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I don't know how much time and energy you give to programming. For example, how captivated were you by the colossal programming operation some of us refer to as Fakedemic? I, myself, was quite caught up by that throughly obnoxious bit of make believe, but I was considerably less absorbed by the smaller, but by no means insubstantial,  Russian Federation v. Ukraine promotion. By the time we arrived on the doorstep of the Israel v. Hamas/Gaza theatrical, I'd fully crossed a mental Rubicon whereby I recognized that all the aforesaid promotions were what I now refer to as simulation spectaculars. The only attention they deserved was scrutiny of the sort one engages in when attempting to expose a fraud. It strikes me that those who attempt to ride along with the relentless production line of programming must quickly become exhausted by the effort, and, thrown into the bargain, one ends up looking foolish for even attempting to make sense of any of it. No rational examina...

The latest humiliation ritual  may be a multifaceted one. We have Christianity getting its dick knocked in the proverbial dirt on Easter weekend, ostensibly in support of the Muslim faith, and this colossal troll is being spearheaded by none other than an alleged premiere protector of the faith, the U.K's own, Emperor UpChuck. Meanwhile, in Iran, (well, not really in Iran, of course) hold the phone for the preordained, and too well advertised to be taken seriously, fake invasion in the latest make believe war.  The lens that I use strongly suggests that this counterfeit military operation is going to be cast as a military disaster of orpic perpitions. Alternatively, some joke of a "boots on the ground" invasion will be advertised as having taken place. The White House cosplayer troupe will hail its outcome as a great victory, but that spurious claim will be completely undermined by a modicum of scrutiny and  subsequent events. To top the humiliation ritual off, some steal...