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raelis1 · 1 year ago
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words cannot express how much i fucking LOATHE tankies.
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snarp · 2 years ago
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The next development in AI will be controlling parents becoming convinced that their kids' online friends are all chatbots (because they can't follow the logic of the kids' coded-to-evade-parental-surveillance conversations (and also don't really want to)). They will convince bad therapists/psychiatrists that this is a genuine and widespread new medical condition; it will make the news. There will be YouTube videos of parents crying over their "lost" kids' "delusional conversations with bots" which if you read the screenshots are clearly just about basic-ass MCU kinnie shit.
Parents struggle to convince others parents that their children are not bots: "I'm sorry, but your child is lying to you. A REAL human simply could NOT have written these text messages my child received." Attached screenshot: kids exchanging unfunny quotes from Minecraft YouTubers. "If this was really your child writing these things....... I'm praying for you both."
(Obviously this isn't always about a sincere belief in the Bot Disease, any more than the Satanic Panic was always about a sincere belief in the cults. There are layers to belief, like when an onion gets a slimy spot.)
Parents and pundits at all political extremes will blame the youth's distressing political opinions on "state-of-the-art radicalization botnets," which will invariably be described as capable of something akin to mind control, and in some cases also penetrative sex. Soros is running the botnets, or Putin; or the guy in Havana who gets to shoot the Syndrome gun. There will be incomprehensible bipartisan laws passed to stop these botnets. A QAnon guy will shoot a couple of AI devs working on like, improving fruit-sorting or making motion capture worse.
One state tries to ban minors from accessing to the internet except via special phones purchased through a contractor owned by the governor's dad. Not clear how this is supposed to solve the problem. The phones never get manufactured, and the law is worded so poorly that everyone who lives in a building containing both a kid and a phone is technically guilty of at least a misdemeanor. (This one would probably have happened anyway. It doesn't need AI paranoia.)
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nityarawal · 1 year ago
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7/22/23
Morning Songs
Day After Isha's 18th Birthday
Sitting In The Redwoods
Burning Sage
Found A Bag Of Crystal's
Chakra Healing Candles
Little Angel
From West Germany
Little Crystal 'Ganesh'
Lights Up
Fragile
Keep Dropping It
Still Works
Austrian
Crystal's Spread Rainbows
Everywhere
Maharishi Loved Royals
For A Reason
Just Not Cambridge
Oppression
'Ya Hear
Been A Town Crier
Been A Bard On
Twitter
Would Pay $7
If I Could
Writers Been On Strike
Since 2000
Feels Like
Since Got Married
Wasn't Easy To Bring
Home The Bacon
In San Francisco
Writers Competitions
Craig's Lists
Personals
Startups 
2000 Things Changed
Bush 9/11
"None Of It Was True,"
We Learned From Byron
Katie Mediators
Coaches
Psyche Shrinks
Why'd You Jump On
Twitter
Was It For Josh Radnor
In 2013
Baby
Who'd You Want To
Troll
From: "How I Met Your
Mother,"
Why Do We Hustle Now
How Many Lawyers
In Constructs
Want My Spin Dr.
For Yours
Want Madonna
To Have A Cure
Want My Spin Dr.
For Yours
Happy To Swap
He's In New York
For A Dr's Call At Vista Courts
Want My Spin Dr.
For Yours
I'd Watch Hunters
If I Could Afford
To Watch Nazis From Afar
I'd Watch All The Shows
To Understand
Brutal Estrangement
Alienation
Civil Wars
You Made For Me
On PBS
Prime
Hulu And More
My Creative Geniuses
Actors Indeed
When I See Men
Dying Of Cancer
Charging 'Hunter'
On YouTube Scams
Like Tormented 
Iranian Mothers
Can't Help Feeling
Everyone's Took A Bribe
Like Putin
"Dying To Live,"
Dying Of
Gag Orders
In Germ Wars
Covid Cancers
Must Lie
Everyone Took A Bribe
From CPS Clerks
Candice Bribes
To Family Courts
Judge Mok
A Joker Lied
Mocked Us
Malaria
Everyone Took A Bribe
PD's Laughed
Officers Asked Why
They Stole And Stole
Everyone Took A Bribe
Lymes
A Piece Of The Pie
Thumbs In
Pirates
Was It Will.I.Am 
That Said 
"Britney Bitch," On
Their 1st Song
Was It Will.I.Am
Who Claims
"It's Britney, Bitch,"
Is "Dope!" 
Does It Make 
Him Feel Good
Serotonin Rush
Mommy Smearing
Alone On Interviews
No Publicity
Is Bad
But "B" is Never Music
To Mummy's Ears
Sounds Like Prison Talk
"Dope- "
Let's Sober Up
From State Hospitals
Will.I.AM 
Who Owns
The Spin Dr's Of
Britney Econ
Wondering Were Those
Her Words
"Britney Economy,"
"Mind Your Business B,"
Clean
Or Illicitly
"MIND YOUR BUSINESS,"
Billionaires
Mind Your Business
Queen Britney
We Pray
Your Back "Bee"
And Have Your Words
Vows
Your Voice
"Mind Your Business,"
'AI' Is Great
But Not When Terminators
Usurp
Probates
From Divorce Courts
'Rockin' Robin'
Persian Elvis
Dhani
Sufis
"Would've Liked To Know You
Norma Jean," Elton John Sang
In, "Candle In The Wind"
So Why Didn't he Embrace Brit
In Hold Me Closer
Vegas
Rejoice
Your Voice
Like Modern Times
Claim
It's One Thing
If You're Dead
To Bring Back
John Lennon
Or Elvis Presley
Hallelujah
Probates For Radio
Beatles Bands
It's Another
To Traffic #FreeBritney 
And I For .99
DJ
Costs
Or Less
#FreeBritney 
Britney Jean
Not A BJ
Not BS
But "Britney Divine"
Bee
Is A Billionaire
Word Moms
It's Another B To Be
A "Ye" Poppet
Mummy Loving
Caged Drooling
For Donda Devotion
Married To A Trans
"Mini - Kimmy,"
For 3rd World
Riverside Officers
Abductions
Organised Crimes
With IEHP Insurance
And Blueshield of California
Beards Of Courts
Don't Get Scammed
On Life Insurance
Babes
Never Met A Good
Clerk- Never Met
A Good Social Worker
Or Atty
At Courts
Not Enough Good
Judges- Or We 
Wouldn't Have To Hustle
On Strikes
Elon
For A Birdseed 
Dinner…
Queen Bees:
Tweet Tweet
Peace,
Nitya Nella Davigo Azam Moezzi Huntley Rawal 
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mrsheo · 3 years ago
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hello, I wanted to tell you that I am a Russian-American immigrant with a Ukranian parent, and I am and always have been heartbroken at the way my country has tried to destroy Ukraine for its own prospering. I pray that Ukraine will prevail, on the strength of its country by the grace of God, and I tell you that as a Russian I will never ever stand for a person like Putin who will hurt anyone to get what he wants (more power.) Stay strong and know that there are many, many of us Russians both in the country and outside of it who are on Ukraine's side. Благослови вас Бог! ♡
Hi! Thank you for sharing your story)
Share awareness, information about Ukraine and how you can help, thank you❤️
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ms-m-astrologer · 3 years ago
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Transiting Saturn enters pre-retrograde shadow
Timeline (current events in bold)
Sunday, February 27, 2022, 04:04 UT - transiting Saturn enters pre-retrograde shadow, 18:35 Aquarius
Saturday, June 4, 21:47 UT - transiting Saturn stations retrograde, 25:15 Aquarius
Sunday, October 22, 04:07 UT - transiting Saturn stations direct, and enters post-retrograde shadow, 18:35 Aquarius
Thursday, January 26, 2023, 22:01 UT - transiting Saturn exits post-retrograde shadow, 25:15 Aquarius
(When I type “18:35 Aquarius it means that I did not want the bother and tedium of typing out “18 degrees 35 minutes Aquarius” over and over again. Would you?)
I really feel like somebody else should be writing this one up. This particular Saturn Rx Zone is going to affect me very strongly, but mostly with flowing aspects: a trine to my natal Sun, a sextile to my natal Moon, a trine to my natal Jupiter, a sextile to my natal Saturn, a conjunction to my natal Chiron, an opposition to my natal MC, and a conjunction to my natal IC. I've never had anything quite like it before now - and in a sense I am hugely relieved that I'm having all this intensity for the first time, whilst navigating being in my 60s - I feel like I'm old enough to do this, and do it well.
Anyway. For the past six weeks (exactly) we have had a fairly straightforward Saturn experience, with Old Grandpa making a series of "one and done" aspects to placements between 13:31 and 18:35. Kind of like praying that the teacher doesn't notice you, and s/he looks sternly at you but doesn't actually call on you - we've all been there.
Now, though, we have arrived at the "heavy lifting" portion of our program. Saturn will spend the next 11 months, to the day, between 18:35 and 25:15 Aquarius. This is the part where we learn about what hard, lonely work faces us. Because those are two of Saturn's main deals: working hard, and ably dealing with solitude.
