
….while we see instances of “warnings” and arrests, police calling or showing up to “check on your thinking” for flying a british or english flag. Overwhelming evidence that nothing strange is happening, no YOU are strange for thinking this is strange. Conquerors hang their own banners and make yours illegal.
That Apple ad with everything human getting crushed.
Oh silly, don’t you see we’re just showing how creative you can be with our product?
Of COURSE that’s all it is. That’s why there were all those anthropomorphic things getting crushed, some of them looking unhappy, some of their crushings looking a bit gruesome and horrifying, because nothing is happening. It’s charming and sweet really, I was mistaken by watching and thinking crushing of all things and various representations of humans was bad somehow. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
It’s because I’m such total “hateful” scum that I suspect for a moment that inhuman fascist portrayals of destruction and conquest aren’t heartwarming. It’s because of my deplorable nature I do not immediately make the millenial heart-symbol with my hands and coo and give obesiance, recognizing that I need to be an Ally and Being An Ally Is Not Nearly Enough. Surely.
I’d like to see Gaetz and Republicans in general NOT back down and simply begin listing Democrat proclivities anytime anyone is asked about Gaetz. Combined with every weird sexualized thing they’ve supported
“Hey, remember that time there was that alleged meth-head male prostitute in Nancy Pelosi’s home allegedly?”
But what about your scandal thing sir
“Oh and this other Democrat thing….”
But your scandal sir
“Or when xyz Democrat was bringing minors to gay strip clubs and having them perform for tips…”
You aren’t answering our questions!
“Yes I am. I still am right now. How about that other weird Democrat thing when….”
NO! You are NOT answering our questions!”
“Actually these ARE my answers to your questions, you just don’t LIKE my answers. So anyway, the next Dem weirdness I wanted to reply with…. mentions of Epstien…. mentions of Diddy”
Just emit a neverending diarrhea of this shit in response to ANY mention of Gaetz and watch them wither away like an incoming kamikaze under massive AA fire.
You could respond with just endless Pedo-Diddler (P-Diddy) anecdotes, there’s unlimited ones available.
About the insane suicidal Jaguar ad
The various individuals are UNDERGROUND and ascend via elevator to a blasted yet inexplicably gay post-holocaust wasteland.
Why are they ascending from a bunker to a hellscape of no other survivors? And …the blasted plain so gay it cannot support any other life of any kind whatsoever??? How does that make sense and why would someone want to make that an implicit part of their message?
What happened to normal folks basically like you wanting essentially the same things just born a little different in one respect? As opposed to aliens who have rendered the earth (de)terraformed for nothing but themselves?
Ads are catering to desires – if not of the perceived customers then the ad campaign creators at least – this is what they desire? All others dead?
secular fundamentalist predeterminism? – well sure, there’s Marx’s “Historicity” in which “conditions” must lead to other inevitable “conditions” due to “conditions” (this constitutes AFKTT’s understanding of tEh sCiEnCe for example)
In a variety of areas of life, we now have people professing that there is an invisible 2nd world that is the REAL world superimposed over this world we can sense and experience – the not-real world – playing out in “environment,” race, sex, etc.
People have been increasingly conditioned to this thinking for decades now, certainly more intensely in the past 8.
A major objection of mine to Christianity was that you shouldn’t be conditioning yourself via repetition to think illogically or to implicitly accept unconsidered axioms.
But people having been conditioned, I see the new belief in an invisible “real” reality and a fake real reality we can perceive rear its head everywhere. They insist that the “real” world is the invisible one which only initiates see and have authority to speak on. (wokeism, marxism) I get to see it DAILY.
I’m not seeing Christians ANYWHERE influencing ANYTHING. They haven’t bugged me for decades now. I haven’t noticed them trying to enact a raft of policies to destroy society and holodomor the world, so they are kind of low on my priority list for now. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind sending Westboro Baptist at the Woke like flying monkeys and grabbing some popcorn.
“Where are all those fancy businessmen going to find cheap labor once the immigrants are deported?”
agreed
and if we fire all the teachers who cannot pass a basic competency test, who will teach? (not the people who just failed the competency test both after AND prior to the test…)
when will we find out what STUFF we actually had?
When will we find out what DIDN’T run on quasi slavery? All those people for equity and justice, when will they discover whether the stuff they advocate is actually more or less equitable or just?
When will we find out how much environmental damage “clean” energy, recycling, net zero, etc actually causes vs petrochemicals? Single best thing you can do for The Planet is stop putting plastic in the recycling bin and start putting it in the garbage bin… but why???
