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What does xo think of Lacan and Slavoj Zizek?
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Date: October 15th, 2025 6:10 PM Author: Soul-stirring olive newt regret (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49351648) |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 7:14 PM Author: Wonderful clear dysfunction lodge Lacan makes some interesting points, but his writing is unnecessarily dense. A lot of what I know of him comes from second hand sources. I assume you are familiar with Fabio Vighi, who references some of Lacan's work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49351738) |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 7:17 PM Author: Soul-stirring olive newt regret Yes, I like Vighi - he wrote COVID was a giant scam to shore up the financial system.
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/author/fabiovighi/ |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 7:26 PM Author: Wonderful clear dysfunction lodge Curious what you think of his analysis. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49351752) |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 7:27 PM Author: Soul-stirring olive newt regret which aspect? i've screamed at the top of my lungs that COVID was a scam from day one (march 2020). this was the first post on the topic i read from Vighi which I liked a lot:
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/ |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 7:35 PM Author: Wonderful clear dysfunction lodge I guess I meant do you agree with his general assessment that: financial elites believed the system was headed for failure, as evidenced in part by the Blackrock "going direct" memo that was written during the summer of 2019. Then the repo markets (inter-bank lending) went nuts during the fall of 2019. And then COVID hit and the Blackrock memo was put into action.
The only thing I can't tell from Vighi's writing is if he thinks COVID was purposefully released from a lab in order to do all of this or if it was simply used as convenient cover (and that something else would've been used in its place as needed.)
It sounds like you do agree with him, but I am not familiar with your earlier posts on the matter. Though I am also not sure how I found his work to begin with. It may have been from lurking on here.
Curious if you have any thoughts as to what was driving the repo market stuff in 2019. Vighi seems to suggest that banks stopped trusting each other, presumably because of all the zombie companies they were financing. But I'm not sure overall. |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 7:39 PM Author: Soul-stirring olive newt regret I'm far more off the reservation than "COVID was released from a lab", brother. Personally, I think COVID was simply rebranded flu - which fell to zero cases in 2020 - and that it was effectuated for certain political objectives, one of which was likely to shore up a shaky financial market. The other objectives included (1) instituting permanent nationwide vote by mail, overseen by a voting "tsar" (check), (2) see how far the American and world publics could be pushed without rebellion (check, almost infinite), (3) print $12+ trillion and funnel most of it to the elites and their allies (check), (4) overthrow Orange Man (check), and (5) do a population-wide untested mRNA experiment on the general population in the hopes of supercharging research for elite longevity, while killing off a good number of so-called "useless eaters" (check). It was a rousing success for them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49351787) |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 9:07 PM Author: Wonderful clear dysfunction lodge The issue with it being rebranded flu is that basically everyone seemed to come down with something 2020 - 2021. Whereas historically, only a small subset got "the flu" or something else like it in any given year. Something very contagious was going around, even if "COVID" was just the brand name for it.
However, there was funny business with the PCR testing (the threshold used for a positive test was altered for convenient political reasons.)
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Date: October 15th, 2025 10:08 PM Author: Soul-stirring olive newt regret Yes they adjusted the cycle rate maximums to raise or lower infection rates with impunity - anything about 25x cycles resulted in massive false positives.
I tested positive for COVID twice, no “vaccinations.” It felt like a flu. Perhaps there was a placebo effect involved that made symptoms seem worse to people than in other years, shrug. But officially flu rates in 2020 were zero. |
Date: October 15th, 2025 6:13 PM Author: Concupiscible ticket booth shit and shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49351655) |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 6:13 PM Author: Soul-stirring olive newt regret surprised to see you write that - aren't they both shitlibs like you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49351656) |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 6:15 PM Author: Concupiscible ticket booth oops (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49351661) |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 6:19 PM Author: Soul-stirring olive newt regret (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49351668) |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 6:16 PM Author: violent multi-colored filthpig all philosophy after wittgenstein is absolute trash (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49351663) |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 7:30 PM Author: Beta round eye giraffe Zizek seems like a clown that missed his moment by 30-40 years. He’s like dudes in the 90s who dressed up like greasers. Lacan is fine, and underrated, but Kristeva pwn3d him pretty thoroughly. Just watch Fight Club it’s all in there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49351761) |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 8:24 PM Author: rose swashbuckling genital piercing boistinker I'm a fan of both, and Lacan is more cogent than people give him credit for
I view it more as an additional interesting perspective and less a source of truth |
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Date: October 16th, 2025 10:03 AM Author: Soul-stirring olive newt regret Ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49352816) |
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Date: October 15th, 2025 10:14 PM Author: Comical Stubborn Stage I know nothing about philosophy and never desire to but based on ZoZo circa 2009-2012 I always assumed Zizek was the philosopher for edgy hipsters and inspired stuff like Chapo Trap House (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49352106) |
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Date: October 19th, 2025 11:05 AM Author: Soul-stirring olive newt regret https://substack.com/profile/114509837-neoliberal-feudalism/note/c-167964754 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786743&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49359475) |