Why is the left pro war now?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T18:47:28+00:00

It's not just 'the left''s pro-war stance that's peculiar.

Did you ever imagine that it would e.g. push for corporate control of information,
wanting sociopathic greed-driven businesses deciding what people get to read or not?

The current 'left' seems to be marketing-agency astroturf
actually aiming at totalitarianism.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T14:29:54+00:00

Nothing is enough to get Washington to criticise Israel, not even genocide.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T07:34:55+00:00

Welcome!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T08:34:23+00:00

But they actually do, apparently.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-20T07:04:45+00:00

You'd think that one of the benefits of saidit having relatively few visitors
would be that it would make it not worth the money spamming it.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T08:37:37+00:00

I'm surprised that the reddit inquisition has allowed this to be posted.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:53:17+00:00

Biden will likely do exactly what he's told
and neither understand nor question it
for 'Four more years! ... Pause ...'

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T10:30:02+00:00

*we're

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T17:01:33+00:00

I thought it was a joke.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-23T07:45:33+00:00

One might blame the USA for spreading its insanity/idiocy into Europe ...
but one should more rightly blame Europe for letting itself be influenced
by that insanity/idiocy.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-18T14:21:23+00:00

The key seems to be that this is about the most taboo 'topics', not the most taboo 'acts'.

I'm sure that talking about the genetic differences between races/subspecies
is only considered more taboo than 'talking' about incest and paedophilia,
not 'committing' them.

One can only hope.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-11T20:40:34+00:00

At this point,
not only should Assange be immediately released,
but everyone involved in his shameful persecution should be indicted.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T17:49:33+00:00

It does seem so, doesn't it?

Nonetheless, there must be some hesitancy even towards saidit.
This is partly due to a certain lack of transparency about who owns/controls it.
Let's not forget that privatizing digital town squares
was done to bypass actual freedom of speech.

Eventually, a non-privately/corporately owned platform,
a publicly-owned platform, really analogous to a town square,
has to eventually be created,
where, by law and to the extent allowed by law,
e.g. freedom of speech, is implemented.

Sincere political views by actual people must be protected,
and only taken away if someone is caught shilling, spamming, advertising,
and/or committing other forms of lying for pay.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T09:58:23+00:00

'Yay, foreign money (stolen American taxpayer dollars) bought another American politician a seat to act on behalf of a foreign nation.'

'Let’s all celebrate.'

'No?'

'No one?'

:D

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:06:41+00:00

She needs to get on board The World According To Hollywood.
Engineers, doctors and scientists are mostly ethnic Africans.
Wakanda forever!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T16:58:37+00:00

Right, by witnessing and reporting on the ongoing genocide.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T08:20:54+00:00

NATO has become a dangerous anachronism,
which should have been dismantled when the Warsaw Pact was disbanded.

Europe should of course remain allied with the USA,
a former European colony after all,
which still shares many values with European civilization.

However, Europe must extricate itself from the USA's 'leadership',
which usually involves pointlessly mass-murdering people by the tens of thousands.

European foreign policy must stop being directed
by the 'Neocons' and/or other corrupt/evil forces
currently in control of the USA.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T19:24:06+00:00

Again, excellent points.

So, I guess that, though you're right on every point,
my own is that citizens must ... somehow ... fight to regain a balance of power
between themselves and the regimes/governments/bureaucracies
that claim to represent them, but more and more disingenuously.

I seem to agree with the old 'I'd rather a government fear its citizens than the other way around'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T18:43:45+00:00

These are excellent points.

An important aspect of the USA and French revolutions
is that mass-production allowed the people
to basically have the same weapons (guns) as governments
and there were far more people than government mercenaries (police/army, etc), so ...

Before that, the expense and widescale unavailability of armour and quality weaponry
meant that e.g. a team of ten armoured knights on horseback could decimate entire villages of villeins,
something that helped prop-up feudalism.

We do now seem to be moving back towards some neo-feudal (but high-tech) situation.

Nonetheless, I wouldn't say that revolutions, or resistance to tyranny, has zero to do with violence.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T17:09:48+00:00

They may need them ...
but even an armed citizenry will soon present no obstacle to tyranny,
as governments will increasingly transition to drones and other automated systems,
able to kill en masse, without courage or ability, from complete mechanized safety.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T19:49:20+00:00

But then, in 1991, under pressure from the USA, the United Nations revoked Resolution 3379, with Resolution 46/86, which was personally introduced by George H. W. Bush.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T18:24:41+00:00

Stupid populations are only an issue for actual democracies, much less so for corrupt plutocratic oligarchies ruled/controlled by 'elites'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T14:50:43+00:00

Yes, we basically agree ... Caveat Emptor.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T09:38:10+00:00

Welcome,

but, if you're actually interested in 'the truth' as you claim (thrice!),
you may preferably seek to actually understand the world,
not to replace a new silly dogmatic ideology with an older silly dogmatic ideology.

