Constants and variables 154, Lincoln edition
Provocative generality from Peter Hitchens:

If you have at any time wondered if you would have conformed or rebelled against the consensus, at *any* of the great turning points of the last century and a bit, I think you now know.

Well, it's not so simple. I've been rebelling LOUDLY AND CONSISTENTLY FROM THE FUCKING START of this fake emergency, but I was firmly conformed to the idiot consensus in the 9/11 fake emergency. I bit hard, wanted to wipe Muslim "terrorists" from the face of the earth. I bashed friends who didn't bite, disdaining them as "truthers". I didn't fully recover from the idiocy until I threw away the TV in 2010.

In science and economics I can spot falseness instantly. In politics and military matters I'm snookered every fucking time. I never learn.

Hitchens disproves his own generality, all within today's Twitter feed.

He doesn't think the Soros attack on Belarus is motivated by Lukashenko's sanity.

Somebody asks exactly the right Constants and Variables question:

Why is Belarus getting so much attention all of a sudden, they have been this way for many years. Is it because they didn’t obey lockdown rules from a higher power ???

Hitchens answers:

No, they have just had a rigged election.

This is blatant nonsense by basic logic. Constant: Every election in every country is rigged. Real opposition candidates are never allowed. This particular election shouldn't be the reason for a sudden Color Revolution. There's a WILDLY OBVIOUS VARIABLE in Lukashenko's maintenance of real science and real health and real sanity while the rest of the world commits suicide.

Madman Lincoln supposedly said you can fool some etc. He wasn't warning people against Deepstate, he was advising future Deepstates on improving their techniques. He was telling them to hit every type of mind and personality from every possible angle, in order to fool as many people as possible. And they took the advice. Some of the people will bite on each new type of crime, and if you vary the crimes enough, you'll get almost everyone.

BUT: There's a counterargument to the Belarus logic. If Soros wants to eliminate a shining example of sanity, he should kill Sweden. Belarus is obscure. Lukashenko's long record of courage and sanity isn't well known. I happened to learn about it earlier because I was buying old Soviet radios on Ebay and got curious about the present condition of Belarus. Sweden is a much sharper counterforce to US/UK insanity because it resembles US/UK in most other ways. The rigged election is meaningless, but Soros presumably has his own calculated reasons for picking off Belarus first.

Labels: #defundpublichealth, Constants and Variables

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