Monday, March 26, 2018

Caitlin Johnstone — Dear America: Please Stop This Shit. Signed, The Rest Of The World

As of this writing, #StormyDanielsDay is the top US trend on Twitter. I don’t know what #StormyDanielsDay is. I don’t care what #StormyDanielsDay is. Neither should you. Neither should anyone else.
Please stop this shit, America. If the US war machine goes after Iran or Russia it will likely mean a world war against multiple nuclear-armed countries, which could very easily send our species the way of the dinosaurs should a nuke get deployed in the fog of war. We don’t have time to focus on Stormy fucking Daniels.
Those most fiendishly devoted to the service of the empire would rather take that risk than see the US lose its dominant role on the global stage; for them there is no difference between the end of their empire and the end of their lives. From their point of view they are fighting for their lives, and they are willing to take all-or-nothing gambles with the lives of every terrestrial organism in order to win.
We are staring down the barrel of world war and possible extinction. This should deeply impact the hearts and minds of Trump’s opponents and his supporters. Stop arguing about Stormy fucking Daniels and spread awareness about things that really matter.
Medium — Caitlin Johnstone
Dear America: Please Stop This Shit. Signed, The Rest Of The World.
Caitlin Johnstone | Rogue journalist. Bogan socialist. Anarcho-psychonaut. Guerilla poet. Utopia prepper.

Also
I love Americans. I get friendly flak from some of my more jaded lefty readers whenever I say that, because having to deal with the flaws of one’s own countrymen is a very different experience than appreciating them from afar, but I do. I insist that Americans are generally good-hearted human beings, who just happen to also have a lot of ideas swimming around in their heads which benefit their government’s war machine and ruling oligarchs.
Indeed, America itself could be described as one gigantic ongoing psyop infecting 323 million otherwise healthy homo sapiens. Propaganda is one of the most under-appreciated and overlooked aspects of human experience; the way those in power use media to manipulate how people think and vote affects every significant issue in a truly massive way, yet it rarely even comes up in conversation. Americans are some of the most aggressively propagandized people on our planet, and their mass media machine keeps acting stranger and stranger....
Why are the propagandists taking such bold gambles with their power to retain credibility in the eyes of their audience? Why are they overreaching with inherently absurd narratives about Russia and brazen lies about Syria instead of staying calm and playing more subtle? Why are they acting like desperate, cornered animals instead of like relaxed rulers of the planet holding all the cards?
Because desperate, cornered animals is exactly what they are.

4 comments:

Kaivey said...

Yes, please stop this shit. The rest of us are quite happy with nothing much, as long as we are in good health and earn enough to get by. We don't want much, just to live out our lives in peace and happiness. We don't need much to be happy, just some friends, a romantic relationship, a family, maybe, and the beautiful sun, the moon, the wind and rain. Don't you love the rain, I do, and thunderstorms, well, the ones we get in England, the soft cuddly ones? Just being alive is fantastic.

Who are these monsters that rule the world. Theresa May and Boris Johnson, what are they after, more money, surely they've for enough? They are traitors to the British people; they lie to the British people, they double cross the British people. Scum, the lot of them.

Matt Franko said...

Stop watching the left channels and start watching Fox News and you get a different picture....

Nothing but MAGA and more WINNING on Fox...

Tom Hickey said...

Faux Noise?

Matt Franko said...

“Why are they overreaching with inherently absurd narratives about Russia and brazen lies about Syria”

Well I told you what is happening wrt the “Russia!” narrative that should all go away shortly when people start getting locked up ...

And the Syria thing is all on Assad who was tasked with taking care of Hezbollah as his part of the GWOT and never took care of it... so he’s gotta go.... Trump may not decide to enforce this part of the deal though he may just withdraw...