It's being said more and more lately, but I'll say it again, right and left isn't the dividing line; it's supporters of freedom of speech and thought against the budding authoritarians.
Remember Brennan naming libertarians domestic terrorists and Russian agents along with Trump, his supporters and anybody who questioned the narrative? “Putin apologists”. This coming from a corrupt spook who was a registered member of the Communist Party, converted to Islam, a big time China aficionado, antisemite spied on Congress, Senate, journalists, imprisoned James Rosen and was a creator of the Gitmo torture program
Bret Weinstein had a terrific idea for a presidential ticket. One right of center candidate, one left of center, both sworn Patriots.
Years ago, two unlikely senators became very close allies. Thought very different in certain views, both were scrupulously honest, wanted the CIA, Fed abolished, withdrew from the divisive UN, end any further NATO buildup, secure the border, transparency, do not allow Communism a foothold in America and went to Reagan together, pleading that he take responsibility for Iran/Contra
One of them, deemed “ far right”, I still can’t figure out why, vocally called to end the War On Drugs, was pro-choice and very unhappy w/ Reagan’s “ Moral Majority” and Falwell’s presence in Reagan’s admin. He was responsible for rescuing persecuted Jews from the Soviet Union and wasn’t an anti-LGBT zealot. His son was gay.
Tha aforementioned Senator was none other than libertarian Barry Goldwater.
His friend across the aisle was Daniel Patrick Moynihan.An incredibly decent man with an exceptional understanding of the human condition. Both were unfairly smeared and stabbed in the back
Move-on.org sent me a message about giving money requiring masks and vaccine passports for being able to vote in the next election. It would assure Republicans would not vote. See how fast the Democrats will remove masks.
Move On.Org is an authoritarian propaganda tentacle of the globalist elite kleptotechnocratic WEF/UN/NATO/BlackRock/Vanguard/StatStreet NWO Elite psychopaths.I’m trying to wrap my head around the Faustus worship. Have said “ liberals” forgotten they were the ones who exposed Faustus torture, denying the usage of cheap, safe, effective repurposed drugs that would have saved the lives of 17,000 plus AIDS victims? The hysteria, homophobia and false information spread by Fauci,Collins,Gallo,Grady( Fauci’s wife w/Nazi connections), the “Medical Kidnapping” of minority orphans, foster children and disabled wards of state used as human guinea pigs for gruesome experimental AIDS vaccines and excruciating medical experiments. Many were disabled for life, scores died, it was covered up, later exposed and continues to this day. The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Coverup, NC. Lab leaks, fake pandemics, risky research, scapegoating Dr. Steven Hatfill as the Anthrax Killer, using impoverished girls from a remite India village as HPV vaccine guinea pigs w/o the knowledge of India’s government. The girls were left crippled, infertile and many died. Ditto impoverished Africans told they were being vaccinated for smallpox, polio,measles,mumps,TB,
Patent theft, Pharma ties, ruined careers, animal torture. Dr Kary Mullis, PCR test inventor and thirty plus year memos of Fauci who suddenly dropped dead 2,months prior to announcing the Plandemic?
Meanwhile, Dr. Robert Malone, one of the original inventors of the mRNA technology, Dr. Harvey Risch, Dr. Jay Bhattacharaya,,Dr.John Ionnides,Drs Michael Levitt( , Kary Mullis,Luc Montagnier,(Nobel Pize winners) John Ionnides, McCollough,Hatfill,Lapado,Makary, Oz,Drew Pincus, Oskqui, the Chinese whistleblowers are all “ Finge Right Wing White Supremacists”? Most are liberal, several are not white, all are published in multiple top medical periodicals, several were consultants with the NIH, CDC.None are “ anti-vax flat earthers”. They are honorable professionals who take the Hippocratic Oath and Nuremberg Code as inviable doctrine
Because Demos can't get mail in voting, they want No mask, No vax, No vote. They want to perpetuate this nightmare. I think it is as useless attempt at getting money.
A picture is circulating widely today showing Governor Hochul and four other adults standing maskless behind five young children wearing heavy masks. She was announcing that her mask mandates were being extended! Many other Democrats have done this while saying masks are required.
Pseudo-Libertarianism (or better, call it Naive-Libertarianism) is the Trojan Horse Neoliberalism rode in on. The Koch Brothers are called libertarians--they are just fascists in reality. The same is true of the Blue Anon tech bros like Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt and all the rest. All of these people claim to be libertarians But they really mean: "Liberty for me not for thee." They are all essentially authoritarian.
Not trying to be intentionally argumentative, but what parts of the Reason program, exactly, are authoritarian? What positions do they take, specifically, that bug you?
How many times were we warned by great thinkers that this could happen in and to America ? Huxley,Bradbury,Serling,Orwell,Asimov, Welch, Goldwater, Moynihan, Solzhenitsyn,Hesse, Gandhi, Wiesenthal,Kubrick, Styron, Burgess,
I find Reason Magazine Libertarians to be some of the most authoritarian bootlickers on the planet. Then again, I throw up a little bit in my mouth whenever the Neocons at National Review start talking about how they are a "principled" bastion of conservatism and respecting the Constitution.
The difference between a libertarian and an anarchist is that the libertarian thinks that private property is an expression of liberty. And that's why I'm a barbarian.
Bingo. I'm an unreconstructed redneck from Louisiana and I feel far more sympicato with people like Matt T, Russell Brand and Green Greenwald than any of the tired Reaganite/neocon clowns on the so-called "right."
I hate to break it to you, but the neocons are on the authoritarian left now. The world has turned upside down... the "elites" don't care about anything except blind allegiance to whatever will make them more money.
LOL they neocons aren't interested in principles, just power. They will spew anything to get people to go along with them. They were NEVER reading Hayek.
Most of them were originally Marxists. Marxism, in practice, is pretty authoritarian -"dictatorship of the proletariat," really meaning of the Party, and so on.
Your first statement, which sounds so bizarre as to smack of satire, is in fact historically correct. At least as far as the originators of American neoconservatism as a philosophy.
