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XBarbarian's avatar

were you born prone to joining cults, or was it the years of whiskey and prozac? groomed early on by jebus luvin opus dei pedos? or just the angst of decades of self loathing?

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michael888's avatar

At least Janine gave her views "Matt TaiBbi shilling anti-Trump supporter propaganda and Regime narrative regarding Ukraine."

So of course rather than respond to her argument, you ad hominem attack!

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Bill.K's avatar

She has no argument.

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Janine's avatar

And there it is....the regime attack artists (and he'll have a back-up commenter to take his side) attacking anyone who says anything remotely pro-Patriot.

Rot in hell for the back-stab Taibbi.

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michael888's avatar

A bit strong. I follow Taibbi for his insights and humor. He spent six years(?) in the Soviet Union in the 1990s and, like seemingly half of our State/CIA, he came out of the Soviet Union with a permanent take on how former Soviet countries operate (has the US changed any in the last 20 years?) I was surprised that Taibbi was surprised that Russia invaded (with strong support from the Russian people, unlike most of America's invasions-- most just don't care.)

I don't remember if Taibbi covered the Orange Revolution when the CIA installed Yushchenko (married to an American, a probable CIA agent) and made Ukraine a Puppet State in 2005. Or if he covered the overthrow of Yanukovych in the Maidan Coup (obviously under Nuland/ Biden's direction, to get rid of "unsatisfactory" Puppet, at least elected under UN surveillance; CIA Puppey Yushchenko got only 5% of the vote) in 2014? Maybe coups are okay to Taibbi (I'm sure he has read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", where in American Foreign Policy bribes are first, coups are second and invasions last).

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Mike R.'s avatar

I've been recommending the recent Renaud Beauchard article on N.S. Lyons/THE UPHEAVAL site because I was struck, not only with the political activism in France, but also the authors understanding of the political and financial forces, both within and outside France that are assaulting the French people, Europeans in general and ourselves. Attendance at SUBSTACK affirms our hunger for a new American national dialogue. This everyday "crisis is our daily bread" life Americans are forced to live runs cover for the machinations of the WWIII Globalist class war. Events and discussion of incidents like those in your comments and their connection to the wider narrative are immediately lost in whatever new political shock and awe shit storm the shadow boys send our way. There is no history, only the "party line". It is a kind of weaponized Tower of Babel screaming silence. You can speak anything but the truth.

The peoples of the world and the nation states they've created are being looted and their populations diluted for the benefit of totalitarian finance. The new American dialogue and the change this new age is demanding must come from "..we the people.." Know your enemy.

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Class Enemy's avatar

Get your facts straight: there was NO support for a war against Ukraine inside Russia when the war started - thatтАЩs why virtually all observers there were SURE Putin is just bluffing, and they called the warnings from US lies (тАЬplantsтАЭ). Once the Russian propaganda machine switched from тАЬwar is a US lieтАЭ to тАЬwar was necessary and unavoidableтАЭ, thatтАЩs when the Russians joined the brainwashing. The question is why does criminal Russian propaganda has so much effect on weak Western brains?

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Mike R.'s avatar

I'm wondering if the peoples of the world, Western and otherwise are so weak brained because they've been so propagandized and psyoped by totalitarian finance it is impossible to know what the truth is. The American psyche is beaten numb, the lines of daily survival stretched to breaking and the crumbling infrastructure, crime, and deaths head chaos in the streets make it is obvious that "capital" has abandoned any pretense of interest in the American future. The CCP/WEF is redefining the term American as we speak.

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Jan's avatar

тАЬ there was NO support for a war against Ukraine inside RussiaтАжтАЭ

Thought you were going to say in the US. The US suckers didnтАЩt support the war ( per poll) until POTUS and the media started their heavy propaganda against Russia and FOR the corrupt Ukraine.

They never want to talk about the reason Russia attacked.

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Class Enemy's avatar

When a country with fascist imperial ambitions and internal repression like Russia attacks without any provocation another country, claiming the latter doesnтАЩt тАЬhave the right to existтАЭ, you would hope that citizens of democratic countries would support the attacked country fighting back. Unless of course some of those citizens really admire authoritarian regimes and let themselves be brainwashed by the vilest Putin propaganda. Plenty of such wannabe fascists around.

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kass's avatar

"...he came out of the Soviet Union with a permanent take on how former Soviet countries operate (has the US changed any in the last 20 years?)"

My impression too.

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Pacificus's avatar

Matt's not back-stabbing us...he's just afraid, and understandably so.

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Class Enemy's avatar

Clinging to the last straw before accepting the idea that maybe actual evidence (five months of Russian murder) actually changed MattтАЩs opinion? Obviously, evolution of ideas is beyond the strengths of manyтАж

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Janine's avatar

e.pierce, youтАЩve been regime-narrative-support trolling on TaibbiтАЩs substack for how long now?

Are you starting to pick up on the fact that you are in a sinking ship yet?

Better get that resume polished up.

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Jan's avatar

You must be related to pierce, whose comments, like your own, add nothing but insults to the.conversation. Does it just make you feel you are a big better person, or is there some deep seeded need to put others down to make yourself feel valuable?

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XBarbarian's avatar

tbh, Ive been debating people on the internet for 20+ years. I can attest, not one mind was ever changed by debates on the internet. maybe in time, some one might consider a debate, then do some reading, and eventually change their mind, but its entirely organic to that person.

you can search my post history, and see where Ive added a great deal of information. when I feel like it.

but after multiple decades, I have a zero tolerance for idiots. there is no excuse to cling to being stupid, to idol worship plain and obvious grifters and scam artists, like trump. to cling to childish stories about invisible man in the sky and messiahs in blood (the whole jebus narrative is just a rip off of mayan blood sacrifice, its crazy people still buy into that stupid shit) and I tell them so, every chance I get. when some jackass shows their ass, I like to hold a mirror up to them, so they can see the ass they are showing us.

and no, I have no need to bolster my self image. Ive done years of work on that , and am very comfortable with who I am, what ive done, and how I show up. but thanks!

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