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nut
Jul 30, 2019

https://twitter.com/ApexPigg/status/1425855735821447169?s=20

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nut
Jul 30, 2019

also just saw this today

Tesla allegedly covered up drug trafficking and spied on employees at the Gigafactory, whistleblower says

The Verge posted:

Those investigations focused on claims of massive theft and “substantial drug trafficking.” The complaint also includes allegations that Tesla spied on employees’ electronic devices.
...
Karl Hansen, the former employee, claims that Tesla was told in May by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Storey County Sheriff’s Office Task Force that “a Tesla employee may be a participant in a narcotics trafficking ring involving the sale of significant quantities of cocaine and possibly crystal methamphetamine at the Gigafactory on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel from Sonora Mexico.”

combined with this thread detailing Musk's alleged connections to Escobar and El Chapo

https://twitter.com/PlainSite/status/1363988542485983236?s=20

and probably one too far but let's have fun

https://twitter.com/GeorgianPhilos1/status/1425797661618184192?s=20

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




"elon, go on chapo"
....
elon: "go on, chapo!"

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor


why was he in the WTC on 9/11? just in the FBI office there?

mark immune
Dec 14, 2019

put the teacher in the cope cage imo

Marzzle posted:

why was he in the WTC on 9/11? just in the FBI office there?

planting C4

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

Marzzle posted:

why was he in the WTC on 9/11? just in the FBI office there?

he was the head of security at the wtc.

also

mark immune posted:

planting C4

also he looked like if John Goodman were playing the role of Richard Nixon

Regulus74
Jul 26, 2007

Proust Malone posted:

he was the head of security at the wtc.

Does that mean he worked for nick kroll's dad?

selec
Sep 6, 2003

Regulus74 posted:

Does that mean he worked for nick kroll's dad?

reminds me of this absolute classic of a
banger of a slapper of a maximum effort

https://medium.com/@laurenspitzberg/holy-poo poo-this-is-insane-eb9745f0eac3

TheIncredulousHulk
Sep 3, 2012

Hello thread, I made on off-handed comment today to a left-lib friend I've been trying to fully crack-ping about how Islamist fundamentalism was more or less invented by the US intelligence apparatus during the Cold War, but when she asked for a source, I couldn't remember where I'd read or heard it. Possible it's just a weird false memory of mine but if it's not, can someone point me to any writings and/or podcasts on the subject?

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



TheIncredulousHulk posted:

Hello thread, I made on off-handed comment today to a left-lib friend I've been trying to fully crack-ping about how Islamist fundamentalism was more or less invented by the US intelligence apparatus during the Cold War, but when she asked for a source, I couldn't remember where I'd read or heard it. Possible it's just a weird false memory of mine but if it's not, can someone point me to any writings and/or podcasts on the subject?

there's a popular documentary on the subject called rambo 3

rex rabidorum vires
Mar 26, 2007

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Elon being a cut rate Delorean just goes to show that Musk has never ever had an original thought or idea. What a loser. Also totally subscribe to Boring Company making tunnels to run drugs mostly 'cause I think it's funny.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



turns out the most unrealistic part about breaking bad was that gus was running meth though los pollos hermanos without the DEA's knowledge and that the aryan brotherhood guys that gunned down hank weren't on the CIA's payroll

TheIncredulousHulk
Sep 3, 2012

Shear Modulus posted:

there's a popular documentary on the subject called rambo 3

Thanks, I will look into this

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



instead of hank getting promoted for busting gus's operation he gets transferred to desk duty for overstepping his jurisdiction

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

selec posted:

reminds me of this absolute classic of a
banger of a slapper of a maximum effort

https://medium.com/@laurenspitzberg/holy-poo poo-this-is-insane-eb9745f0eac3

i hate that i know what this is about without clicking on it

demostars
Apr 8, 2020

selec posted:

reminds me of this absolute classic of a
banger of a slapper of a maximum effort

https://medium.com/@laurenspitzberg/holy-poo poo-this-is-insane-eb9745f0eac3

i skimmed this because it's way too loving long but is the jist of it that tig notaro is batshit crazy and sicced her spook friends on some complete rando that she perceived to be slighting her? or is the author someone of importance that was being targeted specifically by spooks and notaro is just the person they used to do it?

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

TheIncredulousHulk posted:

Hello thread, I made on off-handed comment today to a left-lib friend I've been trying to fully crack-ping about how Islamist fundamentalism was more or less invented by the US intelligence apparatus during the Cold War, but when she asked for a source, I couldn't remember where I'd read or heard it. Possible it's just a weird false memory of mine but if it's not, can someone point me to any writings and/or podcasts on the subject?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2cjVhUrmII


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzHUag1cd7A

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1425940555872276486?s=20

[curb your enthusiasm theme plays]

Impkins Patootie
Apr 20, 2017





https://twitter.com/isntwhatmatters/status/1425922062435164173?s=19

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

TheIncredulousHulk posted:

Hello thread, I made on off-handed comment today to a left-lib friend I've been trying to fully crack-ping about how Islamist fundamentalism was more or less invented by the US intelligence apparatus during the Cold War, but when she asked for a source, I couldn't remember where I'd read or heard it. Possible it's just a weird false memory of mine but if it's not, can someone point me to any writings and/or podcasts on the subject?

idk how big a role they had initially but it's being handled almost entirely at this point by the Saudis

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


is it a bad thing in the world? At some point in the process of it being made to happen, an US intelligence officer was involved. If you're a citizen of the US, your country, at least the government apparatus that claims to represent you, and has a hand in enslaving you, are the bad guys.

