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May 29 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Ten Times Empire Managers Showed Us That They Want To Control Our Thoughts

The single most under-appreciated aspect of our society is the fact that immensely powerful people are continuously working to manipulate the thoughts we think about our world.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/ten-times-em…
Ten Times Empire Managers Showed Us That They Want To Control Our Thoughts (Audio)

"Whether you call it propaganda, psyops, perception management or public relations, it's a real thing that happens constantly, and it happens to all of us."
soundcloud.com/going_rogue/te…
To be clear, I am not talking about some kind of wacky unsubstantiated conspiracy theory here. I am talking about an extensively well-documented, and exhaustively described, conspiracy fact.
1. Operation Mockingbird
2. Intelligence operatives now just openly working in the media
3. Richard Stengel's CFR remarks on propaganda

4. US officials telling the press they're circulating disinfo about Russia to win an information war against Putin

caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/us-officials…
5. Senators telling Silicon Valley representatives it's their job to manipulate public thought to prevent dissent
6. The Department of Homeland Security's "Disinformation Governance Board"
7. The Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012

8. Reagan's Psychological Operations
9. Canadian military leaders using Covid regulations as an opportunity to test out psyop techniques on civilians

ottawacitizen.com/news/national/…
10. The US government funding "independent" media in Ukraine

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Ten Times Empire Managers Showed Us That They Want To Control Our Thoughts

"Propaganda only works if you don't know it's happening."

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May 30
People: Please stop arming Nazis
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Yeah, that's how you solve Ukraine's Nazi problem. A logo change.
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"Man those Azov Battalion guys are really hurting our perception management ops on this war."

"I know. But what can we do?"

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May 28
It's so important that the public have no influence over US politics that the empire not only set up two oligarchic puppet parties which pretend to oppose each other but set up fake populist movements within each of those factions which pretend to be fighting the establishment.
It's a very clever illusion that sucks up almost all real opposition. If you don't fall for the first kayfabe conflict and realize the game is rigged for the man, you can still end up buying into the fake populist movements set up to oppose them. I fell for them both early on.
But after a while of watching what they do (as opposed to just listening to what they say) and seeing where they actually stand and fight or refuse to fight, you see it's all an Inception-level fakery. The opposition is controlled, and so is the opposition to the opposition.
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May 28
Whenever I try to talk about the risk of the Ukraine war escalating into a nuclear holocaust I get people telling me if that happens it will be Putin's fault. Like that would make it okay somehow. Like that would validate all the steps our leaders took to get us to that point.
Of all the intensely stupid ways team loyalty and partisanship can express itself, I really don't think you could come up with one dumber than "Our nuclear brinkmanship isn't a problem because it'll be the other side who launches the first nuke" if you tried.
Even pretending it's certain that Russia would be the one to initiate a nuclear exchange, would that thought actually comfort you when you feel the earth shake? Would you feel any better about the decisions which gave rise to that moment by telling yourself Putin started it?
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May 28
Friendly reminder that for a fraction of the cost of funding a world-threatening proxy war against Russia the US could simply have protected Zelensky from the neo-Nazi militias who were threatening to lynch him if he tried to make peace with Russia and prevented this entire war.
mate.substack.com/p/siding-with-…
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May 27
So Ukrainian fighters are having to survive on a potato a day and have been deserting because they feel they're being sent to certain death in the front lines, but you're a Kremlin propagandist and a Putin lover if you say Kyiv should negotiate an end to this US proxy war.
It's not the people calling for a peaceful solution who support Ukrainians, it's the big, brave blue-and-yellow flag emoji Twitter users demanding Zelensky accept nothing short of total victory against Russia from their couches while eating pistachios.
Such brave, courageous warriors to sit in your comfortable homes for the last three months cheering on the US empire as it throws Ukrainian lives into the gears of its war machine with the goal of weakening a geopolitical rival. You should all give yourselves a medal.
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May 25
It's definitely not a coincidence that the nation which serves as the hub of a globe-spanning empire that's held together by mass murder and war propaganda and mass-scale psychological manipulation is the only nation with a mass shooting epidemic. But this will never be studied.
It will never be studied because empire is invisible to mainstream science and social psychology, in the same way it's invisible to mainstream media and mainstream politics. The empire is not even acknowledged to exist within the spheres of mainstream thought. This is deliberate.
The spheres of mainstream thought which prevent people from understanding that we are dominated by an unacknowledged empire which spans the globe and influences our lives more than virtually anything else our attention is diverted to are actively influenced by that very empire.
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