It’s genius isn’t it? Some bright mind at the CIA in the 70s/80s had the great idea to use non-governmental (hah!) organizations for soft power, psyops, propaganda, and veiled funding of overseas CIA assets.

I hate it, but I admire the genius behind it because it clearly worked well enough that not many people see through it.

I think most people truly believe that NGOs are well meaning civilians who just love freedom and democracy and western values, and only evil authoritarian dictators hate them.

dude looked like he could die any week now

I think the perfect liberal candidate is a relatively good-looking dude in his 40s or 50s who seems like he knows his way around corporate leadership.

I’m not even kidding.

Liberal worldview:

• They want presentability and decorum.
• They don’t want anything to fundamentally change.
• They love things like Apple and the neoliberal corporate aesthetic.

Liberal voters want a handsome corpo.

That’s why they love Obama, Trudeau, et al.

It is absolutely ridiculous how out of touch they are with their own voter base.

But he hurt Hillary’s chances against Drumpf! Hillary lost because of Assange and Russia! So Assange enabled fascism in the USA!

Exposing war crimes is good, but you really shouldn’t expose state secrets! That might hurt government agents overseas! Like when US spied on Angela Merkel… Why would Assange hurt German-US relations?! Maybe because he’s Putin’s puppet?

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At the moment that seems up to russia. The war can end tomorrow if they fuck off back to their shithole of a country.

They said no.

What’s your next move, Mr. Strategic Mastermind? Another failed counteroffensive?

More working class Ukrainians dead? For what? Fight more so the people in Avdeevka might have 1% chance of paying taxes to Poroshenko instead of Putin? That’s it?

Western libs always say that the war must go on because “that’s what the Ukrainian people want.”

But how do they even know this? There’s no elections and people clearly don’t want to be conscripted. (The response rate for conscription letters is very low.)

Even by liberal standards this is bullshit, isn’t it?

Recruiters have confiscated passports, taken people from their jobs and, in at least one case, tried to send a mentally disabled person to military training, according to lawyers, activists and Ukrainian men who have been subject to coercive tactics. Videos of soldiers shoving people into cars and holding men against their will in recruiting centers are surfacing with increasing frequency on social media and in local news reports. (NYT)

it’s a gas station pretending to be a country

The Abrams is a good tank. But like all tanks it was designed during an era when technology was very different. As tanks go: it is far better than Russia’s T-90.

A problem with the Abrams is that it was designed for Western Germany during the 80’s which had far better road systems than Eastern Europe, and different weather conditions. The Abrams is a very heavy tank, it also requires a sophisticated level for maintenance, and it is designed to be used in a different way than how Russia uses its tanks. Ukraine is coming from the way Russia fights wars.

It’s a good tank, though you can only drive around downtown Frankfurt in it, because it breaks down elsewhere, but it’s a good tank, very capable. Well, provided you have a very specialized maintenance crew with it when you are driving around in German towns. (No drones please.)

Well, the cultural revolution is a different thing, I was mostly talking about post ww2 Eastern Europe, where it is seen as a national tragedy that the 1%-ers and the far right high ranking state officials had to work as peasants for a couple of years in the 50s. I think almost all of them through their education (privilege) and through their connections were able to get back to a kind of “soviet” “middle class” lifestyle after a few years, and they were literally paid reparations after the fall of communism (which obviously led to gigantic corruption).

Something similar also happened at the universities, where students from peasant and proletarian background were given preference over students who came from a privileged background, even though people who came from formerly rich/middle class families usually had better scores. Again this is seen as a crime of communism, even though we factually know that being from privileged family gives you all kinds of advantages. Commies just wanted to flip the script, so the old intelligentsia does not become the new intelligentsia as well.

One of the greatest crimes the commies did in Eastern Europe was forcing the aristocrats to work like peasants. Just imagine! A countess! Working with peasant women! The horror!

Here’s how liberal historians write about this crime:

I don’t know about you, but I was nodding like Jack Nicholson in the famous gif. Certain 1%-er families who were part of the elite in the regime that committed the white terror and the holocaust were froced to live like serfs for a couple of years. Again, these stories are recounted as a deportation that is comparable to the ethnic cleansing and genocide that was done by these elites…

Anyway, this was a tangent. Everyone able should do some kind of manual labor in their life at some point.

Kiesewetter commented on this intelligence assessment, saying that Ukraine can “continue to win”,

Imagine an editor reading this and saying “now this is top notch journalism, let’s publish!”

Vldimir

It’s spelled Voldemort!

Oh I forgot Ivan the Terrible is ambiguous, I meant the conqueror, not the Ukrainian nazi mass murderer

Vladimir Putin

I’m pretty sure you’re talking about Ivan the Terrible

They can just take your phone like that? And if I don’t unlock it, then what?

Biden would never do something as authoritarian as repairing a bridge.

carbon emissions put lives of billions at risk

The cartoon is not really about building twice as many new nuclear power plants, but using and maintaining and upgrading the ones we already have.