Open Thread 2020-08
News & views ...
Posted by b on January 29, 2020 at 13:59 UTC | Permalink
« previous page | next page »if sanders gets robbed again, and still insists on campaigning for whatever abomination the dem party spews forth,i will start thinking he's a sheepdog. but until that happens, let's just see how it plays out. the visceral loathing of establishment democrats toward sanders tells me he is not, they fucking hate him. see the woman who claims he makes her flesh crawl.
on another point, i don't think it is politically possible to run as an independent, you can't get on the ballot that late. it's why independents almost never win high office, and only in state elections iirc. the game is rigged against them. ross perot came the closest, and he was a billionaire who could finance his own campaign. so that's why sanders ran as a democrat.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 30 2020 12:28 utc | 202
David J Valachovic@4
I'm not sure if it just me, but I feel it a little uncool/unfair to be recommending other media sites here.
Seems a little like going to a restaurants' website, and posting positive reviews for other restaurants.
One of the litmus tests that I employ is to check out the comments section. You get a good read of the landscape by doing so when you first encounter a new site. It is what encouraged me to keep coming back here.
Regarding ZeroHedge. The commentariat there are off the charts, but I know what I'm getting there. Some good stuff, a smattering of facts, and a lot of white noise and bullshit. Many other sites have a similar "spread", but you can, on occasion, learn something from them anyways.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Jan 30 2020 12:38 utc | 203
karlof1 | Jan 30 2020 0:23 utc | 133 (brain injuries)
I spoke with M.D. a USAF Captain (reserve,medical) about this yesterday.
He, and I, both hold the same opinion. Some of the Imperial Storm Troops discovered what being in the cross-hairs of "rifle sights" is like, and then realized that they had developed a "brain injury". Well, they did develop a brain injury. They decided that their brain didn't like getting shot at by accurate fire, and that their injury could best be treated with a beer in Santa Monica.
Interesting the doc, who'd been in combat in the sandbox, had failed to spot the semantic trick about "no americans were...", which of course avoids mention of any fodder units who were not citizens...of which there are many. I am afraid I popped that bubble for him, alas!
Posted by: Walter | Jan 30 2020 13:07 utc | 204
I know it's real late in this thread. I will try to avoid just repeating stuff regarding my 'ranked choice voting (RCV) is a fraud' thing. It has become a huge project for me. There is a huge multimillion dollar campaign to get this voting method installed throughout the US, simultaneously. And it will be a disaster. I honestly stay up very late at night to develop a good strategy for derailing the whole thing, and will plant my scheme on my little blog as soon as I am sure it will work out with a good positive effect. This has been an astonishingly intricate intellectual project, even though the mechanisms of my latest 'scheme' will be amazingly simple.
The thing is: In a very short amount of time (a few months) this RCV campaign is going to come in like a gigantic tsunami, and everyone will be talking about it. So I am actually working very hard to get my 'counterattack' ready to go. Nobody else seems to be doing this at anywhere near the level at which I intend to try to do it. Wish me luck. You will be hearing a lot about this RCV business, regardless of what I do or do not do. I promise it will be fascinating. Please wish me luck.
: blues | Jan 30 2020 13:28 utc | 205
The machines are part n parcel of the con (the old army game)
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Rock the Vote! – #PropagandaWatch (corbett)
By all mean though, people ought to vote, particularly in the small things, like who gets to be county judge or sheriff, and of course you yourself are liable to be called to jury duty if you vote. On a jury the vote count is honest, and it matters. They say 98% of prosecutions do not go to trial - and conviction at trial is punished severely to intimidate innocent and guilty as one stream of PU (prisoner units).
The natural result is that the few prosecutions that do go to trial are trying the probably honestly innocent whose moral outrage makes pleading guilty not an ethical option for them.
One vote can set them free...
Vote. They used to say "vote early, and often", but of course that's illegal so I can't suggest it.
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(b that's a cool "Peace Map" !! Thanks!)
Posted by: Walter | Jan 30 2020 13:46 utc | 206
Just a Note
Although I recognize that Sanders has the best policies of the Democratic Party candidates, I myself will not be voting for a Democrat or Republican.
As I've explained via several comments on this thread (and in previous threads), I see the duopoly as deeply corrupt and believe that a true "populist outsider" will never emerge from that den of vipers.
It's not just me: a number of others have written comments that agree with this POV.
IMO a vote for Greens or Private Party (a party that promotes direct democracy) is a valid protest vote.
Each of us has to make up their own minds. I know that few are as cynical as I am. So support whomever you please. When it all mysteriously falls apart, I'll be ready with the "I told ya so" so you truly FEEL THE BERN. Maybe that will open a few eyes.
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Is it a bit strange that we have a Jewish Mench on display just as USA is about to go war in ME? ANOTHER 'war of choice' that doesn't really serve the interests of the American people.
Perception Management? They would NEVER do that, would they?
LOL. I hope he wins. But I'm not expecting it.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 30 2020 14:03 utc | 207
blues @205
Good luck! I know you've dedicated a lot of time and effort into a better voting system.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 30 2020 14:06 utc | 208
Jackrabbit@146 in haste to troll seems to think empire is not a real ($) policy. It is in fact the #1 real ($) policy. Thus it is part of the wide overlap, aka shared political commitment, of both the INS and the OUTS. There are only tactical differences on such issues. The franchising insists the differences on hot button issues are significant.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 30 2020 14:08 utc | 209
Wondering if anyone has relevant news about the state of affairs at The Real News since the resignation/ouster of Paul Jay and Sharmini Piries last summer?
Posted by: saxawoogie | Jan 30 2020 14:08 utc | 210
>Perhaps you have a better idea of how to spur the growth
>in class consciousness? Something that we can actually implement?
>Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 30 2020 0:44 utc | 140
I'm so glad you asked. This question deserves a proper answer, but my brain isn't working well today. This will have to be brief.
The currently dominant institutions are useless. They are controlled by the wealthy or have been co-opted by the need for a constant flow of grant money to pay salaries and keep the lights on. Various tiny sectarian leftist groups have zero appeal to typical US workers.
Workers need new mutual aid societies that I think of as "social unions" or perhaps "neighborhood unions". These would be based on their neighbors rather than "labor unions" based on where people work.
The original Black Panthers started with a free breakfast program for all neighborhood kids and expanded from there to include education programs and medical clinics. That is the model I am thinking of.
The point is to build organizations by starting with small doable projects that build confidence and give newcomers an easy way to participate and work together. Participation and early achievement is vital. People want/need something to do, and they liked to be asked. I have been to so many public lectures where the event ended, everyone went home, and that was the end of it. That model will not take us very far.
Something around food is maybe a good place to start, considering how many US peons don't have enough food. Preparing food and eating it brings people together, and everybody can immediately participate in cooking and/or cleanup.
On an individual basis, troublemakers have to get out there and talk to Joe and Jane Sixpack. I used to travel to various public events and set up a table of propaganda and buttons, etc. I always brought my large poster of the Pyramid of Capitalism. It really catches peoples attention. And they get it. Immediately.
Even in Uncle Sam Land, workers know intuitively that something is very wrong. Some are even open to the idea that maybe their problems are not all caused by immigrants, but by something else. It is up to class-conscious people to tell Joe and Jane what that something else might be.
Posted by: Trailer Trash | Jan 30 2020 14:35 utc | 211
William Gruff @ 140:
"...It doesn't matter if that is his intention or not, the important point is that Sanders IS awakening class consciousness... at least somewhat..."
No, I'm sorry; this is not true, except maybe for some very new voters. Class consciousness is alive and well in the US, and it has been since Obama shafted the populace in 2008. And probably since the beginning of this century did it start to stir. Or the end of the last one, take your pick. And it is now a very very large class that knows it is being shafted - maybe now 99.99 percent.
If Bernie can ride home on that, more power to him. He didn't see it last time, but maybe now that teeny .01% are just scared enough to head for their bolt holes.
Posted by: juliania | Jan 30 2020 14:41 utc | 212
Trailer Trash | Jan 30 2020 14:35 utc | 211
Agree. Unions began that way. All co-opted in material degree now, pity. But the eating together, as you suggest, works. It's basic human politics. And good. Salvation Army worked it. It's natural ritual...a sort of church (small c). A writing group works too, or a book-discussion group. My old Union always put on a big chow event either on the jobsite or at the union hall...alas, entirely under the nazi thumb nowadays...buncha rubes.
I would add> community gardens...extend the eating front and back to growing, working, eating, cleaning up, and so on - and thus create a polity and consensus over Time, next thing ya know you'll get people elected, or diselected, and get infiltrated and suborned - so it's not simple.... It may work really well if the oilbuckies go poof! Seduce the infiltrators. It works.
This action counters the operation being run called "schismogenesis" (a term from the OSS)... a form of divide to rule. Remember Maggie saying "there is no society, there is only the individual"?
Later Dude...
Posted by: Walter | Jan 30 2020 15:04 utc | 213
there's a lot more class consciousness in the u.s. now than there has been for decades. naturally, because more people are getting more screwed by the class war all the time.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 30 2020 15:22 utc | 214
blues @ 189
Re: Link to your wordpress page.
Yes, it works. But there is barely one paragraph on the page about why RCV is a fraud. I clicked around, but couldn't find any details.
If you have a complete presentation, could you please give me a link.
Thanks.
Posted by: john brewster | Jan 30 2020 15:56 utc | 215
Correction @207: Private Party ==> Pirate Party
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 30 2020 16:06 utc | 216
Wilbur Ross Says China's Coronavirus Outbreak Will "Help Bring Jobs Back To America"
Life is just one long embarassing event now ....
