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"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good."

~ Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn

I have come to the conclusion that very little of what is being done to us has anything to do with "public health" in general and Covid-19 in particular.

The abrupt abandonment of decades of recommendations against lockdowns and masks, the unprecedented and formerly eschewed mass false-positive prone PCR testing of the healthy to create the illusion of widespread "cases" to create mass hysteria, the plethora of arbitrary, nonsensical, and obviously absurd edicts, the unremitting and universal censorship and suppression of contrarian felines and other mammals, and above all, the full court press to force the entire population to submit to an experimental, emergency use "vaccine" or be treated as a pariah and second-class citizen unless one submits to carrying a personal tracking device, the contents of which control what one can do and where one can do, all subject to centralized control by some centralized commissariat or another.

I suspect that most of us here have heard the terms "Build Back Better" and "The Great Reset", promoted by globo-bolsheviks like Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates et. al., with the former slogan prominently displayed behind various podiums where Comrade Biden delivers his largely incoherent and incomprehensible pontifications.

These people want a centralized, global command economy with tight controls on behavior, speech, energy, food and resource consumption, and pretty much every economic and social activity imaginable.

One need not search too long or too deep to find that they themselves have admitted as much on many occasions.

And these people are leftists, which means they do not recognize natural human rights such as self-ownership and self-determination. They are true believers, with a fervent, pseudo-theological faith in the omnipotent and omniscient State they intend to control. They are thoroughly machiavellian, and no principle or moral compunction will stop them from doing whatever they deem necessary to subjugate us all.

We know this to be true from the fact that their collectivist brethren have slaughtered well over 100 million innocent souls just in the last century or so to completely destroy and then remake entire societies.

And in the depth of their sociopathic depravity, they are convinced, as Solzhenitsyn observed, that the great evils they are doing now, and the greater evils they will do should the opportunity arise, are in fact good.

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one one views the world as an ant farm to be optimized and accepts the big lie that the common good is know, knowable, and should take precedence over the rights of the individual, there is no evil that cannot be called a good when worked against any individual ant.

collectivism is a savagely amoral pretense rooted in the dogmatic knowledge that those in charge happen to know what's best for the rest and that this grants them license and justification to do it to society "for its own good."

this sort of power and claims to virtue attract the worst kinds of narcissists and sociopaths.

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Let's just cut to the chase. They are a bunch of marxists that who have just taken over the world.

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What if half of the population are hopelessly hardwired collectivists. And what if they are "The Church", be it united or fragmented. Meaning there will always be a "Church". The question is, what kind? I know. Not a pleasant hypothetical for individualists.

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The fact that we happen to be split roughly 50-50, that conversion is so rare, and we fail so badly in understanding each other suggested there may be more to it than idle choice.

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Recommend also, this passage from C.S. Lewis:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

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Yes, that is among my favorite quotes of his. Sadly, we now are ruled by robber barons who are also moral busybodies. The worst of both worlds, as it were.

This is also apropos:

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

~ William Pitt the Younger in a speech to parliament in 1783

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Bingo. The aspiring tyrant is never without a plausible "good reason" for a motive. If a tyrant came to us unarmed, with no emergency-as-bludgeon, he would be no threat at all. We need enshrined safeguards for human rights for those occasions when it becomes convenient to dispense with them.

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I wish I could like this comment more than once.

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I'd like to point out that none of the American high profile leftists are really leftists. In most European countries, they'd be right of the center. Mainstream Dems would likely be a far right party in Germany if they were suddenly transferred there overnight . The actual radical left in America is basically non-existent and those that do belong in that category abhor their ridiculous "public health" measures, though for somewhat different reasons.

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I have no interest whatsoever in debating who is, and who is not, a "real" leftist.

Of even less interest is discussing semantic distinctions between different flavors of leftists: international socialists, be they of the Menshevik or Bolshevik variety, fascists, be they of the national socialist or corporatist sort, democratic socialists like Comrades Bernie and AOC, bootlicking statists comprising the DNC and GOP, or any other permutation of the most murderous and destructive mind-virus ever to infect humanity.

All of these share a single defining, common characteristic: the supremacy of the good of the collective (invariably determined by the worst sociopathic swine who rise to the top, of course), over the free will of the individual.

It is a rarity in our world that something that appears quite complex can actually be both simply and completely explained in two sentences, but Robert Heinlein managed to do it:

"Political tags, such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth, are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."

~ Robert Heinlein

This is the real great divide and clearly describes the true and eternal enemy of liberty and prosperity.

I call them leftists, perhaps for lack of a better term, since I have yet to find one that did not fit into Heinlein's definition.

These are the people that must be eventually overcome, let us fervently hope peacefully, if humanity is ever to become truly civilized.

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The polarity is no longer left and right, it is now up (liberty) and down (tyranny).

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Exactly. Liberty vs tyranny is a completely orthogonal axis to left vs right, and is the axis that matters most by far.

