Walter Ostanek
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used to love this lad, haven't listened for yonks
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do we live in a timeline where you can admit to war crimes on reddit?
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4 minutes ago, ignatius said:
yeah.. i updated the post to add some commentary. people took him to task in the comments about some statements he made about Poland and how polish people hate ukraine.
I have to wonder if this line of thinking, if a voice like his, is prominent somewhere in the halls of congress or the pentagon or whatever..
the news and narratives we get are so vastly different from what he says.
Furthermore I'm so fucking sick of these ideas that people want to be imperial subjects of Putin because they speak Russian or because they opposed Maidan. I've got to know so many people like that over the last couple of years, these narratives couldn't be further from the truth.
At least he touched on the resource issue - that is, indeed, a very material underpinning to the "SVO". Though he's weirdly off-kilter about France's interests in Ukrainian uranium, they can (and do) have a far safer, far higher-grade supplier in the form Canada.
Been talking to a friend in russia all evening, he is scared shitless of what comes next, everyone with a brain there remembers how Chechnya unfolded. I talk to a couple of friends in Kharkiv most days... but can't tonight because they still have blackouts after the last missile attack.
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1 hour ago, ignatius said:
this guy has interesting insights. first video is from 5 or so months ago. this guy has worked/works in various government positions related to defense, intelligence etc etc.. 2nd video is from 7 days ago
Christ that has some nauseating takes. Simping for imperialism based on the etymology of a country's name and historical linguistic regions. I hope the Swiss don't find out!
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I remember my mum getting upset with me when I came home with the CD version and she saw the bewbs on the cover lol. And fond memories of intricately adding all the symbols in Word so I could paste them into Winamp and give the second track its proper name
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59 minutes ago, decibal cooper said:
Hmm, they were warning about something like this happening a couple of weeks ago. What a convenient excuse for even more dictatorial powers - so soon after an "election" too! An awful lot like how Chechnya first kicked off, no? It'll also be a great way of putting the yanks in a bind too: "you're fine with Israel committing genocide after the murderous Hamas raid, so how can you criticise our vindictive brutality?"
Funnily enough, barely anyone gave a shit in the news about the russian rockets lobbed at a Ukrainian hydroelectric dam last night.
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3 hours ago, auxien said:
America is reaping plenty of rewards both monetarily and in terms of our power dominance. i’m not saying this is good, just pointing it out…lots of parties have much to gain from these conflicts. whatever side of things you’re on, if you’re cashing some checks, a lot of powerful people are happy.
and the deaths of children don’t matter to those powerful people. world keeps spinning & their influence + bank accts grow, that’s all that matters to them.
The yanks benefit immensely from Israel's existence, it's a nice little toehold from which to play geopolitical chess in the ME, though I don't see any material benefit accruing to the US from Bibi's latest escapade in unmatched brutality. They want an Israel that keeps Iran in check, not an Israel that dents their own credibility.
Whereas russia and china have a lot to gain from the continued outrage
3 hours ago, decibal cooper said:One theme I hear repeated a lot by political analysts is that the common people or citizens of a lot of Muslim countries in that area really do care about the people there, same with other countries throughout the world, but that the elites/leaders in those countries do not really care that much so long as the situation does not impact their country's security and bottom line.
That's it in a nutshell. The Gulf sheikhs throw them the odd bone, and undoubtedly help with negotiations, but it never amounts to anything substantial. Why would any state offer any *actual* help the Palestinians? They're poor. They have nothing to offer in return. (By Israel's design)
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23 minutes ago, auxien said:
it got vetoed this morning by Russia & China. reasoning was due to the inclusion of language requiring Hamas to release all hostages, whereas previous ceasefire resolutions (supported by most except the US) have been unconditional.
They are reaping the geopolitical gains from the fallout of this brutality, so why would they support a ceasefire?
In Palestine they are well aware that no country in the world actually gives a toss about them
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35 minutes ago, decibal cooper said:
ask yourself: who benefits from [engineering] this state of affairs
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how to beat off to autechre
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Yes, the same Tony Banks who's in Genesis and who my mum used to fancy. Is it just confirmation bias or are there Genesissy leitmotifs in there?
