I've never really spoken with Cook (I think we've had one brief back-and-forth exchange and it was an argument), but I often feel like we understand each other better than most people who've been friends for decades. This is fantastic.
"Capitalism isn’t only harming us, it’s double-billing us: taking first from our wallets and then depriving us of a future. We have now entered an era of deep cognitive dissonance."
"Efforts to end the suicidal trajectory of our current 'free market' system will doubtless soon be equated with terrorism, as the Prevent strategy has already intimated. We should be ready."
"There can be no escape from the death wish of capitalism without recognising that death wish, and then demanding and working for wholesale change."
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The same exact low rumble, slowly rising toward the same fever pitch crescendo. First you get a few unexpected comments showing up in your notifications, then a few more, then a lot more, then a whole lot more.
It's Russiagate all over again.
The increasingly shrill shrieking from rightists about China having leverage over Biden is so similar to what I experienced from liberals at this exact point in time in 2016 about Russia having leverage over Trump. They get mad when I say it but it's true.
These fucking assholes are seriously going to push a sequel to Russiagate with China if Biden wins. The cold warriors got their consent for dangerous escalations versus one half of the Russia-China tandem, now they're going for the other half.
Aaand my mentions are now full of propagandized dupes telling me that this time is completely different and Biden really is a Xi puppet. Fucking morons.
Me neither! I was so ready to be done with the whole thing and now these dipshits are going to force me to be perceived as defending Biden for years just like I've been perceived as defending Trump by opposing a brazen cold war psyop.
Stop putting armor on that fancy suit, love.
The plate mail,
it clashes with your eyes.
The world is not asking you
to be tough,
to be disengaged,
to be pulled back from the shit show,
to be numb to the psychic screaming
of chainsawed trees
and finless sharks.
The world does not need
one more leaned-back pontificator,
one more dissociated intellectual,
one more slowly decaying know-it-all,
one more dispassionate bloviator,
one more sexless, artless thinkbrain,
one more unfeeling scribe
of the left hemisphere.
Once upon a time there was an Emperor who loved war and military expansionism.
One day two men calling themselves Intelligence Experts came into town claiming that they had devised a wondrous new type of enemy threat that is invisible to the common folk.
"US government agencies are advancing the narrative that unabsorbed governments are attacking the United States in a completely invisible yet extremely outrageous way." caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/no-matter-wh…
The US government is pushing yet another unproven election meddling narrative about yet another disobedient government, this time targeting Iran and Russia.
This is exhausting. Do I really need to type this bullshit out?
To be clear, any nation in the world would be fully justified in interfering in US elections, since the US is by far the very worst offender in foreign election meddling. You don't get to normalize something by doing it constantly and then say it's wrong. mintpressnews.com/governments-ow…
That's just election interference; it says nothing of invasions, coups, proxy wars and other regime change operations the US wages. You can't do these things and then say it's wrong to interfere in US democracy. It isn't wrong; what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
The US uses its military, economic and cultural might to bully and manipulate the entire world, to the point where people in many nations are affected by US politics more than Americans themselves are. It's not valid to interfere like that and then say others can't reciprocate.