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Bernardo de La Paz
Bernardo de La Paz's Journal
Bernardo de La Paz's Journal
October 26, 2023
Thoughtful DU posters save reader time/effort by taking a little time
... to post links and carefully selected key excerpts.
One minute (60 seconds) taken by a poster frequently saves 20 seconds effort by a couple hundred readers, maybe over a thousand.
20 x 200 = 4000 seconds = over one hour
Giving one minute of poster's time saves DU members an hour. One minute for an hour is a good tradeoff, such an easy thing to do, giving back to DU.
October 25, 2023
Evolution denier, climate denier, covid denier, Jan6 denier, SocSec denier, Medicare denier
Young Earth Creationist (Earth about 6,000 years old). Reference (contains credible links): https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/25/do-you-want-a-creationist-for-speaker-of-the-house/
October 20, 2023
They say covered faces antifa. Then we ask why so many magats convicted. They will say "corruption"
The next counter the magats will offer is that those pleading guilty were pressured by corrupt prosecutors and the others were convicted by corrupt judges. There is always a chain of malfeasance leading ultimately to dark, powerful, evil forces.
When anything goes against magats, they never consider the possibility they were wrong. They are like two-year-olds that way.
They are forever and only victims.
There is always a powerful bogeyman to invoke, whether it is the catholic pope, or socialist FDR, or fluoridation of drinking water, or satan, or Illuminati, or Rothschilds, or Soros (proxy targets for anti-semitism), or Deep State, or Obama running Biden's Presidency, or GloboHomo, or FemiNazis, or econuts, or Diversity/Equity/Inclusion advocacy, or WEF, or pedophile sex rings, or .... It never ends. There is always a bogeyman to blame, never themselves, never their policies, never their leaders.
October 9, 2023
Putin's methods and goals thrive in a chaotic environment.
Blocking Biden in anyway helps Putin screw the Ukrainian people.
Blocking Biden helps Putin's useful idiot tRump in his bid for Authoritarian rule.
Russia & Iran have huge incentive to disrupt SArabia peace deal & block Biden diplomatic win
Putin's methods and goals thrive in a chaotic environment.
Blocking Biden in anyway helps Putin screw the Ukrainian people.
Blocking Biden helps Putin's useful idiot tRump in his bid for Authoritarian rule.
October 8, 2023
Putin's methods and goals thrive in chaos.
Putin and Iran are quasi-allied. Iran and Saudi Arabia hate each other. Iran subsidizes and promotes and influences Hamas. Putin and Iran hate the US. Putin views tRump as a useful idiot, a chaos agent even if not nominated / elected.
I wonder if Putin has been inciting Hamas to torpedo Israel-SArabia deal & torpedo Biden vs tRump
Putin's methods and goals thrive in chaos.
Putin and Iran are quasi-allied. Iran and Saudi Arabia hate each other. Iran subsidizes and promotes and influences Hamas. Putin and Iran hate the US. Putin views tRump as a useful idiot, a chaos agent even if not nominated / elected.
September 30, 2023
The Reich Wing (LimpBots and magats) think that their premises are facts because they always search for confirmation and nod at each other in confirmation of talking points. And then it becomes not-hate because it is "just the facts". So they don't hear it as hate, not at all, just simple neutral blame.
When limpballs and others call migrants "illegal alien criminals", as they do call them, listeners hear it as blame. Everybody blames illegality. Sucker conservatives fear "alien" stuff: the other. Everybody blames criminals.
So the phrase "illegal alien criminals" is swallowed without question.
It's called "framing". Paint an ugly picture, give it an ugly name and you have manufactured a blame-target.
The talking points of course are the propaganda, and they are generated by the likes of Limpbaugh and Reich Wing think tanks and some influencers like Jack Posobiec and Sundunce (Sundance at Conservative Tree House) and Ruzzian web brigades. As propaganda, they are cherry-picked factoids, deliberately misinterpreted data, and fakes like the fake digital message displayed Thursday at the attempted impeachment hearings.
