Locking post. I wish someone had reported this rage-bait^[1] post sooner.

I’ve learned that I’ll never learn.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong. — Mencken

People not only don’t know what’s happening to them, they don’t even know that they don’t know. — Chomsky

We assassinated the president and covered it up so that we can more easily identify conspiracy theorists.

How is there any utility in being able to identify a few crackpots—only the ones who happen to crack their pot on this one particular event? How is Identifying crackpots of any use to the state?

This isn’t my bailiwick, but I think Peter Dale Scott and Arron Good may have some of the best answers. I don’t pay much attention to the matter, but IIRC, James Angleton and the Dulles brothers very likely were involved. It helps to ask: who covered up what really happened?

Other than an accomplished sniper, I don’t know. I’m more interested in who had him killed.

Hah. What are the changes of this coincidence.

https://mega.nz/file/K7BnBIob#TmFn8axPIJ2h1d8b3dGqmrr_0wTN8VCkUiB9LtoqOPQ

I stopped reading because I wasn’t sure how much smoke he might have been blowing up my ass at the time, and I don’t remember enough to say now without reading it again.

It’s a very good piece. I read about half of his book, Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making, though I remember almost none of it now.

I read this when it first came out in 2009.

Vao makes his money as a c-suite coach, so I doubt that he’s a fellow traveler.

The USAGM supervises Voice of America (VOA) and Office of Cuba Broadcasting as well as state-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Open Technology Fund.

It’s a branch of the US military-intelligence-propaganda-industrial complex. Or was—I’m not sure if Trump’s executive order to eliminate it stuck.

What are the Honda Dax 125 or the BMW Gold Wing w/DCT then?

I think this pedantry is rooted in fragile masculinity.

Also, kilts are skirts.

No Investigation, No Right to Speak

Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?

It won’ t do!

It won’t do!

You must investigate!

You must not talk nonsense!

Mao Zedong, Oppose Book Worship

You can buy them now, because the US hasn’t banned their import yet, but that’s what these laws will lead to.

They’re called “communities,” hence the “c/”.

BTW, c/asklemmy is expressly not a community for questions about Lemmy. Please read a community’s rules before posting.

They’re going to burn this in all the way from the sub-microprocessor DRM/TPM to the browser, aren’t they?

We’ve had a name for them for the last 200 years: the capitalist class, or to be more precise, the haute bourgeoisie. The 1% of the 1%.

Thank you, Tim Apple, for making 2026 the year of the Linux desktop (but not necessarily the Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint desktop).

You could buy an anemic one now, and then upgrade the RAM & storage once prices come down.