WW3, Clown-World Edition

Submitted by Brewer55

Via Capitalist Eric

Up until now, I’ve refrained from commenting on the war in Ukraine, but I’m forced to do so now.

I previously quoted the line from Matrix Reloaded:

Morpheus: Everything begins with choice.

Merovingian: No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without. …  ‘Why’ is what separates us from them, you from me. ‘Why’ is the only real social power, without it you are powerless.

The WHY of Things

If  you don’t understand the “why” of things, you will never be able to fully understand what’s happening; your conclusions will be merely reflections of your own biases.

It comes down to a few simple points, which I’ve explained several times over, but will repeat here.

  1. The Western elitist banksters have maintained utter control of their respective financial currencies; this debt-slavery system is the basis of their power.  It has been, for all intents and purposes, their private playground.  This power has been used to buy anyone they want, in government, the military, the media, anyone they want.
  2. The Western banking system is based on debt issuance.  It is dying rapidly.  The entire fiat-money system, a Ponzi scheme of epic proportions, is now so heavily overloaded with bad debt that it is collapsing under its own weight.  Countries who don’t use that funny-money as their sovereign currency but have been forced to utilize dollars/euros/yen for international trade, are busily switching to alternative currencies from countries that produce something besides fiat money.  In other words, the demand for the Western currencies is rapidly declining.
  3. The much-touted “Great Reset” is a plan to depopulate the world (1st and 2nd world through vaccinations, the 3rd through starvation), and reset the financial system back to zero, so that everyone begins in the new system with zero debt…  and zero property or possessions.  The “Great Reset” will usher in the new trackable and controllable fiat-money currency, where they decide what and when you can buy approved products.  And if you speak out against whatever bullshit the bankster-owned government is selling (which will be tallied via a Chinese-style social credit system) your money could be reduced, confiscated or flagged for your arrest the next time you go shopping with their new digital currency.  You’ll toe their line, or you’ll starve.
  4. The “Great Reset,” where everyone will adopt this bitter pill of slavery, will only be accepted if people are desperate for government intervention due to starvation, lack of energy (heat for your home, gas for your car) or disease.  And it will only be accepted if there’s no alternative currency which people can utilize to maintain some level of purchasing power without “Big Brother” watching over your shoulder, and deciding what you can- or cannot- purchase.  The Russian ruble is exactly such an alternative.
  5. The BRICS countries- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South America- have resisted globalist efforts to become part of the Western banking system, and are now challenging that system, with currencies backed by commodities instead of the worthless promise of more fiat money.  Thus, the represent a viable alternative to the “Great Reset” agenda, one which dooms the efforts to re-start the fiat money system from zero- with the same elitist banksters at the helm.
  6. The BRICS countries therefore represent an escape from the fiat-money system, and therefore are mortal enemies of the banksters, which have built their empire over the past 208 years.  They must therefore be destroyed by the West, using whatever means necessary, at whatever cost is required in lives (but who cares about us debt-slaves, anyway?).
  7. The BRICS countries- most openly represented by Russia at this point in time- are not about to join the system, and now realize that it is- literally- a fight to the death for them, as well.
  8. Therefore, neither side will back down, the escalation will continue, up to and including nuclear weapons.

I posted these conclusions at the beginning of April, 2022, and they stand on their own, today.

Recent Historical Example

Any challenge to the Western financial system, has been dealt with in the most brutal fashion possible.  Indeed, the cold-bloodedness of the Deep State, and what it does to it ‘friends,’ when they challenge the hegemony of the dollar, are exemplified by Muammar Gaddafi.  In 2009, Gaddafi suggested his relatively wealthy country of Libya should create a new gold-backed currency, the Gold Dinar.  As confirmed by one of the 3,000 Hillary Clinton emails released, “Qaddafi’s government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver … This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).”