True costs, true benefits? — don’t measure!!!! Can’t catch thieves or slavers if you hide it in a spreadsheet and don’t measure. But they’re usually inefficient (after all, they don’t measure) and we cannot bring all our costs down until we DO measure.
Is there even someone at the top of the data heap with a bullshit-remover that is actually looking at real things?
Putin talking with FIS, FSB, other agency heads in a meeting room in the 10th level of a secret bunker. Rubs hands together.
Putin: ….and I’d like you to assassinate tHe sKiRpAlS. Har-har-HARrrrrr
Assistant: Shouldn’t be a problem sir. 20 million undocumented migrants in the UK. We’ll pay 20 of them to stab the Skirpals with screwdrivers
Putin: No, that’s no good.
Assistant: Small airplane crash?
Putin: No
Assistant: Hit and run with a motor vehicle?
Putin: No
Assistant: Self-Nail gun x50? Falling down an embankment blocked off by a high fence? Hot tub? Falling from the top of a skyscraper to a mezzanine, then from the mezzanine to the ground?
Putin: You don’t get it, do you?
Assistant: Blow dart from behind a curtain at a fancy dinner theatre club? Silenced .22?
Putin: You’re harshing my buzz, bro.
Assistant: uh… nerve gas? We’ll buy standard nerve gas on the open market, have a tiny canister release it in their room on a motion sensor trigger? Untraceable due to its generic properties?
Putin: Look man. What do I have to do here? I was with the KGB. Stone cold killer. We did secret ops for DECADES during the cold war. Knew our business like none other.
Assistant: Uh…. if you’re looking for a terror factor, we could have our agents buy sarin gas on the open market anonymously. Still untraceable but scarier
Putin: Fuck. Okay, I will come out and say it. I. Want. Novichok™
Assistant: The unique super-powerful nerve gas meant to kill people in millions, easily traceable back to Russia as its sole producer to kill these 2 expats you find mildly annoying?
Putin: THANK you. YES. Yes, exactly. I want this easily traceable totally overpowered hammer the size of the alps used for a screwdriver’s job. YES. Thank you. Finally.
Assistant: I don’t know why we needed to be 10 levels underground for this, but I’ll see that it gets done sir.
Skirpals come home to their apartment with the novichok-slathered doorknob.
Piles of bodies in the hall blocking their door. Skirpals assume this is just a cultural norm for the UK, muscle the bodies aside, already on the brink of losing consciousness, manfully grasp the door knob.
Russians wandering the streets of England in hazmat-space suits deploying Novichok™ but law enforcement and all the citizens cannot notice them because they go around with fedoras precariously balanced on top of their space helmets.
Multiple policemen reviewing video footage of the assassination attempt baffled, scratching their chins, “How the sam hill did they pull it off, Bob?” ….Russians in space suits very obviously milling back and forth onscreen murdering everyone, teetering fedoras threatening to fall or blow off at any moment.
On the way back, the wind blows a fedora off and a British citizen points, exclaims, “It’s YOU!!!!!” but then the Russian grabs the hat off the ground, perches it on his space-helmet again
“Where’d he go?”
Like, did the UK intelligence services contract JJ Abrams to invent their story?
“Hey man. I’m the new Speilberg! I’ll take any dumb idea that wasn’t my own, but THEN woah, check this out, make it super-er and dooper-er – cause I heard in film scool, ya gotta have STAKES, bro”
Intelligence functionary: “Guy took the first star wars, used the same plot and characters, but dumber, made the Death Star a planet instead of a moon, had it destroy solar systems instead of planets. Consistently step-functions ‘stakes’ up one level while lowering IQ of the idea by a standard 40 points minimum. He checks out, sir. It’s a go.”
Okay NOW I am stopping.
If you fucking sprayed someone in the face with a Pam™ can of Novichok™, you’d instantly die yourself unless you were wearing a full hazmat space suit. Did someone walk up in a full hazmat space suit?
If you sprayed a doorknob with Novichok™, you’d want to be in a full hazmat space suit to survive doing so.
20×20=400 still? That hasn’t changed? 400x the power of regular nerve gas?
Is there some magical substance that perfectly contains the Novichok™ so when you somehow slather it on a door knob, 1/400th cannot make it to you from 1 foot away and knock you dead?
They had some sort of gigantic, super expensive government program to make nerve gas that behaves totally unlike nerve gas — because that’s what they wanted and requested. some head honcho said “Boys, give me nerve gas that doesn’t act like nerve gas. Here’s 500 billion dollars I want it pronto chop chop – by the way, I want you to start with something 400x the strength of regular nerve gas!”
and having made some super space-age substance that STOPS the nerve gas from killing the person spraying/applying it – this mixture still remains Novichok-Deadly™ when people touch it though?
