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One insidious thing that I have noticed is how being in the 'in' group might start off innocently enough, but in order to keep your membership in the group, the lies get more and more outrageous. Drop off the train at any point, and you'll find yourself on the outside -- and even more hated than if you had been on the outside the whole time.

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"The best thing about socialists is they eventually start shooting each other."

~ Yuri Maltsev

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Best belly laugh I’ve had all week, thank you.

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See: J.K. Rowling

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Her 'Ickabog' was exceptionally well timed. The lessons within are a great fit for what we are seeing occur in our society today. As such it is a valuable teaching tool for a young audience.

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Excellent book. I was a bit worried about how many years it lasted, hopefully the real world wakes up sooner.

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This is the Menshevik/Bolshevik, and then the intra-Soviet dynamic, that played out in Russia, 1917-1940.

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And they were naughty naughty long before that. Freemasons and commies... a distinction without a difference. Blood enemies of Catholic Church. That's why Catholics despise commie loving Francis, non pope

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Francis is the first Jesuit Pope. It's not that the previous Popes weren't conniving, but Jesuits are a whole different league. Jesuits have been Marxist since the 1960s and the installation of the Jesuit Pope marks their total takeover of the Catholic Church. It means the Church is no longer about God but is now about communism, here on Earth.

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The Catholic Church teaches a non Catholic can't become Pope. We have not had a Pope since Pius XII, 1958. False popes established a new church.

proclaiming Vatican II Church as Catholic Church is showing utter contempt for promises of Jesus Christ... "and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it".

Mt 16:18-19.

Gates of hell mean heresy.

The Catholic Church exists outside Vatican II structure, holding apostate Rome in contempt. Rome since 1958 is greatest persecutors of Catholics

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I've been thinking a lot about my childhood experiences of being horribly bullied and outcast. I realized early on that I didn't want to be part of the in-group, just leave me tf alone and I really give less of a damn of they "like" me. This has definitely steeled me for adulthood.

My brother, by contrast, seems to not have learned that lesson from his own childhood bullying experience. He *desperately* wants to be accepted.

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Jan 29, 2022·edited Jan 29, 2022

One of the most liberating realizations I ever had was the idea that I didn't give a hoot what anyone thought about me, about what I said, thought or did. I just wish I'd figured this out in my teens. I also realized I never wanted to be accepted as a part of any group.

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Yes it’s very puzzling. Clearly there is some element of nature in amongst the nurture.

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You're on a roll, gato! Yesterday's lawn darts and now this. You've got the clearest common sense I've read in all the noise. Thank you. All hail chairman meow!

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I'm not sure how many here are religious or otherwise have a transcendental horizon for their moral landscape, but: one thing that really scares me not just about the response to COVID, but about our world in general, is that the controlling majority seem incapable of invoking anything like natural law. The basic premise that entities have a nature and that you should understand and treat them according to their nature seems to be completely absent from public discourse.

In a more sane world, for example, it would never be forgotten that the family is the basic building block of any community. Which is not to say that the bonds of family are absolute -- abusive situations can happen -- but that you should think AWFULLY HARD before challenging the bond between parents and their children. In a sane world, "We have to break through this idea that kids belong to their families" would instantly get everyone's backs up. It would be immediately recognized as a profoundly anti-social statement that attacks the very nature of what it means to be a family, what it means to be a parent. It would not be entertained for a second.

What do we need to do to make that sane world a reality?

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Jan 26, 2022·edited Jan 26, 2022

Sharpen claws and use them. Yesterday I charged our school board to remove approximately one hundred inappropriate books—many pornographic—from library shelves countywide. Never mind that they shouldn’t have been there in the first place. The mostly-masked automatons stared responseless, champions of the greater good that they are. Fools.

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Public schools, public health care will be gone before this is over.

Transvestites reading to little boys. Elderly murdered in hospitals.

Children dying alone because of Covid bs rules....

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Hellish

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It is a war.... and it ain't over.

They had a nice niche... they are gonna lose it all...