In other words, the French franc (another fiat-currency, prior to the Euro) was being challenged.  The major producers of Africa were joining together, to use their own regional currency, led by the Gaddafi-inspired gold-backed dinar.  It would have been a direct challenge to the fiat-money system, giving the region more power over their internal affairs, outside the control of the fiat-money banksters.  Fast-forward two years, and Gaddafi is overthrown, and Hillary says this:

[Nobody mentions the hundreds of thousands dead, as a result of the CIA-sponsored overthrowing of Gaddafi.  Nobody cares, because they only care about power.  The elitists regard us as no more than ants, to be stepped on whenever they feel the desire.  That is, when they regard us at all.  Typically, they don’t.]

Learn Your Lesson

The lesson was clear: do what we say, or we’ll fucking kill you.  Putin learned this lesson from the Western leaders, and it was very clear that sooner or later, the banksters would come after the (now) BRICS countries.

It’s mathematics; a Ponzi scheme works only as long as the pool of people paying in (us debt-slaves) grows, and the debt-load can continue to be inflated away.  Eventually, they’d have to force Russia, China, India and the rest into the system, or, like every other Ponzi scheme, it would collapse under its own weight.

Just two years later, and the CIA was busily working in Ukraine, to overthrow the duly elected government (that was friendly to Russia) and install a government that was more “reasonable.”  That is, bribed and controlled.  Hence, the Maidan “Color” Revolution or November, 2013.  And then the announcements that Ukraine will join NATO, which means Russia could have potentially had nuclear weapons sitting on their doorstep.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Soviet Union staged medium-range, nuclear capable missiles in Cuba, a mere 90 miles away from the coast of Florida, the USA and USSR almost went to war, until the missiles were withdrawn (with a later, corresponding withdrawal of similar missiles from Turkey).  In other words, this has happened before, in October, 1962.

And Now

In early to mid-February, 2022, there were several public pronouncements by Western diplomats- and the cackling whore, Kamala Harris- that Ukraine would be admitted to NATO.  This meant it was no longer just a possibility of nukes now being placed on their border, but a certainty.

Russia has- for a decade- been saying this is red line they will NOT allow, and will compel them to invade Ukraine.  They invaded Ukraine on 2/24/22.

What We’ve Got Here, Is a Failure to Communicate

One of the underlying problems when people from different countries talk to each other, is that while we can translate words, phrases and euphemisms, there are inherent differences in how we communicate- things like courtesy and respect are things beyond the translation of mere words.  For example, when you meet someone from Japan, the exchange of business cards is very formal.  The person giving the card holds it with the top corners in both hands between the thumb and index fingers, and extends both arms out, while bowing slightly.  The recipient is expected to take it both hands, while bowing, and make a show of reading it, and (even better) asking some detail about the title, or company, or even how the giver of the card would prefer to be addressed.  While it may sound trivial to Westerners, it is very big deal with the Japanese culture.

Continuing to use the Japanese culture as a reference, conversations which result in direct confrontation are considered extremely rude, and contemptible.  It is better to speak in oblique terms, to communicate an idea without being so boorish as to say the idea.  The receiver of the communication can therefore ‘read between the lines,’ and reach conclusions without having been insulted or embarrassed by a direct confrontation, and therefore can modify behavior/actions according to what is needed, to promote harmony within the group/organization/whatever.

Again, these are cultural issues one needs to understand, to truly understand the other person, or opponent.

Russians have their own sets of cultural idiosyncrasies, though they are more subtle, less regimented, than the Japanese.  For starters, from my experiences, they are far more direct.  They say what they mean, they mean what they say.  They have little use, traditionally, for flowery words and euphemisms, when direct, blunt speech removes all doubt of meaning.

This is evidenced repeatedly by the speeches of Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Lavrov and Medvedev.  They speak very bluntly, directly, with no efforts made for subtlety.  Indeed, this is expected for Russian leaders, to speak so plainly.  It conveys strength, confidence, leadership.

