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!

Dehumanizing one’s target is a fascist’s first step on the path to the gas chambers.

Apparently socialists (particularly communists) and progressive liberals aren’t white. From the very beginning of the introduction:

This is not a book about communist ideology. You’ve read those. This is a book about the communist reality—and how to tell when it’s coming to a society near you.

History does not repeat, but it rhymes. For as long as there have been beauty and truth, love and life, there have also been the ugly liars who hate and kill. This is the way of things in all things. There is light and there is dark. Always has been. Always will be. Civilization is the superstructure built on law and order that keeps the petty, the resentful, and the cruel away from the rest of us. Some societies have been better at this than others. Those who fail at repelling the repulsive fall to unhumanity—to a state of affairs in which human thriving is impossible and surviving improbable.

It doesn’t matter what you call these the people of anti-civilization. They will change their name, shape, and form as needed and for their own purposes in their unique time and place. For the last couple centuries, we’ve known them as communists. Socialists, with extra steps. And of course, leftists. Radicals and revolutionaries as well. A hundred years ago, Marxist Leninists, then more recently, Cultural Marxists. Even as, without irony and not as a joke, “progressives.” For the purposes of this book, we will call them the unhumans. This is a book about unhumans, and this is what they do: With power, unhumans undo civilization itself. They undo order. They undo the basic bonds of society that make communities and nations possible. They destroy the human rights of life, liberty, and property—and undo their own humanity in the process by fully embracing nihilism, cynicism, and envy.

As usual, first they came for the Communists.

We eat what we can and what we can’t we can.

I wonder how James Rehwald and Lady Izdihar manage to survive on TikTok then.

Doubling down on feigned obtuseness, I see.

You can take the girl out of Reddit, but can’t take the Reddit out of the girl.

The same numerically. You’re not that obtuse, so is this a joke or are you a cringey debatelord?

social justice warriors

Okay boomer.

Palestinians have the right under UN law to struggle against their occupiers by any means necessary, including armed struggle, while the State of Israel, as an occupier, has no right to “self defense.”

Checks modlog…

• Nuance trolling
• Hasbara
• Genocide Apologies
• Genocide Denial
• Genocide apologist
• genocide apologia
• genocide apologia

Not sure—I haven’t read any fascist manifestos. Maybe Blackshirts and Reds.

Dugin isn’t “Putin’s Brain” any more than Navalny was, but he is popular with some US & European fascists.

• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
• 📺 Caleb Maupin speaks next to Aleksandr Dugin at Alternatives To Globalization Conference in 2018

Please don’t be methane; please don’t be methane; please don’t be methane…

FUCK.

But I also see the Hamas as a terrorist organisation and don’t deny Israel the right to exist either.

I don’t see Hamas as a terrorist organization, and I do deny the state of Israel’s right to exist or defend itself. Palestinians have the right under UN law to struggle against their occupiers by any means necessary, including armed struggle, while the State of Israel, as an occupier, has no right to “self defense.”

I’m from Germany […] and that may make a difference here (due to our experiences with antisemitism during Nazism era and WWII.

It does make a difference, just not in the way you were taught. Philosophy professor Hans-Georg Moeller: Guilt Pride: A German Vanity Project Conquering the World