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30 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The best way to manufacture consent for world-threatening cold war escalations is to convince half the population that a leader they hate opposes those escalations for corrupt reasons. They did it very successfully with Russia, and if Biden gets in they'll do it again with China.
This gives one half of the political spectrum a literally insatiable appetite for more and more escalations, and gives the other half a vested interest in proving that their guy is "tough" on the nation in question. Russiagate was extremely successful, so why change the formula?
No sane person would consent to their nation's resources and wealth going toward a conflict that could wipe out every terrestrial organism instead of toward the citizenry, so propaganda is necessary. Russiagate was arguably the most successful psyop in history. It's the formula.
The US intelligence cartel.

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Narrative management 👇
Not even faking professionalism:

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"Ohhh god. It’s happening again."
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Ohhh god. It’s happening again.

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It's Russiagate all over again.
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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.
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