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To be completely honest, and risk sharing too damned much, the amount of random (and useful) shit I learn reading your substack is ridiculous. I imagine you ride around on a hover chair, ala MODOK, while considering which piece of Internet knowledge to drop next. (Of course, your work is for good, in some contrast to the aforementioned Marvel supervillain.) Well, pretty sure the Blue Bird still thinks you are a supervillain, going so far as to ban even folks who seem to be cat-related!

ION, it is just too rich, pardon the pun, that rich assholes are supplying the left with fodder to shape their insipid opinions. Wow. Just wow.

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It always was so. Revolutions that destroyed civil order on behalf of "the proletariat" were always started and managed by the wealthy, idle, self-idolizing class.

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Funny how nobody tells that to the student believers. We were told they're the intelligentsia and then our eyes open and we realise they're know-nothing poseurs and really stupid.

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Have a million upvotes for using MODOK in a comment!

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OMG you have to try stockingmillcoffee.com (was on twitter profile) and be sure and try both options ...! You'll be glad you did.

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Check out Patrick Soon-Shiongs daughter Nika. He is the billionaire owner of the LA Times, she went to Stanford and Oxford, worked at the world bank, serves on the West Hollywood city council that defunded the police. The perfect commissar.

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Agree. An amazing story of hubris and hypocrisy.

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You should look at how she helped "run" the LA times before she left to pursue a doctorate. Another perfect candidate for Neville.

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I met some consultants who did work for Soon-Shiongs. He stiffed them, because he can.

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The people of whom the mainstream media is comprised are a reflection of the contemporary Democratic Party’s base: White, affluent, college-educated liberals increasingly untethered from reality.

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...and a MN politician up for re-election this year has TV ads saying she will be "tough on China" despite having 100% voting alignment with Biden's public statements. The Dems still target the working class. Boggles the mind the working class are still hoodwinked.

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Yeah its like John Fetterman in PA, he's a real working class guy because he moved into an utterly depressed neighborhood, became the mayor, didn't do anything to improve anything and now should be a senator. It's almost like everyone in a position of power in the United States had it fall into their lap and are utterly unqualified to be in that position and then they gaslight the public by saying its all our fault and things will get better if we just shut up, do as were told and give up some more freedoms.

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All the while people forget he’s a trust fund baby who lived with his parents and got a 50k “allowance” until he was almost 50! Just your average working class guy….

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Well, you get it. It's always or at least for a very very very long time been this way. The political class goes into 'politics' to make moooola, not help 'people' and they use the cover of 'helping' people to enable the graft and corruption that gets them "their' slice of the pie. The ultra rich elite offspring are idlers, dabblers and no accounts. Yet raised as they have been with wealth and everything they want on a platter = they MUST show some independence and 'rebel' for 'the people's own good' which is of course to aid in their own aggrandizement and power gathering. Has zip all to do with the 'people' or helping others.

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I've never understood it. Never. It would be on the front page of the papers that they read everyday. They'd complain about it, proving they read it. They'd even yell and have fits about it. Yet they'd still give their money, time, and votes to them. It hasn't changed one little bit in 60 years. Their kids vote for it. Their grandkids vote for it. Now, their great-grandkids vote for it. Generations thrown away for communism/socialism/ fascism. And I still think they're idiots.

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That's exactly right Bandid. Nothing can fix that. Some are just born this way and die as such.

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They're too busy working to be able to research the pols who lie with the ease of taking a breath.

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Yes. The pols are coasting on previous decades’ branding of their parties.

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And she just has that cra cra look in her eyes that you would see with psychopaths.

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Many of the working class aren't still hoodwinked, but they feel they have noone to vote for, so they don't vote.

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Or continue to vote for the same crap. --- Not voting isn't the answer. It makes everything stay the same. They're lazy.

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Remember that rich dude, Friedrich Engels? Inherited wealth from daddy industrialist? He kept Karl Marx in bourgeois food and clothing. Well they wrote the original communist manifesto in 1848. Ain’t nothing new under the communist sun.

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indeed.

it's sort of a tailor made ideology to rebel against daddy while simultaneously excusing a failure to achieve and justifying a failure to strive.

stay tuned, you're gonna LOVE tomorrow's piece.

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i remember reading the history of the Weather Underground and how many of those suburban radicals killed and bombed for their own "personal growth" or to rebel against their bourgeois upbringings.

