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Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

gradenko_2000 posted:

I did an audible "WHAT THE gently caress" when he brought up the curated CIA boardgame collection.

google Volko Ruhnke

It's not remotely surprising that they would have a vast collection of complicated board games for their terrorists, but it still seems like a weird thing to put in their video ad.

Which means it's consistent with the other one I heard the audio for on Chapo. Seriously what the gently caress.

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V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

lol i own cuba libre, it's amazing that one cannot even play board games without funding the cia

nut
Jul 30, 2019

can someone tell me what the cooler smart person word is for hegemonic entities coopting and integrating progressive language to stunt progressive movements. I know there's a cooler word for it and want to impress someone

sonatinas
Apr 15, 2003

Seattle Karate Vs. L.A. Karate

V. Illych L. posted:

lol i own cuba libre, it's amazing that one cannot even play board games without funding the cia

yeah I got that one and unopened fire in the lake. I can’t play historical games anymore. maybe one day I’ll just sell them along with my copy of Navajo wars which is kinda depressing to play.

Danger
Jan 4, 2004

all desire - the thirst for oil, war, religious salvation - needs to be understood according to what he calls 'the demonogrammatical decoding of the Earth's body'

nut posted:

can someone tell me what the cooler smart person word is for hegemonic entities coopting and integrating progressive language to stunt progressive movements. I know there's a cooler word for it and want to impress someone

deleuze would call this reterritorialization

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/philipmould/status/1390710036113022978?s=19

Aleister Crowley and John Dee intensifies

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money

lmao

Suplex Liberace
Jan 18, 2012




This was probably a globe but I'm gonna pretend its the orb of legend

DirtyRobot
Dec 15, 2003

it was a normally happy sunny day... but Dirty Robot was dirty

gradenko_2000 posted:

google Volko Ruhnke
The War on Terror, 2001 - ????



lol

nut
Jul 30, 2019

Danger posted:

deleuze would call this reterritorialization

bless

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008


little on the nose to have Coup on the shelf like that

Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

It's pretty amazing that MASTERMIND and CODENAMES are considered legitimate ways to practice your CIA skills, at least in their public ads. I assume the real training has more jumper cables.

Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

nut posted:

can someone tell me what the cooler smart person word is for hegemonic entities coopting and integrating progressive language to stunt progressive movements. I know there's a cooler word for it and want to impress someone

Recuperation.

nut
Jul 30, 2019

Gods_Butthole posted:

Recuperation.

yesss this is it, ty gods butthole

Mythical Moderate
Jul 5, 2002

My heart and actions are utterly unclouded. They are all those of 'Justice'.






He must have been grown in the same lab as Mayor Pete.

Sextro
Aug 23, 2014

Gods_Butthole posted:

It's pretty amazing that MASTERMIND and CODENAMES are considered legitimate ways to practice your CIA skills, at least in their public ads. I assume the real training has more jumper cables.

vilerat probably got to expense his eve sub.

StratGoatCom
Aug 6, 2019

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nut posted:

can someone tell me what the cooler smart person word is for hegemonic entities coopting and integrating progressive language to stunt progressive movements. I know there's a cooler word for it and want to impress someone

Recuperation.

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

Mythical Moderate posted:

He must have been grown in the same lab as Mayor Pete.

drat this guy has a beef

Happy Thread
Jul 10, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Plaster Town Cop
IMO the IC's embrace of woke values and tolerance is only partially about co-opting the left, preventing a moral high ground from being legible to others. It's also an accident of how espionage works. Anyone can be an asset or agent or CI. That goes for anyone of any race or sexuality, no matter their personal background. The best person to turn into an asset is whoever is less expected, whoever is embedded in the target community, and whoever can do the best job. They make their high representation of trans and other minorities a bragging point but if you think about it it's perfectly expected for the people they're spying on and infiltrating to look like themselves.

Happy Thread has issued a correction as of 20:23 on May 8, 2021

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


:dukedog:
Offensive Clock
also if your clandestine spy agency is pro LGBT you cant flip one of their agents by threatening to out them

A Real Hologram
Jun 22, 2018

Moo!
Hunter S Thompson seemed to always be in the right spot at the right time. could he have been an agent?

