Listen to a reading of this article:
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Your efforts to understand the world will fail unless you account for the fact that (A) echo chamber dynamics have a vastly under-appreciated effect on the way we all take in information, and (B) that rich and powerful people are actively trying to manipulate your perception of reality.
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The correct lesson from Afghanistan instantly beginning to revert back to Taliban control the moment the western occupation ends is not that the occupation needs to continue, it’s that it should never have happened in the first place.
“Oh no, bad things are happening because we’re leaving!” No, bad things are happening because you went in. You spent two decades hammering that poor nation with bombs and war crimes, and now they’re just going right back to where they were before you inflicted that upon them. Everything that’s happening in Afghanistan today is the fault of the invaders.
The argument that the occupation has been a boon for human rights is just plain false, and is premised on the idea that the western empire should invade every nation with illiberal cultural values and force it to change at gunpoint. Even if that ridiculous premise were accepted, it has been clearly established that such a thing is impossible.
How fucking obnoxious is it that westerners are now wringing their hands over the fact that when they stop forcing Afghanistan to be a certain way at gunpoint, the fate of Afghanistan starts being determined by Afghans? Enough with this white man’s burden bullshit, freaks.
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Don’t tell people not to fantasize about Jeff Bezos’ icy body spinning through the vacuum of space for all eternity. It’s kink-shaming.
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How to be an American leftist:
- Focus exclusively on domestic policy in the most warmongering nation on earth
- Criticize governments who are resisting US interventionism instead of US interventionism
- Pay more attention to obscure abstract concepts than nonstop mass murder
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US politicians always have Twitter bios like “Father of Kelly, husband of Leanne (she’s the real boss!), VERY amateur shower singer,” instead of like, “Rapist of Syria, murderer of Yemeni kids, destroyer of your children’s future.”
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Yemen alone completely invalidates the moral authority of the US-centralized power alliance to determine what rules the world should play by.
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It’s not actually possible to be excessively critical of the US empire. There’s a common notion that there needs to be some kind of “balance” between criticism of the US power alliance and its enemies. No there doesn’t; the US government is objectively far worse than any other. No other government is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, working to destroy any nation which disobeys it, and waging nonstop wars which have killed millions and displaced tens of millions just since the turn of this century.
Criticizing the US empire far more than its rivals is balance; criticizing it the same as you’d criticize US-targeted governments is what would be imbalanced, because the US and its allies are far, far more murderous and destructive than anyone else. It should be criticized more. You’re not being impartial if you pretend the US is as bad as China, Russia, Iran, etc; you’re being heavily biased in favor of the US, because you’re greatly helping to advance the interests of the far worse government by placing it on equal footing with the others.
You see so many dry, elitist wankers acting like they’re being detached and impartial by treating all governments equally, when in reality they’re being anything but. All governments are not equal; one is clearly and demonstrably far, far more destructive than any of the others.
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It’s just so amazing how many leftists yell at journalists like Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald for using Tucker Carlson’s show to get important perspectives out to a mainstream audience compared to how few leftists yell at other mass media outlets for refusing to platform those important perspectives at all. Like there’s a whole sector of Twitter which seems to spend all its energy bitching about anti-imperialists going on Carlson to share anti-imperialist perspectives, and if you search their tweets you’ll find zero posts yelling at CNN or MSNBC for never platforming anti-imperialists.
Dissident ideas need to get out to the mainstream. The fact that no other outlets ever platform those ideas besides Tucker Carlson is the thing which should outrage people.
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If you’re not despised by the Intercept-TYT-Bellingcat media faction, your work probably isn’t that good.
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So much of what the CIA used to do covertly it now does overtly; NED, working in media punditry, etc. Pretty soon they’ll just be openly selling narcotics door to door like Girl Scout cookies.
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Fun fact: among people who tell you you’re only socialist because you’ve never studied economics, exactly zero percent of them have ever read a book by a Marxian economist.
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If I were a thieving oligarch or a murderous imperialist I would be very happy that Americans are all focused on arguing about critical race theory.
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Come read my superintelligent Marxist essay about why the left should remain a highly exclusive club no bigger than the size of a public library speaking event. Medium says it’s just a 97-minute read. It’s got over six views and counting. Hope you like footnotes!
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Hey remember when Wonder Woman came out the same year Hillary Clinton was supposed to become president and invade Syria, and the villain was a guy who murders villagers with poison gas, including children? That was a bit weird, huh?
Like there was literally a scene where Wonder Woman finds a village of civilians killed with poison gas, and screams about how awful the bad guys are for “Killing people they cannot see! Children. Children!!” How many other superhero movies have you seen where the bad guy just kills kids with poison gas?
Hillary had been openly planning to invade Syria with tens of thousands of US troops to cripple Assad’s air defenses and control Syrian air space, a very dangerous and deadly move which would have required a lot of consent manufacturing.
And you can say well it was set in World War 1, poison gas was a big thing then. Okay, but why set it in World War 1? The character Wonder Woman didn’t exist until 1941. There was no reason it had to be set during a time when poison gas was a big thing, but they chose to anyway.
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They say youth is wasted on the young. No, youth is wasted on schoolwork.
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Psychedelics are useful not for the hallucinations they provide but for the hallucinations they remove.
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I have a conspiracy theory that plutocrats conspire with secretive government agencies to advance murderous and exploitative agendas, and I have another conspiracy theory that some deep force of nature within us is conspiring to awaken humanity from the propaganda of our rulers.
Humanity is becoming more conscious. Awkwardly, sloppily, like a toddler, we’re becoming more and more aware of what’s going on inside us and what’s going on outside us. There are a lot of ugly things which wish to remain hidden as the light expands, but they can’t hide forever.
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106 responses to “The Right And Wrong Lessons From Afghanistan: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix”
Excellent and thought provoking writing as usual Caitlin. Thank you for reminding us of US atrocities, especially now in Yemen, Syria and ongoing after 20 years in Afghanistan.
By the time someone gets to reading these columns they bear the burden of being the “story believing animal”; the parents start off with misinformation, moving to pre school which prepares you to absorb the world view of the ruling classes which continues through university so to accept a different paradigm like here for example requires some degree of critical thinking..a rarity indeed.