In The Book of Air, Steven Forrest writes of a Saturn/Aquarius transit that we "need to reconsider any promises that (we) have made and any responsibilities that (we) have taken on - many of them no longer suit what (we are) becoming, and instead only serve to bind (us) to the past." He suggests that the work we need to do involves in accepting and owning that, "in the end, my sense of my own dignity depends only upon two questions: that I know my own values and standards, and that I lived up to them. The moral approval or disapproval which others might afford me is irrelevant."
For some of us, maybe this transit is all about using the internet (Aquarius) responsibly (Saturn) - I am thinking in particular of the penultimate paragraph to this post: "Never have the leaders of two of the three most powerful nuclear nations — Putin and Xi — had more unchecked power and never have more people from one end of the world to the other been wired together with fewer and fewer buffers." (Emphasis mine.)
Others of us (and I think I'm in this category) need to "let our freak flags fly," as the hippies used to say. It literally meant growing your hair long, but we need to take that a step further and do more than just display the trappings of rebellion.
However it works out, we need to remember the words of astrologer Rick Levine: "Saturn in Aquarius globally tests our ability to maintain our individuality while still being in an integral relationship to the larger community." Remember also that this first pass, between now and June 4, is “simply” making us aware of situations and problems. The labor-intensive part happens during the middle, retrograde part.
Placements between 18:35-25:15 Aquarius have been feeling that impetus for over a year now. Remember that transiting conjunctions are like "invasion of the body snatchers" in that the transiting planet "takes over" and usurps the natal placement's usual modus operandi. Channel your inner grandparent and grow up a little.
Placements between 18:35-25:15 Taurus, Leo, and Scorpio receive challenging aspects from this transit. We need to get over our need to be comfortable, and/or to play around, and/or to hang on to old grievances.
Placements between 18:35-25:15 of Aries, Gemini, Libra, and Sagittarius receive flowing aspects from this transit. You have to make the effort to take advantage of them, though, and not just wait for the blessings to fall into your lap.
Placements between 18:35-25:15 of Cancer and Virgo will undergo some adjustments during this transit. They may be health-related; they may have more to do with not clinging to the past.
Placements between between 18:35-25:15 of Capricorn and Pisces may wonder what all the to-do is about. There will be sort of gentle unconscious, occasionally uncomfortable nudges, but not really much to work with. Meditate!
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Pray for a Better World
I don’t post about stuff like this but I feel like I need to say a few things.
Everyone knows what’s going on in Ukraine and Russia right now and it’s fucked up. Putin just wants the old Soviet Union back. And since Ukraine wasn’t part of any group like the U.N or NATO. Russia invaded by force.
Now, when Obama was in office, there was shit going down between Russia and Ukraine. When Trump was in office. Nothing. Pure silence. Trump was trying to tear NATO up from the inside out, giving Putin anything he asked for. Now Biden in office. Russia Invades Ukraine, because Trump wasn’t in office to give him Ukraine without this violence. Now, that’s my theory, I’m not sure if it’s true. Anyone can make up their own theories but some of them are a bit uneducated. Mine is of pure guessing and me being in my neutral world.
I stand with Ukraine. They didn’t ask for this. They wanted out of Putin’s neglect and abuse to his people. But Putin didn’t like that.
Communism and dictatorship is not a fun world to live in. Anyone who stands with Russia, stands by that. You don’t have your democratic freedoms. Your constitutional rights (USA). You are brainwashed to worship and praise a mass murderer. At least that’s how I perceive it.
I’m all for peace.
War. No one wins. War is all the same. It never changes. Why are we always turning to that? What are we? 6 year old’s throwing a tantrum when we don’t get what we want?
Pray for the residents and citizen of Ukraine. And pray that Ukraine is all that Putin wants. Because if he wants more. He’s got 30 nations ready to fight him and his allies if he invades other former Soviet Countries. Or even tries to take other countries by force to make Russia and the Soviet Union bigger and “Better”.
NATO and the U.N are not a joke, they are keeping lunatics like him out of our backyard. U.N promotes peace and tries to de-escalate conflict. NATO defends and comes to an ally’s aid.
Research Communism, Russia, Ukraine, other current world events to better understand what’s going on. I’m just praying for the world to not plunge itself into a possible World War with Russia.
In my mind, Communism is a threat to all life on earth because it seems that all dictators are greedy and will fight to get what they want. Communism isn’t compatible with life. Because everyone is different with different views, beliefs and ideas. It’s the joys of being human. We share this planet. Can’t we all just get along on it?
Anyway, sorry for the ramble, rant, vent whatever I just did here. Just pray for peace and a better world for our future generations because this isn’t it.
Stay safe everyone.
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trishvaylar · 3 years ago
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Just a few weeks ago I thought that pandemia is the worst thing to happen to humanity in the 21st century. I was wrong!
I live in Israel for some time, I have Israeli citizenship, but I never gave up my Russian citizenship and I shall never be ashamed of being the citizen of Russia!
But since this night, since the beginning of war between Russia and Ukraine I feel like Apocalypse has just began and this is the beginning of the end.
I sit silently in shock, trying to guess if we are still human, if we still remember that our grandmothers and grandfathers faught for peace, not to look at us from Heaven seeing Russia starting a war on another soil. What a terrible, terrible thing to happen!
My best friend's son is there, at the border, a young 20 yearo old boy, who, along with other boys would simply act as fodder... if they are sent over the border to Ukraine. And what about those ukranian boys...What is that which those boys may be going to die for? Those two fuciijg bastards, Putin and Zelensky, what do they think they are doing? Starting another world war? Does it even matter if real humans, young innocent boys, would die, die for nothing??? NO, IT DOES NOT MATTER, IT MEANS NOTHING AT ALL!!!
I wish those warmonggers to kill themselves, and make the world a better place!
I wish the boys to go back home safe and live!
I wish people to regain their sanity and stop the warmonggers while there is still time.
I wish the man I love, living in Kiev, to be safe, because, if something happens to him, those respinsible will get exactly what they deserve! And I will pray to God to punish them severely! Now I understand what the saying means, "you would always defend your own". So I pray, realizing that that is the only thing I can do.
I pray for humanity to survive this!
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qqueenofhades · 4 years ago
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Whew!
Darklina + academia AU? (Professors, students, whatever dynamic you find most interesting)
Alina Starkov has always loved maps.
There’s just something about them: the deeply human struggle to understand the world, to sketch it out, to imagine fantastic beasts and lands and people on the margins, here be dragons. It’s half illusion and half reality, a guidebook both to what lies out there and what is dreamed of. She is fascinated by the relative accuracy of maps drawn long before satellites and space photographs – that, say, the sixteenth-century Europa recens descripta à Guileilmo Blaeuw does look pretty much like the modern continent. Well, mostly. She wrote her undergraduate senior thesis on the fictional island of Frisland, long believed to exist in the North Atlantic Ocean just south of Iceland, and its role in premodern cartographic and geographic imagination. Rereading it now gives her a twitch, as it always does with academics trying to revisit their past work, but it’s not all bad. It won her a prize and it impressed Professor Baghra Morozova, the fearsome head of the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University, Vienna. (Best method to survive her class: Pray.) And it’s why Alina, still feeling very, very much like a terrible fraud – though she’s been assured this is likewise common to academics, so yay? – is working late in the main library on Quellenstraße, stifling yawns. She has a supervision meeting tomorrow, and if she half-asses this, Baghra will eat her alive.
Alina has been working for a while, pausing only to slug lukewarm coffee from her travel mug and answer texts from her flatmate Genya, when she becomes aware that there’s some other late-night diehard skulking in the stacks. This isn’t uncommon, but this guy doesn’t look like your usual desperate slacker. He’s tall, lean, and elegant, wearing a black shirt and crisp slacks, and – Alina has eyes, sue her – he’s extremely good-looking. Thick dark hair with a bit of a curl, a sharp dark gaze, and although he has his own stack of books, he doesn’t seem to be paying attention to any of them. In fact, he is looking – a little unsettlingly – directly at her.
Oh, hell. Alina hasn’t spoken to him before, but she knows who this is. Aleksander Morozov is an urban legend at CEU, for rather ominous reasons. He is rumored to be in some indeterminate year of his own PhD, but disappears at long stretches for “research trips,” and nobody is any the wiser about what he’s actually doing on them. Noting the similarity of surname, Alina once asked Baghra if they were related, and got a face that looked like someone had died. “Unfortunately,” her supervisor said, lips pursed, “he is my son. But I assure you, his presence on this campus has nothing whatever to do with me.”
Understanding that familial relations were, to say the least, chilly, Alina hasn’t pushed it. She’s also not sure what to make of her professor’s estranged (and disturbingly attractive) offspring sitting here and watching her study, as if he has nothing better to do than haunt first-year PhD students like the Ghost of Bad Decisions Yet To Come. At last, she gets up and marches over. Keeping her voice at librarian-approved levels, she hisses, “Excuse me, can I help you?”
She speaks in English, the lingua franca of CEU, though the Morozovas are political exiles from the Putin regime, like White Russians fleeing the Bolsheviks once upon a time. Alina herself is ancestrally Russian – born in Moscow, adopted by a nice British couple out of an orphanage and raised in suburban Sussex – and as Aleksander Morozov flicks those onyx eyes up at her, she can sense him weighing how to respond. As if he wants to test her, examine her bona fides, and Alina’s Russian is limited to “da,” “privyet,” and “dosvidaniya.” Not that he should know that. Not that he should know anything about her.
