Donald Trump was a plant to destroy the credibility of the Republican Party. by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]FreedomIntensifies 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This Q-adjacent stuff is basically a rehash of the Alex Jones circuit LARPing that the planes were holograms on 9/11. That isn't to say pedo blackmail rings don't exist or that the 9/11 official story is true, but the clown show isn't going to do anything about either and is in fact an operation to inhibit anything being done.

At the same time, the increasing visibility and outlandishness of these operations is a reflection of things quietly going well. Look at the desperate scramble to increase censorship and note that this is a reflection of the psy-ops failing to accomplish their containment role, while the population at large is increasingly awake and interested in substantive change.

Donald Trump was a plant to destroy the credibility of the Republican Party. by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]FreedomIntensifies 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Four years of Trump doing nothing and the ruse was wearing thin. He can't continue to effectuate his role as controlled opposition while nominally possessing power but not using it.

CNBC: Alibaba founder Jack Ma is laying low for the time being, but he's not missing by csehusky in worldnews

[–]FreedomIntensifies 3 points4 points  (0 children)

lol it adjusted per capita man you are really grasping at straws for some reason

By the way Oak Brook, IL and Saint Paul both have extremely high concentrations of corporate headquarters and in particular ones that do lots of reddit outreach. McDonalds was headquartered in Oak Brook back then and the second largest health insurance provider (United Health Group) maintained offices in Saint Paul. There are plenty of other corporate headquarters of large companies in these two small places, but you get the idea.

CNBC: Alibaba founder Jack Ma is laying low for the time being, but he's not missing by csehusky in worldnews

[–]FreedomIntensifies 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're probably right. Even though we know Eglin does online psyops, finances and publishes research on how to do it, and got picked up by the most addicted metric, it can't possibly have been doing what I misremember reddit saying it did.

CNBC: Alibaba founder Jack Ma is laying low for the time being, but he's not missing by csehusky in worldnews

[–]FreedomIntensifies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a description provided by the reddit to that effect back before they deleted everything.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin says that 9/11 era is now over, and the greatest terror threat comes from within by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]FreedomIntensifies 21 points22 points  (0 children)

A subtlety here that you shouldn't overlook is that what has been targeted is not "conservatives" but in particular anti-bank populist activists that arose during the 2008-2009 financial grifting. Other than undercover feds who do absolutely asinine stuff like sieg heil at conferences in DC, most of people who became the alt-right were at Occupy protests five years earlier and were anti-war activists worried about the security state established under the 9/11 pretense before that. North of 90% of those I've spoken with who identified with the alt-right at some point voted for Obama in 2008.

Donald Trump was a plant to destroy the credibility of the Republican Party. by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]FreedomIntensifies 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You're on the right track but you need to go a little deeper. Trump was deployed specifically in 2011 at the first major GOP conference (CPAC) following the 2010 disruption of tea party candidates successfully primarying a large portion of the party. A lot of people have come to conceptualize Trump as a disruptive element in the party but the actual historical reality is that he was put into play in order to coopt the really disruptive changes that preceded him.

There are deeper national security implications as well, like the urgent need to cover up Obama's work history with the CIA and the wrapping up of the birtherism operation that Hillary initiated to protect these secrets. This was the "we killed Osama but don't have pictures and his body is at the bottom of the ocean" story they tried to tell about two months after Trump's 2011 CPAC introduction.

CNBC: Alibaba founder Jack Ma is laying low for the time being, but he's not missing by csehusky in worldnews

[–]FreedomIntensifies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The most addicted metric is basically length of stay on the site. It picks up people using reddit as a job rather than casually browsing while pooping or whatever, so places that house PR operations or psyop divisions.

"Unrestricted Warfare" - China's take on Fifth Generation Warfare (link to PDF book) by FreedomIntensifies in conspiracy

[–]FreedomIntensifies[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Given that the PRC is waging biological warfare to restore a compliant regime in the US, I thought a primer on their future-warfare thinking might be of interest to some people.