In the second statement, "the proletariat" means "the working class." Which is not the way Soviet Russia, the nations of the Eastern bloc, the People's Republic of China and other Marxist Socialist regime is actually governed. They all adopted Leninism- political rule by "the vanguard" (sometimes ultimately just one person, as with North Korea) that purports to look out for the interests of the workers, the masses. To clarify what you meant by "really meaning the Party", i.e., the vanguard.
In this case, they used "straw man via false binary".
As if the only choices (in an invented, false dichotomy) were Hayek or Marx.
Nice of Matt to point out the clever-but-complete-bullshit techniques they use. Some of them, clever as they may be, are getting awfully tired, and people are widely aware of the bogus nature of the knee-jerk, intellectually vaporous accusations of "racist!" or "transphobe" or "you used a wrong word!! reeee!".
Oh, absolutely. It's their Trotsky DNA reasserting itself. The entire neocon project was gnostic -- "let's inaugurate an end of history utopia of American consumer culture at the point of the bayonet". I can understand why (for example) a manufacturer of military equipment would support that sort of thing, but why anyone ever thought it was "conservative" is completely beyond me.
But they can invariably count on Graham, McConnell, Cheney,,Boot,McCaul,Bolton,French, Jonah Goldberg, Steven Hayes to prop them up. Note the warmongers have no skin in the game. It’s not their kids who are being sent to their ruin.Otherwise they might think twice.This isn’t about Japan attacking Pearl Harbor ( which could have been avoided), the Nazis taking over the west, a nuclearized Soviet Union.. This is our saber rattling and encroachment.It’s also about our sellout to China, now a far more formidable superpower.
The unspoken irony is those cheering for war with Russia on both sides of the aisle are heavily vested in China.And now, Russia and China have partnered
Ah, Enoch. Wise enough to be taken up, like your namesake.
And you point out something valuable, and it needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
The Change which is occurring isn't just the much-ballyhooed phenomenon of lefties leaving the absurdities and meme-generating stupidity of the "Woke" camp, BUT YOU AND ME AND MILLIONS OF EX-RIGHT WINGERS WAKING UP AND FINDING THERE IS NO OTHER CAMP! THERE IS NO "RIGHT SIDE" IN THIS F'ING COUNTRY, not among the Dems, not among the Alt-right, not among the Republicans and not among the CRT/idpol/progressive/woke crowd of lunatics.
I've spent a lot of time being accused of "conservatism" and being a "right-winger" and blahdeblah, funny thing is, in my long life, no one, not one person who knew me, has EVER considered me a conservative. And I have ZERO expectation that the Republican Party will bravely fix the country...but we still have to throw the insane Dems out, because they, in cahoots w/ the MIC, the media, Big Pharma/Oil/Tech/etc. and the wild-eyed looneys of the Idpol Brigade, are trying to implement a police state with them permanently in charge. F. That. We need to throw them out and, and...break their cahoots!
So it's hardly a one-sided departure from the stupid Right/Left, Dem/Repub dichotomy that has lost all usefulness. LOT of ex-liberals and ex-conservatives out here in the real world, and for the sake of my children, and the country and everyone in it, I pray we can wake up and break the paradigm that threatens us.
I liked Goldwater far more than I did Reagan and not a partisan. Unfortunately our government is set up in a way that it’s all or nothing. I despise McConnell, Pelosi, Graham, Schumer, Cheney, Nadler, Schiff, Cornyn , the far left and the far right.
Essentially, if there are individuals on either side of the aisle that I do like, it doesn’t matter, because they are forced to fall in line with the party.In other words, there are no choices, nor is there any truth. Most of our “ elected officials” are clueless in global affairs. They’re uniformed or misinformed and create policies, make decisions based on perceived knowledge and double down on bad decisions.
Exactly what I have conclude. Fundamentally it's the authoritarian mentality against the anti-authoritarian mentality. Unfortunately, it's easier to organize the authoritarians.
Just to expand a bit on your insight of adding the vertical dimension, I tend to think that there is a geometric shape that contains all isms, wings, and nations, yet maintains the absolute power of just a few. This shape is, of course, the pyramid.
If we live, work, and think inside a pyramidal hierarchy—which we mostly all do—we may squabble among ourselves about political, economic, or religious differences, but we remain firmly in our place inside the lower strata of the pyramid. In this model of world-wide organization, it is not left vs right, authoritarian vs libertarian, or (most ridiculously) U.S. vs Russia that matters. It is all of us beneath the top vs those very, very few (rulers, oligarchs, archons, puppeteers, whatever you want to call them) in the vertex. The 99 percent vs the 1 percent estimate reflects this notion of embedded, rigged, and seemingly inescapable geometry of the world order.
I am thinking of "crowdsourcing" in the sense of "the wisdom of crowds" phenomenon in which groups of **independent** thinkers and analysts who combine or average their individual opinions are smarter than the sum of their parts.
Groupthink of course is the opposite effect of each crowd member following the others unthinkingly so that the whole is dumber than the sum of its parts.
But I see your point that one could "crowdsource" cancel culture as well. So maybe "crowdsourcing" isn't the ideal word I'm looking for.
Collectivism. The stuff of tyrannical manipulation. Our system has become a government neither for or by the people. It’s a duopolous Uniparty punctuated by polar extremes working against”We The People”.To survive as a nation,we deserve better than a choice between which we hate less.
There is no transparency, only edicts scripted behind closed doors. Each day I see laws adopted by states where the issues were not made public.Who are the people behind them? When I approach people from different walks of life, spanning the racial, cultural, economic and ideological spectrum, nobody can answer. They were never asked for input.
As per the trucker protests, I do support their cause, but question the venues accepting the donations.
Ditto the super pacs. If I’m donating to a specific political candidate, it’s because I’m supporting the candidate, not a community pot.Not Act Blue or Act Red, not a scam like CrowsSource who then decides to shift the funds elsewhere. Not to be used as a mechanism to shut down the cause I’m standing with.
So you'll be able to speak your mind in the back of the R250 NSA jumbo detainee bus on your way to the gulag. A shot fired for the 1st amendment, ex post facto.
