Firms pull ads from Rumble platform over Russell Brand videos

StillLessons · 2023-09-24T12:19:18+00:00

And the divide continues. People who watch Rumble will become the people who don't go to places like Burger King. As that divide grows, more and more people will consciously divide themselves out of the fascist system that Burger King et al represent. Then one of two things happens: the fascist system crushes them or they create a successful rebellion and the system falls.

StillLessons · 2023-09-22T13:22:53+00:00

Let's bring this into today's context.

Do we think Putin is a bad guy or a good guy?

Do we think Xi is a bad guy or a good guy?

Do we think Biden is a bad guy or a good guy?

Do we think Trump is a bad guy or a good guy?

All these questions suffer from the same problematic premise. Unless we have direct contact with one of these men (rare), we have no clue who they actually are or were. All we have is reporting about them. "History" is written by the winners; it's been true since the beginning of the universe. The current moment we have is equally filtered by middlemen.

We take opinions that others have about a person and adopt those as our own.

I am confident that Hitler was not "Hitler". The amount of propaganda value that "Hitler" has is beyond measure. As such, the persona attached to the man has become mythological. Take all the evil we have experienced any individual capable of, and that is now summed up as "Hitler". He was a politician and the leader of a powerful movement. That makes it likely he was a royal asshole. But any more of an asshole than all the other politicians and leaders of powerful movements? (Looking at FDR and Churchill here). Seems unlikely to me. The difference is he lost, they won.

The truth has very little to do either with history or with our current moment. It's always been so. Money talks and bullshit walks.

StillLessons · 2023-09-20T14:07:58+00:00

The United States had our version of a "cultural revolution" in the 1960s. It was more subtle than that of China, but laid roots that are now being harvested. The hippie ethic of "Sex, Drugs, and Rock&Roll" was based on "if it feels good in the moment, then it is good; ethics requiring discipline and delayed gratification are archaic and may now be safely relegated to the past." The "lessons" of this philosophy have been particularly dominant among elite university students for the past 50 years.

And here we are.

StillLessons · 2023-09-20T14:02:10+00:00

State-run necessities is the communist model. I usually shy away from using the word "communism" (having witnessed it directly in the Soviet Union when I was younger), but this is an exception. It's actually almost textbook: the state taxes its citizens and then runs the provision of necessities to those citizens according to the plans of political committees.

Multiple experiences of this in the 20th century leave zero room for debate: it doesn't work. If Chicago goes this route, its nosedive into oblivion will accelerate accordingly.

StillLessons · 2023-09-20T13:59:33+00:00

State-run necessities is the communist model. I usually shy away from using the word "communism" (having witnessed it directly in the Soviet Union when I was younger), but this is an exception. It's actually almost textbook: the state taxes its citizens and then runs the provision of necessities to those citizens according to the plans of political committees.

Multiple experiences of this in the 20th century leave zero room for debate: it doesn't work. If Chicago goes this route, its nosedive into oblivion will accelerate accordingly.

StillLessons · 2023-09-20T13:53:43+00:00

The "Maidan Moment" in the USA. Few enough realize that the Maidan "revolution" was also a natural protest false-flagged into violence by the same forces who did it here on J6. Same playbook. They're damned good at it, as a matter of fact.

StillLessons · 2023-09-19T22:40:57+00:00

From the preliminary chatter I've seen, they are talking about the plane being "hacked". If a third party gained control over the operational software of the aircraft, suddenly the pilot no longer has control. The plane maybe started performing maneuvers he could not control and could not stop. It wouldn't take too many minutes of this kind of stress before anyone would conclude this was a life threatening situation, to be in an airplane of which they no longer had control. Thus the bail. I know less than nothing about this, but this is my rank speculation on the theory of piloting a "hacked" aircraft mid-flight.

StillLessons · 2023-09-16T19:29:15+00:00

The basis of their dislike is pretty straightforward. To acknowledge that his perspective is valid would be to admit that they recognize they are controlled and are okay with that. They cannot admit that they are happy living as controlled units in a totalitarian machine.

StillLessons · 2023-09-16T19:23:49+00:00

Yeah...

I do have this problem. Sometimes my brain gets somewhat "out there" and what I say goes from mostly useless to entirely WTF. It's a known issue.

StillLessons · 2023-09-16T12:37:57+00:00

Son of a bitch, I had to go read through to see that quote in context. Wow.

What a fantastic illustration of the mindset of these "people". I use the term loosely, because this level of raw delusion makes one question their humanity.

In this case, Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone fame. He has just described the perfect tool to justify lies of all flavors. You state the lie, and then claim that all of your conclusions based upon that foundational lie are solid; just ignore that they are constructed in support of a lie.

How this machine continues to function is mysterious to me. You'd think this level of disconnect from the solidity of reality would be unsustainable as a natural system and would collapse into chaos. That it hasn't leads to all sorts of deep existential questions.

StillLessons · 2023-09-12T19:31:05+00:00

Zelensky can hardly be considered "an independent actor", when he is forever operating under the full knowledge that if he "betrays" the Banderites, they will kill him. Not politically, literally. Either he obeys what these lunatics want, or they will put a bullet in him. To say he's doing what's best for his country, one would have to assume that what's best for the Banderites is in the best interests of Ukraine. That's a very questionable premise.

