"People who promote a US/NATO war with Russia are more dangerous and depraved than racists, homophobes, transphobes and antisemites, and they should be treated accordingly. They are the most dangerous extremists on earth. This should be completely uncontroversial and obvious to literally everyone."
Hah! Now THAT'S a hard pill for people to swallow.
It is, but it's the truth, and I guess the reason people have so much trouble swallowing that pill is because they've spent most or all of their lives being told (correctly) that bigotry is wrong, but they've simultaneously spent most or all of their lives being told that sometimes you just have to go to war to stop bloodthirsty tyrants. Hitler is invoked a lot, of course, but also Stalin and Mao, which makes it easy to get people scared of Russia and China because "They never REALLY changed, and they were never defeated the way the Axis powers were."
Someone thinking about the relative dangers of bigots and warmongers should be able to see the truth of Caitlin's statement. The average bigot is not Hitler. The average bigot is not even Dylan Rooff. Some of them do go so far as to take lives while motivated by bigotry, but usually when that happens it's not a Holocaust or a church full of people--it's more likely to be one or two people. And then they get imprisoned.
Warmongers kill way more than even a Holocaust, and before anyone gets angry at me for saying so I have a question: is the number of people killed in the ongoing war on terror combined with Cold War 2.0 greater or less than 6 million total deaths? It's greater. It's like 1 million just in Iraq, IIRC. And the warmongers don't get imprisoned afterwards. They continue to be free as birds, free to commit mass slaughter all over again, and again, and again.
So warmongers ought to be the most hated of all, the sorts of people nobody should ever support or follow. Unfortunately, they aren't, and maybe never will be.
One glaring source of empiricism that's left out of Caitlin's excellent analyses is the Fossil Fuel cabal--or as I name them: The Oil, Gas & Coal Crime families.
1st, let me point out some history that I think many of us already know; but don't put the pieces of that history in the correct place on the "puzzle".
Ever since WW1, there have been Central banks, world wide.
Ever since WW1 there have been Oil companies popping up in the Mideast
Ever since WW1, wars have been fought on a larger scale because the weapons of war: tanks, vehicles, aircraft and ships use Oil & Gas (some coal early on).
At some point in the early 20th century, Winston Churchill convinced the British Empire to convert their Ship fleet's energy from Coal to Oil.
This gave rise to new oil companies rising up in Iran.
First they were known as APOC or the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, before WW1.
Then there was political maneuvering that forced Iranian leaders to make deals and or break deals as the case became.
Meanwhile, Oil became the premier source of energy for War machines.
Also there began to develop a merging of some smaller oil companies into larger representations of the Oil industry.
All that time, the banks and the markets (Wall street, etc) began to focus on the profits and investments of foreign nationals in Oil companies that began to grow exponentially in a short period of time.
What this REALLY means is basic Capitalist (with a big C) economic Growth.
Once the threat of WW2 was rearing its ugly face, the Oil Cabal-Cartel began to supply ALL sides of the War participants.
That simply means, in my view, that no matter Who Wins and Who loses the war(s) the Oil companies are 8 out of 10 times, 70%-90% profitable by the end of the war.
Bigger profits meant more investments on Wall street, which meant more gains on Oil company shares and dividends to their shareholders.
And to ADD to that insanity, the Oil purchases had to be paid for using (USD) United States currency, the $dollar.
This affected the currency market of everyone in the world's currency values.
So, not only did Oil companies supply the losers & winners of every war afterward; they also took command of the stock market's gains & losses because of everyone's dependency on Fossil Fuels, mostly Oil & Gas; but some Coal.
My point here is that the US Empire's rise to #1 World Power came as a result of two major things:
1- The US used an Atomic bomb on our enemies in Japan.
No one else has done that purposely ever since.
2 - The US Oil companies were significantly more profitable than some of the Oil companies in the Mideast, because of the contractual agreements set down in 1901 with Iran and later with other Mideastern countries (Saudi Monarchy).
These two reasons, among many others, cemented the US Empire's grip on the world after 1947.
Caitlin doesn't really go into this part for whatever reason; but I won't criticize her for not doing it. She knows what she's talking about anyway.
As far "swallowing the pill" goes, it's my opinion that IF most people realized the Energy issues that predicate the reason for such empiricism, they'd be throwing up their hands in frustration ANYWAY.
But, that is the reason in my opinion, that it's a hard pill to swallow.
Ergo, we all remain imprisoned by the Narrative Matrix that Caitlin very eloquently speaks of in every newsletter/blog that she publishes.
True but “transphobe” is really just propaganda like “words are dangerous”. Maybe there are a few actual dangerous transphobic people in the world but the statistical risk of harm from one is likely less than being struck by lightening.
I don't get what you mean. You started out by saying that transphobia wasn't a big deal because hardly anybody who's transphobic will assault a trans person.
I questioned that statement, because I'm not so sure you're right, although I admitted that I didn't have the stats. (Although if I had to guess, I would say that the tendency of certain people in the trans community to boss people around in recent years--not just "treat us like human beings", which is a very reasonable request and which everybody should do, but "Don't you fucking dare question whether trans women competing in athletic competitions against cis women is fair or not!"--has probably created more ill will against trans people in general lately, meaning there are probably more assaults and even murders than before.)
