In the person of ... who? AG Barr?
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Both good points. There's a lot more nuance to Nietzsche's statement and sentiment than the caricature I gave it. Still, I think there's something to the fact that most communist states take a pretty hard stance against religious liberty.
I've had a bad feeling for a few months now that the mask-mandates will probably become permanent. Unless a government actively blocks businesses from implementing them, like in Florida, there's no reason for a business or politician to oppose them. The "masks work" brain worm has been firmly implanted in a lot of people's brains at this point, and it might be politically harmful to try and roll these measures back.
Even if the Covid finally abates, there's still the flu, common cold, and a bunch of other diseases that might transmit themselves in public places. Out of an "abundance of caution," why wouldn't any good politician continue to advocate for mask mandates?
I think it is fair to say, yes, the media was acting hysterically during the 2000 Gore dangling chads. They acted that way when Reagan was elected in 1980 too. Ironically the media of 1980 is what made me a lifelong conservative. What they said and what I observed were not the same and I was a scientist in training.
Is it getting worse? I think it probably is because the market for media is changing rapidly. Markets “back in the day” were more stable and predictable, thus less severe perhaps.
But in reality, there is a chance that it really hasn’t changed much. Sure it’s more in our face, it’s more outrageously presented, it’s hyper 24/7, but maybe people haven’t changed that dramatically?
I'm not a lawfag, so...to quote VNV, "Too many notes".
If I were [them], I'd be terrified of John Durham
And, of course, you know my crazy fantasy about Tribunals which is looking less crazy by the day.
Interesting take.....
Hillary Clinton Supporter Alan Dershowitz: 'Trump Will Win the Pennsylvania Lawsuit'
The part of China that is worrying has been their ability to destabilize and weaken the United States and Europe.
It is:
- the extensive technological theft
- intentional erosion of domestic manufacturing capabilities in the US and EU
- bribery of our political, corporate, technological, academic and financial leaders
- the willingness to foment civil unrest in countries around the globe, but especially in the US
- One-sided economic policies that parasitically favour China.
The danger is not China itself, it is the destabilization of the US due to inimical foreign policy.
We want China to be strong and stable.
We just don't want them to harm us.
I am still guessing there was a large amount of unseen and unchallenged voter fraud in NZ.
As our CIA agents tell us: A legitimate election is not important; it is only important that society act as if they perceive the election as legitimate.
For United States and EU immigration policy over the past 100 years, maybe the best place to start is the man who is considered the father of the European Union: from 1925, Practical Realism - by Coudenhove-Kalergi Coudenhove-Kalerg Practical Idealism English Translation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Is it still a conspiracy if they openly and repeatedly tell you about the plan in highly specific detail for a couple hundred of years?
Unfortunately, I agree. Hit hard, hit fast. Didn’t happen. Maybe impossible. Perhaps patience is due. Or perhaps, if the fraud is not adjudicated, we say with Augustine “O Happy Fault”. I think something greater could come out of it, though it is not the path I’d choose.
Not as hard in practice as it may seem. Once they have taken over the property, most communist governments will be fairly pragmatic when it comes to religion. They will work some propaganda against religion, but this whole thing about religious freedom being heavily surpressed is just a folk tale told by Eastern European communists turned good Christians in order to hide their central committee past. The real attack on religion has been launched by western leftist intellectuals, and once they managed to convince themselves that they had done away with religion, they set themselves up for new religious practices. Global warming and identity politics fulfilled the role for a while, and then providence was kind enough to introduce THE MASK.