Contrast this with the Western leaders, mainstream media, the banksters (represented by Herr Klaus Schwab, WEFer stooge), and so on.  They never speak plainly, everything is innuendo, open to interpretation, almost a foreign language despite sounding exactly like English.  EVERY word means something else.  So they view the speeches of Putin and his leadership team through the lens of their perspective, where everything is opposite what it seems.

*As a side note, I could address the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, and explain why it’s complete idiocy to think that Russia would blow up their own assets, removing their only piece of leverage against Europe, but why bother?  Others have already done a good job of demonstrating why the American Deep State government did it, so I’ll leave it at that.  Put simply, if you think Russia shot themselves in the foot to make Biden look bad, then you’re an idiot; Biden needs NO HELP to look like the fool he really is.  Ok, moving on…

False Conclusions

Thus the latest speech by Putin, regarding the so-called “annexation” of the four Eastern regions of Ukraine, are believed to mean exactly the opposite of what they are.  Where he says they will never back down, the Western elitists interpret it to mean “he’s desperate,” and losing the war in Ukraine.

Let me repeat this:  the Western “thought-leaders” took his speech to be a sign of desperation.

I would submit our Western leaders are thoughtless, if not downright stupid.

Let me explain…

The stated objectives for Russia in Ukraine, were

  1. the demilitarization of Ukraine.  In other words, to destroy their warfighting capability,
  2. The de-Nazification of Ukraine- to eliminate the neo-Nazi military battalions (still) operating there, the same units which have been bombing and terrorizing the “breakaway” regions for the past eight years, and
  3. To make sure Ukraine does not join NATO, and instead remains neutral.  Nuclear weapons on their door-step in a no-go, in their viewpoint.

To date, Russia has succeeded handsomely in their efforts.  The armed forces of Ukraine (AFU) have been systematically destroyed, by a simple tactic:  move quickly around terrain, without bothering to hold it.  When AFU attempts to attack, retreat, enfold AFU into a “cauldron,” and methodically pound them until there’s basically nothing left, and then send in mop-up teams.  Where AFU takes over abandoned hospitals, schools, apartments, they’re targeted as much as possible without overly endangering locals.  Alternatively, use siege tactics, to starve them out.

It’s a numbers game; Russia maneuvers to their advantage, fading back when attacked in strength, allowing the AFU to take over strategically unimportant land which can’t be adequately defended.  Result?  The AFU, whenever they “win” a battle, are overextended, with limited supplies, and an inability to defend the land.  Cut them off, maneuver for encirclement, and completely destroy everything in the created “cauldron.”   Rinse and repeat.  As of 9/21/22, Russia admitted they have lost 5,937 KIA.  In comparison, Ukraine had lost- to that date- 61,207 KIA and an additional 49,368 wounded.  (Western media reports such as those from CNN are simply not believable.)

This places the kill ratio of Ukrainians to Russians at 10:1, which would tend to match the tactics Russia has been using since the beginning.  At this point, the Russian supply lines are short, they can cycle in fresh troops and have essentially an unlimited amount of weapons at their disposal.  In comparison, some >50% of the original AFU is either dead or wounded, and are no longer able to fight.

While Zelensky and his butt-buddy Nazis in Kiev are bragging about their “victory” taking over thousands of square miles of farmland, it’s not strategically significant, cannot be defended, and has cost them thousands of dead soldiers, which can’t be quickly replaced.  That “win” was yet another pyrrhic victory; good for propaganda, not so good in reality.

Going back to the goals of Russia in their “special military operation,” they also held referenda to ask the residents if they wanted to be part of Russia.  Kiev, NATO and American diplomats all loudly protested that these were completely phony elections, utterly blind to own their hypocrisy on this very subject.  Unsurprisingly, the results of people being bombed, shelled, shot, kidnapped, raped and terrorized in other ways, decided they didn’t want to be part of a government- or country- that would sponsor such terrorism.  I’m shocked- SHOCKED, I tell you!- that they voted to become part of Russia.  Of course, anybody with half a brain, who actually knows WTF has been going on over there for the past eight years, would have known this was the only outcome that could come…

So, notwithstanding the blatant hypocrisy of fraudulently elected governments complaining about fraudulent elections, the regions are now part of Russia.  And believe you me, when I say they are not “desperate,” they’re not scared, they’re not worried.

