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Our systems and institutions have been being lead by increasingly incompetent people who aren't adequately equipped to understand or operate them, and then we h

by loceng 5y ago

Our systems and institutions have been being lead by increasingly incompetent people who aren't adequately equipped to understand or operate them, and then we have dis-ease progression of these systems - where over time their state worsens and worsens. It’s obvious now to me after Trump got elected to bring out caring, intelligent, thoughtful and heartfelt entrepreneurs like Andrew Yang - who helped me understand the duopoly, the establishment, and how mainstream media and how industrial complexes influence the narrative via their advertising dollars. It leads to extremes, an out of balance system that’s fighting between one extreme with the other. I do love Yang’s core policy proposals as I believe they would bring balance back to the equation, two good examples being Democracy Dollars and Journalism Dollars. The first being a $100 voucher to give to every eligible voter every year to contribute to the politician of their choice - which would act to wash out or heavily counterweight the $4 billion every 4 year political cycle that industry lobbies politicians with, with ~$32 billion - a ratio of 8:1. Similarly, the second would be a voucher, let’s say of $50 per year for every adult to contribute to the journalist(s) of their choice - who they believe aligns best with their interests and ideally will do a good job investigating and reporting on issues - which then would be $16 billion per year, which at least would be a start to funding non-advertising revenue dependant news agencies, the pharmaceutical industry which spent nearly $7 billion advertising in the US alone in 2020. But Yang’s policy proposals are not what this post is ultimately about, and you can read his last two books if you want to know more: “The War On Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future”, and “Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy”. How much of this suffering/death is from COVID, and how much is from the policies - arguably many of which have been unnecessary and excessive - which lead to heavy restrictions on freedoms, some arguably reasonable, others not so much? If we can't even have that conversation, thoroughly and in the mainstream, then we're completely lost. But please, downvote me to show you're happily, blindly toeing the line, that you're doing your part by suppressing the "anti-science" - when in fact discussion is critical the scientific process, to finding the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth - so help you God. Making a blanket statement of "I trust doctors and science:" there are expert doctors and researchers who give a different, valid narrative, who have been actively suppressed during this whole pandemic - who are highly credentialed scientists, they are very logical, their logic is congruent, and they are very articulate/eloquent with their speech - and they cite data and well-done research - contrary to the hit pieces and smear campaigns out there. If you trust science then you'd believe in the scientific method, which includes having full-open conversation. There were powerful preventative-proactive measures that we knew about 1.5+ years ago that could have been mass deployed, why didn't mass testing start 1.5+ years ago, etc? And more concerning yet is why hasn't the general population been educated on these things? Why isn’t all of society shocked at Fauci’s statement of “I am/represent science” - is it simply because the majority are poorly developed, have underdeveloped critical thinking and such? Are people just too stressed, unhealthy, too busy with working too much to then have energy or attention for more than copium entertainment (whether it’s entertainment they call news that’s masquerading as news vs. actual entertainment)? One reason I believe is that Google's search results are also captured, and manipulated towards the mainstream narrative, and the general population doesn't understand these mechanisms. They think that when they do a Google search they're getting "the best" results and information (even though it's in a bubble for their own political tilt, it's captured both ways) - and then they feel like they've done their due diligence, and they've then been told/taught what the narrative response is to whatever it is they're looking up. Example: If you search for "vitamin D covid" you'll get a bunch of articles that claim that vitamin D’s benefit in viruses/COVID is debunked, you won't however find the long-form conversation between Bret Weinstein and two other researchers who focused on vitamin D and COVID/virus-related studies; my even mentioning his name will prompt many people manipulated by the effort to suppress/smear him, but I've not yet heard a single thing he's actually said that's incorrect; people try to change context often for what he says, as an evolutionary biologist he thinks through possibilities - but people will remove his "if then" statement to try to then claim he said "this is true!" when he really just said "if X is true then Y is likely true"; whether his suppression is due