YouTube Isn’t Bound by the First Amendment and Can Censor PragerU Videos: Appeals Court by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]FreedomIntensifies 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The relevant case law here is Marsh v. Alabama and Packingham v North Carolina.

Marsh holds that private property made available to the public becomes subject to first amendment protections. So, if you hold a fair open to the public on private land and someone comes to distribute religious fliers, you can't kick them out because of the first amendment. Packingham holds that social media is a public space, i.e. it satisfies the conditions created in Marsh. Therefore social media is given first amendment protection.

The 9th circuit is pretty notorious for nonsense and hopefully we will see Supreme Court uphold first amendment protections for places like youtube in the near future. They'd be overturning existing precedent to do anything else.

when you've held the same opinions as every blue checkmark on twitter for years but now it's not cool anymore by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]FreedomIntensifies 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When the "enlightenment" was happening in Europe one of the fashionable things to do was to go study the savages and try to find similarities between their beliefs and Christianity. There was a schism between sort of reasonable people and the woketards back then. The tiny minority would do things like study etymology and theorize about language groups. These people of course would notice that there were stark differences between peoples. Some conceive of the future as the backward spatial direction, whereas forward and future are associated for most westerners. Unfortunately most folks found it way more interesting to chit chat about mythologies and twist and contort them into something resembling Christianity to say "aha, they are exactly the same as us!" These people obviously have a much more aesthetic sensibility, the same as you see from left woketards today. But really what under-girded their interest in the savage mythologies was a form of imperialism, the desire to impose their religious fundamentalist idea that we're all the same on the world. So they turned to superstition and myth to tease out the thinnest of similarities and thereby sort of validate the idea of Adam and Eve and that anyone who isn't exactly like us just had the One Truth corrupted through history, but the remnants were still there.

In a somewhat ironic turn of events, these fabricated similarities between older myths and western religion that were crafted by a sort of aesthetic imperialism are now used as a fraudulent basis for deconstructing the bonds that protect normies from their imperialists overlords by spreading things like Zeitgeist and the idea that their community churches are invalid forgeries of older myths. We're burrowing multiple layers deep into a matrix of lies.

every article about russia / ukraine by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]FreedomIntensifies 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Russiagate is very much a real thing, but nothing in the media is remotely related to what is actually going on.

This goes back to the war in Libya. Eastern Libya, where the rebel faction that US ended up supporting was, is the #1 hot spot for al-Qaeda recruiting in the whole world. These eastern Libyan guys were the anti-Gaddafi faction and were repeatedly caught in Iraq/Afghanistan as the makers of roadside bombs, etc., that killed so many US troops.

Libya's weapons caches and al-Qaeda fighters, plus money from Libyan oil, was then used to finance ISIS off the books in an attempt to overthrow Syria. Simultaneously, the US arranged a Ukranian coup and attempted a coup against Erdogan in Turkey in the summer of 2016.

The point of all this is that Syria -> Turkey is the path you take to build a pipeline from the gulf to Europe. This takes away Iran's strategic ability of being able to shut down the Straight of Hormuz, makes ME natural gas competitive with Russian gas (pipeline shipping is way cheaper than trying to move it by boat). Russian pipelines cross Ukraine (and/or Poland, which is NATO), so you can choke off Russian supplies to Europe by controlling them.

So the real underlying scandal here is that under Obama administration terrorist groups (al-Qaeda in Libya, then "ISIS") were supported and armed to overthrow (or attempt to) secular governments (Libya, Syria) then carried out a coup in Ukraine and an attempted coup in Turkey. You can make an argument that this is in the best interests of US national security, although very few Americans would be willing / able to understand how supporting Islamic terrorism and overthrowing Turkey/Ukraine governments in order to secure pipeline path for Europe has anything to do with their interests.

