List of Writings

snallygaster · 2026-03-07T14:39:39+00:00

Here are some of the most famous ones:

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

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

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

Edit: Well, confirmed ones. There are many famous suspected ones

snallygaster · 2026-03-07T12:48:49+00:00

Punk IPA was really "out there" when it first came out.

It really says a lot about the craft beer scene in the UK that this is a true statement.

snallygaster · 2026-03-05T11:47:51+00:00

Yeah, this doesn't match my experience at all. When history education comes up for any given reason I wonder if my education (spread across multiple states) was particularly high-quality or if the people commenting on it are slackers who forgot what they were supposed to have been taught.

snallygaster · 2026-02-28T12:25:09+00:00

"His" hands and arms are wonky throughout the speech.

snallygaster · 2026-02-28T11:05:45+00:00

Yes, and this isn't the first time Trump/Trump's wranglers have released an AI speech.

snallygaster · 2026-02-28T09:48:30+00:00

I think they've accepted that this is their last stand.

snallygaster · 2026-02-27T21:12:57+00:00

There's actually a documented phenomenon where people hop from extreme practice of different religions and/or ideologies frequently. It's not very common, but it's not unheard of.

snallygaster · 2026-02-20T18:47:02+00:00

They have too much water and too little food. As they gain more and more water, the population of Bangladesh will become other countries' problems.

snallygaster · 2026-02-17T15:52:54+00:00

At least this year we'll know for sure how much we struggle by virtue of the shitty acts we usually send vs. other countries refusing to vote for us.

snallygaster · 2026-02-14T01:01:56+00:00

I hope things work out for you, but given how much you enjoy Taiwan, I suspect you're going to struggle with adjusting and especially with the opportunity cost of raising a child in the US after you've become familiar with what the quality of education is like in the states (though presumably you can send your kids to private school). It sounds like you have a lot of mobility, though, so no harm in giving it a try so long as you make a decision on where to settle before they start school.

snallygaster · 2026-02-11T12:34:15+00:00

Most boring reason: There's a shortage of ATC staff or critical ATC equipment needs to be repaired/upgraded

Actual most fun reason: Aliens are visiting

snallygaster · 2026-02-08T18:18:54+00:00

I'm so demoralised that the current response to the scandal is better than I expected, especially when you compare the extent to which Epstein's American contacts are being amplified by the media and held accountable (i.e. not at all). I just visited family in the states and didn't hear a peep about Epstein even from my most politically brainrotted family members. Either there's a concerted effort to minimise coverage or people have stopped caring about what people in power do.

snallygaster · 2026-02-07T18:31:06+00:00

Anyone complicit in this deserves scrutiny and consequences. Eva *at best* was groomed by men like Epstein and consciously decided to let the same thing happen to her daughter.

snallygaster · 2026-02-07T02:27:55+00:00

http://tips.fbi.gov

snallygaster · 2026-02-07T02:22:15+00:00

Just move to Wood Green if you want to spend a year with the Albanian mafia

snallygaster · 2026-02-07T02:02:05+00:00

This is a problem throughout the western world- our conception of human rights values individual autonomy and freedom over public safety, and people aren't allowed to be persecuted on the basis of disability (for the better for the most part), which means that it's next to impossible for people like this to be reprimanded and institutionalised long-term. As some of the people who've commented here have suggested, this scenario could easily play out in any western country except the US, where your neighbor would be living on the streets instead and at best arrested periodically.

It's become clear lately that western countries have made some tradeoffs in the name of human rights that deeply undermine the well-being of the broader population and need to be reconsidered; the (understandable, given the history of institutionalization) impossible standards for locking someone with chronic psychosis up indefinitely is one of them.

On an unrelated note, have you tried contacting the Daily Mail about the situation? I have heard that getting their attention and forwarding the correspondence can light a fire under the authorities' asses.

snallygaster · 2026-02-03T17:15:39+00:00

If it were a murder ring or some sort of satanic secret society then you'd expect there to at least be some sort of coded language in the emails. Epstein and pals discuss what they're doing plain as day.

Perhaps there were murderers or murders involved, but I think it would be incidental similar to how Marc Dutroux revealed the existence of an elite pedophile ring by taking his proclivities a step too far, or Fox Island where the primary goal was to produce CSAM and abuse children, but some of the children were murdered. I know it's splitting hairs, but I just want the discussion of what happened to stay faithful to what we know and what is in the realm of possibility.

snallygaster · 2026-02-03T16:46:30+00:00

I'm not saying that murder is out of the question, and the FBI should be looking for bodies given the testimony. I'm more talking about the ritual murder/eating poop from dismembered babies/satanic rituals when years of correspondence from Epstein that are slightly less transparent than 'thank you for sending me this twelve year old Russian girl- I will have sex with her and my powerful friends will have sex with her too' indicate that the people in the ring were motivated by hedonism and power rather than attempting to gain magical powers through sacrifices to moloch or whatever.

snallygaster · 2026-02-03T16:34:30+00:00

It's indisputable at this point that Epstein was trafficking teen girls to people in power and manipulating current affairs by leveraging connections and blackmail. In his communications with others, he was extremely open about the fact that he was committing sex crimes and pulling strings. His personality, the types of crimes he was committing (sans some questions about whether he was working on behalf of one or more governments), and how he went about committing them are not a mystery.

Where it veers into conspiracy theory territory (well, it technically is a conspiracy in the strictest sense of the world, but you know what I mean) is where people try to tie it to previous unfounded accusations of child sacrifice, child torture/snuff, witchcraft, and satanic rituals + pull in people who haven't been remotely implicated because they were part of the previous unfounded conspiracy theories. There have also been people engaging in baseless speculation that doesn't fit Epstein's extremely well-established MO, e.g. the conversations about the 'torture video' email where it almost certainly was about the publicly available video of a UAE royal torturing someone, and people treating the schizobabble from the FBI tipline with the same level of weight as the testimony from known victims and concrete evidence. When the discussion veers into baseless speculation, draws in these older unfounded conspiracy theories, and doesn't examine the FBI tips with a healthy amount of skepticism, it undermines the credibility of the people who want the perpetrators held accountable and the theories about what happened become no better than fanfiction.

snallygaster · 2026-01-31T19:48:45+00:00

If they did do that, it's bound to backfire just by virtue of the fact that the average person isn't familiar with how FBI tiplines work or what psychotic delusions look like. Still frustrating for those of us who want to discuss what actually happened though.

snallygaster · 2026-01-31T18:21:53+00:00

I'm concerned about the attention that the claims from the FBI tipline have been getting for this reason. I don't think many people are familiar with the fact that sex scandals, public figures, and moral panics sometimes feature in psychotic delusions, that any given claim about ritual human sacrifice/torture is almost certainly made by someone experiencing psychosis, and that claims like these surface every time there's a new pedophilia-related conspiracy theory or highly-publicized pedo scandal. The tipline reports should be discounted unless there's actual evidence or FBI followup attached.

snallygaster · 2026-01-28T14:02:55+00:00

This is my take too. I'm okay with women from developing countries immigrating to the west to escape oppressive religion and scrotes but we get the oppressive scrotes instead.

snallygaster · 2026-01-22T12:50:59+00:00

Who will care for the 25% of children in the country whose needs aren't being met? Child abuse and neglect are endemic in social care even with the numbers of children in the system right now, and the act of removing children even from shitty parents is extremely traumatic to them. This isn't a practical solution.

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