Posted by: Bemildred | Jan 30 2020 16:07 utc | 217
@ a User
I think you miss the mark in some of your observations. You are seriously implying that FDR was not a great American president? Poor 1930s Japan was being starved for the oil that was being used by their war machine to slaughter Chinese civilians on an industrial scale? That's got to be a joke in view of atrocities like the the Rape of Nanking. World War II was kicked off in Asia, and the Japanese did the dirty work early in the mass indiscriminate bombing of cities. As a boy I received one of the real shocks of my life when I was leafing through the Colliers Photographic History of World War II, as I saw images of those mountains of corpses on the streets of Nanking. Also when Roosevelt started out in office he declared that he welcomed the hatred of the elite. In the worst moments of the Depression children were dying of starvation; and doctors would sign their death certificates, marking their cause of death as "heart failure". The wider history of the world might have turned out much worse if FDR had not become president.
There are no perfect US presidents, no saints,-- not even Lincoln or Washington. And many of our recent Presidents, the last six especially have been real turds. But your black and white treatment above is not fair either. JFK actually mitigated the ambitions of insane generals who were serious about immediate nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Trailer Trash @211
Excellent suggestion! It is just my personal observation, but neighborhood and community organizations seem to be popping up and developing much more in the last decade or so than at any time that I can remember. These cannot compare in power with labor unions, of course, since unions always have the capitalists' "family jewels" in their hands and can squeeze at will (this is an unavoidable side effect of how capitalists get their wealth), but consciousness can safely develop in the community before infiltrating the workplace.
Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 30 2020 16:21 utc | 219
They say FDR saved his class from revolution by tossing the working class a bone. Well, if it's a nice bone I'd prefer it to revolution myself.
But "they" got him. Visit Harry Truman Museum and search for "Edwin W. Pauley Oral History Interview"
Pauley's was in on the job, and tells his version. The swap of Wallace for Truman was essential to the job...coups take money and planning.
The wise dictum generally is "Betrayal is the handmaiden of Victory".
Posted by: Walter | Jan 30 2020 16:22 utc | 220
>Excellent suggestion!
>Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 30 2020 16:21 utc | 219
Thank you William Gruff. Here is the short version of my essay:
Don't Moan -- Organize!
Posted by: Trailer Trash | Jan 30 2020 16:33 utc | 221
Just remembering that the USA doesn't have an annualized figures for quarterly GDP (as the rest of the world has), which makes them look higher than they really are. They kinda have a half-baked adjuster that is not the real thing, which they report many months later.
Even without considering this cooking, Q4 2019 was worse than Q4 2018 - which was worse than Q4 2017.
"Class consciousness is alive and well in the US" --juliania @212
This is, unfortunately, not the case in the real world unless we are talking about the capital-owning class. It is true that they have always been conscious of their class role in capitalist society. The so-called "middle class" on the other hand, is not a socioeconomic class at all. It is just an income bracket with no relevance beyond that. The vast majority of "middle class" Americans are actually salary and wage earners, which means that they are working class, but that is something few are willing to acknowledge.
"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist" --John Steinbeck
America's "middle class" are such "temporarily embarrassed capitalists". They are working people just like trash collectors and coal miners, only with a bigger paycheck and with the affectation of drinking their tea with their pinky fingers stuck out in the vain delusion that it somehow makes them superior. They are deluded workers who are pretending to posses the consciousness of the overclass like children dressing up in their parents' clothes and pretending to be adults. They are traitors to their class.
Hint: Nobody who thinks of or refers to working class Trump voters as "racist deplorables" has class consciousness. All such individuals are completely devoid of anything resembling class consciousness.
Of course, actual racists also lack class consciousness.
Is the suggestion that there are no members of the Team Blue fan club who think of the Team Red fans as "racist deplorables"? Is the suggestion that America doesn't have actual racists? Because if these groups are present in the US population in significant numbers then the claim that "class consciousness is alive and well in the US" is not something that can be based upon empirical evidence.
Don't mistake political "team spirit" for class consciousness. It's not the same thing.
Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 30 2020 17:13 utc | 223
@ john brewster | Jan 30 2020 15:56 utc | 215
=/ Yes, it works. But there is barely one paragraph on the page about why RCV is a fraud. I clicked around, but couldn't find any details. /= -- above
Sorry there isn't much on my blog about that now. If it was simple to describe how disastrously bad RCV voting is, those (apparently) tens of thousands of 'followers' would not be promoting it. It is very difficult, however. Try thinking about it this way -- The 'operations' we carry out in life have (at least) two kinds of complexity: 'procedural' complexity, but also 'ramificational' complexity. There is a certain amount of procedural complexity associated with learning arithmetical long division (by hand). However, once you master the long division algorithm, performing it does not get any more complex -- the numbers change for each application, but the basic ramificational complexity remains the same. At the other extreme, the procedural complexity of learning the game of chess is not very high. However, each time you play a chess game you learn something new, since the ramificational complexity that eventually emerges is extremely high indeed.
And this is the problem with ranked choice voting -- It's not very hard to explain how it functions -- but as time goes on and election cycles occur, it builds up an astonishing amount of ramificational complexity. And this is a trap. You go for a stroll in a pretty garden, and eventually find yourself lost in a deep dark forest. It looked wonderfull at first, but then you find yourself utterly lost.
After years of study I have come across an astonishing sort of 'compass', that will completely 'short-circuit' the complexity of the maze that RCV voting erects. It's a real mind-blower. I wonder how the highly payed RCV promoters will react to this?
(Maybe this tiny essay I will paste in my little blog.) I will be arguing with mathematicians and political scientists (but will keep my side of it easy to read for plain folks). This could have the potential to become one hell of a ride.
112;Come on See was on TCM the other night.Shocking.
Posted by: dahoit | Jan 30 2020 18:09 utc | 225
@ bevin, karlof1
You say this board is “overrun” with posters who “come out of the woodwork” to make JR’s “controlled opposition” case. From what I’ve seen, few chime in with precisely JR’s view. But, more importantly, you’re implying JR and any in agreement are cockroaches, eh?
You call JR a troll, for doing nothing more than expressing his(?) opinion on current events given his perspective. But, that’s what you do, too.
I’ve missed most of this thread but read many others. JR has been quite polite, which is more than I can say for you. I don’t think I’ll buy you a round of beer.
Posted by: oglalla | Jan 30 2020 18:15 utc | 226
A very refreshing discourse to read this morning! I congratulate all the participants!
Escobar on "China’s virus response [it's] been ‘breathtaking.’"
Lots of crap and downright excrement's been directed at China topped today by Pompeo's remark about the CPC being the world's biggest danger today. China's response to the coronavirus is indeed spectacular and in no way could it even be mimicked by the Outlaw US Empire or any other nation on the planet. Don't believe me; read Pepe's essay, although I must post this excerpt:
"Apart from crisis management, the speed of the Chinese scientific response has been breathtaking – and obviously not fully appreciated in an environment of Total Information War. Compare the Chinese performance with the American CDC, arguably the top infectious disease research agency in the world, with an $11 billion annual budget and 11,000 employees.
"During the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014 – considered a maximum urgency, and facing a virus with a 90% fatality rate – the CDC took no less than two months from getting the first patient sample to identifying the complete genomic sequence. The Chinese did it in a few days.
"During the swine flu in the US in 2009 – 55 million infected Americans, 11,000 killed – the CDC took over a month and a half to come up with identification kits.
"The Chinese took only one week from the first patient sample to complete, vital identification and sequencing of coronavirus. Right away, they went for publication and deposit in the genomics library for immediate access by the whole planet. Based on this sequence, Chinese biotech companies produced validated essays within a week – also a first."
Then there's the hospital constructed from scratch to completion that ought to shut up the Pompeos of the world.
And in case you missed my FYI, Escobar has abandoned his Facebook thanks to the ongoing censorship of him and others and has joined VK, the Russian version, and can be found here. Yes, to comment you must subscribe, but there're no inhibitors as with FB.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 30 2020 18:23 utc | 227
oglalla @226--
My determination about the rabbit was done after years of reading and observing its online behavior. It finally lost control and outed itself in a tirade consisting of lies, and that's when I ceased communicating with it. There are a few other "resident trolls" here that have also outed themselves in similar fashion. Some like the donkeytale abandoned their efforts and either went elsewhere or changed their alias and narrative.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 30 2020 18:29 utc | 228
Karlof01 No aliases. I cant log in. Think I have been banned. But interesting you say I am a troll when we are largely in agreement on Jackrabbit and Sanders. Where we differ is I believe Putin and the Chinese are just as up to their globalist necks in repression of the masses as Trump and Netanyahu.
You OTOH have been propagandised by Pepe, Caitlin, et al.
Posted by: donkeytale | Jan 30 2020 19:04 utc | 229
For nobody's surprise:
Only the most hallucinating far-rightists and moderates still think the main conflict of our times isn't between capitalism and socialism.
@ 226 oglalla.. thanks for saying that... while we all have disagreements, it would be best if we could just live and let live..
@ donkeytale.. long time no see! cheers james
Posted by: james | Jan 30 2020 19:08 utc | 231
donkeytale | Jan 30 2020 19:08 utc | 232
Isn't it a simply a take of logic? If you can send a message you are not "banned". If you can't send a message there is still the chance that it has to do with some technical issues (I experienced that often). Anti-tracking software may be the reason, sometimes.
