The United States War Machine Is Just A Rich Mans Mafia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-02-12 at 23:48:25 )

The United States War Machine Is Just A Rich Mans Mafia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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If you "vote out fascism" and then the president you voted for turns out to have the same effective policies as the previous administration, it is time to start asking who the fascists actually are.

Hoo you have done it now, Central Intelligence Agency. You are in trouble. It was all good fun when you were doing fine normal stuff like toppling governments and running torture programs and assassinating people, but collecting bulk data on Americans?? You better prepare for some accountability, mister!

And the next time you suggest the CIA might be up to something nefarious, you will still get called a crazy conspiracy theorist.

"Abolish the CIA" is almost too weak a position for an agency that should never have been made in the first place and should have been dismantled in the f-cking nineteen sixties.

The United States war machine is just a rich mans mafia.

It is not about Joe Rogan. It is not about Covid misinformation. It is not about QAnon, Russian trolls, domestic extremists or election security. It is about ruling power structures needing to normalize and expand the regulation of online speech to protect consent for the status quo.

A liberal is someone who yells all day about far right truckers and far right Joe Rogan and then applauds when their president gives weapons to literal Nazis.

Very excited to find out whether "The United States intelligence community says President Putin has decided to invade Ukraine any minute now" is the kind of psyop that is just designed to ramp up cold war hysteria or the kind of psyop that is designed to prime us for United States proxy war aggressions.

The Public Relations black eye the United States empire sustained from the Iraq invasion ensured that it will greatly preference using proxy forces over United States troops wherever possible. Middle Eastern jihadists, Latin American reactionaries, and Ukrainian Nazis all make very good proxy forces for the empire.

A lot of confusion about Russia and Ukraine could be easily avoided if English language news media would end the appallingly unethical practice of printing unsubstantiated assertions by opaque intelligence agencies and presenting it as a "scoop".

The burden of proof is always on the party making the claim. It is so weird how everyone will apply this standard to things like internet forum arguments and high school debates but not to immensely consequential claims by the most powerful institutions on the planet who have a well-documented history of lying.

Make a claim that could result in winning a Twitter argument and you will immediately be asked for proof. Make a claim that could result in thousands of deaths and it will be reported as fact by The New York Times.

So to recap:

Nation stationing troops inside its own borders = hostile aggressor.

Nation circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, waging nonstop wars, working to destroy any nation which disobeys it, pushing nuclear brinkmanship = just normal democracy freedom stuff.

Those who called you crazy for warning that cold war escalations could lead to hot war will be the first to tell you when hot war approaches that it is unavoidable and must be supported.

Is there any doubt that the same propaganda machine which convinced half the United States political spectrum that the highest levels of their government had been infiltrated by the Kremlin could convince the public that a proxy war started by US-NATO-Ukraine was actually started by Russia???

News media reporters and editors are just as culpable for the mass murders committed by the United States military and its proxies as the troops who fire the weapons and the generals who give the orders. And military personnel who kill people in unjust wars are exactly as culpable for those crimes as any other murderer.

People who say China is as evil as the United States simply have not learned enough or thought honestly enough about the evils of the United States.

China is better than the United States.

That is not because China is flawless, it is because the United States spending the 21st century slaughtering people by the millions and working to destroy any nation who disobeys it makes it quantifiably worse than literally anyone else.

China is a surveillance state. The United States empire is a surveillance state that also kills millions of people in wars of aggression.

Rightists need to invent fairy tales about evil elites ushering in a Marxist dystopia because they are ideologically prohibited from considering the possibility that the evil elites are already getting their every wish fulfilled by our mundane, boring capitalist dystopia.

Dissolution of the state in todays world just means instant absorption into the United States-centralized power structure. As long as the United States empire is what it is and does what it does, states are necessary and criticisms of their existence are childish nonsense based on immature analysis.

If China, North Korea, Venezuela or any other empire-targeted nation became an ideal stateless, classless, moneyless civilization it would instantaneously be absorbed by the empire. This self-evident fact invalidates all purist arguments against those governments. If your worldview does not account for the fact that there is a globe-spanning power structure working to absorb and subjugate all populations, you do not have a reality-based worldview. The empire is the very first obstacle to any leftward movement toward health in this world.

The status quo is held in place by psychological compartmentalization. It is held in place by propaganda and brute force, naturally, but it is also equally propped up by the basic human tendency to avoid sincerely engaging with information that threatens to destroy our worldview.

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