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  1. As I said, I am completely unsurprised that you and Chainsaw lectured the group to use different sources than the MSM and then directed us to a site and actor that is Kremlin-backed and Kremlin-controlled because you agree with them on this. Just waiting for Anastasis to round out the trifecta. I will be interested to see the response from a few other posters who are calling for better info hygiene and who are ordinarily fairly level headed. For those uninitiated, Max Blumenthal is a paid contributor to Sputnik and RT, which are Kremlin run and controlled outlets that have been sanctioned across much of Europe and been forced to register as a foreign agent here in the United States. Blumenthal’s own “Grayzone” outlet was created a month after Max visited Moscow and immediately began posting in support of Assad and the Russian government in Syria. One of its well-known contributors was Gonzalo Lira, who was imprisoned for spreading propaganda in Ukraine, where he was promoting the passport bro lifestyle and supporting LNR/DNR with English propaganda. Blumenthal has testified on behalf of Russia at the UN. His outlet, among other things, claimed that the Russian bombing of a Mariupol maternity hospital was a psy-op carried out by the Azov Battalion. There are many questionable accounts being posted on these protests, thus far there has only been one that belongs to an open, paid agent of a hostile foreign power. That, to me, is far more interesting than who shouted what at a protest.
  2. Max Blumenthal is a known collaborator with Kremlin controlled media and his outlet is not just a bullshit clickbait farm, it’s a literal Kremlin info op. This is by far the worst source and actor that’s been posted on any of these threads. I am, of course, completely unsurprised that this is one of your go-tos.
  3. Citizen journalism via Twitter was a thing that largely got promoted during the Arab Spring and Iran protests and then spread to include citizens reporting on events from nations with only state-controlled media to report and organize on state actions. Elron’s citizen journalists focus on reporting from open societies and claim that their reporting is needed because a shadowy cabal of elites control media. They frequently promote malign state-sponsored narratives and news and cooperate with state-controlled foreign media. The one small carve-out is that the biggest information threat is the ongoing death of good local and regional reporting. Most people need to know more about their county officials than they do about college protests. But there are very few of these “citizen journalists” on the local government procurement beat.
  4. If you get a subscription to the NYT or Washington Post and The Economist you will likely have a good understanding of almost everything you need to know and will also get all the responsible context and responsible differing opinions. Add WSJ/FT for the business stuff. Only if you REALLY care about something, it might be worth it to follow a journalist from one of those outlets on a specific beat like defense or Congress and then watch who they interact with to build out your own feed. The vast majority of people only need NYT/WaPo and The Economist.
  5. Everyone should practice some good info hygiene around this, just as much as GWU protesters are admonished to wash their pits. The anger and demonstrations are legitimate and organic but that does not mean that elements embedded within them are all organic and that all the contours of what happens are shaped by good actors. People would do well to ponder who benefits from seeing Americans hit each other and who might be inciting and encouraging students to risk their futures to break into, vandalize and occupy a campus building. It’s very possible none of them give a shit about Israel, Palestine, or (what’s good for) the United States. The fact that all the people involved are online, dumb, and angry makes this easy. Russian intelligence successfully mobilized two dueling protests over culture war bullshit in Texas a few years back. That is pretty much recognized as a proof of concept run. Something to think about before mashing share. Again, I am not saying the students or even organizers are tools of a foreign power but I’m also not saying students and organizers have a good handle on whom they are welcoming to take part and help out. https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-page-organized-protest-texas-different-russian-page-l/
  6. I am almost ready to believe that this is a IDF or maybe a joint AIPAC/RNC info op. Much of this script could have been written by Tomi Lahren.
  7. He is messing up the terms. “Defense Industrial Base,” loosely industrial, tech, and research assets that are or can be used to produce defense items. This is not the MIC, but that is a reference that Anastasis is required to use every X posts regardless of topic or relevance.
  8. They don’t sound very smart. When progressives play too hard to get all they do is push democratic candidates to go hunt votes from the swayable center.
  9. There is not a law against it in Texas, that was repealed. Maybe there’s a school reg, I don’t know. LOL at the idea that wearing masks doesn’t help conceal identity though.
  10. Also to this point, all these schools that eliminated SAT scores and claimed it’s about diversity? What do you think is easier to game, some dipshit hedge fund manager kid’s application enrichment package and private school GPA and “whole person” application? Or to get said dipshit kid’s cold hard test score into acceptable range? Yeah.
