Tag: Machiavelli
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The basic question
Now ordinary people are free to say that the “virus” panic was a fraud. I’m sure many of them recognized it all along, but kept quiet to survive. Silence is rational when noise is useless. Even the executives who participated in the torture are backing away slowly, blaming and framing others as usual. Our executives…
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Never thought I’d say this…
Quora is a better reading experience than Substack now. Quora hasn’t changed. It’s still a few interesting writers (mostly lawyers!) and a jungle of pointless bot-questions about math and IQ. The pointless bots are easy to spot and ignore. The interesting writers don’t feel obligated to join meaningless disputes. Substack has changed since it introduced…
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Medieval mindset
The medieval mindset is hardass realistic about human nature, especially the nature of demons. Machiavelli wrote it all down in systematic and scientific form so we can read it now, but ordinary peasants were equally realistic. You can hear the realism in religious songs and prayers from the period. They didn’t ask God to Elect…
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Wrong variable
Still in pointless rant mode. Tired of fake outrage and fake surprise over government spying on its citizens, and “warrantless” wiretaps. First: All governments spy on their citizens. Knowing what the people are doing and thinking is a necessary INPUT to government. Feedback loops are necessary for any functional machine. This input used to be…
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How to increase trust
Spokane News posted one of our multiple daily overdose deaths, then added this explanation: Yes, this happens a lot in the area. True, we do not post them all. We posted this as it was called out as a cardiac arrest which calls for a very large response so we post to avoid the area.…
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Good clarifier
Nate Silver, the meta-pollster, writes a great clarifier on the current positions, and the current trends, of political labels. He does an especially good job describing the Woke category. Here he gets close to a major fact about universities but doesn’t see it or doesn’t say it: = = = = = START QUOTE: Social…
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Proves my point
The Christians are bashing the pres of Harvard for doing EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED HER TO DO until right now. Before October they were bashing university presidents for opposing free speech. Now the Harvard pres is supporting free speech as the Christians wanted, but supporting it for people the Christians hate. This idiocy proves my…
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Jefferiad
Jeffrey Tucker writes a proper jeremiad. (Jefferiad?) = = = = = START QUOTE: Such “public health” measures were not even within the range of possibility outside the worst dystopian fiction. And yet it all happened in a flash, all with the assurance that The Science demanded it. None of the institutions on which we…
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Round trip
Suddenly this year, plenty of people who were stoutly defending absolute free speech “rights” have turned into censors. Before October, these “conservatives” had been smashing “liberals” for turning into censors. What makes this particular reversal salient is the round trip. 9/11 turned many “freedom”-loving people into censors against Islam. I was among that crowd. Afterward,…
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Strong point by Batya
I always appreciate Greenwald’s clarity. He’s the only big-time journalist who maintains rigid and precise objectivity about all questions. He has lots of tribal loyalties and biases, but he rigorously separates his private life and private feelings from The News. In this clip he’s talking with Batya and other Jewish activists. All agree that the…
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Off by a hundred years, idiot.
Useless Idiot Taibbi continues to trumpet new “leaks” generously provided to him by Deepstate so he can serve them more effectively. = = = = = START IDIOT: Now, a large trove of new documents, including strategy documents, training videos, presentations, and internal messages, reveal that, in 2019, US and UK military and intelligence contractors…
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Might explain a lot!
Dirty Bubble Media, a bitcoin crime tracker, pulls out a BIG player in the shadowy realms of quasi-Deepstate international intrigue. Christopher Harborne is a Soros-like figure who plays the “other” “side” of the political fence. He started at McKinsey, of course. He then leveraged his consultant connections to start or finance a huge variety of…
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Not the same WE part 2
The overblown love for HUGE ancient cathedrals and castles is stupid and dangerous. It helps the rulers maintain their monopoly on lethal status and lethal force. Here’s another example. Hohenzollern Castle in Germany, on top of a bluff, was built specifically to defend against competing aristocrats and most of all to impress and OPPRESS the…
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Old shared lie
Headline: Hillary Clinton warns against Trump 2024 win: ‘Hitler was duly elected’ Classic example of a Shared Lie. This is a valid argument against Trump. It’s ALSO a valid argument against Hillary. Most importantly, it disproves the entire myth of elections. Machiavelli wrote the book. Rulers still follow the book. For a ruler, elections are…
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The dull explanation
Greenwald interviews a “former” CIA dude who says the CIA killed JFK for failing to go along with Deepstate plans. Glenn does a good job of questioning his premises. Former CIA said “Eisenhower outsourced his foreign policy to the Dulles brothers”, which is patently false from observed reality and from news at the time. Observed…
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