Guys, I'm new here, just want to try this thing to see how it's working

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T08:55:31+00:00

Willkommen! :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T11:27:15+00:00

Better campaign finance laws might go a long way toward achieving this, and, you know, without all the hangings.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T13:33:33+00:00

Not sure whether to categorise the death of Europe as a suicide ... or what exactly?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:53:17+00:00

Biden will likely do exactly what he's told
and neither understand nor question it
for 'Four more years! ... Pause ...'

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T11:02:51+00:00

Let's have the legal system, and society in general, engage in the pretence that the mentally ill are 'correct', and that sane people speaking the truth are criminals motivated by 'hate' ... what could possibly go wrong?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T10:51:00+00:00

So, if he and his gruesome accomplices had received medical qualifications, they could have done this legally, it seems.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T19:49:20+00:00

But then, in 1991, under pressure from the USA, the United Nations revoked Resolution 3379, with Resolution 46/86, which was personally introduced by George H. W. Bush.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T07:24:45+00:00

Right.

So, she also blackmails.

That's whom they found to try to take down the otherwise almost certain to win US Presidential candidate.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T07:05:17+00:00

Whores are now 'stars', so trust everything they say!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T06:16:01+00:00

OK, so ...

many men, though Jews, lived all their life in Germany, and so did their ancestors, for many generations, ... and, in times of war, these men fought for Germany, risked their lives defending it, may even have died on the field of battle, sacrificing themselves in service to the nation

... and they STILL weren't German enough for you?

Right. You're not even trying. You're trolling, trying to be provocative.

This is not interesting.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T18:24:41+00:00

Stupid populations are only an issue for actual democracies, much less so for corrupt plutocratic oligarchies ruled/controlled by 'elites'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T07:34:55+00:00

Welcome!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T14:50:43+00:00

Yes, we basically agree ... Caveat Emptor.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T21:35:39+00:00

Well, Christianity tries to combine two mutually incompatible traditions into one.

It takes philosophical ideas and mixes them with the mythology surrounding the worship of Yahweh, a primitive Middle Eastern (and rather evil) tribal deity.

This was bound to and did lead to nonsense.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T21:16:12+00:00

Christianity may be silly, but it's in rapid decline, and so far from anywhere close to a pressing issue for me,
unlike e.g. Mohammedanism, which is even worse than Christianity, and growing to boot!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T20:59:36+00:00

There are, however, treatments, antipsychotics, etc.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T20:35:03+00:00

Explain.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T20:00:03+00:00

Defending someone currently committing murder by confessing to your own past murders ... fascinating!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T19:33:27+00:00

Yeah, not sure what exactly, but something very weird is going on.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T19:01:07+00:00

Europe has a dysfunctional immune system.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T18:42:04+00:00

It's almost like many among the homeless suffer from untreated mental issues.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T09:38:10+00:00

Welcome,

but, if you're actually interested in 'the truth' as you claim (thrice!),
you may preferably seek to actually understand the world,
not to replace a new silly dogmatic ideology with an older silly dogmatic ideology.

Cheers!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T18:27:10+00:00

Riiight.

... x are doing the world a favour by exterminating y ...

Why does this seem déjà-vu-ish?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:45:22+00:00

There may indeed be many types of intelligence that IQ tests might miss.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T08:31:51+00:00

The only thing that matters is truth.

'Antisemitism!', 'Racism!', 'Islamophobia!', 'Transphobia', or more generally, 'Hate!', etc., are essentailly meaningless
and seem to function in the same way that 'That's Heresy!!!' did in the (fast returning) Medieval Dark Ages.

