日本語を勉強している。 日本と日本語が好きです。日本とアメリカの安心を守りたい。Fraud Victim. Death threats received, mother cremated without an autopsy. MA @EASC_OSU, East Asian Studies and Japanese.
Intelligence agencies have supposedly been doing this for a long time, according to the Washington Posts reporting this was a big factor behind MAGA and BLM Facebook pages, and probably an influence to intel and national security types believing in Russia Gate.
There is also a “willing marks” phenomenon, people who are political operations agents who are paid by whoever to go out and be a willing mark “conservative” maybe vote in @GOP primaries, whatever. I think it’s a much bigger issue especially on Social Media or in primaries.
@PatrickJDoumani@cosmicjester This is always a complex issue, especially in 21st century societies.
It can be fun, but when finding new friends that way it probably introduces pitfalls on both sides.
Would a “regular” actually trust a new guy?
As a visitor, can you trust the “regulars”?
Who are they really?
This is always a complex issue, especially in 21st century societies.
It can be fun, but when finding new friends that way it probably introduces pitfalls on both sides.
Would a “regular” actually trust a new guy?
As a visitor, can you trust the “regulars”?
Who are they really?
@cosmicjester I agree but… is going to a pub alone the best way to meet new people? I’ve done it and I have no problem with it, but I never made new friends that way
I do think part of this may have been ideologies that simply do not care about utilizing conventional education, which are on the loose.
I think the brainwave entrainment crowd might be part of the motivation, although I would consider that a stupid and inappropriate approach.
In just a decade, education activists in the US managed to set back student outcomes by 50 years, an impressive accomplishment rivaled only by the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan.
@TeamYouTube That might be the case, but I think this is an important topic that needs to be discussed or handled by someone.
I am very convinced there is something off about my identity record, and I feel like I must turn to the general public.
Perhaps it was an attempt to protect me, but I have no idea who it is in the photograph, or who or where this photograph was inserted into my passport.
The visa photo is definitely me, however.
@YouTube flagged the video as harassment, although this is about my own passport.
A night in a Single Room Occupancy hotel was once advertised as a "fourth meal": If you could afford a meal, you could afford shelter
Men on hard times did not live outdoors before the 1970s
The Bowery "cage hotels" were not luxury. But they were $10/day as late as 1998
I am not, in any way shape or form, supportive of criminal activity, but I think it is right to wonder why there is this strange focus on illegal immigration.
Probably some of these people are awful, but I strongly doubt that these people are the “worst people on earth”.
Womp womp, cry all you want. These criminal illegal aliens aren’t getting released.
Like clockwork, violent rioters have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility to demand the release of some of the worst human beings on planet earth.
Get a job you imbecilic morons.
I do think one of the more socially deleterious long-term consequences of this administration is the conversion of a bunch of ostensibly nonpolitical civil service agencies into vehicles for hyperonline pure partisan politics. This stuff is a wrecking ball to trust in government
I received an unusual message this morning.
The man on the left/top is definitely me, that is the headshot I have been using for job and residency applications.
The man on the right is not me, I have no idea who he is. He showed up in an FB message this morning with little info.
I am not really part of the whole “wilderness ideology” anyways.
There is a lot more to rural beauty than just wilderness. Coppiced orchards have a beauty of their own, as does farmland, or the large and prosperous peasant family.
I think orgs like the Sierra Club can miss this.
This “they have lost their way” approach feels quite silly to me. The @SierraClub has always had a racist agenda along with their population control stuff and their anti-immigration connections.
We shouldn’t be surprised that they have decided to pivot and cover up some of that.