excuse me mr max, but i think maybe you misspelled “for my phoney baloney political faction who lies all the time and relies on media domination to peddle hallucinatory dogma and doctrine to retain any power at all”… we need more content moderation, not less.
I'll send Max my well-worn company of John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty." There's a section in there where Mill discusses the role that the free exchange of ideas and thought has in a truly "free" society. On second thought, I'll save the postage as Max most likely would neither read nor understand it.
Apparently, the thought never occurs to him that perhaps he could be wrong about the ideas he wants "moderated". This from a cheerleader of the Iraq War. The stupidity is only exceeded by his arrogance.
It was pretty clear when the architects of the Global War on Terror and their media cheerleaders came out in full force to endorse Biden in 2020. I was never a "Trumper" but it only made me realize that he was actually on to something. Watching Dubya and Cheney now being embraced as "patriots" and "heroes" shows how truly cynical these people are. It shocks and disturbs me that people still take them seriously.
They have. The left doesn't seem to understand the term or its usage, and their use of it is now jingoistic. We are a democratic republic. Democracy alone = mob rule.
So damn sick of those words out of the mouths of the worst of the worst communists, fascists & marxists running this country. Of course on the other hand, they never mention the “republic” part so I suppose any attempts to overthrow “our democracy” actually equals attempts to overthrow “mob rule”
Yes, prescient. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.” This line struck me the first time I read it when I was young, and sticks out from my memory now so many years later - it’s our job not to let this happen. At least, I believe it is mine.
Yes! Listen to the audiobook on your commute! https://NoSearch.org for 1984, Brave New World, and others relevant to the moment in which we find ourselves.
It’s my site, it’s a work in progress that I hope to make into something extremely valuable for the medical freedom and free speech movements. (I Just launched it)
Perhaps the really terrifying (or comforting?) thing is that it's not so absurd. Absurdism is not so absurd. Absurdity is just a helluva practical problem to face up to. And often enough the embrace of absurdism may be essentially a practical coping mechanism in the face of the real absurd. But certainly the reign of the absurd (of the will to power, of chaos) is what follows from the death of God (insofar as we have actually killed him and have the courage to face the consequences of our deed). And no amount of absurd free speech absolutism will undo that or remedy it. (Of course Nietsche and his acolytes may have been wrong to believe in Good Friday but not in Easter Sunday.)
A priest I knew used to say, "When we are fighting for love of the truth we are losing the truth of love." I was like, "hmmm.... no." Sometimes war is (the only path to) peace. Alia mutatis mutanda.
Emergent islamic rulers cut off lucrative trade routes with the Near and Far East, imposing taxes and levies on trade going in both directions. As circumnavigating Africa wasn't feasible, and there was no Suez canal (and the are was islamic anyway), war seemed the only solution.
Oh, and the prophet Mohammed was a heretic and an apostate according to catholic law and dogma, often even beeing called "the Prophet of Satan" or similar.
So financial and real politik pressure moulded through a religious contextual understanding of reality became the Crusades towards Jerusalem and the Levant.
Then of course there's the swedish "crusades" against the heathen finns, and german Marienritter and their wars in the Baltic and surrounding areas, and the extermination of cathars, and...
Commies and nazis and such look like rank amateurs compared to islam and the catholic church.
very illuminating. And I thought with the Crusades it was a way for the Pope to be a King without pissing off Kings and for the wealthy to pay off their sins. I learn stuff here. thanks
All fanatics are basically the same, they just change their clothes and their language. We are seeing an increasingly fanatical, fear-driven demographic being controlled by a small cartel of evil, cynical psychopaths.
"All fanatics are basically the same" = "all fanatics are fanatics" (a trivial tautology)? Or is it perhaps flirting with a fanatical form of anti-fanaticism? And "to crusade or not to crusade" is by no means a trivial question. To pretend otherwise is like pretending that Putin is unquestionably a war criminal (after all, Biden said so) and the Ukrainians are one and all as innocent as new born babes -- and also courageous super-heroic icons of democracy at its finest (that Nazi shit etc. is all Russian propaganda, right?).
But it wasn't ridiculous. It was a half-truth. This guy had been imprisoned and tortured by the communists in Vietnam, because he defied them in wanting to become a Catholic priest. The half-truth in what he was saying was an important half-truth with firm grounding in his experience.
Where is the usual libtard who steps up to point out the grammatical error, thinking that somehow spelling and/or grammar impugns the the point made by the commenter??
Nope. I’ve never seen conservatives who are anal retentive about spelling and grammatical correctness. But assuming that they must exist, I’ve never seen them use that retentiveness to skewer yes, a libtard.
I am very quick to find errors in grammar, spelling, and format.* I was a legal proofreader for a while for that reason. The difference is probably that I am not liberal and I don't think it is polite to jump on such errors. Perhaps liberals don't mind being pointlessly rude.
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*Lately, especially here, I am quick to make errors.
