Prelude to the Apocalypse

[Sengoku Strider]

Seems to finally be a consensus of sorts that zero corporate tax is unsustainable and there's zero trickle down. Someone pee on Maggie or Ronnie's grave for me. Fuckers.

Been known pretty much since the practice was adopted. It's one of those folk understandings of economics that sounds and feels true, but misses the fact that it's actually trickle-to-sweatshops-in-Cambodia-and-divert-the-rest-to-shareholders-and-shady-Panamanian-bank-accounts economics.

The structure of capitalism is literally the practice of extracting additional profit from other people's labour. On a functional level it is fundamentally trickle-up, unless there are major government social interventions (and even then). Unfortunately one of the other inevitable features of capitalism is that the people the money trickles up to and government unavoidably become the same people pretty fast.

[BulletMagnet]

Color me genuinely surprised: it would appear that Belgium, of all places, has beaten us to it.

[orange808]

I admit I'm not a huge fan of Kamala Harris, but sending her to South America to negotiate immigration policy seems like a bad idea to me. She can't win. Privately, everyone in government secretly wants almost-free immigrant "indentured servitude" balanced against bringing in too many people (and creating a huge mass of unemployed people). Publically, they put on a song and dance of polarized policy. One side pretending to want open borders and the other pretending to want closed borders.

I admit the Squad does want open borders. Although, I do wonder what they would do if they got their wish. What would they do if we put them at the switch? Would they really throw the lever? Jefferson the president didn't live his principles when he was actually in the game. I have a feeling reality would sink in, because opposition is always easier than governing.

The rest of the Dems and GOP like what we have, but they exploit the issue for votes. The public spectacle is what mattters (almost all lies). Clinton famously admitted what almost all politicians do; they maintain a public lie position and a true private position that lines their pockets.

Anyhow, sending Harris down to South America to negotiate the "true" policy amounts to using her as a human shield. She's going to get torn apart no matter what. It's a bad idea. She's not a human lightening rod. Harris has to make real policy. She can't pretend. Why send such a high profile personality to draw attention to the chasm between rhetoric and policy? It's ridiculous.

[BryanM]

I admit the Squad does want open borders. Although, I do wonder what they would do if they got their wish.

Solidarity ideally is universal - in a perfect world there wouldn't be any incentive to want to move to another country besides just wanting to live there.

In the real world, one has to wonder how much slavery really is necessary to maintain our standard of living. Obviously much less than our trillionaire overlords and their apparati would want us to believe - I'm still at a loss how having the fork printing plant in South Korea and then shipping them across the planet is in any material way more efficient than printing them here.

In the long run it's water wars all the way down anyway. Gonna be tremendous, believe me. Believe me.

[supergrafx77]

In the long run it's water wars all the way down anyway. Gonna be tremendous, believe me. Believe me.

This is very true, heard it from the think tanks themselves, years ago, that the wars of the future would be fought over water alone.

As an Audio Visual guy during my younger years not too long ago (I had the privilege of sitting in at such think tank sessions taking place at the Willard InterContinental Hotel across from the White House as the idiot responsible for the mixer and the mics/in the room), I remember these very words being spoken.

They knew this was going to happen decades ago, and now here we are. Best have a well.

[drauch]

Kevin Costner predicted this way before your think tanks. Also the postal service will rise again.

[Sengoku Strider]

DATELINE: Death throes of late stage capitalism, anno 52

74% of California and 52% of the Western U.S. now in 'exceptional' drought

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/artic ... 225433.php

I would like to presently state that I am, and have always been, a staunch patriot, loyal unto death to the noble azure banner of The House of Nestlé. It's just how I was raised.

[BryanM]

These interviews with Sinclair always amuse me. There's like an hour long on health woo and whatnot, and like less than forty seconds of something important. In the one released today he did with Lex, he mentions they've pumped mice full of OSK and had no increase of tumors after a year. "Human trials within two years." Like a >100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000+ x times spike of signal:noise on the video's timeline, there.

It's assumed their efforts on the full body epigenomic reset of the mouse is the topic of his lecture next week.

The longevity people tend to be overly optimistic about life extension imo - "Surely people will demand this as a universal right!" and uh. Erm.

Anyway, I like how the overly spacious sewers that Morlocks are forced to live in are unnecessarily spacious. That they were just made that way to house Morlocks and lord over them. So bougie.

Kevin Costner predicted this way before your think tanks. Also the postal service will rise again.

The Postman is about exactly like what a Helen Caldicott no-energy hellworld would look like. : (

It's not fun. : (

Blade Runner, Mad Max, gimme anything but that.

[orange808]

If the SEC follows through on pressure from large banks, they need to be investigated and some officials jailed. I suggest life imprisonment. Their job isn't to provide guaranteed returns in The Casino. The Casino is exactly what Keynes said it is. This has nothing to do with protecting normal people. Stop shorting and you won't get burned.

[Sengoku Strider]

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The Star-spawn of The Great Dreamer, Sleeper of R'lyeh the Dread Cthulhu, has entered the chat.

