see the 12-second video at the first link
 
 
 
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/2030627549663969348
Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinklle 
 
😂🇮🇱 Tel Aviv this morning, not Gaza
 
————
 
https://x.com/tiberiusfiles/status/2030546403190247924
Tiberius  @tiberiusfiles 
 
Iran is fighting more fairly than I’ve ever seen from Western forces — repeatedly showing restraint until red lines are crossed by the US and Israel and then retaliating in kind (except from bombing children, they refuse to stoop that low)
 
 
https://x.com/IRIran_Military/status/2030536990232322189
Iran Military Monitor ☫  @IRIran_Military 
 
BREAKING | In response to the attack on Iran’s desalination plant on Qeshm Island launched from Bahraini territory, Iran targeted Bahrain’s desalination facilities.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 8 2026 15:08 utc | 3

Watch any TV Cop show or movie.
How do they know if a suspect is lying?  They keep changing their story.
Like, ‘this is why we attacked Iran, because……..’

Posted by: Eighthman | Mar 8 2026 15:21 utc | 5

Dima says this morning that the coalition is repositioning five carrier groups around the theater.
Posted by: Richard L | Mar 8 2026 15:16 utc | 4
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Wrong targets. It will get all the national pride riled up. Just target the MSC oilers. Taking out the supply of kerosene neuters any aviation. The rest of the carrier battle/strike groups will have missile cells. When empty, return to base (RTB) for reload.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Mar 8 2026 15:57 utc | 7

Eyes 👀 in the 🌌 everywhere and they are mostly … Chinese. 
 

 
🇨🇳🤡🇺🇸/🇮🇱 China Pulse X-channel:
 
“CHINA IS RECORDING THE US WAR LIVE!
 
The US attacks on Iran have become a veritable military intelligence laboratory for China.
 
More than 300 Jilin-1 satellites are recording every detail, second by second, from munition refueling to missile trajectories.
 
China is turning US war doctrine into a database, including refueling times and air defense responses.
 
According to experts, this data could give China a military research and development advantage that will last for decades.
 
US war tactics are being thoroughly analyzed.”
 
🐻While China is having a totally public field day openly and proudly swinging their ISR Di… Richard for the entire world to see – Epsteinite Regime & “media” is having a severe bout of Russophrenia with accusations of providing ISR to Iran while completely ignoring China… Funny how that works. Why not call the “Made in China” kettle black as well, Epsteinites? Rare Earths dilema got your tongue?

Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 8 2026 16:06 utc | 9

Friday Close
 

US 3-MO

3,667

US 10-YR

4,138

 
 
de-dollarization brings peace in ….2027

Posted by: Exile | Mar 8 2026 16:17 utc | 11

Oil could open above $100 on Monday. Massive economic carnage to western economies. 

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 8 2026 16:20 utc | 13

Economist, forecaster, associate professor Tuomas Malinen@mtmalinen in Helsinki, Finland comments:
 

 
“Talked with my Finnish-Iranian friend on Thursday. Something he said when we departed left me haunted.

 
 
He said that now Iranians will not give in, even in the face of a nuclear attack.

 
 
They already know what kind of cowards @POTUS, @netanyahu , @SecWar and @CENTCOM are. They know that they’re going to use nukes in the war they started, which they are losing.

 
 
The U.S. has sunk to never-before-seen (abysmal) lows with its current administration.”

 
– Tuomas Malinen@mtmalinen

Posted by: spudski | Mar 8 2026 16:34 utc | 15

from Google re “global river delta dead zones”:
Global river delta dead zones are aquatic areas with critically low oxygen (hypoxia) caused by nutrient pollution—mainly nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural runoff—which triggers massive algae blooms. As these blooms die and decompose, they deplete oxygen, suffocating marine life. The Gulf of Mexico (Mississippi Delta) holds a major dead zone often reaching thousands of square miles.
——
How great is the darkness-Jesus, Matthew 6:23

Posted by: duck n cover | Mar 8 2026 16:42 utc | 17

Posted by: spudski | Mar 8 2026 16:34 utc | 15
nonsense. Trump is perfectly representative of the Western ruling class. You just want Obama or someone more presentable to be the face of the Western imperialism that’s been around for hundreds of years.
 
what bothers people about Trump and his team is not Brand Trump’s incompetence or brutality or venality cuz that shit is everywhere in the US. l
 
what bothers people about Trump is his honesty. 
 
why don’t you measure the rest of the ruling class by how many “leaders” deluge the White House and Mar A Lago, fawning over Trump like the little Satanic lapdogs they are?

