Ursula Von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde and Nina Jankowicz look like characters in a Disney movie; the kind of characters that give little kids nightmares.
Each year when the local/state election ballot pamphlet comes, I go through the individual candidates' headshots. With near certainty I can guess their party affiliation solely from eyes + glasses + hair.
Von der Leyen in particular strikes me as the Eurocrat equivalent of Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS. I would not be surprised if Von der Leyen is the head dominatrix of a secret, elite, high-end BDSM network. All of these women seem to be using the concentration of bureaucratic power as some kind of compensation for latent sexual/maternal impulses.
It’s very difficult not to see overconfidently shrill German woman as fascist archetypes. I think it’s a cultural glitsch based on our cultures fear of feminine craziness combined with an overbearing mother combined with Nazi residue and the unrequited need for a nuclear family of Nazi or Stalinist parents, because the Nazi mother archetype is generally missing from history, unless you count Margaret Thatcher but she actually seems quite gentle and politely British in comparison to the twisted Kali of Urszula
In East Germany, the Soviets recruited their apparatchiks from the former Nazi regime, not the resistance, as they had already proven their depravity and immorality, while those who had resisted tyranny would be troublesome. The regime changed its flags and uniform, but not its personnel, or even its ideology to any great extent. Now these same people have taken over the rest of Germany. It's Nazis all the way down!
No mention of WEATHER WARFARE, NANOTECHNOLOGY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ELECTRIFIED AIR, LASER PULSES, HAARP, CERN, D-WAVE AND GEOENGINEERING, bad cat?
“floods, droughts, and wildfires last year were just a preview…”
The Military-Industrial-Pharma-Intelligence Complex has been in full control of the weather for decades. They had weaponized Hurricanes Sandy, Katrina and Maria for land grabs and geopolitics. Same goes for Fukushima, Lahaina, Haiti, etc.
Our leading intellectuals, academics, scientists and politicians KNOW about Weather Warfare but they are bound by gag orders. If you think the refugee crisis caused by CIA coups/wars is bad...wait until the hoards fleeing Weather Warfare start arriving.
Read author, Elana Freeland's books, "Geoengineered Transhumanism" and "Under An Ionized Sky" to understand the technologies and patents which prove that geoengineering operations are being weaponized against non-compliant nations and also for domestic land grabs. Also read "The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.
Never forget, that behind these "grand dames of Armageddon" the puppeteers like Klaus Schwab, Juval Noah Harari, the entire Rothschild clan, Soros, Yellen, Giorgieva, Blinken, Gates, Buffet, Larry Fink, Bourla, etc., etc. are the ones that are very active telling them what to tout in public.
"..they, the enlightened elites, simply have not made the case well enough..."
Boy howdy, you hit the nail squarely on the head with that particular observation. I recall Obama saying he needed to give another speech so people would understand Obamacare was actually a good thing. The people who lost plans they liked, only to have a lesser plan at higher cost, well, they were just confused and needed a smart guy to explain it better.
I certainly see this in ordinary, even non-political, discourse. How often have I had someone I disagree with continue to explain their position. Even after I recite their argument back to them. They can't grasp that I understand perfectly, but I disagree.
The government spends a lot of our money studying why people are too "stupid" to understand their policies and crafting messaging that they think will turn on the light bulb above our heads.
A one time close friend complained bitterly over dinner during the advent of the Obamacare fiasco that he lost the medical insurance plan he liked, only to have a lesser plan at higher cost. In the next breath he stated, "But I'm all for Obamacare." This person is hopelessly deluded. You see, he had figured that the cost of this brainstorm would be financed by someone ELSE'S money; like those filthy rich who don't "pay their fair share."
my hairdresser had Obamacare. First it was reasonable and then it went up and up, until he could no longer afford it. One year I had to pay a fee of almost 500 bucks (I had an income of 420) because I could not afford health care. 2 years under trump I had govt supported insurance. Now I am on SS and more or less obliged to pay for sick insurance, if you don't and later need it, it goes up 10 percent each year.
"it’s so hilariously bad that one cannot help but wonder if these people have any self-awareness at all."
I wonder if they do this because they know - it's been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt over the past 4+ years - that there are millions of people in America, billions around the world - with sh1t for brains who WILL do whatever their overlords, I mean, governments, tell them to do. Who ONLY get their "news" from the propagandist alphabet legacy corporate media.
