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23rd July 2018, 04:16 AM | #121 |
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Or maybe, just maybe, it's not everyone else and you really do have a mental illness. Maybe you exhibit the same type of behaviors we have seen from people who have come here over the years with their various conspiracy theories. Maybe that's why everyone who has examined your posts came to the same conclusion and suggested you seek professional help.
Also you might not want to call others idiots when you still can't figure out how to quote posts even after being told multiple times. |
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RE: Also you might not want to call others idiots when you still can't figure out how to quote posts even after being told multiple times.
When I have spoken about what you consider to be your smarts. I have always explained my point. I do find idiotic that someone would tell other people to get "professional help" because "he doesn’t use the 'quote' function" and doesn’t speak in three-word sentences. Some of you were even offended because you had to think about what I had written. As I said this thread might make in the future for excellent Anthropologies, consciousness studies. |
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Oh, it might. Just not for the reasons you surmise.
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What do Narwhals, Magnets and Apollo 13 have in common? Think about it.... |
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But verbosity is a virtue, don't you know? Why bother thinking clearly and writing clearly when, with a bit less effort, you can fill pages with lots of words? As already witnessed in this thread, it makes it easier to hide the lies too...
ETA - No three-word sentences were created in the crafting of this post. Such is life. Oops.... |
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To use a cliché:
Man, I don't know what the OP is smoking, but it must be some strong ****. |
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RE: Oh, it might. Just not for the reasons you surmise ...
smart pants, how could you know which reasons? Also, you are the one presuming here about your language skills. I just said: "it might", which, AFAIK (even with my broken English, sloppy language skills I notice), does not in any way semantically imply in which way ~ RE: If you think that's what I said ... Once again, are you people able to have a topical conversation? I do not engage in protagonistic back-and-forths nor do I care about ad hominem non sense. I was not replying to "you" personally. I am talking to a matter you talked about, some other people may have as well. Some of you even seem to think I am losing my sleep over your silly reactions, which of course, your are entirely free to believe and of course. I do also know, expect some of you are part of the sockpuppetry following me around, about which I don't really care much either. ~ rlopez2 |
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I'm not being a smarty-pants. I'm being a smart-ass. Despite their apparent physical proximity, they mean very different things.
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RE: I'm not being a smarty-pants. I'm being a ... Well, you seem to be. At least your posts are not being redacted and no, you didn't use html encoding in order to bypass the profanity scanner, so, being an "arse shaking" enthusiast myself I am quite impressed about your powers! ;-) ~ RE: Sockpuppets following you...check out the join dates below members' names on the posts. At times talking to "regular" folks out there gets quite amusing when you notice they don't/can't understand you, but then their logic spoils the fun. How is it exactly that join dates/seniority proves or disproves anything? Do you "simply" mean, I came here so they are not following "me"? ~ RE: They have not followed you from anywhere. OK, that makes it clearer, but you still don't get it, partially because you don't know what I am talking about. You should watch this ted talk: // __ The dark secrets of a surveillance state https://www.ted.com/talks/hubertus_k...eillance_state ~ with an eye/ear out (you can text search the transcript) for the honest clarification of the East German stasi officer when he was talking about people being sent his way. So, far I have lived in three police states. Cuba, East Germany and the U.S. German people, as part of their history, make public the snitch to general population ratio, which was higher in the "Demokratik Republik" than during Nazism. In current day Germany, a mark down of 10% of your taxes is even published on the very tax code. In the U.S. those figures are not known because doing that would be "unAmerican" (you may wonder about what is it: actually the snitching per se? or publishing that ratio? Well, that is why they have made "interpretations" illegal in the U.S.), but I can tell you that they are way higher |
