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Reporter: “It’s an action that you say they have taken, but you have shown no evidence to confirm that. [...] This is like - crisis actors? Really? This is like Alex Jones territory you’re getting into now.”

Must-watch exchange between @APDiploWriter Matt Lee and @StateDeptSpox. pic.twitter.com/RPIPb2zwf5

— The Hill (@thehill) February 3, 2022

Peter Thiel Is Finally Free to Go All-In on Far-Right Politics
The billionaire investor is giving up his long-held Facebook board seat to make a play for the Trumpist restoration.
Thiel is the largest donor to a political action committee supporting JD Vance, who previously worked at one of Thiel’s venture capital firms, and is now running for Senate in Ohio. Last summer the PAC aired a television ad in which Vance decried “a ruling class, an elite, who don’t actually care about the American nation,” as an image of Zuckerberg flashed across the screen. Thiel gave $10 million to the Vance PAC last March, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
A month after giving to Vance, Thiel wrote a second $10 million check for a new PAC supporting the Arizona senate candidacy of Republican Blake Masters, who is a longtime Thiel aide and served as the cowriter on his book, Zero to One.
Like Vance, Masters has portrayed the tech industry, and Facebook, as a key adversary. He’s claimed — without evidence — that Facebook “threw the election for Biden” and has sought to connect the company to false claims, propagated by Trump and his allies, that the 2020 election was stolen.
Thiel has also supported the campaign of Harriet Hageman, who is running to replace Wyoming representative Liz Cheney, one of a handful of Republicans to vote to impeach Trump after the failed insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. Thiel donated $5,800 to Hageman in September, and last month hosted a fundraiser for Hageman in which he cast Cheney as “treasonous,” according to Politico’s Alex Isenstadt. “The way we’re going to defeat the left, the way we’re going to roll them back, it’s going to start in the Republican Party, that’s where we have some problems, we’ve got to clean house there first,” Thiel said, according to Isenstadt.

True story.

So a father was asleep at home with his two kids, 1 & 3, when the police bust in the door around 4:30 a.m. Dad fires one shot at the door because he wakes up and just sees a guy in his house. Realizes after he shoots that it's a cop and puts the gun down.

— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) February 15, 2022

The CIA’s new recruitment videos represent the totalizing effect of the new dialect of power. The Central Intelligence Agency, a cosmopolitan, professional-class institution if there ever was one, is a harbinger of what is to come. As warfare becomes increasingly asymmetrical and reliant on cyberattacks, drone strikes, and counterintelligence, the need for work­ing-class cannon fodder declines, and the military will increasingly speak the language of its potential recruits.

Летећи Полип wrote:

What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not. They're just a bunch of seedy squalid bastards like me, little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants playing "Cowboys and Indians" to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong? Yesterday I would have killed Mundt because I thought him evil and an enemy. But not today. Today he is evil and my friend.

Летећи Полип wrote:Mnogo stvari je ovde izreceno koje bi valjalo prokomentarisati. Prvo, na primer ovo kako ce rat u buducnosti biti sofisticiraniji i zahtevati manje prasinara. Mislim - goodbye, narativi iz dvehiljaditih. Napoleon je poveo 600k ljudu na Rusiju sa 35 miliona stanovnika. Danas Putko drzi 200k muzhika uz Ukraijinu, i svi se slazu da mu je to basta da drzi jedino Lugansk i Doneck. Da se ne zajebavamo, danasnji ratovi su nuzno totalni. Ako se budemo krljali, krljacemo se u milionima.

Bleeding Blitva wrote:https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/the-cia-and-the-new-dialect-of-power/
Loooong read, ima CIA, vernakular, wokeism, teorije zavjere, svašta.

The CIA’s new recruitment videos represent the totalizing effect of the new dialect of power. The Central Intelligence Agency, a cosmopolitan, professional-class institution if there ever was one, is a harbinger of what is to come. As warfare becomes increasingly asymmetrical and reliant on cyberattacks, drone strikes, and counterintelligence, the need for work­ing-class cannon fodder declines, and the military will increasingly speak the language of its potential recruits.