Complain less about linguistic changes around gender pronouns and complain more about linguistic changes like "weapons" becoming "arsenal of democracy". pic.twitter.com/WzgD4YbCOP— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) April 16, 2022
Posted on 04/17/2022 8:26:48 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
The country with the worst elections in the western world, whose government intervenes in foreign elections more than any other government on earth, is waging a dangerous proxy war to save democracy in Ukraine, a nation which is not a democracy by any reasonable definition.
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Anyone who trusts any government is a fool. Anyone who trusts the world’s most powerful government is a damn fool. Anyone who trusts the world’s most powerful government while it runs massive propaganda ops for a dangerous proxy war should be forbidden to use the grown-up scissors.
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It’s impossible to overstate how completely blanketed by propaganda distortion the Ukraine war is. US spooks saying they’re leaking disinfo to the press, Ukrainian war propaganda, the blackout on Ukrainian losses, the uncritical media acceptance of allegations against Russia, etc. This war is a propaganda campaign wrapped in a psyop.
There are only two possibilities: you either (A) accept the fact that the information ecosystem around this war is too polluted to know very much of anything for certain and adjust your perceptions accordingly, or (B) you believe false things about this war. That’s it.
Propaganda only works on people who don’t know they’re being propagandized. If you’re acutely aware that a historically unprecedented effort is going into manipulating your understanding of what’s happening in a strategically crucial war in the digital age, you’re more grounded.
And of course the propaganda cuts both ways. Obviously it does. Uncritically believing Russia-aligned sources about this war is just as sure to give you an inaccurate picture of events as uncritically believing US/NATO/Ukraine-aligned sources (i.e. all mass media). It’s psyops all the way down.
One thing that helps is rather than forming hard beliefs about what’s going on in this war, assign probabilities instead. Label different narratives zero, low, moderate, high or very high confidence like a spook analyzing intelligence. Might as well, because spooks are distorting it all anyway.
This is one of those situations where your own best guess about what’s happening is infinitely superior to what you’re told by the news media, because at least you know your own best guess is assembled in good faith while you know news media narratives are rife with propaganda distortion. If you’re genuinely interested in understanding what’s going on with this war, get as much information from as diverse an array of sources as possible, preferencing those who don’t appear aligned with any power structure and aren’t egoically or financially invested in any side.
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Complain less about linguistic changes around gender pronouns and complain more about linguistic changes like "weapons" becoming "arsenal of democracy". pic.twitter.com/WzgD4YbCOP
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) April 16, 2022
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Zelensky, man. The last time a powerful empire poured this much PR and perception management into the image of a foreign Jewish leader it involved stained glass and crucifixes.
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It was clear we’d reached a whole new level of Orwellian doublethink when it turned out liberals will call literally anyone in the world a Nazi except actual, literal Nazis.
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You know capitalism is totally working when there are people getting paid millions to help start wars by people who make billions from wars while Silicon Valley megacorporations are censoring those who try to end wars and everyone’s praying the world’s richest man will stop this.
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There are no “private” companies worth billions of dollars. In a corporatist system it is impossible to grow that big without becoming intertwined with ruling power structures. This is especially true for corporations of immense political consequence, like social media platforms.
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We are surrounded by propaganda at all times. Our entire civilization is saturated with it. When you say you support internet censorship to stop “Russian propaganda”, what you are really saying is that you only want your own rulers propagandizing you.
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The notion that some opinions are Russian is one of the most mind-destroying beliefs ever circulated in a secular society.
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This is the real goal behind all the punditry advocating hot war with Russia: to move the Overton window of acceptable debate so far toward warmongering extremism that entirely moderate peace advocacy like supporting a negotiated settlement becomes a fringe lunatic position. https://t.co/eXV9Xi4WUs
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) April 17, 2022
All the shitlibs yelling “Don’t listen to Chomsky!” for his comments about Ukraine will soon be yelling “Listen to Chomsky!” when it’s time to wheel him out again to tell everyone they need to vote Democrat.
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The weirdest thing about interacting with Ukraine flag accounts online is how seriously they expect to be taken while saying ridiculous bullshit. No I’m not an evil demonic monster for opposing nuclear brinkmanship and online censorship and saying the US lies about wars. Shut up, idiot.
