Very well said. I hope you get to feeling better soon. I’m sorry you’re support system has crapped out on you. The idea of “us against them” and the underlying “dog eat dog” drivers of our society seems to have led a lot of people to struggle to survive in some strange ways. I think 2020 will go down in history as the year the human race collectively started losing their marbles.
That, or blackmail. See also Matt Taibbi. You can actually pinpoint the approximate time when Taibbi suddenly went off the deep end; “Insane Clown President” and earlier is extremely insightful and makes sense, “Hate, Inc” and after is bonkers. There was no gradual transition or erosion of his good sense and logic.
Taibbi switching over to Team Trump actually gave me this sort of whiplash of self-doubt that maybe I am the wrong one, and I took a little bit of time to really read in detail what he was writing about “Russiagate” and etc, to see if his sudden switchover was based in some kind of reality and I needed to learn what he was saying. Nope. It’s all just nonsense. He’s definitely not a stupid person though. Also, just like other people who went through this transition, he now has different weird opinions on all kinds of things, but on Russia / Ukraine his viewpoint is exactly the same as everyone else who went through the transition.
He started going downhill in 2016, accepting material he knew was from Russian intelligence. It appears that the final straw was when he wanted to publish articles in support of some of the conspiracy theories around Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and China. The Intercept didn’t feel like they passed journalistic muster and refused to publish them. He parted ways for Substack.
His heart’s in the right place, but he’s very credulous. So sometimes he’s right accidentally like with Snowden. But often he’s just peddling bullshit.
Cross-posted this in the ‘NATO’s war in Ukraine’ community and a mod deleted it logging this (Removed Post Debunking of Ukraine biolab claims reason: western bullshit) someone needs to check these mods and see if they have everyone’s best interest in mind ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Your whole essays repo is very nice. Did someone add the biolab nonsense to that list in your repo or something? Sorry not really following the relevance of this to my comment
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