Ian Simmons

Curator, Fortean Times news editor, blockchain ontologist, cognitive dissident and discontent provider- all opinions are my own

[Ian Simmons @iansimmons1960]

@EvaLovesDesign *cough*

[Ian Simmons @iansimmons1960]

@AmericanALCHMY It isnt

[. @jdpoc]

'Polling Company' Merlin Strategy claiming #Reform is the most trusted on the economy.

Turns out to be a brand-new company, registered at the same office as Reform UK, and funded by foreign millionaires.

The gullible will be fooled - while the smartest among us see through it.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

One of the more interesting theories I've seen on here is that the devastating social changes that came in the 1960s happened because the government believed nuclear war was probably imminent

Take the destruction of cities

What used to be functional metropolitan areas full of factories, workers, capitalists, the middle class, and so on are now full of urban slums and their felonious, welfare-reliant denizens, some lawyers, and many financiers. If the bombs were to fall...the welfare class and investment bankers would be eradicated, which is hardly a crippling loss

Meanwhile, the factories have been dispersed all over the country, as have the people who know how to work in and run them. Maybe they'd still be hit...but tens of thousands of individual targets all over the place is much harder to deal with than a few dozen major cities and their industrial zones

Same thing with our diet. The shift from real food to processed food composed mainly of corn and soy derivatives seems odd, as do the massive stockpiles of said unhealthy calories...unless you think nuclear winter is coming and factory farming, paired with huge reserves of stored and processed grain calories, will be the only way to pull through; corn is much more useful than dairy cows in a nuclear winter

So whereas the hollowing out of the productive elements from cities, the warehousing of vast numbers of criminal elements in subsidized urban slums, the dispersal of industry, the massive expense on asphalt roads instead of rail infrastructure, horribly unhealthy dietary changes, and so on now seem bad...were one planning how to best increase the chances of recovering from a nuclear strike, dispersing the productive people and condensing the problematic elements while storing food the productive could use to survive would probably be the best bet

At the very least, it's an interesting theory of what the planners were up to

[Fergus Butler-Gallie @_F_B_G_]

Today I learned there are Jacobite Pretenders to Henry the Hoover:

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

[Nadira Ali🇵🇸 @Nadira_ali12]

Any journalist silent about this is a piece of shit.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

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[KT "Special MI6 Operation" @KremlinTrolls]

Destroying NATO has been Trump's intention ever since he came back from his first trip from the Soviet Union in 1987 where he was recruited. The KGB gifted Donald Trump an all expenses paid trip and made all the travel and hotel arrangements. Upon Trump's return he immediately placed ads in all the major broadsheets denouncing NATO.

So don't be surprised if Trump and Putin are colluding to destroy NATO

[Ian Simmons @iansimmons1960]

@Adam05296985 @AeroTech_Space @RepJasonCrow I very much doubt it. One of the reasons the US likes to invent new terms for its wars and enemies is to dodge the rules. Remember, the crimes of Guantanamo came about because the US invented a new category to avoid the rules governing criminals or POWs.

[Ian Simmons @iansimmons1960]

@AeroTech_Space @RepJasonCrow Repetitive, and completely unable to justify your position. The last refuge of the truly stupid, and proud about it. Don't act all shocked when they turn this shit on you.

[Sly U @SlyForTheRight]

🚨 EXPOSED 🚨

Reform UK caught red-handed — AGAIN.

A “polling company” pushing a poll claiming Reform is the most trusted on the economy and naming Zia as Chancellor turns out to be a brand-new company registered at the EXACT same address as Reform UK.

Same address. Fresh registration. Fake credibility.

2026 is the year the con collapses.

One-man show. One-address polls. Absolute fraud.

#NeverFarage

[Ian Simmons @iansimmons1960]

@AeroTech_Space @AlchemyAmerican There was no doubt from the start, surely?

[Ian Simmons @iansimmons1960]

@The_Astral_ Very 6

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

It's amazing Maduro who hasn't committed a single crime in the USA is going to be appearing in US Court today, charged with nonsense.

While Donald Trump who is guilty of Genocide and not only being in but also covering up the Epstein Files won't be in court.

How ridiculous.

[Paul Schleifer @PaulSchleifer]

And there’s plenty more!

[Ian Simmons @iansimmons1960]

@AeroTech_Space @RepJasonCrow And if a country is attacking another without a formal justification under international law ratified by due process it is definitely war. US laws stop at US borders so it cannot be law enforcement

[Ian Simmons @iansimmons1960]

@AeroTech_Space @RepJasonCrow Ah, such detailed justification. If a country attacks another country, bombs its citizens and uses its armed forces, that is an act of war because it uses the tools and techniques of war and has the same outcomes as war. Armed forces are for war, police are for law enforcement.