When Cuba intervened in Angola in 1975 to defend the MPLA, the CIA invented a story about Cuban troops raping Angolan women, then being captured and executed by them. The entire story was a fabrication but it was widely reported in the media anyway.the quote shown in the thread is from Flat Earth News
- @Louis_Allday
more [unrelated] from twitter:
Meritocracy produces radical inequality, stifles social mobility, and makes everyone — including its apparent winners — miserable. Should we get rid of it? - @voxdotcom [In other words: “I don’t want to work for a living”]and finally this is totally fucking ridiculous: Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t know how many staffers working on Libra are LGBT, looks like a scene from some black comedy movie
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If you want to look for enemies of free speech and inquiry, then you don't have to look hard. John Horgon wants research on cognitive differences among human populations "banned." - @EPoe187
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Here's my January 2003 article in The American Conservative on an overlooked reason why George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq wouldn't result in Nation Building: "Cousin Marriage Conundrum" - @Steve_Sailer
