darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]

People were using it to host CSAM and more relevantly to their decision to also run malware C&C servers behind it.

Ghislaine goes to Israel for protection and Trump can move on with the Russiagate trial as a palette cleanser.

Meanwhile chuds go 210% “Jews did it, Jews did it!” and go off the deep end on anti-semitism and pedophile blood libel shit into full on classic Nazism as a result. Some of the smarter white nationalists pre-positioned for this pivot will be there to scoop them up, having already positioned themselves as outside the mainstream on imperialism, antagonism against Russia, and being critical of the mainstream chud info-tainment sphere (Fox, other Trump bootlickers), etc. Within 2 years a deranged chud radicalized by this shoots up a synagogue or Jewish school while proclaiming they’re stopping pedophiles.

Almost certainly to be used by the ownership/management to say “see, you’re a bunch of radical Marxists according to the readership, new editorial policies, any article that scores less than 110% on the hitler-meter will need to be redone for fairness”.

That seems like obvious misinformation planted to mislead the enemy. The pulling it acting like it was important part of the deception. That or its all theater for domestic/foreign audiences and this is chest thumping.

The US has many more pokers to put in the fire they’ve built around Russia and for that matter in the way of China’s B&R. This is just the start of a grab for central Asia to further box in and isolate Russia, to do the same with Iran (and ultimately bring that state down), and to use this access plus hegemony over the middle east to have a complete land blockade over any possible path for the Chinese belt and road through to Africa and Europe (save through Russia but given the furthest east EU members are the most deranged anti-Russia fascists they’ll hold the line in blocking entry from there). That locked down the US and NATO navies and air forces need only hold strategic transit points in global waterways to effectively blockade China. Diego Garcia, control of the Suez via regional proxies and the US fleet nearby and zionist regime support, seizing control of Panama, locking Greenland and the arctic states into a NATO alliance so they can block northernly routes. This is setting up a chessboard for the showdown which will not be confined to the SCS but leave China the option of fighting a world war against a well entrenched, well resourced, established logistics having, force multipliers via many vassal states NATO led by the US or being relegated to being an east Asian regional power at best while the west locks the rest of the world in with it and its markets. That’s the plan. I don’t see the small actors doing anything but acquiescing to the US saber-rattling and China isn’t going to act until it’s forced to.

Posting in a wisconcom thread for the ratio.

Georgia is set to host the Agile Sprint 2025 military exercises on 25 July, involving multiple NATO countries including the United States, and Ukraine, as participants.

Oh shit, oh fuck. This would be the perfect opportunity for them to enter the war or at least severely escalate. Say trying to push Russia out of that part of Georgia and opening another front. Or the Ukrainians staging a provocation.

Pirates really annoy me with their “we’ll always find a way, we’ll always come back stronger” ignorant stance to any set-back. They see states passing laws requiring all ISPs and cloudflare and VPNs to block piracy sites on demand within 10 minutes notice and think there is some Hollywood group of plucky 90s anarcho hackers just rubbing their hands with glee at taking on such a challenge. Total idealist mindset. Literally the same tech-bro mindset that says do nothing about climate change because AI or some other magic technology will solve it for us so we can just rest on our ass because the arc of good things is long but bends towards us always winning so we don’t need to change our habits or be worried.

Denuvo has likely won. You’d need a genuine AI super-intelligence to un-denuvo things and if they ever come up with one the bourgeoisie and empire are going to slap human review on that thing IF they even sell the masses access at all so fast your head will spin because it’s a weapon for them, a weapon to be used against workers not one for the workers to use. And anyways it would probably be a $5000/month fee minimum 6 month subscription to it because it would no longer be a hype thing needing juicing and propaganda but a reality they could replace workers with and use to hack and dominate the enemies of the west. Heck $5000 is change compared to the value such a thing would bring in replacing a couple workers of the skill needed to crack this thing so probably $10-25k a month minimum. We’d have larger problems if that happened like eating and paying rent so it wouldn’t be a good thing.

Unless Russia for some reason decides economic warfare of cracking western games is somehow a national priority and siccs their national hacking team on it or some other top tier state actor in that field like Iran, DPRK, China. None of which have any reason to make western games and their attendant propaganda for the west any easier to access by people within and without the west. That’s about the only other option I could see of sufficient strength to seriously challenge denuvo.

