China Keeps Aggressively Surrounding Itself With United States Bases: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-11-29 at 02:17:09 )

China Keeps Aggressively Surrounding Itself With United States Bases: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Facts:

-There are Chinese people with real grievances against their government.

-The United States empires propaganda machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial agendas.

-Western intelligence agencies will become more and more involved in these protests the longer they go on.

It still amazes me how many people who fancy themselves anti-establishment critical thinkers will spend all day mindlessly regurgitating mainstream media lines about China.

I cannot emphasize enough how little respect I have for anyone who parrots United States empire narratives about China and how completely dismissive I am of all their attempts to explain to me that it is actually right and good to do this.

Literally all of our major problems are because of the people who rule over us; if you are buying into the narrative that who we should really be mad at right now is a government on the other side of the planet with no power over us, you are a f-cking loser. You are a bootlicking empire simp. You are worthless, bleating human livestock.

Why does China keep aggressively surrounding itself with United States military bases??

United States Military Set to Return to Subic Bay, Philippines to Counter China
The United States closed its military base in Subic Bay 30 years ago by Dave DeCamp-Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) November 25, 2022

Everyone knows the United States has invaded countries completely unprovoked very recently and will definitely do so again, but we still have to pretend that President Putin is the worst thing since Adolf Hitler.

It is disturbing how many people I encounter who claim Russias invasion of Ukraine is worse than the United States of Americas invasion of Iraq because Ukraine is a "democracy". How f-cked up do you have to be inside to believe human lives are worth less because of their nations political system??

Leaving aside the fact that a nation which bans political parties, shuts down opposition media, imprisons opposition leaders, and is vastly more accountable to Washington,D.C. than to its own people is in no way a "democracy", that is just a profoundly disturbed way of looking at life. A mother holding the remains of a child whose body has been ripped apart by military explosives does not care whether her country is considered a "democracy" by the western governments who are invested in that countrys military outcomes.

Rightists correctly believe that liberals subscribe to an artificially constructed worldview designed by the powerful in the service of the powerful, but incorrectly believe that they themselves do not.

Common debates:

Which status quo party is best
Which side of the culture war is correct
How the western empire should act
What capitalism should look like

Uncommon debates:

Should status quo politics exist
Should the western empire exist
Should capitalism exist
Should class war replace culture war

And it is of course entirely by design that the former are common and the latter are uncommon. Keeping everyone debating how establishment power structures should exist, rather than if they should, ensures the survival of those power structures.

It is actually a really big problem that the most visible "left" in the United States is completely worthless on war and militarism. When Americans who are critical of those things look right and see people like Rand Paul and Tucker Carlson doing something then look left and see AOC and Bernie doing nothing, which side do you think they will choose??

And of course this is because the so-called progressive Democrats are not "left" in any meaningful way, but your average mainstream United States of American does not know that, and perception is reality.

The United States is the nation where antiwar sentiment is most important and the most urgently needed, and it has been buried on the left.

United States of Americans are trained that Clintonites are "center-left" and AOC-Bernie are "far left", and anyone further to the left than them on foreign policy is demonized by these progressives as a Russian agent. This creates the very understandable impression that the entire left is pro-war.

When you have got Ilhan Omar and AOC calling people who protest United States proxy warfare at their rallies Russian operatives and antiwar leftists like Jill Stein branded as Kremlin agents, the message mainstream Americans come away with is that antiwar sentiment is only welcome on the right.

Again, I get this is not true and there is lots of antiwar sentiment on the true left in the United States, but nobody sees that left. It is denied any media presence or political validity; mainstream Americans do not know the difference between an anti-imperialist socialist and a Berner.

This causes antiwar Americans to drift to the right; I have watched it happen in real time with some of my United States followers. I do my best to make the case for the left, but I am just one voice amid a surging deluge of messaging they are getting that the real opposition is on the right.

Naming your war machinery after the Indigenous tribes your government genocided is the modern-day equivalent of wearing the skulls of your enemies on your war horse.

A lot of acceptance of the status quo worldview boils down to a failure of imagination. People literally can not imagine the possibility that reality is as different as it is from what they have been told by their teachers, parents, pundits and politicians. It is actually unfathomable to them, and that is because it is so different. The world we are trained to see by establishment perception managers is as different from the real world as any fictional world is.

The incremental normalization of police murderbots is probably nothing to worry about.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) November 26, 2022

The claim that capitalism is the best system for generating profits is basically correct; it is hard to beat greed and starvation as a carrot and stick to get the gears of industry whirring.

The issue here is that merely generating profits will not solve most of the worlds problems, and in fact many of our problems come from the fact that capitalism is too effective at turning the gears of industry.

Our biosphere is dying largely because capitalism values making lots of things but not un-making things; we are choking our ecosystem to death because it is profitable.

Capitalism has no real answers for problems like ecocide, inequality, exploitation and caring for the needful. Yes "let the markets decide" will generate lots of profits for those set up to harvest them, but profit-seeking cannot address those very serious problems.

The "invisible hand of the market" gets treated as an actual deity that actually exists, with all the wisdom necessary to solve the worlds problems, but in reality the pursuit of money lacks any wisdom. It can not solve our major problems, it can only make more stuff and generate more profit.

Find me a capitalist business plan for leaving a forest untouched. Find me a capitalist business plan for keeping someone free of illness, for ensuring that someone with nothing gets what they need, for giving resources to a struggling parent!

You can not. Capitalism can not do this.

These are the most important things in the world, and no possible iteration of capitalism has any solutions for any of them whatsoever, apart from "Well hopefully rich people will feel very charitable and fix those problems." And how is that solution working out? It is a joke.

The "Maybe the very rich will feel charitable and fix our problems for us" solution assumes that the very same people who are wired to do whatever it takes to claw their way to the top of the ladder will suddenly start caring deeply about everyone they stepped on to get there.

Capitalism elevates sociopaths, because profit-seeking competition-based systems reward those who are willing to do whatever it takes to get ahead. That is why we are ruled by sociopaths, and it is why looking to "philanthropy" as a solution to our problems is a ridiculous joke.

When capitalism proponents tell socialists and communists "You do not understand economics," what they really mean is "You do not understand that capitalism is the best system for generating profits." But socialists and communists do understand this; it is just that generating profits, in and of itself, is not sufficient.

If lack of wealth is your major problem, then capitalism can be a tool to address it; that is what China is temporarily doing to keep up economically with the western forces who wish to enslave it. But such measures will not solve ecocide, inequality, exploitation, and caring for the needful. For that other measures are needed.

If you want to make more of something (money, material goods), then capitalism can be a good way to do that. But if you need to make less of something (pollution, inequality, exploitation, sickness, homelessness, etc) it is worthless, and other systems must be looked to.

You can say "But communist regimes are authoritarian blah blah" all you want, but that does not change the fact that capitalism has zero answers for the most important problems facing our species.

This still needs to be addressed, and moaning about Mao and Stalin is not an answer. Do not like the iterations of socialism we have seen so far? Okay. Then find another answer, and remember we have already established that capitalism is not an answer; it cannot address the problems we have discussed here. So we need to find an actual answer that does actually work.

Dismantling capitalism, if we ever achieve it, will be the most difficult thing that humanity has ever accomplished. As hard as everyone becoming a buddha, and essentially not much different. But that does not change the fact that it is existentially necessary for us to do so.

We will either move from competition-based systems to collaboration-based ones, eliminating all the obstacles necessary for us to do so, or we will go extinct. We are at our adapt-or-die juncture as a species!!

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