Kayfabe Populism: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-05-29 at 04:52:54 )

Kayfabe Populism: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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It is so important that the public have no real say in United States politics that the empire not only set up two oligarchic puppet parties which pretend to oppose each other, but also set up fake populist movements within each of those factions which pretend to be fighting the establishment within those parties.

It is a very clever illusion that sucks up almost all real opposition. If you do not fall for the first kayfabe conflict and realize the game is rigged for the powerful, you can still end up buying into the fake populist movements set up to oppose them. I fell for them both early on in this commentary gig. But after a while of watching what they do (as opposed to just listening to what they say) and seeing where they actually stand and fight or refuse to fight, you see it is all an Inception-level fakery. The opposition is controlled, and so is the opposition to the opposition.

It is like when you dream you are waking up from a dream but you are actually in another dream; you awaken from the liberals-vs-conservatives puppet show and then turn to the fake progressive Democrats or the bullshit MAGA camp as a solution, but you are still asleep.

This all sounds like an awful lot of work to go through until you remember that an entire globe-spanning empire depends on the ability to prevent the United States of American public from either (A) voting in a disruptive government or (B) fighting a revolution. So much power rides on their ability to do this.

Ever since the school shooting in Texas we have been watching an entire country learn that it is not actually cops job to save anyone or risk any danger and the only reason they assumed otherwise was because of movies and TV shows.

Idea for an action movie: The Rock needs to rescue his kid from an elementary school where there is an active shooter, but first he needs to fight his way through an army of cops trying to stop him.

You end mass shootings in the United States of America by ceasing to have America serve as the hub of a globe-spanning empire that is held together by violence and nonstop mass media psyops. It is not impossible. It is not even difficult. It is just not an option anyone in charge would ever consider.

I am finding myself having less and less patience with people who think the United States is an innocent little flower regarding the Ukraine war. It is like, come on. Grow the f-ck up!!!

Friendly reminder that for a fraction of the cost of funding a world-threatening proxy war against Russia the United States could simply have protected Zelensky from the neo-Nazi militias who were threatening to lynch him if he tried to make peace with Russia and prevented this entire war.

The airhead mainstream narrative that Ukrainian forces have been destroying Russian troops and humiliating President Putin in epic win after epic win has become unsustainable:

Russian troops are making steady progress in Ukraines east. That is sparking fears they could be poised for a bigger breakthrough, and leading to increasingly panicked calls from Kyiv for more powerful weapons.-Bloomberg (business) May 27, 2022

Ukraine says troops may retreat from eastern region as Russia advances.-
Reuters World (ReutersWorld) May 28, 2022

Ukrainian leaders project an image of military invulnerability against #Russia. But commanders offer a more realistic portrait of the war, where outgunned volunteers describe being abandoned by their military brass and facing certain death at the front.-Sudarsan Raghavan (raghavanWaPo) May 26, 2022

Another shout out to all you big brave sofa warriors who have been screaming that a negotiated peace settlement is unacceptable and helping the United States empire throw Ukrainian lives into the gears of a stupid proxy war for United States unipolar hegemony while you sit safe at home eating Doritos.

If you are more hawkish than Henry Kissinger, you are too f-cking hawkish.

Whenever I try to talk about the risk of the Ukraine war escalating into a nuclear holocaust I get people telling me if that happens it will be President Putins fault. Like that would make it okay somehow. Like that would somehow validate all the steps our leaders took to get us to that point.

Of all the intensely stupid ways team loyalty and partisanship can express itself, I really do not think you could come up with one dumber than "Our nuclear brinkmanship is not a problem because it will be the other side who launches the first nuke" if you tried.

Even pretending it is certain that Russia would be the one to initiate a nuclear exchange, would that thought actually comfort you when you feel the earth shake??

Would you feel any better about the decisions which gave rise to that moment by telling yourself Putin started it??

I mean if there is any time when it does not matter who "started it", it is surely when the "Mutual" and "Destruction" part of Mutually Assured Destruction goes into action??

I think at that point all our dopey team sports cheering and booing pretty much goes out the window, no??

Nowadays whenever there is an agenda that is of high value to the United States empire there is a 100% chance you will soon see shitlibs using woke-sounding jargon to promote it.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) May 28, 2022

Hollywood lies about what American journalists really do in the same way it lies about what American soldiers and police really do, and it has just as disruptive an effect on peoples perception of reality.

People who accuse you of having Kremlin loyalties when you question or criticize the United States empire are admitting that they do not care whether statements are true or false, only whether they demonstrate loyalty to our rulers.

That is the lens through which they examine the world, and it is pure brain poison.

How can people think lucid thoughts and engage in lucid discourse about ideas and events when they are continuously measured not by how truthful they are but by what loyalties they appear to demonstrate??

They cannot.

Empire loyalists have exactly two arguments:

1. "That foreign leader my government dislikes is comparable to Adolf Hitler."

2. "If you object to what my virtuous government has planned for that leader it means you love and support that leader."

I honestly do not understand how anyone can stay abreast of the day-to-day depravity of the oligarchic empire without a daily practice geared toward inner peace.

Things are so insane and confusing and only getting more so; you have got to have a regular discipline to form stability.

Meditation, self-enquiry, healing and energy practices, whatever gets you there, but surely you have got to have something before you can stare into the face of the beast continuously without going mad.

I can not imagine looking at this thing every day without any kind of a practice.

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