Not offended at all, I liked the Queen, and willing to give Charlie a go though not particularly optimistic , , not that I have a choice. I didn’t watch the funeral and would have rather not had the day off - somehow I think it had more to do with the Victorian grand final holiday. I don’t really like what KC stands for , the Q at least didn’t appear to meddle or tell people that they had to worry about climate change etc. If we were a republic, would it really make much difference ? What powers would el President have, would he just be a figure head, would he be elected etc etc . Here I am up in Qld and every takeaway has signs saying, staff shortage, please be patient. Meanwhile, we have 800,000 unemployed people and we need to bring in more migrants - no mention of these at the jobs summit. I feel we have bigger problems, like maybe reforming the welfare system, to incentivise people to take some pride in earning a living or contributing to society. There’s a Scottish dude called Scott Campbell who who (imho) posted a great substack post called “Half Mast” or something like that, a different perspective on QE2. Agree that discourse is very uncivil these days, I got a very nasty response when I merely I expressed my view about giving Charlie a chance.
The method of "incentivising people to take some pride in earning a living or contributing to society" is the real unsolvable dilemma. We tried it with brute force, but it was inferior to co-operation. We tried it with religion, but it was too readily corrupted to stagnate progress and waste too many resources. We tried it with kings and queens who had royal blood, either as superior humans, or as ordained by a god. We tried it with nationalism, racism, marxism, capitalism. Is it fair to say that capitalism was the most successful, but is in the late stage now, with all the system failures that implies? Maybe it's time for Anarchism?
Some good questions. I’m very much attracted to libertarianism, and I guess there is a spectrum. I’m also attracted to visiting Mexico, indeed, at one stage in the past 18 months we seriously considered it - perhaps that would be a taste of anarchism?
I enjoy Libertarian Dave Smith's views (eg. Part of the Problem Podcast). Mexico might be more of the same - it is famous for losing huge chunks of it's GDP to corruption. Cartel's as institutions, using chaos as a tool, is not really Anarchism IMO.
96.7% is certainly inaccurate. A major part of the whole scam is misclassifying things, as with everyone being supposedly vaccinated when it comes to nations, unvaccinated when it comes to deaths and hospitalisations within them. Vaccinated again when it comes to self promoting how you spent taxpayer dollars, unvaccinated again when it comes to the next round of giving money to your pharma friends.
Thanks for your input, guys. At least I know I'm not just shouting into the wilderness with these posts.
On the official government jab stats, I worked for three decades in the belly of the beast (Commonwealth Department of Health in Canberra), spending a lot of time on health statistics and data quality issues. The Medicare card with with its unique patient identifier is universal (only a slim slice of migrants do not qualify for one) and you can't get a job or a consultation without it, at least for health services in the public sector, so the Medicare-based jab stats are, alas, quite reliable.
Many in the freedom movement have wished that the official jab stats were yet another example of government lying on Covid because we don't really want to face the fact that so many Australians have proved so gullible and conformist to line up for the shot and that the jab refusers like me were so few. Alas, the Covid psyops program has been spectacularly effective.
On the positive side, enthusiasm for the things is waning after that 97% high and that is a good thing.
Definitely a good thing. While I still assert that the jab figures are an example of outright lying, especially when it comes to death figures during the 2 weeks after you had the thing in your arm, there are doctors and citizens who chose to go the route of fake jabs, fake passports, fake stats in the system as jabbed (I doubt anyone faked being unjabbed while the persecution was in full swing), that's why I say with certainty that the official figure is high.
Not offended at all, I liked the Queen, and willing to give Charlie a go though not particularly optimistic , , not that I have a choice. I didn’t watch the funeral and would have rather not had the day off - somehow I think it had more to do with the Victorian grand final holiday. I don’t really like what KC stands for , the Q at least didn’t appear to meddle or tell people that they had to worry about climate change etc. If we were a republic, would it really make much difference ? What powers would el President have, would he just be a figure head, would he be elected etc etc . Here I am up in Qld and every takeaway has signs saying, staff shortage, please be patient. Meanwhile, we have 800,000 unemployed people and we need to bring in more migrants - no mention of these at the jobs summit. I feel we have bigger problems, like maybe reforming the welfare system, to incentivise people to take some pride in earning a living or contributing to society. There’s a Scottish dude called Scott Campbell who who (imho) posted a great substack post called “Half Mast” or something like that, a different perspective on QE2. Agree that discourse is very uncivil these days, I got a very nasty response when I merely I expressed my view about giving Charlie a chance.
As ever, thanks all - I enjoyed Phil's take, Christian's thoughts and the 'Half mast piece he referred to'.
https://scottcampbell.substack.com/p/half-mast
The method of "incentivising people to take some pride in earning a living or contributing to society" is the real unsolvable dilemma. We tried it with brute force, but it was inferior to co-operation. We tried it with religion, but it was too readily corrupted to stagnate progress and waste too many resources. We tried it with kings and queens who had royal blood, either as superior humans, or as ordained by a god. We tried it with nationalism, racism, marxism, capitalism. Is it fair to say that capitalism was the most successful, but is in the late stage now, with all the system failures that implies? Maybe it's time for Anarchism?
Some good questions. I’m very much attracted to libertarianism, and I guess there is a spectrum. I’m also attracted to visiting Mexico, indeed, at one stage in the past 18 months we seriously considered it - perhaps that would be a taste of anarchism?
I also wonder if the 96.7 % is really accurate ?
I enjoy Libertarian Dave Smith's views (eg. Part of the Problem Podcast). Mexico might be more of the same - it is famous for losing huge chunks of it's GDP to corruption. Cartel's as institutions, using chaos as a tool, is not really Anarchism IMO.
96.7% is certainly inaccurate. A major part of the whole scam is misclassifying things, as with everyone being supposedly vaccinated when it comes to nations, unvaccinated when it comes to deaths and hospitalisations within them. Vaccinated again when it comes to self promoting how you spent taxpayer dollars, unvaccinated again when it comes to the next round of giving money to your pharma friends.
Thanks for your input, guys. At least I know I'm not just shouting into the wilderness with these posts.
On the official government jab stats, I worked for three decades in the belly of the beast (Commonwealth Department of Health in Canberra), spending a lot of time on health statistics and data quality issues. The Medicare card with with its unique patient identifier is universal (only a slim slice of migrants do not qualify for one) and you can't get a job or a consultation without it, at least for health services in the public sector, so the Medicare-based jab stats are, alas, quite reliable.
Many in the freedom movement have wished that the official jab stats were yet another example of government lying on Covid because we don't really want to face the fact that so many Australians have proved so gullible and conformist to line up for the shot and that the jab refusers like me were so few. Alas, the Covid psyops program has been spectacularly effective.
On the positive side, enthusiasm for the things is waning after that 97% high and that is a good thing.
Definitely a good thing. While I still assert that the jab figures are an example of outright lying, especially when it comes to death figures during the 2 weeks after you had the thing in your arm, there are doctors and citizens who chose to go the route of fake jabs, fake passports, fake stats in the system as jabbed (I doubt anyone faked being unjabbed while the persecution was in full swing), that's why I say with certainty that the official figure is high.