This is not true. I moved from the US to Austria 25+ years ago, and although I didn't come here planning to stay, I'm very happy I did. Even as a foreigner I don't feel hated by the Austrian government. For citizens it is even nicer. I'm not saying Austria is perfect, but the quality of life here is astoundingly high compared to the US. Because the government doesn't hate us.
Protect them from what? If you're vaccinated you're already protected from someone who's not. Oh wait... the vaccines don't work, so let's keep on taking them and ignore the social and medical consequences which are rapidly accumulating. Is that your idea of protection? Mine is being informed about the actual risk/reward of vaccination, and in this case it doesn't pass muster, especially when other effect treatments are available, have been proven to work, and yet are being categorically denied. Why don't you want me to have that choice? I had to go around people like you to obtain Ivermectin because you were all chanting "horse paste" along with Rachel Maddow. It worked too, as I knew from the actual scientific data, and as you can tell by the fact that I'm still here.
Your irrational fear doesn't override my bodily autonomy, and if you feel otherwise, then you better have a stronger argument than "it's a social rule" At this point more children have died from vaccine injury than the virus itself, and by a wide margin. That's not my opinion, it's a cold hard fact. That's on you and everyone like you for not informing yourself and fighting back against this blatant tyranny masquerading as public health.
Yeah, we know they don't work well NOW, but they do have a transitory effect of reducing transmission for some weeks. I think it is total shit that gov'ts went with "locksdowns, masks and vaccination" and did fuck all with therapeutics. But people were scared and at the time the liars were convincing that the vaxes worked.
I still agree that bodily autonomy has to be respected. It was here in Austria. But society also has rights. During a pandemic if you're not tested and not vaxxed, society can say you can only go out for necessities like food, banking and the pharmacy until the danger recedes.
Sorry, but "society" is just an abstraction. Society didn't order any of that. That was done by governments acting on behalf of their major campaign donors, the pharmaceutical industry. No one listened to the actual experts who were telling us that you can't defeat a pandemic with any of those measures, but their voices were silenced from the very beginning. That was your first clue that something wasn't right. You don't silence dissent in a free society, you debate it. That was never done. Your second clue was the suppression of proven treatments long before the vaccines appeared, and the obvious lie that they were not only ineffective but dangerous.
This was never about public health. It was about using people's fear to herd them into compliance with dictatorial measures that have ruined many lives, and with the worst yet to come. You can argue about what the motives were, but the outcome is clear. People who got vaccinated, especially with multiple doses, are developing chronic ailments at an alarming rate. This won't stop because the source is an immune system damaged by the vaccines. Their lives will never be the same again. That's what you get for allowing fear and ignorance to rule over you. That's what you get for not listening to those of us who knew.
With the exception of a couple of weeks when the numbers were really bad, if you got regularly tested you did not have to get vaccinated here in Vienna. In less densely populated federal counties, restrictions were less stringent.
During the restrictive period there were no police checking people's papers on the street. Austrian politicians aren't that stupid to pick those optics. Everything was on the honor system. I don't know of a single arrest or fine levied against someone for breaking corona restrictions. Not saying their weren't any, but if there were noone was publishing the news about them.
And yes, I'd call it an incentive program. One I very much disagree with, particularly because there is WAY too much pharma influence on public policy in Austria (huge number of pharma firms here).
Do I equate that one instance of authoritarianism in 30+ years of experience with Austria with "The Austrian government hates its citizens?" No. I don't. I think that would be a childish point of view to take. 10s of thousands of positive experiences are not overruled by one authoritarian action - even though I disagreed with Austria's vaccination policy for most of the last two years.
Austria learns. Thanks to Omicron it became clear that requiring further vaccinations was not going to reduce infections, so the previous laws requiring boosters or testing has been recinded. You can read about it here.
It was clear from the outset that this wasn't a deadly disease. We had reliable case fatality numbers as far back as March 2020, and effective treatments appeared around the same time that were categorically denied long before the vaccines became available. People died because they were denied early treatment and put on ventilators. Healthy people were at risk of catching it, but never at serious risk of dying or even requiring hospitalization had proven early treatment protocols been followed.
People like me, who studied the actual science, knew all this early on, but our voices were silenced, and our careers were threatened if we challenged the official narrative. We were openly mocked by TV talking heads like Rachel Maddow who, like so many others, is complicit in the deaths of millions of people who might have been saved if we'd followed the actual science.
One instance of authoritarianism? in Austria, birthplace of the world's most notorious authoritarian? You must be dreaming.
Is Austria part of NATO? If they are, they are a part of the problem. If they aren't, at least not yet, they may be forced to as has just happened to Sweden and Finland, historically neutral countries since WW2.
