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The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.
The mind virus of conspiratorial thinking has been devastating. It completely paralyzes analysis and reduces everything to entertainment, fodder for clicks, traffic, and attention. It’s like a caricature of the Straussian close reading of texts: the “real” meaning is always hidden from view, and being unable to see it means you don’t have access to esoteric insights and knowledge. In reality, you’re just reading it wrong.
In the case of Russia right now, nobody really knows what’s happening. But that doesn’t matter; all you have to do is come up with the most absurd theory, and the more absurd it is, the truer it must be.
This is an example where @opentimestamps incremental timestamps could help.
...except for the fact that the "media" doesn't give a damn about evidence.
Incredible hoax. Nafisa Fai is a leftist running for office in Oregon.
She gave a speech in front of an upside-down US flag -- everyone at this Somali event did. (She's a Somali immigrant.)
End Wokeness posted the video.
Her campaign said it was a fake video, that the flag was actually right-side-up, and provided a "screenshot" image purportedly from the video.
Leftist media reported that the video was a deepfake. They just asserted that it was fake because a leftist Democratic candidate said it was...
On the contrary, the image the campaign supplied was generated or edited by OpenAI, which anyone can confirm at SynthID.
We have independent confirmation that the flag was upside-down from Google image search because Somali TV Minnesota posted the videos on its FB page (they have a national focus on Somalis, not just MN), before deleting them after End Wokeness exposed them, and a thumbnail is now on Google image search (attached).
The Oregon Journalism Project (@OregonJournProj) started this hoax. They're a group of leftist activists who cosplay as journalists, which describes most journalism in the US today.
Incredibly, they just *asserted* that the video was AI. They didn't report any testing on it whatsoever. They just asserted it. It's amazing what "journalists" can get away with. They literally did nothing, no investigation, no testing. They just acted as PR for a leftist, America-hating politician and planted this hoax about a purported hoax.
From the OJP, the hoax spread. It's been reported by leftist media outlets like @axios, Willamette Week, Lookout Eugene-Springfield, the Hillsboro Herald, and News in the Grove.
Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Dexter fell for it, and called the imagined deepfake but actually real video a "racist, disgusting attack".
The media did no work here. They didn't even bother checking the image that Fai gave them. They spread a hoax based on the word of a leftist and America-hating politician, perhaps *because* she's a leftist, America-hating politician.
She lied to them. It will be interesting to see what happens next. Will the Oregon Journalism Project try to salvage any notion that they're journalists and run a retraction and apology? They only seem to employ radical leftists, which is not going to work for journalism. No one with pronouns in their bios should be employed as a journalist on political topics -- they're members of a cult and cannot possibly be impartial in left-right politics.
Axios deserves special mention. They're an absurdly unreliable outlet that regularly makes false claims, and the nature of those false claims is consistently aligned with a leftist bias. None of these outlets seem to have an anti-bias framework, which is incredible. Their journalists aren't trained to not embed their ideology or to be impartial in their story selection. It still surprises me that this is where we are at this point in history. I thought @JimVandeHei was trying to do something else.
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“The Simpsons” was a beloved animated sitcom that ran for ten legendary seasons and concluded in 1999. The show was celebrated for what was widely perceived as a near perfect run that wrapped before it wore out its concept and overstayed its welcome.
Creator Matt Groening and showrunner James L. Brooks famously decided to bring the show to a conclusion after experiencing the negative audience reaction to the season 9 episode “The Principal and the Pauper,” in which it was revealed that the school’s principal was actually an impostor who had stolen the real Seymour Skinner’s identity. Brooks did not want to sully the show’s legacy by doing a bunch of weird episodes as the franchise slid into mediocrity and cultural irrelevance, so the writers and cast decided instead to go out on top and end things on a high note.
However, because of its centrality in 90s pop culture, a long-running Internet joke is to pretend “The Simpsons” is still on the air, a premise that gets more absurd and deranged with each passing year. If this show were still producing new episodes, it would be in its 38th season now, and most of the voice cast would be in their 80s.
The joke is to imagine how distorted this charming show would have become if it had been stretched out to more than 800 episodes. Comedy posters on “weird Twitter” used to try to top each other by making up terrible ideas for what modern episodes of the show might be like.
For example, a viral 2012 tweet imagined an episode where Lady Gaga helps Lisa Simpson with her self esteem. In 2019, popular shitposter Megan Amram originated the premise of Bart Simpson becoming a men’s rights activist to protest a gender-swapped reboot of “Itchy and Scratchy.”
But perhaps the most elaborate Internet “Simpsons” joke was a 2017 YouTube mockumentary “The Problem With Apu,” in which the comedian Hari Kondabolu ironically pretended to be offended by the charming and innocuous convenience store owner character Apu.
Everyone thought this was hilarious, especially since the show had been off the air for nearly two decades when the mockumentary was released. So, Twitter ran with the joke by pretending to “cancel” Apu, and the viral gag memorably resulted in the character’s voice actor, Hank Azaria, recognizing the meme by promising never to perform the character again, which everybody thought was really funny since Azaria had been retired for years.
Now, nearly a decade later, fans are pretending that the show — which has now been off the air longer than most people tweeting about it have been alive— has brought back the “cancelled” character with a new racially-appropriate voice actor.
I actually don’t think this is that funny, and I kind of think the gag of pretending “The Simpsons” is still airing new episodes has overstayed its welcome, a mistake the actual show “The Simpsons” would never have made.
