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one of my professors got mad at me when discussing global corruption scores when I said the US simply legalized half of it and didn't prosecute the other half
Sam Bankman-Fried donated $100 million in stolen customer funds to US politicians.
Today, the US Government announced they're dropping six charges against SBF and will not prosecute him for a political campaign finance violation.
Six left-wing parties from central-eastern Europe have formed a new alliance. They’re united by opposition to right-wing populists and Russian imperialism — but they’re also challenging the center-left parties who led the region’s neoliberal turn.
Gnosticism somehow surviving throughout the centuries as a hidden sect periodically reemeerging in the Balkans, Occitania, southeast China, and Iraq may be one of the most crappy-fantasy-book plot points ever to occur in real life
let's talk hypothetically. what if there was a secret religion that practiced pedophilia and human sacrifices, but like, in a systematic way? would this explain why high-level rings keep coming up? what if I told you that this exists?
because I might not be around forever, there’s some things I wanted to get out there and making an episode might take too long. I want to talk about satanic ritual abuse.
actually before I clean, I wanted to talk about the Lemon Pig. it's a made up tradition but it's fun and nice and we did them for the first time this year
#OtD
27 Feb 1933 Dutch bricklayer and council communist Marinus van der Lubbe set fire to the Reichstag in protest at Nazis hoping it would spark working class rebellion. Sadly it failed and was used by fascists as an excuse to repress communists
i have extremely sinister feelings about this playlist… every song is acoustically identical, like it was recorded on the same digital instrument setting, and none of the artists have photos or pictures or show up when you search them
it's been a while since I've done a good schizo thread, but this is something I found which I can't conceivably work into an episode or other projects. folks, we need to burn Connecticut to the ground so that nothing ever grows
"Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat."
they say they want a strong Christian state, strong economy, traditional values, a hetero family structure, so they champion the gay man converting to Judaism who's selling out his country to international finance and crashing the economy, and is way into cloning. oh ok cool
For years before Jordan Neely was killed in New York's subway, the city had its eye on him. He was on a list informally known as the Top 50, a roster of people who stand out for the severity of their troubles and their resistance to accepting help.
what’s the lowest stakes conspiracy theory you have? i think airplane mode is a hoax because they don’t want you texting your friends and telling them you’re not having fun on the plane
BREAKING: US media outlets report that the Texas mall shooter, Mauricio Garcia, who is Hispanic, shared White Supremacist content and wore a 'Right Wing Death Squad' patch.
"The, ahem, "parapolitical left" could do with a bit less credulity as regards "black magic" and "Satanism." I've known plenty of people involved in that shit...and it was complete Reddit dweeb nonsense"
NPR is not state affiliated media. It is public media. The NYT is not propaganda. It is the most robust news organization in the English speaking world. The bias as to who is being targeted on this site by its leadership is so very clear. And it’s not a small thing.
Exhibits entered by prosecutors yesterday in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial include a photo of the "Jeffrey E. Epstein Scholarship Lodge" at Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan
for those out of the loop, PTK means Programmed to Kill and it's a book about how serial killers are (among other things) subjects of mind control experiments, as are some mass shooters
Holy shit. I don’t know how the hell this scene even exists, but I’m almost convinced
@ZelenskyyUa
was sent by an act of God. Wait for the ending.
(From Zelenskyy’s old 🇺🇦 TV show “Servant of the People”).
funny how PatSocs / mecha tankies / MAGA communists (which only exist online) only ever try to shoehorn Marxist aesthetics into RW culture war bullshit, never the other way around. almost as if it's a con going only one direction...
sometimes I think about mortality and shit and like, you're Navalny, you're in your way back to Russia. you know the risks you're taking. you know you might literally die soon, and you waste your time on this beautiful earth watching Rick and Morty?
I've also spent a year on a deep dive into how dictatorships arise, and the common thread I found was heavy industry covertly funding political groups which leveraged middle class /small business owner rage
Collapse of Weimar in Germany. Rise of Mussolini in Italy. Stalin's post-Lenin purges. I've spent a year on a deep dive into how dictatorships rise. The common thread in every story? Under-reaction from the rest of civil society during the phase when they had the power to stop it
there's a lot to say about Marilyn Monroe. but I'd like to talk about the forces that propelled/(groomed?) her to stardom, the Kennedys, the Feds, Communists, organized crime, espionage, and the hint of even darker forces that destroyed her life.
years ago I emailed Chomsky and Parenti with the same questions that they probably got all the time. to their credit they both emailed back but I found Parenti's to be much more heartfelt and genuine and actionable
I do wish people would stop being surprised there are Latino Nazis. It's an extremely well-documented phenomenon by now, and more importantly, it's not out of keeping with several prominent types of Neo-Nazism
what is certain, as reported by the NYT, is that Walt Disney was recruited as a secret informer for the LA FBI office from 1940-1966, according to FOIA information, much like Ronald Reagan
tldr; Jacobin's dumbass "pro-NATO but from the Left" article was written by an Oberlin guy who got sus Indiana Eli Lilly soft power grants and who works at a publication receiving NED money - easy disregard
the real question is why this keeps happening over there at Jacobin?
for years, I've had a hypothesis that the CIA's torture techniques were based on Nazi techniques, and fool that I am, I always had an idea in the back of my mind to prove it
as someone who wasted years of my life doing sales pitches for a paranoid and hopeless religious faith, I can tell you that that's not what I'm doing here.
Any real professional journalist (i.e. not me) who wants to break something big about Epstein should be looking straight at Interlachen and the "piano prodigy" angle. That's still the only hint at why Barr or Bear Stearns would've had him on their radar. I suspect a horror
The Audible audiobook for The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government has a loud and wet fart sound about 38 and a half minutes into chapter 4
here I thought German naval intelligence, Henry Ford, Mussolini, Thyssen, German heavy industry, and British Banks created fascism, not fistfighting the streets, but I don't write for the Atlantic so what do I know
Yes, I know, some ppl love the idea of duking it out in the streets with "fascists." Resorting to violence, imo, is how you *create* fascism; defending the rule of law is how you avert it. "Fascists" didn't win on J6; they're going to jail and staying home when Trump calls now.