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Feb 9 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Wanting Peace With Russia To Focus Aggressions On China Is Just Being An Imperialist Warmonger

Propagandists work to keep us debating the details of HOW empire agendas should be advanced rather than IF they should and IF there should be an empire at all.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/wanting-peac…
Gaetz criticizes Biden's hawkishness toward Russia not because peace is good but because he wants those aggressions focused on China instead, spouting imperialist "Monroe Doctrine" bullshit in the process.
The Monroe Doctrine essentially told Europe, "Everything south of the Mexican border is our Africa. It's ours to dominate in the same way you dominate the Global South in the Eastern Hemisphere. Those are your brown people, these are our brown people."
Gaetz's "Make peace with Russia to focus on taking down China" schtick is very common on the right end of the US political spectrum. At first glance it looks like advocacy for peace, but it's just quibbling over the details of how imperialist warmongering should happen.
Tucker Carlson has been making this exact "Make peace with Russia to take down China" argument for years. He gets mistaken for a peace advocate, but he's only ever arguing to change what the US war machine is aimed at.
He did it again just the other day.
foxnews.com/opinion/tucker…
DeCamp recently summed this dynamic up nicely.
The difference between "Let's have peace" and "Let's have peace with Russia so we can focus on taking down China" is the difference between "Stop massacring civilians" and "Stop massacring these civilians because you'll need your ammunition for those other civilians over there."
And it's especially stupid because *it's the same agenda*. One imperialist camp wants to focus on crippling nations that support China, the other wants to focus on China more directly. But it's the same amount of aggression for the same unipolarist goal.
caityjohnstone.medium.com/liberal-npcs-h…
This is exactly what Chomsky was talking about when he said this:
That strictly limited spectrum of debate is known as the Overton window, and imperial narrative managers work very hard to keep shoving that window further and further in the favor of the oligarchic empire they serve.
caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-incredible…
In order to prevent us from arguing about WHETHER there should be a globe-spanning capitalist unipolar empire in the first place, they keep us arguing about HOW that empire's interests should best be advanced.
The longer the drivers of empire can keep us debating the details of how we should serve them, the longer they can keep us from turning toward them and asking why we should even have them around at all.
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Western media narratives about Peng Shuai or Julian Assange are not equal to someone in your life telling you they've been raped, and anyone acting like they're the same is acting in bad faith. Allegations against a known target of the Pentagon and CIA are not normal allegations.
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Propaganda isn't just about manufacturing consent for wars and ridiculous governmental measures we'd never normally accept. That's what most people think of when they hear that word, but there's so very, very much more to it than that.
Most propaganda goes not toward convincing us to accept new agendas of the powerful, but toward keeping us entranced in the status quo dream world. Toward normalizing status quo systems and training us to shape ourselves to fit into them like little cogs in a well-oiled machine.
It's not even a grand conspiracy in most cases. The corporations who create advertisements, movies, shows, apps and websites are all naturally incentivized to point us further and further into delusion by the way they benefit from the status quo systems which have elevated them.
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Sleazy Edit By Canadian State Media Frames Video Blogger As An Agent Of Beijing

"The state-funded @CBCNews has committed an absolutely jaw-dropping act of journalistic malpractice amid the west's mad scramble to whip up public hysteria about China."
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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.
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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
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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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