Warmongers Should Be Treated Like Serial Killers And Child Rapists
"I'm actually being charitable here. There's not a pedophile or serial killer on earth who has contributed as much death and suffering to our world as William Kristol." caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/warmongers-s…
Warmongers Should Be Treated Like Serial Killers And Child Rapists
"We're not talking about two people setting aside their disagreements about farming subsidies or net neutrality here, we're talking about fucking murder. Murder at a scale so massive it's impossible to fully wrap your mind around it."
"Saying you disagree with Bill Kristol's engineering the Iraq war but found plenty of common ground on liberalism and patriotism is the same as saying you disagree with Jared Fogle on his raping children but found plenty of common ground on his fondness for Subway sandwiches."
"It's like announcing you just had lunch with serial killer Edmund Kemper and, while you disagree with his policy of murdering women and copulating with their severed heads, you really respect his opinions on immigration."
"Announcing you've just had lunch with a death merchant like Kristol and found plenty to admire about him should carry at least as much stigma as a lunchtime bromance with a genocide-promoting white supremacist"
"These monsters should not be accepted in our society. They should be as reviled as serial killers, child molesters and Nazis, not respected pundits who stroll around having casual lunch breaks with elected officials. They should be afraid to show themselves in public."
"Instead, Kristol and his fellow neocons have been rehabilitated in the fugue of Trump hysteria and are now seen frequently on liberal media panels and viewed favorably by centrist Democrats, even while continuing to promote the annexation of Cuba, regime change in Iran..."
"Such creatures should be expelled from society and chased away until they're forced to live under a mountain eating cave fish like Smeagol; instead they're being accepted further and further into what passes for the American 'left' today."
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There's a focus on profit-driven solutions to climate collapse because our profit-driven global model always values making more things ("men's work") and never values cleaning things up ("women's work"). That's also why most of the work traditionally done by women is unpaid.
You're only ever going to look for solutions to problems through the reality tunnel you've been conditioned to look through. For thousands of years human civilization has been valuing the making of more things and devaluing the unmaking of things, when the latter is what we need.
The oceans are our planet's best carbon sink, for example, and their ability to do that is being choked to death by plastic. Removing plastic from the oceans will not be profitable; it will cost a lot. So there's no big push to do this. It's being ignored.
"Stop saying the US is the worst government on earth! Others are way worse!"
Name one. Name one that's currently doing anything that rises to the level of murdering millions and displacing tens of millions in imperialist wars and working to destroy any nation which disobeys it.
You can't. You can't name a single government that's anywhere near as destructive and tyrannical as Washington today. All you can do is talk about what other governments have done generations in the past or pretend domestic oppression is as bad as killing millions in unjust wars.
The US is the most tyrannical regime on earth. Indisputably. Yet because it has such an effective propaganda machine, few people let this indisputable fact inform their worldview and foreign policy perspectives to the extent that they should.
Every day the western media spend manipulating people into accepting the murderous and exploitative oligarchic imperialist status quo as normal, they are engaging in disinformation that kills an immense number of people. But you'll never see the president working to silence them.
The oligarchic empire has no problem with disinformation. It couldn't exist without disinformation. Its real objection is to people having the ability to share information which it does not control.
Just in America untold thousands of people die every single year as a result of an exploitative status quo which makes them sick and impoverished, and this is made possible solely because of a highly advanced propaganda campaign by the plutocratic class.
The US Government Threatens Tech Companies To Push Censorship Agendas
"So while antitrust laws ostensibly exist to protect the citizenry from corporate power, here they are being leveraged to ensure the union of corporate power and state power." caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-us-gover…
The elephant in the room with the US government demanding increasing amounts of censorship from online platforms is that the platforms understand the government can easily bring painful regulation or devastating antitrust cases against them and break them up if they don't obey.
After Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted on Thursday that the administration has given Facebook a list of accounts to ban for spreading "misinformation" about the Covid vaccine, she has now doubled down:
The elephant in the room with the US government demanding increasing amounts of censorship from online platforms is that the platforms understand the government can easily bring antitrust cases against them and break them up if they don't obey.
Antitrust laws were made to protect the people from corporate power. Now they're being used to merge corporate power and state power.
"The Roosevelt administration sued successfully to break up such monopolies as John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Co. and J.P. Morgan’s Northern Securities Co., a railroad conglomerate that the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, dissolved." politico.com/story/2018/12/…