Century of Scams
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I thought it might help give a where am I coming from for everyone
I don't know what i'm about to say here but I'll list a bunch of events of the last century and then weigh in on scamminess, and invite other people to add events and their own thoughts on the scamminess of each
WWI - scam. all sides were funded by the warburg brothers and many had queen victorias grandchildren as leaders. purpose, to feed secondary scams, create the fiat banking system, league of nations, both scams
prohibition - probably not a scam, but gave rise to organized crime
USSR - semi-scam. It was initially a globalist scam, became a weird distorted nationalism
Wiemar republic, also semi-scam, failed experiment
Nazis, scam. while addressing real concerns intitially, they were absorbing a nationalism and a socialism both of which were about something, and perverting it with mock nationalism and globalist agenda
WWII - scam. rockefellers and other american industrialists were funding all sides to aid the destruction of empires, pave the way for one world governance and the UN - another subsidiary scam.
WHO - originally staffed by nazis, was always a scam. first efforts were serial disasters in africa
NATO - another inherited nazi scam.
Korea - a real war about stopping the USSR or what was becoming sino-soviet red continent
Vietnam, the same, not a scam
Hippies. semi-scam. Real resistance that got co-opted by the CIA drug experimentation and fake political exercise
Television - a scam, mind control for the masses. Yes, I realize I'm posting this to a TV fan site
AIDS - at least part scam, not sure I by the full scam argument yet
the EU - total scam, part of a larger scam network of global governance and population control including related scams, the WTO, NAFTA, etc
gulf war - semi scam. someone was scamming, interfering for miscommunication to set up a bigger scam later, by creating a real problem
Internet - not a scam
Y2K - scam
Social media - a scam, centralizing communication apps into a hub doesn't serve any purpose other than to exploit laziness
amazon - scam, the same, there were many stores now there's one serves no function
google - initially not a scam, now a scam
iraq war - a scam. had nothing to do with WMD or 9/11 other scams, like afghanistan. which was a scam a decade earlier for the soviets
bitcoin - not a scam
bitcoin core blockstream now a scam, but the currency still works
arab spring - mega scam
obamacare - giga scam
covid - the ultimate world destroying scam. real disease, but disease and vax are both engineered bioweapons
okay, what'd I miss?
Edit:
Planned Parenthood? All population control is a scam
Covid, animal theory is a scam
Psyops, Occupy Wall Street, BLM, Antifa, Qanon all scams
"Election" was a coup, and a scam, sure. The "coup" was not a coup, also a scam.o
Everything related to this was a scam
W was a scam, as was Obama. Politics is a scam
National Political Parties are a scam, and illegal
Neoliberal/Neoconservative scam.
Gang of Eight is a total fucking scam
"But Russia" is a scam
Clintons were always a scam.
The suicide of all of Hillary's enemies is a scam
Jeffrey Epstein was a scam, and his suicide was a scam, but his lolita island and lolita express delivered actual lolitas for elites, so that classifies it as not a scam? I wonder how many lolitas it cost to buy public policy? Or public private contracts? The corporate contract reward per lolita probably made them the most expensive hookers or all time
OS2/Warp was not a scam, "Windows" was a scam, yes, obviously yes
Microsoft has been a scam from top to bottom
Border Closing, all the shutdowns of corona were a scam. A whole lot of the free money was a scam. this is also under corona scam
Illegal Aliens might be a scam. I doubt there's a flood of them, it's probably just a political football excuse
JFK Assassination wa
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There are better explanations for why the world is the way it is than calling everything a scam.
I suggest the book The Pursuit of Wealth: the incredible story of money throughout the ages by Robert Sobel. Download the book for free from the mirrors at https://libgen.unblockit.ch/search.php?req=Robert+Sobel
From the introduction to The Pursuit of Wealth:
The theory that informs this book is that in modern times, in the aggregate, wealth is the prime mover.
One need not look to western society alone to realize how wealth can motivate a people to labor and creation, and how its absence or removal can lead to stagnation. One of the more interesting examples of this is the Kwakiutl, a tribe that inhabited the northern part of Vancouver Island near the mainland of British Columbia at the turn of the twentieth century. The eminent anthropologist Franz Boas studied them and produced a report that foretold by a couple of generations what would come to be known as Keynesian economics. Boas’ problem wasn’t a lack of observational skills or analytical sophistication. Rather, he did not fully comprehend what he had witnessed.