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I’m a New Zealander and can confirm that that witch we have as PM is truly evil. She loves power and she adores creating divisiveness to get others to do her dirty work for her.

The latest is that they banned rapid antigen tests last year because we couldn’t be trusted with them (took away her control). Then after most of a year begging, businesses were allowed to import them so as to help keep their businesses running. The govt failed to order more than one per person themselves. Yesterday they requisitioned all RAT orders coming into the country. Apparently they will reallocate them according to need - probably along racial lines.

Incompetent, lazy, stupid, and evil. And she’s the best of the whole government. They have destroyed my country.

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She is despicable, and frankly stomach-churning to look at, so why is she still in power? Hard not to conclude the majority of people of NZ want this. God bless, and hang in there.

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Her and Justin Trudeau are both "up and coming world leaders" by the World Economic Forum. No coincidence.

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There are a stunning number of people on that list:

https://swprs.org/the-wef-and-the-pandemic/

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https://www.bitchute.com/video/S5PIPeFbkdGk/

BEST SPEECH EVER....

WE DON'T WANT THEIR FUCKING VACCINES

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The good news is that she knows it. She can't show up anywhere in the country without heavy security presence and loud protesters.

Those girls up in Northland ran her right out of town a few days ago. That has to hurt for an attention-seeking commie.

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God bless brave and suffering New Zealand and Australia. You are tough peoples

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Puts a whole new meaning to “remaining up” while you’re down under. Keep the faith and resist.

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I can't even watch her for a minute. "Psychotic kindergarten teacher" is the impression I get.

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NWO traitor and bitch. Hang her, NZ ....pay per view it, proceeds to maimed children

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When people raised in cults reject a particular ideology, they tend to find another--perhaps even quite opposite in doctrine--as a substitute. You rarely find them becoming independent thinkers even if they think they are...

And funny thing. As a child of the '50s raised in a strongly culturally but not orthodox Jewish home, with grandparents and their large extended family all immigrants who'd fled Czarist/Revolutionary Russian Empire (and, unknown to me then, a great-great uncle and family who'd been murdered in Uman by the Nazis), color me overstuffed with the heroic mythos of the kibbutz and the--ain't it ironic!--glorious workers' paradise that was building in Israel.

And then some decades ago a study came out of the now-adult children of the kibbutz system. They sure had plenty of group cohesion but struggled terribly with intimate emotional relationships. Kids of the collective and they hungered all their lives for the nuclear family they were bereft of and could not successfully create for themselves.

Keep your--pardon me--fucking village. Its only useful purpose is to keep the maneaters from breaching the perimeter. But each to his own hut, with a locked door.

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true. i've managed many people over the years. one thing i learned was, when confronted with a lie, to avoid having the liar repeat the lie - because the more they repeated the lie, the more they believed the lie. i'd always try to give people an out. (trap a rat in a corner and find out.)

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“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.”

― C. S. Lewis

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I have been reading Shoshana Zuboff's book "The age of Surveillance Capitalism" this week and have started to understand the structure of the propaganda a bit better. Many people have seen the Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma", which is a small subset of the material in the book. The Cambridge Analytica "Scandal" is a minuscule example of the techniques involved in imposing the "narrative" on the populace.

The pervasive surveillance through Google, FB, Twitter, Yahoo, whatever you use online down to your ISP and particularly your Android "Smart" phone is used with AI/ML (machine learning) to predict your activities. The next step is providing you with "options" which you will favour. This generates a positive feedback loop, which as any engineer will tell you is quite a dangerous condition. Most of us are susceptible, we get a fine Dopamine surge when our comments are "liked", allowing the narrative to spread with a far greater R0 than any virus. As noted in the post, the repetition from above and the internal confirmation are extremely potent in maintaining the lies. Cognitive dissonance is a far weaker antidote for most people.

