Revolutionary defeatist (it's not what it sounds like, communists are just bad at naming things). Team "whoever pops off the revolution first" so long as it isn't the fucking Strasserites. Cishet White American man; poor and neurodivergent. He/any. Born 31 September 1985.
-- A metric fuckton of Palestinian donation links I’ve collected over on Bluesky. I do not verify so caveat emptor, but Molly Shah, whom you’ll see I’ve reblogged from frequently, absolutely does.
-- The above, now ported to Tumblr.
-- And a collection I’m starting on this site.
The posts:
-- The myth of overpopulation.
-- Chinese democracy.
Addendum: Elections.
-- American “democracy.”
-- The testimony of a woman who grew up under sanctions.
-- The BBC was caught in stupidest lie imaginable and why it matters.
Addendum: If the truth is on your side why are you lying?
Addendum to the addendum: Ever wonder why you’ve never seen the tank man video?
Addendum 2: All countries the West doesn’t like are Mordor.
-- A brief essay on genocide denial.
-- Is harm reduction really harm reduction?
-- Nazis vs. Zionists (not mine)
-- The nature of decolonization (not mine)
-- The purpose of a system is what it does (not mine)
-- Trauma and anti-state politics.
-- Even if I believed the West’s propaganda about its enemies, it wouldn’t change this basic fact (repost).
-- The Césaire quote (not mine twice over).
--Link to some links to The Question of Palestine by Edward Said (obviously not mine).
Other relevant information for a pinned post to have:
-- My current political objectives.
-- Basically, the reason behind my most recent shift in politics.
-- Before I could even entertain ideas like the above, however, I had to learn that America was the villain.
List subject to changes and additions in the highly likely event that I’ve forgotten something. Suggestions welcome.
And let us not forget the most important post of all (also not mine).
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Something I've been thinking about for awhile now. I am someone who was pretty enmeshed in this whole saga and have insight into it, as a participant in the discourse and as a trans woman who deals with transmisogyny.
I do not agree with the screenshotted posts here, I am not here to say that ISFF was 'correct actually' or argue with you. I have publically pushed back against her takes here, as well as had private debates with her where we could not come to an understanding. I find the entire idea of 'pedophile' being a 'legit sexual orientation' completely false. Infact I'd go so far as to say that the spectre of the 'pedophile' as we know it, a dangerous sexual predator who just can't help but prey on children, is not something that actually exists. The entire framework of paraphilias is not something worth 'reclaiming' no matter how you slice it. The idea that you can be sexually oriented towards children/minors and that orientation is akin to being gay or lesbian, is just not the case.
However. That's not really the point I'm trying to make right now.
I am going to continue to defend ISFF, because I can understand how and why she got to the place she did. I can see the terrible, twisted road of 'discourse' that might cause a trans woman to try and assert these incorrect things. And I can see that it is her trans womanhood that led to the explosion of discourse, mass stalking, mass harassment, doxxing, and all other manner of fucked up transmysogynist shit that TME people on this site gleefully sunk their teeth into. And continue to sink their teeth into!
Ultimately she was wrong, but no one has suffered more for her misstep than her, and the people who were agreeing with her.
No one has paid more high a price for a bad take on this site than the trans women even tangentially tied to any of this discourse, and so I ask you and everyone reading this, to just stop bringing up ISFF altogether. There is truly no reason to continue fanning the flames.
For the first time, declassified documents confirm the CIA carried out tests on North Korean POWs and planned for much more invasive experim
Korean prisoners of war in the 1950s were subjected to early MK-ULTRA experiments while in American custody, according to recently declassified CIA documents which confirm these experiments for the first time.
The only reporting that previously referenced Koreans being used as guinea pigs for these experiments was journalist John Marks’s landmark 1979 book, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate.” Using CIA documents, Marks traced the now-infamous MK-ULTRA project to its start, when it was known as Project Bluebird. In the book, Marks describes how, in October 1950, 25 unnamed North Korean POWs were chosen as the first test subjects to receive “advanced” interrogation techniques, with the overt goal of “controlling an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against such fundamental laws of nature as self-preservation.”
[. . .]
The first reference to “Project Bluebird” in the NSA’s collection is an office memorandum from April 5, 1950. Addressed to CIA Director Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, the document lays out the project’s goals, required training, and budget, all while emphasizing that knowledge of Project Bluebird “should be restricted to the absolute minimum number of persons.”