Posted by: duck n cover | Mar 8 2026 16:47 utc | 19

Posted by: spudski | Mar 8 2026 16:34 utc | 15
 
and if the war in Iran were going better, would King Don have any trouble from Schumer and co getting built his Trumpal Arch That Overshadows All? he could even say, “You know my friend and great leader, Bibi, deserves to be on Mount Rushmore with me….” and Congress would jump and cheer.
 
imagine the response of the USG and Western ruling class if the Iran war theater were successful in any meaningful way…

Posted by: duck n cover | Mar 8 2026 16:53 utc | 21

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 8 2026 14:57 utc | 2

When your crimes are so bad, even Switzerland stops being neutral. 

Don’t mind them Swiss wankers, they’re only worried about their private banks. Mind you, this tells you how worried the European private bank families are right now which brings a big smile to my face.

Posted by: Ogre | Mar 8 2026 16:58 utc | 23

What shocked me most about the finding that 53% of Americans view each other as morally bad is that 92% of the people RIGHT NEXT DOOR (Canadians) view their fellow citizens as morally GOOD.
 
Apparently, Canadians are able to prevent their political views from affecting their interpersonal relations, while most Americans are unable or unwilling to do that.
 
Posted by: Mark Mosby | Mar 8 2026 15:57 utc | 8
In the US it’s the effect of social engineering by both genocidal Imperialist parties, their schools, media, etc.  Since about 2011, the Dems have been pushing the virtuous race, gender, sexuality war among the plebs.  By 2015 this was ratcheted up as against Trump, peaking in mass insanity in the summer of Floyd.  Trump has been pushing a reverse race, gender, sexuality war since at least 2016.  Very little politics in all this.  It typically boils down to “people who look like this are evil”.  Hence workers think other workers are evil and sort of forget about the billionaire Zio Oligarchs.
Nothing special about Canada, it just doesn’t do the same type of divide and rule engineering on its own population.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 8 2026 17:00 utc | 25

thanks b and other moa commentators here…. 
Posted by: james | Mar 8 2026 16:36 utc | 16
 
I join you, james, in thanking b and all others here so far …  but I have to apologize  as I revisited the two main commentaries from last week where I had thought I saw Larry’s comments concerning persecution of ancient Christian communities —  my remembered comments were not to be found.  So, either I am  misremembering or it happened on a different video.  The closest I came was during the Judging Freedom episode on Friday — it is a good one so I will give the link.  There is a brief Christian reference by both Larry and Ray worth listening to at around the 26 min plus mark, but this is not exactly what I was remembering.  Oh well  …
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ldDdDJO4pw
 
 

Posted by: juliania | Mar 8 2026 17:19 utc | 27

@ cc | Mar 8 2026 16:56 utc | 22
 
on the name being taken – not sure.. you could ask  b directly… there is a fairly frequent new poster that goes by James – capital J – which is very similar to my last here the past 14 or more years…  not sure how to process it myself.. 

Posted by: james | Mar 8 2026 17:22 utc | 29

memory isn’t perfect, lol… we sometimes fill in the blanks..

