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    Quote Originally Posted by Nicholas Laureys View Post
    Famine, reduced births and increased deaths, limited resources, all it takes is to add on men with guns going door to door to send you to camps and we'll only be at the place where our great-grandparents were with the World Wars, albeit with this psycho enforced medicine aspect to it.
    Except back then fewer people had electricity or running water. Come on guys, things are bad, the media is making it much worse, but this is not WW2 level bad.

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    Here's a short clip of a 2 hour movie called Uninformed Consent:

    The Arrest Are About To Begin...Bye Bye .gov's...

    and here's the movie:

    Uninformed Consent

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    What We Learned From Hating the Unvaccinated

    The battlefield is still warm, following Canada’s war on the unvaccinated. The mandates have let up, and both sides stumble back into something that looks like the old normal — except that there is a fresh and present injury done to the people we tried to break. And no one wants to talk about it.

    Only weeks ago, it was the admitted goal of our own leaders to make life unlivable for the unvaccinated. And as a deputized collective, we force-multiplied that pain, taking the fight into our families, friendships, and workplaces. Today, we face the hard truth that none of it was justified — and, in doing that, uncover a precious lesson.

    It was a quick slide from righteousness to cruelty, and however much we might blame our leaders for the push, we’re accountable for stepping into the trap despite better judgement.

    We knew that waning immunity put vast numbers of the fully vaccinated on par with the shrinking minority of unvaccinated, yet we marked them for special persecution. We said they hadn’t “done the right thing” by turning their bodies over to state care — even though we knew that principled opposition to such a thing is priceless in any circumstance. And we truly let ourselves believe that going into another ineffectual lockdown would be their fault, not the fault of toxic policy.

    And so it was by the wilful ignorance of science, civics, and politics that we squeezed the unvaccinated to the degree that we did.

    We invented a new rubric for the good citizen and — failing to be one ourselves — took pleasure in scapegoating anyone who didn’t measure up. After months of engineered lockdowns, having someone to blame and to burn simply felt good.

    So we cannot hold our heads high, as if believing we had logic, love, or truth on our side while we viciously wished death upon the unvaccinated. The best we can do is sit in the awareness of our rabid inhumanity for having cast so many aside.

    Most of us who pilloried the noncompliant did it because it seemed like certain victory, like the unvaccinated would never make it through unbroken. Indeed, the promised new normal looked unbeatable, so we sided with it and made punching bags out of the holdouts.

    But betting against them has been a scathing embarrassment for many of us who’ve now learned that the mandates only had the power we gave them. It was not through quiet compliance that we avoided endless domination by pharmaceutical companies and medical checkpoints at every doorway. It was thanks to the people we tried to tear down.

    So for those of us not among the hopeless few that pray for the return of mandates, we might find some inner gratitude for the unvaccinated. We took the bait by hating them, but their perseverance bought us the time to see we were wrong.

    It seems right now like the mandates will return, but this time there’s hope that more of us will see them for what they are: a rising authoritarianism that has no concern for our wellbeing. If there’s an enemy, it’s the confidence game of state power and the transparent attempt to tear us apart. Heeding that looks like our best shot at redemption.

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    Quote Originally Posted by francesco.decaro View Post
    I understand a lot of African countries' problems come from actual internal corruption and self-interest from the upper classes. But I believe there still is a lot of external interference.
    It seems to me like the convenient narrative is the opposite one, the one that goes "it's just their own fault cause they're too dumb to figure it out".
    It is possible to buy a slave in Africa -- from Africans -- right now, in 2022. Nothing external about that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jovan Dragisic View Post
    Except back then fewer people had electricity or running water. Come on guys, things are bad, the media is making it much worse, but this is not WW2 level bad.
    If it were WW2 level bad, more people would notice and react to it. It's been a slow boil, and they know that's what's making it work. It looks like they may very well have captured enough of the electoral process here in the US to fuck us over forever unless we flip the table over.

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    Congressman Larry Mcdonald's "silly assinine statement" shortly before he died in a plane crash:

    Congressman Larry Mcdonald's last words

    Who is laughing now?

    "Bleak" was decades ago when 99%+ believed the above statements were "silly" and "assinine". That has changed. They are running naked for the finish line now, and it's not pretty. Their best (Soros, Gates, Pelosi, Biden, Schiff) is indicative of their true strength.

    It's just a matter of time now. All one has to do is survive.

    So many have died around me in the last months. It's not a kinetic war like Jovan experienced; it's more deadly and more cruel because people don't even know they are victims of war.

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    Nancy Pelosi Arrives In Taiwan Despite Strong Warnings From China | The Daily Wire

    Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D) has reportedly arrived in Taiwan amid threats of retaliation from the Chinese Communist Party.

    A plane reportedly carrying the House speaker touched down on the island of Taiwan on Tuesday, Fox News reported. She is the first House speaker to visit Taiwan since Newt Gingrich’s 1997 visit — an island that China considers its territory — and her visit has prompted China to increase military activity in both the sea and air around Taiwan.
    A friend speculates: "Pelosi in Taiwan is just a coordinated spectacle to rally the Chinese around Xi and the Americans around Xiden."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post

    A friend speculates: "Pelosi in Taiwan is just a coordinated spectacle to rally the Chinese around Xi and the Americans around Xiden."
    Of course it’s a coordinated spectacle. Perhaps Biden and Kamala have no idea but basically the entire US government has to be involved in this visit. Besides, does Nancy Pelosi seem in any way to be like General Patton? Her safe zone is wine and cheese, not ballistic nuclear submarines.

    Xi’s end of the bargain is to go easy on US corruption.

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    Schlichter has the best take on the state media I have seen in a while: Media Hacks Pout As Republicans Treat Them Like the Trash They Are

    The media is our enemy and it is wonderful to finally see Republicans treating reporters as what they are – digital vermin whose sole function is to shrimp the toes of the regime. There has been a rash of media handwringing because GOP superstars like Ron DeSantis are not allowing the media access to candidates or events. At the Sunshine Summit the other week in the Free State of Florida, Ruthless Ron and his superstar comms staff simply refused to allow the mutants in. Dave Weigel, apparently back on the job after his utter humiliation at the hands of some fussy girls at WaPo, was rejected and ejected and sat outside the velvet rope away from the action.

    Good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    Nancy Pelosi Arrives In Taiwan Despite Strong Warnings From China | The Daily Wire



    A friend speculates: "Pelosi in Taiwan is just a coordinated spectacle to rally the Chinese around Xi and the Americans around Xiden."
    One could take it further and say that maybe she is doing china's bidding creating some type of deal. And all the hullabaloo is merely but a smoke screen for the real deal that will be forced onto the Taiwanese.

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