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5 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
So the Facebook whistleblower all the mass media are loudly amplifying today is pushing for regulations that Facebook just happens to fully support, likely because the trillion-dollar corporation knows it will impose costs that make the emergence of future competitors impossible?
I mean far be it from me to say that a company might conspire to advance its own interests over a paltry trillion dollars, but this fellow seems to think it's a possibility.
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The move would also happen to promote other interests beyond profit:
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7 Oct
Humans are not inherently fucked up, we're just traumatized and manipulated by an abusive system into doing fucked up things. Very few of the ugly behaviors we see in people would exist if we had conscious and compassionate systems in place for organizing ourselves in this world.
Everyone gets that it's wrong to blame an entire group on the misdeeds of a few of its members, but few people seem to apply that same logic to humanity as a whole. All our systems are dominated by the worst among us, simply because they're sociopathic enough to climb to the top.
Really it just boils down to the fact that the majority don't understand how sociopaths' minds work or how to counter them, and that the trauma of preceding generations keeps giving rise to sociopaths.
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The empire's greatest weapon is not its military but its propaganda machine. There's simply never been anything like the global narrative control provided by the western news media and Hollywood. The military fights wars, the propaganda machine wins them long before they start.
When you use the military to eliminate opposition, everyone knows it happens. When you use propaganda to eliminate opposition, people aren't even aware you did that. They think it was their own idea to suddenly become super concerned about Saddam or Assad or Maduro or whomever.
Beyond the hard, concrete realities of war and militarism there's a whole other war being fought on a far greater scale and of far greater consequence, and most people don't even know it's happening: the mass-scale psychological manipulation of the entire human species.
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6 Oct
It is perfectly reasonable for Australians to protest their government's policies which directly affect them. It is absolutely bat shit insane for Americans to protest the Australian government when Americans live directly under the most murderous and tyrannical regime on earth.
Americans protesting human rights abuses in Australia is as cartoonishly ridiculous as people in Nazi Germany protesting against human rights abuses in Mexico.
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Your government has murdered millions of people since 9/11 you freaks.
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5 Oct
What the fuck?? What the actual fuck?? As soon as the subject turns to Israel this woman loses all linguistic faculties and turns into a babbling space alien.
This is the same kind of indecipherable word salad as her initial statement on her "present" vote.
It's also the same as her word salading here:
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4 Oct
Chevron literally sentenced a guy to prison and a new Bloomberg article argues that Amazon and Facebook should be made UN members and New Statesman argues that "tech billionaires are the new revolutionaries" and the mainstreaming of psychedelics is driven by corporate investors.
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4 Oct
Really rich people are creepy and they do creepy things. Billionaires spend a lot on media influence to manufacture consent for their existence and for the status quo their kingdoms are built on, but also because they need lots of PR assistance since they're so fucking creepy.
The richer you are the more divorced from normality you become. You don't even know how a normal person acts. It never even occurs to you that people will think you look creepy devouring a baked lizard or buying up vast swathes of America's farmland.
You lose the part of yourself that goes "Hmm, better not do that publicly, people will think I'm creepy."
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