What’s REALLY Happening Now?  Next Moves

They’re ramping up for the next round of escalations- 1.2 million men (as of last reports) mobilized by January 2023.  They’ve got plenty of troops available to completely wipe out Ukraine, right now.  They’re getting ready to take on NATO, and the USA.  That is what the mobilization is all about.

You notice that up until now, the Russians held back their Class-A weaponry?  Top-end tanks (until recently), planes, missiles, bombs, ELINT, ECM, hypersonic weapons, etc…?  If all they cared about was bitch-slapping Ukraine, they’d already be done.  These top-end weapons have been intentionally held back, because Putin and his team knew that once they started down this path, there would be no off-ramps, because the globalist banksters don’t accept competition from anybody.

Putin learned that lesson from Gaddafi’s death.  And he knew that there would be no backing down, no surrender from the banksters which run the Western world.

He’s gearing up for NATO and the USA.  And, given his early mobilization, their war-economy footing already, and rigid discipline with which they’ve fought to this point, there is no other logical conclusion.  In contrast, the American military is fat, woke, undertrained, and running out of ammo.  And we haven’t even started WW3, yet.

So much for Putin being “desperate.”

Our country is run by fools or suicidal psychopaths.

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Muscledawg (not to be known as Delusionaldawg)😉
Muscledawg (not to be known as Delusionaldawg)😉

This is an excellent summary review of what is happening over there and should be shared with everyone. Thanks B55 for bringing it to our attention.

Bob P
Bob P

Agreed. Well-written, completely logical. Colonel MacGregor is another who has been spot on since the outset. His latest interview is outstanding, IMO.

Bob P
Bob P

And Jordan Peterson is mighty pissed about all the insanity.

WTF
WTF

Excellent and totally on point article! Our woke military and demonic government is going to meet their Waterloo, and it’s about time.

m
m

Let me put it even shorter:
The decision, if this goes nuclear, will be made in the West.

Putin and Russia is ready to respond, at any level needed.

– – –
Oh, and the complete official translation of Putin’s speech from yesterday is now out:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69465

Anonymous
Anonymous

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Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

It is all on the line for the delusional west. The fact that they believe whatever they say is the truth is the fly in the ointment, they just can’t believe that they would ever be questioned. Hard times are coming and if you are not red pilled you are certainly dead. The globalists care little of the common man. Their bottom line is only measured in their power of phony wealth, which is the biggest delusion of power ever.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“If you don’t understand the “why” of things, you will never be able to fully understand what’s happening; your conclusions will be merely reflections of your own biases.”
~ This article’s author

This.

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” ― Edward Bernays, Propaganda – MORE: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/481391-propaganda

“It is axiomatic that men who know little are often intolerant of a point of view that is contrary to their own. The bitterness that has been brought about by arguments on public questions is proverbial. Lovers have been parted by bitter quarrels on theories of pacificism or militarism; and when an argument upon an abstract question engages opponents they often desert the main line of arguments in order to abuse each other.”
― Edward Bernays, Crystallizing Public Opinion – MORE: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1184315-crystallizing-public-opinion

List of cognitive biases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Indoctrination bypasses and/or incapacitates people’s critical thinking reflex:

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They refuse to believe their senses after a while. So teach kindergartners that trans is good and white/male/heterosexual/mommy at home/diabetically fat etc., is bad, slutty permanent adolescence and daddy gone is good, nanny state and socialism are necessary, etc. And, as Bezmenov stresses, the decadent serve as useful idiots and termites and locusts, who help dismantle the targeted society, and will no longer be tolerated and empowered after seizure has been achieved. They will be discarded.

“I am not oppressed.”:

m
m

So what’s the way out of this.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Refusal to consent, en masse.

