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  • New thought about nukes

    Gene Nelson, a pro-nuke substacker, notes the connection between anti-nuke activism and Big Money donors. Old thought: It always helps to look at the real profits from a movement. Coal and oil production have reached the highest levels in history, and every environmental law “coincidentally” makes coal more attractive and necessary, in the places where…

    polistra

    June 2, 2024
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    Carbon Cult
  • Reprinted and examined

    Linked in previous about bitcoin, worth reprinting and checking against later developments. = = = = = START 2017 REPRINT: Shared lies have been around as long as political partisanship. Both parties agree on a false definition of the problem. Party A says this is good, Party B says this is bad. Neither side is…

    polistra

    June 2, 2024
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    Powell!, Shared Lie
  • Reprint inspired by reprint

    The Reddit anticoiners have been reposting a somewhat older news item about a Bitcoin Cruise Ship that failed spectacularly, but luckily didn’t sink. The organizers imagined that they could be free from International Law, but realized too late that International Law is enforced strictly against ships. In fact the original purpose of International Law was…

    polistra

    June 1, 2024
    Uncategorized
    Bitcoin, pluponents, Sucker Filter
  • Some good info

    Lots of good info in this conversation. Why congress is totally useless, who really has the power, when things changed, who changed things. I appreciate people who start with reality. These guests don’t bother with the textbook crap about “legislation” and “branches” and “rights”. They simply talk about what happens in DC. Their overriding rule…

    polistra

    June 1, 2024
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    Fairness Doctrine, Parkinson
  • Interesting “coincidence”

    Thinking about the parallels between 1968 protests and 2024 protests led to an enticing “coincidence”. The NSA web was started in 1968 by ARPA, founded by Bezos’s grandpa. The web’s first users were universities. The publicly announced first use was tracking academic research so NSA could coordinate and steal and manipulate. Reminded me of a…

    polistra

    May 31, 2024
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    Henry Wallace, NOW I SEE
  • He gets the big point

    Most of the time, both “sides” in each hot-button Machiavellian divider are missing the main point. The anti-bitcoiners are right about some details but miss the BIG point that every transaction on the web is perfectly global, perfectly centralized, and perfectly public. Here’s one anti who grasps the biggest point of all. He’s citing a…

    polistra

    May 31, 2024
    Uncategorized
    Bitcoin, Machiavelli, Mutual Benefit Societies, natural law = sharia law, natural law = soviet law, pluponents, Sucker Filter
  • Protos is fucking stupid.

    This is the stupidest article I’ve read in many moons. = = = = = START STUPID 1: Politicians will promise a lot to get votes. Despite candidates for the US presidency spending most of their time talking about broad public interests like healthcare, employment, inflation, and national security, they’ll occasionally make a narrow pledge…

    polistra

    May 31, 2024
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    Bitcoin, infinite STUPID
  • Indirect futility

    Thinking about the plight of the younger generation, I’m reminded yet again of the magnificent quote from Schwellenbach: Futility is the nemesis of democracy. More accurately, futility is the nemesis of trust and civilization. When you’re punished for doing the right thing, you revolt. You vote and nothing ever changes. You work hard and can’t…

    polistra

    May 31, 2024
    Uncategorized
    skill-estate
  • Hard question

    SpokaneNews asks: Question: Would you prefer law enforcement to chase fleeing vehicles until caught or allow them to go free for public safety. Not an easy question. My basic rule is that it’s better to bore a criminal than excite a criminal. Pursuit pushes criminals to drive faster and wilder, leading to crashes with innocent…

    polistra

    May 31, 2024
    Uncategorized
    jail mode, Sorosia
  • Win-win

    One of the idiotic “trials” of Trump for every fake crime in the world (except his real crime of imprisoning and torturing the entire country, which should have led to execution already) has reached a guilty verdict. Both sides got what they want. The D side can now officially treat Trump as a nuclear bomb.…

    polistra

    May 30, 2024
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  • Usable acronym for a movement

    BreakingPoints headlines a poll of 18-30 voters. They’re HARDASS realists. Most agree with the accurate statement that ‘No matter which party is in charge, nothing changes.’ Most agree with the accurate statement that ‘America is a dying empire led by bad people’. Dying Empire Led by Bad People = DELBP. DELBP = DELETE BOTH PARTIES.

    polistra

    May 30, 2024
    Uncategorized
    bemusement
  • How witch hunts die

    Via Bloomberg: The trade association of Romance Writers lost 7000 of its 10000 members after one of its biggies accused another biggie of “racism” or something. Now it’s filing for bankruptcy. Witch hunts always die when the torch starts burning the lighters.

    polistra

    May 30, 2024
    Uncategorized
    Emersonian justice
  • More of the same

    Continuing on previous item. This piece from 2019 is closer to the current problem than the techie stuff I reprinted earlier. = = = = = START 2019 REPRINT: Farage’s newly branded party needs to gather a BIG LESSON from what happened to Austria’s nationalist party. An obvious honeytrap sting by fake “Russians”, as always.…

    polistra

    May 30, 2024
    Uncategorized
    Desistance, Machiavelli, Parkinson
  • Same old game

    Activists are still throwing fake outrage about new “laws” and “treaties”. This week they’re motivating us to fight the WHO “treaty” which will supposedly enable what happened in 2020. 2020 SHOWED FINALLY AND DEFINITIVELY THAT NO LAW CAN STOP OR ENABLE MONSTERS. If 2020 didn’t teach you, you’re either incurably stupid or playing a game…

    polistra

    May 30, 2024
    Uncategorized
    Desistance, Machiavelli, Parkinson, Sorosia
  • Thanks

    We just had a quick ministorm, typical of spring weather here. Two minutes of HEAVY rain, two minutes of moderate rain, and then Thanks, Ma Nature! I’m having a bad week and needed a positive sign. = = = = = The Weather Bureau got a better picture out in the country.

    polistra

    May 29, 2024
    Uncategorized
    Happy Ending, TMI
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