I'm pretty sure it's always been, "You will own nothing and be happy." I feel like I've heard those words out of ol' Klaus' mouth. But to be fair, I can't find anything on the WEF site to back it up... unless it's been scrubbed. There is this video that could be a fake (though it looks like it was posted on a WEF facebook page): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10153920524981479
As an introvert, the WEF plan to host work meetings IN YOUR LIVING ROOM and have zero privacy is unthinkable. And wtf does not having privacy with your own thoughts even mean?
Thanks for your attempts at research. Of course, misquotes abound. But the best ones, even if not technically accurate or attributed to the wrong source, encapsulate a basic truth. From university, I recall the old saying about the "Face that launched a thousand ships." This comes from the sagas of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and refers to Queen Helen and the semi-mythic Trojan War. I admit I scarcely know the topic, but even that is sufficient here! There is, apparently some historic truth in those stories (wars among the various Greek city-states). The heroic deeds and supernatural? Probably embellishment.
Many other examples could be found, I'm sure. Did George Washington really chop down a cherry tree and then confess it,adding that he could not tell a lie? Probably not, but as a lesson in morality, it's priceless. Those with some familiarity with American history will know that Washington was a great figure an literally had a cult following long after his death. His reputation is quite tarnished in today's Woke world, since he was a nasty rich white man and even owned slaves.
No, I always like to check my sources, so thanks for the nudge! Yeah, I don't even need to fly in their Lear jets... just seeing how happy they are owning nothing will be rewarding enough.
“Land Ownership Isn’t An Inalienable Right” (That one is almost a direct quote from one of Chinada’s minsters)
2022 news in a nutshell. What’s most depressing is that the oligarchs aren’t even clever with their messaging or machinations. (Most) People are just so astonishingly lazy and dumb that they don’t challenge or question these directives in the slightest.
Yeah I must say I guffawed out loud when I read that WEF article touting psychologists new pronouncement that "a good life doesn't have to be happy, or even meaningful." [I'll drop the link to where I read that, because yes, that was the actual headline ffs].
So we went from: "You'll own nothing, and be happy"
To: "And to be honest, do you even need the happiness? ...Maybe we'll just take that one away from you too."
The sheer brazenness of these wannabe world-dictators is something to behold. They can Fotroxt Oscar, the lot of them.
When I was banned from a certain platform, I went on again months later with a new email and pw: FoxtrotU. A sophomoric satisfaction I know, but, Whiskey Tango Hotel.
Here (at least I haven't been censored at all on SubStack, to my knowledge) we still have the freedom to use those dirty words.* Here, let me try them (even in a neutral way like a dictionary):
Foxtrot Oscar = [I'm assuming} Fuck Off
Whiskey Tango Hotel = [' " ] what the hell
I do occasionally use some of the cuss words in my post, but as a chef would use black pepper or some other spice: to add a dash of flavor to a meal. Contrast this with various types of "entertainment" (and I use the term very loosely!) where the swear words are the main course.
*Re censorship. While I realize that the owner of a blog has the right to moderate comments, I have a very low tolerance for getting muzzled. I praise Gato and others here for allowing apparently unfettered comment. If that ever changes, I will almost certainly depart.
Whether you think abortion right or wrong, the power to legislate that has been returned to the States, which is much more in alignment with one fundamental concept of how our nation was set up via the Constitution.
2022? Then you are blessed, truly, if your "elites&experts" didn't sprout such gibberish before now.
Here's one from a politician over here: "If you can send a man to the Moon you can drill a tunnel through a ridge!" 1990s.
Another one, upon being asked how 400 meter tall windmills were to be built without concrete:
"Just use lumber instead!" 2010s.
Yet one more: "Why don't we put little propellers on cars to make electricity from the wind that starts blowing when you drive!" 1990s.
And this: "The capitalists forced the workers to work to receive their wages!" 2000s.
Or this: "Taxi cabs are a form of public transport!" (Said upon being confronted with spending more than $5 500/year of tax money on taxi cabs driving her about 1 500 meters from home to parliament.) 1990s.
And this: "Internet is just a passing fad!" 1990s
And yet more: "We must ensure the people cannot get information from non-state sources, how else can we ensure they receive fair and unbiased information?" Said in public, on air, no irony or anything, in the 1980s.
This was said on live parliament-TV: "Sodomy with animals should be legal if the animal is of such a kind it doesn't get hurt!" 2010s.
And this one too: "We must make sure the population of lions in Africa increases to combat overpopulation there". 1990s.
Out of a sense of fairness, I've elected to not note sex and party of the quoted persons. All of the above are real. Caveat: I've translated on the fly, without context. But is it any wonder we are in dire straits over here?
Sadly, its not just "over here". Its everywhere! A significant percentage of those who deem themselves our lords and masters, and many of the "experts" that serve them, appear to lack some kind of essential connection between their mouths and their brains. (To be fair - in some cases, it may be that they simply lack a brain).
Given that we seem to be turning virtually everything into a public health or medical crisis, it might behoove us to investigate this phenomenon. Perhaps there is a vaccine...
