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  7. when somebody - with hindsight - doesn't face up to their responsibility and simultaneously maintains a flacid upper lip about 'being in the right' and 'making the right call' (whether they are under oath or regardless) then you have to wonder why the front they're putting up continues. imho it is (admittedly retrospectively) very basic: 1. downing street didn't treat covid with the appropriate level of seriousness. cavalier would be one starting point. blasé another. 2. downing street were too clever by half with their communications (and brexit had already been delivered) 3. downing street engaged in double standards (party inside and lockdown out) - 'do as we say, not as we do' ethos adopted a level of paternalism that still stinks as unpalatable 4. downing street adopted a condescending and insulting attitude in their approach to the public during covid 5. downing street during covid was more about the struggle for power than the responsible exercise of power 6. downing street were caught between the woods of failing to act decisively on the big picture calls and misunderstanding or not understanding the trees of detail (at least in comms terms) and henceforth blundering ineptitude was the hallmark of decisionmaking competence 7. covid placed downing street on the backfoot as the triumphalist ego of brexit was checked 8. covid exposed downing street as a cabinet of incompetent fakin' it fraudsters, out of their depth, inappropriately placed (given scale) and out of touch with reality when it was needed 9. downing street fudged it as c.232,000 died
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  285.  @Mast3r0fTheUniverse  way i heard it is that he was advocating a janus-faced position for the USA: one face looking internally at domestic matters and one face looking outwardly to the international Cold War arena. and he was warning against isolationism because the responsibilities for the USA, both home and abroad, were too great and too finely balanced to risk abrogating. Which would be a duality yet not inconsistent. Whereas MAGA v.1 has been isolationist in theory yet Pacific facing in practice. It has been domestically bias in favor of the 'poor' and has promoted a 'we can do it ourselves' mindset particularly with respect to manufacturing and production. and all those are MAGA positives, things that the MAGA movement have done well. the fact that BBB (Build Back Better) imitated that is flattery to the MAGA cause. good job. and Nixon was pre-Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, pre the War on Drugs, pre-Star [S.D.I.] Wars. yet he was seeing oil and gold exchange, was seeing the early fruits of the electronics boom, and himself, Kissinger and the post 9-11 crew also had their eyes trained on the Middle East and Asia. At the risk of digressing into the tangent of a rabbithole, if there is one lesson that can be drawn from the two American excursions into Iraq (91 & 03) it is that the PMC (the private military contractor) had a renewed vigor that could absorb way more problems than the State could (for better and worse). the UK didn't learn that lesson upfront - unfortunately. The reason i'm introducing the PMC to this is that the PMC was born in part from the legacy and (homebound failures - a domestic inability to satisfactorily accommodate veterans effectively) experiences of South-East Asia, Vietnam being at the top of the list. Vietnam, as we know, was as much about the PRC (call it dominos or whatever) as it was about anything else, including the Soviet Union. MAGA and the militia system are not nothing. And during the first decade of the 21st century it was observed that a very American coup had taken place at the heart of the USA. The rise of the corporation and corporate power relative to the state and the call on the state's monopoly of violence from PMCs is not unique to the USA. Yet the USA has always and consistently pioneered a belief in market economics - sometimes for the best, sometimes less so. In the sacrifices that MAGA are (clearly) prepared to make on behalf of the USA, Nixon's denial of narrow isolationism could serve as a guide for wannabe warriors that have not ticked the boxes of necessity and proportionality. It's all very well buying into the dreams of made men or folk that have never known anything other than opulence but - so far as the higher echelons of power go - it's not their blood they're offering up, it's those they can afford to let or make fight. So that their bloodshed can be saved. Yes, Communism was a threat to freedom. Yes, Communism is a threat to freedom. However Nixon (regardless of partisan details) shows that the dignity of statesmanship and the appeal to higher principles of state and the foundations of sovereign order are (especially at a global macro ethic of statecraft) way more preferable than the mademan crime philosophies and strongarm leanings that currently seem to emanate from the MAGA wing. Of course, i could be wrong.
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  377. why not go all the way to death penalty as an escalatory potential in exceptional cases? the asymmetric advantage that uncertainty gives to those wrong'uns that exploit that uncertainty (in the event that their conviction and intent is beyond certain) is everything from letby to putin. evil clearly flourishes off the gaslit defences of 'wasn't me' (when it so obviously was), 'didn't happen' (when it so obviously did) and the ultimate - 'well, that's your reality' or 'this is my truth' (when deployed as a justification for extreme wrongdoing). denial clearly plays a huge part in psychopathy and psychopathic behavioural traits and the ability to narcissistically co-opt people into that denial narrative clearly has the potential to increase psychopathic endorsement and psychopathic followers. folk such as letby and putin are volunteering their sorry arses as examples of how not to behave in the 21st century. they know how wrong they are (or simply don't care) and will push other peoples' ignorance of their psychopthic tendencies to exploitation. the state or the the appropriately relevant authorities need to respond accordingly and propotionately. these are individuals going beyond the pale of acceptable human traits to the worst possible extent they can possibly exercise their power over. if caught they need to be stamped on - as individuals and as examples. underplaying and underreacting against such actions is as immoral and unethical (whether through the cover of guilt and corruption or whether through a fear of overreacting) as apologising for on behalf like a fake advocate or appeasing as a licence to extend their abuse (where it is manifestly clear it will not stop). no limit applications to the departments of depravity and iniquity must be made to have a limit. or their no limit policies of [insert crime - actual crime, not just legal crime] will continue and continue to spread.
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  477. Poor guy. He's trying to articulate how the villains have assumed control over the Kremlin apparatus and how that malignant growth threatens world peace and stability because the wrong strongmen that wield power over the Russian people have access to nuclear weapons. And he (Kirill) knows that they (Medvedev & Putin) wouldn't rule out the possibility of first use to assume an attempt to spread their power across the world - obviously starting with Ukraine and this week trying nuclear coercion on Germany to stop the latter releasing Leopard2 tanks into Putin's war of choice. Although to stop the Medvedev-Putin war of fear from spreading like wildfire beyond Ukraine and into the nuclear arena would require regime change. And after two decades of increasingly authoritarian rule combined with the evident lust for world domination through military coercion (Ukraine), nuclear blackmail (everyone else beginning with Germany) and implicit CCP wait-and-see backing (if Russia pulls it off then Taiwan for an appetizer) with DPRK chomping at the bits. However, the two stooges plus Lavrov and the Russian MIC threaten the lives of 145m Russians as much as they threaten the order that has overseen a doubling - tripling of human population on earth since 1945 (from 2-3 billion to nearly 8 billion). And since Vladimir Vladimirvich (along with Dmitry Alexandersvich) genuinely believes and has assumed the perception of Russia through the cult of personality personification of the neo-Tsar führer of global Lord and Master of the new slavery complex to be imposed through military (death and destruction, rape, pillage, abuse, murder and war crimes) technical measures that the tricolor (red blue and white - ascending) post-Soviet style propaganized standard of neo-Dresden Kremlin power under his dictatorially tyrannical and violent authority claims - well, because of that, it isn't looking great for the Russian people. Let alone the rest of the world. And Kirill knows it.
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  531. the Prime Minister doesn't want to be in parliament...so if he can get away early whilst paying lip service to the institution previously famed for parliamentary democracy then he will. if he can patronise the opposition and the opposition leader then he will. if he can avoid giving a straight answer then he will. if he can demean or provoke mockery then he will. if he can restate his plans and recite his list then he will. if he can insult and generate contempt and derision then he will. if he can rabble rouse and play to the gallery then he will. if he can preach to the converts that converted him then he will. if he can knock off early because there's more important things to do than waste hot air in the london greenbench chambers then he will. if he can run the numbers and promote profit without anybody noticing until it's too late then he will. if he can imply, drop hints and suggest without actually saying then he will. if he can go the wrong way then he might. if he can sneer and giggle, act with purile humour, defend his privatisation (reform for productivity) and do the math then he might have lost one. if he can pay sufficient attention to the detail and [colour] wash the new statistics then he will. if he can sell Britain then he might. if he could sell Britain out then he might. if he can de-lever he might. if he's canny about what he says on track records and promises then does his modern system of slavery speak of pride and poverty, of work and worklessness? 'phew'.
