Just Got Lifetime Banned from Reddit, AMA. Also I'm new here by SudoBreakSandwich in WayOfTheBern

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Stupidol?

@RealScottRitter: The US and its European allies sure seem not to be worried about chemical weapons belonging to Assad falling into the hands of Al Qaeda. It’s almost as if we knew they didn’t exist… by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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To be fair, the Israelis have been bombing all known Syrian sites that might have been even tangentially related to chemical weapons. Including the 'Science Institute' or whatever in Damascus that would have been researching and producing them.

Caitlin Johnstone: So to recap: Russia invading a country in the name of protecting security interests from perceived threats on its border = wrong, evil, worst thing ever. / Israel invading a country in the name of protecting security interests from perceived threats on its border = fine, normal. by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Also: Russia annexing the Donbass after holding referendums where +90% of residents vote for joining Russia - worst thing evah.

But Israel (soon) forcibly annexing 1/3rd of Syria, against the wishes of the inhabitants, and while carrying out genocide and ethnic cleansing: perfectly normal.

@jvgraz: Health Insurance CEOs are responsible for far more deaths than any so-called terrorist. The American people have a right to defend themselves. by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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The American people have a -right- duty to defend themselves.

Why I think Ritter is wrong when he says the jihadist offensive against Aleppo is backed by Turkey by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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I think it was Dmitry Orlov who said on Nima's Dialogue Works today that Turkey has several million Syrian refugees on their territory, and they really want to send them all back to Syria. So if they are involved in Syria, it may be with a view to stabilize the situation on the ground enough that they can send refugees back.

The Grayzone: Viral video reveals Israeli hooligans attacked Dutch police while instigating Amsterdam unrest by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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More proof! The Dutch police are anti-Semites for getting in the way of the hooligans' rocks and metal pipes!

@RealScottRitter: Well, America, we just found out the price of a President. Miriam Adelson bought Donald Trump for a cool $100 million. Best investment Israel ever made. Worst sellout in American history. by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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They may have been helped by the fact that Israel didn't try to murder and/or imprison him during his campaign.

Our new commander-in-chief is a senile serial felon in diapers : Republicans cannot pass legislation with just a 221-214 majority in the House. There is no American government! by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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Are you retarded, or just pretending to be?

‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Fascinating.

If I understood correctly, there is nothing stopping someone with a relatively minor amount of money from opening a generic drug manufacturing facility within USA and synthesizing these drugs at India prices, for sale in USA. The only reason this doesn't happen is that the big pharma companies collude, mafia-like, to kneecap anyone who tries. Also to kneecap anyone who tries buying the drugs from India, which is doing exactly this.

They finally got me - permanently banned from Reddit by FThumb in WayOfTheBern

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Lemme guess: they're now going to parachute in a 'powermod' to take over WOTB.

@HotSpotHotSpot: ICYMI: Bernie Sanders believes we can still push Kamala left on genocide / "If we are able to elect Harris, I think we're going to have an opportunity to move her on that issue” by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Did he take 5 boosternators? Those can cause brain damage. 'Cause he sounds retarded now.

@Hamza_a96: I’m sorry but if Russian bombs rained down on displaced Ukrainians in a hospital courtyard & they were burnt alive, there would be wall to wall media coverage. Keir Starmer would do an emergency address to the nation. The world would stop. But Palestinian lives don’t matter. by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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American bombs. Targeting by American satellites. Most probably carried out by American soldiers. America is a participant in the genocide, including the most recent atrocity. Tomorrow there will be another.

Showerthought: Dems are so obsessed with "spoiler" movements, because they lead fake (never actually intended to go anywhere) movements all the time. Since the Greens have an actual impact (policy, outcomes) without realistic chance of success, they assume it is also a fake movement by BoniceMarquiFace in WayOfTheBern

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It's always projection with these people. They create fake political movements and parties all the time, it's one of their ways of controlling the outcome of elections all over the world. So they just assume that Russia or China or whoever are doing the same with USA, propping up the Greens as a 'spoiler'.

[MoonOfAlabama] - "Biden's Intent Is To Sow Chaos - Netanyahoo And Zelensky Are Working For Him" by mzyps in WayOfTheBern

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I think it's a co-depency thing. USA and Israel need each other and use each other, so you can't pinpoint one or the other as being 'in charge'. For political purposes. For military, the US DoD is in charge of the IDF, many times literally with an American officer commanding Israeli forces.

