#yes i know i misspelled propaganda

[mysterybracket]

The Final Round is near...

#mystery bracket #final round #is close #yes i know i misspelled propaganda

[sacchiri]

Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

#hellsing #alucard #kouta hirano #translation was found in a comment by u/lazyfoxheart on r/Kurrent #fun fact this is the highest quality version of this image that exists online #i know because i've been looking forever for a version that's clear enough to actually read what hirano wrote under '1443' #but there weren't any so i had to take matters into my own hands #the real image on the back of the guidebook is only 2 inches tall so i had to take this with my smartphone and will my hands not to shake #anyway i'm pretty sure it's supposed to say Eğrigöz (the location vlad was imprisoned) so yeah. thank you hirano very cool #if i might rant for a sec it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out because i didn't have the guidebook at first #and in the images i could find online that part was just a blur that looked suspiciously like a person's signature and i was like. who tf #i was thinking matthias corvinus since he issued some political propaganda against vlad iirc but it didn't match his signature on wikipedia #then i thought it might be vlad II dracul's since he probably had to sign an agreement to send his sons over as hostages at some point #but that didnt seem right either so i kept skimming vlad's wiki page #and then i was like goddammit...hirano.....you just misspelled Eğrigöz didn't you.. .... #i maybe should've made a separate post dedicated to this instead of writing a novel in the tags but eh #the hellsing brainrot runs deep #also- i put it in the source link at the bottom of the post but the german inscription is copied off a real woodcut of vlad from 1491 #except instead of depicting him as an adult hirano drew him as a child which gives the inscription a very different feel imo #the one final thing that interests me about this is the fact that hirano published this calendar in 2002 #which is REALLY early in the series. like this was before volume 5 came out?? #i have no idea why he decided to do a massive spoiler drop in a random piece of japan-only merch #sandwiched between a drawing of alucard as john travolta from saturday night fever and integra as a fish no less #it makes me really curious to know what the fan response to this was back then. like did people even know who this was #maybe im just an idiot and everyone back then was like 'ah yes its alucard as a 12 year old. how very informative'

[maketheblorbsobrawl]

WELCOME TO THE FIGHT WHERE NO ONE WANTS TO FIGHT!

The blorbo brawl run by your host, @silviaflowers ! Want your blorbos to fight? Do your blorbos not want to fight? Well, you're in the right place!

Some things to note: - This will function like most other tournament blogs, so despite the name, it will be based on POPULARITY! - THE SUBMISSION FORM IS HERE - Propaganda through the askbox once the show's on the road will be the best form of propaganda as its almost a guarantee I'll respond! It is HIGHLY encouraged to scream your blorbo's name in my askbox :) - I will NOT respond to asks that hate on other blorbos! - please give me banner ideas im desperate and don't have a lot of good banner images on my computer - Polls will be tagged with "uh oh blorbo brawl", propaganda tagged as "blorbo propaganda", answers to non-propaganda asks as "blorbo asks", updates with "blorbo updates" and other posts with "not a blorbo" - This is my FIRST time running a tournament please be gentle - yes i misspelled the url as "blorbso" im too lazy to fix it

Tagging other poll runners/inspirations!

If you don't wanna be here please tell me and ill remove your name :D

@who-do-i-know-this-man ( <- I STOLE THE IDEA FROM THEM THANK YOU) @pinkhairswagtourney @aroaceswagcompetition @greenhairandpronouns-tournament @silentprotagcompetition @best-fanfic-trope @bestfictionaldivorce @justsomeguypoll @ultimate-rat-bracket @ultimatepinkgirl @ultimate-poll-tournament

#tournaments #not a blorbo #tournament

[d20unfuckability]

Garthy Propaganda

(omitting only the many, many "need i elaborate?"/"it's self-explanatory" with no other comment on them responses, the only edits i've made to these are correcting a couple instances of misgendering and misspelled names)

"Over in the corner, you guys see what must be Garthy O'Brien. They're a tall, muscular, half orc aasimar. They're shirtless with a few accents of thin lined, geometric tattoo work around their wrists and biceps, as well as some floral tattoos on their midsection. They wear no shirt, but elaborate fabric-heavy harem pants and fine boots with like a myriad of like belts and straps and all that kind of stuff. Their head is shaved at the sides and back. Little flop of black hair on top. The irises are shimmering metallic gold. So it's like a halo superimposed on a jet black eye. They also have accented that by metallic silver makeup on their lips and a little around their eyes. You see that they have a massive two handed scimitar behind them that has a lot of like, gold rings, sort of stamped into the back of the blade. And there are gold rings jangling on the back of it. You also see that they have scars on their chest, as though they have gotten some kind of surgery, that they have like, disguised a little bit with some of those geometric celestial tattoos."

"first time i ever considered Brennan attractive"

"Nonbinary people are objectively hot especially when they have golden celestial tattoos also the voice Brennan does for them radiates comfort"

"HAVE YOUSEEN TJEM"

"This is self explanatory I feel like. Goddamn they're so fucking hot"

"Obviously? Their whole thing is like, angel succubus and also everything else, 10/10"

"They’re suave, they’re sexy, and I’d risk it all for them."

"They are the most pansexual sexy mother fucker in all of D20, frankly I don't blame Sandra Lynn, I would fuck them too and I don't think my wife would even be mad"

"i had to submit a second form because i cannot believe i forgot them. GOD they’re so hot. i’ve derived entire OCs just so i could create a character in their universe that had a SLIVER of a chance of getting with them. i don’t even have WORDS for how hot they are just pure unbridled unthinking lust. and you KNOW they’re a good fuck too. like they KNOW what they’re doing. sandra lynn didn’t cheat on jawbone for shit sex, like that questionable choice was arguably worth it."

"they’re a pirate, they’re trans, what more can you ask for"

"Sandra Lynn and I have some stuff in common"

"I have eyes and a pulse??? sexy non-binary pirate with the biggest dick energy on the planet…. sweet Jesus……."

"This is entirely self explanatory I feel, but they have to be the single hottest NPC Brennan has ever done. They're live in a pirate city! You might also get to fuck Sandra Lynn and/or Jawbone if they're down! They'd be infinitely respectful of you! There are no Ls here."

"I’m asexual (??? maybe just ace-spec, who knows) but I once had a dream about Garthy that was the closest I’ve ever gotten (and probably the closest I ever will get) to a sex dream. Also I made a compilation of literally every single word they speak because I’m so obsessed with their voice (I don’t want to post it on main for reasons, but I’m considering making a sideblog just to post it…would you reblog it if I tagged you 👀👀)"

"EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM"

"I think I’m mostly just in love with Brennan saying ‘Lovey’"

"CANONICALLY fuckable. just ask jack brakkow"

"Smooth, silver tongued, confident, they know how to take care of their patrons and partners alike. Flirty, fun, hot."

"see. we all know they're hot and fuckable and cool as hell. we all know this"

"Yes."

"Pansexual hedonist, plus that accent"

"It’s the voice (also everything else they do)"

"intelligent, considerate, and nonbinary"

"the voice, the gender, the everything"

"Nonbinary. hot."