StillLessons · 2023-09-12T19:25:58+00:00

Life's not fair and it never has been. The question is never how to stop bad things happening to us; that's impossible, against the laws of the universe. The only important question for each of us is how are we going to live our life in this asylum? How are we going to respond? That's the measure of character.

StillLessons · 2023-09-10T16:16:12+00:00

Think a second about the meaning of "free fall". Free fall velocity is the speed an object falls to earth in the absence of any upward force aside from air friction. In other words, a penny dropped from a height will reach "free fall velocity" which is the velocity which balances the force of gravity (downward) and the force of air friction (upward).

The reason this makes no sense in the context of an intact building falling is that there are significant upward forces being exerted against the top section falling downward. Every time a floor hits the floor below it, there is a counteracting force moving upward into the falling piece, slowing it down. It might still continue to fall, but it would not be able to do so at anything remotely approaching free fall.

The only way you could approach free fall velocity is if there is nothing counteracting gravity aside from air friction. In other words, where did all the upward forces that are exerted by the frame of the building (how buildings stand up in the first place) go? What happened to the steel beams to allow the collapse to occur so rapidly? The forces involved from the airplane impacts followed simply by gravity are not remotely sufficient to explain the collapse as witnessed.

That's the problem.

StillLessons · 2023-09-06T18:19:28+00:00

Great comment.

It's not that people on the fringes should not exist. People on the fringes of society have existed for the entire history of humanity, and societies figure out better or worse ways of handling that.

What has so many of us so pissed off is the use of force to declare the fringe to be the mainstream and the resultant punishment of the traditional majority to mandate not just acceptance of but obedience to the fucked up thinking these people are expressing.

I have said for years this is a mental illness. I have great sympathy for those with mental illness. I want them to learn to be happy. But this crew doesn't want to learn to be happy among their peers. They want society to obey them. Their endpoint is that their fucked up thinking is the norm. No fucking way. I'm sorry they think in a way that makes them miserable and I wish them the best speed at figuring out how to escape that thinking. But enforcing their own fucked up ideology on to others is both radically stupid and radically evil. It's stupid because even if it works, the people working so hard to become the enforced ideological center are going to remain miserable. Guaranteed. Fighting reality will do that to you.

StillLessons · 2023-08-31T16:37:39+00:00

More "good guys, bad guys" thinking.

RT is Russian propaganda. No shit. They aren't trying to hide it, and they never have.

The key is the willingness to read their propaganda, then read our propaganda (NYT, WaPo, NPR, MSM, etc) and work to figure out what's going on. The idea that Russians have propaganda and we have "news" has been thoroughly destroyed in the past 8 years. You want disinformation? 50+ US intelligence operatives sign a letter in 2020 declaring that Hunter Biden's laptop is "Russian Disinformation". In case you haven't heard, Hunter Biden himself acknowledged the laptop was his earlier this year.

The point is not that Russian sources are right and those in the US are wrong, rather that naming one "disinformation" without pointing out that both are propaganda organs (Google and RT) is disingenuous, to put it mildly.

StillLessons · 2023-08-19T01:53:50+00:00

The Hippocratic Oath lies in tatters...

StillLessons · 2023-08-18T18:00:40+00:00

Yep. This is why Ukraine has retaken Crimea and is rapidly pushing Russia back toward its borders in the Donbass.

Oh, wait...

StillLessons · 2023-08-14T01:34:01+00:00

Under the terms of the grant, EcoHealth Alliance, a government-funded nonprofit that purportedly engages in research to prevent pandemics...

Here's the nub of it. Read between the lines, and we are looking at this group of people suing the biological subbranch of the MIC. This has been biological weapons research from the beginning. To get them to admit this? We know it, but I am highly skeptical we will ever see proof.

StillLessons · 2023-08-11T18:06:26+00:00

Roseanne Barr is jewish.

Not only is she jewish, she is of Ukrainian descent, with several family members having been killed in Ukraine by the Nazis of the Bandera generation. She knows "the type" when she sees them.

StillLessons · 2023-08-11T16:55:22+00:00

Both the Law and Medicine - two of the foundations underpinning any highly-developed civilization, such as western civ - are in steep decline philosophically speaking. Logic and reason are out the window, now deeply subordinate in practice to passion and emotion. A society run by passion and emotion will not survive long; we are witnessing the dissolution of the latest attempt by people on Earth to sustain a complex society.

StillLessons · 2023-08-11T16:00:03+00:00

It's the Two-Minute Hate. I thought it was a metaphor until now we see it in real time.

StillLessons · 2023-08-11T02:36:06+00:00

The limousine liberals took over the party and completely divorced it from representing anyone but the elites and the mentally-ill dregs. That's one hell of a barbell and completely unstable. It's cracking.

StillLessons · 2023-08-10T16:16:24+00:00

Gaslighting. It's what's for dinner.

StillLessons · 2023-08-10T16:10:12+00:00

China and Japan were also exploited by the west in the end of the 19th century. They figured it out and look where they are now. Fool me once, etc.

StillLessons · 2023-08-10T16:07:37+00:00

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/washington-posts-feared-pinocchio-fact-checker-forthrightness-dies-updates-biden-burisma

They are explicitly lying. This is the problem. The people claiming to "safeguard truth" have all along been the liars. They are thoroughly and completely destroying trust in the institutions in which we were - until 2008 - mutually engaged. The "truth police" are themselves the liars.