The Liberal Borg Cube is TERRIFIED. The population is no longer acting like dogs in a Pavlovian experiment. People like Russell scare the World Economic Forum's Borg Cube because he's an actual liberal who believes in freedom of thought and free expression, in contrast to the terrible slogans and empty platitudes used by the Borgs to subvert any kind of nuanced discussion or honest conversations.
At this point, the oligarchy and their technocratic elite’s blindness has reached biblical proportion, almost guaranteeing that they have sown the seeds of their destruction (at least for now). Because they view human beings like beasts to be herded, controlled by threats of punishment and reward, pain and pleasure, the human response to tyranny, typified by the Canadian truckers, has come as a genuine surprise, so much so that the Canadian Prime minister was whisked away after declaring the Canadian Freedom Convoy a “fringe minority” only a few days earlier. As “fringes” become majorities and once unknown individuals become world-leaders, so “the last will be first and the first will be last.”
Yes hahahaha. They really are Borgs. It’s pretty funny. In Canada we have Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland (a very crafty and high-level borg with many portfolios), in the US Psaki, Jake Sullivan, all the Rhodes scholars populating Biden’s admin, and KAmala, they really have a Borg thing going on. It’s kind of funny. Once people see through the platitudes and their careful study of human behaviour, and see how they just can’t quite get it, it just goes to show, these are not smart people, they just have a playbook. They’re keying off behavioural science and such, but they have zero interest in truth, they couldn’t care less, they’re just trying to assimilate their enemies.
Thats’s pretty much it. They don’t have any real goals or purpose lol.
Fair enough. I guess I should qualify that. Their purpose is to preserve their power and enslave people. However, if we're getting metaphysical here, I don't think that's a purpose in life, it's the opposite. They are so out of touch with their humanity, their own creative abilities, so they just behave like Borgs reading from a script, doing what they see as necessary to destroy and assimilate their enemies.
I don't consider that an actual purpose, in human terms. As Augustine would put it, evil is not a some thing, it's the opposite, it's the absence of something, of that thing that makes one human and good. They just have none of it. Hence, their only talents are lying, subversion, and deception.
AND a goal they can see almost within their grasp...𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. Locked-in rule by the self-anointed elite, an American version of the WEF/Davos global dream. This is why they are so desperate to pass that "Voting Rights" bill...no ID validation, non-citizens voting, oh they want it sooo bad.
And they have to have it before the mid-terms. If they can't pass it, I fully expect some kind of "emergency" to justify a push to "delay" the election.
That will be the signal for a real revolution, because they'll be in power, desperate, with no legitimate options.
The 18-wheeler hoedown being staged in Ottawa (and soon to debut in many major U.S. metropolitan statistical areas) is an astroturf campaign conceived and underwritten by the very same "oligarchy" and "technocratic elite" you so confidently deride. You know this, too, you devil you.
"Blindness?" The "beasts" have already been herded, Gosselin---and accordingly every eukaryote and prokaryote and everything else nailed down and not nailed down and upon which a price tag can be affixed is on the balance sheet of these lords and ladies, the result of a very arduous but focused 50-year cattle-drive executed by a field of thousands through stealth and public propaganda campaigns.
"Freedom of thought and free expression." "Terrible slogans." "The human response to tyranny." "Sown the seeds of their destruction." You're already sounding like the most prolix and followed agitator at Gulag #9. The "fringes" have always been the "majorities." They've also have lacked capital and power and we know what that will get you and what it won't get you---maybe a song written about you if you buy the right bag of peanuts in the right time zone from the right vendor...
But then you people have been unnecessarily cranky ever since Uncle Lyndon (Larouche) passed through and into the netherworld, no doubt simultaneously cultivating and irritating the leading ghouls and vampires of THAT realm. Always at the ready to summarize the "peanut gallery," always unable to bead the right fix.
Your response has a Borg-like quality to it. What direction do you want the discussion to go in with a comment like that? It seems like the only possible purpose a comment like that has is to obfuscate and divert. It's definitely not making much sense otherwise.
The truckers are astroturfed? And what, the Canadian government is just trying to restore order lool?
Again, you sound like a Borg. You've studied human behavior and tried to imitate it, but unfortunately for you, you didn't quite get it.
To anybody who has put in 15 minutes of research of who you are, who you work with, who your sponsors and paymasters are, who are well aware of the obviousness of their sympathies and network loyalties, my post makes perfect sense.
"What direction do you want the discussion to go in with a comment like that?"
Now that you have posed the question, anywhere away from your facile bullshit and 3rd-rate propaganda.
So far 78,792 people have donated to the FreedomConvoy2022. I did not know that there are so many people in the "oligarchy" and "technocratic elite"!
Also, the average donation is about $90. That certainly is BIG MONEY!
Thank you for correcting my ignorance.
Given the rate of donations, we should have 150,000 people by the end of the week in your categories, and the US government will decide that Social Security should be capped at $90 a month since that is real WEALTH!
That’s really not proof of some ‘revolt against the oligarchy’ by itself, though. Hillary had over half-a-million small donors that netted her over $105,000,000 in campaign funds, and she was “of the oligarchy.”
I said nothing about "donations." But then you know this. If I organize a car wash, fund it, and later set up a fund-raising mechanism in conjunction is both logical and, while linked, is a separate action. Come on, it's a common feature of the Authoritarian/Libertarian far-right grift. Now, I KNOW you know this...
If you had researched Gosselin as I have, this would make perfect sense. And you're one of the less obtuse commenters here---but obtuse you still are. And Canadian.
I vaguely remember seeing you post comments elsewhere that were somewhat to the point. Your comment here, on the other hand, reads like you snorted an 8-ball of coke and then tried to do an impression of a particularly pretentious freshman polisci major.
My comment was very much to the point. You simply are too far out of range of the real point to see it, let alone discern it. You need fresh coordinates. Everybody here does.
Emphasis on "particularly pretentious". Replete with obscure (of course) renaissance painting for an avatar. My guess is he might have gone Piero, if not for the expose about 5 years ago - too well known now, so up with Bartolomeo.
