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Citizen Voter general questions

1. My democratically elected representatives are doing the best they can to help the body politic create a life of prosperity and dignity.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

2. My city government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

3. My county government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

4. My state government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

5. My national government is run as if the decision-making officials are friends and share the same common fate with all the citizens.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

6. I believe that the earth is being visited by extraterrestrial intelligence from either another star system or dimension not of our world.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

7. Presently, the Federal Government takes about four months of an American’s labor as TAX.

QUESTION: How much of their pay checks should the American workers be allowed to keep?

a. 100%

b.90%

c.80%

d.70%

e. 60%

f. 50%

g. 40%

8. In 1976 The United Nations conducted a study and found that four people could live comfortably in a 600 sq. ft. shelter with one bath and one toilette. As part of the UN's efforts to make things better for humanity, they plan to shelter hundreds of millions of deserving third world homeless people in the under utilized houses located in the industrialized world. For example, a retired American couple with an 1,800 sq. ft. house will be required to take in ten homeless people. The UN has publicly stated its plans to enforce this program as soon as possible....

QUESTION: So, how do you feel about getting some exotic new house guests?

a. this is a good thing, sharing

b. I shall pretend that it isn't happening

d. your lying, they would never do this to us

e. I will ignore your hatred

f. I will get active politically and fight this insanity

Congress and the Legislative Branch

9. Is the following statement true:

The voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

10. Is the following statement true:

Many of the laws they vote on are in excess of two thousand pages.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

11. Is the following statement true:

Since the Representative cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their advisors tell them to vote.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

12. Is the following statement true:

Thus, they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

13. Is the following statement true:

Representative government is obsolete. It does not work for us.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

14. Are you willing to read, comprehend and vote on ten pages per day of a 2000 page law in order to assist your democratically elected representative in the legislative operation that will determine the conditions of your future life? (making new laws?)

a. yes

b. no

1. c. undecided

15. Do you agree:

Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.

a. yes

b. no

1. c. undecided

16. Do you agree:

Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.

a. yes

b. no

c. undecided

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Apr 2Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Think of the waning days of the USSR. The old slogans are still trotted out, but nobody, especially nobody of influence and authority, believes a word of it any more. Much of "management" consists of politically motivated box-checking and politics is increasingly performative and infighting is vicious.

Meanwhile, behind the spectacle, everyone with the means and opportunity to do so is looting everything not nailed down.

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Apr 2Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Perhaps the board of directors for Boeing should be convicted of mass murder and sentenced to death.

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Apr 2Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Great entry

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Apr 2Liked by Niccolo Soldo

If One World Government were feasible, simply erase all borders and border controls.

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Apr 2Liked by Niccolo Soldo

I wonder whether it's elites that drive change or whether they're just better positioned and resourced to adapt to and opportunistically leverage (societal, technological etc) changes arising naturally.

I'm not "material conditions" all the way, but like 90% of the way.

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Apr 2Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Historically (like Dell Computer and Maytag at around the same time) diversity fanatics gain control of the board. Seattle is/was a liberal-wack-job nexus. This whole thing has the strong odor of hysterical obsession with eradicating demonic white privilege. They exhibit this by attacking their own (white) engineers.

The cat-and-mouse MO: The board hires a new CEO with the specific intent to show the world how virtuous the board is; and make the CEO the fall-guy if the madness leads to failure, which of course it does.

What modern liberalism does is substitute the universal awareness that demons exist, but instead of dealing with supernatural demons they can only look for corporeal ones, in this case white supremacy, because they don't believe in supernatural demons. Modernist liberals are constantly assailed by corporeal demons; racism, sexism, homophobia, climate deniers, vax deniers, on and on. They are in a state of constant hysteria and spend trillions of dollars every year attempting to eradicate, punish or control the demons. They are experts in deflection and double talk.

This seems to me a more realistic explanation for the types of destructive behavior we see in a multitude of instances such as Boeing.