It has always been thus. This is why censorship is always the tell-tale for authoritarian / totalitarian government.

StillLessons · 2023-08-07T01:06:35+00:00

A very illuminating experiment. This is actually just about a perfect setup. What they are identifying precisely is the line in people's mind where they are controlled by imagined scenarios. These people's minds confuse the story told about the man with reality. They are willing to do what they do because in their minds, the "criminal" is already guilty of whatever the crime the guy with the stick accuses him of. They need no more proof than being told so. People believe stories so easily, and they act, taking their imagined reality and using it to justify real-world action, thereby now actually creating reality from their imaginations.

This is a great demonstration of how humanity has been controlled since the beginning of history.

StillLessons · 2023-08-06T00:33:01+00:00

I was in Russia in 2019. Granted, I was only in the touristy large cities, but what struck me from traveling there was the complete and utter lack of difference between people's lives there and the lives of their equivalents in the west. I speak enough Russian to get around, and people basically go about their lives, just like we do here. We are all pissed that "the government" does what it does, and we do our best to stay out of the way. I also have known several Russians over the years, both in Russia and outside. Talking to them, I don't see the difference you are suggesting.

StillLessons · 2023-08-06T00:22:52+00:00

from a western interest perspective

Precisely. "Western Interests". In other words, the western mafia wants to grow. Now we find out if that will happen or if the Russian mafia is strong enough to stop their plans. Time will tell.

StillLessons · 2023-08-06T00:07:17+00:00

That's been the story the MSM has been selling since February, 2022. I have heard zero change in that story for the past year and a half. The picture you are describing, however, doesn't fit the political / economic position Russia (Putin's regime) currently occupies or how events have changed during that time.

I am often accused of being a "Putin apologist". Actually, I view Putin the same way I view any politician. He is the mafia boss of the mafia of his country, a.k.a. their government. The place we differ is that I see us looking at two mafias fighting over turf. Ukraine has been "Russian turf" for centuries. Peeling Ukraine away from Russian influence is a radical re-write of global political alignment. And I have zero illusions that the people on the west have any moral standing from which to judge Russia's mafia. The west is equally corrupt as the Russians (they hid their corruption better, though that veil is failing; the magnitude is totally equal); the Ukrainian oligarchs are in a league of their own, with lovely strains of explicit original-strain Naziism running through it.

There are no good guys here. The reason I argue for the Russian position is that it is more stable. Ukraine under Russian influence has been a stable part of the global map for centuries. Ideal? Of course not. Tons of corruption, very ugly.

But the current situation is even worse. We didn't need to stir this hornets nest.

StillLessons · 2023-08-05T23:37:13+00:00

This is the fundamental question at the center of the war: when did it start? Russia invaded to finish a war that started in 2014. Nuland's tape tells us the US planned the government that took over in that year. The eastern area of Ukraine refused to accept the authority of the new government. "Ukraine" has had this divide running through it for decades. Eastern Ukraine and Western Ukraine are not the same people. The US has been working with the factions in western Ukraine for decades, back into USSR times. Watching what has happened since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, the imperial nature of the western political economy is evident. Empires either grow or they die. They have pushed east for thirty years, and for thirty years, the Russians were quite clear that Ukraine was too close for them to tolerate. Yes, in 2022 Russia attacked the current government in Ukraine, but to suggest the west didn't know this precise result would occur when they set up their government in Kiev is naive. The west wants this war; they have chosen this path. Now we find out if they have the power to expand the next step.

StillLessons · 2023-08-05T21:30:47+00:00

I think you're correct here. In the three years I've been on this site, it is essentially irrelevant to the broader societal discussions going on. But those of us here do exist (aside from the massive number of trolls - like everywhere on the internet - there are a small number of actual recognizable people on here), and nuggets of useful information keep on popping up regularly. We're basically irrelevant, but at the same time, we haven't gone away, either. The views here maintain our very tenuous toehold within the societal map.

StillLessons · 2023-08-05T20:52:03+00:00

The internet is what it is. The best we can do is ignore the mindless junk that floats around and try to engage with people who are actually saying something. Censorship is absolutely not the answer, because nobody is sufficiently wise to know the correct line at which to engage the red pen. It always - every time - ends up representing straight up political repression. The idea of just stopping "misinformation" is itself propaganda and has been used by every propaganda apparatus throughout history. It is as old as large-scale civilizations themselves.

StillLessons · 2023-08-05T20:43:09+00:00

Yes. While the effect might have happened anyway with the European settlers carrying new strains, it is well documented that the Europeans were completely aware of the disease issue, and were intentionally using smallpox in particular as the biological weapon of its day, to the greatest extent they could figure out how to contrive.

Again, this might have happened whether they tried to do it or not, but to highlight "accidentally" the way Musky has is incorrect. At least some portion of the disease spread was absolutely intentional.

StillLessons · 2023-08-05T18:18:07+00:00

I remember when I was younger (30 years ago), the strong majority of these cases involved republican conservative Christian aligned politicians. Lately, the majority involve liberal democratic politicians. What changed? 30 years ago, conservative Christianity was still the dominant social philosophy, and their politicians wielded real power. Now, liberal Democratic ideals are the institutionally dominant philosophy by a long shot. They control the government, the educational institutions, the religious institutions, and the corporate world. Power corrupts, and it is always the powerful who end up being the people like the example here.