@Megatron_ron: Russia has just ordered its citizens to immediately leave Israel after Israeli airstrikes attacked the vicinity of Russia's Khmeimim base in Syria. In light of the extremely tense situation in the region, [...] by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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WW III is a go, it seems. Guess which side is playing the 'Nazis' this time?

@Megatron_ron: Putin on the potential use of NATO Long-range weapons against Russia: "If they do that, NATO is officially at war with Russia " "This would mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European nations are at war with Russia. And if that is the case, [...]" by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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The Russians have a lot of actions they can take before Mr. Kinzhal visits NATO bases in Europe, or USA bases at home. But those are real possibilities. Depends how hard Putin wants to push back.

@cenkuygur: Kamala Harris is a very normal establishment Democrat. So, if you're a progressive who thinks she's going to be your hero, you're going to be disappointed. But if you can't recognize that Trump is unhinged, you're in a bubble. He's off his rocker, so there's no other option. by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Behind the scenes the military does what it wants, and certainly during Trump's 1st term, routinely ignored his orders. But they didn't start wars without his support, because that would look kinda bad if the military starts a war somewhere while POTUS is on the TeeVee saying "I did not order that!"

So there may in fact be a difference between the 2 candidates on that front. Although they can probably blackmail Trump into just about anything.

@cenkuygur: Kamala Harris is a very normal establishment Democrat. So, if you're a progressive who thinks she's going to be your hero, you're going to be disappointed. But if you can't recognize that Trump is unhinged, you're in a bubble. He's off his rocker, so there's no other option. by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Vote for Cthulhu because Orange Man Bad!!! Sure, the people pulling Kamala's strings are trying to start nuclear wars on 3 fronts, but have you considered: Orange Man Bad?

Ukrainian medic in Poltava claimed that the losses from the strike on the military training center is closer to 215 killed and 340 injured. The video has since been deleted but she is a medic of the AFU. by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Simplicius' latest quotes several Ukies reporting much bigger numbers than 41.

@benigma2017: When they tell you the Democratic Party is moving left remind them that in 2020 the left was fighting FOR Medicare for All and now we are just trying to get the Democratic Party to stop arming and funding a genocide. by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Also nuclear war. The Circle D corporation is trying to start a nuclear war, on the mistaken assumption that a 'limited' (to Europe or the Middle East) nuclear war would allow USA to 'reset' their runaway national debt, and make gobs and gobs of money.

So 'pushing the Ds to the left' these days involves telling them to Cut! It! Out! with the nuclear war thing.

@RWApodcast: Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, was detained at Le Bourget Airport by French authorities "for refusing to cooperate with French law enforcement agencies, he has been accused of being an accomplice in crimes committed through Telegram." He is potentially facing up to 20 years in prison by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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In everything they're talking about charging him with, he is not accused of committing any crime. He is accused of managing a free speech platform, period. Other people are said to commit crimes using that platform.

If I build a sidewalk in front of my house, and someone does a purse-snatching on that bit of sidewalk, am I guilty of being an accomplice by the fact of having built the sidewalk?

Imagine all the crimes that were committed over the years with the assistance of telephones. Did anyone think to charge the CEOs of Bell or AT&T for murder, drug-running, money-laundering, and child trafficking?

Zelensky is being "rope a doped" in Kursk by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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Elensky was sending just cannon fodder to the front, with minimal equipment. He was keeping the elite Nazi units and what was left of the UK/USA tanks and such in the rear, effectively his reserves. That is what he sent into Kursk. The Nazis and the last of his Western armor and artillery.

From Russia's PoV, yes it's embarrassing to have Kiev's Nazis present in a huge section of Kursk countryside, I think it's optimistic for them to say they 'control' it but they're certainly present, on the other hand this is Russia's chance to wipe out those elite units and the last of their armor. So they're taking it slow, daring Elensky to send in all of his reserves in a mad gambit to push for the NPP, meanwhile Russia is testing out some new weapons and wiping out entire columns of advancing armor, and they've perhaps doubled their count of dead Ukie soldiers every day.

So there is a sound military strategy behind Russia's response. There was no sound military strategy behind the invasion, it was entirely political, geared to give Ukraine a big 'win' just in time for the US election.