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a mark down of 10% for snitches and perpetrators (gang stalkers and such) is even published on their very tax code (did I already say I love "Deutsche Sachlichkeit"?). Here is Dr. Katherine Horton talking about it:
// __ Gang Stalking Basics (Targeted Individuals) (Stop 007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FNPW-Plaic&t=12m10s ~ and, hey! Don't let "her schizophrenia" influence your thinking. You can get it as close as it gets from the horse's mouth: // __ Konz: Das Arbeitsbuch zur Steuererklärung Taschenbuch – 2. November 2016 https://www.amazon.de/Konz-Das-Arbei...dp/342678842X/ Taschenbuch: 928 Seiten Verlag: Knaur TB (2. November 2016) Sprache: Deutsch ~ they have made interpretations of laws (that is) illegal in the U.S. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (an Anthropologist who actually grew up in East Germany) and has dedicated his life to study the stasi archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Records_Agency // __ A Rare Look at the Archives of the German Secret Police https://www.wired.com/2017/05/adrian...tasi-archives/ ~ is the author of: // __ Stasi konkret: Überwachung und Repression in der DDR https://www.amazon.de/Stasi-konkret/dp/3406638384/ ~ It is not the way people have been told, made to believe. Yes, the stasi socialized repression an persecution, but, contrary to what you notice in the U.S., there was also the widespread and openly noticeable general contempt of the general public towards them. In his book Ilko writes about the wide and deep network of snitches and perpetrators. Here are the citations verbatim (and my quick translations): Page 185: https://elibrary.chbeck.de/10.17104/...le-mitarbeiter de: "... schon in den 1950er Jahren gab es einige Merkmale, die sich ähnelten und die sie als Gruppe von der sozialen Vielfalt der Gesellschaft erheblich unterschieden. Fast alle waren in der SED, etwa neunzig Prozent verfügten nur über einen Volksschulabschluss (8 Klassen), fast niemand hatte studiert, fast alle kamen aus Arbeiterelternhäusern" en: "... as early as the 1950s, there were some characteristics that resembled each other[those individuals] and that distinguished them as a group from the social diversity of society. Almost all were in the SED, about ninety percent had only a primary[middle] school graduation (8 classes), almost no one had studied, almost all came from workers'[working class] homes." ~ in the U.S. they tend to use these kinds of folks as perps, but here is a clear and important difference to the Nazis and the stasi as they (I would say, "favorably" (to call it something)) compare to USG/GCC: ~ de: "Auch in ihrer Vergangenheit ähnelten sie sich stark. Niemand durfte in der Wehrmacht Offizier gewesen sein – wenn herauskam, dass die Fragebögen falsche Angaben enthielten, folgte die Entlassung –, erst recht war niemand in der SS (soweit es bekannt war), auch durfte keiner in den Polizei- oder Geheimdienstapparaten des NS-Staates tätig gewesen sein." en: "Also in their past, they were very similar. No one was allowed to be an officer in the Wehrmacht[military] - if it came out that the questionnaires contained false information, the dismissal followed -, certainly no one was in the SS (as far as it was known), nor was anyone in the police or intelligence apparatuses of the Nazional Sozialists (the Nazis) active in the state." ~ Now, ****** me finds that truly remarkable for good reasons: 1) the perp ratio (# of perpetrators (snitches, gang stalkers, infra guards, ...) to the general population, which to me is a clear index of how sick a society is and a predictor of societal maladies to come) during the Nazis was lower than in East Germany with the stasi. I can tell in full confidence that the perp ratio in the U.S. is way higher. At least here in NYC every year all home or apartment renters (pretty much everyone) must fill out forms specifying who in the household belongs or belonged to the military in any way. Obviously, that could only mean one thing. They already know where everybody lives anyway (including their prospective perps), that is just a "patriotic" invitation Ilko talks in this interview about the inner working of the stasi (comparing them to the NSA/USG is an odd joke!) // __ Allmacht Stasi - ein Mythos? Mit DDR-Bürgerrechtlerin Marianne Birthler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNh7BCpYFXI ~ of course, expectedly, you will not find the automatic translation feature for this talk. He did mention the perp-ratio in East Germany in those times (based on concrete data) and it is laughable if you compare it to current day USA. 2) Nazis and the stasi seem to have been more "sophisticated" when it came to matters relating to socialization of persecution and repression. They used to have internal regulations they enforced. 