"Arendt’s investigation into Eichmann’s mind ventured into the field of psychiatry, where numerous professionals affirmed his sanity and characterized him as a man with positive ideas and a desirable psychological outlook."
Most likely not, but the deluge of madness which world leaders are spewing can and does instill fear and hysteria , thats precisely what they want. Keeping us on edge , never patient enough to hear each prospective , never understanding each other circumstance, the rhetoric of leaders is outrages but its the willingness of so many to follow their edicts is the real danger.
Such a well-written piece. Both the main US parties are well and truly fu€ked. Trump’s veneer is a lot thinner and more transparent as to the ugliness underneath, whilst the Genocrats try to hide under a mask of decency barely concealing their Zionist funded corruption and feel their party is entitled to votes even though on so many issues they are just as bad.
Free speech is rapidly dying in the U.S. I posted an article about a Canadian doctor who had her presentation cancelled by NYU at the last minute because of slides that mention GAZA casualties and cutting of USaid - the former was flagged as anti-Semitic, the latter was flagged as anti-government.
Then on another post someone discussed Trump's age and health. I posted "If Trump should die, MAGA might die with him" Apparently this was threatening violence and got me a warning.
I reposted "If the current national leader should become de-existed by natural non-violent means his movement may become de-existed with him"
I empathise with you. I got banned from Facebook because I kept asking why Netanyahu and Ben Gvir still had Facebook accounts, while I had been warned by Facebook for 'breaching Community Standards'. On posting a link to Neb Gvir's account, I got banned within seconds!
Yet, somehow Ben Gvir, one of the most murderous and despicable people on planet earth, meets Facebook Community Standards.
Fuckerberg owns Facebook and is one of the chosen people - so hardly surprising that terrorist Ben Gvir gets a free pass. Whatever happened to the Jews in the Holocaust, Zionists and their genocide machine are the heirs to the Nazis. Everything about Zionists screams Nazi clones, just a Jewish star instead of a Swastika. The sadistic bloodlust, the depraved hate-fuelled violence and brutality, the supremacist delusions of grandeur, the obsession with killing, conquering and subjugating those they hate and endlessly expanding their territorial conquest by attacking their neighbours. The Zionist cancer is more malignant than the Nazi machine by any measure - it has lasted far far longer with the support of the US and Europe, and Zionist have a stranglehold on almost every one of these so-called “free societies” and are busy stamping out free speech and freedoms.
"Facebook has platformed more than 100 paid advertisements promoting illegal settlements and far-right settler activity in the occupied West Bank, raising concerns that the social media giant is profiting from content that may violate international law.
Among the advertisements identified were also calls for the demolition of Palestinian homes, schools, and playgrounds, as well as fundraising appeals for Israeli military units operating in Gaza.
At least 52 paid advertisements from Israeli real estate companies were found promoting property sales in settlements across the occupied West Bank, targeting buyers from across Israel as well as some users in the UK and the United States. These advertisements were first published in March 2024, and many remain active on Facebook."
The Nazionists and their rapacious US (and other lesser) allies are utterly unconcerned about the levels of depravity achieved in the post-Oct 7th period. The project to clear Gaza/West Bank of Palestinian 'human animals' has been in progress for generations now and Bibi's bloodlust remains undiminished. In fifty years' time, when Israel has its new Riviera and its and its mates' utter, murderous bastardry been written out of history, its heirs and successors will doubtless revel in their purity as their god's chosen people and marvel at his bounty.
Except that Israel will likely implode catastrophically. It’s a nest of scorpions who will turn on each other the moment they don’t have “the other” to focus their hatred on. When a society becomes so hate-fuelled and poisonous it will not simply turn into a peaceful place after they have completed their genocide.
I think you're spot on. Israelis seem itching to destroy their society. One commentator pointed out some time back that Israel was flying high in the 1990s: great economy, international trade, good reputation (among the ignorant, willfully or otherwise, but still...), etc. And were they satisfied (or smart)? No. They blew it. They were too greedy for other people's land and too bellicose with everyone, and now their country is living on borrowed time. If you put all the indicators together, it looks really bad for Israel and it'll be poetic justice when they all kill each other. Of course, they're determined to take as many Palestinians with them as they can, sucking all the enjoyment for me out of their self-inflicted wounds.
There is a "family web site" that's similar to Facebook called "Grandpad" from Consumer Celluar. I like it since I can post photos and comments on posts of my cousins and siblings... It's sort of a "private group" thing. No commercials or ads. I'm glad my one cousin set it up for her mom, my aunt, so we all could keep in touch.
I still use Facebook to stay in touch with friends around the world and to connect with people who want to change the world. It is a tool and I use it. I've been temporarily banned and also by X, but never permanently.
>>"IF the people who rule Facebook were smart/which they are not: It could have been a 'family website!'"
Jenny, it could NEVER be a family website (no matter what) - Capitalism won't allow it - the need to constantly make profits by Corporations is in direct contrast to what you suggest.
I keep thinking that I will get kicked off any day now. I believe, more and more each passing day, that this would be best for me. All I seem to do is get "fact checked" by the ridiculously biased FB AI bot. The good on the platform certainly does not outweigh the bad.
I too was permanently banned from Facebook under the Biden regimen for opposing genocide and working for Jill Stein. I always spoke polightly and with actual truth.
Meanwhile some crazies are still their name calling, swearing etc.
This happened 2 weeks before the election in 2024.
I must be shadowbanned on FB, because I posted all sorts of Jill Stein stuff and didn't get kicked off. But no one ever sees my Substack posts there, so that's probably why I'm still allowed to be on there.
David - this isn't new; this is an outgrowth of 2016, and liberals cheerleading for censorship and deplatforming; if you tried to warn them that the shoe would eventually be on the other foot, you'd be accused of just wanting to yell the N word in a crowded theater.
In 2016, those of us who knew Russiagate was nonsense were accused of working for the Kremlin. If we supported Sanders, we were shouted down as racists. If we didn't like Hillary, it was because we were obviously 'right wing' nut jobs.
Covid provided the perfect excuse for the government to start carrying out the will of the liberal elite through third party proxies. Departments of misinformation, disinformation, malformation were established, and in the EU these policies were signed into law.
And now? You can get banned from Facebook for alleging that Palestinians are people too. And the liberals tilled the soil and planted the seeds so the conservatives could take the harvest.
Carolyn - he's not a charlatan - even in my disappointment with him. Politics is the art of the possible, and the only way he could do much is to bend the knee.
I don't look for politicians to be super humans; they are just people with a career in a field. I find his waffling on Gaza to be insufferable and not quite forgivable, but still, he's one of the best we've had since Eugene Debs.
The only reason Bernie was ever an independent is because the party left him, not the other way around. He's about as mainstream of a centrist slightly socialist dem as there ever was, were the definitions of these things rational in the US.
