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Dec 8
Urban India is furious at IndiGo.

If only it was this angry when millions of migrants were walking home on foot.

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For a country that prides itself on moving fast, India was strangely unprepared for the week in 2025 when IndiGo—the airline that had become shorthand for middle-class mobility—simply stopped working. 2/18
Aviation in India has always been a performance—a stage where the country acts out its idea of arrival. If the railways carry everyone, aviation is meant to carry those who imagine they have moved beyond the crowds of railway platforms.

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Dec 8
When I made this suggestion, in response to Elon Musk calling for the abolition of the EU, I got the usual abuse from right wing nuts, that I was a commie, a retard, etc, etc. I will justify what I said. Billionaires, should not exist.
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In any fair and rational system, there would be progressive taxation, that made it impossible for anyone to accumulate that sort of wealth. By progressive taxation, I mean wealth taxation, that increases proportional to the wealth being accumulated. So a moderate wealth tax on millions.

However, if someone starts accumulating hundreds of millions, this tax should get progressively higher, until it becomes impossible to accumulate billions.

There are 2 main reasons I say this. Neither of them involves either envy, or ideology.
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The first reason, is that billionaires are anti-democratic. They subvert democracies with their wealth, to put in place politicians who work for the them, against the public interest. This is objective, a large proportion of billionaires actively engage in propaganda and disinformation, to gaslight the public.
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Dec 8
@vallisvix @Howlingmutant0 @DecarlosBr4553 The general Chinese populace despises you. They're the most anti-black asians by far. Anything otherwise is overwhelmingly optics. White worship is among the highest in China out of any Asian country. They clearly think you're unspeakably ugly, but they actually love you?
@vallisvix @Howlingmutant0 @DecarlosBr4553 I don't believe you just want us gone. You're a race of infantile narcissists who will make up anything to justify hatred of anyone who's ever had to deal with you. That's why you keep making up the most cartoonish blood libel imaginable about whites.
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@vallisvix @Howlingmutant0 @DecarlosBr4553 If the crimes of the Arab slave trade/all the anti-black racism in the Muslim world were properly publicized, they'd be your targets. Not like you need even that though. Many of them you unabashedly despise the Japanese, a race who've never done anything to you.
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Dec 8
Thread 1/13--I wrote an article on a Protect Democracy project here uncoverdc.com/2022/08/03/nat…
But in that document is this link- which was updated in October 2024

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2145…
2/what does this Protect Democracy white paper say??
3/The report, “Advantaging Authoritarianism: How the U.S. Electoral System Favors Antidemocratic Extremism,” is a 60+ page Protect Democracy paper by Grant Tudor (first published 2022, updated Oct. 2024). It argues that the design of the U.S. electoral system—especially winner-take-all, single-member House districts and party primaries—structurally helps what it calls America’s “authoritarian faction,” which it locates primarily on the Trump-aligned right.
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Dec 7
I have read a lot of first comic scripts by new writers lately.

A lot of them have very good ideas, but make basic mistakes in execution.

Here are a few bits of advice if you are just starting out writing comics, things to avoid.

Other pros welcome to add to this thread.
1/
NAME YOUR CHARACTERS.

This is annoying, and even pros do it. If you have a character we are supposed to know, you have to name them ON PANEL, not just in script.

I read a major publisher book recently where the main characters were never called by name.

A huge mistake.

2/
TOO MUCH DIALOGUE

Almost all writers do this at times.

But it is wearying, it is exhausting to read, and mostly it shows a lack of awareness of how to use a comics page. There are people who do this well and a LOT who do it badly.

It's alienating. Don't do it.

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Dec 7
1/6 I agree Dean! Good GOD! If I didn't know who Donald Trump was, and someone asked me who this was, I would say "I don't know, probably some guy eating breakfast at an old folks home or senior center with Parkinson's disease who looks like he needs to go back to bed". THIS is Image
2/6 who is going to "Make America Great Again?? THIS...is our "president"?? If I was told he was an American President I would have fell out of my chair. This is a guy who was CONTINUALLY calling President Biden "sleepy Joe". They were SO dishonest they took a snapshot of
3/6 President Biden during an interview and took the picture right as he blinked, making it appear he was sleeping...then it went viral and EVERYONE thought President Biden was always falling asleep. The jokes NEVER stopped. I have NEVER seen SO many photos of Joe sleeping at
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Dec 7
@Ilhan’s father was involved with the Somaliland genocide? Nur Omar Mohamed, one of General Mohamed Siyad Barre’s main henchmen? He was aligned with the Soviet Union. Estimates say around 200k were executed. Not a poor refugee. murderous communist exiles.
At one time, @CNN actually had an interest in finding out what level of involvement @Ilhan’s father had . Something you definitely will not hear them ask any longer. One has to wonder why are they in the United States in the first place?

