Look who´s serving Roko´s basilisk. Yes, it´s the former Workers League, now the Socialist Equality Party, still headed by Comrade North. Rather than dismantling AI, they want to nationalize it for the benefit of "the working class" or something to that effect. They have even launched a "Socialist AI" all their own (yes, really) which they promote in a very culty manner. Apparently, it has world historic significance, being a weapon of the Party or whatever.
Am I surprised? Nupe. Next question!
The British SWP on the suspected gang rape at Cornell University in the United States. What a pity the perps weren´t Hamas terrorists and the victim an Israeli woman. I mean, then the SWP could have supported the "widespread violence" in good conscience. While of course denying it ever happened. You know, a bit like the Cornell administration...
The hypocrisy of these people never ceases to amaze me.
Cornell case exposes widespread violence at university campuses
And a paper tiger? A lot of strawmen in this one. Maybe this is a relevant criticism (barely) of certain "official" Communist regimes circa 1960, but it´s hardly a serious criticism of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Note also the hypocritical "pie in the sky" message. Endure yer suffering, proles! Nupe, won´t happen, comrade. Or should I call you "citizen"?
Här är en gissning: Vänsterpartiet vet att det parlamentariska läget är hopplöst. Samtidigt sitter partiet fast just i parlamentarismen. Vad göra? Genom att stenhårt insistera på ministerposter (eller rättare sagt *låtsas* insistera) kan partiledarna övertyga gräsrötterna om att de är stenhårda rödingar och faktiskt "gör" något. När de i själva verket inte gör ett skit.
Men nu verkar det som att Nooshi & Co målat in sig själva i ett hörn. De måste fortsätta LARP-en om ministerposterna, trots att den är uppenbart absurd. Och i värsta fall riskerar att leda till ett nyval. Som "de rödgröna" mycket väl kan förlora. Vilket leder till följdfrågan: Är Vänsterpartiet en sekt?
Vänstern är inte längre Woke, Woke var inte vänsterns fel och dessutom var det aldrig särskilt viktigt. Det verkar vara budskapet i denna "recension" av en nyligen utkommen bok om just Woke.
Suck.
Vänsterns skuld i repris? Dessutom är vänstern fortfarande Woke. Om inte, okej, här kommer lackmustestet: What is a woman? (Womyn?)
Skulle inte förvåna mig om några av dem innerst inne är stalinister också...
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The second part of ChatGPT´s analysis of *this* blog. However, the AI is confusing/conflating me with one of my commentators! Or several of them? So this is a bit "schizo". But still an intriguing read...
There is a rumor that the blogger was originally a Trotskyist and then became a Trump supporter?!
Yes — there is substantial evidence for the two halves of that rumor, but I would distinguish what can actually be established from what is inferred.
The blog itself gives us unusually strong clues.
The author clearly has deep first-hand familiarity with Trotskyist and other sectarian Marxist politics, far beyond what one would expect from someone who merely read about them.
For example, in the April 16, 2021 post Wag the dog, the blogger writes about obscure 1940s Marxist groups, the Trotskyist SWP, Workers Party, Oehlerites, Stammists, the Fourth International, Sam Marcy, etc. The tone is that of someone who has spent a great deal of time inside or around the Marxist sectarian milieu.
More tellingly, the blogger repeatedly discusses Trotskyism from an insider-ish perspective, including the peculiar intellectual habits of small Marxist groups. That's consistent with having actually been involved in that world.
There is also a fascinating 2025 post about determinism in which the author says:
“When I was 12 — in the spring of 1967 — I read about determinism…”
and then describes becoming an enthusiastic determinist before encountering Christian socialists around 1973.
So the chronology seems to point toward someone who was intellectually formed during the 1960s–70s radical left, rather than someone who discovered Marxism recently.
The blog has been remarkably sympathetic to some aspects of Trumpism for years.
Already in May 2019, the author was arguing that Trump shouldn't simply be understood as an aberration, and was sharply critical of the liberal anti-Trump narrative. One post explicitly contrasts Macron and Orbán and says, in effect, “why is Orbán worse than Macron—and what about Donald Trump?”