The Kwakiutl were famous for the potlatch, in which competing clans met regularly to stage contests in which they demonstrated just how wealthy they were by destroying their most valued possessions: canoes, blankets, and fish grease. Boas noted that large copper plates were also thrown off cliffs, although he commented that the throwers would return later to gather the pieces. The blankets were the most important, for these were the common denominator against which all the other possessions were measured.
Boas understood why the Kwakiutl loved the potlatch, citing self-esteem and status as important elements. The Kwakiutl ranked themselves by just how much they destroyed.
Boas wrote of this in a report to the Smithsonian Institution in 1895. Four years later, economist Thorstein Veblen would produce his Theory of the Leisure Class, in which he gave us the term conspicuous consumption, which would seem to help explain the potlatch.
What Boas noted but did not comprehend was that the Kwakiutl were quite wealthy, far more than neighboring tribes. The reason was that they worked hard to accumulate those possessions destroyed at the potlatch. There was a strong element of competition present that encouraged productivity and excellence—and accumulation. The Kwakiutl developed a system of banking that featured rates that rose sharply according to the length of the loan and the creditworthiness of the borrower. In their search for greater and greater wealth, they even created a system of credit purchasing, with copper plates serving as “credit cards.” This too encouraged hard and imaginative work. Moreover, the system exhibited many of the aspects of modern reserve banking. Boas noted that in a village of 150 people, there were only 400 blankets, but debts were owed amounting to 75,000 blankets. If the lenders had called in their loans, there would have been what Boas termed a “disastrous panic.”
Distressed by what to them was the wasteful nature of the potlatch, Canadian authorities attacked the practice, suggesting it was deleterious to economic development. Despite some setbacks, the authorities succeeded. The potlatch fell into disfavor. The Kwakiutl turned to commercial fishing to fit into the larger economy. But without the economic spur of the potlatch, initiative declined. So did the Kwakiutl economy. With the best of intentions, the authorities caused grievous harm to the Kwakiutl.
Whether Boas knew of Bernard de Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees (1705) is unknown. This work dealt with how a prosperous, hardworking community fell into distress when they abandoned their profligate ways in order to save. The pursuit of wealth is fundamental to western civilization. It was there at the dawn of recorded history; and probably even before.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire
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Yes, that is a move towards "everything is a scam" which I think true to come degree. At top levels of scams I think evolution is the primary motivator, and one often exploited, but economics is definitely a major one. Clearly brainwashing is one, both religious and political. Actual religion I would put way near the top, but I think top layer motivators like this affect the motivations of the scammers more than their audience.
So, if any scam is led by a scammer, then the structure would look like this:
Religion (eg fulfill the book of revelations, follow a vision, etc.)
Evolution (extermination of a competing genetic line, like the Nazis)
Power (subjugating masses under one command, like the Soviets)
After that there's What do the scammers motivate others with
Money is a huge one, the scammers typically mint money, so themselves cannot be motivated by it, but they construct their economies so that everyone needs it, to aid in the manipulation
Fear. A pending apocalypse can always be invented for the purpose. Global Warming, international terrorism, end times, overpopulation, an invading enemy.
Greed. Non-economic greed, feeding the desire for more resources or the consumption of resources that leads to CIA manipulations to "limit the population of Africa to prevent africans from consuming african resources because americans might need them" which is an obvious case of the greed I'm talking about.
Hope. A promise of a better future is an excellent scam manipulator. It's everywhere in charities and philanthropic exercises, even govt and corporate ones (let's build this country a railroad so that people can have access to food, water and medical care, was used by the IMF to build railroads they knew were going to be used for stealing resources in the above african theft)
Force. Totalitarianism is another and maybe last resort of manipulators, the stick of some threat if people do not comply, used by fascist regimes, and moderns ones, the EU, increasingly the US, much more than in most of the late century. threats of police action, limitation of rights or even fines can be used as threats that can open a chain of action that ultimately ends in violence against you if you continue to not comply.
