A DMSaUY Review And Return. A State Of Things

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought.
A thought is a proposition with a sense.
The totality of propositions is language.

~Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)

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Hello. Again.

I'd wanted to re-launch on July 1st, but, alas, as these things more often than not do go: coding is nothing like they make it seem in the movies; you never see the hero get lost in a slew of "belongs", "has_one", "has_many", "many_many", or "belongs_many_many" data relationships, scratching one's head over the best binding approach, nor experience tedious testing that often requires twice more coding and time than it did to code what's tested. It involves infinitely more swearing, too. Especially when dealing with huge and complex type lists in something as fragile as json, which prefers displaying nothing at all should one comma or curly bracket be out of place.

And in the early phase, that solving one problem gives rise to two new ones is all par for the course. That wears on you after a while... always fills one with elusive insecurities while the whole tech field engrains deep-seated feelings of redundancy in anyone.

And they never get the swearing right in the movies.

I think I finally resolved my "visitor stat" issue; I wasn't kidding when saying that I was running in the dark. The previous subdomain setup would catch only a certain type of "hit", which represented about 1/37th of actual, non-bot hits, per what I was eventually able to discern through an extensive examination of raw logs and other reports, in combination with tests done through several metrics systems. That's why I'd added the affiliate advert for the hosting I use; I figured their 'load' count, done through a far-reaching ad system, had to be accurate.

Were I to trust my initial stats counter, I averaged 7 visits per week on a busy week, which I knew was real wrong, but it provided no inkling re reality, and with zero feedback, which entails a visit, it was impossible to set a reference point to check against across logs?

My frustration on this end: I never asked or expected free promotion—you can relax—nor to be invited on anyone's show; I'm not camera shy or afraid to speak in public, but it's not a lifestyle I seek, and that's an area that's separate from what I'm pointing to, anyway. However, those times I voiced confusion, a private PM with something as simple as "keep it up" would have provided a referential moment but, more importantly, the confirmation and motivation that total and absolute silence and isolation otherwise rips apart; from what I could deduce, street readers are almost exclusively from two groups: media outlets or the government. Which strips them of a 'commoner's' decency? I'm not wanted in this space, is that it? Tough.

There's a very maddening and schizophrenic-mania-inducing aspect to it all when interpretations, terms, and phrasings you recognize as your own are heard on several outlets across media spaces, all passed off as their own, yet hitherto unstated in that manner prior to my having published the co-related post. Were people actually reading or am I losing my mind? There's an inhumane quality to that when it involves millionaires simultaneously begging viewers for subscriptions or donations or who play a narrative or game all sorts of aspects to boost views and ad revenue, preferring to disregard the short- and long-term consequences of their dishonest actions, usually as they whine about the state of things while playing aggressively along—because that's just the way things are—rather than be an active force in changing those things they whine about, well...

Can't expect much from self-centred a-holes, should be my take away?

Also, clearly, the various forms, and the importance and value, of 'coalition building' are all alien aspects to the left-leaning media, is my conclusion. As is 'reading the times'. 

Saying such things is no way to earn points among such people? Fair enough, but to that I still say: feeling a need to be dishonest is a huge problem within the media, and since I aim for solutions, I don't partake in aspects that render flexible certain principles. I'm either honest with what I share, or I don't share. As simple as that. Which makes it impossible for me to join a tribe, or for tribes to want my membership...

Any hoot! 

That said, referring to "bugs" again: all the usual and explicatory project content has vanished. I see it in the DB, so all's cool—that stream of swears has halted—but something, somewhere, isn't giving me direct access to the content, and, though it's delivering the pages, the content isn't rendering within the associated page template (yes, much of the CSS was 'inspired' by the previous DMS&UY, you may have noticed). The error log, console, xdebug, etc., aren't providing any clues... pulling my hair.

And who can stand being around all that swearing? Hence, thought I'd do some writing... 

So, this isn't a formal "release" quite yet, but a pre-release preamble of sorts that combines improvisational philosophy with subliminal guerilla-marketing tactics.

