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Post by miscmisc on Nov 21, 2017 18:09:00 GMT 1
Google is "de-ranking" Russia Today and Sputnik. In other words, censorship, to supposedly fight "fake news". Google has already been "modifying" its algorithm though. Here's the result: Many, many, many indie websites will go out of business in due course. alternet.org losing almost two-thirds of its visitors is absolutely frightening. Needless to say, what those examples above share is the critical stance toward the US government, and the mainstream media generally has massively benefited from the decline of the "alternative" news sites. I warned you, though. This is exactly what the Russia Scare/Fake News Hysteria was going to entail. The likes of Google and Facebook are always, always, always to be on the side of the US national security state under any circumstances. The internet is not a Wild Wild West anymore. It ceased to be a long, long time ago. The Chinese model of the internet is winning. But you don't care. You're still butthurt that Trump won the election, and keep worshiping fucking Google because it's Silicon Valley and cool and shit. You cheer those fucking corporations fighting the nefarious Russkies. People have gone mad. Or they have simply taken off their mask, and we're looking at their real, stupid cuntface.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 21, 2017 18:36:46 GMT 1
Observing those media hacks spewing fucking nonsense about Russia week in week out is an important thing for me to do.
You know why?
Because my country can be next. It's a close ally of the US now, but that can change. Anything can change.
It's true that there's something historically unique about the (hostile) US-Russia relationship, but I understand the whole shit show as the way the US treat The Other. And my "Eastern" country - and possibly your "Western" country as well - can easily be that Other any day.
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Post by miscmisc on Nov 21, 2017 22:15:29 GMT 1
Why anyone think that a political party who thought "America is already great!" was a great slogan and even made hats with that shit on them has any connection to the reality.
The word "already" in particular gets me every single time. Couldn't they at least, at the fucking least, do without that shit word?
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Post by gols on Dec 15, 2017 15:31:55 GMT 1
Missing my miscmisc fix...
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Post by seese on Jan 16, 2018 22:07:02 GMT 1
Yepp, soon two months and counting. Hope all is well with everyone
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 2, 2018 7:21:29 GMT 1
Well, I was busy making money off fleecing idiots in bitcoin trades.
Seriously, though, I was always repetitive in this thread, but I would've been uber-repetitive if I had had time and energy to rant here the last few months. The Russiagate crap has gotten worse, where you can call anyone shady "a Russian agent" with no evidence and there would be no repercussions to deal with for doing so. You look at a Russia Today youtube clip, and the warning "RT is at least partially owned by the Russian state" or something like that appears under the video. Hundreds of thousands of Twitter users have received emails warning them that they have retweeted or liked tweets by "Russian fake accounts," without quite specifying what they are, the sole purpose of which is to scare the users, make them feel somehow guilty and condition their attitude so that they can proceed to retweet such reputable outlets as Fox News or Breitbart or whatever else instead.
And the US Treasury released that cold-war-spirited document on wealthy Russian business people, with this warning - "A Russian businessperson has to ask themselves - am I part of the Putin Machine?" - consulting with such tremendous asswipes as Andrei Illarionov and Anders Aslund, which explains the notable absence of Anatoly Chubais on the list, easily one of the most hated Russian "business people" in Russia, who drove the country off the cliff in the '90s with Aslund being his "chief advisor". If he isn't considered to be "connected" to the Kremlin, a shit load of those on the list should be dropped as well.
I'm shedding no tears for those Russian billionaires on the list, most of them being thieves, but it's all so cartoonishly grotesque.
Meanwhile in the Middle East and Syria, well, what you can learn from the recent development is that there's a clear hierarchy in terms of the mainstream media treatment in the West for the US "allies". Basically, you aren't allowed to criticize Israel, almost no matter what. You can criticize Saudi Arabia once in a long while, but no more. The situation in Yemen has gotten significantly worse, but there's not even a tenth of the outrage that they expressed for the so-called "Aleppo genocide". And imagine anyone else - say, a Japanese PM - doing anything similar to what MbS, the Saudi soon-to-be-king Prince, did to the Lebanese PM (and Lebanon as a whole, for that matter) in that "resignation" fiasco. Our media outlets would be piling on that twat and his country.
On the other hand, if you want to criticize Turkey, well, be my guest. Go on, talking shit about the country all day long.
