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Jordan Peterson says pineapple doesn't belong on pizza so I guess I have to like it now.

Well, said. He's probably a corpse by this point.

and that’s coming from the guy who started the Infamous foods of the Great Lakes Megalopolis thread

wish I had posted my thoughts in one of the pizza threads

lol xxp+xp was trying to respond to myself. I am not Jordan Peterson

I am not Jordan Peterson

New board description.

the montreal pizza was in the basement of a building somewhere between university and parc circa prince-arthur

also this was 25 years ago lol sorry

i don't even remember the details other than it was grebt

During the summer, putting a slice of lime in a double IPA is a good idea and fine

If you are accustomed to thinking about neurodiversity issues and have to juggle a lot of acronyms in your head on a daily basis, it’s OK if your “system 1” thinking (in kahneman-tversky nomenclature) frequently jumps from “BIPOC” to “bipolar indigenous people of color” and you have to practice the proper expansion to ensure you don’t fuck it up and look like a crazy asshole

ok

Should have made a new thread for “dumbass personal acronym problems” and put it there

how many acronym problems do u have tombo

99 but a BIP ain't one

You can’t talk to me about acronym problems until you know how to pronounce “time phased force deployment data” in two syllables

And/or help me with pronouncing “quality service management organization” in two syllables- it’s quiz-mo or kyu-smo, I think

I have too many acronym opinions to contain here; a thread would barely do the topic justice.

Not least because I still observe the quaint distinction between an acronym (NATO, NASA) and an initialism (FBI, BLT)

xxp tipfud I'd guess

tipfid

seize all Catholic hospitals for the state

Seize the state for the catholic church

If i lay down rat poison nad it turns out to be borrowers will i regret it?

all Catholic churches and property portfolios too

first we need a 'state' that will not immediately sell them to the highest bigger their besties.

Trump’s not a russian asset, he is a CIA asset. From the outside his “money pit” businesses, like the golf courses, and mysterious loans suggest a money laundering operation. People have long speculated that he is cleaning money for russian oligarchs to finance his lifestyle. I think he was laundering money for the CIA that they use for their “off the books” operations. (cf Iran-Contra). This is why Mueller inexplicably didn’t look into Trump’s finances. It would expose the intelligence community, not just Trump; Trump knows it, which is why he taunted these people all the time from the start.

good one

it's def saudi arabian and russian mobsters though

trump being a cia asset would explain why they haven't killed him yet

treeship come back down the air is very thin up there

Treeshiver Stone

Just think about it.

I don’t think the intelligence community likes him at this point. I think there are just deep links there which is why he was so blase about dissing them early on—they held no mystique for him whatsoever.

Also, him being in bed with the cia doesn’t mean he isn’t also linked to saudi and russian oligarchs. The picture is muddy, not clear. But I don’t think he was ever in the pocket of a foreign power—it makes more sense to see him as, like epstein, some kind of cia asset that they formally keep at arm’s length.

interesting tbh

treeship, this strikes me as kinda plausible -- have you read anything in particular that suggested connections between trump and the intelligence community?

i confess i'm a sucker for "cia did it" conspiracies because like 75 percent of the time there's *something* to them

^^ i confess to silently wondering to myself "i wonder if the CIA will kill him"

j.d., i haven't read anything to that effect. just trying to fill in some gaps on my own. obviously this is just speculative, but a lot about trump doesn't add up.

I like this theory tbh

lol at this becoming the best trump thread suddenly

He disregards, or outright refuses, their work. He excludes them, undermines them, can't close his big fat mouth. For better or worse he's been working to replace the world order that gives them a purpose—strategic alliances and clear enemies in a state-based hegemony—with an intn'l network of personal business connections. They hate him.

he's just negging them

so not gonna happen

He disregards, or outright refuses, their work.

from the beginning, he seemed to know they were against his presidency. and why is that? just because they leaked the steele dossier? he seemed, right away, to know what that *meant*: he saw it as a first shot against him, but also seemed to know that they could never go against him for real. it was the casual way in which he dismissed the "deep state," before even taking office, that just seemed off to me and demanded an explanation.

i think he was familiar with this crowd and their tricks and knew that they too -- when it was convenient -- partook in the "international network of personal business connections." of all the different parts of the US empire, it was the intelligence community that he saw as the most hypocritical of all.

if trump was really as much of an outsider as he seemed, he would have seemed adrift when he got to washington, unsure of who his allies and enemies were. but he wasn't--he jumped right into it, antagonizing comey and all these other people.

my theory isn't that he is working hand in glove with the intelligence community today. it's more like, they have had a mutually beneficial business relationship for years, but one that is strained. and one outcome of it is that he feels he has leverage over them. it never made sense that he didn't try to fire mueller. the entire thing felt like a game of chicken, and then it was mueller at the end who blinked, basically.

Mueller’d FBI

‘s

i know he was fbi, but trump banked on the fact that he wouldn't blow up the cia's spot by uncovering the money laundering scheme. after the patriot act, don't the two agencies work together often anyway?

I think you’re reading logic and intentionality into Trump’s actions when there is no evidence of logic or intentionality ever driving him before.

I think you’re reading logic and intentionality into Trump’s actions when there is no evidence of logic or intentionality ever driving him before.

that's what the cia bet when they tapped him as an asset--the desperate "billionaire" who would do anything to keep up his lifestyle at a time when he was completely underwater.

in any case, i don't think my theory requires trump to be logical and cunning. he just needs to be someone who was at one point desperate and willing to get his hands dirty. and also someone who would have already been knowledgeable about the connections between organized crime and US intelligence--you know, able to move between those worlds. and this very much was trump. his mentor was roy cohn.

Trump was a game show host.