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A few years ago I posted something about this person saying that they thought COVID may not have come from a wet market, but in fact leaked out of the Wuhan lab.
I remember it because there was this guy, a mastodon person, who says to me something like I shouldn't be associating myself with this extreme right nonsense, I don't recall exactly what. Anyway, now we're 4 years later and now we know what we know I don't have the slightest bit of respect for that guy anymore.
Now I'm kinda posting this thing the same way I posted that... I post it because I think it's interesting, not because I think it's real or not. Fuck, this is the internet, how can anyone claim to know what's real?
But you seem to be pretty confident that it's fake, like to the point of even kind of judging me for reposting it. You do you, but if it turns out in the end that you're wrong, you kinda end up looking like that mastodon guy...
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Do you have insider information that confirms it to be in fact fake, or is this based on your estimation?
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It didn't change my opinion of Barak Obama or Bill Gates, so I can't say I'm particularly invested in it...
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LETS GOOOOOOOOOO
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I watched through to the end because I wanted to see what that lead starfish does to her face when the airbag goes off...
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Thanks for the picture, I was looking for that earlier.
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Re The Bank Wars, no great book that I know of, just the historical topic of central bank vs. no central bank, Hamilton, abolition of the 1st central bank, war of 1812, 2nd central bank, Jackson, free banking era, then eventually Federal Reserve era. Not in "official" history books.
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Davis wrote a book called The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, and apparently that is practically unknown, even to people who study him.
Perhaps even more significant than that is The Bank Wars, which pretty much nobody wants to talk about...
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Interesting point re Fink. I wouldn't say he's The Power, but he's pretty damned important being the operator of their post-2008 Cybersyn command economy thingy.
If they were to politicize him, the plebs would start asking why after electing /ourguy/ he's still hanging out in the whitehouse.
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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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