Tag: Mutual Benefit Societies
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Breaking Westphalia
Continuing the theme of pathological abstraction. Northern rebellion and Southern secession, written in 1904 by Ewing, answers and verifies several of my long-running questions. Ewing covers the Kansas terrorists in fine detail, verifying my historical and personal conclusions. Ewing also looks closely at the process of federation in 1776. He finds that the 13 colonies…
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Why the new breed is new
I’ve been watching the new breed of journalists formed by the Sammy trial. These two clips from Carly lead to an observation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58HsLyBam-s Here she’s discussing Sammy’s parents and their failed attempt to manufacture political victories. Carly was finance director for Andrew Yang’s campaign in 2020, so she knows how to run a campaign. When…
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Doing what GUILDS are meant to do
The Writers Guild has published their new contract. The section on AI is exemplary. = = = = = START QUOTE: AI can’t write or rewrite literary material, and AI-generated material will not be considered source material under the MBA, meaning that AI-generated material can’t be used to undermine a writer’s credit or separated rights.…
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Recognize the tanh point.
Outrage! The Miss Universe pageant goes all the way on Woke. First, this is NOT NEW. The big beauty pageants stopped competing for real beauty and other human qualities a LONG TIME ago. Second, the same thing has happened in other forms of competition from athletics to spelling bees to casinos to business. Third, why…
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Headline better than article
An interesting headline: Oral tradition is not corrupted over time. I tried reading the article, but it’s written like a catechism and seems to be splitting fine logical points. The headline itself is worth expanding. We’re accustomed to outsourcing our memory to written words. We don’t have the experience of maintaining a text through speech…
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Poor assumption
This writer has some interesting details of digital journalism, but he starts from the assumption that “news” and “investigative journalism” are intrinsically valuable products that NEED to be made, whether profitable or not. Bad assumption. Nobody actually needs “news” as it’s commonly formed. We could use prior warning of incoming weather and demonic government projects…
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Nobody’s ever said it?
RFK appeared with Kim Iversen, and rather oddly discussed the firing of Carlson: “It’s kind of shocking that they threw him off. He was saying things that nobody has ever said on TV before. He was talking about advertisers dictating content — pharmaceutical advertisers getting newscasters on the networks to say things about vaccines that…
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Better example
Random train of thought, returning to a not quite random location… Noticed that bitcoin gang leader Do Kwon was finally arrested in Montenegro. This is the least famous bit of the former Yugoslavia. The other little Balkan countries have made the news often. We started a war between Serbia and Croatia and Bosnia and Kosovo…
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Guarangoddamnteed.
Kirn writes: Sensibility colonies are forming. They are not organized but magnetized. They’re purely voluntary. You know when you’re in one. You don’t sell out your fellows. You allow for all sorts of differences & when you can aid one another, you do. No one speaks for all. No other rules. The sellout part is…
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We know where the goddamn philosophers are.
I’ve often asked WHERE ARE THE GODDAMN PHILOSOPHERS? Well, it’s a dumb question. Philosophers are spokesmen for psychopaths. That’s where they are. Unsurprising: Sammy was always a criminal. Professional criminals are born, not made. More salient: When Sammy set up his criminal empire in 2018, he brought along Philosopher MacAskill to provide Gangster Ethics. MacAskill…
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Reprint from a year ago
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. This was one year ago but feels like only one month. Nothing has changed except that the “independents” are now totally magnetized by Gaia through Gaia’s High Priest RFK Jr. = = = = = START REPRINT: Still watching all the “independents” falling into line like passive iron filings…
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Still chewing on this….
I’ve been trying to untangle the two factions of opposition to the “virus” tyranny. I was never bothered much by vax. It’s the ONLY part of this monstrosity that belongs in real medicine and real public health, and the ONLY part that may actually work against a real virus if there is one. Taking one…
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They don’t make em…
A NYC writer observes Sammy’s arraignment: An uncomfortable-looking SBF pleaded not guilty to all charges. He was seen chewing the corners of his mouth throughout the 30-minute hearing and smearing on lip balm, which he squeezed out of a little black tube. Last night I was listening to a 1950 Mutual newscast including a parallel…
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WW∫D?
Interesting question in the Buttcoin reddit. Rather than admit defeat and reveal that they were running a ponzi, they simply gave away your assets and added more leverage to the system in an attempt to hide the deficit. At this time an ethical person with morals would have said “I’m sorry, I didn’t realise what…
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Another converger
Last week I noted that Batya had been unusually silent for a while. Now she pops up again, joining her fellow fake “independents” in total convergence to Deepstate. The old bait-n-switch game, also known as Pied Piper. Unsurprising but disappointing. She was advancing an important set of principles about the proper role of journalism. Now…
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