Or that’s why they just took a nap when exposed? Some huge high tech program to take Novichok™ the most deadliest thing ever, mix it with our space-age goo, and have less potency than an Amazon tree frog. Brilliant. This way, we don’t use a frog. Or over-the-counter rat poison or fuck, just Draino™
See? That’s JUST what those clever dastardly Russians would think of.
What’s next, a Russian agent gives an expat a 3rd degree burn by walking up to them and detonating a hydrogen bomb specially formulated to allow people to deliver H-Bombs by hand, on foot, and survive? 100mt explosion with the effect of an electric kettle?
I barely restrained myself the other times skirpals made it into the news. I’ll stop now.
The skirpal thing had some of the same ghost-story for gradeschoolers element as ISIS
AlQueda is super duper scary, bad bad bad bogeyman Al Queda….
But there’s an even biggerer, super-dupererier, scarrier, bad-badder terris group called ISIS. Look at the videos of beheadings that break TOS yet don’t get taken down….
Nerve Gas is super scary. Sarin Gas is like, the super duper scariest one, 20x more deadly! The deadliest in the WORLD!
There’s this super-duper-doooper scary nerve agent called NOVICHOK. Sounds SUPER DUPER slavic, SUPER Russian, amirite? and it’s 20x more deadlier, badderer, and scarier than SARIN!!!!!!!! BOOOOOOO!
So when the Bad Man Putin sprayed people directly in the face with Novichok, causing them to take a 20 minute nap on a park bench, it was the most mostest super duper worst thing EVARRRRRRRRR.
Such a scary thing that anyone who touched it, came near it, was in the same building, was within 100 feet of it, didn’t drop dead because of how deadly it is. SUPER SCARY DEADLY AND VERY SLAVIC AND RUSSIAN. Christ on a pogo stick.
I’ve been reporting what’s going on for little people – for instance, in terms of what happens typically for little-people employment – because there’s people that are just out of the loop. Don’t know the shit the rest of us are in. Own their own business, work as a contractor, retired, in a job where they don’t have to deal with what The Poors deal with, whatever. Not in the loop anymore.
So I describe how much things are changed only to be admonished to just openly self immolate.
I’m GenX, but I get the whole GenZ complaint about boomer advice.
I’m trying to explain that assumptions based on how the country worked for little people 75 or 50 or 25 years ago are obsolete — hearing that I should apply solutions that would have MAYBE worked 50 years ago means I am not actually getting through with my message.
Gives me flashbacks to Charles Hugh Smith writing shortly after the 08 financial crisis advising young people to Do That Late 60’s Boomer Thing Again paying no mind to what happened to the Tea Party or Occupy Wallstreet and what obvious conclusions could be drawn.
I’m sorry and all that but I spent over a year in the past 3 unemployed because I wouldn’t take the notavax.
I submitted a variety of arguments, back and forth, saving every scrap of documentation and communication and made them fire me rather than slink off by finding a different job, which would have been FAR more advantageous to my personal survival. Both being FIRED for the notavax and the “unexplainable” time spent unemployed and the conversation of “so why did you leave that company” leading to being ghosted.
Nothing materialized for me to join and help with my documentation. And I myself am not made of money. I’m a call center worker. My interactions would have been useful grist for some lawyer’s mill, but I cannot bankroll a fight with a ginormous corporation myself. And look across the whole corporate world, the ample material for lawsuits – lawyers mysteriously unenthusiastic about class action lawsuits. I’d have been happy to lend my assistance to any such, don’t care if I get a payout or not.
Since there was NOTHING out there to support little old me, I’m working on survival this time. I only had so much in savings to expend in taking a moral stance. Me starving or dying of exposure in a gutter was one of their goals.
This requires some aristocratic fucking LOYALTY to real actual western civilization on the part of whatever mr moneybags decided we don’t want to go down the death cult year zero path. Hey assholes, your ground game SUCKS.
You should be backing all the little people because all those little grass stems makes up the field, the plains which your cattle must graze on. It’s nice and all to think of Big Ideas and Big Issues but there IS a ground game, assholes.
I would have been HAPPY to record that DEI training while luring the trainer into numerous involuntary confessions that would be against corporate policy and illegal. More than happy.
There is NO ONE to hand it off to. No Civil Liberties Union for me. I’m standing here ready to help and there is no flag to rally to. Ultimately, MY OWN survival is an act of resistance and I’ll do my best to take care of that. Even that enrages the death cult.
How much would it cost to back up a call center worker and say, if you lose your job and become unemployable due to questioning the new religion, we’ve got you. AND we will make your sacrifice actually WORTH something. Your loyalty to the ethos OUR existence depends on will not be for nothing.