Smartest guy I know is my brother (no offense bad cat - I mean "know personally"). Mid-sixties, attorney, Dartmouth grad, 1420 SATs, overall great guy. He and my mom were talking about a year ago and she (a good rebel and anti-government stalwart) said something dismissive like, "Imagine if anyone would wear masks again if the government tried to tell us to" and he replied "I would!".
WTF, bro??? I wish I were there, because I would've replied, "Then why don't you do it on your own? Why do you need government to tell you what to do to protect (sic) your own health?"
Ursula von Boris Badinov KNOWS there are billions of people like that. She's just not familiar with the community and environment in which 2A is alive and well, which may be why she says such things for public consumption.
I work in academia. (I have no degree) What I see are lots of people nodding heads in agreement while crossing their fingers behind their backs. They know their careers are on the line if they don’t goose step in place. Soon they will be forced into decisions they really don’t want to make at this point in their lives. Either they are at the end or just getting comfortable. People with academic careers are the most scared of anything resembling political upheaval with rank and file citizens in charge. Don’t get me wrong, most are decent people trapped by a system that only values conformity with the overlords. But that’s not going to cut it soon I believe. Thankfully I’m retiring soon.
Sad to live like that just for the almighty dollar and "security." There are lots of ways to make a living. Many of them even let you keep your self respect.
As someone who worked in academia for more than a decade, I never stop telling people that even the most shameless OnlyFans THOT has more integrity than your average uni administrator.
Sadly, work with a couple people like this. They are "trust the experts" people and truly believe that if they weren't experts, they wouldn't be allowed to give advice like that or something equally silly. So when an "expert" says to mask up, they do. "Expert" says that these brand new, experimental shots are "safe and effective" and absolutely necessary for the survival of all living beings ... they get them.
On the positive side, there are also a LOT more people waking up to the fact that these experts were quite wrong and were making things up for a wide variety of reasons. Of course, if you are some sort of expert, you can't really continue to be one by saying "I don't know, but we're working on finding out". That's not a reassuring message, even though it's a better one. :/
Being an expert shouldn't mean you know everything automatically, it should mean you are knowledgeable enough and committed enough to find out! Which none of our mainstream health experts were willing to do. If all they can do is spout what the government tells them, what was all their training and work for? The moment comes when they could put it to use and they turn off their brains!
What they're apparently not smart enough to understand is that the ONLY experts they get to hear are the ones who advance The Regime's preferred narrative, because the propaganda media outfits ONLY let those "experts" speak. The rest are silenced, suppressed, deplatformed, etc.
When your only source is the NYTimes, MSNBC, CNN, etc., you'll only hear THEIR chosen "experts".
The smart folks aren't smart enough to grasp this fundamental truth.
Oh, and my two Leftist sisters sported matching "I'm Vaccinated" wristbands (a la "Livestrong" wristbands) as recently as July 2023! The modern-day equivalent of goose stepping.
What you describe also creates problems for the regime itself. Only way to have a career is to say what your boss wants to hear, narrative-wise? All your reports will state that everything is A-1.
And so will his, to his boss. And so on, all the way to the top.
That's how a leader of any kind of despotic structure/organisation can come off as totally sincere when he or she gives a talk about how great things are - Leader really thinks so, since that's what all the Experts say.
China is the prime example in our time (possibly the ur-example too in historical times). The lowest tier party official in some tiny hamlet in the countryside will "round off" numbers in his report, to his advantage. Rinse and repeat until it reaches Peking.
And all of a sudden Peking realises they have miscalculated the population numbers by several hundred million people.
"it’s so hilariously bad that one cannot help but wonder if these people have any self-awareness at all." I think they have been consuming too much of their own product.
Something Matthias Desmet suggests is that the propagandists are the most deeply embedded in the story they preach. Other wise it wouldn’t work. If they aren’t wedded to the actual information they are wedded to the power it gives them. And the more elite and protected , the stronger the bubble around them. Burst the bubble! It’s filling with puss
Not 'lost out'....'TRAINED out'! A university education (21st c-style) is where kids learn 1) how to articulate currently fashionable beliefs whilst not noticing their inherent absurdities. 2) 'learning' how to de-activate whatever native intelligence and common sense they came in with. Fascinating...as you say.
the strangest thing I noticed with one of my 'smart' former friends is, she tells the truth (viruses are everywhere and unavoidable) and then puts on her mask, that she defends vehemently as a super protection for viruses... this is just one example.