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Apr 2Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Appalling to see Boeing so willingly subordinate people who design planes to beancounters and penny pinchers. Would love to root for their failure due to their leadership incompetence but unfortunately have to regularly use their products and know that their involvement with the defense dept will means they will basically never disappear

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Hungary had a similar scare to Zanzibar's a few years ago, multiple notorious phantoms haunted our cities and the districts of Budapest, some were "sucker phantoms" ("szopófantom") giving blowjobs to random homeless people, and "diarrhea phantoms" ("fosófantom") leaving their mark on public surfaces, both types capturing the headlines every time they struck and quickly rising to the top of contemporary public folklore.

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Apr 2Liked by Niccolo Soldo

> By now, most of you have heard of the increasingly popular concept known as “the competency crisis”.

There's a very interesting thinker out there, who's been doing his own blog thing for forever now, named David Chapman. One of his blogs, https://meaningness.com/, his big idea is roughly equivalent to "the competency crisis is real and threatens our entire civilization if we don't fix it".

He goes into a lot more specific details, and is approaching from a decidedly philosophical and not political perspective. But the gist of his idea is "the complex infrastructural systems that support our lives must be run by competent people, but the existence of the internet and social media has stunted peoples social and intellectual growth to the point that they are increasingly incapable of rising to that challenge. We need to reverse this, or it will be bad"

Worth checking out! I've met the guy in person before, super cool dude too.

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Fun fact, napoleon is the one who coined the term "nation of shopkeepers" to describe the English.

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Apr 2Liked by Niccolo Soldo

> How is this not demoralizing for Americans, especially those recent arrivals who entered legally and worked hard to make something for themselves and their families?

Boots on the ground report: it is.

I am a Canadian citizen. I have lived in the US on a series of nonimmigrant work visas for 12 years now. At the current moment, my only path to legally staying in this country for the long term is marrying a US citizen, and if I lose my job, I have 60 days to find a new one (in Software Engineering, the only TN Visa orofession I have qualifications for) or I have to leave.

I have given the better part of half a million dollars in taxes to this country. I followed all the rules. I've built a life in this country since I was 21, and this country reserves the right to take it all away from me on two months' notice(*). Meanwhile, they give all of that tax money that I pay, to illegals who have done nothing to earn it and who will never, ever, in their entire lifetimes, become net economic contributors to society.

To say I am "demoralized" is an extreme understatement. At this point my border policy is "fuck a wall, you have to put machine gun nests with live ammo up there and shoot until everyone stops moving"

(*) When I originally came to this country, the law was different. It didn't give me 60 days. It actually gave me 24 hours to leave the country if I lost my job. Obama snuck in a change to this policy 3 days before Trump took office in 2016, as a fuck-you poison pill in expectation of an anti-immigrant president. So, for the only time in my life, I will say this unironically: Thanks, Obama

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Apr 2Liked by Niccolo Soldo

"There is a new trend that blames many fumbles on DEI."

I've also noticed that. What are your thoughts on this trend?

I think it's fearmongering, and counterproductive.

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Apr 2·edited Apr 2Liked by Niccolo Soldo

I do think there's a new world order for quite a while.

A corporate world order.

WW2 cemented it with the neutered UN.

Look at the Ukraine war, what a sham. Russia still sells gas through Ukraine... They still sell oil to the west through India etc. Haha, they knew it was going to be for show.

Remember folks we were always at war with EastAsia. 😂

The last piece of evidence was how almost every nation followed the con-vid scam and still to this day won't say the shots are dangerous. Russia and China did the same shit as we did and had their own problematic shots.

Only fake opposition like senator Ron Johnson pretend to address it.

Oh and the Slovak PM... I'm not sure if he's actually pushing or pretending to push against big pharma.

If governments are still pussy footing around stopping the shots... Do you think they're controlled? I do!

Perhaps con-vid will be the time when people will no longer believe their leaders are "local". Trust falls.

https://robc137.substack.com/p/looking-behind-the-curtain-of-oz

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