No instead self immolate for nothing at all because “Grow some fucking balls and resist that garbage.”?
‘You Are Not Needed…Please Die’: Google AI Tells Student He Is ‘Drain On The Earth’
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/you-are-not-neededplease-die-google-ai-tells-grad-student-he-drain-earthThis is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe.
Please die. Please.
But they are taking this as “Boy, AI sure is coming up with some weird stuff”
I’ve been hearing this message with increasing stridency and selfrighteousness since I was a kid. WHY pretend it was made up by AI this month?
Yeah generally artists, even the successful ones, aren’t all that well off. Glamorous platinum-selling artists might be making $0.01/album sold. Now they can afford that modest 1500 sq ft ranch they wanted.
The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month.
And when you are semi desperate, you don’t rock the boat.
Just like in the DEI class in training last week. Nobody is going to speak up saying no, this is not a good understanding of humanity or reality.
So there’s some motivation to create economic conditions that make everyone on that spectrum from desperate to worried, then insert demands for submission into corporate america. You can make desperate people play a safe, cowardly game and you can also get lots of desperate people to do things you want, like hire them to “protest” etc.
Where normally you can only find a hundred or two hundred because everyone’s got better things to do, turns up their nose at the prospect.
The music industry is so bad, a person who gets 10,000 loyal fans and sells to them via bandcamp is doing BETTER than the platinum artist most of the time. But you can in an instant cancel, deplatform, debank, anybody after the absolute grind it took to get there. Patreon destroying their artists and treating them like employee low-level call center workers when Patreon is merely supposed to shut up and process payments from fans to artists. How are you the worst boss ever and arbiter of all speech and thought when you are just a money conduit to connect fans to artists???? You’re just a dumb pipe. Stop preaching at me, stupid pipe.
I suspect the concerns about what will happen if the spigot for wildly printed money is turned down or off is analogous to education.
If we test our teachers for competency while requiring a passing grade to test, we could have x% teachers fired and how will we educate without teachers.
…when actually, we’re discovering for the first time how many teachers we actually HAD.
How much of the federal dollars pouring into the state fund corruption and waste? How much fraud is there in disabilities, unemployment, etc? So if the printed money slows down, we find out how much STUFF we actually had all along.
But taking a step back further, there’s something really REALLY wrong with our money. There are clearly heaps and heaps of it, galactic sized, being used in a way that essentially creates a command economy, overrules any market action.
Or thought of a different way, wherever the endless waterfall of money is coming from – not just government – it’s like roundup. You spray EVERYTHING including the stuff you want to live, but then you did something that makes just the things you wanted to live survive (monsanto crops)
So you spray everything with infinite money, make sure only your chosen winners stand next to the spigot while everything else perishes despite any all of their free market actions. Everything but your GMO soybeans dies.
So particular people being replaced or retiring from active power won’t cut it. Redistributing money won’t cut it. The money itself has to die. I don’t want to steal all those trillions out there for myself, nor set myself up as dictator re-distributing it morally, I want to put it in a big pile and burn it all.
We’re going to work hard on Ukraine now?
I suspect it’s just a matter of: Ukraine is in Russia’s sphere of influence, not NATO’s, not the EU’s, not the US’s, not the UK’s etc.
Like if the Japanese are continually sending planes in to “work hard on resolving the Okinawa situation”
Okay, but we don’t call this area “The Okinawa situation” we call it 5th Fleet’s Zone of Operations. We’ve got so much AA now, our ships are almost too topheavy from the additional AA we bolted onto the decks above and beyond original design. We don’t so much hit the pilot or the engine anymore so much as erode incoming planes away to nothing with a wall of every calibre coordinated from every ship. Call flying into that “working hard” or whatever you want until you run out of planes or stop.
Just thinking aloud here in response – I suppose the Enlightenment intrinsically functioned as part of a system that had families, traditions, and religion functioning alongside it.
Kind of like how you can have battery driven vehicles in an oil-powered economy or socialistic policies in a capitalist society – okay, we want these things, we want you to have these things, but they are not monocultures. They existed as part of a system.
Or you can have science IF people are moral and therefore truthful and have integrity, but you can’t have science BY doing science. Clearly – see 2020. There was some deeper base-layer upon which real science depended. Science was not the foundation and cannot be.
I’ve seen a lot of blame cast on the Enlightenment from various corners including the interesting neo-monarchists I’ve come across lately (at least they have different ideas…) not to mention Sargon of Akkad but I haven’t delved too deeply yet. Somehow I feel there’s something missing in the analysis but I am going to have to take a deep dive one of these days soon.
