theory: America has been trolled

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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby eyeno » Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:49 am

justdrew wrote:
eyeno wrote:
justdrew wrote:
beyond that, please take care of yourself and try to just relax a bit, I think you might be a little over stressed at the moment (not trying to be condescending, just concerned). :partydance:



Thanx bud. Same to you.

Fukushima put me a little off center for a while. I steadied and then due to recent epiphanies, of a broader nature, I feel the Andromeda strain at times. Remember that movie? Considering that we experience time as the passage of events, time is speeding up. I wish it would slow down but it won't. It will continue to slowly speed up. It will be an interesting ride to say the least. All the pieces are in place. Nothing left now but the show.



well, as epiphanies go, don't neglect the one that reminds, "whatever happens, you're going to be ok (in the big picture/long run)" or put in a more tradition form: "forms rise and fall. nothing real is ever lost."



Good words. Oddly enough it isn't me that I worry about. I am at peace with myself. I have lived a life that allows me to be fairly at peace with what I have accomplished. I treat my fellow man more fairly than I treat myself most of the time. This creates peace.

It is those around me that I love, that sleep deeply, that I feel burden for. I do what I can and 'should' consider that enough, but its never enough for some reason. I sometimes feel guilty for not doing enough. I'm ok with that too though. I would rather have regrets for what I cannot do for others than have regrets for what I have done 'to' others.

I suppose all in all its a groovy lifestyle.

I just keep thinking about the world we could have if every man helped his neighbor. Couple that with the technology we have in this world, and WOW. We could all have it very well and the PTB could still be the PTB. Everybody wins. I realize that until we got this current technology this would have never been possible. The PTB were only the PTB because they harnessed human energy. That is no longer necessary to the degree it was long ago.

A little mercy could be shown in this game of king of the hill with all this technology. We could have a cool lifestyle, enjoy the differences in each others cultures, sing that kum ba ya song or whatever it is.

Hate prevents that and i'm watching the closest thing humans have ever potentially had to The Garden of Eden go down the drain.

I"m sad.
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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby justdrew » Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:14 pm

"even a stopped clock is right once a day"

I think the psychological process going on with fox news is more complex, but rush limpballs summarizes fairly here...

Another large segment of the viewership gets off on rejecting the bullshit spewed, engaging in a easy-win proof of what great people they are that they reject the bullshit. Disregarding how much attention and time they waste even engaging Faux in the first place.

Limbaugh says it’s time to turn off Fox News
By Stephen C. Webster | Tuesday, July 9, 2013 9:14 EDT

Republican shock jock Rush Limbaugh advanced a view on Monday that very few in the conservative media would dare to enunciate: he told a caller to stop watching Fox News, particularly the network’s panel discussions, which he said are “designed to get you ticked off.”

“You know, you need to stop watching these people, because they’re not going to change, Tony,” Limbaugh said, talking down a caller who seemed convinced that Obama is preparing to launch a “Stalinist” attack on America with windmills and solar panels. “I really care. You’ve got to stop watching these people.”

“All these names you mention, they’re not going to change,” he went on, noting the caller’s reference to the network’s ostensibly liberal pundits. “And you’re exactly right, if all of this were happening with a Republican president — which it wouldn’t, it couldn’t by definition, we don’t believe in these policies — but if it were, you’re right. They’d be raising holy hell about it. They’d be calling the president cold-hearted, mean, extremist, exclusionary. The rich, they’d be all over a Republican president. But that isn’t gonna change.”

“So your blood pressure is going to suffer if you keep watching these people,” Limbaugh added. “They’re designed to get you ticked off. They’re designed to make you question your sanity. You’re gonna watch these people and say, ‘How in the world can we have such idiotic people?’ And you’re gonna think maybe they’re not and you’re crazy. And I assure you, Tony, you’re not. Trust me on that.”

A recent Gallup poll of Americans’ news consumption habits revealed that Fox News is still the most popular 24-hour news network, with about 8 percent of Americans who use TV as their primary source of news tuning into the Republican-leaning channel. As such, a whopping 94 percent of their viewing audience claims to be either a strong Republican voter or at least leaning Republican.

However, a University of Maryland study published in 2010 discovered that Fox News viewers were the most widely misinformed news consumers around on a whole host of issues. A full 60 percent of Fox News viewers surveyed said climate change is not happening; 63 percent said the president is not an American citizen or that his citizenship is unclear; and a whopping 91 percent thought that the economy-saving Recovery Act, widely credited with preventing another Great Depression, somehow cost American jobs instead of bolstering the economic recovery.

