You might as well try explaining theoretical-physics to a frog: there is ZERO point in trying to get Trump to understand this position.
( and I am indebted to you for identifying that some geopolitics-players can’t understand some dimensions, & that needs to be flagged, in every case )
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That is the correct definition of actual-sadism.
“the cruelty is the point”.
I promise you, he will execute the 3 former Democrat presidents, before he goes total-war against Canada.
Biden, Obama, & Clinton, he will have executed.
This is just a minor escalation in the way of his Purge, this ISN’T anywhere-near what it is going to be, in less than 3y.
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Tbh, I think that the US is done for, as a country, but it’ll take years for the destruction to progress through its different phases…
Trump promised his followers they’ll never have to vote again…
Quite the promise, isn’t it?
Quite the threat, from the perspective of all who aren’t his followers…
Canada, EU, Down Under, other Commonwealth countries, British Isles, etc…
Get out before 2031, as by then it’ll be too-late, & everything-turning-to-hell will be going on…
IF some anti-Trump appears on the world-stage, decide if you want to be with them, & find some way of moving there…
The US Civil War Part2 should begin in 2032 or so ( it seems to be a 7-8y cycle for each stage? ), & it should run for 7-8y, until the US is completely-destroyed, roughly 2040.
Everything I write is “translated”…
Normal people usually have an innate-mind-language of either
I think in abstract-shapes, & have to translate from abstract-forms into English, & it is … frustrating & tiresome … to accomplish this,
& it’s required ALL the time.
Maybe someday I’ll go read what the discussion was, to figure-out if I was having a bad day, that day, & try correcting it…
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Isn’t that interesting…
The anbility to prevent the getting-out of evidence of what the authorities do to the locals…
Just like the unconstitutional state-laws which criminalize capturing-of-video-evidene of police executing people…
“I wonder” if this would ever be abused by anti-accountability authorities…
( remember that the whole Christian religion is founded on a guy who was a kind of whistleblower, & had spikes hammered through his wrists, in his crucifixion, for his calling the legalists “hypocrites”…
I wonder how “Christian” he’d find them to be, if he returned, & saw what they’re doing? )
Human nature & demon nature seem … related?
or is that too harsh?
… perhaps … but wasn’t the Inquisition demon-law in the name of benJoseph?
hmm…
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“Pro-Life” but they will execute oceans of lives, in their regime.
I expect full-on human-sacrifice worship of Trump within 4y of his gaining dictatorship.
( there’s been continuous human-sacrifice-cult activity in the Americas, Central & northward, for about 11.7 millenia, ttbomk.
This won’t be anything new: it’ll just be the same-old same-old getting blatent about it.
I bet every one of you an imaginary-dime, right now, that the “uncanny valley” is going to be stark on Trump’s face, within 4y, to those who aren’t his worshippers.
I don’t know if there’s a remind-me-bot thingy for lemmy, but if there is, & anybody wants to set a reminder, so you can prove me wrong, go for it.
I think this bet of mine is certain.
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Because it is sooo late in the arbitrary-election-cycle, no matter what the Dems do, they’re fucked.
Go with Biden?
Then they’re fucked.
Go with Kamala Harris, whom the white-supremacists have been working against for years?
Then they’re fucked.
Find somebody else?
There isn’t time, so then they’re fucked.
This highlights the category of political-lesson that you have to “fail early & fail often” ( to use a phrase from successful serial-startup founders ) in order to find the robust candidates whom you can currently win with.
UNlike the way the Dems have played.
The CNN+NYT “shutting down” of progressive-issues & progressive-voices, in the last election, burned too much potential out of existence, and that traction is gone: non-recoverable.
The mega-entitlement of the Biden insitution is buckling & collapsing with increasing obviousity.
I fucking told everyone so, again & again & again, but it was all my “delusion” & “incompetence” & “defectiveness” & “lies”, was it??
Trump is going to become the US’s dictator,
& is going to begin the 2nd half of the US’s Civil War ( the Confederates only pretended to surrender, & now are earning a “reverse takeover” ), & the butchery will probably reduce the US’s population by 2/3rds, within 12y, counting all the consequences both direct & indirect ( complete failure to manage a hurricane’s landfall costs much more life than does managing it competently: multiply that by a dozen per year, & you’ve got human-costs up the gills, without even considering atmospheric-rivers, megadroughts, quakes, wildfires, or any other kind of disaster to multiply costs on, right? ).
it is infuriating to see people insist that “social pressure will make this work”, millions of times,
while it measurably, proveably, isn’t working, but that is what Natural Selection at the species-level means, isn’t it?
Terminal Species-ending Butchery.