Cheers!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T08:31:51+00:00

The only thing that matters is truth.

'Antisemitism!', 'Racism!', 'Islamophobia!', 'Transphobia', or more generally, 'Hate!', etc., are essentailly meaningless
and seem to function in the same way that 'That's Heresy!!!' did in the (fast returning) Medieval Dark Ages.

They appear to be used to shut some argument/conclusion down (there's even a vague threat implied) before it can be examined/understood,
almost always in order to safeguard some lie and/or prevent some truth from being revealed.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T14:42:11+00:00

It's shocking that a whole greed-driven industry (a wide scale criminal enterprise?) is being built on exploiting those poor people,
who are never told that their delusional disorders might be problematic.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T10:30:34+00:00

Once upon a time, you couldn't imagine the truth again being criminalised,
not in the 'civilised' countries,
but here we are.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T10:25:01+00:00

So, no father would feel ashamed if his daughter became a whore
... unless he was religious.

Nonsense.

And, incidentally, you can't possibly believe that.

You're being disingenuous, i.e. lying/shilling(?)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:39:15+00:00

Because whores sell their bodies for money,
they're (rightly?) considered to be more easily compromised ...
But, apparently, if they can be used as a political weapon, then ...
How dare you insinuate that the whore might be untrustworthy!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:29:27+00:00

Yes, very sexy also!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:08:32+00:00

Well ...
the English Palestine derives
from the Latin Palaestina,
itself from the Greek Palaistine (Παλαιστίνη).

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T06:43:26+00:00

Yes, the very people who invented Democracy
did wonder if it was any good.

Plato, famously, didn't like it.

Now, I'm not saying that the author is arguing for totalitarianism,
which would be rather unusual for a Libertarian! :D

I'm saying that if/as we descend into totalitarianism
(which does seem to be happening), we'll start noticing that
Democracy as a system starts getting attacked more and more,
from all sides, both the right and the left, wittingly and unwittingly,
with both good and bad arguments.

And this guy does make good arguments, for example:

A major paradox of government is that
if the demos has all the de jure power,
an oligarchy of financial interests has all the de facto power,
which is the unfortunate situation in which we find ourselves.

This is perfectly put.

But, that having been said, it is also interesting that,
as the author sought to frame the issues
from his Libertarian perspective,
somehow(!), an attack on Democracy
seemed promising.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T05:54:14+00:00

I, among others I'm sure, predicted that in the descent into totalitarianism,
Democracy would at some point start getting attacked as a problem.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T15:46:26+00:00

To be tautological, it will either be observed, in which case it'll be recognised as real, or the data will rule out its existence. :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:49:33+00:00

He was preceded by many, including Albert II, who, on June 14, 1949, survived a sub-orbital V-2 flight into space (but died on impact after a parachute failure).

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T11:16:18+00:00

Brilliant!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T09:13:49+00:00

The visit will 'inject new momentum to the peaceful development of the world', according to China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson.

Beijing says it is a neutral party in the Ukraine conflict.

It notes a provocative US policy of continued NATO expansion and interference in Ukraine, which gave Russia few choices.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-26T17:16:46+00:00

Germany didn't attack England

England attacked Germany.

Germany counterattacked England.

And England attacked Germany
supposedly 'in defence of Poland',
or, actually, in order to continue propping up
some infamous 'Piłsudski's colonels' hunta regime,
which no-one seems to mention somehow.

Now, once Germany (and most of Europe) were destroyed by WWII,
the Polish people were promptly delivered to Stalin,
the main 'good guy' of WWII, and,
incidentally, the worst mass murderer of the 20th century,
you know the one that did e.g. this:

The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered by German Nazi forces. The order to execute captive members of the Polish officer corps was secretly issued by the Soviet Politburo led by Joseph Stalin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

WWII ended up costing ~80 million lives ...
in order to give Poland to Stalin.

Worth it, was it?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-23T13:48:07+00:00

As a general rule, the USA, starting out as a European colony, got most of its ideas from Europe.

However, after the WWII destruction of Europe,
its US and USSR occupiers (and their European stooges)
literally outlawed many of the competing ideas/ideals/ideologies in Europe.

Basically, the same thing that was done to European Art was done to European Ideas.

