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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 398059" data-attributes="member: 57984">Yes. And the US is trying to ban TikTok (or at least force its sale to American tech companies) not because &quot;China is using it to spy&quot; (which is stupid; China doesn&#039;t need frickin&#039; TikTok to spy) but because the intel agencies in the States can&#039;t control American independent news coverage on TikTok (because it&#039;s owned by China, an &#039;unfriendly&#039; nation) like those agencies do on most platforms owned by American tech companies or countries receptive to American intel influence and control.The Occupy Wall Street protests of a decade or so ago apparently genuinely frightened the employees of Wall Street firms (who knows how that may or may not have affected the owners -- or if they&#039;re even on site). Which led to the Woke emergence, an attempt to re-route the increasing public anger back onto itself, to get the underclasses to fight amongst themselves to deflect attention -- and rage -- away from what the rulers are really doing with all the money (which is the oldest political trick in the book: rile up the peasants against each other).Some corporate whistleblowers have even admitted such. It was on purpose.But many people -- either dumb or pretending to be -- still think Wokeness is a legitimate leftists movement designed to assist and support the marginalized and disaffected.Evil is not about a guy in a red suit with a pitchfork, but extreme selfishness and extreme greed -- and extreme selfishness and extreme greed always, always has a sadistic element at its core. Always. It is absolutely aware of it impact on its victims. And sadism is, of course, ultimately self-destructive. So the rulers&#039; willingness to destroy the peasants ultimately crosses over into a willingness to destroy themselves in the end.I mean, a spree shooter and the guy-that-pushes-the-button knows he&#039;s destroying himself, but he&#039;s willing to do so just to say &quot;eff you&quot; to God and objective morality for a few seconds before he himself is annihilated by his own actions. Like pursuing an orgasm you know will kill you -- but you&#039;re fine with that.That may sound like an excessive, perverse over-analysis. But it&#039;s not. It&#039;s what they&#039;re doing. And it&#039;s what they&#039;ve always been doing throughout human history -- and, presumably, always will.I think this was once referenced in the Apocrypha but got taken out for some reason.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 398059, member: 57984"] Yes. And the US is trying to ban TikTok (or at least force its sale to American tech companies) not because "China is using it to spy" (which is stupid; China doesn't need frickin' TikTok to spy) but because the intel agencies in the States can't control American independent news coverage on TikTok (because it's owned by China, an 'unfriendly' nation) like those agencies do on most platforms owned by American tech companies or countries receptive to American intel influence and control. The Occupy Wall Street protests of a decade or so ago apparently genuinely frightened the employees of Wall Street firms (who knows how that may or may not have affected the owners -- or if they're even on site). Which led to the Woke emergence, an attempt to re-route the increasing public anger back onto itself, to get the underclasses to fight amongst themselves to deflect attention -- and rage -- away from what the rulers are really doing with all the money (which is the oldest political trick in the book: rile up the peasants against each other). Some corporate whistleblowers have even admitted such. It was on purpose. But many people -- either dumb or pretending to be -- still think Wokeness is a legitimate leftists movement designed to assist and support the marginalized and disaffected. Evil is not about a guy in a red suit with a pitchfork, but extreme selfishness and extreme greed -- and extreme selfishness and extreme greed always, always has a sadistic element at its core. Always. It is absolutely aware of it impact on its victims. And sadism is, of course, ultimately self-destructive. So the rulers' willingness to destroy the peasants ultimately crosses over into a willingness to destroy themselves in the end. I mean, a spree shooter and the guy-that-pushes-the-button knows he's destroying himself, but he's willing to do so just to say "eff you" to God and objective morality for a few seconds before he himself is annihilated by his own actions. Like pursuing an orgasm you know will kill you -- but you're fine with that. That may sound like an excessive, perverse over-analysis. But it's not. It's what they're doing. And it's what they've always been doing throughout human history -- and, presumably, always will. I think this was once referenced in the Apocrypha but got taken out for some reason. [/QUOTE]

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