The Empire is trying to censor all the good news about ivermectin covid studies. FLCCC has all the data. Ivermectin is safe, effective, inexpensive and off patent. All reasons info about it is quashed.
The data is so good in January The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has dropped its recommendation against the inexpensive antiparasitic drug ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19, and the agency now advises it can’t recommend for or against its use, leaving the decision to physicians and their patients.
She never will, and we shouldn’t either in our relatively small ways.
Soz, that was meant to be a reply to “Never give up Caitlin” …
Who’s gonna look after all those guns when those who wield them are disabled, drugged up, dazed or dead?
– ‘leftists yell at journalists like Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald for using Tucker Carlson’s show’ –
Jonathan Cook has a recent piece about this issue. It’s rather long, but overall, he seems much more sympathetic to the likes of Greenwald and Taibbi who use Carlson’s platform to reach a wider audience, than he does to those who insist on only working with supposedly left/liberal outlets like the Guardian or Intercept.. He does say, toward the end, “In essence, the dilemma the left now faces is this:
To work with the Democrats, with liberals, who are desperate to put the mask back on the system, to shore up its deceptions, so that political stability can be restored — a stability that is waging war around the globe, that is escalating the threat of super-power tensions and nuclear annihilation, and that is destroying the planet.
Or to keep the mask off, and work with those elements of the populist left and right that share a commitment to free speech and transparency, in the hope that through open debate we can expose the current rule by an unaccountable, authoritarian technocratic class and its corporate patrons masquerading as “liberals.”
The truth is we may be caught between a rock and hard place.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/06/24/what-happened-to-glenn-greenwald/
You have to remember that those in authority have the ability to set the agenda. Once in Australia, we had a rather gifted Prime Minister, Bob Menzies (later Sir Robert Menzies, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (in England) and something of an intimate of the Royal Family), who said somewhere in his writings, “The secret of running a minority government (in a parliamentary system such as we have in Australia) is never to put up any measure that they can agree on.” Obviously you have to have a good understanding of “them” – your opponents – to do that.
The people – or filth – in authority do have a good understanding of us. That is what universities and all their “soft science research” are for. We are the sheep, and they are the owners, stockmen, shearers, and sheepdogs.
I am not optimistic that anything can be done about it, but the first thing we need to do is to try to understand how we are being manipulated. I was a young teenager working on a family farm during the Viet Nam War, and, looking back, I can’t remember a single occasion on which the dubious rationale for the war was discussed. Instead, we bush people were told all about the revolting hippies, dirty disgusting city kids with long hair and on drugs, who were demonstrating against the war. We didn’t realise that it was all just a racket to use up ordinance and make money for American arms manufacturers. If we had, we would have been on the side of the demonstrators: we didn’t like the big manufacturers.
People misunderstand each other because our knowledge and experience are so limited. Each generation has its ideas formed by a slightly different set of background facts and assumptions. We have to make allowance for such things if we are to have any hope of resisting manipulation by the unspeakable creatures who rule us. They are the media people and the courts as well as the universities. Remember that the purpose of each one of them as an individual is to make money by deceiving us. They think – and they may be right – that we have no option but to get our information from them, because there is nowhere else to get it.
Never give up Caitlin
What makes you think she would?
“There’s a whole sector of Twitter which seems to spend all its energy bitching about anti-imperialists going on Carlson to share anti-imperialist perspectives, and if you search their tweets you’ll find zero posts yelling at CNN or MSNBC for never platforming anti-imperialists”.
There’s a couple of videos on YouTube where Israelis proudly explain how their Hasbara Bureau has enrolled teams of young Jews to give a positive image of Israel and Jews in Wikipedia – which some antisemitic hillbillies call spread Zionist and Jewish supremacist propaganda. It’s difficult to find a good reason why they wouldn’t extend that policy to the media in general, corporate and social, and it’s even more difficult to imagine why the pragmatic faction of the US MIC (that is the happily complementary teams of those who manufacture lethal weapons and those who decide on whom to drop them – even though it must be acknowledged, to be fair, that they have them dropped on swathes of land and it’s not their fault if there are people living there – especially children that you can’t see from those altitudes because they’re so small) wouldn’t do the exact same thing with the image of US imperialism. There’s 6 or 7 million Israelis and 332 million Americans. Could that kinda give us a clue as to the why of the sentence in reference? The contrary would actually be a miracle, just like imagining Twitter flagging these “bitchers” for “hate speech” when social media are up to their eyebrows in cahoots with the MIC. Whereas bitching against imperialism would obviously be hate speech violating Mammon’s Silicon Valley warmongering policies :o)
Pascal – for sure.
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Lets just ignore it all.
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Better than killing yourself in prison before extradition.
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As for Julianne Assange, it would be better for his if he actually got extradited cause just now he is dying in Belmarsh. One day at a time.
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Oh how Justice can turn back around like a snake tightening the grip on easy prey!
What a ludicrous idea, extradite JULIAN(not Julianne) Assange from Belmarsh to a court with 100% conviction rate,then to a supermax to serve a ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY YEAR SENTENCE. Did your brain melt down?
He is going to die if he stays there forever. In effing Belmarsh – the worst the UK has to offer up for it’s so-called prisoners who cause harm.
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Robert – something has to change. Can you agree with that?
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and thanks for pointing out my mispelling you m effer.
Gosh you’re smart, B_F! And sensitive!
Sorry. I ought not be.
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It is just I have been an advocate for Mr. Assange for a long time since I studied up and truly learned his plight. It has been a journey of discovery for me, and so for somebody to imply I was doing disrespect to Julian Assange did sort of set me off, but I’m back to my senses now and I mean effing serious business.
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Not playing around!
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Fun fact: among people who tell you you’re only socialist because you’ve never studied economics, exactly zero percent of them have ever read a book by a Marxian economist.
Caitlin, the above is a quote from you that I cut and pasted.
I have read “The Revolution Betrayed,” by Trotsky. At least he knew enough economics to say that Stalin should stabilise the rouble.
