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I recently came across a YouTube channel, Wandering Turnip, documenting the decline of the UK. It makes for some rather depressing but also quite educational viewing. Here is a video on Leeds:
The UK just keeps winning. Not only is it “right-wing extremism” to dislike the government, not being a total simp will soon also be an instance of extremism.
https://archive.ph/ymEcZ
Re Andrew Tate and ‘misogynistic influencers’.
reminded me of a doco I saw called “The Pickup Game” ( I mentioned a while ago). Very interesting watch re this -it shows RSD/ Owen Cook & Co had a high profile federal govt prosecutor (or similar ) looking into their business re misogyny, rape claims, fake infields and general scamming etc.
RSD shut down their business around when the doco was released . The jig was up.
Don’t know how they are still operating in the biz of “ self help “ tbh.
TD is pretty loaded , maybe he filed a counter suit if it went that far. His estimated worth is $2M from a google. I reckon more like $3-4M myself at a wild guess.
Not bad for an autistic teaching ‘social skills ‘.
I used to lol at your ‘breakdowns’ of his videos back in the day. On the money 😂
I should watch that documentary sometime soon. It probably is quite cringe-worthy. I would not want to estimate someone’s net worth and I am not sure how reliable the various online sites with such information are. With regards to RSD, it seems that they had some rich Chinese guy bankrolling them. He went by the name “RSD Papa”. Owen Cook himself has fully switched to self-help.
I just watched parts of that documentary. Obviously, the angle of the producers was to present the guys in the most unfavorable light. It does not help that some people, like “Justin Wayne”, play up that angle and seem to have little awareness of how a regular person might perceive their boasting. The last twenty to thirty minutes are quite interesting. I was not aware that two PUAs were sentenced to eight years in jail, and another one to six years.
Of course, there also had to be an expert woman in this documentary who put out unbelievable statements such as, “it is an option for women to find guys attractive for who they are”. This is obviously why women consider 90% of guys to be below average, and also why they are happy to be Chad’s 120th woman, even for just one night.
At the very end, Paul Janka talks about dating in the present day, and also takes a jab at Ross Jeffries, whom he described has having “whimpered into middle and late age”, serving as a “lesson” for other guys. The next segment indeed covers Ross Jeffries, who tries desperately to use this opportunity for PR purposes. We learn that “Ross Jeffries is just a character” and that he “got tired of playing him”. Surely, the problem was not that this guy got way too old, and was far too unattractive, to convince anybody that he was successful with women. Supposedly, he is 58 in the movie, which came out in 2019, but he looks quite a bit older than that. Others are “vultures” but not him, the honorable Ross Jeffries, who wants to make the audience believe that he has “women come over”.
So RSD’s Tyler apparently got out of town with more assets to his name than washed-up “Ross Jeffries”. The Jew Ross still has to “work” to make a living, he frequently shows up at mid-tier self-help conferences where he sells his genius self-improvement and time-management to gullible audiences who have no clue about his legendary “speed seduction” past. I’ve seen it for myself, it’s hilariously miserable (or miserably hilarious)!
Ha. Yes old RJ never did get ‘in’ on the whole global Pickup explosion and capitalise $$$. Which is strange considering. He still lives in a one bed apartment with his cat. Check out that doco if you want to see his sad life in detail. He renounces his SS past etc. (lol)
no shit where was that you saw him what SH conference? He “hypnotised” the crowd with his speech no doubt 😀
Oh yeah Tyler is worth quite a bit I reckon hard to get solid net worth but.
The problems with Ross Jeffries were manifold. One was that he was simply too old and no longer believable when the pickup boom happened. People could not relate to a disheveled guy in his 50s talking about how important it was to use phrased like “new direction” because they make women think of a “nude erection”. He laid on the bullshit too thick.
Aaron,
“This is obviously why women consider 90% of guys to be below average, and also why they are happy to be Chad’s 120th woman, even for just one night”.