"The origin of Night yorb is their name. Orc satanist. Gnc. Buisness owner. The child and parent of ayda (my beloved.) But most of all they just got it going on. Milkshakes to the yard and all that"

"this is honestly objectively true. gold gardens. they’re just fuckable. their art? their tattoos? that fucking accent?????????? beautiful handsome attractive kind"

"They’re just. Hot. The pirate theme is smth but also just, they’re shirtless and full of good fashion honestly I would kill for the chance"

"they are a truly GORGEOUS individual, and their fashion sense is second to none. Garthy seems to be a bit of a cheeky flirt to be sure, but they're also a deeply caring & emotionally tuned-in person, & I reckon their foreplay & aftercare game goes buckwild. 10/10 would love to have a several-week-long pleasure binge at the Gold Gardens after a hard year's adventuring. They've got a 21 in charisma & if you didn't realise that just seeing them for the first time, you'll know it for sure after your first night with them! ;)"

"have you seen them. their whole thing is fucking people. HAVE YOU SEEN THEM. canonically fucks incredibly well"

"Look they run a brothel and they've had sex with both parts of a monogamous couple they know what to do ok. And their vibes are so comforting I love them. And also they're hot."

"Their whole deal + Descended from celestials specialized in fucking people into being decent."

#garthy o'brien

[team-canada]

ETHUBS COFFEE SHOP AU

EEEE oke so i imagine it like .. modern-ish ?

Both of them are like mid 20ies methinks But Etho looks much younger because of his style (i had to take the opportunity to put eefo in alt clothes. im not sorry) And as the note in art said, Bdubs is basically a plant mom– Bonus points if Etho turned out to be older than Bdubs after Bdubs would call him a kid. I- I see this happening. Even more bonus points if Bdubs is transmasc bcs i take this as a option here Alrighty so how i see the whole caffe- Surely it's in vintage style, there's a lot of plants and books on the shelves and vinyls on the walls….. pics i found on pinterest that kinda give me the vibe:

Oh and also! Scar and Ren work there with Bdubs! Scar always brings Jellie there and she often sleeps in pots.. Can you imagine Bdubs’ face when he was watering all the plants and in one of them he found a sleeping Jellie.. 

IMAGINE IF JELLIE WALKED INTO A JUST WATERED PLANT OH NO SHE’D BE COVERED IN DIRT……. I think Jellie chews on dirt too… and bites leaves.. Yeah it’s fun there- Also Grian shows up only when Scar’s there. He says it’s not on purpose but we all know the truth :>

Okok but back to ethubs LMAO

Etho when he shows up in caffe for the first time he just finds the most quiet and hidden corner and sits there. As much as he loves black coffee it’s actually not the first one he orders! He asks Bdubs for a recommendation, he mentions he likes black coffee but is like. y'know i haven't been here before i might as well try something you have to offer… Bdubs gayass brain is already turned on because. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS GUY! THE GUY IN FRONT OF HIM! HOLY SHIT HE'S SO PRETTY WHAT!!!!!!!!!!! Bdubs is glad Etho didn’t give him exact order because he would fuck it up v badly. 

So he goes to prepare the coffee, but first; he almost starts screaming. He's flushed. His face is literally a tomato.  Ren looks at him and acts surprised like it has never happened before…….. But then Bdubs realizes he forgot to ask him for a name to put on his cup. Well fuck- (BONUS POINTS IF HE WROTE “emo boy :)” THERE..... IT’D BE SO FUCKING FUNNY..............) He draws a little butterfly :) He likes butterflies :) Etho doesn’t have to know it yet :)

But hey after all Etho did enjoy his coffee! And he even showed up another day again! Win for Bdubs’ gay ass !!!1 And that time he actually asked for the name just to misspell it immediately  yes he wrote “eefo” .. 

So yeah Etho was showing up like every two days or so- Bdubs kept misspelling his name but Etho figured that after a while he was doing it just to annoy him.

Etho’s revenge for misspelling his name was to order the most insane coffee in the world. Bdubs had to write it down because he knew there was no way for him to remember this shit. And afterwards he wrote Epoo on the cup:) 

JKAFHAKJ OK I'M DONE FOR NOW….. IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED I MIGHT WRITE SOME MORE STUFF JUST LEMME KNOW!!!

wait no i have some more random info– 

bdubs loves butterflies 

he has tiny colorful tattoos with flowers n butterflies all over his hands

He collects stuff found on the ground. of course he does.

he sees a flying insect. he tries to catch it. with his hands.

bug lover. ren hates him for it

etho keeps cups with his name being misspelled. not every but only the ones he finds funny

he/they eefo propaganda hello

sometimes he brings his sketchbook and doodles flowers . there's a few doodles of bdubs in there and that's the only reason he doesn't let him look at the doodles….

one time while paying he slipped butterfly doodles to give bdubs bc he figured bdubs is obsessed with them 

KK NOW I'M DONE TY FOR READING MY SILLY BRAINROT UR EPIC <3

#pls lemme know what ya thinkkkkk #i might make a litte comic if this gets enough attention #or write more :) #ethubs #bdubs #bdoubleo100 #etho #ethoslab #etho fanart #ethoslab fanart #bdubs fanart #bdoubleo fanart #bdouble100 fanart #my art #leo talks

[sunchiw]

who is this beautiful man? Mykola or Nikolai?

i wanna talk about something really important for me as a ukrainian: the misspelling this character's original prototype name.

so Mykola or Nikolai? lets strart from the beginning.

the author:

as you should know, the author Mykola Hohol (oh yes its also Hohol not Gogol lol) was born in the central part of Ukraine, village near the Poltava city. at that time Ukraine was occupied by the ruzzian empire (i write name of that country like this cause im disrespect them for a reasons, hope you understand), Ukrainian culture was destroyed or the ruzzians appropriated it for themselves (yep its culture appropriation)

the original author's name in Ukrainian language is Микола Гоголь (read as Mykola Hohol), but because ruzzia was trying to destroy Ukrainian language and even names was translated, so translated author's name in ruzzian is Николай Гоголь (read as Nikolai Gogol). its look similar, isnt it? but its important to know that Mykola and Nikolai is different names and the one of them isnt a translation to other.

if someone will say that the author used name Nikolai so it is right form, i have an answer on that too: its all because of society's pressure. imagine: a young man wants to become a famous author and be among the elite of writers and live without persecution unlike other ukrainian authors. conforming to society's standards is the only easiest way

btw if u interested, Ukrainian [г] is read as [h], but ruzzian [г] is read as [g], thats why its Hohol not Gogol

the fictional character:

"okay, now we know about author's name, but Nikolai is a fictional character and Asagiri named him Nikolai! how is it related?"

lets talk about that too!

"Asagari named him Nikolai, not Mykola"

but why does he use the fake author's name?

because the world knows the author as Nikolai Gogol, not Mykola Hohol

again, why does the world knows him as Nikolai?

its a really deep question and i dont wanna take a lot of ur time. its all because the world full of ruzzian propaganda and it was hard for country like Ukraine spread the truth about our history, culture and art to the world community, which is under ruzzian pressure, for example, even wikipedia says "Nikolai Gogol" т_т (what makes me sooo angry)

if u want to know more about what i am talking here, u can always ask me, i will be happy to tell u more about it and about the author Mykola Hohol!

