I would imagine if you live in one of the rural flyover states like Kansas or Nebraska or Montana that the cops could be several hours drive away. Some of our rural counties here in England the police would probably be an hour away. Rural crime is a big problem because criminals know they can get away with it. Some of our rural police forces like Devon & Cornwall police for example are completely and utterly incompetent and lurch from crisis to crisis.
We're doomed to live in the year 2001 forever.
The cultural momentum that carried on after that ended in 2007. It really does seem to have been the high point but also the end for the internet as it was in my era. I used to participate on half a dozen different forums in that era. People generally footed the bills to run them out of their own pocket. Moderators were volunteers. It was about people who loved something and about community.
It's all about large corporate IP owners manufacturing consensus and armies of bots and PR firms astroturfing everything to push their preferred narratives. Everything is just low quality corporate slop now.
I suppose 2007-2017 was an interesting era for the internet. There was still some freedom on the internet but corporate platforms probably used it as a lure to get to a certain market share and then it was just a matter of time before they could instigate a turn key tyranny. We had a surprisingly good run I suppose. The arab spring was organised on social media. The populist uprisings from Gamergate to Brexit to Trump. The results were pretty sub optimal but the elites had certainly lost control of the narrative and really shit themselves after 2016.
Each successive crisis in the system will be used to crack down on new forms of "misinformation" - medical, political. I'm sure the next will be economic misinformation when people start complaining there is no bread on the shelves and petrol is not available at any price. After that - who even knows.
I remember being on Livejournal in the early to mid 00's and I don't remember exactly happened because its so long ago but I remember there being a mass exodus of certain people off of there to Tumblr. Knowing some of the people who left I could see Tumblr would become some weird kind of hyper feminist cult.
Western intelligence agencies are merely tools of the puppet masters.
Dorsey is probably a pedo and he knows if he displeases his masters and if his website isn't facilitating them to control the narrative he will be arrested and someone who will can be in his job within the hour. The people who work for the CIA or the Atlantic council or whoever know they'll be suicided or outed as a pedo if they don't do their jobs for the same masters.
You take an enlightened view. We can hate on Dorsey for being a creepy soy faggot all we want but at the end of the day he, his god forsaken platform and our decaying civilisation are only the result of ideas and processes taken to their logical ends.
You know it's probably irrelevant what he stands for even if he is a hypocrite. It's quite obvious to me most of these CEO's are scared of vocal activist types who permeate their workforces (although probably don't actually produce anything) and that they are being leaned on from above to set the agenda for what their platforms do. Dorsey could be easily #MeToo'd or arrested for child pornography or pedophilia or whatever else degenerate that he likes to partake in.
The small era of freedom such as it was online which completely ended in 2017. My guess is the only reason this freedom existed is that the elites were caught off guard at just what a powerful subversive force the internet was. When I first got online in the 90's the internet was for nerds. No one gave a fuck in normieville. Now everyone is on here and now its as shitty as normieville.
The elites in Europe 500 years ago probably didn't hear about Gutenberg and his printing press at first and then probably thought it was a gimmick which would never catch on. Then the elites shit themselves and realised it must be totally controlled to prevent any kind of genuine opposition forming to their agenda. In the case of the printing press they couldn't really stop it. New elites had to rise up and adapt.
I'm in the UK - we depend significantly on natural gas for our electricity and heating although we have a more diversified supply from our own gas fields and Norway but we also import some LNG. We've seen sky rocketing energy prices. Someone I work with is seeing his dual fuel monthly bill go from £80 to at least £265. Fuel prices here have averaged around £1.20 a litre for petrol and £1.30 for diesel are now around £1.60 for petrol and £1.75 for diesel. I simply don't know what is going to happen. An awful lot of working people simply can't afford their energy bills anymore and we are more insulated from this than the continent is.
Energy is traded on a global market. The fallout from this will be the death of the western economies. It cannot be sustained.
Seems the elites really don't want a viable regional African power.
I believe this is likewise what motivated the destruction of Ian Smiths government in Rhodesia and the white government of South Africa. An independent wealthy regional power who could resist the globalists would damage the ability of multinationals to run roughshod over Africa.
Oh vey. Shut it down.
