Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
US empire: Assassinates scientists, invades countries, topples governments, circles the planet with military bases, deliberately starves civilians to death with sanctions, threatens the world with nuclear weapons.
Also the US empire: "Iran must begin acting like a normal country."
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Obama's job is to tell you that the ruling establishment which murders, oppresses and exploits people all day every day is quite progressive actually and the people who oppose it are immature lunatics who should be scoffed at.
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If you killed someone that's all you'd be known for. When a US president kills thousands upon thousands of people all mainstream discourse is about his sound fiscal policy and ability to sink a three-pointer.
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Nice guy fascism: A murderous and tyrannical political ideology whose iron-fisted agendas of oppression, exploitation and violent domination are hidden behind lip service to progressivism, diverse cabinet picks, and nice tweets.
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The powerful are screwing us and there are more of us than there are of them. An entire culture and information ecosystem has been deliberately constructed around keeping a critical mass of us from awakening to this one basic fact.
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Any issue of international conflict involving the US-centralized empire is going to be awash with western media propaganda marketed to western audiences. No one who ignores this indisputable reality is able to understand any major international news story.
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It's so weird how rich and powerful people are pouring massive amounts of wealth and manpower into manipulating our minds every single day and it's not the main thing we talk about all the time.
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Biden is like if everyone suddenly started gushing poetically about how wonderful and refreshing and inclusive the Chevron logo is.
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Being part of the US-led liberal world order means that anyone, regardless of their race, gender or sexual orientation, is free to serve the globe-spanning murder machine in any way they choose.
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Being a part of the US-led liberal world order means you are free to do absolutely anything you want, so long as it doesn't inconvenience the powerful in any way, shape or form.
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Sometimes I feel sad that Cobain died so young, but I brighten up when I remember it means we didn't have to watch him turn into a cringey embarrassing shitlib.
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Failing to pardon Snowden and Assange would be an inexcusable evil. Please re-evaluate your opinion of Trump as needed when he pardons neither.
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Western imperialism is worse than every single issue the mass media are screaming in your face about on any given day. Without exaggeration it is worse than 100 percent of those issues. If people could really grasp the horrific nature of imperial warmongering, the wars would be forced to end.
It can be hard to avoid getting swept up in the MSM Issue Of The Day, but it's important to keep your focus on the actual monster in the room. They're ripping kids apart with explosives and starving them to death with sanctions, currently, and it is invisible to the news media.
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Charles Manson never murdered anyone, he just convinced people that it would be a good thing to do. The mass media have convinced far more people that it would be a good idea to commit far more murders than the Manson cult ever committed, and should be reviled as such.
The fastest way to get yourself banned from social media is to say something that sounds like you're inciting violence. But mass media which do that constantly are never banned, because what's actually forbidden is inciting violence that isn't authorized by the powerful.
In fact the easiest way to advance your career in media is to incite violence on behalf of the powerful. This is true in news media, and it's even true in video games and Hollywood; make compelling games and screenplays glorifying military violence and your career will thrive.
We live in a society that is built on violence, sustained by violence, and driven by violence. Those who promote unauthorized violence are vilified while those who promote violence in service of the powerful can ride that wave to fame and fortune. This should disgust us all.
If you remove your propaganda-installed perceptual filters, you see a machine that is fuelled by the blood of the powerless being piloted by serial killer politicians, laughing skullface comedians, and news men with human flesh in their teeth. Once you've seen the horror of the empire you can never unsee it.
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Obama Is An Asshole, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The Trump Presidency as the Establishment's False Flag PsyOp... The whole pro-Trump vs. anti-Trump insanity of the last 4 years is a CIA/Mockingbird Media Psy-op that's mindfucked everyone on both sides of the big divide. Whether or not Trump is better than "the enemy of the people" in the fake news Democratic-media establishment is beside the point. Its not Trump that the Establishment hates - the MSM only ever accuses him of fabricated scandals of which he is completely innocent (Russian collusion, Ukraine, Covid mismanagment). No, the ruling establishment really hate the people he represents - the disenfranchized working class white majority middle America that's been fucked over non-stop for the last 30 years...
And so while the Establishment media has spent the last 4 years demonizing the biggest losers and the real victims of neo-liberal globalization, to the point where supporting Trump can mean you can now lose everything (job, family/friends, security, freedom), look at what they managed to get away with by convincing the other half of the country that getting rid of Trump by any means necessary is a matter immediate and existential urgency: The weaponizing of the intelligence community in an attempted coup based on nothing with full media complicity, the persecution and torture of Julian Assage - the Western world's last icon of freedom, massive levels of Orwelllian Big Tech censorship, the corporate fascist dictatorship of a global government lockdown in a permanent state of medical fascist tyranny, an enforced economic implosion that saw the biggest transfer of wealth to the billionaire class in history, an over-hyped anti-white race war stemming from the death of a low-life drug addicted thug who resisted arrest - and now, to the surprise of absolutely nobody, a stolen election right out in the open in front of the whole world with the most obvious and in your face fuckery anyone has ever seen.
None of this would ever have been possible without this mass media anti-Trump PsyOp where tens of millions of people have been convinced that getting rid of this imaginary-construct of the evil racist far-right fascist Nazi dictator is a matter of such immediate and existential urgency that they were willing to usher in this corporate fascist authoritarian nightmate and violate every democratic and constitutional norm imaginable, because "the TV says Orange man bad". Isn't it now obvious that this has been the whole point all along??
Trump is the ultimate false flag operation, the essential decoy upon which we have ushered in a literal dystopian nightmare - it was installed right out in the open in front of our very eyes while the educated liberal consensus was distracted and diverted with fake outrage over Trump's mean tweets. And the good guys who saw through the tsunami of lies and media manipulations are now the most hated people in America. This was the plan all along. The international Anglo-Zionist oligarchy has gotten exactly what it wanted, and Trump made it possible. - even if he doesn't realize it himself.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
~ Upton Sinclair
(thanks, Earle L. Bailey, for reminding me...)
Willful ignorance is a huge psychic wound for our species and a deliberate one. Personally, I think we are witnessing the (rather predictable) outcome of decades of propaganda coupled with a coopted system of public education designed to spit out factory fodder and service industry drones--with stunted critical thinking skills and an understandable aversion to all things academic.
I am frustrated with the willful ignorance of the majority of our population, because our species has to respond with an alacrity that appears to be beyond us. The need for all of us to understand viscerally that a handful of obscenely wealthy corporate fascists are responsible for the wanton destruction of our ecosystem is critical, if we are to leave our children and our children's children a habitable planet.
We are Earthlings, all of us, to a one. And, putting aside our educational backgrounds, we all have critical thinking skills. In these exponential times, we ALL are challenged by global events--especially, the global pandemic and the climate crisis--to hone our critical thinking skills and do the reading and research necessary to insure that our children and our children's children will live in a habitable ecosystem. Healing our planet's ecosystem should be consuming every fiber of our beings.
That the corporate fascists succeeded in installing yet another neoliberal is daunting, but not surprising. Biden's "win" should not be celebrated in any way, and all the diehard Dems who swore they'd move him left after he "won" have an impossible job ahead.
However, I think that the corporate fascists are celebrating a Pyrrhic victory, because We the People are responding. The Genie is out of the bottle, so to speak. The snowball is rolling down the fascists' ginormous mountain of greed--soon we'll be an avalanche. The progressivism sprung from Bernie Sanders' activism will continue, and--in the end--we'll prevail. This is progressivism's legacy (once we heal our massive psychic wound -- which is already occurring around the globe). Progressivism is our species' theology of love, and always has been.