The whole “populists vs elites” dichotomy is so stupid.

During the Bush Jr Presidency, Bush was billed as a populist “shaking up the Washington establishment.”

Now he’s considered an establishment president, and he’s been endlessly disparaged for that.

I GUARANTEE that in 2032 Trump will be referred to as “just another establishment puppet” but populists. Hold me to that statement. I understand that Trump obviously has his differences, but IMO he will still be disparaged like every other president. Because this stupidity goes beyond him. It’s about a large scale unnecessary romanticization of populism, where people want more benefits without the sacrifices, and want change without actually knowing what the problem with the status quo is, or what kind of change they want.

> American voters of different partisan stripes don't agree on much nowadays, but they can agree on this: most of them approve of US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

Nikki for President

I'm quite certain you know that she has changed her mind on the flag. So why do you try to be disingenuous?

Obama used to be against gay marriage.

Obama really hates gay people. You can tell.

It's remarkable how completely devoid of moral reason Joseph Stalin's private correspondence is (at least from how it's presented in the biography I'm reading rn). I mean, even when he's writing to his daughter or just scratching a note, he almost never puts things in terms of "good" and "bad." It's all "this will aid the class struggle," or "this will hinder the class struggle." I always thought he was a sociopath who took advantage of communist power structures to kill millions: instead his brain was literally hijacked by communism. He actually couldn't think of anything in terms other than political: it's fucking terrifying.

For more on this take, see the excellent biography Stalin: Waiting for Hitler.

Oh, and the weird thing is if you're into classical stuff, the Athenians have the same problem. Even when debating amongst themselves, they have no overarching concept of morality at all. It's always "this is in our interest as Athenians," or "this is not in our interest as Athenians." At least as portrayed in Thucydides, when a foreign envoy tries to bring up a moral argument they're always shouted down. Even when the Athenians tried to argue with the Spartans about their involvement in a Corinthian dispute with one of their colonies, they essentially resorted to "hey look, our allies hate us, and unless we go off and find new sources of tribute, they'll all rebel. Please don't take issue with us stealing peoples' colonies."

tl;dr -- the Athenians were a bunch of dirty commies, and the Spartans a bunch of dirty fascists. Thank God the Founders explicitly designed this country to not be like either one of them.

Two thirds of Russians still believe in essentially a variation of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

Nikolai II and his putrid wife would be proud.

I see citrosoda

I come up to him and say

I know brother, I know.

Give him this

And leave the bar.

https://www.amazon.com/Peppas-Storybook-Collection-Peppa-Pig/dp/1338211994/ref=sr_1_1?crid=27V0OJXFWZA9Q&keywords=peppa+pig+books&qid=1568141518&s=gateway&sprefix=peppa+pig%2Caps%2C232&sr=8-1

Yes, if you want to learn more about the subject, pick up this book, read it front to back, and then fuck off.

Depends on a lot of different things. Mainly similarities to your own language.

Chart for English native speakers

Miller is the author of this book laying out a "conservative internationalist" grand strategy, which I haven't read but I've seen recommended around here as the modern Neocon Manifesto.

this is cool

Found on deviantart alongside all the "NATO is fascist" comments.

>>In a hypothetical matchup between Marco Rubio and Bernie Sanders (ignore the fact that Marco isn’t going to primary Trump in 2020 and Bernie will be too old in 2024), who would you vote for?

>Rubio is a pro-life conservative who believes in the second amendment and family values. Obviously Sanders.

Hmmm. At the moment Rubio is still leading the poll on r/neoliberal, though, 57-43

Edit: oh wait, this was already posted below, sorry

Imagine being so manly that you need a 210 page book to learn how to become "a truly authentic Alpha that chases excellence and leads a successful passion-filled life."

> Elliott Abrams

> Eric Edelman

> Michael V. Hayden

> Eliot Cohen

> Paul D. Miller

Yup. I think I found the Holy Grail.

Shortly after 9/11, Barnett Rubin, a NATO expert on Afghanistan and a Professor at Columbia, was summoned to a meeting where he and a panel of fellow experts chaired by Richard Haass would brief the National Security Council on Afghanistan.

