i love it. keep going.

Is Citizen Lab's reporting on NSO Group's Pegasus legitimate? Why are they so secretive about their methods and why do they refuse to share their findings for peer review? Their entire coverage feels like the fruit of a poisonous tree that has caused significant damage to multiple countries.

Here’s the mistake: thinking the country is left or right. It is neither. This is a distinction only internally: the country externally always meddles. That is who we are, and it is what makes us who we are. Political division reaching outside of our borders is new and dangerous

That is a bit absolutist. Sometimes you need to send weapons to the victims if they need help defending themselves, right? I’m probably talking about a different conflict though

I knew that. Left and right are not useful distinctions. Obama should have spent less time deporting, spying on Americans, attacking Arab countries and instead spent more time arming Ukraine to push out the Russians from Crimea and Georgia and not letting the so-called rules-based order collapse.

The strongest ally of disinformation is pride. People don’t have to be unintelligent to be victims. They simply have to be sure they are right. Is his whole premise is that 1) America didn’t turn their back on Europe and 2) Disinformation isn’t effective? If so, that is almost poetic

Relax, you are making a problem where there is none. I’m not your enemy

Ok. Always nice to encounter someone more pedantic than myself.

Elite, in the pejorative sense: exclusionary, self-obsessed, arrogant.

this is a valid question. The ridiculousness of the admin is modeled on showmanship, might as well solve it like they do in the movies.

How do they do it in the movies

preserving matters for appeal, for sure

damn good

I know you won, and that you know it too. It'll come out on its own.

The worlds largest no-bid no-show contract?

They can deflect it like this. Victims -> "underaged prostitutes". Even when MAGA was all about releasing those files, they always made sure not to humanize the victims too much. Deep down they always knew they'd have to possibly rationalize this horrific behavior

Yes, accepting is the way. Otherwise we become a slave to spectacle.

The average person would think, how can someone just toy with people’s lives? How do these monsters sleep at night knowing they caused people to die? But that’s the thing. This is power. Power is the ability to cause pain to others.

Wow! What a beauty

You are right. It’s an endless attention-hole that everyone treats as serious because they don’t realize it will never happen. We don’t need them. The survivors can make their own list when they are ready. Their word is all we need.