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Re: Western Democracy
By: rp Date: June 7, 2021, 12:03 am
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I wouldn't expect Maddow (Jew) to even try to.
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Re: Western Democracy
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 1, 2021, 10:20 pm
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A Red suggestion that I agree with:
HTML https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1409964690395049986
[quote]GOP Leader McCarthy during debate on a bill to remove
Confederate statues from the Capitol:
"All of the statues being removed by this bill are statues of
Democrats... Maybe it's time the Democrats change the name of
their party."[/quote]
This is why I just call them Blues. The name "Democratic" is
appropriate for describing the party back when it was further to
the right than the Reds. It follows that, when the party moved
to the left of the Reds during the Civil Rights movement, it
should have dropped the name "Democratic". We are still waiting
for it to do so. The transformation of American leftism cannot
complete so long as leftists retain any attachment to democracy.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: Zea_mays Date: July 20, 2021, 9:38 am
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Since democratic nations have no interest in doing anything to
genuinely make the tiniest of dents in global warming, I have
been thinking that the impending climate crisis will be a prime
opportunity to necessitate the formation of autocratic
governments in Western nations. Democratic election cycles mean
the can is kicked down the road every 2/4/6/8 years and
bickering among political parties makes it so that no solid
solution can ever be agreed upon. By the time to problem grows
so massive that it is simply impossible to ignore, it will be
too late (and it is already too late to avoid much of the
damage).
Leftists are well-aware of this, and it will provide a
reasonable justification for False Leftists to finally admit the
necessity of changing to a form of government which can actually
govern efficiently and with the welfare of society as a whole in
mind. Indeed, all the solutions to the climate crisis are
already there and have been written in plain language for
decades, but as long as capitalism and democracy are in place,
the solutions will never be implemented.
[quote]A team from NASA and NOAA found that Earth's "energy
imbalance" doubled between 2005 and 2019. The energy imbalance
is simple to understand but complex in its causes and impacts.
It is the difference between the amount of energy absorbed by
Earth and the amount of energy emitted by it.
Any increase in the energy imbalance means the overall Earth
system is gaining energy, causing it to heat up.[/quote]
HTML https://www.sciencealert.com/our-atmosphere-s-storing-energy-twice-as-fast-as-15-years-ago
[quote]If we stopped all emissions today, the planet would warm
for at LEAST a century, and very likely closer to scales of
millenia. CO2 lasts for hundreds of years in the atmosphere, and
then only goes into other forms of the carbon cycle slowly over
thousands of years (or never).
Firstly, there is a delay in air temperature increase. This
means that the carbon already emitted will take 40 years to
reach its full potential. This is largely due to the slow
process of Earth's oceans warming. In many ways, we're only
feeling the full effects of emissions from the 80's right now.
There are feedback loops. As the planet warms, the oceans cannot
absorb as much CO2. Methane, which works on scales of hundreds
of years instead of thousands(but is much more effective at
heating), will be released more and more on large swaths of land
as time goes on.
Other feedback loops include deforestation, wildfires, and
albedo effects, melting ice caps, and increasing water vapor
which will only amplify the damage that has already been done.
Think about that: If we did the impossible and switched entirely
to 100%, zero-emission, fictional renewables today and provided
zero carbon footprint... We'd still be in dire conditions for
generations to come.[/quote]
HTML https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/oimpq5/earths_atmosphere_is_retaining_heat_twice_as_fast/h4wybgg/
Apparently the Amazon Rainforest is pretty much destroyed now as
well:
HTML https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/14/biggest-story-world-right-now-humanity-has-flipped-amazon-carbon-sink-source
Only laws can stop corporations from murdering the planet, and
democracies will never enact those laws.
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Re: Western Democracy
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 20, 2021, 10:15 pm
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"Indeed, all the solutions to the climate crisis are already
there and have been written in plain language for decades, but
as long as capitalism and democracy are in place, the solutions
will never be implemented."
