scarcity_of_the_self [none/use name]

If I blocked you it's because you post the most godawful crap, just complete garbage about the general election and other stuff that clutters my feed. No hard feelings! It's just you're almost as bad as Google News!

So if you are here on an alt to argue with me, that's cool with me. Not the slop.

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Cake day: September 30th, 2024
  • scarcity_of_the_self [none/use name]tonews•Bulletins and News Discussion from November 4th to November 10th, 2024 - This is a Giant Problem
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    2 months ago

    https://roape.net/2024/11/06/when-the-imf-and-world-bank-visited-my-father/

    In memory of his father, who passed away earlier in October, Yusuf Serunkuma offers a heartfelt political reflection on his father’s unfulfilled dreams since Uganda’s independence in 1962.  Recounting the story of his father’s dismissal from a textile factory in the early 1990s, he illustrates the devastating impact of the neoliberal austerity policies imposed by the World Bank and the IMF on the lives of ordinary Ugandans. These imperialist interventions dismantled the material progress and aspirations of the generation that won independence, and continue to suppress the hopes of both present and future generations.

  • scarcity_of_the_self [none/use name]tonews•Bulletins and News Discussion from November 4th to November 10th, 2024 - This is a Giant Problem
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    2 months ago

    Yes we can off the top of our heads point to two of the most important antiwar figures on the left today as former interrogators. Don't want to be too "sectarian". Will say more later, I plan to stick around.

    Kaye's writing about the brainwashing myth being used to justify torture research is really eye opening. I think that history is critical for understanding a lot of the seemingly crazy and esoteric disinformation (with its New Age Hitlerian overtones) circulating today. A lot of the MKULTRA mythos covers up what you know about torture and chemical or biological weapons. Many stories about veterans or active duty members of the US military being driven to psychosis, in some cases over fake aliens, losing it and pulverizing a baby, US forces draining civilians in the Philippines of blood to imitate vampires, and now yet more fake air force UFO sightings, seemingly disconnected bizarro events, to me they point to ambitions of full management of pilots in combat via delusions and simulation. (Possibly convincing foreign rivals that the USA has access to real thought reprogramming technology to create sleeper agents - to make the analogy I'm making to imitating vampires more clear.) That's probably an unrealized dream for the US but to ground this a bit, they could have just lied to the pilots who fired missiles at Iran from well outside their airspace that all of the air defense failed and Iran is just propagandizing. That is a mundane way of accomplishing one of those goals.

    This was all basically accomplished anyways with HUMINT and control of the distribution of ideas. I don't think these megalomaniacs would ever be satisfied though. They were putting brain implants in dogs and now they're openly defiling monkeys.

    Anyways, my ramblings aside, I do have a lot to say about the antiwar left, and it's not this kind of vibes-based speculation, but I will format it properly and not ramble about it. Another IOU, as I already told someone here I would try to package my thoughts on the Myanmar conflict and how the US is using Thailand to set up a new intelligence center.

    Waiting for the :jesse-wtf: now T plus one, two, three,