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My rule of thumb: If any ideology requires that the fundamental nature of man be changed for its political aims to be workable, run away like a flaming pig.
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Click this post for archive and 🧵 thread of threads below:
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- The Decline and Fall of Rock -
Not only is Rock music dead, it's been dead for a while. Like Jazz, Blues, and Classical, it rests now in the afterlife of soundtracks and tombs of dark clubs and gilded halls, where the remnant priesthood still perform the ancient rituals.
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@Theo_Chilton
@eugyppius1
The left has always intuitively understood there is no "debate", no "marketplace of ideas". You take power, and use it to make your values the norm. You defund your enemies, and hire your friends. This is all so basic and simple, yet it eludes people on the modern right.
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1/8 Why is the collapse of western civilization already happening, but few even notice? And why will none of us be Road warrior warlords in a Mad Max future? It's because the collapse of complex societies seldom happen that way.
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I'm sure the Russian's are in panic at picking off the last few defensible urban settlements in Donbas, where the war is decided, while the remaining cream of Ukrainian forces are stuck in a horror film cross of Teutoburg Forest and the world's worst Boy Scout jamboree in Kursk.
Russian forces continue to report with a degree of panic about Ukrainian forces moving elite brigades into the Kursk district the 47th brigade, the 72nd brigade, the Magyar's Birds and the K-2 battalion elements have been spotted.
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The situation in Kharkov is a microcosm of the overall conflict in Ukraine, and the entire Western neoliberal project. The defensive lines that existed on the map were never built, and the funds embezzled. They provoked a Russian response, but had no plan FOR that response.
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@wayotworld
"Shaneequa went ham on L'aqueefa, and her weave got stuck in the throttle. So, light'em if ya got'em, folks, 'cause we're going down."
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8/ This is precisely why the Roman collapse was was so complete, because it was so gradual. By the time it was over, the buildings and infrastructure had been canibalized for building stone, and the people with the know how to boot start an advanced civilization again were gone.
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- The Death of the Aircraft Carrier -
There are now credible indications that the American aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower was either hit by Houthi forces' fire, or at least so pressed as to be forced to withdraw from the zone of conflict. This shouldn't come as a surprise.
It's quite damning that the USS Eisenhower turned around and withdrew north at flank speed (and I understand is still doing so) immediately after the Houthis announced they had attacked it two days ago, and terminally online
@ChowdahHill
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The problem is that the majority of these young, urban Hungarians in Budapest vote solidly against Orban's party. The civilised existence he secured for them is taken for granted, as it used to be in other Western countries; and they want to be cool, European, and cosmopolitan.
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3/ But mainly they fall because the will to pay for its upkeep is no longer there. Most societies, like Rome, collapse when the collective weight of taxes, rules and regulations, originally implemented to make life better, become such a burden that collapse becomes preferable.
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7/ Then that grand living room with the fancy mosaic floor makes more sense as a stable. And by the time you've gone truly Dark Ages everyone who remembered anything fundamentally different are long dead.
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The paradox of the Boomers: No generation, be it the one of the American and French revolutions, or the revolutionaries of 1848, so defined themselves as rebels, renegades and sticking it to The Man as them. And almost none have been so servile and conformist.
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The Death of Rock
1/ Many years ago, in my long defunct magazine, I wrote an article on the premise that Grunge was the end of Rock music. And looking back on it now, I think it stands up to scrutiny.
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5/ This is how the fall of the western Roman empire played out. Unless you lived in a major city when it got sacked, you could almost imagine nothing had really changed over a generation. Life in your villa carried on. But suddenly some trade goods were getting hard to come by.
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But perhaps the deciding factor is that Russian forces are commanded by Russians who truly don't want to lose Russians, while the top level strategies of the armed forces of Ukraine are decided in London and Washington, by people with little to no regard for Ukrainian lives.
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So the liberal democratic West's "last stand" ends up with Nazis on Pride Parade in a regime with no elections. There's an almost poetic clown world logic to it all.
In the “month of LGBT pride” that has begun in the Western world, gay pride parades do not forget about the Armed Forces of Ukraine and, in particular, the Azov National Battalion
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6/ So now you were forced to rely more on local, simpler solutions. One day your water system fails, and the local craftsmen can only do a slap job. So now you fill in your pool and convert it to a pig sty. It makes sense. You can almost convince yourself it's an upgrade.
