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Trump is the ultimate political troll. He invented it.
Yup. Guilty. My Supreme Leader (I can't even type that with a straight face) is in bed with China, has sold half the country to the Chinese and the other half to our neighbours to the south of us. He's spineless and only has a family name to ride on.Why ? Don't you believe our dear leaders that the next five-year plan will also finish exceeding the expectations ? Such lack of empathy on your part towards our fellow comrades should be punished at a reeducation camp.
It will eventually go well in that the current generation of zombies will croak and be replaced by some less syphilitic ones. But far beyond our time.I hope it all goes well.
Not if they were given strong reasons not to talk...My opinion on conspiracy theories like this is that someone would talk, it's just human nature
I have no faith any government could plan something like this. My opinion on conspiracy theories like this is that someone would talk, it's just human nature. For example the moon landing, it is way easier to just go to the moon, then all the shit you'd have to do to fake it for decades. Plus the Soviets woulda called bullshit haha. So I don't believe that the world governments are responsible for covid. Mishandling the response, yes, creating the virus? I don't think so.
Maybe not the individual governments, but the shadowy string-pullers behind the scenes.So I don't believe that the world governments are responsible for covid
Not if they were given strong reasons not to talk...
Maybe, maybe not. It's up to you what you want to believe, no one is judging you.Maybe I just don't want to believe it
But, just look at how messed up this world is, how much suffering occurs, how the world's resources and wealth are unfairly and unequally distributed..All the inequality and injustice is the result of very high level decisions which have intentionally made the world the way it is.I just find it highly unlikely anyone would do something like this intentionally
That's how it seems to work. Which is why no one is speaking up about what really happened with jeffrey epstein, either during his life or when he died. They can't speak up because they're all equally complicit and guilty. That's how you joined his 'club', by basically selling your soul.Such as having to perform egregious criminal acts to join the club
I definitely think that this is true. I would be willing to bet that the majority of the kingpins in global affairs and international politics and economics (the ones not answerable to any national or international body because they in fact run the whole show) are high functioning psychopaths. It couldn't be otherwise. They are the ones responsible for the famines, starvation, wars, genocides, massive wealth inequalities.It is said that one needs to have psycopathic tendencies to rule. That's the lens through which it needs to be examined. Old money, nepotism, sinister views of humanity and a sense of entitlement that we just can't comprehend
It's such a farce. De maistre said "in a democracy people get the leaders they deserve". This is such a misleading thing to say.Believing that the "elected" officials are there because we voted them into power and that they serve us is a fallacy. A manufactured one.
I wish I didn't know and could just stand on the red circle and wait my turn.
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." -- morpheusYou have a choice - to expose yourself or not, even just for curiosity's sake. But it's a hard Rabbit Hole to climb out of.
OK. Right after I do that...So you turned down the TedTalk????
I kid, I kid...
It is said that one needs to have psycopathic tendencies to rule. That's the lens through which it needs to be examined.
I definitely think that this is true.
Maybe he's the exception that proves the rule? I can't think of many other leaders/rulers in history with the high ethics and integrity that Aurelius had.I would agree with you if it weren't for Marcus Aurelius
Maybe he's the exception that proves the rule? I can't think of many other leaders/rulers in history with the high ethics and integrity that Aurelius had.
But I still think voting is a waste - there's not much that's not already been determined.
We just get to watch the circus of Orange Man and the Dimentia Hair Smeller.
Oh, now you've got me fantasising about educating the masses as literate, cultured, free-thinkers who look out for their fellow humans... That's not a bad headspace to be in for the night. Until I wake up to the bad dream that is my reality.
Louis XIV you mean? Yes, pretty much the archetype of a tyrannical narcissist who views human life as cannon fodder. His reign was probably a long-term cause of the french revolution because of his total disregard for the well-being of the ordinary citizens of france and his inability (or disinterest) to reform institutions and his obsession with expensive foreign wars.if interested and you don't know anything about him, check out The Sun King of France. What a fucking tyrant. That's far closer to the norm. Modern politicians are just wolves in sheep's clothing, I think many could easily be like him and Henry VIII if there weren't democratic institutions in place to keep such tendencies in check, that is, unless they're just screens and tools for those higher pyramidal power structures.
