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Devils Advocate
by professor rat 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

The chief architect behind Depp's sue-'em-all strategy is Adam Waldman, a handsome Washington lawyer with his own sheen of controversy given a clientele that has included Russian oligarchs and Julian Assange. Waldman, who is married to Berlin-based jet-setter and luxury skin-care entrepreneur Barbara Sturm, conducts himself in an unorthodox manner, mocking his legal opponents on Twitter. Sources say Depp met Waldman through Saudi Arabian Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, the country's powerful minister of energy, in summer 2016. (Depp spent time aboard the prince's megayacht in the past.) Waldman quickly became a Svengali figure in Depp's life, with the actor axing most of his inner circle. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hes-radioactive-inside-johnny-de…

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FLU Truthers whistling past the graveyard
by professor rat 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Deadliest days in American history: 1. Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 2. Antietam - 3,600 3. 9/11 - 2,977 4. Last Thursday - 2,861 5. Last Wednesday - 2,762 6. Last Tuesday - 2.461 7. Last Friday - 2,439 8. Pearl Harbor - 2,403 DEATH to AMERIKA!

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No Diem Soup for you
by professor rat 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

US and 48 states and districts sue Facebook in major antitrust actions Facebook Accused of Breaking Antitrust Laws Facebook must be broken up, the US government says in a groundbreaking lawsuit FTC and states sue Facebook, could force Facebook to divest Instagram and WhatsApp Mark Zuckerberg DEADPOOL - bounty to kill Facebook head - rises. https://stiffs.com/celebrity/markzuckerberg

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Futarchy now
by professor rat 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Donald Trump is now whining about how the “bookies” gave him 97% odds of winning the election, and he’s holding it up as proof that he somehow secretly won. So shaft ' dumb and cowardly ' Ron Wyden then, Mr President. Bring back PAM. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/07/save-the-pentagon-futures-marke…

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FUCK OFF Jamesd
by professor rat 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

China Is National Security Threat No. 1 Resisting Beijing’s attempt to reshape and dominate the world is the challenge of our generation. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-is-national-security-threat-no-1-1160701…

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WOZ up
by professor rat 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Apple Co-founder Wozniak’s Crypto Doubles in Price Overnight https://decrypt.co/50838/apple-co-founder-wozniaks-crypto-doubles-in-price-…

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Zenaan Harkness arrested?
by professor rat 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-09/nsw-albury-man-18-expected-to-be-cha… "The male we've arrested has an extreme right-wing ideology and is focused on neo-Nazi, white supremacist and anti-Semitic material,"

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Resolving things is overrated
by professor rat 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

What do you think of the following? Agonism (from Greek ἀγών agon, "struggle") is a political theory that emphasizes the potentially positive aspects of certain (but not all) forms of political conflict. It accepts a permanent place for such conflict and seeks to show how people might accept and channel this " office politics " positively. Basically, we can resolve all outstanding questions peacefully, but we should allow for a 'dislike ' button first. We can resolve everything because there are valuable things that are more powerful than any religion &/or nation-state. These things will be shared with common people even faster as the strong AI arrives. Pretty much everyone has been living in an environment where it was hard to access the net. But since 2005 many, if not most of the world has been connected so that was one incredible anarchic revolution. The next encrypted-internet - even more anarchist - is just starting. Its always morning on the web.

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Flash Mob sought to cancel Marxists List
by professor rat 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Crimes of Marxists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism Complaints about racialist Marxists on Groups io https://groups.io/static/tos Capital, vol. 3, chapter 47: “ The possibility is here presented for definite economic development taking place, depending, of course, upon favourable circumstances, inborn racial characteristics, etc...” Engels: (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. 3, p. 502.): “We regard economic conditions as the factor which ultimately determines historical development. But race is itself an economic factor ... ”. Complaints about racist Marxists on Groups io https://groups.io/static/tos

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Red and Brownshirts who agree Marxist biowar is a hoax
by professor rat 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Must be another Nazbol thing... "... I know from the Trump supporters in my extended family that nothing will defeat their ideological attachment to the idea that Covid 19 is some kind of a hoax. Even getting sick doesn't make a difference to their "theories." I have met the same brick wall of ideology among Maoists in the past on other subjects. We know that socialists and communists are not immune to ideological blindness and distortion. Well, there are ideologies that make you marginally smarter and ideologies that make you massively more stupid. .." https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/covid_19_how_severe_is_the/78804823?p=,,…

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