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Dec 7
The Deadly Wound Healed — Revelation 13:3

Satanic Imitation of Resurrection, Not “Political Recovery”

1. The World’s Astonishment at a False Resurrection

Revelation 13:3 stands as one of the most misunderstood and abused prophetic verses in all Scripture, largely because commentators who refuse to believe the plain text must invent sophisticated allegories to avoid admitting what God wrote. John records, “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast” (Revelation 13:3). The passage is not complicated. It presents a head wounded “to death.” It presents the wound as “deadly.” And then it presents the wound as “healed.” No amount of theological gymnastics can turn that into a mere political complication or an economic slump followed by recovery. The text describes a supernatural, publicly visible, globally witnessed restoration of life—a satanic counterfeit of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The world’s astonishment proves the point. John says, “all the world wondered after the beast,” meaning the event shocks humanity into admiration and fearful allegiance. A political recovery does not produce universal worship. A dictator regaining popularity does not cause mankind to fall prostrate before him in religious devotion. A wounded empire, slowly rebuilt, does not command the awe that Revelation describes. The world has watched nations fall and rise countless times. Empires collapse and resurface, but nobody goes around worshipping them because of it. Yet Revelation 13 shows an event so extraordinary that the entire planet rallies behind the Beast as a divine figure. This is not economics. This is not diplomacy. This is not structural reform. This is satanic pseudo-resurrection staged for global deception.

The imitation is intentional. Satan has desired from the beginning to duplicate, pervert, or challenge everything God has ever done. His rebellion in Isaiah 14 begins with the words, “I will be like the most High” (Isaiah 14:14). He does not want to annihilate God’s works; he wants to counterfeit them. He does not aspire to destroy the concept of deity; he wants to replace deity with himself. Therefore, the devil cannot produce an incarnation unless he first produces an imitation resurrection to legitimize his chosen vessel. This is the theological foundation of Revelation 13:3. The Beast must appear to die and rise again so that the world may believe he is the true messiah. Satan knows humanity worships power, spectacle, and miracles—not truth. So the devil gives them a spectacle that mimics the very cornerstone of Christianity: the resurrection of Christ.

The parallel is unmistakable. Jesus Christ died publicly and rose publicly. The Beast will appear to die publicly and appear to rise publicly. Christ’s resurrection validated His claim to kingship (Romans 1:4); the Beast’s counterfeit resurrection validates his claim to kingship. Christ’s resurrection drew believers to worship Him; the Beast’s resurrection draws unbelievers to worship him. Christ rose by the power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:11); the Beast rises by the power of the dragon (Revelation 13:2). Christ’s resurrection inaugurated the Church; the Beast’s counterfeit resurrection inaugurates the Satanic world system. Every detail fits the grand satanic strategy: replace Christ with Antichrist, replace the true miracle with a lying wonder (2 Thessalonians 2:9), replace the Gospel with an idolatrous political religion.

This is why the text must not be watered down into historical symbolism. Those who claim the “deadly wound” refers to the fall of ancient Rome and the “healing” refers to the rise of modern Europe are ignoring the explicit wording. Rome never died in a single moment of fatal blow. It decayed slowly. It divided. It fragmented. And the world did not “wonder” after medieval Catholicism or the Holy Roman Empire in the sense Revelation describes. No papalImage
decree or European treaty ever produced global astonishment or universal worship of a singular leader. The Reformers often speculated that the papacy fulfilled Revelation 13, but speculation is not exegesis. The text speaks of a man, a head, a wound, a death, and a healing. Not a bureaucracy, not a multi-century decline, not the gradual ebb and flow of a continent. The wound is literal. The healing is literal. And the deception is literal.

The world’s astonishment at this miracle marks a pivotal turning point in the Tribulation. From this moment forward, global loyalty to the Beast becomes absolute. Revelation 13:4 records the cry, “Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” That is not the tone of political admiration; that is the tone of religious supplication. Only a resurrection—true or false—could evoke such devotion. Humanity sees the event and concludes the Beast is invincible. They believe he has conquered death. And once he is believed to have conquered death, his authority becomes unquestionable. This is the satanic strategy behind the deadly wound: to give the world a false messiah capable of imitating the triumph of Christ.