And you came back with the fact that Asians and white people get assaulted too, by black people. Okay. If you're suggesting that we should consider those hate crimes as well, I certainly agree with you about the ones against Asians. And I might agree with you about the ones against white people, if the motive for the crime was simply "That person's white, therefore they deserve an asskicking."
None of these things are anywhere near as big a deal as wars, let alone nuclear war, but they still matter.
They matter for the same reason that wars matter: everybody has a right to be safe, and nobody has a right to physically harm somebody else. It's wrong to do that whether you do it on a large scale by bombing a city and its population to dust when you don't have to, or whether you beat a single person up when you don't have to.
The whole trans thing is propaganda that is peddled by the same MSM that is pushing for war. The same one that said the clot shots prevented the spread of COVID, that lockdowns would work, that masks slow/stop viral spread, etc.
I find it amusing that one can spot one type of propaganda but be taken in by another.
As an aside, it is absurd that a person with a dick can compete against people who do not. It’s also absurd that women in an all woman’s prison are getting raped by “women” with dicks. In the old days (like 4 years ago) if a women in prison were to get pregnant the guards were the suspects, now it’s the women inmates with a beard. I’m California they are handing out condoms in womens prison.
Even though they aren't competing in dick-measuring contests, in which case there would be no disputing the unfairness of it, at first I thought "Well, in some sports maybe it's unfair, like weightlifting, and in others it might be more fair. Like the sports that don't boil down to pure brute strength would probably result in it being less lopsided."
That was before Jimmy Dore addressed the Lia Thomas controversy and, as part of that video, showed a story about Serena and Venus Williams challenging any man outside of the top 200. Their challenge was accepted by the guy ranked 203, and...both of them lost to him, 6-1 and 6-2.
To be fair, that guy hadn't been on hormones or anything else that would have made him weaker, and if he had been taking those things then I'm not ready to rule out the possibility that either the contest would have been closer or that one of the Williams sisters would have won. BUT, tennis is one of those games where I thought that perhaps gender wouldn't matter quite so much. Apparently it does, at least if you have female professionals facing a male professional, or cis females facing a trans female professional.
But, getting back to the original topic, I agree with this much: everybody who says "We have to control speech and have lots of censorship, because if we don't then think of the poor trans people!" is actually engaging in propaganda when they say *that*. They don't actually care about trans people, or about any other group that doesn't have it easy, so much as they want narrative control and are trying to get everybody else to accept them controlling the narrative by insisting that bad things will happen if they don't.
There is truly totalitarian and barbaric censorship in the US. And atrociously corrupt government.
I often wonder how did the US manage to trick so many people into believing that there is any “freedom of speech” or “democracy” in that country.
Apparently nearly everyone in the US (at least those who watch TV and read mainstream media) hate Russia and Russians. A cheap American propaganda is a constant “admonishment” of the “Russian regime.”
But is it any better in the US with its own endless propaganda and legalized crimes?
This is just my personal opinion, which is based on personal experience: no, it is not. I think it’s worse because of that hypocrisy and because the crimes are disguised as “democracy” and “law.”
I am Russian and for over a decade of living in the US, I have been clearly observing how much “official” hatred there is toward anyone who is of Russian national origin or ancestry.
It’s probably because I was “unlucky” in the US – I spent 2/3 of my life in Russia and had no idea what physical violence is. I also have never been to a court in Russia and never had any encounters with the police in Russia. That is, the first time I saw the cop in close proximity was when I moved to the US and started being physically attacked so that I had to call them to report the crime – in hopes they would investigate.
I have observed truly outrageous and impenetrable level of corruption and “official” crimes in the American “law enforcement” and “courts.” When I tried to speak about it, I was being attacked and silenced. That experience gave me a totally different perspective – no more rose-colored glasses for me. If there is censorship and endless crimes anywhere – then it is right here, in the US.
German here. When I was a child in the 60s, my father taught me that Russians were pigs and worse: Slavic, racially inferior and even worse: bolshevist, the enemies of humankind. Many thought like him and many were in constant fear that 'the Russians are coming' (German proverb). Luckily I made friends with wee Olga from Piatigorsk, who taught me differently. Funny, to see now that the Germans are re-importing Russiophobia from the US.
I believe "the Russians are coming" was used to express hope that the Russians will free the world from Nazi Germany and release the ones that were being captured, tortured, and abused.
And they did just that. Although no one seems to remember. I was shocked to learn that some Americans think that "they" won World War II.
I think the real reason "some Americans think that "they" won World War II" is because the US used an Atomic bomb on Japan. It wasn't used on Germany or France, just the Japanese people.
No other "Allies" ever used atomic weapons against the Axis powers or anyone else in the aftermath of WWII which ended in 1945 BECAUSE of the Atomic bomb.
The USA was the "big Cheese" after that and most Americans I've ever had this conversation with STILL BELIEVE that garbage propaganda...PLUS their bigotry expanded to Asian people, no matter where they were (are) or what country they were (are) from.
THAT'S why *some* Americans of the Boomer generation (I'm a boomer and 72 yrs old) believed it and still believe it. You can see it every time the people in Yankee Stadium sing "God Bless America"...it's like a phucking anthem using an invisible ancient being to Bless this War Mongering Empire, so that the game & entertainment can continue!! It all makes me crazy, just thinking about it!
