I listened to some of the videos and have one comment. My personal experience and observation is the magic sauce makes people more compliant and less likely to question. So you're not only dealing with the human stupidity that existed prior, you're also up against the zombiefication of those who partook. I have noticed on more than one occasion while conversing with someone who was magic sauced that the instant I pointed out a glaring inconvenient fact to them they would glitch out and then come back as though I had never said a thing. It was literally as if someone hit their "off/reset" button.
The "magic sauce" is a Turing test for sapience. If I find out someone took it, I immediately know they lack the ability to think critically.
I asked someone I knew, who should have known better (and can't admit he poisoned himself, is dying as a result, and will leave behind a wife and kid) why he took it. He hesitated and said he didn't know. This hints at a level of incredibly deep social conditioning, and is the only reason I retain a sliver of compassion for them. They could have been propagandized towards virtue, but instead it was to their demise.
I don't know how bad it's going to be, but we're gonna find out.
I’m thinking Americans are simply too fat and weak for a civil war. It’ll be a skinny low-testosterone vegan fighting a fat diabetic on a rascal scooter.
I mean, the City of London/Davos crowd were perhaps too successful in pacifying the American populace via therapeutic techniques. I can’t imagine the kind of energy bursting out as with the first Civil War. Despite Boomers being soaked with the red vs. blue crap since the 1960s Neoliberal consensus I can’t imagine them finally deciding to fight. I’m much more receptive to Thomas777’s gradual fragmentation idea. That the US will become more regionalized culturally, economically, and politically.
I doubt a second civil war also (although deep Blue cities are going to be sporty), and I agree a lot of power will by necessity devolve back to regions, state, and local gov't. There's a lot riding on the Trump regime being able to thread the needle economically, they'll need strong inflation, high growth, lower tax burden on the middle/lower middle class, and a dramatic reduction in the Federal work force.
On top of that, there's the problem of state & local gov't, which is larded up and has been monkeying with property valuations to keep tax receipts illegally high https://www.mockingbirdproperties.com/dcad Making property tax illegal on your primary residence would blow that to smithereens (and implode those local gov'ts), but I haven't heard anything from the administration about that, just Lluongo (who said Kirk was coming around on it). So let's hope the influencers can influence the people in power.
Then of course, there's Theil & Altman, et. al. who seem to think an overbearing technocracy would be cool, which just goes to show how retarded they are... But they're gonna try.
This is why I'm not as sanguine on Lluongo's thesis (and I'm in ways more pessimistic than Groman) but Tom's thesis has a better chance if people are aware of it so they give the Trump regime some breathing room. All that said, I'm giving it 50:50.
The "OK, what do?" is the same either way, don't save in dollars, bonds, stawks, and lever up on RE; buy gold, BTC, silver, resource stocks, etc., get useful skills & tools, get tight with your homies, and get them in local gov't.
And then there's the woo-woo resolution, where 3IATLAS turns out not to be natural (which it's looking more and more every day), in which case it's going to be weirder than we can imagine.
So, buckle the chinstrap on your 'tard helmet, there's no stopping this train.
I listened to some of the videos and have one comment. My personal experience and observation is the magic sauce makes people more compliant and less likely to question. So you're not only dealing with the human stupidity that existed prior, you're also up against the zombiefication of those who partook. I have noticed on more than one occasion while conversing with someone who was magic sauced that the instant I pointed out a glaring inconvenient fact to them they would glitch out and then come back as though I had never said a thing. It was literally as if someone hit their "off/reset" button.
The "magic sauce" is a Turing test for sapience. If I find out someone took it, I immediately know they lack the ability to think critically.
I asked someone I knew, who should have known better (and can't admit he poisoned himself, is dying as a result, and will leave behind a wife and kid) why he took it. He hesitated and said he didn't know. This hints at a level of incredibly deep social conditioning, and is the only reason I retain a sliver of compassion for them. They could have been propagandized towards virtue, but instead it was to their demise.
I don't know how bad it's going to be, but we're gonna find out.
There's no stopping this train.
I’m thinking Americans are simply too fat and weak for a civil war. It’ll be a skinny low-testosterone vegan fighting a fat diabetic on a rascal scooter.
I mean, the City of London/Davos crowd were perhaps too successful in pacifying the American populace via therapeutic techniques. I can’t imagine the kind of energy bursting out as with the first Civil War. Despite Boomers being soaked with the red vs. blue crap since the 1960s Neoliberal consensus I can’t imagine them finally deciding to fight. I’m much more receptive to Thomas777’s gradual fragmentation idea. That the US will become more regionalized culturally, economically, and politically.
I doubt a second civil war also (although deep Blue cities are going to be sporty), and I agree a lot of power will by necessity devolve back to regions, state, and local gov't. There's a lot riding on the Trump regime being able to thread the needle economically, they'll need strong inflation, high growth, lower tax burden on the middle/lower middle class, and a dramatic reduction in the Federal work force.
On top of that, there's the problem of state & local gov't, which is larded up and has been monkeying with property valuations to keep tax receipts illegally high https://www.mockingbirdproperties.com/dcad Making property tax illegal on your primary residence would blow that to smithereens (and implode those local gov'ts), but I haven't heard anything from the administration about that, just Lluongo (who said Kirk was coming around on it). So let's hope the influencers can influence the people in power.
Then of course, there's Theil & Altman, et. al. who seem to think an overbearing technocracy would be cool, which just goes to show how retarded they are... But they're gonna try.
This is why I'm not as sanguine on Lluongo's thesis (and I'm in ways more pessimistic than Groman) but Tom's thesis has a better chance if people are aware of it so they give the Trump regime some breathing room. All that said, I'm giving it 50:50.
The "OK, what do?" is the same either way, don't save in dollars, bonds, stawks, and lever up on RE; buy gold, BTC, silver, resource stocks, etc., get useful skills & tools, get tight with your homies, and get them in local gov't.
And then there's the woo-woo resolution, where 3IATLAS turns out not to be natural (which it's looking more and more every day), in which case it's going to be weirder than we can imagine.
So, buckle the chinstrap on your 'tard helmet, there's no stopping this train.
Time to re-read Taleb’s “Anti-Fragile” book.
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Hey! Thanks for the shoutout. Glad a few people actually listened in on the warcast. Thanks!
It was really good, and great advice. You should boost it.