web version of NYT does not feature the hunter Biden story anywhere on the main page. we may see it again but it doesn’t seem to be of high priority. or its purpose has already been met such as pressuring Biden on some issue. or as a warning.

Posted by: mastameta | Mar 18 2022 17:56 utc | 3

Throwing milk down the drain because of fuel costs 🙁
Disgusting. Absurd.

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 18 2022 17:59 utc | 5

Here comes gas rationing?
Was at the gas station the other day (california) the price was about $5.50/gal. The 20 gallon tank was about a 1/4 full when started to pump. When the cost reached $75.00 (have never paid close to this amount ever to fill up on a tank of gas) the pump shut off with the message that I’d reached the limit of the amount of gas I was allowed to purchase.
Is this ‘soft’ rationing? And is it only the beginning?

Posted by: gottlieb | Mar 18 2022 18:26 utc | 7

@Misotheist #5
Milk is no longer more expensive than gasoline or diesel…

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 18 2022 18:40 utc | 9

gottlieb 7
Good to know! Thank you.

Posted by: reante | Mar 18 2022 18:57 utc | 11

gottlieb@7
Last fall on a 22 state road-trip, the pumps in the eastern Sierras stopped for us at $75. Highest prices on the trip. Is supply an issue in eastern Cali?

Posted by: Gulo | Mar 18 2022 19:05 utc | 13

Gulo @13–
Gas prices around from Bishop to Mono Lake and beyond on US 395 have always been very high due to out-of-the-way delivery issues and high county gas taxes for road repair revenue.
Jen @14–
Thanks very much for your kind words! If North Americans had any idea about the degree of opportunities available in Russia, many would emigrate, and their governments don’t want that to occur. That’s just one of the many reasons behind Russia’s demonization.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 18 2022 19:36 utc | 15

Hey MoA barflies
I left Almost nakedcapitalism over a decade ago because I was called crazypants by Susan/Yves for my ongoing push for public finance and have been saying such at MoA ever since.
When I was a regular at Almost nakedcapitalism I postulated that it would be 10 years before public finance replaced private finance. As we can see I was wrong, but not entirely. The request I have for MoA barflies is to point me to posting(s) by Susan/Yves where she admits that public finance is a viable alternative coming soon to a world near us. I have no interest in pushing the issue there, nor my claim of timing in her face but am very curious how she portrays the coming reality of a serious challenge to the private finance cult world she is a hard core member of.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 18 2022 19:52 utc | 17

Gonzalo Lira and the system pigs
Wherein msm journalists are examined and found to be disgusting.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 18 2022 20:14 utc | 19

Gonzalo Lira and the system pigs
Wherein msm journalists are examined and found to be disgusting.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 18 2022 20:14 utc | 21

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Gazprombank has launched its own payment service GazpromPay in Russia, which allows users to pay in online stores with any bank card or get a virtual card, the bank said in a statement on Friday.
Fuck you, fuck you,
Fuck your Visa, and your Mastercard too … https://sputniknews.com/20220318/russias-gazprombank-launches-own-payment-service-gazprompay-1093992125.html

Posted by: Laurence | Mar 18 2022 21:11 utc | 23

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 18 2022 17:59 utc | 5
Reminds me of attempts to deal with the glut in coffee supply in Brazil during the Great Depression: using sacks of coffee beans as fuel for steam trains… oh the humanity!

Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 18 2022 21:32 utc | 25

You guys in North America are still only paying about $1.50/L. I filled up yesterday in Western Sydney @ AUD$2.29/L = AUD$126. Admittedly it was empty (55L) and I work from home 3 days/wk. But anyone who knows Sydney well will know that beyond 20km radius from the CBD the car is king. Public transport for the Greater Sydney Area is scandalously underdeveloped. The place is crisscrossed with motorways each of which has an exorbitant toll.
The added pressure to household budgets under mortgage stress in the mortgage belt of the city with the highest housing costs in the world is going to have lots of very nasty consequences…

Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 18 2022 21:48 utc | 27

Fuck you, TurdPolishBois

The department reported more than 20,000 new infections on Friday, most of which were reported online by at-home rapid antigen tests, according to the South China Morning Post. The mailing out of at-home tests has helped the city to detect far more than its PCR testing facilities can process, and revealed an outbreak far worse than believed.

