It’s tragic that this even needs saying, but the sudden reinvention in the press of modern America as a Nazi apartheid state is as phony as the thousands of patriotic campaigns that occupied the news media previously. We’re witnessing an obscene malfunction of the elite messaging system.

The people who run this country have run out of workable myths with which to distract the public, and in a moment of extreme crisis have chosen to stoke civil war and defame the rest of us – black and white – rather than admit to a generation of corruption, betrayal, and mismanagement.
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The same pols and pundits who not long ago were waving the flag for wars and insisting that American-style democracy was so perfectly realized that it made sense to bring it to all the peoples of the world, by force if needed (think Friedman’s hypothesis of a borderless utopia of forced wealth creation called the Golden Straitjacket), have now reversed course to tell us our entire history needs to be wiped clean.

Everything is a lie now. CNN even put “Independence” in quotes when describing the holiday today (i.e. “Reexamining ‘Independence’ Day”). This revolution will end with Wolf Blitzer pulling a switch to dynamite the Statue of Liberty. Even if America is an idea whose time is past, I doubt it deserves an ending this ridiculous.

God save us from these betas. Fogging nonstop like politicians used to do was literally all that was needed to keep this nonsense together.

It's always been nonsense on stilts.

Drowning in red ink, bailouts for everyone

See the light of the family's lord, sol invictus through the prism of egalitarianism!

Like in the USA, legitimacy of the elections judged by turnout is at all time lows and nobody in the political class cares, because they only want people who agree with them to vote.

Revolution brewing, it seems.

Interesting that one big emphasis of this implementation of the "red dawn" plan of W's Ghouls was to spread the propaganda through corporate management due to workers trusting them more than the government. Nobody really understands that we've lived under fascism since before the nsdap.

Glad Corbett also realizes the primary problem here is voluntary compliance with this nonsense due to .gov washing their propaganda through their corporate partners.

Of all the policies that we discussed, one stands out in my mind — if for no other reason than because it is so thoroughly counterintuitive. I asked him to name the one reform that he was most proud of. "I abolished the collection of statistics," he replied. Sir John believed that statistics are dangerous, because they enable social engineers of all stripes to justify state intervention in the economy.

As always the planners turn data molehills into a mountain of cash for themselves.

I highly doubt this. Nobody with real power would associate with that hive of the 'tism

Huge if true.

Neat story. Guy seems like a major unsung hero of the 20th century.

Quite the reversal. This change in property rights will likely be far from amusing for most Oklahomans.

Detroit 2.0 coming soon

And this is why I find the lockdown debate so phoney. It’s been fuelled, on both sides, by the presumption that government decrees work as a sort of magic wand that will bring our economies (and perhaps the most acute phase of the pandemic) back to life. But the data suggest there is no magic wand. Much of the lockdown effect was imposed not by top-down fiat, but through millions of small decisions made every day by civic groups, employers, unions, trade associations, school boards and, most importantly, ordinary people.

As I have said many times, it's horizontal enforcement and the mental prison of authoritarianism that most are locked into which is the real problem. We wouldn't have an oppressive government without that existing in the first place.

Very interesting.

Because it's already been fixed. They of course cynically used this for their own gain in the interim.

BUILT THE WALL

A green scam far worse than EVs & PVs. Focus on Fusion & better PVs please.

Like everything else down there, the cops don't know well enough to enforce it and only want a bribe anyways.

An actually dangerous virus

Very interesting phenomenon. Could lead to adjustable power lenses.

Will be interesting to see if they are a safe alternative to carbon nanotubes.

Agit-Prop never stands up to scrutiny

As expected. Unused capacity for at least a decade or more is the future.

No good answers. Dismemberment and annexation is the likely outcome.