Down With Technocracy

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

In the 2000 election my brother told me he didn’t understand why I was so worked up. Both the candidates were basically technocrats and their program was very similar.

As we’ve come to find out, he was right. Wrong also, of course, but ultimately right.

Of course there were differences between Bush and Gore, beyond the question of which noses would be on the through. The left in the US seem to be the only true believers in communism left in the world. Even those at the top seem vaguely shocked when they try to implement extreme left measures and not having the success they’ve been assured should come. One must blame the universities. The rest of the world, by and large, those on top are aware that communism doesn’t work, it’s just a racket to keep the masses down. The intellectuals still believe, but that’s because by and large they need something to put their faith on, and religious faith is considered uncool.

Anyway, for one, Gore was industrial strength stupid, and wholly sold on using the climate cult to stomp on us, completely unaware of repercussions.

But other than that, and as far as we can deduce, they believed largely the same things and were largely “technocrats.” I.e. they believed in rule by the “educated class” and the “experts” who could “solve all the big problems.” And they shared — as we can tell from Bush’s post-presidency friendship with Clinton, of all people — a certainty that the little people should be ruled and not listened to.

The problem of course is that Obama was brought in by the same people. Who are the faces behind the Junta now. As well as those controlling most of the world. Badly.

Part of the hatred for Trump — particularly among the University educated class — is a sort of back-of-the brain certainty that he’s ruining the program. It’s the only reason I can find for the frothing mouth and glazed eyes, the screaming of how terrible he is and how he’s going to burn down the world, when he’s been president once, and all he did was stop the waves of illegals, stop the wars, and make us energy independent. This is terrible?

Yeah. For the international would be technocrats it is. You see, they need to dislocate people, make them rootless and disconnected. They need to herd masses of people here and there like sheep — a technique for breaking up nationalities that has worked since the ancient world (except, by and large, on the Jewish people) — broken from traditions/beliefs/ customs and social bonds. Only then will the masses be utterly dependent on their wisdom and able to be indoctrinated in the new beliefs of the….

Well, they don’t call it that, but of Homus Sovieticus in a new suit and tie, with a bit of computer savvy.

It is essential to them to make as many people as possible dependent on pay offs that are wholly divorced from labor or production. They need you to have nothing to live for. To, as they put it, own nothing and (pretend to) be happy. Only then can they direct every minute instance of your daily life.

Why? Well, they’ll give you all sorts of reasons. By and large the same reasons as communists: it’s a more efficient way to allocate resources, so we don’t all starve when the (non existent) population bomb goes off. It’s best for us to be kept in hygienic surroundings. It’s best to not let us get racist/sexist/homophobic ideas. Etc. etc. etc.

In other words, you’re a sheep they want to feed what they want, shear when they want, and eat when they want.

A curious thing happened on the way to the technocracy, though.

Humans don’t herd well. You can break humans and give them Stockholm syndrome, but you have to be offering something pretty strong for them to attach onto. Which “own nothing and be happy” ain’t.

Humans are in fact refractory apes, and have been breaking out in rebellion all over.

And the technology never worked as the technocrats thought. You see, they’re not in themselves technical. They just thought they knew how to control humans through tech.

They’ve already failed. Oh, they’re fighting a rearguard action, composed of vote fraud, violence, lawfare, spying, etc. etc.

Their problem is that it’s already out in the open, because they are fairly desperate. And the more it’s out in the open, the more horrified people become at the smile on the face of the tiger.

In a way the covidiocy was their high water mark, the complete coup of the technocracy. It worked, but not uniformly, only briefly, and the actual compliance outside big cities was — as I found out — notional. Their attempt to roll it into a “climate emergency” lockdown was shrugged off. Their attempts to spook us into locking up again have been… laughable.

As almost always, but now faster, the humans failed to comply.

Plus they burned their “expert rule” by revealing most “experts” are no such thing.

The insurgence — the real one, not the one they tried to gin up as an excuse in 2020 — is alive and well, composed of set faces, clenched fists and feet planted in the ground, refusing to be moved.

I don’t know if they’ll manage to fraud themselves into power in November. They might. But it will do them a whole heap of no good, you know?

In China rulers lose the mandate of heaven. Throughout the west… you can piss off people enough that they don’t put up with your bullsh*t anymore. So it’s been throughout history.

The only remarkable thing about our would be expertocracy is how fast they burned a clout that took them a hundred years to create.

We are not sheep. We are not in the mood to be herded. We are not going into their profoundly stupid future.

We are chaos. We are liberty. We are — us here — Americans.

And intend to stay that way.

187 thoughts on “Down With Technocracy”

  2. “In a way the covidiocy was their high water mark, the complete coup of the technocracy. It worked, but not uniformly, only briefly, and the actual compliance outside big cities was — as I found out — notional.”

    My wife and I drove to a small town in another state for a funeral during the lockdowns. At the funeral home they had a list of rules posted, no one was complying with them. Going to and from the town involved getting off the interstates and using county roads. Nobody at the small gas stations and convivence stores wore masks, and looked at you like an idiot if you did.

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      1. Yep. Once we left the Willamette valley going east (to Yellowstone), not a mask in sight. Not even Bend (brief fuel stop, so might be too small sample).

        Okay, a few masks in Wyoming as we drove through the Tetons and did not stay. Note, we didn’t stay because the Jackson Hole Valley was so smoky the Tetons were barely visible. Wearing masks because of covid or smoke? More effective against the smoke. When we got home, back in the Willamette valley, we wore masks outside. We could see the ash in the air. Went through house furnace filters faster too as they turned black.

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        1. Flyover Falls was fairly heavily masked, particularly after Despicable Kate Brown (ah, I miss using that epithet) sent her OR-OSHA thugs to all the businesses. I was told by one guy (at a chain electrical/plumbing supply store) that DKB threatened to pull the business licenses if they didn’t bow down to her authoritah.

          OTOH, drive 40 miles to $TINY_TOWN and “Masks? We ain’t got no masks. We ain’t gonna wear no stinkin’ masks!”.

          As flu & OMG-it’s-COVID! season approaches, I’m seeing two classes of mask wearers: 1) people in bad health and 2) young people (mostly women in their 20s) who drank deeply of the mRNA-flavored koolaid. Lots of masked people (Cat 2) at Fred Meyer, almost none at the big independent store. OTOH, it’s just not suitable for AWFLs and Karens. Leaves a better selection for us Deplorables.

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          1. Not that we’re getting either regardless, but interesting enough there are locations locally advertising they are administrating non-mRMA flu and covid vaccines.

