Isn’t it interesting how after every falseflag-style event, we are invariably treated to a series of mountingly draconian restrictions which end up never being removed, even long after the inciting threat has been dispelled and no longer exists? The Patriot Act clamp-downs which ushered in an era of privacy invasion, including unleashing an unhinged TSA onto unsuspecting Americans, capable of violating them physically in the most sacrosanct ways possible, were never repealed, but rather continue to be renewed each year, despite the fact that ‘Al-Qaeda’ has long ostensibly ceased to exist as a coherent organization. It’s a simple axiomatic fact that power only takes, it never gives—or particularly—gives
I live in a pretty Jewish neighborhood in Florida and twice a year, around Christmas and Easter, I get mini books - you could say pamphlets - in the mail evangelizing to Jews about Jesus, usually accompanied with a story of Jewish converts to Christianity.
You only confirm my never starting with FB or any other social media or most chart rooms. Slack is compromised? Hardly surprising yet disappointing, for among whom I sub on Patron is Tom Luongo (HIGHLY recommended!), who has an active private Slack community. I haven't spent much time there, for I only have so much rabbit-hole mental bandwidth, but once again you make me glad I haven't dwelled there much. Of course, the spooks are probably sifting through here to, the evil bastards! Brilliant work thanks for thinking as always!
This is why I thought the "Tik Tok hearings" were particularly absurd. IIRC, in the past year they even had an active duty Army intelligence officer on staff (I think it was an article on Mint Press News). Tik Tok is as full of spooks/intel/LEOs as every other platform. I think those hearings were a dog and pony show to spew anti-China propaganda and possibly obfuscate just how many "ex" US govt officials were on staff. They aren't going to give up a platform with that kind of reach. And yes, using the China "threat" to come up with new legislation to restrict civil liberties. Ban Tik Tok?? But the public just can't do without Tik Tok! Oh, the horror! Pretty smart play from the creeps in D.C. It also goes back to a post you made recently on your other blog - about how uninformed our elected officials seem to be about...well, everything. I also think this is true to a large extent. Probably a majority of them at the Tik Tok hearings have no idea we have people working there - but a few probably did and played along. Its about as real as reality TV, lol.
Personally, I've thought for a while that DeSantis is the usual establishment hawk type - but signing state legislation in another country - especially regarding 1st Amendment rights is WAY out there. I'm not sure what is worse; his being a JAG at Guantanamo Bay or this stunt. Hard pass.
As far as all of these supposed "ex" Fibbies (or as we called them years ago Famous But Incompetent), spooks, or security blob types in social media/corporate hierarchy....I'm betting they're actually double-dipping too, just like the Army intel officer at Tik Tok. They aren't ex-anything. Spreading the wealth amongst the rank and file - pretty neat way to keep the plebs in line and the statists loyal.
As far as the political establishment using social media to influence, suppress or spy on citizens to influence politics or elections, Curtis Yarvin said it best: "they cheated fair and square". I hold "influencers", celebrities, think-tankers, ex-military MIC salesmen and other such types in the same regard I hold tobacco executives and bankers. Doesn't work with me, but I wouldn't trust anyone in D.C. enough to follow them out of a burning building, let alone vote for them to have power over me.
When I signed up to your other blog, somehow I was also given access to this one too. I'm not sure that was supposed to happen, but thanks.
"To such people—to such interests—the momentary whims of contemporary laws and governance, such as those of free speech and expression, are nothing more than trifles to be brushed aside, or waited out like yellowing leaves on an autumnal tree. And our question, as a society, remains: how to design governance systems which can oppose such trans-generational interests?"
That's the question. That right there is the big question.
Because if we can't govern ourselves, we will be governed by others.
Rather terrifying to consider that we might be moving into the Internet lockdown, after what we've already been through. Is this heavy-handedness not a sign of weakness and insecurity on their part, though?
As to the TikTok influencers ... much of it is also blunt and therefore cringe, as commie agitprop usually is. Is it really effective? Or do the kids roll their eyes at it?
