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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Siding With The US Empire Is AlwaysWrong
Published: 2022-04-27
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MHstyPo-E
Title: Siding With The US Empire Is AlwaysWrong
Published: 2022-04-27
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MHstyPo-E
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siding with the u.s empire is always wrong notes from the edge of the narrative matrix if you get the feeling that all this ukraine flag waving is one more vapid mainstream propaganda initiative used to manufacture consent for an agenda that has nothing to do with what you're being told it's because that is exactly what is happening in this war russia has killed many ukrainians and ukraine2/14
has killed many russians and the u.s empire has killed many ukrainians and russians it's nuts that there are still grown adults who think putin invaded ukraine for no other reason than because he is evil and hates freedom focus less on the azov battalion and more on the fact that the us deliberately provoked this war with the goal of toppling moscow and is threatening all our lives3/14
with increasingly reckless brinkmanship against a nuclear superpower people who promote a u.s nato war with russia are more dangerous and depraved than racists homophobes transphobes and anti-semites and they should be treated accordingly they are the most dangerous extremists on earth this should be completely uncontroversial and obvious to literally everyone more americans know marge simpson's sister's favorite tv show then know their government is waging a deliberately4/14
provoked and profoundly dangerous proxy war against a nuclear superpower this is because mainstream western media all of it is propaganda everyone should be able to say whatever the they want about a proxy war instigated by the world's most powerful government that could very easily end up sparking a nuclear war if you're on the side of the u.s empire on any issue you are on the wrong5/14
side this doesn't mean the other side is always necessarily in the right it just means a globe spanning empire that's held together by lies murder and tyranny will always be in the wrong yes it is that simple 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 up6/14
a resume get a steady job and then find yourself writing hit pieces about disobedient youtubers for the daily beast twitter is nature's way of dispelling the common misconception that liberals are smart if i was the world's biggest narcissist i'd probably try to become the richest person on earth and do everything i can to make sure everyone's always talking about me and convince everyone i'm going to7/14
save the world with my technology so i get a weird cult to worship me twitter being biased in favor of one nation's government is vastly more consequential than twitter being biased in favor of one u.s political party so far we're only seeing emphasis on the latter indicating that twitter will continue functioning as a u.s propaganda censorship apparatus it should probably get more attention that it's effectively8/14
impossible to have any kind of major media company in the us and not have it be absorbed into the u.s propaganda machine the assange case is very simple the most powerful government in the world is trying to criminalize journalism about its nefarious behavior anywhere in the world you can sum it up in a breath it is only narrative spin and smears that makes it seem like9/14
a big complicated thing empires haven't disappeared as the world grows more conscious of the evils of empire they've just gotten sneakier and bitchier they used to just nail you to a piece of wood in public if you defied them now they've got to go through this whole deceitful lawfare process just to kill one journalist empires used to just openly conquer foreign territories because they want to10/14
own them then it became about civilizing them now they pretend it's about freedom and democracy and they don't even make you change your flag to theirs empires used to exterminate entire towns who dared to disobey them now they have to launch these giant propaganda operations to psychologically manipulate populations into hating their enemies empires are just really sneaky gossipy backstabby versions of what they've always been they're11/14
just as oppressive and violent but the fact that there are more eyes on their behavior now means they have to be so much more manipulative and covert about what they do the more visible things become the more hard work and cleverness is required to run an empire that's why they're working so hard to make things less visible via censorship propaganda silicon valley algorithm manipulation and the12/14
criminalization of journalism the biggest mistake you can make is to trust that your leader's actions would seem more sensible and appropriate if you knew what they know and understood what they understand the wars really are as horrific and pointless as they appear the escalations in tyranny and exploitation really are as bad as they seem it's not that you don't understand what you're looking at it's that13/14
you're not a sociopath your thoughts and opinions matter know how you can tell because every single day the world's most powerful people pour an immense amount of wealth and energy into trying to manipulate them 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