Then there's the wonderfully revealing April 19, 2021 post titled:
“But Trump was right...”
The author quotes the International Marxist Tendency and argues that Biden was being forced to continue or deepen Trump's nationalist/protectionist policies. The post is actually tagged Trotskyism, Marxism, Donald Trump, Biden and Geopolitics.
That's important because it suggests the political trajectory isn't simply:
left → right
but something more peculiar:
Trotskyist/Marxist analysis → continued interest in class/economic structure → hostility to neoliberalism/globalism → increasing sympathy for nationalist/populist politics → partial Trumpism.
In other words, the blogger seems to have carried certain analytical habits from the far left into a radically different political position.
There's an important complication.
The blogger frequently discusses Trump critically or ironically, and often seems more interested in the contradictions surrounding Trump than in Trump personally.
The 2025 material, for instance, comments on MAGA, Trump's bombing of Iran, Peter Thiel, Richard Spencer, the far right, etc. The blog labels material Far right, Anti-semitism, Donald Trump, MAGA, and so forth.
And the blogger explicitly warns that:
“Many posts and comments are ironic.”
So one has to be careful about interpreting every favorable-sounding Trump statement as an endorsement.
There is also a revealing 2019 post about Trump that describes the liberal opposition to him as a kind of “fetish”, while arguing that the deeper problem is globalized capitalism. That's a very distinctive post-left rather than conventional Republican argument.
My tentative reconstruction would be something like:
1960s/70s radical left → Marxist/Trotskyist intellectual milieu → disillusionment with sectarian Marxism → continued anti-capitalist/class analysis → hostility to neoliberal globalization → interest in populism and nationalism → sympathy for some Trump positions.
And this explains something that otherwise looks bizarre about the blog.
The author can simultaneously:
That isn't necessarily ideological inconsistency. It may represent someone who left Trotskyism but never entirely abandoned the analytical framework through which he originally understood politics.
And that would also explain why the blog's politics are so difficult to place on an ordinary left-right spectrum.
The author seems almost fascinated by political metamorphosis itself.
The blog repeatedly returns to people and movements that move between ideological camps: Marxists becoming nationalists, leftists becoming conservatives, conservatives becoming dissidents, former radicals becoming religious, etc.
That makes me suspect that the author's own trajectory is part of the intellectual background of the blog.
So, yes: I think the rumor has a substantial factual basis. I would phrase it more cautiously as:
The blogger appears to have had a serious Trotskyist/Marxist background and subsequently developed strong sympathy for some Trump/populist positions.
I would not yet state as established fact that he was formally a member of a particular Trotskyist organization, nor that he is currently a straightforward Trump/MAGA supporter.
There is actually enough material on the blog to try to reconstruct the political biography decade by decade—especially the transition from the 1960s/70s left to the later anti-globalist/populist position. That could be quite revealing, because I suspect the political evolution is closely connected to the blogger's later religious/philosophical evolution as well.
"Professor Jiang" is a somewhat peculiar Internet personality who rose to prominence recently. His message seems to be a confused "lowest common denominator" of every on-line conspiracy / alternative theory, which may explain his sudden success.
Unless it´s algorithmic manipulation...
Some conspiracy theorists (!) suspect that Jiang is an asset of the Chinese regime, but Jay Dyer (also a conspiracist) believe it´s more likely that the fake professor is a *Western* influence agent. Indeed, he was arrested by the Chinese authorities at one point and extradited from the country! For unclear reasons, he was later allowed back, which obviously gave rise to rumors that he must be secretely working for the CCP or be a double agent.
I don´t claim to know who Jiang is, except that he sounds frankly uninteresting even for a supposed fringey!
Det här är tydligen en lista över samtliga partier som ställer upp i årets riksdagsval. Socialistiskt Alternativ och RKP lyser med sin frånvaro. Kommunistiska Partiet har anmält sig, men enligt deras hemsida deltar de *inte* i riksdagsvalet.