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  634. adapted from O. Stone (fb statement March 2022): The USA has wars on its books - past and present - but it still doesn’t justify Mr. Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. A half dozen wrongs don’t make thirteen. Russia was wrong to invade and is wrong to continue. It's mistakes include -- 1) basic geopolitical overconfidence, 2) international conceit of arrogance, 3) inflated ego of confused hubris, 4) underestimating sovereignty as an organizational principle of international relations, 5) underestimating the pariah status effects of isolation, 6) overestimating the power of lies and propaganda outside its sphere of fear. So, how could Putin have saved the Russian-speaking people of Donetsk and Luhansk? Institutionally? Nope. In resolution and mediation? Nope. Through aid, charity and internationally backed intervention? Nope. Through responsible statecraft and genuine best foot forward efforts? Nope. Ah, ok, well then terror, brutal repression, murder, license to rape and abuse, pillage and decimate then. That must be it. No doubt his Government after 2012 could’ve done a better job of showing Russia and her peoples how to better generate a sense of opportunity, possibility and optimism in their aspirations. Only ten years of suffering had to occur before Ukraine got the full brunt of the abuse that had run from Moscow through Crimea and even as far as the American White House. Nothing anybody really cares about anyway. It’s now later than they think. Putin has taken the poison that tastes good from the tree in the middle of the international relations garden and still refuses to acknowledge or potentially concede a mistake. With a state and a corporate military now committed to an everly intractable looking void the white rabbit soon cannot find time inside the rabbit hole of its own design. What a state of affairs. There seems to be no road back, now only one belt and one road forward. Or out. Hawks, vultures, jackals - all seem potentially interested if not actively engaged already. As Khrushchev handed Crimea to Ukraine and Cuba to JFK so Putin seems to be giving Ukraine to Europe and the other thirteen CIS states at least a fighting chance of breaking from the Russian yolk. Yet, chokeholds or not it is clear that as the mud gets murkier and the swamp deepens the continuation of at least some back-channel negotiations remain. What is the price to bring these to the fore? The great unseen tragedy at the heart of this history of our times is the ever failing dissolution of hope that a sufficiently peaceful partnership between Russia and the U.S. might have been. With a PRC vs USA clash also looking ever more likely the quest for earth's supremacy card continues. Unfortunately, when power knows no bounds and opulence is treated as relative poverty a reality check might be what is needed. So far, that check has failed to materialize.
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  1573. that's correct: slaves were also individuals whether they were counted as such or not. individual freedom ☑ economic freedom ✅ individual rights - if the individual and economic freedoms are achieved conflicting freedoms the freedom to own slaves vs the freedom not to be enslaved (primarily an economic freedom which may or may not be supported by rationalized factors - eg. superiority | inferiority etc) the freedom to exploit for profit versus the role of government (or governance) in a responsible check on that freedom again partly (although maybe not primarily ) an economic question - debatable to what extent - but given the nature of slavery relative to industrial processes there would have been simple arithmetic cost-benefit assessments guiding decisions (on both sides). the rights of individuals (as owners of property) and as 'individuals' (aka 'entities with interests' or 'shareholdings') to exercise utilitarian individualism as an operating principle of maintaining or increasing that sphere of ownership (be it grounded in either human labor or industrial technology or a hybrid system model) versus the rights of individuals who (by some) were considered subhuman (three-fifths), expendable (disposable) or useful only for the good of profit. ownership and exploitation - whether certain principles for responsible ownership conflicted (or had the potential to conflict with) the pursuit of profit over principle and the pattern of exploitation (abuse, deathtoll, unsustainable business model flogging a dead horse etc) in which basic post-enlightenment ideas were being rejected in favor of a new oppression.
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  1763. is it fair to guess that JT the OG probably didn't really know the value of the documents he put up in Discord? if so, he probably didn't really know the value of his work - that would suggest a training issue as well as a lack of clear boundaries issue, especially when it came to the penalties for leaking. if so, that is also an institutional problem. access to the information is only the tip of that iceberg. a few 'ifs', granted yet then the representation from MAGAreps is also a reflection. that kind of freak out is 'ok' so long as it is a stick that can be used to beat the enemy (Democrats) with. again, mass shootings are a form of freak-out (mental health) intel (gun) leak (bullets) that (collectively as patterns) are witness to an obviously growing trend inside the USA (uneasy, imperfect, reluctant and flawed international guardian of liberty and security) to either turn in on itself or search for an enemy (obviously all roads - eventually - lead to the PRC) another explanation is that the OG Discord leaks are actually relatively benign and that OG the leaker is just the information cup that has 'spilleth over'. that actually there are way more sensitive things out there, that his clearance level is actually at the bottom of the infobarrel and that we really (as global citizens or regular folk inside the USA) have no idea and mostly lack relevant context as to what sorts of rights and responsibilities our freedoms are being traded for on a daily or more long term basis. so let's say (hypothetically of course) that ''OG' J. Terra' was an unlucky flush of a system he tried to exploit for personal gain, largesse, status, props or egoboosting and that it's better all round he did it at 21 than at 38 (when deliberacy coulda spelt even higher risks than schoolboy errors make - remember A. Ames?) it's likely he coulda just been 'seduced' by the worldwide web - sad to say. and if he was going to betray then it's a sucess that he exposed himself earlier than later. what be just as concerning then - in the context of fake news, real life corruption, crime, artificial intelligence, the general state of the human condition, transhuman transitioning and civil-military fusion - is if he had the sort of impact that meant his actions woulda really sparked something. which leads to the conclusion that maybe the U.S. is so information-rich it can afford these mistakes - as well as make media hay from it. plus - all the info that comes from comments and opinions like this across all the networked effects of these leaks. someone must be benefiting even if the profit is in bits and bytes not dollars and yuan. and back to MAGAreps, if someone is on the house intel comms etc and is essentially a paid Rep stooge to attack and snipe the other party from any vantage point possible then everything is fair game. as it seems to be being run like that - as a game. unless you get 10+ years in jail. then you will need your playstation. and a hard drive to boot. or reboot. unless it's been corrupted.
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  1865. Dear Prime Minister, It is with great joy that I learnt of your Home Secretary winning the tender to become the new Rwandan Minister for Immigration. I cannot continue in my abject disappointment of your government's broken record knowing that such strong disagreements have now cleared the path for a direction of purpose that enables the twin track double standard on illegality to bear financial fruit. As we all know, you have been pushing the public's limit of patience, acceptance, tolerance and reasonableness by seeking the strongest possible piece of emergency legislation your government can achieve so as to ensure that the exploitation of Africa under the newly planned Rwanda policy can begin with as many small boat scapegoats as we can muster - using swift or not to effect our deterrence calculus for many generations to come. This obviously stems from the UK's firmly held position that the small boats crisis can only be stopped by creating a national emergency of untold damage to our country. The only way we will be able to stop the boats completely is by urgently introducing this major new deterrent: consistent advocacy. A new nuclear peace could seriously enhance our opportunities to block domestic and foreign courts as well as giving us novel ways to undermine the effectiveness of opposition policy. One of the great advantages of our unwritten constitution is we Conservatives can do as we please so long as the unfettered power of our sovereign to create law is not a power that we don't continue to take full advantage of. Your government has a responsibility to place your personal interests above vital national interests and also above highly contested interpretations of international law. This has been a tradition since at least 1997 and should be now well-established and in our discussions on the legislation you have moved somewhat closer. So thank you. Nevertheless, I am unable to take the current considered plan through the back channels discussed as I do not believe it provides me with the best possible chance of success at your hands. It is kind of you to propose to sacrifice me for your own triumph of hope over experience yet the stakes for the country at large are too high for us all not to consider the wider ramifications of your ego and the endless merry-go-round of financial challenges which you are prepared to risk on everyone else's account. This raises doubts to your intent and ultimately only acts as a deterrent factor on reflection. Between home and the office, I am nonetheless proud of you and think your team have started well on the so-called improvements you want to deliver for those of you that are together working alongside other dedicated and capable civil servants. Agreeing to most of my five-point PPE plan to reduce our ability to deliver on promises was also a sly move but one i can still learn from. This package must be delivered immediately via a special operational rules change and accompanied by significant brexit reforms at the start of a new party year to ensure we meet your elevenses manifesto commitment with gusto. Every single Conservative MP elected will then be able to abandon the petty trivia of housing, public services, economic productivity, welfare reform, community cohesion and, more fundamentally, what little trust there is left in democratic politics. Let's all make a serious effort to keep the primary school ethos focus of your government. At least then we can progress to a common understanding small boat percentages and Italian period pains. The deal we negotiated with those two-faced eagles has given us illegality beyond our wildest dreams. The demons of Rwanda can now act as a powerful reminder. For the first time we have developed a comprehensive disruption strategy to organise our immigration crime gangs in expensive holiday resorts spanning Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria and Turkey. This has made the United Kingdom tourist industry a partner of choice to those who share our determination to tackle the haters and make record numbers of fans attend our popular gatherings irrespective of danger. This could have a ten-fold pull factor if we could eliminate the legacy backstop and actually start generating a profit from asylum hotels. Behind the scenes we have also instilled greater firefighting measures and our under the counter visa applications for asylum claims shall continue to slow all other necessary progress. Yet we did want to stop the boats altogether so why do we not drift out into the channel together and do 'whatever it takes' to deliver this commitment? This is not our last opportunity to prove this, but in its current drafting it is clear that we cannot go far enough to remain friends that do not drive our boats apart. With strong head assistance you have kept the helm and helped show the country how far leadership on the world stage in the UK has fallen. You've also done much to improve the lives of millions of citizens across the United Kingdom by continuing the sad legacy of all the Brexiteers that deserve much greater recognition. This is obviously not a conclusion I arrived at in Kigali, but one born of principle and tragedy after careful consideration and many months of trying to convince you of the failure and pitfalls of your position. You will retain little or no support on your illegal Rwanda policy and your intersecting challenges of generating cooked book economic growth whilst pretending to solve the housing crisis and improving immigration are unlikely to wash for much longer. The fortunes of the Conservative Party are in your pocket. It has nonetheless been an honour to be on an island that your government claims and of my five favourite Conservative Prime Ministers since Churchill you are definitely in the top twenty. I will continue to represent your financial interests even though they seem somewhat at odds with the wider interests of the UK constituents to whom you claim to owe so much. Yours occasionally,
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  2046. this is a snapshot of how and why Trump won his election back in 2016. it was business as usual for the art of dealmaking and because he had the balls to run into the political arena as if it was business as usual for The Trump Organization, the American voters lapped it up at an entertainment level as a minimum. i'm super wary of Trump because he's clearly got that whirlpool effect. still, for what it's worth VVP looks so uncomfortable in these few minutes its just awkward. his mind has gone. which is ok if you're at a dinner party and it's not really your cup of tea but not so much when you have 144m to rule over and no mandate beyond a billionairre class that are as dependent on dictatorship as you are on them for your legitimacy, power and standing. from this angle the 2014-2022 incursion creep that has spilt over into the Feb 24 invasion this year is just that: a spillover. its desperation. like a post-covid panic for help by a man so trapped in the obesity of his own system of rule that the geopolitical context isn't matching with the tangible realities of realpolitik - except as an expression of violent coercion over the international order. yet trying to offer up the principle of sovereignty as the sacrificial altar whilst looking to the PRC for validation is not only begging it. it's embarrassing for the blood being shed and the legacies being laid. he'd have been better off as President of Miss Universe - Russian Edition. so long as he wasn't jetting off on a lolita aeroflot for express palace getaways on the regs with 'ones for the future' he might still have had enough dignity for the Russian Orthodox Church to save a Requiem-like resting place even if it wasn't going to be a waxed mausoleum. as it is, the guy is going to end up like an inverted Lenin - the spy that made it to the hot seat only to tinker with the stitches, break all the eggs and try to run it up on someone else's account to stretch a faustian pact gone wrong. talk about blunders. but i guess that's what happens if the base you've set for yourself at home suddenly begins to crumble. and you didn't even realise how many cookies did not have your back? it would be funny if it weren't for the power, the death, the rise of fascist controls and an army of paper tigers and dragons growing teeth out there on the geopolitical horizon of the future. carnage. how to crash a presidency 101.