I watched his career from the beginning - when he was standing up against Reagans murders in Salvador and Nicaragua.
He's not a revolutionary - he's just a new deal Dem in the age of the Blue Dogs. But I still like him, in spite of my disillusionment over Palestine.
He’s a warmonger, and a corporate democrat. His role is to trick people into thinking the democrats could possibly be a progressive party. It somehow never works that way, does it? He’s an actor, and nothing more.
As I said, I might agree with you except for the fact that Sanders has a really long history of doing good things. More - if he was just another corporate democrat, the DNC would have allowed him to win a race that would have defeated Trump by every measurable poll. The DNC preferred to lose to Trump than to Sanders - and did so twice. .
I can't say that in every case the enemy of my enemy is my friend - but in Sanders case... I think the world would be a much different place
The whisper campaign about Sanders being just another 'corporate dem' and he can't be a 'socialist' because he's not impoverished and living in a squat has never seemed organic to me - it feels too much like 'He's a sexist because his followers are Bros' or "He's a racist because he talks about class and not identity.'
This is not to say I am investing my money in him any longer. His cowardice on Israel pissed me off. On the other hand, those who stood up against the Israeli PACS got eviscerated.
Most of the brownshirts that attacked the UCLA protesters could barely speak English or they had heavy "KHAMASSS" accents. Are they being investigated? Why should they have the right to free speech just because they are zionists?
I got banned from Reddit because someone had made a post about Trump removing Fauci‘s security detail and my reply was something like “oh well, some of them will fall by the wayside and die but that’s a sacrifice America is willing to make.” (Or something like that.) It’s wild that after four years of seeing Biden dolls hanging on front lawns, me repeating Fauci’s words about disabled people back at him is “threatening violence”.
Trump brays like a donkey about how other countries have been taking advantage of America … whilst sucking off the despicable parasitic state of Israel that has been milking, interfering with the US and taking its money far more than any other and destroying its national security. Trump has not saved a cent from the American gravy train that supplies Israel with weapons of mass murder whilst Americans lose their jobs and their freedoms, and the Israeli lobby aka mafia completes its takeover of America. Trump is just another bitch to Israel, a hypocrite and a loser controlled by the Israeli lobby.
I agree 100% with Caitlin's presentation of the American liberal and its Democratic party, but least we forget, this' been, to quote David Crosby "...a long time coming..." I awakened in the late 60s when my brother Robbie was sent home from Vietnam in BOX! and my brother Chris was also drafted and eventually sent to Vietnam but fortunately came home only emotionally wounded. As for myself, I came within a hair's breadth of been sent there in 72. Now to my point, in the early 60s, JFK (please read James W. Douglass' 'JFK And the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It matters') was assassinated because he wanted PEACE, because he planned to get us out of Vietnam, end the Cold War and get rid of the Nukes (he's the only Democratic President I really admire, and the includes FDR who saved the "system" by actually aiding the working class and farmers as well as veterans who were ready to revolt. And oh, by the way, Lincoln could be described as a Democrat, and I would count him in a class with JFK) but nearly everyone in the Kennedy administration betrayed him. Here's the point: My brothers and so many other young boys would never have ended up 6,000 miles from home being killed while killing (I know Robbie killed as he was a helicopter gunner in Vietnam), and if you really want to know what went on in that country which could do the US no harm, please read Nick Turse's well documented 'Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam' Believe me when I say, it's so similar to Vasily (the Tolstoy of the 20th Century) Grossman's 'The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry' a horror show of what took place after the Nazi invasion of Russia. The parallel between what took place in Russia (on a ground level) and that of what the American military did in "South" Vietnam is so similar that I was so ashamed to be an American. I read both books stimulatingly while having to put both down many times to keep my sanity in place.
A Democratic President keep us in Vietnam (LBJ), a Democratic President involved us in Afghanistan (Jimmy Carter), a Democratic President blasted Yugoslavia into pieces (Bill Clinton), a Democratic President ensured that Libya was smashed by NATO and others, (Obama, a true liberal that one, all sarcasm intended) and least we forget Biden and Ukraine. All said and done (which I haven't even spoken on Wilson and Truman) true liberals to the max.
Now does this dismiss the Republican Party and their war crimes? HELL NO! Damn them to HELL (metaphorically speaking)! Point-Set-and Match! Never trust a liberal and that goes back all the way to the founding of the nation (read Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' well worth the effort. And for that matter, Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick's 'The Untold History of the United States' a long book but well worth the time and effort spent.
Folks, we are not in a "NEW" ERA, no we aren't, it is merely more of the same but much more open considering today's technology. But all the same, so please, put down the electronics and start reading books if you really want to become truly informed. Yes, Caitlin Johnstone and so many others (I could list but won't at this time) of the independent news media will well inform you but please, pick up the books, do the work, DON"T really on AI bullshit, and come to know your history and what has been done in your name. BECAUSE! one day we here in AMERICA (if we don't start a nuclear war) will all share in the blame as well as its shame. I didn't ask to be born here, wish I wasn't, but hey, "Don't Dream It's Over!"
Several close friends came home in boxes; I escaped by virtue of a few numbers in a lottery --- Imagine them wanting us to pledge allegiance to a bloody country that gambled with our lives right out in the open. Place your bets: red or black, odd or even -- the sick roulette of live or die determined by your birth date. Motherfuckers!
Also in JFK's writings was the intent to require the lobbying org. that preceded AIPAC (can't recall the name) to register as an agency of a foreign govt.
Carolyn, I agree! To see, in words, to envision what Kennedy was going through and his enlightenment, with the death of his new-born son, of what other parents are going through what with the potential loss of their children via nuclear holocaust which threatened our world at that time as well as today.
Clinton also renegged on Reagan's promise 2 Russia 2 never expand NATO east of Germany. That agreement was made 6 months previously in exchange 4 Russian support 2 unify Germany.
Decades later Biden engineers a coup in Ukraine v democratically elected russian leaning president. Then tries 2 park missiles under Russia's nose in Ukraine.
Then complain re Russian aggression after decades of provocation.
I'm in tears this moment as I think back to my father's tears when they buried his first-born son, all these years later I still cry when think about Robbie (John Robert). When I see his boot camp photo, I think to myself, he was just a baby at 20yrs old. He missed his entire adult life but why? Because a TRUE leader wanted peace, wanted a united world. What did JFK get? Bullets in his brain! And on and on and on went the Vietnam War with over 57,000 young men dying, for what? Greed! And it hasn't stopped at all One more book to mention: David Vine's 'The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State' a very excellent, documented work!
Mark, heartfelt condolences. I lost a couple of friends and relatives during that war and, as a draftee, missed going to Vietnam only by the luck of the draw when I got orders for Germany. 57,000 is, kind of, just a number until you visit the Memorial wall in DC that lists the names. Not to mention, 2-3 million Vietnamese. '' When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?''