To sum up, i really hope that you will at least try to call him Mykola, me with ukrainian part of fandom will be thankfull for this!

tysm for reading!! <33

P. S. im live in that city near which Mykola Hohol was born and lived. the places he wrote about are located a few kilometers from my city and tonight ruzzians tried to bomb my city. i cant save buildings myself but at least its important to save history and memories of my homecity

#bsd nikolai gogol #bsd mykola gogol #bsd #he is mykola hohol #call this cute man by his real name #nikolai gogol #mykola bsd #mykola hohol

[silas-kev01]

CMS 294: Assignment 2

Persuasion and propaganda are two very similar concepts. Many argue that they are the same, but in this blog post I’ll be sharing my thoughts on why I believe they are different.

The act of persuasion is the intent to sway a person’s opinion or ideals to match one’s own. To persuade someone is to use factual evidence to convince them that a certain choice is the right one, whether it’s a tangible entity or an opinion on a certain topic (ex. console debates or “Team Edward vs. Team Jacob”). Persuasion is usually a harmless method of placing odds in one’s favor. Propaganda, however, is taking the concept of persuasion and blowing it out of proportion. Slogans and imagery that are likely not true and highly disproportionate might be used in an effort to persuade someone through fear or shock. 

Propaganda has been used throughout history to outline threats that aren’t actually there. World War I recruitment flyers are a prime example of propaganda. Perhaps this poster is the most recognized example:

This harsh-on-the-eyes poster was created in hopes to recruit more soldiers to fight for the U.S. army. The bold lettering being bright orange(?) reads: "Destroy this mad brute," and "enlist" in all caps. The usage of the term "mad brute" is racist. Plain and simple. The image shown is a giant ape clutching a "helpless" white woman in distress in one hand, and a club with the word "culture" misspelled on it in the other hand.

Is the depiction of an ape walking on American soil an accurate or factual argument? No. Are the enemies there to steal your women? No. I would consider this propaganda for those factors.

To compare propaganda to persuasion, I will use a texting while driving ad that is used to get drivers to put away their phones while operating a vehicle:

While this may appear to be a bit on the "propaganda" side of things, it does not mention anything opinionated. The background is dull, but too many components would make the ad harder to take in. AT&T put these out to try to get cell phone customers to stop texting and driving. This ad is informing us of the text message that likely killed the person mentioned. The text at the bottom of the image reads: "No text is worth dying over."

This ad isn't blowing things out of proportion, not using false statements, and not using imagery to invoke unnecessary fear in its viewers. While it might appeal to the viewer's emotions (fear, concern, sadness), it does so in a calmer and more realistic fashion. Uses accurate, factual evidence? Yes. Does it carry any importance to society? Yes. I rule this advertisement as persuasion.

Here are some other examples for which I'll list whether I believe they should/would be considered persuasion or propaganda:

RULING: Propaganda

REASONING: implies that if you join the marines/submarine service, you will end up with a beautiful wife. A false, highly unlikely "if, then" scenario.

RULING: Persuasion

REASONING: a harmless, comedic promotion of gun safety. It is highly likely that if a child finds their parents' belongings around the house, they will play around with it without knowing potential consequences. There is nothing over-the-top, no harmful caricatures, and no false claims or assumptions.

RULING: Propaganda

REASONING: Clear usage of racial slur and caricature of Japanese people. Depicts the Japanese as rats with large teeth and small, slanted eyes. What makes the US Navy so sure they'll actually succeed against Japan? There's no factual evidence on this poster. It's clear that it's intended to provoke US citizens and soldiers to fight and lead them to believe they will prevail.

[blue-opossum]

Debunking AI as a Form of Protoconsciousness

        Debunking AI as a Form of Protoconsciousness

        Monday afternoon, 22 April 2024

        A couple of years ago, on a dream-related Facebook group, a young man presented the concept that AI is a form of protoconsciousness. He based it on how AI is typically unable to render text into imagery. He correlated this attribute with the dream state in how text is "always" distorted as with AI images when specific text is requested in the image.

        This theory has no basis in fact for a few reasons.

        Not all text in dreams (at least mine) is distorted. Much of the text in my dreams is readable for a time, but sometimes when I focus on it more, it changes. (This aspect implies the opposite of what the man is theorizing.)

        AI does not always misspell text in images. Even so, there are cases when it seems virtually impossible for AI to render correct text, for example, often spelling "LUCID" as "LUCIC" many times in a row. Other times, it adds a pun or gag to an image in a correctly spelled entire phrase that was not even prompted.

        Another attribute is that virtually everything in dreams appears incorrectly at one point or another (to avoid confusion with reality and potential mental corruption). Although the same is true for AI images, people have a bizarre obsession over how AI "cannot draw hands.” This attribute is partly untrue since AI does sometimes create hands with the correct number of fingers. It seems odd how people focus on this fault when so much else is typically wrong, missing, or surreal in AI images. It has reached the point where some people claim there are six fingers on a hand in an AI image, when there are five - the same lack of discernment in people who claim to see five fingers when there are only three or four.

        Then again, some so-called lucid dreamers make certain claims about hands in dreams (which is valid in some cases but not others - a typical ambiguous mindset of lucid dreaming propaganda). Some have this weird practice where they supposedly push a finger through the palm of their other hand (asinine and pointless) as a "reality check" or claim that hands always have the incorrect number of fingers, which is simply untrue. They imply that you should "count your fingers" to see if you are dreaming. (For me, indulging proto-cognizance, such as counting, often makes my dreams LESS vivid.)

        I have played around with this idea, but it does not work for me. If I do this (examine the appearance of my hands without forcing myself to count), my hands become more realistic and solid in some cases while I remain aware I am dreaming, so, whatever, people do not make much sense. If I know I am dreaming, why even do this? Yes, the somatosensory factor increases vividness, but pushing a finger into one’s palm is the opposite of somatosensory realism - revealing that people have no idea what they are writing about other than being a victim of placebos and cult-like ideas. A lot of lucid dreaming lore is more like a bizarre indoctrination, herd mentality, and brainwashing, but I have no idea who or what the source is.

        Even so, I have played around with my hands in dreams, deliberately making my fingers broken and crooked, or throwing their bones at a wall. In some cases, I can pull them open and store stuff inside them.

AI's response (verbatim): The text you’ve selected discusses the concept of AI as a form of protoconsciousness and critiques it by comparing the rendering of text in AI-generated images to the distortion of text in dreams. Here are the main points addressed:

AI and Protoconsciousness: The idea that AI could be a form of protoconsciousness based on its inability to accurately render text into imagery is challenged.

Text in Dreams: The author notes that not all text in dreams is distorted and that it can often be read clearly until closely examined, which then may change—contradicting the initial theory.

AI’s Rendering Capabilities: It's acknowledged that AI does not always misspell text in images, and sometimes it can even add unexpected elements to an image.

Perception of Errors: The text points out that both dreams and AI-generated images can contain inaccuracies, but there seems to be an exaggerated focus on certain errors, like the drawing of hands by AI.

Lucid Dreaming Claims: The author criticizes some practices and beliefs associated with lucid dreaming, such as the "reality check" of pushing a finger through the palm, and the claim that hands in dreams always have an incorrect number of fingers.

The passage reflects skepticism towards certain interpretations of AI capabilities and dream experiences, advocating for a more nuanced understanding of these phenomena. It suggests that while both AI and dreams may have limitations in representing reality, the focus should be on the broader context rather than isolated inaccuracies.

