I'll bet my experience was common. I got suspended for making fun of how Meryl Streep had referred to Harvey Weinstein as "God". Yes, I'm serious. I got suspended.
Then a short whle later I got suspended for calling Gavin Newsom a "sport". Yes, that's the achingly hateful, dangerous to democracy term I used. Then I got suspended at the beginning of the covid hysteria, for repeatedly reporting the number of covid deaths in the county where I live.
I also noticed that up till I had about 1,000 followers, if I posted a clever tweet or reply I'd get a bunch more followers. After that, nothing I did would move the needle. I wasn't desperate for twitter notoriety but it was pretty obvious that twitter was pretty destperate to keep anyone with a perspective different from theirs from getting noticed. Just one of the many false things about twitter.
Another was the fake followings of mainstream media dullards. 3rd string media figures would supposedly have 300,000 followers but when they posted a tweet they'd get 11 responses or something like that, numbers incongruous with the scope of their supposed following. Take away the bots from people like Brian Stelter and they'd have fewer followers than some lady in Dubuqe who does unusual origami.
They never quite kicked me off twitter so officialy I'm probably still counted as a user. It was just impossible to actually use the site.
If Elon is successful in eliminating them, at a stroke the fake followings of media figures and influencers will be stripped away. It will be obvious to everyone that no one likes them or cares what they have to say.
I'm don't know what Musk will do if he succeeds in taking over Twitter. I'm not even sure that's what he is really after. Study Musk and you see he is very good at drawing attention and making money. He's not been a champion of free speech or "conservative principles" overtly, up until now. He has more in common with the tech establishment he now appears to buck than he has differences, at least in his past. He built Tesla on political correctness of EVs over actual environmental science. Brilliant in so many ways, including as a showman, salesman, and perhaps next as a politician.
Will Twitter under Musk become the open, tolerant free speech platform so many seem to fear? The wild wild west of the internet (like the internet truly was when he made his first 22 million)? Will it become Musk's private podium ala Bloomberg? I don't know. But I'm sure it will be entertaining to watch.
It doesn't even need to be fair. They'll still have uncontested control over a multibillion dollar global legacy media apparatus, for starters.
Their problem is that their Great Narrative is so obviously false in every particular that anything less than total suppression of counter-arguments leaves their narrative battleships open to being sunk by meme torpedos fired by swarming armadas of pirate anons piloting repurposed fishing vessels crewed by unpaid volunteers and held together with duct tape and chicken wire.
The covid DECEIT has drained your soul. I pray my kids will always posses healthy skepticism now and never accept things at face value without doing their own research. I’m 50 and astonished daily at the (naive) trust I used to put in government institutions and doctors. Look at the bright side, now we know. For all of Trump’s faults, the swamp is real as is fake news.
Always look at the bright side. It really is a big deal that all our eyes are wide open because a problem can't be fixed unless you see it. Now we see it. I was never politically active but I'm starting to be: you don't have to be the candidate, just support the person who is like minded anyway you can.
Don't let the current situation drain you. I'll repeat one of my favourite quotes ever (from the eugyppius substack): 'don't do their job for them by despairing of an end'.
I feel the same way. Especially knowing that colleges are mandating BOOSTERS on our young adults who are easily swayed via social media and celebrities/influencers. Sigh...I'm exhausted from walking on a tight rope, cautiously approaching my 19 y.o. with kernels of truth without attacking what she believes are legitimate sources of information (i.e. NYT, other msm, CDC and "the experts"). My only comfort is that she will file for a non-medical exemption (to C19 vax) for the fall term. However, the threat of digital IDs with their vax/medical records, continued travel restrictions and the prospect of weekly PCR testing in college will only make like so unbearable that she may give in. God help us.
He didn’t. But to be fair, the swamp has been entrenched for 20 plus years, perhaps longer by others’ estimations of up to 60 years. A President has to work with the current bureaucrats to some extent to get things to happen.
Remember how the White House had to do some “remodeling” after Trump took office? This wasn’t redecorating-it was removing spyware/technology left by a previous administration purportedly. If even the White House was “weaponized” how much do you think one President can do in 4 years?
When I was in public radio, my first news director wrote a letter of recommendation for me and prominent in his praises was "has a healthy distrust of all politicians"
If it makes you feel any better, I've been a pessimistic political dissident with intractable trust issues for pretty much my entire adult life, and the for me as well plandemic has been a spiritual drain like none I've ever experienced.
It does go back decades. George Gammon has a good video where he relays the history of the WEF, Club of Rome etc. It's about 30 minutes of worthwhile viewing. I didn't really know who Malthusians were until I saw this explained.
Au contraire I think it has shined a light into how pervasive the rot is--and not in a way they wanted. They are on the run and it's like the last furlong of a horse race in that we're about to see exactly who has what. If we go down (and it is entirely possible) then we go down. At least the bullshit is going to be swept aside.