Find the old comedy, "Rat Race." Those high rollers in the upper floors of the casino who chortle with glee as they play with (and observe) the minds of the peons scrambling below was a comedy advance billing for our lives today. Proposed 2022 title: Gaslit Race. And it is still a comedy for the high rollers of today.
Some real gems in there! These should be compiled on a web site. Of course, they probably are, by The Law of Everything Has Already Been Done by Somebody Else but you Can't Find It.
Allow me to add some twisted humor:
(1) If bestiality is wrong, why do they call a farmer's skill "animal husbandry"?
(2) It's a fact that some brands of condom are made from sheep's intestine. [Yeah, you know where I'm going with this...] Some smartass (not me, I swear!) said "Why not just cut out the middle man?" 🤡
(3) It was (I think) Voltaire who noted that, unique among ancient peoples, it was the Jews who required a commandment from their God specifically forbidding them to lay with animals.
Music suggestion: Bob Rivers' spoof of AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap" which is, of course "Dirty Deeds Done with Sheep," probaby on YouTube and elsewhere.
"3) It was (I think) Voltaire who noted that, unique among ancient peoples, it was the Jews who required a commandment from their God specifically forbidding them to lay with animals."
Did you know that the Pukhtoons (Afghani and Pakistani) claim to be descended from the lost tribes of Israel?
I had a friend mention how another friend got covid for the second time recently. She was like “I didn’t think that happened!” and I said “ohhhhh it’s happening” (kept my vaxx comments to myself though...she knows from when I used to rant/*educate* on fb). Anyway, then she laughed and said, “I stopped paying attention to all this stuff”. It’s people like that who I just don’t get. I mean, work, life, family...busy-ness...but if you’re not Paying Attention NOW well what’s it gonna take?!
Smoke, I have a covidiot friend who has had at least 3 if not 4 jabs & she’s been sick w/ covid for a week or more, took that Paxlovid like Faux-Xi & has no idea why she’s still testing positive on the antigen tests. I think even that evil lawn troll admitted he got rebound from that but I just keep my mouth shut….
I try to mind my language so I won't devolve here into scatalogical analogies and vulgar frothing.
So I'll just say buckle on the tender parts armor, and do it fast, 'cause they sure want to fuck us real hard, forever, and so far we've been letting 'em do it. Generally speaking, of course.
Yes, it is a complete denial of reality, but it's also a denial of the creation of God. Instead of believing in the objective reality of what God has created, we're forcing/encouraging people to believe in what man dictates. So... putting man above God.
(Not speaking of the rulers): You may have allies at least politically and in other "worldly" aspects, who are secular/agnostic/atheist in their (lack of) religious beliefs. Are you going to paint us with the same brush as enemies, when actually we probably have 85% or 95% beliefs in common, save that we believe in one less God than you do?
To use an example recently used: There are only two human sexes (leaving aside what to do with the XXY hermaphrodite for now). Consider that for descriptive value, both of the following are of equal worth to describe reality:
Man and woman exist because that is how God ordained it.
Male and female exist because of the process of billions of years of evolution.
Crucial point here: we are NOT arguing what the cause or origin of the two sexes is! We disagree on that. But we DO agree that there are two human sexes, don't we?
Now, I submit to you that much of the evil, the Satanic if you will, is that we struggle against principalities and powers that deny that physical reality (of two sexes). In other words, our common enemy is asserting as true that which is a blatant denial of observable, testable reality (for the secular scientific minded) as well as God's truth (for the faithful.)
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”
Theodore Dalrymple wrote that in one of his essays in 'Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses'. Pretty spot on I think.
About 40 years ago, I visited Bulgaria. People there shook their heads up and down to signify 'no' and side to side to signify 'yes' (we do the opposite). At the time, I didn't know any better and thought it was just a funny quirk.
Years later, after communism fell in eastern Europe, I met a youngish man formerly from Bulgaria who told me that the communists wanted to be opposite to the west in every way possible so they forced that 'funny quirk' on people. He didn't think it was funny and after hearing that, neither did I.
Oh wow, that's quite something. It's incredible what human beings can do to each other, the level of oppression and sadism they will force upon their fellow man when they get drunk on power.
And personally I find it much worse when they tell you it's for your own good at the same time. I'd rather be cut down by raw violence than nannied and harassed into submission by my 'betters', having to participate in pantomimes I do not believe in. The first is at least honest violence. The latter is dishonest violence, and I think Dalrymple is right, that forcing people to participate in it is a kind of humiliation and degradation of the mind and soul that really breaks you.
Thanks for that anecdote Vanda, super interesting and I never heard that before.
[From snippets read elsewhere*] Apparently the increasingly ridiculous assertions have deliberate intents. Not the least is that trust in once-trusted institutions is eroded if not outright destroyed. When the WHO officially says (in so many words) that sex (it's NOT "gender", that is yet another Newspeak term...) is malleable and not just male or female (leave aside the rare XXY issue), that men can get pregnant, those are prime examples.
But there is, supposedly, a second purpose. That is at the individual level: when a person is bombarded with a steady diet of half-truths and outright lies, his psyche suffers in some ways. At the very least, a decrease in trust not only of the messenger, but of many things he used to trust, social bonds, religion, friendships, perhaps even family.