No, people were scared of the Russian army. Many millions had fled from it in 45 because East Prussia became Poland, and these people were then in West Germany.
American here. My eldest son is Russian. We adopted him almost 30-years ago. God help anyone in the States if they treated him the way we’re treating Russian nationals right now. I’m ashamed.
Really has there ever been anything as hypocritical in memory of the way Russian artists, tennis player and on sare being treated by the West and its trained (subservient ) puppets?
Never. It is also so childish. 'You've been identified by free from evil, totally wholesome USA as a Russian singer, so we are removing you from your operatic role and replacing you with a person of our choice.' There. That will show you who's the boss here. And all our little stooges will support me and if possible, (when we tell them to do so) do the same.
I have searched the web from top to bottom just to find one US singer, dancer, group, instrumentalist who was shunned, replaced, castigated or shouted at in the 90 years of American imperialism based on murder, sanctions and bullying with Presidents overthrown, governments replaced (as in Ukraine) and with 500,000 children's deaths (as in Iraq through sanctions). and on it goes.
Please advise me if anyone has just one example I have missed.
I guess your son is lucky, he has Big Fat Pop to stand up for him :)
I could not care less if someone doesn't like me "socially." But when they oppress me while acting under color of law, that's different because virtually nothing can be done. They (the "government") all belong to the same cabal and coordinate their dealings.
Also, your son likely doesn't have an accent since he was adopted. I think that many Americans can't stand linguistic characteristics of a Russian national.
Sometimes I wonder just how many of us are aware that our humdrum brains pretty often run on schemata, the psych term that's likely underpinned by whole brain processing of a behavioral state and output. And twisted through these schemata are various threads of propaganda; it's I think why propaganda is so insidious, woven into the brain states that run large portions of our lives. So I despair about that "how many of us" --- when I see when I see my native NYC brethren chanting the name of Nazis. It's truly stunning what automatons we humans can be, wired of course to massa through those strands of propaganda.
I've followed Caitlyn's advice in the last point. It's the only sound advice. Unfortunately they all wound up dead. I'm not sure if being right is always right.
This should be called The War of Four Hundred Kitchens because it is really about the flag officers and arms guys getting new kitchens for their wives in Northern Virginia.
Why are we fighting in Ukraine? to preserve their borders? but what about Texas and their borders?
We are led by people who are willing to risk vaporization to win The War of Four Hundred Kitchens.
It's the Tesla of their mistresses, the kitchens and 2nd homes are paid for by helping the CIA depopulate states like West Virginia with opium imports. Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi was (and may still be) the CIA and DOD's fixer in Ukraine for drug transshipments from Afghanistan to EU/North America.
Kapo, Mob boss, and media mogul Kolomoyskyi owned (and still owns a share of) Zelinskyy, he created the TV show he starred in. Kolomoyskyi funded the establishment of Azoz from a soccer hooligans' gang he ran early in his career to take out his competitors, and also funded several of the neo-Nazi and original Nazi political parties. He ordered Jr. Kapo Zeleniskyy to east Ukraine to talk to the army not because he wanted peace but because the USA asked him to halt bombardments until after a conference with EU passed. They failed, sometimes Mob bosses don't always have a firm grip.
It didn't matter anyway, as the USA was able to bribe the EU into compliance by handing out post-Eu commission retirement jobs in NATO, World Bank, etc. to the very corrupt EU bureaucracy heavy hitters and a few national leaders like Merkel (who has already picked out her house in Washington).
"In this war Russia has killed many Ukrainians and Ukraine has killed many Russians and the US empire has killed many Ukrainians and Russians" and to get here it has killed many Americans (by underfunding health, education, and domestic infrastructure).
Joe Biden is working hard to kill more people through starvation than the combination of Chang Kai Shek, Churchill, Hirohito, Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin.
By that calculation It is the oligarchy who have been the last 14 Presidents operating under various stage names, and that's being generous to the sheeple. Conservatively mass murder could go back to George Washington and the 14 presidents before him. What I was considering is the name tag Biden's work as a Senator in combination along with what I calculate is coming down the pipe line. Obama is too feckless to equal Joe.
"Conservatively mass murder could go back to George Washington and the 14 presidents before him."
And whom would that be? I know American history has been "white washed" quite a bit; but there's no evidence that 14 people were president of the United States BEFORE George Washington...where'd you get that from?
He was the very first one to be POTUS....I wait for your answer with baited breath.
If you can't even figure out how to do an internet search, then at least don't demonstrate your ignorace on line, oh and exercise might help with shortness of breath.
It would be hard to beat Stalin's contribution to that statistic, killing more in the Ukrainian Holodomor in 1932-1933 than the stated (but very questionable) figure used by the Jewish PR machine as they continue to dine out on the holocaust.
Starvation. What a way to kill people but I think that Stalin has won that honour. Not known of by many as there was no PR effort from The Ukraine (as it was known then) and no Museums dotting the world with the same old material, one to the other.
Even Joseph Goebbels of Nazi fame would have learn ta lot from the current day Zionists
If you depend on Nazi and Uki writers in the DOD, then Stalin is king, but if you depend on scholarship based on referenced archive dives (such as ISBN 9780615441054), then Stalin had a lot of help from sanctions and western actions, but didn't even match the levels that happened under good olde capitalism of the Czar. Mad old Stalin killed in volume, but it was mostly the boss class.