However, the true number is likely still far higher: researchers at the University of Hong Kong projected earlier this week that the true number of infections is closer to 3.6 million – half the population of the Chinese special administrative region.

Posted by: Laurence | Mar 18 2022 22:04 utc | 29

If you test oranges with at-home rapid antigen tests you probably get a positive result.
The charade is not over folks.
Now that the good Ukrainians are monopolising our attention the old monsters are ready to come back.
Even our old good friend The Science made a reappearance on our tv screens.
And big Pharma is asking for an emergency license for a 4th dose of the very safe and effective non vaccine vaccine
It’s all planned and we are all being played.

Posted by: DG | Mar 19 2022 0:20 utc | 31

@ 31 said;”It’s all planned and we are all being played.”
Well, no duh…but, if you’re not part of the “lucky sperm club, and you work for a living, what’s your solution?
As for me, try to stay informed and go with your best guess, and keep on moving. I’m 74, and that’s served me well.

Posted by: vetinLA | Mar 19 2022 0:41 utc | 33

With respect to the $75 gas limit, I think that is because the authorization before you pump puts a $75 reservation on the credit card. When you hit $75, the authorization hits the limit. You could probably put your card in again and get a new authorization to finish the filling of the tank.

Posted by: Kevin | Mar 19 2022 1:03 utc | 35

https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-roundtable-with-journalists/ ~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~//
Similarly, we said for months that if Russia committed an act – this act of aggression, there would be massive consequences, including unprecedented economic sanctions. And I think some folks thought, well, that sounds good but what are we really going to see if it happens. I think we’ve demonstrated that when we said there would be massive consequences, there were, there have been. As a result of these sanctions, done in an unprecedented way in terms of their coordination with other countries, we’re basically seeing Russia’s economy in a freefall. The ruble is through the floor. Russia’s credit rating is junk status. The stock market’s been closed for three weeks. We’ve seen an exodus of virtually every leading company, brand, firm from Russia over the last few weeks such that basically in the space of a few weeks, 30 years of Russia opening to the world and creating greater economic opportunity for our people has vanished as a result of President Putin’s terrible actions.
//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RKJoyce, aka blues ~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~//
Dear USSA: The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.
//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Posted by: blues | Mar 19 2022 5:15 utc | 37

@ Karlofi etc re Opportunities in Russia:
It has occurred to me that with the exit of so many High tech companies and the wall-to-wall censorship by the west of news and views from Russia, an incredible opportunity has opened up for Russian develpers, including in areas f IT, security, new social media and, indeed, new internet protocols.
I reckon that right now it must be full employment opportunity for any Russian with software/web/coding background. This is their chance (and ours, frankly, as in “the world’s”) to start chipping at the dominance by the Silicon Valley rapacious companies, be it Google, or FB or Twitter and Apple. Not to mention Microsft and a long long list of others, from Adobe to Dropbox to photo apps to you name it.
Whe I looked at the list of the sanctioning entities, it really hit me just how incredibly dominant the US was in nearly all areas to do with the Internet. Over 20 years of development of on-line tools the US, with lots of help from indian, Chinese and Russian emigres (and Israeli dual citizens of all sorts) has resulted in, effectively full spectrum dominance by US originated companies and their products.
Yet, while benefitting from the innovative spirit of so many, we have also seen the most rapacious, monopolistic tendencies come home to roost. The company whose motto once was “Do no Evil” now does much evil, intended and not, as it gobbles one small company after another, a process that ends up killing innovation. Same for FB and the lot of them. And as for Microsoft, heck I’ll never ever forgive what they did to Wordperfect, the best word processing program that ever was.
So now, with scarcity will come opportunity. What wasn’t worthwhile before will become worthy. Where money was scarce, entrepeneurs in Russia may find open doors – both private and government.
Heck, I just advised two software acquaintants of mine to consider a temporary relocation to Russia, where I reckon some interesting employment opportunities may materialize……
BTW, I wonder how Snowden feels these days, anyone heard? something tells me he is not too unhappy to be there rather than here in the not so great US of A.