Sunak’s obliteration of his own party, Kim Campbell’s obliteration of her own party, what was that Liberal premier who wiped out her own party, in Ontario, can’t remember that one’s name…
Social-pressure never acts when it is needed, it only acts when it gets around to feeling comfortable with acting, and that is consistently too-late.
So, when will the Democratic Party admit they need to change gears??
After they’ve fundamentally lost, is when.
Imagine running a bunch of freight-trains that way: “oh, we’ll slow-down when we feel a collision beginning, but until then, we’re really fine, & there’s no indication of any real need to be doing anything different, is there?”
Feelings are the wrong metric for preventing this kind of catastrophy.
frustration-rage
Authority needs to have hard walls, bright lines, & deadly-force biting its corruptions/entitlements/dishonesties/DarkHexad enactments, etc.
Political-process won’t ever allow any such rule, in its dominion, of course…
And that is why political-process cannot be permitted to own our world’s fate: its conflict-of-interest, & its inescapable-corruption disallow integrity from ruling, & without integrity, then only “Justice”, with falsifying-quotes, the phony version of Justice, remains…
So, The Great Filter’s going to extinguish yet another world, from this Universe, is it?
Political-machiavellianism/dishonesty’s going to snuff all LivingPotential, LivingWorth, LivingOpportunity of this whole world, while the “social consensus” indulges in orgiastic clusterfucking, until existential-viability itself is gone…??
Ah, but at least everyone will be able to feel that they “weren’t responsible”, right?
Social-feelings: that’s the real LORD, and so long as it’s happy, then existence, itself, isn’t actually necessary, right??
bitterness
Multiple conflicting definitions for “Conservative”, for 1 thing…
WHEN you tolerate the:
to claim that they define conservatism,
& us who’re committed to conserving
… people are therefore defined to be not “conservative”…
then the framing has been highjacked.
Integrity-conservatives are conservatives.
LivingPotential conservatives are conservatives, who’re interested in competent education for all, instead of accommodating the obliteration of LivingPotential through shit “education”…
LivingOpportunity conservatives are conservatives, who want wastefulness-of-LivingOpportunity to be eradicated, so that we can be inhabiting it, instead of allowint it to be eradicated/wasted…
etc.
I’d begin with the correct qualification of the version of “conservative” that a person is claiming.
Corrupt privilege-conservatives ought be called such, & not let get-away-with claiming that the’re the rightful definers of “conservative”.
This should go for all “conservative” & “liberal” identifications:
Let people claim whatever variant they want, and then enforce accountability through matching their actual-behavior against their claims, with indestructible public accountability.
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monopoly & lockin mitigate risk of migration.
That is the whole point of monopoly & lockin.
which is why it is the primary strategy being used against humankind, now.
By all factions, not just gov’t, business, or NGO’s, or churches, but ALL of them.
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The problem isn’t “making the majority of it noise”,
the problem is tossing-out the actual-noise, & compressing only the signal.
Without knowing what the actual-signal is, & just trying to send all-the-noise-and-signal, they’re creating their problem, requiring 200x compression, through wrongly-framing the question.
What they need to actually do, is to get a chip in before transmitting, which does the simplification/filtering.
That is the right problem.
That requires some immense understanding of the signal+noise that they’re trying to work on, though, and it may require much more processing-power than they’re committed to permitting on that side of the link.
shrug
Universe can’t care about one’s feelings: making-believing that reality is other than it actually-is may, with politial-stampeding, dent reality some, temporarily, but correction is implacable.
In this case, there’s nothing they can do to escape the facts.
EITHER they eradicate enough of the noise before transmission,
XOR they transmit the noise, & hit an impossible compression problem.
Tough cookies.
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Canuckian results from www.DuckDuckGo.com include…
( I’m just copy/pasting interesting-looking links: I haven’t experience with these, but am just saving you some clicks : )
https://chatelaine.com/living/independent-bookstores-canada/
https://www.savvynewcanadians.com/best-bookstore-toronto/
( they are the Canadian equivalent to Am & B&N: they bought & wrecked Chapters, years ago )
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/home
https://www.renaud-bray.com/home.aspx
http://pulpfictionbooksvancouver.com/
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There are now exactly 3 antihistamines I recommend, for different reasons…
Those 2 are a recent-generation of antihistamines, & both are remarkable compared with the make-you-incompetent-to-fucking-walk-straight antihistmines I grew up with.
I’ve read that immediately chewing your max-dose of Benadryl can help with things like allergic-reaction to bee-stings, snake-bite, etc, & therefore should be in one’s 1st-aid kit.
Now they’ve got liqui-gels?