And yes, ultimately the demoralized citizen will believe, or at least be beaten into claiming to believe, almost any absurdity that comes from perceived authority. This was, if you will, one of the "morals" of the novel "1984." Winston, Julia and the other dissidents realized the lies of the Party, but they were arrested and tortured into affirming the tenets that the Party demanded.
*[Added} in fact, jjinUK64 mentions the exact topic a little bit below here.
You left out, "Here, try this other great drug that counteracts the side effects."
Which is how apparently many people end up on a dozen different prescription drugs these days.
Thank God my crappy Harvard Health hmo dr left me to die nearly 50 years ago. I have avoided insurance & drs ever since. Saved a bundle of $$ & my health!
Don't forget the hybrid or "super" immunity you get after you get infected with the virus that the "vaccine" which was designed in record time but no corners were cut, protects against. 😏
Damn - the gymnastics it takes to defend the Biden Administration and America run by Democrats. Republicans have many of their own faults, but we were much better off under a Trump presidency and he was somewhat over the top at times…
Astute observation and the type, alas that puts people like us on the "cattle car" list*.
If I may add my $0.02: and those bozos, or their political forebears, were also the ones who said the $025**, $0.50, the $1.00, the $2.00, the 4.00, etc. were too.
*I, for one will not go without a fight, if I get that chance. My dad was a man of few words but much wisdom. He had many sayings I've never heard elsewhere. Relevant here and one that I'm sure would obtain a seal of approval from our pseudo-feline host: "In the jungle, there are big cats and smaller cats. The big cat could take the smaller cat any time he wants. But the cost to do so is exceedingly high. That's why there are still small cats."
**Yes boys and girls, the Federal minimum wage started at a quarter an hour, way back in 1938. Need I point out the dollar has lost quite a bit of its value over many decades?
Also, adding my $0.02 (which ain’t worth what it used to be), remember that minimum wage was originally conceived out of the eugenics movement.
They knew it would price the lowest-skilled out of the job market, and the thinking was, if those low-skilled “undesirables” couldn’t afford to live, they wouldn’t reproduce.
Wage price inflation is a subset of cost price inflation.
But yeah, it's asinine to lead with it, but what you gonna do if you're running the system and you wanna bail out all your shitty policies that led to this?
"It couldn't happen here" they tell us...and just look at the Netherlands.
The good side to such widespread misery here in the U.S. is that it will hopefully get voters to reconsider which policies they are voting for. I can't wait for Trump to announce his inevitable bid for a second term with Regan's famous taunt at Carter, "Are you better off now than four years ago?"
Yeah, We're probably past the point of elasticity for Dalio's "beautiful deleveraging scenarios so a lot more gonna have to experience more pain all around.
Meanwhile our understanding of nature, the universe, and everything is trending up and up. It's the best of times it's the worst of times. Adjust your mentality accordingly.
And the ultimate problem is CPI won't drop from 9% to 7% because the 'inflation fighting' policies print and spend more money, so we'll end up going from 9% to 11% CPI inflation while you get your raise cut.
Business requires tough choices sometimes. As a wise real estate investor once said: "If you don't have the stomach to put a woman and her baby out on the street into the snow on Christmas Eve, you have absolutely no business being a landlord."
Those are buzzwords of Keynsian (or other "modern" economic theory). They are not entirely valid. Let's look at it via the older "Austrian" view (of which I have no formal training, but at least some familiarity.) In a society with "honest money" which (for argument) we can define as a fixed supply of money linked to (or actually made of) gold or silver, it is true that prices will rise or fall, but only due to supply and demand, the basic law of economics. Your first sentence would be more accurately stated:
"The cost of wages is a subset of the cost of the finished good/service." (This is true regardless of whether there is inflation/deflation/stable prices.)
Also, it begs the question: Just where does this mysterious "inflation" originate? Again, reference the fundamental law of supply and demand, [Price] inflation is NOT an increase in prices, although prices increase. It is a DECREASE IN THE VALUE OF MONEY as judged by the marketplace.
It's amazing how far the newer economists strayed from the few, simple laws of basic economics. For example, they bandy about such terms as "cost-push inflation." Again, looking at that in basic terms, it's natural that if a producer's cost rise, he will normally raise the price of his good/service to recoup the increased costs of his inputs. Or how about "demand-pull inflation?" It should beg the question: WHY are his inputs rising in cost?
Again, it's trivially true that, all else equal, an increase in demand will tend to raise prices for what is in demand. But all to easily is forgotten: there are upper limits on how much a vendor can charge, simply because there is an upper limit on what the buyer can pay! And don't fall for the claim that some costs are non-discretionary. Now, again it's true there are luxuries that can be dropped and necessities that "must be" bought. But again, dig deeper. What was just stated is a re-ordering of priorities. Just because someone has a "need" does no automatically mean he will be able to meet it! It only means that such purchases will be his highest priority, IF he has the money to do so. Again, this is basic supply and demand. It sounds harsh, I know, but that's how the real world works. Yes, people starve or go without other essential products. But as a wise man once noted, the government can't wish goods or service into existence any more than you or I can.