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Joe Rogan has just had on a scientist who monitors how tech companies can influence elections. Specifically Google. This is the synopsis: "Dr. Robert Epstein is an author, professor, and Senior Research Psychologist at American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology: a non-profit, non-partisan organization that offers data regarding the power of Google and other Big Tech companies to censor dissenting opinions online and sway the outcome of elections."

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Don't forget how the traditional media always seems to read from the exact same sheet of music:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-shadowy-trusted-news-initiative/5752930

"Since early in the COVID-19 pandemic, which according to the World Health Organization kills only 0.23% of those infected[ii], enormous fear and panic have been fueled by the hourly drumbeat of a “one-voice” media.

An international process of editorial standardization has delivered unprecedented news coverage of the monopolized message:

1. The pandemic threatens the survival of all humanity

2. There is no therapy to cure the sick

3. It is necessary to confine the whole population, and

4. The delivery will come only from a vaccine.[iii]"

scary stuff...

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This is called "herding". The vaccine is the answer to a problem, but that problem isn't a pandemic. Situation now: At present *size* of population, assuming *no* growth, at *present* rate of depletion, fossil fuels no longer recoverable (energy used to recover = energy obtained from use) in ca. 30 years. Mechanized agriculture dependent on fossil fuels. (Wayback Machine for dieoff.org). Transport of food, etc. dependent on fossil fuels , resulting in localised subsistence farming. High tech stuff (server farms, silicon, lithium, etc.) dependent on electricity production, and that’s dependent on fossil fuels - even nuclear power (mining, refining).

The variable that determines what happens is population - every person uses a finite amount of energy to live, even on a subsistence level, and that energy adds up, and it has to come from someplace. Most people in developed countries live at far greater than subsistence level. And then there’s economic growth, which is exponential as well, and that economic growth has to be matched by production , else debt default, and the growth in production requires growth in energy use, and thus acceleration of resource depletion of non-renewable resources.

So there’s a big problem here - assuming constant population, economic growth has to cease forever, interest has to stop being paid (=debt default), earnings growth has to go to zero (and that means sharp drop in stock prices and valuations of companies). So we’re in overshoot, big time. It may not seem that way, but because of exponential growth, half full goes to full in one cycle (Al Bartlett). One cycle is about 20 years on average, population wise.

So constant population doesn’t fix the problem.

What to do?

Pretty obviously - reduce population and control growth. The trouble is that you can't get people to voluntarily commit suicide, and sterilize their children, but you can scare the hell out of them, after getting them into a herd, a/k/a "mass formation", and take drugs which will result in their premature death, and the sterilization of their children, and suddenly the solution appears in sight.

And if it looks like it's centrally coordinated, it probably is.

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The problem with the trusted news initiative is it’s not just about Covid. They’re directing propaganda across the full spectrum including Ukraine and other areas it’s so easy to see because the trained monkeys at the news organizations read the exact same script Word for Word.

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Sure, they do other stuff as well, and the interest in Ukraine isn't wheat, it's the Russian military industrial complex in Donbass, and the only warm-water port for the Russian Navy in Novorossisk in Crimea. And taking those is like the Russians taking out the installations at Norfolk - ain't gonna happen without a fight, and a big one. Putin is absolutely right to see that as an existential threat. But you missed the point of my comment.

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Actually, I did get the point. And I do not disagree. I just wanted to point out to those that have never heard of TNI that there’s a lot that these jerks are doing besides Covid and depop. to control (nudge) all of us.

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Yes. Excellent document on this - The Perfect Storm:

https://ftalphaville-cdn.ft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf

See especially Part Five: The Killer Equation. It explains the problem of "Energy returned on energy invested" in the clearest terms.

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I'm reading it now, seems to be tracking pretty closely what I've been saying for the past 40 years or so. The trouble comes from the neoliberals who took over starting with Reagan in 1981 - and if you think about it, past 1973 or so, when Henry Kissinger set a lot of policy. And shipping industrial production overseas was something I really raised hell about in the 1990s, I predicted it would destroy the middle class - and it has. Wealth without production of tangible goods is sheer fantasy. Countries exist for the benefit of their citizens, not the citizens of some other country or some multinational structure or other. OK, back to it...