> Haass first asked the outside experts how the U.S. government should follow up on any military victory in Afghanistan. As we each spoke, a clear consensus emerged: the United States had helped create the current situation by its actions after the withdrawal and collapse of the Soviet Union. We claimed a victory and walked away. We treated Afghanistan as a humanitarian issue and provided no leadership or support for stabilization or reconstruction. The reaction after the embassy bombings was similarly one-dimensional: we focused on al-Qaeda, the direct security threat to the United States, not on the problems of Afghanistan. If we did not want to repeat the same mistakes, the United States had to engage, mobilize the United Nations, and lead an effort to establish legitimate government and reconstruct the economy.

> Haass asked for reactions. To people from the National Security Council staff, whom I did not recognize, immediately objected, "That's nation-building! We don't do nation-building."

Tell me again how the Bush administration was dominated by a Neocon Cabal?

From this book of his, which is turning out to be pretty awesome.

https://www.amazon.com/MAGA-Doctrine-Only-Ideas-Future/dp/0062974688/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=charlie+kirk&qid=1604875592&sr=8-1

or

https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Art-Deal-Donald-J/dp/0399594493/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=art+of+the+deal&qid=1604875660&sr=8-1

really illuminating pieces that shine above the rest of Western canon

It was very tempting to answer "no" again

1. Regina scientiarum still on the throne after all these years
2. It´s in the nature of humanity to speculate on the great questions and so there will be philosophy whether you like it or not; but it will either be rigorous philosophy or bullshit philosophy
3. Even if there isn´t any immediate benefit or answer to philosophical questions, it´s nice to have some people professionally think about the "deep" stuff as it adds the spice to the meal of human life. In this way they are more like artists, historians or classicists.
4. We need fields like metaphysics or epistemology to tell us (or atleast to have an idea) of what could be going on around us; for example Einstein consulted philosophy a lot. Also for example if we ever manage to fuck around with the human brain we need to know where does consciousness come from so we don´t accidentally kill people
5. We need people like ethicists and political philosopher to double check on whether we really want to be doing stuff we are doing (in theory; in practice they are the ones coming with the cranky ideas)
6. What you hear in a debate between philosophers is a more polished version of what you can hear from friends arguing in a pub; nevertheless, it´s still good that we have people here who do it on an expert level because only when the arguments are properly laid out can you compare them and decide what makes sense

It's one of those things that would be hard to express because it was the first time that studying religion "clicked" with me.

I think what grabbed me the most was the rich history and tradition of the Jewish people and all the rabbinic debates. It struck me as pragmatic and introspective and one that welcomed debate as a key part of the religion.

I'm not saying those are unique to Judaism but something about it made me feel like they had the right approach to religion over others. This was only confirmed after I read Here All Along at the recommendation from a Rabbi.

As I've said before on this sub, I'm very seriously considering converting, and probably would have been close to being done by now had COVID not interrupted things.

This translator has repeatedly pulled me out from desperate situations. It's really good.

Just don't get too cozy with it, relying too much on translators stunts your long term growth in proficiency.

PSA: Twilight Struggle is on sale for 5 bucks on steam!

It's a very detailed 2 person cold war strategy game.
Since I know that at least two of you ( /u/The_Town_ certainly) participated in Diplomacy and secret hitler games, maybe some of you are up for twilight struggle aswell! Would also fit nicely with the foreign policy theme :)

edit: Although I would also really like to play some of CIA's analyst training games ....

The results of the poll aren't surprising

> "Were the Republicans justified in not bringing the confirmation of Merrick Garland up for a vote in 2016?"

> No, it wasn't justified: 19 votes, 70%

> Yes, it was justified: 6 votes, 22%

> Other: 2 votes, 7%

I use this book, dude has a pizza shop in Portland.

He also has a pizza book

I have starter I use. And just use King Arthurs bread flour. I used to do '00' flour but its difference was marginal. Im not hard core on measuring, I just know the how wet i like my dough.

I just feed my yeast the morning before, then set the dough the night before, and its ready for the night I want it. I usually keep my starter low on the sour flavor and more at Italian-French Levels than the San Francisco levels.

I used to do active yeast with a BIGA/Poolish preferments which are a lot easier.

I think you're assuming too much malice here. This is a great primer on what originalism actually is. You can preview the first chapter.

Interestingly enough, the same author apparently has a book specifically about originalism and the 14th amendment coming out this month.

