I offered to talk with you about "replacement theory". You asked. I gave the conditions for my cooperation and you went silent. Instead, you'd rather talk to someone who thinks "they" are controlling the world. I don't control the world and I don't know who "they" are. Apparently you don't believe God controls the world. You two can knock yourselves out if you don't think God controls the world.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 3:15 pmIf I take what you are presenting as a ‘picture’ of real, cynical political machination, I am not sure if the simplistic label of ‘socialism’ and ‘socialists’ is enough to explain a régime and a power-structure. The picture you are presenting seem to share a good deal in common with how National Socialism had been described in our textbooks: a collusion between capital interests and a governing structure. The collusion enabled a fascistic power-structure to control social and political outlook in the same way that the media-systems of today are described as being controlled by a very small group of corporations who control information.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 2:23 pmBut the underlying cause they all support is the push to extort ordinary folks through pushing a kind of global Socialism for the masses, while retaining their own riches and positions of power in the elite. They are not aiming to share their own wealth -- you can see that, by way of the simple fact that they are not doing it -- but rather to end up being "The Party," that gets to speak as "The People's Party," and thus gets to rule in the name of the masses while bilking and manipulating the masses. They fancy themselves not as politicians representing the people, but as social engineers and beneficiaries of the new arrangement. And they certainly have the backing and help of big business, the banks and the media. There's no missing that point. But they utilize the irrational emotional fervour of "social justice" advocates of various kinds to destabilize the status quo and to get a free hand in reorganizing it to their own liking.
How odd it is that there has taken place a very unlikely role-reversal: Now it is the Right and the Dissident Republicans who decry the RINO’s who are collaborating with the structures of power you describe as Democrat and Socialist, and it is these Dissident Republicans (or traditional rightists and also traditional religionists) who the State police has in its sights and is harassing and vilifying — labeling them as the primary enemy. It is the Dissident Republicans who are now the victims of the oppressive State when just a very short while ago the *danger* was the Left-Progressive and also the Marxian activists that were painted as *the enemy*.
Strangely, it is the Dissident Republicans who now seem to see that the “military-industrial complex’ is the primary problem, and ‘globalism’, and the sort of Fukiyamaesque “end of history” (i.e. total domination of American Liberal forms) is seen as the enemy of true liberal freedom. The Democrats, who seem now to dominate state power now act like war mongers and indeed initiate unnecessary conflicts and defend them. But wasn’t it the Right establishment (the Neoconservatives) who set so much of this in motion?
It seems really had to get to the bottom of genuine power-struggles. We are in a war but the terms of the war are not so intelligible to us.
I find the world suitable, even though I have to take elephant tranquilizers just to function, apparently. I don't know what you all are complaining about but try going to people who tell you that elephant tranquilizers (my pet name for my medicine) are a necessary part of your diet and cost an arm and a leg to purchase.
Fucking idiots of the world unite as far as I'm concerned.