In 2021, when Italy was suffering hundreds of deaths per day from Covid, it wasn't any capitalist nation that helped Italy. It's EU co-members wanted money and austerity to give even meager support.

No, rather it was tiny socialist Cuba who deployed the doctor brigades in the worst-hit European country, putting themselves at risk selflessly, and helped save thousands of Italian lives, without ever asking anything in return.

Other conservative analysts are doing the same right now. I've heard Larry Johnson, Garland Nixon himself, and Mark Sleboda to a lesser degree, all praising Charlie Kirk as "someone they disagree with, but always respectful of other views, intelligent, charismatic and having achieved great things". From reactions to these comments I gather more unexpected praise is coming from other people too all over alternative media.

It seems like these people either have no idea who Charlie Kirk was, or they just spent 30 minutes watching some compilation of videos that make him look good. All of them keep saying he was about to start condemning Israel (while admitting they don't know him well), which is completely uncharacteristic of him.

I assume part of this is a cynical attempt at gaining a new audience among Charlie Kirk's considerably-sized flock.

But at the end of the day, let this be a reminder that they are conservatives for the large part, and at least some aspects of his rhetoric appeals to them (I assume especially his religious and homophobic views, as well as defending guns). We may agree with their stance on international politics, but they are not on our side.

Try uploading through a web browser instead of an app. Usually it works better.

In East Germany, you could send a letter to any official's office up to the chairman with complaints, suggestions, etc, and they not only had to read it, but had to respond back with the steps they took to resolve your issue, or explain why they couldn't resolve it, within 4 week. By law, they had to prove to you that they put in every effort to help you. Then every few months, they had to submit to a committee of volunteers all the letters they received and the responses the gave. This committee published all the data of the amount of letters sent through this channel, and the % of letters that were successfully resolved. It's estimated that at least 2/3rds of all households in East Germany had sent such a letter and got a successful resolution out of it, throughout the DDR's history.

A lot of writing in that article is bad, but this takes the propaganda cake:

Russia also has the advantage of time. While Putin can lead Russia along a single strategic trajectory regardless of the length of the war, the U.S. is subject to the whims of democracy. The White House and seats in Congress change hands. Policies change as voters grow weary of supporting other countries.

It's like an onion. There's so many levels to these 3 sentences, that if I start peeling them apart, I'll burst into tears.

The Reddit exodus brought a lot of heavily propagandized idiots. They are shocked to experience not being inside the Western approved echo chamber. Give time for their brains to normalize.

There is a lot to talk about here.

On the Tibetan uprising:

The major funder and organizer of the Tibetan uprising was the CIA. This is well-documented by now, and the CIA/USA are openly proud of it (e.g. infuriating but very informative reads on this: https://www.amazon.com/CIAs-Secret-Tibet-Modern-Studies/dp/0700617884, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26925943)

The Tibetan guerilla groups requested help from the CIA since 1957, but the CIA was reluctant to help them at first. They then turned to other Western nations. By this point, Canada had already started its Nazi importation programs, in efforts to use foreign anti-communists to combat the rising domestic socialist movement. When China had re-acquired Tibet in 1950, many monks started fleeing to the West, including Canada, through this program (https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/the-house-of-anti-communists-and-the-nazi-monster-it-spawned). Eventually, many of the monks who had left Tibet to India would resettle in Canada. The Tibetans joined an existing anti-China community in Canada, created by repatriated KMT fighters and politicians.

Through this community in Canada, the Tibetan guerilla groups raised funds, and made connections with the Canadian government, and it was through them that they initially established contact with the CIA. The Canadian government was a happy intermediary during this period.

After the uprising, the Canadian government was at the forefront of accusing China on how it handled Tibet. This is the earliest example I know of, where a Canadian-based NGO publishes a "study" on human rights violations in Tibet.

On genocide narratives

Take a look at these Canada-based organizations.

https://canadatibet.com/about/

http://www.eastturkistan.ca/

https://uhrp.org/

These are all cut-outs of CIA and CIA-affiliated organizations, based in Canada and employing Canadian lobbyists (The last one was established by this Canadian NGO: https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/).

The strategy is simple: The US issues accusations. Then Canada and Canadian-based NGOs back them up. Why Canada? Because that gives the illusion that the issue is not an excuse to conduct US foreign policy, but rather a legitimate issue of human rights violations.

A good break down of how the Uyghur genocide narrative was created through this method is documented by The Grayzone: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/17/report-uyghur-genocide-sham-university-neocon-punish-china/ (pay attention to the last segment of the article talking about Canadian involvement).

The Canadian parliament and the Canadian delegation to the UN are constantly making proclamations about Uyghur and Tibetan genocides:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/canadian-mps-deem-china-s-actions-vs-uyghurs-genocide-/2014654

https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/august-2020/canadas-duty-to-prevent-unfolding-uyghur-genocide/

https://www.international.gc.ca/news-nouvelles/2022/2022-10-31-statement-un-onu-declaration.aspx?lang=eng

They didn't just give them weapons. They trained them in Canada.

Also, let's not forget:

• Canada has been actively importing Nazis since the 50s (and Trudeau's father signed off on it too)

• The Canadian minister of finance is the granddaughter of an actual Nazi and proud of it.

• Canada has been instrumental in pushing the Uyghur genocide narrative

• Canada has been instrumental in pushing the Tibetan genocide narrative and had financed the Tibetan monk uprising in 1959

• Canada is littered with hundreds of Nazi memorials, including several to Stepan Bandera

Not even a staffer to vet them. Either Zelensky or Rota introduced the Nazi as having "fought against Russia for Ukrainian independence, during WW2".

Everyone should immediately understand what this means, and especially a Holocaust survivor descendant.

Spencer's analysis is just an overview of the current symptom.

This is the real disease:

because it sees a new platform it can scale to feed the financial growth demanded by investors.

Investors/shareholders demand infinite growth, but there's finite space to grow (millions of games, few customers). This is why, in the past 2 decades we've been seeing the scummiest of practices being employed again and again, as well as a 300% hike in base prices. Capitalism has eaten gaming.

But we've been observing this trend in AAA and AA publishers/developers mostly. Indie gaming is alive and well and evolving towards being better and better. Why? Because indie developers are not usually beholden to investors.

Once you hear a gaming company you used to like has gone public, say your condolences and then run away.

During break, a colleague today (at a school) brought up Hitler after watching a documentary about it. We started talking, and he admitted he knew very little about Hitler and how he came to lead Germany, and wanted to know more. I analyzed the whole thing. Other colleagues in the area started jumping in and asking questions. They were appreciative of the way I talked about it and praised me for knowing so much about history and politics, while admitting that they also knew very little.

Now, I'm not saying this story to tout my own horn, but to emphasize what happened next. Bear in mind, nobody at the workplace knows I'm a communist. They know, I'm left-leaning, but that's it.

Anyway, someone then jumps in and says communism and fascism are the same thing ("communism is red fascism and you have to be an idiot and not know any history to be either one").

I bite my tongue and laugh inside. Here they are admitting they know very little history and praising me for knowing so much of it, then saying communists don't know history.

At any rate, I don't think I'll reveal my politics any time so. It's really effective injecting them with historical materialism without using the buzzwords.

Keep hoping. Better yet, go there and fight yourself if you think it's so important. But you won't. You'll just move your outrage to the next target that US propaganda will point you to.