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4/ But collapse is paradoxically seldom that. It's a gradual grinding, almost imperceptible string of things just degrading over time, until they're abandoned a good while before they are competely non functional.
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Wealth and War
The Western public debate about the war in Ukraine, both in politics and on social media, reveals a certain hubris (ask the ancient Greeks what that leads to), which is not only a bit outdated, but also based on a misunderstanding.
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@jennife74586721
@MartialMind1
@AngelaBelcamino
The fact that all the multiple moving parts of the civilization men built for you, and still keep going, from the guys keeping the power plant running, to they guy who removes your trash, and the farmer growing your food, is invisible to you, proves his point precicely.
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2/ Getting into the weeds on the multiple reasons for decline would take a tweet thread a mile long. Suffice to say that complex societies seldom fall for a single reason. They can take an earthquake, corruption, inflation, war, or plague, but not several at once.
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Every country has their own flavour of humour. The British are famous for the absurdist and wry puns. The Americans have pratfalls and physical comedy. The Germans are famous for... nevermind. Anyway, if there's a particularly Russian sense of humour, it's trolling:
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The truth is that in a real shooting war today there are only two sort of ships, those that go below the surface of the water, and those that end up there.
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In the real world it's the, often all too brave, Ukrainian men who have been thrown against deeply embedded Russian fortifications in the aborted Counter-offensive, with credible reports of ultra-nationalist units like Aidar and Azov in the rear shooting retreating troops.
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@ArmchairW
One of the premier features of this conflict has been the massive amounts of projection from Ukraine and its Western sponsors. Just about anything they accuse the Russians of doing, you know they're either doing, or getting ready to do.
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The lack of Ukrainian success on the battlefield of late is explained by claiming the Russians are employing unsustainable Zerg Rushes, or "meat waves" of men driven into suicidal attacks by "barrier troops" like the beginning of the WWII movie "Enemy at the Gates".
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The lack of Ukrainian success on the battlefield of late is explained by claiming the Russians are employing unsustainable Zerg Rushes, or "meat waves" of men driven into suicidal attacks by "barrier troops" like the beginning of the WWII movie "Enemy at the Gates".
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@ramzpaul
What on earth are they going to do in a couple of years, when no one of an age to be credibly accused still survive? Are they going to go all Spanish Civil War, and dig up the corpses and put them on trial? Will they go literal on the new original sin and try their children?
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The future is feudal. Personal loyalties, with clients of local magnates, and tight knit clans, offering patronage and protection will start to coalesce naturally as the law grows ever more arbitrary and impotent. Anarchy always yields to the simplest order that offers safety.
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Many in the West find it hard to grasp; Russia isn't the Soviet Union. Real changes have taken place in recent decades. Ukraine, on the other hand, went into a profound stasis following independence in 1991, its institutions and attitudes pickled in the brine of corruption.
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After the "sinking" of more than a dozen US navy ships, they called a time out, "refloated" the US vessels, and nerfed the rules. Van Riper walked away in disgust, saying the whole thing was rigged to deliver the desired result.
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@BasedTorba
How weird. They had everything working for them, support from every political wing, control of almost all media and entertainment.
And they still managed to turn everyone against them.
Talk about rotten... luck...
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It is an added irony that many of the western politicians who are most eager to sponsor and fight this conflict are the very ones who facilitated the outsourcing of the industry, supply chains, and know-how needed to prevail in such a confrontation in the first place.
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@MorgothsReview
I may be in the minority on this one, but lesbians somehow repel me more than gay guys. Old fashioned gays can be entertaining company. Lesbians are live grenades of resentment.
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If you've outsourced too much of your heavy industry and focused on financial services, you end up where you stand there with your money and say, "I want 300 Leopard 2s." and the answer is, "There are none, at any price."
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@RWApodcast
It's starting to look like the whole bridgehead was allowed to exist as a Russian trap - "Come across the river, little mouse. I've got some yummy cheese for you!"
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In fact most of what has been touted in Western media as Ukrainian successes have been the result of such, at best, Pyrrhic victories, trading massive casualties for a scant few feet of land. And this ongoing debacle makes a kind of sense.
