You and that roundsparrow guy. If youre curious, theres plenty of info to confirm that the operations only increased in frequency and severity. The operation directly interfering in american politics via thought manipulation on the internet was launched in 2013 and continues to this day. Roundsparrow has a bunch of different communities but I think the one most concisely centered around this subject is that countersurkov comm, (I believe thats the correct spelling,) surkov being one of the architects of russian counterintelligence and the orchestrator of russias internal political theater that has allowed putin absolute power since his election. If you’ve found the dugin book I’m sure you’re not too far off from this stuff but I figured I should give it a shout just in case you needed something to ruin your week lol Edit: figured out the link to the surkov comm

Probably add another 100% to that graph at this point, maybe subtract a bit from the actual incomes too. Is the only version of this graph from 2013?

Don’t just stalk the ML subs, post their memes too. Great stuff.

Awh hell yeah David cross is great

Literally came to say here’s the people everyone on lemmy schizoposts about lmao

Big shocker its an organized political PAC and not random commenters on reddit that did this, maybe theres a lesson somewhere

What does this even mean dude? You want them to all just get arrested? Like, actually, what the fuck does this mean?

Is this the Monday aid shooting or this another new shooting at an aid site today?

Come on. Marital status? This is an attack on queer vets bar none. They just gave them blanket permission to deny someone based on “whether they have a wife or not,” which is complete nonsense.

It’s clearly just easier to do this and allow the VA to deny benefits to anyone and everyone who isnt straight than to outright say “you can deny care to gay and trans vets” and maybe miss out on harming lesbian vets by accident.

Marital status covers any non-traditional relationship, and allows complete discretion to the fascist who controls your health to determine whether you meet the standards. Horrific. I’m glad you pointed it out.

Edit: and shame on me for not reading the article first

In making the changes, VA officials cite the president’s 30 January executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”. The primary purpose of the executive order was to strip most government protections from transgender people. The VA has since ceased providing most gender-affirming care and forbidden a long list of words, including “gender affirming” and “transgender”, from clinical settings.

So yeah, explicitly to harm queer vets almost exclusively

If any terries on this here plane try getting froggy…

DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta told MSNBC that he respected Weingarten’s decision “in this moment” and was confident that she would continue to fight for working Americans.

Which we will not be doing, obviously.

I laughed at thing perpeeing until I saw it was in the prompt lmao does it mean something?

I dont think its insensitive, but I do think you’re missing the forest for the trees a bit with this part

the greatest enemy… is division itself

This was sortof poorly communicated on my part because its such a long winded concept but basically my original comment was an acknowledgement that the division was indeed the enemy but more specifically that the ruling class and those in power have consciously and intentionally placed these divisions with deadly accuracy in order to protect the meta interests at play.

For example, libya was a country in Africa mostly useless to america and had no real geopolitical weight in the global arena. When Syria sent suicide bombers to take down a commercial airliner the american government commited to a worldwide obfuscation of this fact because they were collaborating with Syria in military actions against other countries in the Middle East and needed to keep their appearance of impropriety at bay while they were publicly allied. So, at the behest of the american government, libya took credit for the bombings in order to create confusion around the investigation which was very clearly showing no evidence of Libyan involvement and extensive evidence of Syrian involvement. The original reporting of the bombing accused Syria of being the perpetrator, but due to America’s pressure campaign the findings were decried as inconclusive.

Decades later, while Syria was committing a genocide and no longer a public ally of the US, libya once again became a subject of the spotlight. Why? Because america was welcoming them into their alliance of course. Libya had “given up their WMD’s” (which they never even remotely came close to having) in exchange for being brought into the fold to fight the “evil regimes of the middle east.”

Now, one might wonder at this point: what about libya changed in those intervening decades? The leader of their terrorist state was a dictator named qadaffi, and the noble nation joining the coalition was lead by… the same guy. Objectively nothing about their government or country had changed except the fact that america now saw them useful to their perception management operations.

This is, again, a very poorly explained way of saying that what you percieve as division are actually carefully crafted splinters deliberately used to shatter the ability of anyone to accurately understand and describe the world around them. We are so constantly bombarded with sci-fi level propaganda and unconscious manipulation of narratives about the world around us that almost none of the things that divide people are even real in the first place.

