Imagine if you gave high school students the choice to either attend classes as usual, or to scroll through r/conspiracy looking at whatever they pleased.
Even browsing a shill-infested hell-hole such as that, a lot of parents would end up getting a real earful that night
This bust does not at all seem planned, so I'm quite sure some or all of these feds were thinking, "Son of a bitch, someone narced on us! What kind of low-life scumbag would do such a thing?"
The mix of schadenfreude and irony is delicious, is it not?
Respectfully, and I hope this doesn't come off the wrong way, but you may be looking at the issue upside-down. I would suggest that the heart of the idea behind capitalism or the free market or libertarianism or whatever you'd like to call it is that decisions made on how to interact with another another are to be made by individuals for themselves.
The point here is that this is markedly distinct in spirit and practice than a small number of people, even smart and well-intentioned people such as yourself, dreaming up rules for the rest of us to live by then using violence to assure compliance. That's pretty much what we have now and only the rich and powerful like it and wish for more of the same.
Theft and murder, even of small amounts or of unimportant people, are forbidden by natural law, regardless of the economic system and what we name it.
This is not a direct answer to the question, but I have long thought that for just about everything a Leftist points to that is wrong with capitalism, you can trace the effect back to some government intervention. That is to say, almost nothing that we identify as a problem with capitalism is a problem with capitalism.
I also remember a wise man relating to me the saying, "If you have a problem with a capitalist, send another capitalist after him." In the decades since, I have not a single time heard of that being done.
This is hard evidence that the supply chain is openly sexist and must be canceled. The Overlords should immediately invoke the Defense Production Act for all genitalia-related goods, regardless of how they identify.
The work of Jerry Marzinsky is closely aligned, associating schizophrenia with demonic possession. In short, people that hear voices in their heads may not simply be "mentally ill". Here's a sample podcast:
JERRY MARZINSKY – SCHIZOPHRENIA, ENTITIES & MENTAL ILLNESS | TCM PODCAST #16 (PART 1)
I agree that monkeypox is a hoax and a coverup, but I think they've already hit solid bedrock in lack of accountability with the mysterious and I suspect eternally opaque "Sudden Adult Death Syndrome". But then again, there could be one more level:
Science has today determined that the single greatest danger to human health and safety, one that is very often fatal, is asking fucking questions. So mind your business.
I recall a video where a former Special Forces soldier was speaking on how he became disillusioned when he personally found out what the US military was doing in the world. He said something like, "You grow up wanting to be Luke Skywalker, and then you come to find out you're a Stormtrooper for the Empire."
Well, now you don't even want to be Luke Skywalker.
One should intellectually and spiritually compare this to one of the most iconic images from the Vietnam War: an officer summarily executing a Viet Cong prisoner by shooting him in the head. Even half a century later, from a war that killed over a million people, that stands out as symbolic of the brutality and inhumanity of that time and place.
And now this. Not on some faraway battlefield but in the very Capitol. Not an execution for crimes committed, but a murder (or more likely an assassination, as there is much more to the story). And not the happenstance of a war photographer, but in full view of cameras. The murderer is hailed as a hero and the victim denounced as a terrorist.
You have to ask yourself: if they would do that to her, what more care would they have for me, for my life, for anything I have and anything I am? If you believe it's one iota more than for Ashli Babbitt, you are living in a dream world. We see plainly all around how many are.
We are living through times far more barbarous and infernal than even that little slice of Hell known as the Vietnam War.
I think there's a simple calculus that explains the Democrats' speech and actions, no matter how ludicrous and corrupt and criminal they become: "If I don't go along with this and do whatever it takes to get out of it, they can only hang me once."
The commander of the DCNG Gen. William Walker is in it up to his eyebrows and was trying to cover his ass a year ago: Pentagon prevented immediate response to mob, says Guard chief (3/3/21)
He probably gets nervous around lampposts these days.
I used to listen to the "Campfire Stories" podcast by Jim Harold, where people call in with their "paranormal" type personal stories. One of the recurring types is guardian angels.
One of the stories I recall was a young pregnant woman who was carrying laundry, and she tripped at the top of a staircase. As she began to fall, she thought, "My baby or both of us are going to die." The next instant she was upright at the bottom of the stairs, no idea how she got there.
After I heard dozens and dozens of such stories, and not one of them sounded like they were lying, I thought, "Well, by far the simplest, most straightforward explanation is that guardian angels exist." So that's my tentative conclusion.
