Truth Is Antisemitism. Protest Is Terrorism. Dissent Is Russian Propaganda.
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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Truth is antisemitism.
Protest is terrorism.
Dissent is Russian propaganda.
Critical thinking is misinformation.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
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The Gaza holocaust is happening right in front of us. It’s like if everyone in Nazi Germany had screens in their homes broadcasting exactly what was happening inside the extermination camps the entire time. Nobody can say they didn’t know. That claim does not exist for us.
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Iran poses no threat to you or your country.
The Houthis pose no threat to you or your country.
Hamas poses no threat to you or your country.
Hezbollah poses no threat to you or your country.
They only pose a threat to a genocidal apartheid state which does not deserve to exist.
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The Daily Mail reports that Trump is preparing to bomb Iran with Israel. I don’t know how accurate this report is, but I do know that lately such forecasts about insane US warmongering in the middle east have had an annoying habit of proving true.
For those who aren’t aware, a full-scale direct war between the US and Iran would make all the atrocities we’ve been seeing in the middle east these last couple of years look like an episode of Peppa Pig. The whole world would feel its effects. The mind cannot imagine the horror.
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Hamas is reportedly offering to release all Israeli hostages in exchange for a permanent ceasefire, and Israel is rejecting it. Israel has been rejecting this offer since Hamas first made it in October 2023.
Criticize Israel’s genocide in Gaza and you’ll get objections saying “All Hamas needs to do is free the hostages and this is over!” Meanwhile, in real life, Israel has been explicitly rejecting that exact transaction this entire time.
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Zionism is a political ideology, not a religion. Nowhere in the Bible does it say “Thou shalt drop a new apartheid state on top of a pre-existing civilization thousands of years in the future despite the perpetual war, genocide and abuse its creation will necessarily entail.”
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Trump supporters are like, “No no you don’t understand bro, the president isn’t attacking free speech, he’s just rounding people up and silencing them for political speech he doesn’t like. They’re saying the wrong words, bro. The government can’t just let us hear the wrong kinds of words.”
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One of the dumbest things the empire is asking us to believe right now is that bombing Yemen again will lead to peace this time.
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“Peace through strength” is just empire-speak for warmongering. Literally translated it means “Warmongering — but the good kind!” Anyone who uses this slogan is either an empire manager, a propagandist, a bootlicker, or a moron. There are no exceptions.
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Notice how Democrats have been just as compliant with Trump’s warmongering in the middle east as they were with Biden’s. All the most evil behaviors of the US empire are supported by both parties. When it comes to mass murder and tyranny they’re in enthusiastic agreement.
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Capitol Hill swamp monsters like Tom Cotton, Jim Banks and Josh Hawley have been aggressively hammering the lie that antiwar activist group Code Pink is funded and directed by China. Every time they are confronted by Code Pink activists you’ll hear these empire managers regurgitating this slander, which they are able to do because in 2023 the New York Times wrote a disgusting, deceitful smear piece falsely insinuating that Code Pink is paid by China.
And what’s so freakish is that if you actually read that New York Times piece, one thing you will not find anywhere in its contents is a claim that anyone in Code Pink are paid by China or working for the Chinese government. The New York Times never makes this claim because it’s a lie and they’d get sued if they printed it, so what they do instead is loosely imply connections to China by drawing a lot of conspiratorial red yarn between Beijing and an American millionaire named Neville Roy Singham, who is associated with Code Pink and happens to support communism.
There’s absolutely zero solid substance in the New York Times piece that these imperial war sluts keep citing. None. But because the New York Times published that smear, now those war sluts can shriek about China whenever they’re approached by Code Pink activists challenging them on their warmongering in order to delegitimize their urgent questions.
Such a disgusting, evil thing the New York Times did in defense of the imperial war machine. Instead of doing journalism, they handed the empire a propaganda gift that keeps on giving. No matter how much you despise the empire’s propaganda mouthpieces, it isn’t enough.
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"First we overlook evil. Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil.
Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil.
Then we persecute those who still call it evil."
Zappa favorites:
“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
And for me as a musician:
“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”
I was beyond appalled at that video of Medea Benjamin being screamed at as a Chinese tool by whatever congressional moron who was doing the shouting, a person fitting these word of Zappa's:
“There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
Note that difference, you disgraceful US pols, you bent-over tools of Israel, pegged by a brave Gazan EMT on a Breakthrough News interview yesterday as: "a business trying to expand and make money under the cover of religion, at the expense of Arab lives".
Whatever corrupt (or possibly a few honest) historians write about this, it’s absolutely clear who are the cowards and who are the heroes in this story.