StillLessons · 2023-08-05T18:00:10+00:00

Civilizations have been wiping out other civilizations since the beginning of humanity. This is not a new phenomenon and it is not unique to the west.

Your question is absolutely right on target. Is it beneficial for either the "winners" or the "losers" for two distinct groups to be forced to live among each other?

On a more personal note, I - as an individual - am genuinely color-blind. With regards to any individual with whom I come in contact, I judge that individual based on the interaction we have. If a group looks dangerous, I stay away, whatever their color or creed. I've seen dangerous-looking groups of young white men; I've seen dangerous-looking groups of young black men. As a white man, I fear the black groups more, because angry black men are more likely to direct their anger on me simply for my race than are the white men. That dynamic works both ways, of course. Black men feel more nervous around groups of dangerous white men.

I repeat my original theme: is the "melting pot" actually the most harmonious way to design a society, or would it make more sense to acknowledge genuine differences among races and ethnicities, allowing different societies to form independently from each other, each following the traditions and capabilities of its homogeneous group?

And would such an idea even be possible or is it logistically simply never going to happen because peoples interbreed, and to think otherwise is simply a waste of time?

StillLessons · 2023-08-05T15:42:44+00:00

The western cabal treated attacking Russia the same as attacking Iraq, or (for those who remember the 80s) attacking Grenada. They honestly believed their own bullshit that with just a little push, "Putin's government would collapse" and Russia would be theirs for the taking. Pure ignorance and delusion. They are still locked into the proof that Russia has been ready for this for a very long time, and is proving itself quite capable of holding its own. Treating Russia as some trivial shithole is the greatest geopolitical hubris of a generation, and the Ukrainian male population has acted as the lambs in the ritual slaughter the ignorance of their political class insists upon.

StillLessons · 2023-08-05T15:28:42+00:00

The remarkable potential of a site like this lies in the conversation one level above the slurs people like to throw around because they can.

Only in an environment where people are allowed to consider such speech as acceptable does the broader question appear: What if the concepts that "all races can live together in harmony in a society" and "our similarities dwarf our differences" are wrong? This is a huge and important question. These premises are now so deeply ingrained in our society that they represent doctrine. To question whether all races are equally capable of living within the structure as it is constituted is considered Heresy in the modern intellectual environment. But what if the doctrine is wrong and has been since WWII?

Has western society benefited from this doctrine? Do we believe that today's society is more or less functional than the society pre-WWII, when racism was still roughly acceptable?

How many are willing to approach these questions with an open mind?

The mud-slinging names are brainless, I'll grant you. But there are deeper questions behind them that have been suppressed for decades. The debate was defined as "over", but is our society demonstrating that ending it as we did was in fact a large mistake rather than the universal "progress" the 90+% of the intellectual class accepts it as?

StillLessons · 2023-08-04T19:47:24+00:00

Wasn't there something somewhere about "Power corrupts, etc"? This dynamic knows no political, cultural, or geographical borders. The powerful in every large society throughout history end up becoming incompetent, amoral assholes; it's a rule of the universe. The natural solution also always follows: collapse. At this point, the major powers on Earth are all just competing to see who can survive the longest before their particular collapse comes. It's quite a horse race. :)

StillLessons · 2023-08-04T19:28:02+00:00

To summarize all of what you wrote, you say the motive is, like the others say: ego. I don't believe it.

We're going to disagree on this one. The word "ego" is an oversimplification of the effect I'm talking about. Kennedy, when he started this project, made a categorical declaration: We're going to the moon within 10 years. He staked the reputation of the U.S. government and political economy on that statement. It's not about the ego of the men involved. They created the dynamic that if the government didn't accomplish what was laid out, it was a categorical failure. The blow to the prestige of the U.S. in that environment should not be dismissed. Remember, they were getting their asses quite kicked in southeast Asia at the time as well. They viewed this not as their personal failure, but as the failure of the country's technological capacity to do what they set themselves to doing. In their minds, the myth of American greatness was threatened. Empires cannot continue to grow if the world does not see them as the most powerful group on the block, and the United States has been an empire since WWII (longer actually, but post WWII, it's quite explicit). It's this kind of belief structure which leads people to decisions like the ones this group of people took.

StillLessons · 2023-08-04T10:44:45+00:00

Read what I wrote again. They did not intend to fake the missions. They intended to go the moon. I'm not arguing that.

The motivation for what happened, then, was not based on an original motivation to fake moon landings. Instead, it was a classic bureaucratic CYA on the grandest scale when they realized they were in deep shit and weren't going to be able to deliver the goods. The thing about the western cabal - ever since WWI - is that they are radically incapable of admitting defeat. By far the most important thing to our overlords is the impression of inevitability of their "progress". There is no stronger sensation for them. They MUST appear always to be making progress. If they are seen to be defeated and to have to retreat, the entire ethos of "western progress and civilization" is threatened. That is existentially terrifying for them.

