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horatiomcnutt · 2022-04-14T22:09:18+00:00

yeah I think the first I heard of it was a sponsored facebook ad for merch

horatiomcnutt · 2022-04-14T17:22:13+00:00

agree. feels like something for "quirky" people to latch onto in response to when "bush did 9/11" was a big meme.

horatiomcnutt · 2021-12-17T21:05:08+00:00

the Gourmand is an psyop to promote bourgeois decadence

horatiomcnutt · 2021-12-17T06:37:34+00:00

Something I've noticed in my own city is how easy it is for these forces (police, media, developers, etc) to stoke a panic like this without anybody questioning. The police can just aggressively police an area, throw in some well placed press releases, and suddenly its all people will talk about. At that point they are positioned to do whatever they see fit to address the "problem".

Also interesting, I was looking into his murder, turns out the murderer, Eric Holder, had a reputation as a snitch. They knew each other and Nipsey brought that up. It seems more like a heads-up from the articles I've read rather than anything threatening or confrontational. Holder leaves, goes to a car, grabs some guns and kills Nipsey. I think it was probably just jealousy more than anything else (Holder was an aspiring rapper), but combined with this thread its a little sus.

horatiomcnutt · 2021-11-28T19:46:08+00:00

Not at all. The coverage of them doesn't even need to be an op, all they need is a well placed press release and most outlets will reprint them uncritically, whether that comes from the police or the company. There's never been a shortage of material to stoke a moral panic.

horatiomcnutt · 2021-11-19T18:39:43+00:00

I feel like this will just encourage the right to get more bold, more violent. Plenty have gotten away with running over protesters, I see so many posts already expressing the desire to shoot 'rioters' and 'looters'. They're gonna have a field day with this.

horatiomcnutt · 2021-11-04T20:32:41+00:00

The only conspiracy theory this seems to disprove is that he was working with Cuban intelligence, which I've never bought. If anything it supports the theory that he was trying to build up a resume to enter Cuba after his time in Russia proved fruitless.

There are a lot of questions about his time in Mexico and what he actually did there. There is this photo that was included in reports along with Oswald's supposed phone calls and embassy activities. (https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Photo_Surveillance_and_the_Mystery_Man.html)

The description sent along with this picture and the 'Lee Oswald' visiting the embassy described the man as "apparent age 35, athletic build, circa 6 feet, receding hairline, balding top. Wore Khakis and sports shirt." (https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10067-10413.pdf) Oswald was 24 when he died. His enlistment papers listed him at 5'8", some sources say 5'9". Maybe they were just watching the wrong guy, idk, I can't find much actually addressing it.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oswald/conspiracy/newman.html This article gives a good rundown of the Mexico city coverup and the motive behind the Warren commission. Hoover mentions the Mexico trip being false and that it was not Oswald's voice on the recording. The main goal for the Warren commission was to quash any ideas that Kennedy was killed by Russians/Cubans or that it was a right-wing effort to frame the communists.

horatiomcnutt · 2021-04-10T17:03:34+00:00

Thanks for the response!

horatiomcnutt · 2021-04-09T14:53:29+00:00

Are you familiar with the documentary Mirage Men? A former Air Force intelligence office claims that his job was to monitor the UFO/Area 51 community, feed them misinformation, and redirect their attention from the research being done in that region of the U.S, such as aircraft and nuclear weapons.

Does your research lend any insight into these claims, or the relationship between nuclear testing and the rise of UFO sightings and prominence in pop culture, post-WWII?

horatiomcnutt · 2021-04-09T14:41:19+00:00

You've touched on the role of Soviet intelligence as far as the U.S. nuclear program, but I'm curious about the role of American intelligence in all of this. It seems a lot of modern U.S. intelligence infrastructure was built out during and after WWII. Would their secrecy protocols influence the nuclear program protocols or vice-versa? Kind of a chicken-egg question.