On that last one, sometimes when I look at how easily the majority of people are fooled over and over again, I wonder if the human race even deserves to survive. Maybe we're just too stupid as a species to deserve that.
@@“When a loved one is very self-destructive you can't control their fate; at some point you've just got to let them make their mistakes and hope something in them wakes up before they wind up dead. That's pretty much how you've got to be with the entire human species at this point.”
I love your fiercely unapologetic voice! Seems now to me: We’re merely a collectively swarming chaos riddled abuzz about honey; envenomed with great narrative nectar within this ever increasingly closed loop and cutthroat hive mind struggle. Just sayin ~
"When a loved one is very self-destructive you can't control their fate; at some point you've just got to let them make their mistakes and hope something in them wakes up before they wind up dead. That's pretty much how you've got to be with the entire human species at this point."
Sadly, in this example, the USA is no longer a loved or respected one, such respect now as dead as the 20 million dead from their criminal mistakes since WWII.....and rising daily, spurred along as a proxy war for the objectives of a few.
Next, South East Asia and China. The US warmongers can't get it on soon enough.
For this to change, in contrast to Caitlin's long term optimistic words above, it will first need a disaster of such magnitude as to involve the deaths of millions of Americans (or the threat of same) for the American people to wake as to the environment they have allowed their government to inflict upon their country for decades...and the world for over 70 years.
In my opinion, there is no other alternative. The supremacy of reason has been the casualty.
Those who support war can do so only because they haven’t had to fight and experience the inhuman results. Bravo Caitlin for an excellent reminder of where humanity is heading. The most shocking thing is the almost complete disregard for the dismal results of our governments policies. Until we get bribery/donations out of politics voting for either party will prove pointless.
“When a loved one is very self-destructive you can't control their fate; at some point you've just got to let them make their mistakes and hope something in them wakes up before they wind up dead. That's pretty much how you've got to be with the entire human species at this point.” That may be the most concise description of how I feel about where we are than anything I’ve read this year.
Funny thing is, it's likely a whole lot less elaborate than all this. Biden's pals need stop Nord Stream II, but a whole bunch of CHEAP gas & oil from burying their long collapsed fracking pyramid. Slick-water shale fracking has always been a phenomenal way to waste other people's money. It exemplifies peak oil, where you throw investor's capital down $20K holes, a couple miles out, eight to a pad, overlapping, kicking, re-re-refracked with 3-5 million gallons of lethal brine, full of ionizing radiation, that leaks as you're drilling, and then cement-jobs, annulars & actual steel casing fails & spews into aquifers, streams, crops, livestock, people as methane shoots into the atmosphere (and they're now planning for 1.9 million diagonally drilled bores, which cannot be plugged as abandoned. Katrina (destroying Gulf platforms in 4.8K' to 9.6K' deep water & 32K' to 37K' offshore wells) enabled this. This war's to STOP any Russia competition.
In many areas, the US has already stepped in to make up the deficiencies that have occurred in Europe following their efforts to end Russian exports, so many of which have been so important (and still are to this day) for daily life.
I refer to the comforts of heating gas and foodstuffs, of which the Russian and Ukraine farmers have contributed so much until lately, many of which have been replaced by the USA of late, adding to their profits.
All part of the game as are most of the objectives by Biden and his henchmen in this charade of a war against 'aggressive' Russia.
Russia (a bit less than UK & China) got gas/ oil, fields/ refinery & distribution from Bush family wars in Iraq. Hey, not only were we still selling the Central Powers food, fuel & "machine tools" via French rail lines during WW1 & GM/ Ford trucks, IBM "logistic support" & tetraethyl lead throughout the Holocaust. But we TAUGHT Rooskis how to drill... baby?
I'm 80 and there's never been a more dangerous moment in human history than the present moment. The psychopathic idiots who planned and fomented our present circumstance are now clamoring to push it over the precipice. While they hide in their bunkers the rest of us can only watch and wait. The end.
"It must be the most soul-destroying thing in the world to go to journalism school, study hard, graduate in front of your whole family, work your ass off building up a resume, get a steady job, and then find yourself writing hit pieces about disobedient Youtubers for The Daily Beast."
You forgot, chopping your genitals off and calling yourself "Sarah".
"People who promote a US/NATO war with Russia are more dangerous and depraved than racists, homophobes, transphobes and antisemites, and they should be treated accordingly. They are the most dangerous extremists on earth. This should be completely uncontroversial and obvious to literally everyone."
Hah! Now THAT'S a hard pill for people to swallow.
It is, but it's the truth, and I guess the reason people have so much trouble swallowing that pill is because they've spent most or all of their lives being told (correctly) that bigotry is wrong, but they've simultaneously spent most or all of their lives being told that sometimes you just have to go to war to stop bloodthirsty tyrants. Hitler is invoked a lot, of course, but also Stalin and Mao, which makes it easy to get people scared of Russia and China because "They never REALLY changed, and they were never defeated the way the Axis powers were."
Someone thinking about the relative dangers of bigots and warmongers should be able to see the truth of Caitlin's statement. The average bigot is not Hitler. The average bigot is not even Dylan Rooff. Some of them do go so far as to take lives while motivated by bigotry, but usually when that happens it's not a Holocaust or a church full of people--it's more likely to be one or two people. And then they get imprisoned.