Introducing a friend to Capitalism and Freedom! Encouraging him to be really critical too cos I see too many people (including myself) falling to the trap of "well, Friedman, a smart guy, said it, therefore it must be true"

I must admit these NATO Podcasts are better than I thought. Just watched episode 1 and it gives a nice sense into the NATO Summit and some other neat things about how some world leaders interact and how some leaders may purposely arrive later to the summit than others. Getting them to have a group photo and how it’s decided who stands next to who.

This book from a viet cong founding member is pretty good, they had support from the north and some direction, but as time went on the north became significantly more radical and crazy. By the time of unification he had to escape because the north were crazy ass fuck.

Can anyone here recommend this? The Vietnam War Reexamined (Cambridge Essential Histories): Kort, Michael G: 9781107628175: Amazon.com: Books

Cause based on the reviews it seems to be really good, considering buying it m'self

In the vein of the context-less strawpoll I posted in /r/neoliberal yesterday, /r/neoconnwo gets its own:

Pick one!

The theme might be obvious, depending on your familiarity with Jewish music.

Yeah, Ive got my copy of The Menace of Fiscal QE sitting on the desk next to me.

My confidence that the Fed will not pursue fiscal goals is lower than it once was, but it once was pretty much absolute, so 'lower' here is still very high.

I think he has a vegetarian version as well. I skimmed through my copy and it looks like about half of the original book is devoted to meat which still leaves you with around 450 pages of vegetarian options. If I were you I would probably check out the vegetarian version though as it's far more relevant for your diet.

japanese death poems

edit: before anyone thinks i'm joking

https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Death-Poems-Written-Monks/dp/4805314435/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=japanese+death+poems&qid=1595032193&sr=8-1

I've been itching to get more poetry collections recently. Probably will pick up some Bukowski because you find some solid poems amongst the piles of shit.

Just off the top of my head

• Saved Israel during the Yom Kippur War at the height of Watergate
• Did more for Affirmative Action than Kennedy and Johnson
• Ended the draft
• Took us off the gold standard
• Attempted to implement welfare reform based off negative income tax principles, and succeed in doing so for the Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
• Implemented block grants to give more power back to the states
• Created the EPA and OSHA

and regularly gave some great advice

I highly recommend his memoirs. He has two: Memoirs of R.N. which covers his birth to his resignation then 'In the Arena' which covers his post-resignation up to when he wrote the book. In the Arena is actually narrated by him and can be found on Audible.

The guy who originally posted the clip did an overview of the HBO documentary about 'trans kids', and it ended up just showing off the children's manipulative parents.

If you don't own one of these, you're a lib.

We'll see how it ultimately turns out. I'm a bit of a fundementalist Scott Sumnerite, so inflation is ultimately a monetary authority decision, but then it just becomes a question of the commitment of the Fed to it's policy targets.

I've got a copy of Selgin's The Menace of Fiscal QE on top of my book stack, so I'm hoping it doesn't turn out to be a book of prophecy by the time I read it.

>To copy a comment from elsewhere:

As is tradition

>Democrats can force the military's hand through a combination of fraudulent mail in voting and political violence in the streets.

I think they'll try but I don't know how receptive they'll be. What do you think about Anton's claim that the Obama admin purged the officer corps of political enemies? I vaguely remember hearing something about Obama getting rid of a bunch of generals, but IIRC that was over fopo not domestic stuff.

>there's no such thing as a moderate in this day and age. "Moderate" is just a moniker for people who want to maintain an outdated and crumbling status quo.

This is a great point

>I've got a couple good videos

Yeah I see them on your profile. I'll check them out later.

BTW, are you going to read Anton's new book?

>He has empire mainly consisting of sand and empty forest. And outnumbers his enemies in almost every battle, see Carl fredrick sverdrup.
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>Wasn't his army usually the one that usually got outnumbered? Like they use the enemies number against them by disrupt supplies line and hit and run tactics to out smart them .

Then I responded with.

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No.

