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Psychology of vaxxers. They are accepting the state into their body, becoming one with the government


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2021 Oct 22, 3:04pm   201,311 views  1,343 comments

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Maybe the battle is between those who unfairly benefit from credentialism, and those who don't.

Liberals defend their credentials which allow them to exploit those who don't have the same credentials. Credentials create monopolies, the ability to set high prices regardless of quality of service. It is a way to defeat free market competition.

The funding of universities depends entirely on the demand for their degrees, which they control. Their biggest horror would be a system where anyone could take tests to prove competence in a subject without paying for the years of classes and subjecting themselves to obedience to professors.

Thatcher and Trump refused to give the automatic respect many academics feel is their due. They gave the impression that they could see right through us, an uncomfortable feeling.
- Thomas Frank

Most of academia is less about learning than about paying for a paper proof of status and conformity. Non-conformists are expelled from schools, or failed out. Most teachers do not like their authority to be questioned. Bosses like the academic proof of conformity when they hire. The most "educated" are the most obedient.

Trump was a threat to their credentials and therefore a threat to their incomes and status.

The academic elite need a reason to hate those threatening themselves, therefore they use imaginary "racism", to which there is no defense. The accusation is the conviction.

Then they don't need to worry about the real class problem, which is independent of race. They would be uncomfortable looking at class, because they'd have to look at themselves and their unearned class privileges.

So their faith in the injection is faith in the "expert class" of which they are members, and they demand that the hoi polloi submit to it as an expression of the elite's power and prestige.



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46   RWSGFY   2021 Nov 16, 8:55pm  

Science-shmience. Do you know how I sit the smug cunts talking about how smart they are and how well-versed they are in "the science" right back on their sorry asses? I ask them to explain how a 4-cycle internal combustion engine works. Not a single cunt have been succesfull so far. Yes, I'm riot at parties.
47   Patrick   2021 Nov 16, 10:03pm  

Good quote from Thoreau in Walden on the psychology of vaxxers:


The old and infirm and the timid, of whatever age or sex, thought most of sickness, and sudden accident and death; to them life seemed full of danger—what danger is there if you don't think of any?—and they thought that a prudent man would carefully select the safest position, where Dr. B. might be on hand at a moment's warning. To them the village was literally a community, a league for mutual defence, and you would suppose that they would not go a–huckleberrying without a medicine chest. The amount of it is, if a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead–and–alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.
48   WookieMan   2021 Nov 16, 10:39pm  

FuckCCP89 says
Science-shmience. Do you know how I sit the smug cunts talking about how smart they are and how well-versed they are in "the science" right back on their sorry asses? I ask them to explain how a 4-cycle internal combustion engine works. Not a single cunt have been succesfull so far. Yes, I'm riot at parties.

Lol. Skip the ICE, most cannot even change a god damn tire. Most "educated" men don't even own tools or would know what to do with them.
49   HeadSet   2021 Nov 17, 11:47am  

FuckCCP89 says
Science-shmience. Do you know how I sit the smug cunts talking about how smart they are and how well-versed they are in "the science" right back on their sorry asses? I ask them to explain how a 4-cycle internal combustion engine works. Not a single cunt have been succesfull so far. Yes, I'm riot at parties.

Those smug cunts may think an ICE is workmen's tech and beneath them, and they have higher academic skills. Even so, they would have trouble explaining Archimedes' Principle, and Archimedes' Principle is clearly "science." They known it involves dunking a crown in water, but then no clue how that act establishes how much of the crown is gold vs silver.

Patnetters would remember the bit about a nekkid guy running down the street.
50   richwicks   2021 Nov 17, 1:53pm  

HeadSet says
Those smug cunts may think an ICE is workmen's tech and beneath them, and they have higher academic skills. Even so, they would have trouble explaining Archimedes' Principle, and Archimedes' Principle is clearly "science." They known it involves dunking a crown in water, but then no clue how that act establishes how much of the crown is gold vs silver.


If you think about it, unless that crown was extremely heavy not much gold could have been stolen from it, and a man was executed for it.

I always found that story messed up.

BTW - amount of water it displaces gives volume, volume/weight gives density. If there's only 2 metals in it, you can determine the ratio of those two metals.