The problems with being asked to read Marxist economists is that, as far as I know, there aren’t any. If you have some understanding of economics, I don’t think you can be a Marxist. There are entertainers like J. K. Galbraith who use economics as their shtick. If you know about any Marxian economists, how about naming them?
Economics is the study of how humans use limited means to fill some of their unlimited wants. There are basically only two kinds of economic system possible, the market system and the command system. In the command system, the government decides who gets what, and things get nasty. Voluntary sharing and working together is not the command system: it is the exchange of aid for aid. Socialists never want that: they want to take by force.
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Economics is what I call a “soft science”. Hardly worth deep study.
You can certainly be forgiven for thinking that if you have been taught about it at university. Read Adam Smith and then Ludwig von Mises if you want to really know about it. There are lots of other good writers, too, but you won’t ever hear about them from the people in authority.
Read Thorstein Veblen to understand modern human action. The Theory of the Leisure Class, his greatest work, is available free on the internet: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/833/833-h/833-h.htm
Thanks for this. I’ve looked him up on a search engine. You’ve taught me something.
Michael Hudson might come close, although i think he calls himself a futurist.
Thanks for this.
I think he sometimes calls himself a marxist.
Joan Robinson
Richard Wolff is one person
https://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate
You could try Michael Hudson or Richard Wolff. Virtually every economics course in every western university teaches the same fradulent version of economics which takes no account of the way economies actually work. China uses what I call pragmatic economics and name means nothing but the system works while we have turned Adam Smith into Winston Smith. Btw, the Nobel prize in economics is a Croc, it’s not even given in the same place as the “real” Nobel prize. Like the peace and literature, it’s 100% political.
Michael Hudson spends quite a bit of time lecturing in China, where they’re very interested in making sure investment goes to productive uses and avoiding the financial sector controlling the economy.
“Your efforts to understand the world will fail unless you account for the fact that (A) echo chamber dynamics have a vastly under-appreciated effect on the way we all take in information, and (B) that rich and powerful people are actively trying to manipulate your perception of reality.”
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If (real) Truth, (real) Justice, and the (true spirit of the) American Way made money for the “Right People”, our World would have more truth, justice, and real representative governments than we would know what to do with. That’s pretty much the key to understanding everything that goes on in the World: Does this make money for the ‘Right People’? If not, forget it. It has no chance. That’s why we have Echo Chambers. That’s why people take in a steady diet of garbage ‘information’. That’s why the Rich and Powerful ARE the Rich and Powerful. That’s why your perception of reality is twisted and degraded into something useless and completely unrecognizable from having an honest experience of life.
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“They say youth is wasted on the young. No, youth is wasted on schoolwork.”
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Youth is wasted because youths don’t have a clue about what the World really is and the many minefields that they will soon be navigating around that no one prepared them for. This is like sending chickens into a field filled with with lions and tigers and alligators. No one told the chickens who the lions and tigers and alligators are and how to protect themselves from them. No one told them that lions and tigers and alligators run every facet of the World and they will try any means to eat you up and feel good about doing so. Youths get virtually no useful information about how to deal with predatory world they are fast growing in to. And that’s not a bug, but a feature. The lions and tigers and alligators like it that way.
Oh you must be an only child.
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When I grew up I had 3 brothers and 3 sisters and they taught me as the 6th one born amongst them what it means to be “a member of the community”.
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I think your premise is not based on a good foundation and is biased based on personal experience. I’m guessing Roundball Shaman that you weren’t born a peasant, but if so, please tell me otherwise and help me understand the basis of what you say cause I think you are incorrect.
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I’ve tried to teach my daughters, I have two, about life in the “big city” and I’ve encouraged them to think for themselves, and maybe most importantly, to be gentle.
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I don’t know what is gonna happen next, but I think we are in the year of reckoning, and I told my dear wife about how mean I was gonna be this year because for fuck sake I have to be mean – don’t you reckon? After this year, I have other plans if I survive but that remains to be seen – for all of us. Still, for now I’m mean. Sorry if I offend any delicate sensibilities.
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Lions and tigers and alligators don’t bother me and nor do snakes. I like snakes cause I am a snake. Born in the year of the snake so I must be one. Snakes mean no harm. It is all a bunch of propaganda.
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Best to you Roundball Shaman – get a clue why don’t you,
Ken
ps – the poem by T.H. Lawrence tells it all….here is a link:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148471/snake-5bec57d7bfa17
“So much of what the Central Intelligence Agency used to do covertly it now does overtly; NED, working in media punditry, etc. Pretty soon they will just be openly selling narcotics door to door like Girl Scout cookies.-Ms Caitlin Johnstone!”
Ms Johnstone all over the United States of America narcotics are openly being sold by all levels of goverment as well as all levels of criminals. It has been that way since the Vietnam ” war “!! Without the money from the sale and consumption of narcotics this country, its banks, and its economy would collaapse and completely implode in a New York minute!!
So the Vietnam war corrupted our way of thinking and only question is do we know how to get back to our roots?
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The roots of Liberty run deep but any tree will die if it is neglected.
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The time is NOW.
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Get ready it is gonna be like a war but if you have studied hard then you will know how to respond when the battle gets heavy and full of fog and dust and blood!
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Peace is easy but it don’t come easy. It has to be earned.
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Serious times we are in. No denying this is there?
BK
“Pretty soon they’ll just be openly selling narcotics door to door like Girl Scout cookies.”
I would rather the CIA sold narcotix door to door than much of what has been doing since its founding.
As Kennedy thought, and I think it as well, and many others do. Time to get rid of the not so smart so-called “intelligence” agencies who serve masters of deception and who are not in the interest of the People. Time to get rid of them and seriously time to get rid of the made up city of DC that has not proffered up 1 good thing my whole lifetime. That spells over 50 years.
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So, they, whoever they are might of thought they could control the narrative and the thinking and they thought if anyone had another idea they could kill them (like they killed Kennedy), well, they thought wrong and the evidence is in. So now, all their wrong thinking has brought us ALL, everyone, everyone of us on the whole planet, to the brink. Why does their thinking carry so much weight? Who do they think they are?