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Here's that source I mentioned, The Mongol Conquests: The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sube'etei: Sverdrup, Carl Fredrik: 9781910777718: Amazon.com: Books

how was your shabbat?

still reading through hazony but mixing it up with some books out of the old man's personal library. I love the old naval/sailing aesthetic (part of New England culture I guess) and he had this book series on the history of ships

https://www.amazon.com/windjammers-Seafarers-Oliver-Allen/dp/0809427052

Super cool. It's about the last days of the commercial sailing ships. Jam packed with detail. It also reminds me of how I was going to re-up my boat club license to continue sailing lessons this year but COVID put that on pause.

I use Clairefontaine Triomphe

While we're on the subject, I just read this book.

While it's a surprisingly intricate thesis for such a short book, the closest to a tl;dr: is that China is absolutely flubbing the middle income transition in rural hukou. Low levels of educational achievement, high levels of anemia, myopia, and parasitic infection, poor cognitive development from very young ages, the vast majority of Chinese children (apparently 70% of Chinese children are registered to rural hukou) are being actively failed in human capital development.

The authors are sympathetic to their plight and argue that we should all want China to succeed -- without once mentioning the totalitarian government they're suffering under -- but the overall analysis is solid.

Wake up libs, new book list addition just dropped:

I’ve got a few Amazon giftcards lying around, should I get an audible subscription? I know some of you guys think that audiobooks are the devil incarnate, but I just don’t see myself sitting down to read something like this (848 pages) and enjoying it. I remember finding Hillbilly Elegy on YouTube and listening to it in 10-20 minute intervals during my morning and nightly routines, and I finished it pretty quickly.

Because the kind of stuff he says isn't actual economic theory, it's his own incoherent mess of rules of thumb.

https://www.amazon.com/Floored-Misguided-Experiment-Prolonged-Recession/dp/1948647087

This gets into why velocity has gone down (tl;Dr: it was an intentional regime change by the Fed) in exhaustive detail.

> you explained it very poorly

Well, sometimes the horse just won’t jump the fence.

> There are no effects listed in that or any of the following tweets. You’re reading way too much into it when there’s nothing there.

Jfc child, read a goddamned book. You’re telling on yourself over your own unfamiliarity with debates on immigration policy.

Some stupid lib in front of me is reading this

> According to Gelles, "Welch employed three main tools in his crusade: downsizing, dealmaking, and financialization."

> • Downsizing: Welch "was the first CEO to take a healthy company and treat it like a turnaround job, preemptively laying off tens of thousands of workers." He popularized mass firings, moving jobs offshore, and outsourcing. I didn't realize 250,000 GE workers lost their jobs during Welch's tenure — that's the population of Madison, Wisconsin! So much for "Generous Electric." • Dealmaking: When he couldn't sell more toasters and jet engines, Welch artificially boosted the bottom line by making nearly 1000 acquisitions for $130B, most having nothing to do with GE's core business. • Financialization: First, he got rid of GE's manufacturing businesses and instead beefed up GE Capital, its investment and insurance arm, so GE could make money without having to make things. Second, he used share buybacks and accounting fraud to meet Wall St forecasts quarter after quarter.

Why is any of this bad?

/u/MrDarSwag dude next time you go to charmar could you do me a favor and check if they have whey protein powder or something like this?

found this cringe book on amazon

Every time I open pocket (https://getpocket.com/) I say "that's so out of pocket." It's already become instinctive, I'm incapable of opening the site without saying it

Help, I can't resist the zoomoidery

GF gifted me the volume 2 of this for Christmas (only gave me today because it was out of stock

Should I buy the volume 1?

https://meduza.io/impro/P9EePQ9IAAZdxbyIDyFxCxrMRynVJveSm_GMD6tJd5c/fill/650/0/ce/1/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWR1/emEuaW8vaW1hZ2Uv/YXR0YWNobWVudHMv/aW1hZ2VzLzAwMC8w/MTQvMTgwL29yaWdp/bmFsLzBJWXd4dHNB/Z2dWeFMyb3pMYmEy/aEEuanBn.webp

You get to go to manly tea parties now!

Find torrent links off of piratebay and paste them into QBit Torrent to download whatever. To avoid your ISP from finding out use a VPN. I use NordVPN but there’s a bunch of VPNs that all do the same thing. The good ones cost ~$20/yr and don’t be cheap and use a free one.

Dox update part II, they actually published an 80 page pdf file with every ICE employee

god good, it's real

cc: /u/pacificus_76

I actually worry deeply for you trying to make it through that book. I don't want to hear about an Italian man being found dead in Switzerland after excessive facepalming.

