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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Sunday, January 7, 2024

Historical Apophenia

ap·​o·​phe·​nia ˌa-pə-ˈfē-nē-ə : the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas)
The paranoiac-critical method is a surrealist technique developed by Salvador Dalí in the early 1930s.[1] He employed it in the production of paintings and other artworks, especially those that involved optical illusions and other multiple images. The technique consists of the artist invoking a paranoid state (fear that the self is being manipulated, targeted or controlled by others). The result is a deconstruction of the psychological concept of identity, such that subjectivity becomes the primary aspect of the artwork.
Parallel construction is a law enforcement process of building a parallel, or separate, evidentiary basis for a criminal investigation in order to conceal how an investigation actually began.[1]

In the US, a particular form is evidence laundering, where one police officer obtains evidence via means that are in violation of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and then passes it on to another officer, who builds on it and gets it accepted by the court under the good-faith exception as applied to the second officer.[2] This practice gained support after the Supreme Court's 2009 Herring v. United States decision.[2]

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

problem is... most of connections either hidden... or even already lost to us...

means... if one are paranoid -- it doesn't mean that there is no one after one.

Anonymous said...

Did you have encounters with this one?

Anonymous said...

At pShaw's


\\Blogger Shaw Kenawe said...

\\ Nonsensical comment, Forieigner.

\\ The mobs for Trump tried to stop through violence the electoral vote count and threatened to kill the VPOTUS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution
The Orange Revolution (Ukrainian: Помаранчева революція, romanized: Pomarancheva revoliutsiia) was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election,


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution

The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January Revolution (Arabic: ثورة ٢٥ يناير; Thawrat khamsa wa-ʿišrūn yanāyir),[20] began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt. The date was set by various youth groups to coincide with the annual Egyptian "Police holiday" as a statement against increasing police brutality during the last few years of Hosni Mubarak's presidency.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Hong_Kong_protests

The 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests[22] (also known by other names) were a series of demonstrations against the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition. It was the largest series of demonstrations in the history of Hong Kong.[23][24]
...
In the United States, the House of Representatives, with one dissenting vote, and the Senate unanimously passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act in light of the extradition bill and protests.[634][635][636][637] President Donald Trump signed the bill on 27 November, alongside a companion bill restricting US exports of crowd control devices to the Hong Kong police forces.[638]


So? When it in Hong Kong -- means, directed at China -- main economical and geopolitical rival -- that's "Human Rights and Democracy".

But... when such things happen in USA -- it's I-N-S-U-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N.

Anonymous said...

\\Blogger Shaw Kenawe said...

\\ Your comparison is absurd. The countries you name have nothing to do with our election laws. If you like elections settled by riots and killing, move to a third world country.



Yellow vests protests
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki
Tens of thousands of protesters marched across France on 16 January 2021, to condemn a security law that critics say would restrict police filming and posting ...

IS France a "third world country"???

According to DEMN moron Shaw??? ;-P



\\ Blogger Dave Dubya said...

\\ Len is correct. They are TROLLS, and not the least interested in good faith discourse.

One where'd you DELETE or not DISCLOSE factual comments. While smearing opponent in verbal feces?

THAT IS??? What it calls "good faith discourse"? :-)))))))))))))))))))))




PS And what showdown of social grooming are in that thread, I'd say. :-)))))))))))))0

Just like:

Their foolish and chattering ways are illustrated by their slogan: We are great. We are free. We are wonderful. We are the most wonderful people in all the jungle! We all say so, and so it must be true. Bandar-log communicate almost entirely through the repetition of other animals' speech.[3]

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

No, I never engaged with Joe 101, except maybe at pShaws, and she always censors half my responses. Maybe I should leave a link.

Anonymous said...

Well... do you keep track of what WAS NOT disclosed? ;-)

It can provide valuable info.

Anonymous said...

See? Like to track such an "innocent mistakes".


\\Blogger Shaw Kenawe said...

\\ To "Foreigner"

\\ The United States is NOT Egypt, Iran, or Hong Kong, where those countries are ruled by strongmen authoritarians.

Is it you Evade Unpleasant Facts tactic? Or you just that stooopid?

Calling Hong Kong authoritarian. Well... it is. NOW.

When you gave it up to authoritarian soon will be totalitarian China.

THAT IS how DEMN party helping tyrants of all of the world to spread their rule.

No.

It do not look like you are THAT stooopid.

It looking like DELIBERATE derailing -- why you ADDED Iran here??? While I mentioned Ukraine?





\\Blogger Shaw Kenawe said...

\\ To "Foreigner"

\\ You are incorrect and again absurd to compare what happened in those countries -- trying to democratize their nations THROUGH PROTEST, and the mobs on January 6 to tried TO STOP DEMOCRACY through mob violence.