They appear to be used to shut some argument/conclusion down (there's even a vague threat implied) before it can be examined/understood,
almost always in order to safeguard some lie and/or prevent some truth from being revealed.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T12:08:00+00:00

Hunger strikes are meant to be a (non-violent) means
to show how serious you are about an issue,
but it's incredibly hard to bear (which is the point),
and not everyone can do it.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:12:32+00:00

Suicide and violence is what's understood by 'a threat to themselves or others', not insane tattoos, body modification, elective plastic surgery, etc.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:09:41+00:00

There's a difference in scale.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T14:56:57+00:00

~~SETI~~ STI (Search for Terrestrial Intelligence) :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T14:29:54+00:00

Nothing is enough to get Washington to criticise Israel, not even genocide.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T12:06:02+00:00

Granting all of that, we're talking about an adult,
who's only harming herself, not others.
People do all kinds of weird (body-modification) shit to their own bodies.
That's their right.
A state may indeed decide to intervene and protect children
from their (possibly immature/mentally-ill/brainwashed/stupid) selves
or their (possibly immature/mentally-ill/brainwashed/stupid) parents.
But a civilised (not oppressive) state may not infringe on the rights/freedoms
of an adult who's not harming others.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T11:56:30+00:00

For most Germans, yes, unless communists,
but, obviously, that did not apply to Jewish Germans,
even those who had fought for Germany in WWI,
even those who had been awarded the Iron Cross
for gallantry under fire,
nor their children, who wanted to be German
and thought they were,
until they were told they were not
and were to be despised no matter what,
just for being who they were,
with nothing they could do about it.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T11:35:18+00:00

That's a question for Fermi, isn't it?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T09:50:51+00:00

The key terms here are 'adults' and 'to themselves'.
It seems that a civilised state should not force an adult, who does not harm others, to be ... 'normal'.
All a state may do is to tell children to wait until they're adults before mutilating themselves.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T09:26:16+00:00

I'm also surprised that neither the USA nor France nor the UK nor Italy are among them, but that ... North Korea is!?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T07:37:00+00:00

Are Jesus and Yahweh the same deity?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T14:42:11+00:00

It's shocking that a whole greed-driven industry (a wide scale criminal enterprise?) is being built on exploiting those poor people,
who are never told that their delusional disorders might be problematic.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T09:58:23+00:00

'Yay, foreign money (stolen American taxpayer dollars) bought another American politician a seat to act on behalf of a foreign nation.'

'Let’s all celebrate.'

'No?'

'No one?'

:D

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T10:30:34+00:00

Once upon a time, you couldn't imagine the truth again being criminalised,
not in the 'civilised' countries,
but here we are.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T10:25:01+00:00

So, no father would feel ashamed if his daughter became a whore
... unless he was religious.

Nonsense.

And, incidentally, you can't possibly believe that.

You're being disingenuous, i.e. lying/shilling(?)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:06:41+00:00

She needs to get on board The World According To Hollywood.
Engineers, doctors and scientists are mostly ethnic Africans.
Wakanda forever!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:39:15+00:00

Because whores sell their bodies for money,
they're (rightly?) considered to be more easily compromised ...
But, apparently, if they can be used as a political weapon, then ...
How dare you insinuate that the whore might be untrustworthy!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:29:27+00:00

Yes, very sexy also!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:08:32+00:00

Well ...
the English Palestine derives
from the Latin Palaestina,
itself from the Greek Palaistine (Παλαιστίνη).

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:21:11+00:00

Trust every word coming from the paid whore, people!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T17:01:33+00:00

I thought it was a joke.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:19:21+00:00

How long before Rutgers awards honorary doctorates to 'pioneering transpecies U.S. officials'!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T06:28:02+00:00

No real beheadings, of course,
but this kind of 'news' makes
the supremacists perpetrating the genocide,
that for real mass murder children,
seem like they're the victims here,
... aww!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T15:52:57+00:00

Over the years, many idealists have tried to establish utopian societies but none have been able to make them work.

Well ...

For example,
the United Sates of America,
the first modern Democracy, was,
until it proved successful,
considered Utopic.

Imagine the vision required to,
before the creation of the USA,
actually seek to set up a government
by the people for the people,
based neither on oppression
nor on lies (e.g. elaborate religious bullshit)
but, rather, on reason and consent, ...

... this in a world where
only monarchies/dictatorships, oligarchies,
and/or assorted priesthoods
had been ruling over people ...

... how Great was that!?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T06:43:26+00:00

Yes, the very people who invented Democracy
did wonder if it was any good.

Plato, famously, didn't like it.

