Twitter
Censorship, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The
Narrative Matrix
By Caitlin
Johnstone
May 30, 2020 "Information
Clearing House"
- If people truly understood the extent to which mental
narrative dominates their experience of life,
propaganda, advertising and all other forms of
psychological manipulation would be regarded by our
society similarly to physical assault or property theft.
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It is very
telling that Twitter only started censoring Trump for
violating terms of service when he promoted violence
against Americans. He’s been tweeting insanely hawkish
threats against people in other nations for years, but
they don’t count as real people.
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FYI if you’re
more upset by Twitter censoring one of the most powerful
people in the world for inciting violence than by
Twitter routinely censoring anti-imperialist accounts,
it’s because you’re a mindless partisan hack.
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Twitter going
to war with Trump benefits ordinary people. If we’re
lucky Twitter winds up being forced to scale back its
censorship protocols. If we’re really lucky Trump stops
advocating murdering people for looting.
Are You Tired Of
The Lies And
Non-Stop Propaganda?
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It’s so
fascinating how liberals think they can just end
conspiracy theories by having them censored by a blanket
collaboration of shady Silicon Valley tech oligarchs.
Says a lot about how little they understand – or want to
understand – about other perspectives.
I mean how do
they imagine that’s going to work exactly? “Oh okay I
used to think that 5G was for controlling nanobots
injected into us under the pretense of a mandatory
coronavirus vaccine, but now all the online posts about
that have been removed by an opaque conspiracy of tech
billionaires so I guess I’ll stop believing that.”
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The
establishment doesn’t fear Trump’s “populist” base
anymore than they fear Trump. They’ve been easily
propagandized into backing longstanding establishment
agendas against Iran, China, Venezuela, Russia, Assange,
etc. They’re as worthless and neutered as Obama’s base
was.
Support
Assange? Okay well we need to extradite him for his
safety. Oppose Russia hysteria? Just ignore all Trump’s
cold war escalations then. Oppose war? Those are Obama’s
wars, not Trump’s. A slight narrative adjustment was all
it took to herd them in.
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If you believe
fighting the deep state has something to do with beating
the Democrats and supporting Donald Trump, then you are
not actually interested in fighting the deep state. What
you are actually doing is called “being a Republican”.
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Life pro tip:
If you find yourself cheering for the same “people’s
uprising” in a foreign nation that the US State
Department is also loudly cheering for, it’s because
you’ve been propagandized. Please revise your media
consumption habits and critical thinking skills
accordingly.
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I don’t know
who needs to hear this, but you will never, ever hate
China hard enough to make manufacturing jobs return to
America.
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People think
they’re making a profound and important distinction when
they say “No I hate the Chinese government, not
the Chinese people.” As though all the worst
warmongers haven’t babbled about supporting “the people”
of Iraq/Libya/Syria/etc prior to every act of
imperialism.
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Complete list
of arguments I’ve received against my opposition to cold
war escalations with China:
– You love the
CCP
– You think
they’ve never done anything wrong
– Commie
– How many yuan
were you paid to say this?
– If you love
China so much you should move there
End of list.
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If people
moving too far to the left features anywhere on your
list of major imminent threats to our society, you are
an asshole.
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Trump is not a
Nazi Putin puppet, nor is he a populist savior. He’s a
miserable rich man from a miserable rich family who did
what was necessary to become the president of a corrupt
bloodthirsty empire, and then had a bunch of gratuitous
narratives heaped on that from both sides.
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I’ve never
encountered anyone online with whom I consistently
agree, and if you’re an independent thinker you won’t
either. Spend less energy concerning yourself with which
individuals are good or bad and more on what information
and ideas are true and helpful.
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