Not to mention Russia has serious demographic problems. I believe deaths passed births in Russia back in the 1970's. Communism makes countries old before they get rich. They have a declining population which makes defending their country most of which is a flat featureless plane with nothing defensible except for a few rivers from the Carpathian mountains all the way to the Ural mountains and Kazakhstan to the south very difficult. Control of Ukraine narrows the corridor that an invading army could use to penetrate the Russian interior and gives the Russian army more space to retreat into. If you look at the German campaigns of 1941 and 42 in the south they came dangerously close to cutting Russia off from its primary oil infrastructure in the south in the Caspian sea region. There is a large bend in the Don river which protects an army advancing through that corridor.
They have serious strategic issues in the east - 1.4 billion Chinese in a resource poor country with a resource rich country sparsely populated to its north. They face the risk of a 2 front war in the west and the east.
Putin is also ageing. He is 69. He is essentially a monarch, he probably has good doctors and maintains good physical fitness but statistically speaking he probably only has 15 years left. He needs to conclude this business now. Secure his borders while Russia still has the capacity demographically speaking to fight a major war and then likely wants to do what Nurusultan did in Kazakhstan and step down and head a council of state security while he grooms a successor. I would have to guess that Dmitry Medvedev would be high on the list given that he has been president before and is still relatively young. From what I understand though the most powerful of Putins "security men" in his inner circle is Igor Setchin.
Libya had no real friends - Gadaffi was absolutely certifiably insane. He rejected the east and the west and acting like an international super villain in an attempt to get attention for his little green book about the "3rd revolutionary theory". He was happy to take the blame for things like Lockerbie that was likely the work of Hezbollah and the Syrian intelligence services because the US didn't know what to do about them but it could make a show of dropping some bombs on Libya because no one cared.
That is why no one protected him from the Wests regime change agenda, he had stepped on a lot of toes, insulted a lot of people and shit on a lot of lawns over his term in power. I have to wonder if behind closed doors the Russians did a dirty deal with the west that they would abstain on protecting Gadaffi in exchange for assurances on concessions in their sphere of influence when it came to Syria, Iran and Georgia?
The real question is does this bolster or harm the cause of the CBDC?
You could create a CBDC token tied to hard assets like gold or land or other commodities sort of like a blockchain ETF where people trade gold or silver futures today?
Or is Putin doing this because he wants Russia with something solid to base its financial system on that he controls out of the grasp of the central banking cabal that answer to Davos?
I believe as far back as the Nixon administration someone asked the question what happened if Europe went on a gold standard (the only group of economies which could rival the US at the time) - it could threaten the fiat dollars hegemony. Kissinger scoffed with contempt and said we'll destroy them if they try any such thing. Well I remember someone asking the question around 2014 when it became clear that the gold backed dinar is probably what lead to Gaddafis death and then someone asked the question what are you going to do if Russia or China does the same thing? You can't destroy them without killing a billion people.
The dollar hegemony is destroyed but the US has secured Europe as a permanent vassal now they can't use Russian energy. It renders Europe economically ruined and dependent on US LNG imports they can't really afford.
Yeah. I watch him to. He reminds me of that hipster faggot Jack Conte from Patreon but not as dumb. I watch his content to sometimes.
Yeah. I've been watching his channel for a while. I think he goes by "alpha nerd" on Odysee and Mental Outlaw on Jootube. He has some good content. He used to do a lot of videos on Linux.
Yeah - whatever intelligence (dullard, midwit, genius) you happen to be blessed with its like a muscle and if its not used it atrophies. Do any of these people actually have to do any thinking or have any practical experience of what the world is actually like? It's very interesting what is happening to our civilisation. Everything is just breaking down. They dumbed down education for the proles but did they dumb their own education down? Did they become to ensconced in their own positions preventing new talent from cycling in and out of the elite. Is it genetic with high amounts of negative mutations. Is it the culture today that means they have no practical experiences to teach them what the world is like and how to apply the exclusive education they got?
Yeah - I used to watch his videos when I was a bored teenager. He was funny and kind of edgy for the time. Then YouTube went more mainstream and better content started to become available and the world moved on a bit to the various populist uprisings against the system with wikileaks, arab spring, Snowden and a new phase of the culture wars. The internet atheist community was completely subverted and destroyed by social justice and feminists before they came for gaming and we had gamergate.
