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Jon Stephenson's avatar

I've never heard of pirate wires. Is that a substack, a website, a podcast?

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daiva's avatar

All of these things 😏 A product(s) of exquisite author collective; be sure to check it out --> piratewires.com 👌

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Cyn's avatar

Please provide link to pirate wires!

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daiva's avatar

My pleasure 😊 --> piratewires.com 🔥

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Jon Stephenson's avatar

It appears to be a substack. I went there and sampled the latest article. Thoughtful and nuanced, but I'm not sure I can buy into it.

"I took the shot, twice, and consider its underlying technology to be an exciting technological breakthrough..."

I reflexively don't trust anyone who says he took the jabs without the statement being immediately followed by unequivocal regret and mea culpa.

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daiva's avatar

Strict purity tests narrow the epistemic horizons immensely—to our own detriment, nobody else's 😏

PS Did you miss podcasts there? 😲

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Jon Stephenson's avatar

True, in principle. I'll hear anybody out who has a civil point of view, but as far as choosing news and commentary to rely on regularly, one has to have some firm standards. Clear renunciation of the covid jabs is my standard. Anti-mandate is not enough.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

One has to pick carefully and wisely. There are only so many hours in a day.

Big push there. Why?

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daiva's avatar

An opening again to quote my beloved wall-of-text comment (ages well; h/t @ForestDi56) 😊

🗨 [the majority of folks] do hear your data and proofs. But in order to accept those as truth they must also accept that their docs are liars and their governments are monsters, which means their parents and teachers were wrong, and that science can't be trusted anymore, including those proofs and truths, and that this has been going on for a long time.

↑↑ proves way too much for too many to absorb and make peace with 😟

🗨 So, be kind. Be very grateful that you can see more truth than most.[...] And if you can handle that, be grateful for that as well. And patient and non-judgemental for those who can't. You, and others like you, are an anomaly in the overall human condition.

cjhopkins.substack.com/p/news-from-cj-hopkins-and-consent-2fd/comment/11451522 👌

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Freebird's avatar

This quote!

“So, be kind. Be very grateful that you can see more truth than most.[...] And if you can handle that, be grateful for that as well. And patient and non-judgemental for those who can't. You, and others like you, are an anomaly in the overall human condition.”

Thanks for sharing it! 😊

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daiva's avatar

All the more reason to be wary of echo chambers 🙂 Everyone and zer cousin has idiosyncratic blind spots. Especially when subjected to the mother of all psy-ops.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

There's a big push towards Tokmak and another village which control the roads to liberate Melitopol.

Ukraine almost has those.

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daiva's avatar

Huh, d'ya experience an acute scarcity of detractors here? recruiting again? 😂

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Detractors? No.

No matter what my posts still show up here.

People will look and see the truth. Just like when I told friends to not get the covid shot because it was unproven, unknown safety, and likely a scam.

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daiva's avatar

We're lucky to have you here, sporting these divine powers to discern past the layers upon more layers of notoriously thick not-war fog! With spacetime granularity down to days and homestead names to boot!

Thanks to your rock-solid trustworthiness established in covid wars, now we know better than to doubt your words.

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TB's avatar

Tokmak? You mean that one town that's just short of the FIRST russian defensive fortification line, of which they have at least three?

Yes, Ukraine are making some gains, but it doesn't look nearly enough to actually succeed in this offensive. Pushing a one-sided narrative does nobody any good.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

They've already punched through the first 2 lines. That's what the SSO raid was doing. Those were rear echelon guys running around getting smoked without their rifles.

The thing is pro-Soviets like Jeff claimed the counter offensive would never happen. Putin's magical Kinzhals (which the designers have been arrested for, by the way) destroyed it all.

This isn't going to be like Kharkiv. It's going to be like Kherson, except Russia has had months and months to dig trenches and prepare.

A russian counter attack along a road going to Luhove ran into fields of fire from ATGMs and artillery from the 128th Mountain assault brigade. 25 russian tanks and AFVs along with hundreds of men died.

But not a peep from jeff or the pro-soviet crowd.

This is not going to be like Kharkiv where 8 Ukrainian light brigades (Including the international legions) penetrated russian lines and went on an orgy of violence so bad the elite russians dudes were like "F this blyat" and ran as fast as they could back to the border. That took 8 days and liberated so much land from the grip of Moscow and Putin. It's going to be a painful, slow, and steady slog towards the sea of Azov, melitopol, and Mariupol, like the Kherson offensive was-8 weeks of hard fighting against elite troops (VDV and Spetznaz) who are pretty dang good.

But like the SSO raid shows, the Russians aren't that good at some things but good at others.

Tomak is a bit farther down than that.

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daiva's avatar

🗨 The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally—not a 20 percent traitor. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

NB! After a moment of hesitation, decided to leave the source out. Lest the author fails to clear the credibility bar 🤭

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Ellen's avatar

I read PW also, Daiva, and also get a mixed bag of info from Peak Prosperity insiders member group. If I had to agree with every single thing Jeff says here every day I wouldn't be able to read it. Same goes for pretty much anyone. Take what you need and leave the rest. :)

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daiva's avatar

Dr Tim Morgan taught me the economics proper, single-handedly! 🤩

His Surplus Energy Economics (bylined The home of the SEEDS economic model) is one treasure trove 💯 --> surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com

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Credenda's avatar

Peak Prosperity was great during early COVID. I got most my info there but eventually it reverted back to its original goals of financial preparedness etc. and then went pricey subscriber only. So I had to leave . It’s a great site but with the explosion of substack authors I don’t miss it much.

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SusanMc's avatar

I prefer reading to podcasts

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Cyn's avatar

Thank you!

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