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Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

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Re: Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

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Post by lazide »

Animats wrote: post #27
CPLX wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bilderberg, the World Economic Forum, and Bohemian Grove are also cabals of elite crazies trying to run the world.

Plus the Carlyle Group, Temple Emanu-El in NYC, the Rothchilds... If any of them are running the world, we're not seeing the results. The current level of competence at world-running is very low. Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, Xi, and whomever is running the UK this month are all worse than average for their job.

Isn’t the point to be in charge regardless of competence or popularity? That is real power.

Those things are far more necessary for an Employee than an Owner.

Re: Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

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Post by blurbleblurble »

bobbytheblkbear wrote: post #38

I don't buy this personally. The leaks of Peter Thiel's 'Dialog' society demonstrate to me that the bell curve™ (or normal distribution as cool cats refer to it) exists at every level of wealth and society. (Look up the banality of the topics if you're curious as to what I mean here) What this means to me personally is that there is a certain level of baked-in/read-only reaction to being in certain types of social ci…

You're getting hung up on the idea of a "cabal" being some kind of formal thing that has explicit membership rules. But what we're talking about is simply the collusion of hyper-wealthy people in their various schemes. That's the cabal.

Re: Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

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Post by blurbleblurble »

lazide wrote: post #39
pasquinelli wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

a cabal isn't a social club.

Isn’t it literally one though?

I've always considered it to be some marriage of convenience moreso than some kind of formal thing. And at any rate arguing over whether there's an explicit cabal or not very badly misses the point.

Re: Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

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Post by lazide »

anonymars wrote: post #37
Animats wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plus the Carlyle Group, Temple Emanu-El in NYC, the Rothchilds... If any of them are running the world, we're not seeing the results. The current level of competence at world-running is very low. Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, Xi, and whomever is running the UK this month are all worse than average for their job.

I don't follow the logic - because incompetent people are running the show, some other group of incompetent people can't be running the show?

It’s even weirder I think? Because the people in power are clearly incompetent AND making the average persons life shitty, they clearly can’t be in power due to a conspiracy.

When if anything, that seems to support it being the result of shenanigans?

Re: Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

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Post by bobbytheblkbear »

blurbleblurble wrote: post #42
bobbytheblkbear wrote: post #38

I don't buy this personally. The leaks of Peter Thiel's 'Dialog' society demonstrate to me that the bell curve™ (or normal distribution as cool cats refer to it) exists at every level of wealth and society. (Look up the banality of the topics if you're curious as to what I mean here) What this means to me personally is that there is a certain level of baked-in/read-only reaction to being in certain types of social ci…

You're getting hung up on the idea of a "cabal" being some kind of formal thing that has explicit membership rules. But what we're talking about is simply the collusion of hyper-wealthy people in their various schemes. That's the cabal.

The concept of wealth is predicated upon the idea that one may "play at the table in the Casino and win". In reality entry to this system is barred but it only exists in such a way because people believe in the promise/concept that they will be allowed to succeed if they continue to try.

What you're defining as a "Cabal of Wealth" is an allowance by the people because they believe in the concept of joining it. If this isn't clear I'm happy to expand upon it.

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Post by directevolve »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #6

I guess Esquire didn't read far enough into the Wired article to discover that this is a tech industry version of similar gatherings like Bilderberg or various WEF side events that have long been known to exist. They're not generally called "cabals" (you'll note Wired did not use this term) because, as far as we know, they don't seem to be much more than glorified social clubs.

Author is primarily a sports blogger and political pundit. Esquire’s lead political blogger since 2011.

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Re: Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

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Post by fwip »

lazide wrote: post #44
anonymars wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't follow the logic - because incompetent people are running the show, some other group of incompetent people can't be running the show?

It’s even weirder I think? Because the people in power are clearly incompetent AND making the average persons life shitty, they clearly can’t be in power due to a conspiracy. When if anything, that seems to support it being the result of shenanigans?

They can be effective at acquiring power and bad at wielding it.

But it seems to me like they're enriching themselves just fine.

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