Comprehensive49 @ Comprehensive49 @lemmygrad.ml

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The F? He got 'convicted' for child enticement after he started agitating against the Iraq War. He was a US weapons inspector in Iraq, and was on the ground checking for WMDs pre-war and found none.

I'll cite some previous comments I made, with sources:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5319924/4836806

Just in case anyone brings up his weird history of child sexual offenses, he was never prosecuted for harming actual children. Both prosecuted offenses were supposedly sting operations (aka entrapment) by FBI and police, which makes them super suspicious. For example, the first one in 2001 was conveniently timed to interfere with his anti-Iraq War advocacy.

The US government seized his passport in early June just to stop him from attending the St. Petersburg Economic Forum and derail his planned tour of Russia, where he would've gotten more coverage of his antiwar advocacy.

I would not be surprised if the FBI makes up a new sex offense charge based on this raid to try to shut him up about Russia, since that got the media so riled up the last 2 times. Another kind of bogus charge also wouldn't be a surprise.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5319924/4838261

The 2001 sting operation was so conveniently timed that even Fox News had to point out how sus it looked: Former U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter: Timing of Arrest Reports Suspicious

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Before he publicly came out against the Iraq war and denounced all claims of Iraq having WMDs, AIPAC even tried to buy Ritter off for 6 million dollars and a lifetime of luxury in exchange for him making up shit about how evil Iraq is. Ritter turns them down because he would not lie about Iraq's WMDs.

Ritter talks about this on Danny Haiphong's show here.

Ritter's non-cooperation obviously has made him a massive target, especially because of his deep knowledge on the ground in Iraq and the military apparatus.

If Scott really just wanted to molest children for free, why didn't he simply go to Israel and get his million-dollar book deal? After all, that's what all the Zionist pedophiles in the U.S. do.

Scott Ritter isn't a principled socialist due to his military background and career. Still, he is a valuable voice for anti-US-empire military analysis, since leftists with military training are few and far between. Politically, he falls in the same camp as military-analyst-turned libertarian anti-imperialists Ray Mcgovern, Larry Wilkerson, and Larry Johnson.

We do not and should not listen to libertarians' proposals of domestic policy, but on fighting imperialist American foreign policy we are aligned.

Scott Ritter's house was raided by the Biden admin, so he is understandably pissed at them. Scott Ritter also knows people in the Trump administration personally, so he clearly hoped that he would have more influence over Trump and co's actions. He has never 'glazed' Trump. He had hopes Trump would follow through on his peace plans.

Now that he sees that isn't the case, Scott is also becoming quite vocal at criticizing Trump. He has repeatedly come out against the Houthi airstrikes.

This belongs in Technology, not GenZedong.

Not any messaging app funded by the NED's software funding arm, the Open Technology Fund:

Current funding: https://www.opentech.fund/projects-we-support/supported-projects/

Past funding: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.opentech.fund%2Fprojects-we-support%2Fsupported-projects%2F

Agree. I assume Disney pushed this through simply because they already put money into it, and they saw that they still managed to make money off of live-action Ariel.

In theory, casting non-white actors helps to sell their movies to a more global audience, thus making more money. In practice, I think global audiences prefer companies to put more effort into actually telling their stories rather than just shoving them into white stories.

It's just to get more views and clicks. Notice how many more views the video got compared to his usual reporting.

I don't think he really cares either way other than to discuss its performance in China.

His day job is working at Shanghai Daily, a Chinese state-owned English language newspaper. Reports on China is his side project.

I don't really see how him commenting on China's lukewarm reception of live-action Snow White counts as anti-woke or whatever (BTW the term 'woke' or 'anti-woke' sounds so fucking stupid, meaningless, and lacking analysis). China has no history of using Africans as slaves, so it has literally no stakes in American interracial conflicts. I also don't think Chinese people have any obligation to watch Disney slop, and would much prefer their ticket money funds Chinese culture and films than Disney.

It's just kind of funny how a character named Snow White for their white skin can somehow be cast as a non-white character. It's sort of fundamental. Ultimately, Disney's live-action princess remakes are just cheap, low-effort moves to try to use non-white faces to capture a broader audience and appear falsely progressive with no actual regard to the art, culture, or fighting actual racism.

