Paragone

I thought it was a Perl script..

shruggeth

: p

OR WHAT??

WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO???

< crickets >

( my bitterness at this, goes here. )

Notice that they're still committed to allowing the kind of bribing called "lobbying", just not that specific example of it..

This is called cosmetic "Principles", see?

establishment NEVER guts its own corruption..

Never.

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Poor bastard: there IS active, & onging, Russian interference in EVERYthing in Ukraine, & he's got his hands tied in many ways, while Russia doesn't have rule-of-civil-rights law, at all..

Yes, Justice must be independent ( as that protestor's sign states, in English, in the image above ), but when you've got the world's greatest machiavellian having their tentacles in all your institutions, how do you make it independent of THEIR molestation, too, when they're already operating outside of the law?

Poor bastard..

this war's grinding on him, grinding on his values & his frame-of-reference, both, it seems..

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Understand, that Trump's NOT playing the Zero-Sum Game: he's playing the Negative-Sum Game, as mass-shooters are, too..

He isn't working towards future-generations' victory, rather, he's working to enforce that there IS NO US of A for anybody to be a citizen-of, after he's finished with it: he will go down in history as its last ruler..

Same as mass-shooters want glory/infamy, not long-life..

( & "journalism"'s stringing-along the false-framing that it's really otherwise, is just helping increase our body-count at the end of this decade, in treason against true Journalism's spirit )

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The 5 culture-levels ( levels, not "stages", as stages are irreversable, like larval-caterpiller, but adult-giraffe, after their metamorphosis, you know? ), that are anchored on the 3 categories of Game, are:

5: Positive-Sum Game, aka Win-Win Alliance: "Living is self-inherently AWESOME!!"

4: mixed: "WE are great, THEY are not."

3: Zero-Sum Game, aka competitive-narcissism, which money-people presume that all players are playing: "I am great, others are not."

2: mixed, subject-to-narcissism's-rule: "MY life sucks."

1: Negative-Sum Game, mass-shooters, competitive-nihilism: "LIFE, ITSELF sucks, let's butcher it for importance/glory."

You can watch the simplified-condensed version here: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership & if you find that understanding the 5 cultures is important to you, because you want to decide which of the cultures you live-in, through the rest of your life, then I beg you to invest in understanding everything in their book, "Tribal Leadership" by Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright.

They didn't realize that the 5 culture-levels all hang on the 3 categories of game, I did, but with that key, it's even more important to be understanding this, as the US of A is now manufacturing a mass-enforced-conversion of people down to culture-level-2 & culture-level-1 ( homeless oft becomes culture-level-1 within 3 months, and I say that having experienced years of it: it DESTROYS you, inside ).

Immunize your life against that particular erosion-of-your-life, now, while you've still got good leverage, because they're working to enforce that we lose all our leverage, ASAP..

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EDIT: to make it explicit, what I'm saying..

IF you don't understand which of the 3 categories-of-Game a player is playing, THEN you aren't competent in understanding what their strategy is!!

ONCE you understand that the accelerationists, & the far-right, are not playing for long-rule, they are playing for power-while-destroying-everyone-else's-life, THEN you can understand what is, vs what isn't, Strategy, from their perspective, see?

Should have made that obvious, instead of only implying it, as it was sufficiently-obvious in my head, but .. you aren't me, & be happy about that, too.

( :

I've read that the flight-deck voice-recorder captured something like "why did you shut-off the fuel-lines?"..

Those powerplants need fuel measured in litres-PER-SECOND, not per minute, the way piston-engines do.

( There's a channel on yt by a guy AgenJayZ, he has a turbojet-repair shop in the Praries, in Canada..

he showed, in 1 of his videos, how he tests a single fuel-nozzle, for 1 ( of 5 ) combustor-cans in a jet he was working-on..

28-imperial-gallons/minute, that nozzle sprayed-out..

Times 5, & you've got 140-imperial-gallons/minute pouring into that SINGLE jet-engine..

that's around 635-litres/min, aka 10.5-litres-per-second for that engine..

You CAN'T survive killing the fuel-lines on an airliner, while just after takeoff:

Flamout, & you can't restart before crashing.

