Current Affairs Culture wars & The rise of grifting
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Going back to the Nazi groups in Ukraine, the issue is not exclusive to Ukraine. The rise of far right groups is a major problem all over Eastern Europe and part of central Europe. Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine and especially Russia. Anyone who's been to a tourist destination that's also popular with Russians might know what I'm talking about. I remember walking along a certain beach in SE Asia and the amount of enormous, musclebound Russians with gigantic swastika tattoos on their arms and chests is crazy.
It is right that there should be some discussion about what happens when this conflict is over to all the weapons and military hardware that's in the hands of these types of groups, far right, criminal or otherwise. Be that equipment supplied by NATO or abandoned by the Russians.
At the moment it's "enemy of my enemy" and all that, but what happens if surface to air systems start being sold off on the 'black market' after all this is done? Just imagining what happens if something like that got into the hands of other certain groups doesn't bear thinking about really.
It is right that there should be some discussion about what happens when this conflict is over to all the weapons and military hardware that's in the hands of these types of groups, far right, criminal or otherwise. Be that equipment supplied by NATO or abandoned by the Russians.
At the moment it's "enemy of my enemy" and all that, but what happens if surface to air systems start being sold off on the 'black market' after all this is done? Just imagining what happens if something like that got into the hands of other certain groups doesn't bear thinking about really.
Aye in Cambodia there were loads. Was a lot of money laundering going on I was told. Don’t like generalising but didn’t meet that many that were backpacking or seeing the sights. Always seemed to treat the locals like [Poor language removed] as well.
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Ash is a real master of disguise, the thick headed shoe eating whopper
I don't know, you have the perfect case study for right wing grifters right here in front of you in ghost rider. He is their fodder
Generally find the target audience is people who overestimate their intelligence and think they are somehow free from bias.
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someone who is good at memes etc could use this as one with the Ash man evolution:
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Add western Europe into your list too. Given covid and an impending recession due to a war, we're getting into tinderbox territory right now.
He'll you could argue that the storming of the Capitol Building in the US was an attempted far right coup.
I don't know if they're all nazis, but there's a lot of extremists out there and being out on the fringe they're well ensconced on what is borderline or outright illegal.
This world ey? What a disaster we could make of it if we're not more careful.
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That's Kenshin to a T
Decent read:
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The Free Speech Grifters
Why some of the country's biggest public intellectuals are so fixated with a small minority of liberal college students.
Thanks that was a decent read.Decent read:
The Free Speech Grifters
Why some of the country's biggest public intellectuals are so fixated with a small minority of liberal college students.
Pity those who could do with reading thoughtful pieces like this won't.
Decent read:
The Free Speech Grifters
Why some of the country's biggest public intellectuals are so fixated with a small minority of liberal college students.
Good article, that. Funnily enough, for years I’ve listened to a podcast - Very Bad Wizards - presented by Dave Pizarro and Tamler Sommers, psychology and philosophy professors respectively.
Tamler is Christina Sommers’ (the main subject of that article) stepson, and they have a yearly Xmas feature where Tamler and Christina record a boozy Xmas conversation which inevitably turns into a fight between the two of them.
The article also mentions Dave Rubin, who must be one of the stupidest people ever to profit from this right wing grift. The guy lives in a multi million dollar house in California, has 10s of thousands of patrons and subscribers and is as dumb as a bag of bricks.
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