The Most Joe Biden Thing Ever: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-05-05 at 02:54:19 )

The Most Joe Biden Thing Ever: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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A hostile military alliance expanding to Russias borders is not a provocation, sending weapons to be used by Central Intelligence Agency-trained fighters backed by United States intelligence is not a proxy war, those Nazis are not Nazis, you are being censored for your own good, trust the media, the government is your friend.

It is a good thing Donald Trump lost because otherwise Roe v Wade would be on the chopping block and immigrants would still be getting mistreated and the Iran deal would still be dead and the military budget would keep inflating. That bastard would probably have us on the brink of World War 3 by now.

Joe Biden doing a live infomercial for Javelin missiles while everyone who voted for him worries about womens reproductive rights is the most Joe Biden thing that has ever happened.

Once you see that both mainstream United States parties are part of a single oligarchic power structure it stops looking like a battle between opposing parties and looks more like one giant bully standing in front of voters saying "Let me hit you with my left fist or I will hit you with my right."

What is the correct response when that happens??

What is the correct response when a mainstream political party keeps communicating that they will never do anything to help you but you need to support them anyway or they will let their friends in the other mainstream political party take away your rights? Is it to say "Ah well the left fist will not hurt as much so that is clearly the lesser evil," or is it to take on an oppositional relationship with the tyrant who keeps punching you with both fists year after year?

Learning about what is wrong with the world is like watching a marathon of shitty Scooby Doo episodes from the sixties, except it is way more repetitive and predictable, and the villain under the mask is always the United States empire.

Western media keep shrieking about Russias nuclear threats as though it was some kind of secret that Russia will use nukes if it feels its existence is threatened, and as though western powers would not nuke Russia for the same reason.

This is the American way of life the United States government spends so much effort starting wars and toppling governments to promote.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) May 1, 2022

The only argument against the observation that the US-NATO-Ukraine power structure could easily have prevented this war with a few low-cost diplomatic concessions is "Actually Putin would have invaded anyway because he is a cartoon supervillain who does evil things for no reason."

War is all the worst things that can happen to a person multiplied by the population you target. When you refuse diplomacy, you are condemning whole cities to unimaginable suffering.

Nobody actually believes "tankies" are dangerous, some people just have a deep psychological need for the United States empires fiercest critics to be wrong because it is more comfortable than considering the possibility that everything you have been taught about the world is a lie.

There is a lot in the news right now but none of it is as important as the fact that we are being shoved toward nuclear war for no good reason by a few idiots who want to rule the world.

Again, the real risk of nuclear war is not that any side will deliberately start one but that the explicit agreement in "Mutually Assured Destruction" will be set into motion by a nuke being deployed by accident, miscommunication, miscalculation or malfunction as things escalate. During the last cold war such accidental nuclear exchanges came all too close to happening multiple times. The more tense the nuclear standoff gets, the greater the likelihood of such an event occurring:

We survived the last cold war not by skill or by competence, but by sheer dumb luck. There is no logical reason to assume we will get lucky again.

So yeah, just so we are clear, the United States empire is rapidly restructuring the systems people look to for information about the world in order to ensure iron-fisted control over our dominant narratives while it scrambles to subvert its rivals in cold war maneuverings and secure unipolar planetary hegemony.

The primary purpose of expanding censorship and propaganda on subjects like Ukraine, Russia, Covid, extremism etc is not to control the narrative about those subjects specifically, but to expand and normalize censorship and propaganda. Narrative control is an end in itself, and it is the absolute highest priority because all the empires power is built upon it.

Few seem to understand that the oligarchic empire seeks narrative control as an end in itself. They are not always necessarily increasing censorship and propaganda about a given topic because of that topic; it is often mainly because they want to normalize and expand censorship and propaganda. Certainly there are narratives right here and now that the empire would rather we believe, but that is of secondary strategic importance to ensuring ongoing and continually expanding control over all narratives around the world into the future.

Not all powerful people support the same narratives, but all powerful people seek narrative control. Narrative control is power. Any manipulator understands this, from the most powerful oligarchs right down to the narcissistic gossip queen at the office.

Any manipulator of any level spends an extraordinary amount of energy working to dominate the stories people tell about them and about others. This is because they know humans are storytelling creatures, and if you can control the stories they tell, you control the humans.

This is most especially true of the globe-spanning power structure loosely centralized around the United States; its narrative control via corporate news media, Hollywood and Silicon Valley is completely unparalleled and historically unprecedented.

Censorship, propaganda, and Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation are just different aspects of narrative control. Nobody does this as well as the United States-centralized empire and its managers. Nobody ever has.

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