I don’t mind a friendly nudge if I’ve made a grammatical or spelling error. It’s like someone telling you that you have spinach between your front teeth. Just don’t shout it across the room 😉
Welp, it looks like you've found several of us. --- I try and not correct things too much, because it seems to aggravate people. I'm not as much grammar police as spelling, because I think MOST of the time you can figure out what the person is meaning. Bad thing is, sometimes, I think I've spelled something right, but my fingers got too many buttons and, "OOPS!" --- Please see Fred's comment below. My pet peeves.
Whoops, accidentally deleted my comment, so here goes again: people have very strange ideas about what democracy consists of these days. Justin Trudeau while viciously squashing a totally peaceful populist protest he'd previously refused to negotiate with insisted he was thereby defending democracy. Methinks some people have the concept a tad bit confused.
Justin has a crooked mind and he comes by it honestly. Look at his parents. I don't think Pierre Trudeau, a great admirer of Mao, was the biological dad, but he was a founding member of the Club of Rome out of which come the WEF.
I’ve been reading Neil Morton’s “Psychological Warfare and Deception: What You Need to Know about Human Behavior, Dark Psychology, Propaganda, Negotiation, Manipulation, and Persuasion,” and this logical fallacy should be the tagline for Covidianism:
Repetition & Ridicule Fallacy
If you hear something enough times, you will believe it. No matter how ridiculous, if you are presented with “facts” in a certain way, you are hardwired to believe them. This is known as the appeal to ridicule fallacy. Mocking an idea makes it less relevant. If you associate an idea, a person, or behavior with ridicule and shame, you will dismiss it. Alternatively, if a ridiculous idea is given gravitas and treated with reverence, it will seem more viable. Repetition is a powerful tool, and when teamed with a shaming technique, it can be effective.
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On another note, I’d like to encourage everyone to help defeat the seven COVID tyranny bills up for vote in California over the coming weeks!
This is a great comment, and I'm going to check out that book you suggested.
To dovetail this comment, please check out my article "Changing A World Through Colors". It's absolutely fascinating how these master manipulators can change language, dogma, history, and whatever else they want to hijack.
Great article, thanks. Derren Brown...wow. Frightening. Let's hope he is a good wizard. So many weak, susceptible people who can be swayed, or will think and/or say anything to gain approval. I found myself flashing on Shakespeare. [Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in the shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.] Basic human nature has not evolved, no matter the state of our technology.
Please help to stop the WHO treaty. You can find info here although the submission deadline to the WHO has passed. Let your elected reps know that you are firmly against this move which is nothing more than a power grab: 'one ring to rule them all'.
I’m working on a lengthier letter to the WHO member states about rejecting the treaty. I’ll also be calling for its abolition and replacement with the World Council for Health.
Always! Unfortunately, the WHO’s deadline for this particular public comment period has closed, but the list I provided is still valid and can be used wherever you can express objections to the WHO’s pandemic treaty. Thanks, Vanda!
(((Max Boot))) understands democracy just fine. Content moderation makes democracy more useful for fulfilling its purpose, namely, subverting the world's cultures and religions until there is ample room for the desires of Semitic supremacists. The goal is to transform the world into the prison which was envisioned by Isaiah, David Ben-Gurion, and others. So the masses and the managerial class must have their thoughts shaped in the right direction without interference and distractions. Elon (the Hittite?) is a fan of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, so maybe he's not the sort of guy who can be counted on to move democracy toward its goal.
LOL. He's actually saying, "For freedom to survive, we need more slavery." I think he must be triple jabbed, as it is well known that the toxic spike proteins are crossing the blood-brain barrier and causing neurological damage.
Oh boy. “Ain’t that the truth”. I have a couple of close relatives who are off their rockers. Triggered and roaring like cats with tails caught under the rocker. Especially after the booster. The only sane close relatives I have are the unjabbed ones. Go figure.
I can't profess to be fluent in NewSpeak, but I think that you can use "he" as a pronoun as long as it is posted on your social media bio and email signature; it makes you an "ally" or something? Idk
What I do know is that you certainly can't use "he" for your pronoun while behaving in a traditionally masculine way, that makes you an extremist overflowing with toxic masculinity.
Yes, it's hard to keep up. I think you must have to be on twitter to know what to do. As someone else has posted you have to put the second pronoun 'him' as well.
"Democracy" is double speak for Marxism these days. I want our constitutional republic to survive! For that we need open discourse and cogent arguments.
Dude! What’s that in your coffee this morning? Open discourse? COGENT arguments? Our freedom depends on our being told what to believe by only authorized sources! Not a bunch of varied opinion! People might say anything! That makes us nervous. Can’t take the stress.
Wow. Trying to get into the mind of the blue-pulled just made me a bit nauseous.
Thanks Boots! Yeah, the red pill opens one up to what’s actually going on. Blue keeps you in the phony system. Interesting how it turns out that the colors align with the right/left struggle.
The Matrix is worth the watching. The parallels apply pretty well to the present geopolitical construct as well as to the realm of spirituality and theology. Uncannily so.
