"How come you still write about the world like nothing's changed since Covid?"

Because as far as my line of commentary is concerned nothing has. We're still hurtling toward armageddon and dystopia just as I was describing before 2020, it just has new justifications and details.
We're still headed for disaster unless the people rise up and use the power of their numbers to turn us away from the trajectory toward doom, and that's still not going to happen as long as people are being propagandized. This is all still the case just as it was in 2019.
The emotions of the Hot News Story of the Day often make it hard for people to clearly see the horrific nature of the status quo that has already been in place for a long time, the abuses of which have been far, far greater than the Covid-related ones.
In terms of abusive systems held in place by propaganda and authoritarian force, the ones we had in place in 2019 dwarf the measures we've seen put in place since by orders of magnitude. Many just didn't notice them because they've been conditioned to accept them as normal.
A big part of what I do here is try to help people see the mundane horrors of the status quo with fresh eyes. If someone was teleported here from an alternate Earth with a healthy society, they'd never stop screaming.
Sure but that doesn't contradict anything I'm saying here. Those would be some of the aforementioned "new justifications and details". Things are getting worse. They were getting worse in 2019. It's an unbroken trajectory we were already very far along.
Attacking and discrediting the propaganda systems used to manufacture consent for the status quo, just like always. All positive changes in human behavior are always preceded by an increase in awareness. So we must raise awareness of the bars of the cage.
Of course it should be talked about and of course it shouldn't be glossed over. It also shouldn't be framed in a way that eclipses the greater context in which it is happening. Both cause distortions in perception.
How come a grown adult doesn't know how to use basic Twitter search functions?

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6 Dec
When the nukes start flying,
when we see the mushroom cloud growing on the horizon,
when reality comes crashing down in the most overt way possible,
when the realization slowly dawns that this really is the end,
none of our old stuff will matter anymore.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/in-that-fina…
It will not matter if you are American, Russian or Chinese.
It will not matter if your skin is darker or lighter.
It will not matter if you feel like a man or a woman or both or neither.
It will not matter if your politics are left, right or center.
It will not matter who you voted for.
All that will matter, in that final moment,
is that it is ending.
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2 Dec
The first cold war was colored by a healthy fear of nuclear annihilation, support for detente in mainstream political factions, and an understanding that this was a situation we should ideally get ourselves out of as soon as possible. This new cold war features NONE of these.
And this new cold war is against TWO nuclear powers, not just one. Twice as many unpredictable moving parts. Twice as many things that can go cataclysmically wrong. And this one's got a whole new dimension of danger in the race to put weapons in space. Our odds aren't good.
I probably won't feel such an urgent need to keep talking about this once I start seeing some real sustained acknowledgement in mainstream circles that there is a very very dangerous game being played here and heroic efforts need to be made to de-escalate it.
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1 Dec
Covid is interesting in that it has a propaganda campaign that everyone's aware of and encouraged to participate in. So you'll see things like Dore getting slammed for talking about his adverse vaccine reaction, not because it was false, but because it hurt the propaganda effort.
There's no basis whatsoever for the belief that Jimmy lied about having adverse reactions, but he got raked over the coals anyway. You see things like that all the time: people forcefully discouraged from talking about raw facts because it might hurt the vax campaign or whatever.
You are free to believe this propaganda campaign is a good thing, or that it's a necessary evil, but you can't deny that it's a propaganda campaign. There's a concerted effort to manage perception, and the rank-and-file public is actively participating in that effort.
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30 Nov
Dorsey's Twitter Resignation Sparks Fears Of More Internet Censorship

Twitter's new CEO has given some indications that he has a lot less interest in free speech than his predecessor and is much more favorable to censorship via algorithm manipulation.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/dorseys-twit…
Dorsey's Twitter Resignation Sparks Fears Of More Internet Censorship (Audio)

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This resignation has led those who've been paying attention to the rise of Silicon Valley internet censorship to voice concerns that the platform's relatively lenient attitude toward speech compared to other major social media may be drawing to a close.
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28 Nov
Twitter deleted someone's reply to me saying "Taiwan needs a nuke". It was probably deleted under the mistaken impression that they were saying Taiwan should be nuked, an interesting double standard considering how many tweets you see saying "Nuke Iran", "Nuke North Korea" etc.
I mean it's possible Twitter could have deleted it for the right reason: that the commenter was calling for nuclear weapons to be given to Taiwan, because that is what they were saying. But that would mean a lot of empire think pieces also need deleting.
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Twitter users call for Iran and North Korea to be nuked all the time, and always have. I've never once heard of a tweet being deleted for this reason. But saying nuke Taiwan is off limits.
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26 Nov
Western media are churning out reports about Russia preparing to invade Ukraine any minute now and China preparing to invade Taiwan any minute now, saying the response to each is obviously to move a lot of high-powered weaponry there, and NONE of them are questioning ANY of this.
This is so dangerous. This whole two-front nuclear brinkmanship game is so very, very dangerous, and they keep finding ways to make it MORE dangerous. And hardly anyone notices it, because the outlets people look to to understand the world aren't telling them it's dangerous.
The only danger you're allowed to discuss in mainstream western reporting about Russia and China is their scary aggressive expansionism, like this new bullshit propaganda piece here. Nowhere are you allowed to question if it's true, or to mention detente.
newsweek.com/if-china-invad…
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