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I cannot say I am an expert in modern celebrity worship, but when I was a young buck, it seemed there were always Rock BANDs, where a group of guys made big music together, and you heard it everywhere, and everyone knew who they were. For that matter there were boy bands too, where groups of guys sang and danced together, but those were mostly for girls. The bands had names like Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Foo Fighters, POD, Guns and Roses, Metallica, and so on. I listened to the bands while lifting, and still do. But even if you did not listen to them, they were everywhere. They were in news stories on the sidebars of the New York Post, on TV playing at SNL, in local news for holding concerts, and you’d even hear the songs in movies, and commercials. Is it me, or are there no current rock bands today they way there were back then? For that matter, is there even new rock music, or am I completely out of current events in that sphere? Last I saw Gene Simmons is still doing concerts, but he is no spring chicken. I was just wondering to myself today, if the concept of a band subtly imbued young men with the assumption you joined a team of friends and worked together to do big things everybody else looked up to, and they were trying to eschew that, in favor of supplying the image of lone singers who went it alone and were the stars of their own show, so young guys would adopt that model in their own lives and stay isolated as they struggled to succeed. It is just a strange thing I noticed – the disappearance of the band.
Apple and Google have come forward to disclose that between November 2020 and March 2021, the Department of Justice issued nine secret subpoenas and warrants to them for the private information of Project Veritas journalists and their security details. There are no rules, and this is not a free republic where you have rights and privacy, especially if you are in politics in any way.
Clinton/Soros ‘anti-corruption’ unit head who ran an anticorruption operation in Ukraine that was a Soros/cabal construct set up completely outside Ukrainian law is fired. This organization was releasing fake-ledgers in conjunction with the Hillary campaign, trying to make it look like Trump’s people were taking payoffs. Article indicates it is unclear what the firing means.
From the comments, a great twitter thread from a guy who ran for office to be one of three auditors of a township. That is the threadreader link, this is the twitter link which has some comments. (Twitter will try to make you sign in. Click to sign in, then hit the x in the sign-in window to kill it without signing in, and it will send you back to the tweet where you can read comments.) He won the election, but the town just ignored the election, refused to seat him, and announced they had hired their own auditor. He found another guy who had also won to be one of the other two auditors, and the town had done the same thing to him, and just ignored the election, and he finally gave up. What he doesn’t know is his neighbors are presently listening in his house, he is being followed around, and they are desperately hoping to find some blackmail on him before this goes any further. Nothing works the way you think, and people who say, you should just follow such and such procedure don’t understand this is not Cabal’s first rodeo.
Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao would ‘wake up’ every day and wonder how they’d ‘manage’ Trump after the 2020 election, according to a new book. The wife is as involved in Cabal operations and day to day things as the husband. I will bet she was sent in to bang him, and was able to turn it into a longer-term operation.
Virginia ends all taxes on purchases of Silver, Gold, Platinum and Palladium. My first thought is, what do the local spooks know that has them buying up so much PM that they decided to make the state government do this?
Long article, the gist of which is, top DOD spook overseer is forced out for unclear reasons. He was having relationships with subordinates, but nobody cared. What was interesting was Elizondo decided to not read him in on the UFO project, and instead went around him and directly over him to top brass as a chain of command. As a result he was pissed at Elizondo and tried to wreck his security clearance in retaliation, and also tried to deny the UFO stuff was real. Then he botched the Afghan withdrawal, or at least was in a position to absorb the blame, and now he is out. No idea what it means or if it was related, but I tend to not trust top brass, so now I question Elizondo, though it all is highly murky. None of it might have any significance. Though in this tumultuous time, any change of guard is interesting.
New York Subway shooter called cops and told them he was at McDonalds, and they should come and pick him up. Responding officers found him nearby.
Police say 33 shots were fired on the train. So he made it through a full mag, and then had an unclearable jam 3 rounds into his second mag in a Glock, while spring pressure was still maxed out? And for those who don’t know, 33 is supposedly a Masonic number which they seem to use almost as a signature on their work product. So there is another coincidence there.
17 Los Angeles gangs target and rob rich people, Police say. I keep thinking if I post these all the time, sooner or later we will see a pattern in the news that comes after.
DOD awarded a contract in November 2019 for ‘COVID-19 Research,’ to take place in Ukraine, and it was in fact part of a much larger contract for a ‘Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine.’ The name COVID-19 was not officially bestowed on the virus until mid-February of the next year. So the article thinks either somebody is going back and altering contract info in the database months later, or the name was known prior to the official naming. But I would assume it possible something was updated in teh database as the contracts went on. It seems too blatant a mistake.
Director Jean-Marc Vallee’s cause of death revealed as ‘fatal cardiac arrhythmia secondary to severe coronary atherosclerosis.’ Like you would get if the vax inflamed your venous epithelial linings.
Cedric McMillan, a champion American bodybuilder, has died at the age of 44, after he reportedly suffered a heart attack while on a treadmill. They are claiming it was long-COVID, but no word on if he got the Vax.
Huge rise in ‘unexplained heart attacks’ in Australia.
Middle school students were given $2000 to help pay for Student Drag Show in Bellingham, WA.
Fatal drug overdoses among America’s teens up 94%.
Former Reddit Chief uses ‘free-speechers’ as a pejorative term.
Farmers will soon no longer be able to purchase antibiotics over the counter to have on hand to treat livestock as soon as they get ill, unless they have a veterinarian who will give them a prescription. And as the article notes at the end, there is a shortage of rural veterinarians to fill the role.
New Mexico is paying college tuition for illegal immigrants with COVID relief funds.
Anybody know where we can buy a kit like this? Could be useful given what is coming under Biden:
Sri Lanka declares bankruptcy.
Britain’s first gay Muslim politician found guilty of sexual assault on teen boy.
Russia seize drones capable of spraying chemicals from tanks mounted on the drone from overrun Ukrainian encampments. Little worrying, in that you have a bioweapons program right there, and not every pathogen sprayed will begin killing immediately. Were they already used, and if so will Russia immediately escalate in response if they were?
More than $7 billion of assets suspected of belonging to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich were just frozen by the Government of the island state of Jersey. It is apparently a small Island off the coast of France which must have been acting as a tax-haven/covert-banking-center. The big question is, who gets this money now? It is possible his money is not his, but rather belongs to Russian crypto-elites who now are pissed at this full on Kleptocracy, which could easily drive them into a war-footing.
Roman Abramovich’s $120M Riviera mansion seized by French authorities.
$800 million more of US funds going to Ukraine.