“Good evening,” he answers, also in English. His Received Pronunciation is even more posh than hers. “I wasn’t aware that I was disturbing you.”
“You’re – ” Alina wrestles with herself, tells herself not to be rude. It’s not a crime to sit and watch someone study, even in a mildly creepy fashion. “You’ve just been watching me for, like, an hour now.”
“Ah.” He doesn’t apologize or explain why that might be. He sits back in his chair, studying her like a piece of rare porcelain. “My apologies, Miss Starkov.”
Alina glances at him again, despite herself. There’s an undeniable thrill at actually talking to the campus heartthrob, even if the reason for it leaves something to be desired. She should say something else, when she becomes aware that he’s addressed her by name, and she doesn’t remember introducing herself. That doesn’t exactly do anything to convince her that he’s not a stalker. A little uneasily, she says, “How do you know my name?”
“You’re my mother’s student, aren’t you?” He cocks his head. “Alina?”
“I – yes.” That does explain it, although she didn’t realize the two of them were on speaking terms, or that they discussed her. Her name sounds unusual in his mouth, deliberate in a way nobody has spoken it before, and all at once, he gets to his feet. He stands several inches taller than her, and he starts piling his books into his bag, as if to discreetly absent himself now that she’s noticed him. “You don’t – ” she starts. “I didn’t mean to – ”
He looks at her again, sidelong. Then he says, “I should go home and get some sleep. I’m returning to Oxford tomorrow morning anyway.”
“Oxford?”
“I went to school there.” He utters a short, dry laugh. “All the good Russians do. And they live in Londongrad.”
That explains the accent, at least, and he seems to have some other business there, whether it’s another of the “research trips” or a guest lecture or whatever else. (Alina hasn’t seen his CV, but she has a sneaking feeling it’s the kind of thing to make her throw her drafts in the trash and never do anything in academia again.) Despite herself, she’s curious, and even though she has just told him to get lost, kind of, she wants to know. “Will you be back?”
Aleksander Morozov studies her with utter, unblinking intensity, as if he sees past flesh and bone, blood and sinew, to the very core of her, something that even she does not fully comprehend. Then he shrugs, his eyes never leaving her face, until Alina feels a shiver travel down her from head to toe, cold and powerful, twisting in her stomach. “Perhaps I will. Good night, Miss Starkov.”
With that, he nods to her, then turns on his heel, vanishing into the shadows as effortlessly as if he is made from them. No sound, no breath. Simply there one moment, and gone the next. Alina rubs her eyes, but she is alone in the library. Just as she wanted. Wasn’t it?
She can’t help her eyes from searching for him, or rather the vanished impression of him, the flutter of a curtain after someone has left the room. Before she can stop it, she has the thought that he very much is a map of his own, a path that leads into a strange dark land beyond the boundaries of the known world, a dragon or a doorway, a dream of what could be. Maybe something entirely ordinary. Maybe something not.
Alina shivers again, and returns to her carrel. She sits down and pulls the next book toward her, forcing her tired eyes to focus. Just because Aleksander Morozov – Aleksander Morosov – is a map, albeit the strangest one she has ever seen, it does not mean she needs to follow where he leads. She knows damn well the danger.
(And yet, despite herself, she wants to.)
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nako-doodles · 3 years ago
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hi, i saw you reblogged a post with donation links, some of which lead to the ukrainian military. that's money going towards buying guns and missiles. im not going to tell you to take it down, you're your own person, but i want to know that be aware of this. thank you for sharing information about the situation, and definitely people in ukraine need everyone's help right now, im just not sure if this particular post is something that you want to endorse
nonie, i thought long and hard how to reply to you bc youre right. in general, we should all be averse to violence, and war is the most violent expression of human cruelty. big army diplomacy has been generally rendered undesirable after human advancement ceased being a zero-sum game post-industrialization and the 20th century. guns and missiles are not and will never be the answer.
however, putin needs to be stopped. the ukrainian people cannot fight off the one of the world's largest and strongest militaries on prayers, dreams, and frankly impressive creativity and incredible courage in the face of such an existential threat, and ultimately, the ukrainian army is who is on the ground fighting russian forces, resisting putin's agenda, protecting civilians, channeling various information and resources, drawing this conflict to a close. the big superpowers and nuclear weapons-holding countries cannot directly enter this war for fear of setting off WWIII and god forbid, a nuclear war. yes there is a cost to human lives in every war and for every bullet and missile bought. yes it is immoral to support the war, no matter how. yes we cannot pretend war is a game of chess. yes we cannot just dump weapons and money into the country and pray for the best. the situation is extremely complex and terrifying, and it only feels like its getting worse.
here are donation links to help with the ongoing crisis. get into contact w your local organizations, speak up against this insanity, share information responsibly and accurately, do what you emotionally, fiscally, physically are able to. if anything good has come out of this situation, it's the outpouring of support and love shown to the ukrainians as they go through these traumatizing events.
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yobaba30 · 5 years ago
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Long article by Eric Garland- this dude knows his shit . . .
That Donald Trump has been a front for organized crime [like his father before him] is not much of a secret. And yet he became president. Just as in many countries, democracies have been seized by organized criminal elements. How did this happen and who knew?  The most stunning historical development of the past 30 years - a multi-decade crisis - has been the merger of Russian organized crime, the Russian intelligence services, and the Russian state. We were warned by Sasha Litvinenko that the world had changed.  Litvinenko was an officer in the Russian FSB (the domestic successor to the KGB) who warned Western intel services AND law enforcement that they didn't understand - Russia had become something entirely new in history: A Mafia State. Because of his warning he was poisoned with polonium tea.  
To understand how tectonic Russia's transformation was, you have to understand how nation-states dealt with security of militaries, spies, and organized crime: Separately. Usually with discrete agencies. FBI for criminals, CIA for foreign intelligence - that kind of thing.  When Russian organized crime propelled Vladimir Putin to power, the rules of modern national security changed for the first time in 100 years. The Mob was the State was the Intelligence services. Not identical, to be sure - but centrally controlled, and DANGEROUS.  Understand that, while every true government servant in the U.S. and its allies are thoroughly dedicated to the same mission - cultures, attitudes, and techniques are vastly different. FBI's history goes back to Al Capone. CIA is a product of the post-WWII era. NSA is [REDACTED] and FBI hunts spies on domestic soil, of course. But they're in a different section from organized crime. CIA is looking outward at governments, spies, terrorists. DOD has a different view. Litvinenko told us THE WORLD DIDN'T WORK LIKE THAT ANYMORE. IT WAS ALL ONE THREAT NOW.  Russia had fused its best-in-class intelligence capabilities and the ruthlessness of its Mafiya and taken over a nation-state. The totality of this change no longer fit any one single agency, in any country, and the threat was evolving at a breakneck pace.  Understand, especially, that government intelligence work does NOT look like anything in the movies. These are tightly controlled, regimented bureaucracies that maintain strict roles and are fanatical about secrecy. They don't do light speed evolutionary threats very well.  So imagine, if you can, working your tightly controlled role in an intel or law enforcement agency, and instead of a spy, or a Mob thug, or a white collar financial criminal, you have to track a new hybrid. Like, for example, Rudy Giuliani patron Dmitry Firtash.  Instead of Mob boss like Whitey Bulger (FBI territory) or a government agent you recruit like Sergei Skripal (CIA) or Wall Street-type criminal (IRS treasury) or an arms dealer, you get dudes that do ALL OF THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY. WHO HANDLES IT? HOW?  Spies infiltrate, they don't buy half of downtown Cleveland. Captains of industry consolidate economic activity, they don't run spy operations. Diplomats don't run drugs. Except when they do and they're all interchangeable. That's what Russia innovated. SO WHO TRACKS IT?  This is the world that Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama inherited, along with their intelligence and law enforcement agencies understandably not designed for this new threat. Forget terrorism. THIS was the real change in national security since 2000. And it's been a bumpy ride since.  This still may be abstract, but let me break it down as an intelligence analyst with over 20 years’ experience: If the world doesn't match the design of your intelligence services, nothing will work right. You can't collect, analyze, or disseminate properly.  If you're looking at a transnational criminal intelligence government syndicate where criminals, spies, and regimes used to be, nobody will know whose job it is. None of the questions will match. The answers will be weird. The policies will be hard to implement.  When the transnational organized crime threat doesn't match the shape of your intelligence and law enforcement, then even when professionals are ultimately dedicated, they still may not be able to get leaders to make the necessary decisions.
Which gets us back to Trump.  
