There is no need for a search. Trump and his staffers openly advocated for changes to existing US policy to Russia's benefit. Trump himself publicly solicited Russian assistance in attacking his opponent. Then sources tied to the Russian government released information that was potentially damaging to Clinton and her campaign.
There can certainly be debate if that is acceptable, wrong, or criminal. There are many questions about the full extent and impact of Russian government meddling in our election, and what we should do about it.
But that Trump sought Russian assistance and got it is as close to fact as anything involving human relations can be.
]]>While Catina Diamond / Minerva Owl / etc isn't exactly a direct poster, claiming there's zero content is... not really accurate.
My take on 222 & 224 above:
Despite our society here in the US regarding the media, journalism, etc as an essential part of our freedoms since the Founding of our Republic (an event that has itself been turned into something of a civic religion), we took this essential public, moral, and governmental function and threw it into the free market and then had the audacity and/or stupidity to pretend we were surprised when we got bad results out of it, even as we spent years (decades) watching it degrade in front of us.
The Wild Hunt is the European myth about an otherworldly group of hunters and their beasts who variously pursue the guilty, or anyone foolish enough to be caught in their path, or are harbingers of generalized catastrophe. Any or all of these seem applicable to the Trumped United States.
Education and teaching how to think is a quite obvious fix, but how to successfully and broadly apply it to our place and time is rather less obvious. Wiping out most of us by running humanity through such a tight filter that thinking becomes a necessary survival trait will do the job, but is going to be far, far from pleasant. (See William Gibson's Jackpot for what something like that could look like.) Rather than willingly adapt and improve, since the early 20th, we actively and deliberately been crippling our collective and individual thinking abilities as a species.
I'm not certain of exactly what the meaning of the second paragraph of 224, but I'd guess it's about the US aiding the worst elements among post-collapse Russia during the 90s, and the blowback that's resulted for the US now, as well as the Russians.
The concept of Capital is a tool, but that's all it is - if you confuse a tool for the goal (as American society, broadly speaking, does), you can get locked into a death-spiral, aka. a nasty positive feedback loop than ends in destruction.
While it's all in a unique choice of format, and you are of course free to spend time on it or not as you wish (and agreement is personal) to claim that it is "content-free" is unworthy, particularly from someone like yourself who also adds a great deal of value (at least from my perspective) to OGH's blog.
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