This is currently important when you look at what's going on as we have this exchange. They are now in the same position in Ukraine. They are once again in deep shit, because they promised "Russia is going to fall! We are going to bring our enlightened leadership to Russia, and progress will continue!" They don't say it in these words, but this is the message being sent. Now they are in another "Oh, shit!" moment where Russia turns out to be strong enough that the "imperial progress" they are promising looks out of reach. But just like the moon landings, they are foundationally incapable of admitting defeat. Having people incapable of admitting defeat locked in a war they are losing with a nuclear-armed foe in eurasia is a very dangerous combination.

These people are the dictionary definition of hubris. Destroy their image, and they themselves fear existential destruction. That is the motivation for lies of this magnitude.

StillLessons · 2023-08-04T01:48:31+00:00

They were attempting to do it. I have no problem with that. They intended to go to the moon. It was in fact the disaster in 1967 which I believe convinced them they were done. At that point, however, rather than admit defeat, they decided to use the simulators (which were of course a necessary training tool assuming they had gone) and to pass them off as the real thing. Magic! We went to the moon!

But if they had truly gone to the moon, the program would have continued, expanded, and grown from there. There is no such thing as a government program that allows itself to go extinct if they don't have to. They had to go extinct because they never had what they said they did, and the fact they got away with what they did is miraculous enough. They were smart to cut their losses in the end.

StillLessons · 2023-08-03T20:18:57+00:00

From ~1960 until ~1967, there was a remarkably poorly run program, culminating in the deaths of three astronauts on the launchpad. After that, the director of the program quit. You're suggesting that a massively dysfunctional huge organization created a complete fuckup for ~7 years, but then magically turned itself around, and over the next five years, put not one but several successful missions on to the lunar surface, including a fucking dune-buggy. After that, they then drop the whole program, with no missions since. Nah, I'll pass.

StillLessons · 2023-07-31T14:23:15+00:00

That's a rhetorical question if I ever saw one.

StillLessons · 2023-07-31T14:20:36+00:00

What's scary to me is that the same ideology you describe in Oakland is not terribly far from the policies being enacted by our current administration FEDERALLY. That the whole country is being run by these sociopaths is shocking to me.

StillLessons · 2023-07-31T14:16:10+00:00

Wrong place, wrong time.

StillLessons · 2023-07-31T14:14:30+00:00

Their minds were already a mess. Covid just gave them the convenient focal point on which to apply that mess. It allows those of us paying attention to identify them, which is actually somewhat useful.

StillLessons · 2023-07-30T21:15:58+00:00

Clownworld meets Who's John Galt.

StillLessons · 2023-07-30T21:14:41+00:00

Wow this smacks of desperation...

StillLessons · 2023-07-30T21:11:32+00:00

The "logic" is that reality is optional. If we don't like the reality we are dealt, we are gods, so we will create our own reality. We just have to ignore observing the infinite ways in which this new reality is obscenely inferior to the reality we claim to be improving. We say it's better, so it's better. Make sense now?

StillLessons · 2023-07-30T21:05:01+00:00

Words were equated with violence after people gained the ability to disseminate widely the popular disgust with our official class. Because the "elite" [in their own minds] are absolutely unable to engage in direct honest debate with the overwhelming and accurate criticism leveled at them, they fell back on history's infinitely repeated plan B: create an excuse and use actual violence to censor your critics' "violent ideas" (which the elites lie in order to manufacture that such exists). This is just new technology in service of an idea as old itself as large-scale civilizations.

StillLessons · 2023-07-30T20:59:21+00:00

The "good" news here, to look on the bright side, is that the ruling elite in the west has been feeding our population massive lies for decades, with covid and Ukraine being only the latest in the series. Why is that good news? Given that we are only now having confirmed the lies from the 1960s, the fact that the Covid and Ukraine lies are being outed in almost real time means the gaslighting mechanism is almost done. Chaos, yes. Without a doubt. But chaotic truth beats evil growing in the darkness of huge lies.

StillLessons · 2023-07-30T20:51:37+00:00

Consolidation of corporate control. The internet started out with the genuine capacity to connect people relatively directly to each other. The central control freaks managed to get hold of the infrastructure, and now all contact "person to person" is actually no longer that. It's now "person -> central censors -> person". It's the illusion of people talking to each other which - when then the censor in the middle is unrecognized - is even worse than people not being able to talk to each other in the first place.

StillLessons · 2023-07-28T16:57:46+00:00

Fair enough.

I've now given him fifteen minutes, as you suggest.

My comment doesn't change. I've been watching politics since the 80s. I've watched many politicians say things I've been impressed by, then go on to enact precisely the opposite of what their words suggested. I voted for Obama in 2008, figuring I'd give him a chance to see if the man matched up to the rhetoric, given that he had no record. Within the first weeks of his administration, I learned that lesson. I haven't voted in a national election since 2012.

Ramaswamy is another person without a political record to vet him by.

Your question is "should we believe him?" Without a record to go by, I withhold judgment. I neither support nor oppose him.

But I'm a non-violent anarchist at heart (the Tolkein reference). A person who wants to "use the central government to do it better", which is what a presidential candidate by definition is aiming for the job of doing, is swimming WAY against my instincts of what direction progress will lie. I would be interested in local politicians saying to me - where I live - "Hey, let's not accept any of the input from these places that haven't even heard of us, and let's figure out how to do "this" (whatever "this" happens to be in that moment) with the resources and people of the community that we both know and love."