The Russian military said it could target decision-makers in Kiev if Ukraine continues attempting attacks on Russian soil. All wars should presuppose that the leaders who created them would be the most desirable targets. I would much rather see Zelensky and all the politicians of Ukraine killed, than one 19 year old apple-cheeked Ukrainian Marine.
Sweden to apply for NATO membership and Finland to decide “within weeks.”
Russia ‘moves heavy military equipment towards Finnish border.’ This is really a stay in your lane thing. These countries were left alone before. Lets go back to that, and stop trying to piss Russia off. Because this feels like it could spiral, and that is what these people want.
Steven Seagal has expressed his unwavering support for Vladimir Putin and his allies, even as most of the Western world turns its back on the Russian president following the invasion of Ukraine. I’m not even friends with Putin, and I support him against Ukraine and all the corrupt Cabal assholes operating out of there with Biden and our branch of Cabal.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano – “We are facing a global coup that involves both civil society and the Church.” Vox Day had an even better Vigano piece.
Huge protest of Bill Gates at his TED Talk, as masses shout, “Arrest Bill Gates.”
Jewish approval of Biden drops to 63% from 80% last year. Poll is probably bullshit, but it is so bad they have to show some kind of drop.
White House blasts Texas for new border checks, blames Abbott for ‘significant disruptions.’
Texas Governor Abbott strikes deal with Mexican state of Nuevo Leon to police border.
Spread r/K Theory, because there are 33 reasons and 17 benefits.
“It is just a strange thing I noticed – the disappearance of the band.”
Weezer called it, you definitely are describing the past AC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4
This was on Weezer’s latest album, a compilation of 80’s covers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5Dwg5zm2U
Can’t forget this one(complete with the Stranger Things kids):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7RwDnZI7Tw
Or maybe you’re a Metalica fan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riLJwQ9PqKM
Off the top of my head, I can think of only one new rock “band” … and that’s from several years ago: Greta Van Fleet. However, if you get out of the “rock” genre, there are some newer bands out there. But nothing like, say, there was 25 years ago.
https://youtu.be/aJg4OJxp-co
“Virginia ends all taxes on purchases of Silver, Gold, Platinum and Palladium. My first thought is, what do the local spooks know that has them buying up so much PM that they decided to make the state government do this?”
Stacking is an IQ test. If you’re lacking a stack your brain is whack.
Prob has to do with RUS moves re pymnt for gas. And global repatriation of metallic assets. And the fact that what happened to the world’s gold post US going off std in 1971 under Nixon (pbuh).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX1oIEFvx-k
Interesting timing for that theory to be spotlighted. There’s recently less resistance to the possibility of abiotic oil than there was just a few years ago (when scientist types would dismiss it out of hand, and shills would descend like flying monkeys on any discussion thread about it), and now the argue point seems to be pivoting to the amount of abiotic oil there is. Theorists say endless amounts, former resisters say such small amounts as to not be worth tapping. As with most such things, the answer probably falls somewhere in the middle. Perhaps in the middle of the jealously guarded Arctic.
“Republicans want to overturn Biden’s move to cancel a nuclear-tipped sub-launched cruise missile proposed by Trump.”
The slcm-n is slow and big, and range limited, so not a good 1st strike weapon, but it could be a decent 2nd strike weapon. Any nuke that goes on subs is survivable and therefore good at preventing nuclear war.
Since an attack sub could probably only carry a dozen or so tops, it wouldn’t be very good at attacking missile silos deep inside China or Russia. It would be very good at attacking Chinese coastal cities in a 2nd strike, or hitting Iran or North Korea, but again these things take hours to arrive at their targets and have warheads that are smaller (under 200 kilotons). So only good for city busting or maybe some tactical use, if the yield is dialed down.
Why is China having Biden weaken the US 2nd strike retaliation forces?
“Alzheimer’s like brain damage caused by the COVID vaccine may be more prevalent than brain damage caused by naturally acquired virus, according to a a senior research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
Prions. Guaranteed death in 5 years if vaxxed. Sorry.
But there’s always eternal life if you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
“Two inmates at all-women’s New Jersey jail are PREGNANT after both had sex with transgender prisoners once the ACLU won a battle to house 27 trans inmates there.”
Let me translate that into Libfaganese:
“Two birthing bodies at a Womyn’s institution are full of fetal parasites after experiencing girl penis once the Chosen ones won a jihad to house 27 trans-heroes there.”
“Sri Lanka declares bankruptcy.”
Somebody stopped buying the kids they were selling.
Game of Thrones, you say?
“Game Of Thrones Actress Souad Faress Falsely Accuses Man Of Rape For Walking Past Her.”
“Souad Faress is a Ghanaian actress who lives in Ireland and has accused Mark Pearson of sexual assault and harassment after he went past her in a London train station.”
Did he look like someone who actually did do that to her? The acting profession sure seems to have a lot of messed up people.
Like psychiatry, it seems to be a particularly attractive career for certain mentalities.
There are still bands out there but it’s almost impossible for them to hit the big time/become famous.
The business has changed in that the money is now made by touring instead of album sales. Plus the rock industry was always a White people thing so in the current day…
Speaking of cultural changes, I’ve recently been thinking of how interpersonal relationships between my parents (Silent) generation and my own Gen X were very different. And also what brought them about.
For example, in my parent’s generation the young people always did things as couples. All their lives they partied, vacationed, and did every social function as couples. Contrast this with my own experience where you had one weekend night where you spent time with your girlfriend and the other night you and your buddies went out to party together. I mean sometimes there would be couples oriented activities but it was the exception.
Plus, I’m not sure when the change happened. I mean Thin Lizzy’s 70s hit “The Boys are Back in Town” was before my time and yet it speaks to my experience. But in the 60s media I’ve seen it still seemed to be couples dominated.
Anyway, it’s obvious that the couples-oriented set-up would be better suited for a high functioning society in general. Pair-bonding would be much stronger resulting in tighter family units, bigger family size, and degenerate faggots being ostracized to the outskirts of society like they should be.
After the collapse Whites should make the couples thing mandatory for our young people. The lesser races can continue living like animals.
I just wonder if there is anything we see that isn’t purposely them presenting images to us. If they wanted us to see bands, I am sure they would find a way for five or six to really dominate some way and get in front of us, by faking iTunes numbers, which they would somehow have convinced everyone were all important, or something else.
But you are right about the shift in relationships. I almost wonder how much of that type of change in that type of thing could be their agents among the schoolkids. When I went to school, I really didn’t give a fuck about a lot of things, and as a result, I could have followed other kid’s leads, if they began freaking out about doing something. A lot of kids in my area went to the local mall. I always thought it silly, because it was a ways away. And you go the mall, and there are all these kids just standing around the entrance to the mall doing nothing. They could have done that at the local park, or the bowling alley, or the train station. But it had to be the mall for some reason. (Of course now I wonder if those kids who were always talking about going to the mall were on surveillance duty.)