Then again, if he's claiming the surname, Lucrezia, perhaps he's just an Italian. I think that name would come from the latin word, lucrum, meaning wealth. This would add a funny context to his diatribe to Gosselin.
Don't be lazy. Lucrezia, and her place in history, is easily googled and researched. In the original Latin connotation Lucrezia meant "success," which was later translated into "wealth" in renaissance Italy. Always amusing to stumble across a mook who throws up the arms and cries "pretentious." At the risk of again sounding pretentious: go fuck yourself.
e. pierce then rises from his lounger and changes the channel or adjusts the volume---manually. Though the remote sits at arm’s length, certainly within his reach, on the end table, he prefers exercising the body via a perfunctory lunge, an ambulatory crawl, relishing the tactile sensation offered by the knobs and dials.
Collectively these are more than throwback gestures, acts of defiance (though they are these too); they are an abject repudiation of, and rebellion against, machines, gadgets, objects with numbers. It is a silent almost pagan-like protest. A vain attempt, perhaps, to counter the prevailing ethos of technopoly. pierce then wipes his nose and silently makes a note of this.
e. pierce a child of Cicero? Is pierce a registered democrat despite being, philosophically speaking, a republican? pierce is demonstrably indifferent to all oaths of homage, and keeps only jesters, dogs and falcons.
Explains a jester in pierce's employ: "He's a fairly easy audience. Sometimes I'll deliver a short monologue after work and before dinner. He often writes the material himself. He really enjoys hearing his own material performed. When he's a bit blue, usually late at night, I'll perform a Danse Macabre with a sort of ironic twist. Seems to boost his spirits somewhat. A brief respite from all the eugenic problems. All in all, nothing too fancy, he prefers the old forms..."
Most of the time. Occasionally it’s followed with” are great”.😜Unless coming from the MSM or the once Democrat Party, now the Cult Of Death. Once they crossed the line by openly wishing death upon anybody daring to differ with their mantra of misery, they showed their true selves, karma be damned.
Generally speaking I agree, but in this instance I think that it's more than suitable---it almost constitutes a polite gesture---to refer to the followers, supplicants and sycophants of Lyndon Larouche as "you people."
Justin Trudeau and his parents are ardent supporters of tyranny. Castro, Mao, Stalin… they couldn’t get enough. It is incredibly bizarre once very common knowledge. It’s now the common tents of the Democrat Party. You don’t hear much from the GOP, either. But Tucker cut right to the chase.The Bush Cartel was big into Mao, the Nazis and Fauci as well.. The Carter’s, Pelosi, Willie Brown, Jerry Brown,Guggenheims, Getty, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations were the largest sponsors of Jim Jones People’s Temple and helped make Jonestown in Guyana possible. It was promoted as a “ Utopian Socialist Multiracial Agragrarian Society”. They were forbidden from having children and if a pregnancy occurred, the mother was forced to abort. Are you seeing a pattern? BLM, Antifa, AOC, the far left, Fauci, Gates, Soros,Bloomberg, Schwab, Xi, the bizarre metastasis of Europe’s childless leaders, the encouragement of gay, lesbian, trans, pronoun obsessed ,CRT public school, military and inter-agency indoctrination. It has NOTHING to do with anti-racism or LGBT tolerance and awareness. It is about population control, the destruction of the nuclear family and diminishing reproduction. Most of my black and LGBTQ friends are well aware of aware of what’s driving the narrative. Many adore children, adopt or have children via surrogates and heterosexual friends they trust..The big push for transgenderism is sterility, not compassion. It is a travesty. Ditto the.mRNA vaccine technology’s dirty little secret.
Chimeric animal to animal creation and human/animal embryos now progressing to fetuses and hybrids. China has created primate pig cross species, humanized pigs, but the most awful is the insertion of primate brain tissue into human fetal tissue. The very real fear is if successful, it can cause a mutation where the human brain will be devoid of humanity, resulting in an easily controlled transhuman serfdom. Fauci is engaged in this ghoulish Faustian , Mengelian Island of Dr. Moreau
It's being said more and more lately, but I'll say it again, right and left isn't the dividing line; it's supporters of freedom of speech and thought against the budding authoritarians.
Libertarians vs. Authoritarians. Same as it ever was.
Remember Brennan naming libertarians domestic terrorists and Russian agents along with Trump, his supporters and anybody who questioned the narrative? “Putin apologists”. This coming from a corrupt spook who was a registered member of the Communist Party, converted to Islam, a big time China aficionado, antisemite spied on Congress, Senate, journalists, imprisoned James Rosen and was a creator of the Gitmo torture program
Hell, we Ron Paulers have been domestic terrorists since '08, IIRC. Something about "firm belief in the Constitution".
At this point, if you're not on a list, you're doing America wrong.
Bret Weinstein had a terrific idea for a presidential ticket. One right of center candidate, one left of center, both sworn Patriots.
Years ago, two unlikely senators became very close allies. Thought very different in certain views, both were scrupulously honest, wanted the CIA, Fed abolished, withdrew from the divisive UN, end any further NATO buildup, secure the border, transparency, do not allow Communism a foothold in America and went to Reagan together, pleading that he take responsibility for Iran/Contra
One of them, deemed “ far right”, I still can’t figure out why, vocally called to end the War On Drugs, was pro-choice and very unhappy w/ Reagan’s “ Moral Majority” and Falwell’s presence in Reagan’s admin. He was responsible for rescuing persecuted Jews from the Soviet Union and wasn’t an anti-LGBT zealot. His son was gay.
Tha aforementioned Senator was none other than libertarian Barry Goldwater.
His friend across the aisle was Daniel Patrick Moynihan.An incredibly decent man with an exceptional understanding of the human condition. Both were unfairly smeared and stabbed in the back
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Move-on.org sent me a message about giving money requiring masks and vaccine passports for being able to vote in the next election. It would assure Republicans would not vote. See how fast the Democrats will remove masks.
