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11·12 hours agoIn this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is… convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want. In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity.
You’re supposed to “genuine understand” the enemy first and foremost. If anything, understanding the enemy is more urgent the more openly hostile the enemy is. This dumbass makes it sound like only partnersTM and alliesTM are worth understanding.
With stunning leadership like this, no wonder Euros are heading off a cliff.
Or how the mega is having hourly updates of a Peruvian election.
Why is she dressed like some vault dweller from Fallout?
Don’t worry, they’ll both die after tripping over the same pebble while conducting routine drills in Germany.
He removed Mormons from the subcategory of Christian ffs. This is a shadow Evangelical takeover. People need to take this seriously.
The Air Force is incredibly Mormon, so this is good if it causes infighting.
A second screwworm has hit Texas
A second case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite was confirmed in Texas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday, emerging just miles from where the first U.S. detection in decades was reported this week.
They very predictably timed their information warfare on the anniversary of the color revolution that the CPC crushed.
Is it finally happening?
Oh, it’s some dumb struggle session on US electoral politics.
I think it’s very telling that for all that has happened since, the domestic situation within Venezuela is remarkably the same as before Maduro’s kidnapping. The same people who supported Maduro supports Rodriguez, and the same people who opposed Maduro opposes Rodriguez. I literally cannot find anyone who has “defected” to the other side. I was able to find some protests against Rodriguez, but those protests were led by the PCV who already split from Maduro a while ago. They thought Maduro stuffed ballot boxes in order to get re-elected.
None of the communes, many of them armed by Maduro, has taken up arms against Rodriguez. Likewise, Rodriguez has made no moves to disarm the communes nor has she conducted Khrushchev-style purges where she replaced Chavistas within the government with compradors and traitors. I am not aware of a single person within the higher echelon of government who has resigned in protest over her “betrayal.”
The closest is Alex Saab, but she didn’t personally hand him over, it was a group decision by an administration handpicked and led by Maduro, so if one wants to play the betrayal game, then it would be Maduro’s administration as a collective who betrayed Saab. And if that’s true, how much would Maduro really impact things if he’s apparently surrounded by people, who he considers comrades, that wants Saab gone. On the flip side, Maduro would face some culpability as well since those officials were picked by him. If those officials are indeed traitors, then surely part of the blame should go to Maduro for not recognizing their traitorous nature.
Overall, I find the Rodriguez betrayal narrative to be sloppy thinking and a tad bit opportunist. The Maduro-and-so-by-extension-Rodriguez-betrayed-Chavismo narrative at least acknowledges the continuation between Maduro and Rodriguez and how Maduro probably wouldn’t have done a whole lot different even if the kidnapping failed.
An incredibly cursed combo of Germans larping as Southern Baptist ministers swearing allegiance to the Zionist entity: