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       Plebian Hubris
   DIR By: rp
       Date: October 31, 2022, 9:15 am
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       Rightist sarcastically mocks twitter executives being fired:
  HTML https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1586073594374725633?s=20&t=qoCwZeEEb5H5vW1cRN5tqg
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       > Parag Agrawal: PhD, Person of Color
       >
       > Vijaya Gadde: JD, Woman of Color
       >
       > They have been fired by
       >
       > Elon Musk: Not even a Master's, white male
       >
       > Experts have been warning against white mediocrity and its
       dangers to democracy, hopefully people will now listen.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       The tweet is "sarcastic", but it's true. So basically a self-own
       on Richard's part. Also, the correct term is "plebian hubris",
       not "mediocrity". And the danger is not to democracy, as this is
       the manifestation of that ideology.
       #Post#: 16519--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Plebian Hubris
   DIR By: rp
       Date: November 18, 2022, 9:23 pm
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       Dr. Jason Johnson describes GOP establishment (patricians) vs
       GOP base (plebeians) on Trump support (ignore the annoying Jew
       Melber who keeps interrupting):
  HTML https://youtu.be/LkNNGguLEcw?t=115
       Johnson speaks the truth, while Jews like Melber want you to
       believe that Trump supporters are actually persuadable.
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       Re: Plebian Hubris
   DIR By: rp
       Date: November 21, 2022, 10:21 am
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       Rick Wilson (anti Trump republican from previous clip) ridicules
       plebeian hubris of Trump-supporting "rubes":
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYSLSvvY_64
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       Re: Plebian Hubris
   DIR By: rp
       Date: November 24, 2022, 6:12 pm
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       Old article but still relevant:
       [Size=14pt]It's time for the elites to rise up against the
       ignorant masses[/size]
  HTML https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/28/its-time-for-the-elites-to-rise-up-against-ignorant-masses-trump-2016-brexit/
       #Post#: 16715--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Plebian Hubris
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: November 28, 2022, 12:49 pm
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       What is preventing ecofascism? (Hint: see title of this topic.)
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/turn-boilers-down-60c-cut-000000319.html
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       > Households will be told to turn their boilers down to 60C in
       an £18 million government drive to lower energy bills.
       > ...
       > Downing Street decided to give the campaign the green light
       despite earlier concerns that it might be regarded as an
       unwanted intrusion from a “nanny state”.
       --- End Quote ---
       Global warming is an unwanted intrusion from Western
       civilization!
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       > Whitehall sources were keen to push back on this on Sunday,
       saying: “This isn’t about telling people to wear an extra jumper
       and turn the heating off - that’s completely the wrong idea,
       this is not about putting people in discomfort.
       --- End Quote ---
       People should be wearing an extra jumper and turning the heating
       off! What about the discomfort of all those living in places
       that are becoming too hot to live in? Why shouldn't those from
       the country that literally started the Industrial Revolution be
       required to share some discomfort to lighten it for everyone
       else?
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       > “It’s about giving people the agency to learn the tips and
       tricks to keep their energy bills lower.”
       --- End Quote ---
       This is what a government sounds like when it is afraid of those
       it is supposed to be governing.
       People managed fine with cold winters in pre-modern times,
       simply by wrapping up while indoors. It would not be in any way
       an exorbitant demand to require them to merely return to that
       old lifestyle (especially when it was precisely the modern
       lifestyle which created global warming in the first place).
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       > Nuclear power plants have become a key part of the
       Government’s aim to boost energy security, with ministers hoping
       they will eventually produce 25pc of the country’s power.
       --- End Quote ---
       Instead, new nuclear power plants will be built to support
       plebian hubris.
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       > On Sunday, Mr Shapps wrote to chief executives of all domestic
       energy companies to warn that households' direct debits should
       not be going up when they are making “huge efforts” to reduce
       their energy consumption.
       >
       > He said he was “disturbed” to learn about this, adding that
       when consumers take “sensible steps” to reduce their bills, this
       should be rewarded with falling direct debits rather than
       punished by seeing them rise.
       --- End Quote ---
       This is the same mentality that led to the policy of slave
       owners receiving compensation when slavery ended. It was all
       about preventing the former slave owners from feeling discomfort
       from the traumatically discomforting experience of no longer
       owning slaves. They are making "huge efforts" to not be slave
       owners! They should be rewarded rather than punished!
       Cue the plebian hubris comment:
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       > The government can not tell people how hot or cold their house
       can be.
       --- End Quote ---
       Actually that is precisely what a serious (ie. non-Western)
       government is supposed to do:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_empire
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       > A hydraulic empire, also known as a hydraulic despotism,
       hydraulic society, hydraulic civilization, or water monopoly
       empire, is a social or government structure which maintains
       power and control through exclusive control over access to
       water. It arises through the need for flood control and
       irrigation, which requires central coordination and a
       specialized bureaucracy.[1]
       > ...