Maybe I should be more specific in that I was trusting of the medical community. I am a physician and felt that for the most part physicians were trying to do good. I’m way more skeptical now.
Doc despite many years of "evolution" in a larger, cultural sense there is still a large faction of the human spirit that is corralled by primordial, tribal instincts--avarice, fear of abandonment, groupthink and massive, unrelenting guilt to name a few. Covid exposed this, clearly, for those sensitive enough (like you) to see it. Try to think of it as a gift for awareness always is.
If it had not been for the mass censorship of the Internet, the scamdemic would never have been successful, Trump would still be president because the election theft would never have been possible, Hunter and very probably Joe Biden would very likely be in jail or at the very least nowhere to be found in local politics, and just in general the whole Sand Castle of Babel the WEFites have built would have been washed away by the tides of truth and popular discontent.
This is existential for these lying shitbirds and they know it better than anyone.
Not exactly correct. True, perhaps, for the US, but how about Japan, where I live? How about the rest of the world? Twitter is (Was?) an important tool of those behind this, but the is much more afoot here. The scamdemic is a worldwide problem.
I live in SA, and I feel like the term "state capture" was coined here after the Guptas collusion with the ruling party under JZuma. They effectively infiltrated all organs of state and I was often amazed (almost in awe) at how well they chose which pies to have fingers in. And having had that - the world has been captured and two years of covid has shown the extent for those who are willing to see.
You're both right TS and John. There is more afoot here, it is very coordinated but social media censorship is a tool that has driven the agenda far.
I posted the video above, I think it's a good description of what is going on in the world so I post again. Probably more nuanced still, but I think the basics are covered.
I don't think there was a transcript of the video. Basics are:
The WEF was based on the Club of Rome and follows the thinking of Thomas Malthus (malthusians) who wrote a paper outlining their belief:
- that the earth has limited resources, e.g. energy and that once the resources run out, we're done. they have to manage this so that their lifestyles are not impacted.
- they therefore want 'us' poor, less populous and controlled so that we cannot compete with them for the earth's limited resources. thus, inflation by design and control of our lives.
- capitalism (a la Milton Friedman) offers innovation and competition as a way to solve the problem of limited resources, something that the Davos elites/malthusians don't accept.
I think I've covered the key points, it's a good video, perhaps you'll get a chance to view it sometime.
The video ends with a clip of Milton Friedman's speech to (I think) the Club of Rome) somewhat mocking their 'limited resources' paper. His point is that capitalism has always found a solution and sorted things out. I tend to agree. Human ingenuity truly has no bounds, it only requires some space. I tend to be optimistic. I've become a fan of Jordan Peterson as well. He's stated many times that 'no one EVER gets away with anything'. He's very adamant about this and says he has seen this 100% in his practice.
We shall see. Just do what you can and don't loose hope, have faith in God the source of ALL good solutions!
A problem can't be solved until it's identified and right now, there are more and more people identifying it. I guarantee you that there aren't too many people who will embrace poverty in order to keep the rulers (or would be rulers) in the lap of luxury!
I'll also quote eugyppius 'don't do their job for them by despairing of an end', this has become one of my favourite mottos!
Sadly, that impression is wrong. The new school year has just started, My medical school and affiliated nursing school are all online agitating this year. I am the only unmasked o person at my two schools holding in person instruction. They have just started fascinating kids here and already talking about the 4th shot for those over a certain age, 12 I think. Went into Tokyo today. Apart from my one reflection here and there, saw not a single unmasked person.
Well, the Japanese are a famously conformist people, and masking has been common there for quite some time.
Regarding the V, I was under the impression that the Japanese government wasn't making it mandatory. Is that mistaken? The Japanese are generally extremely conservative when it comes to medical treatments.
No, but yes. You are correct in that there are no governmental mandates. The Government here has said that while they would like to impose mandates, they lack the legal authority to do so. So, they make “recommendations” only. However, as the intent is clear, the recommendations are basically mandates. Employers impose them. Schools impose them. Businesses impose them upon their employees and occasionally their customers.
My wife has not been into her office since early February 2020 except for 3 times. Each time was to get her company provided vaccine. It is 3 minutes until midnight here and she is still working, the barrier between work time and family time long since erased.
One of my employers, a vocational school for medical technicians, demanded that I wear a mask for online classes I taught online. I didn’t. Not a fun time. We have had many camp site reservations cancelled due to covid panic. Everything has been cancelled for the past two years. We are starting on the third year of cancellations as this Spring’s festivals were also cancelled. While some things have opened back up, preregistering is required to prevent over crowding, masks as required and in some cases three faccine shots or 3 days of negative testing. I am supposed to be taking my temperature at least daily and recording it in case one of my employers asks for it. If they do, I’ll tell them to go fauci themselves. It is a dystopian hell here.