Visiting the Memorial in DC is on my to-do-list which will occur when my wife and I do our next long American road trip to Upstate New York where my wife grew up. Most likely, after our truck and trailer are paid off! God help all of us who are in debt due to the lack of wages increasing alongside productivity.
NEVER! Also, no bouncing balls while crossing the street, no riding scooters or any other items in this category. I also preach to all parents, staff, community members on their daily walks, and any others using the cross/sidewalk to always be aware of their surroundings as to not walk into traffic which can be horrible in our city as well as other cities out there. To be frank, people are moving much to quickly and need to SLOW DOWN especially around our schools! Caitlin writes a great deal about the need to think of others and their experience here in this world, I think and act on behalf of the children coming to and leaving school and to ensure their safety and wellbeing. At our school there is a great diversity of ethnic families, white, black, Aisin, Middle Eastern, Hispanic as well as inter-racial families which is a wonder to witness daily, I am grateful! Plus, the bonus: From where I take my lunch, I'm right next to the pre-school/kindergarten classes and their playtime coincides with my lunch, a loud, joyful noise to say the least. Indeed, sounds that bring great pleasure and more importantly, something which renews my hope for a future (I'm 70 in a few weeks and have lived my life to its fullness, they desire the same) for them as well as all life on this planet. Gaza? Killing children for profit, what insanity!
HOLY SHIT. Did you read my mind and write this? I know I did not write it, because I am far less eloquent. American Politics and the Two Party system are a living example of "Two Wrongs do not make a Right".
That's "HOLY SHIT BATMAN!" and you are correct Michael when you state: "Two Wrongs do not make a Right". This "American" political system must charge, or our world will end, literally! How will it change, how can it be possible? Only WE THE PEOPLE can do it as the elite class is incapable as they will do nothing as they are soulless creatures who care only about their power and the wealth it brings to them and their class. AGAIN: SOULLESS CREATURES!
There are a couple of songs with "long time coming" prominently in the lyrics. The one you're thinking of is "A Change is Gonna Come"; the one Mark was citing is "Long Time Gone" on Crosby, Stills and Nash's first album.
Yes, the CSN first album, an excellent work, listened to it while camping at the beach last week while on Spring break, I work at an elementary school: LOVE MY JOB, Mr. Mark the Crossing Guard!
I know it's redundant to say, but if you call yourself a white Leftist, you WILL remember that Malcolm X told us in no uncertain terms that it was white liberals who were the problem, the wolves in sheep's clothing:
"The white liberal is the worst enemy to America . . . "
... and the worst enemy to the black man." this second thing still holds, imo. regarding the first thing ('america'), he still seemed to think the notion 'america' stood for something.
Mostly in the minds of the liberals. For me the distinction is that a true leftist in the USA recognizes that the socioeconomic system as currently constituted will consistently fail to bring about anything even vaguely resembling the improvements required to lift people out of the enslaved mental and physical situation in which they mindlessly marinate. That's what Malcolm saw clearly -- Western liberalism is slavery. It enslaved Black Americans, and he ultimately recognized it as a colonialist force enslaving the entire planet.
Phil Ochs really had these libs' number! "I'm not a racist," they say, "because I have a black maid!" I really wish someone would put something not-so-good in their mimosas.
Hell, Marxism is not Leftism, but stealth nation(s), complete with martial opposition attitude -- eternal war in place of diplomacy. They've messed with our minds for well over a century and a half.
Lots of ways to enslave minds. Diplomacy is a route to necessary dialogue --
if and only if one is dealing with actors who don't lie with every second word out of their mouths. I'm really fond of listening to Jeffrey Sachs talk diplomacy for example, but then I think, is Prof. Sachs living in an academic idealized head space? Is he really dealing in reality or simply in theory?
Sachs appears to be an idealist who was used in the 90's as a tool in Eastern Europe, a cover for the economic hitmen who were directing those takeovers.
John Perkins describes such professionals in his "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". They are just employees not in the know. Even now, Sachs often sounds like a naive man re politics. Maybe he feels some guilt for his role back then, but it wouldn't be much use for him to do some public mea culpa as it won't accomplish anything. The public doesn't care.
I've read both of Perkins' books; they should be required reading.
No question about Sachs' idealism, but he's hard to dislike because one senses at least a modicum of sincerity; perhaps it is atonement. That the public at large doesn't care is a given -- it's exactly that public who should be force-fed Perkins.
I don't dislike Sachs at all, just wondering whether such people have any shot at all at positions where they can make political decisions of consequence.
It seems that politics itself calls for compromises that are incompatible with any morals. A "clean" person cannot be involved in it. Unless he resorts to being a minor figure on some local level being useful to some higher figures, the way professionals are in the economic hitmen' takeovers.
"La Piovra" is an Italian TV show about mafia from 80's - 90's. There are plenty examples there.
"is Prof. Sachs living in an academic idealized head space? Is he really dealing in reality or simply in theory?"
Well, Sachs was involved in the work in turning Poland and Russia capitalist in the 1990s, but Russia allowed a class of kleptocrats as millions starved. So, on another dimension, sometimes I wonder how many well-known crusading political actors are double-agents in some way. To me, evidence of having suffered great material or other losses in the process can be convincing, but only if it passes the smell test. I'm getting old. :)
You raise an important proviso. Caution is indeed warranted. I'm also at that age where skepticism comes easily -- and morphs to cynicism even more easily.
Yes, but if Team D were in charge, Palestinian children would be kept safe, protected from the horrors of misgendering and also treated to self-serving human rights talk as they were slaughtered.
As odious as Trump is, it is important to keep in mind that Team D is no better.
So true Caitlin. Besides watching the horror of genocide the hardest thing for me over the past few years was opposing Biden and then Harris on this issue to the scorn of my liberal friends who are all in for the Democrats. Despite despising Trump I have been hopeful the Ukraine war will end now and extremely sad that U.S. policy in the Middle East is worsening in stopping the killings. Now the Democrats are opposing the genocide as a political move against the madness of Trump. And where were they to oppose the madness of Biden as you point out. The bombings are secondary now as Gaza is in ruins, the greatest need now is to stop the genocide caused by widespread famine and disease. This may kill hundreds of thousands if humanitarian aid is not brought to the Palestinians in Gaza immediately.
"Despite despising Trump I have been hopeful the Ukraine war will end now and extremely sad that U.S. policy in the Middle East is worsening in stopping the killings."
*IF* the War On Russia is put on pause, this will only be because Trump seeks to focus his energies on the War On Iran.
"The other day I shared a short post about a video that was going around showing a father in Gaza tearfully cradling the head of his son who was decapitated in an Israeli airstrike, and some guy responded with the comment “Good thing you helped get TRUMP ELECTED!!”"
I suspect that some guy knows full well that the genocide was in full swing under Biden/Harris, but the only thing that matters to him is tribal loyalty.