1. Is this strictly looks or does this also include men who are not financially successful, thus they are below average?
2. On a related note, since most women do not consider most men attractive, do they still feel validated if some cuck or beta male showered them with gifts and money? I personally would not feel validated if some fatty was chasing after me. I would feel repulsed and disgusted.
1) For one-night stands, looks are arguably the most important aspect but powerful men also get plenty of attention. Chad does not need to have a lot of money to get his dick sucked.
2) This is an interesting question. Given today’s societal climate, I would not be surprised if many women thought that they are entitled to gifts and money from guys they have no sexual interest in. In fact, there is an infamous behavioral pattern where women keep guys around, milking them for resources, but when the guy gets tired of it, they act all upset and claim that they were really only interested in “friendship”. This is simply a lame attempt to shame guys, after they had extracted enough resources from them. It is evil. You are right that these women do not feel sexually validated by these men.
@sleazy
“I just watched parts of that documentary. Obviously, the angle of the producers was to present the guys in the most unfavorable light. .. etc etc”
Phew 😮💨 that was some top shelf funny sarcastic shit Sleazy. My stomach hurts from laughing,
Dude – it’s quite obvious that you don’t understand how your real Game really works.
It’s not your 6.3” height , good looks, great hair, and fitness dude.,
It’s your WIT bro,
It was really that all along.
I can see it now.. the new book:
“Aaron Sleazy Elias author of such books as
Minimal Game…
Online Game…
Social circle Game…
And now his latest and arguably greatest book 🥁
“ WIT GAME – how to pull chicks in Bars & Clubs using only Wit”
WIT-GAME bro,
I see it now.,, a 500 hour long video course.
Seminars, Bootcamps, the Wit Game Mansion, Wit Infield Footage..
“if you can make a woman laugh the world of women is surely your oyster using Sleazys new secret techniques and advanced Wit Technology that the players don’t want you to know”
Oh dear, I do give myself the lols sometimes.
Ok I’m off to “medicate and chill “now. 💊
Apparently there is ‘mega-riots’ going on in the UK atm my UK. Big racial tension about the immigration/ asylum seeker situation has hit boiling point after 3 little girls were stabbed by a Muslim AS. My UK mate told me all the football hooligan crews got involved. Protesters tried to set fire to a AS hotel and several police were badly injured.
https://youtu.be/wl__vaVl3YY?si=U3oaPhjYJAAU3AlG
The UK really is not a great place to be since Brexit and Co-vid and the NHS on its knees. now even worse with the immigration crisis.
It does not help that the UK government is releasing criminals from prisons in order to have enough space for all those pesky white Britons who make Facebook posts the government does not like. Britain seems to be in the worst shape of all of Europe.
Kim Dotcom has fallen for anti-semitic propaganda:
https://x.com/KimDotcom/status/1825187568834753021
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article253094726/Landtagswahlen-Sachsen-Thueringen-AfD-laut-Umfrage-in-Thueringen-weiter-deutlich-vorn.html
Germany is going down the drain, but at least the spark of hope is still glimmering in the East.
“Climate: The Movie” is a good documentary on the man-made climate-change hoax. I fully recommend it.
A refugee physician has performend another surgery in Germany town of Solingen.
There could not have been a better enrichment incindent in Germany, considering that there will be three major elections in the East of the country. Most amazingly, this event happened during the 650-year anniversary celebrations of Solingen, a city that is most well-known for its excellent knives. The aforementioned event was supposed to furthermore celebrate multiculturalism. One may argue that it did.
Yeah, the irony.
