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Hawks Perch's avatar

The Pathocracy That Owns US

A silent coup has been nearly completed. It wasn't executed with tanks in the streets or soldiers seizing broadcasting stations. This conquest was far more insidious, far more complete. The institutions that define the nations of the English-speaking peoples—their governments, their media, their schools, their very cultural fabric—are no longer controlled by the sane, the competent, or the virtuous. They've been systematically captured by the psychologically pathological.

https://emburlingame.substack.com/p/the-pathocracy-that-owns-us

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BirdyB's avatar

I see the fear in people rising... you can't speak the words; you can't go against the 'majority'; you sure can't change things as they have been this way for quite a memory. Those who speak out and bring forward new thoughts, a new/different perspective; those who wonder why some think they are just that entitled, and that others are not, and should never be... need to be silenced. Quickly and totally. What we face is fear - what we need is hope and the belief that if we all work together we can actually make this world a better place for everybody to live in. We have to rely less on government, educators and elites to tell us how we should be living our lives and realize that if these things aren't what we want, then we have the power to have those things - government, schools and elitist thinking mean not-much to us. We have to believe in our power and live in our power. Who told us we have none?

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SD's avatar

In another stack one the 'hero's you refer to came after me when I pointed out a leftist journo publicly attacked Kirk, stating he bought his death upon himself. Blamed the victim for speaking freely. Like a mugger blaming the victim for drawing money out of an ATM in front of them.

The useful idiot fired back, that the comment was the stupidest they had seen, and was typical of a fascist. Regardless, my response was one that Kirk used himself many times, 'Prove me wrong'. Leaving the link to the left wing publication that announced the sacking with the disgusting comments made by that reporter.

Charlie Kirk's death in the eyes of the left brings them one step closer to their totalitarian utopia. His death was no a murder though, a murder is something else entirely, he was 'Assassinated' the use of that term sends a much clearer message to everyone around the world that things are changing, fast and for the worst. It is a wake up call.

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EK MtnTime's avatar

This post may be the best thing you’ve written. Thank you.

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BritishBiker Philippines's avatar

Those responsible for this murder must be held accountable. The eager politicians spewing vile and false information and who are keenly promoted by a frenzied media machine. I am unsure how to achieve this, however, without resorting to the tyrants' favourite tool in their toolbox, a well used clamp to censor free speech? I pray that enough souls will awaken to reduce this brainwashing. We will not lose this battle.

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Loon's avatar

Hundreds of assassinations over the years in America yet its leaders who kill millions without a thought of regret are heroes and without Congress’s approval .

Where the idea of killing comes from is plain to see and is emulated .

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Noël King's avatar

Thank you for this lovely post and beautiful picture!

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Mary Gard's avatar

I found myself looking for your voice after hearing this news. Thank you. 🙏

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Nancy Parsons's avatar

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing these thoughts. I have held similar thoughts for many, many years, but never spoke them so eloquently. It is important, I think, that we remember that the direct translation of "democracy" [demo kratzia] is "mob rule." Plato listed it as second from the worst forms of government, the worst being a malicious dictatorship. The US was designed to be a representative republic, not a democracy.

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zirrus's avatar

This, deeply from the heart, declaration comes from someone else who really knows his shit about psyops and tyrannical playbooks. His response is measured, and it struck me to my core... helped me to get past some of the heavy load my heart has been carrying over needless death in this last week. If someone helps you stand up again, he deserves to be heard, and his message should go far and wide:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=azE7nqqQMmo

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Bifurcatio's avatar

While recognizing Charlie Kirk as a stand up guy, I didn't listen to him much as he was a long time 'yes' man for Israel. He seemed to be questioning that position of late, and it might be what got him sniped and killed.

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zirrus's avatar

It's cheap to throw out a hypothesis without any evidence whatsoever, huh?

In my opinion, now is the time for self reflection; the time for making guesses at motivation might better wait until more information has been sifted through

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Bifurcatio's avatar

As more comes out, my 'hypothesis' is looking more and more tenable. On the other hand, I'll be happy to eat my words if some other case proves correct.

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zirrus's avatar

Good thing throwing words out there is cheap. If they don't get stuck in your throat that's awesome

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Bifurcatio's avatar

"Good thing throwing words out there is cheap." Yes, it is.

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zirrus's avatar

Yet sometimes they are very very expensive... just a good thing to keep in mind in general

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Bifurcatio's avatar

Yeah, just ask Charlie.

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Nada Tržan-Herman's avatar

I agree that such a violence is not acceptable - but it has always existed; heroes of the masses are parts of mass psychology. It is different when one "important person" is killed or hundred poor innocent people, isn't. It is so sad that humans don't develop thinking with heart.

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zirrus's avatar

I see what you are saying, but there is a difference between war and assassination, and always has been. Do you know how many people die in needless car wrecks every day? Yet it is something we allow in the name of sovereignty and self determination. It's important to think with the heart, the gut, each and every limb and digit, but also with the brain

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Hawks Perch's avatar

“The totalitarian systems of the 20th century represent a kind of collective psychosis, whether gradually or suddenly, reason and common human decency are no longer possible in such a system. There is only a pervasive atmosphere of terror and a projection of the enemy imagined to be ‘in our midst’. Thus society turns on itself, urged on by the ruling authorities” ~ Joost Meerloo, M.D.

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Christian Steinberger's avatar

"A wave of emotions is sweeping across the world. We are not human if we stand outside these tides of life." Are you sure, Doc?

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Hawks Perch's avatar

“Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot. It confuses those who think straight. The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more of an emotional appeal… than logic and reason. While the people are still searching for a reasonable counter-argument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault them with another” ~ Joost Meerloo, M.D. (Rape Of The Mind)

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Hawks Perch's avatar

“There is in fact much that is comparable between the strange reaction of the citizens of totalitarianism and their culture as a whole on the one hand, and the sick schizophrenic on the other” ~ Joost Meerloo, M.D. (Rape Of The Mind)

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