Captain Planet is a zaddy now.

I think certain media strategies make a lot more sense if you look at it as a private conversation said in public rather than simply a public statement. The FBI guy did one of these earlier this year on Epstein where he answered a question nobody in the room asked. It’s easy to write it off as just poor presentation or trying to avoid other questions. But I think there is a deeper purpose and that is to let specific people or a specific person know something. If you contact them directly, that puts a clear line from you to them. If you shout in an public place and they happen to be there to hear it, you’re talking to everyone.

So anyways, Ghislaine was visited last week by Bondi or Bondi’s team. What Trump said here is to show Ghislaine he’s ready to play ball on her pardon. It’s not a Trump gaff. The plan may be to feign weakness, have the GOP put her in a congressional hearing where she says she never met Trump, and then pardon her. Is it an obvious gambit? Yes. But it’s legal and there’s enough plausible deniability for the 20% of Republicans that matter. Ghislaine goes to Israel for protection and Trump can move on with the Russiagate trial as a palette cleanser.

This has to be like watching the Warren Commission shit. Like a lot of the public agrees this is fishy and everyone is hoping someone will step in to stop it. But then it happens and a few years later you’re the punchline of every conspiracy theorist caricature. There’s going to be some MCU movie in 10 years with a tinfoil character and one of the heroes will quip “Oh you think Epstein’s island was real too eh? pffft”

I, for one, am absolutely ashamed. Obama was important to so many people here. He was a trailblazer for leftist entryism into a staunchly center-left government. He did so many great things from bringing peace to Libya to providing healthcare for all who want it. He made the US a leader in oil production and shepherded us through a great economic crisis. He was also very articulate and had a lot of swagger. But to betray our values like this, and not afford someone up-and-coming with the same opportunities he had when being elected – shameful.

A couple of months ago I went back and listened to some early 00s Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. Art was libertarian but it doesn’t really come up on the UFO episodes I listened to. I can’t guarantee you would never come across a rant about taxes or gun rights or something in any of his episodes. It’s at least something spoopy that isn’t explicitly fascist.

Long time TrueAnon guest Aaron Good has a podcast called American Exception. It’s specifically about US empire and deep events. They spend a whole lot of time on JFK, but the entire thing is good conspiracy content. Aaron is mostly good but he doesn’t have a flare for presentation and he had a Glen Greenwald stan phase and had some issues around masking. You can probably find some conspiracy stuff from Ben Norton as well, he is also a long time guest on TrueAnon and American Exception.

The Dollop has a couple episodes on cults and weird events. The pod starts out very Morning Zoo but Dave slowly commiepills his cohost and audience over time.

Them placing a lot of importance on internet posting is their weakness. It’s anyone’s weakness.

Finally, good fucking analysis.

I don’t like anything that’s artificial.

• Donald J Trump

Hold on now, I didn’t say anyone shouldn’t criticize him publicly. The point was that we should be aware that others are watching and that it can be used against us. So already you’re reading into things that aren’t there and instead of asking me, just assuming I have a way more lib opinion than I really do.

You don’t have to be a communist to be seen as a threat to capital. You don’t have to be a communist to be targeted by capital in terms of smear campaigns and violence. You’re being pedantic over my phrasing so you could insert a childish jab at me for some reason.

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JFK wasn’t a radical either but they sure as shit treated him like one.

They don’t read the docs close enough and it turned out they sent a couple of aliens to Little Saint James on the plane with Epstein and Trump

“Fuck!”

Remember that time Tulsi was running for President as a Democrat. I wonder how much money they gave her to take up room away from others? If they can actually get Obama to appear in court, it’s over. The satanic pedophile ring won. They’re dabbing on everyone. There is no future but violence. Not because of Obama specifically, just that hundreds of people in power will go along with a show trial instead of pushing Trump onto his own sword. Like the quantum state tariffs, extreme austerity, and resurgence of mainstream fascism is more important to them than letting President Hamburger take the fall for them.