That's completely insane but nothing you've said there really surprises me at all.
To get back to the original issue - what's the online speech situation? If I know my Japs social pressure is enough to keep them in line, no explicit state or corporate censorship required. They also tend to look to the West for cues on a lot of things; the censorship over here likely has knock on effects over there. Thoughts?
The only reason that the Jap govt did not impose "mandates" was because they knew the Japs will comply with their "recommendations". Why use force and anger some people when recommendations do the same job?
The same in other countries which did not have mandates: because people complied massively.
Thank you for sharing that. It gives us more of an idea about the reality of it. God knows, the "pictures" we're getting are so distorted and smudged that there are only vague ideas we can go by in assessing what's what.
Re: “I’m pretending to move to Canada tantrum,” ummmm … don’t-even-think-about-it. We do not want you. There are already waaa-aaay too many of you in Canada as it is. Mercy!!
I’m 7 miles away from Wisconsin. Gas is 50 cents a gallon cheaper. I always escaped to Wisconsin from Illinois because of Governor Co-morbidity and because nobody masked there much. Freedom.
🤣 A CAN-AM DMZ 5,250 miles long, 25 miles wide, with DJT walls on both sides. Lotsa room to grow plants ‘n bugs. We could be super nice and install electric car charging stations every 20 miles.
I hope this is a good thing. I say that because I really don't know much about the man but an article today in the National Post claimed that Roger Stone is coming to Canada to help out with a political party in Ontario's upcoming election. It's one of the new parties that seems to be anti narrative.
I miss you on Twitter but I do agree with the commentator who said they like you in this long form substack more. I love how you take multiple subjects and tie them all together in a nicely packaged big picture.
Yes. Part of the problem on Twitter and Facebook is the inability to expound on ideas without producing long tweet threads. Being silly is fun, but we need essays for a reason.
I hope you (and I) are reinstated! People are making new accounts but I'd rather wait and see if the banned are unbanned ... give it a little bit rather than starting from zero again. Fingers crossed!
Not just that. What about the record of all the shadow bans that were done to a person’s communications secretly, so that someone thought their posts were going out, but Twitter was preventing them from being actually seen? Like that self-satisfied dweeb from Twitter was smugly explaining to the Project Veritas “date” who videotaped him.
Bad cat, I read you every day but don't comment often. Just wanted to say that your combination of true intellectual brilliance, self-confident, unflappable feline snark, peerless memeage, concern for your fellow man (fellow cats?), and incredible perseverance and hard work have been, and continue to be, a beacon through these weird and dark times. A thousand thank yous. This kitten loves you and will always be grateful for how you walked us through this.❤
We have all been hijacked by our amygdalas (reptilian brains) since Mar 2020. Your reptilian overlord is your own amygdala lording it over your frontal lobes (seat of rationality). Icke is right, the lizard people are running the world, he just doesn't realise yet that they are our own personal lizards within our own brains.
Interesting viewpoint, not sure if the meme was intended to go that deep. But, your fear theory doesn't explain those of us that stayed rational and saw through the covid nonsense right from the beginning. The only fear I have had throughout the past 2 years is of state overreach and the increasing restriction of freedoms of the individual.
They didn't happen to hit the relevant emotional nerve, perhaps. Or some of us have learned throughout life that the harder they push you to be afraid, the more important it is to look at all the facts dispassionately, because the reason you insist on abject terror in lieu of open discussion is because if people are permitted to think about it for five minutes, they might find out you are full of shit.
Well, I wonder if the left progressives could perhaps take over another country, kind of like what Putin is doing.... they could have a few spots in South America. Venezuela for one. They keep wanting to change the US but really..... really. Start your own country with your crummy ideas and totalitarianism.
The "move to ______ if you don't like it" is a horrible idea, though I suppose this is intended a joke. Quite seriously, why should any country, including Venezuela, have to suffer rule by communist idiots like these? It was an extremely free and wealthy country in the 90s. Let's think bigger. Nobody should be moving anywhere to be free, let alone further enslaved.
I'm moving to Mars, if Elon will have me. When I say this out loud, people reply "Ron, it's a bit late for you to be moving back home, especially since your ma is dead, have you forgotten."
Democrats aren't left, nor are they progressive. They're the faux-left wing of the corporate uniparty. They co-opted the term "progressive" because it was popular and that is one of the many ways they keep the real left out of power.
I happen to be a actual left progressive, as are many/most on the WayOfTheBern subreddit, which is constantly under attack from DNC trolls and brigades for the crime of allowing Trump supporters to talk and questioning Democrat party narratives/refusing to vote blue no matter who. There were calls for us to be banned from reddit, esp after they shut down TheDonald and we created a special thread just for them to use until reddit reinstated them. We were also featured in the WaPo as a "Russuan" disinformation front--an accusation still made by various DNC trolls.