Posted by: Hausmeister | Jan 30 2020 19:30 utc | 233
Oglalla,
Karlof1 and Gruff especially try way to hard to control the content of this site by attempting to intimidate other posters. Both exhibit consistently trollish behaviour IMHO. Both are very intelligent yet have quite too high opinions of themselves and their own opinions as if they are somehow superiour. Which if they were they wouldn't be stuck on a comment board only no matter how well regarded so many of their opinions.
Actually Gruff also agrees with me on Sanders too so I have no issues with his or Karlof1's politics. Their egomania on the other hand? Should be checked at the door in service to a more vibrant, less repetitive comment board open to many other's differing thoughts and ideas rather than merely more of the same ol.
Posted by: donkeytale | Jan 30 2020 19:47 utc | 234
Haus, yes technical issues most obviously.
Although I'm returning to lurker world anyway because I don't add anything with my criticism. I do enjoy the site and read b and much of the comments every day.
Including JR, James, Karlof1 and Gruff. Enjoy it all. Thanks
Posted by: donkeytale | Jan 30 2020 19:51 utc | 235
@Really?? #163
Yes. Facebook has a lot of ways they gather data - including SSO signins, on phone permissions access to on/off, location, SMS etc. They also gather data from web sites using Facebook tracking pixels.
The only difference between a Facebook user or not is a label on the record which includes the Facebook profile. Otherwise, this record might be blank or with some other identifier, but is still a collection of your behavior.
And there is a record.
Go to amiunique.org - this is a research effort which only looks at the data available on your browser to see if your profile is unique among the billion plus entities that have accessed the web site. If your profile is unique or rare, then your actual identity doesn't really matter since any web site you visit will know it is "you" - the set of behaviors collected in a bucket associated with that unique profile.
Posted by: c1ue | Jan 30 2020 20:00 utc | 236
I'm surprised no one posted the link alleging that the CIA chief mastermind behind Soleimani's assassination was killed on the crashed Afghanistan plane: Middle East Monitor
Posted by: c1ue | Jan 30 2020 20:05 utc | 237
And in other news: the $ signs are lighting up for Gavin Newsom - looking to have the State of California take over the Pacific Gas & Electric utility: SF Chronicle article on PG & E
Newsom said PG&E needs to harden its infrastructure and underground or insulate wires. But the future, he said, is localizing energy generation and distribution — not just with rooftop solar required on all new homes but with battery-storage systems.
Cha ching! Musk is salivating...
Posted by: c1ue | Jan 30 2020 20:09 utc | 238
Blues #224
RCV works fine, is not evil incarnate, enables voters for smal parties to pass on their preference to a lager party OF THEIR CHOICE.
You are barking at windmills.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 30 2020 20:34 utc | 239
A couple links:
House votes to curb Trump's power to attack Iran
Ms Lee, if I remember right, was one of the few who voted against the AUMF in the beginning. An excellent VP choice for Bernie, I would think
Bhadrakumar explains what's going on in Syria:
Moscow pips Pompeo at the Syrian post
Posted by: Bemildred | Jan 30 2020 20:44 utc | 240
The criticism of a 2 party system is that it devalues granularity in politics to 2 sides.
The criticism of RCV is that it makes the 2 centrist parties effectively the same party. That's what's happened in Europe, and why the far right parties have been raging their way up the political spectrum.
Yes, the Republican and Democrat parties are both subservient to the donor class - but they at least pretend to be different. In Europe, they don't even bother.
Posted by: c1ue | Jan 30 2020 20:54 utc | 241
Jon in AU @ 203,
I agree with you on posting of sights and Zero hedge.
When I see a new poster who starts off by raving about Moon and then asked for other sights I get suspicious. If you read Moon and comments you will be directed to lots of good sights and certainly no need to ask.
Makes me wonder what the poster was really after.
Posted by: arby | Jan 30 2020 21:13 utc | 242
c1ue | Jan 30 2020 20:05 utc | 237
You may be surprised. Other readers are not. It is one of the topics here since some days, several comments mentioned it. But it is unclear whether the claim is true or not. As nobody wants to spread rumours and fake news...
Posted by: Hausmeister | Jan 30 2020 21:19 utc | 243
List of Arab nations having obeyed, disobeyed or have yet to show where they stand regarding the Master's Orders:
"Arab regimes obeyed their masters for Zionist Apartheid plan:
Saudi Arabia
UAE
Oman
Qatar
Bahrain
Jordan
Egypt
Morocco
Mauritania
"Arab countries with dignity:
Syria
Iraq
Lebanon
Yemen
Algeria
"Still silent:
Sudan
Libya
Somalia
Kuwait
"Shameful."
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 30 2020 22:00 utc | 244
You all probably know Tulsi Gabbard is sueing The Harpy, or at least is trying to. I found this here pretty amusing: Clinton does the Browder Dance!
Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Jan 30 2020 22:07 utc | 245
@ uncle tungsten | Jan 30 2020 20:34 utc | 239
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Blues #224
RCV works fine, is not evil incarnate, enables voters for smal parties to pass on their preference to a lager party OF THEIR CHOICE.
You are barking at windmills.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 30 2020 20:34 utc | 239
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-- above
You are far below the intelligence level where you would need to be to argue with me.
STOP.
JUST. STOP.
Ranked Choice Voting is a fraud.
You do not see as far as me.
Please just reconsider. Imagine that you may be horribly wrong. Because in this respect -- you are totally, horribly wrong. These things happen.
oglalla @226
Commenters that I've butted heads with call me a troll.
For example:
Former US army guy, karlof1, didn't like it when I said that soldiers were fooled into serving the Empire. He objects to such disrespect for US soldiers. We've had a couple of other disagreements as well.
karlof1 and I agree on a lot of things but he's got a few red lines that draw his fire if crossed.
Still, I really appreciate his many links and most of his comments.
I took issue with bevin's permissive view toward relationships between 14-year old girls and much older men during discussions about Epstein. Jen also objected.
bevin POV caused him to have a few misconceptions about Epstein and write things that were factually wrong. I forcefully pointed out, in detail, how he was wrong about Epstein. As a result, he's joined the "JR is a troll chorus".
donkeytale is super smart and an excellent writer. I enjoy reading his comments. But I couldn't stay silent about how Empire-friendly his POV is. donkeytale claims to be an avid socialist and hates all oligarchs. I have no reason to doubt that. And to a certain extent he has a point. But he doesn't seem to care much that it's the Empire and Empire oligarchs that seem much more toxic. The Empire seems dead-set on global domination.
milomilo @201 sometimes chimes in when "JR is troll" talk occurs. He doesn't like my suspicious attitude toward Erdogan. And especially my suspicions about the apparent 2016 attempted coup that Erdogan termed a "gift from God".
HTH
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 30 2020 22:08 utc | 247
@ 244 karlof1... turkey got left off.. i wonder why? also malaysia.. i can't see malaysia going along with this either...
Posted by: james | Jan 30 2020 22:46 utc | 248
uncle tungsten@239
As our nation has a preferential voting system (or RCV), I would only like to add the following observation: That our system allows for quite a large amount of horse-trading for preference votes between the parties, and it is a cumbersome task for an average voter to keep track of all of the preference deals made in the shadows.
It seems to be improving slowly, but is still a great distance away from real democracy IMO.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Jan 30 2020 23:45 utc | 249
arby@242
Thanks. I have discovered myriad fantastic sources of information in the months I have been frequenting the bar.
Scrolling through the comments has lead me down educational alleyways I would have been highly unlikely to randomly encounter with my own meandering path through the inter-webs.
I tip my hat to the regulars here, and thank them for the education they provide. The original poster would be wise to follow many of the links in the articles that B posts and do likewise with the comments section.
"Pour yourself a stiff drink first." would be my only sage advice (you will need one).
Cheers
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Jan 30 2020 23:55 utc | 250
Reminder that even if every country in the world was in favor it would remain the abomination it is.
That aside Jordan is not in favor to my knowledge, the EU isn't in favor, The UN isn't in favor, Russia isn't in favor. Turkey as mentioned. Iran is also clearly against.
I can't imagine Indonesia (biggest muslim population in the world) being in favor, neither Malaysia or Pakistan, and there's already been demonstrations against it in India unless I'm badly mistaken.
Outside of the EU Switzerland is unlikely to be in favor but will keep neutral, Norway is clearly not in favor but might be trying to avoid attention, Iceland I don't know but they're super tiny.
I doubt those who were present at the presentation are actually in favor but that's just me, either way their populations are unlikely to be in favor.
It's the same as if someone came up to me with a gun and said the sky is a giant tuna. I would probably just smile, nod, keep quiet, and politely leave when they were done proselytizing :D
I haven't seen anyone but Israel gushing. Not even the US itself. Nice trap?
And yes I have also left out several countries that are relevant but I don't knows what Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Ghana etc. have said.
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 31 2020 0:13 utc | 251
Baghdad blocks US missile defenses after Iran strike, Pentagon chief says
Posted by: Bemildred | Jan 31 2020 0:14 utc | 252
blues @224
Other than this:
And this is the problem with ranked choice voting -- It's not very hard to explain how it functions -- but as time goes on and election cycles occur, it builds up an astonishing amount of ramificational complexity. And this is a trap.
You keep teasing your solution, but you never give it. Yeah, I know, because its too complicated. I also have ideas about government that are too complicated for comments at MoA. But, I don't shout down people who question my unstated idea. Instead, I acknowledge that I haven't explained it clearly.
You are far below the intelligence level where you would need to be to argue with me.
