Forcing yourself to do classical liberalism to own the commies.

Not sure what to think about Benz. He seems to go against the grain but almost everything he says or writes or summaries of his arguments can be read as coded support for US imperialism. It’s unclear who his messages are for. While they might lend support to anti-imperialists, there is enough in there for just a different kind of imperialist.

The US and its CIA-controlled “soft power” arm utilized the encrypted social media app Telegram to foment riots and protest movements against foreign governments it deems undesirable …

And:

… “26 US-government-funded NGOs” condemned Russia for attempting to ban Telegram in 2018 [because] “the US State Department was …” utilizing its encryption and local popularity “to foment protests and riots within Russia – just as they did in Belarus, Iran, Hong Kong, and attempted to do in China,” …

Is this an exposé on the US/CIA? Maybe. What critic doesn’t already suspect such behaviour? The claim can be read as an attempt to persuade users and potential users that TG is so secure even the CIA uses it.

Combine this with the following:

The US has championed free speech globally for decades …. Durov’s end-to-end encrypted social media app Telegram has been instrumental in this effort …

Is this a double-bluff attempt to get anti-imperialists to reject TG because it has been used to undermine their governments? The claims appear to say something but the intent is unclear.

Finally:

The app’s encryption is a powerful means of evading state control over media and allowing “US-funded political groups or dissidents to garner tens of thousands of supporters with relative impunity,” …

Another not-so-subtle hint that TG is secure enough to use for all of your anti-imperialist organising.

The alternative is that RT is picking this story up in this way to settle US nerves. Maybe Russia already has access to encrypted TG messages/metadata and has used it to root out US spies/saboteurs.

It’s a strange one but I don’t think Benz can be read as just stating ‘facts’. The other irony is that he is a free speech activist. Does he agree with the US pushing free speech, despite the CIA angle? Or does he think speech should be censored where it is used to undermine other/any government(s)?

At this point I’m not sure the west could plan things centrally and succeed. They would have to go through several cycles of trial and error. China has been building it’s capacity for decades. And it benefits from its democratic centralism/SWCC/Marxism. Then again companies like Amazon can manage it…

They’re quite candid much of the time. They just dress it up and the general public either never hears about it or only hears the distorted version.

It’ll be bang on the edge of the Atlantic, too, once sea levels sink Europe.

I doubt it. What makes you suggest McDonald’s?

I concur. I liked how creative it was, still.

*5th

The yanks got there first with the 4th one.

It’s working if you want your shares back at a discount. But that assumes an expectation that the price will rise again.

The signs were there but they’re not obvious to everyone maybe. Especially if they don’t want to see them. Now it’s hard to pretend otherwise. (Although some are still managing it!)

Thanks. That’s helpful.

Would you elaborate on that?

Colloquially, common sense:

1 Reason and knowledge as opposed to sense perception.
2 The rational part of the individual human soul.
3 The principle of the cosmic mind or soul responsible for the rational order of the cosmos.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

But the tools of aerial terror campaign are only good for aerial terror campaigns, not conventional war.

This is Mearsheimer without any of the nous.

“We tried turning off the lights on tall pylons and buildings, knowing which way the Russians flew and hoping they would fly into these static structures but the pilots saw through the ruse. They are a lot more adaptable than we thought.”

They grew up with lead pipes. They literally did become less empathetic. Who knows what the remaining lead and the microplastic will do to us.

Then they die and the eight people who survive their 55th birthday are the conservatives with acres and acres.

I suspect the number of Indian immigrant doctors abroad is due to brain drain rather than an abundance of doctors/lack of need in India.

This is so the Brits can send their new conscripts over to fight Russia to protect their heritage rather than because NATO is getting directly involved.