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The Great Reset

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    There are no radical changes. Paranoid people, impervious to basic logic/reason, are playing to their paranoid fantasies by reading into stuff that isn't there

    Many posts back you asked for an explanation of why some batshiat blogger was talking nonsense and how whatever it is she was blathering about really worked. I took the time to explain it to you. You ignored it (as I knew you would) and moved onto the next insane nonsense thing to latch onto (as I knew you would)

    The "Great Reset" and the WEF have been explained to you countless times on this forum, you aren't interested in facts/reason, you are only interest in your paranoid fantasies being validated. Once nothing comes of this, you'll get bored, create a new account and cling to whatever conspiracy trope comes along next year.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    I keep asking why I don't set up some nutcase conspiracy site, I would get so many clicks, so easy to write utter garbage that these people latch onto like it's gospel



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    I'm sure I saw an article on BBC News last year about some guy who did just that with a news site because it was far easier to earn clicks from. Waterford Whispers, but less obviously a joke, and then the money rolled in.


    I also have vague memories of seeing early things regarding the Q dumps and that it was clearly a spoof series of blogs by someone that was known to the person writing that article about it, then it disappeared from my consciousness for a while, but when it became a big thing it had morphed into now having been a lot more mysterious from the start and I could never find the stuff about it being a spoof again. Now that would be a conspiracy. :D



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    Whether it's the great reset or not, someone would have to be blind for not seeing radical changes happening in society. Most of which unthinkable until 2 years ago.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,643 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,644 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Radical changes have always happened in society, since the beginning of society. The Industrial Revolution is one of the major, most well known ones.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    It's not a great reset as we've seen in the thread. No one has been able to actually point out what's supposed to be happening or why.

    The closest we got was Gortanna suggesting that people were going to be turned into cyborgs. But he seems to have abandoned that idea because it's too obviously silly and it was embarrassing.

    What radical changes are you referring to and what has it to do with the Great Reset?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    We are (or were) all wearing masks, because there's a global pandemic. Many people have started working from home, because there's a pandemic.

    Since this is a conspiracy theory forum, and people are always suggesting paranoid drivel, are you going to suggest there's something nefarious going on? or are you just pointing out the obvious things we are doing to counteract a global pandemic?



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You keep saying there are no radical changes coming, but the head of WEF says there are.


    Again:


    Klaus Schwab: "Radical changes of such consequence are coming that pundits have referred to a 'before coronavirus, BC and 'after coronavirus' AC"


    And you just dismissed the person as a 'loon'. You said nothing about what she was talking about, i.e. the Going Direct Reset.



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    You seem to think that the WEF and the Klauss Schwab chap are in control of the world somehow.

    All they are is making predictions of what might happen and thinking about the way that the world will be different in the future.


    Why are you terrified of a group who is just trying to predict what might happen next? They are not saying that X will happen because they have determined it to be so, merely that X might happen and if so we should probably think about Y.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    FFS @Gortanna. Why are you still scared of an 83 year old man? What does ha have to gain by controlling you? Why would he want to control you? He will probably be dead in a couple of years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭EyesClosed


    What do you think he means?

    You have not been able to say anything other... Maybe something bad is coming... What's coming? Why?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭growleaves


    'What does someone have to gain by controlling other people?' is something we hear a lot.

    Yet dictatorships and people motivated by power have always existed.

    Even if your own assumptions seem to exclude it from consideration as a motivation, history shows it is a motivation for some people.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    Radical change according to reality: more people working at home instead of at the office

    Radical change according to fantasists: a tyrannical "they" are coming to control us, something big and nefarious is just around the corner, etc, etc.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Do you believe that the World Economic Forum and Klauss Schwab are planning to organise a worldwide dictatorship?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    A worldwide communist/nazi/satanic/cyborg dictatorship where everyone in the world will be divested of their property by 2030.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    History shows we used to burn people for witchcraft, that doesn't mean our TD's obsess about it.

    Here's a pattern for you: people who are paranoid of authority have filled this forum with spurious predictions and fantasies for 13 years, none of which have come true. What does that say to you?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    OK. What radical changes. You were previously claiming to be reading his book about the "Great Reset".

    You have not pointed to anything in that book that is objectionable to otherwise supports your silly and vague conspiracy theories. So what happened? Was that stuff just not in his book? Where you lying when you were claiming to read it?


    How come you're still dodging questions?

    Bit hypocritical of you to whinge about "dismissing" when you are actively avoiding 90% of the posts made to you.