Seriously, the only people the DNC hates and fears more than Trumpers are actual progressives.
When the labels are dissolved and we speak freely across the fence with a policy focus, the "left" and "right" down here on the ground have a lot in common on the big issues like free speech and censorship, even if we disagree on other issues.
No one cares about Truth Social, because they know it will die as a Trump echo chamber. Making Twitter an even playing field and not the voice of the insane 3% is causing the collective festival of barfs. Bring. It. On.
Why Truth Social has not succeeded is because the value lies in the subscriber base, with its collective body of work, and not in the platform, which is easily emulated. A competitor to Netflix without content is not a competitor at all. Elon had the wit to recognise this.
The bit they missed is that 230 already does not apply to any censored social media platform. If the service owners want to be indemnified for all that their users post, they must not curate or censor the content. If they do, they are no longer common carriers but are in fact publications, to which 230 does not apply. They must provide an open forum to everyone to be exempt from liability, and they don't. The "new" Twitter will be the only major social media service that is still protected under 230. The rest of them, like old Twitter, are liable. All it takes is for someone to notice this and bring suit.
Agree, but it would most likely get thrown out due to “lack of standing”. That seems to be how the gov. deals with problems it does not want to get published.
With covid, they could hide behind credentialism and the high priests of The Science. With Twittergate, that's not an option. The ideas of free speech and censorship are accessible to everyone - no credentials, no statistics, no microbiology, just everyday life. A party with "no rules and total freedom for everybody" is every party. Who hires armed guards to enforce fairness at the punch bowl?
What can they say? "lol are you an epidemiologist now?" doesn't really translate into "lol are you a... human being living in a society now?"
There's been at least a decade of, essentially, elevating and celebrating the voices of people who in any sane world would have been recognized as mentally ill, and they are the tech industry workforce. They earn their livings creating imaginary societies and they've been extremely successful, so far, in bending the minds of the younger generation to their will. "Journalists" in their 30s and 40s are terrified of being not-in-the-know and excluded from what they think, yeah, are the best parties so they've comformed themselves to the new requirements for citizenry in that very strange country.
Hilarious that someone as batshit crazy as Elon is gonna turn this all to right.
I'm not active on Twitter but I'm loving the energy this has created. All the right people are upset and the popcorn tastes delicious.
I am mining salt and sprinkling it liberally on the popcorn.
I have not paid much attention to twitter or tweets, until now. Musk has made it more interesting to watch.
Be careful with the soy butter tears... because: soy.
I'll bet my experience was common. I got suspended for making fun of how Meryl Streep had referred to Harvey Weinstein as "God". Yes, I'm serious. I got suspended.
Then a short whle later I got suspended for calling Gavin Newsom a "sport". Yes, that's the achingly hateful, dangerous to democracy term I used. Then I got suspended at the beginning of the covid hysteria, for repeatedly reporting the number of covid deaths in the county where I live.
I also noticed that up till I had about 1,000 followers, if I posted a clever tweet or reply I'd get a bunch more followers. After that, nothing I did would move the needle. I wasn't desperate for twitter notoriety but it was pretty obvious that twitter was pretty destperate to keep anyone with a perspective different from theirs from getting noticed. Just one of the many false things about twitter.
Another was the fake followings of mainstream media dullards. 3rd string media figures would supposedly have 300,000 followers but when they posted a tweet they'd get 11 responses or something like that, numbers incongruous with the scope of their supposed following. Take away the bots from people like Brian Stelter and they'd have fewer followers than some lady in Dubuqe who does unusual origami.
They never quite kicked me off twitter so officialy I'm probably still counted as a user. It was just impossible to actually use the site.
That point about bots is a very important one.
If Elon is successful in eliminating them, at a stroke the fake followings of media figures and influencers will be stripped away. It will be obvious to everyone that no one likes them or cares what they have to say.
And that will be that for their influence.
I'm don't know what Musk will do if he succeeds in taking over Twitter. I'm not even sure that's what he is really after. Study Musk and you see he is very good at drawing attention and making money. He's not been a champion of free speech or "conservative principles" overtly, up until now. He has more in common with the tech establishment he now appears to buck than he has differences, at least in his past. He built Tesla on political correctness of EVs over actual environmental science. Brilliant in so many ways, including as a showman, salesman, and perhaps next as a politician.
Will Twitter under Musk become the open, tolerant free speech platform so many seem to fear? The wild wild west of the internet (like the internet truly was when he made his first 22 million)? Will it become Musk's private podium ala Bloomberg? I don't know. But I'm sure it will be entertaining to watch.
“...they know how much trouble they are in in a world played fair.” This. You’re over the target. 🎯
It doesn't even need to be fair. They'll still have uncontested control over a multibillion dollar global legacy media apparatus, for starters.