3) Nazis used to be quite more explicitly open, careless about their repression. They even had well-known "regulations" about how many people they would kill in invaded territories if local opposition would kill one of their own and they would hang them right in front of the local church for everyone to see what they had done. The stasi was "controlling" their own society and fighting internal dissidents during peace times, so they had other kinds of problems to deal with. They were not as flashy as Nazis, but they did work hard at creating a sense of fear, omnipresence in the general population (as part of which they abducted and assassinated well-known foreign individuals), which generally didn't work that well. As it happens in Cuba, most German citizens knew very well about and viscerally disrespected, hated the stasi. In fact, as irrational as it sounds, opposition leaders in East Germany have admitted that it came as a surprise to them when the SED/East German government as a whole crumbled pretty much from within. When they had their Bastille day in East Germany, not only in Berlin, but throughout Germany "We the people" invaded and raided the buildings of the stasi not those of the government and even today people mostly talk about the stasi, not their actual crappy government. 4) the media in the U.S. doesn't go into "comparative Anthropologies". Of course, "we don't compare in any way to any kind of 'unAmerican' **** out there!" |
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In his book Ilko writes about the stasi being able to monitor such a ridiculously low number of phones in a population of 17 million people that it is even hard for me to remember, make sense of what that figure was and even stupid to talk about it. Compare that to what is happening nowadays with people keeping for the government their detail records of all they do as they do it, whom are they around of, whom are they talking to, what those people think of what you said, ... As part of their "operations" (as silly as it sounds) the stasi had to steal, recycle old cassette recorders from the West.
The perp to general population ratio in East Germany was approx. 2% (higher than during Nazi Germany!), but still way lower than current day USA. In East Germany people were not part of a grid being coordinated 24x7 through their cell phones. Most snitches would watch, report about 1 or 2 people and many of them would corrupt their own "work" by telling, befriending their targets. I would say stasi USA has surpassed them by far on important counts: control, socialization of persecution/repression and „Zersetzungsmassnahmen“. I live in NYC and I can assure you that the thick miasma of snitches and perpetrators I notice is way above and beyond what I ever experienced in Cuba or in East Germany. Also, in Cuba and East Germany police never cared about your studies/work, as stupid as it may sound, they thought of that as some sort of entertainment when it came to controlling people. Something that people repeatedly pointed out to me when I lived in Cuba is that they found really strange that the Cuban government would educate the people and then expect for them to read and write what the government wanted (I had to come live, work as a teacher in the U.S. to fully understand what they meant). I went to school in Germany and the stasi would say totally shred my suitcases, follow me on the streets, let me know they didn't like my question authority jokes, ... but they would not destroy my books or mess with my work. Here in the U.S. police messes with me even if all I am taking about is corpora research, consciousness studies, computer programming or philosophy (what do any of those topics have to do with "terrorism" or any of that ******). At times they even mess with tunes you listen online by corrupting the audio of it as I am listening to it. |
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RE: ... a mark down of 10% of your taxes is even published on the very tax code
Actually, it is not a 10% mark down of your taxes, but you only pay 10% as taxes (a 90% mark down that is) // __ Gang Stalking Basics (Targeted Individuals) (Stop 007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FNPW-Plaic&t=12m10s ~ Now, wouldn't you become a snitch, perpetrator? I mean, if you aren't enough of a "patriot" to do it for free |
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RE: I do also know, expect some of you are part of the sockpuppetry following me around, about which I don't really care much either.
What does this mean? Are sockpuppetry following you around? Who are they? RE: Gang Stalking Basics Is that what you are doing? It was funny, the video. She was surrounded by "tin foil" (al foil really). Is she doing a parody of paranoid people to see how many people she can fool. Read the comments. She has to be a parody. |
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RE: Is she doing a parody of paranoid people to see how many people she can fool.
I don't know what you are talking about. Dr. Katherine Horton is not a fake nor is she fooling people. That video has had so far 13,749 views, 311 people have rated it positively and 16 otherwise. That link/you may have been multiversed Do you how easy it is showing you whatever they want under what seems to be the same link? |
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I wonder if she knows how to use the quote function.