to purposeful malice or incompetence, the end result is the same of scientific method being suppressed and the discussion not reaching mainstream/general population. Here's a 17 minute clip of the discussion on vitamin D research (with COVID outcomes) with Bret Weinstein, Gruff Davies, and Linda Benskin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfzsEc0CTo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfzsEc0CTo - where they not only outline the existing studies, but also debunk the poorly done one - pointing out the shenanigans [or incompetence, but if you find only 1 poorly done one out of 4 studies available - that's far less likely incompetence to me, especially as you'd want to pull from multiple studies to average them out anyway if you were to make the best informed decision] that the US health agencies only referenced the poorly done study, meanwhile ignoring the 3 other studies they talk about that were widely known about at the time; full 2-hour long discussion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LFkWiNP1wQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LFkWiNP1wQ or on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4BXJgl3LYVez6CrDTbkwOl?si=4exiPqi4QhmOovE9Wz_wJQ&nd=1 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4BXJgl3LYVez6CrDTbkwOl?si=4... - who thank God or Goodness isn't suppressing the scientific method, the process of having open and free flowing discussion. Now are these researcher 100% correct? I don’t know, but where’s the apparatus that organizes all of this - instead of suppressing them - so that we pit expert against expert in real-time to argue their very specific points, so we can hear in real-time flaws in arguments or misinterpretations presented that may be exposed by the conversation? I know, from experience, people will start replying with the citations/articles of information countering anything/everything I’ve said here - but then where’s the apparatus that contains all of this information in a framework that’s easily navigable, so then I can see who of my trusted sources - people I believe to be competent and trustworthy and thorough with their methods - to see who else has already reviewed the link given, so then I can read what the responses are by experts or competent peers (who may not even be in that specific field but can expertly analyze research methedogoloy)? Did Bret Weinstein or his partner Heather, or Pierre Kory, or Robert Malone, or Peter McCullough, or other already give a thorough response - or are we all to endlessly be bombarded by quick pieces of information we all can copy/paste from from our respective bubbles, getting exhausted even thinking about keeping up with the potential onslaught of reactions from people - whether they’re ideological in nature or well-intentioned? I know everyone is doing their best, but we can’t find the truth, we can sort through and engage inefficiently like how we currently do. [2/3]

loceng 5y ago
Everyone: Check out the long-form discussion between Jordan Peterson and Brian Peckford, Peckford who is the last living First Minister who helped write our Charter of Rights - and he just a day or two ago filed a lawsuit against the Federal government for violating it, and not only that - they didn't even follow the due process if they did want to use the "reasonable exception" mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhFuMDLBDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhFuMDLBDM - which Peckford doesn't believe the pandemic doesn't meet the criteria for - the first 90-120 days was unknown, but after that the data was in, and he believes the reaction doesn't match the necessary definition of society being in peril. Canadians: Check out the FreeNorthDeclaration.ca - sign it if you care if laws are being broken and due process isn't being followed in Canada; 500+ Canadian lawyers have signed it so far, in hopes to educate Canadians of these abuses. Most Canadians don't realize that parliament was closed for most of the pandemic so there's been basically no public debate, no opposition, to the actions of the Trudeau government - nor that of our health agencies; $400+ billion was arguably poorly spent. Every Canadian should watch this video but I'm afraid there's so much blind hate and anger for unvaccinated people, perpetuated regularly by Trudeau (hate crimes/crimes against humanity IMHO, people may disagree but we have judges and a judiciary process for a reason - laypeople are laypeople and not experts in legal domains, etc), that most people on Canadian subreddits either heavily downvote what I say or even ban me - just for sharing above what I have. Everyone: Check out the Great Barrington Declaration - gbdeclaration.org - a multi-disciplinary group of experts from the US, who among other things point to a growing number of legitimate studies that suggest you're more likely to catch COVID after you've been vaccinated (not immediately of course, that's not what they're saying, but once the waning immunity starts you're more likely to catch COVID afterward than if you didn't get vaccinated; and in one sense that's easy to understand, as the vaccine specifically targeted the spike protein of the "first" variant, the original virus, but it's evolved