I mean, it's literally called the SS rn, naming it Praetorian Guard might actually make it sound less Hitlerist.

Pretty easy, actually, buy all of them and read them at the same time. One sentence Pelosi, one sentence Haaland, one sentence Varoufakis, you'll be writing this generation's Anti-Düring after that.

I didn't really need more reasons to destroy the gender binary, but i'll add it to the list.

I don't have the time to translate the entire thing, but here's the gist of it (all transliterations of Ukrainian names spelled as in the article):

• The article blames the attack exclusively on a team of 14 Ukrainian operatives (some of them with strong CIA links), led by Roman Tscherwinsky, who is currently under house arrest in the Ukraine due to botching the extradition of a Russian defector. Another named suspect is former head of Ukrainian military intelligence Wassyl Burba. The highest ranking Ukrainian guy who is at least partially blamed is former general Walerij Saluschny.

• The article admits that the CIA and Swedish and Dutch intelligence knew about the plans, but states that they were against it and warned Germany. The German intelligence agency BND is said to have not taken the warning seriously, and to not have informed other security organs in Germany (which is politically expedient, the BND can fuck up as much as they want to and never faces actual consequences for anything). Selenskij is also let off the hook and supposedly opposed the plan.

• Financing of the operation was apparently done by one unnamed Ukrainian entrepreneur who donated 300,000 €, additional costs supposedly covered by the operatives themselves, who are said to have worked pro bono.

• All government officials who are still in active duty and are blamed in the article are Polish, the accusations are about not extraditing a suspect living in Poland at the time and instead warning him to enable his escape to Ukraine (this is also politically expedient, as it allows Germany to put pressure on Poland).

• The technical part exclusively backs up the earlier chartered sailboat stories. I've always had my doubts about the technical side of the operation, given that a water depth of 80m is deep-sea diving and idk if 40 minutes for the ascend are enough time for decompression - from what little i know about deep sea diving, at that water depth a decompression chamber would be necessary, but that's just me talking as a layperson. I also have no idea how feasible it is to unload the needed explosives (which were supposedly hidden in fake oxygen bottles) without a crane, using just manual labor and the foldable diving platform on a mid-sized sailboat. The type of explosive isn't specified, btw. Apparently it took the team several days and multiple dives on each day to place all the charges.

• The political spin is "well yes this is serious and diplomatically dicy, but it could be argued that German critical infrastructure was a legitimate military target, so this wasn't terrorism. Oh, and Nordstream 2 was mostly financed by Russia anyway."

All in all this version of events would work well as an ass-covering for most factions involved. Whether the CIA actually opposed this plot or not is something we'll only find out 30 years from now when they declassify the files.

This stuff can get a lot darker, too.

The original corporate redesign

Vice was a starting point for Milo Yiannopoulos and Gavin McInnes, shouldn't surprise anybody that Shane Smith has gone in the same direction. And with how their views have developed, i'm not suprised he's the only host they have left.

I've learned from being communally gay that seating arrangements are important in nonmonogamous situations. In this configuration, Picard can be shared easily by both partners. Don't end up like this between people who want to make out that you're not dating, it's very rude to block them like that. If you sit in a row sorted from dommiest to subbiest, establish a clear chain of command or the subbier switch will become confused if they should top or bottom (this works best when the Domme is a Marxist-Leninist, but AnComs can easily integrate themselves into an equitable revolutionary makeout structure if they aren't brats).

I thought Maoism is when you have the transfem echo where one girl in the group meows and then everybody else goes "mao mao mao" in response. I thought everyone in my local community are staunch Maoists, are you telling me we need to have struggle sessions instead?

It was a bank robbery with a hostage situation where the pigs didn't want to compromise on anything with the robbers and were directly endangering the lives of the hostages.

It's a pretty high bar to dunk on libertarian sexpats and somehow come off as more racist and mysogynist than them, but he really outdid himself there.

Wait till the realization sinks in that this is just the normal, organic amount of engagement they get from us because we're by far the most active lemmy instance