COVID19 Factors We Should Consider/Current Events

[Mark Rippetoe]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1489336004637044746
It is reminiscent of that "We found the weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq claim.
It is foreboding, however; this claim is coming from a group that follows the mantra, "Accuse your enemies of that which you are doing"

Too many fuck ups and blatant lies from the US government when Russia has told the truth about the matter.
The US Bombed A Vital Dam In Syria, Lied About It, & Called Anyone Who Reported The Truth "Crazy" | ZeroHedge

The video at the top is amazing. Anyone who believes anything these government fucks say is either a fellow government fuck or a deeply stupid person. This is what waterboarding is for.

British children up to 52 times more likely to die following a COVID shot: gov’t report

This seems to me a huge strategic error. Why would you kill off the most compliant members of your society, when it seems that these are the ones who would be of most use to you against assholes such as ourselves? Am I missing an important part of the analysis?

[cmdrfunk]

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Nurse testifies she's witnessed patient death by medical malfeasance... and more

[Jovan Dragisic]

From personal experience in the past couple of months, the only people “getting Covid” are the double and triple vaccinated. But really, exclusively those people, our guys are not lying as much about the vaccination numbers, so a lot of people are admitting to not being vaccinated, and none of the unvaccinated have even had the sniffles. A buddy who recently got the shot was tested positive, his unvaccinated fiancé has taken five tests hoping for a positive test and an Ausweis, but no luck. Shit like that. A few vaccinated guys are even positive for the second time. It is extremely funny.

[David A. Rowe]

This seems to me a huge strategic error. Why would you kill off the most compliant members of your society, when it seems that these are the ones who would be of most use to you against assholes such as ourselves? Am I missing an important part of the analysis?

Assuming they have a plan. I stand by my analysis that they've been surfing every tragedy, manufactured or otherwise, and they've surfed their own tidal wave deep into the rocks. They're going to keep going because they have no plan. They're stupid people, and so all of this arrives at a dangerous confluence because we're the surfboard.

[Mark Rippetoe]

And now, these pieces of shit want to take it a step further: It’s Back: Senators Want EARN IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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ZeroHedge has a piece that David Lewis might have an opinion on: Long Funeral Homes, Short Life Insurers? Ex-Blackrock Fund Manager Discovers Disturbing Trends In Mortality | ZeroHedge

[AFNick68]

What is your take on the current internal power struggle within the CCP?

Below is my view on the situation But I wanted to clarify two things first -- reflecting on my prior post probably I portrayed myself as more of an 'expert' than I am. I am simply someone who has read a lot on the topic and thought about it, so I think I have a useful view, but my take may not be the best so I look forward to hearing yours and others as well. Second, I am a freedom loving, capitalist loving, card carrying American, a military veteran - I love the USA. But I think it's important to call balls and strikes as we see them, not as we wish they were. So here goes.

Generally I think we need to distinguish between manageable problems and existential problems. The former are bad, especially when they could lead to turnover in management, but the latter are exceptionally difficult to deal with. I believe China has the former. And if it is manageable than the issue boils down to how well it will be managed which is a function of how capable the management is. In my view, the West has more existential problems, where large swaths of society are at odds with each other over fundamental values.

As regards China, sometimes we view it as one thing, but that is actually wrong. China is a collection of very disparate territories, peoples and ways of living. BUT, they are tied together by a shared heritage, ethnicity, values and of course a strong central government. So there are risks there, no doubt. But Dr Marc Faber, someone who I greatly respect, once posed the following question: if you lined up all the CCP and took their average IQ versus all the US congress/executive branch and took their average IQ, which would be higher? As a US military veteran it pains me to say that the answer is quite obviously the CCP. Consider that if you took the complaints of the average American about how the US has been handled in the past 20 years it would probably boil down to three things; encouragement of special interests and crony nepotism (eg big tech, military industrial complex), complete societal degeneration and debauchery and borderline societal genocide (eg open borders, wokeism), and complete financial mismanagement. China, frankly, for all its faults and foibles (of which I will definitely concede there are many) is trying to address these issues which the West failed to. It may or may not succeed, and I suspect even if it does succeed it would not be without pain.

But if we agree that a) the problems are manageable and b) the management is quite capable, then I think probably Xi will likely handle it well. But as I said of course there are risks. To me the biggest risks given the sprawling nature of managing China are food/energy inflation leading to internal uprisings, loss of or incoherent central authority and finally some sort of external calamity. The second is the big risk given strife within the CCP, and Xi will have to be ruthless to squelch it. The third is improbable given the insane state of the west. The first is a big risk, especially when coupled with China's asset bubble (particularly real estate and debt) problems. It will be interesting to watch unfold. If I had to bet, I think Xi threads the needle for another 10 years, and taking Taiwan would certainly be a feather in the cap, but worse outcomes are most certainly possible.

[anticausal]

This seems to me a huge strategic error. Why would you kill off the most compliant members of your society, when it seems that these are the ones who would be of most use to you against assholes such as ourselves? Am I missing an important part of the analysis?

All cause mortality of children is small, so even a 52x increase won't be noticed by the docile and compliant--unless they happen to draw the short straw, of course. But even then, they will be shamed and ridiculed by their fellow sheep, so most will just rationalize it away. We've already seen several examples of this with parents of vaccine injured children saying they will still jab their other kids. At that point you aren't just compliant, you are utterly submissive, happily walking your own child up to the sacrificial altar. Is there a higher level of domination than that?

[George Christiansen]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1489336004637044746

There clearly seems to be too many throats and not enough fists in that room.

[Mark Rippetoe]

We've already seen several examples of this with parents of vaccine injured children saying they will still jab their other kids. At that point you aren't just compliant, you are utterly submissive, happily walking your own child up to the sacrificial altar. Is there a higher level of domination than that?

I can't imagine one.

[TommyGun]

In the very early BitcCoin days I went to a conference at MIT about this stuff. The very early adopters did not see it as an investment or a means to replace a fiat monetary system. The nerds loved the blockchain technology and the mystery around Sitoshi and the black market loved it’s potential for transactions that could not be tracked. At that time Ethereum was considered technically superior to Bitcoin as a ledger. So why the love for BTC other than fear of missing out?
Looking back the BTC price was so low but I did not buy, just too risky as an investment. Too volatile, no way to properly valuate the the real intrinsic worth. I do not regret it.

And now everyone and their mother is running a robust blockchain, and it is believed based on some DoJ indictments that the feds can clearly determine each end of a bitcoin transaction. And the Treasury Dept is also in on watching transactions as well. They know who should be reporting gains from BTC so be be aware of that come tax season.

Then there are the exchanges that get hacked (there will always be another amount Mount Gox) and your own wallet may not be as secure as you believe. Sorry to ramble just my two cents….

My sentence above about the exchanges getting hacked, can’t happen, right? I’m not gloating. People get ruined by these things.
Please read:

How $323M in crypto was stolen from a blockchain bridge called Wormhole | Ars Technica