The Ukrainian Kherson-Dniper operation is making their debacle in Zaporozhe look like Fall Gelb.
I'm sure the Stavka is quaking in their boots at the prospect of fighting a Ukrainian division a Zodiac-load at a time on their side of an enormous river.
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And it ends in ever more dour festivals, where the banned cigarette smoke no longer covers the stench of BO and stale vegan sausages, and anaemic Eloi gyrating in faithless facsimile to try to conjure up a teen spirit long since dead and departed. From culture to compost.
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Too many on the Right respond to modern depravity with puritanism for its own sake. This doesn't produce heroes, or even men of virtue, but those with pinched lips and pinched minds, whose will to power has soured in self doubt into petty sadism, the commissar and the inquisitor.
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If the main tool of US military power projection, their Carrier battle groups, were so obviously vulnerable to an enemy on the level of 2002 era Iran, how would they fare today, or against a near peer adversary like Russia or China equipped with hypersonic missiles?
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His solution to deal with the real US threat, their carrier battle groups, was to basically spam attack them with rocket barrages and any small vessel that could be fitted out as a torpedo boat. It ended up working all too well in the view of the brass.
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The hints that the US needs to engage Russia in negotiations on the Ukraine conflict in Western media have now become explicit. The permanent establishment is signalling to the Biden admin that santions and the military option has failed.
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@Peter_Nimitz
This is the sort of edgelordism gone sour take that makes the right wing seem silly. It's not funny, and to the degree it's serious, you might as well bring back the televangelists to at least make a show of it.
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Former Marine Corps Lt. General Paul Van Riper was tasked with playing the commander of the enemy forces (transparently Iran). Considering superior US signals intelligence he opted for low tech solutions, like motorcycle messengers.
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The old fogeys among us, Boomers and Gen-Xers, might react by saying, "What are you on about? Rock ain't dead!" But, alas, not only has hindsight confirmed the death of Rock, but it's even begun to fade into the mists of time for recent generations.
Just stumbled upon a repeat of some mid-90s Top of the Pops while waiting for the football to start and I feel like a Saxon encountering the ruins of the Roman Empire - aware that I’m in the awesome presence of a glorious civilisation but totally incapable of recovering it.
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Now, much as I'd like to claim superior strategic insight, or Nostradamus like powers of precognition, the truth is that the vulnerability of navy surface vessels in general, and aircraft carriers in particular, has been a well known problem for decades.
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@GonzaloLira1968
Granted the choices are limited - And I can understand the people voting for the first alternative. Problem is the first alternative so often springs from the third.
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But they mistake money for capital. Money is, in the end, a medium of exchange. It can get you things. But it's not the thing itself. It's not a synonym of WEALTH. Money, in and of itself, is less relevant than the goods you can produce and buy for them.
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One reason is that some of us predicted precisely this very outcome at the start of the naval operation aimed at breaking the Yemenite Houthis' blockade of the Red Sea, and access to the Suez Canal, in retaliation to the Israeli attack on Gaza.
@witte_sergei
For fear of getting sucked into a quagmire before the election, they'll try to solve a land based ballistic missile and ship insurance problem with a naval maneuver. They could rein in Israel, or invade Yemen. But the Biden admin wants neither. So they'll sail in circles 'til hit
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@witte_sergei
For those of us who predicted this very thing from the start, it's actually a more surreal experience now, when presumably intelligent people suddenly discover black is black and white is white, and 2+2=4, and react like it's a revelation.
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My rule of thumb: If any ideology requires that the fundamental nature of man be changed for its political aims to be workable, run away like a flaming pig.
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In 2002 the US Congress mandated a major war game to identify and iron out the chinks in the US naval armour. The infamous Millennium Challenge 2002 did end up finding some chinks, not least the ability of top brass and political decision makers to learn from it.
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@PaulSkallas
The real dirty secret of lesbians is how asexual it usually is. It is more a rejection of heterosexuality than a sexuality in itself. Most lesbian relationships end up two spinsters living together after a while.
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@KeithWoodsYT
It's a quintessentially female reaction. Women value social harmony above truth; which wasn't a problem before they got political power.
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Just about all their causes turned out to be overtly or covertly conceived and promoted by establishment capital, like feminism driving down wages by pushing women into the labour market, and opening borders for the free flow of capital and labour. Rebels without a cause indeed.
