What on Earth is going on in the world today? It's gone mad

[tented]

Twitter ‘closes offices’ after Elon Musk’s loyalty oath sparks wave of resignations

 

[britbox]

Yes, there’s definitely a scary aspect to what can be done with technology these days. This was striking (to me) because of how quickly and seamlessly he transitioned from one face to the next.

It makes me wonder how we’ll be able to determine definitively what’s real and what’s not, particularly when this technology becomes readily available to everyone.

Public Tech is at least 70 years behind military tech... and likely hundreds or even thousands of years behind "real tech". I recall a quote about technology being the same as acceptable magic. Might have been Kissinger or Rockefeller... Imagine in the 16th Century, you said "Hello Google, play me a Phil Collins hit: and an unattached plastic blob started playing music... you'd likely have been burnt at the stake as a witch... and not just for the Phil Collins selection.

When you realise sound can create, destroy, or change things in different dimensions it changes everything.

As for the original point... can we determine what's real in the future? Well, can we determine what was real in past? The books might have been burned, but it's pretty clear when you study architecture that the official history we've been given, raises more a bunch more questions than it answers.

 

[britbox]

Top Musicians know the deal... I'll use Bowie as an example, because he seems to be liked across the spectrum.



Once you start examining the work of Nikola Tesla, it will literally blow your mind. All those Biblical scriptures most people scoff at, immediately come alive.

 

[britbox]

This isn't just happening in Britain - it's happening all around the world. Watch treaties, watch legislation. Ignore all the other trivial distractions.

 

[Federberg]

^would never have happened if my guy David Duncan was PM

 

[tented]

This isn't just happening in Britain - it's happening all around the world. Watch treaties, watch legislation. Ignore all the other trivial distractions.

The US has passed several draconian laws like this (federal and state level). Ever since 9/11, legislatures love to label anyone doing something they don’t like as “terrorists” — someone protesting an oil pipeline is a terrorist, not a protestor.

 

[Kieran]

The US has passed several draconian laws like this (federal and state level). Ever since 9/11, legislatures love to label anyone doing something they don’t like as “terrorists” — someone protesting an oil pipeline is a terrorist, not a protestor.

That’s like Canada where the far left government attacked working class truckers by targeting their bank accounts, because they didn’t want to be vaccinated, if I recall? The left have given up pretending that they care for the working class, but it’s another example of government overreach. Hate speech laws, legislation that’s nigh well impossible to define but tends to work in favour of whoever is in favour of these things…

 

[britbox]

The US has passed several draconian laws like this (federal and state level). Ever since 9/11, legislatures love to label anyone doing something they don’t like as “terrorists” — someone protesting an oil pipeline is a terrorist, not a protestor.

Yes, seems to be the case everywhere at the moment - floods of legislation being passed in multiple countries. It doesn't matter which "side" is in power, the same processes are taking place.

So, the UK appears to have passed legislation to the effect that a couple of people complaining about noise is sufficient reason to stop a protest.

 

[britbox]

That’s like Canada where the far left government attacked working class truckers by targeting their bank accounts, because they didn’t want to be vaccinated, if I recall? The left have given up pretending that they care for the working class, but it’s another example of government overreach. Hate speech laws, legislation that’s nigh well impossible to define but tends to work in favour of whoever is in favour of these things…

They didn't only target the trucker bank accounts, but people who had donated to their cause... and these people's names came out after a "hack" on one of those crowdfunding sites.

 

[Kieran]

They didn't only target the trucker bank accounts, but people who had donated to their cause... and these people's names came out after a "hack" on one of those crowdfunding sites.

