I was so hoping you would write about this. It makes me feel slightly less crazy to have someone else know and explain how insane it all is. Thank you.
The question is, Victoria, how long will it take for enough Americans to realise that
government for the benefit of all the people is a charade in the USA.
It is government for the very few.
The easily-led Biden has only used up one year out of a full term in office. More years to come as he continues to surround himself with very dangerous people from his country of 330 million but totally manipulated by a foreign influence from Israel, a country of just 9 million, local big money players like Blackrock and Vanguard, the ever-present military / industrial complex (and all that means) and almost 800 bases worldwide designed and structured for nothing but war.
When you consider the total cost of the Defense budget, the cost of the criminal CIA operations, those same 800 bases and the maintenance of the ever-growing national debt of some $30 trillion, you see a country that could have had the best education facilities in the world, providing health care for everyone, clean water, decent food, no unemployment and an enviable standard of living for all.
They are called priorities and today they are totally cock-eyed, have been for decades and based on the path selected by your government today and for decades past and populated by the current incumbents along with so many other like-minded countries as well, it will bring them all down and turn this planet into a wasteland. There is no other possible outcome.
Clever people like Caitlin know that well. She also would know that the first nuclear shot fired, will be the beginning of the end.
--------"...he continues to surround himself with very dangerous people from his country of 330 million but totally manipulated by a foreign influence from Israel, a country of just 9 million, local big money players like Blackrock and Vanguard, the ever-present military / industrial complex"-------
These are the people who put Biden into power in the first place. He's their puppet.
The US Government: "The dog ate my homework. But I can't prove that it did eat it, since we don't own a dog. So, now we have to go to war with a nuclear power to give ourselves an alibi." Uh, yeah. Makes perfect sense.
Matt Lee is an AP reporter. I read AP articles in my local newspaper just to see how propaganda is done. Aside from the AP’s textbook propaganda expertise, they are among the best stenographers of the Official Narrative.
Matt Lee, however, does have a history of being confrontational with government spokespeople, so I’m not sure if this represents that glorious moment when the tide turned in American journalism and reporters actually started doing journalism and stopped regurgitating the obvious nonsense pushed out by government sources.
We will know this episode is momentous if Matt Lee is either cancelled, sent to a journalism re-education camp, or charged under the Espionage Act.
I would not believe US intelligence agencies if they said rain was wet without independent verification. I'm an American. They've been lying to me since I was born.
If you've followed Aaron Mate's reporting, a false flag operation was carried out and covered up by the west in order to justify our invasion of Syria after Assad supposedly "gassed his own people." Such actions are the bread and butter of our intelligence agencies. It's long past time such assertions should be taken at face value.
The Western media would need evidence, an apology, rounding up, arrests, charges, show trials, guilty verdicts, long prison sentences, their money sequestrated, their buildings seized, emptied, the contents sold off, refurbished, transformed into accommodation for homeless people ... for me to part with my cash.
Unreal. The whole scam from day one has been like a B grade movie script. The kind where you know the ending within the first few minutes of the movie. In this one the ending goes like this: Sniffy Joe stands up to Russians and prevents invasion of Ukraine.
Russia invading Ukraine would mean serious repercussions. This would include economic sanctions that would impact the economy and Putin's grip on power. Putin may be a lot of things but stupid isn't one of them.
As for: "If you doubt the credibility of the U.S. government, of the British government of other governments and wanna, you know, find solace in information that the Russians are putting out, that’s for you do to."
That was actually said with a straight fave. Now why would anyone doubt the credibility of the US and British government? Since this post is likely already a bit long I will keep the answer to my question to one word: Iraq. Of course I could go on and on because there are many other reasons to doubt credibility.
'Trust me I'm with the government' just doesn't cut it when that very same government has been the source of lies upon lies. That doesn't mean that people who don't trust the government think that Putin is wonderful. He can be a lying bastard too. He just isn't a moron who would invade Ukraine and risk great loss.
The movie however has been written and the narrative will be that Sniffy scared the shit out of Putin and saved Ukraine from being invaded. He may have even saved us from a third world war. It's a nice movie but to mistake it for reality requires having cognitive challenges similar to those of the hero in the movie.
Marx called individualism (liberalism / empiricism / essentialism that gave birth to identity politics) an ideology (which serves capitalism), vis a vis a philosophy, for this reason: it has no philosophical foundation on which to build a verifiable substantive narrative on which to build a just and reasonable social structure. it can only produce substance-free fluff.
