On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 8:25:48 PM UTC-5 Lawrence Crowell wrote:
> About every century some regions of the world enters into a sort of > mass-psychosis. Last century it was Russia, Italy, Japan and the crowing > evil in Nazi Germany. In college I took a general studies course in > anthropology, where it was noted that about every 3 to 4 generation tribes > of people would become more gregarious. We seem to be on queue for the next > big tango, and we Americans are getting poised to be the big crazies this > time. Since the industrial revolution the body count with these has > multiplied by a factor of 10. We also have the tools to make this next > tango the last tango. > > Why is t’Rump so hated? The converse question might be asked about why is > Don-the-Con t’Rump the object of cultish worship? It is eerily similar to > the fawning over Mussolini and Hitler in the last century. Don-the-Con is > also the most intellectually banal president the country ever had. He is > also a moral reprobate. Jeremy Epstein, who t’Rump called “one hell of a > guy,” was a pimp to wealthy men. He provided wealthy client with women for > sex at a high price. Epstein and t’Rump had tape-a-thon [I meant > rape-a-thon] parties with women, and even girls 13 or 14 years of age. > T’Rump also displayed a shallow understanding or withering ignorance on > everything from science and medicine to economics and diplomacy. Remember > his idea of consuming or mainlining bleach to combat Covid? He also showed > little incentive or ability to learn anything. > > While I am at it; I really wish this list, which is supposed to be about > science or physics, would not be rubbished up by Spudboy and Ben > “Medinuclear.” In particular Ben posts the same garbage over and over, > where I frankly do not give a damned about pagans vs non-pagans or > quasi-philoso-theology over Augustine. That stuff is such crap. Please, I > am sure there are plenty of other places for that nonsense. > LC > > On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 5:08:31 PM UTC-5 medinuclear wrote: > >> [*Bruno Marchal*] >> >> I think Trump is a symptom, not a cause >> >> *[Philip Benjamin]* >> >> Symptom of what? What exactly are the reasons why he is so hated? >> Personal? Official? >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On >> Behalf Of *Bruno Marchal >> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 31, 2021 10:47 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: Q Anon is the tip of the iceberg >> >> >> >> >> >> On 25 Feb 2021, at 13:03, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Am Do, 25. Feb 2021, um 10:55, schrieb Bruno Marchal: >> >> >> >> On 24 Feb 2021, at 15:30, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> As an outside observer, I can't help but notice the following pattern in >> American politics: every presidential election is now seen as a >> civilization-threatening event, where each side believes that the other >> side is literally pure evil in its crystalized form, and that if they win, >> life as we know it will be over. We have now been through several >> iterations of this, and the reality is that nothing ever seems to happen, >> one way or the other. >> >> >> >> I think that before Trump, most Dems and Rep saw themselves as adversary, >> but not as enemy. Only with Trump, the adversary has become a scapegoat, an >> enemy, the responsible of all wrongs. Trump does not seem to be able to >> dialog, not even with its close accomplices. Trump is the worst enemy of … >> Trump. I think that his case is close to being pathological. >> >> >> >> I agree, but I think Trump is a symptom, not a cause. >> >> >> >> Certainly. But Trump is a sort of extreme symptom. Almost a caricature. >> But you are right, and this is exemplified by the fact that it keeps, >> apparently, his seduction power on the Republicans, even after those last >> month where he showed how much a bad looser he can be. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> There is also Boris Johnson, who is Britain's Trump, Bolsonaro, who is >> Brazil's Trump, etc. >> >> >> >> Maybe for Bolsonaro. But Boris Johnson is not comparable to Trump. I did >> fear that he could be like Trump, but he is not. Johnson is not an enemy of >> democracy. Trump is. That’s what I feel, or smell… I might be wrong, but >> Johnson has reassured me on that key point. >> >> The other Trump in power are more like Kim Young Un, ABS (Saudi), >> Erdogan, and Putin... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> With the mainstream adoption of the Internet, in the early 2000s, >> political campaigns were reinvented (data-driven, highly targeted like >> advertisement). The early examples of this appear to be Tony Blair's second >> campaign in the UK and Obama's first in the US. Then it became the new >> norm, with increased sophistication. At the same time, journalism responded >> to the exestential threat created by the Internet by merging itself with >> the nascent ad-tech industry, pioneered by Google. In this new attention >> economy, the one who engages people's emotions the most wins. We are >> witnessing the race to the bottom that this creates, with widespread >> hysteria and irrationality from both sides of the political spectrum. I >> think that Trump and QAnon are products of this, and so is brexit on this >> side of the Atlantic. >> >> >> >> >> >> You are right. I would add the Russian propaganda. Since long I tend to >> think that the Brexit is almost a pure result of Russian propaganda, but I >> have not found the time to verify all the evidences, so I cannot swear on >> this. >> >> >> >> Causation is a difficult subject. The systematic lies in the Oil industry >> and derivatives has put the bandits into power, but even this necessitates >> a millenium of training in believing in fairy tales. Maybe the cause is the >> poor level of education in math and logic. Postmodern relativism does not >> help, … Truth Research is not well-seen those days... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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