If the Team D tribe required him to deny the Laws of Thermodynamics, then he'd recite the talking points like a Koolaid chugging cultists following Jim Jones' command.
Hate to break it to you man, but the entire capitalist enterprise denies the existence of the 2nd Law. Ain't no entropy, everything's perfectly in order. We can do whatever the hell we please on planet greed, 'cause either some brilliant entrepreneur, AI, or both will save us.
Liberalism is actually WORSE than a team sport — it's a lifestyle brand; like a pair of Pradas or a Halston cocktail dress or an Izod polo shirt. The CEO of National Public Radio just posted the most smarmy, wretched, knob-slobbering apology to Trump you could possibly imagine, but millions of Liberals will still be mailing their goddamn checks to NPR and listening to "All Things Considered" because... hey, it's a favorite lifestyle brand for those clowns.
"Western civilization" isnt. Its an approach to life that completely lacks any kind of values. Does not value human life, not honesty, community, nothing. Not even the planet that is the source of life - it doesnt even value that.
Just a soulless rat race after money. Except in this system, most of the money is in the hands of a tiny few. By design. And unchangingly, other than getting even worse.
Yes, greed and hunger for power is a disease of the mind that disconnects people from their humanity - they no longer care about the consequences of their actions and how much harm and suffering they cause others in their pursuit of power.
The Trump supporters are characterized as dumb. So what are the degreed professional Democrat supporters? At this juncture? "Our privileged lives above all else" hypocritical scum. And it's nothing new. Phil Ochs got it 60 years ago, when he wrote
The educated are in fact more prone to cognitive dissonance, because they are better at symbol manipulation.
One of the quirks of cognitive dissonance is that, in the end, you have to do it to yourself. Others can supply the talking points, but you have to internalize them.
I voted for Jill Stein. Not because I thought she could win, but because both Harris and Trump wouñd allow the genocide in Gaza to continue. My wife, who gets all of her political analysis from "The View," kinda gave me the "wasting your vote" line, with some "but Trump would be worse" thrown in for good measure. A) as Eugene Debs said, I'd rather view for something I want and not get it, then vote for something I don't want and get it. (Although here in Ohio, my vote wouldn't have been near enough to overcome the huge margin of victory that Trump amassed.) It's could comfort to see that a significant minority of Democratic voters would have voted for Harris if she would have promised to end the slaughter in Gaza (as the article linked in the 2nd to last paragraph related). Who knew that taking the high ground could be good politics in 2020 America? But Harris was too controlled by Israel to even lie about stopping the ongoing massacre in Gaza. And frankly, when you won't even make a token gesture against genocide, it's hard to get worked up about a few thousand bureaucrats getting downsized.
"Mainstream “centrism” is just as toxic, murderous and tyrannical as Trumpism. These people will watch entire populations being mowed down by the hundreds of thousands via the policies of the people they voted for, and as long as it doesn’t interrupt brunch they’ll keep sipping their mimosas and laughing and tweeting and feeling smugly correct, and then go to bed and sleep like babies in an ocean of human blood."
That should be tattooed on the head of every fake left Trump obsessed, Dem supporting idiot that howls about how bad things have suddenly gotten under Trump. If the Biden genocide taught us anything it is that there is no lesser evil between these two parties. They are both rabidly Zionist, genocidal Imperialists whose only concern is their billionaire constituency. The good cop pretends to be nice, the bad cop brags about being so bad, but the wage slaves of the world suffer equally under both. This is the bare minimum level of political consciousness required at this stage of history. Anything less should be violently rejected any time it rears it's nasty little head!
It is terrible when old allies become worthless. In Britain, it is the Labour Party that now stands for Israeli racism, and the idea that only some lives matter. The Guardian is as likely as the BBC to fudge the news, or ignore it. The police, after a long battle against a reputation for racism, now openly oppresses anti-racists. Even the RAF, once a symbol of dogged British determination to 'do the right thing', now tells Israelis where to find Palestinians to bomb. It seems nothing that was still good about Britain remains un-tainted. Thanks Israel. Thanks, sell-out MP's, and journalists, and opinion formers. The government, the opposition, the media - they're all 'only following orders'. And the world plods on. A few brave people protest, and write letters, and are ignored. Our leaders laugh, wave 'swivel on it' fingers, and wonder which new, bigger, blinger home to buy. Of course they'll get away with it. It is extraordinary. Everyone alive today, who has allowed the world to become as awful as it has become, and as corrupt, and as disappointing, deserves to hang their head in shame.
Agree - except your last few lines - I can think of far worse fates that should befall them than just hanging their heads in shame …..unless in preparation for the noose or the guillotine - “shame” seems a forgotten concept. But nothing will befall them as we know …..even if eventually arrested by the ICC …. ‘Shame’ is a concept unknown to them.
Liberals and conservatives both get used by the Demonrats & Republiscums in the USG who are controlled by the Khazarian Mafia (Zionist and Talmudic Jews). Benjamin Freedman tried to warn us of their nefarioius plans for us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwnvtQW2hOo&t=99s
Thanks. I feel like I’m surrounded by sociopaths which is probably because I am.
You are.
You are surrounded by 'Adolf Eichmanns'.
They are NOT the exception.
They are the rule.
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"Arendt’s investigation into Eichmann’s mind ventured into the field of psychiatry, where numerous professionals affirmed his sanity and characterized him as a man with positive ideas and a desirable psychological outlook."
Most likely not, but the deluge of madness which world leaders are spewing can and does instill fear and hysteria , thats precisely what they want. Keeping us on edge , never patient enough to hear each prospective , never understanding each other circumstance, the rhetoric of leaders is outrages but its the willingness of so many to follow their edicts is the real danger.
Such a well-written piece. Both the main US parties are well and truly fu€ked. Trump’s veneer is a lot thinner and more transparent as to the ugliness underneath, whilst the Genocrats try to hide under a mask of decency barely concealing their Zionist funded corruption and feel their party is entitled to votes even though on so many issues they are just as bad.
Free speech is rapidly dying in the U.S. I posted an article about a Canadian doctor who had her presentation cancelled by NYU at the last minute because of slides that mention GAZA casualties and cutting of USaid - the former was flagged as anti-Semitic, the latter was flagged as anti-government.
Then on another post someone discussed Trump's age and health. I posted "If Trump should die, MAGA might die with him" Apparently this was threatening violence and got me a warning.
I reposted "If the current national leader should become de-existed by natural non-violent means his movement may become de-existed with him"
And then I was banned.
You tell me, does this sound a bit 1984?
I empathise with you. I got banned from Facebook because I kept asking why Netanyahu and Ben Gvir still had Facebook accounts, while I had been warned by Facebook for 'breaching Community Standards'. On posting a link to Neb Gvir's account, I got banned within seconds!
Yet, somehow Ben Gvir, one of the most murderous and despicable people on planet earth, meets Facebook Community Standards.