Prebunking has existed since Biblical times. But it's always had a different name. It's always been called 'propaganda'.
Progressives really have fun with words. They think that if you change the word, you change reality. But, no, progressives are the same old screwed up airheads as always, no matter how often they change the words.
Good science, the scientific method, doesn't do prebunking or censorship. Mind control and psychological games are only required when they are lying. Prebunking is a form of mind control. If someone is potentially wrong and they are having a problem showing exactly why this might be the case, and what the probability is for an error, resort to non-science and psychology is itself evidence that the person doing the debunking attempt is really lying, since it means they know they cannot win based on reason, likely facts, and likely evidence (always preferable since it is more permanent, lasting, and not trust/authority-based).
More like taxoplasmosis? Christine Legarde, her old pals at Boeing/Lockheed Martin and the IMF all need you “mauvais chats” to do things their way so comrade Yuri please just let the soothing meow of Benard Tapie pre-bunk you back to sleep.
The worst form of pre-bunking in existence is government "schooling." Not only does the government-run school system pre-bunk (indoctrinate with ideas and beliefs), but it pushes children to make choices they are not equipped to understand and evaluate that make it difficult to change paths later on. Shame, guilt, fear and apathy are the weapons of the state, and they are very much part of the "educational" system. How many people have the courage to face the fact that reality is much different than their indoctrinated beliefs, and change their lives accordingly, when their entire lives have been based on those beliefs? This is too painful/difficult for most.
My mother took charge of our education. First, she kept us out of "public" schools. The older I get, the more I understand why.
They hate it when you call them "government" schools. I've had that argument, pointing out that they are funded by taxes and run by elected officials....and people will still argue that they aren't government.
But see what happens when a member of "the public" goes in to the schools, notices things that are verboten, and starts speaking against them. Then it's quite clear that they are not truly "public" schools. :(
We've come a long way from what I remember in public school where we were actually taught to think. Maybe that's the quality of the teachers at the time or lack of DoE influence, but we all came out pretty much knowing how to learn more than a set of stuff taught as fact. And definitely before whatever nonsense seems to be invading now placing gender/sex lessons above Reading/Writing/Rithmatic.
And unfortunately the rise in homeschooling is turning the unblinking eye of Sauron to it more than ever. I’ve noticed a lot of articles suggesting homeschooling parental malfeasance lately. I went through the battles of the early 90s and I hope that 21st century parents are up to the challenge.
Happily, homeschooling is much easier now with a wide variety of curricula from which to choose. It's not nearly the "unheard of" option like it was in the 80's and 90's. And people are turning to co-ops, university model schools, and other smaller schools for their kids - as appropriate for each family, and usually at extra cost over govt schools.
There are many women who dislike actual motherhood and prefer to exercise a sort of faux maternal care towards strangers they cultivate into being a substitute family. It happens all the time. Plenty of them have their own children too but would rather not be bothered by the demands of care of one's offspring. There's more glory, as they perceive it, to performative mothering in a more public sphere.
None at all. And given the skewed female-male ratios in most uni programmes (approaching 80-20 in many cases) this is the future. A longhouse Big Sister for-your-own-good authoritarianism.
I agree Chris. For 30 yrs I worked in finance, 90% female. Then I worked HR for a major cable company, responsible for techs and maintenance, 98% male. I’d rather work with men any day!!
I just gave both of my grand daughters (each) a set of bunk beds for their dolls (doll size)
I made bed mattresses and linens and pillows.
I did remind (perhaps this kind of pre bunking) them not to sit on the bunk beds because they are probably not strong enough to hold their weight and made of metal they might break which would be disappointing.
The woman in the "To keep us safe, right?"-meme is Ylva johansson, swedish Socialist Democrat and feminist (notice the pendant visible at the bottom edge of the picture). She is old guard Socialist Democrat, from the days half the party wanted to align us with the USSR.
She is also known (here) for being immune to facts and empiricism, a hard-liner on all things EU when it comes to create a european state, with EU police and EU military (in effect EUSSR).
Originally, she was a member of the Communist Party but "switched horses" between 1989 and 1991 (gee golly, wonder why). Mid-1990s she was minister of schools and education. Check out her Wikipedia-entry for info on where she stands re: surveillance.
