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@kilgoretex.bsky.social
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Non-MAGA - But don't feed me the Washington "consensus" neoliberal bullshit about geopolitics or economics. I know way more about it than you do, and if you're an academic in the field, I know at least as much. Leftist DNC critic and bane.

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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Mara is either the name of a street or a reference to a stinging ant native to Latin America. Nobody would ever conflate Mara with "MARIjuana" - Marijuana is the same spelling in English and Spanish and nobody would make this connection except an idiot looking for Dan Brown type clues.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I spent an hour poring over MS-13 tattoos and hand/finger tats and could not find any evidence of the following: 1) Mara ever depicted as a marijuana cypher 2) Smiley face means nothing of the sort 3) Even MS-13 on fingers is incredibly rare 4) No matches to anything but the cross symbol at all
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Not sure which part of "Executive Order" you missed. Congress mandated "AN" or "A" "foreign assistance" agency. The President then created one. Hence, USAID is not a creation of Congress. The only mandate that King Trump and Emperor Elon have is to either create another agency or rename USAID.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Fascism requires and implies an organized opposition. We do not have that in the United States. The oligarchs do not need to resort to fascism while both major parties systematically exclude real opposition and cater to the oligarchy.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
More on Oryx. threadreaderapp.com/thread/17215...
threadreaderapp.com
Thread by @JimmyThomist on Thread Reader App
@JimmyThomist: As promised, here's my audit of Oryx's equipment loss tracking. Oryx is well touted by institutional and mainstream media sources for an independent and open source verifiable low end a...
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This graphic is pure fiction. Oryx is a pro-Ukraine propaganda outlet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eedg...
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This report is irrelevant. Of course they have ground down old Soviet era military stockpiles. Just like the US & NATO have ground down our own stockpiles from the same era. But unlike NATO & Ukraine, Russia is rapidly manufacturing new weapons systems and Ukraine is running out of men.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Russian occupied areas" are also the same provinces/oblasts that tried to get a degree of autonomy back in 2014. They preferred closer relations with Russia and feared the neoliberal takeover of their government would lead to a repeat of the 1990s when the USSR collapsed. This is a long term plan.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
LOL. "US" access to rare earths (and the breadbasket of Europe, and control of pipelines, and everything else the "US" was going to get out of the Shock Doctrine-lite they had planned for Ukraine) is why Vicky Nuland bragged that "we" spent $5Bn there to begin with, way back in 2014.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Benefit" China and Russia....how, exactly?
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Elonicus is attempting to do to the US government and the country what he did to Twitter. Been over there lately? It's a sewer.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
If we're talking USAID here, unfortunately that agency was created by Executive Order under JFK. Hence it can be shuttered immediately on the basis of an EO under Trump. Congress has no say except in some funding. If you're talking about the other one w/ all the citizen data, yeah it's total BS.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Illegal according to whose laws? I already know the answer as Lithuania is a willing Chihuahua to D.C. and NATO and has long been a home to WWII era Nazi descendants who hate Russia with a passion. And how could ONE SINGLE employee carry off an act like that, anyway?
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
So where are all the video confessions of "North Korean" soldiers captured by Ukraine? And speaking Korean? We were all told this would be forthcoming, they swore up and down. Instead all we get are low-res and obvious videos of what look and talk like Buryat volunteers?
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Alperovitch just blocked me instead of answering 2 basic questions about 1) War gaming of a Chinese blockade of Taiwan and 2) CrowdStrike's lack of digital "forensic" evidence and testimony under oath to Congress that they had zero to back claims of Russian interference in 2016. BlueSky is a joke.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
"Co-Founder CrowdStrike" Good grief. 'Nuff said. Did you guys ever produce a shred of forensic digital evidence for your claims about so-called Russian interference or hacking in 2016? By that I mean above and beyond the CS statements to Congress under oath that there is none.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
You clearly don't know the definition of "ad hominem" unless you think I'm attacking WotR, which I am - and I gave my reason. It's highly biased. That's not ad hominem.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Why don't you just summarize in your own words here why CSIS was wrong, since a basic word search for "CSIS" or "Center for Strategic..." yields NADA in your article.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Gotta say tho...if you're even WRITING for WotR, your output is immediately suspect. It's a highly biased outlet and almost never admits to any US or US ally/vassal weakness in the face of "hostile foreign power" actions.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
"Addressed" or actually rebutted with newly synthesized facts based on geopolitical and geographic context?
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
War on the Rocks. LMAO. features.csis.org/chinapower/c... Do you understand geography or not?
features.csis.org
How China Could Blockade Taiwan
China has options other than invasion to try to force Taiwan’s unification, one of which is a blockade. This report explores the potential motivations and strategic calculus for a blockade and maps ou...
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
LMAO this place is definitely living down to what the Elon Trumper bros at "X" have called a "padded safe space" for easily hurt Democrats and Liberals. I got insta-blocked for asking one of them to define what they meant by the word "richer" - And it was an "academic"... This won't last a year.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Uhh WHAT?! NATO keeping WWIII from breaking out? This is pure delusion. NATO is a weapons system sales racket designed to "Keep the Soviets (Russia) out, the US in, and Germany down." It's a tip-of-the-spear offensive tool that the US MIC pretends is a "defensive alliance."
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
"so much richer" - Define that. And when so doing, exclude the part of the GDP that entails "financial services" and debt. The USSR was always far richer in terms of natural resources and geography. And WHO benefited from the creation of Russian oligarchs? The western financial class. That's who.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
There are NO North Korean combat forces fighting in Ukraine or Kursk. This is a propaganda myth of the kind that RAND is (in)famous for pushing. Move along, nothing to see here.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
LOL. Only deeply unserious people think there will be any proactive invasion by China. If they want to bring Taiwan to its knees they will simply execute a naval blockade and no-fly zone. This has been war gamed many times and Taiwan and the US always lose.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/biden-ramp...
caitlinjohnst.one
Biden Ramps Up Nuclear Brinkmanship On His Way Out The Door
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
No it wouldn't.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Except this is the first one live-streamed and bragged about in real-time by the perpetrators.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Massive combined missile attack on Ukraine's energy and materiel manufacturing infrastructure.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Sorry what? I replied to the Ukraine flag asking how the weather in Russia is.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
How was this image taken? How much post-exposure processing was done?
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYN8skVU/
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TikTok video by 🙀 KittyCafe 😽
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Neither was "excessive anime" or "cat photos" but here we are.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Since when is nuclear annihilation for half the planet "victory"?
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I didn't give anyone permission to post a picture of my anus.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
That was my initial take as well, but then I read this about Waltz at Anti-War (dot) com. Not encouraging.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
How do I stop all the anime and AI "art" from polluting my feed?! This site is already becoming unusable.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
As if the WMD lies weren't enough. It took Orange Man Bad to wake the establishment liberals up to the fact that The Mighty Wurlitzer has ALWAYS been full of shit.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If I had a dollar for every dimestore western psychologist's diagnosis of Putin, I'd be a very rich person.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If by "winning" their release you mean sending Casey over there to negotiate a secret deal for the Iranians to get a bunch of cash and wait until inauguration day to release them. Aka "October Surprise."
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Oh yay! Now will you retract the false, salacious, and lie-ridden story about Julian Assange taking a visit from Paul Manafort?
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Yeah, uh huh. Nothing "insular" about this place.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I get it now. You're a parody account. Nice work.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Insanity.
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kilgoretex.bsky.social @kilgoretex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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