Commodus, right?Once his son became emperor, the empire's fall was set in motion.
you speak right. Happened at the russian revolution too, when the bolsheviks purged the country of tsarist intellectuals. And pol pot during the cambodian genocide when all intellectuals were targeted. It's a common pattern in historygovernmental powers have historically exiled or murdered philosophers and academics -- those who are in a moral and intellectual position to speak truth to power
That's one of the statements I've thought about the most. I mean, it's profound. I often wonder how these tyrants and dictators in history viewed the world and themselves. Surely they knew they would eventually die? Why did they think it was acceptable to cause the suffering they did and to only think about their own power and ego? Surely they must have known that all empires and dynasties disappear one day and they would inevitably end up nothing but dust? Maybe their type of mindset/'personality' is inaccessible to normally functioning people. Not because they were superior Übermenschen, but because they had no conscience or remorse or empathy. With the exceptions like M.Aurelius of course.Reminds me also of Jesus knowing he would be arrested and killed, and his previous statement: What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his very self?
This is what we're told. They only have our interests at heart, mind you. They're our 'superiors' apparently. They're making the world a better, safer, cleaner, place so the prols and slaves can be more efficient..The experts we need to bow to.
Same.I like Russell Brand. What got me waybackwhen is George Carlin. His stand up on voting is great.
The downside of two dominant parties is that real change is very unlikely to ever happen because they are both beholden to corporate and financial interests, which also run the media and therefore have a stranglehold on propaganda dissemination and the manufacture of consent.The reason there are two dominant parties here is just that it makes it way easier that your party has a chance of winning if it's 1 in 2 versus 1 in 10. Both parties realize this which is why it's not going away anytime soon.
But if the electoral college didn't exist doesn't that mean a very highly populated state like California could decide every election result? As far as I'm aware that's why ec exists.. I'm not an American though.Personally I think that in the US, your vote (for President) only matters if you live in a swing state. Think about it. With the way the electoral college works, if you live in California, then let's say you vote for Biden. Congratulations! He was always going to win California no matter what. Your vote is meaningless. Now let's say you're in California but you were going to vote for Trump instead. Guess what? Biden was always going to win California so your vote is just a tiny middle finger that doesn't matter. And don't even get me started on a third party (lol).
Of course, there will always be the chance for exceptions and miracles and honestly I can see why we have the electoral college system because if we really left it to purely the popular vote then we'd just have metropolitan and urban areas win everything which would just further the divide between those areas and the more rural ones in the country. I also don't think having more parties is a good idea either. The reason there are two dominant parties here is just that it makes it way easier that your party has a chance of winning if it's 1 in 2 versus 1 in 10. Both parties realize this which is why it's not going away anytime soon.
Edit: Sorry if I have derailed from what you guys were talking about. I skimmed the most recent posts and saw stuff about the election so I just felt like giving my thoughts.
That's true too but honestly that could still happen even with more parties. Nothing about splitting two parties into more is going to do anything to the real people in power except maybe make it even easier for them to target specific groups and influence them a certain way. Ultimately future elections would probably still come down to being between two maybe three people anyway. It sucks but if I had a better solution I'd have been committed and taken away by now.The downside of two dominant parties is that real change is very unlikely to ever happen because they are both beholden to corporate and financial interests, which also run the media and therefore have a stranglehold on propaganda dissemination and the manufacture of consent.
Exactly, yeah. California, New York, certain parts of Texas would control practically all the votes.But if the electoral college didn't exist doesn't that mean a very highly populated state like California could decide every election result? As far as I'm aware that's why ec exists.. I'm not an American though.
...honestly I can see why we have the electoral college system because if we really left it to purely the popular vote then we'd just have metropolitan and urban areas win everything which would just further the divide between those areas and the more rural ones in the country...