The Assange Issue Is NOT Complicated: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-12-14 at 23:07:39 )

The Assange Issue Is NOT Complicated: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and yet you still get pseudoleft pundits acting like you are some kind of weird freak for expecting them to oppose it.

The Julian Assange issue is not actually complicated. The most powerful government in the world is trying to extradite a journalist and try him under the Espionage Act for exposing its war crimes. It is that simple. This is not some super complex subject that you defer to the experts on.

That is one of the things that is so frustrating about this case. It is such a blatant abuse of government power that virtually everyone would normally be ideologically opposed to it, but because there has been so much media spin on it for so long people do not see it.

Do not imprison journalists for exposing the truth. I mean, like, duh. This should really be such a mainstream issue that fringey types like myself would see no need to focus on it, and if the media environment was not being so despicably manipulated it would be.

China is far, far better than the United States.

That does not mean China is awesome, it just means the United States is far, far worse than anyone else in terms of tyranny and destructiveness.

Working to destroy any population which disobeys you anywhere in the world makes you worse than anyone else.

The only reason nobody seems to recognize this in the west is because the United States has such phenomenally excellent global narrative control. If it did not, the entire world would have laughed when the butchers of the Middle East started pretending to care about Muslims in Xinjiang.

People will respond to this by saying things like, "China is more oppressive domestically, US is more oppressive abroad." But nothing China is doing domestically is anywhere remotely as bad as what the United States is doing abroad. Nothing China is currently doing rises to the level of the United States killing millions and displacing tens of millions just since the turn of this century in still-ongoing military operations.

This is an unassailably correct position; there exists no robust arguments to the contrary. The only reason people experience so much cognitive dissonance whenever I say this is because so few step all the way back and look at the big picture of our present reality as it currently exists.

Maintaining an awareness of the indisputable fact that the United States is by far the most destructive government on earth gives you a much clearer perspective in our current media environment, because you see that it is always vastly worse than 100 percent of the governments it tries to demonize.

It is amazing how many people I will interact with who blame China for the rising authoritarianism of their own governments. It takes a lot of propaganda consumption to believe western governments using western means to oppress westerners has anything to do with China.

"Left-versus-right is just designed to keep us divided against each other."

No that is capitalism. Capitalism is what is designed to do that. And you either oppose that right-wing, divisive, competition-based model or you do not.

Sure Democrat-versus-Republican, Tories-versus-Labour etc is fake and divisive bullshit, but those are right wing, capitalist parties. You either support their ideology or you oppose it. This is a real distinction and pretending otherwise serves nobody.

Capitalism depends on scarcity. Go to a communist country and give everyone a bunch of free stuff and everyone will be better off. Go to a capitalist country and give everyone a bunch of free stuff and you will collapse the economy.

Capitalism needs lack. Lack is capitalisms number one product.

Democratic Party leadership and its allied media will always find some reason to take the focus off the need for healthcare and economic justice. Sorry can not talk about healthcare and wealth inequality, gotta shriek about Russians. Sorry can not talk about healthcare and wealth inequality, gotta shriek about anti-vaxxers. Sorry can not talk about healthcare and wealth inequality, gotta shriek about Donald Trumps 2024 campaign. Sorry can not talk about United States healthcare and wealth inequality, gotta shriek about some other thing.

Humanity arrived on the scene through a frightening and violent process of death, mutation and natural selection, leaving a bunch of trauma conditioning imprinted on these newly-evolved massive brains of ours even long after the threats have gone. We are still sorting that out.

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