What I think is truly crazy is the notion that so many feel that free speech has anything to do with true speech. All these legislators, regulators and Gov’t functionaries are battling this weird notion that speech (written, uttered or viewed) must always be true (or at least convey the truth we believe). Who cares if lies are told or skewed perspectives shared, speech is to be challenged, researched, and analyzed when dealing in subjects one cares about. When it’s subjects an individual doesn’t care about then the speech does not matter. Instead of teaching people to actually think, research or go beyond the surface on topics they actually care about, the nanny state wants to take over to tell us what’s true or false (their truth) with total disdain for our right to lie, mislead or just say what comes to the top of our minds. How long before people stop talking at dinner parties or over coffee for fear that they say a non-truthism that puts them in violation of some new law to protect “true speech”. “Oh, you misinterpreted something, that’s a lie or misinformation, you go straight jail or re-education camp”, never mind that everyone perceives or understands similar information differently. Kafka, Orwell, Huxley et. al. could never have understood the bowels of what our world is becoming. They each provided some limited foresight, but the cacophony of idiocy emanating from elites and the halls of power was way beyond what even they could imagine.
I’ve mentioned this previously but as of 2020, my philosophy became “whatever ‘they’ are for, I am against” and “whatever they are ‘against’, I am for”. It’s pretty foolproof. I can’t think of a single thing that our betters are “for” that I am also for, & vice versa
No matter how hard they try to control the narrative there will always be those free thinkers that question. It happened in the Soviet Union and will happen again. They can't control everything; a Samizdat will arise again in some form; hand written books, alternate 'social media', dark web, whatever it takes.
Ursula Von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde and Nina Jankowicz look like characters in a Disney movie; the kind of characters that give little kids nightmares.
The eyes. Always the crazy eyes.
Each year when the local/state election ballot pamphlet comes, I go through the individual candidates' headshots. With near certainty I can guess their party affiliation solely from eyes + glasses + hair.
There is branding. I too can tell the difference between Coke and Diet Coke by the branding.
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Always look eye!! Mr Miyaggi
Rax on...rax off
The truth??(information) You(sweating masses) can't handle the truth!
Racks of Racks on Racks!
It's no racksident they all have sanpuka eyes!
Yes! There always is a tell.
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Von der Leyen in particular strikes me as the Eurocrat equivalent of Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS. I would not be surprised if Von der Leyen is the head dominatrix of a secret, elite, high-end BDSM network. All of these women seem to be using the concentration of bureaucratic power as some kind of compensation for latent sexual/maternal impulses.
she probably is a descendent of a Nazi. Like most of the WEf leadership is.
Her father was connected with 'Esoteric Hitlerism," whatever that is. Blavatsky with added Nazis, I suppose.
Interesting indeed !!
Let us see if Nazi-"philosophy" is encoded in some of the codons of the human genome ...
are you pre-bunking or trying to implant a dystopian dream? ...asking for a friend.
My thought as well
That’s probably what the globalists blackmailed her with😆
It’s very difficult not to see overconfidently shrill German woman as fascist archetypes. I think it’s a cultural glitsch based on our cultures fear of feminine craziness combined with an overbearing mother combined with Nazi residue and the unrequited need for a nuclear family of Nazi or Stalinist parents, because the Nazi mother archetype is generally missing from history, unless you count Margaret Thatcher but she actually seems quite gentle and politely British in comparison to the twisted Kali of Urszula
In East Germany, the Soviets recruited their apparatchiks from the former Nazi regime, not the resistance, as they had already proven their depravity and immorality, while those who had resisted tyranny would be troublesome. The regime changed its flags and uniform, but not its personnel, or even its ideology to any great extent. Now these same people have taken over the rest of Germany. It's Nazis all the way down!
You know about operation Paperclip ??
Check it out and get ready to realize that the US of America is following the same path ...
Almost to the point of being A/I clones of some sort.
No mention of WEATHER WARFARE, NANOTECHNOLOGY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ELECTRIFIED AIR, LASER PULSES, HAARP, CERN, D-WAVE AND GEOENGINEERING, bad cat?
“floods, droughts, and wildfires last year were just a preview…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9pJ8RcH-Q8
The Military-Industrial-Pharma-Intelligence Complex has been in full control of the weather for decades. They had weaponized Hurricanes Sandy, Katrina and Maria for land grabs and geopolitics. Same goes for Fukushima, Lahaina, Haiti, etc.
Our leading intellectuals, academics, scientists and politicians KNOW about Weather Warfare but they are bound by gag orders. If you think the refugee crisis caused by CIA coups/wars is bad...wait until the hoards fleeing Weather Warfare start arriving.
