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Aren R. LeBrun

@proustmalone

19 Mar

Established political/corporate powers have a vested interest in maintaining this fiction that the Democratic Party – an organized criminal syndicate of warmongers and technocratic capitalists – represents the "left," and therefore everyone who opposes it must be the "right."

The GOP and GOP-adjacent media networks (Fox in particular) play their part as well; by framing the Democratic Party as the "far left," viewers start to associate ecological preservation and redistributive economic policies with the stupid, destructive politics of neoliberalism.

What we are left with is a nation engaging in meaningless debate on false terms while the mechanisms of corporate capital continue funneling labor value upward and turn millionaires into billionaires and jungles into parking lots while dipshits argue on Facebook about Dr. Suess.

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Aren R. LeBrun

@proustmalone

16 Feb

US military propaganda loses its grip on your mind the second you consider the last time you were threatened by a terrorist vs. the last time you were threatened by a health insurance corporation.

One of these threats (the health insurance corporation) is a daily reality in American lives, killing tens of thousands of us a year. Yet the government spends nothing going to war with BlueCross executives, and trillions maintaining endless warfare against “terrorism.”

The answer to people who pay attention to this stuff is obvious: military leaders and corporations created anti-US terrorism through their century of war crimes and now use it as a moral smokescreen to keep people from examining the violence we levy against innocent people.

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Aren R. LeBrun

@proustmalone

11 Feb

Joe Biden's State Department just approved its first weapons deal, part of which will send $85 million worth of Raytheon missiles to the Chilean military, along with "supporting equipment, spares and training."

reuters.com/article/us-usa…

Last fall, the Chilean people voted overwhelmingly to rewrite the neoliberal capitalistic constitution of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the fascist dictator who reigned in Chile for 27 years following Nixon's CIA-backed coup of the democratically-elected Salvador Allende administration.

Raytheon is the primary contractor benefitting from the $85m weapons sale to Chile. Biden's Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, very recently sat on Raytheon's Board of Directors. Prior to his appointment, Austin pledged to "recuse himself" from any decisions involving Raytheon.

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Aren R. LeBrun

@proustmalone

2 Feb

Capitalism is when a vaccine to a deadly pandemic exists but we can’t create or distribute enough of it because two pharmaceutical conglomerates refuse to lose out on shareholder profits by sharing the patent information.

My patience is too thin to deal with people who have been intellectually destroyed by pharmaceutical propaganda but I appreciate their efforts to generate sympathy for Pfizer in this most difficult of fiscal quarters.

It turns out that the economic model aggregated from man's most selfish impulses does not result in a society capable of handling crises navigable only through communal organization.

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Aren R. LeBrun

@proustmalone

5 Dec 20

Guys I’ve looked into it and I’m beginning to think the CIA and the State Department aren’t exactly shooting straight when they provide intel on our “enemies.”

If a flurry of corporate news outlets immediately seem to be wanting you to feel the same malevolent way about a foreign country all at the same time, there is a reason, and that reason is never because they have your own interests at heart.

“It is firm & continuing policy that Salvador Allende be overthrown by a coup...It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely & securely so that the American hand be well hidden.”

—Cable to CIA operatives in Chile, from Kissinger’s “Track Two” group (Oct 1970)

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Aren R. LeBrun

@proustmalone

16 Nov 20

Trying to get cancelled today, here’s my best effort: the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an extraordinary achievement in military industrial complex propaganda written at a fourth grade reading level and should be laughed out of the building.

Every time I see one of these abominations it brings on a deep depression that lasts about a week. Millions of kids imparted 5-10x per year with the idea that (a) foreign marauders are coming for them and (b) a trillion dollar national security state is justified and inevitable.

But don’t take my word for it. Here is the United States Department of Defense. defense.gov/Explore/Featur…

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