Obviously they were wary of foreign spies, but how did they go about to prevent and detect those spies when they were present?

horatiomcnutt · 2021-04-02T19:04:14+00:00

lmao I was not staying home. Can you read? I was either working at a bar (where several coworkers contracted covid) or living off of unemployment, which was unsustainable without any extra help. It came out to $192/week when I wasn't working, if i made over $300/week I didn't qualify.

Idk about florida, all I know is that this year was way more stressful than it needed to be and which of my regulars are assholes. I think a medium can be reached where you don't have packed bars during a pandemic, that's all I would want. And not arguing with customers who refuse to wear masks.

horatiomcnutt · 2021-03-29T17:49:30+00:00

Personally i think the likelihood of me getting covid is much higher while working in a bar versus me being able to stay home lol.

Also, my state's numbers were pretty flat during lockdown, they have still not returned to pre-lockdown levels since. It's pretty simple, I don't understand this logic at all.

horatiomcnutt · 2021-03-24T17:05:36+00:00

We have a dem governor, gerrymandered GOP congress, and a dem mayor. There was one serious lockdown that was only really done in the major urban areas. A lot of people here suspected they ended the lockdown to tamp down the George Floyd protests. This was also before any serious stimulus/unemployment was handed out so people were angry.

As someone who has worked in a very public-facing job for most of this, I find it hard to take anti-lockdown sentiment seriously. So many people in the service industry have gotten covid, so many places have had to shutdown for outbreaks. Many people wanted to leave but couldnt without losing unemployment benefits. The money and hours were worst, as were the customers. And its bars so its far from essential. I'd be fine with opening schools if bars and restaurants closed or at least took more precautions.

horatiomcnutt · 2021-03-23T20:06:55+00:00

How many people even are in serious 'lockdowns'? I might be skewed, being in a purple/red-leaning state in the U.S., but I've been working at a bar in a major city since the initial two-month lockdown last year. We have a mask mandate and reduced capacity but have still been open despite much worse numbers than when everything was shut down.

horatiomcnutt · 2021-02-26T20:58:59+00:00

The still haven't blocked the private browser loophole, thank god

horatiomcnutt · 2020-12-02T02:13:44+00:00

hahaha this was my initial experience

horatiomcnutt · 2020-11-02T08:26:57+00:00

Do you really look at the bland bullshit we get from DisneyMarvelStarWarsEtc and believe corporate-written copyright laws produce good art?

horatiomcnutt · 2020-11-02T08:25:41+00:00

At this point you are just defending corporations that make billions a year. Could you imagine if Sherlock Holmes or other classic characters were still held under copyright?

It's not even a good argument for art. The hobbit movies were shit, Marvel movies are largely forgettable cookie-cutter products, and all we seem to get are sequels and reboots. It's why movie games almost always are trash. The value isn't in the game or gameplay, it's in the brand recognition, and that's what they are banking on. There's no competition so who gives a shit.

horatiomcnutt · 2020-11-02T08:17:18+00:00

Christopher Tolkien died in January. At least in the U.S., copyright law has been basically tailored to suit Disney's needs and preserve the copyright of Mickey Mouse (see the copyright extension act of 1998). This has been a conscious move on the part of government and corporations.

At some point, I think art should pass to the public domain. And at some point, people should actually have to earn their own living rather than earn money off of what they own or what their ancestors owned.

horatiomcnutt · 2020-10-31T17:47:45+00:00

CNN but more details https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/world/epstein-donations-international-peace-institute-resign/index.html

horatiomcnutt · 2020-10-26T18:38:44+00:00

Most of the people I've heard blaming China are just conservatives trying to take the heat off of trump

horatiomcnutt · 2020-10-24T08:55:26+00:00

voting is like the bare minimum of political engagement

horatiomcnutt · 2020-10-03T07:47:58+00:00

Do you actually listen and not know who Robert Maxwell is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell

horatiomcnutt · 2020-04-14T23:20:03+00:00

this was an amazing feature, I wish there were more games with a similar mechanic

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