Finally, a good use case for bitcoin
Hyperlich
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The plea deal probably: agree to be an imperial propagandist or die in a mysterious accident.
It sounds like they're not just admitting to this, but admitting to creating thousands of accounts on all US controlled social media platforms since 2001 to influence everyone.
Why are they admitting this?
Why is Reuters claiming that propagandizing Americans was not allowed when, I believe, the patriot act gave them permission to do just that? And it's very obvious lots of users on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube etc all glow so bright you could light a city?
I feel this is sort of a damage control thing. Admitting to something they perceive as less horrible (with lame justifications) in order to continue hiding the larger campaign being performed on the English speaking internet. Like a sort of "ok we're bad, we did this thing and we admit it, there is nothing else we're hiding ok?"
I recall operation songbird (?) was this exact thing?
I don't have any sources, just what I remember. So please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Also why is the military the ones doing this? Does the CIA outsource their dumber operations to the military?
And once again why are they even admitting to any of this?
I won't survive and that's fine with me, I've lived long enough. I want to take a couple formerly-rich parasites out with me though. Leave the place better off than when I arrived.
If I could, I would move to a communist country though.
Honestly surprised Hawaii is so low. Maybe it's because so many of the native Hawaiians and locals got pushed out.
I don't want to be in this country
They're priming their audiences. They've been suggesting that a Chinese economic collapse would directly cause an American depression.
That's what they've decided to go with to deflect blame once the panic of another American depression hits. The bourgeoise knows the general audience is racist enough to accept those evil Chinese commies are causing their problems no matter how many backflips the logic has to do for it to connect. They're scared to accept blame, they're scared it won't work out like 2008 where they all got off scott free so they need to sow the seeds of their alibis before it happens.
I expect them to publish a bunch of totally fabricated stories about China collapsing and pulling America down with them once America sinks into a depression. Better to scapegoat an entire country and allow citizens to take out their rage on the Chinese ethnic minority living in America than to take an ounce of blame. Hmmm sounds familiar.
I gotta recommend One Piece, my all time favorite. It's about goofy 'pirates' who sail from island to island liberating them from fascists or stopping attempted coups, or fighting the CIA. The biggest problem in the one piece world is that everything was built to support a ruling class of disgusting inbred billionaires who do things like take slaves. There is a literal revolutionary army named "the revolutionaries" lead by a guy based on Che (he looks like che, his boat was named after che's boat) who's main goal is to destroy that billionaire ruling class.
The beginning of the show (like first 4 arcs) are more about introducing characters, but every arc after is about the above. The tone is like if Tom & Jerry had a plot. Despite how it might appear it's not like a typical power scaling battle shonen, the fights are not the main point, though later on they do end up emphasizing fights a lot (in the anime, the manga is better at keeping fights secondary).
The show isn't without issue though. It portrays trans, gender fluid, and queer people in a very mean way. They're all still part of the 'good guys' but a lot will be drawn as like hairy men wearing dresses. There are better portrayals like one inspired by tim curry or one inspired by Jim carry (with the best voice actor ever if you watch it subbed). This issue gets a lot better later on though. This story has been going for 25 years, in the last 5 years or so it's gotten much much better.
Another issue is it's portrayal of women. Almost every prominent woman looks the same. They have the same-ish face and exact same body. They're frequently scantily clad. No matter how important they are to the story, no matter how well fleshed out their characters are or how heartbreaking their story is, the author will still find a way to make them dress in underwear or something. I realize a lot of this was because of his editors. It doesn't become a problem till later on when he gets editor after editor pushing him to draw them as scantily clad as possible. The author has warned other authors that the publisher is full of perverts. The anime makes things more gratuitous than the manga.
I do recommend reading it over watching it due to pacing and artwork though. They are remaking the anime right now even though the anime is still ongoing. The remake is supposed to address the pacing and art.