Turkey deserves to be criticized the crap out of, that country is on the sordid path downwards, but the media are suddenly concerned that the "Turkish" forces in the Afrin offensive against the Kurds are filled with jihadis and scary Grey Wolves, as if that were anything new, as if that weren't the case with the "rebels" in the area for a long, long, long time. When Turkey was fighting Assad, practically if not officially, the media weren't that concerned. When Turkey was logistically and financially assisting ISIS, not just practically but pretty blatantly, they would rather accuse Assad of doing so just because he gave an ISIS troop a free path at one point in his Eastern campaign against al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham, or whatever.
Hell, I'm glad that's the case now because I wouldn't want to see Turkey crush the Kurds in Afrin. But it's all so blatant.
You give "allies" like Turkey a pass when that's convenient for you, but otherwise you can kick them all day long. That's not the case with countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia. And that should be almost entirely because there's no such thing as a powerful Turkish lobby in Washington D.C., given that Turkey is almost as strategically and geopolitically important as those two countries. There should be no other explanation.
And while all of these were happening, that warmongering wanking-off-to-empire twerp Max Boot has been promoted to be a columnist @ The Amazon Post - er, I mean, The Washington Post, to be the 2,398th neocon failing upwards, warmongering and being always wrong on the mainstream media. Trump becoming the president has done wonders for them. Long live The Resistance (TM)!
See? That's how repetitive I would've been.
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Post by gols on Feb 5, 2018 15:57:51 GMT 1
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 12, 2018 18:32:34 GMT 1
Yeah, I guess, news are repetitive anyway. Like this: Dutch foreign minister admits lying about Putin commentswww.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-russia/dutch-foreign-minister-admits-lying-about-putin-comments-idUSKBN1FW19SWhat's disappointingly poor about this is that his lie is exactly the same as the one made by Anne Applebaum's Polish husband Radoslaw Sikorski, who was foreign minister too. They don't even try, or to be more precise, don't feel the need to try when it comes to the Russkies. And meanwhile in the US, liberals are still whining about the deficit that the GOP plan will take into the stratosphere. Like anyone other than them gave a shit. Repeat after me: The only government money that Republicans don't like is the money that goes to the poor. They fucking love it when it goes to Wall Street and other wealthies and military, which is what their plan will do. They don't giva shit 'bout da deficit. They think they can just print money and all will go well. If you say, "But, but, but, they appear on Fox News and talk about liberals 'printing money' all the time!", well, yes, only when a Democrat is in the White House, and most importantly, those Republicans are that shameless. You are the dumb dumb who thinks whatever those fuckers say on TV means anything. The only Americans who take seriously that inflation scare, "crowding out" and all the warnings over public money and deficit, even after all these years, are not the Republicans, but those "moderate" Democrats. Even Obama, supposedly the Smart One, took it way more seriously than most Republicans, despite all the evidence, especially after 2008, that suggested he shouldn't. Republicans still believe that the government can and should play a huge part (in fact, the most important part) in the economy, absolutely contrary to what they say, although only to assist their wealthy friends. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than their way to morally justify what they do, assuming they have some tiny sense of moral responsibility left at all. Like I said, it's not exactly "hypocrisy". It's something even more primitive than that, since the overwhelming majority of them don't give a flying fuck about the deficit to begin with. No, it's the mainstream Democrats who don't believe the government should play a leading role in the economy. They largely abdicated that part of the government responsibility a while ago. That's what makes neoliberalism neo-liberalism. It should be so fucking clear from what they do, instead of what they say, but somehow this is still shocking to so many people. Or worse, they still don't understand that. Hell, if they did, they would be talking about how they will have to pressure Democrats to stop caring so much about the deficit too and expand the social public institutions when they win back power. But they aren't, because they believe in "economics", because Democrats are scared of governing for the economy again. You could say that's because they aren't nearly as irresponsible as Republicans, which is probably true, but as long as they believe in supply-side economics in any way, they will continue to be self-powerless and therefore absolutely useless for the people who badly need true old-fashioned liberalism now. When a certain neoclassical "small government" economics guru (<--- an imbecile, BTW) said that he trusted Democrats way more than he did Republicans despite the former being traditionally "big government" types, he was telling the truth. He knew the Republicans were only using his theories for their political (and financial) gain, plus kicking the poor, whereas the Democrats were more serious students. That's the tragedy. I said the same thing not so long ago, but it's really sad. Democrats are perfectly capable of stopping the Republican cruelty, but won't, because they tied themselves to complete shit and don't have the courage or will, or frankly speaking don't seem to even feel the need to cut off the ropes to free themselves. Scaremongering about Russia and whatnot is much easier after all. And this is not an exclusively American story.