That's not the federal government. The whole thing can disappear, and I'd be fine with that.

My idea is idealistic and entirely un-practical and unrealistic. I recognize that, but this way you know where my answer to you is coming from.

StillLessons · 2023-07-28T15:54:45+00:00

Number 2 is the gold standard.

There are two parts to the climate debate, one recognized and one un-recognized. The first question is whether anthropogenic climate change exists and assuming so, what is the magnitude of that change? Good questions, food for good science (though once people put the conclusion before the research - as in the past 25 years - the $cience turns to the crap we've been fed through the MSM).

But the second part is what you point out here, and it is NEVER talked about. You said it perfectly: hubris. The only thing worse than our activities potentially accidentally affecting climate is the self-conscious attempt to "fix" it. The raw arrogance and ignorance embedded in that word when applied to the natural system of atmospheric composition and function on Earth is mind-boggling. But humans have always been profoundly blind to our true nature as incrementally more intelligent apes, believing ourselves to possess WAY greater capacity for understanding than that which we actually possess.

Great comment.

StillLessons · 2023-07-28T15:43:27+00:00

The situations in the US and Europe are very different, and that difference is cultural assimilation. In my experience living and working with migrants from Latin America in the United States, I found very few differences in their broad life view, expectations, and moral-religious philosophy from that of native United States citizens. People from Latin America want and expect roughly the same things. In Europe, the people migrating from north Africa in particular do not share the same political-religious-moral philosophy of the nations to which they have migrated / are migrating. They very consciously and intentionally want to destroy the moral foundations of western philosophy and replace them with the moral foundations (as they see them) of middle eastern / central Asian / north African Islam. Those two philosophies are not compatible. Full stop. I don't know about becoming "white", but Latin American migrants do in general want to adopt ideals more in keeping with the place they are joining than is the case in Europe.

StillLessons · 2023-07-28T15:38:53+00:00

Is this untouched or did you put in effects?

StillLessons · 2023-07-28T15:36:47+00:00

Politicians all want The One Ring.

Do you really believe they want to destroy it? Does Ramaswamy appear to you like he has the character of a Frodo Baggins?

StillLessons · 2023-07-28T15:33:05+00:00

The people most abused by the particular "jews" some people on this site love to obsess over include their fellow "jews". The "evil jews" in WWII left Germany quickly, abandoned their "fellow jews" to the nazis and proceeded to profit from the lovely war, slaughter, and jew-cleansing that blossomed. Jesus was a jew. Look how they treated him... There is a group within judaism who express a particularly virulent evil, but it's not specifically their "jewishness"; a big part of their particular flavor is hiding themselves within the broader jewish population so they can say, "Look at us! Poor us!" as they continue on their radically destructive agenda, destroying jew and gentile alike. They are pure evil, but their jewishness is not the source of their evil; they just use it as a mask to hide behind.

StillLessons · 2023-07-28T15:24:51+00:00

The trouble is that people like her, like Damar Hamlin, like LeBron James, like Justin Bieber, etc, etc, etc, are even more scared and heartbroken over the possibility that the structure of our society is nothing at all how they have pictured it all their lives. To admit what has happened to them and its true cause would force them to entirely jettison their understanding of "how the world works", and the terror they feel at that possibility is even greater than the terror they feel for suffering in service of the very system that is crushing them.

StillLessons · 2023-07-28T15:20:32+00:00

Obama was given a peace prize. Enough said.

The "peace" prize is one of the most defining examples visible to us of 1984 doublethink.

StillLessons · 2023-07-28T15:11:30+00:00

The situations in the US and Europe are very different, and that difference is cultural assimilation. In my experience living and working with migrants from Latin America in the United States, I found very few differences in their broad life view, expectations, and moral-religious philosophy from that of native United States citizens. People from Latin America want and expect roughly the same things. In Europe, the people migrating from north Africa in particular do not share the same political-religious-moral philosophy of the nations to which they have migrated / are migrating. They very consciously and intentionally want to destroy the moral foundations of western philosophy and replace them with the moral foundations (as they see them) of middle eastern / central Asian / north African Islam. Those two philosophies are not compatible. Full stop.

I don't know about becoming "white", but Latin American migrants do in general want to adopt ideals more in keeping with the place they are joining than is the case in Europe.

StillLessons · 2023-07-28T15:02:25+00:00

My favourite part of the comment thread is the Great Brain who states that Ukraine isn't a member of NATO and therefore the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to them so these abuses aren't war crimes

It's interesting to me noticing some of the characters who have been most vocally obnoxious about slaughtering "orcs" to realize that we are talking online directly to the Ukrainian Bandera supporters. The level of ignorance of many of the most ardent Ukraine supporters is shocking. Mind you, there are simultaneously equally ignorant Russians supporting Russia's role in this meatgrinder called The Ukraine War, but in the west, our propaganda has leaned hard into supporting what are remarkably obvious racists in support of "freedom and democracy". The contradictory nature of their lies is so glaring that even most normies are waking up to it.

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T21:04:16+00:00

The more mental illness is tolerated and even celebrated, the more extreme the mental illness we will witness. This video is pretty extreme, yet even so I don't think this trend has run its full course.