It could have just happened. But if Cabal had one kid in each group of ten push all their friends to go the mall, there would be nine who didn’t care and did it, and now they are controlling what those kids, ie us, think is normal. We will find that tendency of most of us to go with the flow, and not have established ideas of what we should be doing, and to look at others as normal, could allow us to be shunted into patterns by any operation which covertly was giving our “friends” orders to push all of us to do one set of things as if they were normal.
They have had a lot more power over us than we would think.
I assume everything we see is a fake and ghey image “they” want us to see. I did assume bands were still out there (the Boomer bands won’t hang it up and retire). I just don’t pay attention to them. Most of them to me are just noise like nails on a chalkboard. Boomers do not have very good taste in music.I assume since most of their music was composed and performed while the band was stoned, it can’t be appreciated if you’re not stoned also, and I haven’t done drugs (I’ve had more than my share of alcohol, but never drugs).
I was so happy when mp3s came out. I ripped all of my CDs to iTunes a long time ago and just listened to my own stuff. If I heard a song while I was out that I liked, I’d Shazam it and find a way to get it. I’ve since added Apple Music (I tried a few of those services) so I can get most of the music I want. But I mostly listen to Christian Contemporary and 80’s pop and rock.
I also liked mp3s because I can just get the song I want. Remember the bad old days of having to spend $20 on a CD for ONE GOOD SONG and the rest are filler? Same goes for cassettes and records.
I remember the era you mentioned. G&R never really resonated with me. I have a few of their songs, but I tend to skip them when Apple Music plays them. I never got into the “grunge” scene, because every song and band sounded like a carbon copy of every other one. But that was the 90’s for you: the Xerox Decade.
“Normies” are big on music discovery; I guess because that’s what “they” promote. I’ll pick up a few new songs a year if I hear something I like, but it’s rare. I tend to hate the musical tastes of the people who do most shows I watch, but I’ve gotten a few decent songs that way.
On that “they have a lot more power …” thing – Robert Epstein talks about how efficient Google/Facebook/etc are at exerting that kind of influence/power. The “Let’s go to the mall” is less efficient, so nobody goes to the mall anymore.
The longer video is scarier, the written article is here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/10-ways-big-tech-can-shift-millions-of-votes-in-the-november-elections-without-anyone-knowing_2671195.html
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Couples are examples of patriachical oppression, and no true wymyn would consent to giving up her personal freedom to be limited by such a thing.
Rock BANDs
The answer is extremely simple. The Jews run the record industry. They made their money from albums and CD’s. Pirating killed that. A random graph I found.
No CD sales, no publicity. They used to pump everything up. Even paying DJ’s to play albums. I read an autobiography on Motley Crue and they said one album they paid many thousands of dollars to get airtime on radio.
A simple example is I have about 600 vinyl albums, about 200 CD’s but haven’t bought one in decades. Multiply me times 100 million or so.
Books the same. I have no idea how many books I have. Shelves full but I haven’t bought a book in a very long time. Certainly over ten years.
Artist are going back to the same funding pattern that existed before recorded music. Live performances.
This would likely cause the rise of all this classic music on the radio. I mean who knows who to play? No one pays you any more for the latest thing so they just keep playing the same stuff. This is blamed on boomers but I expect it the lack of payola that’s causing this and no one wants to be the sap that plays, ( the latest thing), wrong stuff and looks foolish.
What if you were Cabal and you needed to expand the american military by at least 1 to 1.5 million men quickly because WW3 was coming? Wouldn’t all those undocumented military age men pouring over the border be the perfect answer? Here is your path to citizenship take it or leave it? As a bonus they will still vote democrat alive or dead. Just my 2 cents worth!
they are more likely to be used against the native citizens.
I’m sure they are counting n this.
>you heard it everywhere
I rarely listen to music anymore. I am always amazed when songs which had come out and were popular when I was in high school still get played as commonly as they did then or almost, and its even worse with classic rock. How many times can you listen to a song before you go “Ok, I may like that song, but I have heard it so many times i’ll be ok never hearing it again.” I can only imagine how sick of their own shit guys in popular bands probably get.
Boomer music gets that treatment the worst. Those 50 year “classic” songs need to be retired.
https://www.hiphopisread.com/2012/04/secret-meeting-that-changed-rap-music.html?m=1
Couldn’t resist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ndb_lt4xA
Rock Bands – Part 1 – GNR / U2 / Foo Fighters
In 1991, Guns n’ Roses’ released Use Your Illusion 1&2. That was one of the biggest topics of discussion among male teens, and their song You Could Be Mine was the song everyone remembered from that summer’s biggest movie, Terminator 2. They were at the peak of their power, so it was very strange that that was their last hurrah. Sure, they released some more work later, but none of that really had any impact on the broader culture.
AC makes the contrast between bands and solo artists. While there’s something to that, I think it’s rather raw, more or less healthy masculinity and artistic expression versus very calculated cultural programming.
Demonic globalists U2 were big then, too, (Joshua Tree), but they just kept turning out album after album with machine-like efficiency ever since. (The four main guys who started in 1976 are all still in it. Isn’t it odd that not even one of them ever had enough after so many decades and just quit?)
Demonic, because Bono’s alter ego just so happens to be Mephistopheles (do an image search). I don’t quite know what to make of Utu, the Mesopotamian / Babylonian sun god.
Globalists, not just because Bono palled around with Dubya and Obama (“Barack Obama and U2 Vacationing Together in France,” only one example). But also because their song One is as much as a globalist anthem as John Lennon’s Imagine. I can’t find the link to all the politicians naming that song as one of their favorites, but how about the following?
“Why U2’s One is the ultimate anthem – BBC Culture”
“U2’s One voted best ever song by Q magazine” [?!]
(Fun bonus: “Nancy Pelosi marks St Patrick’s Day with poem by Bono about Ukraine”)
Foo Fighters were never that big, but stayed active and demonic (e.g., their latest movie).
obBono joke:
U2 was playing in Dublin. Between songs, Bono starts clapping his hands above his head, in a slow, steady beat.
Clap. Clap. Clap.
Bono says, “every time I clap my hands, a child dies in Africa.”
Guy in the crowd shouts out, “then stop fookin clappin!”
“then stop fookin clappin!”
That was good!
