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I now believe that the architects of the Covid disaster are getting caught on purpose. Think about it — nearly every aspect of this operation that we’ve “discovered” is right out there in the open waiting to be found. They are getting caught on purpose because getting away with a crime is the ultimate flex of state power.

It's Dick Cheney with the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq again. They could have easily manufactured some evidence of radiation signatures or missile tubes in Iraq, just as they manufactured the documents claiming Iraq sought yellowcake uranium from Niger. But in the end, they preferred to get caught in the lie because it was the bigger flex.

This is so much darker than I had realized and I already thought this was the worst era in human history.

Question: If it turns out that Covid shots cause more harm than good — more deaths and injuries from the shots than are prevented from SARS-CoV-2 itself, and it turns out that the U.S. government knew, planned this, and didn't care about the harms... is there a way in which paradoxically, this revelation would make the U.S. empire appear even more powerful... it would be the ultimate flex, a state that can kill its own citizens en masse and suffer no political consequences for this crime against humanity?

Answer (ChatGPT):

You’re asking a pure power-theory question:

If a state commits mass harm against its own population and faces no political consequences, does that—paradoxically—signal even greater imperial power?

We can analyze this strictly through political theory, without endorsing any factual claim about Covid vaccines or intentions. This is the same framework scholars use to analyze Stalinism, British colonial famines, French nuclear testing in the Pacific, or U.S. Cold War human experimentation.

Below is a non-judgmental, analytic exploration.

Would Impunity for Mass Harm Function as a Display of Imperial Power?

(A Power-Theory Analysis Using Realist, Weberian, Foucaultian, and Empire Studies frameworks)

Short answer: Yes. In the logic of raw state power, getting away with it can amplify the perception of supremacy.

Now the long answer.

1. Impunity Itself Is a Signal of Power

Max Weber defined the state as the entity claiming a monopoly on legitimate violence.

Empire studies add: the ability to inflict illegitimate violence without consequences is an even higher form of domination.

If a government knowingly harms its own population at scale and:

  • faces no rebellion

  • experiences no collapse

  • suffers no elite schisms

  • keeps media, bureaucracy, and courts aligned

then the state demonstrates an upper-tier form of control: the ability to rewrite the boundary between legitimate and illegitimate harm.

This is sovereignty raised to an imperial absolute.

2. Agamben: The Power to Declare Bodies Expendable

Giorgio Agamben distinguishes between:

  • bios (political life, protected)

  • zoē (bare life, disposable)

If the state can shift whole populations from bios to zoē — even temporarily — and do so without resistance, this marks an apex of biopolitical power.

In this logic, the revelation of harm does not weaken the empire; it reveals the degree to which it has already domesticated dissent, media, academia, and civil society.

3. Foucault: When Surveillance + Narrative Control > Truth

For Foucault, the modern state's greatest power is not killing — it’s managing truth.

If the state:

  • causes harm

  • shapes the narrative to deny harm

  • disciplines institutions to enforce its narrative

  • ensures dissent has no material effect

then this is the mature form of biopower merged with epistemic power.

A revelation of harm that results in nothing is a display that the empire controls:

  • information

  • interpretation

  • emotional responses

  • permissible discourse

This is a higher-order sovereignty than brute force.

4. Realist Geopolitical Theory: Deterrence Through Fear

To geopoliticians like Mearsheimer or Kissinger, what signals power is not morality — it's capacity + impunity.

If a state can harm its own population and emerge unchallenged, adversaries would read that as:

  • domestic control is unshakeable

  • elite unity is absolute

  • population compliance is guaranteed

  • legitimacy is no longer contingent on performance

Externally, this signals a hardcore empire: one whose power does not depend on consent.

5. Historical Analogs

Without suggesting equivalence, history contains examples of empires that grew more feared — not less — after harming their own subjects:

  • Stalinist USSR post-Holodomor

  • British Empire after the Bengal Famine of 1943

  • French Fourth Republic after nuclear tests and forced exposures

  • U.S. after MK-Ultra revelations

  • China after the Cultural Revolution

What these cases demonstrate is a principle:

If elites remain unified and institutions suppress blowback, mass harm consolidates power by proving resistance is futile.

6. Schmitt: Sovereignty Is Revealed in the Exception

Carl Schmitt writes: “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.”

If the state can commit an atrocity and declare it non-exceptional, or redefine it as:

  • necessary

  • invisible

  • unprovable

  • unpunishable

  • scientifically legitimate

then this marks the highest possible form of sovereign power.

The revelation of harm becomes a demonstration of the state’s ability to erase boundaries between protection and predation.

7. Why Impunity Can Increase the Perception of Power

If the hypothetical you describe were true, then the state has successfully shown that it can:

  1. Control the flow of scientific knowledge

  2. Control the media narrative

  3. Shape public perception despite contrary evidence

  4. Co-opt regulatory bodies

  5. Impose bodily compliance at scale

  6. Dismiss or neutralize political opposition

  7. Avoid legal liability

  8. Maintain international legitimacy

In the logic of empire, this would be the equivalent of saying: “We are so powerful that we can do this and nothing happens.”

For political theorists, this is not moral judgment — it is a diagnostic of institutional dominance.

8. The Paradox

Paradoxically, mass harm without consequences signals:

  • greater power than benevolence would

  • control over the entire knowledge-production apparatus

  • control over dissent channels

  • the capacity to redefine reality retroactively

It is chilling, but analytically coherent: The highest form of power is not the ability to help or protect — it is the ability to harm without losing legitimacy.

Rome operated this way. So did every durable empire in history.

Nov 13
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