Björn Höcke, one of the most important politicians of Germany and likely the next prime minister of Thuringia, recently released a 90-minute movie on his political views and career. For our German-speaking bros, this is definitely worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17oFbjDGgMw
Afterwards, you may listen to his early speech on the German refugee problem, which is quite prophetic in hindsight:
Thanks. I will watch it soon…
Hat tip to Simplicius:
“The [Israeli] economic indicators speak of nothing less than an economic catastrophe. … Israel’s credit rating was lowered, Israeli bonds are sold at the prices of almost “junk bonds” levels, and the foreign investments that have already dropped by 60% in the first quarter of 2023 (as a result of the policies of Israel’s far-right government before October 7) show no prospects of recovery. The majority of the money invested in Israeli investment funds was diverted to investments abroad because Israelis do not want their own pension funds and insurance funds or their own savings to be tied to the fate of the State of Israel.”
1. This is something others have observed before. Foreigners vote “far right” in their own countries because you don’t shit where you eat, then come here and vote far left because that’s their way in.
2. That last sentence is striking.
That last sentence is similar to the Left championing “free speech” when they are in the opposition because it helps them. Yet, as soon as they get into positions of power, they turn ultra-authoritarian.
That’s very interesting Aj.
So where are they getting all the money go their endless stockpiles of rockets they are throwing at the Palestinians? Plus the military ops ongoing there to find the Hamas “rats” still hiding out under all the rubble.
Plus the upkeep of their state of the art defence systems inside Israel. And to keep the nuclear program running.
Interesting. US funding I suppose.
The Monthly deposits from Joe & Co.
I’ll bet Mossad is a big source of off the books funding internally for Israel. They were running big money rackets decades ago from that book I read re Mossad Ops.
Mainly Arms Sales scams around the world.
Those sneaky Jews.
Also rumours of the drugs trafficking they were doing ie Heroin. Possibly human trafficking also into porn and prostitution.Would not surprise me in the slightest. But mainly the Mossad Arms Deal scams that be the highest earner for them.
I also worry that some bigot will read that and say something like “ruteless cawsmuhpawlituns to the end” but thankfully such unenlightened remarks are not permitted here.
Binance, a crypto exchange that has no official headquarters, has seized all Palestinian-owned funds at the behest of the IDF:
https://x.com/ray_noOnes/status/1828006618539212919
This is our world in a nutshell.
I just had a 3hr debate with my older brother about Ukraine.
He believes Ukraine is a deep state asset of US , the war is a proxy war whereby US&UK are using Ukraine as a battering ram to destabilise Russia in various ways.
He reckons NATO is a puppet of US and it’s 10 yr strategy was to bolster Ukraines army and then to provoke Russia to
1. Bleed Russia of resources (nope)
2. Destabilise Europe (Mainly Germany..?)
3. Keep US hedgemoney (?)
I told him at the end it could not have been US strategy as the net result of this “strategy” is
Net result zero for US , (?) Ukraine flattened and defeated and Russia ending up taking half of Ukraine perhaps and controlling the gas (& oil ) resources .. of course 🤷🏻♂️
I told him it’s all about natural resources and money not much more.
He also reckons US we’re using Ukraine to gun-run weapons through there an make money.
And.. part of this war was US strategising Through NATO to have weapons based in Ukraine to reach Russia.
Wtf is he talking about
can you guys explain how the US could have benefitted through a “proxy war” (?) with these result.
Their analysts should have obviously predicted the success % to be very low well in advance no?
Has Germany/Europe been destabilised by all of this ? I dunno. Some of you live there is the economy fucked now as a direct result of Ukraine events?
Cbf googling just thought I’d ask u guys instead.
Like what has been the end result now for US if they have strategised all of this for X years in advance?
Your bother seems pretty clued in. The West is utterly delusional about Russia’s economy, sniffing its own farts too much. I believe the goals were to:
– Destabilize Russia and break it up as consequence. This supports the goal of US hegemony, no “hedge money”.
– Hobble Europe. This is happening. The economy of Germany is in the doldrums.
– Destroy the Ukraine, a majority white country.
Hitting two out of thee goals is not bad. Unfortunately, the failures in the Ukraine show to the world that the US is not able to win a war against an enemy that is able to fight back. They have the additional problem that they have spread themselves too thin, considering the various ongoing conflicts in the world, most of which are the result of US and Israeli meddling.