By time it gets ingested by the suckers (of which there are many) and below average intelligentsia (of which there are 50%) it has the feel of truth but none of the substance. If you ask a magat why they think J6 was a false flag operation, they will vomit up Ray Epps and say he was an FBI plant that incited the whole thing with a bullhorn there on the day. Dig a bit deeper, asking how do you know Epps was FBI, they will say things like "It's obvious" since they don't know or will employ circular reasoning if you follow it enough. If you actually get them to look it up, their factoids are debunked by respectable media, but they have been pre-conditioned to disbelieve everything from mainstream media, because they believe they are bought and paid for by the Deep State.
Potemkin factoids and Deep State all-purpose bogeyman who is everywhere.
Sure he did, but his hate was aimed at minorities and others he BLAMED, so he didn't see it as hate
The Reich Wing (LimpBots and magats) think that their premises are facts because they always search for confirmation and nod at each other in confirmation of talking points. And then it becomes not-hate because it is "just the facts". So they don't hear it as hate, not at all, just simple neutral blame.
When limpballs and others call migrants "illegal alien criminals", as they do call them, listeners hear it as blame. Everybody blames illegality. Sucker conservatives fear "alien" stuff: the other. Everybody blames criminals.
So the phrase "illegal alien criminals" is swallowed without question.
It's called "framing". Paint an ugly picture, give it an ugly name and you have manufactured a blame-target.
The talking points of course are the propaganda, and they are generated by the likes of Limpbaugh and Reich Wing think tanks and some influencers like Jack Posobiec and Sundunce (Sundance at Conservative Tree House) and Ruzzian web brigades. As propaganda, they are cherry-picked factoids, deliberately misinterpreted data, and fakes like the fake digital message displayed Thursday at the attempted impeachment hearings.
By time it gets ingested by the suckers (of which there are many) and below average intelligentsia (of which there are 50%) it has the feel of truth but none of the substance. If you ask a magat why they think J6 was a false flag operation, they will vomit up Ray Epps and say he was an FBI plant that incited the whole thing with a bullhorn there on the day. Dig a bit deeper, asking how do you know Epps was FBI, they will say things like "It's obvious" since they don't know or will employ circular reasoning if you follow it enough. If you actually get them to look it up, their factoids are debunked by respectable media, but they have been pre-conditioned to disbelieve everything from mainstream media, because they believe they are bought and paid for by the Deep State.
Potemkin factoids and Deep State all-purpose bogeyman who is everywhere.
August 25, 2023
The standard go-to of the hard right (example "Freedom" caucus) is to claim everyone is corrupt except themselves and tRump.
Playbook:
Good news, but surprising to hear "Freedom" caucus guy saying "trust the judges/jurors/courts"
The standard go-to of the hard right (example "Freedom" caucus) is to claim everyone is corrupt except themselves and tRump.
Playbook:
- Can we call them stupid? (almost always)
- Can we claim they have been bought off with cash?
- Can we claim they are otherwise also corrupt?
- Can we claim they are evil-doers/psychopaths?
- Can we claim they are minions of Soros/Gates/Fauci/WEF/Illuminati?
- Can we claim they are Deep State / swampy?
- Can we claim they are satanic minions of the devil?
August 21, 2023
Cloud is fine for active stuff, and can be a second backup / archive, but it is out of your control and may disappear at any time. Twitter/X is an example of a cloud storage.
The basic rule is three copies of every file: #1 on device, #2 on backup at hand in the building, #3 offsite, such as in a safe-deposit box or in safekeeping with a friend or family member miles away. Every couple of months after backing up on #2, swap #2 with #3 and refresh #3.
If your house burns down you lose #1 and #2, but have #3, if number 3 is far enough away not to be caught up in the same wild-fire.
Archiving is a separate issue from backup. The purpose of an archive is to have a permanent copy of files because if you accidentally delete a file or a file gets damaged, after a while it will be missing from the backups or they will all have a damaged copy of the file. With an archive, you have a good chance of restoring the file.
