One of the many good things coming out of these protests is a
widening mainstream awareness of what a garbage president Obama
was.
~
“Without the police you’d have vigilantism!”
Vigilantism? You mean like when a band of armed thugs inflict
extrajudicial violence upon someone who pissed them off? Like the
police do constantly?
~
Right wingers seem completely incapable of distinguishing
between the ideology that’s all about holding massive
demonstrations with the goal of dismantling the police and the
ideology that’s all about kneeling in front of cameras wearing
Kente cloth. This makes cross-ideological communication nearly
impossible, about this subject and many others as well.
~
Mainstream America learning that their country is a militarized
authoritarian police state is not what the narrative managers
wanted. Blows my mind that this isn’t more obvious to more
analysts.
If these massive protests look suspicious to you, it’s because
they conflict with your expectations of what an expression of
grassroots energy would look like. If they conflict with your
expectations of what an expression of grassroots energy would look
like, it’s because you’re out of touch with where the zeitgeist
is at. If you’re out of touch with where the zeitgeist is at,
it’s time to revise your media viewing habits.
There are two ways of looking at these protests:
- Elite manipulators are controlling them, and are shoring up
more control. - Elite manipulators are not in control of them, and are losing
control.
If you believe #1 then the establishment institutions expressing
support for the protests are doing so because they like them. If
you believe #2 then they’re doing it with the goal of
mollifying, neutralizing and co-opting (see entire Obama
administration). Given that we’re talking about a dying empire,
#2 seems much more likely to me.
Like everything else, this debate often boils down along boring
partisan lines: you’re more likely to believe #1 if you support
the Republican president and his allies, because you believe
(wrongly)
that the establishment wants to get rid of him.
I haven’t seen any solid arguments for why elite manipulators
would want the rank-and-file mainstream population made aware that
they are living in a militarized authoritarian police state.
Standard operating procedure for the narrative managers has always
been to keep people asleep to that reality.
~
The only way to believe the establishment is manipulating world
events in an attempt to get rid of Trump is to believe he poses a
major problem for the establishment. The only way to believe that
is to ignore
his administration’s policies and behavior throughout his entire
term.
Tons of people really seem to believe that the powers that be
are fomenting massive protests with the goal of getting rid of
Trump, so they can replace him with Biden, who as far as
establishment agendas go is
functionally indistinguishable from Trump. Why go to all that
trouble?
From a narrative management perspective, these protests are
hugely destructive to establishment agendas. Why would they spread
public awareness that Americans live in an authoritarian police
state, and create horrible footage of oppression during a cold war
with Russia and China?
Just from that point of view alone it’s a tremendous amount to
sacrifice, in exchange for what? A president who’s functionally
the same as Trump in every way that matters for establishment power
structures? That’s silly. It makes no sense.
~
It’d take an entire operating room team to extract the boot
from the throats of all the sycophantic morons defending
indefensible acts of police brutality in my social media
notifications right now.It’s just unbelievable the mental
contortions people will pull off to try and make unjustifiable
assaults sound justifiable. I knew it was bad, but I didn’t
realize it was this high-octane psychotic.
~
It’s stupid how often in this job I have to say “Murdering
is bad. Don’t murder people.†It’s starting to feel like
everything I talk about, from war to economics to healthcare to
police brutality drills down to this. I don’t care what you want,
don’t kill people. Jesus.
~
Arguing that any group should be designated a terrorist
organization is just arguing that the surveillance state should be
expanded further. If you oppose the surveillance state’s
expansion, you should never do this. Like cancer, the surveillance
state has no ideology but growth.
~
Democrats are bad.
“Caitlin loves Republicans!â€
Republicans are bad.
“Caitlin loves Democrats!â€
Democrats and Republicans are bad.
†â€
†â€
†â€
“Caitlin hates America!â€
~
If mainstream liberals and conservatives applied the same
standards and scrutiny to their own government that they apply to
governments targeted by western imperialism, they’d be radical
leftists.
~
Politics are so dumb. Like we know we’re all gonna either die
in some kind of horrible armageddon pretty soon or figure this
thing out and learn to live in harmony, but for now we gotta act
all hatey with huge groups of people even though we know it’s
about to be a moot point.
~
We don’t get to just skip the part where we heal society’s
racial wounds. It does need to happen. We don’t get to wave it
off with a “Yeah I learned racism is bad in school, let’s talk
about other stuff.†Healing takes work, and it does need to get
done for there to be progress.
~
The more I learn about the human condition, the clearer it
becomes that the principles of individual healing apply to
collective healing as well. I have learned that an individual can
experience a sudden, drastic shift in consciousness. I see no
reason the collective can’t also.
~
Of course humanity is capable of a transformative leap into
health and maturity. Of course it is. The only people who doubt
this are those who haven’t yet made such a leap in their own
lives.
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