SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to memes in Take my strong hand!

Ah, Chris Elliott, my muse.

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SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to risa in That'd last a day, maybe two...

Dead Man will always be my favorite (still love seeing Gary Farmer in stuff), but I have a soft spot for Jarmusch’s more experimental stuff, which has been more of his recent stuff.

I’m not even sure The Dead Don’t Die is experimental as much as it is satirical. It was a fun little romp, though.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to risa in That'd last a day, maybe two...

Underrated film, Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee & Cigarettes

My favorite part will always be the short that started it all, Coffee & Cigarettes: Somewhere in California with Iggy Pop and Tom Waits.

I wonder if it’s Janeway’s favorite film.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to memes in Calculus? Nah, bro, that's easy stuff

Steve Martin understood this.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to news in Why diamonds suck

About this site…

© 2006 Josh Kaufman. Content last updated: May 21, 2006

I mean, this is still all true, but damn. Why is boingboing reporting on a nearly 20-year-old site in response to news about the diamond industry? One could argue the existence of that site and people’s knowledge of all that being true is part of why diamond sales were in the crapper anyway…

boingboing has really gone downhill since most of the original team left and it became an ad-infested mess.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to technology in Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore

And they were so right, too. The truth is the enemy of the state. Part of the way the allies won was by the US/UK working together to break German encryption, and then basically lying by omission to the world by never telling anyone about it until about 75 years or so after the war.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to technology in Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore

Exactly, truth was always based solely on an observers interpretation of events, and since we’re not outside of the universe, but inside of it, we’re not some neutral outside observer.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to memes in The two most stolen items

Not just the surplus value, the actual value, too, through Wage Theft!

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to technology in Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

-From an OSS psychological profile of Adolf Hitler

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

-Joeseph Goebbels

Naturally the common people don’t want war . . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or parliament or a communist dictatorship. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

-Hermann Goering

Sounds like Goering was right, then. It seems to be a hallmark of modern disinformation campaigns no matter where they happen: make the public not know who to trust so you can swoop in and be all “you can trust us.”

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to technology in Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false

-Former CIA Director William J. Casey

This has always been the goal of the (dis)information agencies.

They have actually succeeded with a large portion of the American public who, instead of turning to critical thinking and critical reading skills, have just decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater and instead trust random asshats on the internet.

Like, I get it, you can’t trust everything you read from mainstream media, who have billionaire owners who make sure their personal biases show in news coverage and ideas they don’t like are downplayed. That doesn’t mean the most effective solution is to stop listening to them entirely and start listening to entirely random sources with no background. However, that’s the solution many, many Americans have chosen to go with, and that’s effectively what the CIA has been hoping for. They want to be the final arbiters of what is considered “truth” because they don’t want people questioning what they do.

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to news in Humanity just lived through the hottest 12 months in at least 125,000 years, report says

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SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to news in Democratic Staffers Told To Let Constant Calls For Cease-Fire ‘Go To Voicemail’

It was Her Turn, duh!

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to risa in The Damars.

Just don’t let Dee Dee Damar make a friggin rap album!

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to news in Democratic Staffers Told To Let Constant Calls For Cease-Fire ‘Go To Voicemail’

So that justifies genocide? Because just over half have been terrorized enough to not be willing to forgive?

SnotFlickerman , 9 months ago to news in Democratic Staffers Told To Let Constant Calls For Cease-Fire ‘Go To Voicemail’

Don’t forget her campaign literally centered Trump in her “pied piper” strategy.

She built her own political demise.