I would like to ask him how it is Putin's/Russia's fault that nations like Britain, Sweden, Germany et al have had speech-laws and have imprisoned artists, writers, researchers and ordinary citizens for voicing dissent or producing opinions and works counter to the over-reaching narrative/discourse.
For the last 20 years or even longer than that.
I would also like to ask him how it can be Russia's fault that western nations for several years now - decades in some cases - have obfuscated, classified and hidden or in other way muddled data-collection, collation and presentation every time the facts won't line up with party/regime doctrine. The Covid/mRNA-side effects-cover up evident in Britain and the US is just the most recent. How did Russia manage that?
Or to paraphrase myself: "Russian and chinese media doesn't have to lie at all when reporting on the West, all they have to do is report the truth about the things our governements are covering up. Imagine how that makes us look in the eyes of any prospective political opposition or pro-democracy activists in such nations."
If you want to see professors in political science or communication/media lose their proverbial shit, and dial their dr Göbbels-reflexes up to eleven, it's an excellent phrase. One woman (doctor in "liberal democracy" I think?) wagged her finger the exact same way he does in the old films, to the point it looked like the index-finger was the dominant partner in asymbiotic organism, and she just an appendix to it.
More than once, I thought I had a fistfight on my hands - either in the faculty lounge or in class when I was a student.
We're dealing with articles of faith and psychotic delusions, not reason or empiricism.
'Russian and chinese media doesn't have to lie at all when reporting on the West, all they have to do is report the truth about the things our governements are covering up. Imagine how that makes us look in the eyes of any prospective political opposition or pro-democracy activists in such nations.'
It's funny, 'cause it's true. I'd add this old Cold War 'joke': what's the difference between Easterners and Westeners?--The latter believe the news.
Jokes aside, I agree: there's no need for Russian and Chinese media to lie about the West; conversely, I don't trust them reporting on their own countries. It's all part of the game, so to speak.
This is like a rerun of the First Word War. Before the war the Kaiser was feted as a great leader and an all round good chap. When the war started, the British ramped up the propaganda (World’s experts) and in short order he was the devil incarnate. In the 1920s, when Joe and Jane had forgotten all about it, investigations revealed that his influence on the progress of the war was minor. Same with Zelensky .. you can find videos of him not so very long ago saying that the Russians are cousins .. ‘flip-flop’. Humans are so weird.
Oh, the weirdest to me was him singing and dancing on a stage in a Moscow Kremlin New Year show with main Putin allies in the audience drinking champagne. All clearly had fun. Some time in 2013, I believe. And his comedy shows where he was playing president - he pretty much predicted everything that happens today Simpsons-style, and people were laughing.
This is one of the things I'd find it very hard to grapple with: how to deal with these people suffering from what looks like Peter Pan Syndrome. I mean, if facts don't matter, and if objective truth does no longer exist, what is left to talk about?
Yes I agree, I too think we should use this chance to strike with full force. Metaphorically speaking.
Speaking up was more or less futile (albeit still important) during the initial phase of the attack, but now that people are actually listening to some degree and the enemy is licking his wounds while planning the next attack, we need to do our best to expose them. We will have a very hard time when they are the ones choosing the time for the next battle and are investing all their energy in media control to establish another narrative.
You'd think at some point there will be enough people to realize they are dead anyway and might as well fight back, not metaphorically. Here I'll coin a new term: Hubris momentum.
It's like some people do to their poor dogs: they flip the treat always out of range to get the dog to perform more tricks for the same treat.
But as dogs are more intelligent than 2/3 of westerners, they either give up or just snatch the treat, and if the human loses some skin, welll hey it's all part of the game, right? Don't start none; won't be none.
Well an actual victory would mean prison time for Bill Gates and other key players by my definition.
I am dreaming of much better days than the post-911 pre-covid phase. There are so many things that we've been doing wrong for decades, but I don't see us correcting our path without these cancerous turbo-capitalist elements eating away at us.
- our governments should not be slaves to the money supply
- I think we should reclaim and decentralize our food supply to some degree
- advertisement is making us sick
- our voting system is a desaster. we should be able to reward politicians based on their merits and accomplishments
- we would be well-advised to implement taxes that increase exponentially. Becoming richer should become harder as you become richer, not easier.
....
So many things are making us sick, but most importantly the people that did this to us need to meet the law.
Re Gates and his ilk: no matter what, getting rid of them isn't going to change much, as the Bolshevik Revolution showed (even executing them didn't prevent the emergence of another caste of 'elites'; mind you, I'm not advocating the death penalty for Gates and his ilk.)
We'll put them in front of tribunals, or they will meet 'street law', eventually.
Yes I am surprised they are still able to walk the streets.
