The Best of Substack, This Week

Rebelling against the Current Thing, Chat GPT Hate Bots, Myocarditis Madness.

Jordan Schachtel

Feb 03, 2023

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The South Carolina Sellout - Pedro Gonzalez

The South Carolina Sellout

South Carolina’s Sen. Lindsey Graham is determined to make President Joe Biden seem like the adult in the room on foreign policy. On Monday, the White House rejected Ukraine’s request for F-16 fighter jets—an eminently reasonable decision to avoid a potentially catastrophic escalation with Russia. Nevertheless, the announcement triggered sp…

2 years ago · 80 likes · 12 comments · Pedro L. Gonzalez

The Curious Case of the Croatian Commander-in-Chief - Niccolo Soldo

Fisted by Foucault

The Curious Case of the Croatian Commander-in-Chief

In the run-up to the second invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush famously stated: “you’re either with us, or you’re against us”. By this point in time, Afghanistan had already been occupied, al-Qaida scattered to the winds, and the Taliban soundly defeated. The neo-conservatives then running US foreign policy were feeling their strength, and had s…

2 years ago · 102 likes · 81 comments · Niccolo Soldo

Moving the goalposts on “safe” - El Gato Malo

moving the goalposts on "safe" (part 1)

over generations, the standard of safety applied to widespread vaccine use has been extremely stringent. this is as it should be. drugs to be given near universally to healthy people are a VERY di…

2 years ago · 672 likes · 227 comments · el gato malo

Hate Bot Chat GPT shows you the evil within Big Tech - Mike Cernovich

The Other Side of Fear

Hate Bot ChatGPT Shows You the Evil Within Big Tech (and Republicans Who Protect Them)

Humans are effective liars. Robots, for now, can only say what they’ve been programmed to, which makes them honest. Thanks to ChatGPT, an AI bot from Silicon Valley, we finally have a full accounting of what Big Tech’s agenda for the country is. You’re not going to like it…

2 years ago · 54 likes · 3 comments · Cernovich

A Mechanism for Myocarditis - Christie Grace

Recombinant Reflections

A Mechanism for Myocarditis

All joking aside, we need to start with the heart, the diet, and how the heart gets its energy. Let’s start with diet. This is the USA food pyramid. Carbohydrates are at the bottom. It has been toted as heart healthy for years, but it is not. It’s actually the destroyer of the heart…

2 years ago · 20 likes · 8 comments · Christie Grace

Navigating Medicine - Remnant MD

Navigating Medicine | Pt. 4

In Part 1 of this series, I described the story of how we chose our newborn’s first pediatrician to illustrate some critical factors in making one of the most important decisions in your child’s life…

2 years ago · 4 likes · Remnant MD

Battering the battering ram - Darryl Cooper

The Martyr Made Substack

Battering the battering ram

Hey guys. One of the major themes of the current essay series is how disruptive the influx was black Southerners was to the Northern cities, and I thought it was worth saying a few words about previous mass migrations. Large-scale population movements are bound to be disruptive, even under the best of circumstances, and the black Great Migration was far from the first example in American history of new arrivals drawing the ire and bumping heads with previous residents. I also wanted to point out a historical pattern I think has played out in the previous migrations, and which was very much in play in the 1960s…

2 years ago · 113 likes · 32 comments · Darryl Cooper

The Zookeeper’s Guide To Wild Americans - Good Citizen

The Good Citizen

The Zookeeper's Guide to Wild Americans

Note: The following post is one of a series of six posts published simultaneously by separate authors who cast a vision of the year 2043. The authors have written their pieces in isolation with no collaboration between them. Please read the other works that were concurrently published with different perspectives of the year 2043, and subscribe to the au…

2 years ago · 47 likes · 31 comments · Good Citizen

The Levi’s Files - Jennifer Sey

The Levi's Files - Part 3

Levi’s laid off about 1000 people during covid in 2020, in two waves — first during the summer and then later, a small round in the fall. Business was tough and that was the excuse to “streamline.” With empathy. The 2020 layoffs served to bolster profitability and ultimately, the stock price, allowing CEO Chip Bergh to…

2 years ago · 38 likes · 19 comments · Jennifer Sey

How to Play like A Champion - Yuri Bezmenov

How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

How To Play Like a Champion (Part 5) - NOVAK DJOKOVIC WINS HIS RECORD 10TH AUSTRALIAN OPEN AND 22ND GRAND SLAM

Good Morning, Comrades: NOVAK DJOKOVIC HAS WON THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN. The GOAT is now tied with Rafael Nadal at 22 Grand Slams and has surpassed him in total tournaments won, 93-92. It is not just a victory for Novak; it is a victory for all who were vilified for freedom of thought and bodily autonomy…

2 years ago · 81 likes · 19 comments · Yuri Bezmenov

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Eggs, Spike Proteins, And The Manufactured Food Crisis

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