STOP.
JUST. STOP.
Ranked Choice Voting is a fraud.
You do not see as far as me.
--- blues @ 246, responding to Uncle Tungsten @ 239
Just sayin'. By MoA standards, that's rather uncivilized.
Posted by: john brewster | Jan 31 2020 0:18 utc | 253
"Just sayin'. By MoA standards, that's rather uncivilized." - john brewster | Jan 31 2020 0:18 utc | 253
Completely agree. I got blasted months ago by a long-time poster (call him hw) because the link I posed buggered up his device formatting or something. It was inadvertent on my part but that was of no interest: perfect solution for me, don't post any more links, just describe them. For Uncle T and others, hopefully they don't stop posting in response - I learn a lot from them.
Re JR, I have to say that if the bunny is a troll, he's quite subtle about it so, maybe, it's tolerable: but maybe = maybe not!!
Posted by: spudski | Jan 31 2020 1:19 utc | 254
james @248:
Turkey and Malaysia are not Arab countries.
Posted by: corvo | Jan 31 2020 2:02 utc | 256
Laguerre @ 192
To preface, I wish to thank you for your insights on the Middle East conflicts at MoA. What follows is a counter to your views of the protests in France.
Actually, I don’t read much of the Western mainstream press concerning the EU; however, I read the recent effusive economist article on how Jupiter (as Macron perceives himself) believes he is saving the world. Macron is nothing more than a puppet of the people who run the EU and is just following their dic(K)tats which apply to all EU countries ( see the Angola Variant).
Perhaps I do not understand what you meant by the phrase “outside the bourgeois representative system”.
First, the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) are not what you might consider bourgeois as they represent le peuple donc les vrais francais and are generally from la province et sa ruralite rather than the globalist Parisiens.
Second, I admit the so-called French representative system is rigged so that the establishment candidate always wins even though none of the above actually “won” the last French election. Marine Le Pen has already announced that she will run for President the next time (if there is one) which means that if Macron opposes here, he will be reelected. Eventually, Marion Marechal Le Pen-Auque will likely become President of France if you believe Attali.
Third, the EU is just a technocratic dictatorship run by and for an unelected elite with four unelected Presidents and one commissar. Even Junker the drunker admitted that there are no elections in the EU superstate. I do understand some of the technocratic background of the EU having been a Certified Lead Auditor for the International Standards Agency (ISO) in an earlier life.
Fourth, France would be better off without being run by a dictator (as Macron runs France by edict), or should I say Emperor, and wasting the French treasury on North African and Middle East military colonial wars. You would think that the French elite would have learned anything from the defeat at Dien Bien Phu which led to the captured Algerian Foreign Legionnaires being “reeducated” and sent back to lead the Algerian war against French occupation.
Fifth, the so-called reforms just result in a transfer of wealth to the Friends of Macron (FOM) in the banking and corporatist sectors. See Michael Hudson’s work for further elaboration on the end result of this globalist dream.
Sixth, your “Merovingian long hair” is meant as an insulting reference to France as a nation state, which is what I would expect from a EU globalist. I am surprised you didn’t reference Charles Martel who defeated the Muslim army at Poitiers in 732. Then again, his father was the Frankish statesman Pepin d’Herstal from what is now Belgium.
http://etc.ancient.eu/interviews/the-merovingians-the-lords-and-ladies-of-the-dark-ages/
Seventh, Macron is intellectually limited, has a weak grasp of French, has trouble speaking in complete sentences, and doesn’t know the cost of living of the average French. Not everyone can afford 40,000 Euros/month in beauty treatments that Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron spend.
Eight, in response to your quote about the popularity of the EU, you realize that Macron once stated that there will never be a referendum in France to exit the EU as the people would probably vote for a Frexit.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-42768466/president-macron-on-trump-brexit-and-frexit
I recognize that you support Macron and the EU dictatorship, based on your previous comments at Unz review. Given that elections are bought, I have no hope that anything less than a revolution will bring relief and sovereignty back to the French people.
As for your reference to the "black blocs” I have noted that some are from the far left anarchists groups. Having watched the French protests against Macron every week it is being shown that many are Macron security forces (e.g. BAC) or surrogates (e.g. Lieutenant Colonel Benalla’s team) whose mission was to create great violence. Benalla did not get his rank and an apartment at the Elysee Palace from military service, if you know what I mean.
To your question about my sources, I do keep up with the comments of François Asselineau who wants to trigger article 50. He is one of those who points out that the current French government is illegal since de facto the French Constitution no longer exists. See also Article 68 of the French Constitution for removal of Macron based on treason against the state of France. As an aside, Hawaii is not legally a US State as the people of the Kingdom of Hawaii rejected this in a referendum.
https://www.goodcountry.org/global-vote/elections/france/candidates/francois-asselineau/
Asselineau is not alone in proposing reforms for France as described at his website. I am sure you have read the detailed somewhat French nationalist establishment programs proposed at objectif France website http://www.objectif-france.org/
Jean-Luc Mélenchon also has interesting points from time to time but appears to be just a side-show or political theatre as he is a high level Free Mason (33rd degree) and part of the establishment rejected by the Gilets Jaunes.
Stephane Blet in Turkey and Jim Le Reveilleur in Morocco provide interesting French perspectives from the outside of France. There are many other French voices that I listen to, too many to list but you get the drift.
Apparently, I also failed to get across the point that France is not alone in collapsing, but also the whole Western civilization. In the end, it is just a matter of EROEI and neither the French, or US energy sectors can avoid the Seneca cliff when the high energy demand of globalism meets a low EROEI.
https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/
The solution is no growth sustainability at the local level. The sustainable growth myth sold by the globalists is just an oxymoron.
Posted by: krollchem | Jan 31 2020 3:19 utc | 257
@c1ue #236:
Go to amiunique.org - this is a research effort which only looks at the data available on your browser to see if your profile is unique among the billion plus entities that have accessed the web site. If your profile is unique or rare, then your actual identity doesn't really matter since any web site you visit will know it is "you" - the set of behaviors collected in a bucket associated with that unique profile.
Thanks for the link! I used to go to panopticlick.eff.org to look at the list of the latest fingerprinting properties, but they’ve altered the page design and now display only a small subset of them. amiunique.org’s list looks exhaustive, and yes, my fingerprint is unique.
For those MoA commenters who don’t understand what we’re talking about: even if you turn off cookies and use VPN to hide your IP, modern browsers provide so many tidbits of information about your computer’s hardware and software configuration to websites, that by collating all these tidbits it is often possible to distinguish individual computers, which usually means distinguishing individual users (except multi-user computers such as computers in a library).
Posted by: S | Jan 31 2020 3:24 utc | 258
@Jon_in_AU #249: But, overall, is RCV better than FPTP or not, in your opinion?
@all: This idea that “RCV is worse” is new to me. Can someone knowledgeable present some convincing arguments for it?
Posted by: S | Jan 31 2020 3:40 utc | 259
OK I apologize to my dear friend Uncle Tungsten.
Here is what's goin' down -- Uncivilized - That is war. At the moment I am a creature at war. That's just how it is. People I love will likely be caught up in the collateral damage. Great regret.
Here is my strategy --
The Ranked Ballot is structured like this:
A > B > C > D > E > .. and so on.
Then they use the very chain-of-evidence violating process of eliminating the weakest candidate.
And then editing of all of the ballots that included that weakest one to shuffle up the ones behind him or her upward.
They repeat these 'rounds' until some candidate attains 50% + 1 of the votes. And then that candidate wins. Sounds very innocent, doesn't it? just like choose-one voting.
Except historically, the commonalty turns out to have no actual power (leverage). Why settle for 50% + 1? Why not just keep on repeating eliminating the weak until you have 2/3rds plus one? Why not continue until you have 100% unanimity?
The reason why this occurs is amazingly complex -- yet it is very real. Oh, and 'proportional representation'? That has proven to be useless too.
So. We can short-circuit this dismal process very easily. Just allow the voter to decide to have his-or-her ballot counted by a Ranked Sum Vote (RSV) -- by just checking off a little box? RSV works like this:
The candidate chosen for the first rank-place gets 10 votes. The one chosen for the 2nd rank-place gets 9 votes. And so on. Any candidates at the 11th rank-place or lower get no votes at all. So very simple. Then you just add up all the votes, and the candidate with the most votes wins. (This is a very simple form of 'positional voting', not to be confused with 'Borda voting'.)
So then. All the voters who marked their ballots to be tabulated by way of the RCV method are (very eventually) given their winner. And then all of the RCV ballots are then checked to see if they granted any rank-places to the IRV winner, and that number of votes is multiplied by 10, and then added to the number of votes from people who decided to use the very simple positional voting method. Then the candidate with the most accumulated votes wind.
Eventually every voter will chose to vote via the positional method, and the IRV method will simply disappear.
krollchem @257
Fantastic info provided in your very effective rebuttal.
Thanks!
!!
Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 31 2020 7:20 utc | 261
Jackrabbit@261
Thanks for the kind feedback.