You’re nuts-on with your commentary re: U2/Bono. And don’t forget Bono shilling for $$$ to be sent to Africa to cure the so-called AIDS problem; a vast money laundering operation if there ever was one.
Unfortunately, I still hung on to listening to them for far too long. However, once they were essentially the flagship behind Ireland legalizing abortion, that’s when I called it quits for good with them. They are demonic to the core.
U2’s ‘One’ is a relationship song, people just hear the chorus and ignore the verses, as with Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’. Bono said ‘One’ was about a man whose fag son gets AIDS but a lot of the lyrics apply to any bitter relationship. I liked U2 a lot till 2001, when they ran out of steam, lyrics became totally dull, the sound over-produced. But even at their peak Bono was a victim of the Boomer Truth Regime, an echo of ‘Imagine’. Wouldn’t be surprised to find he’s a paedo, given the company he keeps.
Rock Bands – Part 2 – Metallica / Conclusion
First, I’ll do a quick album cover image analysis, and then just add some lyrics that should make their ideology very clear.
Master of Puppets. Lots of white crosses below, Master of Puppets and blood red hands above. Looks like a military cemetery. Crosses = Christians, dead, after a military and/or spiritual battle. Who is the master now, the Master of Puppets? Look up the 15th card of the Major Arcana in the Rider-Waite tarot. Sure looks like a master with his puppets. This is how devout followers would worship their god by means of album cover art.
I know this is speculative and I can’t cover the entire Metallica oeuvre in just one comment, but the following lyrics from their song The Prince seem to confirm this pattern:
Angel from below, Change my dreams.
I want for glory’s hour, For wealth’s esteem.
I wish to sell my soul, To be reborn.
I wish for earthly riches, Don’t want no crown of thorns.
I was born a fool, Don’t want to stay that way.
Devil take my soul, With diamonds you repay.
I don’t care for heaven, So don’t you look for me to cry.
And I will burn in hell, From the day I die.
You can defend that as irony or just taking on a persona, like a screenwriter is not a villain for writing villains, but there sure is a lot of this type of irony going on:
“Conan O’Brien previously said ‘Welcome to the Satanic Cult Awards’ and hailed the ‘dark lord’ at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards.”
“Greta Thunberg’s Mother: ‘We All Sell Our Souls to the Devil'”
The Christians were right with their Satanic Panic in the 80s, but didn’t explain their criticisms well enough.
Master of Puppets is about drug addiction. The crosses on the album cover probably refer to the song “Disposable Heroes” which is an anti war song.
“The Prince” was written and recorded first by Diamond Head in 1980. You chose to reference a “Metallica” song from their album of cover songs.
Were you a Tipper Gore supporter back in the PMRC days?
It is interesting how so many metal bands radiate a satanic branding, but the lyrics are often tinged, not only with irony, as noted, but also with warning. Here’s what happens if you follow this path, kind of thing. Megadeath, Metallica, and Slayer, to name a few, fit into this category.
But do the ends justify the means? If the literal message is against the satanic, but the emotional and performance component seems to celebrate it, it does raise interesting questions.
Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” is probably the most powerful anti-cocaine song ever written, if you look at the lyrics. But at the same time, it’s the perfect pitch of aggressive energy to listen to when you’re chopping lines.
When we consider that the truly satanic usually operates behind a mask with more subtlety, it throws another curve ball to the equation. So what is really going on here?
I tend to believe these guys are just personally battling their own demons, and using music to work their way through it. Which is a great way to do it. You might say metal music is a very loud silent cry for help. And there is something relatable, especially to young men working through shit. It is cathartic, no denying that aspect it.
However, the industry seems to harvest that process and that pain for profit, which incentives staying in that place. (?)
Not sure, I’ll have to think about it more. Many memories for me, any rate. I’m older now, chilled out, and rarely listen to these metal bands anymore.
But when I do…so do the neighbors.
FWIW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwk8eqmR_xA
“The Prince” is originally a Diamondhead song written in 1980. Metallica’s version is a cover.
I think that the 1980s present a real anomaly in rock music. What you saw was a flowering of truly innovative and talented rock bands whose musicians really knew how to play. Think Van Halen, Metallica, Megadeth, Mr. Big, Extreme, Dokken, Ozzy Osbourne with Randy Rhoads and Zakk Wylde, and David Lee Roth. Think of Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, Nuno Bettencourt, George Lynch, Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Ritchie Kotzen, Blues Saraceno etc. There was a high level of organic talent operating in these rock bands that did not depend on studio musicians, staff writers, auto-tune, or studio tricks to create great music.
These musicians were also relatively sober. Eddie Van Halen was a smoker, but that was it. Dave Mustaine was kicked out of Metallica for being an unstable drunk. There was no extensive alcohol or drug use among the balance of them. There were no weird sexual proclivities like those that emerged among Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.
Whatever Satanic lyrics existed were largely garbled because you could make them out within the song. You had to follow along by reading the jacket.
Basically, these musicians had captured the ears of a generation of young boys and it threatened to lead to a rediscovery of classicism, as more advanced music became more mainstream and demanded. Even Randy Rhoads planned on getting a master’s in classical guitar and then weaving that knowledge into his guitar work.
Well, that could not be allowed, so Rhoads was killed in a plane accident. Valerie Bertinelli was sent in to destroy Eddie Van Halen and his bloodline. Finally, grunge and rap were paraded out in the early 90s to administer the coup de grace.
Some of this 80’s style rock music was resurrected in modern metal bands, like Avenged Sevenfold, Volbeat, FFDP, and youtube has a huge number of talented guitar players duplicating Steve Vai. The lyrics, however, tend to be pretty Satanic and they are so marginalized that success is fleeting.
“Eddie Van Halen was a smoker, but that was it…”
Eddie Van Halen was and is a serious alcoholic.
“…Dave Mustaine was kicked out of Metallica for being an unstable drunk. …”
But not for being a drunk which all the Metallica guys were. He was an asshole who started fights when he drank.
“…There was no extensive alcohol or drug use among the balance of them…”
I certainly don’t believe that.
> Is it me, or are there no current rock bands today they way there were back then? For that matter, is there even new rock music, or am I completely out of current events in that sphere?
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Nope, no bands like the old days. (No? What compares to Altamont or Woodstock now? When was the last time a city sent their SWAT team in to shut down a free concert, like Los Angeles did to U2? When was the last time fans overran airport security to meet their band’s plane?)
And no modern rock-and-roll, not as I define it.