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I’m not afraid of dying. Are you? Kennedy didn’t want to die, but his brains ended up in his wife’s lap. These are the folks who are calling the shots, but little do they know that there are some of us who are not afraid to die – or maybe they do know. I know I’m gonna die and I’m happy I’ve lived as long as I have and I know I’m not alone and so kill as they may they will never kill us all off. In fact, I think it is time for them to get some of their own medicine. One at a time.
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I could spell out the logic of what makes sense but I reckon once you have been in power it is like a drug and you will kill others indiscriminately to hold onto the power you perceive that you have, but you must know it is fleeting. You can make others bend to your will as if they have lost their sense of commonweal, but you can’t kill all of us. You can conflate and confuse and cause troubles and pretend you had no idea, but your lies are evident. It is in the public record. You can hide behind the curtain and pretend you ain’t hurting, but you will never be able to escape the truth. You can kiss a baby but it don’t mean you don’t deserve to be punished for your crimes.
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The truth will be revealed and as laborious as it may seem we will find you one at a time and justice will be served. Because most of us just want to live day-by-day and enjoy our neighbors and try to grow some plants and so those who perpetuate suffering of innocence continue down the path of their own destruction while wiser minds know they are only ending their own way of thinking – good riddance to that. Soon, we will choose collectively to put old 20th century ideas to an end and I relish the moment this occurs. I feel it in my soul.
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Invite others to a Table of Peace and discuss your ideas for Peace and remember that Peace is for everyone. OK. Humor me and consider that as a possibility especially you old miserable ones who think that harm and suffering is all that is out there.
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Do I have to prove you wrong or do you insist on learning the hard way?
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Peace is easy,
BK
Another great essay Caitlin. If you ever run out of material kicking the butts of the imbeciles and psycopaths than run the U. S. Government, your talent could sure be sued to kick the butts of the worst fuckers on the planet. The Covid Creeps that have destroyed our society; their Orwellian tactics and the unbelievable insistence that everyone take an experimental “vaccine.”
I agree.
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After this latest Delta variant what will be the next mutation? There could be so many and oh my goodness gracious me they are all so scary and fearsome…..don’t piss your pants out of fear – use your god-given brain and after awhile you must know it is all an illusion of fear and propaganda – they go hand-n-hand.
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At the end of the day, a bug came out of a lab I’m thinking, and evidence suggests as such, and then the scientist of note tried to squash the bug. They sent emails and other communications to publish an article in the once respected Lancelot but little did they know they provided a direct trail back to their non-science objectives which were political in nature. Seems as such to me, and so I don’t trust them. Bunch of fucking liars. I don’t trust them one bit and I won’t take a vaccination for something they apparently created in the first place and then tried to hide.
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Seems like it is time for revelation of the truth. Seems like some who pose as health professionals are really political actors trying to gain more influence and more currency. Seems like they could give a flip about the truth and seems to me it is time for justice.
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Seems obvious that to be dubious in this day and age makes total sense, but maybe in the future this won’t be the case. It is now, and I want those who perpetuate suffering of innocence to get the just fate they are due. What do you want?
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That is what I would say at my Table of Peace.
BK
What will be next? Maybe this, for starters:
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-what-is-delta-plus-a-variant-of-coronavirus-with-k417n-mutation-7372317/
Hey Ian. This truly is what I’m thinking.
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FUCK the spike protein.
Fuck it – eff it.
shove it and
screw it.
Screw it up it’s fucking effing false synthetic creation.
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Fuck it.
Eff the companies profiting from it.
Fuck them.
Fuck them one at a time up their effing fucking a-holes.
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Fuck it.
Eff it.
F it.
Fuck you Ian.
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That is what I’m thinking.
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Good talking to you and eff off you effing smarty pants eff-fucking-eff-hole.
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Thanks for the info and talk to you later.
Ken
ha, ah……
Perhaps you’d find this more to your liking:
Vaccine nanoparticles self-assembling a neuro-spider “operating system” in your brain?
https://www.brighteon.com/41404368-f451-4c8a-b16b-7d158a81d317
From around 1:00:00 –
“The vaccines may be an alien nanotech interface control system.
It may be their [vaccinees] entire neurology has been taken over by a complex, maybe AI-driven, alien tech self-assembling master control unit … growing inside your body.
All I know is that what we’re dealing with here is beyond human. For sure.
This is coming at us from either demons, or, you know, dark angels, you know, fallen angels, serpents, whatever, or aliens or some powerful external force that wants to destroy us and is using an astonishing array of technology.
There’s something attacking us that is beyond earthly, I’ll put it that way. that’s for sure, and it desires the complete extermination of humanity.
Earth is being prepared for a post-human era.”
Incorrect.
Ian.
I take all you say with a grain of salt.
-Ken
Oh let me say it again.
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Ian – I think you are full of it.
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OK
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Don’t push your sentiment on me and stop pushing in general Ian cause you are pushing down on one way street and your momma would tell you, you should know better, but she won’t enforce her will upon you and neither will I, but shut the eff up with you nonsense Ian.
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You do disrespect to you namesake.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian
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Now consider all the folks who have been holed up in their places and put under gubment decree for the sake of a synthetic virus created out of labs that weren’t even supposed to exist if treaties were honored.
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Ian – I just can’t trust a fucking thing you say. You seem like a tool to me Ian.
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Eff off.
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Talk to you later.
Ken
There is no “left” and there is no “right” at least in absolute terms. The use of the term “right” has gotten out of proportion. I think it has to do with how many our right-handed versus us left-handed ones. No matter, I prefer the term “correct”.
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If you look at an image from afar you might make judgement of left and right, but if you are the image then you might be looking from the other perspective and your left would be their right and vice-versa. Can you understand this? Do you appreciate perspective? Do you understand that there are different views? You ain’t a Calvinist are you? I hope not, cause if you are, then you get what you deserve obviously, but most of us have already dispatched your self-fulfilling foolishness. It makes not sense.
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So therefore, better use of terms and language is critical if communication is going to improve. I believe communication is going to improve and I offer up the Table of Peace for those who are invited to achieve this noble objective. Make your own table of peace if you can. If you are invited to my Table of Peace I will let you know.