This supposedly supposed to be a book about linguistics right? On language

Idi Amin was literally one of the most brutal dictators of Africa. Being American is not equivalent to leading the third reich. My god I thought Bernie was a moron. Noam makes him look like an intelligent man who argues only in good faith. It's really a wonder how he's respected by so many despite these unprompted ridiculous takes in unrelated spaces such as his actual field like linguistics.

It really is great, proof that the internet allowing any random person to write and publish stuff has its upsides. It's been published in book form too, but this version is inferior since it doesn't have the post-war timeline

I've been reading about Haitian history in my spare time. I highly recommend this book. It's 25 years old, but it's the definitive big-picture history of Haiti. Reading it feels like reading a Shakespearean tragedy.

Moralizing time: more than any other country in the Americas, Haiti deserves the USA's support. A lot of Haiti's trouble stems from the fact that for its first century of independence, America's Southern elite opposed recognizing a republic of slaves who had freed themselves. A newborn country's first years are critical for whether it will eventually become prosperous and free, and a large, hostile, rich neighbor is a terrible handicap.

This doesn't excuse the Haitian ruling class, nor the harm that "Emperor" Dessalines did (to all of his subjects), nor the Dominican Army's crimes under Trujillo. But the USA had a role in Haiti's stagnation and isolation. And between the DR and the USA, it's obvious which country has more potential to help.

This is Ahmed Rashid erasure.

The cummies at GamingCircleJerk got big mad when I suggested reading his book in their "Donate to Afghan refugees" thread. I suppose I also could've told them what America coulda done to prevent the refugee crisis.

Speaking of books I've currently got to read before getting to Rauch...

I'm reading The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure right now and this is the most prior confirming book I've ever read.

Hetzel is a Fed economist who is a hardcore monetarist, believing that contractionary monetary policy is the root cause of everything in the business cycle. While the book says it's about the Great Recession, it actually touches on macro history across the world and going a century back, with a special focus on the Great Contraction.

It's a really good book and covers a lot more material than the title suggests.

I didn't ask for college level reading Monsieur.

I was hoping for something more akin to this: https://www.amazon.com/Think-BIG-Kick-Business-Life/dp/B000XSAXWY/ref=sr\_1\_3?dchild=1&keywords=Donald+J.+Trump&qid=1631657814&s=audible&sr=1-3

>Suharto was incredibly violent but (at least according to Empires at War) the communists were likely to have reached similar if not worse levels of violence had they won.

Bloody hell. very interesting. is this the book you are referring to?

I agree regarding the violence of pol pot and/or mao. I was thinking more about the leftist militias vs rightist militias.

I think you're the same guy I got into that back and forth over Prots with.

This is the same situation lol, everything I know comes from one book: History of Japan; and I just so happened to just read the part that talks about how Tendai and Shingon Buddhism subsumed Shinto cults, which only re-emerged somewhat artificially in the 19th century as part of the birth of modern Japanese nationalism.

Some Catholic saints are absolutely Christianized pagan spirits and deities, though.

something like this?

It is indeed a very good book. I'm not finished yet but I've already bought a physical copy.

I also listened immediately before this one to Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires. It's even better. Perhaps one of the best history books I've ever gone through. And I read a lot of history. Highly recommend, if you haven't read it.

Whenever I run while carrying a gun I usually look like this

But seriously, if you do want to run and carry, I recommend a belly band. Comfort Tac made the best one a year ago; I'm not as up to date on the belly band market, but they're still a safe bet. Surprisingly inexpensive, which is nice to boot.

I used this textbook for PDE's and thought it was pretty good https://www.amazon.com/Applied-Partial-Differential-Equations-Boundary/dp/0130652431

And this for complex analysis and wasn't the biggest fan https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Complex-Analysis-Jerrold-Marsden/dp/1464152195 *changed to shorter link

For Abstract the textbook my class used was garbage so i won't recommend it.

Hello liberals, liberals-in-denial, and gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa.

What are we reading this week?

I'm reading the deep lore and will be starting The Case for Democracy later.

Amazon has some corn cobs that look pretty cool.

Personally I’d go with one of these.