I agree, but part of the confusion is that many who care about
climate blame capitalism only, and think democracy will
dismantle capitalism so long as big donors are removed from
election campaigns.
In response, I show these pro-democracy environmentalists how
solid majorities in democratic countries have already said they
will reject mandatory veganism or state control over
reproduction (both of which are required to have any hope at all
of averting global warming by now) and ask them how democracy
can get this done. They vaguely mumble about better education
for future generations can do this..... AS IF WE HAVE TIME LEFT
FOR THAT!
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Re: Western Democracy
By: guest55 Date: July 22, 2021, 2:41 pm
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Artificial intelligence and elections – how malleable is public
opinion?
[quote]The goalposts are about to move in the game of public
opinion polling. This documentary examines how a startup called
Advanced Symbolics (ASI) uses artificial intelligence (AI) and
social media data to forecast voter behavior.
When people use the internet, they reveal enormous amounts of
private data - often inadvertently. This data can now be
harvested by AI to accurately predict, among many other things,
how we will vote. Even without surrendering personal
information, the new AI algorithm Polly, developed by ASI, combs
social media to build profiles of different demographics and
determine their preferences. This method has already led to
Polly’s success in predicting both Donald Trump’s 2016 election
victory and Brexit. With the 2019 Canadian federal election
campaign as a real-time backdrop, the filmmakers put Polly to
the test to reveal how AI doesn’t just give a detailed picture
of the public’s voting intentions. It also shows how specific
events can alter them.
But will knowing voters’ hopes and concerns give politicians the
intel they need to respond and lead the way to a "utopian"
society, as ASI’s CEO Erin Kelly claims? Or will governments and
opponents simply use this data to mislead us? And should
politicians even be reacting to desires expressed on social
media?
#documentary #AI #elections[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4WUXVfNj0
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Re: Media decolonization
By: guest55 Date: July 24, 2021, 5:48 pm
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Terence McKenna speaks a little on Western "mass media" in this
clip and how he believes it created the modern idea of the
"public" and the "citizen". Lest we forget that "public opinion"
is a Western construct used to manipulate the majority under a
Western democratic system and to constantly attempt to gauge
were the majority of people in said democracy reside
ideologically. I will reiterate here the fact that just because
a majority of people believe something to be true does not
necessarily make it so.
Should also be noted that Terence McKenna was also a prominent
figure of the anti-Western counterculture in the U.S.
Terence McKenna's Unbelievable Prophecy On The Internet & Mass
Media
[quote]Another episode on one of my philosophy heroes, Terence
McKenna. Terence is a writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist. In
this video we talk about the impact of mass media and the
internet.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJr9MEJWJXc
HTML https://live.staticflickr.com/3666/14311101402_87fa5a384e_c.jpg
HTML https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5b/d4/05/5bd4052752cb5495f087eb1760f15749.jpg
McKenna is a bit contradictory with this following quote
considering McKenna was supposedly anti-ideology in his own
words. What is an ideology if nothing more than a plan?
HTML https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/21CTdvB0bPL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
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Re: Western Democracy
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 26, 2021, 11:46 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK_sZDbWwRI
1:57-2:02:
[quote]"In my dictatorship, we would have stamped this out so
long ago."[/quote]
So will Fiorentini agree to never praise democracy ever again? I
hope so, but I doubt it.
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Re: Western Democracy
By: Zea_mays Date: July 31, 2021, 10:18 pm
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Following up my previous post:
[quote]14,000 scientists warn of "untold suffering" if we fail
to act on climate change
[...]
There are some phrases that should stop you in your tracks. The
warning of a future that holds "untold suffering" is one of
them. That is exactly what scientists from around the world are
cautioning will happen if we don't take the threat of climate
change seriously. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal
BioScience, more than 14,000 scientists from 153 countries
signed their name to research that warns of an incoming climate
emergency.
