Can't believe that actually made me laugh out loud. I am truly poisoned.

Come on... That interview was crap. Tucker doesn't have the journalistic knowledge or integrity to get anything out of Putin. He just let Putin ramble about old history as if it was a significant part of Russia's reasons for deploying in Ukraine. Denazification also isn't really a major factor in the decision to invade either, it just happens to be a viable excuse to bolster the initiative because Ukraine does have a nazi problem.

I support Russia over Ukraine, but let's not pretend Putin is anything but another two faced capitalist.

All this "I remember" reminds me a lot of the "what I heard about Iraq" Eliot Weinberger poem that starts every line with 'I heard that' followed by a contradictory statement about Iraq.

oh I CANT WAIT for all the details of this one to come out... If it's anything like the Operation Gideon hatchet job it'll be fucking hilarious.

Unfortunately we'll probably have to wait about 50 years for the details of MI6 and CIA involvement (with major official and unofficial redactions). If a U.S ambassador claims no involvement... they were involved as fuck.

I mean, look at this outright lie about Goulart's overthrow in Brazil - "The answer to that, senator, is very simple. The movement which overthrew President Goulart was a purely, 100 percent—not 99.44—but 100 percent purely Brazilian movement. Neither the American Embassy nor I personally played any part in the process whatsoever."

Meanwhile, "There was, moreover, the ongoing US Military Assistance Program, which Ambassador Gordon described as a "major vehicle for establishing close relationships with personnel of the armed forces" and "a highly important factor in influencing [the Brazilian] military to be pro-US."

As far as the US Ambassador to Brazil himself attempting a literal multimillion dollar bribe - "Ambassador Cabot remembers a "stormy conversation" in which Berle stated the United States had $300 million in reserve for Brazil and in effect "offered it as a bribe" for Brazilian cooperation ... Quadros became "visibly irritated" after Berle refused to heed his third "no".

Brazil is of course quite an old example now, but it's one that I had the quotes ready for where the U.S truly went mask off.

As time goes they're more careful, so you end up with admissions like this one from Kissinger, that they totally didn't have any involvement with the coup - 'Kissinger himself told Nixon five days after the coup: "We didn't do it. I mean we helped them. [Word missing] created the conditions as great as possible."

why are democrats like this

what the fuck on earth just happened

I had a similar story to some of comments chaining off this comment - atheist 11 year old debate bro adopted by the Dawkins/Yianopoulous/Hitchens anti-religious anti-feminist islamophobe pipeline, then growing out of it as fast as I got sucked into it.

I think right wingers that are truly commited to the 'facts and logic' shit can be especially susceptible. I found myself on the right in part because of my western chauvinist upbringing, but also because my main feeling was that society was lying to me. Everything felt so fake. The visible solutions were half assed 'left' parties like Democrats/Labour, who seemed to speak in jargonous platitudes, whose policies resembled faux-progressive slam poetry. Nothing ever seemed to get better under them. So I fell towards the 'tell it like it is' crowds. And yet, even within that crowd the contradictions are severe - I was still atheist, pro-choice, loved nature and hated climate change...

Then I discovered 'dirtbag leftism' - with all of its hidden truths, undeniable facts of intervention that 'say it like it is' right-wingers had concealed, explanations that finally 'felt' right, with a scientific (logic-centered) approach to politics. Leftism also has all of the spikes and barbs and anger that the feelgood progressives deny. It all just felt right.

Here I am, 4 years later, feeling like I've finally cut through all the bullshit, writing my dissertation on Western intervention in South America.

Yeah, when news was first coming out the reports were of Nabulsi Square, so I went to look that up but made a typo.. instead of Google just correcting the typo with one letter - sending me to the relevant Al Jazeera article about the Nabulsi Square killings (as it was initially called) - I got a result for Tiananmen Square:

Even if it gets corrected to 'Naval Square', Tiananmen is still the first thing to come up. You can type any spelling variation of Nabulsi in and it'll show you Tiananmen. Naval and Nabsli/Nabulsi is closer to the Nisour Square Massacre than anything - committed by US mercernaries in Iraq, but it doesn't get suggested.

I know it's probably not hardcoded to prefer Tiananmen, but it does show how algorithms reproduce already existing biases because 'Xi Pooh Tiananmen' rhetoric is so mind numbingly popular.

and he's called The Doof Warrior

Lets see what happens. Ukraine's case at the moment has not come to decision, but they told Russia to "immediately suspend the military operations" in Ukraine, while waiting for the final decision on the case.

Considering the death toll difference I think the ICJ will be forced to at least advise Israel to suspend military operations. If they don't they'll reveal themselves as unrepentant western dogs.

Their instructional videos are absurd. Every scenario training exercise ends in the 'criminal' attempting to kill the officer. No wonder they're scared all the time.

Well, not that many of them are actually scared, but it is interesting to see the behind the scenes.

It's absurd. I sort of expected them to drop the charges to be honest, but surely the police should be able to prosecuted for blatant obstruction of justice at the very least? They completely falsified what happened at the crime scene.

Ron Desantis saying you're fired the other day was a whole new level of cringe