Only on this street.

They got "Re-Dress" Wrong!

“I will...order my government to deny entry to all communists and all Marxists. [...] We’re going to keep foreign, Christian-hating communists, Marxists and socialists out of America,” said Trump during a 24-Jun speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s conference in Washington, DC.

Albeit offering no details, Trump did acknowledge the need for a “new law” to address American-born communists and Marxists, so, pointing the finger at that neighbour that lets his dog poop on your lawn may not be as meaningful an act as it once was in the 50s.

The liberal media were quick to draw a parallel with the past—no, not the obvious McCarthyistic past; the one where Trump placed a flight ban on Muslims—and, though non-rightists scoffed at the idea, assuring viewers that it would never pass—how does one check for that, they ridiculed—legal experts poured over the issue, concluding that it's not only possible, he wouldn't be the first president to pass such a law (see: 1918, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy manual for one such example). But, well... it's just that Trump being Trump, his deeds are, by default, always much worse than what's been done and ignored, always managing to be way more evil than what even Lucifer himself could hope to achieve.

Hitler, you say? I laugh; he's not even in the same league as Trump. Don't you watch MSNBC?

Nonetheless, jest as I may, despite how obvious this aspect seems, one conclusion drawn by the experts did have a slap-in-the-face effect on me upon reading it: there's one clear group that this would target: the Chinese.

•    •    •

It doesn't take much effort to locate someone who's genuinely convinced that Woke and CRT are Marxist weapons with Chinese ties—by way of Frankfurt—that have been deployed by a radical leftwing cabal intent on destroying the US by spurring on an otherwise only mildly-present racist attitude, and by motivating sex-changes in kids through transvestite reading hours, thus, attacking American cultural traditions and values, primarily targeting 'the family unit.'

•    •    •

Denial and despair, ideology and ignorance. They meet, again.

Indeed. Sadly, these are highly regressive times we're living through.

When I was saying as much over a year ago, a whole other vibe seemed to be tacked on to the signifier phrase, the propositional truth value absorbed attained through a different logic that was grounded on hope and, therefore, exempt of the rigours from which such values should be derived; in the fog of possible futures, I still saw humanity turning things around.

Just over a month ago, examining the various ways by which "regress" smacked of honesty far more than "progress" did given a crazed, obstinate West that spewed vile propaganda so shamelessly, so easily, and with so many readily releasing the inner xenophobia that had been so effortlessly ingrained into them, it was so damn hard to feel hopeful about anything.

At the time, the release of the Durham report—or, rather, the acrobatics applied to denialism that was showcased throughout an entire tribe—proved to be real hard to swallow, the sheer futility that sets the backdrop for one's attempts to snap cultists' out of their immutable faith had to be a rainbow, one imagined, when compared to what's clearly coagulated into a blue ball of puss hanging over a teepee-less tribal scene.

"If Dems are guilty of a crime, of course I think they should pay the price and face justice," claimed the people who see all those who don't agree with them as fascists, saying so while ignoring much and belittling key aspects they view through a simpleton's black or white lens, all while examining events in Ukraine through a hyper-reductive funnel that blocks out the wider connections and patterns of behaviour as it highlights how deeply indoctrinated they are, and how hypocritical and pathetic their position is, especially when putting down rightwing patriotism with a more damaging form of patriotism.

Why is it that, in the past year, this being a behaviour I used to associate with Ben Shapiro and derided as detrimental rightwing fallacy, this sentiment previously shared by so-called progressives, the people who've openly trashed anyone speaking against the US and who loudly proclaimed the US the greatest country that ever was, period, were all very pro-Dem and anti-GOP media people?

I'm sure that, in recent months, Joe "The Idiot" Scarborough surprised many with the anti-Trump and anti-Putin venom he spewed through once-limited-to-the-rightwing patriotic rants, wherein historic facts were tossed out the window in order to paint a superhero interpretation of the US as the greatest, most just and free and democratic country ever, period, not to mention that the US saved the world at least thrice, also winning both world wars by itself... [major eye roll]

Dems sounding just like Republicans, in spirit if not in essence. Been quite a bit of that lately, even from Caucus-Leftists, thus pushing to the fore the purely contrarian nature that actually defines the core of the US' two-party politics.

