Also, the 'lacks intellectual rigour' was a criticism of the LLM, not you.
My not setting up a wallet here is deliberate; I think zapping is a gimmick and a bad incentive on social media platforms.
And finally, I largely enjoy your account and will continue to follow it. None of what I have written was an attack on you, just on certain LLM posts. (But I do make attacks on others here, it's true.)
Maybe. You're free, of course, to post whatever you want on yr account. But yes, I think the term #brainwank is apropos and while they may be useful to play around with personal ideas privately, I don't think they make for good public postings, because they're not 'authentic' opinions /analyses.
States work on the basis of a class of power sharing 'middle men's. See for example the feudal system with its earls and barons and knights under a king. When a class of middle men are thrown out, as is happening now under Trump, that is a point of change and potential fragility in a state, even if the moment of fragility passes and a new set of middlemen are established.
To relate what is happening in the USA now to a *technological* system, like Bitcoin, is erroneous. They are 2 different things, one technological, the other political. Bitcoin is apolitical .
I've found some of your other LLM posts useful (and bookmarked them) but the ones that are responses to a leading question, like this one, fairly weak.
(And no, of course I don't work for the government)
The chances that it does, or from some other similar foreign source, are exceedingly high
And does this NGO receive funding from USAID perhaps ?
I respect Brian but I think he's wrong here. The blob & the political establishment had obvious deep antipathy for Trump and went to extreme ends to prevent him from becoming President again. Precisely because he's unpredictable in what he might do and we're already seeing this unpredictability play out.
The exposure of USAID activities has done real damage to the Blob; it wasn't just a limited hangout. Sure they will try to regrow this 'tentacle' and reestablish control in areas that they have lost it. But it will be hard work for them and something they would have very much wanted to avoid having to do.
This isn't to say that it's over for the Blob, not at all. They'll fight back. But there is a real fight going on, it's not just theatre.
Why not link to the actual Act itself Peter, rather than a foreign and hostile government's take ?
The only thing I have to say to you is don't use your child for yr profile pic. It's creepy.
Thanks for the Lee Fang reference, I'll check out what he has to say on the matter.
I'm amused by the person who 'stepped up' to zap you (nostr:npub1h50pnxqw9jg7dhr906fvy4mze2yzawf895jhnc3p7qmljdugm6gsrurqev). Clearly you're a hit with the narcissistic, politically ignorant wine-moms of the USA. Now I know the target audience of your cringey profile pic.
Trump called it “THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF ALL TIME.” Drop Site News’ Ryan Grim calls it “unseen levels of duplicity and stupidity” by MAGA. Politico is not funded by USAID. 🧐
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2b893196f611c209c12d6ca76b2ca49a6dd3751eff7b47de2cd675a3cf070455.mp4
The Counterpoints segment on this subject yesterday was very revealing of Ryan's allegiances.
I don't care about yr book. Your position with the HRF says everything that I (or anybody else) needs to know about you.
False (and moronic) dichotomomy. What we want is for the USA to stop sending weapons & funds to Israel and to stop blocking international actions against its crimes in the UN. Then the evil colonizing state can collapse on its own and Palestine can be restored to full independence.
The nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as that nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu is CSO for, is a shadowy intelligence agency cutout, dedicated to fomenting regime change in states that the North Atlantic oligarchy identify as obstacles to their extractive neo-colonialism. Same as USAID (and probably partially funded by them).