LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 @LukeAlmighty@gameliberty.club

@leyonhjelm @LukeAlmighty @Locksmith @fluffy @sim

TL:DR, I think. Instead I use this... analogy:

Political power is an island in the middle of a lake filled with diharrea. And there are no boats.

@LukeAlmighty

The apology was more for @sim, I know he enjoys a comfy experience when possible on here instead of a contentious one.

I believe anything that would cause problems was on the table for not just US Democrat leaders but also for world leaders who wanted him out.

I have had a theory about politicians for a long time that holds that most politicians who get there by any method other than party contrivance get to their post with an honest intent to do good and then get dragged into defending the old guard's bullshit to get anything done, or they don't get anything done at all and can't stay in office.

The problem is, by the time they're in a position to do the good they wanted to, they're tied to the bad decisions they've defended - even if they were the decisions of others. Meanwhile, modern mass media has made it impossible to change your mind in politics even for valid and well-reasoned changes in circumstance. They are quick to cry "hypocrite!" even if you validly change your position.

I would rather see any politician - of any party - give a speech saying he was wrong and why he's changing his view than see him entrenched in a bad position just because he has publicly taken it before. But that's not how our media allows it to go.

@Locksmith @nerdman @fluffy

Autistic Miku Doll is back on the timeline boys

@sim

I believe the fear is the intended purpose of the messaging. There is nothing benevolent about what has been done over the past year and a half. If it were really being done for the right reasons by good people, the messaging would be consistent and they'd own their mistakes instead of the constant gaslighting we've seen.

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@leyonhjelm @Locksmith @LukeAlmighty @fluffy @nerdman Yeah. Honestly, I just got the impression that we went into a lockdown too late. This virus is basically another virus that is here to stay because it wasn't stopped in china where it began. And not having fresh foods doesn't help.

> Dopravní podnik hl. m. Prahy (DPP) vyhlásil veřejnou zakázku formou jednacího řízení s uveřejněním na nového provozovatele všech 64 veřejných toalet v síti pražského metra.

ever wanted to run a lot of toilets?

If you are going to claim that hospitals are overwhelmed, it makes zero sense to fire the same staff who've been working unvaccinated from the start. 🙄 It's not about safety or logic. It's about conformity and control.

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@sim

The formality is a demonstration of an understanding. People worth working for understand these simple protocols are an assurance to each other. Some may not hold up their bargain, but the ones that won't even offer the handshake are bad news.

Neal Stephenson wrote in Cryptonomicon:

“This "sir, yes sir" business, which would probably sound like horseshit to any civilian in his right mind, makes sense to Shaftoe and to the officers in a deep and important way. Like a lot of others, Shaftoe had trouble with military etiquette at first. He soaked up quite a bit of it growing up in a military family, but living the life was a different matter. Having now experienced all the phases of military existence except for the terminal ones (violent death, court-martial, retirement), he has come to understand the culture for what it is: a system of etiquette within which it becomes possible for groups of men to live together for years, travel to the ends of the earth, and do all kinds of incredibly weird shit without killing each other or completely losing their minds in the process. The extreme formality with which he addresses these officers carries an important subtext: your problem, sir, is deciding what you want me to do, and my problem, sir, is doing it. My gung-ho posture says that once you give the order I'm not going to bother you with any of the details--and your half of the bargain is you had better stay on your side of the line, sir, and not bother me with any of the chickenshit politics that you have to deal with for a living. The implied responsibility placed upon the officer's shoulders by the subordinate's unhesitating willingness to follow orders is a withering burden to any officer with half a brain, and Shaftoe has more than once seen seasoned noncoms reduce green lieutenants to quivering blobs simply by standing before them and agreeing, cheerfully, to carry out their orders.”

It may not be military protocol involved, but this gives an idea of how working etiquette has implications beyond just the action itself.
Shaking hands with a firm grip and a confident eye is an indication to them that you're going to play with the team and get your stuff done and that you expect them to do theirs.

Whether they're honest enough to hold up their end of the bargain has other ways of being ascertained, but if this isn't present it's a bad sign.

@Locksmith @LukeAlmighty @fluffy @nerdman

@LukeAlmighty

Knowing someone is how I got the one out of high school, and even that I didn't do intentionally. One offhanded comment was enough to convince him that his son's friend was right for a job, and he took us out to a civil war reenactment that day where he discussed bringing me on at work a couple of months later after I'd graduated. I wasn't even planning to change jobs at that time.

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