Posted by: Merlin2 | Mar 19 2022 7:21 utc | 39

Presidential election in Columbia:
First round
Looks to be, according to polls, a repeat of last time: centrist fajardo squeezed out , leaving left vs right

Posted by: Platero | Mar 19 2022 13:31 utc | 41

psychohistorian 38
As as said previously that LSE sellout POS Graeber and his lackey Wengrow published an Hegemon-approved subversion of the central tenet of true, classical cultural anthropology. That tenet being that what it is that you want humans to be consistently capable of — fairness, to people and all other species alike — has only ever existed and can only ever exist below Dunbar’s Number (DN), in societies that practice subsistence modes of production.
The minute a society exceeds its particular DN it begins to become socially dysfunctional, as in people start being unfairly competitive with those in the society that they can no longer treat fairly because of their human social hardwiring, about which NOTHING can be done over a single lifetime, anyway. New Age thinking is exactly that selfish, self-serving thinking which falsely thinks that it CAN overcome our evolutionary reality and live a kumbaya existence in a civilized society that is predicated on doing to the ecology (running structural surpluses) exactly the same thing that Old Testament Capitalism does to common people like us: strip mining.
Animism was our universal cultural heritage that eschewed all structural supremacism. All archeological evidence shows that no animist, subsistence society ever reached Dunbar’s Number without taking population control measures for the greater good of all, people and ecology both. The first option was to fission the society into two or more societies, whenever possible, and the second much more difficult option was to practice infanticide (witholding of milk) in the short-term, if necessary, along with redoubling their family planning efforts through natural birth control methods. They weren’t stupid. They were just like us. They were well aware of the female ovulation cycle and therefore the rythmn method, pulling-out, masturbation, abstinence, etc. Their low-carb diets and very long lactation cycles were also naturally geared to low reproductive numbers. Whereas agrarian women could crank out a dozen children or more, animists could max out at about four, maybe five.
All inconvenient truths are simple once they are arrived at. It’s the getting there that’s difficult. Because of the emotional baggage/resistance tied to the inconvenience. Religions, both old age and new age alike, are designed specifically to exploit that emotional resistance, that weakness.
The simple truth is that achieving our true, loving, holistic human potential requires us living below DN, which is, by definition living in a subsistence society that REFUSES to run the structural surpluses of food that FORCES the population to grow to match that surplus no different than what happened in every mouse and rat population growth experiment ever conducted.

Posted by: reante | Mar 19 2022 14:55 utc | 43

From Adam’s ‘nixon in china,’ when Mao, “the philosopher” Kissinger, Nixon and Chou (“Joe”, per Nixon) 1st meet:
MAO
Ah, the philosopher! I see
Paris can spare you then.
KISSINGER
The Chairman
may be gratified to hear
he’s read at Harvard.
I assign all four volumes.
MAO
Those books of mine aren’t anything.
Incorporate their words
within a people’s thought
as poor men’s common sense and try
their strength on women’s nerves,
then say they live.
NIXON
The Chairman’s book enthralled
a nation, and have changed the world.
MAO
I could not change it.
I’d be glad to think that in the neighborhood of Peking
something will remain.
NIXON
Let us turn our talk towards Taiwan,
Vietnam and the problems there, Japan…
MAO
Save that for the Premier.
My business is philosophy.
Now Doctor Kissinger…
KISSINGER
Who me?
MAO
… has made his reputation in
Foreign affairs.
NIXON
My right hand man.
You’d never think to look at him
that he’s James Bond.
CHOU
And all the time
he’s doing undercover work…
——-
“Incorporate their words
within a people’s thought
as poor men’s common sense and try
their strength on women’s nerves,
then say they live.” Mao’s reply to the leaders of the nation who take all the credit for the defeat of Japan, as we do Nazi Germany.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Mar 19 2022 16:02 utc | 45