WRT to an ICE - I'm pretty certain it goes like this:

1) upstroke - pulls in gasoline vapor and air mixture
2) downstroke - compress vapor mixture
3) upstroke - ignite fuel mixture just at it starts on the upstroke
4) downstroke - expel burnt air/fuel mixture

Go back to step 1

If I'm wrong, well, I've never worked on an ICE engine before, but I did once look them up. Transaxels are interesting. For a while, I was interested in the old vocational videos that used to be given to high school students in the 50's and 60's. Everybody should have a basic idea of how everything works. I find most people can't explain an incandescent light bulb, much less a CFL or LED.
51   HeadSet   2021 Nov 17, 2:23pm  

richwicks says
For a while, I was interested in the old vocational videos that used to be given to high school students in the 50's and 60's.


Check this out, and see how well our ancestors explained mechanical devices:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
52   Patrick   2021 Nov 17, 7:45pm  

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kim-iversen-austria-lock-down-unvaccinated-uk-boosters/


11/17/21

COVID › VIEWS

Iversen: Locking Down Unvaccinated-Only ‘Not About Science, It’s About Punishing People’
On the latest episode of The Hill’s “Rising,” journalist and political commentator Kim Iversen discussed strict lockdowns for the unvaccinated only in Austria, and the UK’s new policy requiring three shots as proof of being “fully vaccinated.”


Indeed. It's about punishing "wrongthink".
53   Automan Empire   2021 Nov 17, 8:13pm  

richwicks says

1) upstroke - pulls in gasoline vapor and air mixture
2) downstroke - compress vapor mixture
3) upstroke - ignite fuel mixture just at it starts on the upstroke
4) downstroke - expel burnt air/fuel mixture


You got up and down backwards. Up is piston at the top of the cylinder by the valves, down is at the bottom away from the valves at maximum cylinder volume. Therefore on stroke one, the piston moves down and away from the valves, allowing air/fuel to flow into the intake valve.

The cycles are called intake, compression, power, exhaust. Or the mnemonic my edgy High School auto shop teacher gave it:

Suck
Squeeze
Bang
Blow
54   HeadSet   2021 Nov 18, 8:11am  

Automan Empire says
The cycles are called intake, compression, power, exhaust.

When I was in High School, this was taught in Driver's Ed, along with basics on how a transmission, steering, brakes, and differential work.
55   Patrick   2021 Nov 20, 6:39pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/how-to-clown-yourself/comments


Writes AlmostWrong’s Newsletter ·13 hr ago
It cannot be ruled out it might be human nature to coerce others to do what you have already done because you feel insecure and underconfident about the possibility that what you have done is right.

If this is true, then forcing others to do things that you've already done might be a way to cope with uncertainty and existential insecurity. This doesn't lower the risk that what one did was wrong, just that you now have everyone on board and cannot take blame singularly.
56   richwicks   2021 Nov 20, 7:17pm  

Automan Empire says
The cycles are called intake, compression, power, exhaust. Or the mnemonic my edgy High School auto shop teacher gave it:

Suck
Squeeze
Bang
Blow


I'm close enough, and that made me laugh.

I understand the basics of a 4 cylinder and can expand that to 6 and 8 and 12. I can certainly understand it, and if I was in a post nuclear world war, I could reproduce it although I'd defer to you in that case. I can make a crappy battery as well.

But wait my understanding is that:

1) on the upstroke the fuel air mixture is being drawn in
2) on the download the fuel air mixture is being compressed via momentum.
3) at maximum compression, the fuel air/mixture is ignited to push up the piston.
4) after the explosion the spent fuel is expelled and be go back to step 1 again.

How did I get that upside down and backwards?
57   Onvacation   2021 Nov 20, 7:47pm  

richwicks says

How did I get that upside down and backwards?

Because the crankshaft is on bottom and the piston goes down when it sucks in the gas.
58   richwicks   2021 Nov 20, 8:06pm  

Onvacation says
richwicks says

How did I get that upside down and backwards?

Because the crankshaft is on bottom and the piston goes down when it sucks in the gas.


I still think I got it correct? Piston is at the bottom and when it draws up via momentum, it sucks in the gas/air mixture. At the bottom of a stroke, right after it expels the spent fuel, it starts drawing in a new explosive mixture, and when it hits the downstroke through momentum, it's ignited pushing it up and doing work, and that's spent fuel and it expels the spent fuel, and so on.
59   Automan Empire   2021 Nov 20, 8:52pm  

richwicks says
I still think I got it correct? Piston is at the bottom


See if this helps. This is the orientation usually used when describing reciprocating engine cycles.


