Just say you don’t know anything about anything; it’s fine.

• Columbia Journalism Review: The Myth of Tiananmen
• Tank Man video footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• Tiananmen Protests Reading List
• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• Another View of Tiananmen
• 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

I think this article from a US NGO (Global Energy Monitor) provides overwhelming evidence that they already are.

@[email protected] has lain the second reason pretty well, but if you want more there’s TriContinental / Vijay Prashad:

• Video: Hyperimperialism: US-NATO’s Dangerous and Decadent New Stage, w/ Vijay Prashad
• Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage
• The Churning of the Global Order

Havana Syndrome comes from Huawei 5G towers, and I hear they’re about to deploy mass Manchurian Candidate technology to them.

I don’t think Jingping is a swear word, at least not one used on Firefly

The is the best reason because it is the funniest.

None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me.

I don’t always wear watches, but when I do, I prefer the Casio F-91W

I’m not familiar with New Atheism’s origins, but if it wasn’t created as War on Terror apologia, it certainly was used that way by Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, and many others. As a lifelong atheist who saw through the Iraq WMD lies from the start, I was horrified to watch how New Atheism played out.

Why the arguments of the ‘New Atheists’ are often just as violent as religion

Celebrity atheists such as Richard Dawkins appear to claim the moral high ground when it comes to violence. Dawkins, along with Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens, insist that because religion is intrinsically violent, then atheism is inherently more pacific. After all, if all the evils in the world can be blamed on religion, then arguably eliminating religion is not only desirable but a moral obligation for atheists who believe in peace.

Yet our research shows that in the War on Terror, these atheists have been surprisingly willing to align themselves with policies which are at least as violent – and in some cases more so – than many of those perpetrated in the name of religion.

He’s permabanned from lemmygrad & hexbear, and his 2 month ban from lemmy.ml ended just the day before that comment thread.

Not only are there lost luggage haul videos, but also:

• Reaction videos to lost luggage haul videos
• Link aggregator posts of reaction videos of lost luggage haul videos
• Comments on link aggregator posts of reaction videos of lost luggage haul videos <— YOU ARE HERE

I’m something of a didn’t even bother reading the NATOpedia entry myself.

Do people post these things to trick me into posting more? Because it works.

Muh MBFC!

Hamilton 68 is gone, but Hamilton 2.0 is still up, though they don’t track Xitter anymore because Enron took the API down.

RAND corporation provides disinformation tools, including Hamilton 2.0. Fighting Disinformation Online A Database of Web Tools

This person and their alts have been banned from lemmy.ml and some other instances, in at least one case their originating instance. The modlogs 💀

• [email protected] (dead instance?)
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Relatedly, someone has a “DownpunxxIsAFascist” account 😂 https://fedia.io/u/DownpunxxIsAFascist

Copypasting myself:

I don’t know how to get there from here, and my opinion hardly matters, but I have no objections to balkanizing [the US] into as many pieces as needed until exceptionalism gets beaten out of it. I don’t know what would work short of a post-war reconstruction under the victors’ receivership.

I don’t see this as a question about socialism so much, and if it were then I’d say it lacks specificity. It’s a question about a hypothetical socialism in an unspecified society with unspecified history & material conditions. You could look into how existing AES’s deal with it, but again I don’t see this as a socialism-specific thing, and what past & present AESes did won’t necessarily translate directly. It might be up to the concrete—not abstract—proletariat, through democratic centralism, to decide how to deal with it, hopefully with input from specialists in child education and child psychology.

I wonder if he gets paid directly or indirectly in bux or else paid by oligarchs.

Posted to other .ml and going to bed

This guy looks so much like this other, more famous short-form satirical vlogger, whose name I don’t know and don’t know how to find.