While Orwell's gave O'Brien, 1984's grand inquisitor, the famous line "If You Want a Picture of the Future, Imagine a Boot Stamping on a Human Face – for Ever", we get the real footwear on the record.
Aside from his obvious ignorance, period need to remember, America is NOT a democracy - it's a representative republic, and it is supposed to be one in which we have liberty including the right to freedom of speech WITHOUT censorship.
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech..."
I began reading the WSJ around 35 years ago because my boss subscribed to it, and I noticed pretty quickly that Max Boot was an absolute moron. Time has merely changed the side he hysterics for.
Ha ha. My eyes are hazing from pollen today. I actually read “disgraced raccoons” instead of disgraced neocons but let me think about that a bit more. 🤔
That hat doesn't make you look smart, Max Boot and you need a reboot to prevent you from spewing out ignorant stupidity. The freedom of speech issues put aside, he doesn't seem to know that the US is not a democracy and was never supposed to be.
Even I know that and I'm a deplorable "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it" from Finland.
- Alexander Hamilton: “Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments,” & “If we incline too much to democracy we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of a dictatorship.”
Thomas Jefferson: “a democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49.”
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(Comment: This is what happened now except in reality it may be more like 1-15% of the people has taken away the rights of the other 85-99%.)
- James Madison: “(democracies) have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
- John Adams: “(democracy) never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
In the US, there are not so democratic elements as:
Electoral College, which purpose is to respect and represent the states as sovereign entities within our federal system.
Senate is similar. It was even more effective before the enactment of the 17th Amendment in 1913 (which subjected senators to direct election by voters rather than by individual state legislatures).
Finally, the least democratic institution of them all - the Supreme Court - where the judges are given lifetime appointments by the POTUS elected via the Electoral College and they're subject to no democratic oversight or elections. The last gift the system gave us all was the pedo-peddler Ketanx Jacksonx
Dear I&K, of course! No need to credit me but you can mention a deplorable from Northern Finland! I did spend a year in KY (exchange student/ high school) back in 90/91 though and have nothing but good memories from there.
I think mob is the only thing some folks can understand. Put angry in front of mob. It always reminds me of the Frankenstein movie of the mob with their torches. They didn’t care much for human experimentation, either.
Torches, pitch forks, hoes, and sticks! Setting the barn afire. 😂🤣 I love that visual! --- Them only understaning a mob is the exact reason the 2nd Ammendment is so important.
"Among the words that the Woke have strategically manipulated in an important way is democracy. Of course, in nations like the United States and the other contemporary parliamentary democracies, we use democracy to enable republics, to which the Woke are generally strongly opposed. This isn’t the only reason for their incessant push for “democracy,” though, which is only comprehensible when you understand the relationship between equity (or communism) and democracy. To the Woke, if anyone or any group has any more power, money, or privilege than anyone else (as they see it), there is no equality, thus democracy is skewed. That is, for them, democracy presupposes equity (or communism)."
Well done Richard. I was formulating a response to the cries of "Democracy," and you summed it up with a quote from Lindsay. These terms get confused and misused over time. We don't want a democracy! Democracies are evil in the extreme. We tie the demon "democracy" down within the framework of a republic, and still it tries to wiggle free. Do you want a majority of face diapered Karens deciding how you should live? Why do we want a republic you may ask. Because it is the best way we have come up with so far to protect RIGHTS. Remember this quote always: "A democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner. A republic is a well armed sheep contesting the vote."
It is only mine by adoption. I don't remember where I first heard it. As a piece of relevant trivia, the first president to call our country a "democracy" was Woodrow Wilson. It was under his watch that they began to dismantle the checks on democracy in the constitution. Yes, I know arguments can be made that our republic was under assault much earlier. However, this was a time of deliberate moves to enable the democracy component by squashing checks, such as elections of senators by the respective state legislatures.
Saw this earlier on Twitter. I thought, "Must be a satire account." as I have zero clue who this person is. But no, of course not. And people agree with him! We're doomed...
I know this sounds like hyperbole, but someone who says what Boot says is a POS human being who is an enemy of democracy, and more importantly, an enemy of the republic and of freedom and liberty.
“As always, the best antidote to offensive speech is more speech. The Supreme Court could not be clearer about how fundamentally important free speech is to a functioning democracy." ~ the ACeffingLU got one right.
(Yes, I know, the SCOTUS and the ACLU were talking about *government* censorship, but the principles underlying those quoted comments are universal and undeniable.)
First, I don’t want democracy to survive, as someone much smarter than me said “democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner”, America is a constitutional republic. If Mr. Musk does pull this off the first thing he should do is pull the blue check mark for all these so called journalists, if you are advocating for information suppression and censorship you are not a journalist, you are a propagandist.
Their dictionary shifts definitions of words to fit the feeling of the day. Lots of words have literally had their definitions changed in real dictionaries recently.