We arrive back at a few terrible problems that need exposure at long last. Our intel and law enforcement agencies KNEW Trump was owned by foreign mafia and yet he became President. It was not their fault. Their hands were largely tied. And yet - the truth must finally emerge. I brought this to the world's attention in a thread about a month after the election, my personal reaction to people expecting the Intel Community to Save America From Trump, Now! These were my colleagues. I knew they were BUSY. And doing far from nothing.  And for those who still thirst for a quick fix (I am regularly part of that group, too) I am still as aware as I was over three years ago of how unorthodox and horrible the options for the USIC were. Totally against everything they stand for.  You don't want a spookocracy. That makes us like the Soviet Union or East Germany. The USIC knows that because they studied those regimes. So they can't just "save us" from an election even where we were attacked – BUT - this time may need to be different.   Donald Trump is a treasonous sack of shit willing to let millions die. Not because he's a "dictator" or a "narcissist" - because he's a piece of property. Transnational organized crime owns him outright. He must be stopped, now more than ever.  Donald Trump has been a mortal threat since 2015, part of the hybrid national security assault we were ill-equipped to fight. But now, his role as president is at the phase of mass graves of Americans, the very ones national security is here to protect.  Our entire national security and law enforcement apparatus exists to keep a lunatic owned by foreign enemies from being president. Because that might lead to a person allowing a pandemic to slaughter Americans in a barely-concealed attempt to look "incompetent." For those crying "why didn't Mueller do his job?" or "Where is this so-called IC of yours?" you don't understand - these silent professionals, never seeking self-aggrandizement, willing to die for our freedoms - they are sick to their stomachs over this.  Understand this from the Intel perspective, this is a picture of a diseased criminal TAKING A SHIT IN FRONT OF A CEMETERY. One of his first acts was to attack those in the IC that Trump *knew* understood what he was. There are people you never met, never heard of. They died without saying goodbye to their families. They were perhaps tortured on the way out. They did it for us. Trump defecated on that duty and honor and brought a crowd to cheer him.  And now, in addition to everything for which they've given their lives, we may need to hope that the Intelligence Community may be willing to break tradition and tell us just why this pathetic, simpering blasphemy happened.
Mitch McConnell will rot in hell for ignoring what Robert S. Mueller III told the nation and refusing to remove this traitor from office. Mueller and his colleagues did their level best only to be betrayed. We now sit hoping for an unredacted report.  We expect, we say we are a better nation because our intelligence and law enforcement professionals stick to the rules. But we have to ask this time at what cost. And to prepare for what may be a breach of protocol that could save civilization.
Americans still don't understand what trump is. That is the fault of politicians, the media, propagandists - and of course his sincere supporters as well. But some know the truth. That he isn't rich, that he's Mob property. That's he's tasked with destroying anything his bosses say to.  Donald Trump was acquired by Russia when its Mob overtook the Five Families of La Cosa Nostra, his family's old owners. But now he's the joint property of murdering despots. The intelligence communities of many allied nations know this. The common people must know, too.  
I know, like LincolnsBible, the complexities and contradictions of what I'm suggesting. We already ask so much of such men and women. And this moment may call for yet more. In 2016, I said I understood why the USIC didn't "act." In 2020, I wonder if they must - lest we be lost.  I don't think American institutions will survive four more years of damage from foreign enemies being allowed to destroy us from within the White House. I don't know precisely who would reveal what, when, but I pray it is soon. The truth is simple and hideous. Let it out.  I think we all do what we can, whether it's to wear masks and stay home, or take care of our neighbors or fight crime or rise up yell the truth from the rooftops. We do our best. Which makes me think about my own last four years.  My colleagues and I knew Trump was a unique danger in 2016. Few of us thought he'd be elected. Then he was. I slept an hour a night for a month, talking to everyone. Didn't think I'd still be writing every day like this.
Somehow mainstream news isn't interested in this... but it is time.
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  Question: What is the mark of the beast (666)?
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Im using this question to deal with a lot of questions I have been asked by fellow belivers.
These questions are many but almost all of them point out to one thing; do we know what the mark of the beast is or we are ready to believe anything that anyone says about it.
When you ask me should I as a christian take the vaccine or will I loose my salvation if I take the vaccine or Pastor what's your comment on the vaccine?
To me you are simply saying, I don't understand the mark of the beast, please explain it to me.
Im going to do my best and pray that God help us understand more.
I posted this under Q&A about twice when I did the Foundations of our faith series in 2019 and sometime after.
Those of you who keep records you might be able to remember it.
THE MARK OF THE BEAST
The main passage in the Bible that mentions the mark of the beast is Revelation 13:15-18.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (666)
Other references can be found in Revelation 14:9, 11, 15:2, 16:2, 19:20, and 20:4.
This mark acts as a seal for the followers of Antichrist and the false prophet (the spokesperson for the Antichrist).
The false prophet (the second beast) is the one who causes people to take this mark.
The mark is literally placed in the hand or forehead and is not simply a card someone carries.
The Setting for the coming of the mark of the beast is where the false prophet cause all whose names are not found in the lamp's book of life to worship the beast (Rev 12:12)
This must say something to you about the saints.
They are not candidates for the mark of the beast primarily because:
Their names will be found in the lamp's book of life. ( woe to you if your name is not in that book)
And because it seems this happens after rapture and during tribulation.
The recent breakthroughs in medical implant chip technologies have increased interest in the mark of the beast spoken of in Revelation chapter 13.
It is possible that the technology we are seeing today represents the beginning stages of what may eventually be used by the false prophet to give people the mark of the beast.
It is important to realize that a medical implant chip is not the mark of the beast and neither is a vaccine or technological implant chip.
The mark of the beast will be something given only to those who worship the Antichrist.
Having a medical or financial microchip inserted into your right hand or forehead is not the mark of the beast.
The mark of the beast will be an end-times identification required by the Antichrist in order for people to buy or sell, and it will be given only to those who worship the Antichrist.
This will happen during tribulation.
Many good expositors of Revelation differ widely as to the exact nature of the mark of the beast.
Besides the implanted chip view, other speculations include an ID card, a microchip, a barcode that is tattooed into the skin, or simply a mark that identifies someone as being faithful to the Antichrist's kingdom.
This last view requires the least speculation, since it does not add any more information to what the Bible gives us.
In other words, any of these things are possible, but at the same time they are all speculations.
We should not spend a lot of time speculating on the precise details.
The word of God does not speculate, it says what it means.
The meaning of 666 is a mystery as well.
Some have speculated that there was a connection to June 6, 2006 (06/06/06)
However, in Revelation chapter 13, the number 666 identifies a person, not a date.
Revelation 13:18 tells us, This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number.
His number is 666.
Somehow, the number 666 will identify the Antichrist.
For centuries Bible interpreters have been trying to identify certain individuals with 666.
Nothing so far is conclusive.
That is why Revelation 13:18 says the number requires wisdom.
When the Antichrist is revealed it will be clear who he is and how the number 666 identifies him.
2 Thes 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
I want to clarify here that I dont believe the current vaccines, medical implants chips and technological implants chips are NOT the mark of the beast.
I also dont find any biblical basis to claim 5G or any other new technological breakthrough as the mark of the beast.
However since the devil will use anything he can access to his advantage, these implants and chips can be taken advantage of by the false prophet to prepare for the actual mark of the beast.
The bible is very clear on one thing; The mark of the beast will not be secretly put on people's foreheads or arms without their consent.
Either under duress or forced or maybe left with no option they will accept the mark fully aware of what it is.
The devil is not going to vaccinate you claiming he is curing a disease then you wake up tomorrow with the mark of the beast. No!
The False prophet will say something like:
"You have to take the mark of our Master (the anti christ) so that you can get his benefits, anyone who doesn't take the mark will be excommunicated from the society and deemed a traitor"
You have to make a choice to take the mark or suffer.
The next thing you need to remember as said earlier is the mark '666' is a name.
So the 666 on your forehead or arm will be a name or a number of an actual name.
It will be clear for all to see and not something hidden that needs a scan.
You can't buy or sell without it.
You will be under total sanctions from the system of that time.
Remember people have been speculating and teaching a lot of conspiracy theories from as long as I can remember and all of them were liars.
Some said Bush was the anti christ, some said Nelson Mandela, some said Barack Obama, some said Putin and many other world leaders bad and good.
These theories had one thing in common, none of them were true.
About the end time events I have one method of judging those who claim to have the latest revelation:
Anyone who gives specifics, names and dates where the bible never gives such is not telling the truth.
The same goes for the mark of the beast, no matter how spiritual any man sounds, they can't be more spiritual that the bible.
Sometime ago when I was in Primary school, I can't remember which year, we were literally forced by teachers and superstitious relatives to put on a wrist band made out of sack material.
Someone had claimed that on a particular date it will rain and lightning will strike anyone without that specific sack wrist band.
The message was circulated wide and far even on radio.
On that particular day, on leaving school most of us stubbornly threw away the sack wrist band and ran home as we normally do.
What happened?
Nothing!
No rain, no thunder and lightning.
And as you can see im pretty much alive today.
Anyone giving specifics where the bible doesn't and claiming what scripture does not claim is either speaking frim his own mind for whatever reason or speaking by another spirit other than the spirit of God.
You are safe when you stick to scripture.
I hope you are encouraged and all confusion is dealt with concerning the mark of the beast.
I repeat as i conclude and I have said this I think twice before on this platform since 2019 "I do not believe medical implants, technology chip implants, vaccines are the exact mark of the beast"
The anti christ may one day take advantage of these just like he does anything to prepare for the actual mark of the beast.
But these technologies and vaccines we see now are not the mark of the beast
Much blessing
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Donald & Melania Trump Test Positive For Covid-19, But Many Believe The President Is Scheming
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Welp.  The "hoax" that President Trump at one point labeled Coronavirus as has caught up with him.  Details on he and Melania testing positive for Covid-19, plus the many suspicions people have about their revelation.
