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  • “In June 2021, I felt that Putin was no longer taking the Minsk agreement seriously,” Merkel said, referring to the peace agreement relating to control of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region following the 2014-2015 conflict. “And that’s why I wanted a new format where we, as the European Union, could talk directly with Putin.”

    A new format! That would totally stop putin! Such a powerful incentive!

    The truth is that Merkel is a supporter of russian genocidal imperialism. For Merkel, she did not see anything wrong with russian imperialism and did not believe it should be opposed in a sober and results oriented manner.

    That’s why, even after retirement, she continues to work on promoting russian propaganda narratives.


  • Fascinating article. One that seemingly raises some salient points, but eventually collapses under the weight of its own contradictions.

    If this “slobs vs. snobs” allegory is true, what would stop US oligarchs from buying paying some demagogues to do something to stupid before running the pro-oligarch propaganda copytext?

    Say Joe Rogan could stick a hot dog up his ass and eat it and then run a pitch for position A [oligarch copytext] and bitch about position B [the alternative] being woke and that the snobs want to limit American freedom and you won’t be able to stick a hot dog up your ass.

    And that’s just the tip of iceberg, the article is littered with unconvincing American cultural axioms about “Americans fighting the system” and “the slobs always win”.

    If you want to buy into Brooks’ movie derived allegory (and I don’t agree with this), the place to look for is Idiocracy where Luke Wilson’s character explains why you need to use water for plants and not soda:

    After several hours, Joe finally gave up on logic and reason, and simply told the cabinet that he could talk to plants and that they wanted water.

    Isn’t this conclusion consistent with Brooks’ “slobs vs. snobs” allegory?