2. The Identity of the Wounded Head: A Man, Not an Empire

The “head” wounded unto death must be interpreted in the context of Revelation 13, where the Beast is both a symbol of a kingdom and a person. Throughout Scripture, prophetic symbols oscillate between corporate entities and individual rulers, because kings embody their kingdoms. Nebuchadnezzar is both the head of gold and Babylon itself (Daniel 2:38). The little horn in Daniel 7 represents both the final kingdom and the final ruler. The Beast likewise functions as both the empire and the emperor. But Revelation 13 focuses deliberately on the individual ruler—the Antichrist—not merely the kingdom he leads. The personal pronouns dominate the passage: “the beast which I saw,” “power was given him,” “there was given unto him a mouth,” “he opened his mouth in blasphemy,” “it was given unto him to make war.” This is an individual ruler empowered by the dragon, not an abstraction.

When John says he saw one of the Beast’s heads wounded to death, he is not seeing a symbolic national humiliation. He is seeing a specific assassination attempt, a literal mortal wound, inflicted upon the final world ruler. Revelation 13:14 clarifies the matter unmistakably: the false prophet deceives the world “by the means of those miracles… saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live” (Revelation 13:14). The wound is by a sword. Swords do not “symbolically” wound nations. They wound people. The language is personal, direct, literal, and violent. The Beast is killed. The Beast rises. And the world sees it.

The reference to a sword also connects directly to Zechariah 11:17, which says of the foolish shepherd, “the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye.” This suggests the Antichrist will be physically maimed in the fatal wound, perhaps losing an eye, consistent with the imagery of a mutilation that nonetheless heals through satanic restoration. This physical detail cannot be applied to the Roman Empire or any other national entity. It must refer to a man. The Antichrist is not the reincarnation of Rome; he is a future world ruler indwelt by Satan.

The idea that the “deadly wound” is symbolic of national recovery collapses under the weight of the text. John says the wound is “deadly.” Empires do not suffer “deadly wounds” because no empire is a biological organism. Empires fragment, crumble, fade, or reorganize; they do not die in the sense of a sword piercing their head. To allegorize this is to rob the book of Revelation of its intended precision. If the wound is symbolic, the healing must be symbolic, and then the global worship must be symbolic, leaving the chapter hollow and incoherent. Once the text is stripped of literal meaning,
the Book of Revelation becomes little more than a poetic drama with no prophetic teeth.

Furthermore, the reaction of the world proves that the wound and healing must be literal. The world “wondered” and “worshipped.” No nation’s political restoration has ever induced universal worship of a human leader. In fact, humanity’s attitude toward political powers is consistently cynical. The United Nations, the European Union, the Holy Roman Empire, and other coalitions have never inspired awe or religious submission. But when a man is killed and returns to life, humanity sees a supernatural event and surrenders to him. That is the plain meaning of Revelation 13:3.

The Antichrist is therefore a literal man. He will be literally wounded. He will literally recover. And the world will literally worship him. Revelation 13 is not a symbolic retelling of political cycles; it is the Spirit’s warning of a supernatural deception. Those who reduce the wound to symbolism align themselves with the allegorizing spirit that rejects the authority of Scripture. They make the text say what it never said. But a Bible believer accepts the statement exactly as written: a deadly wound healed by satanic power.

3. Satan’s Pseudo-Resurrection Strategy: The Counterfeit Gospel

Satan does not hate religion. He thrives on religion. What he hates is truth. Therefore, his goal has always been to produce a counterfeit religion capable of replacing Christianity. The deadly wound healing is central to that plan. It is the devil’s attempt to replicate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which Paul declares is the foundation of the Gospel (1 Corinthians 15:3–4). If Satan can produce his own “messiah” with his own “resurrection,” he can offer the world an alternative gospel. This is why Paul warned that the mystery of iniquity was already at work and that the coming of the wicked one would be “after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders” (2 Thessalonians 2:9). The lie is not merely doctrinal; it is supernatural.

The resurrection of Christ is the most powerful event in history because it validated His deity. Romans 1:4 says He was “declared to be the Son of God with power… by the resurrection from the dead.” If Satan wants a world to believe that his man is the true king, he must imitate this validation. A political leader recovering from electoral defeat cannot imitate the resurrection. A wounded empire gradually recovering cannot imitate the resurrection. Only a man returning from apparent death can imitate that miracle.