The above explains more or less how a "normal" economy operates, in the presence of (usually) government generation of more money ( = increase supply of money). However, sometimes there are exceptional conditions. Here are a couple examples.
There have been periods in history where a nation was on a gold (and/or silver) standard and yet experienced a general rise or drop of prices. This was often due to a rise or fall in the supply of the money itself. For example, the Spanish during their pillaging of the Americas brought home so much gold that the increased supply actually led to general price hikes in other goods/services.
More common, including in the modern time, is this: If the public is generally saving/hoarding money, they'll spend less. This happened with dire consequences in the Depression. And to a lesser extent, during recession. The banks/government can create more money (credit) but if most of it stays in bank accounts, relatively little is spent bidding up the prices of goods and services. To a large extent, this is what happened in the past few decades. New money was created and a lot of that chased stocks and other financial assets, inflating their average value far more than most everyday goods and services.
This is one way to get us to "You will own nothing..."
And like it
The hell we will America is built on
Owning land property stuff
So little regard for the actual motivation of people. The State will
Take everything and we will own nothing. Klaus give up your Italian suits your Lear jet your mansions
Your yacht and then we shall see
If you like being a pedestrian with
A back pack and sleeping bag.
Shame on these fuckers who tell
Us what’s good for us!
Who elected you God ?
Klaus didn't mean he would own eat bugs and love it. He's a stakeholder that stuff is for "food eaters".
he probably doesn't eat after his transhuman treatments
Well he can eat my bugs and gates fake meats too.
I think he said “you’ll own nothing
And like it”
And I am assuming he eats food too?
So does that make him another useless eater?
Ahhh a stakeholder ain’t that special
Well a wooden stake to the vampires
Heart
One less useless eater
Meet your maker vampire!
"You kill the rich and you con the poor,
You stalk the streets with your .45,
But no one's gonna take the man alive,
Cause he's the man who built America."
-- Horslips, "The Man Who Built America"
To which I say, "You first, Klaus."
But I'm beginning to think there's a reason he never said, "We will own nothing...".
Perhaps the response to WTF goons should be "You will be nothing and we will be happy."
Leave us the F alone ….
And take your damn carbon footprints to another planet.
To dismantle the WEF WHO
global elites who own the planet
Your days are numbered.
Tik Tok the grim reaper is the
Great reset equalizer.
You will be nothing but dust
Like the rest of us.
In the meantime keep your cold
Soulless pedophile meat hooks
To yourselves.
Fine substitution of pronouns!!
LOL.
Thanks for the conversation
Hope to do more sometime
Duffmcandie@yahoo.Com
Yeah Klaus you first.
Sooo did he not say “We will own
Nothing”
Am I mistaken ?
I'm pretty sure it's always been, "You will own nothing and be happy." I feel like I've heard those words out of ol' Klaus' mouth. But to be fair, I can't find anything on the WEF site to back it up... unless it's been scrubbed. There is this video that could be a fake (though it looks like it was posted on a WEF facebook page): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10153920524981479
But beyond that, the original (I think) article that it came from (or maybe it came from the Great Reset book?), looks like it has either been scrubbed or never used those words: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/8-predictions-for-the-world-in-2030/
Interestingly, when you click on the link for item #1, which is the relevant item, it goes to a "sorry this page cannot be found" page... so I pulled it up on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20201120034201/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-really-remember-what-that-is/
Sounds delightful.
It’s sounds like being absorbed by the Borg.
Completely opposite of
Self independence and I get how reliant we are now on everyone. But strangers are not meeting
In my living room or
Monitoring my dreams
🐱
They make it sound delightful
Everything is free. Yet no privacy
That’s kinda of invasive. Especially if your an introvert.
Or want your own thoughts.
As an introvert, the WEF plan to host work meetings IN YOUR LIVING ROOM and have zero privacy is unthinkable. And wtf does not having privacy with your own thoughts even mean?
Read the original article.
My guess is you have no original
Thoughts because the good folks
WEF make sure your thoughtless
With no privacy
Nancy W provided link …
"Or want your own thoughts." That part.
Exactly ….I can hear the marketing
Saying you will not need to be
Burdened with your thoughts anymore you’ll be an empty chamber
And you’ll be happy.
This really means you have no free will you’ll be completely dependent
On us the State.
Funny cause I have this book called
Extreme ownership of taking your
Life in the opposite of Klaus and
Soooooo
If nobody owns anything then
Who owns everything ?
Thanks for your attempts at research. Of course, misquotes abound. But the best ones, even if not technically accurate or attributed to the wrong source, encapsulate a basic truth. From university, I recall the old saying about the "Face that launched a thousand ships." This comes from the sagas of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and refers to Queen Helen and the semi-mythic Trojan War. I admit I scarcely know the topic, but even that is sufficient here! There is, apparently some historic truth in those stories (wars among the various Greek city-states). The heroic deeds and supernatural? Probably embellishment.
Many other examples could be found, I'm sure. Did George Washington really chop down a cherry tree and then confess it,adding that he could not tell a lie? Probably not, but as a lesson in morality, it's priceless. Those with some familiarity with American history will know that Washington was a great figure an literally had a cult following long after his death. His reputation is quite tarnished in today's Woke world, since he was a nasty rich white man and even owned slaves.
