By Caitlin Johnstone
March 07, 2021 "Information
Clearing House" - Democrats cannot
wait for the midterms so they can lose and go
back to letting the Republicans play the bad cop.
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This is who the Democrats are. It’s who they
always will be. They let you have your Bernies and
AOCs to create the illusion that progressives can
win if they just vote a little harder, but the
corporate elites will always have enough of
a congressional majority to kill progress. Don’t let
them spin this as some sort of freakish anomaly, as
the result of not having the right kind of Democrats
in office. This is the only way the Democratic Party
will ever operate. It’s not broken, it’s working
exactly as it’s meant to.
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Left-wing Democrats who give the party the
illusion of legitimacy are just as destructive as
the right-wing Democrats who do the party’s actual
dirty work. They’re simply different parts of the
same corrupt vehicle, each just as essential to its
operation as the other.
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If you think watching Democrats fuck everyone
over is depressing, wait till you see most of the
people complaining about it completely forgetting it
happened and giving them another chance.
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US progressives were desperate to stop a corrupt
fascist president from destroying the country and
terrorizing vulnerable communities, but they lost
the primary so they voted for him anyway.
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If you’d just been staring at a screen watching
the movements of troops, weapons and money you would
have no idea the US officially underwent a change of
leadership in January.
No Advertising - No Government
Grants - This Is Independent Media
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“A second Trump term would’ve been worse” is (A)
not a valid defense of Biden and (B) unfalsifiable
and therefore logically fallacious. Bleating that
phrase is just an admission that your position is
garbage.
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If you owed $2000 to any of the thugs running the
Biden administration and had taken this long to pay
them back they would have broken both your kneecaps
already.
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Sick of that fake Hollywood movie trope where
Americans have lots of fun and free time and don’t
live in an apocalyptic failed state.
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Coming up next on CBS News, the uplifting story
of a little girl who is constantly being kicked in
the head by government officials and the small town
that raised money to buy her a helmet.
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You get a sense of just how fucked things are by
the fact that they’ve got us paying for our own
oppression. We pay cable and Netflix bills and buy
movie tickets to be propagandized by Hollywood. We
buy their surveillance systems and bring them into
our homes. It’s like Trump’s “We’ll build the wall
and Mexico’s gonna pay for it”, only real, and way
more large-scale. We’re so far gone.
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Think tanks are the marketing department of the
oligarchic empire.
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The best unintentionally hilarious people are
those who present themselves as anti-establishment
free thinkers and yet swallow every CIA/CNN
narrative they’re fed about China with zero gag
reflex.
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The idea that China or Russia pose a threat to
you is so self-evidently ridiculous, so
transparently absurd, that the only way to make you
believe it would be to propagandize you. And if you
do believe it, that’s exactly what has happened.
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Documentary filmmaking is an optimal vehicle for
imperialist propaganda because its artistic
presentation can suck viewers into a presented
narrative far more easily than other vehicles, and
because there’s no pressure to hold to truthfulness
or journalistic integrity.
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Leak publishers, investigative journalists and
unbought media help spread awareness of predatory
power dynamics, which gives predators less room to
operate. It mows the tallgrass of the information
ecosystem so the lions have a much harder time
sneaking up on their prey.
The most destructive force on our planet is human
unconsciousness. Unconsciousness of the realities of
large-scale human power dynamics, and
unconsciousness of our own inner dynamics. The most
compassionate desire you can have for the world is
for the expansion of consciousness.
Expansion of consciousness just means a growing
awareness of truth. A growing awareness of the truth
of our large-scale collective dynamics as a species,
and a growing awareness of our inner processes as
individuals. All of our problems trace back to a
lack of this awareness.
The most noble intention you can have for the
world is therefore for everyone to become aware of
the truth. The truth within, and the truth without,
whatever that might be. If this happened, all our
collective problems would vanish. Disharmony and
full consciousness can’t coexist.
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In moments of personal transcendence we see
clearly that it doesn’t have to be this way, that
collective sanity is possible, that we can build a
healthy world. Then we come down and condescending
knowitalls explain to us that we are wrong, and, for
some bizarre reason, we believe them.
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