Their problem is that their Great Narrative is so obviously false in every particular that anything less than total suppression of counter-arguments leaves their narrative battleships open to being sunk by meme torpedos fired by swarming armadas of pirate anons piloting repurposed fishing vessels crewed by unpaid volunteers and held together with duct tape and chicken wire.
It's like Stalingrad, where lone (mostly women) snipers won the day against a juggernaut. Hail to the Russians for saving our ass. Oops.
Great analogy.
I used to be a very positive and trusting person. Covid has literally drained my soul. I pray this is a sign of a few good things to come.
The covid DECEIT has drained your soul. I pray my kids will always posses healthy skepticism now and never accept things at face value without doing their own research. I’m 50 and astonished daily at the (naive) trust I used to put in government institutions and doctors. Look at the bright side, now we know. For all of Trump’s faults, the swamp is real as is fake news.
Always look at the bright side. It really is a big deal that all our eyes are wide open because a problem can't be fixed unless you see it. Now we see it. I was never politically active but I'm starting to be: you don't have to be the candidate, just support the person who is like minded anyway you can.
Don't let the current situation drain you. I'll repeat one of my favourite quotes ever (from the eugyppius substack): 'don't do their job for them by despairing of an end'.
I feel the same way. Especially knowing that colleges are mandating BOOSTERS on our young adults who are easily swayed via social media and celebrities/influencers. Sigh...I'm exhausted from walking on a tight rope, cautiously approaching my 19 y.o. with kernels of truth without attacking what she believes are legitimate sources of information (i.e. NYT, other msm, CDC and "the experts"). My only comfort is that she will file for a non-medical exemption (to C19 vax) for the fall term. However, the threat of digital IDs with their vax/medical records, continued travel restrictions and the prospect of weekly PCR testing in college will only make like so unbearable that she may give in. God help us.
Send her to Hillsdale.
Don't pay for her college unless she doesn't get vx, etc. If can't go to college if not vx, she would be better off not attending college.
Mick's suggestion sounds good.
He didn't exactly drain it now, did he?
He didn’t. But to be fair, the swamp has been entrenched for 20 plus years, perhaps longer by others’ estimations of up to 60 years. A President has to work with the current bureaucrats to some extent to get things to happen.
Remember how the White House had to do some “remodeling” after Trump took office? This wasn’t redecorating-it was removing spyware/technology left by a previous administration purportedly. If even the White House was “weaponized” how much do you think one President can do in 4 years?
When I was in public radio, my first news director wrote a letter of recommendation for me and prominent in his praises was "has a healthy distrust of all politicians"
I still wear that like a badge or a shield.
Here, here! I am in the same boat. Now my skeptical meter, already high to begin with, is at maximum power….
If it makes you feel any better, I've been a pessimistic political dissident with intractable trust issues for pretty much my entire adult life, and the for me as well plandemic has been a spiritual drain like none I've ever experienced.
Panicdemic, not plandemic. The battle lines are drawn. May the best man win.
I like the neologism, but Event 201 and a trail of globalist white papers stretching back over a decade argue pretty strongly for a plan.
It does go back decades. George Gammon has a good video where he relays the history of the WEF, Club of Rome etc. It's about 30 minutes of worthwhile viewing. I didn't really know who Malthusians were until I saw this explained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LAFlQ7csc8
As a perk, there is a good picture of Justin Trudeau and his father about half way in. You decide.
Oh the evidence regarding Castreau's paternity is more than a little compelling.
And indeed, the WEFites are merely the most recent form of an antihuman cult that goes back a very long time.
Castro was Hispanic. Seeing pix of his parents, probably 100% Hispanic. An Hispanic cannot genetically have a blue eyed offspring.
But Maggie Trudeau was not hispanic...
First time I saw Event 201 I was blown away.
Au contraire I think it has shined a light into how pervasive the rot is--and not in a way they wanted. They are on the run and it's like the last furlong of a horse race in that we're about to see exactly who has what. If we go down (and it is entirely possible) then we go down. At least the bullshit is going to be swept aside.
Maybe just a blue pill. or is it a white pill. or a gold pill? so confused
Maybe I should be more specific in that I was trusting of the medical community. I am a physician and felt that for the most part physicians were trying to do good. I’m way more skeptical now.
I went on a sideline there, sorry.
As for you, I bet you still do very good for your patients and you look at them instead of a checklist.
It must have become difficult after the govt centralized medicine into the Medical Industrial Complex.
Doc despite many years of "evolution" in a larger, cultural sense there is still a large faction of the human spirit that is corralled by primordial, tribal instincts--avarice, fear of abandonment, groupthink and massive, unrelenting guilt to name a few. Covid exposed this, clearly, for those sensitive enough (like you) to see it. Try to think of it as a gift for awareness always is.