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            1. Once they started talking about a mRNA flu vax, we swore off it. The idea of a “oops, we goofed and sent the mRNA batch when we should have shipped peptice vax”, sounded too plausible, considering TPTB.

              At the peak of Covidiocy, one of the cashier’s at the independent grocer had a mesh + rhinestone mask. Eventually OR-OHA figured that one out and made it verboten, but I was impressed. I was using a face shield for a while (when tilted just right, I had ram air flow for breathing. An N95 mask made me close to fainting), then sewed a bandana to a shoestring for the bandit look. I did have to go to he official mask when I was in physical therapy. Wasn’t that strenuous, so breathing was tolerable (nostrils out), but once out of the building, it got tossed.

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              2. Pins are your friend. If you place the pinholes in the folds, flow greatly improves.

                I have gotten away with knife slit masks, as long as I don’t puff them out suddenly.

                Also observed one genius that added a paperclip wire addition to the sides so the paper mask was held off the cheeks for adequate flow. Subtle.

                (grin)

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              3. Check the bottle before you let them jab you. If they won’t let you see it, leave and go someplace else. Don’t argue, because if they won’t show you, they aren’t being honest about it.

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                1. We went with a simpler solution; no shots. Living 3 miles past the edge of the earth (as documented by T-shirt for $TINY_TOWN), serious flu opportunities are slender. Got clobbered last December for the first time (ok, I hadn’t been shot, but the reported effectiveness was already below 50%) in a couple of decades. (I almost never get a cold any more. Would get 2-3 per year in Silly Valley and when growing up.)

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                  1. Despite being in big city-ish Eugene now that we have little contact with the local petri dishes, otherwise known as little children, or those who associate with them, their parents, through co-workers. Thus getting sick has been way down. Used to be we could count on at least 3 colds per year, although we managed to skip the flu. After son graduated, until lately, it has been every two to 3 years. Which is one reason when I do get sick, I really, really, get sick. Including with the current super cold. But that is all it was. No different than any other cold prior to 2019.

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                2. The FNP who did our shots was a stickler for informed consent on COVID non-vax. Multiple page disclosure, patient must initial each section and sign off. He didn’t get that many takers, which I think was his firm intent.

                  I trust him, but don’t trust Acme Pharmceuticals to put the right stuff in the bottle.

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            2. Getting my flu shot tomorrow. Took me about an hour to do the research to find which variant was the weakened virus version (the type with the longest track record and produced the same way Pasteur would have made them), and didn’t have any mercury in it. Only one version I saw that seemed to indicate that it was an mRNA monster; while a bunch of others looked like scrambled snippet versions.

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          2. made masks out of cheesecloth, and of a noodle strainer.

            Kudos to the dude that made a helmet like the space suits on that one Trek TOS episode. (Tholian web) the ones with mesh facepanels.

            also the genius who turned a 5 gallon water jug into a 50s retro-future space helmet, complete with working “air supply” blower.

            special mention to the dude wearing a lone ranger eye mask. “The sign says ‘must be masked’. Doesn’t specify how. Yippee Kai Ae, mudhen.”

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            1. I like the one a friend of mine spotted in the Offut AFB commissary, made from a pair of men’s underwear using the waist elastic as a headband.

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                1. I did order one of those. Wore it, too. Lots of people took pictures. :-D

                  I told everybody “It’s a Medieval Plague Mask. Masks didn’t work 600 years ago, and still don’t.”

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                2. Online friends (you fans of ILOH may have heard of or met Brennan & Emma) tied the knot in +/- May of 2020, wearing beaked Plague Doctor masks except for the actual vows, in a lovely outdoor wedding.

                  Now that was doing it in style!

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          3. With Flu season approaching, if you get the flu shot, make sure to ask if it’s got the ‘rona stew added to it. I’ve seen a few places advertising that for ‘convenience’. What that means is I’ll never get another flu shot and I’ll just have to suffer through it, ‘cuz I’m not taking the ‘rona jab.

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      2. We worked three projects in the Midwest, at empty camps. Some places required masks, some were mixed. But we didn’t mean any truly unhinged people.

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        1. I had a couple of “nostrils must be covered” orders. One from a clerk at my ortho surgeon’s practice, so I covered my nose until I was around the corner. Was over a barrel; needed surgery (bad knee injury) and refusal of treatment could have happened. Not all the time, but frequently enough, masks came off when I was in a treatment room.

          The second was at Costco. Random floor walker (very junior manager, I think) insisted I cover my nostrils. Agreed, walked out of sight, resumed nostrils out so I wouldn’t faint. Arschloch. The next day I went to the totally acceptable, but thoroughly useless face shield/ram air scoop. A worker bee (same shield) gave a conspiratorial thumbs-up. Only downside to the shield was poor vision acuity. Cheap, scratchable/smearable plastic. Brand new, they were OK for a while. Used “properly”, they fogged up like crazy.

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          1. smear the lens with a tiny bit of plain bar soap, such as ivory, then polish with a very soft cotton cloth.

            Fog stopper.

            I use this method on eyeglasses and safety glasses.

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      1. The traditional methods in the mountains are guns or ropes, but of course lynching is bad and I’m sure they surrendered pretty quickly. So the county is being pretty nice to these guys already.

        Looters are scum, and looting after a disaster is being superscum.

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        1. The problem is, Asheville is the Berkeley of the South. It’s full of ultra-woke bohemian types that moved to the mountains because of the chakra or to commune with Gaia or sommat. Most of the good conservative mountain people that used to live there have been run off out into Hendersonville or out into the country because the transplants have jacked up the prices. Now once you get outside Asheville, yeah, I’m pretty damn sure the three S’s apply in most areas. And there’s LOTS of places to shovel right now.

          I don’t wish bad on those wokies, BTW. I want everybody up there to make it out intact and rebuild. But, uh, yeah, if some of those folks ended up getting looted by some of the illegals they want to welcome into the country, it would be slightly chuckle-worthy.

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          1. I’d point out that, with all the flooding, the first two “S’s” are unnecessary; a drowned body in a flood (or even eight of them) isn’t usually a treasure trove of evidence for how it/they drowned.

            All just conjecture, of course; I would never advise implementing it.😎

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          2. Apparently the trust fundians do not understand the concept of “flood plain”.

            Looked up the insurance stats for the area online and looked at the topo. Not a place to build any “permanent” house or to develop.

            And the city council picture could be used in a dictionary next to the term “Koven of Karens” or “Boss Gurls”.

            “Don’t “man-splain” emergency preparedness to me, Karl. I have “two” masters degrees in education and a real estate license.”

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            1. Knowing how to read a topo map is a useful skill if you’re planning to buy or rent in a flood zone. Heck, even knowing that FEMA has hazard maps online would work.