If you look at their responses to criticisms of the establishment line on Ukraine it’s always like ten percent MSM propaganda and ninety percent empty outraged sputtering. Just vapid emoting. And they sincerely seem to expect you to take that seriously and treat them like adults.
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A mainstream news reporter is someone who uncritically publishes information provided by government agencies like it’s news and does investigative pieces on Twitch streamers who say wrong things about Ukraine and then wins three Pulitzers for their fearless hard-nosed journalism.
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Watching Hollywood movies is weird when you’re acutely aware that everyone on the screen loves Biden and supports internet censorship and wants a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
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Who looks like a man?
How do you (or she) even know Zelensky is corrupt, unless you believe some person who claims that is so?
If you aren’t there you’re operating on hear say.
I like her. Thanks for posting as I have only seen her comments on twitter.
Complain less about linguistic changes around gender pronouns and complain more about linguistic changes like "weapons" becoming "arsenal of democracy". pic.twitter.com/WzgD4YbCOP— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) April 16, 2022
Are you drinking, or just have a problem keeping up?
Looks like the American tax payer is going to have to pony up to pay and build more weapons that Brandon gave away.
“f you look at their responses to criticisms of the establishment line on Ukraine it’s always like ten percent MSM propaganda and ninety percent empty outraged sputtering. Just vapid emoting. And they sincerely seem to expect you to take that seriously and treat them like adults.”
I’ve been saying this at every opportunity for months.
Vapid emoting.
My your sensitive are you a lib?
Who taught you grammar?
Am I at war?
I don’t believe anything anyone says.
When the ship was damaged and sunk, I didn’t come to any
conclusion.
Russia said it was an accident.
The Ukraine said they sank it.
I still don’t know which is true, because I can’t believe
Russia and I can’t believe the Ukraine. I can’t believe
other media sources.
This is the dynamic we’re having to deal with.
I have to look at what excuses Russia made. I have to look
at what they actually addressed when entering the Ukraine.
I have to look at alternative reasons, and I found a massive
one.
I also have to look at what is acceptable international
behavior.
When is the last time we saw someone do what Putin is doing?
How did that turn out? Should we want to see that type of
thing happen now in the 21st Century?
Putin is essentially leader for life.
Putin unilaterally controls his nation and ordered an invasion.
Putin gave us reasons. When he entered the Ukraine he didn’t
address those matters.
One the other hand, he didn’t tell us about the AZOV Natural
Gas Preserves. What he did though, was capture all land in
that preserve, and all access land to that preserve under
water.
He hasn’t finalized his final takings yet, so I don’t know
if he will also capture all of the Ukraine’s rich Oil
Preserves in the Eastern portion of the Ukraine also.
Strangely, everyone knows about Soros. Everyone knows about
the Deep State. Everyone talks about the Western media.
They talk about them at length. Funny though, nobody at all
talks about the energy preserves that Putin seems to be
taking. Why that couldn’t possibly be a reason for this
action.
The big campaign to take Mariopal is smack dab in the middle
of the AZOV Natural Gas Preserve.
If Putin gets the gas preserve and the oil fields, he will
have taken a very large source of energy that could have
prevented him from being able to effectively blackmail
Europe. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
Why he was just drawn in because he couldn’t let what was
happening take place.
He invading his neighbor should never be a reason for that
neighbor to want help from others to prevent it from
happening again.
NAZIs! Biolabs! Yeah, so what.
Did he take control of every biolab? No.
Did he round up every NAZI? No.
I don’t have to listen to what they tell me. I can see
some things for myself. And those are not being outed in
the media by either side.
I think a lot of folks have been sold a bill of goods.
There are times when Soros and I both have to take a dump
at the same time. That doesn’t mean I’m going to hold it
until tomorrow.
Sorry...
This isn’t directed at you. You offered up a reasoned
series of comments, so don’t think it is.
Yep you’re a lib. No answer so direct and deflect to the area bugging you.
Go to sleep. A little more work on contractions, apostrophes and commas, and you’ll be right as rain.
And of course, you have no proof that the Democrats cheated in the election because that is all based on hearsay too.
I just thought it was a bunch of paid Russian bs artists.
See. No answer. English teacher, union, definitely a lefty.
We were born into a very great nation at what was a very great time.
It all looks quite different these days.
Are we the ones who should ‘head for the hills?’
Matthew 24:16
You don’t know where I’ve been. We have proof of 2020 election cheating.
Didn't think so.
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