Notices by cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)
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The fact that Paris is listed is, I think, reason enough to dismiss the whole thing as made up.
And I'm not saying that because I live there, I'm far enough away from the city that I'd be safe from the blast. I'm saying it because Putin's daughter lives there... and some family member of practically every oligarch in the world.
The Hills Have Eyes... You don't do anything without people knowing, and anyone who thinks they're gonna nuke Paris is probably going to experience some technical problems next time they're flying in their jet...
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> insane
No political leaders are actually insane, you don't rise to the top by being insane, you rise to the top by being clever and calculated.
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Well then I guess that depends on your definition of insane. If you play around with definitions enough, you could convince yourself that most business and government leaders are insane - but I don't think that captures the essence of what causes a person to be committed in an asylum, or medicated, or other things which are generally recognized as being related to insanity.
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This is a risky line of argument, because you can very easily end up convincing yourself that you're intelligent, The System doesn't respect you, so therefore The System doesn't respect intelligence.
It's possible for it to be true, but it's also something that every midwit on the planet has told themselves at one point or another.
Now intelligence is multi-dimensional, and IQ is only an estimate, but my personal experience has been that wealthy entrepreneurs and investors I've talked to have always impressed me with their ability to discuss complex subject matter across a wide variety of topics. Working class people, not so much.
> Systems of power as often as not, and especially over time, trend towards EXCLUDING intelligence
Now "intelligence" is one of those words which is very hard to exactly define, but I would propose that the intelligent man can, almost by definition, convince the fool that he is a fool as well. So any system which depends on fools identifying and excluding the intelligent will eventually be usurped.
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Ahh yeah, the expert noticer guy, I've heard of him.
> deeply dysfunctional wierdos
The problem with IQ tests is when you get up into the top percentiles, you end up with a lot of people whose brains just happen to be really good at solving those particular patterns - but really bad at pretty much everything else.
Intelligence is multi-dimensional, so the best engineer is probably not the best negotiator. But there is a clear correlation, so someone with an 80 IQ is probably not going to be much good at anything. But at the extremes you get freaks because of course you do, you're selecting a few outliers from a large population...
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She has some bangers
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That's a really good point.
In the carpentry of statecraft, communists are the termites.
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I can kind of see the benefit of leaving the country to a historical royal family because they already know all of the major stakeholders in the country. But, people born with a silver spoon are always more weak than someone who climbed to the top on their own, so it's not what I'd call ideal. But democracies are crap too so whatchya gonna do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Franco left behind a functioning country that he was able to hand off, no matter how charitable you want be to Hitler, Franco was *objectively* better at it.
But when you start hearing the sing-song about how Hitler was so good, the world attacked him, he woulda made Germany great if only he coulda.... You realize that you're talking to somebody who is entrained into the process of getting the L, and then justifying it to themselves.
You know what they say, there's two kinds of people in the world, there's the winner and there's the other guy...
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So the thing is, if you make enough trouble they can't just pretend you don't exist.
But people like Augusto Pinochet, Francisco Franco, or Jefferson Davis are decidedly NOT areas of focus amongst historians, they just want to talk about Hitler.
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Hitler is in fact two things, he's some rando that was propped up by the Americans to sack Europe so that they could have their hegemony, and he's also The Great Satan in The Church of Boomer.
To the Boomer, 1000 Stalins and 1000 Pol Pots can never compare, because Hitler is infinitely evil, and you cannot meaningfully compare anything else with infinity.
Hitler Appreciators are kind of like The Church of Satan. They have no belief system of their own, they just adopted The Church of Boomer, but inverted. If you tell them that Hitler is a terrible choice of hero, they'll accuse you of paying undeserved respect to The Church of Boomer - which you can never really prove you're not.
The short of it is, The Establishment is aware of reverse psychology. They know that if they vilify someone, those who dislike them may read that person's work. So the great anti-establishment heroes will never show up in their history books, favorably or otherwise.
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Read it quick, was like wut
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Maybe he's put it under a shitload of surveillance, so he can lose it, but if he does, he'll release video proving Israel did it.
I can't imagine him just rolling over and playing dead, especially after being insulted a some months ago.
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In my opinion nobody they're not going to do any nuclear attack against anyone without first clearing it with the US.
If they're hitting a US city, it's because the Americans told them they could.
I don't care how much of a tough guy you think you are, you mess around with elite black nobility families and you're gonna get your bloodline terminated and they're probably gonna kill you in a nasty way to make an example as well...
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> if Israel is in imminent danger of getting absolutely vaporized
If he plays the game, Netanyahu can go to Argentina. If he goes crazy then he will personally be eliminated. There's good enough reason to think he's playing the game right now, because if he wasn't, his plane would have crashed already...
If the US gets involved, I think it's gonna be more like (quietly) sending drones to bomb Iran. I don't think the fuckery of 2000-2010 will ever happen again.
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You guys got it easy...
In France, the pass rate is about 50%, they make you do everything, and if you take your test in a car with an automatic, you get a license with a badge that says you're only allowed to drive an automatic.
When I took the test, the lady kept yelling at me to try to make me nervous and screw up. I did okay because I was already an experienced driver.
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In France you have to go to driving school, and you have to take it with a state examiner.
On my driving exam, we were going up a road and there was this outdoor market on the side of the road so people were crossing. I was cruising at about 25mph, not *slow* because again I'm an experienced driver, I'm not paranoid at all, I'm just cruising because that's what you do when there's people on the road. Lady was shouting "that's not the speed limit, go faster, go faster" and I just said "not safe, there's people, we'll get there when we get there" (I'm stubborn like that).
Well, she passed me, but after that the instructor (who was in the back seat) said her little tactic was very out-of-line and if she doesn't pass me he's going to report her to the board of examiners.
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Interstate highways have a minimum, other roads (AFAIK) do not.
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Look how well behaved my YT is.
That one in the top-middle LOOKS like slop, but I assure you that motherfucker is based. Every single video is a 200€ car getting a full send you wouldn't think possible.
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You're right about that.
My daily is 15 years old and my next rig will probably be even older...
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