In the late 1990s the local “rock” radio stations all moved to “new rock”, which all sounded the same to me; a garbage truck backing into an alley full of trash cans, serenaded by barking walruses. If people wanting to listen to that, fine, but calling it “rock” was an outright lie. What little rock was on the air was shuffled off to the moldy-oldie station, in rotation with Frank Sinatra, Captain & Tennille, The Shirelles, and some kind of country music. Their playlists are demonstrably curated by people who hate music; I’ve found no other excuse for sandwiching KISS or The Police in between Conway Twitty and The Jackson Five…
Since the early 2000s I’ve noticed there’s very little on my playlists from after 1995, and almost nothing past 2000-ish.
And while I’m on a roll, the people who came up with the idea of covering rock music with string bands… there should be a special place in Hell reserved for them. While on hold once, I was tortured with what appeared to be a 101 Strings cover of Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid.” Only lizard people could even conceive of such an abomination, much less make and play it.
> Virginia ends all taxes on purchases of Silver, Gold, Platinum and Palladium.
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Another freebie for the wealthy. Almost all the rest who would be interested are preppers, and governmental entities hate them.
> The feds have decided to let DHS-run fusion centers disseminate government-approved news
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“TASS is pleased to announce…”
Actually, I’m surprised they didn’t pay Facebook handle it on a no-bid contract. The fusion centers usually try to maintain a low profile.
> Jen Psaki says illegal immigrants are “free to travel” throughout the U.S. once they cross the border.
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That is true. Once CBP gives them their temporary visa, they’re not “illegal” any more, and they can go where they please. The visas remain valid even when they don’t show up for their court date.
That’s why just loading them on a bus and dropping them off in DC or in front of Nancy Pelosi’s house is against the law.
Re: Rock bands
I think it’s that society has decayed to the point where loyalties to brands and celebrities is no longer relevant, at least not as completely prevalent. It’s why there’s the whole NPC vs. Redpilled scenario playing out, instead of everyone being NPC or blue pilled (effectively the same homogeneous group) as it was pre-2016.
William Glubb’s ‘Fate of Empire’s describes music and art celebrities being huge during the down trend spiral of an empire. ‘The Fourth Turning, which shares a similar outlook, says that different generations have incredibly different attitudes towards societies institutions and their own personal sense of destiny (buying into the crowd bands vs. having other ambitions). The Bible also outlines generations that will love earthly things that then get punished hard and taken over by younger people who do not.
Predictively Glubb would say that the era after the collapse, the age of pioneers, would see brave frontier types as celebrity such as Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett. That is followed by the era of the engineer type as celebrity such as Edison or Ford. If bands, art celebrities, are on the decline the reading says we’re about to hit the end of Empire. The dissolution itself, peaceful or violent, he says depends on circumstances. If there’s a mongul horde nearby they’ll kill you, if you’re an isolated nation birthrates drop and you turn into a small husk of a nation, etc.
That is to say I’m waiting to see the first ‘Brave frontiersman’ celebrity appear to mark the start of a new era. Incidentally, in terms of hitting back the Cabal, recall everyone in the last great rise of empire (USA) hated Jews and banks. Ford was famously anti semetic (ie. realistic about an ingroup which hates whitey) and anti banks. The same with the previous US expanders like Thomas Jefferson. The first attempt at Federal Reserve was killed around then. Unfortunately that tends to happen in the Engineer celebrity phase, so there’s some waiting. God kills and judges all though and it’s unlikely he will pull the cabal from the fire.
It happened t occur to me there is so damn many ways to entertain yourself these days. All kinds of various YouTube tribes, internet, video games, a ton of different music. It didn’t used to be this way so with less to view or hear then you would have more people following the lesser amount. Today, it’s much easier to split off into smaller groups and trends. When I was a little kid there was three TV stations and maybe four or five radio stations and that was it.
Don’t put me in the,”everything is awful and no good these days” crowd. There’s never been more variety than now.
> A Roger Stone article asking why the New York GOP appoints republican gubernatorial candidates, rather than letting Republicans elect them in the primary.
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I would expect him to know why.
In most states, the only way to get on a ticket is to be a member of a “recognized political party.” That’s the Dems, GOP, Greens, Libertarians, and maybe a couple of barely-existing fringe partt in most cases.
The counties (or state, depending) foot the bill for the primaries, even though they’re purely Party business. The parties are not bound by the election results in any way; it’s just for show.
So the NYGOP is just removing some of the secrecy around the way they’ve been doing things all along.
Then we get to the main election, between the official party candidates. Voting happens. But in most states, those votes are just suggestions to your local electors, who are a shadowy bunch of political appointees. Though they *usually* follow the election results, they are not bound to do so; if 100% of votes go to Candidate A, they have the power to give their votes – the only ones that actually count – to Candidate B.
The election process was thoroughly pwned long before mechanical or electronic voting machines. Elections in the US are no different from those in any generic banana republic. It’s just that our propaganda did a better job of hiding it.
> Sri Lanka declares bankruptcy.
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There’s a distinct odor of fish about that. Ceylon (as they call themselves in English, one of their official languages) has weathered the Cold War, the collapse of the British Empire, the decline of the Commonwealth of Nations, several internal civil wars, and various border disputes without any problem. And through it all, they maintained one of the best national credit ratings in the world.
I suspect one of two things: either they’re very smart, and they’re optimizing their position with the expectation that the world economy is going into the toilet, or that they’ve been taken down deliberately for “wealth redistribution” and will be looted by Dark State types. Given their official excuses are “COVID-19” and “war in Ukraine”, I’m favoring the “going to be looted” idea.
> More than $7 billion of assets suspected of belonging to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich were just frozen by the Government of the island state of Jersey. It is apparently a small Island off the coast of France which must have been acting as a tax-haven/covert-banking-center. The big question is, who gets this money now?
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Though it’s often thought of as British, and the British government generally treats them as such, Jersey and the other Channel Islands are not part of Britain. They are the personal property of Elizabeth II, and Parliament has no authority over them. She owns them outright, like you own a lawnmower or a hat. (well, technically they’re owned by the current monarch, but There Can Be Only One, and she’s the One)
She has allowed the islands to act as a “tax haven” where Britons can avoid paying Inland Revenue’s levies. I’ve never quite understood why, other than money in her island banks isn’t subject to Parliament’s sticky fingers. And lots of non-Britons make use of Island banking as well.
island state of Jersey
Lots of stories about orphan boys being molested, and killed there.
> Russia ‘moves heavy military equipment towards Finnish border.’
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Finland got along with Russia for 75 years after the Winter War, on the principle of “yes, you can invade us again, but we will make it totally not worth your while.” Finland and the Soviet Union maintained a fairly cordial relationship; Finland was the USSR’s unofficial gateway to the West, and a buttload of Soviet foreign commerce went through there.