No. They are not part of NATO. Trying to force Austria would be really difficult for 2 reasons:
1) Neutrality is written into the constitution.
2) That constitutional neutrality in practice throughout the cold war meant Austria was a place where the East and West didn't go after each other. As a result there are a large number of international organizations that have there European HQs here.
- OPEC
- IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
- OSCE - Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Just to name three very well-known groups. Austria's reputation as "neutral ground" for the last 70 years has lead to a very neutral East/West mentality that permeates the Austrian mentality, even if there are some prominent Ukraine backers in national poltics.
Last and certainly not least is OMV. OMV is a huge multinational oil/gas concern, that used to be state-owned and is still very clsoe to the government, because OMV manages Austria's strategic oil reserves. OMV has the only refinery in Austria (plus one in Germany, one in Romania, and part ownership of onein Abu Dhabi). That refinery in Abu Dhabi? The other 85% is held by middle east countries.
OMV does a HUGE amount of joint ventures for explortation for both gas and oil...in Russia. They've been doing business there since the 90s.
OMV used to get a whole lot more really high quality crude from Libya, where OMV had extensive joint ventures. I'm 100% sure they were not happy when NATO literally blew up their business.
Austria has a tiny military. It is understood that if Russia were to attack Austria, Austria would be crushed. So it is in Austria's military interest to remain neutral as well.
Austria makes Glocks and the US is the biggest purchaser, but Austria is not a major weapons manufacturer like Sweden.
So everything is possible, but it would be political and economic suicide for Austria to join NATO.
I hope that you are right also, jla. But couldn't the same be said about Finland? Didn't it also have a non-aggression pact with Russia, in effect since after WW2, but now discarded due to NATO pressure coming from the US and England? Finland has a larger border with Russia than Ukraine. What happens when NATO starts lining Finland's eastern border with missile bases? God only knows! I've read that the Finnish government wouldn't allow a public referendum on joining NATO because they would lose - badly.
I don't know much about Finland, so I don't feel I have the expertise to compare them to Austria.
As I noted, Austria is neutral per constitution. So choosing NATO would mean national political discussions. There are five parties in parliament right now (IIRC), three of which are big and two small. Austria is not big on military stuff since WWII. So discussions about changing the constitution to join a military alliance would be intense.
There is one WWII memorial in Vienna. It is huge, just oustide downtown and just across the street from the beautiful French embassy. It is to the Soviet Union. The Austrians at least above age 40 (i.e. those that vote the most) know who liberated Austria.
Also as I noted, Austria knows they'd be crushed by Russia. What I didn't note is that Austrians are pretty fatalistic and realists. Also (in general) pretty smart. People talk about "article 5" but it does not require a country to defend another. I don't think anyone in Austria has illusions that the US would come to Austria's rescue if Russia marched in.
LOL. I know! I was having a long day at my desk and I do the "feeding" to practice making decent arguments and quickly searching, coalescing and writing coherant arguments. I look at it more as "chain yanking" than "feeding." ;-)
A long day at your desk in your bullshit job in Nazi Austria. You're a privileged punk every bit as much as Mate and Greenwald and all the rest.
Hey Putin, you want to deNazify, how about you start with Austria versus Ukraine considering Austria has never owned up to its Nazi history and is still replete with Nazis in spirit and sentiment.
LOL. You know fuck-all about Austria. Nearly 18% of Austrian residents are foriegners. In Vienna (roughly 25% of the entire countries population), 50% of the population is 1st or 2nd generation immigrants.
Of the top 5 foreign nationals living in Austria, Germany is #1 (potentially lily white) followed by brown, Slav and/or very often Muslim Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Bosnia. The bottom 5 of the top ten are also brown, Slav and/or very often Muslim again except for #6 Croatia. The others are Hungary, Syria, Poland and Slovakia.
I'd bet I see more headscarves riding my bike to the gym than the average American sees in a year.
Pathetic and hilarious if you actually think 150 year-old Austrian economic theory has anything to do with current Austrian economic policies.
I know you're just shit posting. I respond because some people who aren't assholes just shit posting might read this and it will dispel some misconceptions about Austria.
Sure thing, pal. Austria doesn't seem capable of ridding itself of its Nazi past. It has never conducted a proper accounting and reconciliation of its eager, acquiescent, capitulating complicity.
****Post-war Austria has always been open to neo-Nazism because of their culture of denial which I call Waldheimer’s Disease, when you forget you were a Nazi (remember Kurt Waldheim?). The official Austrian war memorial calls Austria “the first victim of Nazism” while Austria had a larger % of SS members than Germany at the Anschluss. East German propaganda was that all Nazis were in the West. Only West Germany came to terms with what actually happened 1933-45. What is happening in Austria today is another example of what happens when a country forgets its history.****
"People are getting their life advice from chronically miserable freaks like Jordan Peterson"
Disagree. Peterson has bravely stood up for standards and for that I am grateful. I don't have to idolize him or agree w/him about everything.
