Why do they always choose the answer that enables the most tyranny when "misused"? It can't just be stupidity.

Also, the comparisons they draw don't mean "hurr durr we should have just done contact tracing like they did" as:

• Not all of these examples used contact tracing
• The ones that did had a level of cultural unity and political situation that would allow the public to trust that this is OK.

The USA has none of the unity or political stability to pull any of the listed measures off successfully, so none of the listed efforts would have worked. Greater than 10% of US society is guaranteed to evade lockdown restrictions just to spite the government regardless of whether this is safe or not. It is a very low trust and superstitious society with a germanic work ethic, so the most sensible strategy would have been to just let it ravage the population. The strong would survive. The USA is more akin to a crucible than a fortress, and the political elite of the USA were fools to not recognize this and act accordingly. Why the hell do you think an abnormally high amount of the population in the USA are on psych drugs? Why do you think 14% of people have fled to the bottle during the "plandemic"? This society is so sick that it either breaks you or forges you into one of the strongest individualists in the world. When libertarian expats have said that many other places contain "great capitalist conditions but poor capitalists compared to the USA", this is what they mean.

17% more alchohol consumption in general, 41% increase in heavy drinking by women. Unsurprisingly, $DEO and $STZ shot up a bit recently on the news, as we know who's drinking all the wine 😏

Smart. They are taking our advice here, essentially. Being woke doesn't really have much to offer for most companies.

UPDATE: Even being apolitical is a politically controversial stance nowadays, it seems. Coinbase is now attempting to purge anyone that does not want to respect boundaries on this.

...other than welling up tears. Pathetic

Damn. Hope we don't have to pour one out for the champ soon.

Just gotta breathe in and out longer than the bad guys.

The justification for the removal was that it was “spreading information which may cause harm”.

Again, note the language. Not “false information” or “factually incorrect information” only “information which may cause harm”. Nobody (thus far) is disputing the method of the work, or the accuracy of the findings.

If thorough research “may cause you harm”, what does that really say about you? If truth doesn’t fit the “current climate”…what does that say about our climate?

Ego investment is a helluva drug. Everybody wants to feel like they're making a difference so bad that the truth doesn't matter.

BONUS: Masks also cause more infections in the OR. In which we all find out who the "patient zeros" of this bad mental model are. Physician, heal thyself.

BONUS II: Also, turns out the virus mutated anyways to defeat masks and distancing, lol

This time on Baudrillard. Unsusrprisingly, discussions came up on "Well, how then, do we escape the Simulacrum?"

The same way you break out of a virtualized environment on a computer -- a RED PILL. The cognitive hack that allows escape is via cognitive dissonance. As such, if anyone can be considered "the answer" to Baudrillard nowadays, it is Rollo Tomassi and the Rule Zero crew.

Rebranded the vlog/cast because "why not"? Topics discussed:

• Freedom is implicitly against the law
• Ego investments that get in the way
• Why Agorism is #winning
• Why the "Civil War" is just as much hokum as a marvel movie

What else to expect in the era of "Feels before Reals".

GM still an enthusiastic bagholder

The matches between Laaaaan & Goku were really exciting matchups. Tournament continues on Memb's channel later today.

Turns out, COVID only exists in nursing homes and construction sites. Oops? 😂

If true, this is the usual type of thing where Russian intelligence runs circles around NATO, generally making them look like chumps.

The fact that a guy like this comes out of the bureaucracy in the first place tells you this faction is bigger than suspected. Disaffected underlings who are powerless yet thirst for greatness are everywhere in the pentagram. Those who don't "make necessity a virtue" and embrace the system either bomb out as libertarians or New Right guys. It's from here that a leader of the counterrevolution will emerge.

Also note that this piece has all the hallmarks of establishment smear jobs. Unsurprisingly they then attempt to associate Ron Paul with him, as that's what this article is actually about -- attempting to falsely associate Scheuer with the greater libertarian movement, which he ain't associated with. Hilariously, the author's twitter handle is "@attackerman", which seems apt.

The real magic is indeed drugs.

Good chaser to the Birdarchist interview above.

This time touching on BioPower. We'll have a podcast that talks about this to expound further on these concepts, but from the angle of Ego Investment, as this definitely jives well with the whole "how does one become a subject" thing.

LOL

Part of this is that their reading skills range from functionally illiterate to 8th grade at a maximum. I've seen more coherent english on Twitter by @LiangHanWei6 on Twitter than most accounts on there (and this is a joke account). Guess the whole Russian social media hacking thing was a big fat nothing burger after all 😏

Hmm, and yet somehow Austin is not on fire. Could this possibly be related to the people that live there? I mean, to every other Texan, Austinites look like communists, but it probably looks like libertarian paradise to a Californian.

Unsurprising.

How to create an authoritarian police state. Sounds like the county will empty of people soon enough.