Thiel has spoken enough on his love of Tolkien that it's pretty clear he's a big fan of the books, meaning he knows what he's naming. A lot of these people are actually pretty devoted fans, they just think Saruman/Sauron/etc had bad PR.
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Thiel has spoken enough on his love of Tolkien that it's pretty clear he's a big fan of the books, meaning he knows what he's naming. A lot of these people are actually pretty devoted fans, they just think Saruman/Sauron/etc had bad PR.
This is a strategy, and has been for years, ever since political advertising became a thing over the air. "Congressman X voted NO on a bill that would stop people from drinking raw sewage (because it also contained a section that would limit the ability of the federal government to regulate food)", etc.
Actually, a lot of the scientists themselves spoke on it, and people who had first-hand accounts of what they went through. Even a few former members have spoken on what they did. We know the data is effectively worthless for much the same reason as we know Mengele's data was worthless - the subjects are all sorts of ages and backgrounds and most had been tortured or at least starving in a concentration camp. Data on, say, frostbite affecting HEALTHY people might be worth something, but there are so many confounding factors between disease, starvation, injuries, etc that it's almost impossible to disentangle the testing data from what was already there.
Additionally, a lot of the data is very obvious shit anyone could've told you already, and the experiments (especially with 731) done to make things that looked like science, or experiments that were done to replicate Western science so Japan could internally take credit. It doesn't take a surgeon to tell you "hey if you put people in a vacuum chamber, they die" or "hey if you vivisect someone and take their lungs out, they need those and they'll die."
So, interesting points. However, consider that just in the last few years:
The big problem with fucking with a midterm isn't ease, it's just scale. When you have cops, the federal and a lot of state and even local DOJs, the President's personal goon squad (which has now been significantly inflated and equipped), and the FBI willing to harass, intimidate, or arrest voters, steal ballots, and challenge every single race, everywhere, all the time, all backed by think tanks and funding orgs that are backed by some of the richest people in the entire world, it suddenly becomes a lot easier to stop up the gears of democratic elections.
Sure, your locals can challenge the results. They can make noise. But at the end of the day, "move fast and break things" works surprisingly well as a governance tactic if your desired end result is maintaining power, because by the time people have untangled the knots you've woven, you're already ten steps ahead and "well it'd be REALLY HARD AND EXPENSIVE to run a special election (if your locality even has a legal way to do that - most don't).
Russia is at the point where it's more economical and more effective to mobility kill a vehicle than destroy it. Getting rid of it takes more material on your side, and makes it easier and faster to replace because they can just buy another. Repairing a broken vehicle, you have to either tow it out or have it repaired on-site, with an operation that might take a couple of guys to do and MORE equipment that you can take out with the saved explosive from the other half of the mine.
It feels weird, but it's classic attrition warfare.
Trump did this last term too, we killed their intelligence chief when he landed for peace talks with Iraq.
This is a war crime, BTW. Attacking someone under a perceived state of truce or ceasefire is called "perfidy".
Bingo. Drag your feet, use up time. File shitty motions you know won't work to tie up the courts. Sabotage is hard work, but slowing the gears of the Orphan Crushing Machine is important and actually pretty easy to do when it's the federal government.
Y'all are missing the big lead: this stops ANY regulation that costs over $100m. Which is...a good chunk of them. Just monitoring can cost a huge chunk of cash.
What this is, is the GOP attempting to rip the heart out of specifically OSHA and the FDA.
To be entirely fair, a lot of historians are fairly sure that the Art of War was written specifically for the commanders - which at this time could mean "battle hardened warlord king" or "spoiled prince who has literally never set foot outside the palace". In an age of nobility going to war, this was more a primer for "hey here's how to at least command like you know what you're doing and also how to not get your soldiers to stab you to death".
Because he is. The GOP has all three branches of government, a good chunk of state legislatures and governors, and a media sphere that's indifferent to actively complicit in helping to cosign whatever he does.
Reminder that West Virginia exists exclusively because of slavery. Especially that part of Appalachia was a HUGE haven for self emancipated people and free black people alike, because if you get deep enough into the mountains, you basically cease to exist as a legal entity unless people want to put a significant amount of effort into reaching you and the same amount in extricating you.
The worm that keeps getting put into payment processor's brains is that they might somehow be held criminally liable for games people purchase. It's like telling a bus driver that they might be liable because they gave a ride to someone who robbed a store.
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