I have hope that the French people might throw out the whole corrupt French elite as they did it once before. As for the ongoing protests there is even a handy day-by-day guide so that neither the protesters or the security forces miss anything. Next month's protests are by the judges and lawyers but will fill up fast with the other professions.
https://www.cestlagreve.fr/calendrier/?mois=1&annee=2020
The alternative to revolution in France is likely mass entropy as will be the case in Amerika. The appended article proposes the end game of corporatism in Amerika and the conclusion when the game is no longer played by critical players:
"What’s really important is that law-abiding middle-class citizens are deciding that playing by the rules is nothing but a sucker’s game. Just like the poker player who’s been fleeced by all the other players, and gets one mean attitude once he finally wakes up to the con? I’m betting that more and more of the solid American middle-class will begin saying what Brian and Ilsa said: Fuckit. Fuck the rules. Fuck playing the game the banksters want you to play. Fuck being the good citizen. Fuck filling out every form, fuck paying every tax. Fuck the government, fuck the banks who own them. Fuck the free-loaders, living rent-free while we pay. Fuck the legal process, a game which only works if you’ve got the money to pay for the parasite lawyers. Fuck being a chump. Fuck being a stooge. Fuck trying to do the right thing—what good does that get you? What good is coming your way? Fuckit. When the backbone of a country starts thinking that laws and rules are not worth following, it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to anarchy."
"That gives us all of our high IQ or significant leadership potential individuals doing one of three things: hording everything, joining a gang, or donning rucksack and stalking off angrily into the woods. One way or another, everyone with the skill and the will to make Amerika America again will have rang the buzzer and checked out. Then, the collapse is unavoidable. The mass entropy, not the masses, will overthrow whatever remains of (a false) democracy in Amerika."
http://www.amerika.org/politics/tomorrows-rebellion-will-be-mass-entropy/
Posted by: Krollchem | Jan 31 2020 8:11 utc | 262
Krollchem | Jan 31 2020 8:11 utc | 262
Thanks a lot for your input today. Made my day: mass entropy.In a former period it was called nihilism.
Like a commenter in the linked source put it:
" JimmieOakland • 17 hours ago
Decades ago, a college professor was explaining what happened during the Great depression and how it effected people. It was , he said, as if all the roads in America suddenly disappeared. I heard that over 40 years ago, and the image obviously stuck with me. It appears we are at the juncture once more. If a young person asked me what path they should take today, I would have to honestly say, I have no idea. I have noticed the attitude of indifference you mention, and its effect on everyday competence. People generally do not seem to care whether they do the job correctly, because, what the hell, they will never see you again and they will soon have another job anyway. I literally do not trust anything I am told, unless I can confirm it some way. And none of it is because the person telling me is consciously lying to me. It is because they don't know and they don't want to bother finding out. Bang, meet whimper."
Posted by: Hausmeister | Jan 31 2020 10:19 utc | 263
Krollchem | Jan 31 2020 8:11 utc | 262
We at home call it chaos. Yer right.
Minding the rhyme of history one might revisit the history of San Francisco. Memory has faded but I recall that the fire houses were all volunteer and not under government control, and seized power over the city for two years...and the Governor in Sacramento sat and said nothing. The fireman arrested and kept prisoners, and hanged one, as I recall. Alas, I see nothing about this history in a quick websearch... I hope somebody here can correct and/or add to that.
It seems like a model for what happens when every official corrupt institution becomes seen as corrupt...if there's no outside force.
There was also the time the attorney general shot the US senator... 'nuther story.
Posted by: Walter | Jan 31 2020 11:10 utc | 264
I wasn't going to comment on the impeachment because it's bad for Bernie Sanders. First of all, Bernie was held hostage in the Senate over a PREDICTABLE outcome. Trump is THE CHOSEN of the Zionist Oligarchy and he was never going to be convicted and removed. Never! And if you believe otherwise; then you're delusional. Personally, I'm not for removal now, because that too would have been bad for Bernie. If Bernie wins the nomination, it would have been more difficult to beat Pence/Haley in a country of Neoliberal turncoats. ALL THIS BEING SAID THOUGH:
Welcome to Ziofascism in America, and long live its Enforcer, Trump!
Trump advocate Dershowitz basically summarized his defense as so: So long as Trump believes himself to be acting in the national interest, he can do whatever he wants.
Let me give you an analogy: You know the people who protect the Devil's child in Rosemary's Baby? You could say Dershowitz is one of them.
So what do we have here: We have a Ziofascist President who is imposing the will of Zionists. He tore up the JCPOA, reimposed the severest sanctions on Iran including its oil industry, he is targetting Iranian resistance militias in Iraq and Syria, he had the top General and future leader of Iran murdered, he is meddling in Irans's internal affairs trying to incite civil unrest and riots with the goal of regime change, he is escalating hostility to incite WAR, he handed over Jerusalem and the Golan Heights on a silver platter to Zionists, he defunded the Palestinian Authority and UNWRA, he ordered the closing of the Palestinian diplomatic mission office in Wasington, and threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court if it pursues investigations against the U.S.and Israel, he is trying to outlaw BDS and crush all resistance against Zionism, and just 2 days ago unveiled a grand scam to swindle the West Bank from Palestinians and legitimize Israeli Apartheid making it a permanent reality for Palestinians. AND HE'S NOT FINISHED ON THE ME REGION
FRONT.
Not to mention what he's up to in South America destabilizing with the goal of regime change in several countries.
Domestically, he's given Wall Street a ticket to ride, lowered taxes on his millionaire and billionaire friends, farm bankruptcies have surged to 24%, he's in Court trying to undo the rest of the Affordable Care Act, he's at war with all refugees targetting children as immigration deterrence, he's stacking the Courts with more Conservative judges than all of his predecessors and is trying to make the Supreme Court and the entire justice system irreversibly conservative for A GENERATION TO COME, AND HE'S COMPLETELY IGNORING THE ADVANCING EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
Trump is a perfect storm menace.
Now if people vote for Biden or one of the other establishment candidates like Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Bloomberg and even Warren, that's not going to change the situation much. It's going to be like using a bandaid on gangrene.
Now, I never said Bernie Sanders is perfect, but the establishment totally hate this guy who doesn't take corporate money, who is funded by the people, wants to lift them up with better wages, better and more affordable health care, affordable education, make the wealthy pay and who has a sane foreign policy, wants to cut military spending and funding to Israel and restore the JCPOA.
Sanders is up in the polls. He has all the energy and momentum right now and TPTB want to kill that momentum by any means and derail his campaign with deceptive fear-mongering and dirty tricks. DON'T LET THEM SUCCEED. SANDERS MUST WIN THE NOMINATION AND THE ELECTION. THIS IS A CRITICAL MOMENT IN HISTORY AND THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR AVERAGE PEOPLE TO TAKE BACK THEIR POWER WILL NOT COME AGAIN FOR A GENERATION AND BY THEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE; THE WORSE THAT'S COMING WILL HAVE HAPPENED.
I'm not an alarmist. I've been right on other things. Heed my warning: Sanders is the last chance for freedom to help this planet and ourselves.
Posted by: Circe | Jan 31 2020 11:14 utc | 265
The posts by Krollchem @262 and Hausmeister @263 above nicely illustrate a symptom of the death of empire that I frequently rant about (epidemic of incompetence), but instead of my simple overview they provide a look into the mechanism of the decline of competence at the rubber-meets-road (or lack of road, as the case appears to be!) level.
The above two posts provide insight into many of the issues our host raises for discussion, from Boeing airliners flying themselves into the ground, to the mighty empire's pricey war gadgets failing to intercept cheap drones manufactured by one of the poorest countries on the planet, to the corporate mass media hardly even trying to hide their efforts at disinformation, and so on. The malaise is pervasive, systemic.
Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 31 2020 11:21 utc | 266
Amongs all the vitriolic demonisation from the [[[west]]],
here's a breeze of fresh air.....
it should also be noted that this case of 2019-nCoV is curiously similar to other CoronoVirus diseases, like the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome – MERS, first found in Saudi Arabia (2012) and then it spread to other Middle Easter and Sub-Saharan African countries; and the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), first discovered in China in 2002, spread around the world but was quickly contained and caused no know infections after 2004. Both are coronaviruses, suspected having been laboratory-made, with animal trials, and the viruses transfer to humans was only possible with human assistance. Then the viruses mutated to make human-to-human infection possible. Bothe SARS and the new 2019-nCoV virus also have the particularity of affecting primarily people of the Chinese race.There are some 100-plus CIA / Pentagon sponsored clandestine and semi-known laboratories spread throughout the world – laboratories to fabricate and test agents for biological warfare. A few years ago, one such laboratory was discovered and reported on in Ukraine. They were working on a virus affecting the “Russian Race”. Since there is no homogenous Russian Race – their initial trials supposedly failed. Since the empire never gives up in its evil attempts to dominate the world, we can assume that research on race directed bio-agents continues.
This western, especially American (CIA, Pentagon, NATO) project to develop bio-chemical weapons to kill people by disease rather than bullets and bombs – it is much cheaper! And less obvious – does exist. You may draw your own conclusion on whether SARS and the new 2019-nCoV fits that pattern. The timing of the appearance was especially curious. It was first reported on 31 December 2019 in Wuhan – and then expanded into a proportion, so that it interfered with China’s most important Holiday, the Lunar New Year. It could, of course, be just coincidence.
***
One of Washington’s “low-grade” warfare models is destabilizing China (and Russia for that matter) with any means. With the objective of destabilization, China is constantly being harassed and aggressed – see Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Tibet, the tariff wars – and why not with a contagious virus, a trial for a potential pandemic?
What can be observed and even the west must notice to their chagrin and frustration – is China’s extreme resilience and capacity to adapt and resist – to resist with powerful minds and ingenuity that saves her people. And that without counter-aggression, without even an accusation and never a threat. This is China’s way forward: a steady flow of endless creation, avoiding conflict, no dominance, but seeking harmony by building bridges between people and among countries and cultures – creating understanding and wellbeing, towards a multi-polar world. A model for mankind? – If only the west would open its eyes and wake up.