#dream journal #meaning of dreams #dreaming #my dreams

[atheistforhumanity]

A Look Into Republican Propaganda 

For years and years Republicans have been promoting the theory that massive voter fraud is taking place by Democrats, and specifically immigrants. Here you can see two unreputable media sources, The National Review and James O’Keefe, are sounding the alarm on a completely unproven claim. 

Let’s cut to the chase. Self-proclaimed journalist James O’Keefe, who is a popular name among conservatives, has put together a video that spread across Twitter claiming to prove a voter fraud scheme in Ilhan Omar’s district in Minnesota. I strongly encourage everyone to follow the link above and watch the video by O’Keefe featured in the article. It’s important to understand my discussion of it and to understand why Republicans believe in this idea. 

Major takeaways of the video are a clip from a Somali man’s video ranting about money and having collected around 300 ballots. This man claims to be collecting the ballots for Jamal Osman, a community organizer working for the Omar campaign. 

Next, O’Keefe discusses this with another man named Jamal, who is a member of Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Jamal claims to be a whistleblower of this scheme to steal ballots and alter them, called ballot harvesting. 

O’Keefe also interviews a Somali woman on the street who is unnamed and hidden from camera. She claims to know all about this conspiracy and how it works. 

Sounds like the evidence for voter fraud is piling up, right?

No, not at all. If you watched the video in question you’ll see that the entire video is simply a series of accusations. Yes, there are purported “whistleblowers,” but whistleblowers usually come with some type of evidence. No one in this video provided any hard evidence of actual fraud. Take the Somali man’s video for instance where he rants about money and shows off the ballots. A very strange video for sure, but you should know that in June of this year Minnesota lifted it’s limit of only collecting 3 ballots at a time. The cap was recently put back on after Republicans appealed the decision. This is something O’Keefe failed to research or failed to mention. 

The man named Jamal, from DFL, who claims to be a whistleblower brought literally zero evidence with him. He just sits there on camera and makes accusations. He and the hidden woman on camera claim that they are harvesting ballots from a group of apartment buildings for the elderly. O’Keefe films his video from a rooftop with the elderly living building towering in the background. However, unlike a real journalist, he doesn’t go to the building to investigate! Matter of fact, from what we see in the video he makes no attempt at all to corroborate any of the claims made by his sources. That’s literally journalism 101. 

I, as a blogger, would never slap my name on a video that makes such serious allegations all resting on a couple people talking on camera, without any solid evidence that what they say is true. It is both outrageously irresponsible and unscrupulous. 

How do we know if O’Keefe has actually cracked open a grand conspiracy of voter fraud. Well, the local police department will be looking into the matter. Some have called the Republican law makers to investigate the accusations, not realizing they have no authority to hold such an investigation. 

To drive home the point that nothing on this video constitutes evidence, the Hennepin County Attorney’s office made a public statement saying,  “If Project Veritas has evidence of election law violations, they should provide it to the Minneapolis Police Department.” Clearly, the attorney’s office has not seen anything that constitutes real evidence. Furthermore, even Fox News recognizes O’Keefe’s unscrupulousness in their description,  “Project Veritas, a controversial group that has produced a number of misleading videos, claims that a local community leader, Omar Jarmal, blew the whistle on the Minnesota congresswoman's alleged corruption.” (The name should be Jamal, they misspelled it.)

Both republican voters and even lawmakers have continually made claims that widespread voter fraud is taking place, even though every body of law enforcement has repeatedly told them that no such conspiracy has ever been proven to exist. 

We can see here that the reason these beliefs continue to circulate is videos like this being watching with a complete lack critical thinking or standard of proof from these non-professional news sources. America needs to calm their partisanship and be more critical of media they take in. This is classic Fake News that is seriously impacting opinions around the country.  

#voter fraud #conspiracy #republicans #conservatives #Ilhan Omar #Somali community #immigrants #Project Veritas

[the-exercist]

by the way, pro-ana etc content is not allowed under tumblrs ToS, and there's a button to report it if anyone does come across it!! the quicker we can stop people sharing these horrible pro-ana posts the better tbh, pls let ppl know it can be reported!!

On paper? Yes, proana content is banned here.

In reality? This site is absolutely overrun with thinspo and proana blogs. #Diet is nearly all proana, as are #fat, #weight-loss, #calories and #bones. To get around the tag search block, people use misspellings like #miia and #anna. It’s huge here and I stumble across it every day.

If Tumblr actually wanted to ban proana content, it would be incredibly easy to track these hot tags and address the accounts that are sharing all this harmful media. No one on here is exactly being slick about it. Proana content is blatant, it’s out in the open, and it’s incessant. And @staff hasn’t done anything meaningful about it.

If you want to report these blogs, sure, go ahead and do it. But you’ll be reporting literally for hours every day. And that doesn’t address the actual issue of why so many people feel comfortable sharing proana content on this site. Until Tumblr works to address the culture of thinspo and dieting that they’ve allowed to flourish here, it’s not going to change.

Edit: That sounds so defeatist, so let me add: We can all help to address this toxic thinspo culture by reframing health and promoting a positive view of our bodies. Don’t feed into weight loss propaganda, don’t publicize fasting myths, don’t romanticize dieting, etc. Strive to share real, verified information that celebrates bodies of all shapes and sizes. Find the value in exercise for its own sake instead of treating as a tool for weight loss. We can’t control the media that’s shared on the rest of Tumblr, but we can at least promote a constructive view of healthy living that revels in happiness, personal satisfaction and individuality!

#proana #diet #weight loss #ednos #eating disorders

[leatherbookmarking]

good afternoon it is time for Episodes

ah right, jiang baiju was born in the 19x0s. “when a woman is in love, it affects her intelligence” my dear.

QIAN TU BE GENTLE WITH THE GOOSE!!!!

“my master said as long as i have a baby, i can stop going on blind dates” i think i have gone blind from the power of this sentence alone. it seems being a shifu and not a biological parent does not stop one from having age-related grandparent fantasies. bless baijin for immediately joking about kidnapping a kid off a playground tho, i was starting to think they’re not that weird after all

“why don’t you spend your time with xue wanwan? i think she’s pretty cute” OH DO YOU, CHENG WEILAN

oh well that is a way of solving the case i guess

augh a memorial service And a wedding. ah. ahhhh that’s

jin xiaoyu invented the act of comforting :’)

KJGHFJKGFS JBJ HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING BEHIND THE COLUMN ALL ALONG....... what a boy

ah! yes. jin xiaoyu was already fucked up in high school. oh my god WOMAN you gave your friend a HEART ATTACK

but also lol @ organ donation propaganda in this show. wait, maybe propaganda isn’t the best term...? but like. they sure do want you to know organ donating Good

speaking of, apparently in cdramas, actors get a red envelope when their character dies, ranging from a small symbolic sum for an extra to a larger one for a more frequent character. it’s probably the same with actors who play corpses, isn’t it

oh god that wasn’t jin xiaoyu in the wedding dress... that was the wife... fuck I AM SAD and also anxious

aaaaaaaugh this song will never fail to make me Feel Things

what a show. made me tear up and slapped a line about how We’re Proud Of People’s Police over it

WHAT IS LNY SO CUTE FOR!!!