Move On.Org is an authoritarian propaganda tentacle of the globalist elite kleptotechnocratic WEF/UN/NATO/BlackRock/Vanguard/StatStreet NWO Elite psychopaths.I’m trying to wrap my head around the Faustus worship. Have said “ liberals” forgotten they were the ones who exposed Faustus torture, denying the usage of cheap, safe, effective repurposed drugs that would have saved the lives of 17,000 plus AIDS victims? The hysteria, homophobia and false information spread by Fauci,Collins,Gallo,Grady( Fauci’s wife w/Nazi connections), the “Medical Kidnapping” of minority orphans, foster children and disabled wards of state used as human guinea pigs for gruesome experimental AIDS vaccines and excruciating medical experiments. Many were disabled for life, scores died, it was covered up, later exposed and continues to this day. The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Coverup, NC. Lab leaks, fake pandemics, risky research, scapegoating Dr. Steven Hatfill as the Anthrax Killer, using impoverished girls from a remite India village as HPV vaccine guinea pigs w/o the knowledge of India’s government. The girls were left crippled, infertile and many died. Ditto impoverished Africans told they were being vaccinated for smallpox, polio,measles,mumps,TB,
Patent theft, Pharma ties, ruined careers, animal torture. Dr Kary Mullis, PCR test inventor and thirty plus year memos of Fauci who suddenly dropped dead 2,months prior to announcing the Plandemic?
Meanwhile, Dr. Robert Malone, one of the original inventors of the mRNA technology, Dr. Harvey Risch, Dr. Jay Bhattacharaya,,Dr.John Ionnides,Drs Michael Levitt( , Kary Mullis,Luc Montagnier,(Nobel Pize winners) John Ionnides, McCollough,Hatfill,Lapado,Makary, Oz,Drew Pincus, Oskqui, the Chinese whistleblowers are all “ Finge Right Wing White Supremacists”? Most are liberal, several are not white, all are published in multiple top medical periodicals, several were consultants with the NIH, CDC.None are “ anti-vax flat earthers”. They are honorable professionals who take the Hippocratic Oath and Nuremberg Code as inviable doctrine
Because Demos can't get mail in voting, they want No mask, No vax, No vote. They want to perpetuate this nightmare. I think it is as useless attempt at getting money.
A picture is circulating widely today showing Governor Hochul and four other adults standing maskless behind five young children wearing heavy masks. She was announcing that her mask mandates were being extended! Many other Democrats have done this while saying masks are required.
Are these people TRYING to look like pedophiles?
Talking Heads. (with nice hair) Same as they always were.
Lyric update needed: "I've changed my hair color, so many times now, don't know if it's pink, green, or blue"
Truly, this ain't no party.
Look where my hand was.
I saw them live few times back in early 80s. Good times.
Or in the case of Brian Stelter, no hair at all. But hey, he has a lovely complexion. Wonder how much time he spends every day on his skin regime.
Potato skin matters
Glad someone finally noted this. :-)
Pseudo-Libertarianism (or better, call it Naive-Libertarianism) is the Trojan Horse Neoliberalism rode in on. The Koch Brothers are called libertarians--they are just fascists in reality. The same is true of the Blue Anon tech bros like Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt and all the rest. All of these people claim to be libertarians But they really mean: "Liberty for me not for thee." They are all essentially authoritarian.
Reason 'libertarians' is what we call them. They're all for the freedom to do what helps them, but are violently against any other freedom.
Reason Libertarian actually sounds quite reasonable, can’t you numbskulls come up with a better naming system
Somebody doesn't understand the sarcastic quotes denoting that we are mocking the so-called libertarians who are instead authoritarians.
Not trying to be intentionally argumentative, but what parts of the Reason program, exactly, are authoritarian? What positions do they take, specifically, that bug you?
Perhaps crony libertarians is the correct term?
The authoritarians will throw you in the camps just the same.
If the entire world is a camp, they don't have to throw you in. They just have to keep you in.
Touche’!
How many times were we warned by great thinkers that this could happen in and to America ? Huxley,Bradbury,Serling,Orwell,Asimov, Welch, Goldwater, Moynihan, Solzhenitsyn,Hesse, Gandhi, Wiesenthal,Kubrick, Styron, Burgess,
Right, but surely it couldn't happen. And in America!
And the Titanic was unsinkable
Of course not. Just like “I’ll still love you in the morning” and the Twin Towers are still standing.
I'm not your mother or anything, but you might wanna join up with the libertarians then.
I find Reason Magazine Libertarians to be some of the most authoritarian bootlickers on the planet. Then again, I throw up a little bit in my mouth whenever the Neocons at National Review start talking about how they are a "principled" bastion of conservatism and respecting the Constitution.
The difference between a libertarian and an anarchist is that the libertarian thinks that private property is an expression of liberty. And that's why I'm a barbarian.
Bingo. I'm an unreconstructed redneck from Louisiana and I feel far more sympicato with people like Matt T, Russell Brand and Green Greenwald than any of the tired Reaganite/neocon clowns on the so-called "right."
I hate to break it to you, but the neocons are on the authoritarian left now. The world has turned upside down... the "elites" don't care about anything except blind allegiance to whatever will make them more money.
So the neocons are reading Marx now instead of Hayek? Interesting.
LOL they neocons aren't interested in principles, just power. They will spew anything to get people to go along with them. They were NEVER reading Hayek.
Well, they always were -- or Trotsky, at least.
Haha. That’s cute.
Everyone know Necons can’t read.
Most of them were originally Marxists. Marxism, in practice, is pretty authoritarian -"dictatorship of the proletariat," really meaning of the Party, and so on.
Your first statement, which sounds so bizarre as to smack of satire, is in fact historically correct. At least as far as the originators of American neoconservatism as a philosophy.
In the second statement, "the proletariat" means "the working class." Which is not the way Soviet Russia, the nations of the Eastern bloc, the People's Republic of China and other Marxist Socialist regime is actually governed. They all adopted Leninism- political rule by "the vanguard" (sometimes ultimately just one person, as with North Korea) that purports to look out for the interests of the workers, the masses. To clarify what you meant by "really meaning the Party", i.e., the vanguard.