If it had not been for the mass censorship of the Internet, the scamdemic would never have been successful, Trump would still be president because the election theft would never have been possible, Hunter and very probably Joe Biden would very likely be in jail or at the very least nowhere to be found in local politics, and just in general the whole Sand Castle of Babel the WEFites have built would have been washed away by the tides of truth and popular discontent.
This is existential for these lying shitbirds and they know it better than anyone.
Not exactly correct. True, perhaps, for the US, but how about Japan, where I live? How about the rest of the world? Twitter is (Was?) an important tool of those behind this, but the is much more afoot here. The scamdemic is a worldwide problem.
I live in SA, and I feel like the term "state capture" was coined here after the Guptas collusion with the ruling party under JZuma. They effectively infiltrated all organs of state and I was often amazed (almost in awe) at how well they chose which pies to have fingers in. And having had that - the world has been captured and two years of covid has shown the extent for those who are willing to see.
I like the term “State capture”.
You're both right TS and John. There is more afoot here, it is very coordinated but social media censorship is a tool that has driven the agenda far.
I posted the video above, I think it's a good description of what is going on in the world so I post again. Probably more nuanced still, but I think the basics are covered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LAFlQ7csc8
Sorry, but due to the fact that my wife and I are both working from home, video is not an option for me. Do you have a transcript?
I don't think there was a transcript of the video. Basics are:
The WEF was based on the Club of Rome and follows the thinking of Thomas Malthus (malthusians) who wrote a paper outlining their belief:
- that the earth has limited resources, e.g. energy and that once the resources run out, we're done. they have to manage this so that their lifestyles are not impacted.
- they therefore want 'us' poor, less populous and controlled so that we cannot compete with them for the earth's limited resources. thus, inflation by design and control of our lives.
- capitalism (a la Milton Friedman) offers innovation and competition as a way to solve the problem of limited resources, something that the Davos elites/malthusians don't accept.
I think I've covered the key points, it's a good video, perhaps you'll get a chance to view it sometime.
Thanks for the summary. Only one way to fix this, but those who could, remain waiting for a sign or something.
The video ends with a clip of Milton Friedman's speech to (I think) the Club of Rome) somewhat mocking their 'limited resources' paper. His point is that capitalism has always found a solution and sorted things out. I tend to agree. Human ingenuity truly has no bounds, it only requires some space. I tend to be optimistic. I've become a fan of Jordan Peterson as well. He's stated many times that 'no one EVER gets away with anything'. He's very adamant about this and says he has seen this 100% in his practice.
We shall see. Just do what you can and don't loose hope, have faith in God the source of ALL good solutions!
I wanted to add a link to an article Robert Malone just posted to his substack that falls inline with the video I linked to:
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/wef-a-trade-organization-on-steroids?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MjY4MzYyMCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTI5NjQ4MjQsIl8iOiJaS2ZHRCIsImlhdCI6MTY1MTA4MzAxNywiZXhwIjoxNjUxMDg2NjE3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTgzMjAwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.qvuYNTclWRhANc--vWDLI3LeeboFoey1EOCHATUjrng&s=r
A problem can't be solved until it's identified and right now, there are more and more people identifying it. I guarantee you that there aren't too many people who will embrace poverty in order to keep the rulers (or would be rulers) in the lap of luxury!
I'll also quote eugyppius 'don't do their job for them by despairing of an end', this has become one of my favourite mottos!
I can't comment all that intelligently on Japan, but it was my impression that they didn't go nearly as far off the deep end on the virus hysteria.
Sadly, that impression is wrong. The new school year has just started, My medical school and affiliated nursing school are all online agitating this year. I am the only unmasked o person at my two schools holding in person instruction. They have just started fascinating kids here and already talking about the 4th shot for those over a certain age, 12 I think. Went into Tokyo today. Apart from my one reflection here and there, saw not a single unmasked person.
Well, the Japanese are a famously conformist people, and masking has been common there for quite some time.
Regarding the V, I was under the impression that the Japanese government wasn't making it mandatory. Is that mistaken? The Japanese are generally extremely conservative when it comes to medical treatments.
No, but yes. You are correct in that there are no governmental mandates. The Government here has said that while they would like to impose mandates, they lack the legal authority to do so. So, they make “recommendations” only. However, as the intent is clear, the recommendations are basically mandates. Employers impose them. Schools impose them. Businesses impose them upon their employees and occasionally their customers.
My wife has not been into her office since early February 2020 except for 3 times. Each time was to get her company provided vaccine. It is 3 minutes until midnight here and she is still working, the barrier between work time and family time long since erased.
One of my employers, a vocational school for medical technicians, demanded that I wear a mask for online classes I taught online. I didn’t. Not a fun time. We have had many camp site reservations cancelled due to covid panic. Everything has been cancelled for the past two years. We are starting on the third year of cancellations as this Spring’s festivals were also cancelled. While some things have opened back up, preregistering is required to prevent over crowding, masks as required and in some cases three faccine shots or 3 days of negative testing. I am supposed to be taking my temperature at least daily and recording it in case one of my employers asks for it. If they do, I’ll tell them to go fauci themselves. It is a dystopian hell here.
