Thread by @caitoz

The US Empire Is A Smiley Faced Serial Killer

"Waiting for the results of the US presidential election is like waiting to find out if you're going to get hit by the mugger with the bat or the mugger with the crow bar."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-us-empir…

Dave Calhoun, CEO of top war profiteer company Boeing, said back in July that he'll be quite happy regardless of what happens on November third.

And of course he didn't take such a position. Why would he? Arms manufacturers have been pouring money into the campaigns of both candidates, and they both know that no matter who wins the presidential election they're going to reap highly profitable mountains of corpses.

Since they know they win no matter who wins, why risk offending a future business partner?

https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1322231295049687040

The fact that war plutocrats are happy with either candidate tells you more about the reality of this presidential race than all the billions of dollars worth of mass media reporting and punditry that's gone into it over the last two years combined.

It's so insane that people can become unimaginably wealthy by using campaign donations to help warmongering politicians rise to the top of the political system of the most bloodthirsty government on earth and then selling the weapons used in the wars those politicians start.

Really, just think about that for a second. Imagine if someone said "I'm going to become a billionaire by killing people in the Middle East and Africa and selling their organs on the black market."

War profiteers pour money into political campaigns, think tanks, mass media advertising and other narrative management operations which have the direct result of more mass military violence and more public support for it, but they are seldom even criticized for that depravity.

The more you think about it, the creepier it gets. This is true not just of the military-industrial complex, but of the US empire as a whole.

There is nothing more creepy than the close power alliance loosely centralized around the US which functions as a single empire.

They extol the virtues of "human rights" while butchering human beings around the world whenever it is geostrategically convenient.

The reality that they are riding on the parade float dressing of an insatiable death machine is carefully concealed from the denizens of this empire, and instead they are fed a constant Hollywood diet of movies and shows about how fun and hilarious and awesome their country is.

The US empire is a serial killer with a horrifying grin stretched over its blood-spattered face. A smiley faced psychopath babbling about civil rights and the importance of inclusive language while chopping a Yemeni child to pieces.

Once you've seen the murderous US empire for what it is, you can never see the smiling nice guy again.

Despite all the partisan shrieking and melodrama and hyperbole, Trump is not uniquely evil.

Despite all the partisan shrieking and melodrama and hyperbole, Biden is not uniquely evil.

Only depraved people are capable of serving such a depraved machine, and only depraved people will ever be given an opportunity to. Trump and Biden are not unique in their depravity. They're just the next in line to serve at the front desk of the smiley faced murder factory.