Posted by: james | Mar 8 2026 17:25 utc | 31

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇱 — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Senator Lindsey Graham:

In Iran, an official could never travel to another country to collude with a foreign spy service on how to “coach” our own President into doing bidding of foreigners.We would ask what the foreign country may have on that official. And promptly charge him/her with High Treason.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 8 2026 17:29 utc | 33

Posted by: cc | Mar 8 2026 16:56 utc | 22
 
Yeah even here in Greater Houston diesel immediately jumped $0.76 in the first few days of the war. Gas prices are usually cheaper in denser areas with multiple stations nearby, and I’m in the burbs (granted with numerous stations) and it was $4.30 the other day when I passed by. Regular gasoline only up by a relatively small amt. So far….

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 8 2026 17:32 utc | 35

Formerly T-Bear | Mar 8 2026 16:50 utc | 20—
 
We need to rework the Jack and the Beanstalk story.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 8 2026 17:36 utc | 37

Last night on a long drive I caught an interview on YT that Dima from Dialogue Works did with Professor Jiang. He went somewhere that Dima wasn’t expecting. He held himself back a little and stated his reasons for doing so, but not before questioning the true state of the world, who/what the real powers are behind nation states, and why what’s happening is happening. I felt very vindicated and empathize when he said if he spoke more he’d be looked at as crazed and deranged. This guy is blowing up in popularity and is going to open the eyes of a great number of people. Couldn’t come at a better time. He needed some clarification on a regional name discrepancy and I shared a lecture from Dr. Heiser with him on substack which he appreciated. I prayed for this guy and his family this morning, he is in great danger. I’d like to compel everyone to listen to interviews floating around in our altgeopoliticmediasphere, regardless of your religious beliefs or lack thereof. He’s not religious or pushing religion at all, just take a listen to what he has to say about the ongoing conflict, Dima and Danny wouldn’t waste time having him on if he weren’t knowledgeable and a source of insight. Speaking like he is, he may not be around long.

Posted by: NJH | Mar 8 2026 17:42 utc | 39

After losing key facilities at Ali Al-Salem, US forces shifted their command-and-control operations into the Public Social Insurance building in Kuwait, treating a soft civilian structure like a temporary nerve center. A swarm of Iranian suicide drones crushed it. You can see the collapse in the footage.
 
This wasn’t just a hit on a building, it was a hit on a fallback C2 node the Americans thought was hidden enough to survive. Instead, it shows how fast their posture is unraveling and how easily Iran is tracking every adaptation they attempt.

https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/2030470325952016632

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 8 2026 17:45 utc | 41

“we must obey god rather than men.”   
Posted by: duck n cover | Mar 8 2026 17:43 utc | 40
 
It would be working out better if god told them to be nice to each other rather than to kill each other.

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 8 2026 17:47 utc | 43

… Operation Iranian Liberty …
Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Mar 8 2026 16:50 utc | 20
 
Love this. 

Posted by: jinkydink | Mar 8 2026 17:52 utc | 45

Yet another useful piece from Michael Roberts, for those interest in PRC. China: the 15th National Plan – Michael Roberts Blog
 

China’s household consumption is not stagnating, it’s growing 4.4%, more or less in line with GDP growth. Exports are not driving growth. Net trade accounted for about 20% of 2025 growth, the rest was driven by domestic consumption and investment.  Fast growth in productivity has avoided inflation and is not due to a ‘lack of domestic demand’. Why should China change from its investment-led economy that has seen the average real wage in urban areas grow by 2,406% since 1978 taking purchasing power up 25 times?  Can the consumption-led economies of the US and the UK match that rise in purchasing power for their households?

 
Another excerpt of interest
 

And China has a high level of inequality of incomes by international standards, although it is still lower than many other ‘emerging’ economies like Brazil, Mexico or South Africa – and the gini inequality ratio peaked just before the Great Recession and has been falling since.  The main reason for the high inequality ratio is the disparity of incomes between urban and rural workers and between the wages in coastal and inland cities, as well as educational qualifications.

 
The conclusion highlights Roberts’ political weakness. 
 

n my view, the key to China’s economic success is its large state sector that can drive investment and so implement national plan targets. It shows the value of public ownership and dominant government-directed investment within a national plan. As a result, China has avoided any recession or slump in the last 50 years, even during COVID, even though there have been many errors and zig zags in economic policy by the autocratic Communist leadership. China is not a socialist country, but neither is it capitalist. I explain that conundrum here.