significantly multiple times now - now with Omicron; so it seems that by vaccinating it seems we've somehow reduced the immune system from responding as well to future infection; there is also growing body of data that shows there's an uptick in other viruses after being vaccinated, and an uptick in certain cancers or conditions caused by viruses, arguably the mRNA vaccine is brute force telling the immune system where to direct its resources - and so then if the immune system is managing and keeping other viruses at bay, it no longer can - I could cite this too but I'm getting tired and don't have it readily available so I'd have to search again. And how about this story of Maddie De Garay, which I believe calls into question the integrity of all of the vaccine clinical trials, just watch it - roughly 10 minutes of testimony for how they were treated during and after the Pfizer vaccine trial for 12-15 year olds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2GKPYzL_JQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2GKPYzL_JQ. The excuses I’ve seen online to just to discredit or discount Maddie and her mother are disgusting and unconscionable IMHO, and shows people don't actually care about the scientific process, they don't truly care for integrity nor for the whole truth. People have dismissed what happened to Maddie as automatically not being due to the vaccine, but that’s not how clinical trials work if they have integrity - you include all events that occur, and not minimize what happens to someone - nor suppress results by defining a narrow scope of what you’re actually allowed to report on, as Maddie’s mother testifies as part of the application provided for reporting symptoms/potential adverse events - stating that there was no free-form way to include details. Thus far, as far as I know but since their testimony in the video linked above, no one from Pfizer, the clinical trial, nor any US government health agency (or otherwise) has been in contact with Maddie and her mother. If that doesn’t freeze you, put you in a state of shock, then wake up, please. We have an intellectual-ideological crisis in Canada, I imagine around most of the world, and our mainstream media has been captured too - they are toeing the line and not doing actual investigative journalism. Why? Are they all so arrogant that they know best or are they afraid of going counter-narrative, of the potential repercussions, to go against the coercion (which by law in Canada is considered abuse, and informed consent isn't possible for anything under a state of coercion; advertising works, companies spend money on it because messaging influences/manipulates people even if they don't realize it)? This comment took time to write and it most likely will get downvoted by ideologues (I originally wrote first draft for Reddit, I expect somewhat better behaviour from HN but it’s hit or miss whether you gain enough attention from critical thinkers vs. reactive people who will quickly downvote because they’re triggered by a name or anything counter-mainstream narrative) who want to maintain the mainstream narrative, who will be reactive to one or more things I say, and then they're empowered to lazily click a downvote button for a hit of dopamine - to get rewarded and settle their emotional response by reacting - instead of diving into what I'm saying, watching the video links I provided in full - and with a clear, unbiased state of curiosity to then dive deeper if they feel the need. I can understand and appreciate the cognitive dissonance people will face when starting to see the whole truth and how that is warped from the mainstream narrative and mass formation psychosis people are in - a phenomenon discovered after studying what happened in Nazi Germany, where a highly educated, thriving society turned into madness - or at least allowed madness to happen under their own watch; there are plenty of videos, articles, books on this. Remembrance Day - Lest we forget. Most Canadians have forgotten. Coercion towards vaccination, mandates are wrong - regardless of all the other policy failures that could be pointed out; and how there was a 51% increase in suicide attempts by young girls [12-25 year olds] during the first year pandemic, meanwhile luckily we have examples around the world that show a very different story, where they weren't the most locked-down/shutdown place in the world like Ontario has been; https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/cdc-saw-51-increase-in-suicide-attempts-by-adolescent-girls-during-pandemic https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/cdc-saw-51-increase... + the CDC source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm And to finish off I'll quote what Elon Musk tweeted yesterday: "If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny." - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1486846468887560201 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1486846468887560201. He's not some dumb capitalist who only cares about money as the hateful mob chant, rallied by people like Bernie Sanders and AOC to hate billionaires [regardless of any nuance differentiation between billionaires; just like Trudeau is hateful against the unvaccinated to train most