Here's a yt-search, & the video I say may be in that list, but it's been a few years..

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jayz+jet+engine+fuel-nozzle+test )

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To me the only question left isn't "how", but why:

Did the person on the flight-deck who killed the airliner do it of their unconscious-mind's belligerance, XOR did they do it consciously-intentionally?

( the video, I hope you've seen it, of the gorilla-suit guy walking through some people tossing a ball around, & half the people in the game didn't notice the gorilla-suit guy..

Normal people can't imagine just how much of our lives our unconscious-mind blocks from our awareness, & be "well adjusted"..

I'm not accusing that person's conscious mind of doing it, but their unconscious-mind's intent definitely was involved, either-way. )

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< homer-simpson voice >

The worst crime of the 21st century .. so far!

< / homer-simpson voice >

( I wish I was joking, but no: the accelerationists, far-right, etc, have MUCH worse plans for our world's next few years.

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Trump wasn't kidding about wanting to possess both Greenland ( which he can use to seal-off all Atlantic trade with Canada, using Alaska to seal-off all Pacific trade with Canada, & then butcher us from mainland US, until only our corpses are in his way of total-continental-"kingdom" ) & Canada,

& in a few more years, his alliance with Putin, to butcher all the "woke" countries ( see the other article in this forum on their working to replace all the civil-rights leaders in Europe with far-right supremacist-types: https://lemmy.world/post/33478737 ) will be blatent, instead of hidden ( the temporary-difficulties between them are only temporary, & Musk's actively toggling Ukraine's internet to help Russia ( https://lemmy.world/post/33459082 ) is just a little of the evidence showing the real-truth, as The Kremlin Papers that The Guardian reported-on a few years ago, are, too ).

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/02/time-to-confront-trump-putin-network

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/16/first-thing-what-the-kremlin-papers-said-about-trump

( keep in mind that The Guardian changed-ownership, & let-go many of their journalists, so it's possibly just a holding-company, now, riding on the pre-established brand,

AND I've seen screencaps showing its prejudice'd "journalism" protecting Israel's genociding, compared with its coverage of Ukraine, so it isn't the "Truth 1st" kind of Journalism this world needs, but .. neither is anybody else, now, from what I've seen.

Sucks, that..

Read "The Elements of Journalism", for a taste of what true Journalism is supposed to mean..

We NEED true-Journalism's return to this planet, this-year! )

WHEN the US of A's Civil War Part2 begins, it'll be simultaneous with the US's waging war against Canada.

So, it'll be saving Canada's life, by mitigating the US's effectiveness..

and with the US waging war against Canada ( & Mexico, Panama, etc.. ), Putin will be ( with China's & Saudi Arabia's complete backing ) waging war against the EU/rest-of-NATO.

Trump's a Putin-ally, not a NATO, & that's been true since the 1980's.

the NATO bill they've now got drafted in the US, in removing the US from NATO isn't a spur-of-the-moment thing: its roots go back to the Kremlin's investment in Trump, last-century..

IF by "taking a side" you mean cheering on, from the sidelines, sure, NATO'll take a side..

however, if by "taking a side" you mean invading, .. get real.

WHEN the US Constitution is rendered completely-irrelevant ( 2028, as that's when the required election would threaten Trump's kinghood ) by wars against ALL neighbors, & then the CCP can carve-up Asia, & MBS can gain possession of the entire Middle-East, all of Africa, etc.. ( I don't know who gets South America, but it isn't the West: China's the one who's been investing in it, & the oligarchs/far-right have been investing in highjacking it, so it's a tossup between them, isn't it? .. oh, "Israel" won't exist much past 2028: Hamas's brilliant unconscious strategy was to use the life of the Palestinian people as bait, to get "Israel" to display its narcissistic/machiavellian/psychopathic/nihilistic/sadistic/systemically-dishonest/prejudice ( all dimensions that also express through other prejudice-ideologies, including islamism, white-supremacism, etc.. ) & once the Muslim world no longer cared if they survived the fight, that ANNIHILATING "Israel" is REQUIRED.. then suddenly "Israel" no-longer has any military "deterrent", do they? "Deterrent" REQUIRES that opponents be deterred, right? Making them into unhesitating martyrs isn't "deterring" them, is it? "Israel" is sooo completely prejudice-polarized that it isn't competent to perceive that concept, apparently. So, once that tipping-point is crossed, then "Israel" gets annihilated, exactly as the Christian prophecy declared ( Matt 24, iirc ) )

