After 40 years, most people were catching on that "trickle down" economics and "prosperity gospel" were outright grifts that preyed upon the gullible. The power elite needed something new, I suppose?
After 40 years, most people were catching on that "trickle down" economics and "prosperity gospel" were outright grifts that preyed upon the gullible. The power elite needed something new, I suppose?
Do I ever wonder if socially-isolated software engineers are the ones who REALLY know what's going on in the larger world?
Nope.
answer that's coming wrote:
"But a hundred thixty thouthand dead!!!!," they lisped
Could you expand on your outdated insult?
Mods: "This homophobic slur is just veiled enough for us to leave it up. Geez, thanks Obama."
its just a mask wrote:
https://youtu.be/KcOk1Au6xWA
Thanks for posting the video.
No doubt
Asdfasd wrote:
No. But it sure would be a bold strategy to destroy an entire state budget as a "test".
You may have noticed that the richest billionaires have done very well during the lock-downs.
And think of all the businesses and properties the rich are going to get for pennies on the dollar.
And how our freedom of assembly and free speech rights have been gutted.
jamin wrote:
Precious Roy wrote:
Societies where people are willing to make individual sacrifices for the greater good (whether through democratic choice or autocratic orders) is a society that will win out over societies where individual wants and needs are given supremacy.
hahahahaha ?
Yeah, history is filled with all those lovely autocratic societies that flourished. Probably expected from someone with a handle of Precious.
jamin wrote:
Serious question
there are much easier ways to test this. Look at Trump's polling numbers for example. He's only dropped a few percentage points since election despite his term in office being a flaming dumpster fire and him blatantly lying and distorting the facts at every term. Why would we need more evidence than this? The fact that large portions of our population still think this is all some global hoax to discredit Donald Trump tells you all you need to know.
Why on earth would there need to run a 180+ country conspiracy that has decimated economies and cost lives to test this theory when it can be shown in a tweet? the president tweeted out a "White Power!" video and it barely even phased his support. So either 40% of the US is completely comfortable supporting a white supremacist President, or are completely guiliable and complacent and will go along with whatever he says. Choose your split.
jamin wrote:
Precious Roy wrote:
Societies where people are willing to make individual sacrifices for the greater good (whether through democratic choice or autocratic orders) is a society that will win out over societies where individual wants and needs are given supremacy.
hahahahaha ?
says someone who has hardly spent any extended time outside of his own country. I mean really, what is the basis for you laughter?....you have no experience to speak from.
I voted “nope” but my comment was deleted.
Seems odd.
Let me try again: Nope.
Who is controlling this test your wonder about?
Repeater wrote:
Who is controlling this test your wonder about?
Bill Gates.
Timmy Treadwell wrote:
Repeater wrote:
Who is controlling this test your wonder about?
Bill Gates.
And who is controlling Bill Gates?
party like it's 1859 wrote:
Timmy Treadwell wrote:
Bill Gates.
And who is controlling Bill Gates?
The Trilateral Commission.
try some ointment wrote:
jamin wrote:
hahahahaha ?
says someone who has hardly spent any extended time outside of his own country. I mean really, what is the basis for you laughter?....you have no experience to speak from.
You guys know that jamin never engages in discussion right? He starts threads and then sits and watches. "hahahahaha" is a lot more than his usual followup, which is nothing, but still a nothing.
No point in replying to him.
This sure is a unique pandemic- isolated to certain areas and certain demographics.
As an aside as far as deaths as a percentage of total populations where does this one rate in the 24 pandemics listed since the year 350? Which one rates 24th?
What year did the WHO change it's definition of "pandemic?"
The Unkle wrote:
Asdfasd wrote:
No. But it sure would be a bold strategy to destroy an entire state budget as a "test".
You may have noticed that the richest billionaires have done very well during the lock-downs.
And think of all the businesses and properties the rich are going to get for pennies on the dollar.
And how our freedom of assembly and free speech rights have been gutted.
Shhhh- you're losing focus here. Gotta keep our eyes on the other hand.
Bra-ket wrote:
It's not a test. They know how much control they have over society, and it's quite a lot. This project has been ongoing since the end of WWII (See Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow). Everything about our politics and our media landscape is set up to maximize the information gained from feedback (See Weiner, Cybernetics) so as to keep things how they are.
They want you to think that it's a test. They really want you to talk about how you think it's a test. They really really want you to get others talking about how it's a test. You're falling right into their trap. The system is designed to make you think that you think freely, to make you think that you are rebelling in some way when really you give it more information and strengthen it. As time goes on it will only get better at convincing us that we rebel. Look at the BLM demonstrations this time around - how many more people participated? It definitely seems more revolutionary than it was after Ferguson but has any change come (no and it won't)? It will just strengthen the capacity of the system to respond to something like that (just look at how quickly Capital picked up the BLM movement)!
Sure, some things have changed since the end of WWII - but those things are just aesthetic, like different skins on a video game character. We live in the same world where our "job" is to make money and spend it on things to keep neoliberal globalism afloat - in other words, to consume.
This project is called the End of History by academics, Humanity 2.0 by Alex Jones, and the human instrumentality project by the cast of Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's the thing that characterizes the time we live in.
The most vile thing about it is that I can tell you about it and you'll say 'damn, that's crazy what do we do?' My only response is 'I don't know'. There probably won't be a revolution, no one will 'start a new society', maybe Yarvin's 'new' idea of detachment will provide us with some guidance on how to proceed (I doubt it). Perhaps the most likely outcome is some sort of societal collapse, a descent to the Vichian age of gods and chaos. This would probably just be the equivalent to getting to point at which the Ouroboros swallows his own tail - just another, more vicious position on the same endless cycle. For now, we've arrived in the near future and there's no going back.
A passage that I almost immediately memorized upon first reading it in GR sums this up nicely - "Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the chances for freedom are over for good. The word has ceased to have meaning."
Who are "They"?
Jam, this whole dance of "trolling" just to get people to respond is quite sad to me.
If you are creating these threads so you can smugly sit back and enjoy how successfully you've fueled the discussion you want to hear, you can stop. You are pouring the same gasoline on the same, ever-dwindling fire every day. The same posters respond every time.
You are not a master social media manipulator, you are a sad man who gets their kicks from making 60+ year old men get all frothy and post under multiple aliases. That is a pathetic dynamic all the way around. Always disgusting to open one of your threads for this reason. I just wanted to make it clear that we see you.
Repeater wrote:
And who is controlling Bill Gates?
No one.
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