[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 61 points 10 months ago

He smoked pot on Joe Rogan's show.

He doesn't seem like the sort of person who can have the self-control to stop there. He's try uppers and downers and anything else to make himself feel good now that people are calling him out on his bullshit.

The dude was on top of the fucking world in February 2018 when he launched his car into orbit. In July of that year, he called a guy a pedo because the guy said Elon's toy submarine idea was worse than useless.

If he had kept his dumb mouth shut, we would all still mostly believe in Elon's bullshit myth.

Instead, it's mostly common knowledge that Elon is a narcissistic man baby, and has been for his entire life.

He would rather we didn't know about the emerald mine, but everyone knows. We know he bought his way to every success he's ever had, and that he has zero natural talent.

And that has to drive him mad. So he does drugs and plays video games to escape from reality. A reality where he isn't loved, and is actually viewed as the prime example of the problem with allowing billionaires to exist at all.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 60 points 10 months ago

This presents an interesting problem for Republicans, and by interesting I mean an unwinnable scenario.

See, if the conservative judges put Trump back on the ballot, they will instantly give more ammunition to people already screaming for court reform.

That's the one thing the conservative legal movement fears.

On the other hand, if they don't come up with some excuse to justify putting Trump back on the ballot, the maga mob will declare them traitors and might actually try to kill them.

The trick will be threading that needle, and I don't think it's possible.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 62 points 10 months ago

Before the witch hunts kick off, keep in mind that this "list of associates" also includes victims and others who have sued Epstein for other reasons.

Wait for the checked and collated list before we start hunting.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 55 points 11 months ago

Likud isn't just a continuation of Herut, they merged with the remnants of Lehi, a full on terrorist organization from before the 1949 war.

A surviving member of Lehi then became the first leader of Likud, and his first act in power was to give all the surviving terrorists commendation medals.

That terrorist turned prime minister was also Netenyahu's mentor.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 60 points 1 year ago

He said he never wanted to hurt Paul, but still seems to want to kill Nancy.

That basically makes him completely unrepentant. Here's hoping he finds a shred of humanity in his many, many years behind bars.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 57 points 1 year ago

From the last time this was posted, radio frequency radiation, not nuclear radiation.

It's an important distinction.

RF strength violations have more to do with the signal range and possible interference with other signals than health impacts.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 62 points 1 year ago

Elon is a fragile narcissist, all Putin has to do is say nice things about Elon, and Elon will eat out of Putin's hand.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 59 points 1 year ago

Reverend Moon's church funded literal Nazi death squads in South America after WW2. So yeah, they're pretty bad.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was not one mobster or another. He made his name prosecuting the Italian mob so that the Russians could move into NYC.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 57 points 1 year ago

Greenpeace was founded to be an anti-nuclear organization. See, most of the founding members were members of the Sierra Club (another environmentalist organization) but the Sierra Club was actually pro-nuclear power. The Sierra Club was actually fighting against the installation of new dams due to the effect of wiping out large swaths of river habitat and preventing salmon runs and such.

Anyway, in 1971 there was an underground nuclear bomb test by the US government in an area that was geologically unstable. (there were a bunch of tests to see just how geologically unstable). Protesters thought that the test would cause an earthquake and a tsunami.

Anyway, the people who were unhappy with the Sierra club not actively protesting nuclear power, wanted to protest this nuclear bomb test too, so they formed an organization called the "Don't make a wave committee". They sued, the suit was decided in the US's favor, the test went off, and no earthquake happened (which is how the earlier tests said it would go).

At some point, the "Don't make a wave committee" turned into Greenpeace.

Also about this timeframe, Greenpeace started receiving yearly donations from the Rockefeller Foundation.

The Rockefeller Foundation is the charitable foundation created by the Rockefeller heirs that "uses oil money to make the world a better place" but they kind of don't. They've been anti-nuclear since the beginning, and even directly funded some radiation research in the 1950s that lied about safe exposure limits to radiation, claiming that there was no safe limit. That research went on to shape international policy, and by the time new research came out, the policy was already written and thus hard to change.

As a side note, another alumnus of the Sierra Club was approached by the then CEO of Atlantic Oil and directly paid a sum of something like $100k (in 1970 money) to found another anti-nuclear environmentalist organization called Friends of the Earth.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 61 points 1 year ago

Pol Pot took it a step further and murdered anyone who wore glasses, because wearing glasses was seen as being educated.

Authoritarians of every type hate the educated, because the educated often hate authoritarianism.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 61 points 1 year ago

I always like to point out that when congress banned the transatlantic slave trade in 1808, it didn't stop the desire of slaveholders for new slaves.

Enslaved women were used as brood mares until they physically could not produce more children. Then some of those women were subjected to medical experimentation (without painkillers) to repair the damage caused by pregnancies either too frequent or too early.

The population of enslaved black people quadrupled in the 50 years after the transatlantic slave trade was banned. White slave owners would often rape their enslaved women, and then sell off the children for profit. And could get more profit, because the children had lighter skin.

Oh, and that ban on the transatlantic slave trade? That was very easy to get around. Jim Bowie, as an example, used to smuggle slaves from French pirate slaver traders into the US through the swamps of Louisiana. Then he moved to Texas as part of a plan to turn it into a slave holding nation. (Mexico had actually banned slavery)

Jim Bowie, died at the Alamo, likely in bed shitting himself from cholera. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving sort.

I really should try to control my tangents...

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