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              1. I don’t know who runs the map, but our county planning department has a flood plain map that’s quite detailed. We’re very close to River of Redacted, so for one project, they had to check. Halfway up neighbor’s place (would have trashed her garden/mini orchard), but nothing critical. We were further up, so no worries. The map had a few tens-of-feet resolution.

                As it stands, serious floods go on the other side of the river. It can be useful having an extinct volcano a few miles behind us. (What’s that rumbling? Murphy!!!!!!! Vulcan????? :) )

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                1. fema dot gov has flood maps, though they don’t seem to believe in providing any data for anything local to me. Even Flyover Falls “has no digital data”. Eugene does, but…

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                  1. The site has our block, Irving to Irvington/Hwy 99 to River Road, as extremely low flood hazard zone.

                    Which is true. As long as the flood dams hold.

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              2. Technically we’re on the flood plain. We are ~ 2 miles west of the Willamette, and ~ 5 miles east of the Long Tom. Willamette, and the McKenzie (which joins the Willamette a few miles south) are controlled rivers by dams. Long Tom has one irrigation dam (Fern Ridge, er ditch, seriously, it isn’t very deep). Long Tom floods regularly. Willamette north of us floods. When the ground gets saturated, fields flood. But no major floods since ’63 before the last flood dam was in place.

                Eugene used to be derided as “Skinner’s Mud Hole” because downtown flooded regularly. The house sits 6′ above the flood plain. Yes, Willamette Valley could flood, but it’d have to flood 35 miles, east to west, 65 miles south to north, and over 6′ deep, to do so (used be able to calculate the cu feet water acreage that would be, not anymore). A lot of water.

                Yes, there are dams up both the McKenzie, and Willamette tributaries, that should they fail due to the type of weather system (hurricane remains) that is devastating the southern states because of these storms, we would be 100% washed away. In addition, we’d have next to no warning. Just like they didn’t.

                Florida, both coasts, northern coasts and slightly inland were warned and prepared. Everyone else? Were not warned. Were not prepared. Flash flooding, dams failing, no way to prepare.

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                1. Erick Erickson was reporting this morning that the National Weather Service model showed the storm moving into TN, while private models showed it heading east. The private models were right and people,who used them (some utility companies) had their resources placed where they could do so e good.

                  He lives in GA. He’s also not furious at the Administration, but he doesn’t have much used for them.

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          3. My cousin up there is not woke. But I know what you mean. I’m not comfortable downtown, though there is a fiber/craft place run by holdover hippies who are easy to get along with. I suspect they’re the relatively apolitical sorts.

            In other news, my beloved spoke to the maintenance supervisor at Lake Jurnaluska (near Waynesville) and was told, “It’s bad. But we all lived through it.” Now I wonder how much of the work we did there a few weeks ago survived.

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  4. I think you’re spot on. I’m reminded of Pratchet’s description of mankind being where the fallen angel meets the rising ape. I remain rebelliously optimistic that this will all work out

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  5. The females of the technocratic “species,” also want “children,” to “take care of.” Agreeable children, who obey their Mother and believe everything she tells them.

    The mix of thwarted maternal instinct and hubris is appalling.

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    2. That’s why Dolores Umbridge is the ultimate HP villian. Combination of evil technocrat, Karen, and HOA power tripping viciousness.

      She reminds me of a certain teacher in high school who hated males. After I survived her class my junior year, we fould out that she wasn’t coming back due to cancer. Girls were “boo-hoo” and the guys were “karma’s a bitch and so is cancer”.

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      1. Yes. Rowling hit all the power trip woman tropes with Umbridge. Just reading Umbridge made me shiver. I’ve never been under the authority of one. Definitely would have been a target for all that I am a woman. Problem is these type of women do not like the “leave me alone” types be they male or female. (No. The “if you’ve never met one, you might be one” joke does not apply. I’ve never had that type of authority over anyone other than my son at the infant/toddler/young child stages. In addition, I do not want that authority.)

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          1. The department head at my first job (boss’s boss) managed by tantrum. Was in a bad recession, but once the economy improved, I was out of there. 5 man section, and a year after I left, 6 had left. I *think* one guy stayed.

            Had two women engineering bosses. One was pretty cool, the other left me alone (we were heading into the Dot Com bust, circa 2001, and she was my boss for a few months before the division started to get disassembled. Being “unlucky” was actually lucky. My severance was a lot better than those in the later purges. Bwa-ha-ha!

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            1. “managed by tantrum.”

              I’ve seen that too. Not my department manager. Someone associated with the marketing aspect of the project. Mostly ignored him. Worse usually was the “That is your deadline. Not what I told you would be done.” conversations. However the last release I had to step in and defend someone else. Might have screamed back. No chance no one heard me (for a change). Response was: “No! You do not scream at her. Yell at me. I am in charge of that!” (Documentation of the software I was the one writing and changing, for six years by then. Problem? It had been his documentation until he left the company 3 years, and 3 releases prior. When he had it, I had no say. Long story. But he left and it got dumped on me. Fine. Also figured out why both company support and clients hated it. Released supplements with new documentation writer until got permission to fix the problems. Not so much of a rewrite, as a huge reorganization, and dumping, who am I kidding, gutting of marketing material. He took exception, loudly, screaming at her.) I have no idea where he went after the company gutting from bankruptcy. He got cut in the same round I did (which meant he was gone before I got notification because they had to wait until I was back from week camping at remote BSA camp.)

              “severance was a lot better than those in the later purges”

              What happened to sister and her husband when they golden parachuted from HP. BIL was old enough and had worked enough years they figured he would get the packages offered. Sister barely met the qualifications. She figured she would not get a package as there would be more people going for the parachutes than slots and it was not first applied, get. It was based on the system (Age + years worked for HP >= 65). Sis was wrong. Not enough applied. Everyone who applied got the package. Which meant HP had to start forcing exits. Those forced didn’t get as good of packages.

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              1. I had been at HP/Agilent for 22 years, and another guy (Russian expat who figured pograms were coming) had a few years. We both got a reasonably good deal, though I don’t know details of his package. Agilent didn’t publicize such.

                After I was laid off, Agilent decided that the semiconductor operation wasn’t sufficiently profitable (boss of the groups had bet on Dot Com Bubble, but failed upward to CEO–clever SOB) and production was moved to SE Asia before selling the mess to one of the funds (KKR?). The products ended up at TSMC after a while. Cashed out my 401K a few years after I left, so I didn’t have to care about the company’s fate after that. (Clever SOB is long gone. Don’t know details.)

