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You know that young fellow Jackson Hinckle with his YT channel 'The Dive' used to have a pretty wonderful clip at the start of each one? It showed Putin walking through the corridors of the Kremlin ( I suppose) on his way to meeting room or something.

And Hinckle put music behind it.

And Putin's walk together with the music made a very impressive kinda publicity thing much the same as the image you show here: something with the same kind of impact, intent, whatever the word.

I was always in wonderment that the USA let him do it.

Well in the end they didn't and he's permanently deplatformed from YT.

And strangely enough I cannot find one of those vids.

Not from YT of course, they took them all down immediately.

But nowhere else.

And I've searched and I've queried in comments sections - and I've searched my own hard drives.

And I even tracked down Jackson which wasn't too easy and found him on Twitter I think and I tried to ask him (but how many of such twitter 'personalities' read their reader's comments/request?) and did no good.

So what I'm saying here is you may find one of those clips very entertaining if you could find one. Find an old 'The Dive' vid that started like that.

I assure you, it's a very impressive little clips.

Jackson has been to Russia since then.

It did cross my mind that perhaps the Russians asked him not to use the clip. Like Putin might not like to see himself presented like that. I can well understand that. Very well. But just for a laugh amongst friends it's fine - just like your image here.

Jackson Hinckle. 'The Dive' it was. Perhaps one of your readers knows.

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I'll look at VK. Thanks!

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I did see it once on Jackson's rumble channel. But only once afaik and it may have been a repeat of one of his utoob days as a reference. I loved that intro, it was so upyou to the Clinton machine.

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it was great, eh? I don't know how long it lasted but it was quite a while. preceded every vid. I loved it. :)

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Interesting observation of violence versus dialog and certainly one of the points Humanity will need to evolve beyond.

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V. V. The Dragon Master! This is pretty “over the top”- not sure I want to know the source but it sure made me laugh! Is that a bottle of vodka strapped to the saddle?? 🤯

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It's a Velocci Raptor, and yes it does look like some form of Tonic. There was no text attached to the image. I'm curious to see what sort of responses I get from my VK page where I also posted it.

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Something non alcoholic, probably

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He is not wearing sox. Neither did Einstein. So he is in good company. That firearm does not look Russian but then.... that is not a functional necessity in times of liberation. A dragon is more appropriate than a bear so there is that. Feel free to repeat occasionally and do take a look at https://t.me/finlandrebellionnews/19256

for the occasional quirky graphic.

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Very appropriate picture uncle!

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AI generated. The suit of Armor and the bottle of Wodka ist wrong...

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Oh, clearly CGI. There're actually very few such images of a warrior Putin.

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Hello. My first substack post is up. Please take a look and critique if you wish to. https://genepoole.substack.com/p/the-cratered-media-landscape?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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A good initial effort. The topic is timely and your questioning is good. I have some suggestions but no time at the moment. I'll return to post them.

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I have a new post up. Again I'd be pleased if you'd take a look. And i'd love to hear your comments on my earlier one.

https://genepoole.substack.com/p/post-zero

- Gene

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In this effort, your thesis isn't stated until the concluding paragraph, and there're a few grammatical and spelling errors the in-built checkers didn't catch. For the essay's topic, you'd benefit from having taken a course in Linguistics and also cognitive psychology, particularly the basics beginning with universal grammar and how it is we learn language as well as how we think. I'd have never taken either course if I hadn't been intent on becoming qualified to teach English as a Second Language; and those two 3 credit courses were the most fascinating of the 156 credit hours I amassed. You're beyond sick and tired of being lead astray by media and are fearful of the direction they're leading our American society, so say so--you're mad as hell at the mediascape and aren't going to take it any longer, so one way you're going to fight bock is by refuting the Establishment Narrative in a manner inspired by Caitlin Johnstone.

In writing, everyone has their own voice, or perhaps that should read needs to find their own voice, and that's done by lots of writing--drafts you'll never publish. I college, writers in the required composition courses are prompted to write in relation to many things they usually have no interest in to explore the various types of writing. The other important part of writing that's taught in introductory composition courses is critical reading. A good exercise is to read any editorial essay and argue for or against it, sort of what you did with the Biden piece--why was it a red line or why wasn't it a red line. You'll note Caitlin does that sort of writing most of the time. Another sort of exercises is to write a descriptive essay about most anything you might describe--an insect, a flower, your childhood home--in a manner where the reader can see the object via your prose. You could describe how you see someone like Biden, not just his physical features but his other traits as you understand them. Another form of argumentative essay is the Compare and Contrast, in your case you could compare what journalism is supposed to be versus how it actually exists in the real world.