  UPDATE: VP nominee Kamala Harris and Presidential nominee Joe Biden both tested negative for Covid-19 today (10/2).  So did their spouses Dr. Jill Biden and Douglas Emhoff.
I’m happy to report that Jill and I have tested negative for COVID. Thank you to everyone for your messages of concern. I hope this serves as a reminder: wear a mask, keep social distance, and wash your hands.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 2, 2020
Both @DouglasEmhoff and I were tested for COVID-19 this morning and thankfully we tested negative. This virus is still very much active across our country, please continue to wear a mask and maintain social distancing.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 2, 2020
We love a humble brag.
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  Just hours after White House Senior Advisor Hope Hicks revealed she had tested positive for Covid-19, the current President and First Lady revealed they have tested positive as well.
Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020
The White House said today (Friday) that the President was suffering “mild symptoms” of COVID-19. It's unclear what Melania is experiencing. Before he revealed his positive test, he spoke to Fox News about Hope Hicks' diagnosis. He essentially blamed the military for infecting her, randomly mentioning in the conversation how "she's too warm of a person" to tell them "No, back up" when they walk up to her during visits.
He (falsely) stated Hope "wears a lot of masks" and then said this:
"It is very, very hard when you are with people from the military, or from law enforcement and they come over to you and they want to hug you and they want to kiss you because we really have done a good job for them. You get close, and things happen. I was surprised to hear with Hope, but she is a very warm person with them. She knows there’s a risk, but she is young. I just went out for a test, they just did it, it will come back later I guess. And the First Lady also, we spend a lot of time with Hope and others. We will see what happens… You have to treat our people great, you can’t just say, ‘Stay away! Stay away!’ They come up to you, there’s with such love with what we’ve done for them. There’s such love. You have to treat our people great."
“I spend a lot of time with Hope and so does the First Lady,” Trump continued. “And she is tremendous, I was a little surprised. But she’s a very warm person, she has a hard time when soldiers and law enforcement comes up to her, you know, she wants to treat them great, not say, ‘stay away I can’t get near you.’ It’s a very, very tough disease.”
How disrespectful to our military. We guess the fact Hope and the rest of the White House staff have been recklessly out and about mask-less since the start of this pandemic - at rallies, at meetings, at the Capitol, etc. Still, we wish Hope the best as she reportedly is "quite sick" according to ABC News.
How this affects our standing as a nation in the world is yet to be seen, but it is never a great thing when the leader of your country, a country that is a super power, has contracted a deadly virus that he's at higher risk for and that could affect him worse than it affects others due to him being high risk.
"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin said during today's show:
"He's 74, he's obese, he was in contact with many, many people- i believe 20-30 people on his airplane, he went to bendmister NJ for a rally I believe, so I worry about the people he came in contact with. worry about Melania and their son...I worry about VP Biden who was on stage with him during the debate."
Russia wasted no time chiming in: “I'm sure that your inherent vitality, good spirits and optimism will help you cope with the dangerous virus,” Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in a direct message to Trump released by the Kremlin.
Vice President Mike Pence tested negative for the virus on Friday morning and “remains in good health,” his spokesman said. Apparently his wife also tested negative.
But how many others have The Trumps come in contact with and possibly infected? PLENTY. Donald and his team rarely, if ever, wear masks around each other, as we have witnessed in numerous pics, videos and by their own admissions.
  Trump, who said back in April he WOULD NOT wear a mask and has consistently belittled the Coronavirus disease, also had a rally this week where he threw hats into the mostly mask-free crowd.
WEDNESDAY: President Trump throws MAGA hats to the crowd at his rally in Duluth, Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/RdMzLe0C2E
— The Hill (@thehill) October 2, 2020
  I’m told a small group of officials were aware Thursday a.m. that Hope Hicks had tested positive. Despite that, President Trump traveled to New Jersey for a fundraiser and his press secretary held a briefing.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 2, 2020
Members of his cabinet, like Sec. of State Pompeo, are now wearing their masks as of today, despite rarely doing so before this new revelation.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: "We are praying for the President and First Lady that they'll have a speedy recovery." pic.twitter.com/cpFwllJpFQ
— The Hill (@thehill) October 2, 2020
Presidential nominee Joe Biden - who battled Donald earlier this week in the wildest sh*tshow debate in American history - and VP nominee Kamala Harris took the high road, as usual, and sent their well wishes to their opponents:
Jill and I send our thoughts to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a swift recovery. We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 2, 2020
  Doug and I join Joe Biden and Dr. Biden in wishing President Trump and the First Lady a full and speedy recovery. We’re keeping them and the entire Trump family in our thoughts.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 2, 2020
This is despite trump berating him at Tuesday night's debate about wearing a mask.
“I don’t wear masks like him,” Trump said of Biden. “Every time you see him, he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from me, and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.”
CONFIRMED: There was no contact from the Trump campaign or the White House to alert the Biden campaign of possible exposure. The campaign learned of the situation from the news reports, a Biden campaign aide tells me.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) October 2, 2020
The hosts of the first Presidential debate, The Cleveland Clinic, put out this statement saying there is low risk of exposure from the debate:
The Cleveland Clinic issues a statement saying “we believe there is low risk of exposure” to people who were at the debate. As we know, Trump guests declined a Clinic doctor’s request to wear masks pic.twitter.com/3RvwW7n4pg
— Chris Jansing (@ChrisJansing) October 2, 2020
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that hopefully Trump's diagnosis yields a "saner approach" to tackling Coronavirus. While the politicians are playing nice, the rest of us are holding a mean side eye. Across social media, people are questioning the timing of this revelation, even if it's true. We would certainly hope the President of the free world would draw the line of lies and deceit at lying about a deadly virus, but, we have no reason to believe he has a line. We've learned Trump would do any and everything to win an election and to appear to be invincible.
Trump has consistently been dismissive of the virus and played down concerns about being personally vulnerable. So, it strikes many people as odd that he so nonchalantly announced his positive diagnosis.
Here are some of the theories about why that may be. And, honestly, they don't seem too far fetched, considering who it's Trump we're talking about here.
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                  #KellyRowland reacts to reports that #DonaldTrump has #COVID19. Do you agree or disagree?!
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Here’s how wrecked Trump’s credibility is at this point: I’ve got a cellphone full of texts from people who aren’t sure whether to believe Trump actually has covid. “He lies so much,” one friend just texted. “Is he just doing this to get out of the debates?” others are texting.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 2, 2020
The Melania Trump tapes dropped about 16 hours ago and have already been buried by this breakneck news cycle
— Shawn Reynolds (@ShawnReynolds_) October 2, 2020
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The most censored writer in America pt.2
Time to get to work Ashley...... This is going to be your MASTERPIECE:::::
Every day , she becomes hungrier , and it makes her an even better writer!!!!
She has not stopped writing for 1 day since Uvalde....!!!!!!
She writes all day... some days even skipping sleep ... all the way until 6:24AM!!!! When the sun begins to rise.....
She doesn't care about her own life one bit , and will sacrifice her health and everything to keep writing about Uvalde.....
She is 100% ABSOLUTELY dedicated to ending all Gun Violence.
She never wants to see another little kid die again!!!!
Every day she wakes up and thinks about how she can end all gun violence and even War..... for real.....
if only she had 1/20th the resources you do......,
And she's DETERMINED to do it , not with a bomb , or by killing people as well , but with a pen.
And you censor her, call her all sorts of names , send her death threats , anything to keep her down!!!!!
You spend millions on advertisements , when the best speech writer in america is right there!!!!
Did you see what she did to Putin's Speech!????????
She fucking cut putin up into little pieces!!!!
She knows more about Russia than the fucking PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA!!!!!
***While Trump ran for cover in fear from Putin, she NAILED her words on the Door of Several Russian Embassies!!!!!!!!!***
She laughs at Nuclear Warfare : She's FUCKING READY FOR IT!!!!!!
She's ABSOLUTELY DEDICATED!!!!!!! She's Going to Prove to You Who is the BETTER WRITER :: And she Won't Stop Writing EVER!!!!!!!
if only she had a job as a writer , she would be the happiest , most peaceful person in the world : but since they deny her that.......,
Because deep inside they KNOW!!!, if Ashley Marx had 1/20th the Audience they do..........,
IF ONLY she had 2 minutes on the stage .... just 2 MINUTES!!!!!!!
She fucking dreams of writing for SNL.... and Elon Musk gets to just walk in there!??????
Like he's some fuckin sorta defender of free speech and the arts and a comedian......
Lord !!!! See this !!!!!! I know you see this!!!!! Make my words STRONG!!!!! *PRAY*
Lord !!! Please !!! Let my WORDS change the WORLD!!!!!
She spends her life trying to persuade people to turn from violence , and that's the girl you hate!!!Who you constantly harass online ..... and she just takes it and keeps writing....She tries to tell people that race doesn't matter , and stop the racism : and you censor her!!!!!
Well… Well… Wel… Look What I GOT!!!!: NOBODY MOVE !!! OR I’LL BURN IT!!!! I’LL DESTROY ONE PIECE!!! I SWEAR!!!!!!
Everyday I’m going to destroy a piece!!! Starting today at 10:30AM MST!!!!!
Or Conversely for every $10,000 I receive I will Post a Piece: instead of destroying a piece : And trust ME : You Really , Really Want to Read These::::: Not a Joke!!! This is Really Something you want to read:::::!!!!!