The memo includes detailed plans for interrogation teams trained to utilize the polygraph, various drugs, and hypnotism “for personality control purposes.” These teams were to be made up of three people: a doctor (ideally a psychiatrist), a hypnotist, and a polygraph technician. The memo clarifies that while the doctor and technician would need to undergo approximately five months of training, the Inspection and Security Staff’s own department hypnotist could be made available immediately. In a later memo from February 2, 1951, there are inquiries into acquiring six “hypospray” devices: experimental instruments designed to covertly inject sedatives through the skin via “jet injection.” There’s a request to investigate modification of a “tear gas pencil” and other “devices of unestablished action,” such as the “German ‘Scheintot’ [sic] (appearance of death) pistol.”
[. . .]
[W]hile the actual offshore locations are redacted, a write-up of a CIA meeting held one year later specifically notes a “project in Japan and Korea in which the Army had used a polygraph operator along with a team of psychiatrists and psychologists on Korean POWs.”
Although the initial proposal for Project Bluebird mostly emphasized the potential for “personality control,” it’s clear that CIA officials were also interested in broader, more ambitious outcomes. One document summarizing a “special meeting” between U.S., British, and Canadian intelligence services notes the CIA’s desire to research “the psychological factors causing the human mind to accept certain political beliefs” and “determining means for combatting communism,” “‘selling’ democracy,” and preventing the “penetration of communism into trade unions.” Another meeting held on May 9, 1950, called for “the Surgeon General of the Army to place on the search list of the Nuremberg Trials papers request for information on drugs, narcoanalysis, and special interrogation techniques.”
[. . .]
Notably absent from these declassified documents is any proof that similar experiments were undertaken by enemies of the U.S. The central animating myth behind MK-ULTRA and Project Bluebird is the narrative of the American soldier who returned home after months of imprisonment by enemy forces, only to be revealed as a hypnotized double agent. Throughout the Korean War, American moviegoers were screened films starring and narrated by future president Ronald Reagan. These films showed American troops being psychologically tortured by Chinese and North Korean soldiers until dangerous, anti-democratic ideals were implanted in their minds without their knowledge.
[. . .]
In a 1983 witness testimony from CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who led the MK-ULTRA experiments, he recalls receiving confirmation that, after thorough investigation, there was no evidence any American POWs were subjected to drug-induced hypnosis at any point during the Korean War. “As I remember it,” Gottlieb said, “[The report] basically said that they felt that the techniques the Chinese and/or the Koreans used were not esoteric. … [They] didn’t depend upon sophisticated techniques used in drugs and other more technical means.” Additionally, a 1952 memo to Allen Dulles reinforces the CIA’s willingness to fund these experiments without any proof that enemy countries were undergoing similar research: “We cannot accept this lack of evidence as proof.”
In one of the more revealing moments from the entire collection of documents, the CIA’s Morse Allen recounts a conversation with an agency employee about the effectiveness of interrogating individuals through hypnosis. “Individuals under hypnotism will give information,” Allen writes, “but … it could not always be regarded as accurate, since fantasy and even hallucinations are present in certain hypnotic states.” Reading the lengthy budgetary sheets for drugs, syringes, polygraph machines, and hypnotists, paired with the details of Marks’s book, one’s imagination begins trying to fill in the gaps, drifting into fantasy. It’s an experience uniquely fitting for research into the CIA’s pursuit of technology aimed at erasing facts, experiences, and memories.
Throughout these declassified documents are numerous reminders that the Korean War’s label as “The Forgotten War” serves, in part, as intentional obfuscation. People, histories, and crimes are rarely forgotten on accident, and what these disclosures clearly demonstrate is that there remains a world of difference between the forgetting of history and its swift, coordinated erasure.