One of the consequences of the swollen activist state where adult responsibilities have been outsourced (to the state) leaving a citizenry hollowed out and shrunken to that of infantilized grazers fearful of the concept of life without their "omniscient" nanny.
The best argument I heard against free speech was by Contrapoints. Who argued even in a real town square you can't have absolute free speech, some more bellicose speakers, thoughts, and societal norms will silence more timid, delicate, or nuanced thoughts.
Somewhat ironically he deleted the video after transition operations and treatment. Someone re-uploaded though:
It never gets old:
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
"democracy dies without censorship" is not much of a tagline, is it?
I'll send Max my well-worn company of John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty." There's a section in there where Mill discusses the role that the free exchange of ideas and thought has in a truly "free" society. On second thought, I'll save the postage as Max most likely would neither read nor understand it.
Totally forgot about that classic!!! Freshman year required reading! Probably banned from the libraries now:/
Does anyone remember when some Conservative group would post every year the Top 10 books to be banned in that year?
I would rush out to the library and book store and read them. I am sure John Stuart Mill’s book was among them!
Tonight I shall re read, “On Librrty”
Those were definitely not"conservatives" anymore than this new group of tyrants are "liberals". But I hear ya.
Agreed!
Yes, we really need that content moderation in a democracy.
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Apparently, the thought never occurs to him that perhaps he could be wrong about the ideas he wants "moderated". This from a cheerleader of the Iraq War. The stupidity is only exceeded by his arrogance.
It was pretty clear when the architects of the Global War on Terror and their media cheerleaders came out in full force to endorse Biden in 2020. I was never a "Trumper" but it only made me realize that he was actually on to something. Watching Dubya and Cheney now being embraced as "patriots" and "heroes" shows how truly cynical these people are. It shocks and disturbs me that people still take them seriously.
He's not wrong. He knows what he is doing. He is trying increase his own power and standing.
Gato wrote a great article a few months back on how journalists are natural cheerleaders for totalitarian governments who reward them handsomely.
Lol! No! But will "they" redefine democracy?
They have. The left doesn't seem to understand the term or its usage, and their use of it is now jingoistic. We are a democratic republic. Democracy alone = mob rule.
"Our democracy".
So damn sick of those words out of the mouths of the worst of the worst communists, fascists & marxists running this country. Of course on the other hand, they never mention the “republic” part so I suppose any attempts to overthrow “our democracy” actually equals attempts to overthrow “mob rule”
Perhaps they think "Republic" sounds too much like "Republican".
No doubt
in that, tiny part, the only part about which they are being slightly honest
Just like the People's Republic of China
Yes, prescient. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.” This line struck me the first time I read it when I was young, and sticks out from my memory now so many years later - it’s our job not to let this happen. At least, I believe it is mine.
That's why we're all here 🙌
*imagine a Max Boot stamping on a human face...*
Yes!! That guy is unreal. Total shill for the totalitarian state.
Disinformation is truth, truth is lies….
Yes! Listen to the audiobook on your commute! https://NoSearch.org for 1984, Brave New World, and others relevant to the moment in which we find ourselves.
Great site! Thanks!
Thank you, truly a great site. Seven hours of Saul Alinsky to fuel my road rage. jk
It’s my site, it’s a work in progress that I hope to make into something extremely valuable for the medical freedom and free speech movements. (I Just launched it)
Congratulations, you are doing the work of the angels. I shall follow with interest.
Perhaps the really terrifying (or comforting?) thing is that it's not so absurd. Absurdism is not so absurd. Absurdity is just a helluva practical problem to face up to. And often enough the embrace of absurdism may be essentially a practical coping mechanism in the face of the real absurd. But certainly the reign of the absurd (of the will to power, of chaos) is what follows from the death of God (insofar as we have actually killed him and have the courage to face the consequences of our deed). And no amount of absurd free speech absolutism will undo that or remedy it. (Of course Nietsche and his acolytes may have been wrong to believe in Good Friday but not in Easter Sunday.)
I believe you just summed up Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” ;-)
“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
A priest I knew used to say, "When we are fighting for love of the truth we are losing the truth of love." I was like, "hmmm.... no." Sometimes war is (the only path to) peace. Alia mutatis mutanda.
how we got the Crusades?
Emergent islamic rulers cut off lucrative trade routes with the Near and Far East, imposing taxes and levies on trade going in both directions. As circumnavigating Africa wasn't feasible, and there was no Suez canal (and the are was islamic anyway), war seemed the only solution.
Oh, and the prophet Mohammed was a heretic and an apostate according to catholic law and dogma, often even beeing called "the Prophet of Satan" or similar.
So financial and real politik pressure moulded through a religious contextual understanding of reality became the Crusades towards Jerusalem and the Levant.
Then of course there's the swedish "crusades" against the heathen finns, and german Marienritter and their wars in the Baltic and surrounding areas, and the extermination of cathars, and...