That’s sounds right. You’ll own nothing and be happy. Didn’t make
You go through all that tho.
I like your first response best
You first Klaus. Demonstrate true
Leadership and let us fly in your
Lear jet. Roam your castles.
Promise to keep our carbon footprint
To a minimum
No, I always like to check my sources, so thanks for the nudge! Yeah, I don't even need to fly in their Lear jets... just seeing how happy they are owning nothing will be rewarding enough.
Very funny agreed high five Nancy
Touché
yeh but it's the talmudic dogma at play here, same as under bolshevism.
“Happiness Isn’t Essential to a Fulfilled Life.”
“Bugs: the Wonder Protein You Never Heard Of”
“Everything Causes Heart Attacks” (Except Vaccines)
“Everything Causes Strokes” (Again, sans above)
“Land Ownership Isn’t An Inalienable Right” (That one is almost a direct quote from one of Chinada’s minsters)
2022 news in a nutshell. What’s most depressing is that the oligarchs aren’t even clever with their messaging or machinations. (Most) People are just so astonishingly lazy and dumb that they don’t challenge or question these directives in the slightest.
Yeah I must say I guffawed out loud when I read that WEF article touting psychologists new pronouncement that "a good life doesn't have to be happy, or even meaningful." [I'll drop the link to where I read that, because yes, that was the actual headline ffs].
So we went from: "You'll own nothing, and be happy"
To: "And to be honest, do you even need the happiness? ...Maybe we'll just take that one away from you too."
The sheer brazenness of these wannabe world-dictators is something to behold. They can Fotroxt Oscar, the lot of them.
https://rebekahbarnett.substack.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-you-wont-be
Foxtrot Oscar - LOL.
When I was banned from a certain platform, I went on again months later with a new email and pw: FoxtrotU. A sophomoric satisfaction I know, but, Whiskey Tango Hotel.
Hahah!
Simple pleasures :)
Brilliant use of military lingo. Being X, I really like it. Brought a smile
Here (at least I haven't been censored at all on SubStack, to my knowledge) we still have the freedom to use those dirty words.* Here, let me try them (even in a neutral way like a dictionary):
Foxtrot Oscar = [I'm assuming} Fuck Off
Whiskey Tango Hotel = [' " ] what the hell
I do occasionally use some of the cuss words in my post, but as a chef would use black pepper or some other spice: to add a dash of flavor to a meal. Contrast this with various types of "entertainment" (and I use the term very loosely!) where the swear words are the main course.
*Re censorship. While I realize that the owner of a blog has the right to moderate comments, I have a very low tolerance for getting muzzled. I praise Gato and others here for allowing apparently unfettered comment. If that ever changes, I will almost certainly depart.
Don't forget, abortion is a "constitutional," ie, inalienable, right.
Funny that abortion seems to be a right that absolutely cannot be challenged but any other right is not so inalienable. Think about that.
Whether you think abortion right or wrong, the power to legislate that has been returned to the States, which is much more in alignment with one fundamental concept of how our nation was set up via the Constitution.
"Bugs: The Other Dark Meat"
LOL.
And ... White Meat ???
Tastes like chicken 🐔
2022? Then you are blessed, truly, if your "elites&experts" didn't sprout such gibberish before now.
Here's one from a politician over here: "If you can send a man to the Moon you can drill a tunnel through a ridge!" 1990s.
Another one, upon being asked how 400 meter tall windmills were to be built without concrete:
"Just use lumber instead!" 2010s.
Yet one more: "Why don't we put little propellers on cars to make electricity from the wind that starts blowing when you drive!" 1990s.
And this: "The capitalists forced the workers to work to receive their wages!" 2000s.
Or this: "Taxi cabs are a form of public transport!" (Said upon being confronted with spending more than $5 500/year of tax money on taxi cabs driving her about 1 500 meters from home to parliament.) 1990s.
And this: "Internet is just a passing fad!" 1990s
And yet more: "We must ensure the people cannot get information from non-state sources, how else can we ensure they receive fair and unbiased information?" Said in public, on air, no irony or anything, in the 1980s.
This was said on live parliament-TV: "Sodomy with animals should be legal if the animal is of such a kind it doesn't get hurt!" 2010s.
And this one too: "We must make sure the population of lions in Africa increases to combat overpopulation there". 1990s.
Out of a sense of fairness, I've elected to not note sex and party of the quoted persons. All of the above are real. Caveat: I've translated on the fly, without context. But is it any wonder we are in dire straits over here?
Sadly, its not just "over here". Its everywhere! A significant percentage of those who deem themselves our lords and masters, and many of the "experts" that serve them, appear to lack some kind of essential connection between their mouths and their brains. (To be fair - in some cases, it may be that they simply lack a brain).
Given that we seem to be turning virtually everything into a public health or medical crisis, it might behoove us to investigate this phenomenon. Perhaps there is a vaccine...
Find the old comedy, "Rat Race." Those high rollers in the upper floors of the casino who chortle with glee as they play with (and observe) the minds of the peons scrambling below was a comedy advance billing for our lives today. Proposed 2022 title: Gaslit Race. And it is still a comedy for the high rollers of today.