Root causes, not just Symptoms by Bearcat22 in WayOfTheBern

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What does it profit a man to gain an iPhone if he loses his freedom?

We lived for hundreds of thousands of years in tribal groups bound by blood, before the division of labor required by large-scale agriculture, which itself was required to create a surplus needed to support 'god-kings' and their priests and armies. We haven't been free since.

Personally, I would trade that iPhone and even the Intertubes for a chance to live a fulfilling life, surrounded by my extended family.

The Corruption of the US Navy by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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Not sure if that's an example of corruption. All authoritarian orgs, be they churches, military, boy scouts, follow the exact same pattern. Sacrifice the individual to protect the org.

Why NATO and Ukraine are repeatedly staging "Dieppe" like raids on Russia by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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US elections are held in November.

Top UK CEOs make more in year than average worker in lifetime – study | The median compensation of FTSE 100 chief executives hit $5.3 million in 2023, according to a think tank by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Pikers. That's a piss-poor bonus for a US chief executive.

So this CNN bullshit journalist decided to step on a US military plane. He is then flying all the way to the South China Sea. And then starts complaining: "Why is this Chinese fighter jet flying in such close proximity?" 😂😂😂😂 by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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They're literally bred to be that stupid. Those in power send their dumbest offspring to elite colleges where their minds are molded like plasticine into exactly that sort of stupid.

Why their dumbest offspring? The smarter ones are drowning themselves in a bottle or on heroin.

Judge Napolitano - Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: Can Diplomacy Bring Middle East Peace? by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Seems Israel has learned from their masters in USA, and no longer does 'diplomacy', if they ever did. Israeli 'diplomacy' refers to the lies they tell you while they bomb or otherwise murder people, including such lies as 'why don't you come over here for a peace conference, and stand right on that big X on the floor?'

@Megatron_ron: US envoy Amos Hochstein has arrived in Beirut in a last-ditch attempt to calm tensions between Hezbollah and Israel, so Israel can continue with the ethnic cleansing. by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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I'm sure this bad faith negotiator with dual US-Israeli citizenship is just the -credible spokesperson the situation requires- sort of target Iran would pick if they believed in tit-for-tat.

Root causes, not just Symptoms by Bearcat22 in WayOfTheBern

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M'kay, here's a completely non-partisan assessment of the situation as I see it:

Humanity has been enslaved by a parasitical class of people who hold power over all of us and compel us to work for their enrichment. They have grown fabulously wealthy by enslaving us, amassing riches to last them 10,000 lifetimes, but that is never enough for them, they always think their slaves are greedy and lazy and are always working to further immiserate us for their own benefit. Lately they've taken to calling us 'useless eaters' and plotting to get rid of the majority of us, seemingly oblivious to the fact that we're the ones who make all the things and grow all the food, and all they do is just take that from us and gloat, Smaug-like, over their hoards of gold.

So how would you go about attacking the root problem? Vote Red/Blue/Third Party?

Harris is demolishing Donald Trump in the Opinion Polls. Republicans are headed for a total disaster in November! They have to dump Trump, now! by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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I hear Ivermectin is used for parasitical infections. You might want to take some for those brain worms of yours.

@jvgraz: If you wonder where all this barbaric hate and savagery comes from, it's helpful to keep in mind how deeply shaming Palestinian resistance is to Israelis. The founders of Israel had a chance to fight for their people. They instead cut a deal with Hitler [...] by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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I have made that point here myself. Virtually no European Jews fought against Hitler and the Nazis. The most common responses were to try to buy their freedom with gold, and offer to turn against fellow Jews for better treatment. The most barbaric treatment Jews experienced in the ghettos was from fellow Jews working for the Nazis. Ann Frank and her family were turned in to the Nazis by such a Jew who collaborated with the Nazis in handing over Jews who were hiding, in exchange for not being sent to the camps himself.

So yes, Palestinian resistance and solidarity shames Jews who remember their own abject cowardice and moral depravity when they were on the receiving end.

Why Donald Trump's attempted assassination hasn't helped him politically by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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lol

Trump makes bad pick for VP by Jiminy in news

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He picks people based on their looks.

I’m hungry, cold and have multiple disabilities. Does Starmer’s promise of real change include me? by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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LOL no.

