Tag: Machiavelli
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Still mostly valid
I’m totally disgusted but not surprised at the “anti-virus” activists who are now solidly inside the Trump cult. It’s not news that activist leaders are ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS working for money and power and greed. BUT: Exerting power in the correct direction is possible. Here’s a piece I wrote in July 2020, at the heart…
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More honesty
Trump continues reverting to his norm. He has completely abandoned his 2016 fake populism. Now he’s just a noisy version of Mitt Romney, a pure servant of the billionaires, as he was before 2016. Latest: Basically, we’re going to drill baby drill, get the energy prices down, almost immediately, we’re going to close the border…
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Tempering the total dismissal
Purely for my own purposes. Before 2020, I thought gathering facts was an important part of science and life. The perfect unimaginable horror of 2020 taught me that “facts” and “laws” have no consequence at all. No matter how many “investigations” and “revelations” and “lawsuits” we make, rulers will continue doing what they want. If…
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When you write
New thought, maybe half valid. Activists are grinding about UK schools training kids to recognize the propaganda used by “misinformers”. Not new, of course. In the 60s we memorized the propaganda methods used by “commies”. We DIDN’T memorize the real fact that the “commies” were all part of FBI. I figured it out later thanks…
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He’s right
Idiot headline: Trump says We’re Not Weird. He’s right. He’s not weird at all by the standards of rulers. Genghis and Attila and Caesar and Henry and Catherine and Victoria and Lincoln and Hitler and Mao are the NORM. LBJ and Nixon and Bush and Trump are strictly NORMAL rulers. Ordinary garden-variety bog-standard mass murderers…
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Crowd of Pied Pipers
Looks like RFK is getting ready to join a long parade of traitors and Pied Pipers, leading a movement directly into the establishment they thought they were fighting. Jennings Bryan did it in 1908. After leading populists for a decade, he joined the Wilson admin and helped to make war and create the League of…
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Fairness can’t be monetized
All the alleged “independents” worked hard to build up a movement against Trump’s biggest crime in history. Now all of them are slotting back into the Trump cult seamlessly, without even observing the change. It’s disgusting but no longer surprising. Machiavelli wrote the tech reference manual 500 years ago. More narrowly, the big “independents” got…
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Defining desistance again
Time to reprint the basic definition of Desistance. = = = = = START 2019 REPRINT: #Resistance is really #assistance. When you join a protest or a movement, you are joining Deepstate. It doesn’t matter which “side” you think you’re resisting. You are HELPING Deepstate to create chaos. CHAOS IS THE PURPOSE. There are no…
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When they miss
When Deepstate misses, it strengthens the hand of the intended target. Deepstate tried to take out Teddy Roosevelt in the middle of a campaign speech. He said “I believe I’ve been shot” and finished the speech. Tried to take out FDR in a campaign event. A brave local cop and a local woman knocked the…
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Broader thought about narrower thought
Following immediately on the neurological connection of annoyance. Noticed this Chomsky quote in a random selecton of memes. = = = = = START CHOMSKY: The smart way to keep people obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion but allow lively debate within that spectrum, even encourage the more critical and dissident…
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First answer is always right.
When LePen started to show signs of success, my first thought was that Macron is not a stupid bettor. He’s Wall Street. He always has a pair of loaded dice in his palm. Last week when LePen mostly won the first round, I got carried away with the usual false optimism. Turns out the first…
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Possible explanation?
Seems like a lot of old and new falsehoods are being pulled down lately. Right now the silly little myth of Biden’s eternal youth and omnipotence is being knocked down, most likely for nefarious reasons. The lies about the 2020 “virus” are starting to fall away, more gradually and reluctantly, which indicates less nefarious reasons.…
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Not deflowered yet
I started adult life in prison where I was literally and figuratively deflowered. The illusions of “freedom” and “democracy” and “justice” learned in school were stripped away and replaced by reality. Later in the 90s I fell back into neocon illusions. After turning off the TV in 2011, the illusions quickly dropped away and reality…
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The house wins
Macron is Wall Street, so I figured he had a criminal trick up his sleeve. Wall Street is crime. Wall Street is mass murder. Sure enough he did. Most of the “left” and “center” candidates were fake, paid by Wall Street to pose as politicians. Now they’re pulling out of the runoff, leaving France (LePen)…
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Back one level
The best troubleshooting trick is: Step back. Less tersely, if a problem or decision at one level seems to be getting nowhere, go back to the choice above this choice, or the choice before this choice, especially if the next level up is NOT SEEN AS A CHOICE. In programming, when I can’t figure out…
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