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                1. Every single time my 401(k) was rolled into IRA rollover account (separate from our funded IRA accounts, not required, just playing it safe at the time, since combined) immediately. No waiting. Easy the first two times. PIA the third, and last, time. Not the company I worked for, where the investment firm SimpleIRA was located at. Then because they screwed up, tried to short the account. Nope. Not our first rodeo. They coughed up the missing funds. We didn’t even have to threaten them, just were “firm”.

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                  1. Once had to roll a 401k out at just about the bottom of the market. Rolled it into an IRA and it recovered with the rest.

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          2. I’ve had a couple of bad bosses, and not really sure which was worse. The ones who lie to you do the most damage. The one who was a drunkard was just an annoying PITA, and there was simply no pleasing him.

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      2. I found interesting that my wife reacted more strongly than I did to Umbridge and I agree that umbridge is the biggest villain in HP. I can understand Voldemort up to a point and, of course, he’s a fantasy monster. Umbridge is someone we all know. She’s now the perennial democrat candidate for president.

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      3. I remember reading a discussion contrasting how much people hate Voldemort and Umbridge. The conclusion was that almost no one even meets a Voldemort and almost everyone has suffered under an Umbridge type so of course people hate her more.

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          1. It’s in the 5th book, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”.

            The actress that plays her in the movie is perfect for the role.

            The movies are fresher in my mind, since I have to kill an hour a day doing therapy and the spouse has setup a media server with 2,000 titles and wants me to test it.

            (Actually she is tired of me going down history rabbit holes and disturbing her friends with facts and there’s only so much geology she can stand before her attention erodes…)

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  6. The only remarkable thing about our would be expertocracy is how fast they burned a clout that took them a hundred years to create.

    Not really that remarkable. It’s much easier to destroy than to build. As we have seen.

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    1. Nathan quoted or hostess

      The only remarkable thing about our would be expertocracy is how fast they burned a clout that took them a hundred years to create.

      The damn shame is that for once in their lives they had a bit of foresight and took the clout OFF before dousing it in accelerant and applying the match. Now we have the twin horrors of naked technocrats and burning dirty breechclouts.

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  7. The Jefferson Airplane (Severall of whom turned out to be more right wing than they dared admit) sang at Woodstock:

    We are forces of chaos and anarchy
    Everything they say we are we are
    And we are very proud of ourselves…

    So should we in the Right. (And BTW, anarchy means “no ruler” not “grand social disorder.”

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    1. But anarchy -does- result in “grand social disorder”. It doesn’t scale up very well, at all. You can certainly find practical minimalist ways, but humankind cannot seem to handle “none”. the Anarchy degrades and quickly.

      Are there stable examples I am missing?

      Someone forms a team with a leader structure, and beats the snot out of anyone who doesn’t team up. Others team up to defend against the predators. Rules get formed. Some system develops to rule. It may be cooperative, but unenforced it fails.

      What is an example of a functional and stable anarchy? I can point to stable monarchies, dictatorships, constitutional republics, just no stable anarchies.

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      1. If non-aggressive people live far enough away from each other that crime is annoying to do, and if people do need their neighbors to be able to help one another, there’s not necessarily much need for government.

        But as soon as crime is no longer annoying to do, there will be some kind of minimal government.

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        1. Eve Online demonstrated that. 0.0 space started in a cooperative anarchy until the first few murder hobos swept through, then proceeded to go through many of the stages of nation state development, including an Athenian style democracy that ended in the typical no holds barred murdergheddon civil war that those tend to do.

          At the time I was talking my polysci classes from an actual libertarian proff, and he was fascinated by the stuff that was going on in it.

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          1. Eve Online has always been an interesting showcase of why this stuff exists.

            To provide an example, “Random players imposing tolls on gates (“Pay us or we blow you up!”) worked right up until someone decided that it would be fun to let someone pay the toll, and then blow them up anyway. After that, everyone decided that since you were likely going to get blown up regardless of whether you paid, you might as well not pay.”

            On another note, a couple of weeks ago I got to listen to a former (he’s KOS with his former corp, and they have ways of tracking whether he’s logged in) Eve player explain why and how he screwed over his former corp in that game (and it’s one of the big ones that every player has heard about). Assuming his version of why is correct, there was a ridiculous amount of short-sighted idiocy by the leaders of his former corp that led to him feeling burned by his own corp.

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        2. How does one have Life, Liberty, and Property, without some means to work out the disputes? At some point, one -must- use force to do so. Else you lose them. If there is no means to -restrain- force, the mob rules.

          Less is best, but none isn’t -possible- with humans at any but tiny scale. Even a family has some authority, single or team, it exists or no family. Anything that boils down to “if everyone would” is void. Everyone won’t. And the more there are, the more they wont.

          Can we learn to do with less? I say yes. We have, and can again. “None”? No one here is likely to agree. Maybe one will so state, but queried closely, they will hedge. Note that “Well, we will just shoot the one bastard” isnt “no authority”, it is “I am authority”.

          Willing to consider options, any reasonable how to get there, provided they start with the folks and conditions we have now, and do not require replacing humans with nonhumans. We managed a rather free place here, and lacked a good example at the time. So improvement seems quite possible. I think we badly damage the cause of Liberty by suggesting “anarchy” is a good.

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      2. Much as I like Smith’s “The Probability Broach” and Russell’s “And Then There Were None” I have to agree about anarchy. It’s a sort of Utopia for individualism, and those never seem to work out as planned, humans being human.

        “We’re all anarchists here! Our Leader told us so!”😉

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        1. If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
          —James Madison, Federalist Paper 51

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          1. Or, as they tried to do with the Constitution, enable the governed to control the government. We may be getting back to that in the not-too-distant future [crosses fingers].

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            1. The Constitution needs an 8th Article:

              If the officials, elected and appointed to administer the government, should exceed their authority, trample upon the rights guaranteed to the People, enrich themselves at the People’s expense, and seek to impose conditions of Tyranny upon the Nation, it shall be the Right, and the Duty, of the People to abolish that abusive government and institute a new one in accordance with this Constitution.

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              1. Missed the part about what to do to the elected and appointed officials in that scenario. They should be banned from ever working in any government position; the best way to accomplish that would be to tie them up and use a backhoe. If they were simply venal, not malicious, they could be humanely executed before burial. Headsman’s axe? :twisted:

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              2. The problem with that is that it’s not self-enforcing. Tyrants can use it as a shield to crush liberty as well as vice versa.

                Burke said of the English Civil War that you can’t have that sort of things under the law, it’s clearly war to remove the king.

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        3. Here I think Larry Niven got it right in the short story Cloak of Anarchy that is in the Neutron Star collection. Basically Anarchy works for a bit until people realize there are no consequences and then all hell breaks loose.

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          1. The “Anarchy Park”, one? Where non-aggression was enforced by stungun drones that mutually zapped combatants?

            An “anarchy” requiring a near perfect, non-lethal, and totally arbitrary dictatorship.

            Which some anarchist promptly sabotaged, leaving everyone to the joys of gang bullying, gang rape, or worse. Smooth move, exlax.

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        4. The Broach Universe was the triumph of New Anarchist Man.

          I loved The Probability Broach and The Nagasaki Vector, though. They were some of the short list of books I picked up at used book stores when I found them. I gave the extra copies to people. They turned four people who hadn’t voluntarily picked up a book since their last school assignment into science fiction fans.

          “Here. Read this book. It won’t hurt you.” [mad cackle]

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      3. Real true anarchy is unstable. It ALWAYS devolves into something–usually some kind of feudalism analogue.

        A few years ago, there was an attempt by some people to redefine anarchy as some sort of socialism-lite. At least, that’s what it read like at first blush.

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        1. True anarchy always boils down to ‘the biggest, meanest assholes take everything from everybody else’. (and each other if they can)

          If some of the weaker folks combine forces against the assholes — it ain’t anarchy no more.

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            1. Nah, it’s the guy in the chicken suit outside the KFC. They know what they are, they are lying.

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  8. I keep getting snide comments like “so you think you’re a scientist now” from people I’m very close to who have decided the “experts” are correct…because experts. I’ve led them step by step through the reasoning and the evidence — for instance, on the proposed fertilizer bans — and they follow along (yes, that makes sense; okay; yes, agreed; etc., etc.) only to sheer off at the very last second, when the only logical conclusion is that the experts are either morons or evil (maybe both). They can’t believe it. They refuse. There must be something the experts know that we don’t. MUST BE.

    It’s very disheartening. But I guess I shouldn’t expect to come out on top versus a trillion-dollar propaganda machine that also has the advantage of coming from the sources that we all (at least me and these particular people) by default assumed were correct and honest back in the day — when those sources were also the *only* ones for all practical purposes…suspicious circumstance, that.

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    1. I can answer this, but “In what ways am I not a scientist?”

      You have, I think, an MA.

      There is more to being a scientist than having an MS instead of an MA.

      “Of what unique value is a scientist?” “Of what use is a scientist?”

      If we consider minds, traits, and types, there are some fairly straight forward conclusions. For example, if someone becomes a scientist over the course of studying a series of problems in certainty ways, then the expertise from experience must necessarily be narrow.

      There is a fairly established historical record of the people we label scientists. There are obvious inferences from that about, say, single generation correctness of answers.

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      1. Technically, a scientist is someone, no matter his/her formal education, who practices the scientific method while studying something. As a university is “a log with a teacher on one end and a student on the other”, a scientist is someone who analyzes problems, constructs tests to verify or refute the results of the analysis, and accepts the results of the tests. Lather, rinse, repeat.

        Too many “experts” today fail the last part, whether to keep their social position and grants, or through malice and an agenda.

        And as soon as someone says “it’s settled science” you know he’s either stupid, ignorant or malicious; there ain’t no such thing, by design. :-x

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  9. I first read the title as “Down with Theocracy”, and then decided that the first reading was as accurate as an equivalent to the actual word used.

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  10. Technocrats/elites/commiecrats(BIRM) are going to keep pushing their swagger-stick into the wood chipper until somebody on the other side of the machine pushes the “on” button. Then it’ll be “Fargo” for $100, Alex.

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    1. The Society for the Liquidation of Antisemites and Marxists so needs to be a real thing. And its first income needs to be spent on wood chippers.

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      3. Sadly, once folks start cheering the demises, it is time to run.

        Guillotine, Gallows, Woodchipper.

        Once the Mob take up the joyful cry, the obvious answer to “Who is Next” is “you”.

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      4. > The Society for the Liquidation of Antisemites and Marxists so needs to be a real thing.

        —

        As a bureaucracy accumulates laws, rules, regulations, procedures, and standards, it becomes less flexible, even as it consolidates and extends power.

        A private effort similar to Frank Herbert’s Bureau of Sabotage could do a lot of damage to such a government with little effort. Sure, it could call down an orbital strike against some graffiti vandal, but procedural compliance would take so long the perp would be long gone before it was approved.

        And I *still* think bureaucracy was the real reason for the decline of the Roman Empire. Rome had the same resources and soldiers it always had, but it became less and less effective at using them.

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  11. The only remarkable thing about our would be expertocracy is how fast they burned a clout that took them a hundred years to create.

    They’ve been burning clout since Obama, it just hit the FOOSH stage during the COVID/Stop Trump of 2020. When the media was massively praising Obama for anything and not even pretending to be unbiased it caused a lot of people, myself included, to start paying attention. It is not good to get the “just leave me alone” folks with attention issues to focus on something you really want to keep quiet.

    Lying to me is the 2nd worse thing you can do, Bulling being the first. Doing both at the same time? I want the woodchippers that they use for when an area gets hammered by a storm, the ones that I swear eat the 3 foot in diameter trees.

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  12. The Theocracy of I know better and I should have power because I am so special, mainly because my illusions are much better than your illusions is becoming tiresome. Your mental illness is not my problem, leave me alone, or I will make you, your choice.

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  13. During Obamas frontage we stsrted getting warnings about how Ebola was coming. People were getting it and travelling with it unknowingly. We would have to quarantine the world….except….no one got sick. The world was not bleeding out like a bad King novel.

    They tried Zika virus. Nothing. They fell back on green communism and tried to force communist health care as a control measure. It didnt take. (Side note….when they passed Ocare and I shifted to contract work, after looking at insurance costs vs self.pay….with 4 kids we went to self pay. It worked. My wife was worried about accident or catastrophic illness. I reminded her that neither of us had insurance until we were in our 20s for her, 30s for me. Americans didnt really have it until the 70s….and that was when costs rose and quality fell.)

    Covid worked because it was gene engineered which is the boogie man. By the chinese (oh noes the yellow peril!). Did I mention gene engineering.

    It worked at least in part too because of the Trump hatred.

    They burned down everything. Ironically if they had waited out thr 8 years…..they had him stonewalled. No real border wall. The military was feeding him lies. They could tank the economy. They had the media.

    If they waited 8 years, Pence would be president….and it would be back to business as usual.

    They couldnt wait. It had been Her turn and it was stolen. If they rode out thr 8byears they would be dead or too old….or two much would have to be redone.

