… this is hell world
The murder of journalists is being used by fascist states as a “gotcha”.
From the wikipedia article for "And you are Lynching negroes". It was a phrase sometimes used by the USSR's government in response to American claims of human right abuses
"Former Czech president and writer Václav Havel placed the phrase among "commonly canonized demagogical tricks".[7] The Economist described it as a form of whataboutism that became ubiquitous after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[5] The book Exit from Communism by author Stephen Richards Graubard wrote that it symbolized a divorce from reality.[8]"
It's against the rules to be critical of America, in fact, it's a divorce from reality
There are maybe three ways to judge how a government is doing:
- Compare it to what came before it
- Compare it to contemporary peers
- Compare it to some idealized state that currently exists nowhere
And if you're doing number three, the only way to do it honestly is to hold all governments to that standard.
The global south is not taking the west's self-righteous scoldings any more. This is a good sign, despite MBS being the evil head of a nasty dictatorship.
apparently Biden has used the name Peter Henderson as an email pseudonym when talking with Hunter. Probably to cover tracks, but he fucks up sometimes by signing off on the emails with "Love, Dad"
Hunter had his dad in his phone's contacts as "Pedo Pete"