    Typical really.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Dohnjoe the things that have happened since this thread began, most recently unvaccinated people being banned from all or most employment in Singapore and part of Australia, show we are the midst of very extreme authoritarianism which none of us have lived through before.

    I'm not sure why posters feel the need to man this forum and pour scorn on any discussion of conspiracies. Their basic stance looked far better two years ago.

    Now you can open the paper to read Dan Andrews talking about the 'vaccinated economy' then flick over to this forum to see ridicule of 'spurious' and 'paranoid' fantasies of authoritarian overreach.

    Uh huh. Yeah it's all a dream. And besides what reasonable person objects to blah blah blah etc., etc.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    He is 83. Most likely dead in a couple of years. Long before he can control any nation. So what does he have to gain?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Again the going theory in this thread is that there is a global conspiracy run by satanist/nazi/commies who plan to destroy the concept of ownership by 2030.

    Do you believe that this is a reasonable thing to claim?


    If not could you perhaps explain the reasonable version.

    According to you, what is the Great Reset specifically?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Some companies are not allowing unvaccinated workers return to the office - there's a pandemic, passing Covid to a colleague can kill them. That's not "tyrannical", it's basic common sense. Many hospitals have had it in place for years.

    This is a discussion for conspiracy theories (and associated paranoid views) but many of those who propagate these theories don't like discussion, they just want validation. Many clearly don't like the free speech aspect of posting on a public forum.

    What authoritarian overreach in Australia? be specific

    Please provide examples of this "very extreme authoritarianism" you are referring to?



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Did anyone conspire to make those restrictions happen for some reason? Who was behind that and why did they bring about a global pandemic if they were only targeting Singapore with their plan to ban the unvaccinated from employment?

    What do they have to gain from people in Singapore not being employed?

    What does Singapore even have to gain from people not being employed?



    Or is it maybe just a case of Singapore deciding that they really need those last few holdouts against vaccination to get a kick up the back side to pursuade them to be vaccinated for the good of the country?


    That isn't a conspiracy, it's called governing. Might not be the right way to convince people to be vaccinated, but it's still not a conspiracy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭growleaves


    I'm not sure how free speech comes into it since it's not like I'm preventing you from posting on boards.

    Barring people from employment is very extreme, especially since the risk from covid is both small and hypothetical (not strictly actual, only potential.) The protection from vaccines is only partial so we are comparing a % of risk versus another higher/lower % of risk. Very ambiguous, not at all stark enough to justify broadly taking away people's right to earn a living.

    If you don't see that we won't agree on much or anything since our assumptions are too different.

    Singapore and Victoria, Australia seem to be planning a wide employment 'lockout' (Dan Andrew's word) of uncompliant citizenry. Details haven't been finalised.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭growleaves


    I don't like the interrogative posting style of this forum, so if you are firing multiple questions at me - a kind of hyper-Socratic method - don't expect to get them answered.

    Make some points instead and I will be more likely to engage with you in a discussion.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    OK, here's one question for you.


    What is the conspiracy?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    I have no idea who Dan Andrews is, but I had the gumption to see if the Singapore government are actively stopping people from working. https://www.mom.gov.sg/covid-19/advisory-on-covid-19-vaccination-in-employment-settings



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Lol.

    If it's one thing that's not allowed on the conspiracy forum, it's questions.


    Perhaps if you cats didn't dodge them and whinge about how mean they sound, and answered them instead, they wouldn't pile up as much.


    I made a point to you and you did not address it.

    My point was that the conspiracy theory being proposed on this thread is very ridiculous and obviously not true.

    I asked if you believed in that conspiracy theory, and if not, what version did you believe was reasonable.


    Could you answer that point now?

    If not, could you explain why you are not answering it?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Their restrictions on employment are scheduled to become much tighter in January 2022. I don't have a link sorry, I was told this by someone who lives there.

    Dan Andrews is the Premier of Victoria, a province of Australia which includes the city of Melbourne.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭growleaves


    robinph,

    I suspect it might be part of a conspiracy but I can't prove that obviously.

    This is the forum to discuss conspiracy theories not either present cast-iron proof (in which case they wouldn't be theories) or agree it couldn't happen.

    These vaccine passports are wrong, disproportionate and seem to be being 'rolled out' all over the world simultaneously.

    The technology was suddenly being prepared back in early 2020. Then it was denied by many governments that they would be used. Then it was announced by the same governments that they would be used.

    Now the word 'lockout' has come into use by a powerful Australian politician and barring people from employment on a wide scale is a possibility.