Now, I'm not saying that the author is arguing for totalitarianism,
which would be rather unusual for a Libertarian! :D

I'm saying that if/as we descend into totalitarianism
(which does seem to be happening), we'll start noticing that
Democracy as a system starts getting attacked more and more,
from all sides, both the right and the left, wittingly and unwittingly,
with both good and bad arguments.

And this guy does make good arguments, for example:

A major paradox of government is that
if the demos has all the de jure power,
an oligarchy of financial interests has all the de facto power,
which is the unfortunate situation in which we find ourselves.

This is perfectly put.

But, that having been said, it is also interesting that,
as the author sought to frame the issues
from his Libertarian perspective,
somehow(!), an attack on Democracy
seemed promising.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T05:54:14+00:00

I, among others I'm sure, predicted that in the descent into totalitarianism,
Democracy would at some point start getting attacked as a problem.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T07:26:20+00:00

Well, there you go!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T07:09:29+00:00

Astroturf

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T06:51:17+00:00

You are being sarcastic, aren't you?

Well, yes, of course, but I'm also making a point:

Worshipping Mbombo/Bumba, the creator God
of the Central African Kuba people, must seem silly to you,
ostensibly because you're not Kuba.

But, worshipping Jesus and/or Yahweh,
a rather distasteful MiddleEastern tribal deity,
that seems perfectly reasonable to you.

It's not though.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T04:32:35+00:00

Knowing there is one God, how does this challenge you?

Well, there's the antagonist ~~god~~ person(?),
then the saints and then the armies of angels and demons, etc.

There does seem to be lots of magical and invisible beings around that 'lone' dictator-deity.

In another religion, these might be called major or minor 'deities'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T15:46:26+00:00

To be tautological, it will either be observed, in which case it'll be recognised as real, or the data will rule out its existence. :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T22:50:56+00:00

You Keep Using That Word ('truth'),
I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means,
Which seems to be ... 'Imaginary Deities and Magical Beings'.

And, by the way, why are you rejecting Mbombo, the Lord? :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T22:34:25+00:00

Wait, the deity has an adversary in a monotheism?

And let's just have a look at how it all works:

Jesus (who is God) sacrificed himself on the cross,
to appease ... well ... Himself (since monotheism),
so that He, Himself, would forgive us shitty humans for our sins.

And you're OK with that story.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T21:55:31+00:00

No biological processes, ancestors, DNA, evolution, etc?

Either I created myself or ... deities?

Oh, right, only one deity.

OK, which one?

Mbombo?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T21:20:23+00:00

It all seemed reasonable ... and then ... deities!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T14:33:12+00:00

Intellectuals often think of themselves as secular priests/monks,
who eschew commercial concerns.

They may thus feel contempt for
both dogmatic materialist Capitalism
and dogmatic materialist Marxism ('Communism').

They imagine that they're here to do the work
of understanding what the human adventure is all about.

This is actually an essential societal function,
providing ethical direction, etc.

It's something that used to be thought of
as trying to figure out the Mind of the Gods, as it were.

Unfortunately, today, the intelligentsia may have been
infiltrated and corrupted by bad actors
manipulating the gullible into undermining/discrediting
(actual) thought/episteme/science
in order to return humanity to the dark ages of
top-down dogma-based authority, where sociopaths can thrive.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T17:56:18+00:00

What does that mean?

Let's, for the sake of argument,
grant you the (weird/masochistic) claim
that 'we are all shitty'.

Does that the Christ 'atones for EVERYONE'
suddenly make everyone ... 'not shitty'?

How does it all work?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T15:54:49+00:00

... holding a chainsaw and screaming 'A la Snackbar'!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T14:29:31+00:00

So, let me get this straight:

The policy of the USA is to do everything
to aid and abet a criminal supremacist regime,
giving it money (lots!), 'intelligence' and weaponry,
helping it mass murder the legitimate inhabitants
of Palestine, and steal their ancestral land,
thus fully colluding in the ethnic-cleansing.

But that's ok ... cause the USA also build a pier for the victims.

Is this a joke?

How about simply not funding, arming and helping the perpetrators?