Read author, Elana Freeland's books, "Geoengineered Transhumanism" and "Under An Ionized Sky" to understand the technologies and patents which prove that geoengineering operations are being weaponized against non-compliant nations and also for domestic land grabs. Also read "The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.
https://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue/issue-8/shock-doctrine-rise-disaster-capitalism
https://rudolfsteinerbookstore.com/product/geoengineered-transhumanism/
Thank you Angie. It seems almost no one, even trusted substackers will talk about weather warfare.
https://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue/issue-8/shock-doctrine-rise-disaster-capitalism
She does kinda look like a cyborg. 🤔
Keep her away from your dalmatians...
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Absolutely right ! they are the bad witches, the scarecrows. And they blame the good witches for the damage.
Usula fond of lying...
hmmmm....🤔🤔🤔🤔
Are you a hidden misogynist ???...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Never forget, that behind these "grand dames of Armageddon" the puppeteers like Klaus Schwab, Juval Noah Harari, the entire Rothschild clan, Soros, Yellen, Giorgieva, Blinken, Gates, Buffet, Larry Fink, Bourla, etc., etc. are the ones that are very active telling them what to tout in public.
"..they, the enlightened elites, simply have not made the case well enough..."
Boy howdy, you hit the nail squarely on the head with that particular observation. I recall Obama saying he needed to give another speech so people would understand Obamacare was actually a good thing. The people who lost plans they liked, only to have a lesser plan at higher cost, well, they were just confused and needed a smart guy to explain it better.
I certainly see this in ordinary, even non-political, discourse. How often have I had someone I disagree with continue to explain their position. Even after I recite their argument back to them. They can't grasp that I understand perfectly, but I disagree.
Remember when conspiracy theories took patience?
Now it's like betting on a game and knowing the outcome.
They've really taken the fun out of it.
recently Sharyl Attkisson had tshirts saying - a conspiracy theory now looks more like a spoiler alert. Immediately bought 2.
That's a good one
please provide a link :-)
https://store.sharylattkisson.com/ this is her whole store, I got most of her Ts
Here is the latest one of which I bought 2
https://store.sharylattkisson.com/products/conspiracy-theories-spoiler-alert-t-shirt-8-colors
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The government spends a lot of our money studying why people are too "stupid" to understand their policies and crafting messaging that they think will turn on the light bulb above our heads.
Most of government is an employment project for those with degrees useless to a productive life.
We used to call the Yucca Mountain Project - Welfare for Geologists.
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and it always seems to be a dim bulb.
one of these insect repellent yellow bulbs that don't repel insects. Yes, I walked right into that scam, too.
I think everyone, back in the day, did. At least they seemed to draw a few less insects.
I seem to be a particularly tasty person - they don't seem to do much here. But then, I am in bug Country (south GA)
Oh, yeah! Mosquitoes the size of vultures! Beautiful state, but I despise it! (Too hot and humid, too.)
A one time close friend complained bitterly over dinner during the advent of the Obamacare fiasco that he lost the medical insurance plan he liked, only to have a lesser plan at higher cost. In the next breath he stated, "But I'm all for Obamacare." This person is hopelessly deluded. You see, he had figured that the cost of this brainstorm would be financed by someone ELSE'S money; like those filthy rich who don't "pay their fair share."
The dogma can't be wrong.
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my hairdresser had Obamacare. First it was reasonable and then it went up and up, until he could no longer afford it. One year I had to pay a fee of almost 500 bucks (I had an income of 420) because I could not afford health care. 2 years under trump I had govt supported insurance. Now I am on SS and more or less obliged to pay for sick insurance, if you don't and later need it, it goes up 10 percent each year.
Thank God I didn't have to take history to get my degrees! I would have killed myself.
"it’s so hilariously bad that one cannot help but wonder if these people have any self-awareness at all."
I wonder if they do this because they know - it's been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt over the past 4+ years - that there are millions of people in America, billions around the world - with sh1t for brains who WILL do whatever their overlords, I mean, governments, tell them to do. Who ONLY get their "news" from the propagandist alphabet legacy corporate media.
Smartest guy I know is my brother (no offense bad cat - I mean "know personally"). Mid-sixties, attorney, Dartmouth grad, 1420 SATs, overall great guy. He and my mom were talking about a year ago and she (a good rebel and anti-government stalwart) said something dismissive like, "Imagine if anyone would wear masks again if the government tried to tell us to" and he replied "I would!".