If you've never read Richard Armour, try to get a copy of "It All Started With Marx." I myself started with "It All Started With Columbus."
Necessary antidotes to the gallows humor inadvertently produced by the *experts* you quote...
Some real gems in there! These should be compiled on a web site. Of course, they probably are, by The Law of Everything Has Already Been Done by Somebody Else but you Can't Find It.
Allow me to add some twisted humor:
(1) If bestiality is wrong, why do they call a farmer's skill "animal husbandry"?
(2) It's a fact that some brands of condom are made from sheep's intestine. [Yeah, you know where I'm going with this...] Some smartass (not me, I swear!) said "Why not just cut out the middle man?" 🤡
(3) It was (I think) Voltaire who noted that, unique among ancient peoples, it was the Jews who required a commandment from their God specifically forbidding them to lay with animals.
Music suggestion: Bob Rivers' spoof of AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap" which is, of course "Dirty Deeds Done with Sheep," probaby on YouTube and elsewhere.
"3) It was (I think) Voltaire who noted that, unique among ancient peoples, it was the Jews who required a commandment from their God specifically forbidding them to lay with animals."
Did you know that the Pukhtoons (Afghani and Pakistani) claim to be descended from the lost tribes of Israel?
I had a friend mention how another friend got covid for the second time recently. She was like “I didn’t think that happened!” and I said “ohhhhh it’s happening” (kept my vaxx comments to myself though...she knows from when I used to rant/*educate* on fb). Anyway, then she laughed and said, “I stopped paying attention to all this stuff”. It’s people like that who I just don’t get. I mean, work, life, family...busy-ness...but if you’re not Paying Attention NOW well what’s it gonna take?!
Smoke, I have a covidiot friend who has had at least 3 if not 4 jabs & she’s been sick w/ covid for a week or more, took that Paxlovid like Faux-Xi & has no idea why she’s still testing positive on the antigen tests. I think even that evil lawn troll admitted he got rebound from that but I just keep my mouth shut….
don't forget that hunger is good for people :)
Lots of dumbasses out there!
I try to mind my language so I won't devolve here into scatalogical analogies and vulgar frothing.
So I'll just say buckle on the tender parts armor, and do it fast, 'cause they sure want to fuck us real hard, forever, and so far we've been letting 'em do it. Generally speaking, of course.
Way to rein it in SCA. Haha.
I thought she was pretty restrained...
I'm going to use that!
BOHICA
I remember reading once about improvements to chastity belts that might make "come on and try it, big boy" an invitation best left unaccepted.
This gives insight into understanding why the push for 2+2=5 and men can give birth. If you believe those first two you will believe anything.
It's not only "you'll believe anything."
Yes, it is a complete denial of reality, but it's also a denial of the creation of God. Instead of believing in the objective reality of what God has created, we're forcing/encouraging people to believe in what man dictates. So... putting man above God.
Which to me, sound... IDK. Satanic?
“Did God say….?” Yep-all the way back to Satan’s original lie…..
If you see Yuval Noah Harari in videos, that's pretty much his position: man's creation above God's creation.
I'm fully aware of that. Yuval Noah Narari absolutely terrifies me.
He's somewhat less terrifying when you realize what a sad, sick, self absorbed little man he is.
(Not speaking of the rulers): You may have allies at least politically and in other "worldly" aspects, who are secular/agnostic/atheist in their (lack of) religious beliefs. Are you going to paint us with the same brush as enemies, when actually we probably have 85% or 95% beliefs in common, save that we believe in one less God than you do?
To use an example recently used: There are only two human sexes (leaving aside what to do with the XXY hermaphrodite for now). Consider that for descriptive value, both of the following are of equal worth to describe reality:
Man and woman exist because that is how God ordained it.
Male and female exist because of the process of billions of years of evolution.
Crucial point here: we are NOT arguing what the cause or origin of the two sexes is! We disagree on that. But we DO agree that there are two human sexes, don't we?
Now, I submit to you that much of the evil, the Satanic if you will, is that we struggle against principalities and powers that deny that physical reality (of two sexes). In other words, our common enemy is asserting as true that which is a blatant denial of observable, testable reality (for the secular scientific minded) as well as God's truth (for the faithful.)
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”
Theodore Dalrymple wrote that in one of his essays in 'Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses'. Pretty spot on I think.
About 40 years ago, I visited Bulgaria. People there shook their heads up and down to signify 'no' and side to side to signify 'yes' (we do the opposite). At the time, I didn't know any better and thought it was just a funny quirk.
Years later, after communism fell in eastern Europe, I met a youngish man formerly from Bulgaria who told me that the communists wanted to be opposite to the west in every way possible so they forced that 'funny quirk' on people. He didn't think it was funny and after hearing that, neither did I.
Oh wow, that's quite something. It's incredible what human beings can do to each other, the level of oppression and sadism they will force upon their fellow man when they get drunk on power.