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  2188. The Western (Double) Standard: battlefield casualty assessments The West is casualty-averse. This assertion is generally true, although the positioning that the West operates across contains an inherent (and inevitable) bias toward its own. This should be unsurprising although the position is used to leverage accusations of anything from double-standards through hypocrisy to betrayal or apostasy. It is true that The West values its soldiers. It is true that The West puts a premium on its human capital. It is true that The West does not match that equality against those with which it has quarrel. And It is true that The West would (if pressed) assign different financial values against those lives for which it fights relative to those lives against which it fights. The West will not be unique there. Ask China the same. Ask Islam the same. Ask Africa the same. The significant difference between The West and those three other civilizations is the relative transparency of financial information. Again, Ask India (or Bharat) how they would value their caste system. The backdrop factor in all these equations is of course religion. The limited use of force is given scope within the Christian-Judea tradition yet the individual (from Jesus of Nazareth forward) is held to be a founding principle of Western Liberalism. Other cultures, ideologies, systems, modes of belief and collective endeavours of both vice and virtue do not necessarily share such sentiment. If many had to choose between sacrificing The Jesus or The Table Spread there are plenty out there, rightly or wrongly, that would opt for the former. And so it therefore should come of no surprise that the preparation to sacrifice others can then be masked with a projection that identifies the limited bias inherently unescapable within Western Defense doctrinal logic - that no matter how precise or targeted any given weapons system becomes it will always favor those that it seeks to protect and will always disproportionately discriminate against those it is designed to identify as targets.
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  2206. 🇷🇺hi, how are the tests going? 🇰🇵hmm, ok, not great, how about ukraine? 🇷🇺i don't wanna talk about it. are you open for business? 🇰🇵sure, come on down 🇷🇺ok, see you soon ✈96 🇷🇺👣 🇰🇵good flight? 🇷🇺yeah, my favorite hostess 🫂 🇰🇵ok, let's get down to business 🇷🇺wtf! I didn't want a giant portrait next to you 🇰🇵come on, you know how we do 🇷🇺ah ok, hey man, you know halve of those 10k crates were duds 🇰🇵man, our supplier in china didn't come through for us so we had to rely on juche industries again 🇷🇺ok, but your main man is back linked up again for network exports? 🇰🇵yeah, no doubt, plus we got your back for the war on sovereignty. after that fat orange twat betrayed us the usa can do one 🇷🇺no doubt, if we gave you an icbm or something could you send a message to hollywood? 🇰🇵easy. but check out our propaganda vid, its got nukes hitting every major us city 🇷🇺haha, no way, ours too 🇰🇵this is so cool, we'll be on the right side of history kicking off this new worldwar 🇷🇺you know we can't pay you via swift anymore 🇰🇵what about bitcoin or uranium? 🇷🇺potentially although we don't wanna run this through the ledger as it's a private equity family transaction 🇰🇵oh yeah i forgot our status isn't really legit 🇷🇺who needs legit when you got nukes? you gonna do it yeah? set it off like we agreed? 🇰🇵no doubt, i'm on this. united states of anonymity, let's turn 9-11 nuclear 🇷🇺my man! 🇰🇵no, i'm your supreme leader 🇷🇺jog on, you do as you're told 🇰🇵i'ma tell xi on you 🇷🇺go on then
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  2264. demographically of course 'white people' have a long-term reproductive issue - since one side of colonialism's economic successes, feminine empowerment, gender equality, technological advances and cycles of 'slavery' is a lowering of birthrates. it might be that russia's current toys out the pram is a bit of a freak out at this danger. and china too has a set of demographic problems, not least the one caused by a glut of males generated in the one-child policy program era. india and africa are in rapid growth mode with the latter due to grow the most worldwide in the second half of this century. that's more mouths to feed, more energy in demand, more opportunities and more potential problems (as with all population increases). meantime, united states problems come in part from a reconsideration of the mix. more and more people speak spanish, less and less people will accept slavery (from narratives through concepts to policies or agendas), more and more people are questioning authority and less and less people accept even the principle of taxation without proportionate and adequately fair and high standards of representation. particularly beyond entertainment in the context of basic liberties and amendment rights. plus the global oligarchs are forming - some have tech power, some have financial power, some have resource power, some have political power, some have military power. as well, 'black' and 'white' are generic descriptions. to call an individual black or white in an assigned sense is quite different from talking about a population calculus over bigger numbers - at the risk of veering tangentially into statistical analysis. there's a lot of fear about these days and there's also a lot of poverty (which itself is not necessarily economic). there's also a lot of temptation (especially where choice forms). as there is a lot of stuff that could have the potential to inspire a lot of jealousy or envy or wickedness or hatred. often depending on who is communicating what. because if your hatred of someone is at core the color (or colour) of their skin it might be worth checking whether that color first off is actually 'a color' and second whether 'that color' actually represents what you think it means - particularly in the context of freedom of speech. because if freedom of speech the way some folk use it were the same as the right to bear arms then there would be no repercussions for deploying a firearm against people that had done you no wrong nor wished you no harm. which would kinda be a strange way of going about the conduct of one's standing in a community. because to act with impunity does not necessarily confer impunity. especially once reality comes crashing that fantasy (whatever it was) down. whenever it happens and however long it takes.
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  2363. PRC has 1.45b people under its jurisdiction. RF has 145m people under its control (not including Ukraine). If PRC is 100% of a problem then Russia's population addition would make for 110%. If a China-Russia led axis decided that it was worth militarizing collectively to take over the world in a hostile, coercive and violent manner then the rest of the world would turn into Ukraine. it is obvious that -at least the majority of the E.U. and U.S. states - would oppose such an initiative - primarily through NATO. that could prove to be a retrospective 'told you so' moment of propaganda opportunism for the Federation autocratbots. and the aggressing offenders would have the upper hand. in a magical world of special wishes it is hopeful that China could pull Russia up and say - come on Russia, this isn't ok. but world policeman China isn't and even if would be possible the fact remains that the PRC is a communist entity and there are enough USA folk stateside that really aren't that fanatical for communism. not in the supportive sense anyway. so with a clash initiated (Ukraine) and a clash brewing (Taiwan, the Pacific, other) the question is really how this East-West and North-South divide going to take shape as and how fast it can descend or how fast it can be prevented from descending without ripping everything from humanity and even earth itself. starting a war in most instances must be seen somewhat as an offering of failure somewhere. if the ingenuity of all that came to pass has concluded that the initiation of violent means - particularly where the lies, subterfuge, denial and propaganda have such huge roles to play - is the answer then it is difficult to see how that party can legitimately end with victory. so many humans have made this basic mistake over history and time and again they lose. often the rejection of swallowing pride and refusing to eat some humble pie is a prelude to a self rationalizing spiral of righteousness that only the ego and local sychophants can actually support in any earnest. beyond that it is just about who has to suffer the consequences. the irony of the sovereign state under pressure to create such fissures in applied coercive means is also as the freedom of the corporate sphere is broadly in the ascendency. it is no accident that authoritarianism is a concept being locked down by state rulers as the corporate horse bolts from (or to) the gate of business. tyranny and freedom are mutually incompatible forces in the same space. and freedom cannot overthrow tyranny unless tyranny seeks to impose itself. tyranny can use any means as it seeks imposition. freedom can only respond in a limited sense until it has sufficient control over the leverage of escalation that can enable a tip back of the force balance needed to destroy, degrade or sufficiently injure the tyrannical dynamics so as to force retreat or submission. and once imposed, freedom needs tyranny to get the message since receiving the original memo yet denying it was understood or received at all is central to the ability of tyranny to have been able to have conducted its initiative from the get-go.