I don’t think the USA orchestrated the war at all. If Russia won it would have been a strategical loss for the USA as their enemy would expand their influence and clout – “look, Russia just took a whole country and the USA could do nothing but whine, USA is weak and Russia is strong!” Some countries which are hesitating between aligning with the West (NATO+EU) or East (Russia+China) might then have chosen to throw their lot in with the East.
What actually happened is the opposite: Russia having huge trouble with the war reveals them to be very weak which is a strategical win for the USA. Also, donated NATO weapons have proven to be, in most cases, superior to their Russian-made equivalents, which is disconcerting for all the the third world countries who bought weapons from Russia.
Russia initiated the war because they wanted to control vital ports and key logistic hubs for natural gas in Ukraine, as well as expand their sphere of influence in general.
The German energy supply switched from nuclear power to Russian natural gas in recent years. This meant that Putin could cripple the German economy by turning of the gas supply (Gazprom is controlled by the Putin regime). And Germany is the economic engine of the whole EU. If Germany goes under then the whole EU will go with it.
Therefore Putin and his advisors believed that when they sent tanks and paratroopers to take Kiev and annex Ukraine in February 2022 no EU country would resist them. After all, if the EU sided with Ukraine Putin could just turn of the natural gas and starve Germany of energy until chancellor Scholz bent his knee in submission.
Putin’s miscalculation is that many Germans are obsessed with being “being on the right side of history” and not appearing to be Nazis or any other kind of fascists, since they are raised with the stigma from WW1 and WW2. And so they chose to sacrifice their economy and sided with Ukraine. The Russian natural gas had to be replaced with other energy sources at great expense.
This has put the EU in a tough position, but I don’t see how the USA benefits from that. I guess they can negotiate more favorable trade deals with the EU. I don’t know how much that matters.
The USA doesn’t really need the EU if they just make up their mind to focus on self-sufficiency and cooperation with Canada and Mexico. In the future the USA could stop trading with the EU entirely if they build more factories domestically. All they have to do is lose their self-image as world police and protectors of democracy. Which seems to be Trump’s attitude.
Hmmm .
@Burt – I would tend to agree.
It’s all about the money baby,, ie Gas and Oil resources and supply mainly.
My counter argument to my bro was that the US are not *that* dumb to try such a strategy with a high odds of failure – as they would know from the planning stage and intelligence analysis that this would likely result in a failure outcome in destabilising Russia or bleeding it if military capability. Has it worked ?
Don’t see how the US economy has benefitted from this in terms of big money flowing back to US. And why hobble Europe as a strategy – to what end?
Re Russian losses estimates are a bit all over the place.
150k Ukrainians Vs 500K Russians or thereabouts. (Wow) also interesting how many military units Russia have now lost, plus their ‘Moskva’ ship. The ‘Rusty’ Ruskis lost a lot;
https://war.ukraine.ua/faq/what-are-the-russian-death-toll-and-other-losses-in-ukraine/#:~:text=What%20are%20the%20Russian%20aircraft,shot%20down%20by%20August%202024.
I see Russia are losing 1,000 soldiers per day at the front. Wow.
And also Wagner recruiting soldiers from prisons for the meat grinder. Apparently they sign contract in prison with a promise of release after x time served then end up at the front within a few days with no training and shitty weapons as fodder to die. Poor bastards. Makes sense to use them to giveaway positions etc.
Don’t the Russians have satellites for such intel tho?
Nice maps here;
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60506682
These stats were interesting to me re army capabilities also.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1296573/russia-ukraine-military-comparison/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293174/nato-russia-military-comparison/
Fantastic research, James! For more unbiased news on the Ukraine war, I recommend checking out The New York Times, The Guardian, Business Insider, Forbes, and The Economist. According to them, Russia is collapsing any day now for two-and-a-half years.