60   richwicks   2021 Nov 21, 5:34am  

Automan Empire says


Haha. That explains it. In my mind, I always see the piston being below the crankshaft. I see the picture upside down when I mentally visualize it.
61   Automan Empire   2021 Nov 21, 1:57pm  

richwicks says
I always see the piston being below the crankshaft.


Engines are almost never built like that because of the problems of oil on the underside of the piston. Even horizontally opposed "pancake" engines like VW and Subaru are an engineering challenge to control oil with horizontal cylinders. Old radial engine aircraft are the only ones coming to mind which routinely mount cylinders piston-down relative to the crankshaft. Some of these burned castor oil in a continuous loss system; they had an oil tank on board as large or larger than the fuel tank because of this, because it's more expedient than getting a traditional oil sump somehow working on this configuration. Castor plants still grow wild around the empty spaces of Los Angeles thanks to our aerospace history.
62   richwicks   2021 Nov 21, 2:12pm  

Automan Empire says
Engines are almost never built like that because of the problems of oil on the underside of the piston.


There's a big difference between understanding the principle and a practical design.

I'm dealing with that in a communication protocol. Excellent principles, horrific design.
63   GNL   2021 Nov 21, 2:34pm  

Automan Empire says
richwicks says
I still think I got it correct? Piston is at the bottom


See if this helps. This is the orientation usually used when describing reciprocating engine cycles.



So it fires every other rotation?
64   richwicks   2021 Nov 21, 3:08pm  

WineHorror1 says
So it fires every other rotation?


Nope, every other.

This is actually why I have a general idea of how one works. I used to think it fired every rotation and one day I was like "wait a minute - how would that work??" so I looked it up but the drawings I saw were upside down, and now that's the way I have thought of it since until I was just recently corrected.

With a diesel engine there is no sparkplug either. The compression itself causes the air/fuel mixture to get hot enough to ignite (PV=nRT).

Everybody should have a general idea of how everything works. I went into engineering thinking everything was complicated - it's not. Everything is simple and ingenious. You'd be surprised how simple a computer really is. It's just fast. The only complexity are algorithms and once you understand those, they are simple too.
65   GNL   2021 Nov 21, 3:23pm  

richwicks says
Nope, every other.

That's what I said...every other.
66   richwicks   2021 Nov 21, 3:24pm  

WineHorror1 says
richwicks says
Nope, every other.

That's what I said...every other.


Yeah, you did. I'm entirely sober today too.
67   HeadSet   2021 Nov 21, 5:27pm  

richwicks says
I used to think it fired every rotation

That would be a two-stroke, like in some old dirt bike or outboard boat engines. For some of the older folks, you may remember the Cox .049 engine for the string controlled flying model planes. That little two stroke had a glow head, with the fuel squirting right on the glow head through a hole in the center of the piston, at every top dead center.
68   Patrick   2021 Nov 23, 7:23pm  

https://covidreason.substack.com/p/weve-lost-our-ever-luvin-minds-virtue


Nothing says I’m better than you than donning a mask for no particular reason at all and then posting a photo of it online to demonstrate that virtue!



69   Patrick   2021 Nov 23, 10:18pm  

https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/mocking-coronamania


During Coronamania, many people have validated and internalized others’ Covid fear level, because doing so is seen as "empathetic" and "nice." Some have told me they’re deliberately accommodating others’ fear. Others may be doing so reflexively. I‘m reminded of the Woody Allen movie, Zelig, in which the title character pathologically takes on the personalities of those around him in order to fit in and gain acceptance.

In sports, coaches or commentators sometimes sometimes say a team is “playing down to another team’s level,” i.e., playing poorly and out of synch because that’s what their opponent is doing. But should everyday people dysfunctionally descend into the viral fear abyss of those around them? Empathy isn’t always good; it can be misplaced and damaging. Acting as if Covid fear is rational enables more fear among the fearful. It’s the adult version of affirming that maybe there is a monster under your bed. It’s like buying beer for an alcoholic friend.
71   Patrick   2021 Nov 25, 7:27pm  

https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/ignorant-and-afraid


As members of this privileged, sheltered class, politicians and bureaucrats have absorbed the virus hysteria that they helped seed in their social milieu. ...

Merkel’s remarkable virus paranoia, quietly acknowledged by the press now for months, explains her fixation on social isolation, closures and curfews as the only acceptable pandemic policies.

