This person embodies America’s bad Ukr policy. Born in USA. Worked for State Dept, siphoned millions running a USAID program. After the coup, got her Ukr citizenship 1 day before they made her finance minister, using a loophole to keep US citizenship, went back when it expired.
Epstein is a counterpoint to the libertarian economic argument that self-interested agents will self-regulate to preserve reputation, long-term viability, etc. He shows that, as long as you make your $, you can rape kids and still kick it w/Bill Gates and have a Harvard office.
A society with the kind of culture that can sustain libertarianism is a society that has no need for libertarianism.
Using Epstein as an example seems to have muddied the point, since his crimes are universally illegal. Instead, ask yourself: Do any of the finance execs who destroyed our economy, and the lives of millions, in 2008 regret their actions? Is there any incentive not to do it again?
Ghost of Kyiv & Snake Island had precedents: In 2014, the Maidan protests escalated when AutoMaidan leader Dmitry Bulatov claimed to have been kidnapped & tortured by govt thugs, just a month after a female protest leader suffered the same. Both were later confirmed as hoaxes.
At least 2 of the first 3 killings at Maidan were admitted by a Ukrainian nationalist leader to have been carried out by Right Sector as a false flag. The “snipers’ massacre” that precipitated the February coup was determined by forensic studies to have also been a false flag.
Such actions are easy to pull off when Western leaders and media collude to push the story. Who is going to contradict it? Only “Russian shills”, who get banned when their platform begins to affect the narrative.
Same w/Iliad: Broken marriage contract, king fails to distribute spoils in accordance w/custom, dispute resolution system breaks down, warrior refuses to fight for his lord.. Failure to meet obligations at the root of all the death. Achilles’ shield shows a wedding, a law case..
"Acceptance, humility... letting go of anger..." The Achaeans would have had no idea what you were even talking about. Not everything is the Bible, even if there are common points.
Hector's death was the result of his brother & Helen violating her oath to Menalaus. But you're partly right: By the time of Hector's death, the customs and institutions had broken down, to the point that Achilles' victory is followed by corpse abuse and human sacrifice.
Do not back off the word 'groomer.' When you drill down, these people always end up defending policies designed to sexualize children, so shove 'groomer' down their throats. They celebrate and sell this to warp the minds of vulnerable children.
Reposted without the most offensive picture, which someone suggested might actually be illegal - although it is in magazines and on websites, and for the enemy to admit its illegality would require them to admit a lot more about their position.
Please. They're not even dressing him up as a little girl, but as a sexualized grown woman.
The best reform Twitter could enact would be to give a blue check to anyone who verifies their identity. The artificial aristocracy of the blue check is one of the ways they amplify and confer legitimacy on certain discourse. @elonmusk
@elonmusk One benefit would be that users could set a filter to only interact w/other verified users speaking in their own name, while still allowing anonymous accounts for those who want to play in the jungle.
@elonmusk Guarantee this guy still gets a dopamine boost when some blue check likes his comment. Twitter knows this, and that's the point.
I’m uncomfortable w/being told to reject all Russian atrocity claims as staged, and to accept all Ukrainian claims uncritically, especially given the brazen infowar ops we’ve seen & eager credulousness of Western media. I will wait for more info before forming an opinion.
I’m not implying that these people were not murdered, but the narrative relies on me uncritically accepting that the video of Russian POWs being tortured, etc are elaborate fakes. If they’re both real, then what we’ve got is simply a dirty, ugly war that must be stopped.
Our media & government hid countless atrocities committed by our jihadists in Syria for years, while highlighting every crime of Syria government forces. They do the same in Yemen. In both cases to justify further US intervention.