So yeah basically we're watching oligarchic sociopaths shore up more and more control over the global population and our electoral systems are rigged to prevent us from doing anything about it and our information systems are stacked to prevent mass-scale direct action against it.
You can't vote your way out of a problem you never voted your way into in the first place. You can't have a revolution while everyone is being successfully propagandized into accepting things as they are. Any solution is going to have to come from somewhere they haven't secured.
So we're all just kind of watching this happen and hoping for what amounts to a miracle, or really a stack of miracles. What gives me hope is that I know humans have a lot of surprises within themselves that they haven't even begun to explore yet. We might just get some miracles.
No it doesn't, that's just some dumb nonsense libertarians started saying a few years ago. Capitalism means what the Marxists who invented the term have been saying it means since the 1800s: the owners of the means of production exploiting workers.
Even those who support capitalism understand this distinction if they've done a tiny bit of research outside their doofy partisan echo chambers. You don't get to just change the definition of words to defend your belief system, that's not a thing. investopedia.com/terms/c/capita…
The most significant political moment in the US since 9/11 and its aftermath was when liberal institutions decided that Trump's 2016 election wasn't a failure of status quo politics but a failure of information control. All the other bullshit since then has followed from this.
This was when the belief among mainstream journalists became widespread that internet censorship is needed and that it is their duty to manipulate public opinion. Another 2016 WikiLeaks drop in 2020 would never have been reported on, as evidenced by the Hunter laptop scandal.
Now we're seeing an increasing homogenization of online information as the media class cheers on censorship in the name of fighting Russia, white supremacism, Covid misinformation, and in the name of protecting US elections, etc, while the media acts weirder and weirder.
Hackers, Havana Syndrome, And Other Invisible Russian Aggressions That Only The CIA Can See
"Havana syndrome is a mysterious illness whose symptoms include vertigo, nausea, and billions of dollars in new cold war military spending." caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/hackers-hava…
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is reportedly marking up its hilarious Havana Syndrome Attacks Response Act this week.
Havana Syndrome allegedly causes hangover-like symptoms and has not been proven to actually exist in any tangible way. It has been commonly attributed to psychogenic illness, Cuban crickets, and actual hangovers.
"To find where they lack this control, you need only ask yourself which parts of the world the imperial propaganda machine most aggressively tells you you must oppose." caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-drivers-…
The Drivers Of Empire Want To Rule As Greek Gods (Audio)
"These gods are jealous gods. They do not tolerate unbelievers. Lands which do not worship them are the badlands, the lands of the heathens, the lands of the condemned." soundcloud.com/going_rogue/th…
Power is the ability to control what happens. The more control you have, the more powerful you are.
Credit to Powell for giving us the single greatest one-image debunk of the belief that you can trust anything said by US officials about a foreign government.
"I think we should regime change Syria because Assad gasses kids!"
Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda (Audio)
"How often does a billionaire corporation buy up a media property and just straightforwardly tell you they're going to be using it to push propaganda?" soundcloud.com/going_rogue/re…
"How refreshing is that? How often does a billionaire corporation buy up a media property and just straightforwardly tell you they're going to be using it to push propaganda? They even say what the propaganda will be. It makes you feel like your intelligence is being respected."