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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 12, 2022 15:43:15 GMT -8
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Post by artraveler on Jul 12, 2022 16:29:09 GMT -8
This is a war on civilization conducted by people who can not drive a car with a standard transmission. We ha have rolling blackouts in CA and even TX is having trouble with the grid due to environmental tinkering by morons. What is happening in Sri Lanka, Ghana and the Netherlands could happen here. Look at the pictures from Sri Lanka, that is a real rebellion not some idiot with a horn hat.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 18, 2022 15:15:20 GMT -8
Modern society is based on the availability of cheap fossil fuels. Without coal, then crude oil and gas, the world would never have seen anything like the prosperity which we now enjoy. For all the blather about saving the planet, the real impetus behind the "Climate Change" fraud is the leftist-globalist desire to force humanity into a pre-industrial, or at most an early-industrial standard of living. Of course, our betters will not have to suffer. Let me repeat myself, they are trying to push us back into feudalism. As was the case throughout history, prior to the 1800s, the top 1-2% will control the rest of us. That is their goal. There's something happening here
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 19, 2022 9:47:09 GMT -8
Again, I'm trying to wrap my mind around the full significance of Environmentalism as a Religion. Yes, the gangster at the top just want to wreck civilization as it exists just like a child's first impulse is to tip over a stack of alphabet blocks.
But the Environmental Religionists give them the power. I was listening to King FM just now (a puke of a Seattle station, but they do play classical music). And they were doing some short bio on some musician from California. And the radio guy mentioned "How climate changed had devastated her beloved California."
Did California drop into the ocean and I missed it? How are they devastated by climate change? Kooks. Nuts. Flakes. And they give power to the gangsters at the top.
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Post by artraveler on Aug 19, 2022 12:40:25 GMT -8
I'm trying to wrap my mind around the full significance of Environmentalism as a Religion Yes, it has all the elements of religion and many of its adherents act as if it is a religion, but that is too easy an explanation. Environmentalism is just another mass movement in a sea of mass movements. A large portion of its followers are communists, and other totalitarian philosophies, including national socialism. The typical "greenie" is a misfit in life, and like all other misfits they are continually unhappy, unfulfilled, and disgusted with the present. To them there are no advances in the standard of living for millions without degrading the environment. Take them back to the 19th century and they would complain about the smoke filled air in cities from wood and coal smoke. Take them back to the 15th century and they would complain about the open sewers in the streets of the city. Go back 3000 years and they would still be misfits. Environmentalism is the final form of the 19th century luddites, who view all progress as evil. What they are doing today is throwing a different kind of shoe into the workings of the machine and, sadly, they are being successful. If totally successful only a very few elite will have access to the modern tools we take for granted. It will be a world similar to that in Soylent Green. The green movement is dangerous mostly because it is not a religion. A true religion is capable of reform when its adherents veer off course. The green movement, like all its kin views the past as irredeemably flawed, the present as corrupted and only a glorious future is possible, if only the world will do as they recommend, suggest, and demand. The only way to stop the greens is with another more powerful mass movement. We have it at our fingertips but it is ignored by our leaders. We used to call it the Constitution of the United States.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 19, 2022 13:06:07 GMT -8
Very interesting analysis.
Which brings us back that this is inherently a religion...a secular-humanist mass-movement apocalyptic one where they are the savior, not Jesus or Jehovah.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 17, 2023 7:41:46 GMT -8
This could be an indication of things to come. People are rising up again the Globalists Climate Con fanatics who are ruling them. Even those, like the Dutch Prime Minister, Rutte, who pretends to be conservative. Dutch Farmer Party In Big Win
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 17, 2023 8:29:58 GMT -8
We should make t-shirts with that printed on it just as a conversation piece.
Remember that Dutch artist I linked to recently who was engaging in "Van Life"? I could be wrong, but I believe "Housing Crisis" means "Regulations driven by environmental wackoism have drastically driven up the cost of even a starter house, therefore it has become compelling for many to live in a van by the side of the road."
