“No event has traumatized me so much as watching nearly the whole of the professional, media, and academic class be entirely fine with the sudden imposition of totalitarian controls on association, movement, and speech provided they could luxuriate at home - believing there to be a killer virus extant - and hang out on video chats as the workers and peasants kept society running and delivered groceries to their front doors. That same group was thrilled to receive trillions in payments for having done this.

Again, nearly the whole of the top 1/3 of society was just fine with this, and certainly raised no objection. Many within this group manufactured excuses for their deeply disgusting disdain for others.

I doubt I can ever recover the respect I once had for the wealthy, the educated, the credentialed, and the successful. In the Covid period, they deployed their privileges as a weapons against modern ideals and against all the people they (secretly) regarded as their lessers.

This really happened. And it revealed everything.

In the end, they were rewarded for their disgraceful attitudes and behaviors. This reality, again, more than anything I've ever personally witnessed, has shaped my views on nearly everything and fundamentally disrupted much of what I once believed.”

- Jeffrey Tucker

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So many of us woke up during the covid fiasco. I pray it was enough. Time will tell

How sad 😭 but okay. ✅

Keep praying 🙏

What’s this from? Interview?

X post

Had to look him up. He’s definitely now on my “worth attention” list. Thanks.

Be forewarned he’s a b casher lol

lol, noted.

Never thought I'd agree this hard with one. Life is full of surprises.

What an amazing take!

….

This guy clearly has no clue.

seriously!

Powerful

Hard truth 🎯

This ain’t hard truth unless you mean that Covid was used for more mind control over a society that never saw the truth lifelong.

https://nostrcheck.me/media/2aadfb8ac7d43aca6d164ed99248147910048269601ff60d4463c4d5b3abfdcd/03bbb3627ffd131f739018c0b9497629d05cce91721351061c8ee485659ebf9b.webp

Absolutely unveiled the true evil and control dreams of global, national, regional and local governments as well as large corporations & medical/pharma industries. All trust lost forever.

The great news is they have been exposed for their egregious acts of totalitarianism. We no longer trust the legacy systems and because of this, the pendulum is swinging hard in the opposite direction.

Now that the system is seeing pressure, they openly attack which even further validates we’re right as we continue to condemn their ideological BS.

Incredibly relatable…

He is spot on. That is exactly what happened and that is exactly how I feel today.

So true!

The masks came off. Fauci lied…people died.

Who's Jeffery Tucker?

A shitcoiner unfortunately.

Brownstone Institute founder I think.

an early bitcoiner who unfortunately became a bcasher

That about sums it up perfectly. A lot of us have a form of PTSD from what we've witnessed over the last 4+ years...

The positive I try to take from it is that it is/was a necessary life experience to pivot and build a better future. Fourth turning stuff...

But oh man It's not easy to be optimistic all the time, I struggle with frustration, dissapointment and rage all the time. Lol

I think things have always been like this the only difference is that now it's more in the open.

Previously before the internet and things like nostr the government needed to control only mainstream media which was easy now with independent content creators this is a lot more difficult to do.

So the more freedom of information and freedom of speech there is more and more totalitarian measures are needed by the governments to maintain control of the narrative.

In other words, they are losing control. They will become more desperate like a doge backed into a corner and we know what happens.

We've been watching them for centuries and bringing them to this moment in time. They didn't set the stage, we did.

Agreed I will say this

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants - Thomas Jefferson

True. But they never did anything quite like this. I remember the Gulf War though, how people were cheering on even in Sweden, and the absurd propaganda from CNN on Swedish television.

You just made my point for me they never did anything like this as CNN and few other mainstream media were easy to control now with independent creators and nostr its a lot harder.

Yes, it is necessary with broader and more advanced psyops nowadays.

Was it ever any different? I can’t remember.

The more I think about my comment the more I think it was wrong. Perhaps even dangerously wrong.

Yes, the political, healthcare, cultural, and scientific response to Covid was bonkers.

Scientists are still ardently refusing to utilize scientific method and tools to learn anything about the origin of the virus. This is so patently self serving that it should disqualify the entire cohort.

But, here is my point. Conceding every bad thinking and action around the pandemic does not mean that every preceding moment in history is necessarily bunk. I think it is dangerous to wholesale throw the baby out with the bath water because we will be left with no perch from which to seek to understand anything. This sort of deconstruction serves chaos, not knowledge and understanding.

We all should have woken up after 911, but most fell for that bullshit. My fear is that the few who awoke because of the plandemic will fall back asleep again.

The only non-bloodshed way to fix this is to remain active and get engaged with the #ConventionofStates.

Might want to start stocking up on ammo and guns just in case people refuse to take the red pill.

Some were never asleep.

This is why society isn’t worth saving. These are the people that walk among us everyday… focus on saving your friends and family. To hell with these selfish strangers who raised no objections during the lockdowns.

All of it was so fucking obvious!!

5-6 cruise ships sitting off the United States shorelines with approximately 1000-2000 people on board all infected with rona waiting to make landfall before they ran out of supplies.

They flew in magically manufactured tests to determine everyone had a brand new (novel) virus where no one died.