@Sleazy-
“The West is utterly delusional about Russia’s economy, sniffing its own farts too much. “
How do you mean .. so they are underestimating it’s strength?
I find it hard to believe they could be ‘delusional’ as they would have solid Intel.
Officially, the US has for many years underreported the strength of the Russian economy. GDP numbers are dubious in general, but they are even worse when you want to compare countries. At that level of abstractions, you need to look at purchasing power parity. US leaders are delusional because they are blinded by ideology.
The dominance of the various US tech companies is not due to superior technology but by strong-arming its vassals. For instance, the idea of using Microsoft Windows in a professional setting is downright ludicrous. Similarly, the various US cloud companies are essentially arms of the CIA, which spies on you and also is heavily involved in industrial espionage. It is not much of a stretch to claim that the US tech monopoly is being propped up by the US military.
@sleazy
Officially, the US has for many years underreported the strength of the Russian economy. GDP numbers are dubious in general, but they are even worse when you want to compare countries. At that level of abstractions, you need to look at purchasing power parity. US leaders are delusional because they are blinded by ideology.”
Well Id believe they for sure the underreport to the public . And that the general public is delusion. But not the leaders, as they would sit in a room with all the top brass ,who would well know the real situation from intel and analysts etc and who formulate and present the strategy based upon said intel..
Biden and Harris would be the politicians and salespeople to the US people to spin the story. But the strategy is formulated by the CIA & Military & Economics & Co top brass. They’d have the correct Intel.
At the planning level the Analysts and Bean Counters would have all the scanarios of “ if we go with strategy X , likelihood Z % this will result in Y .”
They wouldn’t have executed a strategy that net result would be a Loss. The analysis would have told them well in advance at planning stage.
So they’d have known Russia would likely capture half of Ukraine as the outcome.
So this hobbling of Europe strategy bit I’m struggling to figure out…why?
And yes it’s a given US economy is propped up by Defence production sector massively.
But how have US profited from backing Ukraine .. mah bro told me the weapons have been sold at a discount to Ukraine and they were stockpiles they had in US?
Increased weapons production in that sector now he says is coming from Tax Dollars. But this is not “revenue” in for US.?
@Sleazy,
May I ask why you are so anti-America. Back in the days when you were still with the Left, you hated America. Now when you are on the right, that hatred doesn’t subside.
At one point in life, you even considered going to America better economic opportunities. Why are you so spiteful of the US?
Seems like all groups involved overestimated themselves.
The Russians thought they would get Ukraine much faster and easier… didn’t happen – either Russia overestimated their strength or they underestimated the support Ukraine got.
America and Europe thought they could cripple Russia with sanctions… didn’t happen – the Russian economy is stronger than America and Europe thought.
I don’t know what Ukraine is thinking… do they think it’s worth the price to have so many dead for the small chance that Russia doesn’t win so that they get controlled by the US/EU.
Also to understand the war:
– Russia has always been (too?) sensitive about losing control in their sphere of influence
– the US always has been keen on screwing over Russia.
– Ukrainians have always been a bit delusional. I mean it’s a bit crazy how they antagonized their larger neighbor.
Putin is the only obstacle which block Russia from integrating into EU and NATO. Of course, the US would not like such a reunion because the coalition would prove far too strong for them. Russia might compete with the US for leadership in the Western World.
Putin wanted Russia to join NATO, but George W. was strictly opposed to it. He tried again with Bill Clinton. Ask yourself why the US is so opposed to Russia joining. Perhaps you will then realize that a decent working hypothesis is that the US ruling class hates Russia even more than it hates Germany. Besides, why was NATO not disbanded after the collapse of the Soviet Union? That would have been a logical next step.
While Russia does not want to join the EU, Putin would like to cooperate with it. Why would he be opposed to selling raw materials to the various European countries? He is not the aggressor here. Instead, it seems that the underlying issue is that ZOG wants to prevent Russia and Germany from joining forces. If need be, the US is even willing to blow up a gas pipeline and cause a recession in Germany.