@gottlieb #7
@Kevin #35
As Kevin said, the limit is a function of credit card gas station auto-charge limits.
It isn’t $75 everywhere. I have seen $100 limits.
I rented a large van to move some stuff out of storage yesterday; while talking to the Hertz people, I commented that the gas station across the street was $1 less per gallon than last time I was there (about a month ago): $5.95/gallon regular vs. $4.95/gallon previously.
One of the people behind the counter said he thinks it will hit $10 in summer.
If that happens, IMO, TSHTF – at least in CA. I personally am not seeing that despite my very bullish view on commodities in general and oil in particular, but I could definitely be wrong.
Now next summer…

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 19 2022 16:07 utc | 47

again, dewormer doesn’t fight viruses; totally different kingdoms
Posted by: ScottinDallas | Mar 19 2022 14:19 utc | 42
Lol.
Viruses don’t occupy ANY taxonomic kingdom.
Because even though germ theory likes to try and (falsely) say that viruses can DO this and DO that and, as a consequence, are ‘sorta alive dude,’ they can’t actually assign them a kingdom without looking like horses asses, because they are not organisms. They’re not organisms because they have zero internal biological functions. Where they do fudge reality is more subtle, in saying that although viruses have no internal functions they still have the ability to boss our cells about because GERMS!, or maybe, because ENZYMES!, but that doesn’t mean jack shit.
See how that works? The ‘evidence’ for the supposed capabilities of ‘viruses’ is really just an appeal to the (fake) authority of Germ Theory.
No virus has ever been videographed doing what they are accused of doing.
And no virus has ever been shown to cause disease by using the scientific method. For starters, they’re too small too handle individually, unlike human cells or microbes. Therefore their genomes have never been individually isolated so that they can be read. Their genomes are patched together theoretically with computer algorithms. That’s not science, that’s highly dubious theory.
As to ivermectin, it’s mechanism of action, its toxicity to human cells, it’s ‘covid’-related controversy, that’s a whole nother can of worms. If you you ain’t hip to the ‘covid’ scam it’s probably too late for you. It probably means you think this war theater is wild reality, too, despite the inconsistencies people keep pointing out that don’t add up. Just like during the plandemic.
Both in service of the non-public Degrowth Agenda, as opposed to the public, idealistic, new age, Lefty degrowth politics that acts as political cover for the real thing, and acts like depopulation isn’t a necessary part of degrowth Lol. What a joke. As if degrowth isn’t a euphemism for collapse, anyway

Posted by: reante | Mar 19 2022 16:18 utc | 49

“Incorporate their words
within a people’s thought
as poor men’s common sense and try
their strength on women’s nerves,
then say they live.”
That’s not philosophy. That’s pure totalitarian evil.

Posted by: reante | Mar 19 2022 16:39 utc | 51

As an attachment to my post @44 about the mishap with the 4 Marines. TASS reports 4 DPR soldiers killed (21 wounded). The Saker explained in an analysis that military business between the two superpowers works like this. So I wondered?
https://tass.com/world/1424587

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Mar 19 2022 18:31 utc | 53

@25 Patroklos
Lol. Oh my, what a ghastly sight that must have been. But the smell of roasted beans permeating the countryside…

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 19 2022 18:54 utc | 55

@reante #52
You continue to yap without substance. Not once have you addressed the actual facts being put forward – but then again – this is no different than the utterly content free posts you almost always put up.