I tend to not gravitate toward any brand of absolutism and see freedom as a balance between the needs of society and those of the individual. Sure, identity politics sucks, but does that excess excuse the loss of bodily autonomy predicated by COVID mandates? Haven't socialist societies also erred in denying personal liberty and opinion? I'm not sure to what your comment on individualism was aimed given the contents of today's article. Perhaps you can enlighten me. As an individual, I'd like the know to truth of what my collective government is telling me.
as soon as you understand your society from the individualist standpoint (as in "as an individual"), you're in the ideological mode, which has already rejected the philosophical understanding of society / history. a real socialist-communist society (Cuba comes to mind) should, and has, let go of those who understand the difference between ideology and philosophy and choose ideology (though, for instance, allowing a medical doctor trained by public fund to leave is economically detrimental and thus morally wrong to the socialist society). only, there are not too many who understand it.
Thanks for taking the time to explain it. At first blush, your definitions strike me as quite arbitrary and self-serving, and at some point determining who is and who is not properly serving society comes down to individuals acting on behalf of others. We need not look hard to see where professed collective needs trap individual rights in the name of some glorious ideal, and if that isn't an ideological mode, then I don't know what is.
In your doctor example, I would agree that someone receiving a publicly-funded education shouldn't skip out of town upon graduation (I would hope that a contract determining obligations of service be spelled out and agreed to at the beginning), but what about if this debt has been paid? At what point do the "needs of society" (a dangerously fungible term; one determined by who, exactly?) snuff out the human drive to find one's own path? You mentioned Cuba. Aren't there political prisoners whose only crime is speaking out against the government? Heck, we're doing the same thing to Julian Assange. Shouldn't people -- individuals -- have the right to do that?
As presented here, perhaps there's a reason why not too many understand it.
1) definitions are not arbitrary but determined by your perspective, just as a word means something within a context. 2) education can't be reduced to the amount of money invested even in a capitalist-individualist society. 3) the character of a society is determined by the members of the society.
Meanwhile, Shoigu says the CIA and Ukrainian allies in their military are planning a false flag chemical attack to blame on Donbass militias as a pretense for Ukrainian military attack. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
I was so hoping you would write about this. It makes me feel slightly less crazy to have someone else know and explain how insane it all is. Thank you.
The question is, Victoria, how long will it take for enough Americans to realise that
government for the benefit of all the people is a charade in the USA.
It is government for the very few.
The easily-led Biden has only used up one year out of a full term in office. More years to come as he continues to surround himself with very dangerous people from his country of 330 million but totally manipulated by a foreign influence from Israel, a country of just 9 million, local big money players like Blackrock and Vanguard, the ever-present military / industrial complex (and all that means) and almost 800 bases worldwide designed and structured for nothing but war.
When you consider the total cost of the Defense budget, the cost of the criminal CIA operations, those same 800 bases and the maintenance of the ever-growing national debt of some $30 trillion, you see a country that could have had the best education facilities in the world, providing health care for everyone, clean water, decent food, no unemployment and an enviable standard of living for all.
They are called priorities and today they are totally cock-eyed, have been for decades and based on the path selected by your government today and for decades past and populated by the current incumbents along with so many other like-minded countries as well, it will bring them all down and turn this planet into a wasteland. There is no other possible outcome.
Clever people like Caitlin know that well. She also would know that the first nuclear shot fired, will be the beginning of the end.
Just a matter of time.
--------"...he continues to surround himself with very dangerous people from his country of 330 million but totally manipulated by a foreign influence from Israel, a country of just 9 million, local big money players like Blackrock and Vanguard, the ever-present military / industrial complex"-------
These are the people who put Biden into power in the first place. He's their puppet.
The US Government: "The dog ate my homework. But I can't prove that it did eat it, since we don't own a dog. So, now we have to go to war with a nuclear power to give ourselves an alibi." Uh, yeah. Makes perfect sense.
Matt Lee is an AP reporter. I read AP articles in my local newspaper just to see how propaganda is done. Aside from the AP’s textbook propaganda expertise, they are among the best stenographers of the Official Narrative.
Matt Lee, however, does have a history of being confrontational with government spokespeople, so I’m not sure if this represents that glorious moment when the tide turned in American journalism and reporters actually started doing journalism and stopped regurgitating the obvious nonsense pushed out by government sources.
We will know this episode is momentous if Matt Lee is either cancelled, sent to a journalism re-education camp, or charged under the Espionage Act.
I would not believe US intelligence agencies if they said rain was wet without independent verification. I'm an American. They've been lying to me since I was born.