WTF, bro??? I wish I were there, because I would've replied, "Then why don't you do it on your own? Why do you need government to tell you what to do to protect (sic) your own health?"
Ursula von Boris Badinov KNOWS there are billions of people like that. She's just not familiar with the community and environment in which 2A is alive and well, which may be why she says such things for public consumption.
I work in academia. (I have no degree) What I see are lots of people nodding heads in agreement while crossing their fingers behind their backs. They know their careers are on the line if they don’t goose step in place. Soon they will be forced into decisions they really don’t want to make at this point in their lives. Either they are at the end or just getting comfortable. People with academic careers are the most scared of anything resembling political upheaval with rank and file citizens in charge. Don’t get me wrong, most are decent people trapped by a system that only values conformity with the overlords. But that’s not going to cut it soon I believe. Thankfully I’m retiring soon.
Sad to live like that just for the almighty dollar and "security." There are lots of ways to make a living. Many of them even let you keep your self respect.
As someone who worked in academia for more than a decade, I never stop telling people that even the most shameless OnlyFans THOT has more integrity than your average uni administrator.
They sell their souls.
they earn too much to give up their job
And that tuition reduction is a huge carrot if you have a couple of kids.
ah ! I don't have kids I had no idea about that ! That sounds like several buckets of carrots LOL
Earn ?
get paid?
Just as good
Maybe even Better
You nailed it for most, I think. I retired from Los Alamos National Lab, a place filled with PhDs and the home of the A bomb and future bombs.
canada is your brother, but not as smart. I wish the USA would invade us.
Sadly, work with a couple people like this. They are "trust the experts" people and truly believe that if they weren't experts, they wouldn't be allowed to give advice like that or something equally silly. So when an "expert" says to mask up, they do. "Expert" says that these brand new, experimental shots are "safe and effective" and absolutely necessary for the survival of all living beings ... they get them.
On the positive side, there are also a LOT more people waking up to the fact that these experts were quite wrong and were making things up for a wide variety of reasons. Of course, if you are some sort of expert, you can't really continue to be one by saying "I don't know, but we're working on finding out". That's not a reassuring message, even though it's a better one. :/
Being an expert shouldn't mean you know everything automatically, it should mean you are knowledgeable enough and committed enough to find out! Which none of our mainstream health experts were willing to do. If all they can do is spout what the government tells them, what was all their training and work for? The moment comes when they could put it to use and they turn off their brains!
What they're apparently not smart enough to understand is that the ONLY experts they get to hear are the ones who advance The Regime's preferred narrative, because the propaganda media outfits ONLY let those "experts" speak. The rest are silenced, suppressed, deplatformed, etc.
When your only source is the NYTimes, MSNBC, CNN, etc., you'll only hear THEIR chosen "experts".
The smart folks aren't smart enough to grasp this fundamental truth.
Oh, and my two Leftist sisters sported matching "I'm Vaccinated" wristbands (a la "Livestrong" wristbands) as recently as July 2023! The modern-day equivalent of goose stepping.
When I asked a friend where he gets his news, he somewhat proudly advised me from three diverse outlets :
NYT, WAPO, and NPR.
I held my tongue .
It’s too late he’s already lost.
T and J
I have 2 former friends like that. I didn't hold my tongue after a while.
Ahh, a classic, stalwart LIV - low-information voter.
What you describe also creates problems for the regime itself. Only way to have a career is to say what your boss wants to hear, narrative-wise? All your reports will state that everything is A-1.
And so will his, to his boss. And so on, all the way to the top.
That's how a leader of any kind of despotic structure/organisation can come off as totally sincere when he or she gives a talk about how great things are - Leader really thinks so, since that's what all the Experts say.
China is the prime example in our time (possibly the ur-example too in historical times). The lowest tier party official in some tiny hamlet in the countryside will "round off" numbers in his report, to his advantage. Rinse and repeat until it reaches Peking.
And all of a sudden Peking realises they have miscalculated the population numbers by several hundred million people.
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"it’s so hilariously bad that one cannot help but wonder if these people have any self-awareness at all." I think they have been consuming too much of their own product.
They bathe in it 24/7.
