2022-04-03
Horseshit
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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I think many in the pro-libraries, anti-austerity crowd think that political activity is a social good and should be encouraged, which is why we should consider government-funded public spaces as more desirable than Starbucks and shopping malls. Plus they won’t kick out the homeless, which makes them more “inclusive” than businesses that actually need to attract voluntary customers and therefore have standards as to which people they let take up space. To me, political activism is a poor substitute for things that actually give people meaning, and since most people – particularly those prone to organizing strangers towards a common purpose – are pretty bad at reasoning about public policy issues, it usually imposes a cost on the rest of society. If anything, we should be taxing it.
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Trump’s social media platform is filled with fake government profiles
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The Red-Pill Prince - Tablet Magazine
Living Americans might be able to glean a sense of the phenomenon Yarvin describes in the current public discourse. It has often seemed in recent years that every few weeks has brought a new instance in which journalists and experts instantaneously, almost magically converged on shared talking points related to the hysteria du jour—cycling through moral crusades to free children from cages at the U.S. border, save the post office from a fascist coup, label the filibuster a tool of white supremacy, and so on. The power of the Cathedral is that it cannot be seen because it is located everywhere and nowhere, baked into the architecture of how we live, communicate, and think.
Burnham argues that all complex societies are in effect oligarchies ruled by a small number of elites. To hide this fact and legitimize their rule in the eyes of the masses, oligarchies employ the powers of mystification and propaganda. Indeed, Yarvin believes that America stopped being a democracy sometime after the end of World War II and became instead a “bureaucratic oligarchy”—meaning that political power is concentrated within a small group of people who are selected not on the basis of hereditary title or pure merit but through their entry into the bureaucratic organs of the state. What remains of American democracy is pageantry and symbolism, which has about as much connection to the real thing as the city of Orlando has to Disney World.
COVID / VaxCult
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Pfizer, Moderna vaccines aren’t the same; study finds antibody differences
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Red wine could reduce chances of Covid-19 infection, U.K. study suggests
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Omicron breakthrough infection drives cross-variant neutralization
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Period problems after Covid vaccine: Tenfold increase in reports
The number of reports logged with medicine watchdogs – from women with side effects – has risen to almost 40,000 in less than a year. But, despite this, the UK regulator says no link has been established between changes to periods and the vaccines.
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Narrowing the vaccine gap as boosters begin for people over 50
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Shanghai orders Covid tests for all 25 million residents in bid to contain current outbreak
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New York City Will Continue Forced Masking of Children Under 5 Years Old
Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Media / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck
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Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV | Hacker News
"Jump Ads represent yet another step in VIZIO’s ongoing mission to unify the smart TV experience with features that benefit viewers, content providers and advertisers," said Adam Bergman, VP of sales, Vizio Ads.
What kind of soulless automaton can write corp-speak garbage like this? I wonder what Adam Bergman would think if his dentist took a piss in his mouth and then charged him for “industry-leading oral antiseptics”.
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Joe Biden Forgets He Was Vice President — but He's Totally Fine, You Guys – RedState
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Dems in Actual Disarray: How Senate Democrats Fumbled Confirmation of a Top Biden Nominee
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“I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.”
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Garland Faces Growing Pressure as Jan. 6 Investigation Widens
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Scoop: Jen Psaki planning to leave White House this spring for MSNBC gig
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Health / Medicine
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Fires, Then Floods: Risk of Deadly Climate Combination Rises
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The First Country in The World Has Given Legal Rights to Individual Wild Animals
While some countries struggle to uphold human rights, Ecuador has forged ahead and ruled wild animals possess distinct legal rights, including the right to exist.
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Once Again, Environmentalists Are Sabotaging Climate Progress
Ukraine War
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Much of the terrain northwest of Kyiv flooded along the Irpin River in recent weeks, and new drone footage shows the inherent hazards of moving forces across that open flooded ground.
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“Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory”: Sergey Karaganov
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‘No offensive biologic weapons’ in Ukrainian biolabs US assisted, Pentagon says
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More Explosions Heard In Russian Border City Where Fuel Depot Was Destroyed | ZeroHedge
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Missiles hit Ukrainian refinery, ‘critical infrastructure’ near Odessa port
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We Seriously Underestimated Russia; Our Own Propaganda is Killing Us
The key element missing was the NATO airpower. Did western neoliberal oligarchs “abandon” their nazi allies in Ukraine in some act of cowardice or lack of unity? Or is there a bigger reason? Maybe we should consider the most obvious explanation. There was no air attack because an air attack would be impossible.
We believed that the Russians would capture Kiev right away because they have no choice due to logistical constraints. That statement was clearly false, they’re a month into the war with no apparent logistical limitations at all. Therefore, this idea that they would have to capture Kiev, or any city, right away, is false.
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An elite Ukrainian drone unit on quad bikes ambushed Russian forces