I saw an interview with one of the Rothschilds out on the street. He didn't even have bodyguards. Considering how many "conspiracy theorists" have taken their own lives in the past few years I found this quite surprising.
It seems one of the primary strategies is robbing us of our will to fight. It's the common thread that unites us all. Conspiracy theorists and conformists. Most people lack the will to fight for a better future and against their oppressors, because they're "just one person" ("what could I possibly do?").
I agree. I'd also add: one man can only do as much, but leadership by example is akin to planting a proverbial olive tree as an old man.
My view on this one is simple: I know who and what I'd die for. I doubt that the thugs, be they from the state or private goons, have convictions beyond the material.
Fascism isn't anyone or family, or group in particular. Its an economy by the force of government to siphon money to whoever outside of government can claim a leadership position.
I'm not sure there can be a stable steady freer economy with the people trained as they are.
Abolishment of central bankers and their clan? They are the ones, along with transnational corporations, who seem to be behind the drive for a "brave new world order". This whole group of banks and corporations who are officially and legally above the law enjoying self-imposed immunity.
Yeah I figured an internet forum for activists would not be a bad idea. https://forum.pervaers.com (haven't gotten to it the past days)
I feel substack is a ticking time bomb.
Really to have safe communication we need to decentralize the internet altogether. The technology is about ripe for that, but there aren't any projects afaik.
Like I said: We'd need to decentralize the internet in order to evade attempts at control.
I suppose there are other ways. However having nearly all dissident journalists crammed onto a single website that is run by - by whom is substack run? - is asking for trouble.
Good point. I speculated this platform is as a means to monitor the opposition. However, this is just a segment of what is necessary to at least carve out a niche for natural people.
Ha! I stumbled through the start of this post wondering what the hell is Epimetheus writing? Before realising I was reading your translation of someone else's article! What happened to block quote?
Yes, the lack of self-reflection is quite the thing to behold. Also I find the attitude: "Putin must lose, Ukraine can't lose; We have to send weapons" earily similar to "Vaccines must win, Anti-vaxxers can't win; We have to do something."
Sorry for the off-topic spamming, but everone's "darling" climate-goblin is in Oslo protesting a windmill park outside Trondheim, which has been declared illegal by Norway's Supreme Court for violating the "rights" of the "indigenous" sami people.
(Who by the way are not the indigenous inhabitants; Scandinavia was populated by the ancestors of swedes and norwegians 9 000 years ago, which is more than 6 000 years before the sami's ancestors crossed the Ural mountains if I'm not misremembering [could it was 6 000 years before they reached Scandinavia]. Funnily enough, denying indigenous swedes and norweigans their status as aboriginals/indigents qualifies as a form of genocide according to the UN's definition.)
In Sweden and Norway both, the lifestyle that a tiny percentage of the sami enjoy (single digits) is 100% funded by subsidies of the parent nation's population. So the correct term would be sami racial privilege.
Sweden has race laws still on the books for sami: it would be illegal forme to own reindeers for example, of people who can prove they are sami by blood and origin may own and herd reindeer. The same goes for having franchise in the sami Ting (in Sweden at least): you must prove that you are sami by blood, and that you have been raised sami by sami parents and that you speak one of the sami dialects fluently.
A blood purity law of the same variety that nazi-Germany had.
Leaving aside the 'privileges' for a moment (I think of them as some exquisite, if expensive, virtue-signalling exercise in futility that, while costly, is abused to tell others how to behave, esp. from a point of moral self-righteousness: look, we're so good, but you're bloody savages' or the like), I haven't reported on this as its most important aspect is--again: hypocrisy.
Saint Greta of Climate Change was donning a traditional Sami costume: if you and I'd do this, its, of course, 'cultural appropriation' and must be condemned; if someone who's 'in' does it, it's o.k.
I would like to ask him how it is Putin's/Russia's fault that nations like Britain, Sweden, Germany et al have had speech-laws and have imprisoned artists, writers, researchers and ordinary citizens for voicing dissent or producing opinions and works counter to the over-reaching narrative/discourse.
For the last 20 years or even longer than that.
I would also like to ask him how it can be Russia's fault that western nations for several years now - decades in some cases - have obfuscated, classified and hidden or in other way muddled data-collection, collation and presentation every time the facts won't line up with party/regime doctrine. The Covid/mRNA-side effects-cover up evident in Britain and the US is just the most recent. How did Russia manage that?
Or to paraphrase myself: "Russian and chinese media doesn't have to lie at all when reporting on the West, all they have to do is report the truth about the things our governements are covering up. Imagine how that makes us look in the eyes of any prospective political opposition or pro-democracy activists in such nations."