"I wrote and tweeted about abortion for days after the Roe decision using the words "women" and "woman" the entire time and no one ever objected or told me to say "birthing people" or "people with uteruses" even once. The majority of my readers are leftists. This "women are being erased" culture war talking point seems to be a made-up crisis."
So, the people who read YOU didn't complain and you conclude that the "women are being erased" culture war is made up? Sorry but this is bullshit. Women are being erased. Your writing isn't the entire world.
I'm not sure we should be too relieved by the fact that playing to their abortion rights political base seamlessly supplanted the trans rights mind poison.
There are lots of examples of swapping one narrative for another with virtually no changeover cost, even when the two narratives are logically inconsistent. I think it just demonstrates how removed from reality they have gotten most of the population.
There is a subtlety to the trans rights push. Should trans people have rights? Yes. But there is a difference between having the right to be acknowledged and treated with dignity, and disallowing the formulation of any difference between two very different things at the linguistic level. That I consider to be mind poison, and a powerful way to break people's minds in support of the narratives. Forcing people to mentally accept logical inconsistency and obvious falsehoods is a method of control straight out of Orwell.
I'm not sure why the criticism of Jordan Peterson, he has always seemed pretty reasonable to me. He has his faults but he seems very honest and open and is a good listener. His advice to first make small positive progress in your own life among things you can control, seems quite wise to me. Is he really miserable?
First, regarding “narrative swapping,” the fundamental problem is not that we blindly follow this or that narrative, it is that we have been conditioned to blindly follow any narrative whatsoever. Following an external narrative destroys critical thinking and individual autonomy (and creates tribal divisions). The last thing the producers of a narrative want is for people to think for themselves. So the “dominant narrative” has many branches, and it doesn’t matter which one is looping in our minds, because whichever we choose we surrender our autonomy. Choosing “left” or “right” switches off the mind (and often the conscience as well). I’m old enough to remember a time when most people had very unique and individual takes on the world, and somehow that allowed for a lot more tolerance of and interest in each person’s unique view than this current situation where we are now strictly divided into groups running the same (actually it must be identical) narrative.
Second, with regard to the linguistic demands of virtue signaling one's support for trans rights, that crosses a line with me. Language must be referential and consistent or it ceases to function as a viable form of communication (which is the likely intention).
Lastly, regarding Peterson, as you say he has his faults. But a person who is honestly seeking truth ought to be respected for that even when they stumble. If we only learned from the perfect among us we wouldn’t be doing much learning.
I've been coming to the conclusion that a major obstacle to "awakening from the matrix" as Caitlin puts it, is that continuing to operate in society after awakening requires a certain ability to compartmentalize the matrix world from the real world. If you can't compartmentalize you risk going off the deep end, or else never waking up for fear of going off the deep end. If you can do it, then you can live in both worlds and switch between them.
But I wonder whether some people can do this and others can't?
It may be more complex than this though because I know some people who I always believed were already doing this, who can't seem to awaken to a lot of what's been going on lately.
Sometimes I think that much of our troubles stem from a general failure of imagination among the population. You should be able to imagine things like nuclear war, running out of food, and what happens if elections are controlled by unaccountable computer equipment, etc.
You clearly haven't followed the money funding gender ideology. Their ideas are absolutely about destroying biological sex as a category. It would behoove you to research what's going on there before making such bold statements about women's erasure. If you've read Biden's latest human rights bill, you'd know it doesn't mention the word woman once.
I have been a leftist since the 70s and no longer want to use that label or any label. It divides people which plays into the divide and conquer strategy of the oligarchy/ MIC. People are entitled to their opinions, which are based on their experiences and understanding however incorrect they may seem. Politics are mostly based on opinions, not Truth. IMO, the most important truth is that we are all connected, and both independent and interdependent. Love is the way. It raises vibrations.
This: "It is good that the last two US presidents have been slobbering idiots with holes in their brains. You never want the world's most evil government to have a charming face."
It's almost like they want to be found out and taken out. Or the oligarchy is just too plain arrogant in thinking we're all too stupid and will fall for it. Well, some do, alas.
Unfortunately you almost have to be on underground feminist closed social media groups to hear about the repercussions for using the word woman or not using gender neutral pronouns on some jobs. Women professors, professionals and leading feminists are getting shut down on social media, fired or harassed and smeared just like JkRowling so please don’t minimize the problem. I am glad for the positive you are reporting but people are driven out of some left groups for not believing transwomen ARE women.