Fuckerberg owns Facebook and is one of the chosen people - so hardly surprising that terrorist Ben Gvir gets a free pass. Whatever happened to the Jews in the Holocaust, Zionists and their genocide machine are the heirs to the Nazis. Everything about Zionists screams Nazi clones, just a Jewish star instead of a Swastika. The sadistic bloodlust, the depraved hate-fuelled violence and brutality, the supremacist delusions of grandeur, the obsession with killing, conquering and subjugating those they hate and endlessly expanding their territorial conquest by attacking their neighbours. The Zionist cancer is more malignant than the Nazi machine by any measure - it has lasted far far longer with the support of the US and Europe, and Zionist have a stranglehold on almost every one of these so-called “free societies” and are busy stamping out free speech and freedoms.
From: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/31/meta-profits-as-ads-promote-illegal-israeli-settlements-in-west-bank
"Facebook has platformed more than 100 paid advertisements promoting illegal settlements and far-right settler activity in the occupied West Bank, raising concerns that the social media giant is profiting from content that may violate international law.
Among the advertisements identified were also calls for the demolition of Palestinian homes, schools, and playgrounds, as well as fundraising appeals for Israeli military units operating in Gaza.
At least 52 paid advertisements from Israeli real estate companies were found promoting property sales in settlements across the occupied West Bank, targeting buyers from across Israel as well as some users in the UK and the United States. These advertisements were first published in March 2024, and many remain active on Facebook."
Oh, this is why my Israhell loving sister-in-law likes fakebook so much and constantly tries to get me on it(sarcasm). Not gonna happen.🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Ryan Schwarz,
".....just a Jewish star instead of a Swastika...". Great saying!
The Nazionists and their rapacious US (and other lesser) allies are utterly unconcerned about the levels of depravity achieved in the post-Oct 7th period. The project to clear Gaza/West Bank of Palestinian 'human animals' has been in progress for generations now and Bibi's bloodlust remains undiminished. In fifty years' time, when Israel has its new Riviera and its and its mates' utter, murderous bastardry been written out of history, its heirs and successors will doubtless revel in their purity as their god's chosen people and marvel at his bounty.
Except that Israel will likely implode catastrophically. It’s a nest of scorpions who will turn on each other the moment they don’t have “the other” to focus their hatred on. When a society becomes so hate-fuelled and poisonous it will not simply turn into a peaceful place after they have completed their genocide.
I think you're spot on. Israelis seem itching to destroy their society. One commentator pointed out some time back that Israel was flying high in the 1990s: great economy, international trade, good reputation (among the ignorant, willfully or otherwise, but still...), etc. And were they satisfied (or smart)? No. They blew it. They were too greedy for other people's land and too bellicose with everyone, and now their country is living on borrowed time. If you put all the indicators together, it looks really bad for Israel and it'll be poetic justice when they all kill each other. Of course, they're determined to take as many Palestinians with them as they can, sucking all the enjoyment for me out of their self-inflicted wounds.
Hope you're right, Ryan, but I have the idea that the bad guys mostly get away with it.
You forgot the humiliation Israelis love to inflict on the Palestinians.
I got kicked off FB some years ago for allegedly being a Russian. I am not Russian, FWIW.
Rather than do the done thing and return under a different moniker, I took the ejection as a favor.
I do not miss FB.
I do not miss Facebook the time suck to no where. I found a back door to get on and NEVER bother to use it.
You all write about Facebook: Interesting to me because it was a way to keep in contact with friends in the USA after we left.
IF the people who rule Facebook were smart/which they are not: It could have been a 'family website!'
Ir is NOT now.
I still see posts from my old friends.
IDIOCY in the name of politics.
There is a "family web site" that's similar to Facebook called "Grandpad" from Consumer Celluar. I like it since I can post photos and comments on posts of my cousins and siblings... It's sort of a "private group" thing. No commercials or ads. I'm glad my one cousin set it up for her mom, my aunt, so we all could keep in touch.
Thank you. Grandpad.....never heard of it!
I still use Facebook to stay in touch with friends around the world and to connect with people who want to change the world. It is a tool and I use it. I've been temporarily banned and also by X, but never permanently.
>>"IF the people who rule Facebook were smart/which they are not: It could have been a 'family website!'"
Jenny, it could NEVER be a family website (no matter what) - Capitalism won't allow it - the need to constantly make profits by Corporations is in direct contrast to what you suggest.
This MY opinion and nobody else:
I watched as my friends in the USA introduced me to friends I had long forgotten. It was wonderful to see them again and talk.
NOT everything needs to be political but the USA needs money and greed.
I keep thinking that I will get kicked off any day now. I believe, more and more each passing day, that this would be best for me. All I seem to do is get "fact checked" by the ridiculously biased FB AI bot. The good on the platform certainly does not outweigh the bad.
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I too was permanently banned from Facebook under the Biden regimen for opposing genocide and working for Jill Stein. I always spoke polightly and with actual truth.
Meanwhile some crazies are still their name calling, swearing etc.
This happened 2 weeks before the election in 2024.
This is why I refuse to do Fakebook, oh I mean Facebook.🤮😂🤣
I must be shadowbanned on FB, because I posted all sorts of Jill Stein stuff and didn't get kicked off. But no one ever sees my Substack posts there, so that's probably why I'm still allowed to be on there.
I think the same has happened to me. I post political stuff .....slowly. Maybe once a month. One editorial was banned.
We just have to keep going on Facebook. A little at a time.
David - this isn't new; this is an outgrowth of 2016, and liberals cheerleading for censorship and deplatforming; if you tried to warn them that the shoe would eventually be on the other foot, you'd be accused of just wanting to yell the N word in a crowded theater.
In 2016, those of us who knew Russiagate was nonsense were accused of working for the Kremlin. If we supported Sanders, we were shouted down as racists. If we didn't like Hillary, it was because we were obviously 'right wing' nut jobs.
Covid provided the perfect excuse for the government to start carrying out the will of the liberal elite through third party proxies. Departments of misinformation, disinformation, malformation were established, and in the EU these policies were signed into law.
And now? You can get banned from Facebook for alleging that Palestinians are people too. And the liberals tilled the soil and planted the seeds so the conservatives could take the harvest.
If you supported Sanders, you were a fool. He's a charlatan like all the rest of them. But you're correct about the rest.
Carolyn - he's not a charlatan - even in my disappointment with him. Politics is the art of the possible, and the only way he could do much is to bend the knee.
I don't look for politicians to be super humans; they are just people with a career in a field. I find his waffling on Gaza to be insufferable and not quite forgivable, but still, he's one of the best we've had since Eugene Debs.
The only reason Bernie was ever an independent is because the party left him, not the other way around. He's about as mainstream of a centrist slightly socialist dem as there ever was, were the definitions of these things rational in the US.
I watched his career from the beginning - when he was standing up against Reagans murders in Salvador and Nicaragua.