She appears to be paranoid, and kind of crazy. It does not matter how many people share her paranoia. Wow, 311 people who think crazy is good for a like. Looks like 16 people are smarter than 311. Guess it is as if the 16 people who know it is nuts are like 5 minute or better mile runners, which means they are in what, the top 1 percent runners on earth. And the 311, are slow. great analogy, slow, get it? Anyway, if you can explain why she is sitting in a room which appears to be wrapped in foil, then have at it. Link on, link off. |
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even parsing out the ad hominem cr@p and protagonistic bs your "skeptic" reactions may make for great Anthropologies. The smart fellows you believe yourselves as being
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also, I gave you the benefit of the doubt and thought that they had taken the time to multiverse you, but, no, people seem to have been brainwashed to such an idiotic extent that USG doesn't even need to do any work on their own
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We love you too. Does that mean you're going to take your metaphysical multiverseclaptrap and move to another website where your self considered genius will be better appreciated?
It does - excellent - good luck. Please go with our good wishes and be sure to lock the door behind you. |
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https://www.anthropologie.com/ Are you selling womens clothing, or are you talking about the woman in the video with the foil background.
Are there examples of this? Any proof, or just an opinion based on paranoia? Do you own stock in https://www.anthropologie.com/ How does this dovetail with the OP |
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// __ Directed Energy Weapons Market to reach $41.97 billion by 2023 with a CAGR of 26.4% including key players BAE Systems PLC, Boeing Company, L-3 Communications Holdings
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"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media" (attributed to Former CIA director, William Colby)
Mick West wants to "'see' 'evidence'" (that CIA director Colby actually said so) https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-th...or-media.t158/ http://www.internationalskeptics.com...d.php?t=207647 ~ Of course, West and like-minded people don't seem to be able to "see" that such institutions: politicians, police in general and their acolytes, do not exactly live and function in a world primarily bound to factual reality (as scientists, engineers (and most other people?) do). So, to them "evidence" could mean anything from: "my boss told me so", "I saw some movie about it", "I need my salary and this is how I get paid", to simply "thinking otherwise would be 'un-American'" … The somewhat more essential question that many seem to be forgetting about while dealing with fluff is: is the media in the U.S. actually PR in the way that Orwell defined it?: "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations" ~ IMO Orwell was a bit too cryptic, media-like, by "someone else" he meant: the government, the status quo, the powers that be. Here is another opinion regarding the relationships between the government and the media by Glenn Greeenwald which makes whatever Colby said totally irrelevant: https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...york-times-cia ~ West is not only dealing in paradoxical bluffs: ... "if a liar doesn’t explicitly admit to lying, or if he does, does that make him truthful?" ... What I see as the most essential question is: "could that possibly work?" and the answer to that question Mick West and apparently a people at large doesn’t seem to be able to "see". |
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the new normal?, toward a "Psychocivilized" Society?, our "Brave New World"? ...
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West is not only dealing in paradoxical FLUFF (I meant to say)
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RE: Also, your microwave is part of a network with which They can create an AI clone of you
RE: Actually, things are that crazy that your metaphor is not that far off. // __ A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls) | Dina Katabi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXy1byguvJY ~ |
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// __ My Father Says He’s a ‘Targeted Individual.’ Maybe We All Are
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Perhaps we are all T.I.
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> Perhaps we are all T.I.
Yes, but more in a Hegelian sense than how Jean Guerrero sees her own dad's case. // __ Google’s “Smart City of Surveillance” Faces New Resistance in Toronto. Ava Kofman November 13 2018, 12:03 p.m. https://theintercept.com/2018/11/13/...nts=1#comments ~ // __ Is It Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of the Internet? https://theintercept.com/2018/11/24/...nts=1#comments ~ // __ The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment https://theintercept.com/2018/11/25/...nts=1#comments ~ // __ Amazon’s Accent Recognition Technology Could Tell the Government Where You’re From https://theintercept.com/2018/11/15/...nts=1#comments ~ |
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