Paul Craig Roberts, since the 2014 Nuland coup in Kiev, has been writing about American neocon aggression in Ukraine and that Mr. Putin should have put down the insurrection against his country years ago instead of allowing the Pentagon to flood Ukraine with deadly high-tech weapons. Now, after 8 years of Washington's building up Ukraine's military, it has been a much harder, and more deadly, task, possibly ending in thermonuclear war. The American enemy of mankind, as represented by the idiotic Biden Regime, must, somehow be stopped before the Russia-hating neocons blow up the planet.
BTW, Caitlin, not all of your followers are on the left. I imagine that you have tens of thousands of supporters on the anti-war right also.
Biological women should not have to compete against men, regardless of who they think or feel they are. The transgender community has the press and the government on their side so that should tell you something!
Cattle. When cattle get foot and mouth disease a whole herd must be put down in lime pits quickly so the land may be put back into production. An individual case of rabies or thrush mistaken for rabies gets shot, even if it take the sorry state of current cattle hands 90+ bullets to do the job. The owners, far away in high society, only note the spreadsheet profit and loss. There is no love nor hate, just indifference at the individual steer or cow. Rather irritation and head scratching frustration arise at "The Problem of Overproduction & the Tendency of the Falling Rate of Profit", or "Limitless Growth Done on a Limited Planet".
The Cattlehands mostly just see it as a job, better to be in the pay of Jay Gould than the other half -- The Cattle. Plus the perks, ones that tends to attract many sadist as anything goes if they keep it out on the range away, from the dinning tables and country club bars of the 1%.
Caitlin writes with so much rage. It appears unhealthy. Not sure where the hatred of Jordan Peterson comes from...he's as milquetoast as they come...jealousy perhaps?
Apparently she doesn't respond to direct questions, so your guess is as good as mine. Also makes assumptions about her readers and, the deal breaker for me, ad hominem attacks another author. I'm done. I came here for information. If I want to listen to rants there are any number of them on substack that are more entertaining and informative than hers.
Great man that fights all of the above but also the enemy within himself...
I believe that is due to the fact that he is a carnivore... when in reality he is a gentile person.
You cannot be hunter and prey at the same time... you must first be honest to yourself.
First rule of ZEN
Second Observation and you will find this is true to the bone.
What happens now happened before 100 years ago to the bone... in Germany prior to WW2
Same people same shit same propaganda... result War.... wanted and willing.
Same happens right here right now.... Hyperinflation next step... uprising... war... all planned.
And the underlying common denominator is the Jewish Occult and the related Mafia Families.
You will find that von der Leyen Biden Macron Zelinsky Putin Boris Scholz all belong to this Jewish Occult Network.
They are actors out to destroy you me and this world on behalf of those Jewish Occult Propagandists behind the curtain.
On the 4th of July 2022 I started Project Revolution... because we cannot rely on Governments... we must do it alone. Those who look away only support evil.
We the People are the Revolution there is no other way.
I usually agree with you 100% Caitlin, but you've seriously misjudged the harms done, not only to women but to vulnerable young people especially girls, by an industry which tries to convince them they can change sex. A 4000% increase in teen girls referred to 'gender clinics' and being fast tracked onto puberty blockers and then testosterone and double mastectomies is not harmless! This is a wicked deception and will leave many young girls sterile and with without full sexual function and other health problems. The boys, are being 'transed' too. Check out the sad case of Jazz Jennings to see the full horror of a teen boy having his testicle removed and his penis inverted to form a 'pseudo vagina' before his 18th birthday. Castrated, in effect.
Search for 'detransitioners' if you think this is an exaggeration. It's truly shocking!
Wonderful post. Thanks for the consistency producing such grounding content.
These days every government hates its citizens
This is not true. I moved from the US to Austria 25+ years ago, and although I didn't come here planning to stay, I'm very happy I did. Even as a foreigner I don't feel hated by the Austrian government. For citizens it is even nicer. I'm not saying Austria is perfect, but the quality of life here is astoundingly high compared to the US. Because the government doesn't hate us.
So what do you call it when people who don't want to be vaccinated are at least placed under restriction of liberty.
Is that an incentive program ?
No, it's to protect others… A social rule.
Protect them from what? If you're vaccinated you're already protected from someone who's not. Oh wait... the vaccines don't work, so let's keep on taking them and ignore the social and medical consequences which are rapidly accumulating. Is that your idea of protection? Mine is being informed about the actual risk/reward of vaccination, and in this case it doesn't pass muster, especially when other effect treatments are available, have been proven to work, and yet are being categorically denied. Why don't you want me to have that choice? I had to go around people like you to obtain Ivermectin because you were all chanting "horse paste" along with Rachel Maddow. It worked too, as I knew from the actual scientific data, and as you can tell by the fact that I'm still here.