In this case, they used "straw man via false binary".
As if the only choices (in an invented, false dichotomy) were Hayek or Marx.
Nice of Matt to point out the clever-but-complete-bullshit techniques they use. Some of them, clever as they may be, are getting awfully tired, and people are widely aware of the bogus nature of the knee-jerk, intellectually vaporous accusations of "racist!" or "transphobe" or "you used a wrong word!! reeee!".
Dave Portnoy called out one of the Meidas boy's wives for using the N-word. Beautiful.
Oh, absolutely. It's their Trotsky DNA reasserting itself. The entire neocon project was gnostic -- "let's inaugurate an end of history utopia of American consumer culture at the point of the bayonet". I can understand why (for example) a manufacturer of military equipment would support that sort of thing, but why anyone ever thought it was "conservative" is completely beyond me.
But they can invariably count on Graham, McConnell, Cheney,,Boot,McCaul,Bolton,French, Jonah Goldberg, Steven Hayes to prop them up. Note the warmongers have no skin in the game. It’s not their kids who are being sent to their ruin.Otherwise they might think twice.This isn’t about Japan attacking Pearl Harbor ( which could have been avoided), the Nazis taking over the west, a nuclearized Soviet Union.. This is our saber rattling and encroachment.It’s also about our sellout to China, now a far more formidable superpower.
The unspoken irony is those cheering for war with Russia on both sides of the aisle are heavily vested in China.And now, Russia and China have partnered
Ah, Enoch. Wise enough to be taken up, like your namesake.
And you point out something valuable, and it needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
The Change which is occurring isn't just the much-ballyhooed phenomenon of lefties leaving the absurdities and meme-generating stupidity of the "Woke" camp, BUT YOU AND ME AND MILLIONS OF EX-RIGHT WINGERS WAKING UP AND FINDING THERE IS NO OTHER CAMP! THERE IS NO "RIGHT SIDE" IN THIS F'ING COUNTRY, not among the Dems, not among the Alt-right, not among the Republicans and not among the CRT/idpol/progressive/woke crowd of lunatics.
I've spent a lot of time being accused of "conservatism" and being a "right-winger" and blahdeblah, funny thing is, in my long life, no one, not one person who knew me, has EVER considered me a conservative. And I have ZERO expectation that the Republican Party will bravely fix the country...but we still have to throw the insane Dems out, because they, in cahoots w/ the MIC, the media, Big Pharma/Oil/Tech/etc. and the wild-eyed looneys of the Idpol Brigade, are trying to implement a police state with them permanently in charge. F. That. We need to throw them out and, and...break their cahoots!
So it's hardly a one-sided departure from the stupid Right/Left, Dem/Repub dichotomy that has lost all usefulness. LOT of ex-liberals and ex-conservatives out here in the real world, and for the sake of my children, and the country and everyone in it, I pray we can wake up and break the paradigm that threatens us.
It’ll break itself. You just gotta figure out what to build outta the pieces.
I liked Goldwater far more than I did Reagan and not a partisan. Unfortunately our government is set up in a way that it’s all or nothing. I despise McConnell, Pelosi, Graham, Schumer, Cheney, Nadler, Schiff, Cornyn , the far left and the far right.
Essentially, if there are individuals on either side of the aisle that I do like, it doesn’t matter, because they are forced to fall in line with the party.In other words, there are no choices, nor is there any truth. Most of our “ elected officials” are clueless in global affairs. They’re uniformed or misinformed and create policies, make decisions based on perceived knowledge and double down on bad decisions.
Exactly what I have conclude. Fundamentally it's the authoritarian mentality against the anti-authoritarian mentality. Unfortunately, it's easier to organize the authoritarians.
Yup, good luck herding the cats...
You can try a bowl of milk. Now and then they will lick each other's fur. But that's as good as you're going to get in terms of cooperation.
Living through the hundred year war over the size of government made it easy to forget that freedom/authoritarianism is, in fact, the forever war.
Right vs left is a false axis. The truer axis is perpendicular to that, mathematically independent, and that is tyranny vs liberty.
Just to expand a bit on your insight of adding the vertical dimension, I tend to think that there is a geometric shape that contains all isms, wings, and nations, yet maintains the absolute power of just a few. This shape is, of course, the pyramid.
If we live, work, and think inside a pyramidal hierarchy—which we mostly all do—we may squabble among ourselves about political, economic, or religious differences, but we remain firmly in our place inside the lower strata of the pyramid. In this model of world-wide organization, it is not left vs right, authoritarian vs libertarian, or (most ridiculously) U.S. vs Russia that matters. It is all of us beneath the top vs those very, very few (rulers, oligarchs, archons, puppeteers, whatever you want to call them) in the vertex. The 99 percent vs the 1 percent estimate reflects this notion of embedded, rigged, and seemingly inescapable geometry of the world order.
And yet it is obvious that a lot of people support the pyramid. If they didn't, it wouldn't exist.
I agree with your geometry regarding power, but the Cartesian system I described is more appropriate for ideology / political views.
And the governments are all tyranny.
The purple empire has one party.
populists vs. elites - not necessarily a painless choice.
I think the current dichotomy is mostly a conflict between the groupthinkers vs. the crowdsourcers.
Please elaborate; I basically see cancel culture as crowdsourced authoritarianism.
I am thinking of "crowdsourcing" in the sense of "the wisdom of crowds" phenomenon in which groups of **independent** thinkers and analysts who combine or average their individual opinions are smarter than the sum of their parts.
Groupthink of course is the opposite effect of each crowd member following the others unthinkingly so that the whole is dumber than the sum of its parts.
But I see your point that one could "crowdsource" cancel culture as well. So maybe "crowdsourcing" isn't the ideal word I'm looking for.
Nah by your definitions (which I love) cancel culture is groupthinking authoritarianism.
It’s really the epitome of groupthink.
Collectivism. The stuff of tyrannical manipulation. Our system has become a government neither for or by the people. It’s a duopolous Uniparty punctuated by polar extremes working against”We The People”.To survive as a nation,we deserve better than a choice between which we hate less.
