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    Quote Originally Posted by Nicholas Laureys View Post
    Mark, he hasn't even signed the EO on birthright citizenship, and that's with the threat of an election looming over him.
    After re-election, in lame duck mode, what motivation do you imagine for taking politically risky gambles, especially by someone with such an addiction to left-wing media praise?
    Let's not be like the many Conservative suckers who get thrilled by promises at election time, then become all mealy-mouthed with excuses for our side when the time to take action arises!

    I do, for the record, hope that DJT takes measures against these clowns, whether sooner or later, but this just feels like another issue that should be acted upon while emotions are hot and tensions are flaring around the issue itself.
    I hardly know how to respond to this. It seems you want to endow Trump with the kind of extra-Constitutional executive powers that he is constantly accused of resorting to. At this juncture, he CAN NOT(!) override the 14th Amendment by fiat.

    What's more, you seem to not have taken note of how Trump plays the left wing media like a violin by trolling them on twitter on an almost daily basis. If he wanted their praise, would he do that?

    I'm not sure you have thought much of this through.

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    Yeah, I had to read that twice. Trump is addicted to left-wing media praise? Like I am addicted to gay porn. Except that gay porn actually exists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    His physics background is not strong.
    My COVID crisis paranoia might be clouding my judgement.

    But after reading about the scandal with the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine in 2009 I've very little faith in a rushed vaccine agenda. It's every few days we hear or read about a vaccine being required to get us out of this crisis.

    Has anyone managed to answer why they are so hell bent on getting us all vaccinated? Is it financial benefit for Big Pharma, or because they care about us or something else?

    For a deadly virus that's so far reported 297 deaths under the age of 60, with no known pre-existing health conditions, in hospitals in England it seems to be an extreme response.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Jackson View Post
    It's strange how even on a strength training forum where adaptation is most definitely our thing, we might feel uncomfortable even kicking around the idea that different groups of humans have evolved to adapt differently, both morphologically and mentally, in response to the different ecological conditions and stresses placed upon them. Nothing about race is superficial. Racial differences are adaptations to difference ecologies. To say it is just a social construct, like a lefty, is a lie. To say it is wholly irrelevant, like a universalist, is also a lie.
    All of us in western countries have been taught since birth and have been bombarded by subversive propaganda for so long, that it feels wrong to recognize the truth, even when we know it to be the truth.

    Our government has passed laws and amended them into the constitution that prevent us from legally and openly talking about this subject.

    Those who still dare to openly share objective observations or make academic inquiry into the subject will be blacklisted, blackmailed, sued, fired and shunned from society.

    This is why even on a strength forum where people recognize anthropomorphic differences, SRA cycle, evolution, innate specialization, innate skill or lack of it etc are terrified to even allow themselves to ask what the truth may be.

    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Jackson View Post
    I'm not saying there's not money power behind it, but I simply don't see how this is a communist revolution. The critical race theory and cultural Marxism aspect, used by these losers as justification for their violence, doesn't make this a communist revolution.
    Traditionally there have been two types of iconoclasm. One type which comes with massive revolution, and the cathartic type which accompanies the end of civilizations. I don't think this kind of iconoclasm can be compared that of massive communist revolutions, like The Cultural Revolution in China or as with the Bolsheviks. At Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, from ~8000BC, they now believe the people who built it were the ones who actually buried it. It's believed they thought it displeased the gods after cycles of invasions and climate change. Same with the toppling of the Easter Island statues.
    There's no Utopian program for these BLM people. There's no year zero they're heading towards. It's a perpetual cathartic act of a society realising Western civilization is in decline.

    I mean, for goodness' sake, why on earth would they need to go to the bother of a massive political revolution in the West? The left can get absolutely everything done it wants to in this liberal egalitarian framework. Their only obstruction is fucking centre-right conservatism, and their beloved universalism.
    All the left needs to do, is do exactly as it has done recently, slowly and repeatedly, one policy change at a time. All the left needs to do is pull the race card, and argue that racial oppression is structural, and the centre-right capitulates.
    Quote Originally Posted by George Christiansen View Post
    Their desire for this to end in a communist utopia does. Of course certain people are using anything as an excuse to loot and such, but that is also communism 101. The mobs are always mixed in intentions and the people who lead are never actually communists themselves. They just use the ideology to obtain power for themselves.
    We have been speaking as if socialism 2.0 or the reformed communism are things that may come to pass in the future. That was incorrect.

    We do have had a term for the movement for decades now: Socialism 2.0 = New World Order = BLM/Anti-Fa = Clown World = Global Soros-ism

    Soros is by far the most influential Marxist of the past 50 years. However, do not confuse him for a traditional Marxist. His ideas and implementations represent a new way of thinking about socialism:

    Soros recognizes the thorough severe failures of both traditional communism and socialism, but he still is highly sympathetic to the ideals. He played a part in bringing down the Soviet Union, he opposes the current Russian government, he is extremely uncomfortable with the closed-off nature of Israel and the tribal nature of many peoples, including the Jews. He sees capitalism as a threat, but a necessary part of society. He says people must think and act for themselves, except it must be within the strong confines of government regulation. He believes in individual freedom, but only if it is in the common interests of the community and the world. He thinks it is the responsibility of the government to take care of those who cannot or will not take care of themselves, no matter where in the world they reside. He sees wealth redistribution as the only way to create equality. He wants stability, but will use divisiveness and revolution to obtain it. He supports the pursuit of truth, but only if it is not dangerous to his biases. He sees truth as unnecessary for the masses if it can be replaced by a more progressive perception of reality. He has no morals, but he maintains strict, naively simplistic principles. He proclaims openly to the world his intentions, while orchestrating campaigns of subversion. He champions democracy, but does not believe in self-determination He fervently opposes borders, nations, traditions, culture, religion, inequality, ethnic differences, territorial claims and official languages. He wants to erase all of these "barriers to open society"