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 19 2022 19:00 utc | 57

Bruised Northerner
Asymmetrical hings that make you go hmmmm for sure.
Thanks for introducing me to thoriel t. 🙂

Posted by: reante | Mar 19 2022 19:12 utc | 59

c1ue | Mar 19 2022 48
UN IPCC Scientist Debunks UN IPCC Lies
Feb 13, 2019
~28 min

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) is misleading humanity about climate change and sea levels, a leading expert on sea-level who served on the UN IPCC told The New American. In fact, it is more likely that sea-levels will decline, not rise, explained Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, the retired head of the paleogeophysics and geodynamics at Stockholm University. A new solar-driven cooling period is not far off, he said. But when Mörner tried to warn the UN IPCC that it was publishing false information that would inevitably be discredited, they simply ignored him. And so, dismayed, he resigned in disgust and decided to blow the whistle.
Asked if coastal cities such as Miami would be flooding due to sea-level rise caused by alleged man-made global warming, Mörner was unequivocal: “Absolutely not.” “There is no rapid sea-level rise going on today, and there will not be,” he said, citing the observable data. “On the contrary, if anything happens, the sea will go down a little.” The widely respected scientist, who has been tracking sea levels in various parts of the globe for some 50 years, blasted those who use incorrect “correction factors” in their data to try to make it appear that the seas are rising worldwide. That is just wrong, he said.

Posted by: pogohere | Mar 19 2022 20:09 utc | 61

reante | Mar 18 2022 18:56 utc | 10 and 51
if you look at your beliefs as a kind of trial by combat where who kicks who’s ass determines who is right, then Mao is right, isn’t he?
and the “women’s nerves” that his truths are tested on is actually the vaunted US military, who conducted a mopping up operation after the Chinese working class did the labor of defeating Japan.
Mao is belittling the USM, in case you didn’t get that from his stated “surprise” that Paris can spare “the Philosopher”, Kissinger.
yeah, Mao sure sounds the totalitarian in that conversation. nice try though, reante.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Mar 19 2022 20:21 utc | 63

Anybody else in favor of writing up a complaint to Bernhard regarding the fact that there’s a commenter whose entire deal is regurgitating nazi talking points?

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 19 2022 21:04 utc | 65

rjb
I milk my own goats. I’m a hardcore homesteader. Unless I’m messing with the wrong guy here I’m closer to old school than you’ll ever be and probably ever were. I kill with my knife, butcher my own, and cut firewood to make ends meet, and I piss farther than you. 🙂 You don’t like me so you tune out, and because you’ve tuned out you don’t understand what it is that I’m saying most of the time. My commentary on gasoline vs milk was simply about why gasoline is more valuable to industrial civilization than milk; this truth be self-evident. Because you had tuned me out you got your panties in a twist and in the process twisted what I said into the opposite of what was intended. Regarding Mao, thank you for explaining the metaphorical aspect of his words, I did not get that. Nevertheless, Mao destroyed the Chinese peasantry and the evil in the literal reading is also self-evident. Do you disagree?

Posted by: reante | Mar 19 2022 21:22 utc | 67

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 19 2022 18:54 utc | 55
I know right? The whole Amazon would have smelled like a vast cafe. One of the great tragedies (and there are many) of capitalism is that supply and demand have nothing to do with life and necessity. When all things take the commodity form and their content is rationalised within that form this kind of contradiction is soul-destroying. Rather than give the coffee beans away in, say, a gigantic espresso distribution, which would have been just as efficient a form of destruction, they burned them in an especially symbolic way. One could easily have rigged a steam engine to make the coffee rather than burn it! Capitalism seems to specialise in heaping insult upon injury like this, tipping the milk down the drain rather than giving it free to children. We really know how to fuck with life don’t we.

Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 19 2022 21:42 utc | 69

@pogohere #61
Morner is no more credible in calling a coming ice age than the climate consensus is for calling for any temperature increase about 4 degrees C.
However, the real point is that no city has been affected by rising sea levels: not New York, not Amsterdam etc etc. The reality is that the rise in sea level is so slow and even that it is a trivial matter to keep in front of it.

