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10 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Israel is losing control of the narrative because there are only so many viral videos of unconscionable brutality that can be dismissed with "Actually this is way more complicated than it looks."
A big part of the difficulty in controlling the narrative is that Israeli apartheid isn't something that's being managed by a few elites, it's got rank-and-file people upholding it who don't know it's bad narrative management to do shit like this on camera
Back when plutocratic media outlets had the narratives locked down, they could ensure everyone was only seeing what the empire wants seen. Smartphone cameras and the internet shattered this paradigm. @Jonathan_K_Cook shared his ideas on this recently here:
jonathan-cook.net/blog/2021-05-1…
The guys in this video don't know their celebration is bad PR, they just know the supremacist propaganda they've been ingesting all their lives and are responding to it accordingly. Because they're not narrative managers, all it takes is a little video.

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A: A tankie is someone who chooses to focuses most of their foreign policy criticisms on the most powerful and destructive government in the world.
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It's the way that term is now used. I've got nothing to do with Stalinism; I'm not even a Marxist. My opposition to imperialist agendas against Russia and China have nothing to do with communism whatsoever. Yet I get called a tankie every day.
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