This Wall Street Journal article about the CIA's "digital facelift" is all of the worst things in the world. I'll post an archived link below so you can get past the paywall.
"The CIA Fine-Tunes Its Hiring Pitch to Millennials and Gen Z"
archive.is/RmYOB
It's a challenge to recruit people to the CIA because we can't tell them about what the CIA actually does, because if that wasn't a secret the public would demand the dismantling of the CIA. Our officers just call it "The Mission" in whispered, cult-like reverence.
.@dovesandletters captioned this part "LGBTCIA".
Most diverse group of torturers, assassins, war criminals and liars ever assembled.
“This sexy image I had as a child, of undercover CIA agents kind of saving the world, slowly eroded and was replaced by knowledge of torture chambers.”
John Brennan says the Biden administration has sent out a 'very strong signal on diversity' with its intelligence appointees, including the first-ever female director of national intelligence, Avril Haines.
Read: We are looking for borderline psychopaths.
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2 Feb
Remember when Americans shook the earth with massive protests demanding an end to the police state and the entire liberal establishment just kept saying "I hear you, I agree with you" and then did absolutely nothing to end police brutality? It's important to remember that lesson.
Dumbasses kept showing up in my mentions all "Why are you supporting BLM Caitlin?? Don't you see all the corporations and corporate Dems support it? Why would they do that if it didn't serve them?"

This is why. Empty words of support can defuse people far easier than opposition.
Imagine if all the plutocrats, pundits and politicians had just yelled at the BLM protesters and admonished them to stop? It would have been pouring gasoline on the fire, and it would have exposed them. Much easier to say "I hear you, I agree with you" and take no real action.
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2 Feb
Everything About The Biden Administration Is Fake

"So this is just one more item on the steadily growing pile of fake things about this administration. Everything about it is phony. This is the Astroturf Administration."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/everything-a…
A new exclusive from The Daily Beast reports that the White House press corps is being pressured to provide briefing questions ahead of time in a way that makes even mainstream media journalists uncomfortable.
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"The requests prompted concerns among the White House press corps, whose members, like many reporters, are sensitive to the perception that they are coordinating with political communications staffers," writes the Beast.
Read 17 tweets
1 Feb
People who quote Trotsky or Lenin at me to try and prove themselves right hold the same amount of weight as people who quote Bible verses at me to try and prove themselves right. They're experienced as the exact same behavior, and I'm sure many others experience it this way too.
If you can't clearly and concisely promote your position in your own words, it's because you don't understand your own position. Don't quote the dead words of dead men at people, gain a better understanding.
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31 Jan
If you want normal people to listen to an idea, you've got to make it easy to understand and you've got to make it interesting. No normal human being going about their life has any incentive to listen to you unless you do both of these things. The onus isn't on them, it's on you.
Thank you. How narcissistic would you have to be to think you can just tell some stranger to read Lenin or whatever and they'll go "Well that complete rando ordered me to invest my scarce time and energy in this so I'd better do it"? No. This is OUR job.
Whenever I bring this up people say stuff like "It's not a popularity contest Caitlin". Yes it fucking is! You want your ideas to be more popular than the shitty, self-destructive, soul-crushing, world-destroying ideas which support the status quo. This won't happen by itself.
Read 4 tweets
31 Jan
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Crazy And So Is The Rest Of Congress

"I really hope Americans get rid of that dangerous right wing lunatic in congress, by which I mean all of the people in congress."
caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/01/31/mar…
Stop normalizing status quo politics.

Stop normalizing ecocide.

Stop normalizing imperialism.

Stop normalizing mass murder.

Stop normalizing nuclear standoffs.

Stop normalizing starvation sanctions.

Stop normalizing exploitation.

Stop normalizing oppression.
Stop normalizing the mainstream so-called “centrists” who promote these extremist evils.
Read 5 tweets
29 Jan
You petty, egocentric creeps have been shrieking about me for days because I criticized your right-wing smear tactic of claiming Dore is responsible for everything everyone on the internet says about him. I bruised your egos and now you're having a shit fit. That's all this is.
This days-long shit fit by the SEP/WSWS crowd is an ego tantrum in response to a criticism they all know is valid. It's nothing more noble than that. They're having a shit fit because their feelings got hurt and pretending that shit fit is praxis.
Puffing and posturing on social media for likes and retweets because someone bruised your ego is not praxis, and it is not activism. It's garden variety social media egoic masturbation. Get the fuck over yourselves and start fighting the actual machine you dry, elitist wankers.
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