Local or state subreddits are incredibly cucked.

this reminds me, my friend bought Apocalypse Never because even him, as a lib, was so fed up with this climate change extinction rhetoric

dPop, i forgot to tell you. i finally got the book by del noce, but an awful Spanish translation that made it unreadable. I also got this and it looks pretty good, the book starts with quotes by de Tocqueville, Dostoyevsky and Mickiewicz, but I haven't started it yet as I've fallen inside the kant rabbit hole and that will keep me busy.

I have the 2012 edition, it even shows where he crossed out and rewrote each part

Take this with a Roman soldier's yearly salary worth of salt.

Bush's admin came in with a much more domestic focus and quite a realist outlook on foreign policy matters. Obviously 9/11 changed that quite a bit. This is where it took an idealist turn. The Case For Democracy by Sharansky was quite influential (on my nightstand to read) and pushed Bush towards a strong democratic peace theory framework coupled with moral obligations to do so. Domestically Bush was still pretty conservative but in that evangelical strain.

Kristol was mainly concerned with the detached nihilism that started sprouting up mid 20th century from the New Left, but also in modern culture in general. The threat of communism from the USSR provided an external force that the neocons used as kind of a way to tackle domestic issues in addition to the obvious external threat.

The toxic social media discourse, the endless barrage of political shitposting, and deification of politicians is late stage American civic religion

I mean really?

Just ordered America on Trial, a defense of the Founding. I listened to a podcast interviewing Reilly here and after going in kind of skeptical about it, I have to admit it really got my atention (Reilly is an erudite and has factoids to spare). Very interesting, Ill be comenting when Im done with it.

Pd: i also bought nelsons theology of liberalism and the virtue of nationalism as my kindle is not longer working :/ u/brownguyinnewengland u/ow-pointy

watch tough german DESTROY empiricist math with LOGIC

even if everytime you put 2 apples with 2 apples, another one magicaly appeared, 2 + 2 would still be 4.

I'm just saying, they seem to put to much trust in their own methods while being dismissive of the obvious limitations, like that not all samples are representative, in fact I recently read a poll they did in which they tried to prove that non response bias had little effect on poll results, and the way they did it was by calling people again who had turned down the survey the first time, and then asking them what they're political beliefs were, all that tells me is that the less then 10% of Americans who DO answer polls nowadays are slimier to the people who don't feel like it the moment they're first called.

Not to mention the fact that they almost never factor in the possibility that most Americans either don't care, or don't have an opinion on every given political issue they're asked about. (Which you can read about in this book here > The Illusion of Public Opinion: Fact and Artifact in American Public Opinion Polls: Bishop, George F.: 9780742516458: Amazon.com: Books )

And then there's this really interesting article by Richard Seymour I found recently on this very topic, The polling industry doesn’t measure public opinion – it produces it | Richard Seymour | Opinion | The Guardian

Here's an excerpt -

"Yet, what do polls actually measure? In 1947, as modern polling was becoming a major industry, researchers canvassed American public opinion on something called the “Metallic Metals Act”. No such act existed, metallic metals being akin to ironic irony, or tautologous tautology. But 70% of respondents took a firm view for or against. They weren’t stupid: they were just acting as most of us do in an interview situation, under pressure to have definite views about something of which we may be uncertain, conflicted or even ignorant. "

Any recommendations for good content on Netflix or Amazon Prime?

I’d personally recommend

• The Prize: An Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
• China: Power and Influence

I use Feather Razors, they’re cheap and have worked well for me. I used to just use bar soap with a shaving brush but now I’m trying out these shaving cream pucks and it’s been slightly better since it forms more of a lather.

You're not guilty, you can't afford to make bail, you don't want to lose your job or your kids so you take the plea for time served to avoid waiting for your trial and potentially be found guilty and getting a much longer sentence.

Here's a book about it.

> I am fully aware that the cia idiots who conducted this shit think they are God’s gift to intelligence, they aren’t

Lol when did this sub become Anti-CIA?Amazing. Here from a Non-CIA "Idiot"

> They never cooperated they just gave up a small amount of info

Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong, You're wrong, You're wrong, You're wrong, You're wrong

You are ready, padawan learner

Edit: And then I thought, weeeelll, not everyone likes academic writing like me. So here's some more bite-sized Irving Kristol stuff.

> Hauls our Richard Pipes's Russian Revolution.