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I’ve invited this person or that and most are welcome to the Table of Peace but not everybody to my table cause we all have our own table of peace don’t we? I mean we are social animals of course but our immediate net of connectness only extends out to those we can literally feel, hear, sense, smell, and most importantly touch up close. I love up close touching.
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Have you ever been at a table during a meal when an argument commenced? OK, I think we all have experienced this, but you can’t deny having an argument with words is better than having one with weapons. If you disagree with that simple premise, then chances are you will never get to sit at a Table of Peace – at least not the Table in my imagination. If you Table of Peace means better times for just you and your tribe, let me remind you we are in the 21st century and sorry but things are way more connected now than they ever have been. I could take a piss and somebody from India might know it if you know what I mean.
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At the Table of Peace all ideas are welcome and discourse is encouraged. If there is a rule, the only rule is that you listen to what others sitting at the table have to say.
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Then, let the chips fall where they will.
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Peace is easy.
BK
I agree with that idea – similarly the fate of Germany 1933-39+ starts being determined by Nazis.
The left should remain a highly exclusive club no bigger than the size of a public library speaking event
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If that were true Bezos and Gates would be goose-stepping with a red flag.
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I thought you were kidding but then I saw the 97 minute read with 6 views and knew you were serious. I hope is asserts ‘equality of outcome’ in you tome at least 6 times.
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The American left is a club no bigger than the size off a public library speaking event. This is true. We all know each other. In American we have Dunbar Leftism.
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The high from the happy weed is still with you. “Humanity is becoming more conscious. Awkwardly, sloppily, like a toddler, we’re becoming more and more aware of what’s going on inside us and what’s going on outside us.” So keep on smoking that Steven Pinker strain of weed and continue to forget that each generation has to start over from scratch and that people die. Saying we are becoming more conscious is the wrong conclusion. Rather idiots have been given authority and power. That is closer to the truth. Full transparency and the rule of law is the only way to stop corruption. and:
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“It’s safe to say that most secular western feminists are leftists and their world view is a fashionable cocktail of Marxism, multi-culturalism, moral equivalence and a strong dose of tolerance—if not downright admiration—for the most intolerant fanatics who stalk this earth.” Hate the American Military all you want and I am no fan but when America leaves there will be lawlessness and rape and America will not be doing it.
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Todays’ idiot can know what geniuses of ages past were not even sure about. A modern idiot can be an encyclopaedia of facts but they remain an idiot. Everybody is an expert on everything now. Wisdom is believed to be found in the ingestion of drugs. Really? I thought wisdom through psychedelics was a totally American Delusion. It is a delusion. I know this for fact. This truth was revealed on an Acid trip. But since LSD is not held in the same regard as MDMA feel free to ignore me.
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The world is not becoming more conscious but fools have more authority and power than they use to have.
Fixed:
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I hope you assert ‘equality of outcome’ in you tome at least 6 times.
your tome – agghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !
“Hate the American Military all you want and I am no fan but when America leaves there will be lawlessness and rape and America will not be doing it”.
It is indeed a possibility. But it is a SOLIDLY ESTABLISHED FACT that in the American Military, 25% of women report being victims of sexual assault and 80% of harassment – and we don’t know the percentage of those who don’t report for fear of retaliation or the number of local women raped by the American Military.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_United_States_military#:~:text=At%20least%2025%25%20of%20women%20serving%20in%20the,than%20they%20were%20to%20be%20killed%20in%20combat.
So right on. Thanks.
One group’s disaster is another group’s triumph. The Afghanistan Wars (Soviet and US) were a debacle for the indigenous populaton as well as for the young soldiers who needlesly lost life, limb, and sanity.
Two decades of US mayhem preceded by the Soviet occupation evolved into a win-win for all the usual suspects: war profiteers, heroin drug traffickers, and sociopathic geostrategic analysts who were determined to balkanize the region by bombing it back into the stoneage.
No lessons were learned. Empires keep “churning along” until they don’t.
Charlotte – are you close by? Will you be my ruse?
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Lessons are always learned unless you are a zombie!
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Hey – get in touch with me if you are close by cause you know where I’m at don’t you Charlotte? I feel you up close. I’ve lived in the city for most of my life, but I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be here. I’m tired of all the Charlotte ladies and all their privileged attitude they are so reckless with.
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Ready for a big fight? Good. I am as well. I’m ready and I’m not playing around. I mean business – serious business – if you want to come to the table then make yourself useful.
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Otherwise, take your Charlotte lady attitude and shove it up your ass.
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No offense meant of course, Ms. Charlotte Ruse, I was talking metaphorically and not directly to you…..most of the time I like your sentiment. In fact, come to think of it, maybe you and I should meet, but maybe you are from another Charlotte – their are a bunch of them out there.
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The truth will be revealed in all of its ignominy and let it be is what the spirits whisper in my ear. Both ears. One at a time and both at the same time.
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Now, I’ll ask for leave because I have some tomatoes to tend.
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Peace,
BK
No lessons are ever learned except, perhaps, by the predators. They devise more effective methods of exploitation.
Surely, a clever fellow such as yourself heard the old adages: “history repeats itself,” or “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”
Well both are true, sociopaths tend to repeat their modus operandi.
OK Charlotte – based on that response now I know.
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You are NOT invited.
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Now, I’m not a believer in exclusive clubs…..I have this People tendency that makes me think hard.
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Sorry for the interruption.
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And when it comes to history, you ought check out my comment made here before you made yours and then think about it a bit and consider your next move.
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Here is the link:
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https://consortiumnews.com/2021/06/24/revealing-the-pentagon-papers-in-congress-4-a-pyrrhic-victory/
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Funny ain’t it how things circle around? Like a snake wrapping around it’s next meal.
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BK
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ps – if you ain’t learning then you are dying…..and predators don’t scare me, they ought be scared of me cause I’m not playing around – I’m part of a herd and we mean serious business and times are fixing to change and 2021 is the year of reckoning. I await your response. Meanwhile, I’ll go water some tomato plants in my imagination.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
All reckonings devolve over time–it’s the innate psychological flaw genetically implanted within the species Homo sapien.
Maybe, maybe not Charlotte.