If you want to see professors in political science or communication/media lose their proverbial shit, and dial their dr Göbbels-reflexes up to eleven, it's an excellent phrase. One woman (doctor in "liberal democracy" I think?) wagged her finger the exact same way he does in the old films, to the point it looked like the index-finger was the dominant partner in asymbiotic organism, and she just an appendix to it.
More than once, I thought I had a fistfight on my hands - either in the faculty lounge or in class when I was a student.
We're dealing with articles of faith and psychotic delusions, not reason or empiricism.
I almost fell off my chair reading this:
'Russian and chinese media doesn't have to lie at all when reporting on the West, all they have to do is report the truth about the things our governements are covering up. Imagine how that makes us look in the eyes of any prospective political opposition or pro-democracy activists in such nations.'
It's funny, 'cause it's true. I'd add this old Cold War 'joke': what's the difference between Easterners and Westeners?--The latter believe the news.
Jokes aside, I agree: there's no need for Russian and Chinese media to lie about the West; conversely, I don't trust them reporting on their own countries. It's all part of the game, so to speak.
That's what I'm always saying. Russian propaganda directed towards Westerners is very simple: Just tell them the truth.
"No truth in Pravda; no news in Izvestija" is another good one.
Pretty soon we might have to dust off this old soviet joke:
"Excuse me, is this the store without meat?"
"Oh no, this is the store without fish, the store without meat is after the store without bread."
No it all makes sense to me. One of the horcruxes was attached to the Nord Stream pipelines, and had to be destroyed.
That was a non-binary, or 'fluid', one, right?
This is like a rerun of the First Word War. Before the war the Kaiser was feted as a great leader and an all round good chap. When the war started, the British ramped up the propaganda (World’s experts) and in short order he was the devil incarnate. In the 1920s, when Joe and Jane had forgotten all about it, investigations revealed that his influence on the progress of the war was minor. Same with Zelensky .. you can find videos of him not so very long ago saying that the Russians are cousins .. ‘flip-flop’. Humans are so weird.
Oh, the weirdest to me was him singing and dancing on a stage in a Moscow Kremlin New Year show with main Putin allies in the audience drinking champagne. All clearly had fun. Some time in 2013, I believe. And his comedy shows where he was playing president - he pretty much predicted everything that happens today Simpsons-style, and people were laughing.
Until the music stops and no more laughing is heard.
Then gunshots are heard, and the rest, as the saying goes, is history.
Children's story time for pseudo-adults...
This is one of the things I'd find it very hard to grapple with: how to deal with these people suffering from what looks like Peter Pan Syndrome. I mean, if facts don't matter, and if objective truth does no longer exist, what is left to talk about?
What's Left after that is what's Right: Argumentum ad Baculum.
Only two sides to the fascist coin. Heads they win. Tails they win. Until people stop playing they are mostly dead I suppose.
When they flip the coin and have their eyes fixed on it, punch them in the throat.
Metaphorically speaking.
Yes I agree, I too think we should use this chance to strike with full force. Metaphorically speaking.
Speaking up was more or less futile (albeit still important) during the initial phase of the attack, but now that people are actually listening to some degree and the enemy is licking his wounds while planning the next attack, we need to do our best to expose them. We will have a very hard time when they are the ones choosing the time for the next battle and are investing all their energy in media control to establish another narrative.
You'd think at some point there will be enough people to realize they are dead anyway and might as well fight back, not metaphorically. Here I'll coin a new term: Hubris momentum.
I doubt that, Rick; I think if that happened, most people would just…do nothing.
Yes indeed. Whining about the good old days of endless years of idleness.
It's like some people do to their poor dogs: they flip the treat always out of range to get the dog to perform more tricks for the same treat.
But as dogs are more intelligent than 2/3 of westerners, they either give up or just snatch the treat, and if the human loses some skin, welll hey it's all part of the game, right? Don't start none; won't be none.
It is we who will win this.
I think we might need to explore a bit what 'winning' would be like.
Would that indicate going 'back' to something like, say, the world B.C. (before Covid)? I'm unsure if that's something we'd all like or aspire to.
Well an actual victory would mean prison time for Bill Gates and other key players by my definition.
I am dreaming of much better days than the post-911 pre-covid phase. There are so many things that we've been doing wrong for decades, but I don't see us correcting our path without these cancerous turbo-capitalist elements eating away at us.
- our governments should not be slaves to the money supply
- I think we should reclaim and decentralize our food supply to some degree
- advertisement is making us sick
- our voting system is a desaster. we should be able to reward politicians based on their merits and accomplishments
- we would be well-advised to implement taxes that increase exponentially. Becoming richer should become harder as you become richer, not easier.
....
So many things are making us sick, but most importantly the people that did this to us need to meet the law.
I'm on board.