Something Matthias Desmet suggests is that the propagandists are the most deeply embedded in the story they preach. Other wise it wouldn’t work. If they aren’t wedded to the actual information they are wedded to the power it gives them. And the more elite and protected , the stronger the bubble around them. Burst the bubble! It’s filling with puss
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Not 'lost out'....'TRAINED out'! A university education (21st c-style) is where kids learn 1) how to articulate currently fashionable beliefs whilst not noticing their inherent absurdities. 2) 'learning' how to de-activate whatever native intelligence and common sense they came in with. Fascinating...as you say.
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Nice tents? pyramids? carily and thanks for the 'follow'.....but a free subscribe would be better!
Some? ;-) It's my bro and BOTH of my elite-college-educated (Leftist) sisters.
By contrast, my parents and I are on the opposite side. So HALF of my nuclear family are off the rails...the other half.
the strangest thing I noticed with one of my 'smart' former friends is, she tells the truth (viruses are everywhere and unavoidable) and then puts on her mask, that she defends vehemently as a super protection for viruses... this is just one example.
Prebunking has existed since Biblical times. But it's always had a different name. It's always been called 'propaganda'.
Progressives really have fun with words. They think that if you change the word, you change reality. But, no, progressives are the same old screwed up airheads as always, no matter how often they change the words.
So true! There are just some truths that can never be altered by altering the wording.
Good science, the scientific method, doesn't do prebunking or censorship. Mind control and psychological games are only required when they are lying. Prebunking is a form of mind control. If someone is potentially wrong and they are having a problem showing exactly why this might be the case, and what the probability is for an error, resort to non-science and psychology is itself evidence that the person doing the debunking attempt is really lying, since it means they know they cannot win based on reason, likely facts, and likely evidence (always preferable since it is more permanent, lasting, and not trust/authority-based).
Spot on
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Regime Prebunking is AIDS for the brain.
More like taxoplasmosis? Christine Legarde, her old pals at Boeing/Lockheed Martin and the IMF all need you “mauvais chats” to do things their way so comrade Yuri please just let the soothing meow of Benard Tapie pre-bunk you back to sleep.
https://youtu.be/a7U0V08aPMI?si=yPmdy7gnZ-k9fVXj
The worst form of pre-bunking in existence is government "schooling." Not only does the government-run school system pre-bunk (indoctrinate with ideas and beliefs), but it pushes children to make choices they are not equipped to understand and evaluate that make it difficult to change paths later on. Shame, guilt, fear and apathy are the weapons of the state, and they are very much part of the "educational" system. How many people have the courage to face the fact that reality is much different than their indoctrinated beliefs, and change their lives accordingly, when their entire lives have been based on those beliefs? This is too painful/difficult for most.
My mother took charge of our education. First, she kept us out of "public" schools. The older I get, the more I understand why.
They hate it when you call them "government" schools. I've had that argument, pointing out that they are funded by taxes and run by elected officials....and people will still argue that they aren't government.
But see what happens when a member of "the public" goes in to the schools, notices things that are verboten, and starts speaking against them. Then it's quite clear that they are not truly "public" schools. :(
We've come a long way from what I remember in public school where we were actually taught to think. Maybe that's the quality of the teachers at the time or lack of DoE influence, but we all came out pretty much knowing how to learn more than a set of stuff taught as fact. And definitely before whatever nonsense seems to be invading now placing gender/sex lessons above Reading/Writing/Rithmatic.
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Don't forget the teacher's Union - powerful government control.
And unfortunately the rise in homeschooling is turning the unblinking eye of Sauron to it more than ever. I’ve noticed a lot of articles suggesting homeschooling parental malfeasance lately. I went through the battles of the early 90s and I hope that 21st century parents are up to the challenge.
Happily, homeschooling is much easier now with a wide variety of curricula from which to choose. It's not nearly the "unheard of" option like it was in the 80's and 90's. And people are turning to co-ops, university model schools, and other smaller schools for their kids - as appropriate for each family, and usually at extra cost over govt schools.
Boom! Exactly
Well. I'm quite sure pioneering work in the field was done by those guys at the Council of Nicaea, etc. Authorized versions 'n all that.
We keep getting distracted by the new shiny tools to do things. The techniques themselves are mighty mighty old.
Awesome article Gato. Nail on the head
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Is it coincidence that so many of these evil people are female?
Welcome to the gynocracy.
https://pairodocs.substack.com/p/where-have-all-the-real-men-gone-c3b
Even as a female, I am not offended by that suggestion. I see it, too.
Same.
And most of them are childless.
Cat ladies
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Didn't someone also note that they were mostly child-free females as well? I don't know the actual numbers, but I remember someone observing that.