China survived the TAM caper, the SARS attack, can the Chinese do it this time ?
Breaking....
WHO has declared this a Global pandemic crisis.
just one step away from a quarantine order., which'd require mandatory ban on trade and travel.
That'd be [[[their]]]
Global Chinese Exclusion Act
wet dream come true.
Guess 'who' has already issued travel restriction on China ???
Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2020 11:45 utc | 268
Chipmaker SK Hynix posts 95% Q4 profit plunge
Very bad news for the Asian Paper Tiger.
And there's more:
Industrial output growth hits record-low in 2019
In an act of desperation, South Korea is now trying to make Seul the next global financial hub.
Some weeks ago, South Korean people complained about Harry Harris' moustache. The second most powerful man in the USA, rabid Chicom and with the means and will to kill hundreds of millions of people (of Chinese people) and the South Koreans are complaining about his mustache.
This episode encapsulates South Korea: a fake, holographic capitalist chimera, an artificial nation which sold itself to the American and Japanese elites, a mindless mass of procapitalist zombies; a failed capitalist lab experiment.
denk | Jan 31 2020 11:45 utc | 268
to add to yours:
phase one> REPORT
OF THE
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMISSION
FOR THE
INVESTIGATION OF THE FACTS CONCERNING
BACTERIAL WARFARE IN KOREA AND CHINA
Phase two> Over 100 Biotech Labs Refuse To Divulge Operations Having Germ Warfare Potential @ opednews long ago...
Posted by: Walter | Jan 31 2020 12:14 utc | 270
In an entirely different matter...the matter of political manipulation of truth and belief, and sponsored iconoclasm for political gain. In such a matter we see this
"The 1619 Project, according to its architect Nikole Hannah-Jones, aims to “reframe” all of American history as a story of “anti-black racism” rooted in a “national DNA,” which, it claims, emerged out of the allegedly unique American “original sin” of slavery. "
I know nothing much about this. It seems to an application of schismogenesis technique. WSWS and NYT and AHR are all involved...
Many here are better educated than I, and better informed. Can they hold forth on the matter, please? It's a weak spot for old Wally.
Posted by: Walter | Jan 31 2020 12:28 utc | 271
I believe it was "A User" who astutely commented that this board consists chiefly of a few over-read old men actively crowding out other viewpoints (his point I believe a paucity of females). To this I will add, over-read old men signifying nothing as the future, male or female, is not represented here.
This is pseudo-intellectual time wasting for the pensioned men's club in our drear years. So Jackrabbit the fact that your views are consistently obtuse, conspiratoid-drenched, while making a major point of inaccurately depicting Bernie which results in the beneficial maintenance and furtherance of Bourgeois Empire, renders your obscurantist criticism of my supposed Empire POV irrelevant.
A vote for the Pirate Party is a vote against the working class and a non-counter to a vote for the fascist GOP. Imploring other old men to ignore voting and form a "movement"?
Maybe you are being paid to push Milk of Magnesia?
It seems quite fitting that the most passionate, vibrant and clear-eyed political articulation comes from Circe (by far), who is one of the few females and also one of the few who hasn't wholly succumbed to the Russian propaganda-fed prevailing zeitgeist pushed incessantly by the few over-read old men.
Posted by: donkeytale | Jan 31 2020 13:07 utc | 272
donkeytale | Jan 31 2020 13:07 utc | 272
Thanks for sharing. You bring Wally joy, as you tell us all about your demons. I hope you feel better.
Posted by: Walter | Jan 31 2020 13:43 utc | 273
Walter @271: 1619 project. Well, it more divide and rule for sure, a provocation, but I'll bet they want money too ... For a lot of people these sort of "movements" are a business plan. AHR has noticeably gone full tilt "resistance" lately, following Amnesty.
I've run into 1619 a few times in my wandering, but not really interested, and I don't get the impression a lot of other people are interested either, but then to be fair I have not paid attention to it, so my opinion isn't worth much.
The idea I support, I would give a lot more support to our "First Nations", like what they ask for, not what we want to give them, they have a lot to teach if we were willing to listen, a lot to contribute.
Posted by: Bemildred | Jan 31 2020 14:02 utc | 274
@Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 31 2020 11:21 utc | 266
The problem with those two posts you so much remark even in bold, precisely, is that they are promoting a far-right sitem ideas, and project of society...if you took the time to test...I find it strange that you who, now along with karlof1, are promoting a candidate like Sanders, find something in common with these people who promotes a kind of classist ( well, they call for a "castes" society, to be exact...)unsolidary society like this one...
We call for an “ultra Right” whose founding principle is the idea of zero tolerance for Leftism and its associated ideas (feminism, egalitarianism, pluralism, diversity) as well as its root (individualism). We do this by asserting ends-over-means thinking where there must always be a purpose and principles to our existence, and we achieve those however we have to, which devalues our individualistic sentiments to the non sequitur they are.
Well, read the whole thing since it is the Nazi manifesto all the way, elitism, hierarchy, end of diveristy, and end of welfare state, only charity for temporary disability ( one wonders what they plan to do with the permanently disabled...better not to ask...)
I was finding quite strange that you along with karlof1 were now promoting Sanders, when you previously, although not clearly but thorugh retorting ideas, were exculpating, and thus promoting, Trump from anhy of his deeds, as not being of his own volition but product of pressure of the "deep state"...
As this Hausmeister, who I knew here from the days around the past 2016 election, came in here suddenly in force by attacking me frontally, as a result of which, as I responded, I resulted banned ( may be since I qualified him and others whith whom I had never had any interchange suddenly ponting at me as German "anti-communist front", which they now unveil all the way being...), it seems to me this site is "redesigning/reagrouping/make a cleaning" so as to get those clearly leftist from here in the verge of the US election, when you will go totally pro-Trump...Notice how any allegedly leftist remaining here has said a word agsint this promotion of the far-right ideas here...passing by, commenting below, as if nothing would have happening...
To that goal, you need to disguise yourselves as "kinda" leftist site/cmmenters, so as to attract masses of gullible working/middle class people, to then introduce, by retorting leftist ideas, your real ideology. In this operation you can not allow the presence of real left here, all the more when it is awaken, well informed people who even in its bad English, can articulate a good defense of the ideas of the left and debunk your contradictory stance.
Any real leftist would any time promote a site such Amerika under any twist of imagination, since all their manifesto is a huge crap of elitism, racism ( attention to the self-awarded high IQ..oh wait, mate...), unequality and absence of solidarity which is contrary to human nature, they so much affirm to follow.
It is precisely that ideology which have brought us to this point, on the verge of a new world conflagration ( as they have always brought us through hsitory..) finishing in a Trump WH they so much have promoted and still promote, thus it is really difficult this is the same people who will provide the solutions, since they have demostrated they are great part of the problem.
Posted by: Sasha | Jan 31 2020 14:29 utc | 275
Wally, my pleasure. Always glad to help my fellow seniour citizens in the enjoyment of our declining years...
Posted by: donkeytale | Jan 31 2020 14:36 utc | 276
Eurozone and EU GDP both only rose by 0.1% in October-December, down from 0.3% in July-September, dragged down by Italy (-0.3%) and France (-0.1%).
A sad end to an awful experiment.
Sasha | Jan 31 2020 14:29 utc | 275
When will you run out of confusion? If you have been blocked or not I do not know. I question that you would check it. And my guess is that it is more likely that you mistake it with some purely technical problem. I do not like the atmosphere, the "melody", of your comments. For me pure hysteria.
Posted by: Hausmeister | Jan 31 2020 14:38 utc | 278
walter 270
In spite in a number of signals that the Trump administration has made over the months to indicate that it is prepared to try to take China down alone, the better part of American policymakers have been hard at work behind the scenes, trying to put together a slapdash coalition against Beijing. It’s rather curious that certain American media sources are not even trying to conceal this fact from the general public.That’s where the largest Anglo-Saxon intelligence coalition in existence, comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States comes into play. The anti-Chinese efforts of this coalition known as the Five Eyes (FVEY) has recently been joined by Germany, Japan and France that want to oppose Chinese investments into various regions of the world.
https://journal-neo.org/2018/12/10/anglo-saxon-eyes-are-fixed-on-countering-china/
I heard lots of whitey yapping about the necessity of a new Chinese exclusion Act to keep out the Chinese.
These clowns are behind the curve, what do they think Trump has been doing since his 'election' ?
A veritable Global Chinese Exclusion Act no less !
Trying to kill off ZTE, Huawei, on 'national security' concern, what a crock !
How the fuck does Chinese infrastructure proj in bangladesh threaten fukus 'security' ?
Bangladesh has become the focus for increasing geo-political rivalry between China, India and Japan—the latter two backed by the US. Over the past two months, Chinese investment bids in Bangladesh reportedly have been outflanked by Indian and Japanese corporations over port and power plant projects.China had carried out extensive feasibility assessments and agreed to provide 99 percent of funds to build Sonadia
Bangladesh’s planning minister, A.H.M. Mustafa Kamal, however, later admitted that the port deal would not proceed because “some countries, including India and the United States, are against the Chinese involvement.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/03/05/bang-m05.html
Japanese investment in a new deep-water port at Matarbarhi Island on the southeast coast of Bangladesh highlights increasing geo-political rivalry fuelled by the United States and its allies as part of Washington’s “pivot to Asia.” The $US3.66 billion project cuts across a long-standing Chinese offer to build deep-water port facilities at Sonadia, only 25 kilometres from Matarbarhi.