There is no transparency, only edicts scripted behind closed doors. Each day I see laws adopted by states where the issues were not made public.Who are the people behind them? When I approach people from different walks of life, spanning the racial, cultural, economic and ideological spectrum, nobody can answer. They were never asked for input.
As per the trucker protests, I do support their cause, but question the venues accepting the donations.
Ditto the super pacs. If I’m donating to a specific political candidate, it’s because I’m supporting the candidate, not a community pot.Not Act Blue or Act Red, not a scam like CrowsSource who then decides to shift the funds elsewhere. Not to be used as a mechanism to shut down the cause I’m standing with.
Mass Formation
Those terms are (and have always been) pseudonyms for "right-wing" and "left-wing".
Spot on!
So you'll be able to speak your mind in the back of the R250 NSA jumbo detainee bus on your way to the gulag. A shot fired for the 1st amendment, ex post facto.
That’s better than the alternative.
Stop screaming. Be more funny. Think laconically.
The Liberal Borg Cube is TERRIFIED. The population is no longer acting like dogs in a Pavlovian experiment. People like Russell scare the World Economic Forum's Borg Cube because he's an actual liberal who believes in freedom of thought and free expression, in contrast to the terrible slogans and empty platitudes used by the Borgs to subvert any kind of nuanced discussion or honest conversations.
At this point, the oligarchy and their technocratic elite’s blindness has reached biblical proportion, almost guaranteeing that they have sown the seeds of their destruction (at least for now). Because they view human beings like beasts to be herded, controlled by threats of punishment and reward, pain and pleasure, the human response to tyranny, typified by the Canadian truckers, has come as a genuine surprise, so much so that the Canadian Prime minister was whisked away after declaring the Canadian Freedom Convoy a “fringe minority” only a few days earlier. As “fringes” become majorities and once unknown individuals become world-leaders, so “the last will be first and the first will be last.”
“Liberal Borg Cube is TERRIFIED.” Love this. Great visual.
The BORG were my favorite nemesis in Star Trek. So certain in their "perfection." Perfect analogy.
Yes hahahaha. They really are Borgs. It’s pretty funny. In Canada we have Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland (a very crafty and high-level borg with many portfolios), in the US Psaki, Jake Sullivan, all the Rhodes scholars populating Biden’s admin, and KAmala, they really have a Borg thing going on. It’s kind of funny. Once people see through the platitudes and their careful study of human behaviour, and see how they just can’t quite get it, it just goes to show, these are not smart people, they just have a playbook. They’re keying off behavioural science and such, but they have zero interest in truth, they couldn’t care less, they’re just trying to assimilate their enemies.
Thats’s pretty much it. They don’t have any real goals or purpose lol.
Oh, they have real goals and purpose... obscene levels of wealth and power.
Fair enough. I guess I should qualify that. Their purpose is to preserve their power and enslave people. However, if we're getting metaphysical here, I don't think that's a purpose in life, it's the opposite. They are so out of touch with their humanity, their own creative abilities, so they just behave like Borgs reading from a script, doing what they see as necessary to destroy and assimilate their enemies.
I don't consider that an actual purpose, in human terms. As Augustine would put it, evil is not a some thing, it's the opposite, it's the absence of something, of that thing that makes one human and good. They just have none of it. Hence, their only talents are lying, subversion, and deception.
AND a goal they can see almost within their grasp...𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. Locked-in rule by the self-anointed elite, an American version of the WEF/Davos global dream. This is why they are so desperate to pass that "Voting Rights" bill...no ID validation, non-citizens voting, oh they want it sooo bad.
And they have to have it before the mid-terms. If they can't pass it, I fully expect some kind of "emergency" to justify a push to "delay" the election.
That will be the signal for a real revolution, because they'll be in power, desperate, with no legitimate options.
Leftists Borg. Nothing liberal about this cabal.
The 18-wheeler hoedown being staged in Ottawa (and soon to debut in many major U.S. metropolitan statistical areas) is an astroturf campaign conceived and underwritten by the very same "oligarchy" and "technocratic elite" you so confidently deride. You know this, too, you devil you.
"Blindness?" The "beasts" have already been herded, Gosselin---and accordingly every eukaryote and prokaryote and everything else nailed down and not nailed down and upon which a price tag can be affixed is on the balance sheet of these lords and ladies, the result of a very arduous but focused 50-year cattle-drive executed by a field of thousands through stealth and public propaganda campaigns.
"Freedom of thought and free expression." "Terrible slogans." "The human response to tyranny." "Sown the seeds of their destruction." You're already sounding like the most prolix and followed agitator at Gulag #9. The "fringes" have always been the "majorities." They've also have lacked capital and power and we know what that will get you and what it won't get you---maybe a song written about you if you buy the right bag of peanuts in the right time zone from the right vendor...
But then you people have been unnecessarily cranky ever since Uncle Lyndon (Larouche) passed through and into the netherworld, no doubt simultaneously cultivating and irritating the leading ghouls and vampires of THAT realm. Always at the ready to summarize the "peanut gallery," always unable to bead the right fix.
Your response has a Borg-like quality to it. What direction do you want the discussion to go in with a comment like that? It seems like the only possible purpose a comment like that has is to obfuscate and divert. It's definitely not making much sense otherwise.
The truckers are astroturfed? And what, the Canadian government is just trying to restore order lool?
Again, you sound like a Borg. You've studied human behavior and tried to imitate it, but unfortunately for you, you didn't quite get it.
Nice try.
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To anybody who has put in 15 minutes of research of who you are, who you work with, who your sponsors and paymasters are, who are well aware of the obviousness of their sympathies and network loyalties, my post makes perfect sense.
"What direction do you want the discussion to go in with a comment like that?"
Now that you have posed the question, anywhere away from your facile bullshit and 3rd-rate propaganda.
Are you saying you don’t like my poetry?
You win best laugh of the night. This whole thread has me cracking up! Nicely done.