The reality is the open web is slowly being murdered and in the open by these laws and changes and soon the only place to pirate content at all will likely be over heavily attacked hidden networks like l2p that have a high bar to clear to find this stuff and private trackers. Rarbg still hasn’t been replaced, its alleged possible replacement the torrentgalaxy kept suffering downtime and is now completely dead. The scene for torrenting is weaker than it has been in many years with only leetx, semi-private rutracker, and a few rehosters of the former’s content (little more than mirrors trying to get ad bucks) still around of any worth. Streaming sites are regularly hammered by take-downs and shit quality anyways. Game hosting sites that aren’t malware infested regularly get the hammer.

Empress if they crack denuvo at all going forward will probably do one every 4-5 years just to keep their cult going and only if necessary. They’ve effectively thrown in the towel.

Good article. I’ve been saying and suspecting as much as this for a time but this presents these points very saliently.

Particularly the strategic sequencing part of using Europe to hold down Russia while the US is free to engage elsewhere. We already see that they had success in Syria, if this continues I expect the US to pop something else off in the CIS or somewhere near Russia’s borders like Moldova, Georgia, etc or just continue undermining multipolar allies in Africa while Russia is too bogged down in Ukraine to offer significant help. Bogging them down also means they can’t and couldn’t have helped Iran via simply selling them air defense systems even if they wanted to because theirs are all committed and over-extended already by Ukrainian drone raids and soon to be Ukrainian domestic medium-range missile production which we could see starting anytime in the next year or so.

While Russia is busy it can’t help Iran, can’t help China, can’t help Sahel AES, etc. The division of labor is also an interesting point. The US is unable to defeat China but their goal is to create a maze of thorns, of armed to the teeth island bases, vassals, etc who China will be tempted to shirk from attacking despite the fact they host American war-planes, they host American missiles. This is about the island chains again and contrary to popular thinking they have more than just the first and second but real defense in depth, things like Diego Garcia for policing access to Africa and to the middle east, things like the zionist regime for policing strategic waterways along with their coterie of Arab vassals who while making eyes at China are thoroughly vassals to the US and will heed it when the time comes. That’s where the US/NATO navy comes in, deep water supporting these far island chains beyond the reach of most cheap Chinese land-based missiles forcing China to over-extend its own navy and expend very expensive long-range hard to intercept advanced missiles while denying it a major advantage from its manufacturing base by making mass produced weapons not part of the equation or war at all as the US draws China’s navy beyond their seas via enforced blockade and sanctions, picks them off with land-based power supplemented by sea patrols and helped by land-based aircraft and forces China to either take an L or expend itself enormously in a very expensive, very demanding, and very long fight on the high seas around the world against the US and its force multiplier vassal states who once attacked for hosting US missiles and war planes engaging China will deploy their own forces. It’s a play you lose, don’t play you lose type of engineered chessboard.

The author’s points about how this strategy of ramping up production will hollow out nations and lead to instability is true but only in the long-run. The US still has probably 10 years (if not twice that) before that comes into play seriously and they clearly plan to make their move against China soon. I suspect within Trump’s second term or in the first half of term of whoever follows him.

Could it be that fail-kids are in charge who don’t understand this and care only about saving the “face” of western power, thus to them investments are not even considered so much as preventing a Suez crisis type collapse of the US image? Or it may be that they simply see this as a way to discipline financial capital or certain parts of it into more buy-in, into taking a big loss and using that to get them onboard with actually fixing production issues because it’s finally hitting their speculative pocket books and to finally “wake them up”.

In other words I think for planners of empire, at least some of them it may indeed be good to go over the edge and fight to the last Ukrainian. Russia isn’t going to want to occupy western Ukraine and the west could always after beating on Russia for another year and gaining valuable field data on their weapons finally offer Russia something resembling a comprehensive security pact where Ukraine is excluded from NATO, Ukraine is de-nazified, Ukraine is kept disarmed. And the disarmed, humiliated, depopulated Ukraine is used for farmland and cheap labor under a western run but Russian friendly regime. After all the US hasn’t fully finished de-industrializing and destroying the EU and Germany in particular. Keeping the war and thus EU-owning sanctions on for another 12 months could do a lot to really keep the EU from any chance of recovery and ability to compete with US power.

So I just don’t know.

Honestly I think there’s a good chance it’s not that she’s protecting anyone in particular (though she knows some people like Clintons are implicated) so much as she’s just of the mindset that some kids getting sex trafficked to elites is not a big deal, happens all the time, just the way the world works kiddo and we all need to sweep it back under the rug and get back to common sense centrism rather than risk letting these odious populists hold the elite to account for their sexual “habits”. Which is an even worse look. It’s the kind of end of history, this is just how the sausage is made and we need to keep the commoners from thinking about this too much.

Bananas come in shrink wrap

The one thing the US is not guilty of. They do this in Asia all the time but the most I’ve ever seen with bananas is the organic ones have a small bit of cellophane wrapped around the stem only.