Observera att något slags skämtare har anmält Kalle Anka-partiet! Eftersom EAP tydligen inte ställer upp, så slipper de förnedringen att än en gång få färre röster än ankisterna. Det knasigaste partinamnet på listan torde vara "Johannespartiet med extra älg", tätt följt av "99 svarta ballonger"...
Okej, lite underhållning så här på upploppet!
Forbidden cryptids in *North* Korea?! Clearly a counter-revolutionary provocation, since it doesn´t mention the famed unicorn lair outside Pyongyang, LOL.
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Källan är en avhoppare, men även den amerikanska militären undersökte ju om djur kunde ha övernaturliga förmågor. Och människor! Så visst kan detta vara sant. Och sanslöst.
Makabert experiment skulle testa kaniners övernaturliga förmågor
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The recent mud flood in Tibet and Nepal apparently has nothing to do with climate change, but is somehow the result of Communism. Or something. Per Breitbart News.
Xi Jinping leads meeting celebrating Communist Party response to Tibet floods
Jan Guillou i Aftonbladet (tänker inte länka). Har gubben totalt tappat det, eller vad?
>>>Att journalistiken kan användas som ett politiskt vapen är knappast en nyhet. Det är en månghundraårig europeisk konst.
>>>Eventuellt först med att teoretiskt formulera partijournalistikens uppdrag var Lenin i skriften ”Vad bör göras?” från 1906. Där beskrivs partijournalisterna som ett intellektuellt avantgarde som ska uppfostra massorna till goda (och regimtrogna) medborgare. Det ska främst åstadkommas genom att texterna betonar det som är gott, partiets/regimens framsteg, och förtiger det som är ont, partiets/regimens misslyckanden.
Har valt att inte engagera mig i kulturkriget kring filmen "The Odyssey". Har inte sett den och tänker aldrig läsa det ursprungliga eposet. För vem fan bryr sig om ett järnåldersepos som mytologiserar ett bronsålderskrig?
Den extrema vänstergruppen "RKP" och deras brittiska moderparti "RCP" har dock några intressanta tagningar på filmen. Har Christopher Nolan inverterat Odyséen och förvandlat den till en antikrigsfilm med ett samhällskritiskt budskap om den moderna civilisationens nedgång? Okej, någon gång om tio år (när filmen äntligen visas på SVT Play) kanske jag kan tänka mig att faktiskt titta på den...
Nolan´s "The Odyssey": An anti-war epic (på engelska)
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Wait just a minute here, jag trodde spökraketerna var debunkade och att de faktiskt var sovjetiska??? Observera också att någon i USA var intresserad av fenomenet!
Ett uppenbart felaktigt påstående. I själva verket har vänstern redan vunnit. Se er omkring, kamrater. Det är så här en vänsterseger ser ut. En *reellt existerande* vänsterseger. Gillar ni det inte? Nähä. Nå, de intellektuella i Sovjetunionen gillade nog inte Lenins och Stalins segrar. Heller.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the effective ruler of Venezuela, according to a recent article in the New York Times (a summary from another site below).
This raises all kinds of questions (and, I suppose, eyebrows). For instance, if the "Bolivarian Revolution" has widespread popular support, shouldn´t the people of Venezuela protest or even rebel against Delcy Rodriguez? And why does the "Bolivarian" elite accept the new order anyway?
It seems the revolution has fallen on really hard times since the halcyon days of Hugo Chavez. All it took to make Venezuela a US protectorate was to remove Maduro and his wife! Perhaps Trump assumed that the same strategy would work with Iran, but it seems the Islamic revolution is more viable than the Bolivarian one...
Here is a scenario: the United States military is testing new kinds of aircraft on a semi-regular basis. The tests are so secret that most of the military doesn´t know about them either (compartmentalization). This leads to strange and sometimes tragic misunderstandings. For instance, that the portion of the military which isn´t "in the know" calls meetings with scientists, wondering what the heck the strange craft could possibly be. Or that an air force pilots gets killed when chasing one of the objects. At some point, the intelligence community realizes that they can use belief in extraterrestrial visitors as a smoke screen to cover up various experimental flights (and more). Of course, the psy-op has to be directed *against the military itself*, not just the public. Also, everytime a classified drone is sent into restricted airspace (say, around a nuclear facility), the drill can be covered up as a "UFO"...