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Maybe it is your ruse, but it is not mine.
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Peace
The “new swine” dominating the trough are always more diabolical.
End of discussion………
Nope.
Can’t stop me from talking.
That is why you are
NOT invited by sweet selfish ruse.
Off with you.
Do u want to keep talking?
Time for a test.
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3 and after that comes 4.
Charlotte,
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Now in my imagination I’m going to break your image down.
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You have four eyes, the one at the top is smaller. You got something flying over your head I think it is a saucer. It is attached to your shape. You got two bat wings and frog legs and your smile is haphazard and the shape of your body is contorted.
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Your left leg, or maybe it is the right one depending on perspective, is stronger up top, but the muscles there will do you no good unless you start using your brain and in contrast to many others posting here I see no brain in your image. Charlotte – are you brainless?
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I’m thinking you might be under the control of another or others with bad intent. Maybe you are a psy-op…..maybe not. No accusation there, just an independent observation from a professional root cause analysis safety person. Odds are it is nothing of substance.
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Oh yeah – I’m an ESHA professional and like I once was told after I quit a job – Ken – if nothing else you put it all on the table and say it like it is. I took that as a compliment even if the fella who said it was from South Carolina and as far as I’m concerned that state can be by its lonesome when the new times emerge………I feel them coming and Charlotte, let me remind you, you are NOT invited to the table of peace. Sorry, but sometimes you get what you give. Your anger is not appreciated.
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Ken
ps – I reckon you touched a nerve but that don’t make it any less………….we all got lessons to learn. Wonder what my next lesson will be. Good-bye Charlotte – it has been a pleasure talking with you and please leave me alone.
Charlotte,
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Look – maybe you will get invited later, but I doubt it. Maybe you will prove me wrong. Have at it baby. Go for it. Prove me wrong.
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But for now, you are so not invited and the chances of being invited are diminishing with each post you post…..you must be a Calvinist who just learned your fate. Sorry for you.
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Ken
Caitlin notes, “It’s just so amazing how many leftists yell at journalists like Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald for using Tucker Carlson’s show to get important perspectives out to a mainstream audience compared to how few leftists yell at other mass media outlets for refusing to platform those important perspectives at all.”
The only thing wrong with this is that those people yelling at Mate, Greenwald et al. are NOT leftists. They’re milquetoast liberals, Dem party hacks and believers, and they all despise the actual left as much as any hardened Trumper does. Hell, they more often despise the left far more than the right does. They’re the same people who cheered when the corrupt D party sabotaged Bernie in 2016 and 2020 (which feckless Bernie fully complied with and helped advance their corrupt agenda), because they all preferred 4 more years of Trump to any approximation of an actual socialist. They aren’t leftists, Caitlin, and I’m sure you know that.
I’m not gonna say they acted like zombies, but during the root cause analysis I think it might be revealed that some are vulnerable to mental conditioning.
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Know what I mean?
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The Buffalo Know. Consider all the carcasses that blew in the wind. Consider when you consider your next move unless you are not considering anything else besides your day-dreaming believing………
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Serious times call for serious action.
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BK
I cant wait until the emperor embraces a new religion and makes Byzantium the capitol.
That would be a mistake.
At midnight on the Emperor’s pavement flit
Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit,
Nor storm disturbs, flames begotten of flame,
Where blood-begotten spirits come
And all complexities of fury leave,
Dying into a dance,
An agony of trance,
An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43296/byzantium
And at the end Ian it says:
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Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.
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I just think there is a better way and I have the table to make it happen. It is a Table of Peace. Can you imagine that Ian?
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No invite for you yet, and who cares about being invited to an imaginary place anyhow, but maybe later, an invite will be forthcoming. Maybe, maybe not. It is a possibility, but I hold my invites close to my chest.
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If you consider the killing that occurred in the Tejas meeting then you must understand that cause some things have consequences.
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It might all be a dream and it might not, but I hold onto the idea that there must be consequences if you have a Peace meeting and then they pull out the Colts and shoot away.
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here is a link if you think I’m full of it…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_House_Fight
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By the way, the link has already been compromised. It doesn’t tell the true story of the infamy and ignominy of it all, and like I said, there will be consequences and now the chicken is coming home to roost, and you better get your shit in line cause it is coming for you!
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If you think you can pull out your guns during a “Peace Meeting” and kill a bunch of innocent folks without there being consequences, then you are living in an effing dream and you will learn the hard way. Come hell or high water, there will be learning for those who thought they were pulling all the strings……it is only in their imagination that they thought they could get away with this travesty of harm…..it is only in their imagination that they think they have this sway, and it is a dream coming to a brutal end, and cause innocence has been suffering for so long there will be recompense and it will be equivalent to the suffering that has been caused. One at a fucking time Ian. One at a time. Discrimanately.
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Not playing around.
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BK
“So much of what the CIA used to do covertly it now does overtly; NED, working in media punditry, etc. Pretty soon they’ll just be openly selling narcotics door to door like Girl Scout cookies.”
So that is why so many unaccompanied minors are crossing the border. I figured Crackers in America Who Sell Crack in America is behind it, or is it now Cultural Intersectionalists in America Who Sell Crack in America now?
What pisses me off a lot is that they think we have gotten stupider or that we are all a bunch of zombies.
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I plan on proving them wrong one at a time.
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BK
Is “stupider” a word? Suggested alternative, “more stupid”.
Ha, ha.
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Stupider is now a word.
That’s why I asked. The only stupid question is the one you don’t ask.
Come on JWK, everything evolves and that includes language and governments.
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I’m sorry to inform you that we need gubment even though it does piss one of……..oh well, keep it local and maybe it will be less stupid.
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Best to you,
BK
“Stupider and stupidest are real words in good standing. While there are many (contradictory) rules on comparative and superlative adjectives, there is no rule against stupider and stupidest, and the words have a long history of usage.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/are-stupider-and-stupidest-real-words
Ian – you are so funny!
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Come on Ian – live up to your namesake. I’m living up to mine.
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Let’s play bridge sometime. The card game. It is harmless. I don’t want you as a partner of course, but maybe Charlotte Ruse will be my partner. Ha, ha.