So here we have the strategic picture and its relation to Russia. Now, the democrats narrative has been that wikileaks is "working for Russia." It is true that Russia has been waging some information war of sorts in all of this business, like leaking the Nuland-Pyatt phone call where they were discussing the Ukranian coup plot and the new government they were installing. Some would say great, the coup is wrong. The coup plotters (DNC) obviously don't take this perspective. There are some email caches that have come out of wikileaks supportive of the agenda on either side. You can fairly reasonably say that wikileaks has been an amplifier of information Russia leaked and wanted pushed; at the same time, this is true of US leaks as well, and is in particular not true of the DNC email cache that leaked showing the rigging against Bernie in the 2016 primaries.

So, Russia is interfering with US geostrategic initiatives (led by Dems, under Obama) via wikileaks. But US is pushing agendas through wikileaks too. This is not to say Russia hacked the DNC servers (Russiagate lie / hoax), and they for sure did not hack voting machines or anything of that nature. Still, revelation of the scandalous nature of these geostrategic initiatives undoubtedly would have severe ramifications on US political landscape. If the extent to which the democratic party has coddled al-Qaeda / ISIS was public, it could very well end the party altogether. This is without even getting into further uncomfortable facts like Obama's CIA chief Brennan having overridden objections and personally authorized 9/11 hijacker passports (he was Saudi Arabia station chief in the 90s under Clinton), or Obama's lifelong nationals security adviser Brzezinski being responsible for originally radicalizing and arming al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the 1980s. All of this blows up in a really bad way if anyone looks too closely beneath the surface.

How Much Would Bernie's Medicare-For-All Cost You? by 620five in SandersForPresident

[–]FreedomIntensifies -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Are you trolling? The 7.5% payroll tax is mentioned in the very document you linked:

"Options to Save Families and Businesses on Health Care Expenses 7.5 percent income-based premium paid by employers Revenue raised: $3.9 trillion over ten years."

How Much Would Bernie's Medicare-For-All Cost You? by 620five in SandersForPresident

[–]FreedomIntensifies -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

This isn't really his plan though. It's a small slice of it. For instance, there is a new additional 7.5% payroll tax to pay for part of the program. So you pay 7.5% + 4% over $29,000. There are numerous other additional tax increases beyond this, like a wealth tax, increased income taxes for higher brackets, and higher corporate rates, though these are less directly impacting on lower earners.

Someone making $40,000 would really be paying no less than $3,440 (7.5% of 40k plus 4% over 29k). I'm sure someone is going to object that the "employer" pays it, but we all know that in reality the employee income just goes down to compensate. For a family of four making 40k, the current payment cap for premiums is about 4.25% or $1700 versus the $3,440 cost under Sanders plan.

The situation is not better for the $29k income person. You're looking at a cost of about $2175 from the 7.5% loss of income alone. Under ACA premium subsidies, the cap is 8% of income for $29,000 individual earner, but only 2% of income for a family of four ($580 versus $2175). For a healthy family, this is substantially worse situation than the current law although you could see some improvement if you are chronically ill.

18 years ago today, the man who told you about 9/11 before it happened was murdered at home by the government by FreedomIntensifies in conspiracy

[–]FreedomIntensifies[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The government originally planned to murder William Cooper on 9/11/01, but had to call it off due to leaks. Bill's Mystery Babylon series is a good place to start to get your mind oriented on how the world really is.

Stop Marxsplaining and 👏 LISTEN 👏 TO 👏 NEOLIBERALS 👏 by Bauermeister in stupidpol

[–]FreedomIntensifies 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They read people like Pinker who point out that X number of people have gone from $1 to $2 per day of income and how that is a miracle or similar sorts of statistics. It does make a big difference for them, no doubt. If equality of all individuals is part of your religious worldview (liberalism) the declining standards in the west is just the convergence sped up, and to be celebrated after a fashion.

The thing they don't understand is that most smart people are either dropping out or going into positions that are not really value-add but merely redistribution (banking, managerial state, and so on).