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T16:19:03+00:00

As long as this story remains about "The Bidens", we are missing the broader societal problem. Don't get me wrong; Hunter and the whole family needs to go down. But does anyone really think the problems for which Hunter is the posterchild will be affected solely by their exiting the stage?

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T15:06:29+00:00

Glad to see someone else banging this drum.

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T15:04:12+00:00

They are shell structures, yes. But these structures provide useful venues through which the assholes from each of those countries enact incredible corruption and destruction. Getting rid of them would create an excellent symbol for the return to the ideals of individual liberty. Doing so, however, is also almost absolutely impossible in the foreseeable future. A good long-term goal, rather, to keep our priorities focused.

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T14:59:16+00:00

There is a difference in the level of ignorance shown in different parts of the world. Ignorance is everywhere, but the scale of ideas like this is qualitatively different...

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T14:57:00+00:00

A pretty good candidate for step one in such a "general crisis" would be the dismantling of the "general" organizations coordinating clearly global responses. The UN, WHO, etc have long since given up their role of advising and are now fully invested in control structures. Global control is a perfectly bad idea. There is no worse idea in fact. Time to out those proposing it and to tear those organizations down to the ground.

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T14:12:57+00:00

The irony of choosing this particular post to place their sales pitch lying about whatever crap they're selling is actually kind of perfect. :)

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T13:51:48+00:00

It's always a little jarring for me seeing clearly "beta male" types like this in positions of power. Who listens to them? Apparently, a lot of people...

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T13:48:18+00:00

The Great Reset would be the culmination of the running of the railroad. As events are unfolding, I don't think they're getting there. The foundation required for them to be able to complete their preferred "reset" is falling out from under them, grain by grain of sand. This is bigger, even than they are.

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T13:09:40+00:00

All the institutions are riddled with this crap. The level of depravity is depressing but not surprising. The "leaders" of our society - in all arenas (media, government, education, corporate) - are compromised by moral rot. Until there is a full housecleaning - think thousands, not dozens - the descent into insanity continues. Social terror of the consequences of behavior like this needs to be re-instilled in the population. Or the next dark age. One way or the other, change has arrived and is just beginning its dance.

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T13:04:49+00:00

It's not about understanding. It's about opening their minds. These are two different things. The answer is not complicated to understand. It's very simple. The difficulty lies in the willingness to accept possibilities these servants of the current order are beyond scared to accept. The scale of the mistake is enough to destroy an entire worldview, and that destruction is underway, whether they like it or not. The remaining question is how long each individual continues to cling to the carcass of a failing system. I'm reminded of the final scene in Atlas Shrugged: the final loyal servant of the railway in tears on the tracks of a system that no longer can run trains. It's a great metaphor.

StillLessons · 2023-07-26T12:56:22+00:00

TheExperts are also true believers. This is the problem. Just as in the Middle Ages there were many within the Catholic Church who simultaneously enforced the system of indulgences while fervently hoping that those indulgences would save their souls, our current priests of medicine desperately want to believe that their potions are the answer they think they are. The medical community themselves - just as those on whom they push this policy - are dying on this hill. This is the nature of human doctrine formation and the ignorance of attaching so tightly to these doctrines. To admit that they have made a mistake opens a hole underneath the foundation on which they stand which they are very much not ready to face.

StillLessons · 2023-07-24T21:59:40+00:00

The four most blatant "We don't give a shit what the people of this country think" policies of the US government in the past ten years:

Hunter Biden Laptop
Transgender MtF will be imposed upon women's spaces by force
The Southern Border is a highway for cheap corporate labor and may not be enforced
"Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests"

There are plenty more (people are waking up to Ukraine and Covid), but propaganda covered for them enough that people were initially fooled into actually supporting them. The strong majority in this country has consistently been opposed to all of the above policies, but the policies continue. This is what tyranny looks like.

StillLessons · 2023-07-15T03:12:42+00:00

Again, the people who shock me are the medical field doing this to anyone, most especially children. They are making a mockery of the concept of "best practice" when they are simply following the emotional wave to fit in. The evidence is non-existent for any durable benefit to these treatments, and the harms are beyond obvious. This is the greatest stain on medical practice I have ever seen, bar absolutely none.

StillLessons · 2023-07-14T15:56:54+00:00

Human arrogance, ignorance and inability to admit mistakes for the win...

This is not fun to watch.

StillLessons · 2023-07-12T18:21:11+00:00

While I see your point, for me the up-to-date version of evil looks like:

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2023/07/10/surgeon-admits-performing-transsexual-surgeries-on-young-children/

This is how their minds work.

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T22:23:43+00:00

I think addicts do think differently than the general population. Their very sensitivity to the insanity around us makes them pretty desperate to mute it with their chemical of choice. And that same sensitivity is present because they are unable (some would say unwilling; that's a value judgment pair, take your choice) to "just fit in with their surroundings". They value their individuality too highly to compromise it when they would need to. Being a member of a highly social species is very challenging.

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T22:00:39+00:00

I hear a bit of "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride" in there.

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T21:50:39+00:00

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T21:47:30+00:00

Actually in the past year or so I've begun to think it may be a form of sub-clinical autism in me. I see things in the world very differently from anyone I know. It leads me to be somewhat detached from everything and everyone around me. Ironically, given how I was raised, these would be perfect traits for me to have entered politics and been really and truly evil. Fortunately for me, I actually want people to be happy and I am humble enough to know I don't have any special ability to know what would bring that about in the world. My arrogance comes out in that I am equally sure that nobody else has these abilities either, most especially those who most claim them. If two things happened, the world would be much better.

1) The assholes stopped trying to take God's role of running the universe into their own hands, where they create only greater evil and confusion. 2) Everybody else stopped looking for someone to tell us what to do here on Earth to "make it better", and stopped listening to those who claim that knowledge.

But these tendencies themselves seem to be central to how this experience is designed. So they are among the "ugly" I myself still need to learn to appreciate. Day by day...

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T21:35:36+00:00

Interesting. A user named RandomGuy was saying that JasonCarswell hasn't been active on saidit for 22 days because Magnora7 has either pulled his subs or pulled his control over them (I wasn't totally clear). During the trucker rebellion in Canada, JasonCarswell was clearly directly connected IRL to the truckers and their supporters. It'd be interesting to hear his take on this, but I don't know what's happened with him and why Magnora7 stepped in.

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T20:48:57+00:00

Meh, sounds like a stripper to me. She's good at her hook. She's certainly hooked you...

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T20:21:37+00:00

Thinking that prayer for our individual problems is legitimate is a misunderstanding of God. I actually like and appreciate the Lord's prayer for this reason. "Thy Will Be Done." Let us in creation learn to appreciate the beauty of exactly how things do run rather than thinking we have the wisdom (which we very much do not) to know how they should run. The universe is running exactly how it must run. Our best bet is to learn to appreciate how beautiful it is, even as all the 'ugliness' forms its own part, a part with which we must learn to co-exist. It ain't going away. How do we learn to live well while in the presence of that which makes us insane?

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T20:15:21+00:00

What is Magnora's reasoning? I agree jasoncarswell would be among the most plugged in to the Netherlands farmers.

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T20:12:46+00:00

Every day the conspiracy theorists are coming closer to becoming the dominant understanding of what is actually happening around us. Understanding that people like Rutte are sociopathic tyrants is the first step. The second step (never before taken in the history of the world, so far as I know) is to recognize the sociopathic tyrant who steps up to take his place and "fix it".

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T19:19:45+00:00

Evil has accelerated a lot since 2018 as well. The evil that was a presence within some of these organizations then has now consolidated its presence and completed the takeover of the whole place. Perhaps some of both what you are saying and what I'm saying.

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T19:12:49+00:00

Assuming he's legit, he managed to make entry into that world we're all supposed to believe is "conspiracy theory". This has been going on for a very long time indeed (read Whitney Webb: One Nation Under Blackmail), and the depth of the penetration these networks have within government, corporate, education, and religious structures is depressingly complete. It is non-partisan. That must be remembered. There are no powerful "good guys" left. Those in the top positions of power from all parties are compromised. They wouldn't have been allowed to assume the positions they're in unless their enemies felt they had blackmail leverage over them. The only way out of this is going to be grassroots, and it'll take time, because any time someone makes progress, they become a marked man/woman. But it will fall. The activities they are engaged in (pure materialistic hedonism combined with demon worship) weaken those who practice them. It always collapses. It will this time too, but how much longer they have before that happens (months, years, decades, centuries?) I have no idea.

StillLessons · 2023-07-08T18:57:35+00:00

This is a very bad look for MSM. By attacking a movie with this theme, the knee-jerk reaction of people reading these articles is "MSM wants us to ignore child trafficking?" This will only lose them more readers/listeners/viewers as more people wonder why it is important to the MSM that we don't pay attention to a movie about trafficking. After Epstein, they really think people are going to buy the "nothing to see here..." line? Smacks of desperation. They are completely out of ideas of how to keep this problem under the rug.

StillLessons · 2023-07-06T19:52:56+00:00

In the long run if we keep on the current trajectory, I think the assholes are going to lose this round for the next decade or so.

They are now outed as censors, censoring because they are losing the argument when the other side is allowed to argue openly. "Winning the argument" means having popular backing for their spin so they can move forward. Conclusion: people are not supporting the spin they are putting on their totalitarian and warmongering policies, so they are being forced to censor. This only proves that the ideas they are putting behind the censorship wall are illegitimate.

Mind you, even in a "win", there will still be a lot of assholes and their braindead hordes out there promoting this shit - they're never going to be silenced entirely. But they are seriously bogged down in sand right now, because the more they censor, the more people look behind the curtain to see why things are being censored so heavily. The terms "misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation" are turning into poison blowing back on the very people using them. I am now quite comfortable that when any of these terms is leveled at us (we obviously are getting a lot of this), those using the terms are in the minority, desperately using ad-hominem to keep the silent majority too scared to listen to what people like us are saying.

Their euphemisms are fooling fewer and fewer people every day.

StillLessons · 2023-07-06T17:54:51+00:00

The one thing they hate the most is lack of engagement. Any type of response is a win for them.

And for this reason, I am frustrated with myself every time I put any comments on threads like this. I know we're all just wasting our time yelling at each other with no room for genuine debate.

I do confess I didn't know before this post that Ritter is a convicted pedophile. That is interesting and explains a lot. So since learning is in theory the point, I'll count this go 'round a win.

StillLessons · 2023-07-06T17:51:58+00:00

Thanks!

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