WHEN the US Constitution is rendered completely-irrelevant, THEN.. TrueNATO'll have sooo many problems of its own, that the US of A will have to wage war on all its neighbors WHILE exterminating civil-rights, leftists, Christians who're loyal to LivingSpirit, people of all other religions who're loyal to LivingSpirit, LivingSpirit itself, if they can figure out how, etc..

it'll simply be nazism, all over again.

Only the appearances will be different.

Will they even have giant murder-factories, as the nazis had over 1000 of?

probably..

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A more important question, for the survivors will be: as soon as Putin & Trump drop ( they are old: this will happen to them ), then .. will the CCP's empire step up to be rampaging the remnant of the West?

The correct answer is yes, they will.

Fundamentally, humankind "can't" tolerate civil-rights to rule over authority, so EVERY kind of authoritarianism is going to try breaking civil-rights from our world, completely.

White supremacism, then CCP authoritarianism.. then another, then another.. until either humankind's underlying-nature is force-changed, XOR until humankind's extinguished..

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Some would say that the US of A has been providing aid to the world, all along!

Yes, simultanously with CIA treachery..

As is obvious, ALL our countries have been playing that kind of game!

Some would say that the world, endlessly-helped by the US of A, owes the US of A help in surviving its Civil War Part2..

After all the treachery that the US has enforced so as to prevent civil-rights from having real leverage in the world..

( here's 1: Afghanistan.

Obama let it slip that there was immense mineral-wealth there..

so, how come the US of A hadn't helped the Afghani people get a functioning government & economy built on that, instead of having opium remain the spine of the Afghani economy??

Colonialism.

Sad, or what?

Then I found out that it was Carter who obliterated the good government in Afghanistan, so as to prevent it from interfering with the US's dominion-game..

& these are 2 of the "good guys"?? )

Humankind has NO right to claim, in G-D's face, that it has "done the right thing", at any scale, consistently.

Now humankind has to sort itself out.

The US of A has to sort itself out.

If the balance-of-power means that evil wins, then .. then humankind needs force-extinguishment, for the Solar-systems, or/and the Galaxy's sake.

Our factionalism will do the enforcing: no need for any "intervention", but it'll be humankind's planet-scale civil-war.

& deathmatch.

War of attrition.

Either 1 kind survives, or none do.

That is the proper framing, for the entire rest of this century.

The US is just 1 little set-of-battles, not anywhere-near the whole thing of this century's "force cleaning-up of humankind".

The US won't be a player in the mid 2030's: Trump's making certain of that.

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Hear hear!!

( that is parliamentary-speak for "Absolutely Right!", just in case anybody reading didn't grow up in a parliamentary town : )

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. […] The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.” - Eisenhower

This is just ideologically ignoring that there are distinct-dimensions in the proper question:

IF you've got cancer, THEN does it make sense to stop "funding" your immune-system, because the ( 10% when you're healthy, probably 25% when you're sick, or more ) fraction of your calories which are going to violence ought be going, instead, to comfyness??

Idiocy.

Survival IS a basic-need, as Maslow understood, & exactly as enforcement is a basic-need within your organism, it also is within countries.

And between them.

"serial-murder, treason, terrorism, etc, all just need to be made to be nice, & we'll compromise with them, & everybody will be happy"

( I'm NOT accusing you of having spoken that, but it's a fundamental idea behind the utopian non-reality that your, & Eisenhower's, ignoring-the-different-dimensions-of-requirement is doing ) ignores that diversity-of-intent is an actual thing, & it ignores the greatness of that diversity.

Yes, some people actually butcher others for fun.

NOT enforcing against that, is morally criminal.

Yes, some factions, including countries, butchers others for fun/gain/profit/kicks/whatever.

