TYT, Jimmy Dore, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-07-06 at 00:31:02 )

TYT, Jimmy Dore, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Nothing about the United States of America changed in any meaningful way after Donald Trump took office or after he left. An oligarchic empire kept doing the things the oligarchs and imperialists had always planned on doing. All that changed were the narratives laid on top of this very boring reality.

What actually changed? The tweets. The punditry. The levels of pundit-manufactured hysteria on each side. Nothing real and significant in terms of actual government policy and behavior. The powerful capitalize on peoples inability to distinguish narrative from reality.

Your support for socialism is just narcissistic public masturbation if it does not include rigorous opposition to United States imperialism. So is your social justice activism. So is your environmentalism. So is your anti-fascism.

Imagine being an influential pundit and telling your audience on no basis whatsoever that an award-winning journalist is working for dictators and paid by the Russians, refusing to retract or apologize, and then constantly playing the victim.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) July 5, 2021

You know what would have been a lot worse than a vile McCarthyite smear against an important antiwar journalist igniting an ugly war in online left media circles? A vile McCarthyite smear against an important antiwar journalist being tolerated by online left media circles.

I keep seeing people say things like "This feud is destroying the left!" Alright, first of all, no it is not, that is stupid. Secondly, even if it was, no "left" that tolerates the use of disgusting McCarthyite smear tactics to marginalize important anti-imperialist journalists would be worth saving.

I mean imagine a different timeline where The Young Turks had said Aaron Mate is paid by the Russian government and working for dictators, and nothing happened? Imagine if that had caused no controversy at all and everyone had just let that slide on through? How much worse would that have been? Imagine if people in online United States media circles had just gone "Yep, yeah, that is how we behave now", and it became normal and acceptable for unprincipled progressive media outlets to target Mate and other anti-imperialist voices with that smear? Would you have preferred that?

Now imagine another timeline where instead of this becoming a contentious issue where those on one side try to blackmail the other into silence and half of lefty media takes the side of the blackmailing McCarthyites, everyone had just condemned the smearers from the start? How much better would that have been?

So we are not in the best-case scenario where everyone just says "Yeah nah, f-ck off" when McCarthyite smear tactics are deployed, but we are also not in the worst-case scenario where they have widespread acceptance on the left either. That is a good thing.

Jimmy Dore is popular because he is passionate, interesting, and speaks to ordinary people across the political spectrum instead of just to pseudo progressives or elitist university Marxists. Getting upset about his popularity instead of just doing what he is doing is pretty silly.

Part of the widespread vitriol toward Mr. Dore is due to jealousy about his popularity and influence, and part is due to a belief that he is the wrong kind of voice to be leading the left. But in both cases the solution is to just do the thing that makes him so popular and influential yourself, not to bitch and moan while continuing your failed approach.

I am always seeing people talk about how their dad hates both parties and just discovered Jimmy Dore and loves him or whatever. What are Mr. Dores haters doing to appeal to ordinary disenfranchised working class people like this? They will say they want to, but their actions and methods say otherwise.

And if you can not do what Mr. Dore has done to become so popular-appealing to ordinary people in an interesting and accessible way—you should probably rethink getting into the left political commentary thing anyway.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) July 5, 2021

"How come you always criticize the United States of America instead of your own government?"

The United States staged repeated coups in Australia to ensure we remain a continent-sized military base for imperialist agendas in Asia and they are jailing Julian Assange with impunity. Washington,D.C. is my own government.

Manipulators can only project.

They do not have the imagination or empathy to create something out of whole cloth to say about you, which is great because all you have to do is listen carefully to what they say about others with the realization they are just telling on themselves.

In order to really say something that is true and meaningful about someone elses character, you have to have the ability to lean in with empathy to understand them. People who have spent their lives manipulating others rather than working with them, do not have empathy.

This is good to know about yourself too.

If you are ever stuck hating on someone and you know it is petty and it is not helping you, try reversing what you see in them and see if it is just something that you do too, something that needs to be seen, loved, listened to and let go of.

These things are sneaky though. Obviously it is not going to present in you the exact same way as you hate it in others or else you would immediately see your own hypocrisy.

They will take a little coaxing and a lot of love to draw out. Make sure you feel safe and do it by yourself. Then, when you are feeling comfy, identify what you suspect is the core motivation of the behavior you see in the person that you hate. All it takes then is to get honest with yourself about if that motivates you sometimes.

Be real playful and gentle about it. Most of the time, that is all it takes.

Just an "Ah, yeah I do do that," and that is usually enough to stop your reactiveness. Even if you do do it again, you will be watching yourself more closely and collecting more data. Once it is fully seen, it will leave by itself. And you might continue hating that person, that is cool, but it is those kinds of hypocrisies that we hide from ourselves that cause a lot of psychological distress and prevent you from seeing yourself and the world as it is, and not through a veil of dissociation and self-hate.

If you have looked and looked and you still can not find it, then that is fine.

Some people really are just assholes and they need to wake up to themselves, nothing to do with you. Always worth doing the work on yourself first though. You are the only asshole you can actually change.

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