Surely there are other factors as well. But what our society never learned from the 2008 housing bust was (as Thomas Sowell noted back then) that the problem was the "open space" and other environmental utopian laws which had driven up the costs of housing and made existing mortgage payments (which, I think, were not tied to a fix interest rate) untenable. Plus, the social requirement of giving away loans to the "racially correct" races (with little regard as to whether they could pay them back or not) contributed to the bubble as well.
It wasn't (as far as I understand) a function of the "evil, greedy banks." The "evil greedy banks" were doing their best to handle all those dog-shit loans by packaging them up and selling them off.
Clearly Holland faces exactly the same thing: Unrealistic utopian (or just plain Marxist) social directives have run head-on into reality. If you want farmers, if you want food, if you want a functioning society, you can't obsess over soda-pop fizz, aka "carbon." Carbon is the food plants need. It's not a poison. Women shouldn't vote. Oops. That just sort of slipped in there . But it is a big part of the problem.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 17, 2023 8:50:01 GMT -8
When one hears the wacky and criminal Climate Change promoters talk about "de-carbonization" one should never forget that humans are organic, carbon-based entities. This should give you a hint as to the real objective of the Climate Fraud fanatics.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 17, 2023 9:56:34 GMT -8
You know, I'm a believer in psychology up to a point. I don't think someone goes out and rapes a woman because of an Oedipus complex. But many times there are underlying causes, whether in the catch-all category of "unconscious" motivations, or something else. We have instincts, drives, and yes, human psychology, that most of us are not aware of.
So with the caveat on mind, I do think it is possible, even probable, that this hatred of "carbon" has some grounding in hatred of humans and ultimately to hatred of self. Is not the aborted fetus more about aborting one's hated and limiting womanhood than it is about the child (for we know that considerations of the child are given short shrift)? Or at least partially?
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Post by artraveler on Mar 17, 2023 10:24:35 GMT -8
grounding in hatred of humans and ultimately to hatred of self Yep, exactly correct. There are millions of men and women who by their actions are asking to be killed. They view life as a punishment and have all the psychological diseases that travel with this type of disorder. This hatred of humanity and of self is nothing new, but it does appear to be more prevalent today than 75 years ago. It is not only the climate con, but also the trans BS, and of course, the KFF con. In a normal world Fauci and his followers would be indicted, tried and executed for crimes against humanity. There is an ancient Chineses curse, "may your children live in interesting times". I'd prefer a little less interesting to my times.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 17, 2023 12:25:53 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 18, 2023 16:45:07 GMT -8
I have just finished a section in The Cambridge Medieval History which dealt with Tamerlane, real name Timur the Lame. He was a real sweetie. It is estimated that his campaigns resulted in the death of about 17 million people. This took me to Genghis Khan, who was through an indirect line an ancestor of Timur. He and his Mongols are estimated to have killed, or caused the death of, about 40-60 million people, according to Wikipedia. What I found very telling in the Wikipedia piece that dealt with the Mongol destruction, was that there is a blurb about the "environmental" impact of the Mongol atrocities. According to a study by the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Energy, the annihilation of so many human beings and cities under Genghis Khan may have scrubbed as much as 700 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere by allowing forests to regrow on previously populated and cultivated land. Do you think that the Climate Con fanatics don't hope for such a reduction of carbon, even through similar means? Maybe through a biological agent such as a virus.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 18, 2023 18:08:22 GMT -8
It's peeking under their dress. The best analogy I can think of is the outrageous stuff written by Hitler in Mein Kampf or given orally in a speech. "Oh, that's just hyperbole for the masses. Once he's in office, he'll be middle-of-the-road German."
Nope. He really believed what he said. And we should think no less of the Environmental Wackos. They are wacko...and they are dangerous.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 18, 2023 18:59:50 GMT -8
What kind of demon would even think to do some type of cost-benefit analyst on the tens-of-millions slaughtered by the Mongols vs. reduction of carbon/the health of the planet? This is the type thing which gives a true insight to the evilness of these people. Like Hitler, they are open about their goals.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 19, 2023 8:14:22 GMT -8
More insight coming.