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  2385. processing complexity of the new global order from the cold warriors ultimately responsible for the new global order doesn't look fully on point wherever the sovereignty lies. the media don't really seem to fully know how to hold them to account either. they're either (mostly) too vociferous or overly deferential. or so it seems. something ain't right. maybe alot is on pause. i dunno but to hazard some guesses - probably because of implications they can't fully admit to. of interests they can't fully declare. of layers they can't fully reveal. kinda like sovereignty (since 1648) has been fed through a layered transformer and folks don't fully understand the algorithmic content output of its implications. and whilst it is clear that the rise of adversarial networks is increasing, that the calculations and outputs are neither fully explainable nor transparently clear, that the convolutions are still processing, that some folk are playing for time (whilst others are less patient) and that motives vary, the extent of which cannot be fully verified (nor fully trusted - some more obvious than others). the cartel model is an organising principle that could lend something to some of the human-centric network issues seeming to threaten or challenge some of the prevailing frameworks that govern international stability. expansion of the (currently limited) parametrization of its historically semantic application to cover more than just crime families and oligarchical monopolies could be done. the rise of international crime and its recent forays into war crimes, the theme and function of sovereignty, economic, corporate and business interests, governmental and financial holdings - all and more have the potential to be 'lensed' or analytically improved through the basic hub and spokes model for positive, neutral and negative structuring purposes, exceptions and offsets obviously permitting.
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  2649. pensioners for putin it's great how two u.s. presidents have been sufficiently intuitive to be able to see evil within an empire, across an axis and inside a soul as it helps everybody else understand where some of the problems reside. why anybody wants clarity, consistency or pravda from cagey bees however is beyond me. obviously the deployment of term 'nazi' is borrowed from friends inside the 44 iranian regime no longer 45 mins from iraqi wmd. c.i.s. must be best friends forever with n.a.t.o. but not cisgender. and cisnato is not good either. friendly diminuitive from 988 is not ok for horizontal leningrade. friendly kursk vertical in tsarist chechnya is no good for 911 petergrade either. dmitry vladimirovich is unified across boris gobbychief. 145m to prc owners of 20th party congress. annex of prevailandland is mighty dprk support for psychosis or murder group for wife and girlfriend prostitute and no accountability. bloodwater trust is skullyton and information state for syrian drug deal. corrupt alexei toyota is no macronalds for humiliated century of skoda rosnest or gazprime minister's WC-HW skoda tsarman. nyc-911 call. hi georgei dub. i hate you. we love you. please delete helicopter video with cia father and return wtc to dresden market. sori - anything goes. 14 + ukcraine. deal in interference for an inch and mile and you get vietnamese rice for time plus two inside united states of africa. no tajik. no tash. no bouty. no 210. just 238 friends and speciall ibrary signal for old book orthodox tragedy. no blood. just blood. apartment bomb is fun for 99. he. he he. xi. xi. tai tai and pay pay bae. gin & jing gwei. idaho specific - you like 420? 421 or 430 mr. ak? so clever iz the power. just elmo and fuzzy bear on a windup clap clap like they have a dog. so cosy inside dnc pizza. not nice on other side when mcreddy is redfaced for early morning boiled egg chops on a palate of dollar cash inside reaper jeep. so pally pal pal obsma bin laden - 1-1 is final score with pissy mattress inside miss universe hotel. no price for steel magnate no uranium no fat boy 2. rumpy steak is more black book, gold and green mr don magic lion roar for universal mgm style fight. opulent of revolving rose gold out in hollis project for brothel and alcoholic peacetime joke. poor folk is so sweet for next time less wolves. bye then - impotent democratic killer cardshoppers out in regime change game started a homeward looking renaissance to go pissy riot time and again for squirrel vanity. bearded woman is famous winner for special democratic operation on insider game and particular friend inside miami cool. bills and sanctions is special academy for princelings inside neo-kalshnikov skool.and retirement plan at 31 oct 2021 in kyiv. nesr diamond house without toothcombed butterfly knife without butter or small business taxation for a flash report inside restaurant for jellyfish across dynamo subutteo 85ers. more bills is for small green men from 99 to donny alfa and battman gruesome rich. sardine tin is not for moscow ballet or vodka girl or strangeman with grin not near paris. it is only talk to view gallery. back in allowance for later connections for lipservice of minahcare and ze action is just for less when politzi take blackbox outside euro monarch club. love from jav & sting. p.s. extended nuclear deterrence from weather forecast inside red kremlin with dmitry lavorich is for steal and they own to try greed on oligarchical press yacht for sake of clothing on a paid speaker bill and a lost toga party to celebrate no kitchen knife in lightweight incident for return to what's your take propaganda for a vhs cassette and a lost book that made more sense out of context than a normal ant might think otherwise for money's sake. like hitler with nukes on simple levels. to level down that is. or stiff tashed lip as they say out near the gates of hell for raytheon funding investments.
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  2679. the starting position is Iran vs Israel. Iran claims home status and challenges the fundamental existence of Israel. Iran's challenge to Israel is mostly devolved. That is to say Iran uses proxies and pays for its clients to act against its little regional iblis. The great Iblis (USA) is ironically what Iran aspires to (the hegemon) but as a modern state, Iran is actually younger than Israel (1979 as opposed to 1948 - 30 or so years). So Iran's rhetoric noticeably does not align with its reality. The role of the hijab and the function of the fashion police clearly runs deeper than a nailbar and whether IRGC green has a military patent. Many of the peoples and diaspora clearly have an issue with an increasingly repressive and pernicious regime. 45 years looks like a Cold War deal that has now given way to state terror and with the nuclear cap the IRI seeks, it would be an Islammunist Kremlin on nuclear droned steroids. Iran doesn't like the fact that Israel is a potential challenge to its existence except Israel isn't a fundamental challenge to Iran as a nation or a historical peoples, it is a challenge to the inward looking and insular nature of a thinly veiled Communist Islam. That's because - to call it as it is - Israel is a colonial democratic implant that is effectively the sum total of those Westphalian Empires that succeeded in survival at the beginning of the twentieth century. Obviously, that is anathema to an Islam (or rather, Islamic doctrines) that are largely balanced between the politics of the Middle Ages whilst using the technology of the twenty-first. Democracy, a component of which is to use reasoned debate to solve problems without first resorting to violent options, is still being tabled for representation amongst the Islamic states. Israel is representative of that spread yet still there is a violent reaction of rejection and the irony that the children of Israel are currently playing deaf dumb and blind to the opportunities that could be open to them is somewhat astounding. That'll be the Communist function (amongst perhaps other things) i guess.
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  2872. The IRGC’s 'Lenin Foot' Army A decade and a half on from V. V. Putin's Munich speech, the IRGC reaffirmed its role in continuing to facilitate the reappearance. Preparation for the emergence was underway from at least March 2022. In a statement prepared for publication to generate the soldiers for a new IRGC age it was declared that 'waiting means that we must prepare ourselves...' so as to establish the rule of justice throughout the world. The jihad was not for those that chose the paths of sitting down and mourning. The call was made to those returning for a cultural-based warfooting in the dialectic of direction and emergence. The forces of oppression, injustice, discrimination, and coercion would support such aims. In practical terms, the explicit rejection and commensurate condemnation of the liberal international rules-based order was only framed as a 'current situation' that humanity based on ignorance and barbarism. The I.S. alternative is presented as only one of the potentially actionable measures to pave the way for the reappearance program. Against this backdrop, the IRGC’s actions — from regional destabilization to disrupting the international system and its militia network — are being understood and communicated as part of the plan to prepare for the return, the emergence, the reappearance, and subsequent direction. In 'the fight against', the alliance between 🇮🇷 and 🇷🇺 against (or in contra to) 🇺🇦 represents a form of 'permawar' against mafiosi-like apparitions. Such worldviews - whether they derive from direct involvement in cold-blooded killings or adherence to doctrinal inputs that stem from other associative execution-based regimes - do not necessarily speak for all those that practice as Persians or even for every tongue that can communicate in Farsi. Nonetheless, the doctrine of the reappearance - so bound as it is to the age of the IRGC and its Islamic Republic masters - is the light for much activity to include beyond the fine words of hadiths, narrations and doctrinal extensions: weapons proliferation, ballistic missile programs, support for arming, financing, and training militias, as well as the nuclear weapon functions at Arak, Fordow and Natanz. Until now, most Western observers have viewed all of the IRGC’s activities through the lens of national interest, but its involvement in the Middle East is more consistent with Maoism than any Islamic doctrine. 3/3 link DT and IGC
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  2896. 1. Russia attacks Ukraine because Ukraine is being willingly pulled into the orbit of the EU. Cause - jealousy, hatred, possession, control, history and a self-righteous power trip because there's a boosted authoritarian that's been in the Kremlin hotseat a decade too long and thinks that the Crimean takeover in 2014 proved his strength visavis Ukrainian weakness 2. China (PRC) backs the Feds (Russia) on its invasive powertrip but can't declare open support because its focus is about a quiet power expansion from inside out (not as a military zero in point as per the Feds) Cause - overthrow the post-45 world order, check U.S. ambitions of advancing its full spectrum dominance even further and make a bid for a Communist world order based on Maoist 'correct thinking', lessons from the USSR (including a Stalinist c.o.p.) and an antithesis to Protestant capitalism. 3. The EU elite (the sovereign class) are a bit slow off the mark but they know what the deal is as the Kremlin is simply waking up the ghosts of National Socialism for a new era. The USA are institutionally happy to reject tyranny and back sovereignty although with its own internal issues it is half in at most. Cause - VVP had spent two decades consolidating the post-Soviet answer to the GWOT and the dual-edged move on Ukraine is both a disturbing threat and a gilt-edged gift (depending on where you might be on the Western spectrum). At the same time it raises the GWOT stakes to a credible nuclear dimension and opens up the door to some Middle Eastern states (Iran Syria), PRChina and a few others (BRICS+) to think options. 4.