The day the first ship made landfall Congress began the impeachment of President Trump.

The media pumped it all up and lied about its threat level to society. Father Fauci and the rest of his fucks were on every channel everyday for over a year pushing their propaganda fear porn.

Shitheads in major corporations all played the game forcing their employees to wear masks.

Assholes like me would print out and leave legal and technical documents within the break rooms to educate the other employees. I would wear a transparent masks that was as porous as a chain link fence. I was the guy that would rip supervisors and safety management for their lack of bio bins to discard used disposable masks. I forced them to ask questions and would threaten them with lawsuits from my attorney on retainer.

Douche bags like Apple still played the propaganda bullshit game to this day. Here is an example of predictive text. Type in President and it gives examples of Clinton and Obama but no third example. Then start to type Trump (get to Tr) and look at the middle (right in the fucking middle) and the bullshit subliminal messaging they are sending.

How about Ukraine? How much bullshit do you want to hear?

Dumb fuckers were poking the bear. All war might be based on deception but damn, go back to 101.

First off Russia needed to secure the Crimea port in order to maintain a secure winter time (non frozen) route of supplies for the Russian people.

Second we know that there was a coup in Ukraine during Obama's administration that he and Biden orchestrated.

Shall I go on?

Ignorance and obedience are a deadly combo.

Jeffrey is so great on everything outside of Bitcoin. I'm disappointed that he's effectively become radio silent on Bitcoin in recent years. I think the BCash drama really fucked him up psychologically.

Monero fixes that.

Worse than radio silent. He and his platform Brownstone Institute now openly and incessantly shills Roger Ver's book and BitcoinCash.

Such a fucking shame.

This quote applies 100% to me

Amen

I feel the same way. Nobody wants to think for themselves and it’s getting worse. People can’t even think and drive their vehicles anymore. We need artificial intelligence in a bad way because human intelligence is a thing of the past. I’m not saying I am a brilliant person, but I still use my brain and don’t just follow the person in front of me.

I agree with you partially, but I am afraid artificial intelligence will make it worse. If you don't use it (thinking for yourself) you lose it (the ability to think for yourself) and ai will be biased to whatever info it is fed/ taught is correct.

Keep using that brain

Somebody get that man on NOSTR

Not really. Many people genuinely believed that this virus was terrible and fatal. And to some it was. Come at me but I choose not to be traumatised and see how good people protected their friends, family, neighbors. There are some who are bad and cowardly, and lessons were learnt. but many people are also very good people. The more people who see our good sides the better we will be as a society. Less outrage, less trauma. (Ducking for cover now).

You don’t need to duck but I couldn’t disagree with you more. People acted like nazis.

Some, but many did not.

Most people did and those that didn’t quietly went along with the regimes plans and machinations.

Most people have good intentions even as they are misinformed or simply unaware. Doesn’t mean they are nazis or even just disgusting. These are just projections.

You sound like you were probably on the wrong side during Covid.

So glad I’m not America !

Hard to claim good intentions when the internet doesn’t forget express remarks made by the regime.

Don’t know what you mean.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”

-C.S. Lewis

Most people are asleep and unaware of what they're agreeing to.

But maybe content and focussed on family and living life.

No shame in that.

There's nothing to be ashamed of.

Agreements can be broken.

Awakening can be quite disruptive if it occurs unexpectedly quickly.

“By and large, is the level in which you need to understand most things in order to make effective decisions.

Whenever a big picture by in large statement is made and someone replies “not always” my instinctual reaction is that we’re probably about to dive into the weeds; that is a discussion of the exceptions rather than the rule and in the process we will lose site of the rule.

To help people at Bridgewater avoid this time-waster, I often repeat this coined phrase: When you ask someone whether something is true and they tell you that it’s not totally true, it’s probably by in large true.”

- Ray Dalio

I am not a philosophical woman, nor that articulate, but that’s just tripe to my simple brain. I experienced the COVID lockdown and saw what I saw. The OP does not resonate with my experience. It is a dark and angry take. It is a projection.

What did you see?

You’re wrong lol but prob triggered

Take your weak sauce red pulled pork drama elsewhere.

Triggered?

#GFY

99% have been controlled by the top 1% per always.

The dim bulbs 💡 here seem to think they are somehow enlightened. Why? They chose to be further brainwashed during Covid and continue doing the top 1% bidding by furthering dividing humanity from one another.

Many lack the empathy, basic decency & compassion. Beyond that, read how excited 😆 everyone is as if the original post is something new historically.

Many online admitted to allowing theirselves to be divided by long term relationships, even family because of Covid.

Well obviously 🙄, you haven’t read history. Even if they go back to Nixon in the USA they can see the corruption.

If this is excessive outrage or trauma, I apologize but the ignorance, assumptions and lack of self awareness combined with self-accountability is beyond comprehension.

Doing an ‘us and them’ or diminishing those who disagree and grouping them as a ‘dim’ or ‘lacking self awareness’ mass group is simplistic I think. There is a myriad of variations in experiences and going black and white is a mental shortcut. For instance the term ‘sheeple’ is used in such a way. It isn’t good.

