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(OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 71504938 United States 01/27/2021 07:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan ‘Careful what you wish for’: Hedge fund manager warns Biden’s spending plan could pop stock market bubble David Neuhauser, managing director of Livermore Partners, said Biden's spending plan appeared to be an attempt to mimic the "roaring 20's" by getting people back into the workforce quickly. "But beware, the 'roaring 20's' led to the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression. So, be careful what you wish for," he added. [link to www.cnbc.com (secure)] [link to youtu.be (secure)] |
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(OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 71504938 United States 01/28/2021 01:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Amazing.... Thread: Miraculously, Biden is Quickly Ridding the World of Covid-19 In what can only be termed as proof of Biden’s messianic calling as our saviour in these troubled times, there has been a sustained decline in Covid-19 cases around the world for over two weeks. My own province of Ontario, as well as Canada as a whole is in steep decline. Quoting: Craiglang The US is dropping as well, especially numerous US states run by Democrats which were previously facing unprecedented surges in cases under Trump, in what can only be described as a miraculous turnaround. From Pennsylvania, to New York, Michigan and California, covid cases which previously crippled the country are all in a steep and sustained decline. California is now planning to cancel its stay-at-home order. New York is following suit now that Biden is in. Across the pond in the UK, a similar miraculous turnaround is playing out, in what was previously one of the most desperate covid hotspots in the West, despite months of some of the strictest lockdown policies yet seen. The reason we know this has to be attributed to his divine grace is because the cases began falling right after the electoral college vote was certified for Biden. He was not even in office yet. Just the power of his coming being certified was enough to ward off pestilence and plague, and not just in his country. Around the world, the word has gone out of his arrival, and the virus is fleeing in his wake. We have also seen precipitous declines in daily case numbers in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, South Africa, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Thailand, Slovenia, and Hungary. All of this in January, when respiratory diseases typically thrive and wreak havoc on healthcare systems. What more proof do you need of him being the Messiah? Throw up your hands in worship and praise, for salvation is at hand. More - [link to canadianpatriot.org (secure)] Get your head out of your ass. Canada just lost a ton of jobs. Covid was a hoax and I had it. Ignorant fool! The writer was being sarcastic! I think LOL [link to youtu.be (secure)] |
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(OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 71504938 United States 01/28/2021 02:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “Sadism dominates the culture. It runs like an electric current through reality television and trash-talk programs, is at the core of pornography, and fuels the compliant, corporate collective. Corporatism is about crushing the capacity for moral choice and diminishing the individual to force him or her into an ostensibly harmonious collective. This hypermasculinity has its logical fruition in Abu Ghraib, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and our lack of compassion for our homeless, our poor, the mentally ill, the unemployed, and the sick. ... We accept the system handed to us and seek to find a comfortable place within it. We retreat into the narrow, confined ghettos created for us and shut our eyes to the deadly superstructure of the corporate state.” “Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.” “The words consent of the governed have become an empty phrase. Our textbooks on political science and economics are obsolete. Our nation has been hijacked by oligarchs, corporations, and a narrow, selfish, political, and economic elite, a small and privileged group that governs, and often steals, on behalf of moneyed interests. This elite, in the name of patriotism and democracy, in the name of all the values that were once part of the American system and defined the Protestant work ethic, has systematically destroyed our manufacturing sector, looted the treasury, corrupted our democracy, and trashed the financial system. During this plundering we remained passive, mesmerized by the enticing shadows on the wall, assured our tickets to success, prosperity, and happiness were waiting around the corner.” “Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception.” Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle |
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(OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 71504938 United States 01/28/2021 02:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “In The Republic, Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness. Their gaze is confined to the cave wall, upon which shadows of the world are thrown. They believe these flickering shadows are reality. If, Plato writes, one of these prisoners is freed and brought into the sunlight, he will suffer great pain. Blinded by the glare, he is unable to seeing anything and longs for the familiar darkness. But eventually his eyes adjust to the light. The illusion of the tiny shadows is obliterated. He confronts the immensity, chaos, and confusion of reality. The world is no longer drawn in simple silhouettes. But he is despised when he returns to the cave. He is unable to see in the dark as he used to. Those who never left the cave ridicule him and swear never to go into the light lest they be blinded as well.” Cratylus, as an extreme linguistic naturalist, holds that names cannot be arbitrarily chosen in the way that conventionalism describes or advocates, because names belong naturally to their specific objects. If you try to speak of something with any name other than its natural name, you are simply failing to refer to it at all. Quoting: today[link to plato.stanford.edu (secure)] Yes, that is why the West was built with a combination of the Socratic/Zetetic method and the Trivium and those (the Quadrivium is included it just comes later) progressed into the devices we are all communicating with, right here and right now. Thread: Plato’s Cave in Baudrillard’s Desert of the Real Quoting: Ricky M Plato’s Cave in Baudrillard’s Desert of the Real. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 59319727 When using our mind’s eye, we find that the allegory of Plato’s cave paints a beautiful illustration of an existence where reality is mediated by external forces and factors. On par with today’s technology, we can imagine that the confused prisoners on the inside of the cave, albeit prisoners of their own minds, are bound by a mechanically and technologically mediated reality presented to them in a fifth wall shadow theater fashion, with mechanically operated puppets behind a dimly lit veil, whereas outside the cave we find a limitless dimension of self mediated reality - an open world mainframe. I would like to present my understanding on how we are able to create our own supreme reality, breaking the walls of the prison that enslaves us, ripping down the veil of the shadow theater, transcending Plato’s cave to inhabit and transform Baudrillard’s desert into a paradise by surrendering the reality we are incepted with since birth, which is a continuum of distorted copies of a reality mediated to us on our behalf, with and without our consent. I give you self control and mediation of your own reality outside of the cave, rather than to be controlled by a dying matrix where the cave eventually collapses on the prisoners. [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] At times, however, Baudrillard adopts a less cynical position and envisions the masses' options for ironic and antagonistic resistance to the ongoing mediated spectacle of violence. He speaks for instance about "an original strategy" of "subtle revenge" and a "refusal of will." (Jean Baudrillard, "The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media," Disneyland is a perfect model of the entangled orders of simulation. To begin with it is a play of illusions and phantasms: Pirates, the Frontier, Future World, etc. This imaginary world is supposed to be what makes the operation successful. But what draws the crowds is undoubtedly much more the social microcosm, the miniaturized and religious reveling in real America, in its delights and drawbacks. You park outside, queue up inside, and are totally abandoned at the exit. [link to uh.edu (secure)] |
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