I have been going grey for a decade, or longer, figuratively and literally. Anytime I hear, see, read… the word democracy, I become ill. Figuratively and literally. Grateful I prefer my own company and a few chosen mutts. My days are numbered, God will guide. ❤️🔥❤️
The evidence you give here certainly fits a dark future, unless we come up with a way to counter act incredible subversive tactics and strategies designed remove all individual freedom and rights and enslave us. As one commentator pointed out, unless we can govern ourselves better, we will be governed. Until reading this, I mistakenly thought DeSantis was on the good side, but now awakened to him as just another frontman marching to dark overlords. This story is actually quite frightening about how many people have joined the gravy train to hell, leaving no stone unturned. Increasingly hard to know who to trust. Is there anyone who can lead us out of this mess? The problem is that they arrest anyone who threatens the oligarch’s Satanist agenda. Part of any solution, is to stay informed and maintain a high vibration of consciousness.
Re: Florida, I strongly suggest reading substacker Atty Jeff Childers' take on it & reading the actual law, which he links to.
It's about trespassing, harassing & threatening based on ethnicity &/or religion.
I'd say it shouldn't be limited to ethnicity or religion. I've had a neighbor dump 5 large bags of trash on my property. They *should* have been made to clean it up. I've had a neighbor deliberately shine klieg lights at my house all night fir months. (I never complained, but her husband apologized profusely). I've had a neighbor & her 6 brats stand in their front yard & scream "You're a loser!You're a loser! You're a loser!" over & over while walking my dog . A member of this same family tried to run over my dogs in my driveway years ago, & yes, I felt very threatened by their behavior. They nearly killed my boys once for no reason. Who knows what they'd pull next.
I've never done a thing to harm any of these or any other neighbors or anyone else.
Haters are gonna hate, but I should be able to walk my dogs in peace & l should
Hey, did you even watch that Peraton video? Go to minute 1:20 and it says "Do the can't be done" not just once but three times. WTF? Also, the CEO Matt McQueen looks like he's too dumb to even tie his shoes, and Peraton itself seems to be operating out of an abandoned warehouse LOL
Also, I know you don't speak Portuguese, but there was a hilarious "epic fail" in Brazil this week when they called for a vote in Congress on the new censorship bill. As the "no" votes started surging over the "yes" votes, they literally had to invoke an obscure parliamentary rule (supposedly, probably was illegal) to SHUT DOWN the vote and table the bill for later.
Anyway, as to the larger point, total control over a complex system always fails. It failed during the Nazis. It failed during the reign of the Stasi in E. Germany. It failed in the Soviet Union. It's also failing big-time in North Korea. The unauthorized truth will always get out.
What IS working, unfortunately, is the obliteration of the common people's ability to understand civics or how democracy and governance is supposed to work. The report I saw this week said only 16% of American students are "proficient" in such basic concepts as the balance of powers between the judiciary, executive, and legislative branches.
Cynical old me thinks: why not regard the demand for more monitoring of social media as a welcome 'work creation programme'? Once 70% of Americans are monitoring the other 30% (that's my guesstimate!) the USA will finally have become like, e.g. the former DDR where nearly everybody was 'employed' by the Stasi, leading to a lovely new slogan (h/t the former DDR): 'to learn from the enemy is to learn how to win'.
Where things become really frightening is when those monitoring entities will use AI to construct evidence of hate speech, with all the legal consequences.
Frankly, Huxley's 'Brave New World' somehow becomes suddenly preferable ...
The fact is, the more they try to control, the more people will find ways to push back. Simple physics. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The obvious (?) takeaway ... someone's feelings get hurt by something they see/hear on media so we must remove that media channel from public viewing (at least if it goes against the woke agenda).
Great read as always but I must admit I never read Dark Futura before the CW article listed on both. I am not sure why I hadn’t. Thinking I suspected it might be something to do with sci-fi or something. I will not make that mistake again moving forward.
Can someone please tell me the dummy version of the characteristics between Sim’s 2 main blogs?
You know what’s interesting?
I live in a pretty Jewish neighborhood in Florida and twice a year, around Christmas and Easter, I get mini books - you could say pamphlets - in the mail evangelizing to Jews about Jesus, usually accompanied with a story of Jewish converts to Christianity.
I wonder if this is now considered “hate speech"?
I notice that all news articles starting with "fact check:" are all fake.