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1 hour ago, zazen said:
@Walter Ostanek The other two in that series are also solid, but different, as a trilogy should be. Perhaps not as stellar as the first but taking the theme and going different places with it. The second book is fairly horrific in parts. The third book goes in a somewhat fantasy direction, but still rooted in the same universe.
Adrian Tchaikovsky's architect series (starts with Shards of Earth) is also good - like big space opera with a band of misfits getting caught up in the enormous action. Its like 'ok this is a big space opera with a band of misfits' but he executes it VERY well.I thought the 2nd and 3rd both had some fantastic ideas in them. Detailed dives into drastically different forms of intelligence. I found the end of the 3rd one crushingly depressing though and, well, almost pointless, after seeing how much the Enkidu crew suffered, only for it to turn out that *spoilers*.
Ditto the deference to some kind of Prime Directive ethic in parts of the 3rd book just seemed weird, given that the first two books were about as antithetical to that as possible. I get that the "we're going on an adventure" fellas didn't want to homogenise cultures/civilisations out of existence, but I struggled with the leap from that to "let's just watch them die"
Not read any of his other series, it's kinda daunting seeing how many books he pumps out. Feel like I'd enjoy the Tyrant Philosophers, though.
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21 hours ago, ignatius said:
steve jobs, A #1 asshole and kind of an idiot. parts 1 and 2. part 3 is out today and is wherever you get podcasts.
Honestly I know very little about the bloke, having religiously avoided anything to do with Apple for my whole life so far. But the manner of his death alone tells you he was a cunt. Remember kids, alternative medicine is a fascist gateway, always was, always will be.
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On 3/12/2024 at 4:56 AM, aderei said:
Children of Time
Fuck me that was a solid read. Have you read the other two? Really hope Tchaikovsky keeps things going in that series, though I understand it runs the risk of turning into a "hyperintelligent creepy crawly of the week" thing
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holding the down arrow down in Excel to see how fast i can get to the bottom
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On 3/7/2024 at 2:42 PM, zazen said:
For anyone thats never read about the lucid dreaming angle:
From David Toop interview, 1994 https://lannerchronicle.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/aphex-twin-the-face-magazine-1994/
any guesses as to which songs relate to richard dreamshagging which celebrity?
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On 3/5/2024 at 3:12 PM, decibal cooper said:
lol
doubtful that this will have any impact on things, but I really did not like that Nuland woman. She is like a slightly less malign version of Madeleine Albright. Glad she is resigning. War profiteering ass hoe.
Ah yes Russophobia
QuoteMadame President,
I associate myself with the words of Minister Kuleba and my colleagues from the European Union.
I’m amazed at the tone and the content of the presentation by the Russian ambassador.
And I thought I could be useful by correcting the record. Ambassador Nebenzya has called Kyiv a client of the West. Actually, Kyiv is fighting to be independent of anybody.
He calls them a criminal Kyiv regime. In fact, Ukraine has a democratically elected government.
He calls them Nazis. Well, the president is Jewish, the defence minister is Muslim, and they have no political prisoners.
He said that Ukraine was wallowing in corruption. Well, Alexei Navalny documented how honest and full of probity his own country is.
He blamed the war on US neo-colonialism. In fact, Russia was trying to exterminate Ukraine in the 19th century, again under Bolsheviks, and now it is the third attempt.
He said that we are denying Russia’s security interests. Not true. We only started rearming ourselves when Russia started invading her neighbours.
He even said that Poland attacked Russia during World War II. What is he talking about? It was the Soviet Union that attacked Poland together with Nazi Germany on the 17th of September 1939. They even held a joint victory parade on the 27th of September.
He says that Russia has always only beaten back aggression. Well, what were then Russian troops doing at the gates of Warsaw in August 1920? They were on a topographic excursion? The truth is that for every time Russia was invaded, she has invaded ten times.
He says that it is a perfidious proxy war by the West. My advice is – don’t fall into the Western trap. Withdraw your troops to international borders and avoid this Western plot.
