politics – uncoy https://uncoy.com (many) winters in vienna. theatre, dance, poetry. and some politics. Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:02:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://uncoy.com/images/2017/07/cropped-uncoy-logo-nomargin-1-32x32.png politics – uncoy https://uncoy.com 32 32 US Election Mail-in ballots 2020 vs 2024 https://uncoy.com/2024/11/us-mail-in-ballots.html https://uncoy.com/2024/11/us-mail-in-ballots.html#respond Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:30:37 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=6052 US Election Mail-in ballots 2020 vs 2024

More Canadians suffer from TDS than any other country in the world. Their symptoms are deeper and more bitter than I’ve heard anywhere. Most of the world doesn’t care much, one way or the other, about Trump.1 On 7 November after Trump’s resounding victory in the US Presidential election, the question Canadians are asking themselves is how Trump could win in 2024 with about the same number of votes as in 2020.

Vote count in 2020 and 2024 US presidential elections

Great question. The answer is the absence of ballot stuffing in 2024. Republican and clean voting activists did yeoman work cleaning the electoral register and vetting incoming postal ballots.

Wackford Squeers wrote a concise summary.

Some lib asked “18 million ballots were rejected and purged HOW?

Via the good people at StopBogusBallots.com and Common Sense Elections.  

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More Canadians suffer from TDS than any other country in the world. Their symptoms are deeper and more bitter than I’ve heard anywhere. Most of the world doesn’t care much, one way or the other, about Trump.4 On 7 November after Trump’s resounding victory in the US Presidential election, the question Canadians are asking themselves is how Trump could win in 2024 with about the same number of votes…

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Modern Journalism under the loupe https://uncoy.com/2024/09/modern-journalism.html https://uncoy.com/2024/09/modern-journalism.html#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:03:42 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=6034 Modern Journalism under the loupe

When I was considering carrying on in journalism, one reason I didn’t do so is because journalists didn’t do* anything. The journalist’s job is either to report on his/her fellow humans, or to complain about the world. Journalists and critics don’t go out and change the world. It’s easier to complain than do.

I wanted to be that change and not just report it. Sometimes I’ve succeeded, sometimes I have not. Elizabeth Nickson, another renegade former journalist and Canadian (her career include stints as an editor at Time and Life magazine) describes acerbically the delusions of the contemporary press corps. For some reason, modern journalists consider themselves to be the peers of their subjects:

Average journalism-school graduates watched their fellow undergrads go on to wealth in finance, innovation in technology, or power in politics.

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When I was considering carrying on in journalism, one reason I didn’t do so is because journalists didn’t do* anything. The journalist’s job is either to report on his/her fellow humans, or to complain about the world. Journalists and critics don’t go out and change the world. It’s easier to complain than do. I wanted to be that change and not just report it. Sometimes I’ve succeeded…

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Are people instrinsically evil? https://uncoy.com/2024/07/intrinsically-evil.html https://uncoy.com/2024/07/intrinsically-evil.html#respond Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:31:30 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=6015 Are people instrinsically evil?

Twenty five million people are starving to death in the Sudan, Israelis are murdering and starving 1.5 million women and children in Gaza and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men die in a senseless war for US hegemony.

Faced with these horrors, many wonder if humans are intrinsically evil? One commenter observed that the corn fuel burned in organic fuel could have fed a lot of starving Sudanese.

In the comments to A Time Of Famine, And A Time Of War… TR3BPilot notes:

I would posit that humans some humans are intrinsically good but most humans are:

  1. just downright stupid
  2. easily manipulated
  3. conforming
  4. non-thinking sheeple.

Every atrocity in history may have been led by one or a few socio/psycho-paths but it was masses of non-thinking sheeple who did the dirty deeds.

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Twenty five million people are starving to death in the Sudan, Israelis are murdering and starving 1.5 million women and children in Gaza and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men die in a senseless war for US hegemony. Faced with these horrors, many wonder if humans are intrinsically evil? One commenter observed that the corn fuel burned in organic fuel could have fed a lot of…

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Crushing Emotional Load of Suffering Anywhere in the World https://uncoy.com/2024/03/suffering-anywhere.html https://uncoy.com/2024/03/suffering-anywhere.html#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:03:22 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=5921 Crushing Emotional Load of Suffering Anywhere in the World

In the The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen – Interviewed by a Retard, Andreessen answers:

the Internet has given all of humanity full read/write access to one another’s minds for the first time, and this is a massive shift in individual and collective psychology that we are just starting to grapple with. For example, we are now exposed to the crushing emotional load of suffering anywhere in the world, with no gatekeeping intermediary to insulate us, and not just occasionally but all the time. Figuring out the effects of this civilizational shift – certainly on par with the Gutenberg revolution, if not way beyond — will take a long time.