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  3208. how is Kiev a terrorist when Moscow has been terrorizing Kiev since 2014 and has declared itself (through action not deed) a fully fledged terrorist state since February 2022? 1. Kiev is reacting to the aggressor state 2. the aggressor state is the Russian Federation 3. the Kremlin is a global terrorist network 4. the Kremlin is effectively an international militarized organised crime cartel 5. the Kremlin dominate the reins of the Russian state 6. as organized military criminals prepared to commit war crimes the Kremlin are probably OK with a global genocide 7. the PRC are probably also OK with this 8. the spokes from the Kremlin hub probably include: i. oil & gas ii. arms (big and small) iii. sex (prostitution) iv. fraud v. terrorism vi. kompromat vii. murder Nothing really that new in that list of seven there. A fair few states engage in such activities to some extent, even if it is to counter such activities. So within certain parameters there has to be a degree of tolerance even for seriously unpleasant actions. Witness the contemporary spotlight on the role of Saudi Arabia and why a Crown Prince can seemingly and literally get away with murder in international plain sight, one word: power. Sure that will make him and his country some enemies for life and might lead to further challenges later in time but after all the political hype has died down and the doctrine of 'save a life, save humanity, take a life, kill humanity' gets cycled a few more times that too will pass although where too is anybody's guess. the issue with the Russian Federation (or its President and his apparatchik henchmen to be more precise) is that the wilingness to commit mass murder whilst clearly remaining indifferent to escalation and even potentially considerate of a major human genocide - if it were possible - reads as error. when i say error i mean a character flaw. as if the man has been poisoned with a grievance of an insatiable and cannabilistic bloodlust for which the only cure is death but until he passes he shall seek to wreak more death in his tortured crippling of humanity for one reason only: power. he is beyond return for the mainstream average person on earth that might support life over death and his preparedness to undertake actions that could potentially wipe out 6b people in a nuclear exchange just because he has something to prove to power because his power is not the power makes him wrong. forgiveness on a personal level is his business. but he deserves to die. he is the head of a mob that exists - like it or not - and will continue to exist beyond his death. but he is a liability beyond that mob now, in the same way that anyone who is bigger than the team they represent becomes a potential liability. he is the 2 + 2 = 8 guy for the Russian Federation but his liability affects everybody on earth. it cheapens and debases the standard of sovereignty as a guarantor, safety net and basic rights and responsibilities exchange between government and the governed. it disavows and lies over a fraudulent double counting and double standard position of territorial ownership. it degrades and ruins dignity, manners, respect and appropriateness in international affairs. and when all is said and done it reeks of bitterness, jealousy, anger and other unenviable human traits that anyone has the potential to fall victim to but only a few, in their erronerous bid for greatness, seem to spectacularly (in the negative sense) achieve. Russia. please. Fuck your President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN off. He's a nightmare, liability and a wrong'un. He is doing everyone on earth an arrogant disservice when he is in a position in which he should be humbly submitting to the doctrine and practice of service. If he serves anything it is sheol, beezlebub, satan and iblis. he needs away with. for Ukraine but not just for Ukraine - as a harbinger of what more he might succumb too. as the killing continues it will be those that stay neutral who will be reserved the place of true betrayal since all it takes for evil to flourish is for otherwise those who were of good character to do nothing as evil rises.
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  3261. Cribbed from recent JPM shareholder letter - To fix a problem 1. Acknowledge problem 2. Low-income 3. Social fabric 4. Root causes 5. American dream Workers 1. Low-wage 2. Well-paid Family support Burden (sharing) Federal poverty Medical Cars Finance Insurance health outcomes mental health issues depression suicide lower life expectancy lack of experience higher unemployment more crime claims promises unequal opportunity education systems attendance workforce preparation incarceration workforce exclusion economic costs policies and markets housing mortgages healthcare immigration regulation education student lending fairness populism trust government jobs growth equality opportunity dignity creativity better social outcomes (health) higher household formation lower crime policy changes 1. better utilize existing resources 2. spend some money institutional ownership outcome responsibilities work skill fields advanced manufacturing cyber data science technology healthcare better paying jobs schools local businesses effective program replication growth p45 forces military economic diplomatic moral leadership challenge policy strategy economic policy (domestic) economic policy (foreign) trade investment national security other issues U.S. foreign policy Greece Ireland Singapore Sweden North Korea Venezuela 1. leadership 2. economy 3. nation 4. challenge capabilities military (might) economic (power) principles (people) liberty justice fairness equality freedom democracy The alternative to American leadership is A.I. the free the democratic the Western world other countried America (superpower) China nations principles guarantee stay free American leadership American borders American challenges Autocratic challenges Emigration - Immigration Pax Americana relative world peace global economic prosperity 1.3 billion person lift from poverty (1945 - 2025) Trade Healthy Market Commodities Inventories Risk Unhealthy Market Risk Inventory Financial Markets USA US debt US equity Global Participants Investments Pensions Plans Funds Governments Families Individuals Communities Employees Companies Corporations Multinationals Markets Debt Regulation Transparency Banks Economies Capital Stability Services Costs Accessibility Systems Banking Regulation (Government) Credit Trading Government Local State Federal Business economy sectors companies, state governments local governments universities hospitals pension plans job creation
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  3270. The USA's longest war in terror Two decades plus of investment in a heroin-fuelled post-mujahadeen stan space. HQ1: the problem set. Four-side near three-point. No t-shirt. That's a negative. More than hundreds and thousands as the hundreds raise up. Now the government (they say) cannot allow the female masjid to madrass her. Else the girls school up. Inside a triangle, the sound is not the same. Because 'we' can. Or could rather. No list. No trade. No routes in. No Afghan, No Iraq - even at the behest of a government allowance. Nineteen + one. A boss. A financier. The unknowns. Picture that. Call the Chinaman? I think it is now in Ghana sir. U-no, the blackstarr liner... See, the investments had shifted somewhere else: personnel and materiels had shifted to the conventional ISISGWOT. It's been turned over? Since when? A two-front operational demand produced the stresses required to generate European investment. Old, new, needs and exacting treasure wasn't going to be cheap - even with the CNN effect in effect. Between 2011 and 2019 the lack of growth and continued stagnation became diametrically opposed. A $-tag on the blood of a plan was worth more than cash, especially one run by a kleptocracy. By definition the direction was on lock. A little known lessons learnt report was identified early on. Long sentences issued by the WP were published in the public domain to reveal a somewhat expanded version of events not previously known. Doctrinal excuses belied a truth that became increasingly silenced - masked or not. Back when the cables started flying across a brace of remarks that contextually, back in 06, rang bells. The state of affairs remained unresolved out of context. By 08, the British looked to have failed. Yet again. The chains looked in. Leakages, leaks and because of facts that poured out five-fold. A GP in the east might have conveyed neutrality yet still the runs added up. Uncovering the morass of friendship and what it did not entail was a lesser evil. As it was then seen. Boots, shades, a kickback and then a misdirected path that didn't work as intended. The big one with pennies made for ready, lock and load. No problem: afghan heart, afghan mindset. A cup of tea just to provoke an ambush seemed tactically false. Frustration added units of blood, units of treasure. Amid vocalized threats and reminiscent offenses, the then POTUS in VA officially announced the new phase: stability, training, development and universal education. --- End the war? Just because you're not wrong, it doesn't necessarily make you right, correct or in the right. Was it worth it? The output was subject to review and lessons learned from the withdrawal were analyzed in DOD and on The Hill. The 45 was an instincts-based era. Clarity of blowback prior to blowback was nigh-on an impossible request yet the DJ. deal was inherited on 46. A roadmap to surrender for the US state was unthinkable. Twin-track negotiations could have been unified in a manner that could have saved time without sacrificing the bureaucracy that GWOT forces had taken so long to help construct. The full-costs are still in unknowns. Planning, training, mission consequences and the overall conduct of performance in a rationally centered CBA balance-sheet figure continues to be unavailable. Less bloodloss, less family divisions and less care for failure may well have produced entirely different results. The general lies that built-up prior to withdrawal had little impact yet the effects remain. Emotional processing using different forms of communication techniques serve many a network yet it is still not known what the total parameterized output would look like in the public sphere. Far-flung foreign adventures whilst returning to a place only previously known as home created disturbances, generated anger and had former serving personnel asking questions of their leadership which risked raising thresholds that much closer to the draft. If the gap between the minority and the majority had divorced beyond reasonable doubt then events like J6 could have raised further Congressional-level investigations both at home and abroad. Independents aside, the concepts were alleged to have been squandered by short-term visions that were not aligned inside the twenty-year timetable. --- Making the strategic choice to exit would have been no simple decision for those personnel required to leave, nor for those personnel and civilians that had assisted, trained with, worked alongside and executed part of the GWOT fight vision. Without any integration, the lack of clarity across Westernized governance functions imposed on families and communities across Afghanistan were almost irreversible in scope. Many died. The graveyard plots did not decrease. In cost or space. --- Crisis assistance lines have since been set-up to assist personnel and former personnel suffering or living with the aftermath of GWOTUSA's 20-year investment in 🇦🇫.