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@TheLaurenChen
I think we've reached the Military-industral-complex stage of Hollywood, where the point is less to produce a successful product, but for the various stakeholders to skim their take from the invested capital.
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Addendum: Due to the potentially controversial nature of the topic, I want add that, although I prefer not to block people, neither will I engange with obvious trolls, bots, and people arguing in bad faith.
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There's a notion among Europeans, high and low, that they'd be able to keep Ukraine in the war, should Trump win the election and pull US support. This is simply childish on so many levels, but most importantly the UA troops and officers would KNOW it's over and act accordingly.
🚨🇺🇦🇺🇸Zelensky said that Trump’s VP candidate Vance does not understand anything about Ukraine, and his opinion does not matter. 🤡
🤣Talk about awkward!
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That victory created a feeling of invincibility among many Americans, and perhaps even more among their European vassals. Some even spoke of "The End of History" and a permanent new world order. But history tends to upend such pretentions, and it's often self inflicted.
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The meme is all men think of Rome. But too many think of the high Empire, not the more instructive Republic or decline. The fractures that broke the Republic were the same as the US republic now, neocons sending Romans to war and replacing them with immigrant (slave) labour.
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@ScottMGreer
I think going into it with the explicit goal of somehow creating right wing art is misguided. It's more about attracting and supporting good artists on their merit. Do that and the art reflecting your worldview will follow.
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11/ The US, spearheaded by the current Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, set about organizing protests in Kiev, which escalated into the Maidan revolt and the overthrow of the president.
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@MorgothsReview
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@MoltonAllan
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Democracy presupposes a general feeling of kinship and agreement on major issues to begin with. In anything other than a culturally cohesive high trust society democracy is simply a head count of aggrieved groups, perhaps the worst system of government on offer.
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The original rockers, reaching their socio-cultural apotheosis at the 1987 Live Aid moral orgasm, are now the establishment, censoring people, arresting them for counter-revolutionary wrong-think, and reintroducing conscription to send the kids off to imperialist wars.
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@henryrodgersdc
@Lady_Astor
@RAZ0RFIST
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@realDonaldTrump
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The difference between Global Warming and the New Ice Age scare in the 1970s was that the latter was a natural phenomena and couldn't be altered, while warming came with a moral message - "The West was responsible" - and could be averted, if you gave enough money to politicians.
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@HieronOf
Prophets of doom and predictions of the Apocalypse are, paradoxically, good signs. It at least means people are aware of the decline, and some are motivated to oppose it. It's the tired feeling of, "Nah, it's OK. It'll work itself out," which is the true harbinger of the end.
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27/ And all too many wanted no part of any of it, but are still compelled to join the ranks of men marching toward the muddy trenches at Bakhmut or the mine strewn pock marked fields at Ugledar, listening for the incoming mortar shells.
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At first, and then.
The story of the decline of the American Empire is one of decades of mismanagement, and de-industrialization. But the shambles of the naval operation in the Red Sea marks a symbolic nadir for US power and prestige. Two consecutive superpowers have now literally stranded at Suez.
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@AuronMacintyre
Bylines at Rolling Stone is bad enough, but "written at Bellingcat" in the bio is one step above "I fiddle kids".
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We're at the tragic point where burning down the universities would actually raise the intellectual level of the nation.
Cambridge openly admitting it now teaches students that “Anglo-Saxons aren’t real” to “fight nationalism”. God forbid we be historically well-versed if it means the descendants of certain people get to have a unique group identity.
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The counter culture triumphed, but, like a dog chasing a car, faced the question "Now what?"
@PrisonPlanet
said, "Conservatism is the new punk!" Being outspokenly right wing today is far more, literally, dangerous than being a hippy, punk, or even death metaller ever was.
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There is a triumphalism left over from the twentieth century underlying a lot of the debate about the conflict in Ukraine, a final ace argument for why Ukraine simply MUST win. It is supported by the west. And the west MUST win. Why? Because it's so rich.
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What was once called the "Arsenal of Democracy" may still produce some sophisticated weapons, but at a steep price, and low volumes, and constrained preconditions for increasing that production in the short term.