Peppers come cellophaned to styrofoam planks

Definitely seen this one. Though mostly with squash and similar, the excuse being oh it prevents bruising and blah, blah, blah. Ridiculous.

By default Firefox and other browsers that implement DNS over HTTPS check a canary domain and if they can’t reach it they assume they’re in an enterprise and act respectfully and fall back to the suggested DNS server pushed by their gateway. That canary domain is obviously part of all encrypted DNS blocklists. On desktop you can choose to try and override but lists of the common DOH providers are readily available for free. I block them myself on my network because I run my own DNS resolver with ad blocking and don’t want anything bypassing it to phone home its analytics.

Most likely they use an off the shelf commercial solution with certain categories and it got flagged in one of those categories that IT had selected for. If I had to guess either “social media”, “extremism”, “political content” or something like that. As to why now, either they switched providers or the providers updated the lists and this site was included in it.

I suppose it’s also possible they’re monitory network usage and saw someone using a bunch of bandwidth + time browsing this site, deemed it non-essential for work purposes and blocked it on resource usage or preventing “time wasting by employees” reasons.

Exploiting existing ethnic or other tensions to play groups off each other to keep a nation divided so you can conquer them with your own forces and significant amounts of proxies from these groups. Pioneered by the British in India hundreds of years ago, still working today in tons of places and a favored strat of the US from Yugoslavia to China (Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong), to Russia and therefore likely a strat their regional outpost has taken note of.

it’s no wonder the US state department and its clients have obsessively kept the region shattered for 75 years

The British I maintain were doing this before them for at least another 40 years prior based on lessons learned in subjugating India. And I believe worked hand in hand with the US to construct the modern middle east and “moderate rebels” as well as the various corrupt kings and fragmented islamist movements.

Yep. Threaten everyone, only actually hit one or two non-cooperative parties at a time, not enough to create a bloc out of them, make an example and get the rest in line. That is the way of the clever bully.

I see I’ve upset you.

Frankly I feel this site and others needs a bit of (non-liberal-brained) dissent against the circlejerk so readily adopted in the vein of “oh Russia is going to crush the west, NATO stands no chance, Ukraine is going to be fucked up, Russia will win handily and is just going slow as a brilliant strategy of grinding down which has no downsides even as the west is scrambling to build capacity because they can’t do that despite recent history showing they can” and that plus the “any month now their lines will break” which I have been seeing from hopium parties I won’t name since the start of this conflict with persistent predictions that oh 2024 would be the end, the wrap-up, and now it’s 2025. Or the China hoperism which gets to the point of blindness in seeing any weaknesses or problems in the grand chessboard they’re going to be playing on given the plays the US/NATO is making. I’m still broadly hopeful but the chessboard for China and our side is definitely not as rosy as it was only 3 years ago. Some sobriety is helpful.

Sometimes I just post kind of thoughts, not all are terribly well thought out as in I’ve sat down and really thought about it. In fact I welcome reasoned or well sourced rebuttals as those help me sharpen my own thinking and I think that kind of interaction leads to real growth.

As someone else said if you want an echo-chamber of nothing but positive spin and propaganda this site isn’t that.

Anyways I just noticed the old mega is locked so I’m going to post a reply I wrote up to someone else who objected to my post there before noticing the post was locked.

They don’t care if they kill us all. They’re desperate to replace workers, the one threat to their power and resolve the contradiction forever in their favor by moving to some imagined new system. In the end they’ll likely rip each other off but not before killing off a huge number of us. This sucks. And I have little hope Americans will correctly identify the enemy soon enough to matter before tens of millions die. They’ll probably find a release valve by ramping up the imperialism again which is why they’re seizing control of the internet and pumping it full of reactionary content, they plan to make today’s kids into tomorrow’s soldiers lured by the promise of unlimited water if you fight to conquer Africa or Latin America with the US military. Seeing how easy it is for them to get recruits for their ICE stormtroopers from an atomized culture like ours, it’ll be so much easier to direct that violence outwards again. But not before an inward purge I think.

Another thought I just had. Many of us have assumed they can’t really deport all the non-white farm workers because it would collapse agriculture. But what if that doesn’t matter? What if that’s part of getting rid of excess worker capacity they expect to have all too soon by making food scarce and sucking the wealth of workers even more, along with benefit cuts making unemployment a death sentence and increasing desperation. They may actually think that’s a good thing and that the people on benefits, the neuro-diverse especially can be bused and marshaled into the fields eventually after killing off a certain amount and the population will support it continuing once it’s in place for fear of another food price and supply shock occurring over ending it.