clanky

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by clanky 10mo ago
Yes, the real danger we face is that the sorts of special, gifted people who "seek tax advice" from Jeffrey Epstein might some day have all their brilliant, wondrous contributions to the world stymied by oppressive systems of cont
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by clanky 10mo ago
We should all hope so. It's clear that mass surveillance, the vast psyops architecture including social media platforms, autonomous drone warfare, Starlink & Neuralink, the whole Silicon Valley project in general is intended to hav
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by clanky 10mo ago
> if any of this was true Rubio would already be behind bars Felix Rodriguez would like to have a word hahah
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by clanky 10mo ago
This technology should be liberatory, and allow us all to work less while enjoying the same standard of living. We've all contributed in its development by creating the whole corpus of the internet, without which it could never have be
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The Narco-Terrorist Elite(prospect.org)
18 points by clanky 10mo ago|3 comments
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by clanky 10mo ago
It's still very early innings and some way that this is a sensible U.S. move could emerge in the fullness of time. But whether you call it "bad" or not might depend on whether you would find it funny and desirable to see the
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by clanky 10mo ago
As dysfunctional as the U.S. state has become, I doubt that they're allowing Rubio to move big chess pieces around to settle his personal scores.
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by clanky 10mo ago
Ah yes, Cuba, the true prize of the Caribbean lmao
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by clanky 10mo ago
The whole thing is especially funny after the rah rah Merica crowd was crowing and beating their chests in the immediate aftermath of the operation. I keep thinking there's got to be some other shoe to drop because even Marco Rubio c
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Rubio says US won't govern Venezuela, will push for changes through oil blockade(apnews.com)
5 points by clanky 10mo ago|10 comments
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by clanky 10mo ago
Not this one, but I admit I'm a rare bird.
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by clanky 10mo ago
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russ...
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by clanky 10mo ago
Are you under the misapprehension that Putin's Russian Federation represents some kind of line of succession from the USSR?
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by clanky 10mo ago
I feel like they've mostly dispensed with the pretense of needing "consent" from anyone who isn't calling shots on what to print in the newspapers in the first place. This seems more like "we'll do what we want
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by clanky 10mo ago
Anything printed in mainstream Western press in the immediate aftermath of something like the Maduro op should be read as perception management first and foremost, with only a tangential relationship to disseminating truth.
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by clanky 10mo ago
Might be redundant after Trump pardoned the former Honduran president who'd been convicted of drug trafficking. He's friendly to the Srinivasan/Thiel/Andreessen plans for the Prospera city-state in that country.
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Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela(wsj.com)
68 points by clanky 10mo ago|41 comments
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by clanky 10mo ago
"How Stalin's proposal was received" Are you referring to this? Regarding the counterproposal, Hitler remarked to his top military chiefs that Stalin "demands more and more", "he's a cold-blooded blackmai
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by clanky 10mo ago
Those capitalist regimes were messing with the USSR continually from the moment of its inception, of course both sides were trying to undermine the other. Only one resorted to the sorts of terror tactics exemplified by the Phoenix Project,
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by clanky 10mo ago
Hitler offered the Soviets to join the Axis in 1940, predicated on a bunch of conditions that they refused to accept. Where in the world did you come up with this completely false reinterpretation of that as "the Soviets tried to joi
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by clanky 10mo ago
"surprised Pikachu face" lmao, just absurdly arrogantly wrong. Molotov-Ribbentrop was Stalin's last resort and (successful) bid for time and breathing room after trying and failing numerous diplomatic efforts to unite the All
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by clanky 10mo ago
I used to be a Skeptic magazine reading, blanket conspiracy doubting "classical liberal." Since this system is predicated on lies, everyone with a base level of commitment to the truth eventually turns their back on the official n
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by clanky 10mo ago
I guess we'll see if Trump's blustering that he'll install American oil execs in Caracas pans out, won't we? Given that Chinese officials met with Maduro just before all this, I'm open to the idea that some kind of
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by clanky 10mo ago
In your zeal you seem to have misunderstood the point I was making. The Iranian government did not dispute American claims of having flown over and destroyed Fordow, which is the opposite of the "they'll say anything to look str
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by clanky 10mo ago
As soon as she won the prize she called up Netanyahu and praised him for what he's done in Gaza. They're not really even trying to make these hollowed out institutions look credible anymore.
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by clanky 10mo ago
> the societal promise of meritocracy and the middle class was broken in the early 90s and so far there is no replacement in sight That was less of a "promise" than a bait-and-switch, and we're in the switch part.
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by clanky 10mo ago
Fond memories of when it emerged that the chair of the Nobel committee had been (at least) wined & dined by Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates.
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by clanky 10mo ago
> The US positively, endlessly interfered in Europe for the past century. That interference has overwhelmingly turned out well. Are we counting the financial support that Wall Street and the budding CIA boys at Sullivan & Cromwell
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by clanky 10mo ago
The JDK team has advertised these changes for years. People who want to do wild & crazy dynamic stuff in their testing infrastructure still can, with a tiny amount of added setup. This is the correct tradeoff, vs having the JVM pessimis
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by clanky 10mo ago
A general strike is a pretty different (and more effective) beast than something like the Floyd riots.

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