Amy Goodman's @democracynow morning broadcast uncritically quoted CIA director William Burnes describing China as "the most important geopolitical threat facing the United States" and then moved on to their next segment. Such a shame this used to be a thoughtful news outlet.— Pineal Podcast (@Pinealpodcast) October 8, 2021
propagandizing the people who do have a fair bit of education and other resources and free time (lol even include the twitch ipad kids/adult-children lol) and making sure they don't become little marxist theorists or collaborate too effectively on the internet only takes a tiny push with modern technology & everyone forced online & using recommendation systems. starbucks was almost able to illegally pull organizer text messages in a court case recently iirc and hired pinkertons and the cia.
Confusing basic ideas like neoliberalism being anti labor both at home and abroad is valuable to stymie organizing
most propaganda is bent towards people who are bought off in some way and reassures them they are doing everythinf fine and that's why it seem overtly repulsive and agitating to everyone else going to their service job or warehouse
I need to look more into where exactly the wealth trickles down in the core and isn't snatched up by the importers etc themselves, where the rents and debt cut into it (everywhere lol), i understand some jobs which are definitely not bourgeois labor and some which definitely are but my overall class analysis of american society is not well informed
more of a world systems/dependency theory (basically third worldism 😂) international financial plunder and war crimes fan + domestic surveillance & cointelpro & cop horror appreciator. and a basic organizing strategies guy. Actually once we fill in a little bit of glue we might have a cohesive guy, we'll see. anyways mental note to continue this with more class analysis and more prepared anecdotes from a possible rereading of Valentine's books - it's been like three years and i mostly just search quotes i remember
sure also there's the whole digital side of it we've discussed to death and all experienced firsthand being banned from most sites at least once, digital blackmail probably makes obtaining informants and the like trivial
also you have platforms that are just engineered for brain disintegration lol like the way google pushes drama vlogging and facebook fucks with people
after 9/11 journalism has imploded even more and the idea of seeing the battlefield or interviewing cia officers and cross referencing what they say with south vietnamese cops who knew about phoenix is unthinkable
we only have whistleblowers now and we've seen what's happened to assange & manning etcetera - we are completely in the dark and can only go off inferences
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propagandizing the people who do have a fair bit of education and other resources and free time (lol even include the twitch ipad kids/adult-children lol) and making sure they don't become little marxist theorists or collaborate too effectively on the internet only takes a tiny push with modern technology & everyone forced online & using recommendation systems. starbucks was almost able to illegally pull organizer text messages in a court case recently iirc and hired pinkertons and the cia.
Confusing basic ideas like neoliberalism being anti labor both at home and abroad is valuable to stymie organizing
most propaganda is bent towards people who are bought off in some way and reassures them they are doing everythinf fine and that's why it seem overtly repulsive and agitating to everyone else going to their service job or warehouse
I need to look more into where exactly the wealth trickles down in the core and isn't snatched up by the importers etc themselves, where the rents and debt cut into it (everywhere lol), i understand some jobs which are definitely not bourgeois labor and some which definitely are but my overall class analysis of american society is not well informed
more of a world systems/dependency theory (basically third worldism 😂) international financial plunder and war crimes fan + domestic surveillance & cointelpro & cop horror appreciator. and a basic organizing strategies guy. Actually once we fill in a little bit of glue we might have a cohesive guy, we'll see. anyways mental note to continue this with more class analysis and more prepared anecdotes from a possible rereading of Valentine's books - it's been like three years and i mostly just search quotes i remember
sure also there's the whole digital side of it we've discussed to death and all experienced firsthand being banned from most sites at least once, digital blackmail probably makes obtaining informants and the like trivial
also you have platforms that are just engineered for brain disintegration lol like the way google pushes drama vlogging and facebook fucks with people
after 9/11 journalism has imploded even more and the idea of seeing the battlefield or interviewing cia officers and cross referencing what they say with south vietnamese cops who knew about phoenix is unthinkable
we only have whistleblowers now and we've seen what's happened to assange & manning etcetera - we are completely in the dark and can only go off inferences