 
The way this is phrased implies that any government can take up such policies. War economies have large state sectors and so-called welfare states do too, but it is socialist governments that can do effective planning. PRC doesn’t plan specific commodity prices and productions quotas as in the heyday of central planning but the assumption any democratic government could needs real support. Roberts also implies that autocratic governments are less able to guide the economy, by emphasizing the last fifty years. That is a common ploy to pretend that the Mao era wasn’t the foundation of today, a dubious proposition indeed. The claim that PRC isn’t socialist appears to me to be political, that Roberts’ model is bourgeois democracy+planning=true socialism. More and more I’m thinking that anybody who defines socialism according to some ideal state of affairs has an insuperable problem in thinking that they already know what the socialist state of affairs will be. Thinking actual socialism will be anything but a historical process that can’t be successfully captured in a checklist is slipping into metaphysical thinking. 
 
 

Posted by: steven t johnsonI | Mar 8 2026 17:56 utc | 47

That was more or less the message of NT Jesus. But few Christians have any use for that Jesus, choosing instead the insecure, spiteful, genocidal OT Yahweh.
Posted by: malenkov | Mar 8 2026 17:51 utc | 44
That is true, sadly. It was a bad idea to add the NT at the end of the Bible. Most of the self-proclaimed Christians started reading from the front, and never bothered to finish.

Posted by: Martina | Mar 8 2026 18:08 utc | 49

NJH | Mar 8 2026 17:42 utc | 39—
 
Nima was impressed by Dr. Jiang’s descriptions of the Gulf states as not just being the product of the British Empire but also being unsustainable states once their hydrocarbon revenues are removed. The leaders of those states best choice is to ally with Iran and the Greater Zionist project being pushed by the Outlaw US Empire will eliminate them as leaders and all that goes with their positions. 

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 8 2026 18:14 utc | 51

Posted by: Martina | Mar 8 2026 18:08 utc | 49 It is common for people who apologize for religion in general to carefully omit inconvenient details. The New Testament includes Revelations. Anybody who says mass murder is only in the Old Testament should apologize for wasting everybody’s time. Even if you want to selectively pick out only Jesus supposed sayings and doings forget commands to pluck out eyes and punish people who don’t make enough money for their masters and put away you family and so on. It’s not just the bits you like. 

Posted by: steven t johnsonI | Mar 8 2026 18:18 utc | 53

rqa | Mar 8 2026 18:14 utc | 50—
 
Pashinyan’s been a NATO/EU asset almost his entire career. One look at his Wiki bio will tell you that. Why/how Armenians elected him IMO is the big Q. When you look at Armenia’s economic stats, you’ll see they are very closely tied to the EAEU and commerce with Russia and very little with EU making it clear he’s being paid to act contrary to Armenia’s national interest.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 8 2026 18:20 utc | 55

Sean Foo: ‘The US Implodes’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@SeanFooGold/videos
 
“Bessent orders investors to buy US assets as MidEast investment dump threat begins.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 8 2026 18:28 utc | 57

“Jeffersonian-idealism”
@NemesisCalling | Mar 8 2026 18:14 utc | 52
Jefferson had 600 slaves and acted accordingly in his intention to deny the US an own industry.  Thus he sided with the British former colonial master that he was supposed to have fought. Like other politicians he had a way with words. And since Britain was a skilled manipulator and americans dont know their own history he escaped their attention.
.
Was he under such pressure that he couldnt help it and am I not being fair to him?

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 8 2026 18:32 utc | 59

M.K. Bhadrakumar at India Punchline who was quiet for awhile has come out with three postings since the war began, he last two over the last two days are rather potent and worthy of scrutiny.   

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 8 2026 18:35 utc | 61

@56 Tom
 
The very fact that all pornography is not behind a pay-wall (credit card needed to access) is absolute proof that they want childrens’ brains to be warped by violent-sexual imagery. And science has proven that pornography has a terrible effect on the developing brain.
 