And personally I find it much worse when they tell you it's for your own good at the same time. I'd rather be cut down by raw violence than nannied and harassed into submission by my 'betters', having to participate in pantomimes I do not believe in. The first is at least honest violence. The latter is dishonest violence, and I think Dalrymple is right, that forcing people to participate in it is a kind of humiliation and degradation of the mind and soul that really breaks you.
Thanks for that anecdote Vanda, super interesting and I never heard that before.
now they are trying to force you to say that men can get pregnant. it's kinda the same.
[From snippets read elsewhere*] Apparently the increasingly ridiculous assertions have deliberate intents. Not the least is that trust in once-trusted institutions is eroded if not outright destroyed. When the WHO officially says (in so many words) that sex (it's NOT "gender", that is yet another Newspeak term...) is malleable and not just male or female (leave aside the rare XXY issue), that men can get pregnant, those are prime examples.
But there is, supposedly, a second purpose. That is at the individual level: when a person is bombarded with a steady diet of half-truths and outright lies, his psyche suffers in some ways. At the very least, a decrease in trust not only of the messenger, but of many things he used to trust, social bonds, religion, friendships, perhaps even family.
And yes, ultimately the demoralized citizen will believe, or at least be beaten into claiming to believe, almost any absurdity that comes from perceived authority. This was, if you will, one of the "morals" of the novel "1984." Winston, Julia and the other dissidents realized the lies of the Party, but they were arrested and tortured into affirming the tenets that the Party demanded.
*[Added} in fact, jjinUK64 mentions the exact topic a little bit below here.
So... 2022 is a combination of 1984, Atlas Shrugged and The Book of Revelation?
Great.
And not to forget: drag shows are good for 3 year olds…
The same one that says getting COVID after vaccination is a sign the vaccine is doing what it was designed to do.
Well, a moment of unintentional honesty on their part.
they do similar with all medications.
Patient: Damn I feel like crap after starting this med, Doc.
Doc: PERFECT! It proves the medication is working.
You left out, "Here, try this other great drug that counteracts the side effects."
Which is how apparently many people end up on a dozen different prescription drugs these days.
Thank God my crappy Harvard Health hmo dr left me to die nearly 50 years ago. I have avoided insurance & drs ever since. Saved a bundle of $$ & my health!
👍 Yep, you're right. That's the game
Don't forget the hybrid or "super" immunity you get after you get infected with the virus that the "vaccine" which was designed in record time but no corners were cut, protects against. 😏
you're one day closer to dying. that could be a good thing.
You know ,that statement makes me think you're as tired of all of this as I am.
I don’t know how we keep from, ramming the toothbrush down our throats every morning.
My kids told me to stop saying I was ready to go be with Jesus since this covid crap started.
Damn - the gymnastics it takes to defend the Biden Administration and America run by Democrats. Republicans have many of their own faults, but we were much better off under a Trump presidency and he was somewhat over the top at times…
Aren’t these the same bozos telling us the $15 min wage is right and necessary?
Softening the target to accept UBI.
Astute observation and the type, alas that puts people like us on the "cattle car" list*.
If I may add my $0.02: and those bozos, or their political forebears, were also the ones who said the $025**, $0.50, the $1.00, the $2.00, the 4.00, etc. were too.
*I, for one will not go without a fight, if I get that chance. My dad was a man of few words but much wisdom. He had many sayings I've never heard elsewhere. Relevant here and one that I'm sure would obtain a seal of approval from our pseudo-feline host: "In the jungle, there are big cats and smaller cats. The big cat could take the smaller cat any time he wants. But the cost to do so is exceedingly high. That's why there are still small cats."
**Yes boys and girls, the Federal minimum wage started at a quarter an hour, way back in 1938. Need I point out the dollar has lost quite a bit of its value over many decades?
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You dad sounds like a sharp tack. I too would not go without a fight.
Also, adding my $0.02 (which ain’t worth what it used to be), remember that minimum wage was originally conceived out of the eugenics movement.
They knew it would price the lowest-skilled out of the job market, and the thinking was, if those low-skilled “undesirables” couldn’t afford to live, they wouldn’t reproduce.
Enter the welfare state…
I can also see a headline: “That raise you are wanting could cause a heart attack, be happy if you don’t get it”
HAHAHAA!! LOVE IT!
The 'slower wage growth' will be about as effective as the mask the barista is wearing.
That would be the School of Gaslighting
Obviously only a democrat would believe that bullshit
Wow! They really think we’re a special kind of stupid, don’t they?
Well, unfortunately, there are people who will buy it.
That headline is specious, master-level propaganda. Vague, just a dash of truth. I analyze it in detail elsewhere.
Wage price inflation is a subset of cost price inflation.
But yeah, it's asinine to lead with it, but what you gonna do if you're running the system and you wanna bail out all your shitty policies that led to this?
yes, but they cancel out nominally and wages are already rising less than CPI by a wide margin so this seems a particularly inapt talking point.
"we've cut your raise from 4% to 2% so you can better handle the drop in CPI from 9% to 7%!"
It's worse; effective wages were down 4.4% yesterday with a 9.1% inflation handle.
Using unrigged CPI calculation - real ones - before Clinton admin - would be at an effective rate of 18% +.
So net negative is roughly 21% when all factors combined.