hatsune miku is in a state of superposition where she is simultaneously a Real 16 y/o Girl (when you want to call a trans woman a pedophile) and a Corporate Mascot (when you want to imply a trans woman is unintelligent and naïve)
It probably is kind of fun to be a parent bird and find big fat bugs to put in your child’s goalpost mouth. And the more you do it the larger your baby gets, which shows your progress. Mine is reaally big, think I’m going to get a high score this time. It has a unique skin too, I’ve never even seen this one before. Has anyone gotten that one, dark brown and white belly with stripes? It’s not even in my Wrenpedia, it has to be a really special unlock
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Please help us! Death surrounds us on all sides. They are committing all kinds of genocide against us: starvation, murder, and diseases that ravage our bodies. We die every day. Our bodies are exhausted. Every day we discover new illnesses within ourselves, and what's worse, there is no medicine or equipment, and if there is, it is prohibitively expensive. Please help us! You are our only hope
My cousin came to visit me in the hospital, and as soon as he arrived, he collapsed. We started screaming until the doctor came and examined him. He found a blood clot in his abdomen that had spread to his leg. He can't walk now. The doctor told us that if we don't operate within a week, he will lose his leg. Please help us; he will lose his leg if you don't help us. His leg has turned very blue. Please, we need $1750. Please, you are our only hope. I know the price is high because of the siege and the genocide in the Gaza Strip, but we don't want him to lose his leg. Please help us.
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My cousin is suffering terribly. He can't speak or eat. He's lying next to me in bed. I don't know whether to cry for him or for myself. I don't know what's wrong with us. We're all sick, and our condition is getting worse every day. But I'll be patient; he's more important than me right now. Please help him. We don't want him to lose his leg. Please donate.
i barely use tumblr anymore but every time i log in for more than 10 minutes i find out another blogger i used to respect is now engaging in the funny game of Kill The Tranny
“A highly relevant rhetorical question has arisen.
What if Russia were inactive now? What if Ukraine actually implemented its version of the "Croatian scenario" — took Donbass by force and cleared the territories of undesirables? How many liberals would have come out in front of the Ukrainian embassy and said "no to war"?
I already have an answer — none at all. Why am I so sure? Because none of them said a word even during the hottest phases of the conflict. Where were their feelings, emotions, and concerns when the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to break into Donetsk? When their sabotage and reconnaissance groups were destroying peaceful unarmed civilians? They were sipping smoothies, attending fashionable parties, and planning vacations because they were very tired of war and politics.
We would have been killed with the silent consent of the "progressive world."”
— Donchánin photojournalist Denis Grigoryuk on the 25th of February, 2022
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"if i had a time machine i would go back in time and kill hitler"
I would put sea mines around medieval britain. i would give hannibal barca ww2 era heavy artillery and tell him not to stop till he starts seeing gauls. i would give boudica a fucking abrams. i would appear before jesus like an angel and tell him "you gotta stop. not cause theyll kill you, youre fine with that, surprisingly, but because your fanclub is gonna spend about 1500 years making everything worse for everyone, everywhere." I would take a glock back in time and shoot romulus, shoot remus, and shoot that damn dog too just to be safe. i would be on the side of christopher columbus' ship in a scuba suit planting c4 on that bitch like rainbow six siege. i would be waging a one woman campaign of terror across andalusia to prevent the reconquista. i would be getting way out in front of that shit is what im saying,
I would give Cesare a copy of the communist manifesto in Latin and help him Kickstart the industrial age in Rome, establishing the Communitas Operariique Romani
ISLAMABAD: The country’s major crops including cotton, maize, sugarcane and vegetables are under severe stress due...
“‘Major crops under stress as hot weather drags on’ [Pakistan].
“The country’s major crops including cotton, maize, sugarcane and vegetables are under severe stress due to the prevailing hot and humid weather, raising concerns about agricultural output.”
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Wanted to convert the readings in the second screenshot to more-accessible text + links.
Abel Jacob's "Israel's Military Aid to Africa, 1960-66" (The Journal of Modern African Studies 9, no. 2, 1971), pp. 165-187) : https://www.jstor.org/stable/159439
James C. Miller's "African-Israeli Relations: Impact on Continental Unity" (Middle East Journal 29, no.4, 1975) : https://www.rahs-open-lid.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/African-Israeli-Relations-Impact-on-Continental-Unity.pdf
Olusola Ojo's "Africa and Israel: Relations in Perspective" (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988) : https://doi.org/10.2307/524647
Lynn Schler's "The Sardauna's Middle East: Regionalism and Backstage Politics in Nigeria's Postcolonial Diplomacy" (Journal of African History 63, no. 2, 2022) : https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history/article/sardaunas-middle-east-regionalism-and-backstage-politics-in-nigerias-postcolonial-diplomacy/3D1FE66ADAAA642FE5A8205AFDBA3A50
Jacob Abadi's "Israel's Relations with the Francophone States of West Africa: The Economic and Strategic Imperatives" (Journal of the Middle East and Africa 9, no. 1, 2018) : https://doi.org/10.1353/tmr.2018.0020