He's not a revolutionary - he's just a new deal Dem in the age of the Blue Dogs. But I still like him, in spite of my disillusionment over Palestine.
He’s a warmonger, and a corporate democrat. His role is to trick people into thinking the democrats could possibly be a progressive party. It somehow never works that way, does it? He’s an actor, and nothing more.
As I said, I might agree with you except for the fact that Sanders has a really long history of doing good things. More - if he was just another corporate democrat, the DNC would have allowed him to win a race that would have defeated Trump by every measurable poll. The DNC preferred to lose to Trump than to Sanders - and did so twice. .
I can't say that in every case the enemy of my enemy is my friend - but in Sanders case... I think the world would be a much different place
The whisper campaign about Sanders being just another 'corporate dem' and he can't be a 'socialist' because he's not impoverished and living in a squat has never seemed organic to me - it feels too much like 'He's a sexist because his followers are Bros' or "He's a racist because he talks about class and not identity.'
This is not to say I am investing my money in him any longer. His cowardice on Israel pissed me off. On the other hand, those who stood up against the Israeli PACS got eviscerated.
Most of the brownshirts that attacked the UCLA protesters could barely speak English or they had heavy "KHAMASSS" accents. Are they being investigated? Why should they have the right to free speech just because they are zionists?
Oh well. I just consider myself lucky I don't live in the U.S. anymore or I might be hearing the secret police at my door.
YEP, it sure does.
I got banned from Reddit because someone had made a post about Trump removing Fauci‘s security detail and my reply was something like “oh well, some of them will fall by the wayside and die but that’s a sacrifice America is willing to make.” (Or something like that.) It’s wild that after four years of seeing Biden dolls hanging on front lawns, me repeating Fauci’s words about disabled people back at him is “threatening violence”.
It's the Uniparty with two names. The Democrats are not an opposition party, they just play one on TV.
Agree 100% Trump is a Pathetic Israel Lackey and what the hell can go wrong with that ???
Trump brays like a donkey about how other countries have been taking advantage of America … whilst sucking off the despicable parasitic state of Israel that has been milking, interfering with the US and taking its money far more than any other and destroying its national security. Trump has not saved a cent from the American gravy train that supplies Israel with weapons of mass murder whilst Americans lose their jobs and their freedoms, and the Israeli lobby aka mafia completes its takeover of America. Trump is just another bitch to Israel, a hypocrite and a loser controlled by the Israeli lobby.
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I agree 100% with Caitlin's presentation of the American liberal and its Democratic party, but least we forget, this' been, to quote David Crosby "...a long time coming..." I awakened in the late 60s when my brother Robbie was sent home from Vietnam in BOX! and my brother Chris was also drafted and eventually sent to Vietnam but fortunately came home only emotionally wounded. As for myself, I came within a hair's breadth of been sent there in 72. Now to my point, in the early 60s, JFK (please read James W. Douglass' 'JFK And the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It matters') was assassinated because he wanted PEACE, because he planned to get us out of Vietnam, end the Cold War and get rid of the Nukes (he's the only Democratic President I really admire, and the includes FDR who saved the "system" by actually aiding the working class and farmers as well as veterans who were ready to revolt. And oh, by the way, Lincoln could be described as a Democrat, and I would count him in a class with JFK) but nearly everyone in the Kennedy administration betrayed him. Here's the point: My brothers and so many other young boys would never have ended up 6,000 miles from home being killed while killing (I know Robbie killed as he was a helicopter gunner in Vietnam), and if you really want to know what went on in that country which could do the US no harm, please read Nick Turse's well documented 'Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam' Believe me when I say, it's so similar to Vasily (the Tolstoy of the 20th Century) Grossman's 'The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry' a horror show of what took place after the Nazi invasion of Russia. The parallel between what took place in Russia (on a ground level) and that of what the American military did in "South" Vietnam is so similar that I was so ashamed to be an American. I read both books stimulatingly while having to put both down many times to keep my sanity in place.
A Democratic President keep us in Vietnam (LBJ), a Democratic President involved us in Afghanistan (Jimmy Carter), a Democratic President blasted Yugoslavia into pieces (Bill Clinton), a Democratic President ensured that Libya was smashed by NATO and others, (Obama, a true liberal that one, all sarcasm intended) and least we forget Biden and Ukraine. All said and done (which I haven't even spoken on Wilson and Truman) true liberals to the max.
Now does this dismiss the Republican Party and their war crimes? HELL NO! Damn them to HELL (metaphorically speaking)! Point-Set-and Match! Never trust a liberal and that goes back all the way to the founding of the nation (read Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' well worth the effort. And for that matter, Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick's 'The Untold History of the United States' a long book but well worth the time and effort spent.
Folks, we are not in a "NEW" ERA, no we aren't, it is merely more of the same but much more open considering today's technology. But all the same, so please, put down the electronics and start reading books if you really want to become truly informed. Yes, Caitlin Johnstone and so many others (I could list but won't at this time) of the independent news media will well inform you but please, pick up the books, do the work, DON"T really on AI bullshit, and come to know your history and what has been done in your name. BECAUSE! one day we here in AMERICA (if we don't start a nuclear war) will all share in the blame as well as its shame. I didn't ask to be born here, wish I wasn't, but hey, "Don't Dream It's Over!"
Several close friends came home in boxes; I escaped by virtue of a few numbers in a lottery --- Imagine them wanting us to pledge allegiance to a bloody country that gambled with our lives right out in the open. Place your bets: red or black, odd or even -- the sick roulette of live or die determined by your birth date. Motherfuckers!
Also in JFK's writings was the intent to require the lobbying org. that preceded AIPAC (can't recall the name) to register as an agency of a foreign govt.
JFK and the Unspeakable is a valuable book. More people need to read it.
Carolyn, I agree! To see, in words, to envision what Kennedy was going through and his enlightenment, with the death of his new-born son, of what other parents are going through what with the potential loss of their children via nuclear holocaust which threatened our world at that time as well as today.
Clinton also renegged on Reagan's promise 2 Russia 2 never expand NATO east of Germany. That agreement was made 6 months previously in exchange 4 Russian support 2 unify Germany.
Decades later Biden engineers a coup in Ukraine v democratically elected russian leaning president. Then tries 2 park missiles under Russia's nose in Ukraine.
Then complain re Russian aggression after decades of provocation.
Causes one to wonder where the hell has the mainstream media have their heads? Up their... I suppose!
I wish I could upvote this 1000 times!
I'm in tears this moment as I think back to my father's tears when they buried his first-born son, all these years later I still cry when think about Robbie (John Robert). When I see his boot camp photo, I think to myself, he was just a baby at 20yrs old. He missed his entire adult life but why? Because a TRUE leader wanted peace, wanted a united world. What did JFK get? Bullets in his brain! And on and on and on went the Vietnam War with over 57,000 young men dying, for what? Greed! And it hasn't stopped at all One more book to mention: David Vine's 'The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State' a very excellent, documented work!