You only confirm my never starting with FB or any other social media or most chart rooms. Slack is compromised? Hardly surprising yet disappointing, for among whom I sub on Patron is Tom Luongo (HIGHLY recommended!), who has an active private Slack community. I haven't spent much time there, for I only have so much rabbit-hole mental bandwidth, but once again you make me glad I haven't dwelled there much. Of course, the spooks are probably sifting through here to, the evil bastards! Brilliant work thanks for thinking as always!
It sucks to be white, and on the right (as opposed to the left). Anything to shut us up.
This is why I thought the "Tik Tok hearings" were particularly absurd. IIRC, in the past year they even had an active duty Army intelligence officer on staff (I think it was an article on Mint Press News). Tik Tok is as full of spooks/intel/LEOs as every other platform. I think those hearings were a dog and pony show to spew anti-China propaganda and possibly obfuscate just how many "ex" US govt officials were on staff. They aren't going to give up a platform with that kind of reach. And yes, using the China "threat" to come up with new legislation to restrict civil liberties. Ban Tik Tok?? But the public just can't do without Tik Tok! Oh, the horror! Pretty smart play from the creeps in D.C. It also goes back to a post you made recently on your other blog - about how uninformed our elected officials seem to be about...well, everything. I also think this is true to a large extent. Probably a majority of them at the Tik Tok hearings have no idea we have people working there - but a few probably did and played along. Its about as real as reality TV, lol.
Personally, I've thought for a while that DeSantis is the usual establishment hawk type - but signing state legislation in another country - especially regarding 1st Amendment rights is WAY out there. I'm not sure what is worse; his being a JAG at Guantanamo Bay or this stunt. Hard pass.
As far as all of these supposed "ex" Fibbies (or as we called them years ago Famous But Incompetent), spooks, or security blob types in social media/corporate hierarchy....I'm betting they're actually double-dipping too, just like the Army intel officer at Tik Tok. They aren't ex-anything. Spreading the wealth amongst the rank and file - pretty neat way to keep the plebs in line and the statists loyal.
As far as the political establishment using social media to influence, suppress or spy on citizens to influence politics or elections, Curtis Yarvin said it best: "they cheated fair and square". I hold "influencers", celebrities, think-tankers, ex-military MIC salesmen and other such types in the same regard I hold tobacco executives and bankers. Doesn't work with me, but I wouldn't trust anyone in D.C. enough to follow them out of a burning building, let alone vote for them to have power over me.
When I signed up to your other blog, somehow I was also given access to this one too. I'm not sure that was supposed to happen, but thanks.
"To such people—to such interests—the momentary whims of contemporary laws and governance, such as those of free speech and expression, are nothing more than trifles to be brushed aside, or waited out like yellowing leaves on an autumnal tree. And our question, as a society, remains: how to design governance systems which can oppose such trans-generational interests?"
That's the question. That right there is the big question.
Because if we can't govern ourselves, we will be governed by others.
Rather terrifying to consider that we might be moving into the Internet lockdown, after what we've already been through. Is this heavy-handedness not a sign of weakness and insecurity on their part, though?
As to the TikTok influencers ... much of it is also blunt and therefore cringe, as commie agitprop usually is. Is it really effective? Or do the kids roll their eyes at it?
I have been going grey for a decade, or longer, figuratively and literally. Anytime I hear, see, read… the word democracy, I become ill. Figuratively and literally. Grateful I prefer my own company and a few chosen mutts. My days are numbered, God will guide. ❤️🔥❤️
Remember the »Sedition Act«? 1798! Installed by one of the heroes of American democracy. Still in force ...
The evidence you give here certainly fits a dark future, unless we come up with a way to counter act incredible subversive tactics and strategies designed remove all individual freedom and rights and enslave us. As one commentator pointed out, unless we can govern ourselves better, we will be governed. Until reading this, I mistakenly thought DeSantis was on the good side, but now awakened to him as just another frontman marching to dark overlords. This story is actually quite frightening about how many people have joined the gravy train to hell, leaving no stone unturned. Increasingly hard to know who to trust. Is there anyone who can lead us out of this mess? The problem is that they arrest anyone who threatens the oligarch’s Satanist agenda. Part of any solution, is to stay informed and maintain a high vibration of consciousness.