Which tells me that Crystia Freeland may not ascend much further. Thank heavens
Ug !
Mark Steyn has written about that, and like many other things he's been proven correct.
No, it is not a coincidence. Toxic empathy.
There are many women who dislike actual motherhood and prefer to exercise a sort of faux maternal care towards strangers they cultivate into being a substitute family. It happens all the time. Plenty of them have their own children too but would rather not be bothered by the demands of care of one's offspring. There's more glory, as they perceive it, to performative mothering in a more public sphere.
Charles Dickens nailed this one 175 years ago: Western culture has been overrun by the daughters of Mrs. Jellyby.
Dickens wasn't so over-enamored with fulfilling the responsibilities of actual fatherhood so I'd take his views with a mine's worth of salt.
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None at all. And given the skewed female-male ratios in most uni programmes (approaching 80-20 in many cases) this is the future. A longhouse Big Sister for-your-own-good authoritarianism.
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I agree Chris. For 30 yrs I worked in finance, 90% female. Then I worked HR for a major cable company, responsible for techs and maintenance, 98% male. I’d rather work with men any day!!
It's because women are more easily persuadable - that is, women are more easily captured with (bad) ideas.
The ones at the VERY top are all (white) men.
Kinda true. But I don't really consider Klaus Schwab or Justin Trudeau to be a "man". They are toxic females in male bodies.
The only pre-bunking I understand was getting some bunk beds for the kids ahead of time before they decided they wanted to try them.
we never considered pre bunking in the past
I just gave both of my grand daughters (each) a set of bunk beds for their dolls (doll size)
I made bed mattresses and linens and pillows.
I did remind (perhaps this kind of pre bunking) them not to sit on the bunk beds because they are probably not strong enough to hold their weight and made of metal they might break which would be disappointing.
Grandmothering, not to be confused with prebunking, however these grandmotherly figure heads do soften the distinction 😉
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The woman in the "To keep us safe, right?"-meme is Ylva johansson, swedish Socialist Democrat and feminist (notice the pendant visible at the bottom edge of the picture). She is old guard Socialist Democrat, from the days half the party wanted to align us with the USSR.
She is also known (here) for being immune to facts and empiricism, a hard-liner on all things EU when it comes to create a european state, with EU police and EU military (in effect EUSSR).
Originally, she was a member of the Communist Party but "switched horses" between 1989 and 1991 (gee golly, wonder why). Mid-1990s she was minister of schools and education. Check out her Wikipedia-entry for info on where she stands re: surveillance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylva_Johansson
I don't want to use foul language, but any and all expletives and pejoratives I know in english fits her to a tee.
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Thanks for the link to her wiki page. Crazy!
What I think is truly crazy is the notion that so many feel that free speech has anything to do with true speech. All these legislators, regulators and Gov’t functionaries are battling this weird notion that speech (written, uttered or viewed) must always be true (or at least convey the truth we believe). Who cares if lies are told or skewed perspectives shared, speech is to be challenged, researched, and analyzed when dealing in subjects one cares about. When it’s subjects an individual doesn’t care about then the speech does not matter. Instead of teaching people to actually think, research or go beyond the surface on topics they actually care about, the nanny state wants to take over to tell us what’s true or false (their truth) with total disdain for our right to lie, mislead or just say what comes to the top of our minds. How long before people stop talking at dinner parties or over coffee for fear that they say a non-truthism that puts them in violation of some new law to protect “true speech”. “Oh, you misinterpreted something, that’s a lie or misinformation, you go straight jail or re-education camp”, never mind that everyone perceives or understands similar information differently. Kafka, Orwell, Huxley et. al. could never have understood the bowels of what our world is becoming. They each provided some limited foresight, but the cacophony of idiocy emanating from elites and the halls of power was way beyond what even they could imagine.
I’ve mentioned this previously but as of 2020, my philosophy became “whatever ‘they’ are for, I am against” and “whatever they are ‘against’, I am for”. It’s pretty foolproof. I can’t think of a single thing that our betters are “for” that I am also for, & vice versa
Spot on, Cindi. This reasoning technique saves a lot of time and brain power.
Morally sound too, as nothing these global demons are for or against is right & good
No matter how hard they try to control the narrative there will always be those free thinkers that question. It happened in the Soviet Union and will happen again. They can't control everything; a Samizdat will arise again in some form; hand written books, alternate 'social media', dark web, whatever it takes.
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