That's completely insane but nothing you've said there really surprises me at all.
To get back to the original issue - what's the online speech situation? If I know my Japs social pressure is enough to keep them in line, no explicit state or corporate censorship required. They also tend to look to the West for cues on a lot of things; the censorship over here likely has knock on effects over there. Thoughts?
The only reason that the Jap govt did not impose "mandates" was because they knew the Japs will comply with their "recommendations". Why use force and anger some people when recommendations do the same job?
The same in other countries which did not have mandates: because people complied massively.
Why did you not give me credit for "faccine"?!
Thank you for sharing that. It gives us more of an idea about the reality of it. God knows, the "pictures" we're getting are so distorted and smudged that there are only vague ideas we can go by in assessing what's what.
Just worse and worse. I'm sad. I don't know how you do it.
https://plebeianresistance.substack.com/p/elon-and-bills-school-of-ai-and-estoric
Panicdemic, not scamdemic.
I usually call it “the panic”. Scamdemic has its merits too.
Panic first, scam followed.
I thought too, at first. Now, I’m not sure.
The current panic in China proves it was panic from the start. Unless you believe they are faking it?
https://plebeianresistance.substack.com/p/elon-and-bills-school-of-ai-and-estoric
Re: “I’m pretending to move to Canada tantrum,” ummmm … don’t-even-think-about-it. We do not want you. There are already waaa-aaay too many of you in Canada as it is. Mercy!!
As an American, I feel for you. Perhaps we can create a “No man’s land” between our two countries where these morons can attempt to eke out a living.
It shall be called "Wisconsin".
I’m 7 miles away from Wisconsin. Gas is 50 cents a gallon cheaper. I always escaped to Wisconsin from Illinois because of Governor Co-morbidity and because nobody masked there much. Freedom.
I've been calling him Governor Stay-Puft.
Literally LOL'd, thank you.
The home of all the weird murders?
Ouch. You are probably correct, but given its history, this makes me sad.
Upstate NY. It already feels like we are between the barbed wire of Canada and the barbed wire of NYC.
Ah, sadly, that is for other reasons.
🤣 A CAN-AM DMZ 5,250 miles long, 25 miles wide, with DJT walls on both sides. Lotsa room to grow plants ‘n bugs. We could be super nice and install electric car charging stations every 20 miles.
oh. the people we could send there. Have to send them with really good snow gear.
Naw, let them figure out how to keep warm with their solar panels.
Tempting but there is a lot of beautiful scenery up there that would be wasted. Let’s make it more like 250 miles wide.
hahahaha!
I hope this is a good thing. I say that because I really don't know much about the man but an article today in the National Post claimed that Roger Stone is coming to Canada to help out with a political party in Ontario's upcoming election. It's one of the new parties that seems to be anti narrative.
"you don’t get fear like this unless change is coming, and this is desperation."
Like the old adage in Washington that says a man's true power is not measured by his friends but by the force of his enemies combined in opposition.
I miss you on Twitter but I do agree with the commentator who said they like you in this long form substack more. I love how you take multiple subjects and tie them all together in a nicely packaged big picture.
Yes. Part of the problem on Twitter and Facebook is the inability to expound on ideas without producing long tweet threads. Being silly is fun, but we need essays for a reason.
Agree. I really appreciate el gato turning his gaze to the REALLY big, worldwide picture that some noxious figures are attempting to paint.
I hope you (and I) are reinstated! People are making new accounts but I'd rather wait and see if the banned are unbanned ... give it a little bit rather than starting from zero again. Fingers crossed!
You need to have your archive of tweets carried over. They are your body of work, and shouldn't be casually discarded.
Not just that. What about the record of all the shadow bans that were done to a person’s communications secretly, so that someone thought their posts were going out, but Twitter was preventing them from being actually seen? Like that self-satisfied dweeb from Twitter was smugly explaining to the Project Veritas “date” who videotaped him.
Bad cat, I read you every day but don't comment often. Just wanted to say that your combination of true intellectual brilliance, self-confident, unflappable feline snark, peerless memeage, concern for your fellow man (fellow cats?), and incredible perseverance and hard work have been, and continue to be, a beacon through these weird and dark times. A thousand thank yous. This kitten loves you and will always be grateful for how you walked us through this.❤
I don't trust Musk...BUT...I'm enjoying the show.
The reptilian overlord meme. I can't stop laughing at that one.
We have all been hijacked by our amygdalas (reptilian brains) since Mar 2020. Your reptilian overlord is your own amygdala lording it over your frontal lobes (seat of rationality). Icke is right, the lizard people are running the world, he just doesn't realise yet that they are our own personal lizards within our own brains.
