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"We have successfully contained the more contagious variants" @jkenney, March 1st, 2021. 📺
#PrematureCelebration
#ableg
via reddit: reddit.com/r/alberta/comm…👀
#PrematureCelebration
#ableg
via reddit: reddit.com/r/alberta/comm…👀
"We’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."
--Donald Trump. March 10, 2020.
--Donald Trump. March 10, 2020.
“One thing I think we’re learning epidemiologically is that that population has a very high level of immune resistance, of immunity, and resilience against 🦠an influenza🦠 of this nature,”
--Jason Kenney. May, 2020
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--Jason Kenney. May, 2020
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Choléra, 1832.
#GrippetteDiversion #BigPharma #ShockDoctrine
Baehrel René. La haine de classe en temps d'épidémie (1952)
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#GrippetteDiversion #BigPharma #ShockDoctrine
Baehrel René. La haine de classe en temps d'épidémie (1952)
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The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve describes the process by which oppressive technology is normalized and distributed through all levels of society. The more privilege someone has, the harder it is to coerce them to use dehumanizing tech, so it starts with marginalized people.
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Asylum seekers, prisoners and overseas sweatshop workers get the first version. Its roughest edges are sanded off against their tenderest places, and once it's been normalized a little, we inflict it on students, mental patients, and blue collar workers.
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Lather, rinse, repeat: before long, everyone's been ropted in. If your meals were observed by a remote-monitored CCTV 20 years ago, it was because you were in a supermax prison. Today, it's because you bought a home video surveillance system from Google/Apple/Amazon.
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And so it is. So it is.
And true to the nature of despotic intentions and regimes, violence and suffering are tools, not issues to be understood, worked on, solved & resolved.
No. That is too much work.
It requires caring & ability & the wisdom to actually understand a problem.
And true to the nature of despotic intentions and regimes, violence and suffering are tools, not issues to be understood, worked on, solved & resolved.
No. That is too much work.
It requires caring & ability & the wisdom to actually understand a problem.
Better and easier just to unleash underlying rages & outrages, stoke them into flames, and start moving the pieces around, keeping the fires burning, making a promise that "Only I can fix this", having been primary cause for the conflagration.
This is #ShockDoctrine in action.
This is #ShockDoctrine in action.
The ancient question presents itself.
Whom do you serve?
At every level, institution, individual, office holder...this question will be answered, willing to or not.
These are times that assay the soul.
The answer we come up with is the framework of all that comes next.
Whom do you serve?
At every level, institution, individual, office holder...this question will be answered, willing to or not.
These are times that assay the soul.
The answer we come up with is the framework of all that comes next.
This week we found out:
Alberta doctors agreed to meet the government’s demand to cap physician spending at 4.57B. That offer has been sitting on Shandro’s desk for 19 days.
Why didn’t Shandro accept it or at least offer a counter proposal?
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Alberta doctors agreed to meet the government’s demand to cap physician spending at 4.57B. That offer has been sitting on Shandro’s desk for 19 days.
Why didn’t Shandro accept it or at least offer a counter proposal?
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edmonton.citynews.ca/2020/07/15/alb…
Alberta doctors started negotiating in November, but has had 6 proposal shot down by Shandro. Before negotiations began, Shandro introduced legislation to tear up the contract with Alberta doctors should negotiations fail.
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The legislation allowed Shandro to terminate @Albertadoctors’ contract and bypass the constitutional right to binding arbitration.
Section 40.2 From Bill 21:
Section 40.2 From Bill 21:
I am done with voting for one dumpster fire over another? FUCK IT. A vote for no one is a vote for everyone.STOP LOOKING TO SO-CALLED LEADERS to do anything REAL or LASTING to improve society. IGNORE THE POPULARITY CONTEST and #SHUTITDOWNNOW. #KEEPITSHUTDOWN #NoOne2020
#FuckIt Time to start to use their tactic of #ShockDoctrine to catalyze Revolution AKA How to use this crisis to everyone's advantage.
#SHUTITDOWNNOW. #KEEPITSHUTDOWN
#SHUTITDOWNNOW. #KEEPITSHUTDOWN
I know shit is bad. It's going to get worse, before it gets better. We know that. MUCH WORSE. We are going to have to accept that many of our friends and relatives won't make it through this shit show. We need to bite the bullet and make sure we #KEEPITSHUTDOWN #GeneralStrike2020
The #CurrentSituation has revealed deep cracks in our system: replacing public transit with gig economy drivers who don't get health care or sick leave; the gig economy itself; the lethal inadequacy of private-sector broadband and private-sector health-care, and beyond.
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The fact that we can simply abolish data-caps (without networks falling over) and the liquid ban (without planes blowing up) reveals that these supposed existential threats were, in fact, arbitrary, authoritarian, rent-seeking bullshit.