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@squatsons
NAFO has to be one of the strangest cult phenomena on the internet ever. Q-anon was Mensa compared to these berks.
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15/ While Russia could do little more than protest, William Burns, US ambassador to Moscow, warned in 2008 that, “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite", and would “create fertile soil for Russian meddling in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.”
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16/ Now, Ukraine is roughly split in half by the Dniepr river. West of it are ethnic Ukrainians, some of whom speak Ukrainian, and some of whom are Catholic. East of the river people mostly spoke Russian, were Russian orthodox, and identified ethnically as Russian.
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And two interrelated facts had become the new reality: One was that music was basically worth nothing, and the second that all music was available. In 1991 Nirvana were competing against Guns and Roses. New artists today are competing against all the music ever made.
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For a general background for the conflict in Ukraine I'll link a thread covering it below:
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14/ Declassified documents show assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from NATO leaders. And foreign policy experts cautioned Clinton that NATO expansionism was a "policy error of historic proportions" but to no avail.
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@FischerKing64
@QuetzalPhoenix
Women are attracted to social position. Men misunderstand this and think they're attracted to money. They're not. Money is just a means to an end. Any dirt poor musician (or poet *cough*) can tell you this. The man in the spot light is sexy, be he ever so lacking in teeth and $.
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Birth of a Nation
Canada was never a nation. It's always only been defined by what it isn't. The US had a true ethnogenesis, though partially undone in recent decades. As Teddy Roosevelt sensed that national birth happened in the Midwest, the Corded Ware culture of America.
Then you will see the truth for what it is, Neo, there is no Canada.
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@GwenNorth14
Visibly high mutational load, and thus probably mental instability as well, in addition to low self esteem.
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What he rightly feared was American industrial might. London may still have been the financial and trade hub of the world. But US industry and manufacture was second to none. Turned to military industrial production it would, over time, overwhelm near enough any foe.
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The key to the American victory in the Cold War was that they could, at least to a greater degree than the Soviet Union, deliver both "guns and butter". By 1991 the US stood as the sole hyperpower, the undisputed global hegemon.
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@djuric_zlatko
@GeromanAT
It's classic Western media, where you don't explicitly lie, as such...
1/ The lies of western media are mainly lies of omission. They usually don't lie, as much as they simply don't tell the truth. And this extends to the nature of their being. When defending their bias and spin, they'll truthfully answer, "We are private orgs. and take no orders!"
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@ChivalryGuild
@AuronMacintyre
You have to live in a like minded community. The future is tribal and feudal. It's the ground state we always return to. Ever expanding anarcho-tyranny will, sooner or later, force people to seek collective solutions for security.
The future is feudal. Personal loyalties, with clients of local magnates, and tight knit clans, offering patronage and protection will start to coalesce naturally as the law grows ever more arbitrary and impotent. Anarchy always yields to the simplest order that offers safety.
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The SPD party of German chancellor Olaf Scholz is not only losing badly to the right wing AfD, but in real danger of going the way of the French socialists and the Greek PASOK. And it's now obvious they're going to try to ban the opposition party.
Rechtsextremisten greifen unsere Demokratie an. Wir alle sind gefordert, deutlich Stellung zu beziehen: für unser demokratisches Deutschland. Und für unsere mehr als 20 Millionen Freunde, Arbeitskolleginnen und Nachbarn, die eine Migrationsgeschichte haben.
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1/ The lies of western media are mainly lies of omission. They usually don't lie, as much as they simply don't tell the truth. And this extends to the nature of their being. When defending their bias and spin, they'll truthfully answer, "We are private orgs. and take no orders!"
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@ploughmansfolly
We now know that, using the same criteria we judge earlier hominid species and sub-species, these are literally different species. While all humans who left Africa interbred with Neanderthal, and some Denisovans, sub-Saharan Africans mixed with a VERY archaic species.
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20/ This whole thing was now looking like a Cuba Crisis times ten for Russia. They stood to lose their main fleet base and have NATO and US rockets a stone's throw from the heart of Russia. It was as if China had overthrown the government of Mexico and were moving in.
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@ramzpaul
Beyond physiognomy, and almost crossing over into the realm of the metaphysical, I can think of few cases where the inner ugliness and ill will is so revealed on the surface as with Victoria Nuland.
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