Right? It was self-evidently a grift, yet “serious” bourgeois rags like FT pretend otherwise.

Two years ago Kshama Sawant ripped Ryan Grim a new asshole on Briahna Joy Gray‘s show. Grim’s salary depends on his not understanding.

Thanks I h8 it.

Pathetic. They’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.

About ten years ago, the agent who sold my house recommended I re-invest the capital in mobile home properties to avoid taxes^[1] and because those properties were 📈

You’re also assuming I’m not being persecuted.

Big if true.

Huh:

• The entity represented by the football association is included on the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories.

The oligarchs long ago made Jimmy an honorary member of their club, and there’s nothing neutral about that club. Not that “neutral” even exists outside of the mind palace of radical centrists.

plz xi

English language Wikipedia is a US psyop. I wonder how much Atlanticist propaganda gets stuffed into other languages’ Wikipedias.

Worse than Stalin’s giant spoon?

If nothing else does, may this administration’s incompetence save Venezuela.

Please strip the “r=xxxxx”tracking parameter from Substack URLs in the future.

It’s not pettiness. These are brave defenders of the liberal international order.

FYI, lately it’s a different user (or account, anyway) who downvotes your non-negative articles about China.

The languages that are vulnerable are vulnerable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_language

Two boots: “left” and right.

Just as Christianity is an offshoot of 2,000 year old Judaism, Islam an offshoot of 1,400 year old Christianity, virgin birth and all.

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

Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) find that Dr. Adams has been making use of a torturous hypnosis device that can aggressively rip content out of people’s brains, leaving them in his thrall. A man named Dr. Simon van Gelder (Morgan Woodward) knew about Dr. Adams’ secret, but was unable to speak it aloud, as he has undergone brainwashing.

“Brainwashing” was a CIA cold war psyop.

The True Story of Brainwashing and How It Shaped America

“Here, then, is the brief history of brainwashing,” [Timothy] Melley writes in a 2011 paper for Grey Room. “The concept began as an [O]rientalist propaganda fiction created by the CIA to mobilize domestic support for a massive military build-up. This fiction proved so effective that the CIA’s operations directorate believed it and began a furious search for a real mind control weapon. The search resulted not in a miraculous new weapon but a program of simulated brainwashing designed as a prophylactic against enemy mistreatment. This simulation in turn became the real basis for interrogating detainees in the war on terror.”

fail-safe motherfucker do you speak it

USA OUT OF THE GULF OF AMERICA!