    There's a lack of transparency, honesty and consistency. There is a snowballing of very extreme measures and they could not have been brought in so quickly without any planning.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Not one person here has asked any conspiracy theorists for proof, cast-iron or otherwise.

    We're asking people to just explain directly, clearly and concisely what they believe the conspiracy is.

    But it's very very apparent that you guys aren't able to do that because your conspiracy theories don't actually make all that much sense.


    You are suggesting that there's a plan to use vaccination to remove people from jobs.

    Ok.

    Who exactly is behind this plan?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,644 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Why couldn't they have been brought in quickly without planning? There isn't some overarching mastermind at the controls of all this.

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    So you are not following any particular existing conspiracy theory, don't have any theory of your own, have no specific belief about who is doing something bad or what the bad things are that they are doing.


    But you are worried about something. Just you don't know what, why or who?


    Best course of action would be to delete your social media accounts and stop frequenting Facebook or wherever you are getting bombarded with these scare stories from. It's not healthy for you.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Okay chief I've just deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts.

    Thanks for the discussion.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    Conspiracy theorists here have thrown tantrums because they don't like that other posters can question/challenge them. More than a few have asked for a safe space where they can "discuss" (validate) conspiracies with like-minded people who don't ask them questions or you know, for evidence, of their theories and views

    The risk from Covid is not hypothetical. The vaccine significantly reduces the severity of Covid and transmission. If you have a specific medical reason not to have a vaccine that's fine, but it's a no-brainer otherwise.

    People's right to earn a living? What about their right not to have higher risk of contracting Covid from some anti-vax coworker? A hospital making sure it's employees are vaccinated has been normal for years, but certain companies requiring workers to get a no-brainer jab during a pandemic is "tyrannical"? No it isn't. What absurd hyperbole.

    Not interested in what you don't "agree on", there are flat-earthers I don't "agree" with, it doesn't mean a jot. You are using words like "tyranny" but have failed to provide a single example of anything close to what that word really means



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Dohnjoe,

    I'm not crying about having people disagree with me.

    Where they take a condescending tone or engage in a cod-Socratic method of firing dozens of questions at me simultaneously I will sidestep it. I'm not here to be grilled.

    This whole world is not a hospital ward.

    Safetyist control of every public and private building to try hopelessly to escape an airborne respiratory virus, even after vaccination, is disproportionate and wrong if it bounces people out of work.

    There is a right to work, there's no right to be guaranteed healthy and if there were we wouldn't see indifference to obesity.

    Governments have overstepped the mark big time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    We aren't "trying to escape" the virus, we are trying to reduce it.

    You don't have a right to work under your own subjective conditions. You can't work in an operating theatre without a mask. You can't work in certain jobs without a hard-hat. You can't work other jobs without a uniform. You can't work other jobs without a medical. If it's your personal opinion you don't like the idea of a company requiring workers to be vaccinated against Covid, cool, that's your own view. Most of my colleagues have the opposite opinion, they have zero time for anti-vaxxers, and want their coworkers vaccinated.

    There is nothing "tyrannical" about it.

    Governments have "overstepped their mark" in your personal opinion. You haven't demonstrated this and I am still waiting for you to give one solid example of this. All you've done so far is apply hysteria to basic common sense precautions.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    I asked you a grand total of 3 questions.

    One of which was for you to just explain why you were not answering those questions.

    Three questions are apparently too many for conspiracy theorists to answer all at once.

    Is one question ok?

    You are suggesting that there's a plan to use vaccination to remove people from jobs.

    Ok.

    Who exactly is behind this plan?


    Again, it's really really funny to have conspiracy theorists whine about people asking too many questions.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    > I'm not here to be grilled.

    Well, you kind of are. You are on a conspiracy theory forum, trying to present arguments in support of that theory* and to do that you really need to be able to back up your case in some form or other.


    * We'll ignore the lack of a theory having been put forward for the sake of this particular point and pretend that you have made a claim.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    And it bares making clear: backing up your arguments does not equate to "demanding solid proof." Just in case we hear that particular excuse again.

    We understand that there's no proof of conspiracy theories. We're not asking for that. We're asking you to outline why you believe in your conspiracy theories.

    What convinced you? What facts or information makes you conclude or suspect that there's a conspiracy? What exactly is the form of the conspiracy you believe.


    But as has been demonstrated in this thread, no conspiracy theorist seems at all able to do this for the Great Reset.

    I suspect it's because conspiracy theorists don't want to admit the truth.

    They believe the conspiracy theories because they saw them on youtube/twitter/bitchute/whatever, they liked them, and they didn't bother to do any verification or critical thinking about them.



