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18 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
The US has only been shooting Afghan farmers and bombing villages for a mere 19 years. Thank you, @SenDuckworth, for demanding there be no premature withdrawal. Afghanistan belongs to the US and 19 years of occupation and bombing is far too little for a colony to improve:
And here's @AmbassadorRice, @RepDanCrenshaw and some NBC News analyst all agreeing that it's way too early to leave Afghanistan, and that Trump's plan is precipitous -- in case anyone still believes the bullshit myth about how there's no more bipartisanship in DC.
And just so you know what the sides are, here's neocon warmonger & MSNBC favorite @BillKristol condemning the current effort to withdraw troops from around the world, including Afghanistan, as his liberal fans swoon and sprain their fingers re-tweeting:

It's easy for a political party to hide who they are when they're in opposition. It becomes much harder when they start governing.

Tammy Duckworth denouncing troop withdrawal & Ed Markey demanding *more* censorship from Facebook is what's coming. Enjoy!
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19 Nov
The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-ruli…
An unholy union of the National Security State and the neocon-backed and corporate-funded Democratic Party are about to assume power: with media-supported internet censorship a key weapon.
Here we see the new coalition of power that has formed during the Trump era: hawkish and corporatist Democrats, united when necessary with pro-war/neocon Republicans, Bush/Cheney operatives, the national security state and large corporate media outlets.

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17 Nov
This is amazing, but not really. There is no more authoritarian species in the wild than US liberals. In every controversy, they side with institutions of authority: they love the large corporate press, the FBI, CIA, workplace managers, editors - they worship & revere authority:
Nobody — absolutely nobody — has done more to spread disinformation and deceive the public than large corporate media outlets. That’s their function. This never used to be controversial on the left.

Now they have liberal convinced they’re the warriors against disinformation.
They beg Facebook and Google and other tech giants to regulate our discourse. They think NBC News & CNN are devoted to combatting disinformation and keeping us safe from propaganda. They beg for “gatekeepers” and discourse regulators. They are institutionalists & authoritarians.
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17 Nov
Look at how much NYT reporters hate and resent Substack, because it provides the ability of writers and journalists to be heard and to reach an audience without having to submit to their monopolistic structures and discourse controls.

Corporate journalists despise independence:
This is the same reason they hate @JoeRogan. They think it's a grave injustice that millions want to listen to to him -- are willing to pay -- but not to them, and that he's free to say what he wants and they're not.

The more free discourse emerges, the more they'll malign it.
As for money: NYT makes enormous profit. They make it by keeping fear levels high and trying to deceive people into believing that only they speak Truth and provide reliable commentary (despite their, you know, history).

They hate anything that threatens that hegemonic control.
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16 Nov
There is no question that Democrats are gearing up to use their new power to apply far more pressure than ever on Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. to censor any views they deem "threatening." Obama could not be clearer about this:

vox.com/recode/2020/11…
The extraordinary joke of all of this is Obama -- to warn of the dangers of disinformation -- chose to give a key interview to ***Jeffrey Goldberg***, author of the most destructive disinformation of the last 20 years. Those warning about "disinformation" are its worst purveyors.
Please look at what is going here. Democrats are defining whoever opposes them not as adversaries but as national security threats, fascist terrorists, etc. -- all to justify blocking them from the internet using their influence with Silicon Valley.

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-three-gr…
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16 Nov
Very disappointed to see @cliomiso is angered by LGBT journalists having a platform on which to be heard and write independently. Homophobia still strong.

It was only a matter of time before people started demanding Substack be censored: hate nothing more than free expression.
That @Yascha_Mounk -- who supported the coup in Bolivia -- and I are "like minded" is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever read. But that's what happens to your brain when you try to flatten everyone into stunted groups, ignoring their diversity and differences.
I have to say it's so infuriating when you go through life confronting prejudices, legal barriers barring you from living with your husband in your own country, various traumas and other forms of prejudice to be flattened into "another white guy" but cheap identitarians.
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16 Nov
Yesterday, Brazil -- the world's sixth most-populous country -- held nationwide municipal elections, with the pandemic raging like in many other countries. But look at how many votes are counted hours after polls closed when you have a functional vote-counting system:🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
It's just astonishing to compare the US -- where only 70% of votes in numerous NY districts are counted more than *two weeks* after the election -- to Brazil, a much poorer country of comparable size, where you wake up the next day and all votes are counted & all races decided.
3 points about the race:

1) Those endorsed by Bolsonaro were complete failures - his support seemed to either have no effect or worse.

2) The socialist candidate, @GuilhermeBoulos, whose story is amazing, is in the run-off to be Mayor of São Paulo, the continent's largest city.
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