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  3538. questions relating to the IDF briefing 1. why did the briefing start with two different rocket attacks? (hamas and ij) - hamas at 6.15pm and ij at 6.50pm. why is the earlier identified hamas launch at 6.15pm relevant to the after action investigative report? 2. there is a communication (understanding or comprehension) discrepency between the ij cemetery launch (6.50pm) and the location of launch show on the trajectory map (🔴launch | ⚪️ land). the 🔴 point shown on the trajectory map is not in "close proximity" relative to the size of the gaza strip - is the red dot launch the ij cemetery location? please clarify. 3. is the footage in this video the actual hospital (near st. philip) since the IDF seem to be claiming that the ij missile they have identified hit the nearby carpark and it was only propellent that generated the main damage. in addition they claim no significant crater damage - i.e. that this was an ij cock-up that hamas have moved into conspiracy land for the sake of global media attention. 4. where is the "compound" referred to by the wiretapped hamas operatives? near the hospital in question or near the red dot launch site? unless i'm being stupid in not understanding something very simple and being taken for a ride with confusion being sown inside an information warfare briefing which holds more complicated science than answers that make sense the israeli briefing doesn't fully stack up. note that from what i've seen and heard so far it is still not possible to say if it was ij or idf that struck the العمداني hospital but it certainly isn't evidentially clear either way as things are - briefing or hype.
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  3802. at least global births are still outstripping global deaths though. democracy vs autocracy is a bit 'with us (or me) or against us (or me)'. is it not? or does it depend on context? unchecked impunity can lead to corruption - in the UK, the New Labour project (1995 - 2003) and Conservatives (2012 - present) are clear demonstrations of that. however, glib and non-contextual access to throwaway references such as Lord Hailsham's observations are also likely to obscure the nuances that require accountability and responsibility to be raised as proportionate functions of both sovereign state governance and corporate practice. unfortunately for the western systems (as of 2022), the proliferation of corporate entities that are opaque at best or corrupt to inferno-levels and beyond, have been enabled, facilitated or at least not prevented by government. if the workers are happy and profiting then why change the model? and on a global scale, nobody can hold anybody accountable. total carnage - in the nicest possible financial sense. look at panama, pandora: tips of icebergs. the arctic can't melt fast enough for some. still, at least we can all pay our mortgages and look down on the plebs suffering a cost of living crisis eh. wot-oh. tally-ho. happy christmas. let them sniff coke. the rest can eat cake. yours, unemployed (still) - criminalised or not. p.s. proportionate accountability and responsibility need not necessarily equate to guilty or not guilty in what might otherwise be a fair legal system.
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  3823. Obviously not just sovereignty that is up for a health check. Would agree that the current French President seems a bit too clever, corrupt - or maybe just selfish - by half. only on instinct tho, as there clearly lacks any credible proof if it were true that such a suspicion was less than unfounded. Maybe he's a strategic genius that believes in the historic tradition of the Communist Party of China that cults of personality should be resisted. Or maybe he's folding early and handing French power to Chinese influence in the hope of being spared at the cookiecutter chopping block. Obviously Canada came a cropper recently too at the G20 or wherever it was that insincerity got tabled. Meanwhile, Xi didn't look as if there was any respect for either Putin or Macron. Xi's left hand man stuck it on Putin before they bounced in their limos from Moscow. Meantime, Macron got the Empire's treatment with a garden cuppa and a visit to a gilded carriage that looked like a rollercoaster. Except the overall look from the CCP's General Secretary and CiC seemed more of tolerance than acceptance. So long as French business did well, guess there's no problem. As for Taiwan, when folk hold up 2027 that could mean at half eight in the evening - any day, any time zone. And the world will know as it will be the PRC's A.I. unlock / reveal that will set the gambit for the new world order for real - not the fake news sniping and petty bear baiting that has so far dominated mainstream disinformation discourse.
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  3829. Support for a diplomatic off-ramp whilst Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is in power would be orange lighting every dictator on earth, public and private, that changing sovereignty and territorial integrity through violence is potentially effective and now on global stand-by. Not to mention that it would also be a betrayal of Ukraine, the principle of international sovereignty and the logic of the post-1945 rules-based order which would have subsequent order consequences for the global south as a new free-for-all. Divide and conquer can be clever strategic devices to try and split opinion yet having others fight your fights through proxy channels is clearly also a dangerous game. France warned against humiliation and then took a trip to China yet is still central to mainstream negotiations, a somewhat janus-faced position. On Engagement - Trust: why seek to sip soup if the devil only has a fork for you? And boxing in the Russians is what Ukraine is doing. Or rather, boxing out. - Aims: Ukraine is clearly just a sideshow for Russia, just toying with the former SSR in its arrogance. Mutually incompatible and irreconcilable strategic aims entrench positions, create fortifications (mentally as well as physically) and offer up competing interpretations of reality on such issues as ownership and the role of concepts that include deterrence, concepts that have limited scope for narrative shaping. Yes, clearly the trojan horse of peace negotiations can be a strategic tool but let's not try to add insult to intelligence here. Please. Violence is violence and kindness can be taken for a weakness. A generic vagueness should be a warning sign from folk that do not deal in abstracts. That applies at least equally to the P.R.C. counterparts. Ambition can be the ruin of many. The pursuit of glory and greatness can ruin many a man, especially where a society can indulge and support such fantasies, whether through largesse, fame, wealth, confidants, flattery, servants, concubines or cults of personality. The Russian Federation under Putin is the first major league terrorist state of the G.W.O.T. The Z are prepared to genocide if necessary - or at least make an effort to start one. The rest of the C.R.I.NK.S (🇨🇳🇮🇷🇰🇵🇸🇾) will back it if it suits their aims too and although it might be a stretch to engage the P.R.C. with a global peacekeeping mission set the narrative there at least is still not finished. In the new breed, the Kremlin currently exceed the I.R.G.C. in the state terrorism issue yet they align in their asymmetry. The I.R.G.C. will sponsor, support, network and do just under the threshold to avoid an overt proscription whilst duck-paddling like crazy underneath. The Kremlin are clearly top-downers that exploit weakness with brutality. They're not about negotiation unless its about subjugation on their terms. Many are or can be seduced by this power in a fascinated sort of pornlike sense. But the result is violence - rape, murder and abuse (a different R.M.A.).
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  3889. israel doesn't bear the hallmarks of a regime in the specific sense unless you widen the definition of regime as a generic term of insult for the government of any sovereign state. the difference between israel and iran and how the latter can be charged as a regime when the former cannot reflects itself in the nature of the institutions of state as well as the behaviour of the government in relation to its citizens / populace. with regards to the former (the institutions) iran is 45 years old (1979) and israel is 76 (1948). with regards to the latter (the actions of government) iran's regime is internally repressive and actively sponsors proxy-force terrorism against israel whereas israel's government is unpopular electorally yet fully prepared to address a multifront regional war to address the threats of terror its haters impose on it. israel isn't killing its own citizens that don't adhere to jewish fashion protocol. israel is killing its enemies, as well as the friends and families of its enemies if they are in the vicinity of the enemy it is trying to kill. israel isn't trying to hide this. many folk in the rest of the world outside the lands of israel and palestine think israel is killing too much, too many. iran is trying to kill israel. iran is trying to do so mostly by proxy. iran is therefore trying to disguise the fact it is trying to kill israel. iran clearly wishes to retain the power of denial. but if israel exposes iran for what it is (a bully sponsor) then iran says it doesn't want a fight. so if iran is trying to coerce and bully israel so it can kill it and israel stands up to iran's bullying by addressing first iran's proxies (hamas, hezbollah and the houthis) and then iran then who is israel standing up to if it stands up to iran? tehran. and who rules tehran? the legacy holders of the revolution. are these legacy holders individuals or institutions. in a direct sense, they are individuals with one lead individual (the supreme leader) and an institution called the IRGC which has twelver tentacles. the twelver tentacles of the IRGC are not democratic in a positive sense. to list the top eight of them does not see healthcare and education in the list - the women, life, freedom movement does not exist because the revolution is being tolerant. the IRGC are not respected, they are feared. mr. netanyahu is regularly castigated as an increasingly isolated figure, reflective of much of the (mostly covert) disdain and hatred that many pockets of the world have for israel on the world stage. yet he's taking the rap for over 40,000 dead in gaza in less than a year's fighting, he's headed the oversight of a trap sprung on hezbollah-hizbollah in lebanon, and he's now under the spotlight for questions about how and when he'll react to iri missile barrages against the israeli state in april and again recently. his 'regime' is more accurately (or nuanced) as a 'war coalition'. clearly, unpopular with much of his domestic audience he (a former soldier) might think that this is his one and only opportunity to really open up the entire middle east in a way that has not been done before in the modern era. this opportunity - if it is indeed seen as such - would only be (or is) possible because iran (as iri) is offering up a casus: the escalating threat of terrorism with multiple proxies, nuclear intent and near-nuclear (known unknown) capabilities.