Every few years, make two complete copies of all files that can be found and put one off-site. Never update the archive, like you refresh the backups.
Always backup and archive files, with a copy off-site, preferably not in the cloud
Cloud is fine for active stuff, and can be a second backup / archive, but it is out of your control and may disappear at any time. Twitter/X is an example of a cloud storage.
The basic rule is three copies of every file: #1 on device, #2 on backup at hand in the building, #3 offsite, such as in a safe-deposit box or in safekeeping with a friend or family member miles away. Every couple of months after backing up on #2, swap #2 with #3 and refresh #3.
If your house burns down you lose #1 and #2, but have #3, if number 3 is far enough away not to be caught up in the same wild-fire.
Archiving is a separate issue from backup. The purpose of an archive is to have a permanent copy of files because if you accidentally delete a file or a file gets damaged, after a while it will be missing from the backups or they will all have a damaged copy of the file. With an archive, you have a good chance of restoring the file.
Every few years, make two complete copies of all files that can be found and put one off-site. Never update the archive, like you refresh the backups.
August 1, 2023
AI has the potential to give humanity tremendous prosperity, but with the current setup, there will be billions out of work with no job prospects and the ultra-rich will be much richer again.
AI is very sustainable, but massive unemployment and even worse wealth and income inequality situation is completely unsustainable. Without fixing it will lead to terrible revolutions.
Better get taxes in place for ultrarich now. Wealth & income inequality already very bad
AI has the potential to give humanity tremendous prosperity, but with the current setup, there will be billions out of work with no job prospects and the ultra-rich will be much richer again.
AI is very sustainable, but massive unemployment and even worse wealth and income inequality situation is completely unsustainable. Without fixing it will lead to terrible revolutions.
July 25, 2023
Especially magats.
If something goes wrong, it's never because they made a bad decision or joined a stupid cult or weren't competent enough. Somebody else is to blame and can be hated.
If they can't afford a new $80k truck this year, it must be poor migrants stealing jobs. Never mind the illogic that poor migrants don't pull in enough money to afford a $10k used truck. Not when they are starting out.
If their kid didn't get into the college of their choice, it wasn't because they told their kid it is excusable to have a math block. It's because of Affirmative Action and DEI.
If their leader they adulate and pledge allegiance to is indicted multiple times, it's not him for criming and it's not them for following. It's the Deep State emulating a banana republic.
If they can't impose their religious beliefs on drag queens, doctors, birth control and librarians, it's not their concept of American rights that is backwards. It's the godless heathens imposing their sinful ways on god-fearing christians.
Hate is especially hot when it is jacked up and amped up by big money political influencers and third party disruptors and foreign bad actors.
Hate comes from looking outward for somebody to blame. RWAF and magats find it much more comfortable than looking inward.
Hate comes because RW Authoritarian Followers don't introspect. They look outward for blaming
Especially magats.
If something goes wrong, it's never because they made a bad decision or joined a stupid cult or weren't competent enough. Somebody else is to blame and can be hated.
If they can't afford a new $80k truck this year, it must be poor migrants stealing jobs. Never mind the illogic that poor migrants don't pull in enough money to afford a $10k used truck. Not when they are starting out.
If their kid didn't get into the college of their choice, it wasn't because they told their kid it is excusable to have a math block. It's because of Affirmative Action and DEI.
If their leader they adulate and pledge allegiance to is indicted multiple times, it's not him for criming and it's not them for following. It's the Deep State emulating a banana republic.
If they can't impose their religious beliefs on drag queens, doctors, birth control and librarians, it's not their concept of American rights that is backwards. It's the godless heathens imposing their sinful ways on god-fearing christians.
Hate is especially hot when it is jacked up and amped up by big money political influencers and third party disruptors and foreign bad actors.
Hate comes from looking outward for somebody to blame. RWAF and magats find it much more comfortable than looking inward.
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