A nursing home paid for by Medicare only.

He was part of the program, but he was also completely cut loose.

Again I should say, MKUltra was based on nonsense paired with a reckless disregard for consequences. They didn’t care how many people they hurt because hurting people was the goal. Gottlieb shredded most of the records the second accountability came calling, because it was all nonsense.

It’s just like the Nazi medical experiments. One of the more infamous Nazi experiments was injecting dye into the eyes of twins to see of the other twin’s eyes would change color. MKUltra was basically that level of scientific rigor, except with more LSD.

That’s what made the program so dangerous, not some bullshit mind control, the reckless disregard and protection from consequences for the monsters doing the twisted and pointless experiments.

The lessons learned from MKUltra were, it doesn’t fucking work.

The ever shifting goals were nebulous at best, and often just monstrous in practice, but at no time did anything ever get accomplished.

It started as an excuse to play with LSD. For something like 10 years, the entire world’s supply of LSD was funneled to the CIA and specifically wherever Sidney Gottlieb wanted it. Often this was into his own body, and the bodies of unsuspecting CIA agents who “agreed” to be secretly dosed at random via their employment contracts.

Originally they thought that LSD could be a truth serum, but that’s bullshit, then they thought that they could “reprogram” people into secret agents (this plan actually came about after the Manchurian Candidate came out.) That part of things got pretty horrific, they found that through the use of torture and drugs, they could completely break a person. Putting them back together proved impossible.

Eventually MKUltra turned into dosing random people in the street or in brothels, seemingly so that one particular creep could watch.

They learned that “guys are more talkative after sex when on drugs”.

It was all fucking nonsense. That’s how these people work, they have some harebrained idea and then throw spaghetti at the wall, trying to make it work out. When it doesn’t, they wander off assuming that someone else will clean up the mess.

All of that is separate from modern social media control programs, which work via scale. But we’ve known that propaganda works at scale since the beginning of history. Like everything else wrong with the modern world, it’s more targeted and tracked now.

You have massive state run influence machines trying to push different narratives, and it’s all just noise. But yes, there are also some dangerous elements. The whole incel culture full of people both pushing dangerous versions of right-wing ideology and preying on the insecurities of young men. I can certainly say that there are people, both employed by governments and not, who make it their lives work to infiltrate various online communities to push different talking points.

But worse is Joel Fucking Kaplan.

I will say, mixing different conspiracies into a melting pot of nonsense doesn’t help.

MKUltra was real, it was run by Sidney Gottlieb, who was insane and sadistic. Most of it seems to have been just do shit for kicks and giggles. It was seriously fucked up and there was almost zero oversight. The stated goals were never reached, because the stated goals ignored reality. A lot of lives were destroyed, mostly because the agents involved thought it would be funny. Most of the “work” was shredded to avoid accountability.

FBI entrapment is real, but is different again, it’s also extremely fucked up with little oversight. The stated goals are ignored in favor of press releases and ruining people’s lives. Racism plays a big role.

The Correspondents Dinner was just blatant incompetence. It might have been a setup, but I think the actual setup was just Trump showing up with shit security and planning on leaving the second any incident happened, with the “I need a ballroom” bullshit ready to go.

The major through line here are incompetent monsters who believe themselves above the law and untouchable. There’s little coordination to any of it, because the actual goals are always selfish and sadistic.

He fried his brain on drugs. Also eating roadkill and bush meat.

When he was a teenager/young adult he was the drug dealer to his family and caused one cousin to lethally OD.

The guy has been a shitbag all his life.

Well, the man who won the Vietnam War knew damn well what a “Great Man/White Savior” could do, because the Bible used to win was T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

T.E. Lawrence was also known as Lawrence of Arabia.

That book is a guide to taking down an empire, and a warning about “great men/white saviors”.

The key thing to remember, when fighting an empire, there are no Fronts, only Flanks.

I don’t think Trump likes his kids that much.

He’s also worked fairly hard to not have a successor, because he’s a malignant narcissist who doesn’t care what happens after he’s gone.

Adblock, no-script, and just being as careful as possible.