At that point, when significant numbers are driven by a synthetic, wholly-manipulated partisan ideology that propels them to willingly embrace any level of stupidity over anything that could be a positive for the 'others' and this becomes the accepted norm, as is betraying all that's deemed to be one's values, fueled by hatred and done in order to impose one's values on the other, then, I'd wanna argue that "divorce", undertaken some years ago, seems like a severely missed opportunity.

Not everyone in the Western media is a "grifter", mind you, but the level of BS coming out of all levels and sides of Western media—including the various foreign outlets that serve up its propaganda—is nauseatingly dizzying, nonetheless.

Complex in-house, field-wide, and social mechanisms apply pressure on news folks in all sorts of ways, and because greed is a major component, what's encouraged and rewarded downgrades "integrity" to an undesirable annoyance, but revolving doors and the self-righteous justifications of fear-induced tribes may be the bigger culprits, these having played a huge role in shaping the amoral, agenda-driven drivel that dominates the vast majority of news cycles, most of these issues severely compounded by the indie outlets that boast being a solution to these problems whilst too wrapped up in tribal idiocy to properly assess the puerile behaviour that's passed off as content or strategy.

Certainly, all that falls under rightwing media serves up its fair share of disinformation and creates plenty of problems, but there's no symmetry between the two media wings, the right one presenting a far simpler structure and grouping that makes it possible to examine it as a single entity. Plus, they've been pretty consistent on that end, their lies having barely changed over the decades, though they have upped their game with the whole "Woke/CRT" thing, this being facilitated by very few but very loud, self-labelled "leftists" with a questionable sense of direction.

Setting aside all those that the Internet directly ushered in, the major shift that has occurred is with the liberal media, the mainstream outlets having morphed into more shameful versions of all that one could once accuse Russia's Pravda of being. Sure enough, they get plenty right, and they do produce many quality segments, but a far-too-significant level of manipulation done for state (i.e. corporate) interests is now undeniable, and the stuff they do get wrong, usually in a choreographed way, is all the stuff that really matters, results in countless deaths, and the kind of things that most Americans would absolutely not approve of or support were they armed with the truth.

I reiterate my stance: The American people are not the problem. But one has to acknowledge that, at some point, that aspect does become a "chicken or egg" debate.

So, in answer to a recent comment concerning propaganda in the mainstream media, made by Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report during a conversation with The Bitchuation Room's Francesca Fiorentini: No, I'd argue that the propaganda coming out of MSNBC is proving to be more damaging, and far more deadly for far more people than the propaganda that's come out of Fox News. Yes, aspects of Fox can be vile, but their propaganda is simply less sophisticated, kinda crude, and sticks out like a sore thumb for non-rightists. MSNBC's is insidious, superbly manipulative, and it even manages to fool the self-righteous Vigelands of this world into lying to hide crimes and to support very hawkish neocon goals. To repeat my previous claims: Vigeland is a troubling tribalist; there are many like her. Not a good thing.

And, sure, going back to the 2020 media folly, I'll call it "Trump Derangement Syndrome", but only to refer to a period, as leaning on that as any form of justification for what was witnessed and established as acceptable media behaviour is a despicably dishonest copout signalling that no meaningful appraisal of one's role and culpability in matters has been undertaken. Plus, sadly, what this entails is a certain degree of permanence in the new bounds that were stretched to ridiculous and irresponsible limits, culminating into what ought to be considered extremely anti-democratic and very criminal behaviour.

You may have been convinced that Trump is evil, but I've a feeling that the world is currently seeing a shade more evil in the Dems. And it's precisely because we are presently edging toward a global war that I feared Biden, for one has to be a total fool to see their obsessive, insolent, no-holds-barred behaviour as a justified reaction to Trump driven by a desire that had/has anything to do with "saving Democracy," whether in the US, Ukraine, or elsewhere.