She is a 67 year-old sedentary woman who likely suffers from one or more undisclosed health problems. And she is surrounded by other older, unfit government officials, like 73 year-old interior minister Horst Seehofer, who nearly died of a B19 virus infection in 2002, and so has a reason to fear viral infection. For months and months, all of these people have been taking every possible personal precaution – including house-arresting the entire domestic populations of the countries they govern – in the vain hope of escaping Corona.

You could feel their collective relief when the vaccines were rolled out. All of them eagerly accepted vaccination. ...

To the profound disappointment of Merkel and everybody like her, the vaccines have not eradicated Corona. Every day, the prospect of personal infection looms for these people as a new, uncomfortable certainty. Every day, they and the rest of the work-from-home bureaucracy become ever more terrified. The prime minister of Austria is so afraid that he has confined all unvaccinated Austrians to their homes. When asked, he declared that this measure would have no end date. The Chief Minister of Australia’s Northern Territory is terrified. New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern is terrified.

You know who isn’t terrified right now? Everyone outside these circles. I and many of the people I know have had Corona, and we’re not terrified. Blue-collar workers have mostly been infected, and they’re not terrified. Grocery clerks, nurses, police officers and bus drivers aren’t terrified. All of the terror is at the top, blaring down at us all of the time. All these people know they are going to get sick in the next few months, and they are railing against this reality. ...

All in all, it is the hive-mind that has been vastly more successful at understanding what is going on – not only as far as Corona, but everywhere. This has been obvious now for years. It is even true in my own field, where the official discourse suffers from a pervasive, unoriginal banality, while alternative theories pondered by intelligent outsiders and anonymous Twitter accounts become every day vastly more interesting. The reasons are simple: There are more people involved; the barriers to publishing are lower; nodes that provide bad analysis are easily removed; the thinkers are more thoroughly networked to each other; they gather audiences solely on the basis of their ability; they consider everything, not just the official line.

Meanwhile, it is only official, curated information that is allowed to inform bureaucratic decisions. Products of the hive-mind are deliberately excluded, via gate-keeping mechanisms like peer review and credentialism. All of the terrified Angela Merkels of the world act within an environment of outdated, poor-quality information, all the time. ...

The problem with curated information isn’t just that it is slow, subject to inertia, and produced by insular out-of-touch functionaries. Because the information has political importance, there are incentives everywhere to manipulate and degrade its quality. Bureaucratic actors will lie about what is going on to curry favour, save face or evade blame. What is more, many advisers, analysts and modellers are only in the position of providing analysis in the first place, because we need more women in STEM, or because they tell the Faucis of the world what they want to hear, or because they have the right combination of sociopathy and narrow-mindedness necessary to ascend complex bureaucratic hierarchies.

Corona policies really are as stupid as they look. Politicians and bureaucrats have locked themselves into a sad parody of the film Contagion, and their increasingly unsustainable, erratic behaviour merely reflects their desperation.
73   Patrick   2021 Nov 29, 10:15pm  

https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/the-ideology-of-corona-containment

The Ideology of Corona Containment
The system of political beliefs and demands that have grown up around mass containment increasingly resemble a novel, malignant ideological system. ...

First-world democracies are anything but systems for channelling the will of the people. Instead, with the rise of mass media and mass society, they have become elaborate consensus-farming operations. Unique in history, they are governing systems that use mass media to call into being the phenomenon of public opinion, which is then shaped by a combination of propaganda and political participation into a tool of governance and consensus in its own right. The majority is thus first acclimated to the agenda of the state, and then deployed to enforce governmental directives and to repress dissidents, the non-compliant and, increasingly, even the disinterested. Corona containment is an obvious product of a system like this, depending as it does on widely distributed consensus policies that are enforced less by the police than by enthusiastic majorities deputised by journalists.
74   tanked   2021 Nov 30, 11:41am  

That's insightful.

You saw Kamala in the VP debates try to pull this with her statement of "I'm the only one here who prosecuted..."

That was her job title, prosecutor.

Versus just discuss and debate the actual issues.

