This is honestly worse than being involved with the plot? Like it's one thing for the sheriff to get caught in an FBI entrapment op it's another thing to see the op and go yeah this rules it's totally legal and chill
I was explaining the relationship between the militias and parts of the Republican Party to a friend from Australia a couple of weeks ago and they were just baffled by like why the state would let it happen and like the more I think about it the
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more I'm like yeah no it actually is really weird and fucked up that like armed militias regularly storm state capitals and just like nothing happens, which I think is an indication of both the weakness of the American state and its reliance on
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paramilitaries both historically and now
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The whole "Taiwan having a conflict with China" framing is just so fucking absurd. Taiwan is not going to "have a conflict with China" literally the only "conflict" would be China invading. Do people think that like Taiwanese special forces are
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going to an amphibious landing at Fuzhou or some shit like why the fuck are people talking about an invasion like this? It's a fucking joke
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This isn't 1954 or whatever the KMT is pro-CCP now
God this story is fucking harrowing, cops arresting elementary school kids in their own school is one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life. I really don't like the concept of the banality of evil but like even
the fucking cops knew it was wrong to arrest literal childen and they did it anyways. The principle knew it was wrong and did it anyways, they had a fucking prayer circle as the kids were being dragged out and everyone just let it happen. Fucking
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harrowing. Reminds me of the accounts of how cops at the beginning of Occupy would get ordered to beat the shit out of like teenagers standing there with their hands up and they would cry and cry and cry and then beat their skulls in anyways.
I think the hard part of analyzing the rise of the media grifters, from Tim Pool and Dave Rubin to Peter Coffin to the ex-yoga teachers spreading pastel QAnon, is that grifters a quintessential American figure who've existed here longer than the
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country has and that makes it hard to sort out what's genuinely new here. I think the biggest change is that grifting has become, since I think the emergence of the right wing radio hosts and the televangelists, about selling attention itself and
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not a specific product. Like the grifters are still selling things (Alex Jones and his brain pills ect ect) but the real grift is getting attention, which you can then turn into viewers for advertisors or just sell to directly. This means that you
One of the reasons that all of the "what if Superman were evil" stories suck is that the real answer to the question is that if Superman lost control he would basically instantly destroy the earth. But like you can't actually write that as a story
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so you wind up with this weird shit where the authors are screaming about how SUPERMAN'S NOT HOLDING BACK ANYMORE because that's the central Evil Superman thing and it's just like yeah he is it's extremely obvious that he is. The closest I think
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you ever get to that is Superboy Prime but like the problem there is that to deal with how powerful Superman really is everything starts to get so fucking weird it just becomes a meta deconstruction story and you get Superboy Prime like breaking
God they're so mad people are talking about this lmfao I do think it's worth looking at the "arguments" here though, like aside from smearing the critics there's a broad attempt to normalize GETTING $12,000,000 THROUGH GOLDMAN'S DARK MONEY FUND
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as if this is a normal thing that normal leftist orgs do. No anarchist bookstore for example, and there are plenty, run like this. And the second point is that the AMOUNT of money here is WAY more than any of the legitimate dues paying orgs have.
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That's more money than a lot of established political parties have on hand, much less random bookstores. And it's also worth pointing out that there's literally no evidence that this is one leftist pouring $24 million into passion projects. All we
My actual take on the China gaming ban is that there's a legitimate problem with game companies creating what are literally just platforms to get children addicted to gambling but the CCP wants the sweet, sweet money you get from exploiting
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children, people with addiction problems, and people with mental illnesses so instead of oh I don't know banning microtransactions and gambling mechanics in games they impose a bunch of surveillance state shit on children. This lets them
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simultaneously expand the power of the state, be seen as taking some kind of action about the moral panic, and continue to rake in the profits from the predatory practices that dominate the modern games industry. In fact that is probably only