  11. Lol, a common error. The Ivies, especially as you move down from Harvard-Yale-Princeton, have never been about SMART students. (Faculty they recruit are different). They are credentialing and networking factories for the RIGHT students. The definition of the “right” student shifts pretty freely but will always include children of the political, cultural, and business elite. Smart is wholly irrelevant, mostly because it’s assumed that you’re smart if you get into an Ivy. Once you are in, the work is done. If you want smart and impressive, visit the service academies, Cal Tech/MIT, Chicago, a few liberal arts and great books schools you’ve never heard of, and the honors programs of just about any large public school.
  12. I think that Texas repealed its mask prohibition in the 1970s. It wasn’t just protesting, it was basically anything in public with a mask. It was a way to target the KKK without saying “the KKK is banned from public events.” And the idea was more that people who might want to join a KKK rally would not want to if everyone saw them being pieces of shit and they suffered consequences.
  13. That sign has such strong mom energy. “Make sure you drink plenty of water and no drinking or sex at your revolutionary encampment dear! And stay cheerful! Have fun!” Also LOL at the “wash your ass” stipulation. That one was borne of experience. Between this and the mugshot, I’m putting together the pieces of why American youth aren’t having sex.
  14. I’ll push back gently on that, as aggy with limited knowledge of the South Mall and the purpose it serves. It seems like a meeting point and place for public use and speech, maybe with a lot of similarities to the National Mall. Tents aren’t speech and they aren’t critical to assembly and nearly all public spaces have rules and regulations in place to balance out their use as free speech and petition zones with the right of other people to use them as free speech/public use/petition zones. You need permits and permission to put up tents and other temporary structures on the National Mall and I don’t see that as unreasonable. Whether you are there for a protest or rally or just enjoying the rare spring weather, other people have the right to be there as well and it’s not really an infringement to draw some bright lines. “No structures or tents without permission” seems as good as any. Maybe not “send in the riot cops” worthy, but it’s fine to say it’s not allowed because that’s not what the space is for.
  15. I regret to inform you all that there are no sex tents at the GWU protests.
  16. Biden’s been an extremely consequential president in a good way for young people, on everything from worker protections to reproductive rights to climate. His accomplishments would be even more impressive if not for judicial and legislative obstructions from the same people who support his opponents. On the other hand, it’s easy to imagine him having the wrong feelings when watching protests get broken up even though there’s no evidence for that at all. So I guess it’s a wash.
  17. Their point of farthest divergence and least sympathy from me, TBH. It’s fine to call for it, I guess, but I don’t know how you watch Russia and China and conclude that we need to divest from our defense industrial base. Texas public schools get funded and we also get to develop Virginia-class boats, B-21s, and air breathing cruise missiles?
  18. I read his 12 Rules book, which was mostly gibberish with a few obvious pointers like “try to have good posture” and “maybe don’t whine about how stuff is unfair and instead fix what you can?” Then he got addicted to benzos and blamed someone else, flew to Moscow for therapy and treatment (as one does when seriously ill) and lived in Serbia for a while. I think at one point he only consumed beef although his colon scan did not become a modern art installation. I am not one to say that people with turbulent personal lives full of awful decisions can’t be intelligent, or even brilliant. Just not in the life coach genre.
  19. Letting pro-Palestine protesters do their thing in public is the best way to make the argument for the other side. I think that same women leads every single one of these nationwide somehow, that exact shrill and hectoring voice is the one I’ve heard each time whether online or in person.
  20. Her ghostwriter and editor both must really hate her to let the “shooting my dog in a gravel pit” anecdote make it to print.
  21. I feel like using “Jew” as an adjective is folksy, down-home, “don’t they have their own country clubs” anti-semitism. If someone uses “Jewry” or “the Jew” he probably owns a lot of Hugo Boss.
  22. The Stanford encampment made a propaganda film and when they get to the part about students reading and educating themselves it’s comic books. Lol.
  23. Exactly this. Those other countries are either not really serious about the military (Austria) or need to be ready to fight a whole of society defensive conventional war. We are never going to fight a defensive conventional war and our military is an expeditionary force that has to be ready to fight. We have neither the time or funding to waste energy on drifting incels with no motivation. There’s not a place for them.
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