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MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]

@ MolotovHalfEmpty @hexbear.net

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  • Antichrist dropping September 15th

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  • Having read more from Thiel and his cadre of technofascists that I'd like, I think he's a believer but in an esoterica, Nazi-occultism way. Lots of neo-Nazi groups love getting deep into the weeds of the occult and esoteric, remixing myth, religion, and symbolism into a world view built for themselves. Does Thiel believe in a literal devil, very doubtful. Does he believe that there is a more abstract, shifting, morally repugnant (to him) force he is in a position to defeat, absolutely.

  • Obozo, Killary and Sleepy Joe could never

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  • Holy pregnant pause batman!

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  • I thoroughly enjoyed relistening to that. Good times. I remember the fallout within NED being pretty juicy too, but sadly it was mostly split over weeks of twitter posts rather than a single satisfying round up.

  • get his ass

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  • This is why basically every light on our house is on a dimmer switch now.

  • How Europe’s New Political Class Began Rejecting Reality

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  • That's a reasonable point I agree.

  • How Europe’s New Political Class Began Rejecting Reality

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  • I completely agree, although I think that unreality goes deeper than that even. The main point of the article - and a trend I've noticed since the advent of the war on terror that has only intensified in the last ten years or so - is that Western states have essentially entirely given up on even the concept of diplomacy. They've drank the KOOL aid of their own propaganda so thoroughly that they cannot see others as actors with actual material interests.

    Years ago I posted here referencing an old but interesting interview with a top diplomat about how the combination of propaganda think-tank culture was completely killing diplomatic services, which has since been made worse by cut budgets and awful job satisfaction with most of the actually capable diplomats fleeing the profession.

    So now you have a situation where there are basically no (or at least few) actual diplomats but instead the 'diplomatic' advisers to these politicians are just as dogmatically self-propagandised as the leaders themselves, if not worse.

  • How Europe’s New Political Class Began Rejecting Reality

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  • Them being from (now) largely deindustrialised economies is an interesting idea too, although it's a bit muddier. Germany for example might be rapidly being deindustrialised now, but that wasn't the case over the last forty years or so, and to a lesser extent it's also true of other European countries while these leaders were coming up or earlier in their careers.

  • How Europe’s New Political Class Began Rejecting Reality

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  • Excellent article.

    On the subject of the social constructive west, Europe's rhetorical trap, and the hyperfixation on trying to use language to bend reality rather than vice versa, I often wonder whether it's less of a philosophical stance of our leaders and more of a materialist result of their makeup.

    Here in the UK, and through much of Europe, the primary career backgrounds of politicians (especially high ranking ones) are that they're either from advertising, law, or news media. The thing that all of those professions share is that they a predicated on the belief that language actually creates reality (persuasion to need in advertising, arguement to objective judgement in law, narrative to political result in news) and not the other way around.

    It would also help to explain why governments in the global south (+ China and formerly the Soviet Union) tend to have political classes (at least outside the right) that are more realistic and materialist as the career backgrounds of it's makeup tend to be more varied and include people from the labour class more frequently. Admittedly, this bit is a pretty broad generalisation on my part, but I think it's interesting.

  • Facial recognition technology not about ‘total surveillance society’ – minister

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  • In a totally, not at all related note, journalist Jonathan Cook was recently pulled over by police, addressed by name, and asked why he was driving so far from his home city of Bristol (he was about 1.5hrs drive away visiting family) seemingly in an attempt to intimidate him by making it clear that he was under constant UK police surveillance.

  • County Durham weather stations destroyed in speed camera mix-up

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  • Exactly. I'd put money on it being either some sort of crank conspiracy or mental health related paranoia or both.

    Different part of the country, but when they put up advanced barometers near us to measure wind for potentially building an off shore wind farm, they kept getting vandalised and destroyed. I assumed it was by someone who was against the idea of building the wind farm but a few weeks later all the houses around me started getting photocopied flyers about how they were 5G linked spyware that collected all digital and phone signals in the area to control and blackmail us as part of a test programme that would be rolled out across the UK.

  • UK comrades: how is the media there covering the absolute cratering of support for Labour / Starmer?

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  • They're not, at least not outside faint allusions to it in only the most poll obsessed wonky places, and even there all they're going on about is how the government is setting up an "Attack Team" led by Morgan Mcsweeney (Starmer's chief of staff, early Mandleson intelligence ghoul, & chief party bribe collector) to take on Reform while still courting their voters.

    The usual far right tabloids are running the 'lefty woke shite' line against individual Labour ministers despite it being maybe the most right wing government in history, but Starmer did a (devil's) deal with the Murdoch press to keep them from going fully in on him, while the financial press galley is hectoring Labour to do even deeper cuts to state spending no matter how much austerity and tearing up of pensions they do (under Labour's current pension age proposal one third of people would pay in their whole life but never get their pension due to dying before it kicks in), but that's it.

    Meanwhile a lot of the right wing attack dogs in the press along with the insidious 'left' papers and outlets like The Guardian and Novara are busy sowing the seeds of wreckerism in the Greens and Corbyn legacy party respectively.

  • TRAIN GAME TRAIN GAME

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  • This looks so fucking rad. I'm catching up on the livestream but so far the preshow is better than the mainone between JetSetTrainDriftingGame and the super over the top trucker game.

  • Fallout Season 2: New Vegas Trailer

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  • I only just discovered that the co-creator and co-showrunner is called Geneva Robertson-Dworet which is one the best first names I've ever heard followed by the most Chapo reading series surnames I've heard in a long time.

  • Sounds like a plan.

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  • This is basically the same here in the UK. We even extended it to helping people join militias to fight in Libya, including issuing passport exemptions & having the intelligence service provide free travel when stopped at airports and as blowback we got a load of kids blown up in a suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert.

  • Imagine thinking a government run by lawyers is better than a one run by engineers.

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  • Imagine a government not run by lawyers...

  • Sounds like a plan.

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  • We should already be pressing criminal charges and or revoking the passports of dual-citizens that have fought for the IDF, but in a just and sane world anyway choosing to answer this call now, when there isn't the faintest shred of plausibility that they don't know they're signing up to finish a genocide, should immediately have their citizenship revoked.

    (Or you know, the pit).

  • Unnamed Finnish MP commits suicide in parliament

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  • He'd supposedly been ill and hospitalised for a while with kidney complications. No idea if his health was a factor though.

  • I feel fucked up that I use AI now in place of google searches.

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  • They already are. The links that appear as information references in Google's 'AI' preview for example are already selected via weighted lists that benefit Google or their biggest advertisers. So not only are they basically rendering SEO rankings irrelevant by producing info / answers with no click through at all, but they're prioritising their own interests in that too. People in digital marketing are shitting a brick about it at the moment.

  • I feel fucked up that I use AI now in place of google searches.

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