Your irrational fear doesn't override my bodily autonomy, and if you feel otherwise, then you better have a stronger argument than "it's a social rule" At this point more children have died from vaccine injury than the virus itself, and by a wide margin. That's not my opinion, it's a cold hard fact. That's on you and everyone like you for not informing yourself and fighting back against this blatant tyranny masquerading as public health.
Yeah, we know they don't work well NOW, but they do have a transitory effect of reducing transmission for some weeks. I think it is total shit that gov'ts went with "locksdowns, masks and vaccination" and did fuck all with therapeutics. But people were scared and at the time the liars were convincing that the vaxes worked.
I still agree that bodily autonomy has to be respected. It was here in Austria. But society also has rights. During a pandemic if you're not tested and not vaxxed, society can say you can only go out for necessities like food, banking and the pharmacy until the danger recedes.
Sorry, but "society" is just an abstraction. Society didn't order any of that. That was done by governments acting on behalf of their major campaign donors, the pharmaceutical industry. No one listened to the actual experts who were telling us that you can't defeat a pandemic with any of those measures, but their voices were silenced from the very beginning. That was your first clue that something wasn't right. You don't silence dissent in a free society, you debate it. That was never done. Your second clue was the suppression of proven treatments long before the vaccines appeared, and the obvious lie that they were not only ineffective but dangerous.
This was never about public health. It was about using people's fear to herd them into compliance with dictatorial measures that have ruined many lives, and with the worst yet to come. You can argue about what the motives were, but the outcome is clear. People who got vaccinated, especially with multiple doses, are developing chronic ailments at an alarming rate. This won't stop because the source is an immune system damaged by the vaccines. Their lives will never be the same again. That's what you get for allowing fear and ignorance to rule over you. That's what you get for not listening to those of us who knew.
With the exception of a couple of weeks when the numbers were really bad, if you got regularly tested you did not have to get vaccinated here in Vienna. In less densely populated federal counties, restrictions were less stringent.
During the restrictive period there were no police checking people's papers on the street. Austrian politicians aren't that stupid to pick those optics. Everything was on the honor system. I don't know of a single arrest or fine levied against someone for breaking corona restrictions. Not saying their weren't any, but if there were noone was publishing the news about them.
And yes, I'd call it an incentive program. One I very much disagree with, particularly because there is WAY too much pharma influence on public policy in Austria (huge number of pharma firms here).
Do I equate that one instance of authoritarianism in 30+ years of experience with Austria with "The Austrian government hates its citizens?" No. I don't. I think that would be a childish point of view to take. 10s of thousands of positive experiences are not overruled by one authoritarian action - even though I disagreed with Austria's vaccination policy for most of the last two years.
Austria learns. Thanks to Omicron it became clear that requiring further vaccinations was not going to reduce infections, so the previous laws requiring boosters or testing has been recinded. You can read about it here.
https://www.sozialministerium.at/Corona/Impfpflicht/Allgemeine-Informationen.html
Sorry, the English version does not have the detailed information and quotes, but if you're interested there is google translate.
It was clear from the outset that this wasn't a deadly disease. We had reliable case fatality numbers as far back as March 2020, and effective treatments appeared around the same time that were categorically denied long before the vaccines became available. People died because they were denied early treatment and put on ventilators. Healthy people were at risk of catching it, but never at serious risk of dying or even requiring hospitalization had proven early treatment protocols been followed.
People like me, who studied the actual science, knew all this early on, but our voices were silenced, and our careers were threatened if we challenged the official narrative. We were openly mocked by TV talking heads like Rachel Maddow who, like so many others, is complicit in the deaths of millions of people who might have been saved if we'd followed the actual science.
One instance of authoritarianism? in Austria, birthplace of the world's most notorious authoritarian? You must be dreaming.
Is Austria part of NATO? If they are, they are a part of the problem. If they aren't, at least not yet, they may be forced to as has just happened to Sweden and Finland, historically neutral countries since WW2.
No. They are not part of NATO. Trying to force Austria would be really difficult for 2 reasons:
1) Neutrality is written into the constitution.
2) That constitutional neutrality in practice throughout the cold war meant Austria was a place where the East and West didn't go after each other. As a result there are a large number of international organizations that have there European HQs here.
- OPEC
- IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
- OSCE - Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Just to name three very well-known groups. Austria's reputation as "neutral ground" for the last 70 years has lead to a very neutral East/West mentality that permeates the Austrian mentality, even if there are some prominent Ukraine backers in national poltics.