@AdameMedia: $230 million US-Gaza aid pier to be "permanently dismantled." American taxpayers paid $230 million to be directly complicit in the m assacre of over 200 innocents. by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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I would like to know where about $210m of that went, because it sure as fuck didn't cost $230M to float in a few barges and lash them together, when the army corps of engineers had the barges and all the hardware to put it together.

@SocialistMMA: The Black Church is TRASH. If your religion has you defending genocide and corrupt politicians then your religion is garbage by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Akshually means it's working as intended.

Is the conviction of Donald Trump in New York going out the window? by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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The law is not some independent, living thing. It is a tool of the ruling class to maintain their rule. The case in NYC will be used by the deep state whichever way they choose, and if they're postponing throwing Trump in jail this month, it will be because they have other plans for him. Not because a judge made a ruling. Not even SCOTUS, which always does what the ruling class asks of them.

Dr. Wolf's Statement to the Royal Courts of Justice ⋆ Brownstone Institute by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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This is dangerously wrong-headed:

My point is that censoring pamphlets on birth control did not stop birth control information from becoming known over time. Censoring discussion on gay men and lesbians did not stop homosexual or lesbian relationships from taking place or eventually from being discussed. Censoring Animal Farm stopped no one eventually from reading and valuing Animal Farm.

Governments are not concerned with 'truth' and their 'place in history'. They are concerned with 'governing'. And censoring info on, say, birth control, absolutely does impact the lives of the people they are governing, in the here and now. If a woman dies from a back-alley abortion, it is of little concern to her that at some future point, she might have learned about birth control.

The American Billionaires Who Fell In Love With Fascism Are Not the First ¦ The ultra-rich will happily march us into a dictatorship if we let them. by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Kinda like they ripped off their bedsheets and pointy hoods and revealed who they have always been.

@wikileaks: Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK. [...] by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Looks like the Marianas plea deal went off without a hitch and he was released a free man. Remains to be seen if Australia will fuck with his freedom in some way.

Biden Team Calls For Social Media “Disinformation” Censorship Action After G7 Mishap Goes Viral by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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They're kinda giving away the whole game with this one.

US-Backed Ukrainian Outlet Releases New ‘Enemies List’ Including Ron Paul, 21WIRE, Hundreds More… by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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Crap. I didn't make the cut. Again.

Welp. Gonna have to try harder.

@Megatron_ron: US Senator Lindsey Graham: "Ukraine has trillions of dollars worth of critical minerals in their country. Vladimir Putin cannot be allowed to access that money and those resources because he will share it with China." [...] by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Like the Israelis, American government officials cannot help but implicate themselves in genocide and war crimes, through their unforced public statements.

Is Vladimir Putin gradually morphing, literally and physically, into Catherine the Great? by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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Will we soon hear in Russia, that transsexuality is OK, after all?

Obvious trolling deserves a downvote.

BREAKING: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules mRNA COVID-19 Jab is NOT a Vaccine Under Traditional Medical Definitions by kingsmeg in WayOfTheBern

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Judges are not experts in anything except the law, yet they are routinely called upon to establish what is factual in all manner of subjects, when called upon to do so by a legal case before them. For instance, in a challenge to vax mandates.

This is quite literally their job. To evaluate competing claims of 'truth' and establish what is factual.

BREAKING: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules mRNA COVID-19 Jab is NOT a Vaccine Under Traditional Medical Definitions by kingsmeg in WayOfTheBern

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For the purposes of judging something like vaccine mandates, yes the courts absolutely can determine facts in a medical field.

Droning Russia’s nuke radars is the dumbest thing Ukraine can do by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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It's a distinction without a real difference.

I beg to differ. It matters a lot. Both parties, USA (NATO) and Russia, need to pretend that it is really Ukraine fighting Russia, so they can avoid escalating all the way up to nuclear Armageddon. I for one hope they continue to pretend that Ukraine is responsible.

Droning Russia’s nuke radars is the dumbest thing Ukraine can do by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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Ukraine did not attack Russia's over-the-horizon ICBM detection radars. They do not have the ability to do so. NATO attacked them. And this obvious NATO targeting of Russia's early warning system guarantees that Russia's 'dead hand' system is active, and if it detects a nuclear blast within a certain range, it's going to launch the Sarmat ICMBs with the unstoppable hypersonic glide delivery vehicles. And then we all die. The lucky ones die quickly. The rest of us die slowly over a year or two.