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 19 2022 22:46 utc | 71

@Patroklos #70
Sorry bub, but I don’t accept your attempt to set the narrative.
The reality is that I am not the one predicting radical climate change – defined as any realistic possibility of a temperature change of 4 degrees C or higher.
The burden of proof lies on those who are proclaiming radical societal shifts based upon radical changes in global temperature which have not even happened yet.
And furthermore, the burden of proof doesn’t even stop at the “science” – it also applies to the prescriptions to fix the problem. I’ve noted many times that, even by the standards of consensus science, it is already “too late” to avert catastrophic climate change by their own standards.
So why bother exactly?
I’ve also been very clear just how much actual value lies with solar PV and wind:
Germany spent 180 billion euro plus ongoing annual subsidies on Energiewende – and Germany is just as hosed on rising energy prices (from natural gas) as the rest of Europe.
California has been leading in alternative energy. Despite a mere 15.43% of electricity from solar PV, California literally dumped 1.5 million megawatt hours of solar PV in 2020 – a full 5% of all solar PV generated.
source

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 19 2022 22:54 utc | 73

Here is how fertilizers drive food prices – mining.com

According to the US Department of Agriculture, the average fertilizer cost share in years 1975-2013 accounted for 32% of the marginal cost of wheat and 37% of the marginal cost of maize. Similar shares are estimated for other major crops.

400% increase in fertilizer cost = more than 100% increase in food prices – if the relationship is linear.
I suspect the relationship is not, but no idea if it is additive or negative.
And note the 400% fertilizer price increase is in the US. Fertilizer prices in Europe are much higher than that.

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 19 2022 23:20 utc | 75

C1ue wrote:
400% increase in fertilizer cost
_______________________________________________
Only the stupid would think that is bad.
Synthetic nitrogen fertilizer does more harm than good.
https://www.patagonia.com/stories/farming-down/story-72066.html

Posted by: jinn | Mar 20 2022 0:09 utc | 77

c1ue | Mar 20 2022 0:29 utc | 78
Greeny’s and rainbow flag wavers are big on keeping third world countries in poverty. Works well here in oz to keep the remnant indigenous population hanging around the bottle shop and camping in creeks on the outskirts of towns.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 20 2022 0:39 utc | 79

$outhpaw | Mar 20 2022 0:40 utc | 80
‘You know that all of this content free posting of yours has to cease.’
That is a keeper southpaw.
I kicked off with a jonsered when I first got into falling. Moved to husky for the smaller stuff and the stihl for the bigger stuff when they came out with the 066 and 044. still got a husky and an 044 though I’m not up to using them.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 20 2022 0:53 utc | 81

Reante and Southpaw have been doing an act where Southpaw has a family member (I think) with cancer, Reante gives quack medical advice, and apparently Southpaw takes it.
This could very well land B in trouble.
And I say it’s an ACT because I don’t want to think that the nazi, primitivist, malthusian, germ denialist, is also a quack doctor.
And because I don’t want to think that anybody would be SO STUPID as to take quack medical advice FOR CANCER from a nazi-malthusianist-primitivist rando over the internet.

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 20 2022 1:00 utc | 83

reante | Mar 19 2022 21:22 utc | 67
I responded to the comment you made about gas and milk. i don’t care how many goats a cyclops like you can milk and slaughter. i didn’t read any of your comments except those that replied to me.
what’s the labor cost of gas vs milk, you rocket scientist farmer doctor you?
i skip everything else you say, reante. unless you are replying to me.
i skip your comments. got it? i gather i’m not alone in that.
Patroklos | Mar 19 2022 22:07 utc | 70
“There is no objective reality which can ride in to the rescue here. We might as well expect the world to adjudicate between Protestants and Catholics by providing ‘facts’.”
communication is not possible in the world you describe, yet here you are, trying to use grammar, logic, rhetoric, even historical examples, etc., to convince us otherwise.
c1ue | Mar 19 2022 22:54 utc | 73
So why bother exactly? i get where Patroklos is coming from, after reading your comments.
inflation is real, but global warming is fake.
i have an eye of you, clue
you are the voice of the ruling class in these matters, to castrate and confuse and disorient.
Peter AU1 | Mar 20 2022 0:39 utc | 79
“Greeny’s and rainbow flag wavers are big on keeping third world countries in poverty.” nah, i just want there to be hummingbirds and bees. and an Amazon.
it’s the greens keeping the 3rd world in poverty? the IMF, Bill Gates, the Egyptian ruling class, the destroyers of Libya, Mali, Somalia, Djibouti, etc., etc., are the greens? i know they have solar panels at the Pentagon, but does that make them “greens”?
what is poverty? collapsing life spans due to poor air quality doesn’t count as poverty, i guess. maybe people need more NFT’s to buy oxygen with, but greens want to keep them poor.
got it. people will just say anything.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Mar 20 2022 1:46 utc | 85