•    •    •

The particular situation I found myself in isn't easily communicated.

Death, especially the loss of my father, in combination with a huge list of deliverables and constant demands, jobwise, translated into a deep work submersion, placing myself in a bubble with a near-perfect news vacuum for most of Trump's reign.

When I came out, "frog in gradually boiling water" didn't apply for me, but "lobster thrown into a boiling pot" certainly did. If I hadn't expressed some level of paranoia and gone on a hunt to identify whatever conspiracy was at hand, that would have been the more worrisome and abnormal reaction, methinks, as there's absolutely no way I could simply assume that all was normal and cahoots free and that what I perceived as being unhinged and out of whack with the standard reality I'd always known was simply due to a coincidental string of coincidences.

The course that societies are most likely to follow is that of the frog, providing that the bounds of the shared 'comfort zone' are pushed further out in an incremental manner that always stays within what the majority deems to be justifiable limits, and hate—which includes fear—is what offers the more effective methods by which to achieve this, especially when pushing back said bounds presents a potential negative that extends far beyond those who were targeted.

As such, from bending the truth—just a little bit—and offering ambiguous statements to then blame Babs & Bob, obvious rightwing scum, for misunderstanding, to presenting deceptive clips, leaving out relevant content, through to withholding key facts and flat out making any shit up, the entire anti-Trump world had rallied together and collectively looked the other way as they pushed things to a truly despicable, entirely shameful, and wholly unethical level with the unstated slogan: Fuck facts! It's anything-goes to take down a fascist!

What was wrong with that picture? Where to start? Aside from its longstanding and super sour vestiges that continue to cement a firmer division, or the consequences of acts that actually gave credence to an entire chapter of the Q 'disclosures', and disregarding the fact that it obliterated the credibility of many and severely damaged trust in institutions, forgetting about it having encouraged a deep hatred in many or that it motivated violence, broke up families and friends or that it pushed many out of a job, simply seeing so many becoming that unhinged in reaction to the very monster that they themselves created, having bought into their very own lies and sordid exaggerations... for me, that's a tough one to forget and forgive as easily as the Dems seem to expect, and just that aspect in itself provides way more "wrong" than anyone should ever experience or be proud of, and this ought to be properly re-examined, the lessons learned and absorbed. I've yet to see this having been even broached, and the lack of culpability expressed from that side is infuriating, insulting, and worrisome.

Because I experienced that 'shock', not having been carried toward an acceptable irrationality by the sway of a mass delusion, thus, not having had the chance to adapt through the increased violations of journalistic ethics that eventually led mainstream and indie outlets—with the encouragement of Dems, backed by the Establishment—to simply forego bothering with any facets that relate to "integrity" and to toss "ethics" in the foreign mumbo-jumbo and Bric-a-brac pile, nothing's yet convinced me that those were fair elections, an aspect I've always maintained but only occasionally voice, though never alluding to the ballot counts per se albeit the fact that, given the lies and manipulation coming from the Biden side—the GOP were angels in comparison during that timeframe—along with the clear media alliance that had formed, which even included the CBC, BBC, Al Jazeera, and other foreign outlets and governments, I very much did expect something concrete to turn up on that end eventually.

Hence why I've always seen 6-Jan as something far different than the Dems' version of that day, and why I can understand and sympathize with a vast chunk of the people who were there, though this doesn't negate the desires and aims of a small but dangerous group wanting to take advantage of the situation to do harm to a government, nor does it change the fact that Trump, unleashing the momentum he knew was there rather than help to rein it in, had acted very irresponsibly.

But let's be honest: Trump didn't have to lie and he didn't convince his followers that the elections had been unfair; everything the non-Dem voters had witnessed from the other side screamed "unfair elections."

The crazed animosity and terminal violence expressed, the level of deceit embraced, the constant show of bad faith acts and the eagerness to apply dehumanizing double standards while entertaining a yearning to remove from society anyone who'd supported the GOP and who dared vote for a second Trump term... If not for all that qualifies as undemocratic and despicable behaviour coming from the Dems' side, would Trump have been able to convince such a large number of people of the impropriety all assumed to have taken place? I seriously doubt it, and the MAGA-ite response to Trump's attempts to promote "his" vaccine pretty much establish that doubt.