Mark, heartfelt condolences. I lost a couple of friends and relatives during that war and, as a draftee, missed going to Vietnam only by the luck of the draw when I got orders for Germany. 57,000 is, kind of, just a number until you visit the Memorial wall in DC that lists the names. Not to mention, 2-3 million Vietnamese. '' When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?''
Visiting the Memorial in DC is on my to-do-list which will occur when my wife and I do our next long American road trip to Upstate New York where my wife grew up. Most likely, after our truck and trailer are paid off! God help all of us who are in debt due to the lack of wages increasing alongside productivity.
Amen. You're a crossing guard? Q- Do you allow the kids to be looking at their phones while you all are crossing the street?
NEVER! Also, no bouncing balls while crossing the street, no riding scooters or any other items in this category. I also preach to all parents, staff, community members on their daily walks, and any others using the cross/sidewalk to always be aware of their surroundings as to not walk into traffic which can be horrible in our city as well as other cities out there. To be frank, people are moving much to quickly and need to SLOW DOWN especially around our schools! Caitlin writes a great deal about the need to think of others and their experience here in this world, I think and act on behalf of the children coming to and leaving school and to ensure their safety and wellbeing. At our school there is a great diversity of ethnic families, white, black, Aisin, Middle Eastern, Hispanic as well as inter-racial families which is a wonder to witness daily, I am grateful! Plus, the bonus: From where I take my lunch, I'm right next to the pre-school/kindergarten classes and their playtime coincides with my lunch, a loud, joyful noise to say the least. Indeed, sounds that bring great pleasure and more importantly, something which renews my hope for a future (I'm 70 in a few weeks and have lived my life to its fullness, they desire the same) for them as well as all life on this planet. Gaza? Killing children for profit, what insanity!
The 57,000 doesn’t include the number of people of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos who were also killed — men, women and children of all ages.
HOLY SHIT. Did you read my mind and write this? I know I did not write it, because I am far less eloquent. American Politics and the Two Party system are a living example of "Two Wrongs do not make a Right".
That's "HOLY SHIT BATMAN!" and you are correct Michael when you state: "Two Wrongs do not make a Right". This "American" political system must charge, or our world will end, literally! How will it change, how can it be possible? Only WE THE PEOPLE can do it as the elite class is incapable as they will do nothing as they are soulless creatures who care only about their power and the wealth it brings to them and their class. AGAIN: SOULLESS CREATURES!
I thought the "Long time coming," was from Sam Cooke? Or is that a different something that's coming?
There are a couple of songs with "long time coming" prominently in the lyrics. The one you're thinking of is "A Change is Gonna Come"; the one Mark was citing is "Long Time Gone" on Crosby, Stills and Nash's first album.
Yes, the CSN first album, an excellent work, listened to it while camping at the beach last week while on Spring break, I work at an elementary school: LOVE MY JOB, Mr. Mark the Crossing Guard!
Love Sam Cooke by the way!
Yes, both CSN, and Sam Cooke, are, to quote another great band: "good vibrations!"
I know it's redundant to say, but if you call yourself a white Leftist, you WILL remember that Malcolm X told us in no uncertain terms that it was white liberals who were the problem, the wolves in sheep's clothing:
"The white liberal is the worst enemy to America . . . "
... and the worst enemy to the black man." this second thing still holds, imo. regarding the first thing ('america'), he still seemed to think the notion 'america' stood for something.
Indeed, you completed the warning, and imo, both parts are still true.
But, let's not forget that liberals are not leftists. Whole lot of conflation going on these days.
Mostly in the minds of the liberals. For me the distinction is that a true leftist in the USA recognizes that the socioeconomic system as currently constituted will consistently fail to bring about anything even vaguely resembling the improvements required to lift people out of the enslaved mental and physical situation in which they mindlessly marinate. That's what Malcolm saw clearly -- Western liberalism is slavery. It enslaved Black Americans, and he ultimately recognized it as a colonialist force enslaving the entire planet.
You bring to mind the words of that great song, buy that non-liberal artist, Phil Ochs, "Love me, I'm a Liberal.
"And I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
As though I'd lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X got what was coming
He got what he asked for this time
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal"
Phil Ochs really had these libs' number! "I'm not a racist," they say, "because I have a black maid!" I really wish someone would put something not-so-good in their mimosas.
Hell, Marxism is not Leftism, but stealth nation(s), complete with martial opposition attitude -- eternal war in place of diplomacy. They've messed with our minds for well over a century and a half.
Lots of ways to enslave minds. Diplomacy is a route to necessary dialogue --
if and only if one is dealing with actors who don't lie with every second word out of their mouths. I'm really fond of listening to Jeffrey Sachs talk diplomacy for example, but then I think, is Prof. Sachs living in an academic idealized head space? Is he really dealing in reality or simply in theory?
Sachs appears to be an idealist who was used in the 90's as a tool in Eastern Europe, a cover for the economic hitmen who were directing those takeovers.
John Perkins describes such professionals in his "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". They are just employees not in the know. Even now, Sachs often sounds like a naive man re politics. Maybe he feels some guilt for his role back then, but it wouldn't be much use for him to do some public mea culpa as it won't accomplish anything. The public doesn't care.
I've read both of Perkins' books; they should be required reading.
No question about Sachs' idealism, but he's hard to dislike because one senses at least a modicum of sincerity; perhaps it is atonement. That the public at large doesn't care is a given -- it's exactly that public who should be force-fed Perkins.
I don't dislike Sachs at all, just wondering whether such people have any shot at all at positions where they can make political decisions of consequence.
It seems that politics itself calls for compromises that are incompatible with any morals. A "clean" person cannot be involved in it. Unless he resorts to being a minor figure on some local level being useful to some higher figures, the way professionals are in the economic hitmen' takeovers.
"La Piovra" is an Italian TV show about mafia from 80's - 90's. There are plenty examples there.
"is Prof. Sachs living in an academic idealized head space? Is he really dealing in reality or simply in theory?"
Well, Sachs was involved in the work in turning Poland and Russia capitalist in the 1990s, but Russia allowed a class of kleptocrats as millions starved. So, on another dimension, sometimes I wonder how many well-known crusading political actors are double-agents in some way. To me, evidence of having suffered great material or other losses in the process can be convincing, but only if it passes the smell test. I'm getting old. :)
You raise an important proviso. Caution is indeed warranted. I'm also at that age where skepticism comes easily -- and morphs to cynicism even more easily.
Yes, but if Team D were in charge, Palestinian children would be kept safe, protected from the horrors of misgendering and also treated to self-serving human rights talk as they were slaughtered.
As odious as Trump is, it is important to keep in mind that Team D is no better.