$outhpaw | Mar 20 2022 2:16 utc | 86
Cheers. Take care.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 20 2022 2:25 utc | 87

Misotheist | Mar 20 2022 1:00 utc | 83
where are you coming from lumping southpaw and ” Reanté is the love of my life and probably the love of your life too. She’s the most intelligent and hard working human being and that’s why she succeeds at everything she does.” together? The Reanté posting here is a nutter or a straight up troll.
Going by your username, you hate the gods.Yet going by your posts, quite often it seems as though you are working for them

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 20 2022 2:51 utc | 89

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 20 2022 2:51 utc | 89
Look, I don’t give much of a fuck about who’s stupid enough to swallow pseudo-medical quackery from a malthusian primitivist.
But I do give a fuck about who’s enough of a cackling sonofabitch to spread it.
And this guy has like 7 screenlong rants making wholesale dismissals of infectious diseases.
And about 4 claims amounting to “MOA commentariat is nazi, they just aren’t nazi enough yet”

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 20 2022 3:24 utc | 91

@Misotheist, #90
Try to relax, and laugh a little.
Connect the dots, you say.
Exactly what do you think that I am doing by soliciting information from a large number of sources?
Check the names Dr. Zach Bush, and Dr. Jeff Kotulski, and Stephen Fulder Ph.D., and Henry C. Lu, and Waysun Liao, and Norman Cousins.
Then there are layperson like Uncle Tungsten, and Don Bacon, and Spudski, and Scotch Bingeington, and Sean the Leprechaun, and reante.
I look for common themes in the information that I have received.
Ultimately, I consult with Dr.s Bush and Kotulski about valid options for the love of my life.
Fishbone, as I have nicknamed her.
You make far too many assumptions for a professed intelligent person.
It is my opinion that you allow your emotions and prejudices to interfere with the application of reason.
If your concerns are genuine, I thank you.
If you just have a need to ridicule and rage, I reiterate,
Get well soon.
I wish you well.

Posted by: $outhpaw | Mar 20 2022 3:29 utc | 93

@Misotheist
@Peter AU1
Re: reante and southpaw
2 words: sock puppets

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 20 2022 8:18 utc | 95

@Misotheist #96
You realize that the Peter AU1, post was a case of name hijacking? with a typo to boot?
As I said regarding the 2 posters mentioned in #95 above: sock puppets

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 20 2022 12:37 utc | 97

Posted by: c1ue | Mar 20 2022 12:37 utc | 97
What’s more likely?
A) mistyping the name of the poster you’re replying to in your own namebox AND also forgetting to input your own nick.
B) a known troll and sockpuppeteer getting two sockpuppet handles mixed up. A comma is entirely anecdotical to this.
IIRC Peter AU1 has been around for way longer than the avowed nazi.
Yes it could also be a case of hijacking.
In any case, it’s comparatively minor. This is a pseudonymous non-authenticated medium. I’m not worried about sockpuppets that don’t spread nazi propaganda.
What’s actually worrying are the following traits:
* By-the-book nazi propaganda
* Self-admitted malthusian primitivism
* Pseudo-medical quackery
* Repeated statements as to MoA commentariat being nazis
* Admitted intent to turn MoA commentariat into a nazi workshop.

Posted by: Misotheist | Mar 20 2022 13:00 utc | 99