Warmongers kill way more than even a Holocaust, and before anyone gets angry at me for saying so I have a question: is the number of people killed in the ongoing war on terror combined with Cold War 2.0 greater or less than 6 million total deaths? It's greater. It's like 1 million just in Iraq, IIRC. And the warmongers don't get imprisoned afterwards. They continue to be free as birds, free to commit mass slaughter all over again, and again, and again.
So warmongers ought to be the most hated of all, the sorts of people nobody should ever support or follow. Unfortunately, they aren't, and maybe never will be.
One glaring source of empiricism that's left out of Caitlin's excellent analyses is the Fossil Fuel cabal--or as I name them: The Oil, Gas & Coal Crime families.
1st, let me point out some history that I think many of us already know; but don't put the pieces of that history in the correct place on the "puzzle".
Ever since WW1, there have been Central banks, world wide.
Ever since WW1 there have been Oil companies popping up in the Mideast
Ever since WW1, wars have been fought on a larger scale because the weapons of war: tanks, vehicles, aircraft and ships use Oil & Gas (some coal early on).
At some point in the early 20th century, Winston Churchill convinced the British Empire to convert their Ship fleet's energy from Coal to Oil.
This gave rise to new oil companies rising up in Iran.
First they were known as APOC or the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, before WW1.
Then there was political maneuvering that forced Iranian leaders to make deals and or break deals as the case became.
Meanwhile, Oil became the premier source of energy for War machines.
Also there began to develop a merging of some smaller oil companies into larger representations of the Oil industry.
All that time, the banks and the markets (Wall street, etc) began to focus on the profits and investments of foreign nationals in Oil companies that began to grow exponentially in a short period of time.
What this REALLY means is basic Capitalist (with a big C) economic Growth.
Once the threat of WW2 was rearing its ugly face, the Oil Cabal-Cartel began to supply ALL sides of the War participants.
That simply means, in my view, that no matter Who Wins and Who loses the war(s) the Oil companies are 8 out of 10 times, 70%-90% profitable by the end of the war.
Bigger profits meant more investments on Wall street, which meant more gains on Oil company shares and dividends to their shareholders.
And to ADD to that insanity, the Oil purchases had to be paid for using (USD) United States currency, the $dollar.
This affected the currency market of everyone in the world's currency values.
So, not only did Oil companies supply the losers & winners of every war afterward; they also took command of the stock market's gains & losses because of everyone's dependency on Fossil Fuels, mostly Oil & Gas; but some Coal.
My point here is that the US Empire's rise to #1 World Power came as a result of two major things:
1- The US used an Atomic bomb on our enemies in Japan.
No one else has done that purposely ever since.
2 - The US Oil companies were significantly more profitable than some of the Oil companies in the Mideast, because of the contractual agreements set down in 1901 with Iran and later with other Mideastern countries (Saudi Monarchy).
These two reasons, among many others, cemented the US Empire's grip on the world after 1947.
Caitlin doesn't really go into this part for whatever reason; but I won't criticize her for not doing it. She knows what she's talking about anyway.
As far "swallowing the pill" goes, it's my opinion that IF most people realized the Energy issues that predicate the reason for such empiricism, they'd be throwing up their hands in frustration ANYWAY.
But, that is the reason in my opinion, that it's a hard pill to swallow.
Ergo, we all remain imprisoned by the Narrative Matrix that Caitlin very eloquently speaks of in every newsletter/blog that she publishes.
Thank you Caitlin for what you and Tim Foley do.
I for one, appreciate it.
Rick White
True but “transphobe” is really just propaganda like “words are dangerous”. Maybe there are a few actual dangerous transphobic people in the world but the statistical risk of harm from one is likely less than being struck by lightening.
Trans people do get assaulted, though. How often it's because they're trans and how often it's for some other reason, I don't know, but it happens.
According to FBI statistics Whites and Asians are disproportionately victims of hate crimes committed by blacks too. It happens.
I don't get what you mean. You started out by saying that transphobia wasn't a big deal because hardly anybody who's transphobic will assault a trans person.
I questioned that statement, because I'm not so sure you're right, although I admitted that I didn't have the stats. (Although if I had to guess, I would say that the tendency of certain people in the trans community to boss people around in recent years--not just "treat us like human beings", which is a very reasonable request and which everybody should do, but "Don't you fucking dare question whether trans women competing in athletic competitions against cis women is fair or not!"--has probably created more ill will against trans people in general lately, meaning there are probably more assaults and even murders than before.)
And you came back with the fact that Asians and white people get assaulted too, by black people. Okay. If you're suggesting that we should consider those hate crimes as well, I certainly agree with you about the ones against Asians. And I might agree with you about the ones against white people, if the motive for the crime was simply "That person's white, therefore they deserve an asskicking."
None of these things are anywhere near as big a deal as wars, let alone nuclear war, but they still matter.
They matter for the same reason that wars matter: everybody has a right to be safe, and nobody has a right to physically harm somebody else. It's wrong to do that whether you do it on a large scale by bombing a city and its population to dust when you don't have to, or whether you beat a single person up when you don't have to.
Agree.
The whole trans thing is propaganda that is peddled by the same MSM that is pushing for war. The same one that said the clot shots prevented the spread of COVID, that lockdowns would work, that masks slow/stop viral spread, etc.