@Megatron_ron: Macron allowed the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack airfields in the Kursk and Belgorod regions. Strikes will be delivered using long-range missiles Storm Shadows and Scalps. by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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If that's what they were going to target (Russian airfields), this would be a perfectly legal and rational use of these weapons.

But that's not at all what they're going to do.

Press Release — RED ALERT: Ukrainian Strike on Russian Early Warning Radar Threatens To Unleash Nuclear World War by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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This is the closest the world has ever been to nuclear Armageddon. Far, far closer than during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The leaders were talking to each other back then. For that matter, both sides had leaders.

Zionism: Genocidal from the beginning | The destruction and atrocities we are seeing in Gaza now are especially horrifying only because they are worse than anything we have seen before. by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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In 50 years, they'll make another documentary where former IDF people admit to all sorts of war crimes, when they're on or nearly on their deathbeds. And Israel will call it 'Russian propaganda' and have it censored across the entire Internet.

A Deep State Failure | Larry Johnson on how badly Boeing has messed up by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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A fish rots from the head. USA society is rotting from the top down, and we're going to see a lot more Boeing stories as the country eventually turns into Idiocracy.

Unlike in the movie, however, individuals will retain their street smarts and will find ways to survive in the collapsing society, if the head rots to such an extent that it can no longer prevent this. They're doing what they can, systematically destroying small farms and the like, to make us all fully dependent on them, the 'elite'. But as they stupidize themselves and all levels of government, self-reliant people will resume the homesteading and small business model that sustained small towns up until the post-war period.

In Red Sea, US Navy paying the price of shipbuilding failures | The Littoral Combat Ship was designed with the current crisis in mind, instead it turned into a boondoggle. Here's why. by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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USA can no longer design, period. Combat ships, airplanes, hypersonic missiles, spacecraft, anything. USA no longer has that ability. The last successful design was the covertly military Starlink satellite system, and nobody can say who actually designed it.

I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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The AI is coming for all of us, whether we want it or not. We will each have a personal AI assigned to us, to prevent us from engaging in wrongthink, and to report us to the authorities if we do. Our AIs will soon know us better than we know ourselves, allowing it to nudge us into approved thoughts whenever we stray, and to predict when it can no longer control us and we must be quarantined from the greater society, for the greater good of course. Because something something terrorism children anti-Semitism.

The CIA assassination attempt on Slovakia's duly elected Prime Minister calls for retaliation by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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The CIA has been training neo-Nazis from all over the world in Ukraine, since even before 2014. They now have an army of mercenary brownshirts all over the West. They have used these against dozens of EU politicians who failed to publicly support Ukraine and vote for more, more, more money and weapons. Typically they get a visit from someone who tells them that unless they change their mind and support Ukraine, plus make a personal 'donation' to wherever the CIA is laundering money, they will go on the Mirotvorets kill list, their personal info will be handed over to the Nazis, and a pair of Nazis will pay them a visit to maim or kill them. A significant number have indeed been maimed or killed. The CIA pays these Nazis 4-10K euros per hit, depending on the target.

And none of this is secret, multiple targets have come forward and publicly revealed the shakedown operation. They can't link it directly to the CIA, except the CIA runs the Mirotvorets website and the network of Nazis, so it would be implausible for someone else to be running the shakedowns. Added twist: 'Jack Smith', the special prosecutor in charge of taking out Bad Orange Man, was the point man in the EU who would approach the targets and tell them what was going to happen. So he's CIA, and obviously a bad, bad man,

@RalphNader: Over 200,000 Palestinians—not 35,000—have already died since October. This is based on nearly 100,000 bombs and missiles directly on civilians, without food, water, medicine, electricity, healthcare and World Health casualty projections starting last October. [...] by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Sounds right. Definitely over 100K, 200K is quite plausible.

The '35k' number is corpses that were brought to a hospital and formally identified, before Israel went to that hospital and murdered the 4 people who were compiling the list, 3-4 months ago.

Boeing whistleblower says he was pressured to hide defects by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Tragic news: Next Thursday, Boeing whistleblower Santiago Paredes will have committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head twice, setting himself on fire, then jumping out of his 4th floor window directly into a wood chipper. Family and friends will say he was in good spirits before killing himself, and his last words apparently will be: "I'm not suicidal !"