Interesting viewpoint, not sure if the meme was intended to go that deep. But, your fear theory doesn't explain those of us that stayed rational and saw through the covid nonsense right from the beginning. The only fear I have had throughout the past 2 years is of state overreach and the increasing restriction of freedoms of the individual.
They didn't happen to hit the relevant emotional nerve, perhaps. Or some of us have learned throughout life that the harder they push you to be afraid, the more important it is to look at all the facts dispassionately, because the reason you insist on abject terror in lieu of open discussion is because if people are permitted to think about it for five minutes, they might find out you are full of shit.
Lol. Well put!
We are a very small minority, and I have no idea why.
Well, I wonder if the left progressives could perhaps take over another country, kind of like what Putin is doing.... they could have a few spots in South America. Venezuela for one. They keep wanting to change the US but really..... really. Start your own country with your crummy ideas and totalitarianism.
The "move to ______ if you don't like it" is a horrible idea, though I suppose this is intended a joke. Quite seriously, why should any country, including Venezuela, have to suffer rule by communist idiots like these? It was an extremely free and wealthy country in the 90s. Let's think bigger. Nobody should be moving anywhere to be free, let alone further enslaved.
I'm moving to Mars, if Elon will have me. When I say this out loud, people reply "Ron, it's a bit late for you to be moving back home, especially since your ma is dead, have you forgotten."
Democrats aren't left, nor are they progressive. They're the faux-left wing of the corporate uniparty. They co-opted the term "progressive" because it was popular and that is one of the many ways they keep the real left out of power.
I happen to be a actual left progressive, as are many/most on the WayOfTheBern subreddit, which is constantly under attack from DNC trolls and brigades for the crime of allowing Trump supporters to talk and questioning Democrat party narratives/refusing to vote blue no matter who. There were calls for us to be banned from reddit, esp after they shut down TheDonald and we created a special thread just for them to use until reddit reinstated them. We were also featured in the WaPo as a "Russuan" disinformation front--an accusation still made by various DNC trolls.
Seriously, the only people the DNC hates and fears more than Trumpers are actual progressives.
When the labels are dissolved and we speak freely across the fence with a policy focus, the "left" and "right" down here on the ground have a lot in common on the big issues like free speech and censorship, even if we disagree on other issues.
Venezuala, Cuba, North Korea? They could emigrate.
No one cares about Truth Social, because they know it will die as a Trump echo chamber. Making Twitter an even playing field and not the voice of the insane 3% is causing the collective festival of barfs. Bring. It. On.
Why Truth Social has not succeeded is because the value lies in the subscriber base, with its collective body of work, and not in the platform, which is easily emulated. A competitor to Netflix without content is not a competitor at all. Elon had the wit to recognise this.
So true
Section 230 reform? So weird- many of us have been talking about it for almost 2 years.
The bit they missed is that 230 already does not apply to any censored social media platform. If the service owners want to be indemnified for all that their users post, they must not curate or censor the content. If they do, they are no longer common carriers but are in fact publications, to which 230 does not apply. They must provide an open forum to everyone to be exempt from liability, and they don't. The "new" Twitter will be the only major social media service that is still protected under 230. The rest of them, like old Twitter, are liable. All it takes is for someone to notice this and bring suit.
Totally agree. 230 is meant to protect the ability for the Social media company to not be sued. They should not AlSO have censorship power.
Agree, but it would most likely get thrown out due to “lack of standing”. That seems to be how the gov. deals with problems it does not want to get published.
Watch them dash for the Elon option when they realise this. This is the breach in the dam wall.
They'll have some world class gymnastics on their hands to punish Twitter with 230 and not The Zuck.
Simple: Twitter didn't block white supremacists. Therefore no 230 protection.
You've got to stop thinking logically. It just gets in the way here in clown world.
Exactly. Let’s see what moronic attempts they make to get around Zuck being attacked through their measures.
No problem for them. They truly practice “double think”.
With covid, they could hide behind credentialism and the high priests of The Science. With Twittergate, that's not an option. The ideas of free speech and censorship are accessible to everyone - no credentials, no statistics, no microbiology, just everyday life. A party with "no rules and total freedom for everybody" is every party. Who hires armed guards to enforce fairness at the punch bowl?
What can they say? "lol are you an epidemiologist now?" doesn't really translate into "lol are you a... human being living in a society now?"
There's been at least a decade of, essentially, elevating and celebrating the voices of people who in any sane world would have been recognized as mentally ill, and they are the tech industry workforce. They earn their livings creating imaginary societies and they've been extremely successful, so far, in bending the minds of the younger generation to their will. "Journalists" in their 30s and 40s are terrified of being not-in-the-know and excluded from what they think, yeah, are the best parties so they've comformed themselves to the new requirements for citizenry in that very strange country.
Hilarious that someone as batshit crazy as Elon is gonna turn this all to right.