Leftism is (in part) a modern form of atonement ritual for the guilt- and shame-ridden children of the upper crust.

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If one is interested in the character of "Intellectuals" past, one should start with Paul Johnson's work.

Being a disreputable scumbag, it seems, was always the way of these folks.

https://www.amazon.com/Intellectuals-Marx-Tolstoy-Sartre-Chomsky/dp/0061253170

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read that one, i love paul johnson

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Just ordered it.

Thx from posting the link!

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Quite. What they always really wanted was oligarchical communitarianism. Aka rules for thee (and all the wealth) but not for thee.

But hey be happy with nothing.

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I gotta be honest, I wish I could have the level of privacy these evil individuals enjoy.

Not so I could hurt people from behind a mask. I just want privacy. For me.

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Caitlin Johnstone put this best ... The more authority you have, the less privacy you should be able to expect. In our culture, it is the opposite. Transparency and accountability are for little people only.

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Exactly! Remember last year when they were trying to pass a bill that would force banks to notify the IRS of any amount of money over 600 dollars that went into your account or out? What are they so scared of? In a proper working "democracy" we should be able to see that amount going in or out of politicians accounts while they're public servants.

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It's almost like the people who make the rules make sure the rules benefit themsleves.

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No way! You made that up. 😂😂😂

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Hard to imagine, I know!

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"maserati marxism" ... priceless

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Maybach Marxist? (Too obscure)

Lamborghini leftist?

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Good effort. Better than the original? I'm not so sure.

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Nah, not better than the original.

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Love that too

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A few of these (at least) are presumably "assets" though, hence the help with having no footprint. Having an uncle that owns Wayback Machine is a sensible explanation for a limited digital footprint, but to have ...nothing... means CIA or similar 'assets'.

A large number of journalists are assets, look into Operation Mockingbird. And a large number of celebrities and cultural influencers (including people ranging from Harry Houdini to Charles Manson).

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It’s not that it’s easy to be socialist when you’re wealthy. These people are not socialists. They are the brutal ‘media suppression’ wing of the oligarchy. They’re here to deplatform, censor & silence anyone who challenges existing power structures. These people have never, for one fraction of a second, believed in equality, or freedom, or justice, or socialism. They’re here to shut up the people who do.

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Precisely

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I spoke with a older Polish man that moved to North America in the 1970s, He lived under communism prior to that, and had participated as a child in the Warsaw uprising during WW2. I assumed he would be strongly against totalitarianism after witnessing firsthand Nazi and Soviet oppression. Surprisingly he was pro communism and said his life was better in communist Poland than in the capitalist system in Canada. I was gobsmacked and asked him why. He said he had a good life there, his Dad was a professor and his family was part of the "upper class". In communist Poland, his college education was free, health care was free, and he said his wages were just enough to live off of and pay the bare essentials when he graduated college. However in order to have money to go out on weekends to the theatre and restaurants, he needed to buy and sell things on the black market. I told him the reason he had a better quality of life and discretionary income was actually due to capitalism not communism. From the look on his face, I realized he was confused and I explained the black market was creating his better lifestyle, not communism. How he didn't realize that the black market was in fact capitalism astonished me, but it does show the lack of self reflection these people have. It is amazing to me the thought process that rich communists in the west have and how they don't realize where their wealth and better lifestyle actually originates from.

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The fact that the word "market" in the title didn't give him suspicion is an indictment of his paucity of thought.

(Yes, I just wanted to find a way to use the word "paucity" on El Gato's site.)

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You mean pawcity.

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Fascinating anecdote.

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Don't worry, they're already working on the next level of censorship - not just social credit score, but regular credit score too. In other words, tweet whatever you want, but don't expect to get financing anymore. The IMF said so.

https://dystopianliving.substack.com/p/imf-your-opinions-will-affect-your

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Hold your greenbacks till they come for those too!!

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Digital currency for approved transactions only, coming soon to a failed state near you!

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Yep

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thank you for the update on some of these 'journalists'. I don't know any of them because I don't go on social media. Wonder if Stephen colbert is in that row too.

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Yep. Upper-crust family from DC. Went to private schools as a kid and graduated from Northwestern. His family moved to South Carolina when he was young, and his sister Elizabeth Colbert-Busch has run unsuccessfully for office in SC as a Democrat.

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aha ! red handed useless eater there too. Thanks for the update Lex !