I've been an atheist most of my life but I normally used to end up in arguments with the internet fedora atheist types. For a start an awful lot of them leaned socialist where as the early YouTube era was where I got introduced to Ron Paul and Libertarianism and Austrian economics even if I was pretty anti-war and couldn't stand people like president Bush and his supporters who thought destroying the middle east and killing a million Iraqis was "gods command" but an awful lot of the people who thought that was stupid were willing to place their faith in Karl Marx instead of Jesus. Fundamentally thinking is hard whatever label people put on themselves.
Most of the internet atheists from that era were bottom feeders. There was a guy TJ palled around with for a few years called "FakeSagan" who was a nutter. They did a livestream on blog TV to raise money for something once and FakeSagan got drunk and started waiving a gun around that I'm not sure he realised was loaded. Including pointing it at people and putting it to his own head and begging people to donate. He then cut himself with a knife for a donation and had to go to the ER to get stitches.
TJ had his videos produced by some weedy little waster called Cody for a time who was a useless hanger on and dope smoker who was a waste of space and they had a falling out.
Fakesagan had a girlfriend who had been fucked by this other internet atheist cringe lord who made a sex tape of it and it leaked.
You had the "Four Horsemen" movement for a while with Dawkins, Hitchens, Dannet and Harris. Dawkins is a tragic figure really - losing one of the great evolutionary biologists of the era to the god debate was a waste. Hitchens in fairness was an absolute raving drunk who like his bother has contempt for just about everything who I'm convinced would be on our side today for the most part. Sam Harris used to annoy me back then. I think he's an intellectual midget who hops onto fads to promote himself and I think sooner or later as a fucking white male he will get cancelled from the mob he is currently trying to appease.
PZ Meyers - don't know what happened to him. I think he lost his shit when Gamergate happened.
Mao and his crazy wife did a pretty good job on Chinas confucian culture. Although they had to kill millions to do it and caused total and utter chaos.
Both I think - the two weaknesses the elites have is that the party of Davos might control everything from politicians to the media but they have to rely on these completely incompetent local governors like Trudeau or Ardern or Johnson. Just as our civilisation has declined so have many of our politicians. Boris is quite a high performer in terms of his verbal ability but is in the bottom 10% in parliament in terms of intelligence - he resorts to bluster and insults when he doesn't know. He got into Eton because his family was wealthy not because he was intelligent.
50 years ago we had primeministers who had been to grammar school which you only got into if you passed the 11+. Margret Thatcher went to a selective girls school. You learned latin and classics along with your conventional academic education. Politicians today? Most of them are products of ideological indoctrination and are only trained in the methods of the managerial elite who view the whole world through the abstraction of spreadsheets, statistical modelling but don't necessarily know what is actually going on.
I see this where I work in manufacturing. Management don't have a clue if its not on a spreadsheet and the line isn't going up. We had an engineer who lead them around by the nose for 4 years with a fake spreadsheet where he showed savings in manpower every week even though most of us knew it was bullshit. The guy who worked it out was a temp who had worked selling double glazing before coming to work in the automotive industry as an assistant production manager - they basically employed him because he was a bully to get control of overtime and he basically took this guy apart. Management were stunned.
Not to mention its pretty hard to convince normal working blokes of any race stick around to listen to intersectional tripe from spiteful mutants and the mentally ill all day while not actually doing anything to address your grievances.
I think he is just an emasculated phaggot. I think its his wife who wears the trousers.
Just reading that hurts my head.
Blacks are about 3% of the UK population - you get certain places where there are a lot of them - certain areas of London, Birmingham and Manchester. Likewise you get certain places in Birmingham or Yorkshire that are just all Pakistanis and they don't get on with the blacks at all.
Fuckers already yeeted it mate.
Basically how it works in South Africa. When it comes to murder or justifiable homicide the police are pretty much just there to fill in the paperwork - either stage the scene to make it easier, dump the unregistered weapon you did it with and run or bury the body. A friend of mine popped two random vagrants who wouldn't back the fuck up from him one day with an unregistered weapon and an old lady came out the house and told him to give her the gun and she would cop to it. They didn't even bother trying to prosecute her.
If mainland Europe becomes lawless enough you'll get a booming private security industry like South Africa as well. Generally speaking if you're in trouble anyone with money will call armed response from their security provider and not the police. You don't have to wait half an hour for them to respond.