So we can agree, I hope, that pornography must be placed behind a pay-wall (18+), that models and actors must be protected by fair-labor practices, and that both of these things will hopefully drastically reduce the ability of developing youth to have their brains warped and dopamine receptors scrambled to society’s detriment. 
 
I know you wouldn’t disagree with this. You are sensible. 
 
Keep in mind that Russia has drastically reduced its pornography viewership through the leadership of Putin. Most of the countries we are going after right now also have stringent regulations wrt pornography manufacturing/consumption. Something to think about.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 8 2026 18:37 utc | 63

@59 Peter
 
Your comment is retarded. Adhering to a social convention does not evil make. Especially if you are a custodian of a people that were forcibly adopted here and would have starved or murdered each other without custodianship.
 
Jefferson was an incredible intellect and worthy statesman.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 8 2026 18:40 utc | 65

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 8 2026 18:37 utc | 63
 
We’re getting into complex and nuanced territory here. Again, keep the 1st Amendment in mind as well as the 4th (the right to privacy, effectively). See the The Intercept article I shared above. This – including paywalls and age verification – are or are ultimately intended to be surveillance mechanisms. 
 
You seem to be arguing for regulation – something you know I’m in agreement with, again with careful guardrails. Yes, fair labor and all of that.  It’s really up to parents to enforce that kind of thing – and as one I know how hard it can be. My definition (or perhaps being a little too open & honest) of “pornography” is basically the old playboy or penthouse type thing. Not all the crazy stuff, tho I can see other people having certain fetishes. Honestly with this time change thing and having lost a few hours of sleep, I’m not in a mental space to be able to articulate or debate this all that intelligently right now. 
 
IMHO one is either an “originalist” (the Constitution abides in most cases – as imperfect and designed as an instrument of repression of the lower classes and out-groups), or one isn’t and the document isn’t worth the paper it was written on. I’m not defending it, per se; I’m saying that hypocrisy reigns for all “sides” virtually any debate in this country. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 8 2026 18:43 utc | 67

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 8 2026 18:37 utc | 63
 
Nope.  Not going to be required to give my ID to the government.
Sorry.  I refused to wear a mask, and paid for that, before it even came to the vax.
Also, without Jews, there would still be porn.  First “film” was porn.
I don’t need a lecture about how porn warps the mind,  Christianity warps the mind, buddy, and I never say it, until someone like you gets high and might and acts like an authority on morality.    Christianity makes children think their bodies and sexuality is shameful and sinful.  Hell, most Christians I know bank morality on sexuality.  They think sex is like a big sin.  Wracked with guilt for having desires.  Even fantasizing about another person is the same as fornication.  
 
It isn’t.  And even if it was, there is nothing wrong with sex with someone you aren’t married too.  
 
it’s just sex.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 8 2026 18:46 utc | 69

Lot of bull talked about oil.for delivery March 2027 you can still buy oil at $65.79 a gallon.Anyone wants to bet oil will be at $100 you can buy it now, just put up $4700 margin on one contract for 1000 barrels, and you make $34k when it reaches $100.my bet is that you get wiped out long before then.Spot oil is moving – but most oil trades on ong term contracts and no one in that real oil world thinks higher prices will last more than a few weeks.not yet anyway.Check out prices and charts here.https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/energy/crude-oil/light-sweet-crude.quotes.html

Posted by: Michael Droy | Mar 8 2026 18:50 utc | 71

And if the vaccine had been a standard (non-mRNA or whatever) then I would have no problem with it – presuming it had been proven to work (which it hadn’t). 
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 8 2026 18:27 utc | 56
 
There was just such a vaccine produced by J&J, thinking along those lines I took it
because I wanted to travel internationally. It gave me a stroke and 5 days in the hospital.
In a short while J&J stopped producing it after they had killed a lot of folks.

