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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 missedthecue »

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.

The carlyle group is a publicly traded company that mainly invests pension funds.

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Post by CPLX »

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.

We are seeing results. The rich have it better than ever. That's the results.

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

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Post by GolfPopper »

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.

If they are "running the world" they are certainly not doing so for your benefit.

(There is also a great deal of distance between "running the world" and "influencing some events for the benefit of a select few, no matter what the costs to the rest of the world". Personally, I find the latter far more likely, but also undesireable.)

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

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Post by nstents »

It would be irresponsible in the extreme for the wealthy and powerful to not unite in common cause for extending sway into the future even while still competing with each other in the present. It's what social units from families to small businesses to trans-national businesses to countries do all the time. This is just another example, and since the tendency of co-operative behavior even among competing interests extends into the distant past of life's evolutionary history it's unlikely we'll see it go away.

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Post by kgwxd »

pfannkuchen wrote: post #28
felooboolooomba wrote: post #21

This is not a conspiracy theory. It's actual documented evidence. The Epstein files also shed light on this, Bannon traveling around Europe to fortify alt-right alliance and seed unrest.

Was he trying to seed unrest or was he sabotaging organic right wing movements that have less dumb shit in their program? EDIT: Keep in mind that the right wing movements on which you have trained your impressions are almost always by definition the popular ones. Do people typically dig into niche groups that don't get traction for ideologies they already disagree with? Probably not, right?

The less dumb shit gave him a platform for his dumber shit. Which is why sane people try to stop the right wing shit at the less-dumb-shit level, before it gets out of hand. It's the clearly marked path to hell on earth. An inch in that direction is the WRONG WAY.

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Post by cyberax »

Joker_vD wrote: post #34
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.

> The current level of competence at world-running is very low. Yes? If by "running competently" you mean the prosperity of the general population and peace, sure, it's not that competent. But why'd you think that'd be their goal? If anything, Orwell's "1984" shows the mindset perfectly: keep the general public in misery, while skimming whatever cream there is; no need to try and grow the pie, there is enough for the…

If you read "1984", then you'll note that the elites there were barely better off than the middle class now. While living in constant fear of purges.

Russian "elites" are now getting the political-science-101 education. In 2000-s, they traded their political rights in exchange for the right to skim off the state income. They were thinking that their personal connections and money would always get them out of trouble, so why bother fixing corrupt courts and the rubber-stamping parliament?

Well, now their assets are just fodder for the new generation of the "elites" from the FSB and a few of Putin's closest friends. And the former all-powerful elites can't do anything but wait in fear.

Somehow, people like Thiel and never understand that until it's too late.

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

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Post by GolfPopper »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #65
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?

The logic is that the world we see is chaotic in a way that’s difficult to reconcile with the idea that it’s all being masterminded behind the scenes. There does not seem to be any one group of people who always win every political dispute they engage in.

Yet there is a group that reliably loses in the United States: average citizens. From "Testing Theories of American Politics" (Gilens & Page 2014)[1]:

"These results suggest that reality is best captured by mixed theories in which both individual economic elites and organized interest groups (including corporations, largely owned and controlled by wealthy elites) play a substantial part in affecting public policy, but the general public has little or no independent influence."

1. https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_th...

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