While the Bangladesh government insists that the Sonadia project has not been cancelled it has recently claimed that there were environmental concerns about port facilities at this location. The real reason, though, is opposition from the US and India to Chinese investment in Bangladesh ports. Speaking with the Dhaka Tribune in January, Bangladesh Planning Minister A.H.M. Mustafa Kamal said that “some countries, including India and the United States, are against the Chinese involvement” in the project.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/07/22/bang-j22.html
All these talk about 'national security' and 'reducing trade deficit' are pure B.S., cover for economic warfare to take down a peer competitor.
IN the eighties, Jp was the competitor threatening to overtake fukus preminent position.
uncle sham told Tokyo, 'appreciate your yen, or else' !, what could Jp the poodle do but comply in the Plaza accord and the rest is history.
China is a sovereign country, it refuse to take order from Washington to shoot itself in the foot.
Hence the incessant overt and covert wars on China since 1949.
Inspite of this, China not only survived but getting from strength to strength, threatening US position just like Jp did in the 80's.
[[[They]]] are getting desperate, hence the assaults are coming fast and furious in multiple directions and domain.
The mask is off, the gloves are removed, no more pretensions and no need for stealth , its open warfare from now on.
Posted by: denk | Jan 31 2020 14:42 utc | 279
Donkeytale does a short life (somewhere between 25 and 32) followed by a reincarnation and then a short childhood make "someone I know" young, old, or plain crazy? :D
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 31 2020 14:45 utc | 280
donkeytale @272
Thanks for the opportunity to explain what makes the comments at moa so special.
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... a few over-read old men ... signifying nothing as the future, male or female, is not represented here.
Sometimes we get thankful messages from younger people. Maybe you've missed those.
It's the older people that have the time, the knowledge, and the historical perspective. They do a public service by sharing that with the world.
I applaud everyone that selflessly gives their time in the spirit of making the world a better place. To me, you are all heros (even when I disagree with you).
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pseudo-intellectual time wasting
And what is Main Stream Media?
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your views are consistently obtuse, conspiratoid-drenched
My views are not hopium for mass consumption. It's the establishment that pushes happy-talk and misdirection.
Everyone here has an opportunity to describe their views and defend them.
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inaccurately depicting Bernie
What I've written about Bernie is factual. My main beef is with the duopoly and Zionist establishment that wastes resources as they pursue foreign adventures.
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Russian propaganda-fed prevailing zeitgeist
You pretending to be against the establishment as you use McCarthyist smears to stomp on discontent. LOL.
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A vote for the Pirate Party is a vote against the working class and a non-counter
I promote direct democracy options like Pirate Party because it's something that everyone, left and right, can agree on. It is about principle. But I also urge people to form and join Movements.
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fitting that the most passionate, vibrant and clear-eyed political articulation comes from Circe (by far)
TDS is not really "clear-eyed". Those who depict Trump as THE PROBLEM led us away from the real problems. Trump is a symptom - just like prior Presidents like Obama.
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[Circe] ... is one of the few females
I don't know that the person writing as Circe is actually female.
Using the handle of 'Circe' is a strange choice as it's the name of a mythical creature that led men to their doom.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 31 2020 14:56 utc | 281
I do not like the atmosphere, the "melody", of your comments. For me pure hysteria.
Posted by: Hausmeister | Jan 31 2020 14:38 utc | 278
No wonder, when you are an "alt-right" guy....e are at odds. as we have been through all history of planet Earth...you do not concieve we the left can coexist with you and thus we feel the same, call it sense of preservation. As I told you, I do not recall any meaningful by you, histerical or whatever, unless this now promotion of the "Amerika" site.
Not a techincal problem, I usually use the VPN option provided for some time a day by my antivirus, to avoide tracking by sites which do it and I do not want them to do with me, like SST ( which, btw, holds the same ideology than you on hierarchies and elites...).and without it I am no more able to comment here, thus, it is my IP which has been banned.
You probably have more data than me as hausmeister here...
Posted by: Sasha | Jan 31 2020 15:04 utc | 282
Anthropologists and sociologists and boffins aligned with such matters ask, sometimes, why people get old, and what is the advantage, if any, to an Nth group to having old people, more females than males, but representative nevertheless.
I can tell stories I heard from people who were married with children when the Wright's were building kites. From men who were in Cuba during the War with Spain. Who did field amputations in the trenches in W1. About old New York. About slavery, and the Civil War and being a POW in Libby prison. And about running a stage on the Ohio River to smuggle escaped slaves. About buying their freedom for them.
So can, similarly, most old people. We are the historians the the ones who pass wisdom, morality, judgement to the grand and great grand children we care for.
Of course there's other reasons too.
"Listen to your grandmother and pay attention" is good advice. Woe to the family without a resident historian.
I hope that's good enough to please.
Posted by: Walter | Jan 31 2020 15:24 utc | 283
Sasha | Jan 31 2020 15:04 utc | 282
"No wonder, when you are an "alt-right" guy..."
This is what I meant with confusion. Start with reading first. This done you can start to evaluate the context: "...unless this now promotion of the "Amerika" site."
No, I do not claim that you must excuse yourself for your idiocies.
Posted by: Hausmeister | Jan 31 2020 15:40 utc | 284
@ 256 corvo... thanks for pointing that out...here is a page explaining the differences between arab and muslim.. it is fairly subtle..
Posted by: james | Jan 31 2020 17:30 utc | 285
@Jackrabbit #247
Karlof1 considers anyone who disagrees with him, to be a troll.
He also has advocated, many times, that B actively moderate out said opposing/divergent views.
In this respect, he is a classic liberal: run home to mommy when faced with disagreement.
I wouldn't worry too much about it.
One of the greatest strengths of MoA, besides B's work, is the ability to express views - whatever they might be.
I personally don't agree with significant portions of what you say, but they're worth listening to and worthy, as free speech, to exist and be published.
Posted by: c1ue | Jan 31 2020 17:47 utc | 286
Sasha might be thinking of me. I used to be alt-right in the original sense before I saw what the US did with the term during their final election, bending it over backwards and breaking it.
Originally (in Europe) alt-right appeared due to the dissatisfaction of non-socialists like me with the political parties on the right on many different issues and a drive against dogmatic or ideological stances and appreciation for some of the left including some of the radical left on some issues but at the same time continued distance from their dogmas and ideologies.
For me the partial destruction of the alt-right in Europe (and the complete destruction in the US) was the final lesson needed about how all ideology is an invitation to corruption.
Now alt-right is in general nothing much except a quite tepid derogatory term (after all anyone "alt-right" was very used to decades of being called racist, fascist, nazi, and so on) available for perhaps simpler people with no interest in understanding it or what happened but at least it continues to waste a little bit more US resources and attention, this time from the right; because we're still around, still in opposition, and still a potential worry or mystery they struggle to understand (at least that's what my own experiences tell me when I for example manage to freak out the guards simply by walking past their embassy, a story I'll skip but which ties into their surveillance set-up "around here").
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 31 2020 18:07 utc | 287
(Unintentionally I should add to avoid any misunderstanding, which is why it strikes me as funny despite the look of terror on the guard's face.)
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 31 2020 18:11 utc | 288
Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 31 2020 18:07 utc | 287
„I used to be alt-right in the original sense...“
Then you may be the right person to explain to a foreigner how it can be that a politician who feeds on alt-right support is the very one that gave the Zionists more than any other US president? Social media are full of Anti-Zionist and often enough anti-semitic (against Jews) rants. How can this guy hope to keep the support of those people? Viewed from outside it is close to a mystery.
Posted by: Hausmeister | Jan 31 2020 18:48 utc | 289
Sunny
Donkeytale does a short life (somewhere between 25 and 32) followed by a reincarnation and then a short childhood make "someone I know" young, old, or plain crazy? :D
Swami Donekeynanda sayeth unto you:
So long as (s)he's over 18 years of age in the present carnation you are free to twine both your fleshes as one. Go forth and multiply, my children.
For same sex couples alternative methods of multiplication may be required, see back of the cereal box for d-tales. Your mileage may vary. Not available in all states of being.
"Swami Donkeynanda" is a registered persona of donkeytale, An Historic Troll Since 2004 Enterprises, LLC.
All rights reserved, along with the overwhelming majourity wrongs.
Posted by: donkeytale | Jan 31 2020 19:21 utc | 290
Sasha@275
After protesting the wars for the last 50 years, I have learned that the old left has been shoved into a corner or co-opted by the roller-ball corporatist/financial looters. At some point you have to realize that the US system cannot be saved and try to make the best of a bad situation by insulating yourself from the idiots. For the masses of little people in Amerika the Super Bowl gets more attention than illegal wars and ecosystem collapse.
Please consider reading the following:
Chris Hedges On The End Of Empire: "The Death Spiral Appears Unstoppable"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-03/chris-hedges-end-empire-death-spiral-appears-unstoppable
Posted by: krollchem | Jan 31 2020 20:05 utc | 291
Krollchem 257, Idk about rebutting Laguerre because I never paid much attention to those posts, whatever. Yours is v. good though.
Just to add some snippets from my pov. Macron of course is just there to favor the neo-liberal ‘circuit’ - which got him elected and keeps him in power, an extremely precarious position, as a servant of a certain narrow class is…ejectable. (hopefully, and will happen at some point.)
Marine le Pen would not accept the Prez. seat if you put a gun to her head.