He also says that there was an illegal coup in Kyiv in 2014. I was there. There was no coup. President Yanukovych murdered a hundred of his compatriots and was removed from office by a democratically elected Ukrainian parliament, including by his own party, the Party of Regions.
And finally, he is saying that we the West are somehow trying to persuade that Russia can never be beaten. Well, Russia did not win the Crimean War, it didn’t win the Russo-Japanese War, it didn’t win World War I, it didn’t win the battle of Warsaw, it didn’t win in Afghanistan and it didn’t win the Cold War.
But there’s good news. After each failure there were reforms.
Such demagoguery is unworthy of a member on a permanent basis of the Security Council. But what the ambassador has achieved is to remind us why we resisted Soviet domination and what Ukraine is resisting now.
They failed to subjugate us then. They’ll fail to subjugate Ukraine and us now.
Thank you very much.
But yeah fuck Nuland for general neoliberal bullshit, tho the coup stuff is just cringe
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15 hours ago, decibal cooper said:
wanker
Catch the same bloke in a few weeks and he'll probably be boasting about being lavishly wined and dined at some swanky client event
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On 1/22/2024 at 5:41 AM, zazen said:
I just stumbled across the Brothomstates EP which is from 2000 and pre-dates a lot of the other stuff. Its stripped down and crunchy, just gets on with it, I think its my new favourite brothomstates.
Shit, I used to plod down the street in my first year of uni back to halls listening to that on my 256MB MP3 player. Don't think I've even thought about it since. Lovely little bunch of traxxx
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what was he thinking
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the only person i've ever had to sack is also the only person IRL i've known who's been a self declared JP fanboy. Sacked him for joking about rape one too many times in front of female coworkers, alongside all the typical woman-o-phobic comments
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9 minutes ago, Walter Ostanek said:
It's not speculation at all, the actions of troll farms have been reported on, and you can even watch this stuff happen in real time - two very recent mask-off moments were the "Wagner Gap" when all sorts of pro-RU troll activities suddenly went dark while they waited to see what happened to their boss, and the almost comically inept pro-Indian trolling on Canadian subreddits in the wake of the Hardeep Singh Najjar hit job (they were still clearly learning the ropes at the time).
And linking those two things, if you ever wonder why the Indian media/online community is so pro-RU, and why India is now home to so many troll farms, look at who in India profits from Putin's war: Ambani, Adani, the Birla clan: all of the Modi oligarch groupies, getting very rich off of cheap russian oil.
You could possibly make a coherent argument that this internet-borne fascist revival is being conducted by and for the oil industry specifically
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On 2/15/2024 at 6:09 PM, decibal cooper said:
Again, this is just speculation, and it is probably very biased because I am a somewhat paranoid person and already have a somewhat negative view of America without any help from the Chinese
It's not speculation at all, the actions of troll farms have been reported on, and you can even watch this stuff happen in real time - two very recent mask-off moments were the "Wagner Gap" when all sorts of pro-RU troll activities suddenly went dark while they waited to see what happened to their boss, and the almost comically inept pro-Indian trolling on Canadian subreddits in the wake of the Hardeep Singh Najjar hit job (they were still clearly learning the ropes at the time).
The other big tactic you didn't touch on is reputation laundering, where some made-up gobshite will get referenced through a handful of opinion blogs in order to mask a lie as part of a factual narrative
I agree that the yanks are utter amateurs at this, they're being massively outgunned in the information realm (ditto cyberwarfare) - at least, the democrats and/or liberal establishment are. They had it down in the TV era, as anyone who even skimmed a US news channel will have noticed during the war on
islamterror, but they never adapted to new media. Unsure if the (now ascendant) fascist wing of the GOP have a good handle on it, or if they mostly benefit from russian efforts-
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2020 US Election
in General Banter
Posted · Edited by Walter Ostanek
it doesn't even need an article because it's retina-burningly obvious, but here's one anyway discussing the use of the Baltimore bridge disaster by certain actors to whip up a geostrategic media frenzy: