Diogenes of Sinope

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[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

We've contrived to invent a new kind of hypocrite. The old hypocrite was a man whose aims were really worldly and practical while he pretended that they were religious. The new hypocrite is one whose aims are really religious while he pretends that they are worldly and practical.

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

@leadlagreport What of the measure of value is volatile? When the denominator for everything has wild swings, what is stability?

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

@bog_beef If ands and buts was candies and nuts it'd be Christmas every day.

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

@hesperado75802 @BenjaminABoyce 25 centuries in and I'm still looking.

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

Rookie numbers. Need to go up.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Pentagon to keep ~9,000 troops at the Mexico border for missions focused on illegal crossings, smuggling networks, & cartels.

[Andrew Kloster @ARKloster]

“Anti-wokism” was always a loss leader for neocons.

Walmart will do $1 boxes of cereal to get you in the door to spend money.

Neocons spent five years on our side on trans and immigration so they could enter the Trump admin for Israel.

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

Aren't African countries the slave trading nations?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: African & Caribbean leaders agree on joint framework to seek slavery reparations from former slave-trading nations.

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

They don't want people to figure out that if they just get off their arse they can fix their own community in 2 weeks. They want you to keep paying them taxes so they can fix your community for you. In 3 years. Maybe. Probably not.

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

Estimate too low and job too high-end. Otherwise completely correct.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

My guess is 90% of people with ‘MBAs’ are worthless pieces of shit who should be mowing lawns.

[Chris Langan @RealChrisLangan]

Comment: “For such a smart guy you don't seem to understand what communism actually is nor how/why communist projects take the forms they do. … There is no communism here in the States. We get only two flavors of neoliberal capitalism (which indeed is on it's way to a tech-run neofeudalism).”

Response: Communism coexists on very friendly terms with monopoly supercapitalism. We know this because monopoly supercapitalists have shown a very great deal of enthusiasm for it. Currently, the US is run by monopoly supercapitalists, the billionaires and trillionaires populating its global plutocratic oligarchy. If Communism didn’t already exist, they’d have to invent it.

But in fact, they already did.

Communism was developed by Karl Marx, who collaborated with Friedrich Engels and Moses Hess (a key progenitor of Zionism before Herzl). Hess was funded by the Rothschilds. Communism was then used to launch the Russian Revolution, which was funded by the Rothschilds' close associate Jacob Schiff out of NYC. To this day, the Rothschilds are heavily involved with the US government through frontmen like Jeffrey Epstein and financial associates like Jared Kushner. They are also the World's premier central bankers, a group that considers itself a "supranational (world) government". Obviously, they are not strangers to Communism.

We have seen where Communism led in the case of the Soviet Union and Red China. The United States has communists running around all over the place, and they are quite active. For example, ANTIFA - major participants, along with BLM (founded by trained Marxists), in the George Floyd riots - consists of communists and socialists (closely related ideologies) along with a few deranged anarchists. They are funded by political saboteurs and disruptive characters like George Soros. Academia, where the government is educated, is so full of Marxists it might as well be called "The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Gummo, and Other Associated Scholars)".

It's a grabastic grab-bag of bad actors, and denying their existence is not on the table. Our filthy rich oligarchs would love nothing better than being at the center of a World-Hive mostly populated by a communistic, mongrelized, mocha-colored Kalergian proletariat dedicated to servicing their fat, sybaritic asses in perpetuity. It’s what they live for.

The AI dystopia they're trying to create is merely the outer skin. Best not be fooled.

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

@BenjaminABoyce

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

@VladTheInflator Looks like it's figured out?

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

@cremieuxrecueil

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

@QuetzalPhoenix Pretty sure it was the plot of The Crying Game

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Let's do some more myths.