We share in the blood, and the guilt, even if you think it's bad, as long as it's allowed to happen lol

LOL

haha

selec
Sep 6, 2003

demostars posted:

i skimmed this because it's way too loving long but is the jist of it that tig notaro is batshit crazy and sicced her spook friends on some complete rando that she perceived to be slighting her? or is the author someone of importance that was being targeted specifically by spooks and notaro is just the person they used to do it?

the author has never come off as lucid as they do before or since that medium post and several high profile comedians have restraining orders against her

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


I want to divest m yself of association witht his nation so i don't burn in hell

well thanks for reading

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



besides the funding, arming, training, and giving operational support of the brave mujahadeen fighters of afghanistan, western intelligence and companies with business interests in the region were helping their client governments like the shah in iran crush socialist dissidents while either leaving anti-government islamist factions alone or inviting them in because they were expected to be a reliable opposition to the soviets. this meant that when a government like the shah's, or saddam's, or mubarak's, eventually lost control the only political faction organized enough to fill the vacuum were the islamists

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006


I'd buy it.

I'd also look into how Matt Groening got such an insane sweetheart deal with Fox as well.

(Obviously don't take this literally.)

nut
Jul 30, 2019

Riot Bimbo posted:

is it a bad thing in the world? At some point in the process of it being made to happen, an US intelligence officer was involved. If you're a citizen of the US, your country, at least the government apparatus that claims to represent you, and has a hand in enslaving you, are the bad guys.

We share in the blood, and the guilt, even if you think it's bad, as long as it's allowed to happen lol

LOL

haha

have u tried buying new, innovative products or consuming content

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007


Yes I called this months ago

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

theflyingexecutive posted:

the school where his parents both worked and where he graduated has a history of suppressing child abuse. their new head just stepped down from another prep school with deep histories of child abuse as well. a head of mi6 and a Nixon/gw flunkie both went there :shrug:

sorry, the head of mi6 from 99-04. his parents were too young to have overlapped with him though

theflyingexecutive posted:

weird that he told people he was ten minutes late to the plane when the report says that he cancelled his reservation an hour ahead of time :allears:

In an interview with Rove McManus, he said: "I was booked on the first flight that hit the tower and I was drinking the night before, overslept a little bit in conjunction with the fact that my travel agent screwed up the itinerary by about 15 minutes, so I arrived 10 minutes late to get on the plane."

"I got to the counter. And I said, yes, I'm booked on Flight 11. And the woman behind the counter said, you know, you're too late. They just closed the gate. And I said, all right. Well, you know, I'll take the 11:00.



the fbi interviewed everyone who didn’t show up, but not the people who cancelled, what a very specific distinction :thunk:

theflyingexecutive posted:

oh yeah and then when family guy tanked, fox gave this kid with no other experience an entirely new show... about the cia... where the head of the cia is british. and originally they were going to make that character a pedophile

theflyingexecutive posted:

I was just trying to make a joke gdi

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
I think the shift to fighting "radical Islam" was covered in Hypernormalization

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




american dad was there to instill the idea of an incompetent cia following 9/11 and to portray its agents as homer simpson type lovable buffoons

Penisaurus Sex
Feb 3, 2009

asdfghjklpoiuyt

gradenko_2000 posted:

I think the shift to fighting "radical Islam" was covered in Hypernormalization

Also Bitter Lake.

It all goes back to the US dealing with the fallout of assuming control over the formerly British colonial possessions in Central Asia. Reactionary theocracy was an easy way to defuse any domestic tension regarding socioeconomic relations while also weaponizing a populace to fight leftism abroad (see: most of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in the Soviet-Afghan war weren't Afghani and weren't from Afghanistan, they were foreign fighters from mostly Pakistan IIRC).

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
drat I had no idea tig notaro sucks so hard this thread is finally producing practical information

edit: gently caress I just realized someone lied about me shoving them in a police report, only it was the police themselves lying and the charges were dropped without me having to do a drat thing because of how obviously they were lying :tinfoil:

I guess the police just like to lie everywhere about everything all the time, gee I wonder why that blue line is shrinking

edit 2: oh my god I kept reading

Private Cumshoe has issued a correction as of 04:27 on Aug 13, 2021

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Real hurthling! posted:

american dad was there to instill the idea of an incompetent cia following 9/11 and to portray its agents as homer simpson type lovable buffoons

yup. and who else better to make it than an asset?

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


nut posted:

have u tried buying new, innovative products or consuming content

hmm h ave you considered standing still and stoic while i scream as loud as possible straight into your ear

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Riot Bimbo posted:

hmm h ave you considered standing still and stoic while i scream as loud as possible straight into your ear

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

Is that getfiscal?

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

This is what I imagine his face looks like after posting.

Suplex Liberace
Jan 18, 2012



theflyingexecutive posted:

weird that he told people he was ten minutes late to the plane when the report says that he cancelled his reservation an hour ahead of time :allears:

In an interview with Rove McManus, he said: "I was booked on the first flight that hit the tower and I was drinking the night before, overslept a little bit in conjunction with the fact that my travel agent screwed up the itinerary by about 15 minutes, so I arrived 10 minutes late to get on the plane."

"I got to the counter. And I said, yes, I'm booked on Flight 11. And the woman behind the counter said, you know, you're too late. They just closed the gate. And I said, all right. Well, you know, I'll take the 11:00.



the fbi interviewed everyone who didn’t show up, but not the people who cancelled, what a very specific distinction :thunk:

i missed this list the 1st time, imagine being the only dude in 1st class as everyone else got heads up and missed the 9/11 flight.

nut
Jul 30, 2019

https://twitter.com/collider/status/1425900948422119425?s=21

Let’s goooo

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Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




emily blunt force trauma to a striking miners head

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