Did that ever occur to anyone?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T12:17:39+00:00

I'm reading along, not really disagreeing,
curious to where this is going,
and then this:

'And because America has rejected God, America will fall...' :/

Great! :/

You'd think that the medieval dark ages were a long time ago,
but nooo!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T07:25:23+00:00

Why?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T16:58:37+00:00

Right, by witnessing and reporting on the ongoing genocide.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:49:33+00:00

He was preceded by many, including Albert II, who, on June 14, 1949, survived a sub-orbital V-2 flight into space (but died on impact after a parachute failure).

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T20:56:31+00:00

But why does the Christ need to atone for anyone or everyone?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T20:50:06+00:00

It's not your videos that are ... bit of a stretch. :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:57:21+00:00

Trying to gather visits to proselytising videos may be even sadder.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:30:06+00:00

The Guardian’s Jason Burke asked some random people about their feelings outside a theater in Jerusalem, and then presented this weird nothing thing as relevant news reporting.

:D

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:20:00+00:00

Because it's simply absurd to claim that
a late translation (the King James Bible)
of Christian mythology into English
[not even Latin, never mind Greek]
might present 'Infallible Proof' of anything ...
except perhaps of the gullibility of some people.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T11:08:43+00:00

This is sad.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-04T22:31:34+00:00

Islamists should probably not have been allowed (certainly not en masse) into Europe,
which is almost defined by its fight and victory against the idiocy of Islamism.

This religious ideology has managed to make (close to two billion) humans
prostrate themselves daily, face to the ground, ass in the air,
several times a day, towards some black stones in Saudi Arabia,
fantasizing that this pleases some deity. :/

Now, whereas Christianity (which at some point was arguably no better than Islam)
has become rather civilised today, the Mohammedans appear unwilling to eschew barbarism.

So, chances are that they will probably never rise above their dark dogmatic nonsense.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-04T08:48:53+00:00

That's, of course, awful.

However, Cuba is sitting right next to and under embargo by a hostile military hyperpower, actually the most hostile, militarised and aggressive power in the world, which seems to be in the business of constantly (directly or by proxy) attacking some-or-other country. It is, and has been for a while, controlled by a permanent deep-state 'Neocon' regime, always looking for excuses for the next attack, bombing, invasion, regime-replacement, ... These Neocons would love to use 'just helping the poor Cuban protesters' to then install some Zelensky-type ('friendly to US interests') puppet-government in Cuba.

Under these circumstances, trying to widen through social media anti-government protests (even non-CIA-funded ones) may be argued to present a real national danger to an independent Cuba.

That's probably the calculus behind that terrible Cuban Law that restricts the use of information 'through telecommunication/ICT infrastructures, platforms or services, of content that threatens the constitutional, social, and economic precepts of the State.'

Let's just hope that this kind of law does not become a thing everywhere.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T08:34:23+00:00

But they actually do, apparently.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T11:16:18+00:00

Brilliant!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T09:13:49+00:00

The visit will 'inject new momentum to the peaceful development of the world', according to China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson.

Beijing says it is a neutral party in the Ukraine conflict.

It notes a provocative US policy of continued NATO expansion and interference in Ukraine, which gave Russia few choices.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T13:45:17+00:00

Soon!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-30T17:52:54+00:00

You seem to keep bringing this back to race.

That's ok too, I guess:

One can indeed, if sincere, discern differences between peoples.

Once you've been in Africa, that becomes clear, not just for sub-Saharan Africans in general, but also between the different tribes:

It is accurate to conclude that e.g. Pigmies are short and Dinkas are tall.

In Africa, you can also see Africans left to their own devices, and observe how they live, manage their affairs, and treat each other.

And in Africa, you can't blame white-on-black racism or anything like that, though some people still try nonetheless, but nobody believes it, not really.

In any case, Africa is educational ... as it may offer a preview for the future of Europe and its (American, etc.) former colonies.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-30T14:10:49+00:00

They certainly neither serve nor protect.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-30T06:01:57+00:00

The police in the USA seems to be becoming
less and less like an actual police,
i.e. there to 'protect and serve' the citizens,
and more and more like an occupation force,
i.e. there to subjugate, control and 'pacify' the population.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-28T15:30:26+00:00

Stay away from companies that charge by the minute.

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