CIA handles foreign shit. FBI handles domestic shit.

The DHS makes this distinction moot. We’ve been crossing the streams publicly since it was officially instantiated via Bush through the creation of the OHS and then the HSA Act of 2002. The two agencies have been operating hand-in-glove behind the scenes since the CIA’s precursor - the OSS - was incorporated during WW2. Even then, much of the modern CIA is merely an extension of the functions of the FBI on an international scale. They employ all the same strategies, employ the same leadership structure, and serve the same socio-economic purpose.

John Brennan and Robert Mueller / James Comey even filled the same political role under Obama. They promoted reactionary political views from within the liberal government, distributed misinformation to undermine peaceful coexistence with historic geopolitical adversaries, and continued the Bush Era practice of illegal arrests, extraditions, torture, and assassination while draping themselves in liberal language to justify it.

Brennan and Comey both publicly advanced accusations against the Obama administration that gave Donald Trump a path to the presidency.

A kernel of truth to this, if you recognize that both Republican and Democrats have wanted the Iranian government overthrown and replaced with American loyalists for nearly fifty years.

The Obama/Biden strategy was to let the State Department polarize the rest of the region against Iran and squeeze them until they capitulated. The Bush/Trump strategy has been to outright assassinate Iranian officials, seize Iranian assets abroad, and plot an invasion of the sovereign territory.

We have a bipartisan consensus on wiping the IRGC and the Muslim-led anti-American government off the map. The question was never of policy, only of strategy.

how do we break that?

I don’t think this is something you can (or should be expected to) break. I think part of any successful project is encouraged adoption. Marketing - in a benign form - is about informing people of the project’s utility and the mechanism for obtaining it. There are numerous examples of beneficial marketing campaigns - the annual flu shot campaign, union drives, public notifications for new amenities and works. We periodically have billboards across the city notifying residents of performances at Miller Outdoor Theater - a free public theater that puts on shows every couple of weeks.

I think there’s a problem with deceptive marketing. And you can address that will quality journalism, civil litigation (particularly class action lawsuits), and government regulation.

That kind of sounds like our current systems favor investment into advertisement over substance

There’s a huge yield in networking effect thanks to the size of corporate enterprises and the reach of their distribution.

I might argue a wide-scale anti-trust campaign to break up entrenched monopolies would force private businesses to return to quality of product over quantity of marketing. But Kickstarter reveals this isn’t a problem unique to bigger business ventures.

I might try regulating Kickstarter such that the platform itself faces penalties for excessive marketing of products - particularly ones that never release in full.

I might also consider public financing for local clubs and independent non-profit business ventures. Because a lot of this hype happens in a kind-of social media vacuum. People get suckered into MLM scams and other duplicitous ventures because they’re bored, alienated, and idle. Set up more public events and public areas for gathering and entertainment. Fewer people will be so terminally online that they are waiting around to get baited.

John Brennan served as Obama’s CIA Director for four years. During that time - I’ve been told - foreign governments infiltrated our media and party establishment and legislature, corrupted our democratic process, and handed a known agent of a foreign government the position of Chief Executive.

This known agent was a co-conspirator of another well-known blackmailer and professional pedophile, serving as an agent of a foreign intelligence service within the United States for over four decades.

The CIA response to this infiltration was to… do nothing.

Meanwhile, agents within the CIA have manufactured consent for wars against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea for as long as our current president has been a known fence for the Russian mob. They have collaborated with the known blackmailer/pedophile for just as long. And - upon taking office - they faithfully continued to fulfill their duty as agents of a corrupt and despotic president, including through illegal arrests, extraditions, torture, arms sales, drug trafficking, and sabotage.

Why the fuck does the CIA still exist again?

how do I get 3M on Kickstarter?

A common, solid benchmark for return on marketing investment (ROMI) is a 5:1 ratio, where $5 in revenue is generated for every $1 spent. While 4:1 to 10:1 is considered average to strong.

So, spend between $300k and $700k on advertising and - assuming you did it right - you should expect around $3M in returns.

The double tap strike is deliberately employed to murder medical staff and to punish the enemy for showing compasion.

It is paired with the Hannibal Directive, as a proscription to ally and adversary alike to offer no quarter nor to expect it be given.

It is the policy of genocide, imposed by a leadership that can only see victory in terms of annihilation.

Real Lysander Spooner hours

My wife once tried to grow potatoes and got what felt like a mile of potato greens while the slips barely grew at all.

Then she went back to her job as a lawyer and made enough money to buy a truck full of potatoes

And women earned rights in the UK before the US

Rights are very different than status.

Then again, racism was on the decline here

That’s debatable.

You mean high speed rail and electric cars?

I’m not a mathematician, but it appears to my untrained eye that 2/3 of Americans want Universal Healthcare

What does that look like in implementation?

Medicare For All is generally unpopular among senior citizens. Medicare buy in is more appealing, but does little to curb price gouging in provision of care. State ownership/management of care facilities is easily subjected to scandals that cost political advocate their jobs (the VA being a classic modern example).

So what’s the plan?

They don’t only want white people , they want poor, uneducated white people.

Eh. You need a well defined underclass. One of the “perks” of racism is being able to identify at a glance who the in group is supposed to be.

That’s how they build their base of uneducated impoverished white people.

Plenty of the conservative base is well educated and well off.

Rowling spends almost every bit of income she gets on funding anti-transgender organisations and literal fascists

I think you’re underselling how much she spends on country club memberships and private planes.

The undercover agent kills a secretly terminally ill teacher to protect a young boy who is being jumped into a fascist gang.

It’s bad storytelling (because the stakes have been ratcheted so low) not bad politics.

I mean, if unemployment is high and wages are low, there’s a certain Keynesianism theory that suggests we’re not building enough arches.

There’s a very funny juxtaposition between what they actually care about (white children) and what you seem to suggest. Sort of a reverse eugenics theory, where they need more white people because white people are naturally dumber.

“Teenage Pregnancy” was a financial problem for Boomer parents, back in the 70s/80s

Now it’s not.

Simple as

If you want population increase… Don’t do what Trump has done

Some of our highest population rates came under Presidents like Trump. The Napoleonic Wars were great for US economic expansion

Is that backed up by statistics or just vibes?

COVID saw unemployment peak at 15%. I haven’t seen anything remotely that bad.

If they’re pardoned they can’t hide behind the fifth

They can if they don’t fear a contempt charge. Quite a few seem happy enough to entirely ignore subpoenas