” . . . it is truly the nature of man to be free and to wish to be so,” yet a person’s character “instinctively follows the tendencies that his training gives him…” La Boétie concludes that “custom becomes the first reason for voluntary servitude.” People will grow accustomed to the idea that they have always been in subjection, that their fathers lived in the same way; they will think they are obliged to suffer this evil, and will persuade themselves by example and imitation of others, finally investing those who order them around with proprietary rights, based on the idea that it has always been that way.

How is tyranny concretely to be overthrown, if it is cemented upon society by habit, privilege and propaganda? How are the people to be brought to the point where they will decide to withdraw their consent? In the first place, affirms La Boétie, not all the people will be deluded or sunk into habitual submission. There is always a more percipient elite who will understand the reality of the situation; “there are always a few, better endowed than others, who feel the weight of the yoke and cannot restrain themselves from attempting to shake it off.” These are the people who, in contrast to “the brutish mass,” possess clear and far-sighted minds, and “have further trained them by study and learning.” Such people never quite disappear from the world: “Even if liberty had entirely perished from the earth, such men would invent it.”

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”
~ Étienne de La Boétie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

https://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/murray-n-rothbard/overthrowing-the-state/

m
m

Not trying to troll here,
but your quotes display a starting point, not a solution:
“there are always a few, better endowed than others, who feel the weight of the yoke and cannot restrain themselves from attempting to shake it off.”

So do we get from the percipient few to “Refusal to consent, en masse”?
And without using propaganda means on our end, of course.

Anonymous
Anonymous

By example. We percipient few are already withdrawing.

hardscrabble farmer

This.

No one who has come to the conclusion that the only way to win is not to play the game figured it out on their own. First they encountered someone who had done the same successfully. That was the inspiration.

And then they told two friends and so on and so on…

m
m

Ahem.
You can’t build a philosophy nor a society based on a negative (“not to play”).

Anonymous
Anonymous

Semi-true. You need a game to play, but it must be yours. It seems clear that this failed society was the result of playing others’ game.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

Boundaries of Order:
Private Property as a Social System,
by Butler Shaffer
https://mises.org/library/boundaries-order-private-property-social-system

https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=hoppe+private+property+society

https://propertyandfreedom.org/

BL
BL

“Don’t play their game” and “reject the narrative” has been my mantra here for years.

Walt
Walt

Whatever happened to ‘Thou shalt not’?
Isn’t that just saying ‘Don’t play these’?
last time Walt checked, there were quite a few ‘games’ that we are strongly advised not to play.
Refer to Exodus 20, there’s quite a list.

m
m

And those ‘Thou shalt not’ would stand nicely all by themselves, if you ignore the rest written in the Bible?

Because “by example […] of withdrawing” or “not to play the game” is all that was offered in the comments above, not even a hint of ‘but instead do this and that.’

i forget
i forget

No one?

Figured?

I was just being myself. Still am.

The mondo
The mondo

That’s all well and good but what are you going to do when they tell you to put your cows down to stop globull warming tell them your not playing, your in New England and that’s behind enemy lines its not like in a place like Texas Where they’ll have much harder. Time.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka

It’s what I felt last year when shopping without a mask. By my actions, I did not intend to wake up the sheep, but the other lions, and get them to follow my lead. Once a guy behind me in the checkout line took off his mask after he saw me, which felt like a great victory.

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

I can’t believe peeps are holding onto their security blanket so hard. Weak times.

Anonymous
Anonymous

‘Twas ever thus.

Thunder
Thunder

You make a choice, you affirm your choice and you carry it out.
You choose to be for or against the principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Stucky

“I’m here to kill you.”