This current scam is a mix of these. It's largely fear, of the virus, but there's hope, which causes people to try to "vaccinate" others (it's not a vaccine, so it needs airquotes) and then it's also Force. the threats of not being able to travel or visit public places, and at times here in NY there was discussion of actual concentration camps.
So, yes, there are motivators for both scammers and the scammed. But that doesn't mean everything is a scam. A great deal of everything we hear a lot about is a scam, because manipulating media into focusing on it (usually through money, sometimes through force) is part of the scam
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Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:
Social media - a scam, centralizing communication apps into a hub doesn't serve any purpose other than to exploit laziness
I'm going to assume that you were heavily over-simplifying your bullet points and you know that this goes much deeper than merely exploiting laziness.
It might as well be crack the way it was designed.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:
Social media - a scam, centralizing communication apps into a hub doesn't serve any purpose other than to exploit laziness
I'm going to assume that you were heavily over-simplifying your bullet points and you know that this goes much deeper than merely exploiting laziness.
It might as well be crack the way it was designed.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
Yes it was an intentionally lazy vast oversimplification.
WWII, Rockefeller and company funded the nazis to power, they funded the war machines, they precipitated the war, to destroy world powers, colonialist, the league of nations, and to establish the new united nations and secure a future economy based on their own family oil business. Sure, there were other things going on, but that's where "follow the money" led me. If you went into the scams of WWII it would fill a library.
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AIDS was and is a scam.
Planned Parenthood has always been a scam, really a eugenics plan for "undesireables" as Margaret Sanger put it.
Y2K was not a scam. Took lots of effort to prevent the collapse of what we had, but some things still didn't get repaired in time.
End of last month, Lord Darth Obiden rewriting history for the past 22 years of GDP figures is a scam - for the past 16 years, the GDP of FY2000 has been agreed to by everybody.
Wuhan Wet Market is a scam.
Sorry, but Occupy Wall Street was a scam.
1 million man march was a scam.
Election 2020 results were a complete scam.
After release of the best operating system in history (of OS2/Warp), the obvious scam was "Windows" - all computer architecture collapsed after that, and the pitiful "apple" emerged as the "superior" OS remaining, except for real computer users. As always, apple continues to be "a computer for people who don't know how to use computers"
"Peaceful riots" and BLM and Antifag are all scams, or maybe the same scam.
Collusion with Russia was a scam.
Fake Impeachment 1 of Trump was a scam.
Fake Impeachment 2 of Trump was a scam.
Lord Darth Obiden closing the Border is a scam.
Free healthcare and Unemployment Benefit payments to Illegal Aliens who have never worked in USA are a scam.
Food stamps for Illegal Aliens are a scam.
Since 1990, the Democrap Party has been a scam.
JFK Assassination was a scam.
The Boland Amendment was a scam.
In WI, the Gay And Lesbian Special Rights Act of 1986 was a scam, granting extra rights to homosexuals, and turning Madison into the Gay and Lesbian Capital of the world.
Wind River not being nominated for an Academy Award was a scam.
Captain Marvel was a scam.
EU definitely a scam.
Jan 6th "insurrection" is a scam
Obamabots denying they were spying on American Citizens and Candidate Trump was a complete scam.
Lord Darth Obiden pretending to be sentient is a scam.
Branch Davidian Compound assault was a scam.
Ruby Ridge was a scam.
Murder of Secretary Ron Brown was a scam.
Whitehouse coverup of Lt Lara Hultgreen death was a scam.
Vince Foster "suicide" was a scam.
Prosecution of most of the folk in this thread:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=7&tid=62257&p=2#11
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is a scam.
State CON Laws are a scam, only purpose to prevent you from getting medical care.
https://www.beckersasc.com/asc-coding-billing-and-collections/35-state
s-have-con-laws-here-s-what-they-re-doing.html
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I read an analysis of Planned Parenthood that went like this, years back
Danger was the lesbian lover of Marie Stokes, and they were among the half a dozen of hitler's sluts. Neither one of them were down for killing children satanic sacrifice when he first suggested it to them, but they caved, because he was the alpha male. yeah, i know, source. that wasn't my argument, but I think it's sound. I'll dig it up some day.
