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Feb 4 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
US Again Tries To Pass Off Government Assertions As Evidence

"This is the kind of evidence you can't see. The evidence is invisible."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/us-again-tri…
US Again Tries To Pass Off Government Assertions As Evidence (Audio)

"This is not the sort of behavior anyone would accept from anyone else, except perhaps a televangelist or a cult leader."
soundcloud.com/going_rogue/us…
It's top secret evidence, to protect "sensitive sources and methods". It sure is convenient how all the evidence of immensely consequential claims made by a government with an extensive history of lying is always far too sensitive for the public to be permitted to scrutinize. Image
Assertions are not evidence. A government declassifying itself making an unsubstantiated assertion is not "declassifying" anything. Image

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Feb 5
The trouble with Twitter hate mobs is they don't work on the people you want them to work on. Being subjected to them can ruin your day if you have empathy and care how people feel about you, but if you're a sociopathic politician, pundit or celebrity it'll just be funny to you.
So if you're a healthy empathic person you can be easily silenced and shut down by a few aggressive social media accounts, while if your brain has a missing or malfunctioning empathy center you're guaranteed to keep your voice. One of the many ways our setup uplifts sociopaths.
So many aspects of our society are tilted to the advantage of people with no empathy, like the way capitalism rewards anyone who's willing to do whatever it takes to out-compete everyone else and climb to the top. In a sense it's the source of all our major problems.
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Feb 4
Sources Say

Sources say the system's working great,
and the government is your friend.
Commerce is the same as freedom
and wealth is the same as happiness,
according to sources familiar with the matter.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/sources-say
Sources say you should hate the Russians,
and also you should hate the Chinese,
and also you should hate Iran,
and also you should hate anti-vaxxers,
and also you should hate disobedient podcasters,
and really just hate anyone but your owners.
Sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say we would never lie to you.
We've been speaking to you since you were young.
You can trust us with your mind.
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Feb 4
I'm declassifying evidence that Nigeria is planning a false flag operation in Switzerland. Are you ready? Here it is:

Nigeria is planning a false flag operation in Switzerland.

The evidence is me asserting it. If you doubt this evidence, you're a propagandist for Nigeria.
What? You want proof? I just gave you the proof. I gave you my declassified intelligence assessment.
I mean obviously I can't give you the raw intelligence you're asking me for without revealing sources and methods and compromising intelligence officers in the field. Is that what you want? For me to compromise intelligence officers in the field? Do you work for the Kremlin?
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Jan 24
Free speech matters because dissent from the status quo is how the status quo gets changed. If voices which opposes the status quo are always denied access to mainstream platforms and algorithmically suppressed online, they're unable to change the status quo. They have no voice.
If the only way to get your voice heard is to support the status quo, as far as the reason free speech matters is concerned it's functionally the same as having no speech at all. It's like saying "You have free speech; you can say anything you want into this hole in the ground!"
It doesn't matter what you're free to say if nobody hears you say it. If those who support the status quo are loudly amplified on all media while those who oppose it are denied platforms and algorithmically censored, dissenting views have no effect. They effectively don't exist.
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Jan 21
Consider the possibility that the Orwellian dystopia you fear is already here and has been in place for many years but you just haven't noticed because you're still allowed to watch Netflix or buy a gun or say whatever you want to say within a small impotent online echo chamber.
Consider the possibility that the powerful are already getting everything they want from you, right now, and any suspicious actions you see them taking is not them constructing a cage for you but them tightening the bolts on a cage that was quietly built around you some time ago.
Consider the possibility that while they've been training you to watch out for communism and microchips and overt totalitarianism, they've been covertly transforming us all into mindless gears in a machine constructed to serve their interests which challenges them in no way.
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Jan 19
Silicon Valley manipulation of information via algorithm is far more consequential than its censorship of individuals. The fact that online platforms manipulate what speech gets heard has far more of an impact on public thought. It doesn't matter what you say if no one hears you.
A big deal gets made whenever a high-profile individual gets removed from a major online platform, and rightly so; we shouldn't let overt censorship be normalized and expanded. But censorship via algorithm is far more damaging, and gets far less attention.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/silicon-vall…
Some celebrity losing their online platform has far less of an impact on the way people think about things than the way government-tied monopolistic megacorporations are using algorithms to elevate authorized narratives about the world while suppressing unauthorized narratives.
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