Anti abortion politics was a manufactured astroturfed movement thought up by the highest levels of government and society in order to force a fascist resurgence within the country to destabilize the working class. The tea party movement was a manufactured astroturfed movement funded by billionaires in order to foment a fascist resurgence within the country to destabilize the working class. Illegal immigration is a direct result of american foreign policy destabilizing governments around the world and creating refugee crises that are so large no other country could afford to absorb them and the anti immigration panic is a manufactured astroturfed movement designed by the highest levels of conservative power structures to manufacture consent for holocaust style death camps. These are all factually proven right wing psyops that have successfully destabilized the country and created all the division that is so visibly causing our society to collapse.

In all of these scenarios, there are specific actors and groups directly responsible for and consciously in control of the supposed divisions no matter what they may be. Left or right is a burlap sack over your head that you cannot remove but can turn 180 degrees in between waterboardings. Take the sack off and look at who’s holding the hose. It’s capitalists every time. Doing something that is inherently destructive to society and the world at large specifically with the intent of profiting off the now destabilized workers, state, or country.

This is long enough so I’ll try to wrap up. The real solution to divisions in society is by reducing inequality and the way to reduce inequality is by forcibly divesting capitalists from their capital and returning it to the people who produced it. All the divisions, all the wars, all the economic failures come from a single point and their entire game for the past 400 years has been to obfuscate that single point behind an led screen of shiny new things to get mad about instead of the people exploiting all of us for their own gain.

(The reference to libya is an example given in the documentary “hypernomalization” by Adam Curtis if you’d ever like to hear the story unfucked by my frantic desire to get this comment out lol Here’s the link if you’re interested )

Take a picture of their face, reverse image search, find their Facebook, and show it to them.

“Is this information up to date?”

If anyone has a more intuitive way to search for people based on facial recognition feel free to chime in because if they’re gonna use it on us we might as well make use of it ourselves

Im saying your family stories are probably not as accurate as historians and authors who spoke to Germans in Germany in the 1950s about being nazis. Im very sure you’re not lying about that being what they told you.

I’m calling you fantastical and wrong because painting a picture of nazi germany as a nation captive to a despot without any agency is holocaust revisionism. To say the German people were prisoners to the nazi regime is objectively false and all the documentation and research around the subject shows as much. They were very pleased with the reich and only started to sour once the war came home and started to get in the way of Germany’s greatness. Please read the book I recommended. Anecdotal evidence doesn’t prove this point wrong.

You’re actually goated for getting this in one paragraph lmao I’m saving this in my notes

Good thing Iran flat out gave up their weapons program years ago and has allowed inspectors in to monitor the civilian nuclear project to verify they arent actually making weapons and were negotiating even more concessions in order to have sanctions lifted before this

These are things I dont expect you to know, internet stranger, but the state of israel explicitly knows this. They knew this and they still killed the nuclear scientists.

It’s not about Iran having nukes. It is unjustifiable violence.

Evangelist Christian Armageddon is the endgame lmao

Not right then, just inevitably. As we are seeing lol

Scientifically proven to increase both admissions and member retention

This is absolutely inaccurate and borderline revisionism. Germans were not held at gunpoint to heil Hitler or risk being shot, the average german was perfectly happy and enjoyed the comforts naziism brought them. This inaccurate portrayal does nothing but abstract naziism to be an entity that only exists under specific horrifying conditions and not the reality that for the vast majority of Germans they were happy to be nazis.

Please go read about nazi germany before you make up some fanfic about how it was just like the wolfenstein games. “They Thought They were free” is a book entirely centered around the experiences of the average German during the nazi regime and not one word of your description is in his book.

From Milton Mayer:

These ten men were not men of distinction. They were not men of influence. They were not opinion-makers. Nobody ever gave them a free sample of anything on the ground that what they thought of it would increase the sales of the product. Their importance lay in the fact that God—as Lincoln said of the common people—had made so many of them. In a nation of seventy million, they were the sixty-nine million plus. They were the Nazis, the little men to whom, if ever they voiced their own views outside their own circles, bigger men politely pretended to listen without ever asking them to elaborate.

Only one of my ten Nazi friends saw Nazism as we—you and I—saw it in any respect. This was Hildebrandt, the teacher. And even he then believed, and still believes, in part of its program and practice, “the democratic part.” The other nine, decent, hard-working, ordinarily intelligent and honest men, did not know before 1933 that Nazism was evil. They did not know between 1933 and 1945 that it was evil. And they do not know it now. None of them ever knew, or now knows, Nazism as we knew and know it; and they lived under it, served it, and, indeed, made it.