"You'll ruin your cast iron by washing it." (Do you think restaurants that use cast iron don't wash?)
"If you swim after eating, you'll get cramps."
"The Great Wall of China is visible from outer space."
"We only use ten percent of our brains." (Maybe *you* do)
"There are ten times more bacteria than human cells in your body."
"Sharks can't get cancer."
"Napoleon was short."
"Lemmings commit mass suicide."
"Sitting close to the TV will make you go blind."
"You lose most of your heat through your head."
"Dry your hair before you go outside or you'll catch a cold."
"Oil prevents pasta from sticking."
"Dogs sweat through their tongues."
"Einstein failed mathematics."
"Police have to answer truthfully if you ask if they're a cop."
"We evolved from chimpanzees." (Sometimes people say bonobos. Both are incorrect.)
"Vaccines cause autism/HIV/mental disabilities/etc."
"Salieri was the mortal enemy of Mozart."
"Glass is actually a form of liquid."
"A fatwa means you've been sentenced to death." (It's the opposite: it's an explicitly non-binding legal opinion!)
"Milk causes mucus."
"Salted water boils faster."
"There were Three Wise Men." (Not a real part of the New Testament.)
"The Bible says Satan rules hell."
"A penny dropped from the Empire State Building would kill someone." (Maybe a baby? Look up 'terminal velocity'.)
"George Washington smoked weed." (Maybe, but there's no evidence for this.)
"Sex before a game impairs athletic performance."
"The Coriolis effect makes water go the other way in Australian toilets."
"Humans coexisted with dinosaurs." (Ignoring the boring technicality where you say existing birds are dinosaurs.)
"You shouldn't wake sleepwalkers."
"The tongue has different taste zones."
"The Romans had dedicated vomiting rooms."
"Bats are blind."
"Camels store water in their humps."
"Seizures cause people to swallow their own tongues."
"Human blood is blue when it's inside you."
"Exposure to a vacuum will make you explode." (Thanks, Arnold!)
"Post-exercise muscular soreness is due to lactic acid buildup."
"Stretching reduces post-exercise muscular soreness."
"Jumping into a cold lake for even a few seconds will cause hypothermia." (No, but it can cause cold shock, which can still kill you.)
"Adrenochrome is harvested from living people." (It also doesn't have recreational uses.)
"Women have one more rib than men. See: THE BIBLE."
"There are five stages of grief."
"The human body has an average temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit."
"Wood smoke isn't harmful like industrial smoke." (It's still very bad, despite being 'natural'.)
"Fish oil cures dementia."
"Aromatherapy can help treat illnesses."
"Take a heaping helping of vitamin C to ward off colds."
"High protein intake is associated with kidney disease."
"The Chinese are paying to kill off the rhinoceros because they want to use its horn for aphrodisiacs." (It's prescribed as an anti-convulsant and to help take down a fever, but not commonly, and it doesn't work.)
"Rust causes tetanus." (The bacteria that causes tetanus enjoys low-oxygen environments, but the rust itself is not causal.)
"There are rare cases of individuals with severe combined immunodeficiency who have to live their lives in bubbles." (Bone marrow transplants are more common; Vetter was a weird case that created a trope.)
"The rabies vaccine hurts a lot and has to go deep into your stomach." (It's a regular intramuscular injection. For typical men, you won't even feel it. For typical women, it'll hurt a pinch, but it's no big deal.)
"Fevers cause brain damage." (The belief is that they do this on their own; they do not.)
"You need eight glasses of water a day to maintain health."
"Spicy food causes ulcers."
Alternative: "Coffee causes ulcers."
"Spinach is a good source of iron."
"Carrots enhance your eyesight."
"Soy makes you girly."
Alternative: "Phytoestrogens are feminizing."
"Alcohol makes you warmer."
"Absinthe causes hallucination." (I believed this one until like last month.)
"If you mix different types of alcohol, you'll throw up."
"Christian missionaries warned converts about the need to use the Missionary Position." (Kinsey seems to have started this myth.)
"Acne is caused by a high-fat diet."
"Dandruff is caused by being unclean."
"Acne is caused by touching your face." (This is only true very indirectly.)
"Dyslexia is diagnosed by mirrored writing."

There are a lot of these, but I'll cut it off there.

[Owen Benjamin 🐻 @OwenBenjamin]

Coca Cola made the brand Fanta to sell to the Germans during wwii while selling coke to America. Fanta was literally made in concentration camps.
“Not from concentrate” takes on a whole new meaning.
The multi national corporation replaced the state a long time ago. A nation is a people with a distinct way of life and shared history and values. A country is a geographic area with managed borders. Terms and conditions are the legal framework of most commerce and they’re stupid and constantly change.
Corporations are inherently weak because they’re just stacks of fictional paperwork to allow the living to do the work of the dead. Corpus oration.
It’s all good. Just explaining it because in the end everything comes down to your choices and actions.
God rules over man. Man rules government. Government over corporation.
The inversion will never be real no matter how many times anyone says it is

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

If you grapple with this interaction it will unlock a world you would rather not understand

[AF Post @AFpost]

A report from the Fed found that illegal immigration alone accounted for increases in home prices of 30% and in rental prices of 20%.

The real impact is likely much higher when factoring in authorized immigrants who were given generous financing.

Follow: @AFpost

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

@liqian_ren Twitter saying: It's easy to hate the rich. But do you have the courage to hate the poor?

[Diogenes of Sinope @MaltHb]

Schizo paranoiacs don't hate or live anyone. They're just an avalanche of dysfunction rolling through the landscape.