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My only real point of contention here is that I think you lean a little too hard on the both-sidesism of this.

Leftist ideology specifically selects for technocracy; it's part of the liturgy. It has natural inclinations to the form of tyranny you're talking about.

I'm not a "right wing conservative," but most adherents of such a label are less interested in erecting a state to control my every move.

I do feel this is a meaningful difference.

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Understanding that convid was simply a training exercise for the "global warming" tyranny to come is the most important message we need to get out to normies....

Cannot understate this.

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Most of the population is too drugged to notice or care. Just say no to drugs: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-get-high

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"We have smarter communists this time" just means they're more efficient in getting to the murdery part quickly.

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Ronald Reagan nailed it when he noted that "The nine most frightening words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help'. Government has convinced itself, and a lot of us, that its purpose is to solve "problems". The problem with that is often the "problem" was created by government in the first place. German sociologist, Max Weber, decades ago, defined what a bureaucracy is and what it does. And what it does it increase in size to the point that self-perpetuation is its primary, and perhaps only, purpose. The Great Society, devised by Lyndon Johnson and the Democrap party, minus the inconvenient John F Kennedy, is a perfect example of this. 95% of the "problems" it was created to fix still exist, 60 years later, but the bureaus and agencies created to do the job have increased exponentially in size, authority, and budget. Bureaucracy and its concomitant bureaucrap are a genuinely dangerous problem to which there are solutions, but none of which are easy or pleasant.

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We can see now that what they fear most is a widespread knowledge of facts. The twitter papers are a real window into the Heart of Darkness.

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"the greatest enemy of we the people is not left or right. it’s bureaucracy and technocracy." Right, but how do we make them go away? What actual steps can Team Reality follow to (for example) shut down NIH?

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Thank you for this. It’s comforting in a weird way to know that other people are formulating almost your exact thoughts- even if they are terrifying. I’m a lay person who knows a little “science” (that’s like a dirty word these days) and from the get go I knew something was very off intuitively- I had nothing to back it up except gut feeling. I started gravitating toward alternative sources of info and found you and others and honestly my criteria for trust was just a “knowing”. People are so removed from nature and their own rhythms that they can’t see evil right in front of them. I often wonder which politicians are just useful idiots too. I’m very naive though, I’ve learned over the past few years. I used to trust everyone and it’s hard to accept that people could not be human

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I blame the Fourth Estate more than any other institution. We need an institution full of skeptical SOBs who challenge all the bogus and dubious narratives and aren't afraid to challenge the pronouncements of the "experts" and "authorities."

If the free press did its most important job, false narratives would not have become "settled science." "Conventional wisdom" wouldn't be settled either. The politicians are awful and part of the problem, but even they would hold hearings and seek the truth if the press had alerted the public that X truth was probably BS. The politicians would then grandstand to expose the liars and frauds - if for no other reason than to make themselves look good.

Some will say the "watchdog" press has always been captured, but I don't think the press was as 100-percent captured in the past as it is today.

Basically, if there is no influential "watchdog" press, the Powers that Be know they will not be held accountable for anything ... and so they act accordingly.

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Building on my comments below that it's the Fourth Estate that has really sunk society, here's a piece I wrote at my Substack. It's a follow-up article to a simple feature story I wrote about a Minnesota man who died after getting his Pfizer jab. As I point out, there are probably 40,000 mainstream journalists who could have quickly done the same article I did ... But not one has done this. I'm not aware of any mainstream newspaper or magazine that's done ONE major story on a person who died from vaccine injuries. This fraction - 0-out-of-40,000 - shows us how "captured" the mainstream press has become. It shows us that the groupthink in these newsrooms must be 100 percent.

This is the real "bleak" story - the important stories can't even be written; the major scandals won't ever be exposed.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/my-vaccine-death-story-set-readership

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There is simply no way out without a catastrophe.

Years ago, when Stephen Colbert's right-wing character turned "I don't see race" into a punchline, I knew exactly where that was headed. Because I read history. But a huge number of people just go along with any idea, no matter how idiotic, as long as it comes from some perceived authority figure (in this case, a snarky left-wing comedian with a bookish image).

I spent years arguing with NPCs trying to explain why abandoning the notion that people should be treated as individuals is a bad idea. I got nowhere. Most people simply will not listen to any idea that deviates from what an authority figure tells them until blood is running in the streets. It's sad, but it's true. It's just a matter of how deep the abyss we fall into winds up being. So buckle up, look out for number 1, and damn the rest. There's no way to save them.

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“Nothing that requires the labor of another person is a human right”

^This is perfect and concise. We need more people to actually grasp what it means.

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most politicians are also terrible at getting elected. They just have a good team around them. They also have people with influence who have dirt on them and so let them get into power so they can be used.

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Because of how and for how long this has metastasized, I don't think it can be torn down brick-by-brick and rebuilt.

As with a snake, we will have to cut off its head, and only then can it be rebuilt brick-by-brick.

As the ol' maxim goes, "you can vote your way into tyranny...". Until enough people pay dearly for what they've done and what they continue to do, until enough "disincentives" are brought to bear upon them, they will continue unabated. In *every* realm, not just politics.

Look at the recent revelations about what goes on at The Francis Parker School in Chicago. And Balenciaga. And the American Academy of Pediatrics. And too many children's hospitals in America.

And what's happening in New Zealand. And in Australia. The list is seemingly endless.

Until enough, shall we say, disincentives, are brought to bear upon the perps who are doing this sh*t, they will not stop. They. Will. Not. Stop.

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To your point about The Experts getting it wrong - I think a major problem is they hold the a priori assumption that the official data they're working off is true and reliable.

Our excess deaths in Australia are at 17% and The Experts think vax injuries have nothing to do with it, because so few injuries and deaths are 'officially recorded'. I'd wager that it has never occurred to any of them that perhaps the data is not a true reflection of the state of things.

https://rebekahbarnett.substack.com/p/10-reasons-vaccine-injuries-and-deaths

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I keep going back to the thought that Bankster-Fraud was able to pull it off for so long because, connections and connivances aside, the egos of the people he was pitching would not allow them to admit, maybe even to themselves, that they had no idea what he was talking about but that it "sounded smart" and was out of their wheelhouses, so leave it to the boy geniuses.

Someone tried to pitch me on a pyramid scheme called Hyperfund last year, and I watched several friends make money on it, but I sensed that someone would end up holding the bag. It was clear that the marketing pitch was to female solopreneurs in small or spiritual-work sectors who would be impressed by the supposed smarts and credentials and noble, world-saving vision of a Chinese crypto-bro who quoted Mises, who wanted to enfranchise them to this exciting new world.

I just learned what a "pig-fattening" scam looks like, and how the scammers use the media hype on, and ignorance of, the crypto space to suck people into believing that outlandish returns are possible forever.

And this is what is happening to "our" elected officials. They are being pig-fattened by scammers and their egos lap it up. You cannot cheat an honest man, and Diogenes would burn through a lot of oil before he gave up and died of despair in the halls of elected power.

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