Posted by: qparker | Mar 8 2026 18:50 utc | 73

There was just such a vaccine produced by J&J, thinking along those lines I took itbecause I wanted to travel internationally. It gave me a stroke and 5 days in the hospital.In a short while J&J stopped producing it after they had killed a lot of folks.
Posted by: qparker | Mar 8 2026 18:50 utc | 73
 
Yeah, I remember J&J got pulled.  how old were you?

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 8 2026 18:53 utc | 75

I have no information on the J&J vax. I was thinking about the Russian one. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 8 2026 18:54 utc | 77

Yeah, I remember J&J got pulled.  how old were you?
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 8 2026 18:53 utc | 75
 
 74, back then I went by SwissArmyMan

Posted by: qparker | Mar 8 2026 18:55 utc | 79

 74, back then I went by SwissArmyMan
Posted by: qparker | Mar 8 2026 18:55 utc | 79
 
Ahh, ok.  I think I may remember you a bit.  I first posted here I think about August 2022.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 8 2026 18:57 utc | 81

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 8 2026 18:56 utc | 80
 
Apparently too scents is talking about some form of actual trafficking or illegal exploitation. If not, then shame on him for trying to pull this shit. Yes, if his sister got herself in trouble by trying to be some OF personality or sex worker, caveat artifex. But without the rest of the context I’m merely speculating and taking up space here. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 8 2026 19:02 utc | 83

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 8 2026 18:53 utc | 76
 
Yup.  Through some christian family, i had a member tell me about a member in their church, a youth pastor, caught with a bunch of the girls in his youth group’s pictures on his phone.  He was married, so instead of just straight up calling him a creep, they acted like he was a “sex addict” and just needed therapy.
 
Its like half the reason men even go to church is so they can read song of solomon to a girl and talk about “gods love”.  I remember way back when I was young, this guy was telling me what his youth group was like, adn their parents thinking they are virgins.
 
There was even a little scandal in conservative town recently about a couple of pretty big influencers having an affair at CPAC that extended for six months until she married her fiance, who she told she was a virgin… they were literally blessed by the pope.
 
And then she starts, its was his fault, he got me drunk the first night, because Christians really have a hard time believing girls want it.  they just think like, men are evil predators or some shit, it is so fucked up the way they warp kids heads.  Sometimes they warp it so bad a third of women cant even orgasms they are worried about God watching everything they do.  Pretty much scarring child abuse.
 
And then they say, “its all ok, if they are married”, well, again,what about the scrawny 5’5′ buck toothed kid with acne and a voice that sounds like a dremel?  Who is going to marry him? No girl in todays world will, so he just has to die a virgin, I guess.
 
It’s just fucked up, and then they want to get into my bedroom.  Well, no thanks.  My girls and I occasionally watch porn together.  Its just one of many spices.  I dont need christians telling me how bad it is.  Nope, fuck off Christian.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 8 2026 19:07 utc | 85

Who profits from this transactional exchange?  There are too many layers in that onion.  But hey, its a growth industry open to investment. 
Posted by: too scents | Mar 8 2026 19:08 utc | 86
 
wow oldest profession is profitable.  Who knew.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 8 2026 19:12 utc | 87

Posted by: duck n cover | Mar 8 2026 16:42 utc | 17
 
…also generating future oil deposits for whichever species succeeds us.
#tooearlytotell

Posted by: ChatNPC | Mar 8 2026 19:14 utc | 89

Michael Droy | Mar 8 2026 18:50 utc | 71
Genuine questions, because I’ve never thought myself smart enough to play with shorts, puts, and other market games….
You say:

no one in that real oil world thinks higher prices will last more than a few weeks”

Are any of these guys old hands from the 70s Oil Shock days, with domestic fuel rationing ? Or are they mostly young bucks who think 2008 is ancient history?

most oil trades on ong term contracts.

Ok.
But what if the supply chain – pumping – refining shipping, is so disrupted the contracts can be filled?