NOT enforcing against that is also morally criminal.

Yes, WE ( all of our countries ) have committed evil, through our means, economic, through weapons, through selective-legislations ( ask the Indigenous people about that, sometime, if you've balls enough, oh readers, & the state-sanctioned slavery of Africans was only a subset of the world's slavery that the West was profiting from, including slavery of the Indigenous people in parts of the Americas ), & countering that means enforcing accountability on our own institutions

( good fscking luck accomplishing that: Rule Number Zero in institutions is NEVER tolerate accountability, & once that's done, then never tolerate responsibility is the next rule ),

& that requires ACTUAL Journalism, which no longer exists, among our world ( only ideological parodies of journalism remain, now. Sad as all fscking hell. "The Elements of Journalism" now in its 4th edition, NEEDS to be made a high-school requirement, xor our civilization won't have enough leverage to be able to survive The Great Filter, this century )..

but to declare that simply deeming all military/enforcement spending to be fundamentally contrary to social-support/education/etc, is DISinformation.

Whether an organism needs an immune-system or not is dependent on its context.

Whether a country needs military-investment is dependent on its context.

NOT an ideological-belief ( either militarist or utopian ).

Ukraine's need for military is not an ideological delusion: it is survival-requirement.

When Trump declares war on Canada, so as to take-possession of the entire-continent for himself, Canada's need for military will be identical to Ukraine's: extinguishment is the only alternative to fit fighting survival.

IF Trump gets through Canada ( he's getting old: there's a time-limit on his life ), then Putin & Trump are committed to butchering the hated woke EU.

There are many right-wingers working to butcher the EU from within, as Millei is in the process of butchering Argentina from within..

Those who are waging negative-sum-game ( mass-shootings are negative-sum-game, competitive-narcissism is zero-sum-game ) so that they can enforce that the "woke" are ALL butchered, lost, destroyed, shed, .. are warring for their ideology to be the final "ruler" of the world.

It is ideological/"religious", not objective, the real war we're waging.

ClimatePunctuation, however, couldn't care less about such ideologies: it's still accelerating, & all the bullshit "consensus" that that isn't happening is just helping obliterate more future-lives, a greater percentage of humankind. ( much of India, California, Texas, Saudi Arabia, etc, ought be uninhabitable before the end of this century: Trump's rampaging of Canada will be goaded partly by the continuing acceleration of ClimatePunctuation )

Once our world has divided into the 4-ish alliances/empires that are the max this world can sustain, in WW3, then the REAL beat-down will begin: a whole-planet deathmatch, beginning in the early 2030's. Only 1 alliance/empire/faction will survive, .. IF any do ..

NOT fighting for our lives IS obliterating our future-generations: obliterating THEIR lives, for sake of our complacent "status quo will save us" non-effort.

Anybody who pushes nonviolence against cancer/ebola/marburg/rabies/etc should be considered to be lethally-incompetent, at best ( how many lives did Typhoid Mary indirectly-destroy? There IS reasponsibility in both action & in inaction! ).

The same for any who advocate appeasing/accommodating those who are investing-in & are committed-to the annihilation of civil-rights from this planet, no matter what their "colors" or "stripe" or "flag" or ideology/prejudice/"religion" be.

Feel free to deem me evil for any/every point I put in this comment:

I expect that there will be either 0% survival of this century by our world's humankind, .. xor there will be between 1% & 2% survival, IF some faction grows enough spine to evolve, fast, relentlessly, endlessly, until surviving The Great Filter becomes for them possible.

All who reject that axiomatically put me in the dangerously-mentally-ill or the evil category, & that's fine.

I expect there to be about 8 billion fewer humans left alive by 2090.

All the ideological "you have to be in this ideology, pushing this group's dominion of our world" .. or that, .. or the other .. they're all idiotic, in my view: like idiots fighting-over which deck-chair won't drown, while in the sinking of the Titanic.

Totally-wrong frame-of-reference.

Species-extinguishment's the proper frame-of-reference.

Ideological-dominion cannot win, without snuffing this world's humankind.

Only hard-objectivity/global-(not-ideological)-pragmatism can win The Great Filter.

