COVID19 Factors We Should Consider/Current Events

[AFNick68]

"Attack" is the key word. They can possess Taiwan in many ways without attacking it. I agree with what you say, China will play their cards smart. If an all out attack is needed (highly unlikely), they'll do that. If they can undermine and usurp some other way, they'll take that approach. As long as the USA/EUR leadership is what it is, China has numerous paths to accomplish its ends.

[Jovan Dragisic]

Until you start paying closer attention to how lazy and incompetent things are just beneath the surface. Like when they created a fake doctor using a stock image from a google search for "doctor" and spread Covid tweets and information from this "doctor" all over the internet. Or how sloppy they were with their cover up of the Peng Shuai situation.

By not retarded I was thinking more about how they have managed to run a 1,5 billion people slave economy for 80 years with just five top level guys and with very little need to involve the army. Can you imagine how much shit the drunkards and drug addicts running, for instance the EU or the UK, would stir up if they tried to do the same? I mean, they tried to implement a short bout of stealing money and paying people to steal their money and kill their grandmas for two short years and they almost got tens of millions of people in the streets ready to hang them from lampposts.

Of course, I didn’t mean to imply the Chinese mobsters were competent in any real sense of the world, just competent when compared to the competition.

[Jovan Dragisic]

Because it wishes to possess Taiwan.

Sure, but if China takes possession of Taiwan, then you only get military spending from China on the shores on Taiwan, for the short military incursion, and then to "defend" Taiwan later on. I am no expert on military spending by any means, but it seems to me that the current situation with the sabre rattling is much more lucrative to multiple parties. China gets to spend money on defending the shores of the mainland, the fictional government of Taiwan gets to spend money on defending from an imminent mainland threat, all of the American and British Pacific colonies, from Japan to New Zealand, get to spend money on keeping the Pacific safe from the red menace, the American military gets to spend money in all of those places and so on. The Ukranian scam, it seems much more profitable then the WW2 and Cold War line, because you don't actually have to fire any real ammunition, you just bill it to the taxpayer.

[George Christiansen]

The people running the CCP don’t seem to be completely useless and retarded.

This is the difference on which everything pivots.

They certainly lie to their people and keep them in the dark, but it part of a correct understanding/agreement that all Chinese are NOT equal and all of China does not need to know everything or contribute to the governing of the country.

Ours lie about both of those things, which are in thems++++++++++++++++elves lies, and then they do it to our faces like we're idiots who would believe something as absurd as Bruce Jenner is a woman or a conservative. And they're right.

It is absolutely amazing to me to watch Americans far for every insane lie they're told and then bitch about "elites" and clamor for "democracy".

Both China and the US are ruled autocratically by "elites". The only difference is that China's are actually elites who seem to care about their country in at least some way, while we have baby kissing scumbag actors run by malevolent string pullers who could care less about anything other than their own interests.

We need some actual elites, who actually care, running things. That is the only thing that CAN ensure political freedom. The anarchist dream many hold to just create a vacuum for opportunists. Thanks to technology's reach there is no such thing any more of freedom from government. The only chance is freedom due to government.

[George Christiansen]

Until you start paying closer attention to how lazy and incompetent things are just beneath the surface. Like when they created a fake doctor using a stock image from a google search for "doctor" and spread Covid tweets and information from this "doctor" all over the internet. Or how sloppy they were with their cover up of the Peng Shuai situation.

Lazy and incompetent or efficient?

How hard should they work when "lazy and incompetent" works just fine?

Any more is the political equivalent of junk volume in training.

They're lying.
We know they're lying.
They know we know they're lying.

The problem isn't the qualities of lies in this scenario.

And the problem is for the "we". "They" don't have a problem.

[Gilead]

Did Justin Trudeau's Vicious Lies and Smears Lead to Car Ramming of Freedom Convoy Protesters in Winnipeg? Will Media Run with This Like Charlottesville?

Iowa Governor Declares It’s Time To Treat Coronavirus Like Flu And Ends All COVID Emergency Orders

The lockdown reaction to COVID-19 was mainly unsuccessful at rescuing people from the virus.
Iowa Governor Declares It’s Time To Treat Coronavirus Like Flu And Ends All COVID Emergency Orders - GreatGameIndia

[AFNick68]

Some Ls for today (or Ws depending on your perspective I guess) - Bloomberg runs headline for 30 mins saying Russia invaded Ukraine and then retracts, WH brands a US Senator a russian propagandist for questioning their narrative, NATO scrambles fighter jets to intercept Russians over the Baltic. And also the truth behind the ridiculous "blowout" jobs report. They know the midterms would be a bloodbath if they started tomorrow, so they are now going to try to inflame the Russia situation and also cook the economic books totally. When all that fails they'll ring the Dominion CEO.