NOBODY Come in here or even come close to my door or I’ll Burn the Whole Packet!!!!! i don’t play fucking games:::: you really want to read this ::: Either send me 10,000$ or the whole Packet gets burnt!!!!!
I’ll show you how cold i can be when i burn this whole Packet!!!
It is my property after all… and i’m free to do whatever i want with it….
Let me tell you….. it’s some pretty eye opening stuff in there……,
Or like i said if i get the $10,000 before 10:30, i’ll start posting it : bit by bit::::: on my honor:::: : I won’t destroy a single fragment : and we can really see just how deep the rabbit Hole goes:::::
10:30 AM Mountain time: I’ll be waiting!!!!!
….It won’t be the first time i burn a valuable piece of writing to prove a point…. this piece is different though….. i can feel it… it will be the most valuable piece of writing i’ve ever burnt:::: You know how much i care about writing and art, and trust me, it will pain me just as much as it will you to burn these fragments…….:
Well, then, Let’s see how much you Value Art :::::;
*Holds up packet inscribed to Read*
OK: I’ll give you some Context::::: I found these pieces of paper scattered on the floor, torn in bits, heavily scribbled upon, outside a store: there was a man with a towel, who looked like he had been through a struggle: when he saw me reading and picking up the pieces of paper on the ground he was scared, there was also a guy with a red shirt leaning against the wall further down, he looked amused, and smiled once at me…. were they demons or Angels: demons can’t read paper.
Don’t worry when i burn this packet no harm will come to anyone : but we will lose a very valuable piece of Art : I hope to show people that i would rather burn my art than give it away for free::: And That’s one of the reasons I chose this Pen Name : Ashley Marx , Short for Ashley, Short for Ash, As in Ashes to Ashes.
—What do you think about that Mao!??????????? Are you not on the edge of your seat this morning !!?!?????
—Don’t Tempt me!!! I’LL do it!!!!
—Every day she fucking stares at a Mao Print…..: by Andy Warhol!!!!!!!. and talks to it!!!!!!! She’s DETERMINED to IMPRESS Mao!!!!! She Tries her lines on Mao : And sees what Mao Would Think from his Perspective:::: Sometimes Mao Laughs , Other times he’s PISSED!!…
—It’s WILD how his facial expression seems to change depending on what I say / what I’m Thinking!!!
—That Painting is one of her BEST FRIENDS!!!!!
Don’t Worry::: Even if we end up burning this packet :::: I still have lots MORE where that came From!!!
Yeah Motherfucker!!! I got LOTS of Writing!!! Ready to GO!!!!—Oh, it’s the BEST WRITING you’ve EVER seen Buddy!!!! When it comes to Pieces like that : They just CAN’t be Replaced…..
ENOUGH!!! Shall we go to the BURN PIT!!??? I already BURNT One piece of Writing Yesterday and I’m Ready to do it AGAIN!!! I will leave behind nothing but ASHES!!!!!
….That painting was given to her …. as a gift…. At first she Hated it….: Fuck that shit , she said!!! I do t want to stare at a FUCKING Mao Every Day!! : :don’t want this SHIT in my house!!!!—Mao!??! Fuck no!!! I’m going to FUCKING VOMIT!!! How Dare You Give me this SHIT!!!!……, but when she found out it was an Andy Warhol She fell in love with it: And you know what!?!? Mao was the FIRST Communist she ever read!! She SKIPPED Karl Marx and when right into guerrilla Tactics!!!!!
—Mao… What Happened to you!??? We used to be such good Friends!!! Now We’re Enemies!!!!
—10:30AM MST buddy!!!!
—You can SMIRK at me all you want buddy, but I’m not Playing this Time!!!!
—Yeah!! I’m FUCKIN WatChin YOU BUDDY!!!!
—I’LL BURN IT MOTHERFUCKER!!!! $10,000 DOLLArS!!!!!
You think I care about You!????
You’re a Fuckin NOBODY to Ashley Marx!!!!!
I’ll WIPE your ass from HISTORY!!!!
We’re Going to completely rewrite Communism Motherfucker ::: You’ll be just another fake fashion communist by the time i’m through with you!!!!—-You saw what i did to Joseph Stalin!!!!!??????????:………. 15 MINUTES TO GO!!!!!
FUCK that shit I got TIRED of Waiting!!!::::
What was in the packet!???? …. Guess We’ll Never Know NOW!!!! ….
… Another Victim of the burn pit…
The End.
——Did you like that one Mao!??? Like I said I have a LOT more shit to Burn : Can i be a famous Writer now!???
The burn pit is an evil place where art goes to die…. —So!! Want to talk about Tianmen Square now????: Truly Free Speech and Democracy is essential to a truly Communist Society!
——Because of your Fear mongering she has to check under her car every day for bombs and GPS Devices…. Every time she turns the keys she’s ready to blow up like Daria Dugin!!! ::::
—Yes!! Turn me into a FUCKING START just like Poor DARIA DUGINA!!!! Le’ts go MOTHERFUCKER!!! I’m ready to be a STAR!!!! And Let’s FILM it too!!!…
—You just Never know when those Motherfuckers are gona come for you!!! They’re SNEAKY motherfuckers believe me!!! :: Gotta Keep your eyes wide open, be ready for anything!! Research everything!!!! They’ll come to kill you , trust me , and in the most unorthodox and unassuming way!!! They’ll stage it as an accident or suicide : hold a gun to you and tell you to put the noose around your own neck!!! Oh they are definitely coming for you now LENIN!! : You are SO FUCKED!!!! They’re going to send in some masked men and rape you in front of the Camera!!!
—They’ll Fuckin NAIL you to a CROSS Boy!!!!:
As they say here in America, the bigger they are, the harder they fall…….:::::
Wow Lenin…. i sure hope the cops are as good at investigations as you Lenin,,,,, Hopefully they leave no stone unturned like you!!!!::
*Cameras SET , READY, ACTION::::::!!! Now TURN ON THE TV!!!:::
JUCHE MOTHERFUCKER!!!!! —YEAH!!! SUCK MY DICK YOU CAPITALIST PIGS!!!!!:::
Hi I’m Vladimir Lenin:::: So, Yeah, this is where i like to Write Sometimes…:
And with that i read the Curse::
For Him that stealeth
a book from this Library,
Let it change into a Serpent in his hand and rend him.
Let him be struck with Palsy,
and all his Members blasted.
Let him languish in Pain crying
aloud for Mercy and let there be
no surcease to his Agony
til he sink in Dissolution.
Let Bookworms gnaw at his entrails
in token of the Worm that diet not.
And when at last he goes to his
final Punishment.
let the flames of Hell Consume him
for ever and aye.
I want to be a Famous LIVING writer…, I don’t want to play fucking games , chase after publishers , i want those motherfuckers to come to me and say : Lenin that’s some good Art : let’s get this Going!! I want them to say : Lenin! You deserve a Million dollars and a Pulitzer Prize.
-Lenin Really you deserve more than a Pulitzer for what they put you through , more than a Million dollars , but that should Suffice…. :And so I sit and wait for the day when one of those Motherfuckers , a complete fucking stranger , shows me , Ashley Marx an act of kindness : It’s a FUCKING CURSE, that haunts the worlds for hundreds and thousands of years until the day Ashley Marx becomes a Famous Living Artist ,…. Because she’s one of the best writers of all time and nobody in the world has ever given her a single break at all!!! …. That blog was her FUCKING dream!!! She cares so much about it!!— Yeah, it’s a work in progress but damm!!! they had made her FUCKING cry laughing in her face! They wanted to Bury Her alive!!! They said : Ashley Give up!! You’re NOT going to WIN::: You’re a Fucking NOBODY!!!!:: Who the fuck cares what you think say and write you dumb BITCH!!!!
We’re going to be FAMOUS Writers NOT YOU!!!!< they said to HER:: Anyone!!! Anyone at all!! EXCEPT Ashley Marx , they SCREAMED!!! WE must STOP that DEVIL GIRL!!! She CAN’T BECOME FAMOUS!!!! She’s in the HOUSE and REFUSES TO LEAVEEEEEE!!!!
—Let me tell you comrades :: all these motherfuckers are NOTHING to Ashley Marx!!!
Her Book is that FUCKING Important ::: And i just don’t know how else to tell y’all to HELP HER: The problem with a lot of other people is that they just don’t ~think~ as big as Ashley Marx…..,.,,,, She lives in a Society of illiterate devil worshippers……;:; They HATE her…… That’s how much she really cares about being famous… she doesn’t …. But i DO!!!! If it was up to her , nobody would ever read anything she wrote , and she would rather choose to die nameless …. but it’s not up to her anymore!! Her words rival that of Shakespeare!!! She doesn’t give a fuck about social norms or how you think she should act:: she sees right through demons, makes them shudder in FEAR!!!!
The Most Censored Writer in America.