Maybe... I would believe you... maybe.

If I'd be stupid. And would NOT notice how you derailed discussion from "mob violence"... in Ukraine, in France just recently.

To make it look like it about some "authoritarin countries" ONLY.

But.

That was A LIE. DELIBERATE deception. From your part.

""Honesty of DEMNs"" I call it.

This way how you (mis)treating FACTS.

Anonymous said...

Heh... deep irony of calling em "bandar-log"... lost on em. :-/

Bleh.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

/Well... do you keep track of what WAS NOT disclosed? ;-)
It can provide valuable info.


No, I don't. But it's usually the zinger that definitively proves the point and makes a fool of them.


/See? Like to track such an "innocent mistakes"....


\\ To "Foreigner"
\\ The United States is NOT Egypt, Iran, or Hong Kong, where those countries are ruled by strongmen authoritarians.
/Is it you Evade Unpleasant Facts tactic? Or you just that stooopid?
Calling Hong Kong authoritarian. Well... it is. NOW.
When you gave it up to authoritarian soon will be totalitarian China.
THAT IS how DEMN party helping tyrants of all of the world to spread their rule.
No.
It do not look like you are THAT stooopid.
It looking like DELIBERATE derailing -- why you ADDED Iran here??? While I mentioned Ukraine?


To re-enforce/ emphasize her premise (authoritarian) and ignore contradictary data points.


\\ To "Foreigner"
\\ You are incorrect and again absurd to compare what happened in those countries -- trying to democratize their nations THROUGH PROTEST, and the mobs on January 6 to tried TO STOP DEMOCRACY through mob violence.
/Maybe... I would believe you... maybe.
If I'd be stupid. And would NOT notice how you derailed discussion from "mob violence"... in Ukraine, in France just recently.
To make it look like it about some "authoritarin countries" ONLY.
But.
That was A LIE. DELIBERATE deception. From your part.
""Honesty of DEMNs"" I call it.
This way how you (mis)treating FACTS.


Indeed!


/Heh... deep irony of calling em "bandar-log"... lost on em. :-/
Bleh.


We tend to perjoratively call them "the chattering class" here in America. Left-academics. Bandar-log would be more appropriate. It went over her head.

Anonymous said...

\\No, I don't. But it's usually the zinger that definitively proves the point and makes a fool of them.

To which they blind and deaf anyway. :-)))


\\To re-enforce/ emphasize her premise (authoritarian) and ignore contradictary data points.

Yap.


\\Bandar-log would be more appropriate. It went over her head.

That's how "educated" they are. :-)))

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

So "educated" that they suppress all emergent conclusions they might otherwise make.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Like children needing to have their "imaginations" limited/ channeled.

Anonymous said...

Dunno.

I am more interested in creative imagination...

Anonymous said...

Thing is that we are dualistic creatures.

From one side -- we are homeostatic entities -- and because of that, tend to desire that thing will not, never, ever do change...

But same time -- we have brains -- and they have ability to saturate AKA boredom.

Which we also trying to avoid. Maybe even more actively.

;-)

Anonymous said...

\\ Anonymous Anonymous said...

\\ Did you have encounters with this one?

\\ January 8, 2024 at 4:00 AM


Like that jackal... it gnawed its own leg. :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))0

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

/Dunno.
I am more interested in creative imagination...


Character defined by limits?


/Thing is that we are dualistic creatures.
From one side -- we are homeostatic entities -- and because of that, tend to desire that thing will not, never, ever do change...
But same time -- we have brains -- and they have ability to saturate AKA boredom.
Which we also trying to avoid. Maybe even more actively.
;-)


Polemical argument. There are also a million states in between.


\\ Anonymous Anonymous said...
\\ Did you have encounters with this one?
\\ January 8, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Like that jackal... it gnawed its own leg. :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))0


We've been "cancelled". lol!

Anonymous said...

\\Character defined by limits?

Interesting. Exact example of problem with foreign language test -- which consist of words of too many, too common meanings. And need some cultural reference to dechipher.

Which I don't have, obviously.




\\Polemical argument. There are also a million states in between.

Defined on state space.

That's what I did.



\\We've been "cancelled". lol!

Hysterical reaction, isn't it? Or... IT, still not learned how to manage deleting a comment?

Pity I didn't saved that page... but, with that critter... snowflakes, seems so perfect name, one never know when it'll happened.

At pShaws also SUDDENLY it became too quiet. :-)))

Anonymous said...

Who's that " Anonymous Proud Member of the FJB/LGB Community said..."

could be?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Mystere?

pShaw's cancelling all my posts presently.