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Psaki Accuses Josh Hawley of 'Parroting' Russian Talking Points

https://ac.nato.int/archive/2022/nat...he-high-north-

Here Is What'''s Behind Today'''s Stunning Payrolls Beat | ZeroHedge

[cmdrfunk]

GoFundMe removed the donations for the truckers because of violence or some other made up stupid shit, originally trying to steal the money by saying people had a few days to REQUEST their money back, which is an obvious attempt to confiscate the money knowing that when you create hoops to do anything fewer people will do it. Then they backed off on that, especially since people started filing chargebacks on their credit cards and filing for arbitration to purposely create costs GoFundMe would have to pay. GoFundMe Cancelling The Canadian Freedom Convoy’s Fundraiser Leaves Them Financially Vulnerable

We'll just ignore they helped fund BLM and Antifa and the annexation of Seattle territory, I guess, with the typical different rules for different people.

And then someone ran over protestors. The only actual violence, like usual. Vehicle Runs Over Protesters in Winnipeg - YouTube

GiveSendGo, which should have been used to begin with but no one ever learns, has taken over the donation handling, with Rumble offering engineering and server support of the endeavor.



Hmm, seems just a bit more organized than CHAZ was: https://media.communities.win/post/KEfq72AJy1KF.png

[od1]

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

Moloch is drooling.

Funny how the same dataset can be interpreted for very different agendas:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulat...england/latest

[Nicholas Laureys]

My theory of this is that this is because "conservatism" is not a political strategy at all, when compared to "progressivism"

Progressivism has an end goal in mind, and a philosophical underpinning, whether it's adherents realise it or not. And that is to change because at it's core "new = better" It's the whig version of history. So on one side you have someone that is on offense and constantly trying to change, and on the other you have someone that is constantly on defense, who's best outcome in each individual battle is a stalemate. That can never win in a strategic contest. It's just a series of draws punctuated by losses, with no wins, because the movement is philosophically incapable of winning.

To counter progressivism you need a movement that is in opposition to this, a movement that aims to repeal, rather than conserve.

But people are so far away from this because merely floating the idea of say, repealing the civil rights act would result in gasps of horror from even conservatives. You think Dan Crenshaw would suggest an idea like that? Or what about repealing Reagans 1986 immigration reform and control act. Grab the smelling salts -- half the republican party just fainted.
There is no existing political philosophy, let alone a party that can provide an actual resistance to progressivism.

Awesome post snubby, I'll add that until you live in a "normal" country outside of the West, you cannot understand how silly Conservatives' defenses against accusations of ray-cism, or the silence about the myriad social misfit ideas Progressives push, sound.

In Moscow the organic grocery chain vkusville posted an ad with a "non-traditional" couple, saying, we serve families of ALL types, and the pushback from the "right" was much stronger than support from the Muscovite progressives, such that they had to apologize for the ad. Also, you never hear a politician apologizing for Stalin, and don't hear much noise about that silence, either. I guess some countries & political movements accept that their Hiroshimas and Cotton Fields were what were necessary for the survival of their fellow countrymen who lived at that time, and there's no point splitting the culture by criticizing those past decisions with current hindsight.

I mean, do you hear Progressives apologizing for forced busing? Or the 65 Immigration Act? No, because winners don't apologize for their past missteps.

The technological advancements will be made ON Bitcoin. It is the best choice still. Other coins have focused on improving one aspect compared to Bitcoin, for example Monero's transactions anonymity, but it lacks all the other features. Or most scamcoins focus on the speed of transactions, or scalability, but other than that, they're centralized trash.
The coins are not the technology.
Anymore than Youtube can be compared to the Internet Protocol.
And no, in this case the Internet Protocol is not the blockchain, it's Bitcoin.
The blockchain is just a convenient organized way to put transactions on a digital ledger.
As far as I know, there existed protocols for the Internet that were better than the current one, but people chose this one.
Anyway, the possibilities when you are thinking long term technological advancements, are pretty endless, so might as well analyze things as we go.

Francesco, your excitement is bordering on pontificating. Have you considered that using cash only, and avoiding digital transactions and banking, solves all the same problems that Bitcoins do? And if ever the SHTF such that the fiat currencies crumble, it will not matter at that point whether you hold cold, hard cash, cryptocurrencies, or even precious metals, for that matter.
So what I'm saying is, any currency (holder of value) that exists within the timeframe/the society of the current fiat ones will not be capable of solving the future problems that will be created when/if this fiat system collapses. It's like you're sitting in jail yet excited that you concocted a system that evades the prison guards to allow you to transfer goods and services outside of the Commissary.