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In the Country of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King

[Ada Lluch @AdaLluch]

In Barcelona, people are randomly getting shot in the head in the middle of the city.

In broad daylight.

I’m sorry for the sensitive images, but it is time we massively wake up and take action.

[Sense Receptor @SenseReceptor]

Catherine Austin Fitts on how psychopaths are able to run the world

"people who have no empathy are really good at... organizing for self-benefit"

"[So] you have... 3 to 5% sort of psychopath[s] [at the top], [and then] 20 to 25% who are making a lot of money helping them"

"then you have the other 60 to 70% [of the population] who can't fathom what's going on. And what the others are doing, what the smaller groups are doing, drives them crazy. And they become neurotic"

This clip of Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report (@solari_the), is taken from a discussion with Alix Mayer (@alixm) posted to YouTube on June 3, 2026.

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"There's a wonderful book called Political Ponerology. Have you ever read it? Okay, so, the, the description of the book is as follows. It was a psychologist who had been a young man during Hitler in Poland. And after the war then Stalin came in and he was at university and he and a group of colleagues decided, you know, because they'd been so traumatized by all this tyranny, they said, we're going to study the intersection of psychopathy with politics.

"And that's ponerology, the study of psychopathy mixed— And here's what they— And they wrote the book, he said, three times, tried to get it out from behind the Iron Curtain and then, failed, had to destroy it. And then when he finally got out after '89, he wrote it from memory.

"And here's what it said. And what he said was that most people are born with empathy and they can't fathom not only that other people don't have empathy, but that the people who have no empathy are really good at getting together and organizing for self-benefit.

"So the people with no empathy are much more effective at conspiracies than the people with empathy. Okay?

"So anyway, what he said was about 20 to 25% of the population who are competent at running things are willing to work for the people who don't have empathy as long as they get paid well.

"And if you look at the history of America, the way we've gotten here is a lot of people got paid a lot of money, whether with their stocks and bonds or whether their job helping the people who have no empathy do all the evil doing.

"I mean, you know that because if you look at what's going on in medicine, you can see it clearly.

"So what happens is you have the 3 to 5% sort of psychopathic, then you have the 20 to 25% who are making a lot of money helping them. And then you have the other 60 to 70% who can't fathom what's going on. And what the others are doing, what the smaller groups are doing drives them crazy. And they become neurotic.

"They become neurotic about the food, they become neurotic about the healthcare, they become neurotic about programmable money. And until they finally come to understand, you're dealing with psychopathic and you're dealing with people who will help the psychopaths for money.

"And what he said was once people could fathom what was going on, suddenly they started being effective."

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

Imagine the levels of propaganda it took to make you more comfortable with random beheadings and gang rapes than being called racist.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

Berkeley Professor Mina Aganagic:

“‘I realized that for students to follow me…I had to start reviewing basic algebra stuff, like fractions.’ The lack of mathematical fluency, Aganagic said, extended even to ‘the meaning of equals in an equation.’”

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

A college professor:

"Our average graduate literally could not read a serious adult novel cover-to-cover and understand what they read"

[Lollobastardo @Lollobast]

Il fatto che la maggioranza dei governi europei siano disposti a perdere le elezioni pur di continuare a finanziare Zelesky è la prova provata che a governare i paesi europei non sono i loro governi

[Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 @akarlin]

> Is Russia just not involved with AI at all?

Russia is a geopolitical adversary of the West. It doesn't have access to frontier AI hardware. Not does it have the internal economies of scale to recreate the world chip manufacturing complex internally. Only China can even attempt that.

It is ruled by a boomer who has never used the Internet and genuinely believes it to be a CIA project, possibly targeted against himself personally. He wants the Internet under the thumb of his security forces - the war on VPNs is pushed by the same FSB department that poisoned Navalny. For their part, these security men have taken it as license to loot IT companies (and everything else) for their own personal enrichment. At best, the owners get some modest compensation. Sometimes, they just go to jail.