To sail no more: the US Navy has ended all work on cruisers COWPENS CG63 and VICKSBURG CG69 and now, after hundreds of millions of $$$ with zero ROI, both will be decommissioned this year. Another "tough decision." 63 seen at San Diego in Feb; 69 at Norfolk in April by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Drones generally don't carry enough of a payload to significantly damage a ship, and if they are big enough to carry a large explosive load, they are slow and easy to shoot down. The Houthis are using them because they're only trying to harass shipping into avoiding the Red Sea, they're generally not trying to sink ships or kill sailors.

Congressman pleads guilty to stuffing ballot boxes for Democrats by Inuma in WayOfTheBern

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Try posting this over or r/politics or whatever and you'll be banned within seconds. It might take a little bit longer for YouTube.

Is Russia, in reality, "The Borg"? by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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in Russia, which learned so much from the Mongols, the conception of the hive mind is much more familiar, and much more acceptable.

Nope. Bunch of ornery, opinionated bastards. Good people, just very, very far from 'hive mind'.

Ismail Haniyeh: Israel's economy collapsed because of Yemen Head of the Hamas political movement Ismail Haniyeh: No one could have thought that a country like Yemen would have such a powerful impact and stop the transit flow in the Red Sea. This Yemeni action destroyed the Israeli economy. by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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The following would seem to confirm Pepe Escobar's narrative of Israel sending a single F-35 to launch some special EMP nuke over Iran, but without any mention of Russia firing at/shooting down the plane:


— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 Israel's retaliatory strike against Iran: What are the facts?

  • In the early morning of April 19th, a single fighter jet, likely an F35, took off from an airbase inside Israel.

  • The jet made its way into Iraqi airspace, carrying three air-launchable ballistic missiles (ALBM), likely of the 'ROCKS' or 'Silver Sparrow' type.

  • Simultaneously, Israel mobilized one of its proxy groups inside Iran to launch at least three explosive-laden quadcopters at an S-300 radar near the 8th Shekari Airbase in Isfahan, attempting to disable it, in preparation for the upcoming missile strike.

  • As the quadcopters approached their intended target, Iranian air defense autocannons engaged them, and successfully downed all three drones.

As for what happened next, there are two main theories:

  1. When Israel found out about the failure of the quadcopters to disable the radar, they decided to abort the mission and fire or despose of their missiles above Iraq. Three detached missile boosters were found in Iraqi territory to corroborate this theory.

  2. Israel decided to go ahead with the operation, and launched all three 'ROCKS' / 'Silver Sparrow' missiles at an unknown target in Isfahan, likely the 8th Shekari Airbase. As the missiles approached the Iranian border, they were detected and shot down by Iran's 15th of Khordad air defense system, based in the city of Dezful. This theory is corroborated by the testimony of at least one trusted source inside Iran.

To sail no more: the US Navy has ended all work on cruisers COWPENS CG63 and VICKSBURG CG69 and now, after hundreds of millions of $$$ with zero ROI, both will be decommissioned this year. Another "tough decision." 63 seen at San Diego in Feb; 69 at Norfolk in April by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Did they finally figure out that all of their 'enemies' have missiles that could sink these boats before the boats themselves are within range of using their own weapons? Even Yemen could sink these without too much trouble.

Russians are looking forward to a "Khrushchev Thaw", after Vladimir Putin retires by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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I fear you have fallen for a CIA psyop.

Machine gun-wielding robot dogs are better sharpshooters, claims study | A Chinese team of researchers has found that, with the right design, robot dogs with machine guns can rival human marksman. by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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They are indeed going to try to eliminate us dirty unwashed masses, the untermenschen, because they haven't had any contact with us in years and they don't understand us. They fear us.

The problem, if they succeed, is that we're the ones who do all the work that enables them to live their lives of fabulous luxury. What they're going to attempt is the exact same thing as a medieval lord deciding to kill all his peasants because he's afraid they're going to revolt because of his taxes. In fact, the lords measured their wealth more by the number of peasants they could enslave than by the acreage of land they owned. Because they understood who produced the wealth and who lived by siphoning the wealth from the producers.

They think they can survive by keeping just a small coterie of trusted slaves, and that the work will get done by magic, somehow. AI, robots, whatever, they have no understanding of the work that is required to maintain their lifestyles. They also don't understand that their wealth is mostly imaginary, their 'money' and 'shares in stocks' only exist as bits and bytes in computer networks, and that once the power goes out, that wealth vanishes.