Would Putin be ok with leaving his president seat and establishes a truly multi-party electoral system, like in all Eastern European countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Being a Russophile, you may know the endemic corruption of Russia and the lack of transparency in her government that foster distrust among NATO members.
Because the presence of Russia still poses a threat to European national security, and all former Warsaw-pact countries fear Russia.
I admit to not know much about FSU countries, but Russia wishes and have established military bases in these countries as well.
Why are you concerned about corruption in Russia? There is enormous corruption all over the West. Maybe look into “Pfizergate” to read up on the most recent corruption scandal in the EU. Von der Leyen did a backdoor deal with Pfizer, wasting billions (!) of taxpayer money. The same played out in many EU countries, albeit at a smaller scale.
All right, fair enough, the reason why EU and NATO are concerned of corruption in Russia is because she does meet her standard for admission.
What about this question:
Your suggestion would amount to an act of utter submission, not at all befitting a new NATO member. I would be very surprised if Putin would accept such a condition, and why should he? You see this in business during a merger or acquisition, when the leadership of the swallowed entity gets thrown out. It is also not clear why you think that a “multi-party electoral system” would be superior. The big problem of the West, in particular of the US, is that it believes that it has the moral authority to force other countries to accept their preferred form of government, i.e. democracy in name only. In reality, the US want the entire world to be ZOG vassal states.
I have said nothing about the downside of liberal democracy, but I think Putin is driven by power lust and is determined to hang on to his seat rather than seeing himself removed from office. Putin murdered quite a lot of journalists and opposing voices from all corners of Russia.
If joining NATO and EU is not a great advantage, why do Eastern European countries like Poland and Bulgaria flock to these organisations and want to become their members?
Imo NATO would not let Russia join because Russia is too dodgy. They couldn’t let Putin in .. he’s assassinated most who have ever stood up to him. He’s an ex KGB assassin himself that’s how he got to power afaik.
Anyone who stands up against Putin will likely be feeling strangely ill soon after and shortly die. Look at all the oligarchs who have mysteriously “suicided” in the last few years also.
Russia definitely underestimated Ukraines army and their spirit . And we’re rusty and uncoordinated in there initial assaults. They lost quite a lot of choppers and AirPower early days for example. Plus the drones must not have been planned for,
Ukrainians will keep fighting for their independence from the Russian Bully. But they are a bit delusional as Russia has XX M more manpower to throw at them. And Putin is a very dangerous man.
He’ll probably radioactive-poison half the country before he’s through …..
I wonder would he use chemical warfare there next,,
Do you realize that the Ukraine was considered one of if not the most corrupt country on this planet before the NPC got the “Slava Ukraini” firmware implanted in early 2022? Also, are you aware of how many people the Clintons suicided? So far, Putin comes across as pretty level-headed. If you have an hour or so to spare, maybe watch the interview he gave to Tucker Carlson and compare him to any Western politicians. He makes our elites look like the total clowns they are.
Mah bro also believes Navalny was a deep state asset . Which I could not believe as Navalny willingly went back to Russia from his recovery in Germany with 99.9% certainty he would get pinched at the airport by KGB on arrival. Which he did. And then shipped off to a Siberian Gulag prison.
Unbelievable to me watching the doco he did that. to “show his supporters” .
I was watching the doco at that point like W…T…F… 😳 I think he was just a vain idiot tbh.
If he was an Asset he’d be in USA under a new identity. Unless they left him high and dry.. or else he went rogue going back home.
Like wtf would u go back into the Lions Den ., after the Lion tried to kill you., 🤷🏻♂️
Idiota!
Navalny was a deep state asset. What is next, you telling me that all these “color revolutions” happened organically and were not set up by the State Department? In case the connection is not clear: Navalny was used to foment discontent in Russia and built up as the supposed leader of some kind of opposition. Yet, Russia shut down this bullshit, and also kicked out the many US-funded “NGOs” that were working on promoting degeneracy and undermining society.