Also, there’s this fun little Firefox extension called TMDB player, which plugs into a few illicit streaming sites, but pairs with the very real TMDB website.

You actually have to be slightly more careful with such, at least as far as viruses.

Torrents usually need a vpn these days.

I’m trying to give you weapons. But if you wish to enter a battle of wits unarmed, then who am I to argue.

You don’t need to read it all, I sure haven’t, but I’ve read enough to be more effective in fighting back.

Really, the most useful passages are the Sheep and the Goats, Which is also a great song by Cake, The Camel in and the eye of a needle, and the line about the loud hypocrites not going to heaven.

If the theocrats can cherry-pick their book, then I can as well.

Also good to know, the fact that the entire Old Testament was written after Cyrus the Great of Persia toppled the Neo-Babylonian empire. So anything before the Babylonian exile is almost 100% invented (and a lot after as well, but there’s more archeological support for later stuff, at least until the time of Jesus, when the book and reality diverge again, because that part was mostly written 300 years later)

Yes yes, more angry atheism.

But I again argue that knowledgeable atheism is more effective in fighting against the theocratic jackasses. Know thy enemy.

They don’t follow their own book, and cannot really defend themselves against it when you tell them to shut the fuck up by quoting it back at them.

Of course it is, but you can also mine it for gems to use against the jackasses who claim to be faithful.

I know being the angry atheist who rejects everything is fun, but try reading the book, then you can be the knowledgeable atheist who can throw their own sacred writings back in the faces of the hypocrites who claim to believe.

Hell, the book of Mathew is a fucking gold mine, mostly starting in chapter 6, the stuff before that can be ignored if you want.

https://www.biblestudytools.com/matthew/6.html

look at this gem,

1 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Or this gem from Mathew 19.

23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.

24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Now, some of that book has been used to cover up sex abuse and other crimes of the church (Mathew 18), and it’s very regressive on the subject of divorce. (repeatedly, but also in Mathew 19)

There’s also nonsense like Jesus cursing some random fig tree for not having fruit at that instant.

China already has slaves of it’s own, people who have a rural hukou. It creates a permanent legal underclass of exploitable labor with basically zero rights.

What I’m talking about is pretty simple, in China you’re registered in the province of your birth, or parent’s birth. This registration is called a hukou, and is pretty much impossible to change except in cases of extreme wealth.

Your hukou determines what social services you have access to. Social services in China are paid for at the local level, and are only available to people who have a local hukou.

The problem is that there are no jobs in the poor provinces, and if someone moves to the city for work, they have zero access to the social services that their taxes are supporting, unless they pay out of pocket.

These migrant workers have no labor protections, no unemployment, no local schools for their kids, except for criminally underfunded migrant schools, that are not free.

So you have about 15% of the population of China who you hear about, living upper middle class lives with free social services, supported by the exploitation of everyone else.

The most over roasted slop around, sure. There’s a reason why that place serves pure diabetes, their black coffee is kinda gross.

maybe the coffee is gross so that it can pair with the diabetes. That much sugar needs a very strong flavor to offset it.

Or Starbucks just uses the absolute cheapest beans on the market and then burns them for that truly consistent char flavor, which they then have to turn into diabetes to make palatable.

Either way, it’s just not good.

Seems pretty clear to me, starting at line 41 on.

31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

The ending was pretty dark, and came a bit before the widespread acceptance of the Chicxulub impact.

Or they carved the pyramids from the top down after overbuilding a sacrificial structure, That makes it much easier to maintain those sharp lines and accurate angles.

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-not-built-up-but-carved-down.html

Which is a technique even wilier than previously mentioned.

Which all conveniently ignores the Sermon on the Mount, especially the Sheep and the Goats.

That parable specifically says that belief alone is not enough if you don’t also act on it to make the world better, further saying that if you ignore those in need, you’re going to hell.

The Senate isn’t the main problem. We need to fix the House before we can ditch the Senate.

What I mean is, repeal the Permanent apportionment act of 1929 and make the House of Representatives actually representative.

With that one act of Congress, the House and Presidency would realign themselves with national popular vote.

This would make further changes possible.