[wht11]

lol, funny story, you can't expect to copyright every symbol showing up over millennia of mankind history or limit it's use to that and nothing else. If I wear a top-hat, will this make a gentleman? Not necessarily but just by coincidence I am one, to be sure.

[orange808]

https://www.propublica.org/article/why- ... he-001/amp

[orange808]

On the subject of philanthropy. I was raised by a Christian family. I guess it didn't work, but there was some wisdom in there. In my case, my mother warned me that "it's not giving if you didn't give something up".

So, handing out some money to your chosen cause when you already have everything you could ever want isn't really giving. That's even more true when you take a tax break. Or, if you go around giving interviews and taking a bow.

With no sacrifice, you have given nothing.

Put the money in a pool. Let everyone help decide what will be done. Then, volunteer to help us get it done. Bring your "private sector" knowledge to help us. That's great! Volunteer and give your time. But, stop trying to impress me with big numbers, because you didn't sacrifice anything.

Philanthropy doesn't replace paying taxes. No. Rich people aren't better at deciding what needs to be done. That decision should belong to everyone.

[Sengoku Strider]

Revelations 13 unfolding before our very eyes. Mainstream media in shambles.

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a magnetic 5G vaccine in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had a fork, or keys, or any form of spatula fixed upon his forehead.


The clip of her talking is...quite something.

https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/status ... 91011?s=20

[Mischief Maker]

The horror...



In case you missed it the first two times I linked it in the Covid thread, HBomberguy did an excellent video on the fraudulent child-abusing ex-Doctor Andrew Wakefield who is the father of the modern anti-vax movement.

[Sengoku Strider]

BIOWAR APOCALYPSE WATCH - BREAKING: Medical experts now saying Bill Gates' poison literally rewrites your dna with Windows 11 and blue screens you:



Just look at that poor man.

In case you missed it the first two times I linked it in the Covid thread, HBomberguy did an excellent video on the fraudulent child-abusing ex-Doctor Andrew Wakefield who is the father of the modern anti-vax movement.

Will check it out when I can.

[wht11]

On the subject of philanthropy. I was raised by a Christian family. I guess it didn't work, but there was some wisdom in there. In my case, my mother warned me that "it's not giving if you didn't give something up".

So, handing out some money to your chosen cause when you already have everything you could ever want isn't really giving. That's even more true when you take a tax break. Or, if you go around giving interviews and taking a bow.

With no sacrifice, you have given nothing.

Put the money in a pool. Let everyone help decide what will be done. Then, volunteer to help us get it done. Bring your "private sector" knowledge to help us. That's great! Volunteer and give your time. But, stop trying to impress me with big numbers, because you didn't sacrifice anything.

Philanthropy doesn't replace paying taxes. No. Rich people aren't better at deciding what needs to be done. That decision should belong to everyone.

I was in a Christian family by default but more in terms of following some traditions but without much pressure to deny freethinking. What I do see here in your point is two separate matters. The sacrifice you refer to can never be judged by anyone else at all, except by yourself in face of your beliefs (be it in front of God, Satan or any other form of justification).

In terms of social deeds sharing any money or goods, whether we give up much or not, remains a good deed in itself. Intentions and investments go the same route, no one is to say what some men had to sacrifice to reach substantial wealth. Of course not "all" but the ones who did learned the meaning of it and have actual knowledge in decision making.

Therefore many of these people are qualified for the opinion on simple~complex financial matters, knowing what resources are available, how things can develop and not making everything wasted only because one generation wants to spend half their life on leisure, only deciding which of 3 cars should they drive with to next party.

[supergrafx77]

BIOWAR APOCALYPSE WATCH - BREAKING: Medical experts now saying Bill Gates' poison literally rewrites your dna with Windows 11 and blue screens you:



Just look at that poor man.

In case you missed it the first two times I linked it in the Covid thread, HBomberguy did an excellent video on the fraudulent child-abusing ex-Doctor Andrew Wakefield who is the father of the modern anti-vax movement.

Will check it out when I can.

My pc is currently blue screen of DEATH.

Thought is was the mother board, so bought the Asus Crosshair Hero VIII DARK HERO, but that did not solve the problem.

Still need to figure this Bill Gates thing out.

[mamboFoxtrot]

Asus Crosshair Hero VIII DARK HERO

I thought you were shitposting but no this is pretty close to the actual name of a motherboard
deadass sounds like an AI-generated JRPG / Lightgun game mashup title

[Mischief Maker]

Sengoku Strider, never stop posting these Q screenshots.

I hope this never ends!

I kind of hope this ends.

[supergrafx77]

Asus Crosshair Hero VIII DARK HERO

I thought you were shitposting but no this is pretty close to the actual name of a motherboard
deadass sounds like an AI-generated JRPG / Lightgun game mashup title

I will never, ever, shitpost, mamboFoxtrot. It is against my faith.