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  4045. the almost religious fervor that large swathes of the US Republican Party (GOP) have with Trump must be reflective. reflective of how desirable it is for mainstream or establishment politics to be disrupted by an outsider. reflective of how a billionaire status businessman can achieve the image of success for legions of followers. reflective of how ego, crime, deals, the projected art and the elite 'democracy' of a global dictator network (to include putin and orban - the guy is actually already 'fessin' up to those two as network partners or idealogues would you believe it USA) create power. reflective of how powermove New York or magic city east coast business ethics can be translated on the world stage. reflective of how all publicity just increases the blindfaith of heroworship for some adherents of trumpianism. reflective of how badly - after the Bush dynasty eras - US Republicanism needs the conviction-based caeserean politics of say anything, anything goes power of ego that increasingly smacks of desperation. and reflective too as a warning to the wider USA, that democracy cannot be taken for granted and that a vote for Trump 2.0 is really a vote to back the principles of fascism as outlined in the current global vision of nightmares from vv.putin and how the war with a peer competitor (the PRC) would come with a sacrificial-based starting pricetag that might risk US dignity for starters, the initiative for main and the subversion of everything the founding fathers secured for pudding. and that would be before tea.
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  4251.  @patriotzfinder  true indeed. it was neither 1964 nor 1968. the cold war had ended and in february 2022 the kremlin knowingly, intentionally, deliberately and purposefully broke all the rules and conventions of international relations in one fell swoop. the invasion of russian forces may well have been a continuation of the crimean takeover but it was still an exception. it was the role of a stronger state (c.145m people with nuclear weapons) invading a smaller state (c. 30m people and a decision made post-cold war to relinquish its nuclear status to that bigger state) - a simple abuse of power by the bigger state (russian federation) putin as an individual is insecure, has spent too much time in power, is on a one way trip to hell, is a oneman powertrip egotrip gone wrong and going wrong and the longer he persists after feb 22 the more of an arsehole he shows himself to be, the more and more evil his authoritarian and malignant dictatorship tendencies become, the more and more damage he does to both the ukrainian and russian peoples and the more and more he gets deeply and inextricably embedded with north korea and the beijing regime. which just sucks for everyone else in the world too that have to live with the effects of his fallout and obsession with power. not that he cares. as a psychopath he is fully entitled. what makes the invasion of ukraine different from the invasions of iraq or afghanistan? (for example). many apologists of russia might want to highlight an equivalence standard of how the west is just as guilty and although there are parallels, it is not equivalent. saddam, ghaddafi, soleimani and bin laden were not zekenskyys. they were not able to rally international support to their cause that legitimized their status as dictatorial warlords. putin is in their league. he is a warlord - bound by organized crime yet trying to front that mob as a legitimate entity. it's not - the Kremlin is a front and everyone from Moscow to D.C. knows it. and that is not ok when the spillover effects of that crime is a psychopathic individual so obviously committed to murder - small-scale or large.
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  4377. here we are, here we go, there. we went. 01. bro² 02. science (stem) startup 03. industrials 04. sputnik (cold war term 🛰) 05. silicon (uncanny) 06. @trump 07. 2022 (new era) 08. billions ($) 09. servers / farms / ai / machines 10. cognition (economy) 11. companies 12. China (PRC) modelling (profit) 13. chips (weaponization of) 14. historicals 15. techboard (tempering) 16 @trumpcard (vs) 17. doge (savings) 18. platform 19. electricity for haircuts 20. medical health meds vending 21. robotic 22. return to sputnik (🛰) 23. recognition (rivalry) 24. PRC (builders) 25. geos 26. markets 27. india (loc) 28. loca loac (planet power) 29. trillions (80% stock) 30. 600b (%) 32. reinvestments (⅞) 33. privacy (or knot) 34. collision course 35. PLA (1985) 36. education 37. nft hft 38. pay (wechat) 49. AGI - ASI 50. timings 51. unknown known 52. J²⁰ 53. notes (tw) 54. acceptance 55. fruition (v3) 56. familiarity (r1) 57. think² 58. $econd$ (llm) 59. ----- 60. reasoning 61. regurgitation ... 62. process driven (input output) 63. questions a. 1989 west b. censor c. chat friend d. returns (marketing and sales) e. planning (office streams) f. piratical copycat enthusiasm g. tech staples h. priors i. new model (combined synthesis trainer) j. reversal of fortune (ⁿ-jin👻]] k. kosts over consumption (inf) l. relevant paring / manufacturing bias m. power calcs [🔑-|🔒|🔐|🔒(🔑)-->🔐|🔒🔑|+/=🔓!] ---- i. values ii. centers iii. expos iv. digital twinning for extra mile - USG U$G - ⛏ (dennys) - it says 'bad moth... - target advance frontiers (t2 x no no) - lower tier graders - silver coated - spoons of chopped suey for digestion offal - chips to balance - regulation of negativity and the next request - crocs in kitchens - ecofare (green agenda) - traid trade traders trading box boxer tray - china town can 💯 🐲🐍🐸🐼🐷🐐🐪🐀🐇🦊🐒🐶🐯🐱🦄🐻‍❄️🐨🐻🐧🐦🐓🦆🦅🕊[🦉🦢] most easy
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  4458. Mr. Bolton can still afford to make Ukraine a partisan issue which says as much about U.S. domestic politics as it does about international politics. Charge one: B.A. underarmed and submitted to Russian intimidation and deterrence - splitting hairs here with a convenient omission of the wider GWOT, the history of Ukraine, Russia, NATO and the U.S. since 2001 as well as failing to adequately acknowledge (beyond lip service to sabre rattling) the known battle for escalation controls, particularly where retrospection can offer improved visibility. On the nuclear forces (the 'first artillery force' - aka Russia) and the obvious yet still relatively unknowns with the Second Artillery Forces of the PRC under the PWL/NLF and how that fits with Belarus (user platform and first prospective beneficiary of 'FAF' devolution - democratization). Who knows what the content of the actual exchange between Pu-Xi was? On Regime Change - no coherent position?! Well, of course it is easier to identify a problem than articulate a solution and if the school of Saddam Blood (both prosecution and defense) hadn't learnt at least some lessons we obviously wouldn't be in the Mexiglo Stan-Off that currently prevails. For the Fed (the Russian variant) An internal coup that supports an institutionally democratic separation of powers over a corrupt feudal patronage system of oligarchical personalities and self entitled sovereign individuals is obviously desirable although with the peer competition of a China avec Communist characteristics in the ascendency accompanied by a 'defense of the third world' narrative there might have to be a form of compromise (a word not anathema to U.S. Americans - even the powerful) Assistance and breakup would likely require intervention and breakdown first - in reverse order. The future's bright, the future's oil. Just not as we knew it. For everything else there's global poverty, threat vectors for the matrix and plutonium splitting IP fractions on tilt - the mercantalist sort, the merchant class, the marketing mission or the merchandising variant (missing without action - or not) Plus Taiwan divide by an acute Iran times a malevolent MAGA = you tell me If not then maybe run a longitude line two hours east of Moscow and work backwards
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  4888. J6 is political - top to bottom. The White House is at the top - from institution through former to incumbent. The 1/6 Committee is at the bottom - personalities and positions. Congress (House & Senate), the electoral system (inc. the GOP and the DNC) and regular voting folk are in the middle. So far as juries go it really is basic - but only because J6 was a failure in what it sought to leverage - the formation of permanent authoritarianism and the end to democratic participation without violence. The conspiracy to defraud is the attempt to overturrn legitimate elections. 1. Were the elections certified? (Y). The defense can claim reasonable doubt although that would only work for OKs and PBs etc. For the former-President to claim that defense would beggar belief so don't be surprised if and when it is claimed. 2. Were the former-President's statements leading up to and on the day: inflammatory (Y); inciting (Y); and with intent to change the outcome of the election (Y). The intent is what would mark a departure from a regular First Amendment defense. 3. Where did the buck stop for the attempted sedition (as output)? If (to use an analogy) there was an 'attempted rape' on the 'house of freedom' then just because there was a 'separation of powers' between the 'voice' that 'instructed' and the 'object' that 'entered' does that mean that the 'voice' is 'not guilty'? Especially where the 'voice' had everything to gain from a successful coup - i.e. dictatorship-level power over the entire governing structure of the USA. The temptation was clearly too great to let such a magnificent opportunity pass.