Last and certainly not least is OMV. OMV is a huge multinational oil/gas concern, that used to be state-owned and is still very clsoe to the government, because OMV manages Austria's strategic oil reserves. OMV has the only refinery in Austria (plus one in Germany, one in Romania, and part ownership of onein Abu Dhabi). That refinery in Abu Dhabi? The other 85% is held by middle east countries.
OMV does a HUGE amount of joint ventures for explortation for both gas and oil...in Russia. They've been doing business there since the 90s.
OMV used to get a whole lot more really high quality crude from Libya, where OMV had extensive joint ventures. I'm 100% sure they were not happy when NATO literally blew up their business.
Austria has a tiny military. It is understood that if Russia were to attack Austria, Austria would be crushed. So it is in Austria's military interest to remain neutral as well.
Austria makes Glocks and the US is the biggest purchaser, but Austria is not a major weapons manufacturer like Sweden.
So everything is possible, but it would be political and economic suicide for Austria to join NATO.
I hope I'm right!
I hope that you are right also, jla. But couldn't the same be said about Finland? Didn't it also have a non-aggression pact with Russia, in effect since after WW2, but now discarded due to NATO pressure coming from the US and England? Finland has a larger border with Russia than Ukraine. What happens when NATO starts lining Finland's eastern border with missile bases? God only knows! I've read that the Finnish government wouldn't allow a public referendum on joining NATO because they would lose - badly.
I don't know much about Finland, so I don't feel I have the expertise to compare them to Austria.
As I noted, Austria is neutral per constitution. So choosing NATO would mean national political discussions. There are five parties in parliament right now (IIRC), three of which are big and two small. Austria is not big on military stuff since WWII. So discussions about changing the constitution to join a military alliance would be intense.
There is one WWII memorial in Vienna. It is huge, just oustide downtown and just across the street from the beautiful French embassy. It is to the Soviet Union. The Austrians at least above age 40 (i.e. those that vote the most) know who liberated Austria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_War_Memorial_(Vienna)
Also as I noted, Austria knows they'd be crushed by Russia. What I didn't note is that Austrians are pretty fatalistic and realists. Also (in general) pretty smart. People talk about "article 5" but it does not require a country to defend another. I don't think anyone in Austria has illusions that the US would come to Austria's rescue if Russia marched in.
Like every other nation in Europe, save perhaps Hungary, Austria is a US satrap. Wait until a real conflict breaks out and you'll see.
What is a satrap? The only definition I found was a reference to ancient Persian provinces. Is that what you meant? If so, I disagree fully.
I hear Austria is very welcoming to black folks from inner-city America. That's so nice of the Austrians.
Can you list any of the requirements necessary to emigrate to Austria?
Or are you just talking out of your ass?
Don't. Feed. The. Troll.
LOL. I know! I was having a long day at my desk and I do the "feeding" to practice making decent arguments and quickly searching, coalescing and writing coherant arguments. I look at it more as "chain yanking" than "feeding." ;-)
A long day at your desk in your bullshit job in Nazi Austria. You're a privileged punk every bit as much as Mate and Greenwald and all the rest.
Hey Putin, you want to deNazify, how about you start with Austria versus Ukraine considering Austria has never owned up to its Nazi history and is still replete with Nazis in spirit and sentiment.
Everyone. Move. To. Austria.
Here are a couple.
1. The applicant must be lily white.
2. The applicant must be a card-carrying member of the Mises Institute.
LOL. You know fuck-all about Austria. Nearly 18% of Austrian residents are foriegners. In Vienna (roughly 25% of the entire countries population), 50% of the population is 1st or 2nd generation immigrants.
Of the top 5 foreign nationals living in Austria, Germany is #1 (potentially lily white) followed by brown, Slav and/or very often Muslim Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Bosnia. The bottom 5 of the top ten are also brown, Slav and/or very often Muslim again except for #6 Croatia. The others are Hungary, Syria, Poland and Slovakia.
I'd bet I see more headscarves riding my bike to the gym than the average American sees in a year.
Pathetic and hilarious if you actually think 150 year-old Austrian economic theory has anything to do with current Austrian economic policies.
I know you're just shit posting. I respond because some people who aren't assholes just shit posting might read this and it will dispel some misconceptions about Austria.