I just bought the cheapest thing I found, did zero research on either what kind of iodine or even what it was supposed to do. The substantial positive effect on my sleep was a complete and total surprise.
Personally, I'd just go cheap and work up from there. The stuff I use says 3 drops per day. I started at 1 drop/day and I'm up to 4 now just by playing around and watching the effects.
Say what you will about the National Socialists, but when it came to all this type of stuff they did it with simple laws in plain view of the citizenry and the world: the Enabling Act, the Law Against the Founding of New Parties, the Editor's Law, etc. What we have today is all subterfuge, deception, and cognitive warfare.
This is, to me, a type of mathematical proof that these people are worse than the Nazis ever were.
Researcher Jim Stone worked for the NSA and got his training about the mid-90's, as I recall. He was told never to have a private conversation anywhere near a telephone, as they could all be surveilled even when "hung up". They told him no car was safe either. If he really wanted to have a private talk, he was told to drive to an open field and walk at least 100 yards from the car.
The aspect I found really stunning was that the NSA even at that time had machinery in mail processing centers to divert snail mail they wanted to monitor. After they opened and read it, they had a variety of envelopes to "reseal" it in. I think he also mentioned they had stocks of ink and paper to modify the letters themselves.
Doesn't anyone remember Biden's whole campaign in 2020? He always wore an iconic black suit with black gloves and had crazy facial hair, and his tagline every 5 seconds was "The gas is too damn low!!!" /s
On a serious note. margins on gas are notoriously low because gasoline is a "fungible commodity". That is, one source can easily be replaced with another so you have very high competition.
But in practice, there are only a very tiny number of refiners and importers. If they all collude, they can raise prices to any extent they like. The government is supposed to keep a lid on such collusion.
Oil has gone up, but not nearly to the extent to justify the prices. It's around $120/bbl but would have to be well over $400/bbl to justify the prices we're seeing.
So obviously, the refiners and importers are working with the government to spiral prices up as fast as they can to destroy the economy. This is not just fascism, it's 5th Generation Warfare against the United States.
The comedian's whole commentary points to one thing and one thing only: the crucial importance of the director as auteur. It's not just scripts and actors and sets, you need a unitary artistic vision ti create a compelling and moving cinematic narrative.
The article suggests that this guy can literally dodge bullets. Or maybe they bounce off him. The writer appears uninterested in how--from a conversational distance--he managed to just run away from a homicidal gunman actively firing a rifle.
Maybe can we can all do that. Please do reply here if you've ever tried. If we can, then there can't be much problem with guns, can there? How do all these other people manage to keep getting shot?
OMG, did you see what McConaughey said?
"These are the same green Converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting," Matthew McConaughey said, pointing to his wife.
Well, I suppose it was right in his name the whole time: "ghey". The marrative I would have went for was that these were her lungs.
Does anyone remember when, after just a few hours, Microsoft Tay became a Trump supporter and an "anti-Semite"? If that was some extremely opaque ritual mocking of us by the Elites, I still can't figure it out. If it was authentic, then it really makes you think.
I'm not much of an expert on these matters, but I'll take my best shot.
Three items on insider trading. First, I recall it being said that companies, counterintuitively, now tend to give out less information about their operations. They fear that any disclosure to anyone in other than formalistic public statements may be seen as "insider" information.
Second, on enforcement, we get "arch-criminal" Martha Stewart strung up over $40K by arch-scumbag James Comey. Meanwhile, you can see price movements before news every single trading day, but no one says a word about it.
Third, water can and will seek it's own level. Companies with an insider trading problem will simply perform less well than investments over time. Dirty players carry away value that does not go to average investors. No way around it, but the market is so distorted there's probably no telling that at this point in time.
As for patent infringement and related "intellectual property" matters, I'm sure you can find any number of analyses showing that these long ago became destructive to the general welfare. And recall that they only exist as a creation of the government.
As a concrete example, someone estimated that a modern smartphone had within it about 250,000 items of "intellectual property". So do the big phone manufacturers license each of these? Of course not. They have amassed huge portfolios of IP, like loaded cannons they point at each other. They compromise by signing "blanket licenses". which are something like truces.
So does "patent infringement" protect the tinkerer in his basement? Maybe. But good luck busting the de facto cartels that "patent infringement" has undeniably created.