I currently have a draft I'll probably publish this week dealing with our society's greater mistrust of media as revealed by polling while providing reasons why that might be. The basic format for the essay is descriptive--the object is polling results and the narrative consists of describing why such results were obtained. In other words, almost all types of writing can be distilled back to the basic formulations learned from collegiate composition courses. If you took one years ago, try to recall its content; if you never took one, see what's offered at your local community college. Here's an example of a collegiate syllabus that will give you an idea of how such a course works, https://myuopeople.blogspot.com/2018/09/engl-0101-english-composition-1.html

Write what you want to write, not what you think people want to read.

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Please do.

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Links to your citations; bracket notification as to who added the emphasis; more citations for your third paragraph; provide block quotation so all context is included; edit for both brevity and clarity in paragraph six; you're arguing Biden's statement's a Red Line" but that only appears once within your text and there's no follow-up on your secondary title about the use of language as a weapon--ask yourself if it's really needed. Publications just need italicization not bolding too.

Assume your reader hasn't read any of the referenced material or even heard what Biden said, so you're not only informing but also making an argument--Was Biden's statement a "red line" or not. Otherwise, your style and prose use was fine. Now I'll look at your second effort.

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Thanks, this is very helpful. I may not get time to edit in the next day or so.

I used bold not to denote a title of a work (my rule is: italics for a book or other longer work, quotes for shorter works), but simply for emphasis.

Please do read my "Zero" post. I have a literary and poetic (also musical) background, so please make allowances.

I am also working on a list of recommended publications. I found the book you mentioned (_Empire as a Way of Life_) on the Archive but have not yet been able to spend any time with it.

Thanks again for taking the time.

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Thanks for telling me a bit about yourself. As a musician, you know the importance of practice. The same goes for critical reading and writing. Comment sections like those at MoA offer an excellent place to practice both. The skills needed for fictional and poetical writing are somewhat different from those needed for critical, argumentative writing. For example, I'm good at the latter and poor at the former.

This item would help with your initial effort, https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/05/12/israel-invades-rafah-and-genocide-will-be-completed-with-us-complicity/

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Is that a Molotov Cocktail or a bottle of vodka in the saddle holster?

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I see it as some sort of tonic.

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I wonder what Biden would be riding

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He'd be the scorpion riding the frog.

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He might actually be the frog. Bibi would be the scorpion riding him.

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Are you absolutely 100% certain it’s not real?

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ONLY THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS KING OF KINGS.... EVERYONE should study THE WORD OF GOD ALMIGHTY in order to get a glimpse at what is going on .... in any case EVERYONE who wants to be saved shall bow down to ....

THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE ONLY - THE ONE AND ONLY INCARNATION OF GOD ALMIGHTY AND SHEPHERD AND SAVIOUR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT FOREVER AND EVER - AMEN HALLELU-YAH - SOLI DEO GLORIA!

The book of Revelation .... anyone?

TAKE HEED - how much time is left only GOD ALMIGHTY knows!

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I was brought up with Jesus myself, but I've always thought of him more as a big brother who died when I was still a kid myself but who I still feel is with me all the time. But maybe that's just because I don't like the idea of having a king.

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I am afraid, but it has NOTHING to do with THE KING OF KINGS but rather with what THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN/MAKE BELIEVE/LIE has turned it into ... but not without the permission of GOD ALMIGHTY'S WISDOM MIGHT GRACE AND PURPOSE AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

What about THE KING OF KINGS being your big brother and instead of having the need to fight the earthly way HE "preferred" to be led THE GOD ALMIGHTY'S WAY ... resurrecting HIMSELF out of THE SOVEREIGNTY OF HIM BEING THE ONE AND ONLY INCARNATION OF GOD ALMIGHTY - AMEN HALLELU-YAH - SOLI DEO GLORIA!

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Thanks!

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NEVER thank man, he is full of LIES!

ALWAYS GIVE ALL PRAISE AND GLORY TO GOD ALMIGHTY, HIS ONE AND ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, for EVERYTHING always asking what it means for you, knock on the door and it will EVENTUALLY open!

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Hahaha! Thanks for the smile. 🤠

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Hmmmmmmmmmmm

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