Andreessen has casually revealed perhaps the most profound change to humankind of our age. Sure bad things happened before but never so visibly.

While the Israelis carefully murder a million Palestinians, they traumatise the rest of the world who stand by and watch.

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In the The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen – Interviewed by a Retard, Andreessen answers: Andreessen has casually revealed perhaps the most profound change to humankind of our age. Sure bad things happened before but never so visibly. While the Israelis carefully murder a million Palestinians, they traumatise the rest of the world who stand by and watch. Those who look away are…

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Enjoy Canada while you can https://uncoy.com/2023/10/enjoy-canada.html https://uncoy.com/2023/10/enjoy-canada.html#respond Sun, 01 Oct 2023 22:37:10 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=5715 Enjoy Canada while you can

Someone near and dear to me sent me some photos of southern Ontario forest with the leaves changing. So beautiful.

This evening I ran across an essay from professional investor and thinker Jayant Bhandari. Canadians should enjoy Canada while they can. The times they are a’changin and faster than even I thought:

When I moved to Canada in 2003, its population was 32 million. Today, it is 40 million, an increase of 25%.

Had immigration not occurred, the Canadian population would have fallen, given its fertility rate of 1.47, which itself would have been lower had immigration not occurred…For those who don’t have a sense of numbers, more than one out of every four people in Canada arrived after my arrival twenty years back. As it stands today, 26% of Canadians are first-generation immigrants.

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Someone near and dear to me sent me some photos of southern Ontario forest with the leaves changing. So beautiful. This evening I ran across an essay from professional investor and thinker Jayant Bhandari. Canadians should enjoy Canada while they can. The times they are a’changin and faster than even I thought: What are the consequences of these policies? How does Canada choose its…

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Affirmative action or reverse discrimination https://uncoy.com/2023/06/reverse-discrimination.html https://uncoy.com/2023/06/reverse-discrimination.html#respond Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:30:32 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=5590 Affirmative action or reverse discrimination

What astonished me in my early contact with American business is how definitely it ran on merit in comparison to European business. It was “what you know” whereas European business more often was “who you know”. Many doors in the USA were open to a new company based on its skills and how competitive its pricing is, while Europeans would neither answer calls nor consider offers without a personal connection.

Steadily reducing merit in admissions criteria in favour of quotas removes an essential element of what built America and a core competitive advantage. Based on reports of the current climate of corruption, graft and backhands, the train may have already left the station. Reverse discriminataion in college admissions is just another nail in the coffin of American competitiveness.

Today I read an essay in The Atlantic arguing in favour of affirmative action.

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What astonished me in my early contact with American business is how definitely it ran on merit in comparison to European business. It was “what you know” whereas European business more often was “who you know”. Many doors in the USA were open to a new company based on its skills and how competitive its pricing is, while Europeans would neither answer calls nor consider offers without a personal…

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Is Elon Musk deep state? https://uncoy.com/2023/05/elon-musk-deep-state.html https://uncoy.com/2023/05/elon-musk-deep-state.html#respond Tue, 16 May 2023 17:48:19 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=5557 Is Elon Musk deep state?

Elon Musk has been successful on his own terms, with his participation in the Paypal boom. Still post-Paypal, Musk has been deeply involved in sectors where US government is either the major player or deeply interested: solar energy, electric vehicles, satellite communication and space travel.

In the comments to “That Cretin Never Advised Me On Anything Whatsoever”: Musk Responds To Epstein Subpoena | ZeroHedge, Z Free has an answer for us:

Musk is a Deep State player…

  • There’s the half a billion dollars DOD awarded SpaceX in a series of contracts over the past few years to send satellites up into orbit of classified nature on unregistered, unreported missions that presumably have something to do with the DOD’s declared intention to make space into a war-fighting domain.
  • $3 billion in NASA contracts SpaceX was awarded in 2021 to develop the human lander for the Artemis Mission.