@ Cuong Quoc Vu:
The EU or NATO could have made Russia join when yeltsin was president or in the first terms of Putin when he was a buddy of bush and not seen as a dictator.
They didn’t and instead did lots of moves to weaken Russia.
Why should the Russian people trust the EU or NATO now?
On that note, let us also recall that prominent Western leaders publicly stated that the Minsk agreements were just a ruse to give Ukraine time to build up its military.
@Sleaxy
Re Navalny – well if so , why did he return to Russia to almost certain abduction by the FSB ?he went rogue? He should be still living and in the USA I would have thought, if an asset,
Well I think Putin is winning on the assassination numbers he’s up to 14 + at least now… ‘allegedly’ anyway.
My interpretation is that he put too much faith in the State Department. In this context, it is highly relevant that the fake Maidan uprising in “Keev” in 2014 succeeded. Plenty other “color revolutions” also did. Navalny surely believed he would be the next president of Russia. In the end, he was nothing more than a useful idiot who paid with his life.
No I don’t know really. I have a feeling that corruption pervaded due to Russian political influence in that country. It is just as much corrupted as post-Soviet states or Vietnam or China.
No, I am also not aware of those who died due to Clinton’s family. What was happening to them?
Putin does come off as a competent politician and a strong leader. I have read some posts analysing the current situation in Ukraine on Vkontakte and many Russians said if Putin did not make a move, later generations would resent him and never forgive him.
That being said, due to the war, a large influx of Russian immigrants have moved to Vietnam, making me wonder about the future prospect of this war. Would Russia being bled to death? Would this be another Afghanistan for Russia? Lots of Russians are unhappy about the war and tried to dodge drafting by moving abroad
I am an American but I am open to look at this conflict from multiple perspectives.
Now that is very unfair of you.
Navalny appears to me to be a relentless freedom fighter who try to expose corruption under Putin’s regime. In any state that still retains a semblance of freedom, opposing voices must be let heard and be heard. Here, we champion the right to speak, and because we are oppressed by the current Western media, we gather here to speak our own mind.
Navalny should not be treated with such brutality, His downfall reminds me of countless Russian dissidents who perished in the arms of KGB under Yuri Andropov. In fact, I find the methods that FSB under Putin use to be a refinement of what happened during Soviet times.
It is very clear to me that Putin has other motives behind the declaration of war. It must not be truly all about national security. He has his own ulterior motives as well.
Aaron, why can you see so good through the western propaganda, differentiate and come to a more fruitful conclusion.
Here in Berlin, where i live, i feel that most people here have a very narrow enemy(Putin) / friend(Nato) conditioning and it is bloated with emotions.
Young or old doesnt even matter.
Has it something to do with your philosophy studies or do u just work more with “falsifications”.
For some reason, school indoctrination did not work on me. In fact, I thought my primary school teachers were pretty stupid. No, this was not a thought I had in hindsight but it was a deep conviction I developed in grade 1 or 2. This may have planted the seed of a complete distrust in authority figures of any kind. A later key moment was when I visited the library of a university in East Germany. I went to the Political Science section, grabbed an arbitrary book with visible wear and tear to see what kind of propaganda students were exposed to — and as it so happened, I got my hands on a treatise on US imperialism, written in the 1970s or 1980s. I read a few chapters and anything I read in there made infinitely more sense that the b.s. I was fed by the mainstream.
At the esteemed University of Clown World, er, Cambridge the Anglo-Saxons have been written out of history:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/06/04/erasing-the-english-anglo-saxons-never-existed-claims-cambridge-university/
Its just a matter of time before the left starts to rewrite history of the founding fathers in American history, and start to blame the free market economy and capitalisms for all the problems in America. Thus, the left will say that America was saved through Socialism.