Really? I know that Trudeau is a vacuous boy prince, a nasty piece of bigoted shit but I didn’t know that much. Doesn’t surprise me, but what does surprise me is how anyone can vote for any far left government. The far left controls North America, and their screechy ignorant ideas are being argued everywhere. They’re not only wrong about the basic things they’re loudest about - race and gender - but they’re almost wilfully wrong about everything. We’re losing our minds because of these dunces in control. The left used to pretend they cared about the working class, but I grew up in a working class estate in the northside of Dublin (not too dissimilar to the one in The Snapper) and I saw through this hogwash before I was even a teenager…

 

[britbox]

Really? I know that Trudeau is a vacuous boy prince, a nasty piece of bigoted shit but I didn’t know that much. Doesn’t surprise me, but what does surprise me is how anyone can vote for any far left government. The far left controls North America, and their screechy ignorant ideas are being argued everywhere. They’re not only wrong about the basic things they’re loudest about - race and gender - but they’re almost wilfully wrong about everything. We’re losing our minds because of these dunces in control. The left used to pretend they cared about the working class, but I grew up in a working class estate in the northside of Dublin (not too dissimilar to the one in The Snapper) and I saw through this hogwash before I was even a teenager…

Most of the Anglo countries invoked a "State of Emergency" which effectively removed remedy... at least for most.

 

[britbox]

These buffoons are laughing at you.

 

[britbox]

She knows her stuff. Too long for most people who have been conditioned to watch 5-10 minute TikTok videos or who are stuck in the right v left psyop. Shame.

 

[Federberg]

If that was a boxing match the referee would have intervened during her response and stopped the fight...

 

[Kieran]

If that was a boxing match the referee would have intervened during her response and stopped the fight...

An ass kicking

 

[Moxie]

The US has passed several draconian laws like this (federal and state level). Ever since 9/11, legislatures love to label anyone doing something they don’t like as “terrorists” — someone protesting an oil pipeline is a terrorist, not a protestor.

The definition of "terrorist" in this country has been complicated long before 9/11. In the 90s, I did a documentary exploration of "terrorists" v. "freedom fighters." I even interviewed Netanyahu. (Getting into the Israeli Consulate with film equipment was a preview of what the whole world was about to be like, believe me.) There has long been a notion that a terrorist is something "other," and especially "outside." And long before 9/11, one association was "Arabs," and certainly Palestinians. I remember when the bombing in Oklahoma City happened, 1995, and the perpetrators were identified as 2 white men. I saw a local woman interviewed on tv and she said, "Thank God they weren't terrorists." Well, excuse me, but they were. To this day, we have a problem identifying anti-government extremists or white nationalists who perpetrate violence for political reasons as "terrorists," but they are. I don't think we really understand what the definition is, at least in the US, even today. One of the big problems that lots of Americans have in terms of wrapping their heads around how deeply damaging the insurgency on the Capital was on January 6th, 2020, is that they don't see home-grown Christian white people as the same kind of threat they think they should be worried about.

 

[Kieran]

The definition of "terrorist" in this country has been complicated long before 9/11. In the 90s, I did a documentary exploration of "terrorists" v. "freedom fighters." I even interviewed Netanyahu. (Getting into the Israeli Consulate with film equipment was a preview of what the whole world was about to be like, believe me.) There has long been a notion that a terrorist is something "other," and especially "outside." And long before 9/11, one association was "Arabs," and certainly Palestinians. I remember when the bombing in Oklahoma City happened, 1995, and the perpetrators were identified as 2 white men. I saw a local woman interviewed on tv and she said, "Thank God they weren't terrorists." Well, excuse me, but they were. To this day, we have a problem identifying anti-government extremists or white nationalists who perpetrate violence for political reasons as "terrorists," but they are. I don't think we really understand what the definition is, at least in the US, even today. One of the big problems that lots of Americans have in terms of wrapping their heads around how deeply damaging the insurgency on the Capital was on January 6th, 2020, is that they don't see home-grown Christian white people as the same kind of threat they think they should be worried about.

It’s a good point. America seems to be inundated with homegrown terrorists, who are not only being encouraged by the main parties, and party leaders, but who act as militia proxies for them. The January 6th insurgents, Antifa (who Joe Biden, in an extraordinary deflection, dismissed as “an idea”), the BLM rioters, whose “mostly peaceful protests” served a political purpose. This is scary, will only get worse, and must feel like a ticking time bomb that can explode at any time…

 

[Federberg]

 

[Federberg]

 

[Kieran]

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I know the Toblerone shrunk and stayed the same price in Ireland...