VOCABULARY: Fiat currency created by computers in the Cnetral Bank = “mouse-click money”

Saturday, May 6, 2023

Matt Piepenburg calls mouse-click money

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Von Greyerz: Forecasting The Gold Price Is A Mug’s Game
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, May 02, 2023 – 07:20 AM
Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com,

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Most investors are totally ignorant of the purpose of gold or its historical significance. 

After all, Gold is the only money that has survived in history but virtually nobody is aware of this vital information. 

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The Everything Bubble is likely to turn into the “Everything Collapse” (link below) with all the bubble assets declining between 75% and 95% in real terms. 

After all; assets inflated by fake money must clearly be fake. 

The biggest collapse will obviously be the $300 trillion debt market. But before this debt collapse, Western governments and central banks will have drowned financial markets in what my colleague Matt Piepenburg calls mouse-click money.

And they will wear out many batteries and mice before this is finished.

We saw during the Ides of March (Shakespeare), which is an ominous time in mid March when Julius Caesar was murdered. This Ides of March this year contained the death of 4 banks; one Swiss, and three US within a matter of days. 

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Very nice summation.

Back in history, the ruling elite always pretended that money contained valuable gold or silver.

The Romans debased their currency.  

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2007/10/10/money-leaders-to-the-guillotine/

So did the French.

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2021/08/09/goldbug-what-if-all-the-gold-in-fort-know-has-long-since-left-the-country/

What makes us think that it will result in a different outcome?

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VOCABULARY: The gravestone emoji is used for zombies IRL

Friday, April 28, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/getting-zombied-is-new-dating-trend-worse-than-ghosting/

Getting ‘zombied’ is the new dating trend — and it’s worse than ‘ghosting’
By Brooke Steinberg 
April 26, 2023 11:41am 

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“Girl, you’re being ghosted? I’m being zombied,” she shared with her 255,900 followers on the platform.

“It’s like ghosting, but he comes back from the dead after a couple months and hits you up,” she explained in the video with 1.5 million views and 151,100 likes.

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“I saw someone say she puts gravestone emojis on their name in contacts so she knows not to deal with them anymore,” a user wrote.

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I really like this “productivity suggestion”.  

Use the 🪦 to remind yourself to ignore people, places, phone numbers, and email addresses.

I guess it’s polite to send the emoji to let folks know that they are dead to me.

Laugh!

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VOCABULARY: Dunning–Kruger effect — perception versus reality

Thursday, March 9, 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Dunning–Kruger effect

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Relation between average self-perceived performance and average actual performance on a college exam.[1] The red area shows the tendency of low performers to overestimate their abilities. Nevertheless, low performers’ self-assessment is lower than that of high performers.

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VOCABULARY: “cakeism” — the false belief that one can enjoy the benefits of two choices that are in fact mutually exclusive

Saturday, March 4, 2023

https://www.dictionary.com/e/new-dictionary-words-winter-2023/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

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cakeism

noun. the false belief that one can enjoy the benefits of two choices that are in fact mutually exclusive, or have it both ways. 

📝 The first records of the term come from 2016. Derived from the expression “to have one’s cake and eat it, too,” the term is especially associated with Brexit and Boris Johnson. 

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I never had the concept of “false belief”.   It goes along with the Overton Window, the JoHari window, and all the perceptions that are “misleading” us. 

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VOCABULARY: Deadnaming

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Deadnaming is the act of referring to a transgender or non-binary person by a name they used prior to transitioning, such as their birth name. Deadnaming may be unintentional, or a deliberate attempt to deny, mock or invalidate a person’s gender identity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki

Never heard this before.

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VOCABULARY: “Whataboutism” to absolve bad behavior

Thursday, January 19, 2023

https://jeffjacoby.com/26689/when-whataboutism-is-appropriate

When ‘whataboutism’ is appropriate
by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe
January 15, 2023

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“Whataboutism,” a term much in fashion in political circles these days, is a pejorative reference to a very old and familiar argument: A’s bad behavior can’t be condemned because B engaged in bad behavior too.

The term dates back to the Cold War. It was the label given to a tactic perfected by Soviet propagandists. If Western critics blasted Moscow’s crimes in Afghanistan, the persecution of dissidents, or the horrors of the Gulag, trained Soviet flacks would respond with knee-jerk “whataboutism”: What about racism in America? What about Watergate? What about riots in US cities?