AIDS, retroactive accounting, i'll look into it, missed this one
Wuhan Wet Market is most definitely a scam.
this is under corona scam
I was at Occupy Wall Street. It was such a fucking scam.
1 million man march was it a scam? I remember Farrahkhan ranting about 19.
these go with psyops also
The "Election" was a coup, and a scam, sure. The "coup" was not a coup, and that was a scam. all these go under psyops tho
OS2/Warp was not a scam, "Windows" was a scam, yes, obviously yes
Microsoft has been a scam from top to bottom
the whole company is a mix of purchased and stolen code
and they make more money from lawsuits than consumer sales
BLM is a scam sure, Antifa is also a scam, QAnon is a scam. They are all the same scam, called PsyOps, which is a scam
"But Russia" was a total scam. I missed the Impeachments of Trump sounds scammy
Border Closing, all the shutdowns of corona were a scam. A whole lot of the free money was a scam. this is also under corona scam
IDK if Food stamps for Illegal Aliens are a scam. I mean, those illegal aliens eat, and the money then goes to US businesses. I'd rather have that then people stealing food, depending on how illegal the aliens are
National Political Parties are a scam, and illegal
The Clintons have always been a scam. I think they were the same scam as Bushes. The Neoliberal/Neoconservative scam.
Yes, the JFK Assassination was a scam.
I'll have to look up the Boland Amendment
Something to do with the Contras who I suspect were also a scam
LGBT is a scam. The sexual deviants are not in the least aligned in their interests with each other. Bisexuals are normal girls and Lesbians are a warped feminazi version, Gays are misogynistic neckbeards and trannies as dysmorphic psychopaths.
This is part of "intersectionalism" which is a scam. you have to agree with all other groups that oppose normalcy because you have a common enemy of normalcy is pretty seriously scammy
The Academy Awards are a scam. They "award" greatness, thus tying greatness to themselves. Then they award their agenda. It's a total scam. The LaLaLand-Moonlight swap was the most obvious scam.
I didn't see Wind River or Captain Marvel
EU is one fo the more serious scams
SJWs are a scam everywhere, not just denying NDAA which was also a scam
this links back to intersectionalism though
I'm not sure Biden's non-senility is a scam. I used to be his neighbor, many years ago. He was always like that. He's like permanently aphasic
Waco was a scam. everything the clintons did was a scam
When I'm more awake I'll edit my post to add some of these
Also, I thought of some more
"Infoterrorist" arrests and charges were a scam
Julian Assange
Bradley Manning
Ross Ulbricht
Edward Snowden
I think I'll try to edit to a somewhat non-partisan scamminess, so everyone can contribute fairly. I think that some people in both parties are scams
Here's a political one "The Gang of Eight" is a total fucking scam. The idea that there are 8 magical people with unconstitutional "leadership positions" house/senate x majority/minority x leader/whip makes 8 positions all appointed by donors who are corporations, meaning 8 total corporate toadies who are then considered by the corporate media to be the "brains" of the govt and should make all the decisions is just death to democracy
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We loved OS2. Complete object-oriented system. IBM killed it because the "big metal" mainframe guys saw the PC guys as a threat. Thirty-plus years later, they still haven't made an operating system with one-third of the capability
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Epstein didn't kill himself.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Quote:OS/2 lives . . . and is for sale at a too high price. Scam?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
We loved OS2. Complete object-oriented system. IBM killed it because the "big metal" mainframe guys saw the PC guys as a threat. Thirty-plus years later, they still haven't made an operating system with one-third of the capability
IBM discontinued its support for OS/2 on 31 December 2006.[6] Since then, OS/2 has been developed, supported and sold by two different third-party vendors under license from IBM – first by Serenity Systems as eComStation since 2001,[7] and later by Arca Noae LLC as ArcaOS since 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2
ArcaOS 5.0 – personal edition $129.00
https://www.arcanoae.com/shop/arcaos-5-personal-edition/
ArcaOS 5.0 – personal edition brings you OS/2 power and performance like never before. With support for a full range of existing and new OS/2 software, running on modern multi-core and multi-processor systems, take your OS/2 experience to the next level for the 21st century. The ArcaOS Personal Edition is for individual users who will not be using it for business.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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