Share this page!

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
Twitter logo
29 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I'm growing a uniquely deep hatred for people who scoff at me for saying that nuclear war is a real risk. There's no basis whatsoever for the belief that what the US empire is doing with Russia and China is safe. Your source is your own cognitive dissonance with the subject.
Again, the risk is not that anyone will *choose* to have a nuclear war, it's that a nuke will be deployed amid heightening tensions as a result of miscommunication or malfunction, as nearly happened many times during the last cold war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n…
The more tense things get, the likelier such an event becomes. This new cold war is happening along TWO fronts, with a bunch of proxy conflicts complicating things even further. There are so very many small moving parts, and it's impossible to remain in control of all of them.
There are THOUSANDS of people who could launch a nuclear war. THOUSANDS. It only takes one. The arrogance of believing anyone can control such a conflict safely, *FOR YEARS*, is astounding.
fpif.org/thousands-peop…

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @caitoz

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
29 Dec
The Unspoken Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech Oligarchs

"The plutocratic class are not good custodians of our world. They are not good people. They are not wise. They are not even particularly intelligent."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-unspoken…
Psychopathic neocon Nikki Haley is greasing the wheels for her 2024 presidential campaign by screaming that America has been taken over by socialism.
Ah yes, America. The country where Republicans spend all day screaming that socialism is happening and Democrats spend all day making sure it never does.
Read 18 tweets
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
28 Dec
Life pro tip: 100% of the capitalism cultists who say you "don't understand economics" are posturing. It's an empty slogan they've been trained to bleat, and if you debate them for a bit you'll soon find that all they can do is point at other people's ideas. They're pure bluster.
It's really amazing how universal this experience is. They have no idea that they're living in a reality tunnel that is made entirely out of empty narrative fluff, because they generally exist in tightly insulated echo chambers which never challenge it.
Not only that, they'll say it as though they're the first person in the world ever to do so.
Read 4 tweets
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
27 Dec
The most Orwellian tool of our rulers which does the most damage and affects the most lives is not surveillance, nor police militarization, but mass media propaganda. It's also the most overlooked. It's good to protest other authoritarian control tools but propaganda is enemy #1.
You don't need the ability to spy on dissident groups if you can control public thought enough to prevent those groups from forming in the first place. You don't need the ability to quash public uprisings if you can propagandize people away from rising up at all. And they do.
The ability of the plutocratic class to manipulate public thought at mass scale is the most overlooked and under-appreciated aspect of our society. It warps the entirety of our political spectrum, all our thinking, all our discourse, and what we perceive as normal.
Read 6 tweets
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
23 Dec
Everyone Was Wrong About Trump

Trump's term has revealed that virtually everyone, all across the political spectrum, has been wrong about him. And it's a testament to the power of echo chambers that they remain just as wrong as they were four years ago.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/everyone-was…
After weeks of speculation and hopes that Trump might pardon Snowden and/or Assange before leaving office on January 20th, what the latest round of presidential pardons has delivered is about as far from that as you can conceivably imagine.
I probably don't need to tell my regular readers this, but a Trump pardon for Assange and Snowden is almost certainly not in the cards.
Read 13 tweets
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
23 Dec
Echo chambers are responsible for the fact that:
- Rightists STILL think Trump is antiwar despite all his warmongering
- Libs STILL think he's a Russian asset despite his cold war aggressions against Russia
- Leftists STILL think he's Hitler despite fewer deportations than Obama
After four years everyone--left, right and center--has been proven wrong about Trump. He was neither a uniquely evil monster (he was indisputably not even as bad as Bush), nor a populist hero draining the swamp and fighting for the common man against the Deep State.
Here is what Trump's term proved about him: he was a US president. Better than some, worse than others, but also deeply awful all around since he voluntarily served as the head of the most evil and destructive force on earth. He was the same kind of monster as his predecessors.
Read 4 tweets
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
21 Dec
People who wrongly saw Russiagate as the deep state attacking Trump won't recognize the similarities to the Chinagate op.
Those who know Russiagate was the US intelligence cartel manufacturing a case for aggressions against Russia will see the same thing happening with Chinagate.
Russiagate was not the deep state attacking Trump because they don't like him; it was barely about Trump at all. It was about reigniting cold war hysteria and manufacturing support for a new cold war. All the China/Biden stuff will be used in the same way.
"But Caitlin, Russiagate was fake and Chinagate is REAL!"

No you dupe. You only believe that because you think Russiagate was about Trump. If you understood that it's just diddling narratives to force a confrontation before US hegemony is surpassed, you'd see them as the same.
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @caitoz has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @caitoz!

Read all threads by @caitoz