The paper, led by researchers from Oregon State University, uses
31 different planetary variables that tell us how Earth is
holding up in the face of humanity's insistence on draining
natural resources and pumping greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere. The list of checks includes surface temperature
levels, rainforest health, and glacial ice levels, along with
directly human-controlled factors like the health of the global
economy and the availability of fossil fuel subsidies.[/quote]
HTML https://www.mic.com/p/14000-scientists-warn-of-untold-suffering-if-we-fail-to-act-on-climate-change-82642062
Lol. Hundreds of millions of "low information voters" who vote
for politicians who are paid millions of dollars by the fossil
fuel industry and other consumerist industries >>>>>>>> 14,000
scientists.
Earth's f*cked I guess, since those 14,000 scientists and
millions of people who claim care about global warming actually
care about prolonging democracy more than they care about ending
global warming.
We can use that as a wedge issue or litmus test or whatever one
wants to call it. Ask people if they care more about ending
global warming, ending animal exploitation, ending racism,
making billionaires pay taxes, etc. or democracy. Ask them over
and over again for every position they claim to hold. Because
the solutions to all those issues are mutually exclusive with
democracy. (You don't even need to point out that China has been
the world's leader in renewable energy for decades, despite
having to deal with the complexity of governing twice the amount
of people as the US and EU combined, precisely because its
non-democratic system of government is actually capable of
getting things done:
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/aug/01/renewableenergy.climatechange
HTML https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-climate-change-policy-solar-production
HTML https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2019/01/11/china-renewable-energy-superpower/<br
/>)
Seriously, read the 14,000 scientists article. Look at all the
dozens of dire warning signs that they've been pointing out
since at least the 1960s. How can these people seriously claim
to believe in the "climate emergency" if they aren't out there
advocating for the immediate end to the system of government
which refused for an entire lifetime to do even the bare minimum
recommended abatement measures? Anyone who isn't advocating to
switch to a competent form of government in order to tackle
global warming isn't actually a climate activist or concerned
about the "endless suffering" and "existential threat" posed by
it. Such people are merely outrage junkies who write and read
sensationalist headlines as a hobby.
If they were serious about tackling climate change, you'd think
at least one--just one--of them would be willing to advocate for
a better system of government. But every single one of them hold
democracy to be more dear than fixing the planet. That's the
hill they will literally die on--letting our entire planet die
because they think it's too taboo and unimaginable to
acknowledge that the West's system of government is utterly
incapable of putting the welfare of society as a whole first.
They care more about sustaining that facade than they care about
ending global warming.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak
I've actually started to see more and more communist-leaning
False Leftists say they reject "electoralism". They're so close,
but democracy is still too sacred and taboo for them to speak
out against it explicitly. But not for us--because we actually
care about the fate of the planet.
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Re: Western Democracy
By: guest55 Date: August 3, 2021, 8:56 pm
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Well, I guess we know who is about to be done like dinner....
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Re: Western Democracy
By: guest55 Date: August 5, 2021, 10:22 pm
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MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL
[quote]In this video we are going to explore the most dangerous
of all psychic epidemics, the mass psychosis. A mass psychosis
is an epidemic of madness and it occurs when a large portion of
a society loses touch with reality and descends into delusions.
Such a phenomenon is not a thing of fiction. Two examples of
mass psychoses are the American and European witch hunts 16th
and 17th centuries and the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th
century.
This video will aim to answer questions surrounding mass
psychosis: What is it? How does is start? Has it happened
before? Are we experiencing one right now? And if so, how can
the stages of a mass psychosis be reversed?[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
And, in a democracy those suffering from mass psychosis still
have a vote. Think about that little fact. Taking that fact into
account one could easily argue that democracy could actually
become one of the most evil and worst tyranny's ever experienced
by life anywhere!
"Just follow the majority! The majority of people could never be
evil and wrong!" This is what most Westerners believe, right?
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