GHOST BEACH CITIES
Just like China's "ghost cities" which are now not ghost cities they're going to pretend this is all some spooky stupid shit instead of acknowledging that they're being constructed as part of long term plans and expectations in the future.
The biggest concern the west has about tourism in dprk however is that it undermines the idea it is "closed" and that people know nothing about what is going on there.
Make the 20 into the 80.
The tobacco companies have almost certainly done countless studies of this already but kept them all private. If this is linked to any of them it'll be one study in their favour among a hundred that they've done showing the opposite. They did hundreds of studies of the tobacco cancer link and kept those to themselves.
He's a member of the House of Lords all he has to do is go and sit down for 5 minutes and that entitles him to claim £371 for the day. The "Global Warming Policy Foundation" was launched at the House of Lords and his operations there will amount to using a meeting room.
The offices of GWPF are 55 Tufton Street. Which is not really a set of offices but a house that is also used as the official address of hate group LGB Alliance and a whole range of others because it's run by the same merry band of evil fuckheads.
How to cause the biggest schism catholicism has ever seen
"Global intifada means destroy israel and kill all the jews"
The level of bad faith here is unreal. Actual fucking ghouls.
With that said, they're being so bad faith that it backfires on them, particularly when it comes to bringing up Israel at all. They can't win by mentioning Israel, they'd be better off literally never mentioning Israel ever. This shit worked against Corbyn but the conditions have changed entirely as a result of what everyone has seen.
genuinely believe governments should be run like corporations
Fascism. They don't realise they're advocating for fascism but they are.
Exactly, and if they start to build their understanding of the world as these people being "Left-Liberal" then they will automatically start to interpret everyone outside of that as being right wing.
I know the whole political window shit is hated here but this genuinely pushes the window leftwards by doing it.
It's a mind fuck because I can logically understand it... I already knew it. But my head does not want to believe it having been brought up with every single socially imprinted expectation being to the contrary.
And that's not just a disbelief in rich people being stupid, because that's an obvious given. But in the fact that they would be so deeply and utterly poisoned by propaganda that they would consider this mayor to be powerful enough to be a physical threat to them that they must run from... That's the disbelief I'm struggling with here. Because it requires being incredibly detached from reality to think that. A level of detachment that is hard to imagine.
One that isn't insulting to the liberals that exist under the "progressive" tent? I don't know. The word is essentially a tent of social-democrats and socialists, and that tent is useful as an alliance but damaging in that it erases socialists from discourse as they get consumed into "progressive liberals". This erasure results in fewer people learning the difference between socialists and liberals, in fact it makes people think socialists are liberals.
Socialists should call themselves socialists and any big-tent collaboration should be clearly labelled as a Socialist-LeftLiberal collaboration/alliance.
The benefit of calling someone like Bernie or AOC LeftLiberal instead of Progressive is it educates less political people that LeftLiberal and RightLiberal exists. This pushes the vast majority of the Democrats to the right in people's minds and it will open up space for a "left" to exist. While doing this it also clearly educates people that Socialists and LeftLiberals are not the same thing.
You get me? If LeftLiberal becomes a thing in people's minds then everything that is not LeftLiberal becomes right wing in people's minds, pushing the entirety of the democrat party into the right and opening up control of what "left" exists to Socialists and Social Democrats. The benefit of this is that everyone who currently associates "left" with being good will fall into this camp over time, they will reject RightLiberals when they become associated with being right wing in their minds. So much american thinking can be boiled down to "left good, right bad" or "right good, left bad". This can be weaponised linguistically.
It is possible to convince LeftLiberals to start doing this because they will realise how much it benefits them to make the distinction. And it is possible to convince Socialists to start doing this because it stops erasing Socialists.
I undergo a sort of existential crisis when I see things like this. I'm hit with all kinds of different emotions and feelings when I'm forced to confront the fact that some of these rich fucks genuinely truly believe the propaganda they receive about socialists. Among them are rubes so truly poisoned by propaganda that they think they need to flee the city to escape impending socialist executions or some shit.
It's very difficult to accept that people with enormous wealth are this stupid. It makes me question reality in a way that's very difficult to describe. Their interpretation of the world is genuinely like an alien thing.
This person built their ideology after playing Stardew Valley