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    Teleworking isn't a radical change. People have been working from home for years. The only change is that more people are now working from home. But increasingly that won't be the case as more and more people go back to the office.


    Radical changes would be acting "jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies" and building "entirely new foundations for our economic and social systems". What do you think Schwab means by revamping all aspects of our societies and economies? And by building entirely new foundations for our economies and social systems?


    Vaccine passports are also a radical change. Never before in the West have people being denied services based on their health status.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    You tell us what he means.

    You claim to have read his book.

    What does he say in the book?


    Or are you going to admit to lying about that?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Notmything


    Really??? People have been unable to take part in sports due to their health status, people have been unable to give blood due to their health status, people have been unable to work in certain careers because of their health status.

    Not being allowed into a pub or a restaurant is on the small end of things denied to people because of their health status.



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,822 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    ?? Transplant patients are denied services based on their health status all the time.

    If your on the list for a liver in America and an alcoholic, you must show at least 6 months sobriety before being considered.

    There have been prospective lung transplant recipients denied for showing evidence of smoking marijuana.

    Of course, having a one in one hundred year pandemic is reason enough to have changes to the norms that we enjoy for her other 99 years



  • Registered Users Posts: 330 ✭✭Dammo


    People have been “unable to give blood due to their health status” since the beginning of blood donation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Radical changes: he means what everyone else means, that society will go through changes (as it always does). You do realise this guy is just the head of an economic forum, he's just making personal predictions and speculation. He's been around for decades making these kind of predictions and conspiracy theorists have paid no attention to him. One of the last forums was called the "Great transformation", but conspiracy theorists didn't notice it, so they couldn't scare-monger and fantasize about it.

    Vaccine passports: Yes people have been denied services based on health status. You couldn't (and still can't) get or hold certain jobs based on your health status. There's a pandemic, you can't get on a plane with a fever because you could have Covid, do you understand this concept at all? it's common sense precautions. You keep obsessively trying to pretend it's something "scary" and "nefarious".



  • Registered Users Posts: 857 ✭✭✭PintOfView


    I'm not an expert on Schwab but I did look at him on youtube to see what all the fuss was about, and read the WEF web site, and I've not heard or seen anything I would be concerned about. In fact a lot of the stuff he says I'd agree with, as it's just sensible responses to the changing world we live in, whether it's rapidly advancing technology, or climate change, etc., etc. However at the end of the day he's just a commentator, with no power to do anything but talk. Which makes it all the more amazing how he has been put on a platform by conspiracy believers, who seem to think he controls world governments!!!

    Vaccine passports are also a radical change. Never before in the West have people being denied services based on their health status.

    What's the obsession with vaccine passports? Can you not see the logic of trying to prevent super spreader events by limiting the participants to the vaccinated? Do you not yet see that the virus is real? Why are the unvaccinated between 10 and 50 times more likely to be covid positive, be hospitalised, or die from Covid? In that context how can you not see that the unvaccinated are a lot more likely to have Covid, and to transmit it to others? If you think about it, vaccine passports are likely saving the unvaccinated from themselves, and preventing groups gathering with maybe 10 or 20% unvaccinated and transmitting the virus onwards, and damaging mostly other unvaccinated!

    As regards "Never before in the West have people being denied services based on their health status" one thing you are ignoring is the epidemic of TB in Ireland in the 1940's. TB killed many, and people didn't want to catch it so suffers had to live apart so not to transmit it to the healthy. See this article from 2010 https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20128709.html where it says

    "Its effect was all-embracing, even among those who were healthy. A coveted job in the civil service or a bank was not yours until a chest X-ray film was reported as normal."

    So instead of a vaccine passport you needed to produce a clear chest x-ray!!!

    Here is another excerpt from an Irish Times article

    In the 1930s and 1940s, TB was the AIDS of its time. "Delicacy" was a euphemism for having TB. People would cross the street to avoid contact with a "delicate" person. Readers of Angela's Ashes may remember how Frank McCourt, as a delivery boy, had to deliver telegrams, because nobody else would, to a certain house where there was a "delicate" girl.

    You seem to be intent on ignoring part of the context of the world we live in so as to keep alive your conspiracy theory!!



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,822 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    another recent enough example of

    "Never before in the West have people being denied services based on their health status

    is this:

    and that wasnt even human disease, it was animal health......



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Lads, theres not much point putting this much effort into your points.

    Gortanna has already made his flyby. He's not going to respond to anything in any kind of meaningful way.

    He's going to run off and hide against until his masters give him a new link to spam.



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