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Feb 17 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It's amazing how frank empire managers get in these think tank conferences when they forget normal people might be watching them.
It's like they get so aroused by the presence of fellow swamp reptiles that they just can't help showing off how much they know about what's under the hood of the imperial machine, even if it means saying the quiet parts out loud.
Here's one of my favorite examples of the phenomenon I'm talking about:
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Feb 19
It's not that the US elects incompetent leaders who make bad decisions that kill millions of people with warfare, it's that the global US empire is held together with military violence and the threat thereof. It's an intrinsically evil institution and you should always oppose it.
It's not that the US government has *done evil*, it's that the US government *is itself evil*. The very way it has set itself up to operate in the world necessarily means it must exert endless violence and oppression to keep populations functioning in its interests. That's evil.
The Mafia hasn't happened to make bad decisions throughout its history that resulted in the unfortunate demise of certain individuals, it's an institution explicitly set up to reap profits by exerting and threatening violent force. The US empire is exactly the same. Same evil.
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Feb 19
Anyone who talks about the Ukraine crisis like it's just Putin being evil while ignoring the actions of the US and NATO which got us here is a disinformation agent.
This is really and truly as deep as most western analysis of this situation goes: Image
It should really be common sense by now that when the entire western political/media class starts screaming that a government is acting like an evil supervillain you're probably being propagandized. But most people are swallowing it hook, line and sinker.
fair.org/home/what-you-…
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Feb 18
The onus is not on anyone else to prove that US claims about Russian operations are false, the onus is on the US to prove that they are true. The burden of proof doesn't magically disappear just because some pundits and politicians said something in an assertive tone.
Example:
Example:
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Feb 18
I don't support dictators. I do however always hope the US fails to accomplish its objectives against every government that it targets, because the US is far and away the single most tyrannical regime on this planet.
I don't support tyranny, I oppose it. It just happens that the major force of tyranny in this world isn't where the TV tells you it is.
No other regime has spent the 21st century slaughtering people by the millions in wars of aggression. No other regime is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases. No other regime works to destroy any nation which disobeys it using starvation sanctions, war and terror.
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Feb 17
Russian Invasion Prognosticators Are Like Cult Leaders Repeatedly Predicting The Apocalypse

"And now we're being told that nobody seriously believed Russia was going to invade on the 16th, and that February 20th is the REAL invasion date."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/russian-inva…
Russian Invasion Prognosticators Are Like Cult Leaders Repeatedly Predicting The Apocalypse (Audio)

"Looking to the mainstream media for truth is like looking to a prostitute for love. That's not what they're there for. That's not their job."
soundcloud.com/going_rogue/ru…
Back in November The Military Times published a Ukrainian intelligence claim, which was picked up and repeated by numerous other mainstream publications, alleging that Russia was going to invade Ukraine by the end of January.
militarytimes.com/flashpoints/20…
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Feb 10
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," say the media in a nation whose government has spent the 21st century slaughtering people by the millions in military operations overseas so that it can literally rule the world like a comic book supervillain.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," say the westerners as they consume propaganda cooked up by their government and corporations on devices manufactured by stolen resources and slave labor made possible by mass military slaughter, starvation and unipolar global domination.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," say the politicians who put on a daily performance of pro-wrestling style fake opposition against a political party they agree with on every major issue who is owned by the same corporate masters they serve.
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