Commies and nazis and such look like rank amateurs compared to islam and the catholic church.
very illuminating. And I thought with the Crusades it was a way for the Pope to be a King without pissing off Kings and for the wealthy to pay off their sins. I learn stuff here. thanks
All fanatics are basically the same, they just change their clothes and their language. We are seeing an increasingly fanatical, fear-driven demographic being controlled by a small cartel of evil, cynical psychopaths.
"All fanatics are basically the same" = "all fanatics are fanatics" (a trivial tautology)? Or is it perhaps flirting with a fanatical form of anti-fanaticism? And "to crusade or not to crusade" is by no means a trivial question. To pretend otherwise is like pretending that Putin is unquestionably a war criminal (after all, Biden said so) and the Ukrainians are one and all as innocent as new born babes -- and also courageous super-heroic icons of democracy at its finest (that Nazi shit etc. is all Russian propaganda, right?).
Haha, good for you. That sounds ridiculous 😂
But it wasn't ridiculous. It was a half-truth. This guy had been imprisoned and tortured by the communists in Vietnam, because he defied them in wanting to become a Catholic priest. The half-truth in what he was saying was an important half-truth with firm grounding in his experience.
taking this all in and grateful for the insight
Ah, well the context certainly deepens the potential implications.
spotttttt on
Censor me harder…
Where is the usual libtard who steps up to point out the grammatical error, thinking that somehow spelling and/or grammar impugns the the point made by the commenter??
“Gotcha” is all the logical effort they can muster.
Thanks…too quick on the post button not quick enough on the edit!
Happens to the best of us 😊
and, apparently, the worst
Maybe they're just anal retentive about grammar or spelling. Not necessarily a "libtard."
Nope. I’ve never seen conservatives who are anal retentive about spelling and grammatical correctness. But assuming that they must exist, I’ve never seen them use that retentiveness to skewer yes, a libtard.
Ooops...I'm one of those weird conservatives...but I just correct the grammar/spelling in my head usually...😅
I was a senior officer in the Apostrophe Police, but retired when we were defunded. The result? Its gotten out of hand...
Illiteracy's a damn shame, isn't it?
Ah, so do I. Virgo grammar nazis of the world unite! =>}
Wait, is that a Virgo thing? 😂
I am very quick to find errors in grammar, spelling, and format.* I was a legal proofreader for a while for that reason. The difference is probably that I am not liberal and I don't think it is polite to jump on such errors. Perhaps liberals don't mind being pointlessly rude.
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*Lately, especially here, I am quick to make errors.
I don’t mind a friendly nudge if I’ve made a grammatical or spelling error. It’s like someone telling you that you have spinach between your front teeth. Just don’t shout it across the room 😉
Or one of my sons telling me (and the neighbors halfway down the block) "Hey! Your fly's open!" [Yeah. Thanks.]
ha. yes.
like
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There, they’re, their. Keep reading and you’ll eventually see the differences.
God bless you, Fred!!! --- And I'll up you a Then and Than. 😱🤪 (I wish they had an emoji of someone tearing out their hair.!)
If I see one more loser spell "loser" with two "o's," I just might lose it.
Welp, it looks like you've found several of us. --- I try and not correct things too much, because it seems to aggravate people. I'm not as much grammar police as spelling, because I think MOST of the time you can figure out what the person is meaning. Bad thing is, sometimes, I think I've spelled something right, but my fingers got too many buttons and, "OOPS!" --- Please see Fred's comment below. My pet peeves.
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Daddy
Whoops, accidentally deleted my comment, so here goes again: people have very strange ideas about what democracy consists of these days. Justin Trudeau while viciously squashing a totally peaceful populist protest he'd previously refused to negotiate with insisted he was thereby defending democracy. Methinks some people have the concept a tad bit confused.
Justin has a crooked mind and he comes by it honestly. Look at his parents. I don't think Pierre Trudeau, a great admirer of Mao, was the biological dad, but he was a founding member of the Club of Rome out of which come the WEF.
Precisely, he's a product of both his biological and adoptive dads, which is not a good combination.
I’ve been reading Neil Morton’s “Psychological Warfare and Deception: What You Need to Know about Human Behavior, Dark Psychology, Propaganda, Negotiation, Manipulation, and Persuasion,” and this logical fallacy should be the tagline for Covidianism:
Repetition & Ridicule Fallacy
If you hear something enough times, you will believe it. No matter how ridiculous, if you are presented with “facts” in a certain way, you are hardwired to believe them. This is known as the appeal to ridicule fallacy. Mocking an idea makes it less relevant. If you associate an idea, a person, or behavior with ridicule and shame, you will dismiss it. Alternatively, if a ridiculous idea is given gravitas and treated with reverence, it will seem more viable. Repetition is a powerful tool, and when teamed with a shaming technique, it can be effective.
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On another note, I’d like to encourage everyone to help defeat the seven COVID tyranny bills up for vote in California over the coming weeks!
I’ve just published my public comment here:
• “Letter to the California Legislature” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-california-legislature)
I include instructions on how to submit your comments after the essay. You don’t have to be a California resident.
Thanks, all, for joining in the battle against medical tyranny!