Re Gates and his ilk: no matter what, getting rid of them isn't going to change much, as the Bolshevik Revolution showed (even executing them didn't prevent the emergence of another caste of 'elites'; mind you, I'm not advocating the death penalty for Gates and his ilk.)
We'll put them in front of tribunals, or they will meet 'street law', eventually.
Yes I am surprised they are still able to walk the streets.
I saw an interview with one of the Rothschilds out on the street. He didn't even have bodyguards. Considering how many "conspiracy theorists" have taken their own lives in the past few years I found this quite surprising.
It seems one of the primary strategies is robbing us of our will to fight. It's the common thread that unites us all. Conspiracy theorists and conformists. Most people lack the will to fight for a better future and against their oppressors, because they're "just one person" ("what could I possibly do?").
I agree. I'd also add: one man can only do as much, but leadership by example is akin to planting a proverbial olive tree as an old man.
My view on this one is simple: I know who and what I'd die for. I doubt that the thugs, be they from the state or private goons, have convictions beyond the material.
Sure, I may die fighting them, but I know why.
But I feel people are waking up to the fact that everyone of us individually is a force to be reckoned with. Together there would be no stopping us.
Fascism isn't anyone or family, or group in particular. Its an economy by the force of government to siphon money to whoever outside of government can claim a leadership position.
I'm not sure there can be a stable steady freer economy with the people trained as they are.
Abolishment of central bankers and their clan? They are the ones, along with transnational corporations, who seem to be behind the drive for a "brave new world order". This whole group of banks and corporations who are officially and legally above the law enjoying self-imposed immunity.
Of course. Our governments have been enslaved.
Gonna listen to Rick James now ;)
Supply lines out of the control of the fascist system will need to be established. Lets start with food & communications.
Yeah I figured an internet forum for activists would not be a bad idea. https://forum.pervaers.com (haven't gotten to it the past days)
I feel substack is a ticking time bomb.
Really to have safe communication we need to decentralize the internet altogether. The technology is about ripe for that, but there aren't any projects afaik.
Perhaps a code of metaphors would cross up the word masters.
The forum can be controlled or shut down.
Like I said: We'd need to decentralize the internet in order to evade attempts at control.
I suppose there are other ways. However having nearly all dissident journalists crammed onto a single website that is run by - by whom is substack run? - is asking for trouble.
Good point. I speculated this platform is as a means to monitor the opposition. However, this is just a segment of what is necessary to at least carve out a niche for natural people.
Ha! I stumbled through the start of this post wondering what the hell is Epimetheus writing? Before realising I was reading your translation of someone else's article! What happened to block quote?
Yes, the lack of self-reflection is quite the thing to behold. Also I find the attitude: "Putin must lose, Ukraine can't lose; We have to send weapons" earily similar to "Vaccines must win, Anti-vaxxers can't win; We have to do something."
Lol.
I thought the picture was enough to indicate that this isn't me…your point stands, though.
Sorry for the off-topic spamming, but everone's "darling" climate-goblin is in Oslo protesting a windmill park outside Trondheim, which has been declared illegal by Norway's Supreme Court for violating the "rights" of the "indigenous" sami people.
(Who by the way are not the indigenous inhabitants; Scandinavia was populated by the ancestors of swedes and norwegians 9 000 years ago, which is more than 6 000 years before the sami's ancestors crossed the Ural mountains if I'm not misremembering [could it was 6 000 years before they reached Scandinavia]. Funnily enough, denying indigenous swedes and norweigans their status as aboriginals/indigents qualifies as a form of genocide according to the UN's definition.)
In Sweden and Norway both, the lifestyle that a tiny percentage of the sami enjoy (single digits) is 100% funded by subsidies of the parent nation's population. So the correct term would be sami racial privilege.
Sweden has race laws still on the books for sami: it would be illegal forme to own reindeers for example, of people who can prove they are sami by blood and origin may own and herd reindeer. The same goes for having franchise in the sami Ting (in Sweden at least): you must prove that you are sami by blood, and that you have been raised sami by sami parents and that you speak one of the sami dialects fluently.
A blood purity law of the same variety that nazi-Germany had.
Leaving aside the 'privileges' for a moment (I think of them as some exquisite, if expensive, virtue-signalling exercise in futility that, while costly, is abused to tell others how to behave, esp. from a point of moral self-righteousness: look, we're so good, but you're bloody savages' or the like), I haven't reported on this as its most important aspect is--again: hypocrisy.
Saint Greta of Climate Change was donning a traditional Sami costume: if you and I'd do this, its, of course, 'cultural appropriation' and must be condemned; if someone who's 'in' does it, it's o.k.
Didn't Adi declare the japanese "honorary aryans" back in the day? Same thinking, I guess.