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Sorry, but you can’t distract from the point being made about your bad behavior by pointing to someone else’s bad behavior.

Each “counter example” may be worthy of its own discussion, but stick to the point at hand.

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VOCABULARY: Thoughtcrime (George Orwel 1949)

Saturday, January 7, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/are-you-thought-criminal

Thoughtcrime is a word coined by George Orwell in his 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It describes a person’s politically unorthodox thoughts, such as beliefs and doubts that contradict the tenets of Ingsoc (English Socialism), the dominant ideology of Oceania. In the official language of Newspeak, the word crimethink describes the intellectual actions of a person who entertains and holds politically unacceptable thoughts; thus the government of the Party controls the speech, the actions, and the thoughts of the citizens of Oceania.

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Are You A “Thought Criminal”?

YES!

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VOCABULARY: Teal Deer = TL;DR

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Too Long; Didn’t Read

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VOCABULARY: “Weaponized Governmental Failure”

Monday, October 24, 2022

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/weaponized-governmental-failure-primer

Weaponized Governmental Failure: A Primer
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Oct 22, 2022 – 07:40 PM

Authored by Scott McKay via The American Spectator,

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Democrats rule over a ruin, but they rule…

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Let’s call it Weaponized Governmental Failure. It’s the single most explicative factor in the breakdown of American political consensus in the 21st century, even though it’s been around since the latter part of the 20th century.

The simple definition of Weaponized Governmental Failure is this: it’s the deliberate refusal to perform the basic tasks of urban governance for a specific political purpose.

The crime and the graft and the potholes and the bad drainage, not to mention the spotty trash collection or nonexistent snow shoveling, aren’t incompetence. In fact, none of what you see in the American public sector is incompetence. The people responsible for it are quite highly educated and well-trained in their craft. You just need to understand what their craft is.

It’s a choice to do a poor job with the more mundane tasks of running a city, and an educated and purposeful choice at that. If you do those things effectively, after all, what you will get is middle-class voters moving in. Middle-class voters tend to choose to live in places where they can expect to get actual value out of their tax dollars — good roads, safe streets, functional drainage, decent schools, a friendly business climate, and a growing economy, among other things — and those things are hard to produce when you govern the way the Left does.

Put a different way, middle-class voters are a pain in the ass.

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The politicians and bureaucrats are the drones of the human hive.

I have often posted that the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. And to that “deliberately incompetent”.

Argh!

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VOCABULARY: “Gaslighting” — to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victim’s mind

Saturday, October 22, 2022

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hopkins-gaslighting-masses

Hopkins: The Gaslighting Of The Masses
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Oct 16, 2022 – 11:30 PM

Authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory,

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nstead, I want to focus on one particularly effective mind-control technology, one that has done a lot of heavy lifting throughout the implementation of the New Normal and is doing a lot of heavy-lifting currently. I want to do that because many people mistakenly believe that mind-control is either (a) a “conspiracy theory” or (b) something that can only be achieved with drugs, microwaves, surgery, torture, or some other invasive physical means. Of course, there is a vast and well-documented history of the use of such invasive physical technologies (see, e.g., the history of the CIA’s infamous MKULTRA program), but in many instances mind-control can be achieved through much less elaborate techniques.

One of the most basic and effective techniques that cults, totalitarian systems, and individuals with fascistic personalities use to disorient and control people’s minds is “gaslighting.” You’re probably familiar with the term. If not, here are a few definitions:

“the manipulation of another person into doubting their perceptions, experiences, or understanding of events.” American Psychological Association

“an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control. Victims of gaslighting are deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true, often about themselves. They may end up doubting their memory, their perception, and even their sanity.” Psychology Today

“a form of psychological manipulation in which the abuser attempts to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victim’s mind. Typically, gaslighters are seeking to gain power and control over the other person, by distorting reality and forcing them to question their own judgment and intuition.” Newport Institute

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IMHO the whole Covid fiasco from start to finish has been “gaslighting” the world’s population.  The politicians and bureaucrats did this to transfers huge amounts of wealth into Big Pharma. 

Argh!

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