Thanks for all you're doing with your letters!
This is a great comment, and I'm going to check out that book you suggested.
To dovetail this comment, please check out my article "Changing A World Through Colors". It's absolutely fascinating how these master manipulators can change language, dogma, history, and whatever else they want to hijack.
https://bherr.substack.com/p/changing-a-world-through-colors?s=w
Great article, thanks. Derren Brown...wow. Frightening. Let's hope he is a good wizard. So many weak, susceptible people who can be swayed, or will think and/or say anything to gain approval. I found myself flashing on Shakespeare. [Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in the shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.] Basic human nature has not evolved, no matter the state of our technology.
Please help to stop the WHO treaty. You can find info here although the submission deadline to the WHO has passed. Let your elected reps know that you are firmly against this move which is nothing more than a power grab: 'one ring to rule them all'.
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/news/2022/04/stopthetreaty-comment-who-pandemic-treaty/66422/
If you're Canadian, you can sign the petition that Rebel News started.
https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1513984979243479043?s=20&t=3m-gNWuOXIK-6gtw2cUPlw
I submitted and published my Letter to the WHO yesterday!
https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-who
I’m working on a lengthier letter to the WHO member states about rejecting the treaty. I’ll also be calling for its abolition and replacement with the World Council for Health.
I would prefer abolition to "absolution"!
OMG, thank you for catching that typo! Autocorrect strikes again! 🤦♀️
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I refer to him as "AutoPhil" so I can visualise the enemy, anthropomorphically speaking.
😆 Clever! Better than Paperclip Bob.
Let us know if we can copy, paste & send as well.
Always! Unfortunately, the WHO’s deadline for this particular public comment period has closed, but the list I provided is still valid and can be used wherever you can express objections to the WHO’s pandemic treaty. Thanks, Vanda!
Max Boot: do you even read what you post, or is just your unfiltered stream of consciousness?
Democracy and content moderation (censorship) should not be in the same sentence, unless you are Goebbels.
(((Max Boot))) understands democracy just fine. Content moderation makes democracy more useful for fulfilling its purpose, namely, subverting the world's cultures and religions until there is ample room for the desires of Semitic supremacists. The goal is to transform the world into the prison which was envisioned by Isaiah, David Ben-Gurion, and others. So the masses and the managerial class must have their thoughts shaped in the right direction without interference and distractions. Elon (the Hittite?) is a fan of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, so maybe he's not the sort of guy who can be counted on to move democracy toward its goal.
Ha! Goebbels would swept away with admiration over what he'd read today.
Remember the New Dictionary. "Democracy" means "everyone is Marxist and votes."
Or, as Thomas Sowell writes:
One man, one vote - one time.
You know someone is gonna whine about the non-inclusive “one MAN”
Multiple times &/or from the grave….
Indeed. In the Dictionary of the Wokish...https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-democracy/
Lindsay's conceit that "they share your vocabulary but not your dictionary" needs to be driven home as much and as often as possible.
The only way to ensure democratic free speech is suppress it.
I had to destroy the free market to save it 😂
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Yes, we had to kill the patient to save them from dying of covid!
What is this Democracy? I live in a Constitutional Democratic Republic.
Maybe that’s the problem, I missed the transition. I guess anything can transition at a moments notice these days.
For these people, it seems our nations new pronoun is “Democracy”.
🙌 Thank-you!
I can no longer tell the difference between satire and reality.
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Christ. Max Boot—kindly fu$k off.
I think you meant to type, “kindly fauci off.”
That too
He's got a Ukraine flag up so we must listen to him!
So many people are afraid to live.
This is it.
LOL. He's actually saying, "For freedom to survive, we need more slavery." I think he must be triple jabbed, as it is well known that the toxic spike proteins are crossing the blood-brain barrier and causing neurological damage.
Oh boy. “Ain’t that the truth”. I have a couple of close relatives who are off their rockers. Triggered and roaring like cats with tails caught under the rocker. Especially after the booster. The only sane close relatives I have are the unjabbed ones. Go figure.
Elon will be fine. He just has to add a Ukrainian flag to his profile and all these morons will be schtum.
And maybe some pronouns.
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I can't profess to be fluent in NewSpeak, but I think that you can use "he" as a pronoun as long as it is posted on your social media bio and email signature; it makes you an "ally" or something? Idk
What I do know is that you certainly can't use "he" for your pronoun while behaving in a traditionally masculine way, that makes you an extremist overflowing with toxic masculinity.
Did I get that right?
I think it's only 'acceptable' if you also give they as an option - he/they
Gosh, I just knew I was doing it wrong!
Yes, it's hard to keep up. I think you must have to be on twitter to know what to do. As someone else has posted you have to put the second pronoun 'him' as well.
He by itself is not enough. You need he/him
"Democracy" is double speak for Marxism these days. I want our constitutional republic to survive! For that we need open discourse and cogent arguments.