I find it amusing that one can spot one type of propaganda but be taken in by another.
As an aside, it is absurd that a person with a dick can compete against people who do not. It’s also absurd that women in an all woman’s prison are getting raped by “women” with dicks. In the old days (like 4 years ago) if a women in prison were to get pregnant the guards were the suspects, now it’s the women inmates with a beard. I’m California they are handing out condoms in womens prison.
Even though they aren't competing in dick-measuring contests, in which case there would be no disputing the unfairness of it, at first I thought "Well, in some sports maybe it's unfair, like weightlifting, and in others it might be more fair. Like the sports that don't boil down to pure brute strength would probably result in it being less lopsided."
That was before Jimmy Dore addressed the Lia Thomas controversy and, as part of that video, showed a story about Serena and Venus Williams challenging any man outside of the top 200. Their challenge was accepted by the guy ranked 203, and...both of them lost to him, 6-1 and 6-2.
https://www.tennisnow.com/Blogs/NET-POSTS/November-2017-(1)/The-Man-Who-Beat-Venus-and-Serena-Back-to-Back.aspx
To be fair, that guy hadn't been on hormones or anything else that would have made him weaker, and if he had been taking those things then I'm not ready to rule out the possibility that either the contest would have been closer or that one of the Williams sisters would have won. BUT, tennis is one of those games where I thought that perhaps gender wouldn't matter quite so much. Apparently it does, at least if you have female professionals facing a male professional, or cis females facing a trans female professional.
But, getting back to the original topic, I agree with this much: everybody who says "We have to control speech and have lots of censorship, because if we don't then think of the poor trans people!" is actually engaging in propaganda when they say *that*. They don't actually care about trans people, or about any other group that doesn't have it easy, so much as they want narrative control and are trying to get everybody else to accept them controlling the narrative by insisting that bad things will happen if they don't.
There is truly totalitarian and barbaric censorship in the US. And atrociously corrupt government.
I often wonder how did the US manage to trick so many people into believing that there is any “freedom of speech” or “democracy” in that country.
Apparently nearly everyone in the US (at least those who watch TV and read mainstream media) hate Russia and Russians. A cheap American propaganda is a constant “admonishment” of the “Russian regime.”
But is it any better in the US with its own endless propaganda and legalized crimes?
This is just my personal opinion, which is based on personal experience: no, it is not. I think it’s worse because of that hypocrisy and because the crimes are disguised as “democracy” and “law.”
I am Russian and for over a decade of living in the US, I have been clearly observing how much “official” hatred there is toward anyone who is of Russian national origin or ancestry.
It’s probably because I was “unlucky” in the US – I spent 2/3 of my life in Russia and had no idea what physical violence is. I also have never been to a court in Russia and never had any encounters with the police in Russia. That is, the first time I saw the cop in close proximity was when I moved to the US and started being physically attacked so that I had to call them to report the crime – in hopes they would investigate.
I have observed truly outrageous and impenetrable level of corruption and “official” crimes in the American “law enforcement” and “courts.” When I tried to speak about it, I was being attacked and silenced. That experience gave me a totally different perspective – no more rose-colored glasses for me. If there is censorship and endless crimes anywhere – then it is right here, in the US.
https://1dissident.substack.com/p/the-fifth-circuit-assists-in-crime?s=w
German here. When I was a child in the 60s, my father taught me that Russians were pigs and worse: Slavic, racially inferior and even worse: bolshevist, the enemies of humankind. Many thought like him and many were in constant fear that 'the Russians are coming' (German proverb). Luckily I made friends with wee Olga from Piatigorsk, who taught me differently. Funny, to see now that the Germans are re-importing Russiophobia from the US.
I’m glad you met Olga; a blessing from the universe.
I believe "the Russians are coming" was used to express hope that the Russians will free the world from Nazi Germany and release the ones that were being captured, tortured, and abused.
And they did just that. Although no one seems to remember. I was shocked to learn that some Americans think that "they" won World War II.
I think the real reason "some Americans think that "they" won World War II" is because the US used an Atomic bomb on Japan. It wasn't used on Germany or France, just the Japanese people.
No other "Allies" ever used atomic weapons against the Axis powers or anyone else in the aftermath of WWII which ended in 1945 BECAUSE of the Atomic bomb.
The USA was the "big Cheese" after that and most Americans I've ever had this conversation with STILL BELIEVE that garbage propaganda...PLUS their bigotry expanded to Asian people, no matter where they were (are) or what country they were (are) from.
THAT'S why *some* Americans of the Boomer generation (I'm a boomer and 72 yrs old) believed it and still believe it. You can see it every time the people in Yankee Stadium sing "God Bless America"...it's like a phucking anthem using an invisible ancient being to Bless this War Mongering Empire, so that the game & entertainment can continue!! It all makes me crazy, just thinking about it!
No, people were scared of the Russian army. Many millions had fled from it in 45 because East Prussia became Poland, and these people were then in West Germany.
American here. My eldest son is Russian. We adopted him almost 30-years ago. God help anyone in the States if they treated him the way we’re treating Russian nationals right now. I’m ashamed.
Really has there ever been anything as hypocritical in memory of the way Russian artists, tennis player and on sare being treated by the West and its trained (subservient ) puppets?
