@muzkmuzkmuzk We live in a goldfish bowl world in which celebrity status is seen as an end in itself... In reality it's just a hollow reflection in the envious eyes of an anonymous mass. Being famous means inviting either unrealistic adulation - or schadenfreude
1/One story I heard years ago from someone recruited to join Thiel’s meme army network: “The very first thing they asked me to do was start microdosing LSD, because it would help me to start seeing the world differently�� and more like them.”
This seminal piece on what happened with Harvard economists in Russia is essential reading, and provides insights into people like Larry Summers, Andrei Schleifer, and Sachs. Many took part in the kleptocratic free-for-all that birthed the oligarchs.
https://t.co/SZYK9xNxZ2
@hamasinpitta3 @Alt_Pontifex@EL_CORBYNDANTE@s_m_marandi Don't see him supporting any war or killing but certainly do agree with @EL_CORBYNDANTE that Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi PROF OF ENGLISH (&Oriental) LITERATURE at Tehran Uni should know where to put an apostrophe. You are / Your / You're getting the message? Reason's
@hamasinpitta3 @EL_CORBYNDANTE@s_m_marandi nice point but does the existence of a small element of ukrainian nationists (not nationist's) justify putin killing normal ukrainian women and children?
@s_m_marandi Maybe - but your use of that apostrophe indicates possesive (ie belonging to) rather than a plural (of the offensive term you use to describe Ukrainians) and it makes you seem like an illiterate cretin
@SvantesKatt @notbinauralhow perhaps on purpose to avoid plagiarising warhol? also cambell's is too red; they seem to have chosen a brand with lighter, orange / burnt sierra hues. one that also works nicely with the interactive glass screen in terms of hold and drip
@nakedvix@BBCRadio4 good work @JustinOnWeb - big car crash for Rishi; evasive / insincerity showing through. he only took the interview following criticism he was avoiding press; numbers from Mordaunt now forcing him to take risks. chose the wrong interviewer tho - Marr / Dale would have been easier
@nakedvix@BBCRadio4 good work @JustinOnWeb - big car crash for Rishi; evasive / insincerity showing through. he only took the interview following criticism he was avoiding press; numbers from Mordaunt now forcing him to take risks. chose the wrong interviewer tho - Marr / Dale would have been easier
Today Program’s had its cornflakes recently. Two days in a row of firm, scrutinising chats with candidates - Zahawi then Rishi Sunak.
Sunak asked if he’s too slick to be PM. Doesn’t answer when he started plotting against PM. Also says he’ll keep the Rwanda policy.
Rishi Sunak asked on Today whether he accepted he made a political misjudgment and u-turn over Marcus Rashford school food vouchers row in 2020
“No, we actually decided to find the holidays, activities and food programme.”
By the way, why in the struggle for the “Russian world” in 🇺🇦, Buryats, Tuvans, Dagestanis & Chechens act as “expendable” people whose corpses lie in our fields, but not Muscovites and Petersburgers? The colonies of the Russian Nazi Empire should have asked some logical questions
This is huge.
The Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchy - has just announced its independence from Moscow.
They say that they disagree with the Patriarch Kiril (who is an old KGB agent) who blessed Putin’s war.
In all seriousness, I’m worried about Elon Musk’s mental stability. He’s posting paranoid combative tweets like this at a hypomanic pace.
We lived through one malignant narcissist’s daily tantrums on Twitter. Must we go through it again?
Elon Musk is a true warrior for free speech which is why I have no doubt he will willingly free anyone currently bound by NDAs so they can tell their stories.
@FrRuffini@MarketRebels Oligarchy is a rarefied world in which defenestration remains higher than in other spheres. But by and large, oligarchs are still happy about the benefits, though they've banned the expression ‘window of opportunity’ from their lexicon.