Re: Florida, I strongly suggest reading substacker Atty Jeff Childers' take on it & reading the actual law, which he links to.
It's about trespassing, harassing & threatening based on ethnicity &/or religion.
I'd say it shouldn't be limited to ethnicity or religion. I've had a neighbor dump 5 large bags of trash on my property. They *should* have been made to clean it up. I've had a neighbor deliberately shine klieg lights at my house all night fir months. (I never complained, but her husband apologized profusely). I've had a neighbor & her 6 brats stand in their front yard & scream "You're a loser!You're a loser! You're a loser!" over & over while walking my dog . A member of this same family tried to run over my dogs in my driveway years ago, & yes, I felt very threatened by their behavior. They nearly killed my boys once for no reason. Who knows what they'd pull next.
I've never done a thing to harm any of these or any other neighbors or anyone else.
Haters are gonna hate, but I should be able to walk my dogs in peace & l should
be left the goddam fuck alone on my property.
Hey, did you even watch that Peraton video? Go to minute 1:20 and it says "Do the can't be done" not just once but three times. WTF? Also, the CEO Matt McQueen looks like he's too dumb to even tie his shoes, and Peraton itself seems to be operating out of an abandoned warehouse LOL
Also, I know you don't speak Portuguese, but there was a hilarious "epic fail" in Brazil this week when they called for a vote in Congress on the new censorship bill. As the "no" votes started surging over the "yes" votes, they literally had to invoke an obscure parliamentary rule (supposedly, probably was illegal) to SHUT DOWN the vote and table the bill for later.
Anyway, as to the larger point, total control over a complex system always fails. It failed during the Nazis. It failed during the reign of the Stasi in E. Germany. It failed in the Soviet Union. It's also failing big-time in North Korea. The unauthorized truth will always get out.
What IS working, unfortunately, is the obliteration of the common people's ability to understand civics or how democracy and governance is supposed to work. The report I saw this week said only 16% of American students are "proficient" in such basic concepts as the balance of powers between the judiciary, executive, and legislative branches.
Cynical old me thinks: why not regard the demand for more monitoring of social media as a welcome 'work creation programme'? Once 70% of Americans are monitoring the other 30% (that's my guesstimate!) the USA will finally have become like, e.g. the former DDR where nearly everybody was 'employed' by the Stasi, leading to a lovely new slogan (h/t the former DDR): 'to learn from the enemy is to learn how to win'.
Where things become really frightening is when those monitoring entities will use AI to construct evidence of hate speech, with all the legal consequences.
Frankly, Huxley's 'Brave New World' somehow becomes suddenly preferable ...
Life is a cycle and when the old is dying, it starts swirling into the abyss.
Here is my most recent screed;
https://johnmerryman.substack.com/p/a-pre-mortem-of-western-civ
The fact is, the more they try to control, the more people will find ways to push back. Simple physics. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Canada is charging ahead with a 2-prong attack on media:
1 - Recent passage of BIll C11 gives the Canadian govt the 'right' to control what Canadians view online (https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/canadas-online-streaming-act-bill-c-11-explained/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Streaming_Act)
2 - Canada's Radio/Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is considering a request from a LGBTQABC123 group to have Fox News removed from Canadian broadcast networks because someone got their feelings hurt by something said on a Fox News show (yeah, you gueesed right ... it was a Tucker Carlson episode) (https://globalnews.ca/news/9674595/crtc-fox-news-canada-lgbtq-tucker-carlson/ and https://thepostmillennial.com/fox-news-could-be-banned-from-canadian-television-after-complaint-by-trudeau-funded-lgbtq-group)
The obvious (?) takeaway ... someone's feelings get hurt by something they see/hear on media so we must remove that media channel from public viewing (at least if it goes against the woke agenda).
The following Vid regarding successful ongoing litigations about fraud surrounding the health mandates is here as example of positive action being taken: https://rumble.com/v2lfb8a-fraud-and-litigation.html
Great read as always but I must admit I never read Dark Futura before the CW article listed on both. I am not sure why I hadn’t. Thinking I suspected it might be something to do with sci-fi or something. I will not make that mistake again moving forward.
Can someone please tell me the dummy version of the characteristics between Sim’s 2 main blogs?