Never. It is also so childish. 'You've been identified by free from evil, totally wholesome USA as a Russian singer, so we are removing you from your operatic role and replacing you with a person of our choice.' There. That will show you who's the boss here. And all our little stooges will support me and if possible, (when we tell them to do so) do the same.
I have searched the web from top to bottom just to find one US singer, dancer, group, instrumentalist who was shunned, replaced, castigated or shouted at in the 90 years of American imperialism based on murder, sanctions and bullying with Presidents overthrown, governments replaced (as in Ukraine) and with 500,000 children's deaths (as in Iraq through sanctions). and on it goes.
Please advise me if anyone has just one example I have missed.
I do like to be fair.
What a sick world we are living in today.
I guess your son is lucky, he has Big Fat Pop to stand up for him :)
I could not care less if someone doesn't like me "socially." But when they oppress me while acting under color of law, that's different because virtually nothing can be done. They (the "government") all belong to the same cabal and coordinate their dealings.
Also, your son likely doesn't have an accent since he was adopted. I think that many Americans can't stand linguistic characteristics of a Russian national.
Funny you mention his accent. He still carries it, but people don’t hear it like his mother and I do.
Sometimes I wonder just how many of us are aware that our humdrum brains pretty often run on schemata, the psych term that's likely underpinned by whole brain processing of a behavioral state and output. And twisted through these schemata are various threads of propaganda; it's I think why propaganda is so insidious, woven into the brain states that run large portions of our lives. So I despair about that "how many of us" --- when I see when I see my native NYC brethren chanting the name of Nazis. It's truly stunning what automatons we humans can be, wired of course to massa through those strands of propaganda.
I've followed Caitlyn's advice in the last point. It's the only sound advice. Unfortunately they all wound up dead. I'm not sure if being right is always right.
This should be called The War of Four Hundred Kitchens because it is really about the flag officers and arms guys getting new kitchens for their wives in Northern Virginia.
Why are we fighting in Ukraine? to preserve their borders? but what about Texas and their borders?
We are led by people who are willing to risk vaporization to win The War of Four Hundred Kitchens.
It's the Tesla of their mistresses, the kitchens and 2nd homes are paid for by helping the CIA depopulate states like West Virginia with opium imports. Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi was (and may still be) the CIA and DOD's fixer in Ukraine for drug transshipments from Afghanistan to EU/North America.
Kapo, Mob boss, and media mogul Kolomoyskyi owned (and still owns a share of) Zelinskyy, he created the TV show he starred in. Kolomoyskyi funded the establishment of Azoz from a soccer hooligans' gang he ran early in his career to take out his competitors, and also funded several of the neo-Nazi and original Nazi political parties. He ordered Jr. Kapo Zeleniskyy to east Ukraine to talk to the army not because he wanted peace but because the USA asked him to halt bombardments until after a conference with EU passed. They failed, sometimes Mob bosses don't always have a firm grip.
It didn't matter anyway, as the USA was able to bribe the EU into compliance by handing out post-Eu commission retirement jobs in NATO, World Bank, etc. to the very corrupt EU bureaucracy heavy hitters and a few national leaders like Merkel (who has already picked out her house in Washington).
"In this war Russia has killed many Ukrainians and Ukraine has killed many Russians and the US empire has killed many Ukrainians and Russians" and to get here it has killed many Americans (by underfunding health, education, and domestic infrastructure).
Joe Biden is working hard to kill more people through starvation than the combination of Chang Kai Shek, Churchill, Hirohito, Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin.
It’s Obama’s third term; not Biden’s first.
By that calculation It is the oligarchy who have been the last 14 Presidents operating under various stage names, and that's being generous to the sheeple. Conservatively mass murder could go back to George Washington and the 14 presidents before him. What I was considering is the name tag Biden's work as a Senator in combination along with what I calculate is coming down the pipe line. Obama is too feckless to equal Joe.
"Conservatively mass murder could go back to George Washington and the 14 presidents before him."
And whom would that be? I know American history has been "white washed" quite a bit; but there's no evidence that 14 people were president of the United States BEFORE George Washington...where'd you get that from?
He was the very first one to be POTUS....I wait for your answer with baited breath.
If you can't even figure out how to do an internet search, then at least don't demonstrate your ignorace on line, oh and exercise might help with shortness of breath.
It would be hard to beat Stalin's contribution to that statistic, killing more in the Ukrainian Holodomor in 1932-1933 than the stated (but very questionable) figure used by the Jewish PR machine as they continue to dine out on the holocaust.
Starvation. What a way to kill people but I think that Stalin has won that honour. Not known of by many as there was no PR effort from The Ukraine (as it was known then) and no Museums dotting the world with the same old material, one to the other.
Even Joseph Goebbels of Nazi fame would have learn ta lot from the current day Zionists
If you depend on Nazi and Uki writers in the DOD, then Stalin is king, but if you depend on scholarship based on referenced archive dives (such as ISBN 9780615441054), then Stalin had a lot of help from sanctions and western actions, but didn't even match the levels that happened under good olde capitalism of the Czar. Mad old Stalin killed in volume, but it was mostly the boss class.
Very well said.
On that last one, sometimes when I look at how easily the majority of people are fooled over and over again, I wonder if the human race even deserves to survive. Maybe we're just too stupid as a species to deserve that.