Sure thing, pal. Austria doesn't seem capable of ridding itself of its Nazi past. It has never conducted a proper accounting and reconciliation of its eager, acquiescent, capitulating complicity.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-far-right-is-now-in-power-in-austria/
****Post-war Austria has always been open to neo-Nazism because of their culture of denial which I call Waldheimer’s Disease, when you forget you were a Nazi (remember Kurt Waldheim?). The official Austrian war memorial calls Austria “the first victim of Nazism” while Austria had a larger % of SS members than Germany at the Anschluss. East German propaganda was that all Nazis were in the West. Only West Germany came to terms with what actually happened 1933-45. What is happening in Austria today is another example of what happens when a country forgets its history.****
"People are getting their life advice from chronically miserable freaks like Jordan Peterson"
Disagree. Peterson has bravely stood up for standards and for that I am grateful. I don't have to idolize him or agree w/him about everything.
"I wrote and tweeted about abortion for days after the Roe decision using the words "women" and "woman" the entire time and no one ever objected or told me to say "birthing people" or "people with uteruses" even once. The majority of my readers are leftists. This "women are being erased" culture war talking point seems to be a made-up crisis."
So, the people who read YOU didn't complain and you conclude that the "women are being erased" culture war is made up? Sorry but this is bullshit. Women are being erased. Your writing isn't the entire world.
I think Caitlin would welcome the fact her readers are not Caitlin Johnstone stans.
I'm not sure we should be too relieved by the fact that playing to their abortion rights political base seamlessly supplanted the trans rights mind poison.
There are lots of examples of swapping one narrative for another with virtually no changeover cost, even when the two narratives are logically inconsistent. I think it just demonstrates how removed from reality they have gotten most of the population.
There is a subtlety to the trans rights push. Should trans people have rights? Yes. But there is a difference between having the right to be acknowledged and treated with dignity, and disallowing the formulation of any difference between two very different things at the linguistic level. That I consider to be mind poison, and a powerful way to break people's minds in support of the narratives. Forcing people to mentally accept logical inconsistency and obvious falsehoods is a method of control straight out of Orwell.
I'm not sure why the criticism of Jordan Peterson, he has always seemed pretty reasonable to me. He has his faults but he seems very honest and open and is a good listener. His advice to first make small positive progress in your own life among things you can control, seems quite wise to me. Is he really miserable?
You make many excellent points.
First, regarding “narrative swapping,” the fundamental problem is not that we blindly follow this or that narrative, it is that we have been conditioned to blindly follow any narrative whatsoever. Following an external narrative destroys critical thinking and individual autonomy (and creates tribal divisions). The last thing the producers of a narrative want is for people to think for themselves. So the “dominant narrative” has many branches, and it doesn’t matter which one is looping in our minds, because whichever we choose we surrender our autonomy. Choosing “left” or “right” switches off the mind (and often the conscience as well). I’m old enough to remember a time when most people had very unique and individual takes on the world, and somehow that allowed for a lot more tolerance of and interest in each person’s unique view than this current situation where we are now strictly divided into groups running the same (actually it must be identical) narrative.
Second, with regard to the linguistic demands of virtue signaling one's support for trans rights, that crosses a line with me. Language must be referential and consistent or it ceases to function as a viable form of communication (which is the likely intention).
Lastly, regarding Peterson, as you say he has his faults. But a person who is honestly seeking truth ought to be respected for that even when they stumble. If we only learned from the perfect among us we wouldn’t be doing much learning.
Agree on all points.
I've been coming to the conclusion that a major obstacle to "awakening from the matrix" as Caitlin puts it, is that continuing to operate in society after awakening requires a certain ability to compartmentalize the matrix world from the real world. If you can't compartmentalize you risk going off the deep end, or else never waking up for fear of going off the deep end. If you can do it, then you can live in both worlds and switch between them.
But I wonder whether some people can do this and others can't?
It may be more complex than this though because I know some people who I always believed were already doing this, who can't seem to awaken to a lot of what's been going on lately.
Sometimes I think that much of our troubles stem from a general failure of imagination among the population. You should be able to imagine things like nuclear war, running out of food, and what happens if elections are controlled by unaccountable computer equipment, etc.
Well stated.
You clearly haven't followed the money funding gender ideology. Their ideas are absolutely about destroying biological sex as a category. It would behoove you to research what's going on there before making such bold statements about women's erasure. If you've read Biden's latest human rights bill, you'd know it doesn't mention the word woman once.
I have been a leftist since the 70s and no longer want to use that label or any label. It divides people which plays into the divide and conquer strategy of the oligarchy/ MIC. People are entitled to their opinions, which are based on their experiences and understanding however incorrect they may seem. Politics are mostly based on opinions, not Truth. IMO, the most important truth is that we are all connected, and both independent and interdependent. Love is the way. It raises vibrations.
Ideology and ideological labels short-circuit clear thinking.
This: "It is good that the last two US presidents have been slobbering idiots with holes in their brains. You never want the world's most evil government to have a charming face."