Ugliness, stupidity and primitivism were now the only allowed/promoted movements
and anything classical/European was to be despised.

To become a celebrated artist or thinker in occupied Europe,
you had to abide by the new rules ...
something that, unfortunately, is still going on.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-21T16:22:44+00:00

The war for decency and against sociopathy is timeless.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-18T10:18:34+00:00

It's weird how rare it is to see/hear the speeches of
such a historically important figure.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-17T18:20:39+00:00

The NYT does not clumsily 'ban' Journalists
(to the extent that any remain at the NYT)
from using accurate words
('Genocide', 'Occupation' and 'Palestine').

As masters of lies and experts at doublespeak,
they merely instead imply that telling the truth
might be detrimental to your continued employment.

You see, they just want their 'journalists' to
~~keep spewing bullshit~~ ... errr ... use alternative terms,
you know, for 'better clarity and accuracy', of course. :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T19:05:03+00:00

He was arrested for posting political opinions.
Persecuting him over this kind of thing is oppressive and totalitarian.
And, unfortunately, you're right, this is also, shockingly,
the same path that Scotland is choosing.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T09:27:08+00:00

The USA has finally gone full South-American pseudo-democracy,
weaponized government institutions, et al.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T09:19:18+00:00

No, no, the only way to halt the descent into violence and lawlessness
is to control, corrupt and weaponize government institutions,
certainly the media/information, and to brainwash away democracy,
turning 'we, the people' into 'mobs' of 'deplorables'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T08:16:38+00:00

There are laws about immigration.

These were broken.

So much harm has been done by those (morons/cowards/criminals?)
that (unwittingly?) colluded with Europe-hating forces
to bypass these laws and enable/encourage illegal immigration into Europe,
basically to try to turn Europe into yet another shithole.

Every one of them should be found and indicted.
They should at the very least be fired.
They're either too stupid or too corrupt to be left in charge of anything.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T09:46:52+00:00

You're, unfortunately, right.

And censorship is never used to defend the truth,
since the truth never needed censors/inquisitors.

Censorship is always used to protect some bullshit
(ideology/religion, e.g. Islamism)
from the truth.

And it's getting worse.
Sociopathic turds that claim
to 'protect' people from 'dis/misinformation'
control more and more what
you're allowed to see.

Most notably, in Europe,
if you want to reach RT for example
to get a Russian perspective on global affairs,
good luck, because ....

DAS IST VERBOTEN!!!

... for your own good, of course. :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T08:19:09+00:00

Future generations are going to make fun of us,

of ALL of us,

including those of us who,

by mere inaction,

allowed this grotesque situation to happen.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T12:08:00+00:00

Hunger strikes are meant to be a (non-violent) means
to show how serious you are about an issue,
but it's incredibly hard to bear (which is the point),
and not everyone can do it.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:21:11+00:00

Trust every word coming from the paid whore, people!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T14:33:12+00:00

Intellectuals often think of themselves as secular priests/monks,
who eschew commercial concerns.

They may thus feel contempt for
both dogmatic materialist Capitalism
and dogmatic materialist Marxism ('Communism').

They imagine that they're here to do the work
of understanding what the human adventure is all about.

This is actually an essential societal function,
providing ethical direction, etc.

It's something that used to be thought of
as trying to figure out the Mind of the Gods, as it were.

Unfortunately, today, the intelligentsia may have been
infiltrated and corrupted by bad actors
manipulating the gullible into undermining/discrediting
(actual) thought/episteme/science
in order to return humanity to the dark ages of
top-down dogma-based authority, where sociopaths can thrive.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T21:35:39+00:00

Well, Christianity tries to combine two mutually incompatible traditions into one.

It takes philosophical ideas and mixes them with the mythology surrounding the worship of Yahweh, a primitive Middle Eastern (and rather evil) tribal deity.

This was bound to and did lead to nonsense.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T21:16:12+00:00

Christianity may be silly, but it's in rapid decline, and so far from anywhere close to a pressing issue for me,
unlike e.g. Mohammedanism, which is even worse than Christianity, and growing to boot!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T20:59:36+00:00

There are, however, treatments, antipsychotics, etc.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T20:35:03+00:00

Explain.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T20:00:03+00:00

Defending someone currently committing murder by confessing to your own past murders ... fascinating!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T19:33:27+00:00

Yeah, not sure what exactly, but something very weird is going on.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T19:01:07+00:00

Europe has a dysfunctional immune system.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T18:42:04+00:00

It's almost like many among the homeless suffer from untreated mental issues.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T18:27:10+00:00

Riiight.