(She, and her father before her, are there to provide a ‘populist’ drain for votes that are against both the F Socialists and ‘Repubs’ who change names, so that one of the two ‘main’ parties would always be in power. This was organised by Mitterand. -> for readers who know nothing about F.)
Macron is more powerless than Sarkozy (or others before him) - Hollande was a dopey placeholder (see terrorist attacks, other story.. complex..!) - Macron is limited to obeying EU dictacts, laws, etc., the big corps and cos. (aka shareholders, banksters, etc.) along the neo-lib line, he has little margin for manouver, or can’t imagine what actions he might take, as he is a dope, a minor figure hoisted into a front-man position. The opposition (Gilets Jaunes, etc.) is not backing down…
Mélenchon I wouldn’t count on too much. There for the ride..
Ugo Bardi at ‘Cassandra..’ (linked by Krollchem) is well-know and much appreciated in Italy and Switz. Here link again - posts in Eng.
https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com
Macron converted to Catholicism at the age of 12, his parents did not oppose. All I mean by this is that he set out on his own way to join ‘powers’.
https://files.newsnetz.ch/story/1/1/6/11600537/1/topelement.jpg
this photo is cropped, avoids showing the church, the candles all around etc. (could not find the original.)
Posted by: Noirette | Jan 31 2020 20:42 utc | 292
Swami Donkeynanda - much better user name... i would go with it!
Posted by: james | Jan 31 2020 21:24 utc | 293
Noirette@292
Thanks. You summed up the French political class very well. They all go to the same elite schools and when they graduate they get to parachute into a high position.
As an aside, you may enjoy this analysis of Macron's government and his poor French language skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=tFOYb0c-ezE&feature=emb_logo
Posted by: Krollchem | Jan 31 2020 21:40 utc | 294
@281Jackrabbit
Let me tell you, not only do you hate it when anyone compliments my commentary, you are CLUELESS about everything else you wrote there. I seek truth and passionately defend it. You?
Your comments are laden with repetitve, bordering on spam theory, and mostly ridiculous conspiracy theory, especially about Sanders. You attack Sanders irrationally, disproportionately; while I attack Trump for exactly what he is: a dangerous pathologically deceptive Ziofascist, and I saw through him from day one.
I agreed with you that Hillary stepped aside from Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania to let Trump win, and you agreed with me MONTHS later when it became obvious that Trump was a Zionist plant, chosen, whatever, and the result of more deep state machination.
We disagree on Sanders and 75% of every cynical thing you write and your cynicism is irrational to the point of leading you down the conspiracy/distraction rabbit hole and taking too many with you.
You know, sometimes I suspect you never really stopped supporting Trump.
Posted by: Circe | Jan 31 2020 21:40 utc | 295
Sasha @275
Thanks for your effort to explain. I must ask, though, are you of the opinion that fascists and the far right are 100% wrong all of the time in everything they believe or espouse? If they make a claim, then you must force yourself to believe the opposite? Is it just a perverse attraction to being wrong and being evil that attracts people to right wing ideas?
Political discourse would be so much simpler if that were true, and perhaps you are attracted to that simplicity, but I do not see it as being realistic. I've known many Japanese, Germans, and Italians; people from cultures that chose to support fascism. Oddly, I've never met a single evil person from any of those countries, and the very dumbest have certainly not been exceptional in that characteristic. On the contrary, people from those places have impressed me with their decency, humanity, and intelligence.
So what happened to all of the ones who backed fascism? Did all of the stupid and evil ones die? More importantly, America is right now going fascist just like those countries did. While I often rail about Americans being willfully ignorant and increasingly intellectually, emotionally, and morally enfeebled, we should consider if that is just the nature of Americans or if there is a process that we can understand taking place that is causing it.
To start to understand this change one needs to accept that there are elements of truth within the beliefs of the far right. They are not 100% wrong. There really are a disproportionate number of Jews among the empire's oligarchs. There really is a serious problem with violence in America's Black population. Large scale immigration really does exert downward pressure on wages. Issues like these and more that the right is concerned with are painfully evident to anyone not carefully cultivating denial. Crucially, it is the denial on the part of the faux left of these issues that allows capitalist narrative spinners to leverage them to keep the population divided, and as the economy moves into crisis this division will manifest as fascism.
In a very real sense it is the failure of the left to address these issues from within the context of class struggle that alienates large segments of the population and drives them towards fascism. How does this work? Let me provide an example:
When I last returned to America from abroad I chose to live in the depths of Redneckistan where I hoped as a teacher to help steer disadvantaged kids towards rewarding lives. The futility and naivete of that choice is the subject for another post. In this post I would like to note that the ethnically mixed city I live in currently experiences roughly one home invader being shot to death by the homeowner every other month. In the overwhelming number of cases the homeowner is ethnically white (whatever that means) or of Latin American heritage, and the home invader is Black. Occasionally the home invader gets a shot off before the homeowner and the homeowner is killed, but more often it is the invader who dies since the homeowner has the advantage of being familiar with the layout of his or her own home.
The faux left, from their gated communities, argue that this trend is a clear indication of racism and that the solution is to disarm the homeowners. The people who have to live with the terrifying potential of waking up to some asshole breaking into their homes on any given night cannot afford to foster such a delusion. By not only denying the concerns of these homeowners but also vilifying them for defending themselves and their homes, the faux left (Democrats and Social Democrats) drives them away and towards the right.
The real left acknowledges that these working class homeowners have a legitimate concern, and that they have the right to self defense. Instead of trying to convince them that their concern isn't real and is just an indication that they are evil racists like the faux left does, the real left will explain to the concerned working class homeowners that the criminals' behavior is the result of them being declassed, that is workers who have fallen out of the working class due to lack of opportunity for productive engagement with the economy and who have thus become lumpenproletariat. With this understanding the concerned homeowners can then be convinced that the solution is not to round up the threatening individuals into camps, but to work towards reorganizing society in a way that these individuals have a productive alternative to crime.
Lacking that explanation and a realistic plan to address the problem from a class perspective, these concerned homeowners will naturally align behind the next best suggestion, which is to aggressively collect and detain these declassed individuals away from their neighborhoods. The delusions of the faux left are thus directly responsible for the rise of the far right.
The key point raised above by Krollchem @262 and Hausmeister @263 (bolded simply so that the posters can see at a glance that I am referring to them and not for some other nefarious purpose) does not conflict with Marxist analysis. It is merely a way to describe what Marx referred to as "alienation". I assume the real left will know what that means and be able to figure out the connection. Perhaps the two really are jackbooted Nazis, but in this instance they are absolutely correct.
Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 31 2020 22:46 utc | 296
b is pretty easy going.. i can't believe you are banned!
Posted by: james | Jan 31 2020 23:07 utc | 297
Postato da: William Gruff | 31 gen 2020 22:46 utc | 296
You hit the real problem of the false left which is the culprit of sovranism spread..the best post I read so far on this topic.
Posted by: LuBa | Jan 31 2020 23:14 utc | 298
It is good to be able to share here at the bar. The bursts of outrage tempered with humor sometimes. Lost amidst Alt-Right or Alt-Reich, faux populists and NPR Liberals,--- we are slipping and stumbling as we move along in the American Zone. The day of reckoning or the moment of catharsis. It's hard to know what lies ahead.
There are still brilliant offerings by the better people in this country. I'd like to recommend a new book to the barflies--the latest by CAROLYN FORCHÉ, one of our best poets-- a memoir of some months she spent in El Salvador during the bad days, it seems long ago, when the war was about to turn nasty down there:
What You Have Heard Is True
is this an example of usa going after airbus because their product is clearly better??
U.S. Department of State Concludes $10 Million Settlement of Alleged Export Violations by Airbus SE
i can never understand this ideology of - make a law in the usa - and make it apply to everyone globally... sounds like a world dictatorship to me... what has that got to do with freedumb and dumbocraccy???
Posted by: james | Jan 31 2020 23:45 utc | 300
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i will tell a story to you MoA posters , once upon a time when the alliance saw Erdogan was planning to make peace with Russia and Syria , they launched a coup to kill him. Whole MSM spreading rumor of Erdogan fleeing to germany or seeking asylum in EU.. Then truth emerges revealing ergodan safe and still in power.
A poster in MoA lets call him J.R. continuiusly posting (as if his life depend on the number of his posts) that the whole coup was staged by erdogan. He did it repeatedly even into MoA articles NOT discussing turkey/erdogan. Constantly spreading the narrative of “erdogan did it to himself” routine for months..
and if you all MoA posters also notice , this J.R. also pretend to the the “resistance” but keep sliding in MSM narrative as if he is innocent bystander parroting and pretend to be clueless..
Experienced people should note that Theres many type of Astroturfing method , most of them use tag team style to bully people and critical posters , that dont work in MOA.. If astroturfer go straight posting narrative they will get made here in MoA. Remember the first MAX fiacso post on MoA ? suddenly theres unknown “im a pilot , boeing is best” fake pilots surge in comment section..
Back to J.R , he is in high probability a highly paid hasbara who tasked with MoA and push lies and narrative slow and in creative way to sway posters here.. Alas MOA posters are hard audience , a magiican pulling a RABBIT from his hat would be instantly laughed at by MOA Audience..
Thanks all to B, James , Karlof , Bubbles , Chantama , and many posters who keep MoA comment section policed..
PS : with regards to Col Lang from SST who got scared of user’s comment , relax everyone he is in the stage of cognitive dissonance of his failing Us exceptional nation and the shadow of his past now coming for him in his old age..
Posted by: milomilo | Jan 30 2020 12:19 utc | 201