Puns N' Roses

puns about life, politics, international relations and such

[Roy Drones Jr @chiweethedog]

New chapter in DSM-6 just dropped.

[Puns N' Roses @gthanku]

cry, bitch, cry

[Alex Vindman 🇺🇸 @AVindman]

Who would've ever thought that a Jewish refugee would make it to the U.S. Army, to the White House, and to becoming a candidate for the U.S. Senate. Only in America is that possible, and it would not have been possible without you, Florida.

I still believe in the American Dream, because I've lived it. It's worth fighting for.

Rep. Nixon ran a strong campaign. I will be standing by her side in the fight against Ashley Moody. I hope you'll join me.

[Olgaa @brdmoedr]

Central Europe was a concept invented in 1991 by tourism agencies in order to sell as many Prague trips as possible.

[Liam @LegoRacers2]

She's spent the last 12 hours angrily reading tweets to her boyfriend while The Bear S3 plays in the background

[Puns N' Roses @gthanku]

don't know how many normal US natsec outfits like Jewish Institute for National Security of America are there and I'm sure they vigorously disagree with FDD etal on policy recommendations, but anyway this is reluctantly acknowledging defeat as strategy lol
https://t.co/ilpYI9lwGT

[Puns N' Roses @gthanku]

when you grind your empire for that special vassal like all empires do but can't even safely retreat there to keep doing their bidding with what's left of your military arsenal because they're entitled to fuck up your shit even under such circumstances

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

"More hawkish voices in Washington [are] proposing the movement of U.S. troops in the region to Israel."

"an expanded U.S. presence there could pose a counterintelligence vulnerability amid the Pentagon’s growing concern about Israeli espionage."

[Rahim @UlyanovRahim]

Friedrich Engels once said:

[Puns N' Roses @gthanku]

IDF Magazine doing oh no what about China routines three years into global ZOG on steroids because why not

[Puns N' Roses @gthanku]

the concept of Western natsec types worrying about NATO's inability to go to war with China over Taiwan after grinding the US military for Israel and also not really giving a shit about Russia's imperial war in Europe either

[Simon Shuster @shustry]

How would NATO react to a two-front attack? Say, if China moves against Taiwan while Russia hits NATO in Europe.

I asked Western military strategists and war gamers about this, and the answers were astonishing.

It seems there is no plan.

NEW @TheAtlantic. Gift link below.

[Puns N' Roses @gthanku]

the prevailing theory of why people in the post-Soviet world succumbed so quickly to mysticism and marketing like toilet paper and bananas

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

The prevailing theory of why people in the post-Soviet world succumbed so quickly to various kinds of mysticism, pseudo-science, marketing, etc. is that, having been brought up on a diet of “Soviet propaganda”, they lacked the “media literacy” to critically assess the information confronting them in a “free” media environment. My long-running hypothesis is that the exact opposite is true.

Much of Soviet media programming was factual. It concerned questions of direct relevance to people's lives. How many tractors were delivered to this or that region? How much grain was harvested, how much steel produced? For a time it was fashionable in the West to mock such stories as the marks of a primitive society. But when supply chains falter and supermarket shelves empty, you realise how little you know about your own society's capacity to withstand hardship — how little grounds you have to assess your country's sovereignty.

Other Soviet programming answered direct social and cultural needs: children's education, travel, history, science and technology. And Soviet political commentary has largely stood the test of time; people still return to old Soviet reporting on the West for its correct analysis of racism, policing, imperialism, colonialism, and militarism.

This kind of programming aimed to cultivate an educated populace that shared common aims within the state. Of course, many Soviet citizens had developed a critical eye towards official narratives, especially in the USSR’s waning years. But, as an institution, television carried a certain weight. It was assumed, at least, that information ran through accountability mechanisms. Its purpose was not to deceive you as an individual, or to pit you against others in the marketplace. This also avoided the kinds of issues that are endemic to the US, where technologies of manipulation and deceit have produced a population that considers Fox News versus CNN — two mega-corporations representing factions of the same oppressing class — to be a legitimate axis of political antagonism. If this isn't an example of a population that is propagandized to the bone, then I don’t know what is.

In the 1990s, a heavy diet of capitalist propaganda was superimposed on the accumulated authority of the institution of socialist television. It targeted a people for whom the idea of being consumers was alien — and who were unaccustomed to the kind of ritual manipulation that capitalism had perfected. If Soviet television had any advertising at all, it was to show you what was available for sale, and where you could buy it, rather than to convince you to buy one product over another. Suddenly, all kinds of peddlers and charlatans appeared on the scene, pitching trash as treasure, and people fell for it en masse. Indeed, the data showed that people in the post-Soviet world were unusually susceptible to marketing — a mark, perhaps, of a high degree of institutional trust rather than gullibility.

Across the region, you can still see the extent to which older people look to television as authoritative, buying overpriced knock-offs through telesales channels because they offer “good deals” or “better quality”. My working hypothesis is that the collapse of the USSR is a case study in what happens when you introduce capitalist propaganda to a society used to trusting its institutions. The implication, of course, is that it is us in the West who dramatically underestimate the degree to which propaganda helps structure our worldview.

[jake rhodes @jakebrodes]

CIA is too woke. Soft power and controlled opposition are 20th century weapons in a 21st century war on Gay Shit Brown People and Girls. JSOC teams and tasks forces of juiced up white guys haven taken over. Poop on every warship, fighter jets on the ocean floor. Total Lethality.

[Puns N' Roses @gthanku]

folk slop so dumb, a speechless Stalin invokes God

[Smallest Violin @XiaoVilin99]

A Yugoslav diplomat tells Stalin a joke.

[Puns N' Roses @gthanku]

@m4h007 the average Dem voter doesn't know these people exist and the Iran war has been uniquely unpopular with Americans from the start

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Jewish gaslighting account @voiceofrabbis proves my point. They literally claim that almost all Jews who live today are in fact not Jews. How can anyone even take this seriously?

How does this work in the minds of the Judeophiles who are so focused on uprooting imaginary "antisemitism on the left"? Somehow criticism of Judaism is "antisemitism", but denying the Jewish identity of almost all Jews around the world is not "antisemitism"? The answer is that the word "antisemitism" is merely a weapon, used to defend both Judaism and Zionism.

[Jerome Sneed Democrat @avrilbradley23]

I mean military action against Afghanistan post 9/11 was perfectly justified and a different question from whether to occupy the country for the next 20 years.

[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

If 99% of mosques in New York held fundraisers for al-qaeda after 9/11 they would all be closed by now and the congregants would be in Guantanamo Bay. Please think before you tweet

[Puns N' Roses @gthanku]

not a cell phone in sight, just people dying in the moment

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

In 1845, nearly 79 people were killed in Great Yarmouth after they rushed onto a bridge to see a clown in a tub being pulled by geese.

[Puns N' Roses @gthanku]

@nikhil_palsingh @MacaesBruno and how is a parasitic relationship with a ME racial salad supposed to fit into any notion of American or European supremacism? this line of argument is basically the theoretically racist version of the US is cannibalizing itself for Israel bc they help us fight their enemies.

[Austin MacNamara @gremloe]

We're reaching a very interesting inflection point in the US when city council members are proposing public hangings of CEOs for treason.