Flying_horse_in_saudi_arabia posted:This subforum already has the perfect name, for now.
we must keep up with the times
Flying_horse_in_saudi_arabia posted:This subforum already has the perfect name, for now.
This post is now retroactively correct
jiroemon1897 posted:Actual ISIS is just Salafi America
A couple of years ago I listened to an interview with Karen Elliott House, a top CFR/Rand Corp/Dow Jones/WSJ type who wrote a book on Saudi Arabia. The book (published in 2013) seemed like it emerged from a recognition that the Saudi leadership had decayed into a gerontocracy, and the empire needed to restructure its satrap kingdom. The publisher's description notes one purpose of the book was to explore what Saudi Arabia's "longtime American protector can do to help shape the Saudi future." I don't think the book mentioned bonesaws. But during the interview she was asked "so you've worked as a journalist in Saudi Arabia for two decades... was it difficult to establish relationships with these Saudi royals, being a woman?" And she said, nah, in fact it was pretty easy because I grew up in East Texas
I'm on hold with my bank and this is the shit they are playing 😐😐 pic.twitter.com/fIobus2a38
— hsky the god (@jkmb) June 24, 2020
The Chinese consulate in LA was targeted with vile xenophobia last night. The anarchists' message is clear: not only do they make enemies out of the Chinese Communist Party, but also any leftist willing to challenge Washington's destabilization efforts from the core of empire pic.twitter.com/IZz4VL0pzm
— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) June 23, 2020
I'm imagining fast forwarding to 2030 and Kahina is a mild mannered centrist, writing for Vox, working at a think tank. That nice Ms. Klein, the neighbors call. She serves on various committees, and wishes she had drowned
like watching a time lapse titan arum bloom, with authentic rotten meat smell
rolaids posted:Idgi, what does she think the end goal is here? Is she pro capitalist now?
she's a bourgeois heiress who larps as a communist revolutionary out of boredom; covid-19 shattered her fantasy and now she behaves as her class interests dictate
idk much about him but I read an account of a western journalist who went to Albania and was surprised that he agreed to meet in a public park without bodyguards, journo asked if he wasn't afraid of assassins and hoxha responded that he felt safe cause of armed citizens
— corny on main (@nobubiddy) May 15, 2020
lo posted:i love the concept of the ccp as never having split with stalin
well,
to illustrate the folly of your ways, i will use 18th-century economic arguments and 17th-century philosophical tenets to defend the structure of capital, a concept rooted in the commerce of the city-states of 13th-century Italy,
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but there's something strangely reassuring about stupid shit like this. it hearkens back to the simpler times of the bush years. the familiar solidity of pure straight bullshit, so divorced from reality it can't even properly qualify as a lie. i realize that i miss it, that easy uncomplicated certainty.
Gary Kasparov's anti-Putin website has some thoughts on Black Lives Matter. Seems like there's a lack of sympathy for the movement across the Russian spectrum. Google Translate version is below. https://t.co/xKwgAEqmeK pic.twitter.com/8pBX35jnm2
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) June 25, 2020
tears posted:well you see, china is communist...
found my new copy and paste, sorry for the intellectual theft comrade
sovnarkoman posted:Gary Kasparov's anti-Putin website has some thoughts on Black Lives Matter. Seems like there's a lack of sympathy for the movement across the Russian spectrum. Google Translate version is below. https://t.co/xKwgAEqmeK pic.twitter.com/8pBX35jnm2
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) June 25, 2020
there is something refreshingly blunt about the usual crypto-nazi 'conservative' talking points about race run through google translate a couple of times
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sovnarkoman posted:Gary Kasparov's anti-Putin website has some thoughts on Black Lives Matter. Seems like there's a lack of sympathy for the movement across the Russian spectrum. Google Translate version is below. https://t.co/xKwgAEqmeK pic.twitter.com/8pBX35jnm2
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) June 25, 2020
that's pretty nutty because, as we all know, russia also started black lives matter
kamelred posted:that's pretty nutty because, as we all know, russia also started black lives matter
Sounds like SOMEONE needs to watch adam curtis' 2016 masterpiece 'hypernormalisation' 🙄
Flying_horse_in_saudi_arabia posted:kamelred posted:
that's pretty nutty because, as we all know, russia also started black lives matter
Sounds like SOMEONE needs to watch adam curtis' 2016 masterpiece 'hypernormalisation' 🙄
its hardly worth repeating, but between the syria and russia stuff that was insanely disappointing. good music videos though
https://pando.com/2015/05/17/neocons-2-0-the-problem-with-peter-pomerantsev/
Flying_horse_in_saudi_arabia posted:Sounds like SOMEONE needs to watch adam curtis' 2016 masterpiece 'hypernormalisation' 🙄
god, the super normies were bad enough, now they've even collected the 7 super emeralds?
north korea i wish you would please nuke us. just get it over with. https://t.co/j5GKAvJWIV
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) July 2, 2020