This remake has the same issues that casting a black person for Ariel did. Instead of writing or adapting a new story for a Latin American princess, or an African princess, from the original culture, they instead decide to shove them into a white European story as if non-white cultures have nothing of worth to write about.

Also remember that a lot of people, including Chinese, are boycotting this movie because of actress Gal Gadot's pro-Zionist views. That is definitely a good thing.

Current LLMs have access to much more information than even the best teacher can hope to remember. I already know high school chemistry teachers who are using Perplexity (LLM-enhanced search engine) to plan lesson plans because Perplexity is able to search up all the latest on a topic.

Obviously, a teacher still needs to be in the loop somewhere to ensure a bar of quality on the lesson plan, but there's no reason why AI can't just be an enhanced search engine that makes their planning easier, and can help to prevent students from being taught outdated information. I bet you can remember some fact that you learned in school that ended up being wrong later.

For example, the tongue zone taste map you may have seen in anatomy class is completely wrong. In fact, each taste bud is able to sample all the tastes with variations between each taste bud.

There is no reason why it can't be both CIA communication tool and honeypot.

For example, the Signal devs insist on one centralized server located in the USA. The CIA probably has access to this server, and can by proxy view all message metadata. As long as no-one else has access to this server, Signal's encryption would protect users from everyone except the CIA.

PS. DON'T USE YOUR FUCKING PHONE NUMBER OR REAL NAME ON SIGNAL.

You're right about Greta's leanings toward more radicalism. The previous poster's point is that people like Greta are touted by media when they're not radical, but get dropped once they do.

Thus you won't find these excellent leaders by watching mainstream capitalist media.

Having listened to Eugene Puryear of the PSL speak, his ability to connect cross-cultural historical knowledge with today's struggles make him a great one to follow: https://www.instagram.com/pslbayarea/reel/DGPasWHRf_h/

Fair point. However, the modern trend of Western Christian missionaries is explicitly associated with colonialism. Anyone who willingly contributes to spreading that kind of poison should be viewed with scrutiny.

Reddit normies discussing this article:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/climate/comments/1bk82lk/capitalism_cant_solve_climate_change_only_china/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1bk7qxy/capitalism_cant_solve_climate_change/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/comments/1bk41i0/capitalism_cant_solve_climate_change/

Other than the "communism no iphone" types, I think awareness of socialism really is increasing among Redditors.

Spam was wild, had to block the guy so my notifications wouldn't die. Big thanks to him though for putting my post on the front page of Active and Hot.

The DPRK is only able to take such a principled position because most of their trade is with the PRC. If China didn't thread the diplomatic needle, DPRK would have no one to trade with.

If your concern is about national security, why the heck are you hiring Nepalese Ghurkas who have never seen an ocean in their lives? Why can't the British do their own laundry themselves?

Is it that they have a fetish for foreign laundry servants, or that the working conditions of laundrymen on their ships are so poor that no full-blooded Brit would ever consider the job?

I think this mostly has to do with the extensive use of vegetables cooked in various tasty ways. Western dishes (specifically West European) seem to have very few good techniques to cook vegetables, leading white children to hate veggies. I think this is exacerbated in Britain and their Anglo-Saxon colonies (cue the meme about British food having no seasoning).

Also, proper Asian dishes tend not to actually use much oil. Stir frying only lightly coats the outside of food with oil, very different from western deep frying.

One million preorders, the phones haven't been delivered yet.

Americans don't want to call them 'Latins' because that might imply some sort of relationship between them and the Romans, and that's not allowed because they're from shithole countries, and America is the rightful heir to the Roman throne or whatever.

In America, the terms Latino, Latinx, and Hispanic refer to basically anyone from any country in the Americas that is below the United States, geographically and 'culturally'. It's essentially a label Americans use to say, " oh you're from one of THOSE shithole countries".

The great great grandson of a Spanish conquistador who massacred thousands of indigenous people to claim his own plantation is considered the exact same as the granddaughter of an indigenous person on the receiving end. Both are called Hispanics, making the word an utterly meaningless label.