Exist! Resist! Return! Palestine is for Palestinians. (Code Pink)
So true Caitlin. Besides watching the horror of genocide the hardest thing for me over the past few years was opposing Biden and then Harris on this issue to the scorn of my liberal friends who are all in for the Democrats. Despite despising Trump I have been hopeful the Ukraine war will end now and extremely sad that U.S. policy in the Middle East is worsening in stopping the killings. Now the Democrats are opposing the genocide as a political move against the madness of Trump. And where were they to oppose the madness of Biden as you point out. The bombings are secondary now as Gaza is in ruins, the greatest need now is to stop the genocide caused by widespread famine and disease. This may kill hundreds of thousands if humanitarian aid is not brought to the Palestinians in Gaza immediately.
"Despite despising Trump I have been hopeful the Ukraine war will end now and extremely sad that U.S. policy in the Middle East is worsening in stopping the killings."
*IF* the War On Russia is put on pause, this will only be because Trump seeks to focus his energies on the War On Iran.
"The other day I shared a short post about a video that was going around showing a father in Gaza tearfully cradling the head of his son who was decapitated in an Israeli airstrike, and some guy responded with the comment “Good thing you helped get TRUMP ELECTED!!”"
I suspect that some guy knows full well that the genocide was in full swing under Biden/Harris, but the only thing that matters to him is tribal loyalty.
If the Team D tribe required him to deny the Laws of Thermodynamics, then he'd recite the talking points like a Koolaid chugging cultists following Jim Jones' command.
Hate to break it to you man, but the entire capitalist enterprise denies the existence of the 2nd Law. Ain't no entropy, everything's perfectly in order. We can do whatever the hell we please on planet greed, 'cause either some brilliant entrepreneur, AI, or both will save us.
"Man"?
Sorry, "my feline friend".
Liberalism is actually WORSE than a team sport — it's a lifestyle brand; like a pair of Pradas or a Halston cocktail dress or an Izod polo shirt. The CEO of National Public Radio just posted the most smarmy, wretched, knob-slobbering apology to Trump you could possibly imagine, but millions of Liberals will still be mailing their goddamn checks to NPR and listening to "All Things Considered" because... hey, it's a favorite lifestyle brand for those clowns.
"Western civilization" isnt. Its an approach to life that completely lacks any kind of values. Does not value human life, not honesty, community, nothing. Not even the planet that is the source of life - it doesnt even value that.
Just a soulless rat race after money. Except in this system, most of the money is in the hands of a tiny few. By design. And unchangingly, other than getting even worse.
Not my quote but :
'I have to think of Gandhi and his response to the question' : What do you think of Western civilisation?
“I think it would be a good idea.”
Yes, greed and hunger for power is a disease of the mind that disconnects people from their humanity - they no longer care about the consequences of their actions and how much harm and suffering they cause others in their pursuit of power.
The Trump supporters are characterized as dumb. So what are the degreed professional Democrat supporters? At this juncture? "Our privileged lives above all else" hypocritical scum. And it's nothing new. Phil Ochs got it 60 years ago, when he wrote
"Love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal."
https://youtu.be/3cdqQ2BdgOA?si=PnRnnvws9oxUBZca
The educated are in fact more prone to cognitive dissonance, because they are better at symbol manipulation.
One of the quirks of cognitive dissonance is that, in the end, you have to do it to yourself. Others can supply the talking points, but you have to internalize them.
Jpdated for the. 21st century https://youtu.be/SgOHJaCPkLg?si=0G3WbdyKhPEYwtws
I voted for Jill Stein. Not because I thought she could win, but because both Harris and Trump wouñd allow the genocide in Gaza to continue. My wife, who gets all of her political analysis from "The View," kinda gave me the "wasting your vote" line, with some "but Trump would be worse" thrown in for good measure. A) as Eugene Debs said, I'd rather view for something I want and not get it, then vote for something I don't want and get it. (Although here in Ohio, my vote wouldn't have been near enough to overcome the huge margin of victory that Trump amassed.) It's could comfort to see that a significant minority of Democratic voters would have voted for Harris if she would have promised to end the slaughter in Gaza (as the article linked in the 2nd to last paragraph related). Who knew that taking the high ground could be good politics in 2020 America? But Harris was too controlled by Israel to even lie about stopping the ongoing massacre in Gaza. And frankly, when you won't even make a token gesture against genocide, it's hard to get worked up about a few thousand bureaucrats getting downsized.
"Mainstream “centrism” is just as toxic, murderous and tyrannical as Trumpism. These people will watch entire populations being mowed down by the hundreds of thousands via the policies of the people they voted for, and as long as it doesn’t interrupt brunch they’ll keep sipping their mimosas and laughing and tweeting and feeling smugly correct, and then go to bed and sleep like babies in an ocean of human blood."
That should be tattooed on the head of every fake left Trump obsessed, Dem supporting idiot that howls about how bad things have suddenly gotten under Trump. If the Biden genocide taught us anything it is that there is no lesser evil between these two parties. They are both rabidly Zionist, genocidal Imperialists whose only concern is their billionaire constituency. The good cop pretends to be nice, the bad cop brags about being so bad, but the wage slaves of the world suffer equally under both. This is the bare minimum level of political consciousness required at this stage of history. Anything less should be violently rejected any time it rears it's nasty little head!
A: "I am voting for Jill Stein, the Green Party"
B: "But they can't win"
A: "If everyone that ever said that voted Green instead then Green would win."
"The defeatists consider the booby prize as winning."
It is terrible when old allies become worthless. In Britain, it is the Labour Party that now stands for Israeli racism, and the idea that only some lives matter. The Guardian is as likely as the BBC to fudge the news, or ignore it. The police, after a long battle against a reputation for racism, now openly oppresses anti-racists. Even the RAF, once a symbol of dogged British determination to 'do the right thing', now tells Israelis where to find Palestinians to bomb. It seems nothing that was still good about Britain remains un-tainted. Thanks Israel. Thanks, sell-out MP's, and journalists, and opinion formers. The government, the opposition, the media - they're all 'only following orders'. And the world plods on. A few brave people protest, and write letters, and are ignored. Our leaders laugh, wave 'swivel on it' fingers, and wonder which new, bigger, blinger home to buy. Of course they'll get away with it. It is extraordinary. Everyone alive today, who has allowed the world to become as awful as it has become, and as corrupt, and as disappointing, deserves to hang their head in shame.
Agree - except your last few lines - I can think of far worse fates that should befall them than just hanging their heads in shame …..unless in preparation for the noose or the guillotine - “shame” seems a forgotten concept. But nothing will befall them as we know …..even if eventually arrested by the ICC …. ‘Shame’ is a concept unknown to them.
Liberals and conservatives both get used by the Demonrats & Republiscums in the USG who are controlled by the Khazarian Mafia (Zionist and Talmudic Jews). Benjamin Freedman tried to warn us of their nefarioius plans for us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwnvtQW2hOo&t=99s