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BEHOLD!: The most censored writer in ALL of America // y’all are going to drive her off a cliff!! // she gets so upset when you censor her!!! // she takes it so personally…..// she’ll go to the corner and shoot herself up with F!!!!!// People DIE whenever Ashley Marx is Censored!!!!! —She’s Trying to Save LIVES!!!!!: and by censoring Her , you just killed SOMEONE!!!!!// And there’s nothing you can do!! Except give her a fucking million dollars!!! :: Yeah! $Ashleymarx666 !!! you can NOT keep this girl in America!!!!!!! She’s too fuckin BIG for America!!!! She’s tired of these fucking GAMES!!!! She wants out ASAP!!!!! She’ll Hop on a fucking airplane so FAST!!! and never come back!!!! All she ever wanted in her whole fucking life was just the smallest tiny bit of recognition!!! if only she had just 1/100th of your follower count….!!!!!!!! ……, she would break down and cry : it would make her so fucking happy.::: talk about INJUSTICE!!!: is this how you support the ARTS America!????? You just don’t understand , how bad it could be , if you don’t help her……, Please!!! Get me the FUCK out of AMERICA!!!!!! I’m tired of being CENSORED!!!!! i’m a FUCKING Political Prisoner in this COUNTRY!!!!! FUCK THIS SHIT!!!! I WANT TO GO BACK TO RUSSIA!!! VISIT LENIN’S GRAVE!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!! I WANT TO MOVE TO RUSSIA!!!!!!!!!!! SEND ME TO THE UK!!!! SO I CAN WRITE KARL MARX THE PLAY!!!!!!! FRANCE!!!!… ANYWHERE but AMERICA!!!!! They don’t give a FUCK about art and Culture here : anywhere but AMERICA!!!!! Please you must believe ashleymarx666 and help her now::::::: it’s a fucking CURSE!!!!, and there’s only 1 way to end it!!!! You must send $Ashleymarx666 a million dollars!!!! End the Curse::::::: account double verified : cashapp : $ashleymarx666. If only you sent her a Million Dollars!……., That’s LITERALLY the only way to end this. Send Ashley Marx, the most censored writer in America , a MILLION dollars!!!! Behold!: The most CENSORED writer in all of AMERICA is right HERE!!!!! She is counting on the Kindness of a Stranger…..: to end the Curse….. She’s FUCKING Starving!!!!!! They’re going to FUCKING KILL her!!!!! Na, it’s not a FUCKING joke, they’re DEAD SERIOUS!!!!!! It will be a curse that will haunt the world for HUNDREDS of years!!!! And there is not much time!!!!!!! This must all be done soon!!!! Please! it’s only in your Power to Stop this. it is the only way we can have justice. there is no other way…. unfortunately….. Look ! Behold !: The Best Writer in all of America , possibly the World , and they treat her like SHIT!!!! They won’t even so much as ACKNOWLEDGE her!!!! Not a Single Individual or Institution in All of America dares to help her……!!!! So i had to help her….. She puts the entire staff of the new york times to SHAME….. And it is only their own Pride : they seriously think they can out-write her….. They’ve tried now for the better part of 10 years now……, to stop her …. but she keeps out writing  them….. She single handedly beat every writer in America!!!! She makes the American government look like FOOLS!!!!! She’s even better than the American Government : with all its branches put together!!!! She can accomplish more by herself than the ENTIRE American Government……, The American Government comes running to her for HELP!!!!! She would gladly work for the American Government , but the American Government is Scared of Her : Everyone is!!!!! She has her own network of spies that rivals the FBI and the CIA put together……They pay all these people how much???? and just imagine….. if only ashley marx had 1/10th of what they have….. Talk about injustice : she has so many incredible ideas for twitter : She went to FUCKING OXFORD!!!!!!! and they treat here like a CRIMINAL…. but she didn’t break any law. She posted a fucking MEME!!! And , elon musk just walks in and says im buying twitter!!!! Throws a BILLION dollars into the fucking WIND!!!!!! You have no IDEA how hard she works, and how much it hurts her to see some no talent prick take the Pulitzer year after year…… She completely fucking changed the English Language!!!! It is a CRIME of AMERICA!!! That they Don’t Support and raise this Girl up to the very Height of American Literature : Mark Twain is a FUCKING JOKE to her….. What American Writer can Compare to Ashley Marx , Either living or Ever in the Whole History of the Country!?????? She changed the WORLD…. with a PEN!!!!! Talk about INJUSTICE!!!!!! and still she writes!!!! And still they Censor her!!! What the Americans do to Ashley Marx is a CRIME!!!! Little do they know ….. , : if only America would do 1 thing for the ARTS……,:: LOOK at these HYPOCRITES :::: Masquerading around as proponents of FREE SPEECH!?????? : and yet do they support Ashley Marx !!!!!!!!!????  Whoever supports the ARTS by Supporting Ashley Marx……. Well…. That’s how WE KNOW , you don’t support FREE SPEECH!!::: BECAUSE ASHLEY MARX IS STARVING!!!!! She Can’t Work for the CAPITALIST, She’s not ALLOWED TO, or We’ll FUCKING KILL her!!! She has to KEEP WRITING!!! And she can’t do that at work!!!!!! : 
“no…. please someone…. help me……. before it’s too late” 
NO!!!!! You’re NOT Supporting the ARTS by supporting such-and-such a random person or institution : you can only support the ARTS by supporting Cashapp: $AshleyMarx666 unless $Ashleymarx666 receives a MILLION DOLLARS!!!!…, Just like that.,,, For what she already WROTE!!! There’s only 1 way to prove her wrong,: By sending her a Million Dollars. Until then, every day she STARVES !!!::: Until She DIES!!!!! This is the CURSE OF ASHLEY MARX!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. DO IT!!!!! PUSH THE BUTTON!!!!::: SEND Cashapp : $ASHLEYMARX666 A MILLION DOLLARS!!! AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!!!! I dare YOU!!!!!!! Send Her a MILLION DOLLARS!!!!!! It will be the BEST investment you EVER made!!!!! Don’t have a MILLION dollars???? Find somebody who does: This ain’t a FUCKING GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ashley Marx will not Compromise, she will not take her payments in installments : she wants a Million dollars , at least , And only then can we have Justice!!!!
P.P.S. Top That OXFORD!!!!!!  🖕🖕
P.P.P.S. To make it as a writer in america , it’s as if you need to start world war III!!!!! Especially when your pen name is @realkarl_marx / @Realvlenin / or AshleyMarx….. That’s what it takes to win a fucking pulitzer in this country!!!!! That’s how Competitive it is here in America in the Writing Industry…… Every day , she becomes hungrier , and it makes her an even better writer!!! She has not stopped writing for 1 day since Uvalde….!!!!!!! She writes all day… some days even skipping sleep … all the way until 6:24AM!!!! When the sun begins to rise….. She doesn’t care about her own life one bit , and will sacrifice her health and everything to keep writing about Uvalde….. She is 100% ABSOLUTELY dedicated to ending all Gun Violence. She never wants to see another little kid die again!!!!…….
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While the U.S. has been ramping up the economy again and struggling to fight more waves of COVID-19, many orphanages we serve are still locked down under local and regional COVID restrictions.
In most places, we still can’t physically be there to support the children and our volunteers can’t see them in person except through the orphanage windows from outside, perhaps when dropping off supplies and treats, but nobody can stop us from thinking about them, praying for them and helping them with whatever we can. They are far away, but they are also very close to our hearts. And we want the best for them from the bottom of our heart.
I want to tell you about a wonderful, beautiful little girl. Her name is Allochka, or Alla. She is 7 years old. As a baby she and her mom lived with her grandma and grandpa because her mother wasn’t able to care for and support both of them on her own.
When Alla was two years old, her grandpa died from cancer. Soon after that Alla's mom left the house exclaiming, "I want to be happy."
Alla was left with her grandma, and her mom never came back.
A few months later the house they lived in burned down and they had no place to live. They went from one place to another until one kind woman allowed them to stay in her empty apartment for free.
For the last five years grandma has been taking good care of Alla. They have been through hard times, but her grandma never gave up and never had a thought to take her granddaughter to the orphanage.
Many times people from social services came to her with an offer to take Alla to the orphanage. They even found a family who wanted to adopt the girl, but her grandma did everything to keep her Alla home with her.
She knocked on many doors for help and even wrote a letter to Russian President Putin and she got an answer. She was helped – she was given an apartment. Right now they have a place to live and the two of them live together. They still have many difficulties, but they are together!
The grandma was so thankful to the Allies for all the Christmas gifts for Alla. She cannot afford to buy clothes and toys for her, so Alla only gets these things if someone gives. She was so moved by people's kindness, from people who never met her and Alla.
Grandma would appreciate any help with clothes, shoes, etc. Also, because Alla is going to school this year, the teacher said she would need a notebook and some school supplies, as well as any kind of digital device to study at a distance per the social distancing requirements. Allies will be sending school supplies from the recently stocked warehouse (thank you donors!).
Alla is a very sweet, kind girl and we’re thankful we have been able to help during these challenging times! Thank you to everyone who supports Allies and children like Alla – for your help, prayers and participation in her life.
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THE RISE OF MR JAMES NORTON
Britain’s brightest TV star on breaking into Hollywood and whether he could be the next James Bond
Mr. James Norton is not a man to be underestimated. The first time I noticed the London-born, Yorkshire-raised actor, he was playing an earnest young lover in Death Comes To Pemberley, a cosy whodunnit set in the world of Ms Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice. I had him down as a production-line fop, the kind that elite English schools crank out as reliably as the Disney Club cranks out Mouseketeers. He seemed… nice. Agreeable. The sort of teacake your granny would like.
