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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I didn’t need to put this into anything because the writing style tells me everything I need to know. Highly opinionated. Essays posing as news. Opinion underlaid with paper-thin “arguments”. It’s the same that was around during covid spreading misinformation about vaccines and masks. The disinformation itself is not the goal. The goal is to capitalize on people’s fear and isolate them. Make them easy to manipulate later on.

    It’s not a new strategy either. Fear and hate have always been tools in the hands of the powerful. If you think the West has a monopoly on that, you’re sorely mistaken.

    Fuck Westerm hegemony and capitalism, sure. But also fuck Putin. Fuck all oligarchs.






  • Oh I do. But I want journalists to tell me about it, not propaganda outlets. This article is written to make me angry, not to emancipate or enlighten me. It wants to manipulate me.

    If I may recommend a book, Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. It’s about exactly the difference between

    1. investigative journalists that do their due diligence to uncover actual conspiracies
    2. conspiracy nutjobs that just believe and share every conspiracy they hear, and ironically, often end up serving oligarchs by doing so.

    If anger becomes more important than truth, we become tools in the hands of the powerful. Choose truth





  • I have parents that love me to bits, but their strategy to get me to do my homework was… adversarial? It felt like they were checking my performance, just like the teachers were. It didn’t feel like they were on my side, even though I’m sure they were.

    Getting told off even gently felt like an unbearable punishment for some reason. I read something recently about adhd folks being more sensitive to negative interactions?

    And that’s how I became a pathological liar and master of masking!