Space Lizard

Dmitry Orlov, who always has an interesting and intelligent perspective on things, analyzes the Kazakhstan unrest this way: (Source: comment at https://thesaker.is/who-lost-kazakhstan-and-to-whom/ ) I don't know how accurate this is, but he's probably right that we'll see a crackdown on Western-aligned forces in Kazakhstan, including NGOs which are known fronts for Western subversion. And KZ will definitely be closely aligned with Russia after they saved the regime. Looks like another big L for the color revolution/regime-change crowd, and another big W for Putin.

Hardkill, we're not in fifth grade here. You need to learn how to make arguments, think critically and provide evidence if you want anyone to take you seriously.

The things you're talking about got a lot of media coverage but almost no one died. Anyone can claim anything; if you want someone to take you seriously you need to provide some evidence.

All strains of covid have a very low fatality rate; speculating about non-existent highly lethal viruses is just fear-mongering. So is this idea that not taking vaccines is putting everyone at risk; these "vaccines" don't prevent you from getting covid or spreading it either; they aren't actually vaccines. Also, the world's birthrates are plummeting. Elon Musk considers depopulation one of the biggest threats to civilization. You are just making wild claims. Try thinking more critically and providing evidence.

If your media is encouraging you to hate a group of people, and your own feelings and experiences tell you they don't deserve it, what does that tell you about the media? They are creating a lot of neurosis and insanity, clearly. If there is a harmful virus going around, it's the mind-virus of fear, spread by the media. The way to vaccinate yourself is to turn it off, and follow your own feelings and experiences. It's so simple, yet so difficult, because we let the media get so powerful.

Do you ever make any comments that aren't extreme and ridiculous? We're not all going to kill each other. Fewer people are dying from violence than just about any time in history. Reality is never "everyone dies" or "everything is utopia"; it's always somewhere in between. Sounds like you have a bad case of binary thinking.

Why do you make such silly comments? How is humanity going to go extinct from a virus that has greater than 99% survival rate, with or without vaccines? You don't sound very bright.

Don't ask me dude, I'm basically a nihilist. I pursued many of the common paths and philosophies and never found any point. I found a lot of stories, myths, fantasies and delusions, but no convincing answers. I got into physical and outdoor pursuits like hiking and bicycling because they're fun, healthy, and don't require an answer to your questions. Living is the point of life, as far as I can tell. Why do you need some big story beyond that?

I guess you took the "black pill". Welcome to reality, and have a nice day.

Try again. It obviously just means someone who decides they don't need to take a vaccine. The vast majority of them are fine; only a tiny number die, though they are disproportionately reported on in the media, for some strange reason. If people want to demonize a group for poor health choices, they should go after the "anti-fitters" who are obese, don't exercise, have unhealthy diets, stay inside all day playing video games, etc. But they pretend like covid is an equal threat to everyone, regardless of their lifestyle, and demonize even young, healthy people who are essentially at no risk from covid. Most "anti-vaxxers" are just reasonable people who can see that what is being promoted is unreasonable, don't think Big Government or Big Pharma has a right to mandate that they be injected with an experimental genetic cocktail or strip them of rights for not doing so, have confidence in their immune system's ability to protect them, reject the hysteria and authoritarianism, and just say no. That's all.

That was my point also. The real, dangerous fascists are pointing at the patsy fascists (a mostly non-violent rabble) and patsy fuhrer (a clownish narcissist) and calling for a crackdown that will give them more non-democratic power. It's exactly the kind of diabolical deception they excel at. Matt Taibbi has a great analysis of this in his latest post: A Tale of Two Authoritarians Some excerpts: I mean seriously, Dick Cheney is supposed to give these people anti-fascist credibility? Aren't you even a little suspicious when you see the same stories being repeated simultaneously across all corporate media? Do you recall the onslaught of "Saddam Has WMDs" and "Trump is Putin's Stooge" stories that turned out to be total fabrications? Don't you see how these people operate and what is going on here? These are de facto fascists, repeating Big Lies so they can get more power. Their track record, and the appearance of fascist uber-goon Cheney proves it.

^^ Sounds like another person parroting what they hear in the media. Do you people have opinions of your own, or are you just repeaters? And where do you live by the way? What do you actually know about how safe it is in America?

The CIA has conspired to overthrow governments, assassinate leaders, plant fake news in the media, drug and brainwash citizens, etc. That's not theory, it's fact. They operate like fascists. But like I said, they came up with the term "conspiracy theorist" to discredit people who criticize them, and you're falling for it.

