Thread by @ggreenwald

At noon EST today, I'll be live on Rumble discussing the war in Ukraine and the debate over what role the U.S. Government should play, if any, in its outcome.

rumble.com/vvrd3t-the-war…

Whenever war breaks out, emotions are extremely high, as are nationalism and tribalism. Especially at the start, there typically is lockstep unity among political/media elites. There's thus no point in using social media to do anything but read from that script. Chomsky on TV:

Here's the second part where Chomsky -- 30 years ago -- explained why the constricting structure of television (requiring "concision": the demand to make all points in 5 minutes between commercials) precludes conventional wisdom from being challenged. Social media is even worse:

Here's what the climate is producing toward any American who is even slightly off-key or mildly questioning the unified script. If you think this is healthy, I think you ought to re-consider that.

Given that social media's primary use in times of high patriotism and war fever is to hunt for heretics ("traitors") and distort out-of-context tweets -- as demonstrated above -- here's the 90-minute live broadcast I did today on Rumble on Russia/Ukraine:

rumble.com/vvrd3t-the-war…