       > A developed hydraulic civilization maintains control over its
       population by means of controlling the supply of water. The term
       was coined by the German-American historian Karl August
       Wittfogel (1896–1988), in his book Oriental Despotism: A
       Comparative Study of Total Power (1957). Wittfogel asserted that
       such "hydraulic civilizations"—although they were neither all
       located in the Orient nor characteristic of all Oriental
       societies—were essentially different from those of the Western
       world. According to Wittfogel, most of the first civilizations
       in history, such as Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India,
       and Pre-Columbian Mexico and Peru, are believed to have been
       hydraulic empires.[2] Most hydraulic empires existed in arid or
       desert regions, but imperial China also had some such
       characteristics, due to the exacting needs of rice cultivation.
       >
       > The Maurya Empire in India was classified by Wittfogel as a
       grandiose Hydraulic Economy.[3] Kautilya while referring to the
       udakabhaga (water-cess, cess being a term used in India,
       Scotland and Ireland for an additional tax) lists various kinds
       of irrigation, viz., irrigated by manual labour, by carrying
       water on the shoulder, by water lifts, and by raising water from
       lakes, rivers etc. Some scholars believe, there is a clear
       reference to canals for irrigation in the Arthashastra, in a
       sutra which points out that water was set in motion by digging
       (khatapravrittim) from a river-dam (nandinibhandayatana) or a
       tank.[4]
       >
       > Apart from Ancient Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush, the Ajuran
       Sultanate of the Horn of Africa was the only other hydraulic
       empire in Africa. Beginning in the 13th century, the Ajuran
       monopolized the water resources of the Jubba and Shebelle
       rivers. Through hydraulic engineering, they also constructed
       many of the state's limestone wells and cisterns that are still
       in use today. Its rulers developed new systems for agriculture
       and taxation, which continued to be used in parts of the Horn of
       Africa as late as the 19th century.[5]
       > ...
       > The typical hydraulic empire government, in Wittfogel's
       thesis, is extremely centralized, with no trace of an
       independent aristocracy – in contrast to the decentralized
       feudalism of medieval Europe.
       --- End Quote ---
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/aryan-hydraulic-empire/
       And of course the ultimate hypocrisy:
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       > The same elements of resource control central to hydraulic
       empire were also central to Europe's colonization of much of the
       global South.
       --- End Quote ---
       It's OK for "whites" to do it to "non-whites", but not for it to
       be done to "whites".
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       Re: Plebian Hubris
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 5, 2022, 2:52 pm
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       Our enemies report:
  HTML https://barenakedislam.com/2022/12/05/british-conservative-mp-booed-for-downplaying-the-dangers-of-local-hotels-overflowing-with-young-male-illegal-alien-muslim-invaders/<br
       />(video at link)
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       > When people demand that these infiltrators be sent back, the
       official says “we can’t do that.”
       --- End Quote ---
       The official is at least aware of:
  HTML https://www.unhcr.org/1951-refugee-convention.html
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       > The core principle is non-refoulement, which asserts that a
       refugee should not be returned to a country where they face
       serious threats to their life or freedom.
       --- End Quote ---
       The booers do not care about any of this.
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       Re: Superiority cannot be taught
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 28, 2022, 11:18 pm
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQImNvJ-HeA
       You do not reason with subhumans like this, you execute them on
       the spot.
       #Post#: 17672--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Plebian Hubris
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: January 26, 2023, 12:15 am
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       Dollemore in top form:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsYS173760w
       #Post#: 18239--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Plebian Hubris
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: March 2, 2023, 9:16 pm
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmt3uKG77Hc
       #Post#: 18403--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Plebian Hubris
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: March 13, 2023, 6:43 pm
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       Anyone who uses "sovereign citizen" rhetoric belongs in this
       topic:
  HTML https://autos.yahoo.com/sovereign-citizen-driver-killed-during-173000290.html
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       > Driver Chase Allan can be seen arguing with Farmington, Utah,
       police over the false license plate fixed to the back of the
       vehicle. In recently released dash cam footage, Allan claimed he
       doesn’t need a drivers license or vehicle registration.
       > ...
       > Killian-Allan, who did not return The Daily Beast’s request
       for comment, later filed a federal lawsuit against Farmington
       Police over the traffic stop. The suit, which is ongoing, is
       full of references to the sovereign citizen movement.
       --- End Quote ---
       Woke comments:
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       > these so-called sovereign citizens are driving on roads PAID
       for by OUR taxes... why is he on state roads if he doesn't
       recognize them?
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Sovereign citizens don't want to pay taxes, want to take
       property that does not belong to them, don't want to obtain
       proper licenses from any type of government agency, and yet they
       live among us benefiting from the fact that the rest of us
       follow the rules and do what is right.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > all you other sovereign citizens who think you dont have to
       play by usa laws and rules, that heart. we dont care about what
       you think of our laws, break them and you can join your friend.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > If the sovereign citizens don't feel that federal laws and
       courts don't apply to them, how can the mom justify filing a
       lawsuit?
       --- End Quote ---
       I would just add that how "sovereign citizens" behave in the US
       is how "whites" generally behave (ie. think rules do not apply
       to themselves and their fellow "whites") in "non-white"
       countries around the world, most notably during the colonial era
       but even to this day on smaller scales. And they all too often
       get away with it due to psychological colonization among the
       local "non-whites", for example:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/msg17953/#msg17953
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