i keep thinking about @happybadger’s (probably tongue-in-cheek) theory that 9/11 was actually 4 unrelated boeing aircraft failures and the whole “terrorist” narrative was a coverup carried out with the cooperation of the bush administration to justify the invasions of afghanistan and iraq. 9/11 wasn’t an inside job, it wasn’t even an outside job. it was corporate negligence and malfeasance, a spectacular coincidence, and naked political opportunism combined into a mass hallucination with horrifying and deadly consequences, from which we’ve collectively yet to awaken.

obviously that’s not true, of course. obviously. but when i read stories like this i do start to wonder…

Beijing’s ability to manage real estate also comes into question after considering how poorly the authorities have managed things to date. Prior to 2020, Beijing actively encouraged residential real estate development, pushing local authorities to get involved and ensuring easy credit terms for both developers and homebuyers. Private builders and speculators responded actively, taking on debt and pursuing increasingly dubious projects so that even as China was meeting its housing needs, such development reached the astronomical level of some 30% of China’s economy. Then in 2020, Beijing abruptly removed all this support. Not surprisingly, the highly leveraged and extended developers began failing almost immediately.

oh no! not the speculators! it would be a real shame if a bunch of capitalists lost tons of money and all we got out of it was all this housing that now we can buy up for cheap!

i refuse to believe that this is anything but the highest concept and most dedicated of bits

my kids know me as this ape

two weeks ago myself and around 15 high ranking ape members

we wrote and delivered a notarized [emphasis mine] letter begging pacman to stop this nonsense at once [emphasis mine]

every note is perfect by itself but also builds on every note before it.

last year i was talking to my cousin and they told a story about their great uncle who was a about 7 years old in 1920 for the election and his dad took him down to the polling station to see the results. this was back in the day, you understand, and you’d have to go look at a chalkboard to see the tally. anyway my great uncle twice removed or whatever he is, he looked at the tally and then looked down at the kid and said, “they didn’t count my vote.”

“how do you know, dad?”

“because it says there’s 0 votes for eugene debs!”

Journalist. Zionist. Scottish.

she was born in glasgow.

people keep calling me alarmist for suggesting that world war 3 has already started. “but context,” they say, “countries don’t declare wars anymore, so it can’t be world war 3. it’s merely an expanding series of interrelated special military operations with a global scope.”

or “fam, this is an arby’s,” they say.

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