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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • FBI doing what it has always done best, serve the interests and wildly offbase fears of oppressive rightwing conservatism no matter how irrational and imagined they are.

    The FBI exists to rationalize rightwing authoritarianism by supporting and supercharging xenophobic and racist narratives with an air of artificial legitimacy, they do not exist as an institution to serve the interests of public safety and neither can they said to be genuinely concerned with enforcing the rule of law they regularly flaunt and undermine.










  • Fascists always blame the details of how fascism was carried out for why their plans collapse, they are by definition too cowardly to admit they chose to amputate their humanity in order to arrest their tiny picture of the world before it crumbled into hypocrises and paradoxes.

    The stab-in-the-back myth (German: Dolchstoßlegende, pronounced [ˈdɔlçʃtoːsleˌɡɛndə] ⓘ, lit. ‘dagger-stab legend’)[a] was an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory that was widely believed and promulgated in Germany after 1918. It maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens on the home front – especially Jews, revolutionary socialists who fomented strikes and labour unrest,[1] and republican politicians who had overthrown the House of Hohenzollern in the German Revolution of 1918–1919. Advocates of the myth denounced the German government leaders who had signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918 as the “November criminals” (November­verbrecher).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth#Second_World_War




  • I have said it before and I will likely say it again, Sam Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin

    In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a faith healer for Nicholas’ and Alexandra’s only son, Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia. He was a divisive figure at court, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary, and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan.

    The extent of Rasputin’s power reached an all-time high in 1915, when Nicholas left Saint Petersburg to oversee the Imperial Russian Army as it was engaged in the First World War. In his absence, Rasputin and Alexandra consolidated their influence across the Russian Empire. However, as Russian military defeats mounted on the Eastern Front, both figures became increasingly unpopular. In the early morning of 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916, Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative Russian noblemen who opposed his influence over the imperial family.

    Historians often suggest that Rasputin’s scandalous and sinister reputation helped discredit the Tsarist government, thus precipitating the overthrow of the House of Romanov shortly after his assassination. Accounts of his life and influence were often based on common rumors; he remains a mysterious and captivating figure in popular culture.[1]




  • Agreed, this kind of catastrophic inability to resist at any level by Democratic politicians and especially Democratic leadership DIRECTLY led to these murders being inevitable. I am not kidding, the inaction of politicians like Chuck Shumer and Hakeem Jeffries directly led to the murder of Renee Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

    Blood is on Tim Walz’s hands for not calling in the National Guard sooner as well.

    The fascists were always going to choose violence and thus the blood is on the hands of the Democratic establishment for not believing what the rest of us knew, capitulation to Republicans and fascists was always going to end in violent jackbooted thugs executing US citizens in broad daylight for no reason other than to instill fear and terror and hopefully justify more violence.

    All the Democratic Party can say for this most awful evolution of US politics it is that they waited until the evidence was undeniable to believe the people who were saying the threat was existential to our democracy.