In other words: Hyperinflation.
We are in uncharted territory. Even during tge Hyperinflation of the Carter Era, wages were increasing 5-7%.
Welcome to Sri Lanka.
No shit right?
This can't go on very much longer or we may have to take matters in our own hands
"It couldn't happen here" they tell us...and just look at the Netherlands.
The good side to such widespread misery here in the U.S. is that it will hopefully get voters to reconsider which policies they are voting for. I can't wait for Trump to announce his inevitable bid for a second term with Regan's famous taunt at Carter, "Are you better off now than four years ago?"
Spin that.
Yeah, We're probably past the point of elasticity for Dalio's "beautiful deleveraging scenarios so a lot more gonna have to experience more pain all around.
Meanwhile our understanding of nature, the universe, and everything is trending up and up. It's the best of times it's the worst of times. Adjust your mentality accordingly.
4% raise! I haven't worked anywhere that would give over a 3% raise since 1991! That's for exemplary work, too!
And the ultimate problem is CPI won't drop from 9% to 7% because the 'inflation fighting' policies print and spend more money, so we'll end up going from 9% to 11% CPI inflation while you get your raise cut.
And they're going to go after sub-corps in this next trillion dollar package. More taxes for entrepreneurs.
While there leaving C-corps alone.
They're trying to run us out of business SimComm
That's why I've been living like they're going to run me out of business for the last 15 years.
We should not like any of these comments.
Me too. And that's one of the big factors why my wife and I made a 2 hour decision to move to Florida.
Worse yet. I'm firing people. Which keeps me up at night.
I'm not the only one.
Add unemployment to that...and well, raise-cuts become a non factor
Business requires tough choices sometimes. As a wise real estate investor once said: "If you don't have the stomach to put a woman and her baby out on the street into the snow on Christmas Eve, you have absolutely no business being a landlord."
Been in business 25 years. Hired and fired a lot people.
Indeed you have to have intestinal fortitude.
If you have to make cuts; cut deep and fast.
It's better for all parties.
I'm also a landlord. I have a heart. So decisions of such nature are difficult, but at times necessary.
Those are buzzwords of Keynsian (or other "modern" economic theory). They are not entirely valid. Let's look at it via the older "Austrian" view (of which I have no formal training, but at least some familiarity.) In a society with "honest money" which (for argument) we can define as a fixed supply of money linked to (or actually made of) gold or silver, it is true that prices will rise or fall, but only due to supply and demand, the basic law of economics. Your first sentence would be more accurately stated:
"The cost of wages is a subset of the cost of the finished good/service." (This is true regardless of whether there is inflation/deflation/stable prices.)
Also, it begs the question: Just where does this mysterious "inflation" originate? Again, reference the fundamental law of supply and demand, [Price] inflation is NOT an increase in prices, although prices increase. It is a DECREASE IN THE VALUE OF MONEY as judged by the marketplace.
It's amazing how far the newer economists strayed from the few, simple laws of basic economics. For example, they bandy about such terms as "cost-push inflation." Again, looking at that in basic terms, it's natural that if a producer's cost rise, he will normally raise the price of his good/service to recoup the increased costs of his inputs. Or how about "demand-pull inflation?" It should beg the question: WHY are his inputs rising in cost?
Again, it's trivially true that, all else equal, an increase in demand will tend to raise prices for what is in demand. But all to easily is forgotten: there are upper limits on how much a vendor can charge, simply because there is an upper limit on what the buyer can pay! And don't fall for the claim that some costs are non-discretionary. Now, again it's true there are luxuries that can be dropped and necessities that "must be" bought. But again, dig deeper. What was just stated is a re-ordering of priorities. Just because someone has a "need" does no automatically mean he will be able to meet it! It only means that such purchases will be his highest priority, IF he has the money to do so. Again, this is basic supply and demand. It sounds harsh, I know, but that's how the real world works. Yes, people starve or go without other essential products. But as a wise man once noted, the government can't wish goods or service into existence any more than you or I can.
The above explains more or less how a "normal" economy operates, in the presence of (usually) government generation of more money ( = increase supply of money). However, sometimes there are exceptional conditions. Here are a couple examples.
There have been periods in history where a nation was on a gold (and/or silver) standard and yet experienced a general rise or drop of prices. This was often due to a rise or fall in the supply of the money itself. For example, the Spanish during their pillaging of the Americas brought home so much gold that the increased supply actually led to general price hikes in other goods/services.
More common, including in the modern time, is this: If the public is generally saving/hoarding money, they'll spend less. This happened with dire consequences in the Depression. And to a lesser extent, during recession. The banks/government can create more money (credit) but if most of it stays in bank accounts, relatively little is spent bidding up the prices of goods and services. To a large extent, this is what happened in the past few decades. New money was created and a lot of that chased stocks and other financial assets, inflating their average value far more than most everyday goods and services.
Wait. I thought we needed a $15+ minimum wage. For dignity! They were willing to get rid of the filibuster to make it happen...
Well, they meant "one man, one jump to $15 minimum wage, one time."
I suppose they're arguing it may cause widespread strikes and/or the toppling of governments, which may be a good thing for workers