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I feel like the US is just days away from invading Burkina Faso because they created the Epstein files or something.

The US government are in the dumbest possible period of warmongering rationales I have ever seen.
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My dog desperately wants to make friends with the possum in the yard, and I am the mean man who is trying to keep him isolated as a tool of control due to underlying authoritarian tendencies and deep seeded insecurity.

Also I am never letting this dog on TikTok again.
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Mason Pelt · 4w
Hitler rose to power with similar scorn from intellectual elitists. A good many dictators seem to have risen to power in the same manner.
Mason Pelt · 4w
Also basically everything Stalin wrote was in this obnoxious question and answer format scene above. I've read so much of his works, and... Well; Was Stalin a good writer? No, Stalin was not a good w...
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Stalin's success came from being more of a psychopath than anyone ever estimated. He was physically unimposing and viewed as beneath the intellect of almost everyone else in revolutionary leadership.

​His rivals underestimated him, and overestimated the general value of intellectualism.
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Mason Pelt · 4w
Stalin was useful strategically to people with power until he was able to rally a large enough base to have power of his own, while largely being viewed as a non-threat by everyone around him.
Mason Pelt · 4w
Why did Stalin think Hitler would not invade? Because Hitler would not do that. ​Why did Stalin think seed grain would not be needed to feed people next year? New developments in agriculture. ​W...
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Also basically everything Stalin wrote was in this obnoxious question and answer format scene above. I've read so much of his works, and... Well;

Was Stalin a good writer? No, Stalin was not a good writer, at least not of proes and of after translation.
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Mason Pelt · 4w
Stalin's success came from being more of a psychopath than anyone ever estimated. He was physically unimposing and viewed as beneath the intellect of almost everyone else in revolutionary leadership. ​His rivals underestimated him, and overestimated the general value of intellectualism.
Mason Pelt · 4w
I have at this point mainlined nearly every notable English language biography of Stalin from J. T. Murphy up to Ronald Grigor Suny. ​Stalin is kind of the opposite of the competence porn genre. Ev...
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Why did Stalin think Hitler would not invade? Because Hitler would not do that.

​Why did Stalin think seed grain would not be needed to feed people next year? New developments in agriculture.

​Why did Leon Trotsky have to be assassinated in Mexico? That was just vengeance, and fear, but still.
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Mason Pelt · 4w
Also basically everything Stalin wrote was in this obnoxious question and answer format scene above. I've read so much of his works, and... Well; Was Stalin a good writer? No, Stalin was not a good writer, at least not of proes and of after translation.
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I have at this point mainlined nearly every notable English language biography of Stalin from J. T. Murphy up to Ronald Grigor Suny.

​Stalin is kind of the opposite of the competence porn genre. Every story is of a man thinking magically in order to justify whatever action he wanted.
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Mason Pelt · 4w
Why did Stalin think Hitler would not invade? Because Hitler would not do that. ​Why did Stalin think seed grain would not be needed to feed people next year? New developments in agriculture. ​Why did Leon Trotsky have to be assassinated in Mexico? That was just vengeance, and fear, but still.
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They say, AI can never make great music, because AI can never be abused as a child.

But Sam Altman, was sent by capital to prove them all wrong.

His methods are unorthodox [shot of Altman put on a rubber glove in front of a screen] but he gets results.

Coming to a rented time slot on CBS.
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One of the problems with the short video pipeline to exposure is that it becomes very easy to only see clips from a person who is a complete whack job in which they seem incredibly, reasonable, curious and interesting.