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Wait for it...
Wait for it...
Wait for it... https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1345129720069951494
Wait for it...
Wait for it... https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1345129720069951494
... And there it is... https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1345129876479758343
The answer to every problem...
... is Stalinism.
... is Stalinism.
And that, my friends, is why I was against lockdown from day one.
Power does not dilute itself. Ever.
It is its own thing.
I don't care about fights between erstwhile friends about what the death count is, or whether or not there's a casedemic.
It's about power.
Power does not dilute itself. Ever.
It is its own thing.
I don't care about fights between erstwhile friends about what the death count is, or whether or not there's a casedemic.
It's about power.
Mason is an impotent fool, only capable of rabble rousing. But he reveals the truth of the fearmongers, all the same.
Stalin and the chicken.
Stalin and the chicken.
You can debate R values and what they mean with self-identifying "neoliberal" think tank wonks, all day long.
It doesn't change the political facts... https://twitter.com/policescotland/status/1345446025973129217
It doesn't change the political facts... https://twitter.com/policescotland/status/1345446025973129217
I wish I lived somewhere where such utterances resulted, not in suppression, but in being struck off Christmas card lists and invitations to parties. This is the bloke at the pub that you try to ignore.
Not at all, I think they're all at it. It's an orgy of ideology... https://twitter.com/Donquix5/status/1345524055168983040
He's the gift that keeps on giving. https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1345654498438639617
No doubt there are somewhat crude observations that comments from everyone between senior UN officials and its agencies, and ossified leftoids such as Mason *resemble* communism, post '90s. You can take or leave them. There is a longer history, from the late '60s onwards...
... (and some would say earlier) of billionaire's clubs hiding political designs behind "science", which turns out to be pure bullshit.
So, I count myself in the tradition of calling the "science" which predicted mass death for the '80s-'00s *political* bullshit...
So, I count myself in the tradition of calling the "science" which predicted mass death for the '80s-'00s *political* bullshit...
... That failed "science" *was* reformulated, from population & resource-environmentalism into climate environmentalism, *even if* "climate change is real".
And either way, as with masks &c, it is the competence of government which is in question. When it fails, it gets nasty.
And either way, as with masks &c, it is the competence of government which is in question. When it fails, it gets nasty.
It gets really nasty. https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1345129876479758343
So here's the thought experiment...
If we had rushed to reorganise the world, as the neomalthusianss demanded "science" had told them was *imperative* in ~1970, do you think they would have dismantled their political institutions when their predictions turned out to be false?
If we had rushed to reorganise the world, as the neomalthusianss demanded "science" had told them was *imperative* in ~1970, do you think they would have dismantled their political institutions when their predictions turned out to be false?
No. They would have doubled down. In fact they *HAVE* doubled down.
Just as with masks, and questions about the efficacy of masks and lockdowns, any challenge to the putatively "science"-based order is responded to with censure, censorship, smears and harassment.
Just as with masks, and questions about the efficacy of masks and lockdowns, any challenge to the putatively "science"-based order is responded to with censure, censorship, smears and harassment.
Today, the material fact that, apparently *despite* this being the era of climate change, people live longer, healthier, wealthier lives, even than 20 years ago, is suppressed, just as Mason wants. Instead putative risks, hidden beneath the facts, is teased out.
Take this chart, for example. It demonstrates that with a minor exception, diseases of poverty and deaths from environmental factors are at a historic low.
It was produced by the Lancet, no less, who argued that it proved the opposite.
It was produced by the Lancet, no less, who argued that it proved the opposite.
They claimed that the risks from climate change had *increased*. They have invented a concept of "risk" which is independent of empirical fact.
And if you challenge it, then you're a granny-killer or something...
And if you challenge it, then you're a granny-killer or something...
Here's the editor of the Lancet...
What that editor, Horton, claims is that, despite the number of deaths plummeting, we are facing an "existential threat".
The gap between reality and his claims is extraordinary.
And he uses the weight of the institution he directs to assert what Mason demanded: suppression.
The gap between reality and his claims is extraordinary.
And he uses the weight of the institution he directs to assert what Mason demanded: suppression.
So, yeah, Paul Mason, I will challenge the authority of manifestly politically-motivated "science".
And I may occasionally make comparisons between their impulses and early-mid twentieth century ideologies to make the point.
Because those comparisons hold.
And I may occasionally make comparisons between their impulses and early-mid twentieth century ideologies to make the point.
Because those comparisons hold.