Canadians to be in two different/divided camps - "us" vs. "them" - psychology 101; for which Trudeau needs to be tried for promoting hate, among other things]. Elon cares deeply about humanity, about suffering, he's a very sensitive individual and why he has been so driven to what he's doing now; yes, he's eccentric at times, he trolls people as a way to vent, and he reacts poorly sometimes too - he's also a growing, evolving human with a lot of responsibility and important work he's doing. I understand everyone is growing in this process which is why we need compassion and forgiveness, but with consequences to appropriate degrees for those who willingly skirted the law. And people are so scared in Canada that they’re accepting Trudeau’s hate speech - pretending to represent Canadians, meanwhile only 20% of Canadians actually voted for him [he got 33% of votes - but not all Canadians vote; Conservatives actually got 34% of votes, and while our electoral system unfairly advantaging the duopoly kept in power by the establishment - a Canadian’s vote often doesn’t actually count, for example, 5% of Canadians voted for the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) but won zero seats in parliament, 5% of Canadians have zero representation or voice in our parliament - in discussing policy and governance]. Tyranny (whether through malice and/or incompetence) is what the truckers and their supporters are protesting against, lest we forget. [3/3]

by loceng 5y ago

loceng 5y ago

Everyone: Check out the long-form discussion between Jordan Peterson and Brian Peckford, Peckford who is the last living First Minister who helped write our Charter of Rights - and he just a day or two ago filed a lawsuit against the Federal government for violating it, and not only that - they didn't even follow the due process if they did want to use the "reasonable exception" mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhFuMDLBDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhFuMDLBDM - which Peckford doesn't believe the pandemic doesn't meet the criteria for - the first 90-120 days was unknown, but after that the data was in, and he believes the reaction doesn't match the necessary definition of society being in peril. Canadians: Check out the FreeNorthDeclaration.ca - sign it if you care if laws are being broken and due process isn't being followed in Canada; 500+ Canadian lawyers have signed it so far, in hopes to educate Canadians of these abuses. Most Canadians don't realize that parliament was closed for most of the pandemic so there's been basically no public debate, no opposition, to the actions of the Trudeau government - nor that of our health agencies; $400+ billion was arguably poorly spent. Every Canadian should watch this video but I'm afraid there's so much blind hate and anger for unvaccinated people, perpetuated regularly by Trudeau (hate crimes/crimes against humanity IMHO, people may disagree but we have judges and a judiciary process for a reason - laypeople are laypeople and not experts in legal domains, etc), that most people on Canadian subreddits either heavily downvote what I say or even ban me - just for sharing above what I have. Everyone: Check out the Great Barrington Declaration - gbdeclaration.org - a multi-disciplinary group of experts from the US, who among other things point to a growing number of legitimate studies that suggest you're more likely to catch COVID after you've been vaccinated (not immediately of course, that's not what they're saying, but once the waning immunity starts you're more likely to catch COVID afterward than if you didn't get vaccinated; and in one sense that's easy to understand, as the vaccine specifically targeted the spike protein of the "first" variant, the original virus, but it's evolved significantly multiple times now - now with Omicron; so it seems that by vaccinating it seems we've somehow reduced the immune system from responding as well to future infection; there is also growing body of data that shows there's an uptick in other viruses after being vaccinated, and an uptick in certain cancers or conditions caused by viruses, arguably the mRNA vaccine is brute force telling the immune system where to direct its resources - and so then if the immune system is managing and keeping other viruses at bay, it no longer can - I could cite this too but I'm getting tired and don't have it readily available so I'd have to search again. And how about this story of Maddie De Garay, which I believe calls into question the integrity of all of the vaccine clinical trials, just watch it - roughly 10 minutes of testimony for how they were treated during and after the Pfizer vaccine trial for 12-15 year olds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2GKPYzL_JQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2GKPYzL_JQ. The excuses I’ve seen online to just to discredit or discount Maddie and her mother are disgusting and unconscionable IMHO, and shows people don't actually care about the scientific process, they don't truly care for integrity nor for the whole truth. People have dismissed what happened to Maddie as automatically not being due to the vaccine, but that’s not how clinical trials work if they have integrity - you include