Propaganda is so advanced that rank-and-file members of the public will openly cheerlead their government's imprisonment of Assange so that their government can continue to lie to them.~The focus shouldn't just be on bad things done by individual plutocrats - Gates did X, Bezos did
Whenever John McCain is trending on Twitter I like to try and float a reminder of what a disgusting warmonger he was on top of the trend to disrupt the worshipful hagiography within the mainstream liberal echo chamber.https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1281779286840492035?s=20It's a provocation. I freely admit this. But
Individualism could theoretically work as a political system, in a hypothetical world where nobody is ever helpless and the planet has infinite resources and the ecosystem is infinitely robust. But we do not live in such a world.No, we live in a world where every
There's a meme going around on Twitter again called "The Movie Villain/The Actual Villain", where people post an image of someone in a movie or a show and then an image of who they think the real bad guy is. Some are getting creative with
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has reportedly found that a majority of Americans believe the completely discredited narrative that the Russian government paid Taliban-linked fighters to kill the occupying forces of the US and its allies in Afghanistan."A majority of Americans believe that Russia paid the
It is 2021. The Biden administration has launched a full-scale invasion of Syria and the US and Russia are at a nuclear standoff unseen since the Cuban missile crisis. All top Twitter trends relate to the widespread debate over whether or not Sesame Street is
There are no moderate, mainstream centrists in the US-centralized empire. They do not exist.It's not that moderate, mainstream centrism is an inherently impossible position. In a healthy world, that's exactly what the predominant worldview would be. But we do not live in a healthy world.There
The struggle of humankind is a struggle to become more conscious. This is true whether you're talking about humanity as a species, human society as an individual nation or community, the interpersonal relationships in a specific family or social structure, or the inner processes of
Like so many other things, all this Ghislaine Maxwell buzz would be a lot more interesting without all the dumbass partisan angles people are putting on it. People fixate on the Trump angle or the Clintons angle when it's clear they've all been manipulated by
With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House Armed Services Committee has added a Liz Cheney-spearheaded amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which throws severe roadblocks in the Trump administration's proposed scale-down of US military presence in Afghanistan and Germany.As The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald notes, both