PhilipTheBucket

What's wild is how wrong everyone else was at the time. It's sort of easy to be anti-Israel (for example) at this point, now. It's common, you see it at the Emmys, you see mainstream news reports about Israel starving Gaza, there's still a debate about it (for some fuckin' reason) but it's not like you only ever hear one side. At the time he was doing most of his work, he was the only one. He was like some kind of crazy subversive, he was very much infamous in American academia because he was constantly being "anti-American," he was accusing the US and Israel of committing terrorism, he was just in his own wild left field location, and he was the only one. There were a couple others, Howard Zinn and whatnot, but he was the only one who was known in any real capacity.

Russian generals: Hey, so we're behind in terms of tactics, intelligence, morale, and we're constantly short on manpower. We've been fighting this thing for years now, and the distance we've penetrated into Ukraine is shorter in a lot of places than some of the longer footraces. And the more Western countries take this whole thing seriously, the more of their functionally infinite economic resources they're going to devote to making sure we keep losing. We have figured out one good thing we can do, though: Cheap drone munitions including a lot of decoys, just spamming to overwhelm the defenses, since a lot of Western defenses are organized around single-shot ordnance that costs a ton of money. If we can launch 30 drones that each cost $15k, and it costs $3 million to shoot down each one and there aren't even all that many of those $3 million missiles in the launcher, we can overwhelm the defenses and get some bombing done.

It doesn't help too much with the war, but we can at least kill some civilians, which everyone knows is always productive. So: The plan is to make sure the West's focus is elsewhere so they don't start committing lots of energy and resources to us as an issue, and attack Ukraine focusing on cheap ordnance so that what resources they do commit are going to be as disadvantaged as possible.

Putin: Or, hear me out here,

Yeah, I guess looking for factual underpinning to it was just an error on my part. My point was that Russia and North Korea actually have done something wrong, and Iran is at least our geopolitical enemy, but China is still more a business partner for us than anything else. Sure they like to park independent wealth in US properties sometimes, and sometimes they spy on us, but WTF everyone does that kind of thing, they're just notable because they do more of it because they are bigger.

But yeah, trying to break down the thing from a "how much sense does the list make" standpoint was missing the point I think. It's just more prancing around for the crowd before the main event begins and they can have ICE snatch up all their opponents. Not long now.

Spez: No no guys I'm one of the good ones, remember? We made a little safe space for The_Donald for a while and we just got rid of a bunch of Charlie Kirk stuff, we're doing what you wanted

Spez: No no seriously guys I'm one of you, I'm on your side

Spez: Jesus Christ stop it that hurts, stop it, you can't, you can't

Goebbels had a phrase for this strategy

This was the point of all the lawsuits against CBS, constantly blustering at the media and talking down to them, even all the way back to January 6th mobbing up on the reporters and beating them up and smashing their equipment. They're trying to look for people they can bully into going along with the fiction, paving the way for the horrors. And look, they found some.

All the way back in 2016, there were holocaust survivors who were giving some pretty chilling interviews, saying Trump's rhetoric reminded them of how Hitler spoke and how he did things.

China, Iran, Russia and North Korea

One of these things is not like the others.

What the FUCK is this story

Public records show that the suspect is unaffiliated with any party, while both his parents are registered Republicans.

Authorities also said that ammunition from a bolt-action rifle recovered after the shooting included inscriptions such as, “notice bulges OWO what’s this?” “Hey fascist! Catch!” and “If you read this, you are gay LMAO.” Another casing bore the phrase “Bella ciao,” in an apparent reference to the popular Italian anti-fascist anthem.

On Sunday, however, Cox told NBC’s Meet the Press that the suspect’s political ideology was “very different” from his family’s.

“There clearly was a leftist ideology with this assassin,” he said, citing information from Robinson’s family and romantic partner.

Cox later told CNN’s State of the Union that Robinson lived with his transgender partner, though investigators were still trying to determine whether their romantic relationship was a motive behind the shooting.

The 22-year-old suspect was also steeped in “dark” corners of the internet, Cox said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZP-oCx3Dk

There's also this:

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/from-dictatorship-to-democracy-by-gene-sharp-6286451.html

I have been thinking that I need to get my hands on a copy. The guy is legit, supposedly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Nonviolent_Action

Another of his 30 or so books, “Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System” (1990), was invoked by government officials in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 1991 as they regained independence from the Soviet Union.

“I would rather have this book than the nuclear bomb,” Audrius Butkevicius, the former Lithuanian defense minister, once said.

"Meatball Ron" was another stroke of real genius. "Sloppy Steve" was another decently good one, but honestly, "Weird Stephen" is fuckin' perfection.

The police are famously not real sympathetic to a really shocking level of human suffering, once you're a "suspect."