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  4982. sovereignty and suzerainty are not the same thing. to use the metaphor of an aircraft: 1. suzerainty would be where the passengers on board the aircraft would have no choice where they were going. sovereignty would be where the passengers had tickets and knew their 'social contract'; 2. both the sovereign and the suzerain aircraft require sufficiently compentent cockpit crew (i.e. pilots capable of flying) but the relative freedoms of the entire rest of the aircraft would determine whether 'the state' (i.e. 'the aircraft') was under sovereign or suzerain controls; 3. suzerain and sovereign controls can appear similar and might look the same or quite similar from the outside but the suzerain controls ultimately restrict freedoms, are more pernicious, require higher levels of submission and do not enable participation or interaction to the same extent that sovereign controls might; 4. to be a suzerain state yet to pass yourself off as a sovereign state (i.e to claim sovereign rights so as to to exercise or rationalize suzerain controls) should be a potential red flag regime alert. suzerain states have increasingly narrow self-interests and generally cannot expand for the utilitarian greater good without an inflective recourse to their coercive monopoly of violence. it is at this point that many suzerain states front on sovereignty effectively revealing their dual-standard of hypocrisy; 5. basic 101: if your aircraft was hijacked or if you were forced to board an aircraft out of force would your aircraft be sovereign or suzerain?
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  5134. they build them in cgi and then deploy with greenscreens to make sure that the press conferences look realistic for online viewers. obviously it would be dangerous and destabilizing for everyone if that sort of made up little lie wasn't actually true. in such an event that these sessions were actually not fake news it might indicate that the world was potentially less safe than what might otherwise be assumed. sabre rattling hierarchy dirty bomb - entry level tactical nuke - level one non-strategic nuke - level two if none of these work then please just resort to global crime syndicate (valdai vanguard conference 22) statements made by current global crime tsar*. please note that unless otherwise stated all statements made are projections based on internal mirror imaging projections and should not be taken for purposes of genuine progress. that said, clearly where murder and assassinations have ceased to provide sufficient entertainment to continue the post-covid fracturing of the gwot then the threat of nuclear terrorism against the cold war winners seems a plausible next level option for post-soviet and mad-ayatollah collaborative purposes - particularly where asymmetric investments pay dividends. * phobias, exploitation of divisions, basic internet research, denial of agency, and projection of fear for the purposes of humiliation, insult, injury, threat or pain are a bully's game not designed for evolution or advancement but instead for enslavement and power - individually, across an area or over a population (swathe or set).
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  5149. Dear Sir / Madam, Thank you for your representations. I have taken the opportunity to briefly address them, if i may. Your representations contain two obvious falsehoods and perhaps more. Although i have no need nor desire to confront the detail of much in which you issue i also note that there are also some key omissions, conspicuous by their absence. Again, i can list two. To the lies first: 1. You state that war is a failure of diplomacy. As President (aka Commander-in-Chief) you know this is a falsehood and it is deceptive of you to claim otherwise. War is the continuation of diplomacy. This is your failure. 2. "NATO is not a defensive alliance". Again, your misrepresentations belie an intentional and deliberate misunderstanding. You're purposefully manipulating the purpose of defense for your domestic audience. Presumably the blood credit of 500,000 Russians (the current next projected deathcount marker for your strategic error of offense made from Belarus) is also 'defensive'. As to the bigger picture: 1. Your decision to break with the Kellog-Briand pact of 1928 and conduct an aggressive offensive on the sovereign entity of Ukraine was an initiative of the Russian Federation. In breaking a pact that preceded both Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler you have rewound the Russian clock back for more than 94 years. 2. Your rejection of sovereignty is a rejection of the EU, NATO, USA and everything to your West, the very powers that gave you the basis of the power you claim and the foundation of the new global order you so desire to make in your own image amongst the rising powers of the declining East. Sir, this is not the dvor (двор) even if you did have some previous successes in being able to flip it like that for the sake of television viewers. You will have lost Russia even if Russia cannot lose you. You sir, are a rat (🐀), more CIA than FSB or KGB, more CCP than SVR, and more in slave to your corporate overlords and internationally monied bankers than you are GRU or even Russian. You have betrayed your motherland yet you continue your deception in the plain sight of day as if it were the cover of night.😂
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  5205. over in eastern europe behind the organized crime curtain, there's an old school player that has normalized dictatorship 🇧🇾 and there's a new school player that is trying to normalize a dictatorship 🇷🇺. together, the two dictators of 🇷🇺&🇧🇾 conspired to conduct a full-scale assault on 🇺🇦 (on feb 24th, 2022) to demonstrate that the might of dictatorial violence is the might that is right. between 1991 and 2014, issues of ukrainian sovereignty, ukrainian politics and ukrainian corruption were largely local or regional issues and by region there is meant russia - the russian federation. in 2014, russia escalated in and on ukraine. on two levels: crimea; and flight mh17. crimea was a coup by stealth, cunning and ingenious yet it didn't break the regional mould. the downing of mh17, whilst in and of itself is and was not ok, nonetheless still largely contained itself within the regional framework (the near abroad, a moscow jurisdiction) and grayzone warfare (eastern ukraine was already subject to separatist-loyalist divisions). that all changed on feb 24th of 2022 when russian federation state signed-off on an invasion of ukraine from belarus with over 180,000 soldiers. the invasion broke the rules of the post-1945 consensus in the most blatant and obvious way, was a fundamental rejection of the principle that is westphalian sovereignty (1648) and was itself an act of denial that implied a cold war (1945-1991) hadn't even taken place (don't mention the ussr). in rewriting history using late nineteenth - early twentieth century levels of violence and supplanting drones for tank and air mechanization, the authority of russia's federation was preeminently unquestionable. a three day lightning strike to decapitate the kiev enemy and three weeks to execute a crimean-like big green men for three months of total capitulation and surrender of submissive ukraine. nearly three years later, the denial persists. eastern europe's longest running dictator is hiding in plain sight. the second place candidate is an adolf 'godwin' hitler for our age. over in the PRC there is a potential josef stalin brewing. either way (comparative or actual) there is a set (a club, a group, an elite, whatever) that is hell-bent on ensuring that the cult of personality dictator model of governance triumphs over the institutional-based modes.
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  5256. 13:55 - 14:10 - the westphalian scapegoat 14:53 - domestic projection Stubbornness in adults can result from being unable to accept losing. Challenging a system can be a corollary of being unable to accept a loss. Even if unachievable, the goal of beating a system can be a way of trying to prove that you are better than the system you're opposing. Outside of power - as an academic exercise - of course that can work: individualism; the achievement narrative; fiction; myths and legends. In power, it is clearly different. You cannot force, manipulate, shape or change either love or power beyond a point. They just are - nukes or not. Which is why that it is claimed that all is fair inside those powers. Unfortunately the love of power is the seduction of hubris that invites contenders to the stage of arrogance. And in the doctrine that offers up the initiative of the offense that all tyranny is invited to dine with, the charge can only deepen. Where there are no institutional checks to remove potential tyrants from consolidating their power, their power enters growth mode, the tyranny extends and the trinitarian balance ceases to exist. In 2003, the UK decision to militarily assist with the invasion of Iraq was a glimpse of tyranny, a glimpse of ego-driven politics as a continuation of democracy using post-97 media, and a rejection of the people and majority government in favour of American favor and certain elite although still largely unconfirmed interests. The appeal to 'the leader' is nothing new and since Germany was humbled after the Third Reich, the balance of Westphalian hubris was restored with the EU project after 1945. The USSR was not created in the renaissance of eighteenth century awakening, it was not created after 1945 either. The tension between tsarism (monarchy) and proletarianism (Sovietism) is unreconciled, is unresolved. The answer to that dialectic was beyond President B. Yeltsin in the 1990s. The Kremlin after 2000 did not make the same mistake, yet the failure to transfer institutional power and to consolidate it despite institution, not because of institution, is the cult of personality that has now infected the post-Soviet rump - as well as the potential for Maoists worldwide. Democracy contains jokes. Democracy has comedic elements. Democracy is sometimes a circus. Yet the extent of democracy is not defined or limited by humour, humiliation, derision, disdain, inside games, or secret codes. It can turn full circle on those pivots but it will go through more than might what otherwise be apparent from the outsider perspective before it reveals itself again. Democracy is permitted forgiveness even if authoritarianism denies it can forget. And so in that process over time, democracy - given sufficient conditions - can grow in overall strength as dictatorship can grow in malevolent extremity. The hope, belief, the expectation or assumption from the challenger coming from compressed power is that the enemy they seek victim of will be more brittle, become increasingly weaker, will be easier to attack and will lack the resilience to defend itself. This of course, for the aggressor, may be true - if they have no illusions about their target. Yet only in the niche, only on the platform of choice, only where their projection of fear or overwhelming force can be offered up as an example of submission. Only where the fruit hangs low or is perceived to be ripe. It does not apply writ large unless the illusion of tyranny can be extended as a conspiracy - deniable or not. Which demands monopoly. In 2023, the Kremlin Federation is illustrating the extent to which democracy is a joke is the extent to where human life can be disregarded by those that play god. For those that play the role of the commoner to choose the common life of others as a sacrifice for their own warped sense of power (regardless of whether or not they were once of the common) it is only exploitation (for the ends of...) that can be levelled. Corruption - the genuine sort, not just the legally defined - can then close in. Decay - at best - must follow.
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