mawhrin

i think you're (you plural, not you singular) making the typical western mistake regarding both putin and ukraine:

• putin was always an angry russian imperialist, he has built his position entirely on imperialist adventures (that were ignored by the west because who cares about chechnya or abkhazia, or other impossible-to-pronounce peoples of caucasus, really)

• the russo-ukrainian war started in 2014 with the invasion of crimea and then donbas, after ukrainians decided they don't really like the russian-friendly oligarch who used russian disinfo to get elected. and notably that was what shifted the ukrainian support for dropping neutrality in favour for joining nato; until 2014 ukrainians favoured just tightening the political and economical ties with the european union.

putin didn't descend into the imperator madness recently, he started with it, it was what buoyed him to the top.

reportedly they dropped the whole video thing, including from chatgpt.

requiescat in picem, sora

and frankly, i'm not a catholic anymore, and i did look around for matches.

heh. thiel's sermons about antichrist annoyed vatican enough for its a.i. adviser to rhetorically ask “should we burn peter thiel?” in an article titled “american heresy: should we burn peter thiel”. as the children twenty years ago were saying: lol. lmao.

sources:

• original article in french
• the monastery's summary

i kinda wonder what will destroy this cult first, the financial fraud investigations, or the multiple rape accusations, because both are going to happen.

if you only hadn't compiled aella's numerous interesting takes including her very idiosyncratic (and dangerous to anyone involved) ideas of consent.

i highly recommend this excellent thread.

but they did it from first principles and without needing to update their priors!

at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it's a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.)

luis villa, who as a lawyer really should have known better, being self-reportedly a friend of behdad and a confabulation/war machine promoter decided to come to rescue, calling the above (a) attack, and (b) slander.

obvious take is obvious