That many are still convinced that the elections were fraudulent, that's on the Dems and their media; you reap the consequences of what you sow, so, now accept the responsibility and stop acting like victims. Frankly, in my opinion, based on what I experienced and witnessed, even as a Canadian, you have to be a hate-filled, complete moron to fail to understand that, for a portion of the population, seeing a "gamed election" was the very normal and natural reaction that's to be expected, period, this being true no matter the country, across the globe. The "left's" inability to comprehend this, or to accept any responsibility in the matter, that, for me, isn't a good sign.

Having a visible bias and rooting for one candidate is one thing, the media and tech world siding with one political party to control "reality" is quite another; unless you experienced things from the rightwing/conservative perspective, or the wildly-confused-but-objective one I operated under, then, your judgment and put downs mean nothing, and downplaying any of that as rightwing conspiracy idiocy may have much to do with why I think troubling tribalism has gnawed through a portion of your brain.

That said, and in light of the ruling that followed clear evidence presented in the states of Missouri and Louisiana establishing that the Biden Bunch placed orders on who to temporarily boot from social media and who to permanently ban from the 'public square', you may want to remove your tribal goggles and have an honest second look at the Twitter files, for starters?

Of course, according to CNN, this is a pro-GOP move and it's "a conservative ideology that clearly comes through in this decision, and it's a conservative political decision...but the ruling itself is the opposite of judicial conservatism. This is one of the most aggressive, far-reaching rules you'll ever see; what this is purporting to do is to micromanage the interactions between, essentially, the entire executive branch and the social media companies."

No. It's about putting limits on the abusive, dickhead behaviour that Dems keep lying about not having done despite all that clearly says otherwise, saying so even if cognitively-damaged hate-fuelled tribalists refuse to see things for what they are.

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Unfortunately, even if not of the "copy & paste" variety of reporter or a brainless blogger focused only on 'hits', many in the "indie" category get their cues and info from liberal media outlets that get their cues from the establishment, per its wants, and the narrative deemed to be the acceptable one—the one that's beneficial to select elites—is what's  pushed by the mainstream, which becomes the one that progressive-Dem types and an important segment of "independent" media unquestionably repeat, thus operating within a paradox that's made clear each time they mention their value feature and/or make an appeal to viewers for funds, for it is the inability to trust mainstream media that underscores their 'sales pitch'.

So, how to explain the fact that state-serving and severely biased mainstream stories oftentime serve as the primary, and only, source for one of their segments, or that they've been in lockstep with the corporate outlets, parotting clear lies, adopting unsubstantiated stances, even absorbing as tacit truth world views that have no footing in the real world, thus facilitating a foreign policy that actually counters all that they claim to stand for.

Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, and, now, Ukraine—more so than Iraq, but also because of Iraq—clearly exemplify all that make the collective West the hard-to-see monster that it actually is and that the world is now standing up against.

It pains me to say so, but, denial a potent enemy of change, we all need to admit as much, doing so validating that we are good people, though our colonialism-minded, Capitalism-driven ideology we've allowed our elites to redefine as Freedom & Democracy is a blight on the world. As a species, we can do better.

If the news media weren't what it's become, that level of deceit would never be possible, obviously.

However, what's now clear is that the needed reach lies outside the bounds of legacy media. Enter Big Tech. And all sorts of intermediary players, too, because there's always someone willing to sell a lie for a buck.

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In a July of 2016 New York magazine article, author Jonathan Chait asserted: “As Trump arranges to meet face-to-face and privately with Vladimir Putin later this month, the collusion between the two men metastasizing from a dark accusation into an open alliance, it would be dangerous not to consider the possibility that the summit is less a negotiation between two heads of state than a meeting between a Russian-intelligence asset and his handler.”