Dude! What’s that in your coffee this morning? Open discourse? COGENT arguments? Our freedom depends on our being told what to believe by only authorized sources! Not a bunch of varied opinion! People might say anything! That makes us nervous. Can’t take the stress.
Wow. Trying to get into the mind of the blue-pulled just made me a bit nauseous.
I dropped and blocked all my liberal “friends” on fb. Now I wish I had the idiots back to see what tomfoolery they are spouting.
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love the deliciously done sarc!
I've never seen the film but is it the blue pill or red pill that drops the façade?
Thanks Boots! Yeah, the red pill opens one up to what’s actually going on. Blue keeps you in the phony system. Interesting how it turns out that the colors align with the right/left struggle.
The Matrix is worth the watching. The parallels apply pretty well to the present geopolitical construct as well as to the realm of spirituality and theology. Uncannily so.
I may indulge myself then. thank you
While Orwell's gave O'Brien, 1984's grand inquisitor, the famous line "If You Want a Picture of the Future, Imagine a Boot Stamping on a Human Face – for Ever", we get the real footwear on the record.
Aside from his obvious ignorance, period need to remember, America is NOT a democracy - it's a representative republic, and it is supposed to be one in which we have liberty including the right to freedom of speech WITHOUT censorship.
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech..."
I began reading the WSJ around 35 years ago because my boss subscribed to it, and I noticed pretty quickly that Max Boot was an absolute moron. Time has merely changed the side he hysterics for.
The tragedy is that "Biden" has embraced and breathed new life into formerly discredited and disgraced necocons like Max Boot.
Ha ha. My eyes are hazing from pollen today. I actually read “disgraced raccoons” instead of disgraced neocons but let me think about that a bit more. 🤔
Thanks for the laugh. 🤗
Username Bandit...comments on post about raccoons...yep, checks out.
Annnnd.....Thank-you, Tacobot for another laugh! --- I'm glad I check out. 😉 BTW, Bandit is a Beagle.
I rather dislike the term "neocons." Can we go with "scumbags?"
In my Warmonger Venn diagram, "neocon" falls within the larger "scumbag" concept.
Works for me!
RINOCRATS
necocons, I read that as narcocons...
I guess MaxBoot needs to learn what democracy means.
No one really likes democracy, because there are always other sides that might gain power from it.
That hat doesn't make you look smart, Max Boot and you need a reboot to prevent you from spewing out ignorant stupidity. The freedom of speech issues put aside, he doesn't seem to know that the US is not a democracy and was never supposed to be.
Even I know that and I'm a deplorable "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it" from Finland.
- Alexander Hamilton: “Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments,” & “If we incline too much to democracy we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of a dictatorship.”
Thomas Jefferson: “a democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49.”
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(Comment: This is what happened now except in reality it may be more like 1-15% of the people has taken away the rights of the other 85-99%.)
- James Madison: “(democracies) have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
- John Adams: “(democracy) never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
In the US, there are not so democratic elements as:
Electoral College, which purpose is to respect and represent the states as sovereign entities within our federal system.
Senate is similar. It was even more effective before the enactment of the 17th Amendment in 1913 (which subjected senators to direct election by voters rather than by individual state legislatures).
Finally, the least democratic institution of them all - the Supreme Court - where the judges are given lifetime appointments by the POTUS elected via the Electoral College and they're subject to no democratic oversight or elections. The last gift the system gave us all was the pedo-peddler Ketanx Jacksonx
This is an excellent compendium from the US Founders. Would you mind my copying most of it to my FB , with credit to you?
Dear I&K, of course! No need to credit me but you can mention a deplorable from Northern Finland! I did spend a year in KY (exchange student/ high school) back in 90/91 though and have nothing but good memories from there.
Bless you, for knowing so much about our government, that people who call the USA home, don't know. --- So, did'ja pick up that Southern drawl? 😉😋
Steve'n'seagulls from Finland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
Oh, my! Got the look down, fer shure! Good rendition and appropriate musical instruments, too! Great job! 🤗
scrumptious quotes and content. SaltyBeserker_fi!
Too bad most Americans don’t know this.
We’re a republic. Democracy is mob rule.
Well, you've got to admit, sometimes it seems like that.
I think mob is the only thing some folks can understand. Put angry in front of mob. It always reminds me of the Frankenstein movie of the mob with their torches. They didn’t care much for human experimentation, either.
Torches, pitch forks, hoes, and sticks! Setting the barn afire. 😂🤣 I love that visual! --- Them only understaning a mob is the exact reason the 2nd Ammendment is so important.
I find it reassuring that Elon Musk is frightening all the right people.
no matter what he eventually does, it is nice to see them frightened for a change
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"Among the words that the Woke have strategically manipulated in an important way is democracy. Of course, in nations like the United States and the other contemporary parliamentary democracies, we use democracy to enable republics, to which the Woke are generally strongly opposed. This isn’t the only reason for their incessant push for “democracy,” though, which is only comprehensible when you understand the relationship between equity (or communism) and democracy. To the Woke, if anyone or any group has any more power, money, or privilege than anyone else (as they see it), there is no equality, thus democracy is skewed. That is, for them, democracy presupposes equity (or communism)."