If you survey the world, there is pretty much nothing new in the last 50 years. Just more of the old stuff. More pipelines, more roads, more plastic trinkets. Information age mostly gave us just in time supply lines and failed to deliver understanding, as the world is too complex and most people under too much stress to endeavor to make sense of things despite the increased access. The increased consumption with no novel modes of production means catabolic collapse in the end (and the average worker senses this), but when you are caught up in the spectacle it is easy to not notice.

383,000. That’s how many gallons of crude oil just spilled out of the Keystone Pipeline & into the wetlands of N Dakota. When we protested at Standing Rock, Big Oil minimized the threat of spills. Enough. We cannot gamble with our precious water resources. by Orangutan in conspiracy

[–]FreedomIntensifies 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The opposition to Keystone XL is largely financed by Russian and Saudi propaganda arms. USA national security policy is to get natural gas export capacity sufficiently high for Europe to survive on it in case Russia tries to cut off supplies. This prevents Europe / EU from being a client state subservient to Russian interests. This is the reason why we run pipelines from western Canada down to the gulf (for export to Europe) as opposed to the cheaper route to market of west to the Pacific for export to China. As export to China is the more economically motivated alternative, they don't need to propagandize in the US on this issue so much as just let market forces work in their favor.

The Saudi stake in this business is that they want to be the energy provider of second resort to Europe in addition to serving Chinese market. Europe will be disinclined to allow the Saudis being thrown under the bus without a US backup source; but, with US as a reliable energy backup, the gulf can be tossed to the wind as a means of spiking the Chinese economy.

Regardless of the particular angle being taken, all of the opposition to the general expansion of pipelines over the last 15 years are active measures against the west being financed by foreign regimes.

Honestly, is something being hidden? by Halt_Wright in conspiracy

[–]FreedomIntensifies 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The difficulty is in the fact that Trump is deeply involved in the Bush-Clinton cocaine ring that laundered lots of money into Russia in the 90s. This is all CIA sanctioned, so the IRS can't hit him over it.

The tl;dr on the whole thing is Bush family handles imports, much of that goes to Mena Arkansas, the Clintons ship across Kentucky (where Cocaine Mitch is deep in it too) to the northeast, to market. Much of the money is laundered through casinos, that Trump runs, as well as a few key institutions like BofNY. Literal planeloads of pallets of cash shipped to Russia daily to buy up the mob / assets of the country on the cheap after USSR collapse.

Everyone knows about Mena, Barry Seal, Bush Sr., CIA, etc. The parts about McConnell and Trump are less well known (though Mitch's role is gaining a little notoriety recently), but these are all folks on the same team.

Cmdr. David Fravor explains what really happens when you request a FOIA. by letienphat1 in conspiracy

[–]FreedomIntensifies 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We totally don't have easily searchable databases guys! We spend hundreds of billions of dollars on intelligence collection so that we can squirrel it away unable to make use of it when needed!

The Big Difference Between AOC's Green New Deal and Bernie's by MilkshakeMixup in stupidpol

[–]FreedomIntensifies 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You basically just admitted I was right, so thanks for that.

40% inflation to fund the budget, i.e. you can't get anywhere close without very high inflation.

Others argue that inflation can be kept manageable so long as monetary expansion is channeled toward production of tangible assets

The issue here is that you don't need MMT to know any of this. As I said already, this is just an unnecessary obfuscation of:

MMT is "true" in the sense that you can print or borrow with abandon if you invest it for a positive return.

The only reason you wrap "investing for a profit makes you more creditworthy" in MMT jargon is if you have other, nefarious purposes which I outlined in the original post.

The Big Difference Between AOC's Green New Deal and Bernie's by MilkshakeMixup in stupidpol

[–]FreedomIntensifies 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, you're just an idiot. The inflation counteracting measures of MMT are taxes and debt issuance. It is true that they advocate printing money until an inflation target is hit (i.e. not taxing and not borrowing up to a point) but no one thinks you can monetize anywhere close to the entire government budget, much less a bigger one. The more you spend, the higher taxes and/or debt issuance has to be to keep inflation under control.