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I've been bloody minded about this since about April 2020 as soon as these governors abused their authority to expand their emergency powers the first time. Granted, I wasn't supportive of lockdowns in the first place.

I'm also tired of hearing people think this abuse of power will be solved by voting.

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Never participated in a protest before. Never interested in politics before. Happy to mind my business and putter around in my little life. This week, I will officaly become a "protestor". Sept. 1.

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( excuse the typo)

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this is bad cattitude, where the host is a prolific and relentless storm of typos.

this is a safe space.

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What I think you're witnessing is global feudalism trying to come into its own vs the now rather quaint idea that people actually are all equal and should have self-determination. We'll see who wins. The chances decrease radically, however, for personal autonomy and worth to win out when you have a bunch of sausage heads who consistently don't understand that people like Fauci don't have their best interests at heart and this is all a gigantic strategy to subjugate them to wealthy global powers.

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I believe "sausage heads" is indeed the technical term. If it isn't, it should be.

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ote the German protests were prohibited many times under the guise of pandemic law (it is a violation of the Grundgesetz to not allow Demos). People went anyways. A few weeks ago the police went hardcore on the protestors, pushing abs hitting old women and young children. Shocking imagery.

Protests are going strong in France too. None of this is mentioned in American mainstream media of course…

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Censorship is the key step in the implementation of a fascist state. What bothers me the most is hearing college-educated and intelligent people spew soundbites from msm and Fraud-ci. I'm grateful for Telegram, at the moment. Here in Oregon, we're doing rallies (big and small) a gew times a month. Tomorrow is the Worldwide Demonstration (this is part of rallies in over 40 countries and 200 cities around the 🌎). For my kids' sake, I will not go down quietly.

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We just did some voter research for a ballot proposition and were disheartened by the number of people frightened witless by the media, who are basically ok with what Newsom has done. And this is in one of the most draconian lockdown states in the US.

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If Newsom survives, he will retaliate in a brutal fashion for the serf uprising. The previous draconian lockdowns will be small potatoes in comparison. There should be fear of this prospect, but no... instead these people just tell me, “he did what he needed to do to keep California safe.” It’s is disheartening!

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on Monday 30 Aug 21

CA State Assembly will have a reading of a transportation bill

that has been waylaid and gutted and stuffed with

a vaccine-passport law that is

comprehensively

immobilizing for the unjabbed

listen to this lady for 10 minutes

https://instagram.com/tv/CTD57SmH3Na/?utm_medium=share_sheet

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on Monday 30 Aug 21

CA State Assembly will have a reading of a transportation bill

that has been waylaid and gutted and stuffed with

a vaccine-passport law that is

comprehensively

immobilizing for the unjabbed

listen to this lady for 10 minutes

https://instagram.com/tv/CTD57SmH3Na/?utm_medium=share_sheet

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A bit off topic, but, el gato malo have you heard about one of the largest unions for the NYPD is vehemently protesting the vaxx mandates and threatening legal action? I read the story on Epoch Times but I think they aggregated the story originally from Reuters.

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There was a huge protest of members of teachers unions, joined by firefighters in NY last wed, and there's another protest for choice today. (some union members are leaving those unions which are on board with mandatory injection. I didn't know about the NYPD union joining in, but woo hoo! if it's true. here's NY Teachers for CHoice website, they have videos & info. https://teachersforchoice.org/2021/08/26/all-of-new-york-city-was-there/

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In good French: " La Science, c'est moi " (Science is me)

For the parody of Louis XIV's quote "L'Etat c'est moi"

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with the intent to defraud the governed

in CA on Monday 30 Aug 21

CA State Assembly will have a reading of a transportation bill

that has been waylaid and gutted and stuffed with

a vaccine-passport law that is

comprehensively

immobilizing for the unjabbed

listen to this lady for 10 minutes

https://instagram.com/tv/CTD57SmH3Na/?utm_medium=share_sheet

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I listened for the full 22 minutes and I can't decide if I'm more terrified or infuriated.

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The difference between now and revolutionary France is that the peasants nowadays crave the safety they imagine is being provided by the nanny state. There is no way out of our march to serfdom. I just hope there's more cake than bread along the way.

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#theboughtsellustothebuyers

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The world rulers and global elites have read the writing on the wall ever since the 2008 economic crash, knowing the whole central banking Ponzi scheme is a house of cards which was going to collapse sooner or later. Covid has accelerated the schedule, so they have sworn their allegiance to the Davos/WEF scheme to Build Back Better, which means convincing the rest of us that we don't really need jobs, we just have to resign ourselves to being powerless, dependent vassals of the authoritarian state, needing only enough debased, worthless dollars to keep us barely afloat and owning nothing while they claim their reserved spots aboard the great survival Ark for the ultra-privileged.

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Here is the solution in an easy to read form: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1430967286244970502.html

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excellent

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