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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

quote:

Really? Ben Judah? Can’t the neocon veal pen try a little harder? This is just insulting. Judah, for those who don’t know, got busted last year forging what had been his biggest scoop ever for Politico magazine: Judah alleged, falsely, that Putin had secretly proposed to Poland’s president in 2008 to carve up Ukraine together. The Polish president whom Putin supposedly offered half of Ukraine to is now dead, so he couldn’t deny it. The point of Judah’s article was to “prove” that Putin had all along intended to invade and carve up Ukraine, rather than Putin reacting to the 2014 US-backed overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych. (Judah also took to the New York Times calling on the US to "arm Ukraine".)

Welp, wouldnchaknow it, Judah’s source for his Big Scoop was none other than the husband of Legatum Institute’s Anne Applebaum. His name is Radislow Sikorski, and he’s the looniest of Poland’s neocons. Nothing about Judah's scoop made sense—why would Putin offer such an inane plan to a NATO enemy? But the best lies aren’t the most complicated lies, they’re the lies people want to believe. And everyone wanted to believe Judah’s story—except Polish journalists, who saw through it. They did what journalists do and questioned Sikorski for more details. Sikorski stuttered and stammered and admitted he’d made it all up, and apologized. So did most media that ran Judah’s false story. Sikorski even disowned Judah and Politico. But you won’t find a retraction on Judah’s story. It’s still there, proud as a peacock.

I remember Ben Judah as being the guy who wrote that Guardian piece a while back: Is Biden the American Brezhnev?

And Radislaw Sikorski, besides being Anne Applebaum's spouse and one of Poland's most right-wing politicians, also cut his teeth in the 80s fighting (or really, posing) with Islamic militants in Afghanistan. This is covered in Max Blumenthal's Management of Savagery.

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gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

the same shady characters return again and again

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
lol

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1291850082808201218

selec
Sep 6, 2003

gradenko_2000 posted:

Inward Empire finished with their five-part series on Ngo Dinh Diem and South Vietnam (in July, haha, but I personally only finished listening to it yesterday).

Strong recommend from me for anyone interested in the time period.

seconding! it’s very well researched and told.

Lady Militant
Apr 8, 2020

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

now THIS is some good content

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

the #SaveIdlib in his avi never fails to make me lol, it's makes for such an absurd contrast with his posts

https://twitter.com/WASBAPPIN/status/1291975749805563904?s=19

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

pretty sure he has been doing a bit for some time now tbh

https://twitter.com/WASBAPPIN/status/1291986919883042816?s=19

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


aw man ive been punked

Paffgen
Jul 13, 2009
If anyone listens, does he say that the girls who made the video posted it publically (so not revenge porn, yes? unless he only agreed to do it if it was private) or that a client of theirs leaked it?

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

Paffgen posted:

If anyone listens, does he say that the girls who made the video posted it publically (so not revenge porn, yes? unless he only agreed to do it if it was private) or that a client of theirs leaked it?

it was made to be put on clips4sale, you can find it if you google.

Paffgen
Jul 13, 2009

uber_stoat posted:

it was made to be put on clips4sale, you can find it if you google.

Listening now he says a recent ex found it through stalking all his friends and leaked it so I feel bad for him because of that. Otherwise, he refers to himself as famous, a public figure, an artist in the first 5 minutes. Also like "John Waters" for being so out there. Nick's impression of him saying "obviooously" is so spot on, insufferable.

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/nickusen/status/1292224701264265219

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Stav's questioning of Forest Gump is amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wur8GhIAJQg

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

Atrocious Joe posted:

Stav's questioning of Forest Gump is amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wur8GhIAJQg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gump_and_Co.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005


quote:

and the company endures labor disagreements. Forrest comes to the docks one morning to find unoccupied trawlers and is met by only Bubba's father, who sadly reports to Forrest that "I am afraid to say you have been ruined".
lmao

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Every part of that story summary is insane. At one point Forrest and Lt. Dan capture Saddam.

Gio
Jun 20, 2005


Atrocious Joe posted:

Stav's questioning of Forest Gump is amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wur8GhIAJQg

no poo poo ive thought the same thing about forrest’s cross country run

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
stav once couldn't remember the word "sank" and said "reverse floated"

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Gio posted:

no poo poo ive thought the same thing about forrest’s cross country run

I thought it too, when I was younger. I've also been fat my entire life so there you go

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

stav once couldn't remember the word "sank" and said "reverse floated"

lazy swimming

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Mantis42 posted:

I thought it too, when I was younger. I've also been fat my entire life so there you go

quit the world, bitch

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

a Loving Dog posted:

https://twitter.com/hannahgais/status/1291818512818806784
new levels of Vince McMahon interest unlocked by reading through the list lol

I agree with all of these, finally someone's saying it. Give me a bappin gangtag please.

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


okay i give, who/what set off the most recent round of age differences in relationships? this seems the most fitting thread to ask

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

okay i give, who/what set off the most recent round of age differences in relationships? this seems the most fitting thread to ask

Glenn Greenwald is apparently a predator for being married to an adult person who is younger than him.

and this i guess.

https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1291918075692855296?s=20

uber_stoat has issued a correction as of 21:53 on Aug 9, 2020

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Billionaire w/ egg shaped penis

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

uber_stoat posted:

Glenn Greenwald is apparently a predator for being married to an adult person who is younger than him.

Don't forget an imperialist, because Greenwald is American and his adult child husband is Brazilian.

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


so this morse guy had sexual relationships with consenting adults, some of whom found out later he is/was a lecturer and mayor, which proved to be some sort of "power imbalance"? i don't get it



pretty soon you're going to see woke anti miscegenation takes, if they aren't out there already

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

I thought that most people who become college professors do so at least partly so they can sleep with their students.

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

pretty soon you're going to see woke anti miscegenation takes, if they aren't out there already

you're 17 hours behind on the discourse

https://twitter.com/PKhakpour/status/1292303169171660800?s=20

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Age gap relationships are fine for everyone but hetrosexuals.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

jesus christ.

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

this lady is on some primo grade Psychology. hate to see it.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Gripweed posted:

I thought that most people who become college professors do so at least partly so they can sleep with their students.

and it’s hugely unethical now even if the 2001 classic Evolution starring David Duchovny indicates otherwise. Professors sleeping with their students is bad and gross.

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012



lol oh yeah i did see this, the whole thread gets more and more psychotic

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
lmao americans are silly. the president of france married his teacher who is 25 years his senior... and that guy's president!

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

Trabisnikof posted:

and it’s hugely unethical now even if the 2001 classic Evolution starring David Duchovny indicates otherwise. Professors sleeping with their students is bad and gross.

far as I can tell and correct me if i'm wrong they weren't his students, they just attended the school where he teaches. big nothing burger.

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


Trabisnikof posted:

and it’s hugely unethical now even if the 2001 classic Evolution starring David Duchovny indicates otherwise. Professors sleeping with their students is bad and gross.

from what i’ve seen (maybe i missed something?) they weren’t even his students and they only found put afterward he was a mayor/lecturer, and it’s not even clear any of the students complained?

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
and he is 31... and this happened over several years... meaning when he was in his twenties sleeping with guys in their twenties blowing up his grindr

democrats are a waste

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T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Mandatory anti-horny implants until the age of 69 imo

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