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You mean Neil Young's sheet music?

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5th Avenue was all on the same page too.

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Every variety of the monstrous pile of dung known as collectivism can be summed up in a single sentence:

"Hand over your stuff and do what I tell you or I will throw you into a cage and kill you if you resist."

Everything else they say is just window dressing and emotional bullshit. As gato says, there is no "common good". There is also no "fair" or "free" or "social contract" or "social justice" or any of the countless other euphemisms, absurdities and other shiny objects they use to distract and rile up the booboisie.

These are the people that during the Reign of Terror roasted baby aristocrats alive in bread ovens, bagged up children and drowned them in rivers, and lopped off many thousands of heads.

In the last century or so these murderous bastards have slaughtered hundreds of millions of innocents and oppressed, impoverished and displaced countless hundreds of millions more.

They have destroyed every singe society and economy they've seized control of, and they are well on their way to destroying what is left of the formerly free world.

Like a gigantic nest of fleas, they have infested every level of government and every major institution, so that now sane people are demonized and relegated to watching and listening in horror as evil clowns like Comrades Ardern, Biden, Castro-Trudeau, Macron, Merkel, Fauci and legions of other officious apparatchiks down to the local "health board" rule us with imperial edicts have would have made Nero pause.

After this track record, imagine the level of depravity required to consider or call oneself a collectivist or socialist.

They are barbarians. All of them.

Gato is spot on when he says we must be rid of them.

We will never be really civilized until we do.

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Jan 27, 2022·edited Jan 27, 2022

Yes. This:

‘Every variety of…collectivism can be summed up in a single sentence:

"Hand over your stuff and do what I tell you or I will throw you into a cage and kill you if you resist."

Everything else they say is just window dressing and emotional bullshit…

They are barbarians. All of them.

…we must be rid of them.

We will never be really civilized until we do.’

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“…these people are sick, and it makes them dangerous”

That’s exactly right. They have a perverse ideology that is really a kind of psychological illness. They are separated from reality.

They “know” a priori that what they believe is true, so they have no need to check their ideas with empirical evidence.

And they are unwilling to listen to empirical evidence that conflicts with their prior beliefs. This is confirmation bias on steroids and PCP…

Anyway, this post shows why the Bad Cat is great. I don’t know of anyone who has fought harder and more effectively for rationality and freedom since Covid hysteria set in.

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Remind me of one of my favorite quotes.

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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El Gato you are fast becoming my favourite feline next to The Cat from Red Dwarf.

On a serious note this was absolutely brilliant and a must read for anyone who wishes to understand our current malaise. The genius of your writing is such that it not only addresses the macro level but also the micro as in how our colleagues/friends/family have been affected by this big lie.

Amazing and Thank You.

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Jan 26, 2022·edited Jan 26, 2022

A group I know was happy to show papers at a Coney Island restaurant, of course someone didn’t have papers and we couldn’t get in. 🤷‍♀️😁

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Jacinda Ardern reminds me of Dolores Umbridge.

It's time we brought out Dumbledore's Army with Weasley Wizarding Wheezes and become ungovernable.

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I've wondered the last year or two if we now officially have a higher percentage of people with narcissistic personality disorder? I feel like I've stumbled across more in the last few years than ever in my life, and it would only take a certain % of these people in positions of power to destroy the world. The only way they can be dealt with is to be removed, ignored and stowed away on an island like Napoleon.

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There are some who connect the explosive growth in eating binge disorders to the explosive growth (in the ~1980s) of the childhood vaccination "schedule"

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I'd pay a substantial sum to be there when the Canadian convoy arrives and Castro's Bastard finds out exactly who is no longer going to be tolerated by whom.

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Unfortunately he's on holidays at his cottage

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Hopefully 20,000 truckers show up for dinner.

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With 20,000 pitchforks!

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Did I say 20,000?

I meant 50,000!

Let's Go Brandeau™.

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So 50,000 pitchforks!!

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