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HUMDEEDEE's avatar

The one ruler of them all. Satan.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

It does seem that way with some of them.

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Jeannie's avatar

I'm assuming the puppet masters, hidden behind the scenes, can't exert control without enforcers. That would be the spooks, namely CIA, MI6, and Mossad.

If there was a way to rid ourselves of them, we would stand a chance. This country didn't always have a convoluted banking system, and we've only had the CIA for a generation.

The fact that their lies aren't even a bit believable, but straight up gaslighting, is a big red flag.

It means they don't fear us one bit.

I keep thinking of Gulag Archipelago, and his quote of how people just kept complying instead of fighting back, until "Oh how we burned in the camps later, thinking..."

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I think most are oblivious to how power operates. I think they still believe elections change things. It takes a lot for people to see beyond the propaganda.

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Meemanator's avatar

I've always wondered, how much money is enough? Maybe the lust begins with desire for money and fame, but it seems more likely that it comes down to need for power. There is a type of human that is driven, perhaps by dark principalities, to have/be the ultimate authority. To be able to say how things must be, what others must do. They are essentially psychopaths. History is full of such individuals. Somehow they do seem to know how to rise to their goals - even as it is never enough.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

It is rarely about money in my experience. It really is about power. The need to control.

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Susanne C.'s avatar

The way that they never seem to have enough money, plus the stupid ways they spend it compared to oligarchs of the past- supporting great artists, building libraries, hospitals and universities, financing cathedrals and the craftsmen that can build them. Imagine the phenomenal things you would do with unlimited wealth. Musk could buy an island and literally recreate Sodor, complete with Thomas, James, and Edward. He could hire the Fat Controller to manage it all. Make it a theme park for disadvantaged children. Speaking of children imagine the private schools for poor kids of any ethnicity whose parents are willing to enforce a little discipline. The possibilities are endless. Instead we get Jeff Bezos pseudo wedding to his hideous wife hiring out all of Venice as a theme park for her misplaced vanity.

It is clearly about power, combined with a startling lack of imagination , even Musk.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

Yes, our current elites are not quite what they used to be. Everything declines.

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Meemanator's avatar

So true.

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Flippin’ Jersey's avatar

Tony Montana knew the order: “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

Nothing can beat a clear set of priorities, lol.

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HUMDEEDEE's avatar

The need for power. Something I will never understand, but of course, that is why I have no power and need none. I have control over only one thing, and sometimes not much of that, and that is myself. It is incredible to me, even as I accept that power for some is beguiling and a siren call, that people who seek it don't care how facile they are and futile their actions. Cogs, keeping the wheels turning, to no avail.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

Many of them are disordered individuals. The lust for power is to fill a void.

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HUMDEEDEE's avatar

Yes, that is the likely explanation. The void is a lack of moral compass

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Meemanator's avatar

Empty souls

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

Yes indeed. Very empty in some cases.

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Anna Cordelia's avatar

They're after power, but end up being cogs. it's an interesting conundrum.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I think this is where narcissism gets you. When your life is an act you will take any source of energy you can find. Many of them are no doubt empty people.

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Meemanator's avatar

Empty people are highly susceptible to being used by satan.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I don't think in terms of Satan or any religious terms, but empty people have a void to fill for sure.

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Meemanator's avatar

For me the question is - are empty people born that way or, perhaps better said, born to be that way? Or are they molded by others? I've known good people who came from very bad beginnings and bad people who came from good. So mqny questions...

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Meemanator's avatar

Conundrum wrapped in an enigma.

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Anna Cordelia's avatar

"Maybe the lust begins with desire for money and fame, but it seems more likely that it comes down to need for power."

The irony in this statement is, as SS has pointed out in his article, the rich and famous ultimately don't have any power - they are puppets who have sold their souls out to the unknown powers behind the scenes.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

You just need to witness what happens when they overstep the boundaries of their role.

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Isaiah Antares's avatar

"More money, more problems." -- Biggie Smalls

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Jake Wiskerchen's avatar

This post might also be titled "Why Systems (Almost) Never Change"

It's true not jus tof big government, but also of small ones, families, businesses, schools, nonprofits, Little League boards, HOAs, departments and divisions, the list goes on. It's why we're taught in counselor school how change occurs (or doesn't) across systems, and not to be too overly confident in effectuating change when the patients ask us to help.

Your concluding paragraphs illustrate why people take comfort in religion - and particularly Christianity - because things of this world are, in the end, fleeting.

Great article.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

Thank you. And yes, it is all temporary.

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Will Martin's avatar

No, it's Eternal Misery. Nothing Good Has Ever Happened.

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Just A+ Content Guy's avatar

If all our leaders are actors, who’s directing? And why is every scene a rerun?

It’s easy to see puppeteers in every shadow, but sometimes the real “shadowy force” is just a system so tangled and self-protective it barely needs a mastermind.

📌 The script doesn’t need a villain if the plot is designed to protect itself.

⬖ Spotting the stagehands at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I think most prominent people are playing a part. Others control the show, although not every single move. Those in the public eye understand where the limits are and I have no doubt the limits are enforced. Some subjects are forbidden.

Is it as simple as a shadowy group controlling it all? Not at all. Much of it may even be institutional. But the people on the public stage know who not to cross.

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Will Martin's avatar

Spiff, we both know It's The Jews.

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Mel Remple's avatar

I would like to share the black and white Who is They section but would like to credit the author. Did you write that?

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I found it online. No idea who wrote it. Just a meme doing the rounds as far as I know. Help yourself.

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Mel Remple's avatar

Thanks!

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Boflys's avatar

Things aren’t getting worse, they’re just getting more obvious.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

Yes that is probably true. More blatant.

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Gwyneth's avatar

This was a reality show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OouTay_7_hw

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Andrew Phillips's avatar

The cognitive dissonance niggles at you until you see it, and then you realise you can't do anything about it

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Anna Cordelia's avatar

But in seeing, you have done something about it - because you have removed yourself from the spellbound audience.

That matters.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

It does seem to be like a spell. Even after multiple disappointments people still hope for better leaders.

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Will Martin's avatar

No, it doesn't matter. That's Not Good Enough.

Who Do We Kill?

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Isaiah Antares's avatar

I almost feel sorry for them. Some of them probably believed they could change things once they got on top. They forgot the lesson of Damocles.

I write an entire fantasy novel about this very subject: http://www.thedragonbehindthethrone.com

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I am sure this is true. Some will be attracted believing they can change the world. But I suspect they are weeded out early on. The Patels cannot really believe that. I doubt he cares.

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Will Martin's avatar

So Then, Spiff? Who Do We Kill? Someone's got to be gutted for this shit, someone has to die.

Who Do We Kill?

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

That doesn't help. This is a systemic issue. The solution is circulation of elites. A new group with more sensible ideas as to the running of society.

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Will Martin's avatar

You're Retarded and you're only saying that because you're a BAPTarded Cuckold. Circulation Of Elites Is Impossible. You Have To Start Killing Them!

WHO DO WE KILL, SPIFF? SOMEONE HAS TO DIE!

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