There's been absolutely no proof of this while proof against is always brushed off as rightwing lies or Russian propaganda. And these are the facts-based people constantly shitting on rightwingers for being "conspiracy theorists", a term that now appears to denote "anyone I don't agree with"? 

And saying that is OK, but questioning the elections deserves being booted out the country???

While everything points to Dems being deceitful and corrupt, power-hungry warmongers with zero concern for the common folk, and even less so for foreign ones—that is, unless a good warmongering yarn can be spun out of their Western-caused misery—such claims were allowed and their conclusions reinforced, and many still believe this to be true, hence much of the vehemence that's been directed toward one's president is unwarranted, those who've encouraged it acting in an utmost undemocratic manner, all while preaching good virtues in between mounds of BS promises that the mainstream outlets helped to sell, but then helped to block. And they're doing far worse with Ukraine.

So, MSNBC, CNN. Politico et al. My opinion: only braindead morons with their head way up their ass, seeing the world through their navel, would think that only Fox News propaganda is inherently evil, while the stuff coming out of liberal and more left-leaning type outlets is all cutesy propaganda. 

This loops back to the Dem-supporters' treatment of the Durham report, and how it had filled me with a deep sense of hopelessness, for, clearly, the indoctrination runs deep.

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Hearing TYT's Cenk Uygur attack third-party candidates and those Dems who are opposing Biden in the primary, too, to then hear him specify—following a very bigoted comment—that he was going to double down on funding and promoting the Progressive Caucus through the next election run, that did trigger me into swearing in all kinds of languages, real or not.

Without going hybrid, if focusing entirely on the Dems, yet again, and, as he and TYT has been known to do, amping a divisive competition that includes those who aren't in step with the traditional Dem path, then he'll be a bigger source of hindrance than of good to working class voters, I'm quite certain of that.

Uygur had advanced his continued focus in the concluding exchange of a discussion he'd had with Steven "Destiny" Bonnell—whom, along with layers of the Twitch-centred streaming world, I familiarised myself with in past weeks only; interesting fellow, I've much to say on him... Also: Holy! Lots of creeps in that Internet ecosphere.

The main topic they'd decided to tackle being the Rittenhouse affair, what it revealed wasn't a positive to Uygur, not so much for what he'd said, but for how it asserted a deeply stubborn view informed by bigotry, one within which "collaboration" exists only as a distasteful afterthought.

On the other hand, despite much good, Destiny also serves up his portion of 'bad', though much of it can be relegated to the nature of such streaming content and that of the tribal sport that's become online debates and panels, where one's side always DESTROYS the other and all is based on impressions and bias confirmation, rarely on statements.

However, Bonnell presents a certain degree of ambiguity in topics that are directly related to, or in the immediate periphery of, capitalism, this perhaps being due to remnants of his once-staunch conservatism, having slid toward leftist ideals upon seizing—once well off—the true state of inequality generated by our current systems? Anybody that sees positive in the spread of neoliberal policies, which Bonnell has voiced, for example, misses what is the true purpose of such policies and indirectly condones neocolonialist modes of exploitation. Plus, the blind faith in institutions he voices betrays a puzzling naiveté that's externalized as detrimental tribalist views on global matters in spite of his refusal to attach himself to one party or the other, which he does, nonetheless, through a firm support of Biden, whom he seems to see as "the most effective" President to date, and one that's been doing a fine job of bringing together the two sides.

Indeed. What planet is he from?

Scariest, most dangerous bunch in office is the Biden one, methinks. Failing to understand that is because one fails to understand what's been underway in Ukraine since 2008, which is an extension of what's happened in Yugoslavia and the Middle East since the 90s, the real 'start' going further back. And, sadly, on this subject, Bonnell—Uygur, too—is an establishment cheerleader, having clearly bought into the underlying propaganda to adopt a view of Russians that is based on empty hatred, and a view of the war that is idiotically facile. Bonnell's acceptance of the hyper black-versus-white reality he sees as the only logical one can only make sense if facilitated through a firm tribal outlook and a fragmented view of events that's focused on refuting instances that may score a point for the other while missing out on the larger picture.