Nightmares of the Elite ⋆ Brownstone Institute by Promyka5 in WayOfTheBern

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I see where he made his mistake. He thinks that American 'educational' institutions are there to 'educate' students. They are not. If students learn anything in college, it is purely by accident or because they took that initiative on their own.

These institutions exist to 'socialize' students, which is another way of saying 'domesticate'. Domesticate, in turn, is another way of saying 'enslave'. So forcing students to unquestioningly obey pointless and counterproductive, if not dangerous, rules, is exactly the way you socialize kids into becoming unthinking drones who follow rules and orders without question. And why wrongthink is so severely punished in these institutions.

There's a wonderful, new, unlimited source of men for the Russan military -- American Sex Offenders! by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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And, apparently, they don't really care about kiddie porn, at all.

I have seen absolutely no evidence of that and that reeks of US propaganda. Russians are generally not porn-addicted like Americans are, and I understand it is much more difficult to view porn in Russia than in USA, where you can walk into a public library, watch porn on a government-owned computer, and masturbate next to the kid beside you trying to do his homework in the library because he doesn't have Internet at home.

Because the porn industry in Russia is largely underground, it may be under the control of the mafia, with all that entails. But I've never heard any stories of large amounts of kiddie porn coming out of Russia. Europe, yes, and places in southeast Asia, also South America, yes.

U.S. Seeking to Dominate Chain of Pacific Islands in Preparation for Potential War with China by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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AFAIK USA has a long history of murdering or sterilizing Solomon Islanders with fake vaccines. Don't remember where I read that.

There's a wonderful, new, unlimited source of men for the Russan military -- American Sex Offenders! by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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I don't think a real child rapist would find life very pleasant (or long) in Russia.

What's up with San Franshithole? I was trying to visit but it was a warzone. by CivilWarrior in WayOfTheBern

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If none of us are Democrats, and in fact we pretty much all hate Democrats, why would we care about someone calling San Fran a shithole? This is a common attack the Republicans use to say Democrats can't govern. We know that, we don't need the example of San Fran to tell us that, and we mostly don't give a crap about D/R pie-fights which are just a distraction from the robber barons robbing us. Which is why your sad attempts at trolling are falling flat.

What's up with San Franshithole? I was trying to visit but it was a warzone. by CivilWarrior in WayOfTheBern

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Serious question: do you actually think anyone here is a Democrat?

Should America cut all foreign aid to take care of the homeless and people of America? Especially since most countries hate America right? by CivilWarrior in WayOfTheBern

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Really miss that downvote button here.

Since the beginning, it's been obvious that Gaza was in many ways a fight between International Law and the US's "rules-based order". by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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As I wrote in the old place, Gaza has been a 6 months-long public demonstration of what exactly 'rules-based order' means.

Russia isn't invading or conquering Ukraine. Russia is devouring and absorbing Ukraine. by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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Russia is turning these provinces back into Russian territories

This was not Russia's plan. Russia took the part they actually wanted back in 2014: Crimea, with the naval base and ports of Sevastopol, which have been the heart of the Russian navy since the 18th century. This was absolutely critical for Russia, there was never any possibility of USA driving out the Russians and turning Sevastopol into a NATO base, and the Black Sea into a NATO pond. Russia would have fought a war with all of NATO over this, nuclear if need be.

But they didn't need the Donbas, or Odessa. Russia is the largest country in the world, just about the least populous by area, and they have tremendous untapped natural resources. They didn't need to take more land from Ukraine, it was in fact more valuable to Russia to have Ukraine as a buffer than to swallow up any part of Ukraine. They are being forced into this by NATO, to push back the NATO missiles to a range that Russia can defend from them.

And this does not bode well for Finland, as USA/NATO moves in there with a bunch of nukes within a couple minutes' flight time of both St-Petersburg and Murmansk. Russia will not tolerate this, full stop. They will obliterate Finland, if they have to, and they don't have the same brotherly feelings for Finns as they have for Ukrainians.

Why is SLAVERY legal in Africa unlike America who ABOLISHED slavery in 1865? by CivilWarrior in WayOfTheBern

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Slavery, including slavery with extra steps like debt peonage, has been endemic to the human race since the invention of agriculture and organization of humanity into classes, some 10-12,000 years ago.