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BK
By the way, don’t get the wrong idea about that. I still think you are an effing effer.
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Still, I appreciate a good debate and I like to learn something every day.
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Charlotte Ruse like many others here of the older persuasion I’m guessing have sort of become fixed on their view of the human condition. It would benefit all of them to read some Kropotkin. You have read Kropotkin have you not Ian, cause if not I think less of you and all you biological knowledge. If you don’t understand or know Kropotkin then you don’t understand biology and other science because you have become a tool of others. So, let me know if you have studied Kropotkin, and if not, let me know that as well, and then get back to me with your new wisdom after studying one of the true founders of the science.
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My wife suffers no fools and nor do I.
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Not playing around.
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Ken
They say La Grande Révolution was Pol Pot’s favourite book.
“Buffalo Chips” is an expert on all topics big and small. He picked this thread to peddle his belief in anarcho-communism. That’s newly marketed as “you’ll own nothing and love it.” The new version requires an appetite for neofeudalism.
You nailed me Charlotte.
Cept for the “Chip” part and the neogeudalism BS.
You nailed me honey.
Does it feel good?
By the way, Kropotkin was a serious scientist. Hard science.
And, yes indeed, he was correct about Mutual Aid and he was sapient in his recognition of how Darwin’s ideas were fixing to be used for no good for the peasants.
Thanks for nailing my ass Charlotte. I ‘ll return the favor soon.
To you or somebody in your name.
I’ll take my leave now.,
BK
Pol Pot’s version was a kind of left-wing feudalism with a slave class for good measure.
Grow up Ian will you?
What makes you think of Pol Pot? r u living in the 20th century?
Pol Pot, led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During that time, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians died of starvation, execution, disease or overwork. I think Mao executed 50 million, but then again China has a much bigger population.
“Enough with this [W]hite man’s burden bullshit, freaks.” Uh, yes, and excuse me. All of this (now) is primarily about Empire building and expansion, regardless of who, what, and where you are – not grinding halts of blaming everything on “[White Men].” Lloyd J. Austin III would surely agree. His mission continues the core mission, irrespective of anyone’s skin color. He knows, for example, that critical race theory is about as valid and destructive as the views put forth in the 1800s regarding Phrenology (Franz Joseph Gall), Ethnology, and Racial Anthropology. With that clear, we could move forward, together. Or, we could ignore these simple truths, and watch the ultimate reverse-hypocrisies divide us, as intended, toward cataclysmic levels. https://seaclearly.com/2020/11/29/what-is-left-to-be-trusted
For the curious reader:
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https://www.defense.gov/our-story/meet-the-team/secretary-of-defense/
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Lloyd J. Austin III
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As a sidenote, let me add cause I can cause we just here “chatting” on the www, that Austin has better ambition than Houston and honestly goodness gracious me Texas could be split into 5 and it is in the documents that still have standing and that could be one of the members I’m envisioning in the future. Best to make good friends with your neighbors is advice we all ought appreciate.
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BK
https://thenib.com/thinking-critically/
https://thenib.com/critical-mass/
“The correct lesson from Afghanistan instantly beginning to revert back to Taliban control the moment the western occupation ends is not that the occupation needs to continue, it’s that it should never have happened in the first place.”
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And why should it never have happened in the first place?
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Perhaps the correct lesson from Afghanistan should be that the 911 World Trade Center attacks, the stated reason for invading Afghanistan, was a complete hoax?
Root cause analysis is a profession and it should be applied to 9/11 indiscriminately by professionals who have no agenda other than to get to the root cause. Long time has passed, but the data is out there.
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Of course, there usually is not a single root cause but rather it is a combination of factors. Shall I list a few? Maybe later.
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I don’t give a fucking effing flip because I just want the truth to be revealed in all of its ignominy. Now, you might put forth that I am biased when I make a statement of said nature, and perhaps that is true, but the evidence speaks for itself, and the truth will be revealed eventually – whether the truth is what really happened or the truth is that we are all dead. Somebody who is biased, but still can be objective, and let’s be honest none of us are computers (I hope) so we all fall into that group, can be of great value when it comes to revealing the root cause. Take the best contributions collectively and then spell it out how it happened for all to sense.
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After that, let the chips fall where they must.
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Right Shocker?
BK
Very good insight, Sister!
How did you come to this epiphany?
“Psychedelics are useful not for the hallucinations they provide but for the hallucinations they remove.”
Note: WARNING: Not everybody should drop acid. Some people may have adverse reactions, only somewhat predictable. If you have an insecure and unstable personality, you should probably not use an entheogen more disruptive than MDA or MDMA at first, and only with a seasoned and empathic trip guide.
Tommy Chong: “I saw GOD, Man!”
I have to read mostly and I’ll read it more closely and I will, but I’ve read enough.
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I agree basically with what this article puts forth.
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I don’t come here to agree with authors or commenters. I come here to learn something.
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I advocate per Article V of the US Constitution a Constitutional Convention for the sake of balancing the scales. It only takes two-thirds of the state assemblies and the Congress is not needed for this. In fact, it can be done independently of Washington, DC – the effing made-up city it has become.
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I believe Jefferson was wrong with his timing regarding refreshing the tree of Liberty, but the concept is correct nonetheless and refreshment is called for NOW if it ever was. What a shame it would be if that tree died at the hands of Monarchs and monarch-want-a-bees who have so much fiat currency it is flowing out of their butt holes. When you shit money you lose touch.
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I know where the power resides and it ain’t with the monarchs.
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OK, so now to dig into the details just a bit, Article V does say that 2/3rds of the state legislations need to make application to “Congress” for a Constitutional Convention, but what do you think would happen if the congress refused this application?
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I’ll leave it to you to ponder the possibilities.
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The power resides with the People and the People who call a land home are the runs who run the country in the long run. Always has been that way and always will be. Monarchs are like parasites upon the People, so I hope for their sake they wake up and read the tea leaves.
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Peace is easy, but it don’t come easy now does it?
BK
Hi Buffalo Ken,
I think the owner class is split, a horse divided against itself, which cannot stand, in the western oligarchy.