If you've followed Aaron Mate's reporting, a false flag operation was carried out and covered up by the west in order to justify our invasion of Syria after Assad supposedly "gassed his own people." Such actions are the bread and butter of our intelligence agencies. It's long past time such assertions should be taken at face value.
The Western media would need evidence, an apology, rounding up, arrests, charges, show trials, guilty verdicts, long prison sentences, their money sequestrated, their buildings seized, emptied, the contents sold off, refurbished, transformed into accommodation for homeless people ... for me to part with my cash.
Unreal. The whole scam from day one has been like a B grade movie script. The kind where you know the ending within the first few minutes of the movie. In this one the ending goes like this: Sniffy Joe stands up to Russians and prevents invasion of Ukraine.
Russia invading Ukraine would mean serious repercussions. This would include economic sanctions that would impact the economy and Putin's grip on power. Putin may be a lot of things but stupid isn't one of them.
As for: "If you doubt the credibility of the U.S. government, of the British government of other governments and wanna, you know, find solace in information that the Russians are putting out, that’s for you do to."
That was actually said with a straight fave. Now why would anyone doubt the credibility of the US and British government? Since this post is likely already a bit long I will keep the answer to my question to one word: Iraq. Of course I could go on and on because there are many other reasons to doubt credibility.
'Trust me I'm with the government' just doesn't cut it when that very same government has been the source of lies upon lies. That doesn't mean that people who don't trust the government think that Putin is wonderful. He can be a lying bastard too. He just isn't a moron who would invade Ukraine and risk great loss.
The movie however has been written and the narrative will be that Sniffy scared the shit out of Putin and saved Ukraine from being invaded. He may have even saved us from a third world war. It's a nice movie but to mistake it for reality requires having cognitive challenges similar to those of the hero in the movie.
Pass the yellow cake..
The United States persecutes Edward Snowden and Julian Assange literally for telling the truth.
Marx called individualism (liberalism / empiricism / essentialism that gave birth to identity politics) an ideology (which serves capitalism), vis a vis a philosophy, for this reason: it has no philosophical foundation on which to build a verifiable substantive narrative on which to build a just and reasonable social structure. it can only produce substance-free fluff.
I tend to not gravitate toward any brand of absolutism and see freedom as a balance between the needs of society and those of the individual. Sure, identity politics sucks, but does that excess excuse the loss of bodily autonomy predicated by COVID mandates? Haven't socialist societies also erred in denying personal liberty and opinion? I'm not sure to what your comment on individualism was aimed given the contents of today's article. Perhaps you can enlighten me. As an individual, I'd like the know to truth of what my collective government is telling me.
as soon as you understand your society from the individualist standpoint (as in "as an individual"), you're in the ideological mode, which has already rejected the philosophical understanding of society / history. a real socialist-communist society (Cuba comes to mind) should, and has, let go of those who understand the difference between ideology and philosophy and choose ideology (though, for instance, allowing a medical doctor trained by public fund to leave is economically detrimental and thus morally wrong to the socialist society). only, there are not too many who understand it.
Thanks for taking the time to explain it. At first blush, your definitions strike me as quite arbitrary and self-serving, and at some point determining who is and who is not properly serving society comes down to individuals acting on behalf of others. We need not look hard to see where professed collective needs trap individual rights in the name of some glorious ideal, and if that isn't an ideological mode, then I don't know what is.
In your doctor example, I would agree that someone receiving a publicly-funded education shouldn't skip out of town upon graduation (I would hope that a contract determining obligations of service be spelled out and agreed to at the beginning), but what about if this debt has been paid? At what point do the "needs of society" (a dangerously fungible term; one determined by who, exactly?) snuff out the human drive to find one's own path? You mentioned Cuba. Aren't there political prisoners whose only crime is speaking out against the government? Heck, we're doing the same thing to Julian Assange. Shouldn't people -- individuals -- have the right to do that?
As presented here, perhaps there's a reason why not too many understand it.
1) definitions are not arbitrary but determined by your perspective, just as a word means something within a context. 2) education can't be reduced to the amount of money invested even in a capitalist-individualist society. 3) the character of a society is determined by the members of the society.
I still can't adhere to your original assertion regarding individualism but thanks for the conversation.
Meanwhile, Shoigu says the CIA and Ukrainian allies in their military are planning a false flag chemical attack to blame on Donbass militias as a pretense for Ukrainian military attack. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
I don't understand how an actual journalist crashed the press briefing.