PsychoInternetHawk
Apr 4, 2011

Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
Grimey Drawer

Happy Thread posted:

IMO the IC's embrace of woke values and tolerance is only partially about co-opting the left, preventing a moral high ground from being legible to others. It's also an accident of how espionage works. Anyone can be an asset or agent or CI. That goes for anyone of any race or sexuality, no matter their personal background. The best person to turn into an asset is whoever is less expected, whoever is embedded in the target community, and whoever can do the best job. They make their high representation of trans and other minorities a bragging point but if you think about it it's perfectly expected for the people they're spying on and infiltrating to look like themselves.

Iirc wasn't this a massive problem in the war on terror, the US couldn't get ahold of people who could reasonably pass anywhere in the middle east because the intelligence agencies were so full of white dudes

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

A Real Hologram posted:

Hunter S Thompson seemed to always be in the right spot at the right time. could he have been an agent?

HST would only have been useful as a limited hangout, and even then nobody would have felt good about trusting him with secrets.

Dude was not agent material.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




his dealers were probably agents

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

mdemone posted:

HST would only have been useful as a limited hangout, and even then nobody would have felt good about trusting him with secrets.

Dude was not agent material.

certainly not officer material. he could have been an agent without knowing it

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
if the more wild hst rumors are to believed, he sounded like more of a dutroux-like figure on the periphery to me

Happy Thread
Jul 10, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Plaster Town Cop

Spergin Morlock posted:

certainly not officer material. he could have been an agent without knowing it

Ooo i like this more-accurate way of wording this distinction

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Dr. Killjoy posted:

found a guy


Mind you here he’s quoted on a Dailybeast article regarding actor LaKeith Stanfield allowing antisemitism within a chat room on a fairly exclusive social media app that’s invite only and as of late seemingly only used by celebrities and various online influencers. Daily Beast of course being at times a DNC mouthpiece.



interesting follower count for a post count you could use all your fingers for





As I said, he even has his own NGO.

Maybe he’s some insane self promoter with money to spare but this is loving weird.

i'm pretty sure the woman he was campaign manager for in Michigan state senate primary, Shadia Martini, is his mom. He followed her into politics.

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHeSC_Ws5Ic

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

gradenko_2000 posted:

I did an audible "WHAT THE gently caress" when he brought up the curated CIA boardgame collection.

google Volko Ruhnke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1tyybVuSBU

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

what does Volko Ruhnke know about the P500 Lodge

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

I love that clip so much. I think it's the insanity and the short shorts.

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
HST rules

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Tubgoat posted:

Even funnier when you remember that breast size and brain development are very highly positively correlated.

I wonder if this isn't just tied to "malnutrition = poorer brain development"

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

Ytlaya posted:

I wonder if this isn't just tied to "malnutrition = poorer brain development"

I'm certain it is, but it lets me launder my love of big naturals through my love of intelligence and vice versa.

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Spergin Morlock posted:

certainly not officer material. he could have been an agent without knowing it

So the modern lexicon is an 'employee' of the CIA is an agent, who controls some asset and thus become an handler of said asset.

The agency does everything to keep it's hands clean, thus every time the agency wants someone dead or some drugs ferried across a border, whenever possible the asset pulls the trigger or carries the product.

However, the CIA (not to mention other government and private spooks) are so ubiquitous in capitalist society that every time some freak does something of note, he could very well be an asset.

Take abstract art, which was fostered to counter socialist realist art. Jackson Pollock was certainly a CIA asset, even tough he never more than just an idiot who threw paint on stuff.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




my grandpa built cia funded artist, robert motherwell's concrete back patio on his mansion and motherwell took my grandpa out to dinner at the fanciest restaurant in greenwich ct and ordered bottles of chateau rothschild wine with his own paintings on the label and said "ya know [my grandpa], we're both alike. we both work with our hands" and my grandpa said if he built patios as sloppy as motherwell painted he'd be outta business and apparently motherwell thought that was really funny that his contractor in overalls was insulting him at his favorite restaurant and gave him a signed print.

thats my family's modern art cia guy story thanks for reading

StratGoatCom
Aug 6, 2019

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With the labour right having a normal one, I think this is relevant right now.

https://twitter.com/Olliek74/status/1391345826790875137

Ham Cheeks
Nov 18, 2012

Feeling hammy
how many people do you think Epstein personally killed?

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500excf type r
Mar 7, 2013

I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Ham Cheeks posted:

how many people do you think Epstein personally killed?

One (himself)

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