Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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    It’s called the Dark Enlightenment, they essentially want to accelerate civilization collapse so their utopian vision is realized. The financial backers behind Trump adopted this philosophy, and have articulated their plan: dismantle democracy, Balkanize America and establish a patchwork of technomonarchy city-states. People really need to be talking with their community about localization of production of basic necessities, otherwise it will be chaos, famine and death when the system fails.

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      I’d think this is a crazy conspiracy theory, except that it’s pretty much all written down in the open. No crazy links to obscure Catholic orders and Mason lore and George Soros. It’s just “Peter Thiel listens to Curtis Yarvin, and Thiel is getting his money’s worth from saving the Trump Campaign from financial ruin”.

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      Oof. I knew Peter Thiel and by extension this fucker’s “philosophy” is behind it, but I guess I never realized how neatly it all fits until now.

      Once again, dictators usually tell you what they want to do, better listen.

      Except this time one has to be aware of the dictator behind the dictator, and way too few people are.

      For Thiel, such a malleable (i.e. 100% corrupt) government must be his life’s wet dream.

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      utopian

      For them, sure. Feudalism is pretty utopian when you’re a king, not a peasant

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      Their utopian vision is really weird. I like having humans, they create cool stuff. My anime, tasty plebian food, and so much more are made by the hands and minds of ordinary people.

      What is the point of being “rich”, if all the neat things are gone?

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        Because they don’t think these things are neat. They like anything bland and gold. They want everyone to like the exact same stuff so you know exactly how much more theirs cost. They want you consuming exactly the same things so they can control people through the product.

        Individuality and humanity run directly counter to their power.

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        Until it fails from yet another once-in-a-century ice storm this decade. But they’ll probably blame meteorologists for getting the once-in-a-century “wrong” rather than understand the effects of climate change.

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        It is not because of what you think it is. They love the privatization of everything here its just for more capital. I’ve only ever lived in deep red states my whole life and have never had the power go out nearly as much as it does here. Can’t wait to leave this shithole.

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      It’s times like these I’m happy that my mom still has her farmland and I spent all of high school working it. I need to invest in seeds.