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The people who've spent 40 years convincing us that we're just not free-marketing hard enough continue to insist that all of these problems are merely the result of not having fully dismantled the state (so much for "state capacity libertarianism"):
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While most people are rightly focusing on short-term measures against #Covid19, including #lockdown and #socialdistancing, I wonder how the medium to long-term political development will be like? In this thread, I want to collect the good, the bad and the ugly of this #pandemic.
How may societies react, and what may happen politically, if #Covid19 runs its course? In other words: How will #pandemicpolitics look like? Short term: I Assume we can halt the further exponential spread within the next 2-4 weeks due to isolation measures, but what comes next?
After 4 weeks or so, we will begin to reestablish normal life, based on what we learned ourselves and observed in other countries. Maybe schools reopen again, as they seem not to be central to the pandemic. More people will want to get outside and need to go to work.
@trom771 Another way to say the same thing is to quote (more paraphrase) Eric Fromm, "Escape from Freedom".
There comes a time when people simply do not wish to be free. If you try to give them their freedom they will hand it back and demand that you lead them.
One of the reasons
There comes a time when people simply do not wish to be free. If you try to give them their freedom they will hand it back and demand that you lead them.
One of the reasons
@trom771 2/ democracies, and experiments of self-government, inevitably fail, is due to this principle.
After a while, a few generations after the last significant attack on liberty, the memory of what freedom is begins to fade. Problems arise that seem to "demand" an authoritarian
After a while, a few generations after the last significant attack on liberty, the memory of what freedom is begins to fade. Problems arise that seem to "demand" an authoritarian
@trom771 3/ leader emerges w the claim that he can solve the problems if you just be part of the movement. These patterns are well articulated in the books by @TimothyDSnyder, Hannah Arendt, G. Orwell,m and now in story form by Margret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale + others), & etc.
****THIS**** is one of the founding tenets of what has metastasized into **Trumpism**. The viral outbreak we have been dealing w overtly for the last few years, but has been incubating for at least this long. (Auguably started w Regan).
After Trump is gone, Trump-ism will be
After Trump is gone, Trump-ism will be
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Lots of ways to examine this point.
One is to notice the deep detachment we have as a society from our common founding vision.
Some have pondered the notion of a new Civil War. I suggest that today's outbreak is just a
Lots of ways to examine this point.
One is to notice the deep detachment we have as a society from our common founding vision.
Some have pondered the notion of a new Civil War. I suggest that today's outbreak is just a
long simmering expression of the one that never got resolved.
And now those divides have coalesced around a very different set of fundamental, axiomatic ideas, values and beliefs that make any unity difficult, if not impossible.
And now those divides have coalesced around a very different set of fundamental, axiomatic ideas, values and beliefs that make any unity difficult, if not impossible.
8,300 Kenyans own the same amount of wealth as the rest of us.
Let that sink in.
And these wealthy get tax exemptions, still our taxes, take loans for Kenyans to pay and then steal those too as we pay back the loans.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.
And these wealthy get tax exemptions, still our taxes, take loans for Kenyans to pay and then steal those too as we pay back the loans.
Let that sink in.
And then using the money they steal from us, they buy and compromise the media and the church, they conduct election campaigns, they pay foreigners to brainwash and polarize with lies, and then they get themselves "elected."
And the game of 8,300 vs 49,991,700 starts again.
And the game of 8,300 vs 49,991,700 starts again.
So the one thing the 8,300 won't let us talk about is wealth. They fill the public space with noise. Kieleweke, tangatanga, Embrace, referendum, Competency-based curriculum, huduma namba, corruption court cases with no convictions...
Anything so we dont talk about the 0.1%.
Anything so we dont talk about the 0.1%.
Dear Kenyans, if I don't live to 2030, please ensure you refuse another education system. Get your mps to write a law barring system replacement in under a century. Because this CBC is cheap, unnecessarily disruptive, and ridiculous #CBCConference2019
.@EduMinKenya took the cheap way out. Instead of putting Kenya's minds together, introducing equity into education and expanding education beyond the schools, they opted for a completely new system with a poor track record. It's intellectual laziness typical of bureaucrats.
No developed country has done this, not even the Anglo Saxons who are mentally unstable because they need to exploit and be in constant war with the planet. The French, for example, introduced a new orthography a decade back, and it's still struggling to implement it. Why?
If Raila proposes to entertain us Kenyans, suffering under SAPs, with a referendum to amend the constitution, reduce the counties and make Nairobi a capital and not a county, I hope we all vote NO.
Although these days, votes don't count. He knows that better than anyone else.
Although these days, votes don't count. He knows that better than anyone else.
White supremacy aka uthamakistan has been fighting against our constitution the same way that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher (whom Muigai admires) fought against the gains of the civil rights movement.
Until the power to the people in the constitution is dismantled, the ruling class with their US and UK supporters are going to keep telling us neoliberal nonsense that our freedom interferes with development. Julie Gichuru tells us that politics and development are separate.