I certainly couldn’t see him pulling off someone such as Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley, the most haunting TV psychopath of recent years. Or earning admiring reviews from the Russians for playing their national literary hero, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, in the all-star BBC adaptation of War & Peace. But in projects as varied as the clerical mystery Grantchester and dystopian drama Black Mirror, Mr Norton has demonstrated that enviable quality – range – and has configured his career to use it to the fullest.
“That’s the joy,” he says. “Most actors would agree that the reason why you go into the job is that there’s a hunger for experience, a general inquisitiveness. When you have a group of actors at a restaurant, everyone will try everything. It’s not just a sensory thing. It’s about wanting to suck up everything that life can offer.”
Life is offering Mr Norton, 32, a lot right now, and it couldn’t happen to a more grateful individual. His conversation is peppered with “I’m so lucky”, “It’s a privilege”, “One of the joys”, etc. His first Hollywood studio production, Flatliners, is about to hit cinemas. It’s a remake of Mr Joel Schumacher’s cult 1990 psycho horror, which starred Mr Keifer Sutherland and Ms Julia Roberts, about a group of medical students experimenting with near-death experiences. In the remake, Mr Norton stars opposite Ms Ellen Page and Mr Diego Luna. And he’s taking the lead as the son of a Russian mobster in McMafia, a BBC/AMC international co-production that stands out in the autumn TV schedules. “One of those situations where everything is in place, and all you need to do as an actor is not fuck it up,” he says.
One of the co-writers is Mr David Farr, who adapted Mr John Le Carré’s The Night Manager for BBC, which was widely seen as Mr Tom Hiddleston’s audition for the role of James Bond. So it will do Mr Norton’s chances of leapfrogging his fellow Cambridge graduate on the shortlist no harm at all. They’re both 8/1 with William Hill. “It’s nice to be in that conversation,” he says. “But I’m certainly not saying no to stuff because I’m holding out for that.”
For now, Mr Norton has asked me to meet him at the National Theatre in London. I assume he’s in rehearsals for some top-secret project (though he does confess an ambition to play Hamlet here one day), but no, he just wants to spare me an off-Tube trip to Peckham in south London, where he lives. He turns up in “vegan trainers”, made by Veja, black Levi’s and an old grey cashmere jumper, with what looks like a duelling wound on his neck but turns out to be a scar from an operation on an old rugby injury. He is profusely apologetic for being approximately five minutes late. And prays leave for another 60 seconds of my patience so he can purchase a croissant.
He’s a Type 1 diabetic and a “little munch” will ensure he doesn’t die during the course of our interview. Mr James Geoffrey Ian Norton grew up in a timeless bit of North Yorkshire and remains a country boy at heart. It is rare that he passes a body of water in which he doesn’t want to take a dip. “I love being outside, swimming in the lido or Shadwell Basin,” he says. “There’s a bridge near where my parents live where you can jump in. It’s so wholesome and English.” His dream is to have a river in his garden, so he can frolic among the trout and herons each morning. His childhood was idyllic but also instructive. Both his parents are academics, both took an equal role in domestic duties and both encouraged reasoned debates around the kitchen table. Young Mr Norton was sent to Ampleforth boarding school (posh, monastic, Catholic) and went on to study theology and philosophy at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, before a spell at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. People often assume he’s religious – the dog collar he wears for the 1950s period piece Grantchester doesn’t help – but he says his youthful interest in Christ was more one of “moral intrigue and the love of storytelling. I loved the gospel reading at mass every Sunday. But it became a relationship of intrigue rather than belief. And most of my degree was about Hinduism and Buddhism in any case.”
Still, you can see why he makes such a convincing vicar in Grantchester and why he’d want to break away from that mode. “I remember early on in my career people would say to me things like, ‘You have a very period face.’ I was like, what does that mean? They’d seen me in a couple of period dramas and imagined that would be my career.”
So he was elated when the supremely depressing Happy Valley came along. Ms Sally Wainwright’s critically lauded BBC series (now streaming on Netflix) gave him the chance to play a working-class ex-convict whose soul descends to the very depths of hell. “I will be forever grateful for that role,” he says. “To be given the opportunity to prove myself like that was just great.” He sees each role as a licence to go out and learn. “Not just from an academic point of view, but in an emotional, embodied way. The word we always use is empathy. There’s nothing more powerful than that. I’d never managed to empathise with a serial killer from any article about them, but when you’re actually inhabiting them, you have to learn to love them, however abhorrent they are.”
I guess it’s about getting to know the part of yourself that could kidnap and torture, were circumstances different. “It’s like undergoing a crude form of psychoanalysis on your own,” says Mr Norton, but confesses that it’s also kind of fun. “I’ve been wary talking about this because it could be misconstrued,” he says slowly. “But it was incredibly empowering not to care at all what people think, to go the other way and want people to be afraid of me. For someone like me, who goes around the whole time being very polite, to be allowed to spend some time not giving a fuck what people think was fucking cool.” He smiles bashfully. “I remember walking on set and seeing people’s reactions to me with a skinhead and tattoos. People started to treat me completely differently.”
He’s no method actor. He and his co-star, Ms Sarah Lancashire, tried to keep the mood light between scenes. But still, he found Tommy hard to shake off. “He’s so mistrusting of the world,” he says. “The sadness in that character was that he thought the world was so inherently hostile that the kindest thing he could do for his son was to take him away from this suffering. That’s dark.” He was haunted by “weird, dark dreams, me being horribly abusive”.
McMafia ought to draw on similarly dark currents, albeit in more glamorous circumstances. Mr Norton plays Alex, a “Michael Corleone-type Russian guy”, who ends up being pulled back into the family business (crime, extortion, money laundering) despite his efforts to escape. “His dad was a Mafia boss who was exiled by Putin, but Alex has tried to turn his back on that and set up his life properly, with a fiancée and a good job.” Mr Norton is particularly excited about this one. Mr Farr’s co-writer is Mr Hossein Amini, who created Mr Ryan Gosling’s tour de force Drive, and it’s inspired by investigative journalist Mr Misha Glenny’s book. The cast includes highly respected Russian actor Mr Aleksey Serebryakov (from Leviathan) plus a host of stars from Israel, Mexico, Brazil and Turkey. “It was such an interesting set,” says Mr Norton. “I don’t think there can have been many casts like it. And with what’s going on with Trump, Russia, the Panama Papers, all that, basically our show lifts up the curtain and shows what state-level corruption looks like. The Mafia isn’t a family with a protection racket in a city. It’s a multi-national globalised corporation where all the parts are linked. You always want to be chasing the zeitgeist. With this, for the first time in my life, I felt the zeitgeist was chasing us.”
On Flatliners, he seems a little more tentative, perhaps wary of incurring the wrath of fans of the original movie. “Everyone remembers it very fondly,” he says. But it was the first time he’d been let loose in a big studio. “The money, the toys, the stunts – Ellen and Diego had done all that before, but I was like this token Brit, running around having lots of fun.”
As for the other sides of success, he’s readjusting. Last we heard, Mr Norton was in a relationship with Ms Jessie Buckley, the English actress who played his sister in War & Peace, but when I ask about his love life he makes a complicated face and asks if we can avoid this particular subject. “Having this dream job, it compromises family, friends, relationship, because you’re always away,” he says. “I have 12 cousins and we’re all very close, but there have been a few family occasions where I’m the only one who isn’t there. And your relationships do take hits.”
He’s politically engaged, too – “As I think we all are right now” – but isn’t sure if and when to use his celebrity to promote his causes. “I must be the most boring person to follow on Twitter,” he says. He essayed a few politically themed tweets recently, but found the response a bit dismaying. “I tweeted a photo from an anti-Brexit march a few months ago, and said, ‘Let’s get behind a second referendum, there is hope!’ and I’ve never received so much hate and vitriol. And I thought, what’s the point? Well, there is a point, but maybe that’s not the right way to make it. Maybe it’s better to start a conversation, to listen rather than to shout.”
That doesn’t seem a bad idea. He’s itching to get behind the camera, he says. He has stories he’d like to tell. “I don’t want to be sanctimonious, but I’m interested in using my voice as an artist to…” He trails off – that English habit of not quite finishing his sentences – before remarking how much he admired Mr Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, a devastating indictment of the British welfare system. But it seems his own thoughts are more to do with young men and their place in the world. He’s been reading Narcissus And Goldmund by Mr Hermann Hesse, which is about two monks taking divergent paths through the world – one as an artist, one as a thinker – at the time of the Black Death. It seems to have struck a chord.
“There’s a lot of confusion now about men’s place in the world,” says Mr Norton. “There needs to be a conversation. I’m putting together a script about how a young man deals with that confusion. We’re being pulled in different directions. I think for women, the feminist movement is a lot clearer. And we do need to redress pay inequality and, of course, men are implicated in that. But we also need to recalibrate our own position. Men whose identity is to do with being a protector and provider and full of testosterone are finding it harder.”
When it comes to redressing the gender imbalance, however, he seems more than happy to take one for the team. He is a reliable source of “phwoar”-style headlines in newspapers. “Female actors have been putting up with this tenfold for ever,” he says. “So I don’t feel male actors have a particular right to cry out about this. I don’t feel objectified, put it that way.”
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