    So like the Fireeaters…..they started a war to save themselves and will end by burning themselves down.

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  14. i am completely 100% convinced that only the dumbest azzhats enter politics these days, nobody worth a crAp are anywhere near it so as to try and preserve their sanity and lives.

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    1. can’t get valid work? like even petty power? Politics is for you! Someday, you might get to the big time and be able to earn the big bucks like Pelosi!

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          2. I always think back to the scene in TMIAHM, where someone suggested that if politicians felt some government project needed funding, they should pay for it out of their own pockets.

            Yeah, I know. But it’s a warm fuzzy to pull out every now and then, sigh “Ah, if only…” and tuck it away for future admiration.

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  15. Cat report: flooded but still afloat.

    The fuzzballs are all accounted for. After three days with spotty power (when there was power), contaminated water, tree damage, flood damage, and all the locals gathering to put to rights what’s been broke, the yard is now clear of signposts, spare tires, mailboxes, feminine undergarments, political signs, and about two point six tons of wood and metal scrap.

    Neighborcat and Othercat have been having a ball snatching up stranded fishes, crawdads, and the like from down the way. Neighborcat brought up a few bluegill, which Nastycat devoured promptly. The three weathered the storm by holing up in the rafters of the front porch, high above the high water mark.

    Others were not as fortunate. Neighbor lady’s oldest fuzz, the mother of Othercat’s latest spawn, went missing for three days. We just found her today, clinging to what was left of a two year old Kia in four feet of water. She’s back with the family, getting coddled and spoiled by the kids. Neighbordog, the old one that howls at every car that uses his driveway to turn around got loose during the first squall. He came back half drowned and suffering from blood loss from dozens of cuts and scrapes. Time will tell how the old boy gets along. Two kittens- well, they’re about eight months old now- are still unaccounted for as of this writing.

    The orange fuzzmonster stuck to me like glue throughout the storm. He much dislikes the thunder and lightening, and the less that’s said about large quantities of water, especially outdoor water, the better. Despite his intense dislike of the outdoors, he followed me out when I went.

    We checked on neighbors up and down the street. Most folk around here tend to prep fairly heavily. Stores of water, food, medicals, and the like are the norm rather than the exception. The older ladies were delighted to see Doofus out and about, and smothered him with pets and affection wherever we went. This did not, of course, improve His Orangeness’ opinion of all things nature, but he suffered the lack of order with what patience the wee fuzzy head could.

    Down at the local big box store, they were selling through their water and such left and right. Not so much to locals. There were electricians from Canada, come to fix the lines and infrastructure, volunteers from five states coming through to donate what time and materiel they could to those without. All of them swarmed through, grabbing up canned goods and whatnot.

    Doofus was much displeased he had to wait in the car. He reminded me of this the entire way home, all the way up the steps, and back to the house. Nastycat snuggled up with his pink dino greeted us inside, and promptly went back to sleep. The orange fuzzmonster joined him, after a baleful look at the outdoors again.

    Despite the ravages of Mother Nature, the four fearsome fuzzballs abide. Neighborcat and Othercat made several friends with the linemen in the area. The men were amused to see cats unafraid of loud noises, chainsaws and the like. The two fuzzies were just curious to see the goings on and naturally gravitated to what was interesting. I think one or two of them have been converted to cat-people, having hung around with the two for days here.

    One way or another, life finds a way. Like Old Dog next door and Othercat’s ladycat, even in the most trying of times. We still hold out hope the two kittenish cats will show up soon, like as not after adventures of their own. The volunteers, both local and from farther flung, are all good people. Despite the devastation, the lost homes, business, and even lives, we continue to pull together and clean up, rebuild, and provide what help we can.

    Though I will say, I think the local volunteers were a bit surprised to see Neighborcat trotting up with one of his offerings of dead animals to his new friends…

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    2. volunteers were a bit surprised to see Neighborcat trotting up with one of his offerings of dead animals to his new friends…

      Just doing his part to feed the helpers~

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    3. Glad you and the furballs and the neighbors are doing good in light of the deluge suffered. Prayers for the two youngling kitten-cats.

      “local volunteers were a bit surprised to see Neighborcat trotting up
      with one of his offerings of dead animals to his new friends…”

      Reminds me of the first time we had the house roof redone. We told the roofer’s to be sure to check ladders before getting on them from the roof, and going back down one, if they had started up, and needed to reverse. We told them we had cats that climbed ladders. Middle of the first day “OMG. Holly …” was heard. Went out to see what was “wrong”. Comment was “you warned us!” I just laughed. Sure enough, they had two ladders out on the deck, each had a cat on one. We still have cats that will climb a ladder after you. Difference is we no longer have free roaming cats. Current cats have only supervised outside access. Which means we can keep the ladder climbing cats off the ladders.

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      1. One got found South of here, about six hours by car. The folks will be going to get that un tomorrow most like. The other is the scardy cat little thing. She might be around here hiding. Been too busy to look much as we’d like of late, but we’ll be doing that this weekend.

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  16. Let’s see now….

    1 October.

    Longshoremen go on strike. Stuff is going to get scarce and expensive.

    Israel ground incursion into Lebanon, possibly prelude to all-up mech-infantry raids. Might see Iran directly involved

    Puff-Diddler’s blackmail tape 5-ring circus. (He didn’t kill himself. Too soon?) Possible career disasters for all sorts of politicos.

    Trump called for a more violent police response to crime.

    …

    Not surprised yet. Nope.

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      2. Read a few “Walz in in a frazzle/panic/etc over the debate things over the weekend (One sympathetic one claiming the Debate Prep was a valid excuse for lack of response to the issues of the Hurricane). Now I saw one Kammie claims she picked him on not enough sleep.
        oy

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    2. I dunno. “Suicides” seem to have dropped off now that so many people are dying of Suddenly.

      Convenient, wot?

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  17. Okay, who gave President Trump a Catholic/Anglican picture calendar?

    Because the other day, he just followed up his birthday tweet to the Blessed Mother with a St. Michael prayer tweet for Michaelmas/Feast of the Archangels.

    Luckily he didn’t tweet a picture of St. Jerome, because I’d take that as a sign he was joining RCIA/OCIA….

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        1. I still say he should have come out wearing ear jewelry in the scar. Would have been worth at least a few “bad ass” and “body piercing” crowd votes.

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    3. I’ve read enough of Alma’s Familiar novels to figure out why President Trump would pay close attention to Saint Michael. (Former Lutheran here–it left me, sigh–so I’m not well tuned into the saints, but Michael makes a lot of sense.)

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      1. Which is very much in keeping with the topic, really.

