They're all small islands. You could show the same three islands and the US looking at COVID rates, and it will REALLY make them look good.

I came here to ask a similar question. The best I can figure is that it got infiltrated and that this is a big play to divide us and disrupt what we have. I'm kind of bummed. I don't know what this site stands for any more. cosplay communists? USSR nastalgia? Doomer complaining about the US? A honeypot? I don't know whats supposed to motivate new content anymore. "hexbear" doesn't mean anything to me.

I hate all posts that divide us along lines of who likes/dislikes the best senators and congresspeople we have.

THis can't be real

So far, thankfully for him, most of it was during Covid. So the real punishment could be what happens with this trial.

Its a good point.

Yea, this is the stuff that comes to my mind when I heard or read about MKULTRA. The CIA has been sued 5 times or so by victims of mind control experiments and they lost each time. Some of these people had minor car accidents and suddenly stared remembering stuff they had forgotten about. So there are some witnesses whose stories match. The big picture of the torture was to create multiple personalities. They found that in situation of extreme sensory depravation and self-inflicted pain, people's personalities can split. And once they create a second one, they thought it was be easy to create more. I don't know how much success they had, but i think one goal at the time was to create assassins who could carry out missions and then completely forget about what they had done.

They must have been doing for other reasons too though, because the photos from Abu Graib in the 2000s show these exact forms of torture. The blindfolds, gloves on the hands and earmuffs are the sensory deprivation. And the electrical shocks connected to outstretched hands is the self-inflicted pain. If you simply shock someone, they will feel pain and anger. But if you tell them to hold their arms out for as long as they can, because lowering them will deliver a shock, then the shock will cause pain and frustration. Its a little different. Anyways, they're clearly doing the same stuff. I can't figure out why they would do that to Iraqi prisoners though. Were they trying to make assassins? Or did they think they could get answers? The thing is, what answers did they want? They already knew there were no WMD. It was all a charade anyways. So why the torture?

As soon as I read "lizard-like" the believability of this dropped a lot.

They should try this experiment with socialists and capitalists.

Downvoting is disabled. So the number of upvotes above is the number of CIA operatives or suckers signal-boosting them in this thread.

Yea, it would be playing with fire to delay the bill in an effort to demand the minimum wage increase goes in. Its a game of chicken that progressives might lose, and the delay it causes hurts all the democrats.

Holy shit. I wonder what Biden’s administration has to say about this? Surely nothing. I mean, if I had to match up our policies towards Venezuela, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines. I would basically just swap them around.

Holy shit. What scares me is the knowledge the the US has been following UK politics in an eerily similar way. It was Brexit then Trump. It was Corbyn then Bernie. And now it looks like the conservatives will win back control in 2022 in the UK because the "left" party chose to sink itself rather than doing the right thing which was also popular.

This spells bad times for the Democrats in the US, especially if they fail to kill the filibuster to pass major, one in a generation legislation like the election reform bill the House just passed.

We have a pandemic, an economy on the brink of collapse, a partisan divide putting our whole country at risk of civil war, and a dozen different environmental catastrophes that are simply not able to be reversed,

And they think a low birth rate is a crisis?

Ugh. I had forgotten about that dynamic. Its absolutely true, especially in California, where property taxes go up less than inflation, unless it changes hands. So cities don't give a shit about the old neighborhoods. Making them nice doesn't help their tax revenue. Creating new developments on the other hand, bring in new, full price property taxes. All they have to do is let some developer grease the wheels of government a little bit, and they make some protected land available for building.

Well, imagine any former US president facing ANY court order, even if it was just one day of community service. Its literally unimaginable.

Yea all he has to do is endorse someone else.

Twitter is all over it. And the CPAC head @mschlapp is all over defending it and saying the left is making up conspiracy theories.

The recent emergence of multiple variants of the new coronavirus may have created the raw material for recombination because people can be infected with two different variants at once.

Holy shit. People need to stop getting this virus. The government really needs to make this a priority. I don't know how they can do it, but they need to figure it out fast. Imagine getting it twice at the same time.

That was such an obvious move. I naively, as usual, thought they would do a strict, 1-month lockdown, paying people to stay at home, and kick the thing right away, so we could get back to normal. I think a lot of people sort of thought thats what what was happening when we did the big lockdown in April. Then a month later, people were like "OK, we did the 1 month, back to normal now?" But half the population wasn't locking down. The government made no effort to help people stay at home without work, rent, mortgages, etc. Of course, our leadership was actively undermining efforts to deal with the pandemic. So I knew it was going to get bad.