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Feral Finster's avatar

1. The Empire doesn't care who pushes the "kill" button on the drone, as long as the button gets pushed. LGTBQXYZPDQ is a perfect distraction, just as it also has no effect on the way the pie is sliced.

2. Pretty much any political or economic arrangement can be made to work tolerably well, to the extent it is run by non-sociopaths. The problem is that power inevitably finds its way into the hands of sociopaths, because they are the people who will do whatever it takes to win power.

This is the kernel of The Iron Law Of Oligarchy.

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“They control the opposition, and they control the opposition to the controlled opposition.”

Standard intelligence networking. Chuikov used it at Stalingrad against the German invaders , Giáp used it against the American invaders in Vietnam, The Taliban use it still in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Israelis and the Iranians are engaged in high stakes treachery, where each wants to be the cat with the mouse in its jaw. And the only way that Cuba has remained a sovereign state is because Castro would not allow U.S. Intelligence to get a foothold.

It’s a damn shame that the psyches of Americans are fodder for the suffocating tactics of siege-state propaganda. Most Americans would laugh at the suggestion that they are controlled or manipulated, but if they see their churches and the schools where they send their children as fronts for an occupying force, and learn that their TV’s are a dressed up version of Voice of America broadcasts pumped into “enemy” territory, it all becomes clear.

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