NOOOOO THE SHOT WHERE SHE RUNS INTO HIS ARMS!!! STOP, IT’S TOO CUTE but also my loves this is a Funeral.

also lmao i misspelled ‘arms’ like 3 times, one of which was ‘asmr’. classic shrimp

jxy hugging the police officer’s stern wife TWICE in one ep has me feeling things :’) like i’m pretty sure this show doesn’t pass a bechdel test but man do i want to see the girls Interact or kiss. i know this won’t happen but come ON cwl

lol “let me dress up first” and then she just wore a hat. but i’ve heard you shouldn’t salute to a hatless head so maybe that’s what she meant lol;;

SCREAMS he introduced jxy to his old dead friend as “你嫂子“ (brother/friend’s wife)... I WAS RIGHT I WAS RIGHT I WAS RIGHT

i mean. how can you not want to wife jxy. /i/ want to wife her

“back in my day book discussion clubs were popular. it’s that thing where two or three couples meet up at a park to discuss what they read. i couldn’t go because i had no girlfriend, so all i had instead was a drama club where i had to memorize scripts all the time”

a, WHAT KIND OF A RULE

b, something something actors having jolly sex all the time something something? guess jbj wasn’t the type;; i am holding him in my palm like a little bird

there’s something Magical about a man who lives loves to tease his girlfriend going all out SEE MY GF, BRO?! ISN’T SHE PRETTIER THAN YOURS!! mister You Are Old

“i finally took revenge after 80 years!” (because he was a girlfriendless poor sod at the time)

S A M E who are you dating, jxy

i know they’re used to both dying and death in general but MY LOVES, THIS IS A CEMETERY

(they’re not doing anything Bad just being lovey-dovey but ajgfhskjgs lmao)

oh! so i was right again, it IS his actual birthday! c-cute

GLJFHJKS they worked hard on the cake and she just reheated some frozen buns i am IN LOVE WITH HER

god i keep on pausing and going (/▽＼) whenever something cute happens and now he kissed her palm i am (*ﾉωﾉ)ing to the max, THIS IS ILLEGAL

LMAOOOOOOO jbj was busy complimenting jxy’s “””homemade”““ buns for one second too long but it was Enough for william to go SHAOYE!!! my sweet boy this grandpa is not a dog

oh my god ohhhhhhhhhh my god oh my god oh my god oh my  g o d (/▽＼) (/▽＼) (/▽＼) (/▽＼) (/▽＼) (/▽＼) (/▽＼) (/▽＼) (/▽＼)!!!!!!!!!!!

“i wish i had the right to pray at your tomb after you die” GOD!!!!!!!!!

.....................jin xiaoyu.

I MEAN. HE PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE DISCUSSED IT WITH HER BEFOREHAND INSTEAD OF PROPOSING RANDOMLY IN FRONT OF THE LADS, BUT. LOL OUCH

poor baibai :’‘‘‘) ドンマイドンマイ加油加油！！

kjhfgkjfj QIAN CHENG. QIAN CHENG I LOVE YOU BUT HE WON’T MARRY YOU poor jbj, manhandled mentally and physically on his own fucking birthday :’‘)

i think deng wei was born to play a bitchy didi. like

he’s so happy. i think he should get to do what he wants

“we had a deal. until we figure out what you should do in the future, i won’t marry you.” y..... you did.....? i. i don’t remember....... were you even thinking about marriage back then...... ah, show

LOL he leans in to kiss her on the forehead and the lads are like GOD CAN’T YOU TWO KEEP IT PG-13!!! THERE ARE KIDS HERE (it’s us. we’re the kids)

l m f a o chengcheng you little mean fuck :’‘)

CHILDREN.

“not her!! i don’t want her in the picture! she took my photo!!” i love four idiots

lin nuoyan, a child actress’ boyfriend ♡

“lin nuoyan looks like he needs someone to take care of him. he always looks sad” how does it feel to be Perceived by a little girl

it IS funny when little kids/unrelated people comment that the main character/s “aren’t that pretty” but it kind of doesn’t work when they’re drop dead gorgeous

episode 20 starts off very well i LOVE qian xu and jbj’s antics lmao

HE’S GETTING HIM THE SAME THING EVERY YEAR help

lmfao william “i need a decent, normal date!” vs chengcheng “i need a date. anyone alive will do”

YELLS QC REALLY WENT FOR XWW.... i mean. alive. his expectations were low

sobs, qc says he’s “ran out of options”.... and xww refuses him so cruelly.... That’s Gotta Hurt bro

ach rich people and their Good Family bullshit

GKJFHGKJSFGHJKSF THIS SHOT

SNORT

WHEW DAIFU!!!!

lol jxy is trying out a dress and it’s slipping off despite the anti-slip straps so i was expecting a ‘haha small boobs’ joke but she’s wearing JEANS underneath her dress so obviously jbj was like TAKE EM OFF and she just. ‘it’s the first time a handsome man said such a thing to me :-)’ never change girl

lmfao but there WAS a qian cheng in a dress joke and poor jbj spat out his drink, GOOD, GOOD, FEED ME

“perhaps you should prepare men’s clothes (for his date)” “men’s clothes? haha” jiang baiju you are stupid and i love that in you but are you BLIND as well he wants to jump your bones like you jumped off that building. please think about your dignity when you say those things

lmfao i know sassy little girls are in fashion but i LOVE both fang shiyu and bella just. obliterating all these adult men

kfhgksfjghfs poor nurse all alone :’‘)

WOW JBJ, IS “THE PURPOSE OF THE RIDE” REALLY TO SNEAKILY KISS YOUR GIRLFRIEND. ‘yeye’ my ass this boy is 12!!!!

“you’re really better than jin xiaoyu’s boyfriend. she has a bad taste in men” GO OFF BELLA!!!

“when i die, my mom will have another baby and forget about me” okay. okay. what the fuck

“i made up my mind. i’m not having any kids ever” “agreed” YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

“i like adult activities more than children’s amusement park ones” jiang baiJU!!!

well that’s quite dramatic but like. myeah

wait WHAT, is that real or is he imagining it!?

it is real!!! she’s back aaaaaaa!!! aaaaaand of course we have some rich influential family bullshit right off the bat

:’) jbj having wine and jxy water :’)

:’(

oh noooooo i was wondering if bella isn’t a guinea pig for the drug testing;;; turns out she was ;;;

aaaaaand we end the episode on qc+drf being cute and stupid as always!!

god we only have 4 episodes left!!! two days worth of episodes!!! how am i going to deal :’/

#shut up shrimp #dkdkdkdkdkdk

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prototype for that lynetta poster?? i have lots of thoughts and i know i misspelled her name

can i write in cursive? absolutely not. all my memory energy goes into making curly letters so her name is misspelled bc im, quite frankly, an idiot

i couldnt get a pose for this so i looked up posters and all that came up was propaganda and i dont need that so i stared at marilyn monroe for a bit and decided to steal part of her hairstyle

was it a bad idea? absolutely. am i going with it? probably

apparently holding one of those pocky looking cigerette holders is a pose so i did that

do i know how to draw her tail? absolutely not. will i? yes.