It's almost like they want to be found out and taken out. Or the oligarchy is just too plain arrogant in thinking we're all too stupid and will fall for it. Well, some do, alas.
It's the latter. It's the public that's been found out to be stupid and so they no longer have to care.
True. They don't bother to make their lies plausible anymore.
They know we are ineffective and powerless and will vote for the uniparty come what may.
Unfortunately you almost have to be on underground feminist closed social media groups to hear about the repercussions for using the word woman or not using gender neutral pronouns on some jobs. Women professors, professionals and leading feminists are getting shut down on social media, fired or harassed and smeared just like JkRowling so please don’t minimize the problem. I am glad for the positive you are reporting but people are driven out of some left groups for not believing transwomen ARE women.
Paul Craig Roberts, since the 2014 Nuland coup in Kiev, has been writing about American neocon aggression in Ukraine and that Mr. Putin should have put down the insurrection against his country years ago instead of allowing the Pentagon to flood Ukraine with deadly high-tech weapons. Now, after 8 years of Washington's building up Ukraine's military, it has been a much harder, and more deadly, task, possibly ending in thermonuclear war. The American enemy of mankind, as represented by the idiotic Biden Regime, must, somehow be stopped before the Russia-hating neocons blow up the planet.
BTW, Caitlin, not all of your followers are on the left. I imagine that you have tens of thousands of supporters on the anti-war right also.
There is no such thing as an anti-war right. There is such a thing as an anti-thiswar right.
Biological women should not have to compete against men, regardless of who they think or feel they are. The transgender community has the press and the government on their side so that should tell you something!
Cattle. When cattle get foot and mouth disease a whole herd must be put down in lime pits quickly so the land may be put back into production. An individual case of rabies or thrush mistaken for rabies gets shot, even if it take the sorry state of current cattle hands 90+ bullets to do the job. The owners, far away in high society, only note the spreadsheet profit and loss. There is no love nor hate, just indifference at the individual steer or cow. Rather irritation and head scratching frustration arise at "The Problem of Overproduction & the Tendency of the Falling Rate of Profit", or "Limitless Growth Done on a Limited Planet".
The Cattlehands mostly just see it as a job, better to be in the pay of Jay Gould than the other half -- The Cattle. Plus the perks, ones that tends to attract many sadist as anything goes if they keep it out on the range away, from the dinning tables and country club bars of the 1%.
Powerful Stuff - poetic, concise and brilliant
Caitlin writes with so much rage. It appears unhealthy. Not sure where the hatred of Jordan Peterson comes from...he's as milquetoast as they come...jealousy perhaps?
Apparently she doesn't respond to direct questions, so your guess is as good as mine. Also makes assumptions about her readers and, the deal breaker for me, ad hominem attacks another author. I'm done. I came here for information. If I want to listen to rants there are any number of them on substack that are more entertaining and informative than hers.
100%!... may I add, NARCISSIST PSYCHOPATHS TOO OVER!, it is their turn!....
Great Post... stay True to yourself...
About Jordan Peterson...
Great man that fights all of the above but also the enemy within himself...
I believe that is due to the fact that he is a carnivore... when in reality he is a gentile person.
You cannot be hunter and prey at the same time... you must first be honest to yourself.
First rule of ZEN
Second Observation and you will find this is true to the bone.
What happens now happened before 100 years ago to the bone... in Germany prior to WW2
Same people same shit same propaganda... result War.... wanted and willing.
Same happens right here right now.... Hyperinflation next step... uprising... war... all planned.
And the underlying common denominator is the Jewish Occult and the related Mafia Families.
You will find that von der Leyen Biden Macron Zelinsky Putin Boris Scholz all belong to this Jewish Occult Network.
They are actors out to destroy you me and this world on behalf of those Jewish Occult Propagandists behind the curtain.
On the 4th of July 2022 I started Project Revolution... because we cannot rely on Governments... we must do it alone. Those who look away only support evil.
We the People are the Revolution there is no other way.
https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/project-revolution
I usually agree with you 100% Caitlin, but you've seriously misjudged the harms done, not only to women but to vulnerable young people especially girls, by an industry which tries to convince them they can change sex. A 4000% increase in teen girls referred to 'gender clinics' and being fast tracked onto puberty blockers and then testosterone and double mastectomies is not harmless! This is a wicked deception and will leave many young girls sterile and with without full sexual function and other health problems. The boys, are being 'transed' too. Check out the sad case of Jazz Jennings to see the full horror of a teen boy having his testicle removed and his penis inverted to form a 'pseudo vagina' before his 18th birthday. Castrated, in effect.
Search for 'detransitioners' if you think this is an exaggeration. It's truly shocking!