Russia has no VC ecosystem. It was marginal before 2022 and is non-existent today. Needless to say, this is not a political economy under which a real VC ecosystem is possible even in principle.

Internet access is unreliable because Putin has nightmares about Ukraine taking him out like Israel did with Khamenei. Putin's neuroses and personal cowardice take precedence over all other economic and technological considerations. There are discussions over blocking access to foreign LLMs, and developing a "sovereign" national AI model. They even want to block GitHub.

As a Russian, you need to be clinically insane to work on anything genuinely innovative or that involves substantial investment into fixed capital assets (such as data centers) that cannot be easily moved at a moment's notice. Unless your business plans heavily revolve around military- or surveillance-related stuff - like, say, automating keyword searches on VK to help the FSB meet its extremism arrest quotas - you have no coherent reason to stay in Russia.

This is not an environment in which anyone of talent or personal ambition wants to work in. Most nerds do not want to be under the thumb of jocks as they were in high school, and leave when the latter rule the roost. That is precisely what is happening. What AI talent does exist - and Russia's "cracked math/CS academics" are in any case somewhat exaggerated (actual surveys of CS graduates show Russians to be about as able as Indians and Chinese, and 0.5 SD below Americans - has been emigrating non-stop, and this will now continue for as long as the Putin system endures.

Most fundamentally, Russia's GDP is 10x smaller than America's and China's. Even all the above aside, why would you expect anything more from it than you would, from, say, France? The European middle Powers are its actual "peers" in terms of economics and technological capability, not the global superpowers.

[CJ☔️ @samwakinsvv]

Banning Russia was completely fine?
Looks like hypocrisy to me.

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

Conspiracy theorists batting 1000

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Russia has never attacked the EU.

Not once.

Since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, we had peace.

Russia sold us cheap gas, traded honestly, and stayed a calm neighbor. No threats. No invasions.

Then Washington’s neocons and London smelled blood. They tried to loot Russia in the chaotic 90s with shock therapy and oligarchs.

When that failed, they turned Ukraine a non-NATO, non-EU country into their proxy battlefield to bleed Russia dry.

Ordinary Ukrainians? Just collateral. Their lives destroyed for American hegemony, more NATO bases, more expensive US LNG for us, and keeping Europe weak and dependent.

Europe was a quiet neighborhood. Russia was the big reliable house next door offering fuel and food.

Than the overseas bully says: “Use the neighbor kid’s yard as a battlefield to smash the strong house. Don’t care about the kid we’ll wave flags.”

Our spineless EU leaders opened the gates, cheered, and cut our own electricity to “punish” Russia.

Now the kid’s yard is ruined, the strong house got tougher, and our neighborhood is paying insane bills.

This isn’t defense. It’s suicide for empire dollars.

Russia didn’t march west!

NATO marched east.

We’re sacrificing Ukrainian lives to keep America on top.

Europe First.

Real energy. Real borders. Real sovereignty.

Stop letting foreign neocons play with our continent.

Russia isn’t the enemy but blind obedience to Washington is.

[Koskovics Zoltán @KoskovicsZ]

The champions of democracy and liberalism:

[varrock @varrock]

Is Russia just not involved with AI at all? Absolutely nothing coming out of there and they have plenty of gigacracked math/cs academics

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: In Sweden a woman has committed suicide after a judge released the migrant who raped her citing 'Not enough evidence'.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This aged unfortunately well.

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

She was so confidently retarded too. How can anyone think this?

[GODFOE UNIVERSE @GODFOE_UNIVERSE]

This is a female shame technique. She’s attempting to signal to the audience that the guy is “weird”. It’s how the entire media apparatus operates.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Absolutely incredible clip…

UK Green Party candidate doesn’t understand why bringing in millions of new immigrants impacts housing and services in their country.

She makes faces at the concept.
It’s as if she’s never thought about it before.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

I don't think Common Core is working, you guys.