    His writings and interviews are very interesting and worth looking into in the same vain that the writings of Marx are interesting and worth knowing about. This man has been an agent of uprising and revolutions in many areas of the world. He has spent $23 billion of his personal money on ideological campaigns. That is a large amount, but he has been smart enough to leverage government contributions, "donations" (like the current BLM donation/extortion scheme), private fundraising, possible drug sales and other avenues of fundraising to leverage his initial contributions by 10X-100X. It would not be unthinkable that the network of organizations, which includes MoveOn (Covid lockdown politics) and BLM has raised and spent $1 trillion over the past 35 years. (dating back to the founding of his first nonprofits intended to subvert closed, ethno-nationalist communist governments in USSR and eastern Europe)

    Many of us view Bush as a globalist president, but Soros publicly stated he would sacrifice everything, including his life, if it could guarantee a Bush defeat in the 2004 reelection campaign. Soros hates Trump much more. He lost $1 Billion dollars betting on and encouraging a market collapse after Trump was elected.

    All of these "globalist" policies that have ramped up since the mid 1980s are the same policies that Soros has pushed for. This is Socialism 2.0. This is Global Sorosism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gerald Boggs View Post
    Personally, I think our reactions to the protests are overblown. The numbers of people protesting are quite small... Actually I just changed my mind. After reading this article in the NYT:
    A Minneapolis Neighborhood Vowed to Check Its Privilege. It’s Already Being Tested.”
    I've realized there is something very wrong with urban people, some sort of virus that makes people delusional.
    I see other news organizations have picked up on the story about the Minneapolis neighborhood that vowed not to call the police in wake of the Floyd death, but if you haven't yet read about it, you need to read the NYT article first.

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    Trump's got this. I mean, he just tweeted out "LAW & ORDER!" again, for the 3rd time today. Everything's fine. Stop worrying.

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    Testing negative doesn’t mean you don’t have it. Unfortunately the test is far from ideal. There are people that have tested negative that when we retest have it. There are people that test positive then when they are better test negative but when retested for their second negative test test positive again. That is the sorry truth of the mess. The other part of it is the best way to get this is to go to a place with a lot of people and spend a lot of time there. So whether it is a bad idea is really a matter of how much risk you are willing to take. Honestly I would be much more worried about getting it myself from being exposed to someone at a party. My personal belief is you can avoid contracting this altogether by washing your hands and being careful about your exposure, and in 6 months a vaccine may be available to end this nightmare. So do I hide in my house all day afraid? No. But I am careful. I don’t hang out with large groups of people, I wash my hands a fair bit and I am very careful at work.

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    With something as difficult and uncertain as this I’m not sure anyone can answer that easily. I would not tell anyone to listen to an authority on anything just because. That is one of the things I disagree with most with how this was handled. You can’t just order people to do stuff and expect cooperation. You have to have convincing arguments. I would say to get as much information as possible for yourself and decide for yourself what to take seriously. And then it comes down to personal risk tolerance. My personal belief, and it is just a belief, is that this could have been dealt with better by prescribing community-specific measures. Meaning if you are in an area like Houston that has a high ICU utilization rate at baseline, then you are more aggressive about limiting elective cases. But a place like Wichita Falls with fewer cases doesn’t need that. If you are in a big city with an exponential rise in hospitalizations then you take different measures from a place with low virus activity etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bbinck1 View Post
    Testing negative doesn’t mean you don’t have it. Unfortunately the test is far from ideal. There are people that have tested negative that when we retest have it. There are people that test positive then when they are better test negative but when retested for their second negative test test positive again. That is the sorry truth of the mess. The other part of it is the best way to get this is to go to a place with a lot of people and spend a lot of time there. So whether it is a bad idea is really a matter of how much risk you are willing to take. Honestly I would be much more worried about getting it myself from being exposed to someone at a party. My personal belief is you can avoid contracting this altogether by washing your hands and being careful about your exposure, and in 6 months a vaccine may be available to end this nightmare. So do I hide in my house all day afraid? No. But I am careful. I don’t hang out with large groups of people, I wash my hands a fair bit and I am very careful at work.
    If this is true, why bother with testing at all? Does it really matter? What are potential positives from testing? I see none, since it appears the medical community has zero idea how to deal with it in any case and iatrogenic outcomes are very real. Is it simply so you can know? But according to the above, you won't anyway. Seems suspect.

    I guess weathermen and COVID testers are two jobs where you can be wrong a great deal of the time, and still get paid.

    Incidentally, just wanted to throw out there that the MSM says you are wrong about mass gatherings IF it is a "racial injustice" riot/rally/looting spree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sean Berry View Post
    If this is true, why bother with testing at all? Does it really matter? What are potential positives from testing? I see none, since it appears the medical community has zero idea how to deal with it in any case and iatrogenic outcomes are very real. Is it simply so you can know? But according to the above, you won't anyway. Seems suspect.

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    The number one answer is “it is better safe than sorry”, which ironically, is not always true either.

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