Sunday Funny Pages: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-07-12 at 03:42:54 )

Sunday Funny Pages: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Hey kids! Got some fun and relatable comic strips for you to share on social media:

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Garfield knows what is up:

Marmaduke dropping truth bombs, as usual:

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This is pretty insightful. Whoever does the Dilbert comic should consider getting into political commentary:

I had honestly never noticed Family Circus has such biting social commentary:

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Man I forgot how high-brow this comic was:

Listen to a reading of this article:

BREAKING: Sources report violent right-wing extremists have seized the United States Capitol, established a globe-spanning empire, and murdered millions of people.

Think tank name translation guide:

Foreign = War
Policy = Crimes
Democracy = Neoliberalism
Strategic = Murderous
International-Global = Imperialist
Relations = Domination
American = Oligarchic
Research = Indoctrination
Institution-Institute-Council-Center-Foundation-House = Propaganda Firm

Me, an idiot: It is disturbing how government-tied Silicon Valley oligarchs exert so much control over peoples access to free speech.

You, a genius: It is not a free speech issue because you can still take your opinions down to Ye Olde Printing Presse and distribute them manually on horseback.

We have not talked enough about how the United States military not only lied for twenty years about their stated goals in Afghanistan nearly being accomplished, but it turns out they were also lying about doing anything during that time that could possibly have led to their stated goals being accomplished.

Seeing the "Afghan government" just melting under the Taliban after the United States pretended to spend twenty years building it up is like paying someone billions of dollars to build a palace and then after twenty years checking it out and realizing the whole thing is a stage play set made of cardboard.

A military which can afford to spend trillions on a twenty-year war which accomplished literally nothing besides making horrible people wealthy is a military that needs its budget slashed to ribbons.

When your elected officials never ask "How do we solve this problem?" but rather "How do we solve this problem without upsetting rich people or warmongers?", most of the problems will necessarily remain unsolved. This is of course entirely by design, because the circumstances which created the problems were set up by and for the rich people and warmongers.

Anyone who accuses you of working for a foreign government when you criticize United States imperialism is accidentally admitting that they cannot imagine any possible scenario under which someone might criticize the worst impulses of the most powerful people on earth without being paid to.

They are giving you a very embarrassing insight into the way they think and live.

They are telling you that they are unprincipled hacks who never question authority and only speak from within the framework of blind sycophantic loyalty.

It was a major propaganda victory for imperial narrative managers to convince people that being skeptical of any claim about a foreign government made by the United States - no matter how flimsy the evidence - is the same as Holocaust denial.

The poor have all the responsibility and none of the wealth or power, and for the rich it is the exact opposite: all of the power and wealth but none of the responsibility.

Nobody ever tells them "See all that plastic in the ocean??

That is your fault. Fix it."

They burn the world for fun and profit and face no consequences.

They are a bunch of spoiled little boys with flamethrowers.

If it had just been "Let us end racism" instead of "Let us end racism by supporting horrible corporate warmongers" there would be a lot less racism today.

Any time I talk about racial justice I get people calling it "identity politics" when it is really not; becoming conscious of racial injustices in our society is not about promoting any political party or politician, it is about becoming conscious. But people assume that because it has been so exploited for so long.

If people were not so acutely aware of the disgusting ways in which race and racism have been leveraged to promote the political agendas of absolutely horrible people and parties, that aversion to seeing this stuff would not be there.

It does not take a genius to recognize phoniness, opportunism and cynicism when you see it; most people can smell it a mile away.

This causes a rejection of the examination of the problem of racism which would not be there otherwise.

The fact that racism has been exploited in a way that prevents it from being healed is itself a metastasis of that same racism.

Stomp out the authentic revolutionary impulse and you are left with inauthentic revolutionary impulse.

You do not kill peoples impulse to rise up and push for change, you just get them doing it in weird, ridiculous, ineffective ways. Hence the pseudo left and "populist" right.

Most of the bizarre things about western politics in general and United States politics in particular ultimately boil down to this.

"Okay we need to overthrow the elites and change things.. let us elect that rich casino guy for president." All the IDpol and shitlib stuff, same thing.

If the door to real leftward movement had not been bolted shut, you would not see one side trying to change things by freaking out about immigrants and trans people and the other side trying to change things by punching them in black bloc without either threatening real power.

What you would see is change.

This situation of course suits those in power just fine.

They are happy to have the right advancing their interests and the left shrieking impotently at anything that moves for all eternity.

That is why they spent generations deliberately turning that into the existing reality.

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