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originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: JAGStorm
Covid has killed 6.5 million in a three year period.
It is becoming endemic. Mutating to new forms more than seasonally.
Those who oppose any reasonable defense against the disease, are making the problem worse.
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: JAGStorm
Covid has killed 6.5 million in a three year period.
It is becoming endemic. Mutating to new forms more than seasonally.
Those who oppose any reasonable defense against the disease, are making the problem worse.
So then all the authorities are making it worse by all the actions they have taken, many of those actions being illegal.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: JAGStorm
Covid has killed 6.5 million in a three year period.
It is becoming endemic. Mutating to new forms more than seasonally.
Those who oppose any reasonable defense against the disease, are making the problem worse.
So then all the authorities are making it worse by all the actions they have taken, many of those actions being illegal.
No, you have that backwards. It is the ones who want to do nothing (when there are effective things we can do) who are making the problem worse.
And by definition, the actions taken by the legal authorities are not illegal unless they directly contradict some definite statutory law.
originally posted by: ChristianSupremacist
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: JAGStorm
Covid has killed 6.5 million in a three year period.
It is becoming endemic. Mutating to new forms more than seasonally.
Those who oppose any reasonable defense against the disease, are making the problem worse.
So then all the authorities are making it worse by all the actions they have taken, many of those actions being illegal.
No, you have that backwards. It is the ones who want to do nothing (when there are effective things we can do) who are making the problem worse.
And by definition, the actions taken by the legal authorities are not illegal unless they directly contradict some definite statutory law.
Democide is pretty high up in "illegal".
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: JAGStorm
You won't get an answer. I have been pointing this out for a while.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: ChristianSupremacist
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: JAGStorm
Covid has killed 6.5 million in a three year period.
It is becoming endemic. Mutating to new forms more than seasonally.
Those who oppose any reasonable defense against the disease, are making the problem worse.
So then all the authorities are making it worse by all the actions they have taken, many of those actions being illegal.
No, you have that backwards. It is the ones who want to do nothing (when there are effective things we can do) who are making the problem worse.
And by definition, the actions taken by the legal authorities are not illegal unless they directly contradict some definite statutory law.
Democide is pretty high up in "illegal".
It is illegal because it is against definite statutory laws.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: Another_Nut
"Colonising a universe"? When do we start doing that?
It doesn't make any sense to kill off the obedient
It's not "Goodbye to the West" but "Goodbye to the Modern Era" as Elitist politicians (like those who write for Project Syndicate) pursue their relentless campaign for the "refeudalisation" of society.
It's easy to forget that the Modern Era with its Modern Era values of egalitarianism, democratisation and national self-determination is . . . well . . . MODERN. It hasn’t been around for very long.
It is easy to forget that when viewed with proper perspective, human history up until the time of the Modern Era was a story of aggressively narcissistic, machiavellian psychopaths competing (sometimes collaborating) to attain positions of power, then using that power to dominate and brutalise their fellow human beings. We know from the historical record that these rulers showed no remorse in wasting the lives of thousands - even millions - of people they regarded as “their” Subjects.
Human psychology has not evolved. Evolution operates over a much longer time frame. The psychopaths (and their sycophant supporters) have not gone away.
All that happened in the Modern Era was a temporary change in the environment: the demands of the industrial economy meant that it was expedient – for a time – for the rulers to make limited concessions to their Subjects.
What we are witnessing now is an elite response to the post-industrial world of AI and robotics.
No longer are large numbers of Subjects required to run complex but not fully automated machinery. Now it is small numbers of very highly trained technicians required to manage the robotic workforce. Small in number, they can easily be bought off. Better still, they can effectively be reduced to the status of indentured workers through the weapon of crippling student debt. They dare not rebel for fear of their debts being called in.
As for the rest of humanity, they are now redundant or soon will be. Their rulers no longer need them. And those the earlier concessions are - as the saying goes - “inoperative”.
Elective government provides no safeguards. It will prove no barrier to containing the psychopaths once the cost of pacification falls as a result of robotics.
You don’t need to be Einstein to see how this game must play itself out.
For most people it’s not going to be a happy ending.
originally posted by: Another_Nut
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: JAGStorm
You won't get an answer. I have been pointing this out for a while.
Its easy really and since you havent gotten the answer ill give it to you.
They dont want or need people who are obedient sheep.
Think about the future that is coming. Why deal with the sheep when you can automate the sheep. You only want intelligent people who can think for themselves when you start colonizing a universe.
originally posted by: Insurrectile
a reply to: JAGStorm
Your answer comes with a simply question: who says it has to make sense when it makes money?
How billionaires saw their net worth increase by half a trillion dollars during the pandemic
Why deal with the sheep when you can automate the sheep.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: Insurrectile
a reply to: JAGStorm
Your answer comes with a simply question: who says it has to make sense when it makes money?
How billionaires saw their net worth increase by half a trillion dollars during the pandemic
Big Pharma might be making money on the vax, but it's losing money on its other products like cosmetics because people aren't going out dolled up nearly so much as they used to due to the pandemic.
Big Pharma owns so many different products, and they gain on the vax don't offset the loses elsewhere.