However, Finland’s current government is thoroughly Woke, and their Narrative is telling them to poke at the Bear. This isn’t the Finland that broke the Red Army in 1940.
The USSR and Russian Federation didn’t much like the idea of an independent Finland, but they maintained a mutually profitable relationship.
Now is probably the worst possible time to start poking the bear. Russia is currently engaged in retaking one rogue province; the first idea going through heads at the Kremlin would be that since they were already mobilized, it’d never be any cheaper to retake a second rogue province.
Historians figure Finland “won” the Winter War. All it cost was a big chunk of their territory lost to the Soviets, tens of thousands dead, and nearly complete collapse of their economy. They might not get off so easy in a second engagement.
> zinc picolinate
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There are a dozen different types of zinc supplements. The most common seem to be zinc gluconate and zinc sulfate. Dietary requirements for zinc are quite small; supplement doses are large, indicating that zinc uptake isn’t very good. I’ve moved from gluconate to picolinate.
You need zinc. Most zinc comes from meat, so if your diet is short on that, you might be deficient. Don’t get carried away with zinc supplements. Too much can cause various problems. Normal supplement doses should be OK; just don’t start tripling or quadrupling them unless you have some specific reason.
Zinc supplements make a lot of people nauseous. Eating something about 15 minutes before taking the supplement will usually prevent that; so take the doses after meals if you can.
> Texas Governor Abbott strikes deal with Mexican state of Nuevo Leon to police border.
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I hope Abbott’s lawyers are on the ball. Biden’s State Department isn’t going to like the idea of Texas working directly with Mexico, particularly when it is against Biden’s official policy of uncontrolled immigration.
The “Bands” history. Fact or fiction? MK Ultra influence or naturally occurring? How do you influence a whole generation? I too, was into the “Bands” and followed my buddies. This does shed a bit of troublesome light if legit. https://electriccaves.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/smells-like-mk-ultra/
Having led a band myself and been a part of relatively high-level orchestral ensembles, I’ve definitely noticed the complete absence of bands in the United States in recent decades. You’ll find acapella groups going viral every once in a while, but most of the newer ones (e.g., Pentatonix), while incredibly talented, are pretty faggy. In contrast, some incredibly talented barbershop quartets rarely get over a million view on YT.
Dammit, AC, if you’re not right about this too. This must be part of the demoralization agenda. When you’re part of a band, something magical happens: you automatically become part of something more than a sum of yourselves. In a healthy band, each member becomes driven to become better as you discover how fun it is to experiment with new sounds. And being part of a band is great fun and really gives a chance for young men to exercise their masculinity and find their place in the masculine hierarchy, all while having a whole lot of fun. I moved too much to play team sports, so this replaced that part of male teamwork “initiation” for me. And music allows young men to express their creativity and ideas in ways not possible in athletics.
I believe that bands are an important key to creativity in modern music. Until recently, Japan has been the only place I was ever able to consistently find new music that was creative, epic, and technically advanced. Compared to old horn bands, jazz/rock fusion bands, and finally progressive rock bands that got started from the 60’s through the 90’s (many of which are still active now in one form or another), most newer bands I heard about mostly sucked. A few years back I realized it’s because Japan was one of the few countries in which the system and fans continued to support bands as a unit, and to look up to individual band members in particular, rather than lone singers or soloists. We ceased to see that in the centers of Western (US) and Eastern (RoK) popular music in the 90’s. Musically this made sense to me, but I didn’t make the demoralization connection until today.
Gentrification killed the band.
No more cheap rents, no more affordable practice spaces, if any. No seedy side of town means no more punk clubs, art studios, etc etc
And once the cities went upscale so did the aspirations of the women. Boys made bands to impress girls as much as anything else. Suddenly, being a broke rebel in a band seemed less cool and more like bad genes out of touch.
Great point. That might also explain bands in Japan. Also, DJs are probably cheaper than bands anyway, so less incentive for clubs to have live bands.
Marked uptick in Cabal trolls at UNZ recently. A higher class of troll. Longer posts with better structure. Subtler (if still silly) arguments.
I never understood how Unz avoided erasure. He puts forward a lame theory about Voldemort and essentially claims not to know himself. Being tribe as part of it, but not all of it. Tech sophistication also prob part of it. And of course, Tabket has gone dissident as well. Have to assume powerful tribe supporters.
Disclosure: I really like the site and have read for a long time.
I’m expect it’s because he’s technically inclined, so he owns his own servers and does everything himself. No one can take his stuff, yet.
Jersey is part of the Channel Isles which is part of the UK. It has its own laws like the City of London. It’s an off shore tax heaven as most in the UK knows as part of growing up. The Channel Isle have several different ones that compete as tax heavens. Also know for their very good potatos.
So I guess DoD asked Musk to buy Twitter? Seeing as how he is largest contractor. Maybe we are going to see the US oligarchs kicked out of politics like un RUS?
I’m assuming DoD wants it because JP Morgan is advising and working with Musk.
What is this Musk buying Twitter about? I can’t see how he can make any money off of this. I don’t get it, at all.
The only thing I can see if as someone mentioned he knows they won’t sell and then he can sue them constantly to pay him off. Lawfare.
He makes money in one of two ways:
That’s the play, right there. It’s what I’ve said from the start.
Another wrinkle: Vanguard is now the biggest shareholder. Vanguard is a mutual fund. That means that they have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to increase fund value. Nothing else. No political bullshit, no free speech, just plain old “did you make money?”
That means that if Vanguard votes against it, all Elon has to do is to fund the class action shareholder lawsuit against Vanguard for the vote at the same time that he’s suing twitter over his own $3BB stake. One of the quickest ways for Vanguard to mitigate the damages in its own lawsuit would be… wait for it… to go back to the TWTR board and tell them to approach Elon about selling the company. Then, they would be able to reduce their damages by however much they make in the buyout.
“…That’s the play, right there…”
Ahhh…very risky convoluted stuff. I would never have thought of something so devious.
It’s about power.
Whatever faction he is a front for is making power moves against the faction in control of Twitter.
Once you have enough money that you couldn’t spend it all on luxuries in your whole lifetime the only thing left is power.
Honestly, I think the DoD wants control of Twitter. And wants CIA and NSA out. Institutional conflict.
RE: rock bands
It’s not that they’ve gone away, it’s that Cabal’s culture industry has completely shifted focus along with new mediums. It’s not just music. Professional sports is the only thing keeping the cableTV alive. If you were a gamer, you’d have noticed that the big AAA releases have nose-dived as stagnation has hit the industry – think about it this way, PC gamers have been fighting WW2 since the 1980’s, approaching ten times it’s actual length.