red dress on tonight danc

#rebootverse #lynetta

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Genesis Chapter 3 Verse 3 speaks of a Garden and can you figure out what kind of Garden? It is speaking of a Milk Carton let me tell you why. All or the majority those who has a house that is shaped like a milk Carton. The word Sunday comes in two connotations. First of all, Sunday is when two adults put themselves in violation of the Genesis Chapter 3 Verse 3 Scripts and performing their own Sundays like Banana Split ( Punany Split ) Sunday Ice Cream Cones. People go to Church On Sundays = People go to Churcha on Cun Days is Cunt Days = Cunt Daze = is Sun Days is Cunt Days is why People go to Churcha is what's going in and you know this to be true all Couples. As said in these writings a Church is not a building for Worship but rather every Woman has the Churcha which is Vagina in Spanish and hisssssss the Place for Whore Chip. Sunday is also, when every Baby Is Porn into this world receiving both of their Parents Only Begotten Son Lights with Cheeses Cries being Our Mother Saviors also, The Lord Our Fathers ( Lord means Lower Rod ). I am telling you all The Real Holy Gospel in reality is The Holey Gaspells = Holely Organ Gas Sim Spells of Our Mothers and Fathers and You's every Woman is Holey and yes they are Amen = Aman for Every Hole they Women have to perform their Holey Pipe Pull = People = Pee Push Pull Push Pull Pee Push Love Sacrifices. This is for your entitlement of the reality of Scriptures Read Wrong with misspellings and grammatical errors literary incompetencies. Word Pamphlets For Religion will take you out of your emotions of how you feel about The Holy Bible Really Holey Pipe Pull = Women Art Holey and Men Have Pipe Pull, thus, Correct Spellings Produces Right Conscious Imagings and put your Feelings on the right track, not your Thoughts but You're Feelings because, Average people are realy Emotion and are Incapable of thought that is why every media outlet with their propagandas abd lies are able sway you's all's Emotions. For the continuation with these Scroll readings your Support and Sponsorship is greatly needed. I am reaching out with you sharing so can you. To continue following to help cover the costs for paper, ink, high speed printers, book covers, marketing, advertising, publishing and distributions. All serious inquiries are to send credit and debit card information including amounts you wish to donate to the following email address: [email protected]

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Vampire Academy part 5

Genre : fluff / drama / smutt Vampire school au Pairing:Mark x reader, Jackson x reader and Yoongi x reader Plot : At St Vladimir's Accadamey, you learn how to navigate life as a dhapire, a half-human vampire hybrid and a guardian protector of best friend mark tuan prince of the moroi and last hire to the throne of vampires. You train with mentors to guarantee you're  place as Mark's guardian. Although you may have to sacrifice everything to protect Mark from enemies both within St. Vladamir's walls and outside them. -------- Walking outside with Jackson the sun was out "The sunlight, it's nice." I said Jackson nodded "I miss it." He said cracking his neck "Stupid vampire timetable. The little sacrifices we make. And the big ones. My 17-year-old silliness, that was the past." I said Jackson looked at me "That was an hour ago. Are you trying to tell me you're suddenly mature and responsible?" He asked raising an eyebrow "I'm trying to tell you that I want to be, I have to be. Teach me something more than doing laps. I know enough about running away. And next time we meet, teach me how to fight." I said as I walked away. Sitting in class doodling on my book I wasn't paying attention as the teacher walked in "Pipe down." The teacher said as everyone became silent the teacher nodded "Let's pick up where we left off. After the tribunals in Romania... Mia! You're usually a lot better at passing on notes. Having an off-day?" He said holding his hand out for Mia to give the note. She smiled "Oh, no, Mr. Meisner, please don't read this note out loud, I beg of you." She said my head popped up as I looked to see what it read "I'll bet that drama queen... I mean, drama prince, killed that bird himself to distract the school from his real secret." He stopped "Don't go on." Mia said giggling "Mr. Meisner, you're being used as a tool to broadcast Mia's vile propaganda." I said protecting Mark "Are you calling me a tool?" He asked me "If she's not, I will." Jackson piped up "What was that, Wang? Now I'm curious. So, it turns out the reason that Mark survived so long on the outside after the accident is he used Y/N as a personal feed bag." Everyone started talking and whispering "Settle down! Dhampir-Moroi mastication is a very serious allegation. I'm gonna pretend I never read this. Everyone turn to page three of your handout." The teacher said throwing away the note until Mia pipped up "But, Mr. Meisner, you left out the best part. About my boy, Kyle, and that Dhamp tramp last night." She said laughing "What?" I asked glaring at them "Truth hurts, blood whore." Ray one of mias lackies said. At that moment Yoongi jumped up and punched Ray in the face, "Yoongi cut it out! Kindly report to Headmistress Kirova's office, Down the hall, turn left." The teacher said Yoongi sighed "Like I need directions." Yoongi said walking out the class. After class Mark ran out as I ran after him trying to stop him I yelled "Mark stop!" running past people "Uh-oh. Lovers' quarrel." Mia said laughing i stopped and glared at them "Y/N, I bleed for you." Kyle said laughing "No, it's Y/N who does the bleeding." Mia said I couldn't hold it in anymore I walked to Mia to go and punch her, right when I held my arm up a hand grabbed me and pulled me away looking up it was Jackson "You can't beat up everyone you have a problem with!" He yelled "Well, I can try." I said trying to force myself out of his grip "What is going on?" Mark said next to me "I told you, Kyle and I barely even made out, and Ray wasn't even there, so I don't even know what he's talking about." I said "OK, yes. Teenage boys are weak and sweaty piglets. It is our covenant... I'm talking about you and me. How did they find out about the feeding?" Mark whispered the last part "You know, when Kyle's fangs came poking out, did you..." Jackson said to me "No, not even. But... he did kind of suspect. Mark, let me explain, please!" I said he shock his head "Let me talk..." he said "Is it true?" Bambam said running towards us with Jungkook "You're gonna have to be more specific." I said rolling my eyes "Kyle and Ray, and not just hooking up, fanging up." Bambam said "They claim they fed while... " Jungkook said looking away "Absolutely not...Well, actually, Kyle and I did make out a little, but..." jungkook cut me off "Where there's smoke, there's fire." He said shrugging "Leave fire out of this." Bambam said shaking his head "You throw yourselves at any douche bag who happens to be Moroi and royal." Yoongi said walking up to us "Whoa, Yoongi. I do not have time to deal with your feelings right now." I said holding my hands up "OK. But you should thank me" He said "you punched someone" Jackson said Yoongi shrugged again "anyway! We need to find out who killed the bird to begin with anyone else helping?" I asked all of them nodded "good". We had an emergency assembly as we all sat down when "Queen Tatiana?" Mark whispered in disbelief "I hope I did not take you too much by surprise, but sometimes your queen awakens with a need to look upon her lovelies." The Queen said smiling upon us all "Where's Mark? Mark Tuan? Please come up and let me see the prince." She said mark walked up to her as she held his hands "Not a day goes by where we don't lament the loss of your parents and your brother. The Tuan name represents the finest of Moroi qualities. While you, Mark Tuan, the last of the Tuan line... if you are our future, I am less than impressed. The power that comes from royal blood must be used responsibly. While you... you give us dead animals, blood games. Shameful!" Mark shock his head "Queen Tatiana, I can explain." She quickly cut him off "Shh, shh, shh. Not now, dear. However, I have every confidence that our dear Mark will turn things around. Now, let us adjourn to the banquet hall." She said as we all got up and I ran up to Mark along with Jackson as we comforted him. I walked with Natalie and Jackson back to Marks room "My father would never have done something like that. After all that Mark has been through, to be shamed by our queen bee?" Natalie said "Don't you mean queen bee-etch?" Jackson said laughing "You don't talk to Mark like that." I said when we got to the door no guardians could be seen "So much for round-the-clock guardians. Mark?" Jackson said going first "Oh, my God." I said entering next "By the soul of St. Vladimir. Who would do something like this? Why?" Natalie said in complete shock Mark was on the floor crying I ran up to him comforting him with Jackson "Go to the wall, Nat. Talk to me." I said she look at me "What? Yeah, OK." As she walked to the wall she licked the blood on the wall "Oh, God. It's fresh, and it's Moroi." "OK, can you tell me if it's royal?" Jackson asked "Don't be absurd." Natalie said shaking her head "Said the girl licking the wall." I told her "I can tell you it's more than one person's blood." She said "They misspelled "beware."" I said looking at the blood "Mark, I can clean it up. I'm sorry." Natalie said "Leave it. The misspelling shows it was just a bunch of stupid teenagers." He said "OK, you know what, I'm gonna go start packing. I'm really..." I got cut off by Mark "No, Y/N, We can't just keep running away, at least until we know what we're running away from." Mark said standing up. "Ooh! A mystery, how exciting. We can be like four Nancy Drews trying..." i cut Natalie off "I hate mysteries. I would prefer a good Strigoi attack at this point because at least I'd know what those homicidal bloodsuckers want." I said "No more. I am taking our dear beloved queen's advice, and I'm turning things around. Kyle and Ray are pawns. Mia is the mastermind." Mark said "and what are we going to do?" Jackson said "I have a way of getting people to see my side of the story. Don't worry, Natalie knows of my skills. It was too exhausting keeping it from her." Mark said "Are you going to use compulsion on Mia?" Natalie asked "Where's the fun in that? I'm going to use compulsion on everyone but Mia." He said smirking "But compulsion on such a large scale..." I said Mark quickly cut me off "Magic should be used for something more than warm and fuzzy classroom exercises." He said I nodded "fine get some sleep now your going to use a lot of energy tomorrow" said. This is going to be interesting I thought. -------- OMG I'm back and working on this again I'm sorry it took so long but I hope you like it :)