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 8 2026 19:15 utc | 91

JUST IN In Bahrain, King fled the country and people took to the streets, overthrowing the Israeli-funded government of Bahrain.

https://x.com/rkmtimes/status/2030573447869341940

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 8 2026 19:15 utc | 93

@UWDude | Mar 8 2026 18:46 utc | 69
It has been claimed that British agents had a porn film made with a lookalike of the Monk Rasputin and that film was supposed to have fueled the rumours about Rasputing having slept with the Tsarina.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 8 2026 19:17 utc | 95

I find it very suspicious that the same posters here trumpeting on about the Epstein-class bombing Iran take issue when someone in the west actually wants to do something, anything about our incredibly violent and sexed-up culture. Yes, not all adolescent girls want to experience sex the way that men envision it (to be a house of pure objectification of the other and self-gratification). This interview from an Epstein victim in the 90s at his Florida home makes clear that not all precocious girls want to be exposed to a nasty man’s idea of healthy sexuality. 
 
Guys, do a quick google search: pornography has shown that it detrimentally affects the developing brain, its gray matter, and its dopamine receptors, triggering emotional dysregulation and anxiety. I’ll wait. Take a moment and do it, if you have the balls. 
 
I was not consulted when I was exposed to my father’s stash of penthouse magazines at age 6. My friends weren’t either. This is a tragedy that did have an effect on my life, on my parents’ marriage which dissolved, and on my natural curiosity about sex that could have emerged in adolescence in a saner-way. 
 
True, parents can ease children into alcohol consumption for instance, at a younger age than 18. But this is social convention. Acceptable. No one would sanely admit to another family that they allow their children to view hardcore pornography. Let alone brag about it. 
 
Furthermore, how many married adult males struggle with viewing pornography? How many of these cases negatively affect the healthy sex life of a marriage, which the Catholic Church does affirm is a force for goodness in married life, contrary to what UWDude mentions about sex and religion? I would bet that if men were more honest with their spouse about their porn addiction, their marriage would be a much healthier space for both spouses and it might even encourage the wife to tend to her husband’s needs in a more fulfilling-manner. Many pop-psychologists on youtube are acknowledging just this issue: wife withholding sex from men that leads men to pursue masturbation and porn. Porn is not free speech: it obscures and destroys it.
 
So the first step is to get it behind a paywall. This will protect children immediately. Then, we can revisit the discussion as to whether it constitutes free speech (it does not) as the post-WW2, RBO, sexually-revolutioned Supreme Court ruled in favor of to our detriment.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Mar 8 2026 19:18 utc | 97

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 8 2026 19:07 utc | 85
 
Yep. I grew up in exactly that kind of community. I didn’t want to bore the thread with more stories about it, but I’ll just say that these Christian self-anointed prophet wannabe preachers seemed to cycle in and out on a half yearly basis. Each and every one was eventually run out of the community for what I later learned was almost invariably having sex (or trying) with an underage girl or boy. A couple of them were basically grooming the girls as young as 10, multiple at a time – one broke off and tried taking a couple of 11 and 12 year old girls with him to some compound he’d set up in the desert several miles away. Got away with it for almost a year. Both girls ended up in foster care.  Sick bastards shrouding themselves in holiness and religious righteousness. I’m not saying all religions or congregations are like this to that degree, but it IS a matter of degree. Any person or group who feels like they need to deny basic human urges (within reasonable societally acceptable limits – i.e. don’t fuck with kids) to the extent these guys (or the Catholic priests!) is automatically setting themselves and society (to the extent they have influence over it – congregation to city to state to national level) for some bullshit. 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I AM NOT going to debate religion in this thread and I AM NOT questioning anyone’s faith or choice of spirituality!!!! So I will not reply to anyone who wants to have that debate. 
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wow oldest profession is profitable.  Who knew.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 8 2026 19:12 utc | 87
 
Exactly. Literally any profession or commodity or whatever can be exploited in devious and harmful ways. It’s capitalism, American Style. (but let’s blame the Jews) ANOTHER debate I won’t be entertaining here. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 8 2026 19:20 utc | 99