Hence, there's a great deal of irony in the fact that, the Ukrainian girl that often pops up on his streams, the one first introduced through Dylan Burns—who presents serious issues of his own—well, with the proper outlook I think he'd have to agree: In the events that concern Ukraine, her US analog would be a MAGA head, the kind that was in the White House on 6-Jan, though more as tourist than terrorist. 

Her conviction that the US played no part in the Euromaidan and that all was above board and reflected the country's wishes, which she's certain of since she was there and "didn't see anyone from the US handing out envelopes with money", this is totally laughable, highlighting how well the NED disseminated its BS and pumped up the hate that was otherwise dormant.

Also, Bonnell conflates "anti-establishment" with "anti-that-establishment".

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Laying bare all of the above and making clear those aspects that support the conclusions I offer as highly probable isn't easy, as key events stretch back over many years and the dynamics at work are multilayered and cross many spheres and groupings. Simplified as best as possible: in essence, it all comes down to narrative.

Providing the means to properly locate events within narratives of varying scales, and the overall implications and demands placed on given views is how I'd describe the focus of this new version, which aims to deliver as much through mostly visual tools.

Bam! The marketing. Didn't see it coming, I bet.

Keep in mind: while I warned of US dedollarization more than a year in advance and announced Germany's deindustrialization long before the mainstream uttered the word, Dem-Leftists were probably making fun of a rightwinger, the latter busy worrying over a trans infestation that's a big part of a Marxist infiltration; few of them actually informed their viewers in regard to the wider significance of Ukraine and of the potential direction, thus, encouraged a destructive path toward an even more destructive end.

Tribalism. The nationalistic kind and the obvious political party one, both with surprising degrees of overlap that point to widescale indoctrination and societal pressure as the cause of their reason.

If you can't see any of that, DMS&UY can help you with that.

Bam! 

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By the way:

Caught the whole Ana Kasparian interview that aired 2-Jul on the Sitch & Adam show.

To Ana: Bravo! You looked really 'good', glowed somehow and gave off a serene vibe.... yet, you discussed transitory woes and attacks, so when you admitted that you were feeling tremendous release and happiness, that made more sense; I totally believe it. Good for you!

And if I may pat myself on the back: Seems I was on the money re her motivation.

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That. What many are obtusely labeling as "Ana Kasparian officially leaves the left", which unwittingly provides even more motivation to back "her decision", well, for me it's one big positive, and one that indirectly validates the focus I'd adopted, this being so whether or not I played any role in motivating whatever awakening occurred in Kasparian, one I've long felt she was on the cusp of experiencing, but needed to get there on her own.

I've curbed the comments I wanted to make in reaction to that exchange as regards Uygur's politics, if only because I'm now aware that Kasparian is on his case, trying to exorcise the acute bigot that lies in him, the very reason why I can only stand so much of TYT, as tribal toxicity is what currently runs through its veins.

She admits culpability. Moving forward is what matters.

And, while on the subject of progressives, here's an interesting tidbit I was able to discern with data and the new DMS&UY (bam!):

The host (shows with 50,000 subs and above) who dispenses the greatest ratio of bigoted statements to on-air minutes is... [drumroll]: A progressive. 

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The true boost came, however, when Cornell West announced a change to his prior announcement, itself good news albeit somewhat redundant given that RFK Jr and Marianne Williamson already filled the space he'd otherwise be competing for, the final decision left to the whims of the DNC; running as an independent for the Green Party, that's where the real hope lies.

He won't win. He's clear on that front, which is what makes his candidacy all the more important, the path he's settled on all the more a blessing... providing he receives party acceptance, which he must wait for.

The third-way path necessitates much effort, and focusing that effort requires a rallying point, this being the more selfless role West has chosen, and a truly great man for that role he is, to boot.

2024. Things could get ugly.

If you don't know who Cornell West is, just know that he was once the 'don', or 'king' , of boxing referees and he's real famous among rock and wrestling stars and he also appeared in Rocky movies and who wouldn't want to vote for that dude!

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