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He tried to help his sister with her campaign. Fortunately, South Carolina is still skeptical of blue blood marxists.

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blue handed

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good one!

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This is what being on the wrong side of history looks like.

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Saline I bet.

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Guillotines.

Just gonna leave that there.

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Careful about allocating these. We might need the wood for fireplaces.

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Tallow lanterns. I can show you how.

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There will be plenty of fat on hand that squeamish people won't eat.

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From your profile text, I suspect you've read Robert Anton Wilson.

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It's been quite a while, but yes!

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I forgot where I read it but he told of a college professor who told his students, "I may be bullshitting you inadvertently - or intentionally, so pay attention."

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That's awesome. I didn't have him in mind at the time.

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No need to worry. These days, they can use PVC to make them.

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Heavens no. Too neat.

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So... an apple corer then?

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The flaying would take a little too long. We've got a lot of candidates to get through. Considering that they're all hacks--how about a nice hacking?

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Wood chipper.

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It's remarkable how Fargo really did simplify the concept of a tidy solution.

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Is this kitten cousin cosplay? Holy smokes, I thought I joined so many others with a bad cattitude but now I must split my kitty feelings with nevillethecat. Magnificent!

Since I've been banned on Twatter, I'm sending daily appeals which they love to ignore always with a reference that "Elon is coming." After the twats at Twatter closed out "the case" with not even attempting to offer an excuse for a permanent ban, I just created a new one noting I'm documenting all this by timestamp for Elon. Then I let them know that helps to identify all the parties.

I'm going to win this fight one way or another, come hell or Elon. Free nevilethecat first!

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Way ta be. I like your style

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Remember when Chelsea Clinton worked for NBC or one of the big networks and made millions of dollars and never actually did any reporting? It's like the American banks that would hire the princesses or princelings in China for do nothing jobs to get political access. Or essentially the Clinton Foundation where you can legally bribe the Clintons for favors when they come to power in government. I'm sure this kinda nepotism goes on even to the non princelings. Knowing someone isn't always a bad thing, but that only depends on the character of the people overall and we're very lacking in that department these days.

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I mean remember Jenna Bush? The media painted her as a lush during W's entire two terms and now she hosts a daytime talk show..... no idea why or what qualifications she has.... really only goes to show that you don't need qualifications for those types of jobs? Hunter Biden and Burisma in the Ukraine, guy has no exp. in anything and gets put on the board of a gas company? Uh huh.

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To be fair, judging by the View, being a lush is the ONLY qualification for hosting a daytime talk show.

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McCain's daughter is another one.

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Well done that cat! Really impressive - what a champion!

Over here, the champagne socialists, arch-feminists, and LGBTP+ celebrities and the rest of the dregs and dross of political correctness are nearing critical mass panic.

No, not because they failed to push the Socialist Democrats to another term.

Not because the very real risk of Russia lashing out at its other neighbours.

Not becuse they've spent 25 years pissing on the danes, norwegians, poles and finns calling themnames like misogynist and racist because they aren't woke enough.

No, it's a much simpler reason for their panic.

The criminal gangs have discovered how easy prey they and their families and neighbours are.

On the other hand, there's not a swede outside media/entertaintment or politicis that doesn't know 99 out of 100 journos are so woke and PC those old enough actually cried when the Berlin Wall came down.

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>> made mincemeat of some of their scared cows.

Sacred?

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Dammit, Jim, he's a doctor not a copy-editor! Actually, I don't think anyone knows what he is. Seems like a statistician or somesuch.

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1. just a cat. we can all do this. we mostly just don't.

2. typing with paws is harder than it looks.

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I've heard that everybody wants to be a cat, because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at.

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everyone wants to be cat because we are the only known species that can make lying in a sink look glamorous.

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I have put in my request for my next life. I assume I get to pick my 'owner' ...

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My dad always said he wanted to be reincarnated as a rich man's cat.

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Did you ever see one of the old DataHand keyboards? https://octopup.org/computer/datahand

Now imagine... the DataPaw keyboard.

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DataPaw Keyboard, Shift key sold separately

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Wow! That looks horrible! I guess I'm glad I had the surgery when I did.

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We do know what he is. One of the most erudite, thoughtful, and genuinely funny people writing on Substack.

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💯

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I know they like fixing typos sometimes.

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It's very satisfying

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* inches away from Lex*

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