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North American, European Public: Finally Wake Up, Damn It! Year after year, month after month, I see two sides of the world; two extremes which are getting more and more disconnected: I see great cities like Homs in Syria, reduced to horrifying ruins. I see Kabul and Jalalabad in Afghanistan, fragmented by enormous concrete walls intended to protect NATO occupation armies and their local puppets. I see monstrous environmental devastation in places such as Indonesian Borneo, Peruvian gold mining towns, or the by now almost uninhabitable atoll island-nations of Oceania: Tuvalu, Kiribati or Marshall Islands. I see slums, a lack of sanitation and clean drinking water, where the boots of Western empires have been smashing local cultures, enslaving people and looting natural resources. I work on all the continents. I never stop, even when exhaustion tries to smash me against the wall, even when there are hardly any reserves left. I cannot stop; I have no right to stop, because I can finally see the pattern; the way this world operates, the way the West has been managing to usurp it, indoctrinate, and enslave most of the countries of the world. I combine my knowledge, and publish it as a ‘warning to the world’. I write books about this ‘pattern’. My most complete, so far, being the 1,000 pages long “Exposing Lies of The Empire”. Then, I see the West itself. I come to ‘speak’, to Canada and the United States, as well as Europe. Once in a while I am invited to address Australian audiences, too. The West is so outrageously rich, compared to the ruined and plundered continents, that it often appears that it does not belong to the Planet Earth. A lazy Sunday afternoon stroll in Villa Borghese in Rome, and a horror walk through Mathare slum in Nairobi could easily exist in two distinct realities, or in two different galaxies. Even now, after I slightly misspelled “Villa Borghese”, my Mac immediately offered a correction. It is because Villa Borghese does exist. On the other hand, “Mathare”, which I spelled correctly, was underlined red. Mathare ‘is an error’. Because it does not exist. It does not exist, despite the fact that around one million men, women and children lives there. It is not recognized by my MacBook Pro, nor by the great majority of my relatively well-educated readers in the West. In fact, almost entire world appears to be one big error, non-entity, if observed from New York, Berlin or Paris. I come and speak in front of the Western public. Yes, I do it from time to time, although with decreasing frequency. Frankly, to face European or North American crowds feels depressing, even humiliating. It goes like this: you are invited to ‘tell the truth’; to present what you are witnessing all over the world. You stand there, facing men and women who have just arrived in their comfortable cars, after having good dinners in their well-heated or air-conditioned homes. You may be a famous writer and a filmmaker, but somehow, they make you feel like a beggar. Because you came to speak on behalf of “beggars”. Everything is well-polished, and choreographed. It is expected that you do not show any ‘gore’. That you do not call your public ‘names’. That you do not swear, do not get drunk on the stage, do not start insulting everyone in sight. What you usually face is quite a hard, or at least ‘hardened’, crowd. Recently, in Southern California, when I was asked, by a fellow philosopher and a friend of mine, to address a small gathering of his colleagues, some people were banging on their mobile phones, as I was describing the situation at the Syrian frontline, near Idlib. I felt that my account was nothing more than a ‘background, an elevator music’ to most of them. At least when I am addressing millions through my television interviews, I do not have to see the public. When you ‘speak’ in the West, you are actually addressing men and women who are responsible, at least partially, for the mass murders and genocides that are being committed by their countries. Men and women whose standards of living are outrageously high, because The Others are being robbed, humiliated, and often raped. But their eyes are not humble; they are drilling them into you, waiting for some mistake that you might make, so they can conclude: “He is fake news”. For them, you are not a bridge between those who ‘exist’ and those who don’t. For them, you are an entertainer, a showman, or more often than not: a nuisance. To learn about war, about the terror that the West is spreading, is, for many in my audience yet another type of luxury, high-level entertainment, not unlike an opera performance or a symphony concert. If necessary, they can even pay, although mostly they’d rather not. After a titillating experience, it is back to the routine, back to a sheltered, elegant life. While you, the next day, are often catching a plane back to the reality of the others; to the frontline, to dust and misery. They, your public (but face it, also most of your readers) came to show how ‘open-minded’ they are. They came ‘to learn’ from you, ‘to get educated’, while keeping their lifestyles intact. Most of them think that they know it all, even without your first-hand experience, they are benevolently doing you a favor by inviting you, and by dragging themselves all the way to some university or a theatre or wherever the hell you are standing in front of them. They did not come to offer any support to your struggle. They are not part of any struggle. They are good, peace-loving, hardworking people; that’s all. You know, like those Germans, in the late 1930’s; self-righteous, hard-working folks. Most of them love their pets, and recycle their garbage. And clean after themselves at Starbucks. A few days ago, we stopped the coup in Venezuela. I say we, because, although deep in devastated Borneo Island, I had been giving interviews to RT, Press TV, addressing millions. Even here, I never stopped writing, tweeting, always ready to drop everything just fly to Caracas, if I were to be needed there. To defend Venezuela, to defend the Revolution there, is essential. As it is essential to defend Syria, Cuba, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Bolivia, South Africa and other revolutionary and brave nations that are refusing to surrender to the Western diktat. While the ideological battle for Caracas was raging, I was thinking: is there anything that could still move the Western public into action? Have they – Europeans and North Americans – become totally indifferent to their own crimes? Have they developed some sort of emotional immunity? Is their condition ideological, or simply clinical? Here we were, in the middle of a totally open coup; an attempt by the West to overthrow one of the most democratic countries on our planet. And they did almost nothing to stop the terrorism performed by their regimes in Washington or Madrid! At least in Indonesia in 1965 or in Chile in 1973, the Western regime tried to hide behind thin fig leaves. At least, while destroying socialist Afghanistan and the Communist Soviet Union by creating the Mujahedin, the West used Pakistan as a proxy, trying to conceal, at least partially, its true role. At least, while killing more than 1 million people in Iraq, there was this charade and bunch of lies about the ‘weapons of mass destruction’. At least, at least… Now, it is all transparent. In Syria, Venezuela; and against North Korea, Cuba, Iran, China, Russia. As if propaganda was not even needed, anymore, it as if the Western public has become totally obedient, posing no threat to the plans of the Western regime. Or more precisely, the once elaborate Western propaganda has become extremely simple: it now repeats lies, and the great majority of Western citizens do not even bother to question what their governments are doing to the world. The only thing that matters are ‘domestic issues’; meaning – the wages and benefits for the Westerners. There are no riots like during the Vietnam War. Now riots are only for the better welfare of European workers. No one in the West is fighting in order to stop the plunder abroad, or the terrorist attacks unleashed by NATO against non-Western countries, or against those countless NATO military bases, against the invasions and orchestrated coups. How much more can the Western public really stomach? Or can it stomach absolutely everything? Would it accept the direct invasion of Venezuela or Cuba or both? It has already accepted the direct intervention and destruction of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, to name just a few terrorist actions committed by the West in recent history. So, how much more? Would an attack against Iran be acceptable? Let’s say, 2-3 million deaths? North Korea, perhaps? A few more millions, a new mountain of corpses? I am asking; it is not a rhetorical question. I really want to know. I believe that the world has to know. Has the Western public reached the level of the ISIS (or call them IS or Deash)? Is it so self-righteous, so fanatic, so convinced of its own exceptionalism, that it cannot think, clearly, analyze and judge, anymore? Would provoking Russia or China or both into WWIII be acceptable to people living in Bavaria or South Carolina, or Ontario? And if yes, are they all really out of their minds? And if they are, should the world try to stop the, and how? I want to know the boundaries of the Western madness. That there is madness is indisputable, but how massive is it? I understand, I have now accepted the monstrous fact that the French, Yanks, Canadians, Brits or Germans do not give a shit about how many millions of innocent people they kill in the Middle East, or Southeast Asia, Africa or in ‘places like that’. I accept that they know close to nothing about their colonial history, and want to know nothing, as long as they have football, plenty of meat and 6 weeks vacations on exotic beaches. I know that even many of those who can see monstrous crimes committed by the West, want to blame everything on Rothschilds and ‘Zionist conspiracy’, but never on themselves, never on their culture which expresses itself through the centuries of plunder. But what about the survival of our planet, and the survival of humankind? I imagine the eyes of those people who come to my ‘combat presentations’. I tell them the truth. I say it all. I am never holding back; never compromise. I show them images of the wars they have unleashed. Yes, they; because the citizens are responsible for their own governments, and because there is, clearly, something called collective guilt and collective responsibility! Those eyes, faces… I will tell you what I read in them: they will never act. They will never try to overthrow their regime. As long as they live their privileged lives. As long as they think that the system in which they are the elites, at least has some chance of surviving in its present form. They play it both ways, some of them do: verbally, they are outraged by NATO, by Western imperialism and savage capitalism. Practically, they do nothing tangible to fight the system. What is the conclusion then? If they do not act, then others have to. And I am convinced: they will. For more than 500 years the entire world has been in flames, plundered and murdered by a small group of extremely aggressive Western nations. This has been going on virtually uninterruptedly. Nobody finds it amusing, anymore. Where I work, in places that I care about, nobody wants this kind of world. Look at those countries that are now trying to destroy Venezuela. Look closely! They consist of the United States, Canada, majority of Europe, and mostly those South American states where the descendants of European colonialists are forming majority! Do we want another 500 years of this? North Americans and Europeans have to wake up, soon. Even in Nazi Germany, there were soldiers who were so disgusted with Hitler, that they wanted to send him to the dogs. Today, in the West, there is not one powerful political party which believes that 500 years of Western colonialist plunder is more than enough; that torturing the world should stop, and stop immediately. If Western imperialism, which is the greatest and perhaps the only major threat our planet is now facing, is not decisively and soon dismantled by its own citizens, it will have to be fought and deterred by external forces. That is: by its former and present victims. https://journal-neo.org/2019/06/06/north-american-european-public-finally-wake-up-damn-it/