Maybe I should fix my 1st-aid kit, then…
Oh, from what I’ve read, the Desloratadine is better than the Loratadine: it has been noted to produce fewer side-effect harms, in studies.
ttbomk, Loratadine requires more biological processing by our bodies, to do its work, so its biochemistry cost is higher, to the one taking it.
I’ve found the generic brands of Cetirizine & Desloratadine work fine, for me.
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Honestly consider which kind of antidote would work best, for that specific kind of poisonous-meaning.
Just a couple of examples, to “prime the pump”, as it were…
IF the poison were white-supremacist evil, THEN the antidote might be that guy … Daryl is his name, perhaps, who deliberately makes friends with KKK people, & gets them to honestly change.
( if there ever was an example of what the ultra-woke socialist felon Yehoshua “Jesus” benJoseph meant, in his relationships with people, this guy is demonstrating it. : )
IF the poison is the psychopathic machiavellianism of for-profit-corporations, THEN the antidote might be that investigative journalism exists, & deliberately reading “The Elements of Journalism” ( 4th edition, now, I think ), & helping to get other citizens-of-our-world competent in understanding journalism, & how it is the immune-system our world needs, right now.
IF the poison is child-abuse … THEN … this one’s difficult: it hurts too deep, doesn’t it? … then … simultaneously protection for children ( like that operation which liberated a whole bunch of girls from a trafficking-ring, the other year, or like help-lines for children, so they’ve got a lifeline to call, or like organizations/people who systematically make-accountable the perpetrators, reducing the number of them who are out ), those ( individual & institutional ) who force-the-perpetrators into visibility, thus “removing their accommodation”, to be … diplomatic … about it, or lobbying for better legislation, or making-certain that therapy is both available and successful for survivors of abuse ( some “charities” just purport to do good, & obliterate opportunity while consuming resources padding their administration’s ass by design, & torpedoing those scum would improve our world, markedly )
Anyways, you need to discern which antidote you need to be applying, & you need to understand that some lives get caught in stuff sooo horrific that even witnessing it can mangle a life…
That is the actual current condition of our world, our ocean-of-lives.
To alter our world, our world’s ocean-of-lives, we need to deliberately turn the tide, and that means forcing the tide to go against the way that DarkHexad, the 6 dimensions of human evil that I’ve found so-far, wants:
DarkHexad: Narcissism / Machiavellianism / Sociopathy-Psychopathy / Nihilism / Sadism / Systemic-Dishonesty.
Countering ANY of these dimensions from remaining in authority on our world is good, countering the entanglement network of multiple-dimensions, together, is better, but!..
Remember Stephen R. Covey’s principle!
IF your Circle of Concern is too big, THEN it is draining you, making you helpless!
IF you deliberately & strategically reduce your Circle of Concern, … THEN … your Circle of Influence will, as you recover, grow!
And you have your balance to earn: my balance isn’t relevant to your condition, neither is your balance relevant to how I’m managing, etc.
Each is independent of others, & the whole “I’m this-way therefore you ought be, too” herd-bullying has no actual validity.
I hope that you find stable balance, & I hope that someday you become able to directly & significantly counter whatever harm/evil it is you witnessed.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.
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IF you want to create accountability among such arrogent tech executives,
THEN you need to enforce accountability, and 1 excellent way of doing it, would be to immediately, & permanently, ban the CEO of that company from having any right to any in-country right to purchase anything.
Force THEM to be subject to the abuse they enforce on “their inferiors”, and … oh, suddenly their motivations appear from “nowhere”??
Enforced-accountability against executives & oligarchs needs to be automatic, not “politically impossible, because they’re the privileged ones, with real rights”, the way our current dogshit for-profit manufactured “culture” insists.
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I read that Scarlett’s family & friends couldn’t tell it apart from her actual voice.
I’d say that “Open AI” or whatever they’re called, trained it specifically on only her voice.
The seems-narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopath-CEO whats-his-face tried to get her to agree to this,
she wouldn’t agree,
he tweeted “her” when releasing the update ( after Scarlett’s movie )
she lawyered up,
he backed down…
I’d say it’s a clear case of identity-theft-for-profit of a celebrity, by a consistently narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopath who’s kinda leaving lots of corpses of “integrity” all over the place.
There’s some law which protects celebrities from use of their likeness, and rightly:
it’s their “coin” that their career is made-of, right?
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Your question is actually a subset of:
“Can short-term-gain actually fatally undermine long-term-viability?”
I don’t consider the question incorrect, at all.
