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24 is the highest number, fuggedaboutit [1] [2] [3]

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The revolution ethnic cleansing will not be televised

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Remember when we used to make fun of parliamentary governments when they became “without a government.”

Well joke’s on us right now with a Speakerless House.

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And people who want to fund death, which is a shockingly large number of Democrats.

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One’s interpretation of this relationship might make for a good liberal/socialist Voight-Kampff test.

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From what I hear, 20% of them have dual passports, and half of those live there only part time. These Global North expats who have an easy out should fuck off back to where they came from.

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Imperial America is a death cult.

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I think mostly because the Allied Powers won WWII and got to make the rules. Often the argument is made that, by giving the nuclear-capable countries veto power, they’re less likely to use those weapons, but that might be more of a rationalization than the actual reason.

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We were that one time, and we’ve been milking it ever since.

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We also nuked two cities, for reasons much less honorable or necessary than the one we are told.

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Hollywood war reenactments are a psyop.

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You & I are the only people who seem to know this. Everyone else is busy arguing whether we can “afford” to give Ukraine “free stuff”, when in reality none of it is free, and whatever few Ukrainians are left alive after this war will be paying onerous debt for generations. They’re already auctioning off many public assets to mostly foreign buyers at fire sale prices, up to and including seaports.

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I’m super-fun at parties 😐

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Two reasons, I think:

  • So Japan would unconditionally surrender to the US instead of (conditionally or unconditionally) surrendering to the USSR.
  • As a warning to the USSR to not spread communism further. The Cold War started even before WWII ended.
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The reason for the bombs being dropped is very clear and you’re free to read countless books, articles, papers on it.

I’ve read the same arguments & documents as every other red-blooded American, but unlike most I’ve also read the counterarguments.

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Neither of you are wrong, but Americans should understand that the USSR suffered over twenty million deaths vs ~117,000 Americans on the Western Front. They had their own western cities & infrastructure invaded/destroyed. The undertaking & sacrifices are hard to compare.

Russians trying to rewrite history

Okay my bad: you actually are wrong.

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That is the standard argument we’re given, yes: that it would ultimately save lives compared to a conventional war. You can find dissenting views from Noam Chomsky & Michael Parenti & Howard Zinn & others, including the US government’s own analysis, if you care to.

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It’s been argued that Churchill & Roosevelt wanted Germany and the USSR to grind each other down, saving the them the trouble, because, being capitalists, they had no love for the Soviet State.

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Did The Resistance during the Trump administration ever actually do anything or was it just hot air?

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Ryan Cooper, 2018: The fake resistance inside the Trump administration

What a crock.

If there were real organized resistance to Trump within the administration or the Republican Party more broadly, these people would be doing dramatically more than they are. If they really believe Trump is a danger to the nation and world — and he is — it should hardly be a mystery what to do about it.

tl;dr:

  1. Get rid of Trump — before the 2020 election
  2. Quit and join the opposition
  3. Undermine him from the inside
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Yes, it’s called tendering your resignation.

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There’s a very good primer on this topic, written almost 80 years ago by the precursor to the CIA: Simple Sabotage Field Manual by Office of Strategic Services

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Israel & the US will never be on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism no matter what heinous shit they do. Torture programs, ethnic cleansing, whatever.

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Disinformation, formerly known as information.

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I’m not going to do that, because my point is more general, about a larger issue.

Remember the Disinformation Governance Board, which lasted all of four months, because it was all too obvious that it was the formation of a formalized censorship regime?

Global North governments are trying to make themselves the arbiters of what is true, and then suppress what they decree to be untrue.

Take a look at this report on the fediverse from the Atlantic Council, the premier Global North foreign policy think tank. They’re going to come for us, just like they came for the corporate social media platforms. Collective Security in a Federated World (full PDF report)

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In all likelihood Josh Paul will remain a liberal, as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden have.

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Presumably the downvoter has faith that Josh Paul will abandon liberalism and embrace socialism.

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant (www.businessinsider.com)

The FBI’s recruitment of Thiel as a CHS puts him among the bureau’s most prominent assets, but he is not alone among right-wing figures who have collaborated with the bureau. Trump himself offered to help the FBI fight organized crime in Atlantic City in the early 1980s. Truth Social, the Trump-owned social-media company,...

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Peter Thiel changed his relationship with the Military-Spook-Industrial Complex to It’s complicated.

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But seriously, under capitalism, the oligarchs, the state, and organized crime (including fascist gangs) always have symbiotic relationships.

Also, the FBI are cops, and all cops are bastards. They’re not going to save us from Trumpism or fascism. Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.

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Anyone from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_agencies#In_national_security.

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What I think Thiel and his sycophants want is for him or someone in his circle to be made fascist god-emperor and so be commander-in-chief of the feds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

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The American people have more than enough arms in their own homes to defend against a Canadian or Mexican invasion. We don’t need a military in the least; maybe keep the National Guard, but that’s it.

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Remember the neocons who perpetrated the horrific, illegal, failed Iraq & Afghanistan wars and the related illegal torture program? Well they’re in top positions of power under Biden right now. They didn’t get trials or punishments, they got promotions.

You don’t get ahead in Washington by having a moral backbone; you get ahead by proving you’ll do the most heinous, compromising things imaginable when asked to.

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Responsible Statecraft brings the receipts: Thanks to Biden, the War Party is back: The president’s policies reflect his appointments: ideologues who should have retired after previous foreign policy debacles

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Culture of Deceit: Israel […] is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza (chrishedges.substack.com)

Israel was founded on lies. The lie that Palestinian land was largely unoccupied. The lie that 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and villages during their ethnic cleansing by Zionist militias in 1948 because they were told to do so by Arab leaders. The lie that it was Arab armies that started the 1948 war that saw Israel...

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His interview with Norman Finkelstein, who dedicated 40 years of his scholarly work on the Palestinians’ plight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0aemeCbRTk

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The sole vote against the most milquetoast of resolutions, using their veto power again even their own ostensible allies. Just unconscionable.

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If you want a rough comparison of the relative difficulty for a native English speaker to learn different languages, the US military’s Defense Language Institute’s guidelines are well-regarded, and they consider Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese to be the easiest.

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Leia: The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

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The Global South is wise to the Global North’s dept trap grift now, and they’re not falling for it anymore.

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I don’t know if you know this, downvoter, but A New Hope was about the Vietnam War, and the US and its allies were the baddies.

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The Financial Times, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal are important outlets because the capitalists speak relatively frankly amongst themselves there.

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But, listen, let’s review the rules. Here’s how it works. The President makes decisions. He’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration? You know, fiction.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-a2KeyCAY

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Did they ever provide proof for the lies about beheaded babies?

Or the babies thrown out of incubators?

Or the Viagra rapings?

The real mis-, dis-, and mal-information is coming from inside the house.

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  • First they came for the lemmygrads, and I did not speak out, because I was not a marxist-lenninist.
  • Then they came for the hexbears, and I did not speak out, because I was not a leftist.
  • Then they came for the lemmy.mls, and I did not speak out, because I was not a privacy enthusiast.
  • Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Is is because they don’t negotiate with terrorists?

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The Atlantic Council’s Ministry of Truth is going to come for us before long:

The emergence and growth in popularity of federated social media services, like Mastodon and Bluesky, introduces new opportunities, but also significant new risks and complications. This annex offers an assessment of the trust and safety (T&S) capabilities of federated platforms—with a particular focus on their ability to address collective security risks like coordinated manipulation and disinformation.

www.atlanticcouncil.org/…/scaling-trust_annex5/

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