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Stegiel's avatar

In this case on Substack individual sites not the site entire. FB site entire is scrubbed and policed Just the other day some Covid science piece I posted on FB was slapped with disinfo. I am doing that daily diary for certain. A Newer Journalism harkening back to Montaigne. And his many imitators. So the umbrage taken by a Stack Holder this morning is my complex thought on the Ukraine. Always evolving every fresh but always trying to know the ball players teams and what that means in general. So rather than rah rah Russia I say seems to me that Russia is all in with WEF, but not in our way of being all in. And I drag in Dugin whose new book Great Awakening to Great Reset I enjoyed though not finding him my personal thought leader...Dugin points out the war is between Modernity and Tradition. Modernity seeing everything can be atomized and used by biotech, nanotech, any high tech or low tech but used. Tradition saying no pasaran. I observed that Russia was all in to the modern world. I was essentially told I was not only wrong but the hope and light of the world was found in Vlad. So knowing better but trying to dialogue I politely provide links on Russia and Modern Technology. Then I use Dugin and say that this is the Modernism he condemns. Thus I am in this line agreeing with him, but not agreeing that the Eurasian outcome of a multipolar world is better than now. Precisely because Leninism is Modernism. I add that everyone in the game is therefore Leninist just like Schwab. Biden, BoJo and Vlad. He ridicules the links. I try once more. No listening and now for a second time in about two months I am told to not comment more today and not to come back more or less unless I agree. Hmm. He has a lot of traffic on his site. He posts in areas of curiosity. I think he is Fundamentalist. It is just a curious thing really. Reading Foucault from 1970 lectures at the moment and thinking on processes of thinking in times of Covid and Tyranny. We need a hero. We need a master myth or we are slaves in terror

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

My take on Putin is that he takes what he wants from the WEFers.

Likes the injections and digital passports and digital currency, but still likes Russia.

So he is not a globalist.

The West doesn't honour agreements so he can justify having fun doing his double cross of Schwab &Co.

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Frances Leader's avatar

Don't sweat over those who cannot see the bigger picture.

The Phoenicians have practiced the art of regular culling for millennia and hardly anyone spotted it. Nobody was able to stop it.

They have rebranded, relocated and rehashed, always shape-shifting, adopting the identities of their victims, infiltrating and influencing.

Even with maximum communications we cannot even name the masters......

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Ironic that Tyler's post is about Socialists being too conservative.

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Stegiel's avatar

There is a lot to unpack with Eurasia. Maybe since the Teutonic Knights. Maybe since the split in the church. Who does he represent inside Russia but modernity? Technocrat in chief. The good Tsar. Sympathize with leader Putin and a multi polar Chinese 2030 world. Inevitable given the suicide of the West. No wonder the attacks on his image and no wonder that which does not kill him does make him stronger.

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Richard Seager's avatar

I'm not sure how popular he really is in Russia. My last time there was about 8 years ago and he wasn't popular at all at the time.

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Stegiel's avatar

Special Military Operation is boosting his cred. Russia standing up. Business is going on and we are seeing a possible axis to counter the bankrupt West. If Russia decided to be done with it and in a blitzkrieg took out the Baltic States and Eastern Poland ignoring Kiev all bets off. The system is beyond insolvent.

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Richard Seager's avatar

The odd thing to me is that the Polish had conspiracy theories about exactly this happening all the way back in the 90s. Not odd to them I guess.

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Stegiel's avatar

The spectrum of disagreement is narrow in the broad scheme. Big Government and for your own good government "Liberalism" is global. Even the PRC to keep it's grip on power states it is serving the public.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Free speech, but no one's listening.

You don't seem to mind Stegiel, if no one comments or *likes* your posts.

The Substack author certainly sets the tone.

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Stegiel's avatar

Here is the fun part of Social Media. It is exactly like my hot summer knocking on doors with my petition for removing rocket fuel from drinking water and asking for spare change. Naturally detesting heat and front doors and dogs and fences I took my idealism to the phone canvass to stop death squads. Not too many listened then. So I am amazed that Stack publishers now and then grow wroth with me, cancel commentary, tell me to don't come back jack. Amazed and greatly entertained. To think my posts say on Putin, Biden the whole catastrophe of Covid, that I view as contributing to discussion or approaching something like wit irk someone is like catching a bigger fish than I expected in these waters. Someone read me. And they had a response. Not the one I sought but I caught a fish.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

But was it a thought of yours or just a trigger word.

You might be getting satisfaction from an AI.

You seem to benefit from a *dear diary* journal. Your thoughts for the day. You are quite speedy and prolific.

Writing does help free thinking, with the concept of an audience.

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Richard Seager's avatar

The likes are unnecessary adornment. I tend to use them myself but they don't make for better commentary.

The days of BBS (and others) you just said what you thought and maybe somebody else would say what they thought. Of course there were also the agents of State/Whatever about as well but maybe not quite so many and with tactics not developed after 30 years of analysis. And there were no likes.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

What's BBS.

Thought you people meant some sort of Bull dust.

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Richard Seager's avatar

The old bulletin boards. The early versions were 80s, some even 70s but Stegiel is probably referring to 90s versions.

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Still dunno what they are.

But don't waste your breath explaining.

I don't get most of your and Stegiel's references.

I have *acquired* tastes. Haha.

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Stegiel's avatar

So did the Czech. Cibulka was arrested under Havel too. Havel worked for the communists. Solidarity too. And the thesis of metamorphosis or updated Russian communism to fit the collapsed state of Gorbachev transferring power to hidden organs fundamentally fits our totalitarian moment.

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Stegiel's avatar

The network consisted of coin-operated, public access computers installed in many Bay Area coffee houses.[4][5] SF Net allowed individuals from all walks of life to communicate with each other via chat rooms and message boards. Additionally, it provided games and access to FidoNet. SF NET Coffee House Network was an electronic bulletin board system created by Wayne Gregori in San Francisco, California in July 1991.[1][2][3]

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