Most of you will understand the similarities. But, for the dummies (mostly ‘Putin it where it hurts’, and his ilk) …

— The bar is the Ukraine Dead Man Walking Tavern & Grill
— Gene Hackman is Piano Dick-tator
— Clint Eastwood is Putin
— everyone else is a dead Ukie

Anonymous
Anonymous

Sheriff Vlad:

Stangdog
Stangdog

Love that movie and that scene, perfect, although Gene Hackman should be all of the NEOCONs who have been terrorizing the world for generations

Guest
Guest

This seems plausible. However in no way are the Brics countries good guys. Also as to their commodities- it’s the US that has real commodities, especially food capability. Also they’ve seen how docile and compliant people here have become. This includes being highly susceptible to propaganda and Russia/China have their own machines.

Guest
Guest

Next it will be what’s his name as Jackie Chan. We do love our movies. Could be two cabals duking it out, or just one cabal putting on another world war show…

bidenTouchesKids
bidenTouchesKids

The lesson was clear: do what we say, or we’ll fucking kill you.

That’s certainly the view of the US government on its citizens.

Machinist
Machinist

More like, “Let’s You and Him Fight”.

KJ
KJ

(((bankster-owned government)))
(((fools or suicidal psychopaths)))

Always remember: if (((they))) can’t control it, (((they))) destroy it. Including the entire world.

hardscrabble farmer

Our country is run by fools or suicidal psychopaths.

Of course, the only possible answer if the most obvious cannot be spoken aloud.

UTURNKING
UTURNKING

No – not the small hats!

Capitalist Eric

Thanks for posting my essay. I’m truly honored.

Ghost
Ghost

More like it, please.

Anonymous
Anonymous

A lot of truth from a commendable piece

Horseless Headsman
Horseless Headsman

IMHO, when the Russians finally understand that this time there will be a single victor who will determine the world’s next 100 years and all competitors will be destroyed or reduced to irrelevance, they will preemptively launch an EMP attack on all their enemies. This wouldn’t irradiate the world or cause a nuclear winter, but it will remove the enemy from the board.

I expect I will see if I am correct in the next year or so.

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

Umm, yes this would. Once current nuclear facilities don’t have electricity, hundreds of spent fuel pools and the reactors themselves, throw an electron party.

i forget
i forget

“Nobody cares, because they only care about power.”

When Mel’s Wallace told Angus’s Robert the Bruce “Men don’t follow titles. They follow courage….” I wanted to believe that beautiful lie. Did believe it. Despite quite a collection of experiential contradiction evidence already in hand by then. I was still younger, & raging against the flying of the blight. And projection, you see, as I sat neath the projector & saw Braveheart clear thru to the gruesome dying of the light (several times); roll credits where credit’s due . . . neither a borrower, nor a blender’d drink be. ☻

“Me is we & we are all together …” parasang the Beetles – with I forget harmonizing, in the key of wishful rationalizing. When I was a child, a manchild even, I smoked the hopium pipe, same as most. “The optimism of youth,” as the albino powerfreak in Cold Mountain put it (well, the script had him put it that way …). Some of them I knew back then didn’t survive that optimism, either; luck of the draw, but especially luck of the drawn (again: not drawn by me, you, them I knew, anybody).

But not only was I wrong about what “men follow.” I didn’t even really understand “follow.”

The why of “power” is in the wiring. It is biology. It is determined. It is not selected off a Stoic reseller reading list menu.

And the why of following is not a fixating upon a courage object, despite depictions of Mel’s Wallace rousing battlefield speechifying convincing the assembled to stick. No, Alice, in unseemly Wonderland, things are not only not what they seem, they are very often the opposite of what they seem.

(Which has something to do with why a stitch in time can save nine – & forestall flying apart at the seams.)

“Power” is not what it seems, not what it’s said to be, not what all noses have been rubbed in while the rubber says, or indicates, or seems to corroborate & confirm “because I’m the power – that’s why.”

Anonymous
Anonymous

One of your better (and more easily understood) comments

“Men don’t follow titles. They follow courage….” I wanted to believe that beautiful lie. Did believe it. Despite quite a collection of experiential contradiction evidence

My own experiential contradiction evidence seems to suggest that men actively hate courage in most cases. I think because it points out that they, themselves, have none.

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