Should Pence have dropped to her level and said "I'm the only one here who Vice Presided"? He could have but didn't.
75   Patrick   2021 Nov 30, 11:33pm  

https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/bus-rides-boxers-and-covid-myth-busters


The mainstream media notion that all people were at serious risk from this virus would not have made sense to those who considered real life, directly observed data about how very few people they knew—or knew of—had died with this infection, or how old or unhealthy those who died already were. Passing your local hospital would not have revealed lines of people laying on stretchers on the sidewalk. People should have noticed that people they knew had tested positive without manifesting serious symptoms. Multiple recent infections among the “vaccinated” people they know should reveal that the vaxxes have been badly oversold.
76   richwicks   2021 Nov 30, 11:46pm  

Patrick says
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/bus-rides-boxers-and-covid-myth-busters


The mainstream media notion that all people were at serious risk from this virus would not have made sense to those who considered real life, directly observed data about how very few people they knew—or knew of—had died with this infection, or how old or unhealthy those who died already were. Passing your local hospital would not have revealed lines of people laying on stretchers on the sidewalk. People should have noticed that people they knew had tested positive without manifesting serious symptoms. Multiple recent infections among the “vaccinated” people they know should reveal that the vaxxes have been badly oversold.


Doesn't it suck that we are now made dependent on anecdotal evidence since our "reliable sources" now lie to us?

This is like petting a dog from the tail to the head. I hate it, but at this point, it seems to be a reasonable way to pet a dog. At least the fleas are jumping out.
78   Patrick   2021 Dec 1, 1:56pm  

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/84566?mailing_id=6309&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_content=body


DECEMBER 1, 2021
An ‘Abundance of Caution’ Mentality Leads to Tyranny
Our public officials are pathologically incapable of humility.




79   Ceffer   2021 Dec 1, 2:22pm  

Like the rest of the pandemic, Omicron is assertion fallacy from the usual suspects. Never mentioned are standards of diagnosis, published genome of variant, what institutions conduct the diagnosis, what tests do they use, who did they test, where did they test, why did they test, how did they isolate and culture the alleged variant etc. etc.

All we get is corrupt mouthpiece assertion fallacy followed by unwarranted and near instantaneous executive fiat oppression.
82   Patrick   2021 Dec 5, 8:39pm  

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-god-that-failed?source=patrick.net


Instead, try one simple question. The simplest possible. The public health equivalent of Ronald Reagan’s, Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

The question is this: If the vaccines work, what’s going on?

Remind them: We are almost a year into mass vaccination campaigns. Even before they began, public health experts and media and politicians explicitly and repeatedly promised that vaccines would end the epidemic if enough people took them.

Now the United States and especially Europe have vaccinated vast numbers of their citizens with mRNA and DNA vaccines that appeared hugely effective in clinical trials. In many European countries, over 90 percent of all adults are vaccinated.

Yet not only has Covid not disappeared, many of those same countries, like Denmark, are now seeing record levels of infections.
83   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2021 Dec 5, 9:03pm  

Patrick says


Remember Patty Hearst? There’s a name for her condition, I forgot the term, when victim surrenders and takes up oppressors cause.
84   Patrick   2021 Dec 7, 1:48pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/control-the-language-control-the?source=patrick.net





examples of this from “vaccine” to “herd immunity” to “woman” abound. the point is to erect a semantic smokescreen and weaponize language into politics. it becomes a tool to obscure rather than reveal and to slant rather than facilitate discourse.






this will snowball until it blocks out all the sunlight of reason. this is where intellectual blind spots and dark ages come from.

the only answer is to push back and push back HARD.
85   Patrick   2021 Dec 7, 10:05pm  

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/stories-that-the-press-will-not-cover?source=patrick.net


Caroline Stepovich has been a nurse for the past 37 years.

She got COVID and recovered. She still suffers from long-haul symptoms.

She isn’t vaccinated, she knows the vaccine are dangerous, she knows too many vaccine injured, and there is no way she’s going to get the vaccine. No benefit, only risk to her. It would be a really dumb decision.

She is shunned by all her vaccinated friends (including other nurses) who:

blame her for the pandemic

feel it is dangerous to be around her

say she is selfish

say that she isn’t “a team player”

claim she is evil for not doing the right thing by getting vaccinated.

She calmly tells her friends that as someone who is COVID recovered, she is much safer to be around since even if she gets re-infected, she cannot transmit the virus. And furthermore, if she does get re-infected, she won’t get hospitalized or die.

Caroline is superior to her vaccinated friends from both a risk and burden perspective. She can’t infect her friends and she isn’t a burden on society if she gets re-infected. Her friends don’t have a single advantage over her in any way.

Her friends tell her that what she said isn’t true and is misinformation.

Wow. What Caroline says comes right from the CDC (showing if you are COVID recovered you can’t transmit a subsequent infection) and a Harvard study (showing people who have recovered immunity don’t get reinfected).

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