& nobody's accepting the evidence's framing of it that way.

Exactly the same as nobody is accepting that the proper framing of all the geopolitical major-players is in the 3 kinds of "games", positive-sum games ( win-win alliances, none of which are visible in the world, to me ), zero-sum games ( competitive-narcissism, which is presumed by default to be the only game in the world by us, for some delusional "reason" ), & negative-sum games ( mass-shootings, genocides, what Putin, the Republican Party, Millei, Orban, Musk, & many others are doing only matches this, or a mixture of this & zero-sum game ).. nobody is accepting the correct-framing, so therefore everybody is "not seeing the forest for the trees", & losing their perspective in the political-details..

& that is much of why I don't believe that more than 2% of humankind CAN survive this century, now..

IF you won't know that the thrumming in the rails is the oncoming train, AND you're sitting on the tracks holding your sprained ankle, howling for attention ( ideological-conforming/belonging/dominion, remapped ), THEN getting splatted throughout the sky is Universe's right to enforce on you, right?

IF, instead, you realize that the 200mph train's coming barely in time for most of you to survive getting out of its way, but all your friends die, aerosolized by the impact.. that isn't on Nature, that's on you, right? The telegraphing of what Nature was about to be doing was happening within your awareness's reach, but it was your belief that was vetoing it, right?

The geopolitical-shitshow we're embedded-in was set up centuries ago.

Our preventing this specific demise of the US of A would have required that education be nationally-organized/funded in the US for .. an entire century?

Read Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow" & understand that Kahneman & Tversky's "System 1", the imprint-reaction system, IS ideology/prejudice/"religion"'s basis.

Read "Top Brain / Bottom Brain" & understand that "System 1" is lower-forebrain.

Then understand that upper-forebrain requires LOTS of training to get it operating, its being allowed to "vote" in our world is dependent on its relative strength, compared with lower-forebrain, & that the 1st thing that Lenin, Rupert Murdoch, the Republicans, cults, religions, etc, ALL do, is they eradicate considered-reasoning from education, so as to prevent considered-reasoning/critical-thinking from gaining control, ever again..

It's FAR too late to save the US of A's life, now.

It may be too late to save humankind's life..

Pretending that "there will be time: Universe will pause & wait for us, because it revolves around us!" as we've been doing, means that, at this point in our evolution, we may deserve Universe's extinguishing us: if we WON'T think, then natural selection ought clean our kind off from the map.

Let some actually intelligent life evolve, instead.

Yeah, I'm getting bitter, in my old age, but humankind's WON'T think galls, & being gaslit about it, on top, only galls more.

shrug

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Trump's been committed to ditching NATO & allying with Putin, his sponsor/mentor, for years.

There's even a bill on the table, now, called NATO, about the US ditching NATO.

Chopping social-systems will please, but NOT appease, Trump,

& it won't change his strategic-course, to ditch NATO & piecemeal butcher it, taking Greenland as a means of strangling Canada completely, then waging war against Canada, because Canada stands in his way..

then once Canada's down, destroying the hated woke EU in a pincer between Putin & him,

so that in the end, only Putin, Trump, Millei, Orban, etc, get to be "kings" over the butchered West, & unlimitedly unaccountable..

It isn't a zero-sum-game they're playing: it's a negative-sum-game ( mass-shooting, except through legislations, instead of bullets, killing entire-populations, not mere-individuals ),

& the longer it takes for people to grok that, the greater the percentage of our countries' lives they'll succeed in shedding.

So, once the US has ditched NATO to partner with Putin, Orban, Millei, etc..

WILL THE REMAINDER OF NATO SMARTEN-UP AND GET READY FOR THE BEING-RAMPAGED THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE SUBJECTED-TO by Putin+Trump+Orban+GlobalRightWing??

XOR are we going to sit on our hands waiting, denying right to our country's deaths, resonsibility for our own survival??

Humankind may-well deserve extinguishing, if humankind won't do what it needs to do, to survive..

Orban needs to be removed from the EU, and from TrueNATO.

Yesterday.

This has been true since it became obvious that he was Putin's agent/representative, a few years ago.

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