In 2021, I did a posting about Smedley Butler and the great Wall St banker’s plot to overthrow the US government. [stderr]
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In 2021, I did a posting about Smedley Butler and the great Wall St banker’s plot to overthrow the US government. [stderr]
Russians are all in the news, today.
Have you ever had the experience of realizing, in a moment of clarity, that something you accepted as a fact was, in fact, a “framing” propaganda that you had seamlessly adopted into your world-view?
I was looking at some pictures (they were unavoidable) of the queen’s lying-in-state, and I noticed an odd thing.
This is in the “weird tales of nuclear bombs or power” department. I don’t get enough of these, so I won’t make it a cagegory.
I stumbled across this because one of my social media feeds is entirely dedicated to trolley car problems.
I do not actually think this is the case, but if I were writing a spy story, it would be the obvious “angle.”
This comes up, periodically, and it’s always annoying as hell that it’s reported as a “solution” to some problem.
One of the flaws I think many skeptics share is a love of consistency. If we’ve done any studying of philosophy, or even practiced thinking, we tend to feel that “but you contradicted yourself!” is a winning point.
I have this fantasy, which is that someone gave Donald Trump a laminated card that said “launch codes: man, woman, camera, a plan, burma shave” or something like that. He’s kept it, of course, because it’s valuable.