Peter F. Drucker, in one of his books, has it that the “Health Care Industry” hired him,
and one of the 1st things he did, was…
told them, bluntly to their face, directly, approximately that
( this gets the gist of it, but this is from-memory, not exact/verbatim )
“You aren’t the Health Care Industry, you are the Illness Care Industry, and you aren’t fooling anybody, AND you aren’t improving your credibility by speaking falsely”
Does taking all kinds of chemicals, so that one can be a “better bodybuilder”, and then ending up in a population who dies significantly younger than average, due to heart-failures, be considered “good”??
Obviously, to the corporate-“persons” who make money having as much of the population addicted to that distortion as possible, YES!! PROFITS!!
Unfortunately, it isn’t possible, in any political system, to get decisions made by correctness, accuracy, reason, objectivity, maximum-benefit-for-greatest-number-of-dimensions-of-the-population, etc…
The lobbies won’t allow that.
Remember Covid?
Remember the people who were insisting that immunization was a scam, & that people should be relying on their body’s innate robust immune-system?
These were people who consider yogic-living to be corruption, and heavy-meat-eating to be “good”, nitrates in meats, & all.
The lobbies have overrun all discussion, not allowing objectivity to own any territory.
I think you are right, but the right-answer to it includes simultaneously improving the health of individuals, of entire-populations, AND getting people out immersed in nature more, so as to have built-up more-powerful immune-systems, in the 1st place!
Selectively extinguish some infectious-diseases ( I’d target rabies, ebola, HPV because it causes cervical cancer, & a few others, for extinguishment ), while dealing-with as many as we viably can,
in the hopes that “surprises” will not be able to trash/wreck our innate immune-systems, see?
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So are people.
DarkHexad intent { Narcissism / Machiavellianism / Sociopathy-Psychopathy / Nihilism / Sadism / Systemic-Dishonesty } is significant a fraction in human-nature, itself,
and the internet does represent that,
as does the last few millenia of human history, tbh.
The only way to have a clean space, is to force break DarkHexad grip on that space.
It’s exactly the same with your body’s health:
IF you want to break the pathogens from sharing your body’s life,
THEN you have to BREAK them from owning any territory in your body’s life.
Pretending & “making nice” on them won’t break their grasp/control of all they own/control.
Exactly as Western Medicine holds that whole-health isn’t a valid condition, but illness, injury, & death are,
therefore one treats illness, injury, & death with drugs or procedures,
there simply isn’t ANY method for producing whole-health in a paradigm which axiomatically prohibits that that could be valid.
You want whole-health?
Become a true yogi.
Harness/yoke ( “yoga” means “to yoke”, or “to harness” ) your entire life to whole-health, & discover what drugs & procedures cannot make.
The same is true of clean spaces, online ( I mean places where machaivellian evil gets auto-broken from them, there’s no requirement that “clean” mean “all spaces are child-friendly” ).
IF you want clean social-site,
THEN you need combined arms ( all dimensions of force, convergion to enforce victory ) making that, against the machiavellians & corrupt-values people.
That requires easy server-setup.
That requires easy administration.
That requires easy moderation.
That requires easy community-management.
That requires easy onboarding for good people,
AND easy step-by-step breaking of the malevolent ones, with proper powerlaw escalations.
That requires accountability ( machiavellians consistently disappear any evidence that would threaten them with accountability, while trying to drown others ) that is both automatic & unbreakable.
etc.
Without a cat’s skeleton, no matter what musculature you put on your non-cat skeleton, you can’t make it be a cat, in how it moves.
You want a cat’s liquidity-of-motion?
You require, then, skeleton, musculature, AND nervous-system of cat, for your animal…
You want clean/healthy portion-of-internet?
ALL dimensions, technological, legislative, admin, moderation, users, processes, EVERYthing needs to be “combined arms” breaking the pathogen-intents from possessing it.
And because of the neverending arms-race between corruption/malevolence vs good, that needs to keep continually adapting, agilely.
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All of them: I want authenticity,
and “superheroes” are fake human-meaning, engineered to push distractine power/ego-fantasy instead of actual-human development.
Read both of John Truby’s books, “The Anatomy of Genres”, & “The Anatomy of Story”, and become much competenter in what story/movie makers should be doing,
and then consider how much is being invested in preventing realism-of-context from being known by mass-media consumers…
…and then understand the long-term consequences of deliberately/systematically diverging mass-awareness from what real meaning, real human context, is, … through decades…
It’s part of a whole-class, or whole-population, suckerpunching, but it seems to be of unconscious, not conspiracy, intent.
Pretence-programmed populations are less realistic & less reality-competent.
Bollywood & Hollywood both produce divorce-from-reality.
That isn’t required, for story, or human-meaning, is it?
I think you’ve got the heart of it, right there.
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