CNN trailed behind Fox News in AP’s news consumer poll out on Monday, pulling in about 7 percent of American TV news viewers, most of them moderates or voters who lean Democratic. That’s still pretty good compared to the Democratic-leaning MSNBC, which clocked in at just 1 percent of TV news viewers, just above “non-specific” cable news in the poll.
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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:31 pm

Just want to contribute a parallel but very close thread: The Hidden History of Privatization and De-Regulation

It's basically trying to trace the sponsorship behind the exact cultural warfare you're tracing out here. Cheers.
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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby brekin » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:42 pm

Hey WR, or other alive Mod,

I hate to break in here with a emergency non-sequitor but I've sent a PM to all the mods and its stuck in the outbox.
Basically CW is posting the following and needs to be banned a.s.a.p.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=36579&p=512806#p512806
CW wrote:
ATTENTION NSA, THE POSTER WITH THE USERNAME BREKIN ON THE RIGOROUS INTUITION DISCUSSION FORUM IS A TERRORIST.


&
yeah, it's so scary what I did. Watch:

ATTENTION NSA, THE POSTER WITH THE USERNAME Canadian_watcher ON THE RIGOROUS INTUITION DISCUSSION FORUM IS A TERRORIST
ATTENTION NSA, THE POSTER WITH THE USERNAME Canadian_watcher ON THE RIGOROUS INTUITION DISCUSSION FORUM IS A TERRORIST
ATTENTION NSA, THE POSTER WITH THE USERNAME Canadian_watcher ON THE RIGOROUS INTUITION DISCUSSION FORUM IS A TERRORIST
ATTENTION NSA, THE POSTER WITH THE USERNAME Canadian_watcher ON THE RIGOROUS INTUITION DISCUSSION FORUM IS A TERRORIST
ATTENTION NSA, THE POSTER WITH THE USERNAME Canadian_watcher ON THE RIGOROUS INTUITION DISCUSSION FORUM IS A TERRORIST
ATTENTION NSA, THE POSTER WITH THE USERNAME Canadian_watcher ON THE RIGOROUS INTUITION DISCUSSION FORUM IS A TERRORIST

for a science guy you sure are daft.

I bet if David Icke said that they were monitoring message boards you'd think it was a load of shit though.
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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby Canadian_watcher » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:45 pm

this is for the lulz, right?

there's an EMERGENCY non-sequitur???????????????????????????????
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
that is honestly the funniest thing I have EVER read, ever.
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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby brekin » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:46 pm

Hey, can someone do me a goddamn solid and PM the mods with the above info? My PM is stuck in my outbox with a sent time of 9:35 PM and I have 7:43PM my time. I don't want this shit hanging out on the internet.
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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby brekin » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:48 pm

CW wrote:

this is for the lulz, right?
there's an EMERGENCY non-sequitur???????????????????????????????
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
that is honestly the funniest thing I have EVER read, ever.


CW you are as immature as you are dangerous.
Since this is going to be the 6th or 7th time you have been banned I would hope the number of times you have been banned and the serious of this incident will get you permanently banned. I have nothing more to say to you and stop following me around or posting anything related to me.
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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby justdrew » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:57 pm

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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby brekin » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:07 pm

Dr Volin,

I guess you are the only mod on duty right now.
I need some action on what CW has posted.
She has even gone and posted it in the quote thread now.
I believe it is ban worthy, even perma ban worthy, and I would like
it taken down and her held accountable.

Do you know what I am talking about?
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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby 8bitagent » Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:02 am

This thread is right on the money. Everyone has a part to play in the "meta play" to take a page from Peter Dale Scott. I mean obviously
crap like the Tea Party/GOP/gun nut/Rush/Fox/patriot crowd are being guided alone like a big clown circus, with the really dangerous right wing
element intentionally stirred. Just like I also believe elements of the inner city are intentionally kept down.

But I can't help but wonder, as much as I have endless disgust toward "America"(government/military/politicians/etc), if America itself has not somehow been trolled. I've mentioned
before how I mused that 9/11 was a special little gift wrapped in a bow for the neocons, knowing they'd get into power and go nuts with their gift. America spent how much money
in all the post 9/11 military stuff?
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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby 82_28 » Wed Jul 10, 2013 4:53 am

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Re: theory: America has been trolled

Postby 8bitagent » Wed Jul 10, 2013 6:04 am



Damn, I knew the US government banned all forms of online poker and gambling, but law enforcement entrapping ordinary citizens in friend to friend stings is crazy. Man, just having
a friendly game of texas hold em with friends in a den can get you shot by the cops. And mass sweeps on ethnic barbershops? And celebrities going along with swat raids, sometimes
involving death?

Damn this is an eye opening piece. People think just cuz Kent State type stuff doesnt happen in the open(other than the Katrina bridge event) that it isnt happening
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