FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]

My Nephew’s favorite thing is Minecraft. It seems like the easiest way to make a huge profit is getting the attention of children. They will beg their parents for the treats and the parents will oblige.

If you ever get a chance to take the train along the Hudson river, be sure to sit on the west side.

Similar thing happened to me during the great recession. My older brothers already had their degrees and just started working when it hit. Their employers laid off the high earning boomers and promoted them without raises. I was still in college and the job placement metrics at my school were abysmal by the time I was getting close to finishing. It’s such bullshit because nearly everyone who benefitted by this phenomenon denies it.

I did my research and picked the right side of the train so I can get all the beautiful views of the Hudson River!

Embarking on my fall color train ride to NYC than Boston!

Hexbears, I need your help on the history of apartheid in South Africa. Specifically what I wanna know is should I be concerned my new CEO may have a not so ethical past? His parents were Lychee farmers and he immigrated here in 2000 through the Fulbright scholarship program. Should I be concerned that this guy’s parents owned slaves?

Old white dudes can’t help but be bigots. Guy next to me at a restaurant has to tell his wife how the Cleveland baseball team and Washington football team changed their names. Cultural revolution can’t happen soon enough.

So that essay really doesn’t cover the actual propaganda technique which I’ve always heard called vranyo, and your right it could be that some Nazi or American decided to use a Russian word to label their propaganda technique. I shouldn’t have said Russia started it, but meant instead to cite back to Dostoevsky’s analysis of lying in Russia. The essay is an observation of why lying is so prevalent in late 1800’s Russia.

This line most stands out to me as an early example of why a blatant lie is a wonderful tactic in propaganda; For centuries truth will lie right on the table before people but they will not take it: they will chase after a fabrication precisely because they look upon it as something fantastic and utopian.

Like you had asked earlier. Why do chuds all spout the same blatant lie that immigrants get tens of thousands of dollars in free stuff? It is because they know they are lying and are seeking to entertain an audience with others who will repeat and purport the lie. Your coworker is testing if you will participate in the ritual, when you refute it with fact you’ve indicated you are not going to participate in this ritual.

No, Dostoevsky’s essay doesn’t credit Russians with inventing lying.

It’s actually a form of propaganda the Russians started called Vranyo. Repeating a known lie is a ritual used to establish in-group/out-group dynamics. All the folks who repeat the lie are signaling they are acting in unison, refuting the argument indicates that you are a member of the out group.

https://vadga.ma/something-about-lying/

The swing states all have a lot of fuckery at the local level and it will take a couple days before we know who is the true winner. SCOTUS will try to intervene but the lower courts will get ahead of them to ensure the states wrap up the counting. Harris probably wins, but the chuds will be frothing at the mouth. I’m setting the over/under for how many get shot dead by the authorities at 3.5.

Isn’t that more like 20 years ago at this point? 2004 Kerry lost to Bush but the Democrats started taking back the house and Senate. Then it culminates in '08 with Obama’s near blowout and folks started that, “the GOP is no more” celebration. By 2014 the GOP was back and trying to repeal the ACA every week.

In the month of October, Trump has drilled down on his campaign message to round up and kill liberals while Kamala has been forgiving Israel for the most heinous crimes to occur with in my lifetime. Trump gained 5 points in polling amongst suburban white women in that time. Truly scared of the bloodlust amongst most Americans.

I love your posts because they remind me of the Minnesota Timberwolves and my own Siberian Husky. They also provide me motivation to continue to make this wretched place just a little bit better. NY needs to reintroduce Wolves like MN and CO have done.

A couple years ago Hexbears lambasted me for not being angry about the railroad strike. I said from my experience in my union we were barely an institution let alone a left wing institution. Most of my brothers were fucking fascists who were slowly taking control of the executive board seat at a time.

I hope one day that China becomes the world’s superpower and liberates the US. Then I get to collect my platinum trophy for being right.

I think the rest of us are dumbfounded with the spectacle that is natural disasters in the Southeast. I support Floridian refugees taking our black jobs, living in our hotels and eating our cats. I refuse to expend the CO2 needed to rebuild their state, time for this project of annual reconstruction for a minority of folks to enjoy some beaches and palm trees to end.

I’ve found labelling their positions as eminent dangers or threats is a good way to remain civil and set them off.

After growing up in tornado alley and one of the coldest places in the US, learning to exercise caution in inclement weather is a no brainer to me. I simply cannot understand anyone on the East Coast’s behavior regarding this weather. Are tornados and hypothermia deadlier than these hurricanes and flooding? Is the Southeast so accustomed to the feds coming in to bail them out they’ve garnered a certain hubris to these storms? I don’t get it, get to safety people!

This is really a phenomenon they believe. They’ll cite that the ozone layer above Australia naturally closed despite examples like DDT being outlawed. I’ve tried it with acid rain too and that one they’re sometimes willing to acknowledge was pollution. I’ve lived in the upper Midwest and Northeast so it could just be folks admit that because it personally affected them.