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    See, this fuck didn't learn anything. Right back to coercing people, convinced she is correct without a thought given to the consequences of maybe being wrong.
    She's a professional talker. Her Wikipedia pages indicates that it's a congenital trait.

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    I may not be religious, but I do think the Christian tenet of forgiving those who have wronged you is a good thing, even objectively useful to keeping a society full of constantly-fucking-up humans functioning. But forgiveness is something that needs to be asked for, not demanded, even by passive aggressive means in an article. Otherwise, you are not forgiving someone who has wronged you, you are merely inviting them to continue wronging you. When asking for it, you also don't try to minimize what you need to be forgiven for. This lady is not just someone who fell for the hysteria and had her family take precautions that didn't work. She was calling for people who were skeptical of the COVID shots to be ejected from civilization. I haven't bothered to actually READ her article, but it sounds like she doesn't address that very critical slight against her fellow citizens.

    I likely won't be forgiving anyone for any COVID shit. This is not because I am an unreasonable person who refuses to forgive others. It is because I KNOW not a one of them will actually offer up a sincere apology, and will instead try to exert media force to elicit my forgiveness, as they still think of me as subhuman and themselves as my greaters, just like the author of that article.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    And this will work for most people.
    I am not forgeting and I am not forgiving! I have been calling them out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jovan Dragisic View Post
    you cannot trust anything you don't know the make-up of. This used to apply only to software
    No, software is where this applies the least. Software can be decomposed into a million independent black boxes, each with its own specification. As today’s video explains, in the real world, it’s unwise to trust expert advice with even one layer of indirection.

    This is actually a grave misunderstanding. Many industries, envious of the economies of scale achieved by software, have pursued hyperspecialization, with awful consequences.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jovan Dragisic View Post
    but it turns out these guys are right - you cannot trust anything you don't know the make-up of. This used to apply only to software,
    It still applies to televisions.

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    They Rule Over Dysfunctional Ruin, but They Rule

    The real problem flowing from the 2008 crisis however, wasn’t essentially financial. Yes, the losses were shifted from failing institutions balance sheets to the Fed’s, but the real structural problems were never addressed. So, people soon believed that almost every problem could be solved by speech and thought codes – married to the printing press.

    Political trade-offs were no longer to be considered a requisite. Costs no longer relevant. In this environment, no problem was too big to solve through behavioural management techniques and the central bank. And if there wasn’t a crisis to mandate and ‘liquify’ agenda change, then one could be invented. And, sure enough, as soon as the U.S. Fed began to return to ‘normal’ policies in 2018 and 2019, a new, even bigger crisis was found.

    Not surprisingly, in the context of what was seen as failed Civil Rights and New Deal reforms, the activist movements being funded by the Oligarchic ‘wealth funds’ turned more radical. They adopted a revolutionary cultural activism deployed to “solve problems once and for all” – aimed at bringing about deep structural change within society.

    This meant shifting power once again away from the liberal Middle Class ‘who were so often white and male’ – and were therefore part to society’s structural injustice. Put simply, the western Middle Class became seen by the technocrats as a pain in the backside.

    The point here is what was missed in all the talk of ‘positive discrimination’ paths in favour of ‘victims’ was the other side to the coin: Negative harmful discrimination practiced against those ‘blocking the path’ – those failing to get out of the way.

    Scott McKay’s Revivalist Manifesto calls this hostile discriminatory process, ‘weaponised Government Failure’ – such as the induced government dysfunctionality in U.S. cities to drive the Middle Class away. “‘White flight’ is a feature. It’s not a bug”, its advocates preached. The urban socialist Left wants a manageably small core of rich residents, and a teeming mass of pliable poor ones, and nothing in between. That’s what weaponized governmental failure produces, and it’s been a wide-scale success.

    New Orleans votes 90 percent Democrat; Philadelphia is 80 percent Democrat; Chicago is 85 percent. Los Angeles? Seventy-one percent. None of those cities will have a Republican mayor or city council again, or at least not in the foreseeable future. The Democrat Party barely exists outside of the ruins that those urban machines produce.

    The bigger message is that ‘induced dysfunctionality’ can produce a society that can be ruled over (made compliant through unpleasantness and hurt) – without having to govern it (i.e. make things work!).

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    Quote Originally Posted by anticausal View Post
    This is good: Scott McKay’s Revivalist Manifesto calls this hostile discriminatory process, ‘weaponised Government Failure’ – such as the induced government dysfunctionality in U.S. cities to drive the Middle Class away. “‘White flight’ is a feature. It’s not a bug”, its advocates preached. The urban socialist Left wants a manageably small core of rich residents, and a teeming mass of pliable poor ones, and nothing in between. That’s what weaponized governmental failure produces, and it’s been a wide-scale success.

    New Orleans votes 90 percent Democrat; Philadelphia is 80 percent Democrat; Chicago is 85 percent. Los Angeles? Seventy-one percent. None of those cities will have a Republican mayor or city council again, or at least not in the foreseeable future. The Democrat Party barely exists outside of the ruins that those urban machines produce.


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    And here's an important paper that somehow made it through "peer-review": Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics | SpringerLink

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    The emergence of COVID-19 has led to numerous controversies over COVID-related knowledge and policy. To counter the perceived threat from doctors and scientists who challenge the official position of governmental and intergovernmental health authorities, some supporters of this orthodoxy have moved to censor those who promote dissenting views. The aim of the present study is to explore the experiences and responses of highly accomplished doctors and research scientists from different countries who have been targets of suppression and/or censorship following their publications and statements in relation to COVID-19 that challenge official views. Our findings point to the central role played by media organizations, and especially by information technology companies, in attempting to stifle debate over COVID-19 policy and measures. In the effort to silence alternative voices, widespread use was made not only of censorship, but of tactics of suppression that damaged the reputations and careers of dissenting doctors and scientists, regardless of their academic or medical status and regardless of their stature prior to expressing a contrary position. In place of open and fair discussion, censorship and suppression of scientific dissent has deleterious and far-reaching implications for medicine, science, and public health.
    And here's the Robert Malone piece about the paper: Censorship and Defamation- Weapons of Control

    Very scary:

    Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland
    •“The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors.…The primary terrorism-related threat to the United States continues to stem from lone offenders or small cells of individuals who are motivated by a range of foreign and/or domestic grievances often cultivated through the consumption of certain online content.

    •Key factors contributing to the current heightened threat environment include:

    •The proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions

    •For example, there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19.

    •Grievances associated with these themes inspired violent extremist attacks during 2021.”

    •“As COVID-19 restrictions continue to decrease nationwide, increased access to commercial and government facilities and the rising number of mass gatherings could provide increased opportunities for individuals looking to commit acts of violence to do so, often with little or no warning.

    •Meanwhile, COVID-19 mitigation measures—particularly COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates—have been used by domestic violent extremists to justify violence since 2020 and could continue to inspire these extremists to target government, healthcare, and academic institutions that they associate with those measures.”
    In other words, anything you say about what's going on right now that makes logical sense makes you a terrorist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shiva Kaul View Post
    No, software is where this applies the least. Software can be decomposed into a million independent black boxes, each with its own specification. As today’s video explains, in the real world, it’s unwise to trust expert advice with even one layer of indirection.

    This is actually a grave misunderstanding. Many industries, envious of the economies of scale achieved by software, have pursued hyperspecialization, with awful consequences.
    Just say no.

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