BreathThroughTheTube [he/him] @ BreathThroughTheTube @hexbear.net

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except not be kinda dumb and lose most arguments by ceding tons of ground right out the gate

well Hasan should listen to his own advice and stop letting chatters dictate the conversation. He does an awful job controlling the narrative on his stream

he's like 500. he's never going to change, just continue getting worse and more curmudgeonly and zionist until he dies (in like a year)

They literally never once tried to strongarm Ukraine into surrendering which is the only way there’s peace. What a joke

Hasan immediately gives so much ground. All you have to do to win an argument against him is make an extreme claim confidently over and over. It will derail him and he just focuses on that nitpicked point and cedes everything else.

For example, we have increased the number of points for infantry elimination from two to six, and that has doubled the number of destroyed enemies in one month

Why don’t they set the points to one bazillion and win the war instantly?

Yeah communicating in morse code is a pretty blaring indicator this is a creative writing exercise. I used to write similar things as a child about ghosts talking in Morse code that I thought was so deep

Read part 2

Castro fucked all of them

Ansarallah has discovered new incendiary technology

The post itself took effort but it’s clearly not in their writing style. 7/10

I agree. Obvious poser doing a bit

The war that went famously well for the Saudis

If I won a lottery I would donate almost all of it nearly immediately to various causes and family and friends, it would solve a lot of problems for those around me. I don't think I would be willing to hoard it up in a stock portfolio and cold shoulder everyone around me. I know homeless people, people with crippling medical debt, people who are about to get evicted, people who have severe alcohol or substance abuse issues. I could fix nearly all of this if I was just loaded.

British installed judicial system in Hong Kong (not a colony of the UK!!1!)

Here's what I think is happening. The neolibs defund the state and replace the gap in funding with lotteries.

Neolib/Liberal propaganda to defend these policies: Join the lottery! Your life isn't hopeless in this capitalist hellscape, you have a small chance to live the life of your dreams and get as lucky as other rich people. (Appeals to desperate, uneducated poor people)

Conservative counter-propaganda, they are fine with the lotteries but take issue with the framing: There's no luck involved in being rich, rich people are ontologically superior beings with improved money management and self-control. Even if you somehow get our level of wealth, you will quickly revert to your wretched natural state. Anybody who ought to be rich, is already rich, through hard work and genius. (Appeals to smug, educated middle class and rich people)

Lotteries are reactionary poor taxes imposed by neoliberal states that can no longer raise their own funds for projects so have to create "for profit" gambling rackets to fill in the gaps of cutting taxes on the rich. They also serve a useful ideological purpose for controlling the poor, giving them an avenue to make it big and join the capitalists. Why be a pain to the state and improve conditions when YOU could be a lucky winner and be rich!! They exaggerate the likelihood of it happening and pretend anyone could win at any time to keep this illusion alive.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-19-lotteryism-part-i-how-a-compliant-press-fuels-the-spectacle-of-winning

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/2017/12

i have friends like this and I make sure to ruin their zen states by interjecting news updates

Castro was using the Havana Syndrome ray on any CIA agents within a 500 mile radius

unlike others, Fidel actually fought in a guerilla war personally and won. He has earned the right to wear fatigues and military outfits for the rest of his life. It is silly when leaders who have never been in combat wear them though