Back to music – who has a “killer stereo” any more? Remember how that used to be the big buy on the credit card? Then it became big tv’s, then home PC’s, then game consoles, and now the entertainment market is so damn saturated with decades of crap piled on top of itself that it’s competing with itself, and the new stuff is more expensive and is technically better than ever while still somehow managing to feel a bit stale because we’ve been doing this for so long that it’s all been done over and over and over within our lifetimes.
So, AM/FM is still a thing because people commute to work in a car with a radio. Or maybe they used a satellite radio or bluetooth from their phone. Whatever. CD’s and vinyl exist for niche audiophiles, with limited runs of 8-track and cassettes being made for nostalgia enthusiasts. Well, again, there are new musicians all over the internet, but Cabal only promotes the ones that win the TV karaoke shows because those are safe products that sell, kinda. The people who keep their integrity and go it alone make modest livings touring because the internet allows to find a fanbase large enough to make it happen.
If you’ve seen more than one BOOTSTRAPPY ep, you know that I alternate between synthwave and piano for the channel, but if I could figure out how I’d add stuff like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k53KRbiyY6Q
Guess what, these guys don’t have a record label, and they aren’t in the market for one. I’ve never heard them on FM. They’re doing just fine.
On the other hand, as a synthwave fan nostalgia is just kinda baked in, and damn if Neon Revolt didn’t post this the other day on Gab and get it stuck in my head(and I hated all of these people the first time around):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJBJYie0l8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0nIEv05vj0
You can thank the pedophiles for drying up bands. The hatchery for young musicians is a church choir. The second hatchery is a family singing together-not a nuclear family with its reedy sound, a family of 20+ people having a sing along, in tune. You hit tune by being in choir at church.
Even Keith Richards’ boy soprano trio from school, where he started, was developed by a pedophile. The boy bands in America are sort of famous for being run by pedophiles. It’s not just the Vienna Boys Choir that has a sex pest problem. Pedophiles will argue they are their greatest fans, but it’s kind of a close run by gays and their favorites- Madonna, Betty Midler, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, Judy Garland.
The third springboard is cheap instruments, and, frankly, a tolerance for bad grades, possibly drugs, and dropping out of formal education. Ritalin has blighted a lot of young men. This is usually done by having a blue collar family with few intellectual pretensions. Kill off factories, poison the workers with opiates, lose the chance to have new rock stars. Globalize your factory, kill your national bards. Farmers sing, but factory workers rock.
Fourth, is a regional style that can cross over into other regional styles.
Fifth, ports help. Smuggling definitely helps. Not just smuggling records. Gangsters sponsor clubs, musicians, bands, parties that bands play at.
You need bright young future blue collar men who really do not want to go to work on a factory line. They’ve got the mental chops to do physics or electrical work, but haven’t the ability to go to college. You can see it in the offspring- physicists, electrical engineering, musicians, sound engineers. Very few accountants, though.
Right now, the usual hatchery is reluctant to start up boys’ choirs because they don’t want to sacrifice their parishioners’ children to pedophiles, or they cannot afford to lose a lawsuit once a parent actually listens to what their child goes through in order to sing. The payouts from the Catholic sex abuse cases is in the billions. The Anglophone churches are shrinking- no children in choir, no young men rebelling against church while using what they learned therein to make a living. Also, poverty: anyone but the head pastor at a mega church is really not making a good living that supports a family.
Right now, fresh music? Narcocorrideros, and Albanian rappers based in London. Russia has casinos where their homegrown rappers sing about their mother. They don’t have the craftsmanship, skills, or Western canon background that all the foundational rock stars grew up in. Sweden, weirdly, has a few bands. Germany, technically perfect, not marketed to America.
For factory workers who want out, right now it’s Korea.
No one expected the Beatles. No one. They were scrubby, poor, filthy, young men from a housing project. No one expected them to have such a ferocious work ethic. No one expected them to be independently literate, and willing to learn their craft.
George Orwell expected drivelly, watery music to pacify the masses forever. He has a washerwoman warbling along to the radio playing artificially superficial drab music. The Beatles, children of that washerwoman, got records smuggled in from America, and then learned to sing like that and play their cheap instruments like that. They worked for years, in obscurity and poverty, in the social dregs, perfecting their craft. Then they got handled by professionals with degrees, and training.
Everyone after that is copying them, deliberately copying them. If you know where they came from, you can choke it out, too. Southern England went to war with Northern England, more or less, under Thatcher. They are still at war. You don’t think the young women brutalized in Rotherham and all the other Northern cities wouldn’t be exactly the sort of young women who would have musician boyfriends and musician children?
Rock is, in general, gay atheist Jews wrangling Christian choir boys. The only surprise about the Beatles is that their manager succumbed to drugs, instead of them.
“George Orwell expected drivelly, watery music to pacify the masses forever.”
so, like, pretty much everything from 2000 on – I keep reading the occasional reference to the 2 or 3 swedish guys who write/produce something like 80% of all charted pop music since then…
and don’t get me started on modern “country”
The machine at the time in England did have drivelly mess. The two main songwriters in the Beatles- Paul McCartney and John Lennon- expected to be a touring boy band for a few years, then segue into being songwriters for other bands. In their interviews, they talk about investing in hair salons, or grocery stores.
There was a structure- the clubs they played at, touring all around Northern England. There was a circuit sending Northern English bands to Germany. There was a group that played at American military bases. There were locals who had made movies for local consumption, from before World War 2. There were local television stations with local programs. No one expected Beatles’ movies to go international.
There were union hall musical events. There were factory bands. There were church choirs. There were cathedral choirs- those had auditions. Paul McCartney was a cathedral choir boy.
To have a “Best of….” you need an “…of…” That structure was provided. Right now, a lot of that structure has withered away, or been put in jail, or has been de-accessioned. Entire record companies decided to quit printing vinyl records. To do this, they shut down contracts with viable bands, and signed new contracts with musicians in other styles- metal gone, rap started, for instance.
I’d say gangsters got sent to prison- Anglophone ones did- but narcocorrideros are making videos and songs, Albanian gangsters are making videos, Russians are making music-
I mean, where do you expect to find music? Mass broadcast radio? How about Spotify? Do you sing along to the original music in video games? Do you go to concerts? How do you find the concerts? Do you go to festivals? Do you only go to the big name festivals, or the smaller ones in out of the way places?