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Post by miscmisc on Feb 12, 2018 19:17:21 GMT 1
I've just finished watching The Thick of It, all seasons, for the second time. I hate to say this, because everyone says it's brilliant, but it's really good. Of course, real politicians and operatives don't swear nearly as much as the characters in the series, and real politics lies somewhere between that and The West Wing in terms of how it looks. But The West Wing depicts characters who are what real politicians like to believe they are, yet they are much closer to the ones in The Thick of It in their political actions in actuality. That makes the former juvenile fiction, and the latter a good satire.
So, predictably, Britain beats America, again.
Seriously, though, I can't think of many things that have done more disservice to humanity than The West Wing. The whole assumption and ideology that underlies that series alone is absolutely cringe-worthy. If you find yourself impressed/moved in any way by the clip below, by the speech at the end, an agonizingly stupid one, a part that Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It would call "sweaty bollocks of a wanker", there's something fatally wrong with you, and that's unfortunately so many of the Americans who wanted to and did get into politics. We can't even cheer for the young idealists in American politics without a lot of reservation, because they tend to be the ones most infected by this stupid West Wing virus. This show contributed massively to the dead-end situation that I described briefly in the previous rant.
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Post by karaevfan on Feb 16, 2018 3:13:50 GMT 1
Forgive me for intruding.
Bleh to the Muay Thai hipster on sherdog. I am done there.
That is all
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Post by Shadess on Feb 25, 2018 18:24:47 GMT 1
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 31, 2018 19:45:21 GMT 1
The only raison d'etre of Josh Rogin @ The Washington Post is to parrot the Washington D.C. consensus on every issue, certainly not to exercise journalism, so this steaming-pile-of-shit article on Syria, which is almost 100% based on fantasies, is very good as the summary of the ridiculous frame that those corrupt D.C. creatures want to put Syria into. www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/03/30/in-syria-we-took-the-oil-now-trump-wants-to-give-it-to-iran/?utm_term=.df01ba38a594No, at this point I don't believe they are simply clueless. This is a deliberate attempt to mislead people. Sure, Josh Rogin himself is probably a complete idiot who has no clue whatsoever and knows no place whatsoever where he could buy a clue (he's a parrot after all), but those think-tankers, government officials etc., the ones who pitch in stories for parrots like Rogin, aren't. With that being said, my God, this article is pretty insulting. I won't fisk it, because that would be a huge waste of time. But "Syria's oil"... sheesh. Syria's oil production has always been tiny by the region's standards. It is now, and it was before the war. Iran produces more than 40 fucking times as much. It's not hard to look that up. The idea that the US must protect that tiny oil field, or else Iran will take it... it's beyond dumb, yet this article is a "must read" according to the D.C. brain farts. And of course, the Syrian government, which is overwhelmingly Sunni, is somehow at war with "the Sunnis" according to this imbecile.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 31, 2018 19:55:19 GMT 1
I can't "disagree" with the D.C. consensus on these policies, because I can't "disagree", in the true sense of the word, with those who bend the realities, fabricate "facts", conjure up figures out of their asses. You need to share some basic facts with people in order to "disagree" with them.
I can only dismiss them.
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Post by Shadess on Apr 22, 2018 0:27:50 GMT 1
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/smallville-actress-allison-mack-arrested-alleged-cult-sex-trafficking-case-1104575Wasn't ever a huge fan of Smallville or anything but had a friend who was nutty over it and that actress. Weird as fuck reading something like that. and then seems another actress from that show was at least a little into that shit too, though maybe nothing criminal. "Funny" statements to make anyways no I wasn't in a sex cult nor did I recruit sex slaves. Kreuk, 35, says reports that she held influence within the organization are not true, and that she had no involvement in a secretive subgroup within Nxivm called “Dominus Obsequious Sororium,” (DOS) in which women were allegedly coerced into serving as sex slaves to their male masters. “The accusations that I was in the ‘inner circle’ or recruited women as ‘sex slaves’ are blatantly false,” the statement continues.
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Post by rictor on Apr 22, 2018 2:27:34 GMT 1
Damn, I also liked that actress but that's some messed up shit there.
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