-James Lindsay
https://newdiscourses.com/2021/07/woke-manipulation-democracy/
Well done Richard. I was formulating a response to the cries of "Democracy," and you summed it up with a quote from Lindsay. These terms get confused and misused over time. We don't want a democracy! Democracies are evil in the extreme. We tie the demon "democracy" down within the framework of a republic, and still it tries to wiggle free. Do you want a majority of face diapered Karens deciding how you should live? Why do we want a republic you may ask. Because it is the best way we have come up with so far to protect RIGHTS. Remember this quote always: "A democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner. A republic is a well armed sheep contesting the vote."
who is the sheep quote from? Is that you Mr. Hounddog. (I can hear Elvis singing in my head)
It is only mine by adoption. I don't remember where I first heard it. As a piece of relevant trivia, the first president to call our country a "democracy" was Woodrow Wilson. It was under his watch that they began to dismantle the checks on democracy in the constitution. Yes, I know arguments can be made that our republic was under assault much earlier. However, this was a time of deliberate moves to enable the democracy component by squashing checks, such as elections of senators by the respective state legislatures.
Send Jackboot warmonger to moderate content in Mariupol asap
We need censorship for democracy
We need secret vote counting to give people power
We need wars for peace
We need discrimination to combat discrimination
A few lies for good cause won't hurt
It is safe and effective
‘We need censorship. Without it these damned Twitter people might raise questions about my latest war!’
More like Max Bootlicker amirite?
He's bootlicking The Overlords for a position as middle management for one of the re-education camps after The Great Reset.
I think you’re right. It’s virtue signaling for the resetters.
The jokes on him. They will despise him.
He misspelled “totalitarianism”.
God damn these people to hell. It was irritating five years ago -- now it's a sustained assault.
Saw this earlier on Twitter. I thought, "Must be a satire account." as I have zero clue who this person is. But no, of course not. And people agree with him! We're doomed...
Bravo! Funny he should say something like that when he works for Bezos. Regardless, I agreed with him in the original Russian.
I know this sounds like hyperbole, but someone who says what Boot says is a POS human being who is an enemy of democracy, and more importantly, an enemy of the republic and of freedom and liberty.
“As always, the best antidote to offensive speech is more speech. The Supreme Court could not be clearer about how fundamentally important free speech is to a functioning democracy." ~ the ACeffingLU got one right.
(Yes, I know, the SCOTUS and the ACLU were talking about *government* censorship, but the principles underlying those quoted comments are universal and undeniable.)
The ACLU is now not into free speech
True. That quote was from > 30 years ago, IIRC.
gatito bueno, you are a very good speller. It is a skill few have these days.
Hard to do with the various auto misspell features to apps out there.
Is that ... JackBoot?
First, I don’t want democracy to survive, as someone much smarter than me said “democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner”, America is a constitutional republic. If Mr. Musk does pull this off the first thing he should do is pull the blue check mark for all these so called journalists, if you are advocating for information suppression and censorship you are not a journalist, you are a propagandist.
Unauthorized opinion alert! Unauthorized opinion alert!
Mr. Orwell....paging Mr. Orwell!
We had to destroy the village to save it...
No real person has ever said the phrase "I really liked what Max Boot had to say about...".
Even the impostors tend to avoid that one because it's such an easy tell.
Why do I get the feeling these people don't really understand the meaning of the word "democracy"?
Their dictionary shifts definitions of words to fit the feeling of the day. Lots of words have literally had their definitions changed in real dictionaries recently.
One of the consequences of the swollen activist state where adult responsibilities have been outsourced (to the state) leaving a citizenry hollowed out and shrunken to that of infantilized grazers fearful of the concept of life without their "omniscient" nanny.
So now we can call them raisins or prunes. It fits. The shot shrunk their brains and other things, I guess.
hahahaha
I just said that about someone today who was on a tirade.
true. you have a way with words
"Our democracy" is the political code for "the collective".
Democracy = you vote for what I have decided for you. If you vote for what you decide for yourself = populism/Fascism.
It's in his name, he wants Maximum Boot on the necks of the peons, at all time. For saftey's sake, of course.
you have to follow stalin and mao to understand boots' and the liberals' "democracy"
We need more struggle sessions...
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these people use the words that feel good to mask the horrible ideas they want to inflict onto others
The mental gymnastics consistently performed by the left to justify their perception of reality is really quite remarkable…
Hey Max, just start your own!
Or...make a better offer to TWIT's shareholders!
The best argument I heard against free speech was by Contrapoints. Who argued even in a real town square you can't have absolute free speech, some more bellicose speakers, thoughts, and societal norms will silence more timid, delicate, or nuanced thoughts.
Somewhat ironically he deleted the video after transition operations and treatment. Someone re-uploaded though:
https://youtu.be/pMIDAUdQ56E
wow
Just WOW
Bizarro world!