[Sengoku Strider]

**END IS NIGH WATCH - 11 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT**

BREAKING: SCIENCE FOUND MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD, FAUCI REVEALS HE IS DR. MANHATTAN:
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Now, I know what you're thinking. How can patriotic free thinkers, even those responsibly exercising their second amendment rights with depleted uranium-tipped shells, possibly hope to stand up to a radical leftist demigod? Fear not, true believer! Nikola Tesla and the original golden age Trump are on the case - thanks to the all-American power of The King of Rock n' Roll himself!


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As you can clearly see from the blurry image above, the Venusians granted incredible technologies to our patriotic men of two-fisted interplanetary science. This allowed the XVIIIth airborne corps to tweet the key to understanding the Q-drop Doomsday Clock.

Thanks King! Looks like Fauci's gonna have a whole lotta shakin' goin' on!

[wht11]

And did you see the post time of the second thing? Jun 8 at 2:22, 2×2×2=8 also! This must an important message indeed, thanks for bringing it up.

[orange808]

I got a job working on an OS. I did nothing on the project. I decided to string my employer along with blatant lies. Why? I used my salary to invest (both time and the initial purchase cost) in developing an OS for a competing platform. I also used my fortune to cheat on my wife for decades. Good thing I was born to a good family, got sent to school, and got away with all the lies.

Trust me. I know what's best!

[wht11]

I got a job working on an OS. I did nothing on the project. I decided to string my employer along with blatant lies. Why? I used my salary to invest (both time and the initial purchase cost) in developing an OS for a competing platform. I also used my fortune to cheat on my wife for decades. Good thing I was born to a good family, got sent to school, and got away with all the lies.

Trust me. I know what's best!

If we "got away with lies" who would we speak about here and what cheating on wife has anything to do with our qualities in public financial matters? But that's too silly for the clue, thing is of course still may know what's "good" in a position and make a very good example for society. Ethics are one thing and only a very few are "indisputable", another thing is exposing weaknesses on any social level, people will have a clear view how things could be done (even?) better.

[orange808]

Honestly and trustworthiness go hand and hand. Especially, if you're telling me the guy can unilaterally make decisions for us.

Hey, we can get someone else? Maybe we can get more efficiency by making people pee in bottles at work? That guy is better??

You steered the conversation to evaluating individuals on ethics when I specifically pointed out (as an original core point) that I didn't want individuals making unilateral decisions. So, you're arguing with yourself.

[wht11]

Honestly and trustworthiness go hand and hand. Especially, if you're telling me the guy can unilaterally make decisions for us.

Hey, we can get someone else? Maybe we can get more efficiency by making people pee in bottles at work? That guy is better??

You steered the conversation to evaluating individuals on ethics when I specifically pointed out (as an original core point) that I didn't want individuals making unilateral decisions. So, you're arguing with yourself.

Don't see that at all. Well, to be perfectly fair in some literal sense I do, mainly from the sum up "arguing with yourself" but that's as much a point here as it is anywhere, it's not really helping me to understand what you meant here.

I would need to ask you more about what you mean with "unilateral" decisions in this context (the 2~3 post exchange), by definition it can give me only a vague idea and best maybe keep it simple, do you have actual examples in mind? No need to call names and biographies, only so to make sure we both talk about the same.

Edit: upon some intense reflection I think I can answer this a bit better still, certainly see what we assumed differently: we see "actual decision making" as completely different for that and it would go nowhere. In other words in this context, if you see something to be done better in a position than do so, either by taking that position or placing someone in that position who also knows better (also with their full agreement do take the job, how else).

I had this in mind as a basic premise writing that second post. You might have felt I'm literally referring to any current state "good as it is" but if not then it is "good for being bad" - we see what should be corrected.

[Sengoku Strider]

And did you see the post time of the second thing? Jun 8 at 2:22, 2×2×2=8 also! This must an important message indeed, thanks for bringing it up.

And what's 2+2+2? 6. And what's the 6th month on the Roman calendar? August, the very same month Trump announced he will be (publicly) president again!

Communism in shambles.

[wht11]

And did you see the post time of the second thing? Jun 8 at 2:22, 2×2×2=8 also! This must an important message indeed, thanks for bringing it up.

And what's 2+2+2? 6. And what's the 6th month on the Roman calendar? August, the very same month Trump announced he will be (publicly) president again!

Communism in shambles.

And as a matter of fact you registered here in August... can't be any coincidence, especially with all the insight I've seen you presented here already.

[wht11]

A while back I've been reading a bit about QAnon just so to learn the more significant parts of it. What I don't see is the actual explanation of the origin of the "Q" here, some say from "Q clearance" (for access to utmost classified government information), some could interpret it for "Question" - to keep questioning things and so.

Good speculation but I actually learned what it stands for: Queen. You see, every once in a while upon a turning point in world history there's a competition for the best Shamans, a race who will become The Shaman King.

However in our current age mankind has reached such a high level of development everyone is free to choose their gender. So obviously for this round there can only be a Shaman Queen.