The only problem is that your fact checker here is lying. Their statement "The labs are owned and funded by the Ukrainian government." is an outright lie, DoD provided funding.
@clacke@strypey@bsmall2 Biolabs story has a fairly good chance of being real, esp. since until recently there was mention of something like this on US embassy website. Make no mistake, Putin is the bad guy here, but watch what he says b/c in trying to justify himself he may reveal some actual dirt on the west.
@aral When he told me this, I could not believe it.
Like, guys, strategy, all you had to say was "This would have never happened if Trump was president" and then stop talking. But no, they just have to compete for Worst Take 2022. π€¦βοΈ
From calling for de-platforming of ordinary Russians to "kidnapping" fathers trying to leave the country with their families and forcing them into battle, my good will toward Zelenskyy is over.
Putin did start this, and his use of thermobaric weapons and shelling of apartment buildings is positively barbaric, but that doesn't make Zelenskyy good.
My β€οΈ is with all people stuck in πΊπ¦ and in π·πΊ . No oppressor is my friend.
But this took place in the mid 1700s, and since then they have developed a much more powerful attack which renders their victims essentially incapable of conceiving resistance.
Probably where it started was when the Kingdom of Prussia employed Hegel to create a philosophical weapon though works so dense and mind-twisting as to effectively undermine the ability of a person to think.
But it was when the Anglo fighter combined weaponized philosophy with cultural revisionism that they created a super-weapon. Stealing Words.
Consider Communism: it was first envisioned as workers of the world, country folk, truckers, farmers, uniting against the elites. Very scary and powerful.
What did they do? They stole the word, warped it with Hegelian 2+2=5 philosophy, and then sent their army of humanities students to promote this bastardized vision in order to undermine the original.
People think universities are wasteful, they think Grievance Studies is cultural rot. Wrong, information warfare is alpha dominant and these are Western super-soldiers.
If you go down that rabbit hole of agreeing with them, you end up tied in a knot, but if you go down the rabbit hole of disagreeing, you're tied in another knot. Only winning move is not to play.
Like pic below, but they don't just attack White Culture, they attack any culture powerful enough to pose a threat to their masters.
Consider the phrase "stay woke", it originates from the Black community and became popularized in Black Lives Matter, meaning, AFAICT: "stay alert to the fact that there is a power machine which is systematically working to undermine, oppress, and murder us".
Yet today, the term "woke" is likely to be associated with painting over the wall with the Indian, or insisting that they be called a Native American, or First Nation, or whatever is word of the day (they change these on purpose BTW).
Seeing all of this blue and gold reminds me of the team colors of my middle school.
I was there during 9/11 and the Patriot Act, though I had moved on to a (much better) technical school by the time Iraq was invaded.
Apparently the Indian head was since painted over because it was deemed insensitive. But this Indian tells a valuable story about how the Anglo/American Oppression Machine works.
First there were Indians, then the Anglos invaded and destroyed the Indians by any means possible.
Then the they forced relocation of what few Indians remained, and tore up their culture, forcing them into the school system.
When their culture was sufficiently destroyed, the Anglos celebrated their triumph by inventing a new culture for the Indians, one which never existed, and parading that around like an enemies head on a steak.
(pic: I passed this every day on the bus ride to school)
I did a couple of semesters of univ in the town of Amherst, a town named after Lord Jeffery Amherst - whose name lives in infamy because he deployed a biological weapon - blankets laden with smallpox - against the Indians.
Just uninstalled the anti COVID app. I installed it when I got the shot, before the government turned to coersion. Back then I just used my credit card everywhere because it was convenient. Now I use cash.