So far 78,792 people have donated to the FreedomConvoy2022. I did not know that there are so many people in the "oligarchy" and "technocratic elite"!
Also, the average donation is about $90. That certainly is BIG MONEY!
Thank you for correcting my ignorance.
Given the rate of donations, we should have 150,000 people by the end of the week in your categories, and the US government will decide that Social Security should be capped at $90 a month since that is real WEALTH!
That’s really not proof of some ‘revolt against the oligarchy’ by itself, though. Hillary had over half-a-million small donors that netted her over $105,000,000 in campaign funds, and she was “of the oligarchy.”
I said nothing about "donations." But then you know this. If I organize a car wash, fund it, and later set up a fund-raising mechanism in conjunction is both logical and, while linked, is a separate action. Come on, it's a common feature of the Authoritarian/Libertarian far-right grift. Now, I KNOW you know this...
Personally, I prefer arugula salad to word salad, but maybe that's just me.
If you had researched Gosselin as I have, this would make perfect sense. And you're one of the less obtuse commenters here---but obtuse you still are. And Canadian.
I vaguely remember seeing you post comments elsewhere that were somewhat to the point. Your comment here, on the other hand, reads like you snorted an 8-ball of coke and then tried to do an impression of a particularly pretentious freshman polisci major.
My comment was very much to the point. You simply are too far out of range of the real point to see it, let alone discern it. You need fresh coordinates. Everybody here does.
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” - Albert Einstein
Maybe try making the same point again, as you would to a young child...or a golden retriever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqTMMqRQQ9k&t=18s
Emphasis on "particularly pretentious". Replete with obscure (of course) renaissance painting for an avatar. My guess is he might have gone Piero, if not for the expose about 5 years ago - too well known now, so up with Bartolomeo.
Then again, if he's claiming the surname, Lucrezia, perhaps he's just an Italian. I think that name would come from the latin word, lucrum, meaning wealth. This would add a funny context to his diatribe to Gosselin.
Don't be lazy. Lucrezia, and her place in history, is easily googled and researched. In the original Latin connotation Lucrezia meant "success," which was later translated into "wealth" in renaissance Italy. Always amusing to stumble across a mook who throws up the arms and cries "pretentious." At the risk of again sounding pretentious: go fuck yourself.
e. pierce then rises from his lounger and changes the channel or adjusts the volume---manually. Though the remote sits at arm’s length, certainly within his reach, on the end table, he prefers exercising the body via a perfunctory lunge, an ambulatory crawl, relishing the tactile sensation offered by the knobs and dials.
Collectively these are more than throwback gestures, acts of defiance (though they are these too); they are an abject repudiation of, and rebellion against, machines, gadgets, objects with numbers. It is a silent almost pagan-like protest. A vain attempt, perhaps, to counter the prevailing ethos of technopoly. pierce then wipes his nose and silently makes a note of this.
e. pierce a child of Cicero? Is pierce a registered democrat despite being, philosophically speaking, a republican? pierce is demonstrably indifferent to all oaths of homage, and keeps only jesters, dogs and falcons.
Explains a jester in pierce's employ: "He's a fairly easy audience. Sometimes I'll deliver a short monologue after work and before dinner. He often writes the material himself. He really enjoys hearing his own material performed. When he's a bit blue, usually late at night, I'll perform a Danse Macabre with a sort of ironic twist. Seems to boost his spirits somewhat. A brief respite from all the eugenic problems. All in all, nothing too fancy, he prefers the old forms..."
How about a Waldorf one? From the Fawlty Towers :-)
Any time a sentence contains the words, "you people"... what follows is always hate.
Most of the time. Occasionally it’s followed with” are great”.😜Unless coming from the MSM or the once Democrat Party, now the Cult Of Death. Once they crossed the line by openly wishing death upon anybody daring to differ with their mantra of misery, they showed their true selves, karma be damned.
Generally speaking I agree, but in this instance I think that it's more than suitable---it almost constitutes a polite gesture---to refer to the followers, supplicants and sycophants of Lyndon Larouche as "you people."
Whatever makes you feel better about yourself…
You people are alright in my book.
;)
Justin Trudeau and his parents are ardent supporters of tyranny. Castro, Mao, Stalin… they couldn’t get enough. It is incredibly bizarre once very common knowledge. It’s now the common tents of the Democrat Party. You don’t hear much from the GOP, either. But Tucker cut right to the chase.The Bush Cartel was big into Mao, the Nazis and Fauci as well.. The Carter’s, Pelosi, Willie Brown, Jerry Brown,Guggenheims, Getty, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations were the largest sponsors of Jim Jones People’s Temple and helped make Jonestown in Guyana possible. It was promoted as a “ Utopian Socialist Multiracial Agragrarian Society”. They were forbidden from having children and if a pregnancy occurred, the mother was forced to abort. Are you seeing a pattern? BLM, Antifa, AOC, the far left, Fauci, Gates, Soros,Bloomberg, Schwab, Xi, the bizarre metastasis of Europe’s childless leaders, the encouragement of gay, lesbian, trans, pronoun obsessed ,CRT public school, military and inter-agency indoctrination. It has NOTHING to do with anti-racism or LGBT tolerance and awareness. It is about population control, the destruction of the nuclear family and diminishing reproduction. Most of my black and LGBTQ friends are well aware of aware of what’s driving the narrative. Many adore children, adopt or have children via surrogates and heterosexual friends they trust..The big push for transgenderism is sterility, not compassion. It is a travesty. Ditto the.mRNA vaccine technology’s dirty little secret.
Chimeric animal to animal creation and human/animal embryos now progressing to fetuses and hybrids. China has created primate pig cross species, humanized pigs, but the most awful is the insertion of primate brain tissue into human fetal tissue. The very real fear is if successful, it can cause a mutation where the human brain will be devoid of humanity, resulting in an easily controlled transhuman serfdom. Fauci is engaged in this ghoulish Faustian , Mengelian Island of Dr. Moreau
Welp, you and lucrezia certainly deserve each other.
I'm not into that sort of thing.
I could have said you and e.pierce deserve each other, but.....nobody deserves that.