... x are doing the world a favour by exterminating y ...

Why does this seem déjà-vu-ish?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:45:22+00:00

There may indeed be many types of intelligence that IQ tests might miss.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:12:32+00:00

Suicide and violence is what's understood by 'a threat to themselves or others', not insane tattoos, body modification, elective plastic surgery, etc.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:09:41+00:00

There's a difference in scale.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T14:56:57+00:00

~~SETI~~ STI (Search for Terrestrial Intelligence) :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T12:06:02+00:00

Granting all of that, we're talking about an adult,
who's only harming herself, not others.
People do all kinds of weird (body-modification) shit to their own bodies.
That's their right.
A state may indeed decide to intervene and protect children
from their (possibly immature/mentally-ill/brainwashed/stupid) selves
or their (possibly immature/mentally-ill/brainwashed/stupid) parents.
But a civilised (not oppressive) state may not infringe on the rights/freedoms
of an adult who's not harming others.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T11:56:30+00:00

For most Germans, yes, unless communists,
but, obviously, that did not apply to Jewish Germans,
even those who had fought for Germany in WWI,
even those who had been awarded the Iron Cross
for gallantry under fire,
nor their children, who wanted to be German
and thought they were,
until they were told they were not
and were to be despised no matter what,
just for being who they were,
with nothing they could do about it.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T11:35:18+00:00

That's a question for Fermi, isn't it?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T09:50:51+00:00

The key terms here are 'adults' and 'to themselves'.
It seems that a civilised state should not force an adult, who does not harm others, to be ... 'normal'.
All a state may do is to tell children to wait until they're adults before mutilating themselves.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T09:26:16+00:00

I'm also surprised that neither the USA nor France nor the UK nor Italy are among them, but that ... North Korea is!?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T07:37:00+00:00

Are Jesus and Yahweh the same deity?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:19:21+00:00

How long before Rutgers awards honorary doctorates to 'pioneering transpecies U.S. officials'!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T06:28:02+00:00

No real beheadings, of course,
but this kind of 'news' makes
the supremacists perpetrating the genocide,
that for real mass murder children,
seem like they're the victims here,
... aww!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T15:52:57+00:00

Over the years, many idealists have tried to establish utopian societies but none have been able to make them work.

Well ...

For example,
the United Sates of America,
the first modern Democracy, was,
until it proved successful,
considered Utopic.

Imagine the vision required to,
before the creation of the USA,
actually seek to set up a government
by the people for the people,
based neither on oppression
nor on lies (e.g. elaborate religious bullshit)
but, rather, on reason and consent, ...

... this in a world where
only monarchies/dictatorships, oligarchies,
and/or assorted priesthoods
had been ruling over people ...

... how Great was that!?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T07:26:20+00:00

Well, there you go!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T07:09:29+00:00

Astroturf

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T06:51:17+00:00

You are being sarcastic, aren't you?

Well, yes, of course, but I'm also making a point:

Worshipping Mbombo/Bumba, the creator God
of the Central African Kuba people, must seem silly to you,
ostensibly because you're not Kuba.

But, worshipping Jesus and/or Yahweh,
a rather distasteful MiddleEastern tribal deity,
that seems perfectly reasonable to you.

It's not though.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T04:32:35+00:00

Knowing there is one God, how does this challenge you?

Well, there's the antagonist ~~god~~ person(?),
then the saints and then the armies of angels and demons, etc.

There does seem to be lots of magical and invisible beings around that 'lone' dictator-deity.

In another religion, these might be called major or minor 'deities'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T22:50:56+00:00

You Keep Using That Word ('truth'),
I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means,
Which seems to be ... 'Imaginary Deities and Magical Beings'.

And, by the way, why are you rejecting Mbombo, the Lord? :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T22:34:25+00:00

Wait, the deity has an adversary in a monotheism?

And let's just have a look at how it all works:

Jesus (who is God) sacrificed himself on the cross,
to appease ... well ... Himself (since monotheism),
so that He, Himself, would forgive us shitty humans for our sins.

And you're OK with that story.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T21:55:31+00:00

No biological processes, ancestors, DNA, evolution, etc?

Either I created myself or ... deities?

Oh, right, only one deity.

OK, which one?

Mbombo?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T21:20:23+00:00

It all seemed reasonable ... and then ... deities!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T17:56:18+00:00

What does that mean?

Let's, for the sake of argument,
grant you the (weird/masochistic) claim
that 'we are all shitty'.

Does that the Christ 'atones for EVERYONE'
suddenly make everyone ... 'not shitty'?

How does it all work?

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