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Elon Musk has been successful on his own terms, with his participation in the Paypal boom. Still post-Paypal, Musk has been deeply involved in sectors where US government is either the major player or deeply interested: solar energy, electric vehicles, satellite communication and space travel. In the comments to “That Cretin Never Advised Me On Anything Whatsoever”: Musk Responds To Epstein…

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What Europeans (shouldn’t) know about the war in Ukraine https://uncoy.com/2023/03/europeans-war-in-ukraine.html https://uncoy.com/2023/03/europeans-war-in-ukraine.html#respond Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:50:27 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=5373 What Europeans (shouldn’t) know about the war in Ukraine

A friend told me today that Russia started this war. Very specifically on 24 February 2022. I answered that NATO and the USA started the war in 2014 by propelling extremist xenophobe nationalists to power in federated Ukraine. Russia had spent eight years in negotiations (Minsk I, Minsk II) to seek a political solution.17 The truth is that the Anglosphere prepped this war for decades.

Here’s Tony Blair talking about lighting fires all around Russia in its neighbours in 2008.

There’s so much other evidence, including the infamous 2019 Rand Report Overexteneding and Unbalancing Russia, where US analysts recommend sanctions, sabotage and civil war. But all that takes time to digest and requires substantial additional reading to fully understand. My friend is busy.

What I promised my friend instead was a video from Stanislav Filin who runs the YouTube chanel, S Filinom (сФилином literally translated as “With Filin”).

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A friend told me today that Russia started this war. Very specifically on 24 February 2022. I answered that NATO and the USA started the war in 2014 by propelling extremist xenophobe nationalists to power in federated Ukraine. Russia had spent eight years in negotiations (Minsk I, Minsk II) to seek a political solution.22 The truth is that the Anglosphere prepped this war for decades.

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Revolution in Europe impossible? https://uncoy.com/2022/10/revolution-in-europe.html https://uncoy.com/2022/10/revolution-in-europe.html#respond Sat, 01 Oct 2022 14:30:02 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=5127 Revolution in Europe impossible?

vao makes a strong argument that no popular movement in Europe will be able to derail Atlanticist EU politicians at Naked Capitlaism.

What if massive support swings behind the AfD or any party for that matter than does not bleat the Russiadidit line.

Irrelevant. The gilets jaunes were ultimately defeated by relentless police and judicial brutality; the concessions granted by Macron were limited and have been swamped since by the consequences of the pandemic and the sanctions against Russia.

Governments have been learning from the gilets jaunes events how to deal with massive popular movements, and have since geared up for that (also in terms of legal tools). I notice that the German police is already on the offensive against the AfD, raiding its headquarters.

Will there be terrorist attacks?

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vao makes a strong argument that no popular movement in Europe will be able to derail Atlanticist EU politicians at Naked Capitlaism. The defanging of the Gilets Jaunes, a genuinely popular movement in a state with a revolutionary tradition is a worry. I think vao underestimates the damage that popular revolutionary movements can do. Radicals will find a way to go underground.

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How Americans can reclaim their country (peacefully) https://uncoy.com/2022/09/how-americans-can-reclaim-their-country-peacefully.html https://uncoy.com/2022/09/how-americans-can-reclaim-their-country-peacefully.html#respond Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:18:52 +0000 https://uncoy.com/?p=5115 How Americans can reclaim their country (peacefully)

In the comments to FBI Misled Judge, Then Seized $86 Million In Cash From Beverly Hills Safe-Deposit Boxes | ZeroHedge, ShowNoMercy notes:

So the cops will wait outside while your kids get shot, the FBI will drill into your safe, and the schools will pimp your children out to transgender dudes….outside of Zyklon B showers I think we are pretty well F-ed….

Americans believe their guns keep them safe from the government. It doesn’t look too safe to me. ShowNoMercy’s wry observations paint a dark picture.

There’s three things the Americans need to do to reclaim their country:

  1. Ban mail-in voting. Mail-in voting is where the fraud sneaks in and allows as large a swing as there are mail-in votes.
  2. Go back to manual ballot counts with bi-partisan handlers (i.e.

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In the comments to FBI Misled Judge, Then Seized $86 Million In Cash From Beverly Hills Safe-Deposit Boxes | ZeroHedge, ShowNoMercy notes: Americans believe their guns keep them safe from the government. It doesn’t look too safe to me. ShowNoMercy’s wry observations paint a dark picture. There’s three things the Americans need to do to reclaim their country: Yes, the rich will still…

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