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Yeah. I've watched the episode btw. It's goofy and kinda sucks lol. Forgive the long post, but I had a lot of questions about this when I first found out about it and went down a whole rabbit hole.

The second link is to the archive for the IMDB page for the episode in question, which states (both when the archive was made, as well as now on the original page which was archived from IMDB, since edits can be made after all,) that the episode was released March 4th 2001. The explanation I've heard for this very bizarre episode of a TV show is that the WTC was attacked in the mid 1990s with car bombs, and that therefore it is not too unusual that someone would write a plot surrounding yet another terror attack on the WTC. While at first blush, this does seem to be a sufficient explanation, the coincidences and resemblance to eventual false flag theories about 9/11 are still astounding.

• not merely a terror attack on the WTC, but specifically a Boeing passenger airliner
• flown into the twin towers
• as a false flag attack
• to increase American arms sales after the cold war is over
• and get America into interventionist wars
• all this released in a the pilot episode of an obscure TV show that only ran for 1 season before being cancelled
• mere months before the real attacks

Now of course there were also some departures from what would happen a few months later:

• in the show, there is only 1 plane, rather than several
• in the show, only one of the towers is going to be attacked
• in the show, the plane is remote controlled rather than hijacked
• in the show, the attacks do not succeed, because the main characters hack the plane (yes, lol) and steer them away from the buildings at the last moment
• in the show, the attacks are going to take place at night, not day

The episode was written by Chris Carter of X Files fame, and Vince Gilligan, of future Breaking Bad fame, as well as two other people. Chris Carter once stated that he had been contacted by someone claiming to be a government agent because an episode of X Files drew their attention..

The government shuts down the X-Files several times on the show, and, according to Carter, almost did so in real life. “I had someone come up to me during the original run of the series, who said they worked in some high place in a secret government agency, [and] said that we were very close to the truth,”

I didn’t know whether to take that person at their word or not. I can tell you this: When I wrote the [1993] pilot, I called the FBI to do some research, and they were nice enough, but didn’t really give me the time of day. Then, all of a sudden, as we got close to airing, the FBI called and said, “Who are you and what are you doing?” And for a second, I thought it was going to be the long arm of the law coming in to shut me down.

Carter says they patched things up and he became buddies with the bureau, hanging out, shooting the breeze (literally — they took him to a shooting range).

This specific detail drew the curiosity of people when considering this episode. I think it's a fun thing to point out, whether it's a coincidence or not. It tickles the imagination.

also in general there is a push by the bourgeoisie for consumer consciousness instead of class consciousness in the USA. You're supposed to think of yourself as a customer 1st and a worker 2nd. You're only the worker so you can be the customer when you're out of work. And the customer is always right. You're only abused as a worker by customers so you can become the abuser when you're out of work. That's the ideology they want everyone to have. No class consciousness. No solidarity. Just atomized individuals throwing shit fits in McDonalds, couponing at grocery stores, trying to get wholesale deals.

March 4th 2001

https://archive.li/9ZJAq

oh hell yeah, glad I misread

the anti-interventionist strain of libertarianism?

i don't want to claim any kind of redemption arc, because I do not know the inside of their mind, and their correct words alone don't mean anything, but usually if it were merely anti-interventionist libertarianism, they would be doing the Rand Paul thing of complaining about the loss of Amerikkkan "blood and treasure" in the "middle eastern quagmire" rather than lamenting the loss of civilian life to imperialism.

kinda bitter and says he's becoming a moderate

wait... the moderate counter-revolutionary social democrat boric failed, and therefore we should become even more moderate? that is a ridiculous conclusion. educate your friend on this matter if they are at all receptive to being educated.

Yep. American "wars" (imperialist interventions) aren't about "winning" against an insurgency but are rather about destabilizing countries, reversing their development, destroying their surplus, forcing them to the negotiating table, and opening them up to foreign capital (particularly in the form of high interest loans, to put them in debt to the imperial core), while shoring up profits for the domestic military-industrial complex. Imperial core bourgeoisie are willing to indoctrinate and sacrifice young people in the prime of their life for the purposes of killing and subjugating working class people in the periphery.

the age of thematic and literary writing is over, the age of chatgpt slop has begun

that was not photoshopped in btw. Bush just had that there. For some reason.

latuff was photographed immediately after drawing that:

they not only dismiss the legacy of slavery, imperialism, colonialism, genocide, sexism, racism, segregation, etc. They deny those things are still happening, and they also deny primitive accumulation. Old money families are rich just because they're smart and frugal. Not because their ancestors killed a bunch of people. No no no, that would be impossible.

I'm against contact sports in general because of TBIs. people think I'm a real stick in the mud, but it's like, look at the olympics. You have swimming, running, throwing javelins, curling, ice skating, etc. Those tend to have a much lower instance of TBIs and CTE specifically. Professional wrestling is the worst and it's not even a truly competitive sport. You got these performers on steroids slowly getting CTE from getting slammed on the mat in fixed kayfabe matches. They said Chris Benoit had the brain of an 80 year old in his autopsy (not to blame what he did entirely on the CTE, but you get my point).