Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
That sounds like a reasonable and healthy attitude to take.
I’ve started buying 2nd hand physical games, got a cheap record player, buy books from little bookshops, clothes from goodwill and don’t shop online. Not ready for a dumb phone yet.
I grew up in niave 90s with ‘internet will set us free’ thinking. But oligarchs turned the things i liked into poison, so i avoid drinking the poison as much as i can.
Coprolite makes a great insult. I’m sure we can all think of some prominent fossilized turds.
Of course real coprolites are wealth of information and a welcome find, unlikely the fucking coprolites who seized control of the US.
Alerting venezuela to the risk might have foiled the operation.
Galvanizing public opinion beforehand might have led them to rethink. Continuing against public opinion costs more political capital than selling it after it’s already done. Authoritarian regimes can ignore public opinion more than representative ones, but they still can’t ignore it entirely.
Maybe reporting the story wouldn’t change the outcome, but it’s a possibility.
to avoid endangering US troops
This is a straight up lie. They held off to avoid blowing the lid on the US regime’s undeniably illegal actions.
If they had reported on government malfesance as is their sacred duty, they might have stopped a crime before it happened.
Bono was briefly into these.
That’s right, U2 grew a shrew loo.
Israel is an important and well-intergrated piece of the US empire so they get a say in how the empire is run. Working class new yorkers don’t matter in the same way.
To translate into the lies of empire: israel’s importance to foreign policy goals and deep cultural ties make it an interested commentator on domestic politics.
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Isn’t internal propaganda like that just a way to sell a decision you’ve already made, rather than the cause of the decision?
I’m very skeptical of the idea that states go to war for ideological reasons. I’d always heard they were afraid of being contained and believed that their unfavourable position could only possibly get worse so they decided to roll the dice now.
He was in jail already, he knew he was about to die and he wrote to a fellow imprisoned pedophile to say trump’s one of us, but we’re the ones in jail, life’s not fair.
That’s the context.
He knew he was about to die. That could mean suicide, but he knew the rules of the game he was playing.
The gap and editing in the prison footage still implies murder, i think. He just knew it was coming.
Yeah it’s disapointing to see the guardian slowballing an explosive headline.
Epstein tells fellow child rapist trump is one of us but we’re in jail.
understand how computers and critical thinking works
These are two very different things.
Being comfortable enough with computers to use anonymous forums - say, 4chan - does not neccesarily imply critical thinking skills and does not stop people getting unneccessarily upset at the harmless behaviour of others.
Nobody was there to police you for words or anything else you did.
On cue, i’d like to correct you on this.
After my fellow goth friend alvin was seen wearing a skirt on the weekend, our high school paid a christian youth group to lecture our entire grade. Their leader said they used to believe they were real actual vampires, but when his friend came home wearing a skirt, that’s when he knew they’d gone too far and turned to jesus.
The satanic panic was also still going strong - i played d&d in the 90s.
People have always been trying to police others for some bullshit. It’s easier online, but we got it done plenty before that.
How many times do you think his name was redacted from the epstein files?
Burning down your house doesn’t poison people thousands of years later, so it’s not a perfect analogy.
Plus we have magic mirrors and magic fans that do the same thing as the magic rocks just way cheaper.
There was a hilarious study the other month showing that on r/conservative, 30-60% of posts on any given day are 2 posters, who posted every single day - except the day that ukraine strikes knocked out power in moscow.