        Technocrats rely on having access to all information, which they can use or misuse as necessary to control what you do, whether it’s sensitive info on a country, a candidate’s medical records (the VA is dealing with unauthorized access of both JD Vance and Walz medical history), or someone’s blog comment history. Control by info access is the common factor.

        It’s also why they HATE the idea that just because your buying habits etc. are in pixels rather than parchment, the 4th Amendment still applies. They’re still your “papers and effects”. Get a warrant with particulars.

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      3. The Reader suspects that the Israelis decided to brief Brandon and company because they knew it would be leaked. That way they could track who scurries from the target area.

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    1. Hell they’re down to the point that the head cashiers are running stuff, And their half life is in days from the moment they rise to the top of the septic tank.

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  20. I think I’m a bit of a technocrat because I want things to be run by competent people, because I know how bad things can be when incompetent people are in charge. That problems can be solved, one way or another.

    But I also know that competence is a chimera in far too many cases.

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    1. I want to have competent hirelings and servants, fire the unworthy, and end the programs when the immediate problem is solved or when their finite chartered time expires.

      No project over two years. Hard stop. Two years out before rehire. Max 10 years total.

      Is “vow of poverty” necesary? (grin)

      I suppose the pro bureaucrats just all said “amateur”.

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  21. The one thing that really keeps the technocracy at bay is the knowledge mayhem is only a few rounds away. Regardless of what people may believe, logic says an outright shooting event will lead to the removal of an entire world of what can be basically considered as slaves to a shadow government. A war between factions in the U.S. will not help their agenda, and since they have the rest of the world to manipulate, they know right now is not a good time. They have patience, and will never stop with their efforts, but as of right now, they will slink away to continue their subversive efforts.

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  22. Yow, the stock market is down bigly today. The strike?

    I see one of the union’s demands is that their Preciousss Jobs be ‘protected from automation’. So, the Luddites are still with us.

    Any job that can be done by a machine, should be. People have better things to do than grunt labor suitable for machines.

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  23. Apparently, the MadMurderMullahs occupying Iran are about to launch Operation FAFO, a ballistic missile strike against Israel.

    Hopefully we get to watch the Israelis lift the occupation of Iran.

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    1. And Operation FAFO is go. Iran launched ballistic missiles at Israel. So far, conventional. Some terrorist yahoos doing mayhem, seems small scale random.

      Jammed up ports does not help US Navy. Does anyone know if we use ILS to load the Navy’s replenishment ships and oilers? I assumed so.

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      1. I would have thought that all the .mil logistics do their own loading.

        Contracting it out to civilian unions sounds like a stupid idea, but is certainly not out of the realm of possibility.

        Or maybe they require any .mil doing longshoreman jobs to also be union members. That sounds like a “hilarity ensued” type of situation.

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      2. Six dead in shooting in Jaffa. Don’t know if the shooter has gone to Allah.

        I’m giving thanks none of the Iranian missiles have produced mushroom clouds. Yet.

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        1. Building an atomic bomb is one set of design problems. Building an atomic bomb small enough and robust enough to put on a missile is a whole different, and much more difficult, set of design problems.

          The original Gadget was hoisted to the top of a tower with a winch. Little Boy and Fat Man had to be delivered by specially modified B-29 bombers. They had to set Fat Man in a big hole in the ground and back Bock’s Car over it just to get it into the bomb bay.

          None of them would have been suitable for putting on a missile.

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          1. That was before we put a Muslim in the White House….

            🎶Send blueprints, parts, and money….🎶 with apologies to Warren Zevon.

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          3. Why would Isreal be incapable of miniturizing warheads for bomb or missile use? They have had 50 plus years to figure it out. And most of the really useful info they needed has already leaked.

            Note that India and Pakistan have both done so. North Korea has managed to do so.

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            2. I’ve heard people I trust on the topic are you North Korea essentially skipped the fission bomb stage and what everybody thought was a fizzle was just testing a very small fission device whose purpose was to be a trigger on a fusion bomb.

              If North Korea can go straight from nothing to a Teller-Ulam then the Israelis can definitely build a missile sized weapon.

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              1. The primary needs to be fairly substantial to squeeze the secondary. 50kt or more is ideal. Turning those outbound “primary” energetics back inbound in the right way is tricky, but once you know how you know. Once you figure out how to ignite a secondary, then all that leftover U238 becomes your “tamper” and the neutron flux of the two stages fast-fission it. Net yield is “spicy”. As in most things explosive, “Factor P for Plenty” is your friend.

                Along the way to reliably “enough” primary, one learns how to make them smaller and much, much more efficient. our first two were absurdly inefficient. frankly, they barely worked. “Enough” is of course, relative. Since making the fissile stuff is a real bottleneck, especially U235, and since PU238 competes directly with tritium for neutrons, we had to be material-efficient if we wanted plenty of the things. Also if we wanted practical nuclear artillery, for example.

                The NK tiny yield events are likely legit squibs. If you fail to -precisely- time the initial implosion, you don’t get much yield, and definitely no secondary. We figured out how to use just two detonators on a football-ish shape to create spherical implosion, to get around the complex timing of multiple detonators. (We had any number of squibs before we figured out 2-point) Also, we then figured out how to ensure the thing would -not- do much ‘boom’ on just one detonation. (“single point safe”).

                Sadly, once the know-how exists, much easier to figure it out again. Or just steal/buy it. Still some tricks and dead-ends. Clancy used such in “Sum of All Fears”, and admitted it. I concur.

                Note that for Iran, that “90%” threshold is for “efficient” weapons. The “goes boom” point is around 20+% if you are willing to use a great mass of fuel. over 50% is quite workable, if overly heavy.

                And they have been capable of those levels for several years.

                In other words, the Mullahs already -have- crude nukes if they care to assemble them.

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                1. Were the NK fizzles in the 50kt range? That was the basis of the article I read arguing they weren’t bothering with fission bombs for military purposes.

                  And, yes, with a fissile tamper you double your yield on a fusion bomb by making it a fission->fusion->fission bomb.

                  Then the you can more on to more stages, although I think only the Soviets ever tested a second fusion stage (I think the Tsar Bomba was one)

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                  1. We tested several multistage and deployed one multistage bomb. It was the most weight-efficient weapon deployed, about 9MT.

                    If a two stage thermonuke misfires, failing to ignite a secondary, the primary might yield up to 80ish kT depending on design. “Squib” and “fizzle” cover the whole spectrum of unplanned “undersize” outcomes.

                    It is possible to build a rather large fission-only weapon, heavily boosted and a few other tricks. 80-100 kt is about max. There are insufficient neutrons in such to make u238 jacketing worthwhile for added yield, although it does, like Cobalt, make them “filthy” with enhanced fallout. U238 is still great tamper mass.