If you haven’t seen this 1990s classic, which — and I cannot emphasize this enough — ended after 10 seasons in 1999, you can watch all the episodes on Disney+ (except the one with Michael Jackson that got pulled from streaming).
Thing is Biden was also pushing Ukraine to surrender. Just not as obviously.
The Biden policy of preventing Ukraine from attacking Russian infrastructure on Russian soil was guaranteed to eventually lead to a military defeat.
Trump ironically put Ukraine on a path to winning.
It is so important that European leaders acknowledge the truth as Kaja Kallas does here. Trump and the USG have been trying to force Ukraine to surrender for almost two years. There has been no recent pivot to Russia. It’s been a constant US policy. euronews.com/2026/10/20/kaja…
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It's crazy to think if it weren't for Drew being a sperg Albanese would be doing a press conference this very minute trying to ban the internet.
Hello guys, I did some digging.
Registration for the car that hit Australian MP Helen Haines: XCK 017.
Car appears to be owned by Brendan Nugent, a radical leftist anti-Israel Houthi supporter.
His handle is @NotLaoTzu
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REVOLUT DEBANKED ME FOR DOING BITCOIN STUFF
NOW REVOLUT DOESNT WORK AND BITCOIN...
STILL WORKS
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Imagine how supposed conservatives and right wingers would react if someone other than Putin killed a family of ten.
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Alberta overwhelmingly votes to remain as apart of Canada.
But also, they voted Yes to Eight of the Nine.
I hope the PM @MarkJCarney can respect democracy even when it maybe unfavorable to him.
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Yes indeed, the mid range strike campaign by Ukraine was being so effective, it seems the Russians had to get Trump and Musk to turn it off.
Russian military bloggers now claim Starlink restrictions have disrupted Ukrainian strikes on Russian logistics, easing pressure on occupied Crimea and the southern land corridor.
Putin’s only tangible victory since 2022
These routes sustain Russia’s occupation, moving troops, ammunition and fuel to the front. Restricting Ukraine’s ability to hit them gives Moscow breathing space.
A policy that could have been written in the Kremlin, delivered by Washington.
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ROFL, all this fuss for nothing.
Its also probably thanks to Trump attacks on Canada.
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Americans have been trying to tell you Europeans for decades that disarming yourselves was idiotic - that personal weapons in the hands of civilians are actually a force for order and stability, precisely because they constrain criminals and rioters.
The French police are overwhelmed. Because of course they are. Large-scale, decentralized threats to civil order have to be met with a large-scale, decentralized response - people defending their homes and businesses, using the threat and, if required, the actuality of lethal force.
If the riots in France teach this lesson, at least some good will have come from them.
Once again, I think we have really crossed a line tonight and entered completely new territory, nothing of the sort has ever happened before.
There are groups of hoodlums roaming the city and openly terrorizing people while in many places the cops are nowhere to be seen.
The violence of yesterday was shocking, but it wasn't the first time we had seen far-left activists and gangs of hoodlums opportunistically join the protests to cause mayhem and loot.
But I grew up in France and have been obsessively following French social and political events for more than 20 years and I have never seen anything like that.
If you look at the tweet he is replying to, it's another video showing a similar group kicking in the door of a residential building to break in. It's Clockwork Orange stuff at this point.
Peter Todd retweeted
The constant griping about Ukraine and Zelenskyy has become very annoying. They are defending their country from invasion. That doesn't mean we have to give them everything they want or value their security more than the U.S. economy, but the blame for all of this lies solely with Vladimir Putin and I'm sick of pretending otherwise.
“Please surrender.” @realDonaldTrump
Spot on analysis.
Starlink/Starshield powered drones have been incredibly effective in destroying Russian logistics in occupied Ukraine.
Trump and/or Musk are desperate to force Ukraine to surrender, and this is a Russian pain point.
russia has run into serious problems with its offensive in Donbas, where its forces have become bogged down.
One of the main reasons was that russian logistics had been crippled by Ukrainian drone strikes. This campaign depended heavily on Starlink terminals operating on high-speed Ukrainian drones.
russian military command identified this as a critical problem and approached the American side, asking it to restrict the speeds at which Starlink terminals could operate.
The argument was simple: there would be little public backlash because the US could still claim that Starlink was operational and that the service was still being provided.
The Trump administration agreed to the restrictions, effectively solving a critical battlefield problem for Russia.
As a result, russian logistics in Donbas are now safer, and Ukraine has lost an important advantage on the battlefield.
Also spot on.
Russia's word is worthless. Russians are a deeply evil people who can't be trusted, with an long history of violating peace agreements. Destroying their ability to wage war is the only viable path forward.
Trump's talents at real estate deals are worthless here.
The deal being proposed to Ukraine right now is that it withdraws from Donbas and sanctions are lifted on russia in exchange for russia promising not to advance any further.
Ukraine gets peace. So Ukraine said, OK, but let's establish guarantees that russia won't advance any further immediately without stopping.
The Trump administration refused to provide any, and russia said it wouldn't allow foreign troops to be present on the new line, no foreign country agreed to provide any either.
In 1994, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security assurances regarding its territorial integrity from russia, the UK, and the USA.
Today, the main argument used to justify russia's violation of those assurances and the USA's refusal to help Ukraine is that the 1994 Budapest Memorandum wasn't legally binding, just like russia's promise today not to attack any further.
So underneath the shiny peace proposal is nothing but a gift to russia and the conditions for the war to continue.
Why would you sign an unenforceable surrender "peace" deal with psychopaths who do this daily? You might as well keep fighting. They're just going to murder you later if you stop.
A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children.
I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.