Also, what time range do you expect your music to come from? As a consumer, you are going to have your range. As a musician, at least any Anglophone musician of note I’ve read about, they musical influences cited are going to be worldwide, obscure, and include classical musicians like Bach and Mozart, as well as low church music, street musicians, and movie soundtracks. Also, common people’s music, even if it’s ‘not posh’ and ‘not traditional’- and union music. The IWW had a song book. Militaries have bands.
What’s missing is the structure that made it easy to be a Baby Boomer. Malls are devolving. Broadcast television is devolving. Retirement homes are growing. Retirement communities are growing. Florida is growing.
…. It is just a strange thing I noticed – the disappearance of the band.
RAP crap replaced it. Find a figurehead who can be trained like a monkey to lip sync and dance. Autotune for the win.
Do you also remember all the Bands/Singers that had unfortunate accidents? Def Leopard (drummer). Metallica’s bass guitarist. Cobain eating a shotgun (i mean his wife killing him) Etc. Etc.
…and the always-convenient “airplane crash” and “drug overdose” deaths.
Ever notice how many famous musicians and bands, died in plane crashes?
most of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ricky Nelson, Jim Croce, Otis Redding, Glenn Miller, John Denver, Ronnie van Zant, Randy Rhoads, Reba McIntre’s band, and the entire Russian Alexandrov Ensemble, who used to perform with the Leningrad Cowboys, just for starters…
Re: Moving to Russia
Following up on my comment that even remote areas will have surveillance, chiming in on the covid regulations front.
The extent to which Russian culture involves doing exactly the barest minimal compliance to satisfy authority figures is basically incomprehensible to Americans. Much of what we would consider horribly corrupt is just the obvious way things are done. For example, the correct (not officially legal but culturally correct) way to pay a speeding ticket is to know the fine schedule in your head and drop the correct amount of rubles on the ground surreptitiously and on accident. The cop gives you a warning, and after you leave collects the “ lost money” you “accidentally dropped”. I was told by friends just not to drive because I would obviously do it all wrong and end up in jail.
Which is to say, everyone one I know there took the government edict that “you must obtain a QR code as proof of vaccination in order to work/go to restaurants/ etc” to mean “obtain a QR code” and not “get vaccinated to obtain a QR code.” The black.
Market in QR codes was up and running quickly, the prices were reasonable, and there was no investigation or prosecution of fraudulent codes, to the point that no one cared about telling me about it over messenger apps.
The keyword for how this works is “spravka” which roughly translate to “the correct official document signed by the correct official that gives you permissions/meets the requirements for whatever it is you need official papers to do.” Foreigner going into a library needs the right spravka, returning to school after being sick needs a doctor spravka, taking a hike that crosses international borders needs FSB spravka. In the USA we would assume that getting the correct form signed by the correct person means you also complied with whatever the content of the paperwork is, in Russia it’s the form that matters, not so much whether it matches any facts on the ground, as best I could tell. And it’s not considered fraud, just filling out the correct paperwork to satisfy the government.
All that is very good for resisting a corrupt government.
But it puts an upper limit on your civilization level.
Farce, that’s a very succinct and clear way of putting it.
There are limited services outside of cities, at least if you are not near Moscow/Peter for example- no trash collection in villages, even ones connected by road to a major city. It’s burn piles just outside of town. The worst public restroom I’ve ever been in was a shipping container with a hole cut into it for a pit toilet in negative 40 outside of a regional capital. Everything froze on contact. In the US this was close enough to a major city that it would have been a proper “rest stop.” Whether it’s capitalism (not corporatism), a high trust society, the Protestant work ethic, etc the US beats the heck out of most of Russia for clean, civilized, widespread public services.
I’m mostly trying to let Americans with Russia as a plan b/c/d who haven’t been there know that it is not a western culture and very very not American- though the people are good and our countries ought to be friendly.
If you’re content to keep your head down, live a decent life (apartment in the city, grown a chunk of your own food at your family’s summer home, take a once a year vacation to Thailand, do your job minimally, and deal with a corrupt government through passive non-compliance) you can have a fine life there. If you have any entrepreneurial spirit and want to build (buildings, systems, your own empire in whatever industry etc) the culture is too low trust, the red tape and bribes to get started too high, and the chances of stepping on an oligarchs toes and getting killed financially or literally (instead of bought out like happens in the US much of the time) are too steep for many Americans to navigate. I know one American who built a very financially successful business there but it was providing a niche service (not sex trafficking) to oligarchs and I’m not 100% sure he wasn’t a cia front. Any average Joe American should assume that you can’t be a self-made millionaire there or build any meaningfully large or impactful business. You can live comfortably, especially if you’re set up online earning in dollars or euros (for now anyway), and the government is not going to harass you for the kind of “bad-think” that folks reading this are likely to engage in. I read this site and voxday every day when living there with no interference, even though the Skype feed would cut off every single time my lefty mother-in-law would start in on “Trump and Putin blah blah blah.”
Despite cabal manipulating people’s pathways in the US, my experience is that there is still la lot of room for being a medium sized fish in a small pond and really building community/systems/a legacy in the US, and making a more than comfortable living. In non-Moscow/Peter Russia everyone is lower/mid middle class or oligarch with nothing in between really. There is no pathway for being “well-off” as we think of it. The word for work is the same as the word for slave, and work is what you do to appease the czar/communist party/oligarchs – it is not what makes you, you. In the US, if you haven’t run too heavily afoul of cabal, there is still some room for upper-middle class and lower-upper class through owning your own business. Or at least we believe it should be there. But for folks that are cabal-blocked from building a legacy/business/etc anyway or just want to live a quiet life of relative financial security, it’s a great bet.
It’s just different. I’m definitely an American, bought into the myth, and still believe that a large chunk of us are out here trying to live it despite the 8%-10% anti-American informant cadre. Russia isn’t a comfortable fit for me because I do have that entrepreneurial spirit. But it would be an acceptable plan c or d if my kids’ lives depended on it. And if I was under the kind of health-deteriorating coverage AC describes, I would likely be back there and on a permanent residency track already; war, sanctions, fraudulent covid QR code, self sufficient dacha and all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zyJB45ewvU
Democrat States to mandate grooming. This time Pre-Kindergarden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am0Uilk2qaI
Everyone involved must be exterminated. Burnt up like Sodom and Gommorah.
A third of Germans believe they are living in a ‘sham democracy’
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/04/14/a-third-of-germans-believe-they-are-living-in-a-sham-democracy/
What are all those politicians doing in Antarctica?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZ7625Ts6A
Mystery surrounds cold-blooded execution of Microsoft exec who was shot dead in front of his two-year-old daughter when he got out of car to move tire from middle of road in affluent Florida neighborhood
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10718831/Florida-widow-begs-help-finding-husbands-killer.html
Wow.