There's no escaping it. I'm a racist. It's worth noting that most of the depopulation that anyone is concerned about is depopulating white people. If Europe is over-populated (re-populated) by Muslims or North America is re-populated by those from the South, the actual policies of the Left show they're not particularly squeamish in regards to amount as they are to kind.
The homeless you have in your area my be different. But from what I've seen of the Bremerton, Seattle, and Portland "homeless," they are overwhelmingly white, thus this is not really a concern. It just serves them right. They stole this land from other people.
There is a very good test to determine whether someone is liberal or conservative, no matter what they call themselves or think about themselves. I've seen the video below before several Edmonton Oiler games. And there is a similar "land acknowledgment" before Seattle Kraken games:
To me, this comes off as a sad parody. There are no warm-fuzzies. Here again the Native Americans ("First Nation," in Canada, sorry) is being used for the purposes of white people. There is no talk about giving 10% of the take at the gate to the Indians, or even giving back the land. But thy shall assuage all liberal white guilt via this "land acknowledgement."
If I was a Native American (or "First Nationer"), I would be pissed off to be used in this way. But that's just me. A conservative. Liberals will think this type of thing is showing the utmost respect.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 23, 2023 9:19:44 GMT -8
I had suspected that Ford was loosing its shirt on EVs, but now it is confirmed. Believe me, they know and knew before hand that EVs are a boondoggle and loss maker. Yet they still continue, even double down, (they project a larger loss in 2023) on building these pieces of junk. The question is why? Ford lost $2 billion on EVs in 2022
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 23, 2023 9:44:40 GMT -8
I had to find an article about this that provided a comment section. I'm not swayed by the "big loss offset by profits in other divisions" cheerleading. The one at Fox will do: The first comment: I certainly disagree with the dopey political reasons that electric vehicles are pushed as green. "Green" means you plug your car in somewhere and the electricity is without pollution and somehow spontaneously generated out of thin carbon-free air. "Green" is a term for idiot liberals who may think this electricity is generated by unicorn farts or solar cells on someone's garage, not real-world power plants (hydro, oil, coal, or nuclear). That said, there are many advantages to an electric vehicle. But whether the near-term Utopian visions can overcome the shorter-term realities is anyone's guess. I suspect there will be growing pains as reality begins to intrude a bit. Here's another comment that inextricably mixes up the political with the technical: No, certainly electric cars should not be hailed as something that will "save the planet," etc., especially since we know that the materials that go into them are harder on the environment than an internal combustion automobile. And those batteries don't last forever and could make the old unsightly tire dumps look like a playground in comparison. And those batteries are extremely expensive. Those who "bought into the dream" probably had no idea that the initial cost of the EV was simply a down payment. But from a technical standpoint, they are pretty good right now and cover the range needed by people in 60% of cases. The rest of them put on their tin foil hats and "live the dream" as they virtue-signal to the world that they are "saving the planet" while they stop every few miles for a half hour or more to recharge. Not the car for Texans, that's for sure. But just because idiot liberals and other virtue-signalers underplay the reality doesn't mean that electric vehicles don't have a future. They have an extremely solid future, especially backed as they are by government and tax breaks. And although batteries are expensive now, one can foresee that the maintenance saving of an electric car vs. a gas powered one would be significant….down the road somewhere. That road right now cost Ford 2 or 3 billion. I didn't read an opinion whether this was a shortfall of the technology (or market) or that perhaps no one wanted Ford's electric cars compared to the competition.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 23, 2023 10:06:59 GMT -8
If there is a big future for electric vehicles, I believe it will have to be based on something other than lithium Ion batteries. There are many technical problems, which include the question of recycling. More important is the question of supply of lithium, cobalt and some other raw materials. Finally, I have often read that the USA does not have enough electrical production capacity to charge the cars if we go exclusively on EVs. Battery recycling
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 23, 2023 10:14:44 GMT -8
I'd like to follow that batter recycling link. I don't think it worked. Found this in the meantime:
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