Build Back Better World (now B3W) has the flaw of the gross inefficiency of keeping the same hierarchy that brought us neoliberalism, neocolonialism and nascent neofeudalism through technocracy controlling our thoughts and impulses. Right now it’s just smartphones-in-traffic, but soon it will be neural implants rewarding us directly for following that urgent though that just jumped to the front of the stack.
The easy problem to point out is inefficiency, though evil would do as well.
Inefficiency is distant decisions for local problems, which need to be solved promptly.
I need a bag of sheetrock screws to finish this work today.
I’ll call Washington for instructions.
It has been pointed out in one of the articles here : https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/06/build-back-never.html
that evil is completely parasitic and cannot contribute any positive solutions to a process.
One might argue that we are not owned/ruled by evil (how rude!) but by somewhat enlightened self-interests (nice Mr. Buffet, not kinky Mr. Bezos or Mr. Gates-behind-the-curtain). Inefficiency argument works for both. The somewhat creative owners have a soultion, which is AI, directly connecting to the impulse and reward centers of our brains.
What could go wrong? Can you run a work crew this way?
Never been tried. Might be some problems.
Can the technology be sustained in resource decline?
Theoretically, yes, right?
Never been done, though. Looks like a stretch.
Most people would say “NO” if you told ’em. How ya gonna’ pull it off?
Wouldn’t it be easier for people to work together in smaller groups on projects that benefit them directly, which is the strong point of our good-old species?
Sure it would. (That was a rhetorical question.)
Distributed computing with every decision ever made being part of the mass computation, is what brought us here. It is sustainable, even if massive swaths of computation go “poof”.
The problem for the elites, the owners, is that the most important thing of all, to them, is that they maintain control, no matter how inefficient or unlikely that may be, going into the new economy of declining resources and declining energy.
They are the owners. They will use all of the powers 9open and covert) of ownership to maintain their position astride the massive herd, even if the herd gets sicker and has to be culled repeatedly. The biggest problem for them right now is that the smarter ones can’t agree with each other or the more narcissistic ones about how to proceed, and they can’t even work out which group of owners to sneak-attack to move forward.
Elite gridlock.
Now is our chance to grow some vegetables, get out of debt, be friends in the neighborhood and ride bikes. Whoo, Woo! :-}
John Day – for sure, for sure yes.
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You know my daughter bought her momma some tomatoes for Momma’s Day in May that had been neglected. I replanted them in better soil and they seemed to recover, but then when I got to my getaway place in Virginia – near the forests of Washington and Jefferson – I replanted them again, and they responded by telling me – “enough is enough”. They turned all yellow and seemed to by dying. I pulled all but a few out of the soil to avoid letting the slow death go on for too long.
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So, I learned a lesson and my plan is to make my garden better year after year and I have a few perennial plants there, a blueberry bush and some rosemary, and next year I’ll do better with the tomatoes. There are a few local tomatoes I planted and they seem happy, so we’ll just see what happens. That is the beauty for me, truly, I don’t know what is gonna happen next but I try every day to learn something and then get better. I look to the future with humility. Well earned I might add.
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The Tree of Liberty has been so offended most of my life that I’m not sure it can live much longer, but I take hope that the roots are strong. Now, if some of the roots are coming out of Tejas, then I might have to think twice, but maybe I’m biased about the history of Houston and his ambitions. At the end of the day, merit is really what matters, and if you are a good man, then I don’t give a flip where you came from or how you look. I’m happy to work together with you. Same goes for the ladies out there. Big time.
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Peace,
BK
Black-eyed peas, Sothern-peas, cowpeas grow vigorously like weeds. they sustained many lives in the southern US for centuries. They came from Africa. Jefferson grew Whippoorwill type, which were the standard for the US. I find them to be very reliable, resistant to weevils and disease, producing all season long. You will find them, and other varieties here:
https://www.southernexposure.com/categories/southern-peas-cowpeas/
Grow things that grow well on their own, and are less work to process and store. Grow so much that you outproduce the bugs and critters. Expect some crop failures, and learn from them the best you can.
Here is a general format, which I developed:
https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
Much appreciated John Day.
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I don’t care that you are from Texas because I think you are a good man.
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Thanks,
Ken
Even discounting the atrocity of the military occupation of Afghanistan, it remains a tribute to the stupidity of US foreign/military policy. Afghanistan has been the graveyard for empires ever since there was such a thing as empire. A perfect demonstration that empires can only succeed if they are given permission to.
The USA has been an empire of graveyards for quite a while. Rather fitting that Afghanistan should send it packing.
The US wringing their hands over womens rights in Afghanistan is in direct contrast to their total lack of concern for the women and children being raped coming over the US/Mexican border where US Policy of Joe Biden is actually encouraging traffickers to bring women and children over to be sold as chattel. Its disgusting and reflects the US Gov total lack of any concern for anyone’s human rights.
Is not the right to life the primary right? Without which there can be no other rights? Is the US Military Industrial Complex not actively engaged in KILLING women around the world, in concert with US sanctions , which are an act of war, the modern siege?
“A common misconception about human trafficking is that it does not happen in the United States. This is false, as the United States is ranked as one of the worst countries globally for human trafficking. It is estimated that 199,000 incidents occur within the United States every year.”
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/human-trafficking-statistics-by-state
Um, the US authorities could give a flying f about women’s rights and ladies being raped in broad daylight in Afghanistan.
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Fuck it. If you lost the fight, which is very evident, then hightail you stupid ass out of there if you know what I mean.
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Some things are obvious and some obvious things cause a little trepidation in those who have trouble recognizing fact from fiction.
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DUH.
BK
Thing is there are always consequences and mark these words you stupid son’s of bitches. The consequences are on their way.
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Not playing around and don’t shoot the messenger you fuckers.
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Get your contingencies in place. Mine are already setup, so you can’t foil my plans. At least I think you can’t and why would you want to, cause I’m just telling it like I sense it. I declare no harm upon anyone. I’ve declared this before and I declare it again. I wish no harm upon anyone and I declare no harm to anyone.
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Don’t shoot the messenger. Get a hold of yourself and find the cause of the trouble and then force them to face the consequences.
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Simple.
BK