@@“When a loved one is very self-destructive you can't control their fate; at some point you've just got to let them make their mistakes and hope something in them wakes up before they wind up dead. That's pretty much how you've got to be with the entire human species at this point.”
I love your fiercely unapologetic voice! Seems now to me: We’re merely a collectively swarming chaos riddled abuzz about honey; envenomed with great narrative nectar within this ever increasingly closed loop and cutthroat hive mind struggle. Just sayin ~
Last comment from Caitlin today......
"When a loved one is very self-destructive you can't control their fate; at some point you've just got to let them make their mistakes and hope something in them wakes up before they wind up dead. That's pretty much how you've got to be with the entire human species at this point."
Sadly, in this example, the USA is no longer a loved or respected one, such respect now as dead as the 20 million dead from their criminal mistakes since WWII.....and rising daily, spurred along as a proxy war for the objectives of a few.
Next, South East Asia and China. The US warmongers can't get it on soon enough.
For this to change, in contrast to Caitlin's long term optimistic words above, it will first need a disaster of such magnitude as to involve the deaths of millions of Americans (or the threat of same) for the American people to wake as to the environment they have allowed their government to inflict upon their country for decades...and the world for over 70 years.
In my opinion, there is no other alternative. The supremacy of reason has been the casualty.
Those who support war can do so only because they haven’t had to fight and experience the inhuman results. Bravo Caitlin for an excellent reminder of where humanity is heading. The most shocking thing is the almost complete disregard for the dismal results of our governments policies. Until we get bribery/donations out of politics voting for either party will prove pointless.
“When a loved one is very self-destructive you can't control their fate; at some point you've just got to let them make their mistakes and hope something in them wakes up before they wind up dead. That's pretty much how you've got to be with the entire human species at this point.” That may be the most concise description of how I feel about where we are than anything I’ve read this year.
My problem with that is that sometimes they want to take others with them.
Funny thing is, it's likely a whole lot less elaborate than all this. Biden's pals need stop Nord Stream II, but a whole bunch of CHEAP gas & oil from burying their long collapsed fracking pyramid. Slick-water shale fracking has always been a phenomenal way to waste other people's money. It exemplifies peak oil, where you throw investor's capital down $20K holes, a couple miles out, eight to a pad, overlapping, kicking, re-re-refracked with 3-5 million gallons of lethal brine, full of ionizing radiation, that leaks as you're drilling, and then cement-jobs, annulars & actual steel casing fails & spews into aquifers, streams, crops, livestock, people as methane shoots into the atmosphere (and they're now planning for 1.9 million diagonally drilled bores, which cannot be plugged as abandoned. Katrina (destroying Gulf platforms in 4.8K' to 9.6K' deep water & 32K' to 37K' offshore wells) enabled this. This war's to STOP any Russia competition.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/online-censorship-ukraine-russa-google-facebook-twitter/280304/
https://mronline.org/2022/04/27/u-s-media-are-lying-about-russian-atrocities-in-mariupol-says-embedded-reporter-at-ground-zero/
https://mronline.org/2022/04/27/how-the-corporate-interests-and-political-elites-watered-down-the-worlds-most-important-climate-report
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2022/04/25/vijay-prashad-any-critic-of-us-imperialism-is-accused-of-being-a-stooge-for-somebody-part-2/
In many areas, the US has already stepped in to make up the deficiencies that have occurred in Europe following their efforts to end Russian exports, so many of which have been so important (and still are to this day) for daily life.
I refer to the comforts of heating gas and foodstuffs, of which the Russian and Ukraine farmers have contributed so much until lately, many of which have been replaced by the USA of late, adding to their profits.
All part of the game as are most of the objectives by Biden and his henchmen in this charade of a war against 'aggressive' Russia.
Russia (a bit less than UK & China) got gas/ oil, fields/ refinery & distribution from Bush family wars in Iraq. Hey, not only were we still selling the Central Powers food, fuel & "machine tools" via French rail lines during WW1 & GM/ Ford trucks, IBM "logistic support" & tetraethyl lead throughout the Holocaust. But we TAUGHT Rooskis how to drill... baby?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8&feature=emb_title
https://www.blackagendareport.com/little-known-international-charter-center-ukraine-war-and-chinas-future-defense
https://readsludge.com/2022/04/15/finance-billionaires-fund-conor-lambs-super-pac/
https://www.levernews.com/the-gops-new-war-on-divestment/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/politico-germany-approves-tank-sales-to-ukraine-bowing-to-pressure.html#more
Oops, SORRY, brain fog!
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/ukraine-railway-hits-us-war-aims-ops-report.html
https://fpif.org/seven-decades-nazi-collaboration-americas-dirty-little-ukraine-secret/
I'm 80 and there's never been a more dangerous moment in human history than the present moment. The psychopathic idiots who planned and fomented our present circumstance are now clamoring to push it over the precipice. While they hide in their bunkers the rest of us can only watch and wait. The end.
Let me check first with Biden's Ministry of Truth (LOL)
"It must be the most soul-destroying thing in the world to go to journalism school, study hard, graduate in front of your whole family, work your ass off building up a resume, get a steady job, and then find yourself writing hit pieces about disobedient Youtubers for The Daily Beast."
You forgot, chopping your genitals off and calling yourself "Sarah".
Now there's dedication (or psychosis) for you.