ABigGuy4U
4d ago
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.
ABigGuy4U
9d 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
10d 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
10d 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.
ABigGuy4U
13d ago
A lot of right-wingers very publicly celebrated that death on social media.
It was definitely not just right wingers. The fear of another 9/11 hung over large urban areas for a long time and there was more than a little celebration in New York and Hollywood (Zero Dark Thirty). Especially since President Obama was the one that did it.
ABigGuy4U
13d ago
I don’t think this is entirely true. There is leaked audio of Trump and RFK talking on the phone and Trump is expressing skepticism and concern over how babies get so many vaccines so early. That’s a subject that also comes up periodically in Trump’s pre-political career tweets, including his much memed “...AUTISM! Many such cases!” Tweet. It’s partially a marriage of convenience, but it’s only possible because both Trump and Trump’s base are casually but broadly sympathetic to a lot of RFK’s causes.
I mean reputation for humanity and morals, not of fearsomeness. What I mean is that if you gave mass communication to soldiers in any war you would see some pretty ugly behavior and pretty ugly attitudes.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
Kirk was a unique in that he was the gateway between the normiecon boomer politics world and the underworld of bizarre lolcows. So he was very popular with normies, but there are also a ton of terminally online right-wing zoomers that liked him. One mistake everyone that is covering this is making is that young people don’t just follow a single political commentator. There are a good chunk of people that like both Fuentes and Kirk.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
Which is an important factor that no-one really takes into account when doing the demographic projections.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
To be fair, I don’t think there’s a single army in history who’s reputation would be improved by the soldiers having the ability to broadcast all their activities on tiktok.
ABigGuy4U
17d ago
It reminds me of the disappearance of Jean McConville, or some of the other similarly sickening incidents of the Troubles. The attitude was there too. Stopping your car to jeer at a soldier as he bleeds to death on the road. I think about Northern Ireland a lot lately.
ABigGuy4U
18d ago
That’s because the BBC is misreporting it. It wasn’t three down arrows, it was ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ , the button code for calling in one of the air strikes in Helldivers.
Do you have a source on that?
Source?
A source. I need a source.
Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.
No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.
You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.
Do you have a degree in that field?
A college degree? In that field?
Then your arguments are invalid.
No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation.
Correlation does not equal causation.
CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION.
You still haven't provided me a valid source yet.
Nope, still haven't.
I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a Glormpf supporter. A moron.
The problem is that the jobs are getting a lot more complicated. In peacetime, Johnny Serf has to farm a few acres of land with a couple of different types of crops. It can get tricky but it’s not rocket science and Johny has been doing it his whole life. If Johnny is lazy or a drunk and his crop yields are ten percent lower than his neighbor that mostly doesn’t affect anyone other than Johnny. In wartime Johnny has to hold a pike on a marginal section of the line and let his liege lord do most of the real work.
His great-great-great grandson John Tradie has to drive a semi truck, and if he’s not constantly paying attention every second he could kill a dozen people with it. Or he works in an office doing rather complicated drafting and clerical work that in Great Grandpa Johnny’s day would only be done by monks, scribes and merchant guilds (he has to read for God’s sake!). If John Tradie goes to war he has to operate the radar system on a Patriot battery that costs more than his grandfather’s liege-lord’s entire fief.
ABigGuy4U
21d ago
Israel appears to have just killed most of the Hamas political bureau in an airstrike in Qatar. Early reports seem to indicate there was a ruse ceasefire negotiation in Qatar, organized by the United States, that the leadership was lured to for the strike. Saudi Arabia has expressed condemnation for violating Qatar’s sovereignty, but so far no one else seems to have weighed in.
There’s a whole genre of Irish Republican songs from the War of Independence and the Troubles. History and politics aside, a lot of it is really good folk music, and it’s all free on YouTube. For any single song you can probably find dozens of covers from the 1960s to the present.
ABigGuy4U
1mo ago
Gross creator revenue surpasses the total league payroll of ALL SPORTS LEAGUES EXCEPT THE NFL.
Yes but there’s 2 million OnlyFans content creators and about 600 pro basketball players. The combined total salary of every minimum wage fast food employee in America far outstrips NFL salaries too, but that’s just because there’s so many more fry cooks than pro football players.
ABigGuy4U
1mo ago
I suppose nothing I write will convince you otherwise.
No sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
ABigGuy4U
1mo ago
Full disclosure I just hate the government and have no libertarian biases.
Thirty-on-thirty-on-thirty
ABigGuy4U
1mo ago
Because the AI generated image is a symbol that connects present events with two thousand years of Scottish and Celtic history. She could just as well be brandishing that axe at a Roman centurion, a Saxon warrior, or an English redcoat.
ABigGuy4U
1mo ago
Trump will still have the Republican bully pulpit for the rest of his life, and who he chooses to back as a successor could be the deciding factor in the nomination contest. Regarding his children I think he will probably try to get one of them a VP slot so they can make a later go at the White House.
ABigGuy4U
1mo ago
Pompey’s side defected 80 years earlier when they beat the Tribune of the Plebs to death with table legs, committing what was in the Roman worldview both treason and blasphemy. Then they spent most of the next century being shocked at the succession of demagogues who were suddenly willing to break all sorts of political norms, for some unknown reason.
—Having the freedom to change jobs
—In Diocletian’s Rome
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