                    Occasionally, ones test outperforms. Castle Bravo produced 2.5x yield when an “inert” form of Lithium turned out to be fusion fuel. Bigly.

                    It’s still FAFO, which is why everyone tests.

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                1. I get what you’re saying but they were analyzing on reported yields from seismographic evidence and making educated guesses at why NK would be satisfied with one that small instead of just dismissing it as failure.

                  For someone doing defense analysis that’s defensible. Their job is to be pessimistic and they were relying on our data not NK’s.

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                  1. yeah but I don’t believe it. It’s like thinking that Russia is prosperous. I’m sure there are other interpretations. They might for that matter have “faked” those events to confuse their own leaders.

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                    1. Maybe.

                      Maybe the Soviets never went to space and faked all that. After all, 30 years later they fell apart as an economy.

                      Or maybe the Soviets were a third world shithole that instead of building a better county built a space program as a potemkin front.

                      And maybe the NK did that.

                      At some point if everything is lies then EVERYTHING is lies. I teetter on that point already and I am trying to avoid it because that is another version of the black pill.

                      You believe what you want. I’ll believe tinpot dictators will impoverish and starve their people to get the latest and greatest weapons and while they might not be able to innovate they can duplicate problems solved four decades earlier.

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                    3. From analyzing our own nuke tests, and Russia and China, and various friends and others, we have fairly good means to estimate weapon output even from deep underground tests. Not going into details, but 20kt of ANFO does not signature like a 20kt fission bomb. It’s actually extraordinarily hard to properly detonate that much conventional boomstuff.

                      Since there were over 2000 announced tests, we built up quite a library of signatures.

                      Also a -bunch- where we deliberately misfired weapons to test for safety. Quite a few had at least some unexpected nuclear yield, when zero was intended.

                      One doesn’t quite know what the NKs pethaps intended to occur, but we have a -very- good idea what did occur. And they are unlikely to have wasted any live warheads on intentional squib safety testing.

                      They can’t make enough fuel to both stockpile and test. So they minimally tested. They will also likely skip “reliability” testing. This means many, possibly all, of their weapons are sour and will fizzle.

                      it’s also B-word expensive and f-word hard to dig the test shafts in granite mountains, and if they are too close, you create a spectacular breach that spurts radioactive garbage everwhere. (2018 NK oops)

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      3. Portuguese TV is so sad about the poor little terrorists. It’s the only thing political mom and I agree on right now, that we go “SUFFER BASTARDS.”
        It tells you the brainwashing they’ve done HERE that my mom who is not a leftist thinks Trump is the debil and Biden is “sensible and kindly.”
        Heaven help us.

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    2. FAFO happened this morning PST, with the missile barrages; and resultant intercept fireworks. Fox had part of it live. Nothing on response. But then I wouldn’t expect Israel be that obvious.

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  24. Their attempts to lock us down went back to Plan B, where they make vehicles that are inferior and vastly more expensive to the point that only the elite right-thinking party members can afford them, or the old more efficient gas guzzlers.

    Note that the Kabuki Security Theater is still in place at all U.S. airports, and is a magnitude more unsecure than what the Israelis employ at their airports. But then TSA isn’t there to make it secure for us, it’s there to impose control conditioning on us.

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  25. @ Sarah > “We are chaos. We are liberty. We are — us here — Americans.

    And intend to stay that way.”

    I don’t know if you keep up with Matt Taibbi of Twitter Files fame, the Rolling Stone writer who defected from the Leftists because he’s actually a classic liberal. He spoke recently at a meeting dedicated to defending the First Amendment from the Regime, and said pretty much the same thing, if a little more vigorously.

    https://www.racket.news/p/my-speech-in-washington-rescue-the

    Freedom of speech isn’t just a legal right, but a way of life. On its history

    Matt Taibbi Sep 29, 2024

    I was once taught you should always open an important speech by making reference to a shared experience.

    So what do all of us at “Rescue the Republic” have in common? Nothing!

    In a pre-Trump universe chimpanzees would be typing their fourth copy of Hamlet before RFK Jr., Robert Malone, Zuby, Tulsi Gabbard, Russell [Brand], Bret Weinstein and I would organically get together for any reason, much less an event like this.

    True, everyone speaking has been censored. The issues were all different, but everyone disagreed with “authoritative voices” about something.

    Saying no is very American. From “Don’t Tread on Me!” to “Nuts” to “You Cannot Be Serious!” defiance is in our DNA.

    Now disagreement is seen as threat, and according to John Kerry, must be “hammered out of existence.” The former Presidential candidate just complained at a World Economic Forum meeting that “it’s really hard to govern” and “our First Amendment stands as a major block” to the important work of hammering out unhealthy choices.

    In the open he said this! I was telling Tim Pool about this backstage and he asked, “Was black ooze coming out of his mouth?”

    Kerry added that it’s “really hard to build consensus,” and told Forum members they need to “win the right to govern” and “be free to implement change.”

    What do they need to be free of? The First Amendment, yes, but more importantly: us. Complainers. That’s our shared experience. We are obstacles to consensus.

    ….

    Let’s be clear about our language. Madison famously eschewed the word toleration or tolerance when it came to religion and insisted on the words freedom or liberty instead. This became the basis for the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which in turn became the basis for the Bill of Rights. That’s why we don’t have “toleration of religion” or “toleration of speech.” We have freedom of speech. The right word for the right time.

    To the people who are suggesting that there are voices who should be ignored because they’re encouraging mistrust or skepticism of authority, or obstructing consensus: I’m not encouraging you to be skeptical of authority. I’m encouraging you to DEFY authority. That is the right word for this time.

    To all those Snoops and Nosey Parkers sitting in their Homeland Security-funded “Centers of Excellence,” telling us day after day we must think as they say and vote as they say or else we’re traitorous Putin-loving fascists and enablers of “dangerous” disinformation:

    Mother*, I’m an American. That sh* does not work on me. And how can you impugn my patriotism, when you’re sitting in Klaus Schwab’s lap, apologizing for the First Amendment to a crowd of Europeans? Look in the mirror.

    I’m not the problem. We’re not the problem.

    You’re the problem.

    YOU SUCK.

    Read all the stuff in the … part. It’s a barn-burner.

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  26. I don’t know if they’ll manage to fraud themselves into power in November. They might. But it will do them a whole heap of no good, you know?

    Until this week I assumed they would be able to. Now with the things I’m hearing out of Western North Carolina including FEMA confiscating donated supplies I’m not sure they have until the election.

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