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The trouble is: the American fascists appear to be playing that very same game with Ukraine and the rest of Europe...

Didn't know the guy. Looked him up. Found this:

In 2017, numerous women in Hollywood came forward with allegations of rape and sexual assault by Ratner.[3] This resulted in his business deals and prospective film projects getting canceled or scrapped, with Warner Bros. Pictures and talent agencies distancing themselves from him, and with Ratner subsequently immigrating to Israel.

And this:

The director of the new documentary on US First Lady Melania Trump has appeared embracing a young woman in images released by the US Department of Justice on Friday.
Brett Ratner, who also directed the Rush Hour films and X-Men: The Last Stand, can be seen sitting on a sofa beside the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and two women whose identities have been obscured.

You really can't make this shit up!

No need to. His buddies in office are already gerrymandering the fuck out of his district. The rest is up to Russian and Chinese social media bots getting enough brainwashed deplorables to vote against their own interest. Just lean back and enjoy the ride. We've automated the whole process for ~~our own benefit~~ your convenience.

Thank you for clarifying! Now I'm no longer blind as a bat to this fact.

Argumentativ an mehreren Stellen dünn, aber überhaupt kein Widerspruch zu meiner These, die da lautete: "Jegliche (insb. organisierte) Religion zieht machthungrige Psychopathen an, die daraus menschenfeindliche Glaubensgebäude mit totalitärem Herrschaftsanspruch bauen." Das schließt das Christentum ausdrücklich mit ein.

That single seat is an FBI agent ordered by Kash Patel to watch the movie while on duty so that theatres won't appear entirely empty. And before you ask: yes, the man has got a weapon, and, yes, he's considering making one last use of it.

They're not lies - they're "alternative facts".

In that same vein,

• illegal wars of aggression are "special milliary operations"
• people the U.S. does not want to grant POW status are "irregular combatants" (a term used for people locked up for decades in Guantanamo Gulag)
• extrajudicial killings (e.g. via drone strikes) are "liquidations" or targets being "neutralised".
• torture is "enhanced interrogation techniques".

I wish I were making this shit up, but most of this vocabulary is from the Bush era. That goes to ahow: while there are certain differences in both quality and quantity, blatant lies to the public have always been a hallmark of (U.S.) governments.

It's called "Saudi Amurica Green", I believe.

Renting out his wife to other men. Just like the old Jeffrey days.

Und dann gibt es da neben deinem völlig harmlosen, aber gläubigen Freund in Aceh in Indonesien Leute, die nach Scharia-Recht ein junges Paar öffentlich auspeitschen, weil es sich vor der Ehe geküsst hat.

Und dann gibt es da im Irak eine IS-Anhängerin, die sich als Brautgabe ein 5-jähriges Mädchen schenken und es elendig verdursten ließ, weil es ungehorsam und ungläubig war.

Alle drei nennen sich Moslems. Alle drei halten ihre Auslegung des Islam für die richtige. Und alle drei berufen sich auf ihre heilige Schrift, die diese Auslegung im Wortlaut auch hergibt.

Finde das Problem.

Und doch habe ich bislang kein einziges autokratisches Terrorregime gefunden, das auf Kants kategorischem Imperativ oder Poppers sozialer Stückwerktechnologie basiert. Könnte es vielleicht sein, dass Ideen mit totalitärem Absolutheitsanspruch und starkem Hang zur Irrationalität anfälliger für Degenerierung sind?

Thank you for the insight, good Sir or Madam! I will not stick my head in the sand like an ostrich, but will henceforth use imagery that is in line with our modern understanding of biology.