You sound like you really need to turn off the mass media and get a grip on reality. Exactly how are you threatened by violence right now, where you live? Is your realization of "how dangerous it has gotten" based on anything you have experienced, or are you just parrotting what media talking heads say? The irony here is that this fear propaganda that you're falling for is exactly what fascists use to gain power. In the name of fighting fascists, the real fascists (e.g. the CIA) will subvert democracy and curtail your freedoms, using an onslaught of propaganda and misinformation. They did this after 9/11, they did it during the Trump years, they've been doing it abroad for decades, and they're still at it. And as people like you demonstrate, it's very effective, because few people know how to look at the media critically and skeptically, left, right or center. It's one of the keys to making fascism work, and you're falling for it. If you want to see how to look at media and power more critically, here are two real journalists who aren't exactly right-wingers who are very good at breaking down the propaganda machine and calling BS where they see it: https://greenwald.substack.com/ https://taibbi.substack.com/

Is it really on the rise, or is that just what your media wants you to think? Have you considered that maybe they are intentionally trying to create hysteria to justify seizing more power, like they did after 9/11? You should study the history of the Deep State, the CIA and how they operate; they are masters of false flags, propaganda and deception. For example, how do you know the people in that video aren't part of one of their ops? They depend on gullible, hysterical people who take their media at face value; it's key to their power. The CIA overthrew the government of Guatemala in 1954 primarily with "fake news" (see this). They also infiltrated the major media organizations back in the 1950s, and there's no reason to believe they aren't still there (see Operation Mockingbird). More recently, they spent four years trying to take down Trump using stories fabricated by intelligence agents, and they're still trying to get rid of him by creating hysteria around 1/6 and turning it into a domestic 9/11. This might sound like crazy Alex Jones "conspiracy theories", but here again this is part of their deception. Did you know that the term "conspiracy theorist" was invented in the 1960s by the CIA to discredit people who criticized their antics? Anyway, just encouraging you not to parrot media talking points, but to be more critical about what you're seeing. You do realize that all media serves someone's agenda, and that agenda isn't always honest or out in the open, right?

No friend, I've just learned that you have to be very careful about letting ethnic hatred and propaganda influence your foreign policy. Look at the Iraq invasion; it was based on lies and misinformation spread by people with nefarious agendas and hatreds. Also Afghanistan, Syria, Libya. I'm worried that the US might make a similar mistake in the Ukraine, or Asia, or wherever. I don't care what you do, just don't try to get my country involved based on what sounds a lot like ethnic hatred and atrocity propaganda.

Well Khr, you sound like you are caught up in nationalist hatred. Calling a country a shithole and its people animals doesn't give you a lot of credibility in my book. I see a lot of this kind of Russophobia, and I don't get it. Yes, Russia is a harsh culture in some ways, but it has a lot of good points and should be given respect. The situation over there is pretty dangerous and there's a lot of anti-Russia propaganda that could lead to war. I think a lot of it is based on hatred and should be toned down. It's none of my business as an American what is happening in Ukraine, so why is my government meddling there and maybe Kazakhstan and putting me in danger? Who benefits from all the Russophobia and foreign meddling? Not me.

Nobody brainwashed me, I mostly hung out with non-Russians. I did travel through Siberia and I know that the country is not rich outside the big cities, but neither is most of the world. It sounds like you are from Ukraine and are intensely Russophobic, so it's kind of like talking to a person from Pakistan about India, or vice versa. Not exactly an objective perspective. As for fucking off, if there's one country in the world that won't fuck off from the rest of the world, it's USA, wouldn't you agree?

LOL @ "supposed to be" and "Leo said that". Is that in some bible somewhere? Is Leo your prophet? I'm asking why this should be "one of the ultimate goals of every country"? What gives you the authority to assert this?

I have little doubt that there will be an effort to normalize pedophilia, as there has been with other sexual behavior formerly considered pathological. One of the first things they'll do is change the language; they'll start calling pedophiles "minor-attracted persons" and treating it as just another sexual preference. Then they'll start calling people who oppose pedophilia "pedophobes" and categorizing their opposition as a form of "hate". Eventually they will put pedophiles on TV shows and the covers of magazines and push for mainstream acceptance. That might sound crazy, but so would the normalization of other unusual sexual orientations to our forefathers. One thing I've learned about our postmodern society and its cultural elite is that nothing is out of bounds or sacred, particularly in the area of sexuality. I don't actually think pedophilia will be normalized though, because the reaction will be too intense and they won't be able to get away with it. But I'm sure they will try.

I lived in Moscow for a year. It wasn't utopia, but it wasn't a shithole. I don't love it, but I give it respect. And you? Where do you get your idea that Russia is a shithole from?

Russia is a "trash can"? Why the Russophobia? Have you been there?

Not everyone wants liberal democracy, but the whole world needs to strive for it, according to you. Why should they listen to you? What business is it of yours?

What makes you think everyone wants Western style democracy? Are you one of those people who think every society must evolve like the West has, and Western liberal democracy is the "end of history", a universal model for the whole world? I think the future is going to surprise and disappoint you if you think this way.

I am curious how much, if any, of this protesting is being sponsored by the usual suspects (CIA, Soros, etc.) as it was in Ukraine, Hong Kong, etc. How much is an authentic, home-grown uprising, and how much is a Color Revolution being pushed by outside agitators? It's certainly convenient to have another country on Russia's borders experiencing unrest just as Russia is taking a hard stance toward NATO, and no doubt the professional Russophobes and subversives will try to take advantage of it.