all events that occur, and not minimize what happens to someone - nor suppress results by defining a narrow scope of what you’re actually allowed to report on, as Maddie’s mother testifies as part of the application provided for reporting symptoms/potential adverse events - stating that there was no free-form way to include details. Thus far, as far as I know but since their testimony in the video linked above, no one from Pfizer, the clinical trial, nor any US government health agency (or otherwise) has been in contact with Maddie and her mother. If that doesn’t freeze you, put you in a state of shock, then wake up, please. We have an intellectual-ideological crisis in Canada, I imagine around most of the world, and our mainstream media has been captured too - they are toeing the line and not doing actual investigative journalism. Why? Are they all so arrogant that they know best or are they afraid of going counter-narrative, of the potential repercussions, to go against the coercion (which by law in Canada is considered abuse, and informed consent isn't possible for anything under a state of coercion; advertising works, companies spend money on it because messaging influences/manipulates people even if they don't realize it)? This comment took time to write and it most likely will get downvoted by ideologues (I originally wrote first draft for Reddit, I expect somewhat better behaviour from HN but it’s hit or miss whether you gain enough attention from critical thinkers vs. reactive people who will quickly downvote because they’re triggered by a name or anything counter-mainstream narrative) who want to maintain the mainstream narrative, who will be reactive to one or more things I say, and then they're empowered to lazily click a downvote button for a hit of dopamine - to get rewarded and settle their emotional response by reacting - instead of diving into what I'm saying, watching the video links I provided in full - and with a clear, unbiased state of curiosity to then dive deeper if they feel the need. I can understand and appreciate the cognitive dissonance people will face when starting to see the whole truth and how that is warped from the mainstream narrative and mass formation psychosis people are in - a phenomenon discovered after studying what happened in Nazi Germany, where a highly educated, thriving society turned into madness - or at least allowed madness to happen under their own watch; there are plenty of videos, articles, books on this. Remembrance Day - Lest we forget. Most Canadians have forgotten. Coercion towards vaccination, mandates are wrong - regardless of all the other policy failures that could be pointed out; and how there was a 51% increase in suicide attempts by young girls [12-25 year olds] during the first year pandemic, meanwhile luckily we have examples around the world that show a very different story, where they weren't the most locked-down/shutdown place in the world like Ontario has been; https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/cdc-saw-51-increase-in-suicide-attempts-by-adolescent-girls-during-pandemic https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/cdc-saw-51-increase... + the CDC source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm And to finish off I'll quote what Elon Musk tweeted yesterday: "If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny." - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1486846468887560201 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1486846468887560201. He's not some dumb capitalist who only cares about money as the hateful mob chant, rallied by people like Bernie Sanders and AOC to hate billionaires [regardless of any nuance differentiation between billionaires; just like Trudeau is hateful against the unvaccinated to train most Canadians to be in two different/divided camps - "us" vs. "them" - psychology 101; for which Trudeau needs to be tried for promoting hate, among other things]. Elon cares deeply about humanity, about suffering, he's a very sensitive individual and why he has been so driven to what he's doing now; yes, he's eccentric at times, he trolls people as a way to vent, and he reacts poorly sometimes too - he's also a growing, evolving human with a lot of responsibility and important work he's doing. I understand everyone is growing in this process which is why we need compassion and forgiveness, but with consequences to appropriate degrees for those who willingly skirted the law. And people are so scared in Canada that they’re accepting Trudeau’s hate speech - pretending to represent Canadians, meanwhile only 20% of Canadians actually voted for him [he got 33% of votes - but not all Canadians vote; Conservatives actually got 34% of votes, and while our electoral system unfairly advantaging the duopoly kept in power by the establishment - a Canadian’s vote often doesn’t actually count, for example, 5% of Canadians voted for the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) but won zero seats in parliament, 5% of Canadians have zero representation or voice in our parliament - in discussing policy and governance]. Tyranny (whether through malice and/or incompetence) is what the truckers and their supporters are protesting against, lest we forget. [3/3]