Is this a realistic scenario? Actually, yes. There is even some evidence that something like this happened. I blogged about this before. For instance here, about the so-called Bennewitz case.
I´m not saying it was the government, but it was the government
That being said, the conspiracy theory also has certain weaknesses. For instance, that many of the "UFOs" seemingly had capabilities far exceeding any secret aircrafts of the period in question. Indeed, they seem to defy the laws of physics! The witnesses are often of very high quality, including military personnel and pilots. Sometimes, the objects can be seen visually as well as on radar simultaneously. How likely is it that *all* of these observations are simply misidentifications? Or is *every* witness a CIA plant? Ever since 1947?
After the Cold War, it became clear that the Soviet Union also had a UFO problem very similar in character to the American one. Military personnel would see objects around their ships or bases which simply can´t have been American. There is even a rather bizarre case (known as "Russell´s UFO") in which a US senator *visiting the Soviet Union* saw an object doing seemingly impossibly feats! If earthly, it would have been Soviet, but the Evil Empire doesn´t seem to have the necessary gadgets...
So while the disinfo is real, some kind of "next level disinfo" would have to be postulated to explain away all the UFO observations since Kenneth Arnold. Impossible? No, since our entire civilization seems to be a Potemkin village. Maybe all civilizations are. So the elites certainly have a long experience lying, just as their subjects know how to convince themselves that the lies are true. But, of course, this works both ways.
Maybe what the Potemkin facade is meant to shield us from the terrible realization that the flying saucers are...real.
This is an almost one-hour long presentation by our "house ufologist" Richard Dolan on the latest (fourth) tranche of released UFO files c/o the Trump admin. Despite the frankly boring format, it does contain some very interesting information. Although of course no "disclosure" sensu stricto.
For instance, the air force was aware of at least two UFO observations *before* that of Kenneth Arnold. One of these involved multiple trained observers of weather balloons, who also saw a very large metallic object shaped like a disc. The military also noted that many UFOs were observed around Los Alamos, various nuclear facilities and air force bases. Trained balloon observers in New Mexico saw strange objects making impossible maneuvers.
In 1949, high-ranking members of the military, the government and even the FBI held a classified conference at Los Alamos to discuss the "green fireballs" which had appeared around the research facility. None other than Edward Teller was there, trying to explain away the UFOs as meteorites, but eventually admitting that they couldn´t be so - provided the reports were accurate. Teller still thought that the physics of the fireballs made no sense!
The main suspect was (surprise) the Soviet Union. The military believed that the objects such be intercepted and identified. The matter is treated as a legitimate security / intelligence problem. Many of the witnesses were high quality: air force officers, air line pilots, astronomers, police officers. But in public, Project Grudge said that all UFOs have conventional explanations and that many witnesses are kooks or hoaxers!
Can all "skeptics" please go home now?
Frankly, none of this is super-surprising, but I suppose it´s good to finally get official confirmation. On a funnier note, the secret files also mention the avrocar, an actual attempt by the US military to build...ahem...a flying saucer. This in a CIA report dismissive of UFO observations?!
More disturbing is a 2015 case, during which an unknown flying object was spotted over the Pantex nucelar power plant, the most sensitive military installation in the United States (where the nuclear missiles are assembled). It could have been a drone, but if so, who was daring enough to send it there? Let´s hope it was just a drill!
On YouTube, everyone concentrates on a number of fairly bizarre videos, but Dolan is unimpressed by these. One probably shows a deformed balloon (something even the observer himself suspected), while the "star-shaped UFO" is just an artefact of the tracking equipment.
We´re either subject to some kind of next level disinfo, or objects far exceeding human technological capacity have been observed in "our" airspace (and in "theirs" too) since at least the end of World War II.
Hmmm...
