ABigGuy4U
6d ago
Generally I would disagree. Older black Democrats in the south (the demographic you really need in a primary) tend to prefer friendly, kind of goofy white candidates to slick sharky ones. I think Biden’s reputation as a gaffe machine was actually an asset to him there. It’s one of the reasons I think Gavin Newsome will never win a fair democratic primary. On Pete specifically though I do agree, his only major resume item before being whisked away to Washington was a badly handled municipal police shooting.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
You and @DradisPing are way overthinking it. The whole “infidel” thing and all the crusader stuff is just Millennial GWOT-Boomer edgelord cringe of the type that was very popular with American soldiers that served in the Middle East in the 2000s. You know, the demographic that’s going to make up 95 percent of the personnel of American Private Military Companies. It’s a motorcycle club for veterans, it’s not a surprise to see a bunch of them getting hired by a PMC through networking to do security contracting work in the Middle East.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
Yes, instituting a 100k/year fee on top for every H-1B employee will effectively kill this program.
That’s the joke. If the H1-B program was being used by companies to bring in small numbers of absolutely indispensable exceptional talent (like they were all claiming) than a 100k per person fee shouldn’t be much of a problem.
The vast majority of the MK ULTRA program files were destroyed and never released or leaked, so it’s hard to say. There were probably multiple types of techniques tested, and any that were successful were probably spun off into their own programs. In tinfoil hat circles I’ve heard of successor programs called MK NAOMI and MK MONARCH. I suspect some of the techniques of MK ULTRA or other similar programs ended up in mass media. In a democracy, being able to manipulate a huge number of people a small degree could be very useful.
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