I haven’t read a lot of history but I don’t think that would have been obvious to one who doesn’t know me though.

To clarify: I was speaking **specifically** about how many people replied to the original post as if it was some mind blowing 🤯 revelation.

I always seek to see from all the colors even if my communication gets worse as I get tired 😂🙏

Ah okay 😊🙏

🙏😊

The only good people I saw during covid were those that lost their jobs when they refused to get vaxxed. (And those who kept others from getting vaxxed.)

That from a book?

Yeah. It just hit my mom industry this oas 10 years. I'm heartbroken too.

Seen. my father gave me Atlas Shrugged to read as a teen and I often wondered why. Now I know.

Doesn't apply to me. I had no respect for them even before.

Sudden is wrong 😑

America how did we get here?

Since the 60's it has been the goal of the 1% to crush the middle class. It had grown post WW2 with the GI Bill educating so many first generation students and elevating them into the middle class.

How do I explain to a 2 year old why so many Christian’s follow the most unChrist like person on the planet?

American Ice Cream

Dear 2 year old. Let’s take a trip to the playground. Go play with the other children.

All the children stay entertained & blissfully play in peace.

The ice cream truck comes with every choice imaginable.

We go to purchase ice cream but realize some of the other kids don’t have money. They don’t even come to the line. Doesn’t that make you sad? They are unable to see they should be allowed the same choices & a fair chance at purchasing ice cream.

Dear 2 year old: I’m going to pay for others to have some ice cream now.

Run away mad if you want. I’ll explain later.

The 2 year old is angry but eventually forgets about the ice cream & plays again.

Later the 2 year old lays down for a nap. I explain that WE can have ice cream whenever we want. Others don’t have that choice. Is that fair? Shouldn’t humans help one another when we can?

He sleeps.

On the other side of town a child sleeps thinking about how good that ice cream tastes & he will do anything to be able to afford ice cream in the future. He grows up & makes money to do so but quickly forgets that others should be given ice cream as well. Isn’t that sad?

In another version of the USA

we all live happily & have the freedom to choose our favorite flavor of ice cream.

We work together sharing our resources & pay others fairly to create the bowls that hold our ice cream. But that’s just an American dream.

WWII sent off boys from the farm.

Lucky men came home

Many were heartbroken

Fractured souls & altered minds

Attempted to claim their peace

Of the American dream

Honoring their fallen friends & respect

Back to school they went

Educated now birthed the middle class

But wait! Political interests

Quickly engaged by the bags of money

Force fed by marketing

They can’t take **our** money

Peasants can’t hold status

Wealthy lived in privilege

They didn’t want only their income

Sought to destroy others

How to do so they asked?

Nixon

Reagan- Nom- Icks

Manipulating others to hate Ebonics

Dose them with sugar water

anti-union laws pushed

The poor are lesser humans

Take away their pensions

Less educated masses

Wealth force-fed the regulations

Dumb, deaf or blind 🇺🇸 stayed

Going to church on Sunday

And more loose taxes for the power

But God only knows the hour 😂

Hypocrisy!!!

USA unaware of

Evil pulling the strings.

Peacemakers spoke

As always

Powerfully silenced.

Then the - isms

Keep the pawns fighting amongst theirselves

Religion, class, race and sex

Divided caste chattel is US society

We’ve bought into “freedom” ideology

“Let them eat fast food.”

We ignore or berate those unlike us.

This keeps us constantly wrestling

All inspired by this ….

A growing middle class, presented a poltical danger to the interests of the wealthy, it's growth took away from their status and privilege, so it had to be both shrunk and turned against the the lower class.

Nixon started it, Reagan perfected it with anti-union laws, demonizing the poor, slashing pensions, underfunding education and loosing the taxes and regulations on corporations.

Classism, Sexism, Racism and Religion are all used to further seperate working class Americans, who have more in common than not, and to give them someone to focus their anger and blame on, when their own upward mobility stalls; all the while the rich get richer.

agree totally. But im grateful i witnessed it with my own eyes because it would have been impossible to believe otherwise.

Also; there are coincidences.

There is more trauma coming. Much, much more. You ain't seen nothing yet.

I empathize with this take, but at the same time, it misunderstands the nature of reality.

Every person who behaves immorally weakens themselves, every single time.

Also, this person "merely" discovered that evil exists.

I suppose some people will not have the chance, but some people will have the chance to interact with, to meet real evil. Many are under the illusion that people are good, and some are. But there are people who truly are evil, because they made that selection, and some evil aim down to hell itself.

While grief at this realization, that truly evil people exist who intend to steal, kill, and destroy other people, is understandable it is also an opportunity to pay attention to God and realize that God, who is Goodness, is the center of the universe and not evil and that all of the universe in some spiritual sense is sliding relentlessly towards Him, towards the Light, and the inevitability of the removal of all evil and darkness, lies and destruction, sickness and disease, pain and suffering, and all things being made new is coming and no one can stop it, not even the devil himself nor the entire fiat complex.

God, hope and life are relentlessly coming.

Knowledge workers had an easier time of it, sure, but no one on this thread used Amazon or Instacart during Covid? Fuck off.

Off with their heads