Satan understands human psychology. Mankind craves spectacle, not truth. When Jesus stood before Herod, Herod hoped to see a miracle (Luke 23:8). When Paul preached in Athens, the philosophers called his message “strange” but were more interested in novelty than righteousness (Acts 17:20–21). When Moses performed miracles in Egypt, the magicians imitated them (Exodus 7:11–12). Satan knows that miracles—even false ones—captivate the human mind. Therefore, he orchestrates a miracle in Revelation 13 that appears to match the miracle of Calvary.

The Beast’s deadly wound healed becomes the preaching point of the false prophet, who “deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles” (Revelation 13:14). The false prophet turns the resurrection into propaganda. He broadcasts it. He weaponizes it. He uses it to secure loyalty, unify global religion, and enforce worship. The resurrection becomes the foundation of the Beast’s political theology. Satan finally has what he always desired: a world bowing not only to him but worshipping him through the person of the Beast (Revelation 13:4).

The deception gains credibility because God allows it. Paul says God will send “strong delusion” that they should believe a lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11). When the world rejects the true resurrection, God allows them to fall into the false one. Human skepticism does not save them; it damns them. Those who think themselves too
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Dec 7
A dirt-cheap remedy with astonishing healing power has been buried for decades because it works too well.

DMSO has been shown to eliminate pain, restore vision, and even treat cancer.

One man with severe COPD said he was “ready to die.”

But then something remarkable happened.

He started taking DMSO as an inhalation solution prepared by his neighbor.

In just two weeks, he was breathing so well he could talk in full sentences—without gasping for air.

He even thought about exercising, something unimaginable before.

This report reveals the life-changing benefits of DMSO—and why Big Pharma worked so hard to keep it from you.Image
This information comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc. For all the sources and details, read the full report below.

midwesterndoctor.com/p/therapeutic-…
Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a natural solvent derived from trees. It penetrates the skin, delivers drugs deep into tissues, and even across the blood-brain barrier.

It’s powerfully anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, and boosts circulation.

A true “umbrella remedy” capable of treating a wide range of challenging ailments.Image
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Dec 7
Men are always begging me for seduction advice, and thanks to my positions survey, I finally have some.

When behind, spread her legs and press her chest against the bed. Women systematically rate these positions higher.

Examples are 1d, 5a, 5b, 12a, and (sort of) 9c. Image
Men are naturally inclined to use 1b and 6a, but women don't seem to like these as much.

See the chart at the link below for the illustrations.

Also, to thank me I'm expecting you all to follow the instructions and submit your three favorites!
jsanilac.com/dispelling-bea…
No, I am NEVER writing a DISPELLING BEAUTY LIES for men. But I would still appreciate it if more women submitted their favorites to advance this very important position science.
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Dec 7
1/6 YOU are SO full of shit, PETEY! Yea, you support Admiral Bradley alright...by throwing him UNDER THE BUS when word came out of the double tap drone strike that YOU ordered, NOT Admiral Bradley! I wouldn't have covered your ass...I would have told the truth and stated YOU gave
2/6 that order. No wonder no one in the military respects you...you are a fucking COWARD! The DAY after this attack, YOU stated you were there through the ENTIRE operation...on FOX. Anyone can check this out if they like. Just look for Peter Hegseth talks about September drone
3/6 strike on boat. But THEN news came out there was a kill them all order and a second drone strike was used to KILL two surviving, defenseless people. YOU all of a sudden claim it was just "fake news", A LIE, but the next day the WH says it WAS true. THEN you said you only
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Dec 7
take this a step further.

don't just simulate an expert. spin up a synthetic boardroom.

"simulate a debate between a paranoid ciso, a move-fast cto, and a burned-out sre about this architecture. do not be polite."

don't ask for the answer. ask for the conflict.

single perspectives have blind spots. the "assistant" tries to smooth them over.

force the model to argue with itself. the alpha is usually found in the friction between perspectives.
this scales into the concept of the "ephemeral org chart."

in a traditional firm, a department is a fixed cost. people, desks, slack channels.

in an ai-first company, a department is a function call.

need a go-to-market blitz?
spin up a "marketing swarm" (copywriter, designer, strategist agents). let them run for 4 hours. generate assets. then kill the process.

the ai-first "org chart" is a dynamic runtime environment.
the killer feature isn't automation. it's evolution.

human hiring is slow. you interview, guess, and wait 90 days to see if they suck.

with swarms, you run genetic algorithms on your "staff."

spawn 50 variations of a sales agent. varying aggression, tone, and creativity.
unleash them on a synthetic test set.
kill the bottom 49.
clone the top 1.

don't manage. select.
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