It is an actual tactic to associate radicals with moderates in order to make them look bad to their supporters. Look at the actual meat of the article:

Sources say Mamdani and Khan have since exchanged texts and spoken over the phone. Khan’s advisers have also been in contact with Mamdani’s campaign team.

The sources close to Khan add that Mamdani needs to move to the centre to widen his appeal, particularly as Cuomo and the incumbent mayor, Eric Adams, are running as independents in the general election on November 4.

These are actually two unrelated pieces of information. One is that Kahn has been in contact with Mamdani sometime since his primary win, and the other says someone close to Kahn (but not Kahn) advises Mamdani be more moderate. This is a classic yellow journalism tactic and Adam knows that, or he should, given his job.

Keep in mind that liberals can see our dunk posts on twitter. They can actively measure what riles us up by our posting response. This is why social media successfully replaced COINTELPRO. It’s not about just spying in terms of movement and action. It’s also about sentiment analysis. We’re about to hit August and the NYC general is in November. So these kinds of things are going to continue popping up. They perform several functions. 1) To reassure moderates that the adults are handling it 2) To make Mamdani’s team seem like there is public pressure on him to be moderate 3) To make Mamdani supporters, who support Palestine, unsure of his commitment.

It’s one thing for us to criticize our own, in our own house. But when we’re out in public, other people can see it and capitalist establishment will take advantage. I’m not asking anyone here to support Mamdani if you don’t want to, I’m not asking you to get into electoralism. I’m just trying to illustrate that we can’t take every bit of news that confirms our bias (that people always sell out) at face value. Even when they do eventually sell out. I think AOC is somewhat of a victim of these kinds of tactics, she wasn’t ready for it, and now it’s too late. Let’s see if Zohran is ready for it.

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Here is your viking/nordic mythology game!

it’s probably because most programmers have given up on optimizing graphics

Not picking on you in particular, but this is actually a huge thing in gamer circles. There’s a whole cottage industry of game critics who focus on how poorly optimized games are and how that’s indicative of a competency crisis in the industry. The gamergate holdouts boost this narrative to compliment their idea that DEI hires are incompetent and it’s leading to poor quality games. You end up with two sides of this, the political side with is just right wingers complaining about their grievances, and the apolitical technical side that couches dissatisfaction in craftsmanship. They end up feeding each other.

This is kind of like a microcosm of broader politics, and the typical thing missing is a class/material analysis. The woke DEI slop people are obviously attributing problems to women and minorities. The technical people are attributing everything to incompetence or lack of standards. The real answer is, of course, that games are a heavily financialized industry where decisions are made by money people more than games people.

A lot of the reasons why games have these optimization issues is that optimization is a skilled and time-consuming job. Investors and the managers of game companies don’t really want to spend resources on that. They want a minimum viable product so they can get to market as quickly as possible and start getting returns on investment.

He hasn’t lost anything yet though! You’re saying he’s lost it already when nothing has changed. I think we agree on some stuff but the main point of contention is that him saying “okay maybe I won’t say globalize the intifada” is some earth-shattering concession that proves he’s a DNC sellout. Like he just did the Contrapoints post and now it’s all over.

Have one more post but I think we both should just move on from this conversation.

I’m begging you, please stop asking me about Epstein. You want me to bomb Iran? I’ll do it. Look over here. I’m getting the bomb out. I’m arresting Obama. Tariffs? 6000% tariff on everyone.

Yeah but whether or not his win ties into a broader movement requires people outside of NYC to pitch in rather than sit and wait for him/his team to do it all. If he wins and everyone outside of NY decides that they don’t like electoralism and that he’s a sellout, then it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. He will be weaker alone and have to make concessions to do stuff. If there is national support for it as a project, then it’ll be easier for him to be successful. That will make it easier for it to happen elsewhere. It creates a cycle.

Yeah we’re just going to keep going around on this. I’m just not going along with the idea that the only way he can win the general is to tie the governance of Israel to material conditions in NYC. Besides, it’s an unfalsifiable position. If he loses it’s because he didn’t support Palestine hard enough. If he wins it proves that his capitulation bought him favor with the kingmaker Zionists and he’s working for them.