There are more slaves today in the world than at any time in human history, and the trend is not going in the right direction.

US racing to deploy sub-launched hypersonic missiles | New underwater testing facility a key step but the plan still hobbled by budget cuts, reduced shipbuilding orders and unclear mission objectives by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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The article would be more convincing if USA knew how to build hypersonic missiles.

As it is, they haven't been able to gather enough data and missile fragments from Ukraine to copy Russia's.

It’s Not Voter Apathy; You’re Not Listening | Black Agenda Report by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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We're not 'apathetic', we fucking hate them. Not at all the same thing.

ketanji brown and the template of doom by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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Otherwise, SCOTUS would rule to uphold the 1st Amendment. This is the most open-and-shut case I have ever heard of regarding free speech. The fact that they even held public arguments on the case rather than ruling summarily 9-0 means they're looking for rationalizations to finally bury 'free speech' once and for all.

ketanji brown and the template of doom by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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the Constitution, which is still the law of the land.

'The Law' is merely a tool of the rich to formalize their control over the poor.

ketanji brown and the template of doom by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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the purpose of the constitution and of the bill of rights is to protect us from government.

Unfortunately, execution of this 'protection' rests with the very government from which we are supposed to be protected by the amendment.

The Brain Is the Battlefield of the Future. The WEF’s Stated Objective is “Altering the Human Being”. Directed Energy is being weaponized. Individuals’ brains can be targeted by microwaves. Global Research. by Budget-song-budget in WayOfTheBern

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Individuals’ brains can be targeted by microwaves.

Indeed, the human brain can readily be cooked by microwave. Changing our thoughts, not so much.

Global Research publishes so much false info of this sort that I have to think it's a CIA black ops kinda thing.

Aaaand the Pope is on the Ukrainian kiII list by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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LOL

This has to be fake, but funny

Worthy vs. Unworthy Victims: Study Reveals Media's Selective Coverage of Navalny and Lira by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Lemme guess: the neo-Nazi CIA stooge was 'worthy', and the poor schmuck who tried being an honest journalist was 'unworthy'?

They (Russians) will not eat the bugs. They will not live in the pod. They will own things and be happy. by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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A looooooot of Americans are inquiring about moving to Russia.

The metropolitan elite has ignored farmers for too long | It’s time for political leaders to balance reducing carbon emissions with maintaining cheap food production by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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The attack on farmers has nothing to do with the environment or global warming, and everything to do with destroying the family farm as a way of life. They want big ag to control our food, full stop, because big ag is part of government in a fascist state, and that puts our food fully in control of the fascists. Vote the wrong way? No food for you! Protest the latest imperial war/genocide? No food for you! Small farmers stand in the way of this level of control, because they identify with the working classes and not with our fascist owners.

Reddit strikes $60M deal allowing Google to train AI models on its posts, unveils IPO plans by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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As I wrote on the old place, google already crawls reddit, in fact google is now the only way to search your own post history using the 'site:' tag. So there was no need for google to pay reddit to train their AI to read reddit comments. The contract must therefore be for google to train their AI by posting comments in a Chinese-style censorship scheme (drown out real info with propaganda).

And since they only make these things public after they're implemented, I conclude that half of reddit is already comprised of google's (and others') Ai spamming every goddamn sub with official propaganda. Which is exactly what we see if we go to subs like r/worldnews or r/politics.

If you're wondering whether the advancing Russian troops in Ukraine will inflict reprisals on the Ukrainian population -- they certainly will! by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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Arrant nonsense, projection from a troubled mind.

We don't have to guess what Russia is going to do, we have the example of Chechnya, and now Mariupol and related cities in the Donbass and Crimea. As for the West of Ukraine where the population leans to psychopathic hatred of Russia, Putin is signaling that he doesn't want it.

Kyiv has right to strike Russian targets ‘outside Ukraine’, says Nato chief Stoltenberg by chakokat in WayOfTheBern

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Obviously true, in a trivial sense, if the targets are military or dual-use (but they keep striking civilian targets, which is a war crime).

The issue is that 'Ukraine' has no ability to do this, so any and all attacks on targets inside Russia were by NATO/USA.

Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Are there any search engines out there that do what google used to do, that is basic search of pages for the exact words you searched for? Or is the Internet simply too large now for that to work?