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Confessions of an Internet Troll

As I am writing this, I realise that probably half of you will agree with me, possibly pointing at the screen and yelling obscenities before leaving some scathing commentary, while the other half of you will shrink away ashamed. I am a troll. An internet troll that is. Once upon a time, in the early days of the web, I turned into a self-appointed Grammar-Nazi and fact checker. I don’t know why I became that way. Blame my upbringing in a conservative Catholic school, where grammatical mistakes were punishable by death. Perhaps you could point at my parents, who insisted I learn to speak without any inflexion or dialect. Or it could be a genetic condition, a mental disorder, OCD or just plain mischief. It causes me mental anguish to see a misspelt word or phrase, or one of the endlessly forwarded posts on Facebook that urge you to say Amen to a photo of a kid with cancer, who is now a 15-year-old with a cocaine addiction. Or the money post with the poorly spelt meme urging you to repost this picture of a bank note immediately or have 15 years of bad luck. Per those posts, I will never be happy. I am facing at least a millennium of torture before anything good can happen to me. It takes a right click in search in most cases to do a quick background check. If in doubt, search it up on Snopes. The same people that are crying out about Donald Trump’s “Fake News” are the ones that forward pure lies on Facebook. “My friend posted it, and it is on the internet, so it must be true”. Remedies and cures that will kill you. Household tips that will land you in the hospital. Political rumours solely put out there for propaganda. Haven’t you learned from the White House, yet? It doesn’t matter which side of the political coin you may worship, neither tells the truth anymore. “Your” and “You’re” are just painful. “Me an you” causes convulsions. “H8py Bday, Bru”, “Gna Cl U”, and others make me want to scream out loud. Reading those mangled and disfigured groups of letters cause my brain to go into meltdown, into a self-preservation mode, into a grey matter defence stance. Is it so difficult to spend a few extra seconds to check your grammar? And I am not without fault, here. I, too, mistype, misspell, and make mistakes but at least I am trying! Is it too much to ask? Yes, I can block them. Sure. The same way you can stop smoking or give up coffee. I could simply ignore them. No, I can’t. I cannot ignore them. I cannot bear them, but I cannot ignore them, either. There is no cure for this. I’m a troll. I know, I am. I’m incorrigible. Imperfect. No doubt. OCT = Obsessive Compulsive Troll. That’s me.

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