greycloud ago

i don't even kind of believe this. some of it is believable, than it dives right off the deep end. psychics? ESP? train loads of children sold, large markets and auction houses and nobody records it with a phone? not caught on hidden camera? this would require a whole lot of psychopaths/sociopaths that were competent working together (something that is not near as easy to achieve as it is to say). psychopaths and sociopaths make up about 1 in 25 people, competent (IQ115+) people make up about 1 in 5 people, some quick math says that a competent psychopath/sociopath is about 1 in 125 people. now keep in mind that they don't respect the welfare of other psychopaths/sociopaths. good luck getting them not to fuck each other over for profit and lulz.

all of this seems to imply it is being done for money. but look at the people involved, bankers and presidents. guess what? if they want money they can print it. they don't have to do shit, they can just print up some money. some guy signs a paper, a couple other guys sign it and poof! a billion dollars appears. why peddle in illegal wares with high risk for very little if any reward?

i don't buy this at all. if it were to go any further off the deep end it would be talking about mutants being housed on genosha island.

wisdomtooth ago

some quick math says that a competent psychopath/sociopath is about 1 in 125 people

What, you assume no correlation?? I see, you're not part of the 1 in 5 ;D

this would require a whole lot of psychopaths/sociopaths that were competent working together

What do you call these fuckers?

guess what? if they want money they can print it. they don't have to do shit, they can just print up some money. some guy signs a paper, a couple other guys sign it and poof! a billion dollars appears. why peddle in illegal wares with high risk for very little if any reward?

Yeah, and the CIA was never involved with drug trafficking either. Dude, you have a lot of catching up to do.

greycloud ago

there may be some correlation between sociopaths and psychopaths and higher IQ. i had my IQ taken officially in 3rd and 7th grade where i was offered a spot in a school for the talented and gifted which i declined. approximately one in 230 people have an IQ as high as mine was then. i have taken unofficial online IQ tests since then, but not official ones. approximately one in 160 to one in 360 people have an IQ as high as mine. i am nearly 3 standard deviations above average. this is why people on voat brigade me rather than argue with me when i present unpopular ideas.

i would also argue that IQ tests only measure pattern recognition and speed of innovation as well as speed of memory recall ability and not really intelligence per say. who is to say what piece of information is important and which is not? the whole test is a sham. it doesn't actually measure intelligence.

greycloud ago

drug trafficking has more to do with social control and keeping power out of one person's hands than it has to do with money. they have to appease the population that will rebel if drugs are completely restricted, while at the same time not making it too easy for those who wouldn't rebel without drugs to get them. if they don't fill that demand than someone else will, and will gain power in the process. drug trafficking isn't about making money, its about keeping money out of "the wrong hands".

the US runs on deficit spending (most nations do). that is the magic of fiat money. the limiting factor of the value of money is how much of it is in circulation. that is why they tax you, they don't tax you to use that money for anything, they do it to take that money out of circulation to keep the currency from going through massive inflation. that is why they don't tax the poor, the poor don't have enough money to create inflation. the governments worry about money being hoarded in tax havens because that money has the potential to go back into circulation and cause inflation.

governments work to fill black markets so that other people do not fill them and gain power that isn't sanctioned by the government.

derram ago

wisdomtooth ago