Patriot Act 2, Censorship, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-01-11 at 04:27:28 )

Patriot Act 2, Censorship, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Patriot Act 2.0 will be rolled out with a lot of mindless bleating about white supremacists and fighting fascism, and the actual policies and laws put into place will have virtually nothing to do with any of those things. They will be geared at preventing the revolutionary changes that need to be pushed for in the United States by the American people.

Listening to United States politicians and pundits the last few years you would assume it is been raining actual 9-11-01s and Pearl Harbors in America 24hours a day-7days a week.

"Our democracy has been attacked!" screamed the political establishment that just forced you to choose between Donald Trump and Democrat Donald Trump for president.

Saying there has been an attack on American democracy is like saying there has been an attack on Kazakhstans fjords.

Liberals learned the words "coup" and "insurrection" like five seconds ago and now they are academic experts on both of these things.

The narrative managers ability to move liberals and progressives from "Defund the police" to "MOAR POLICING" in just a few months was even more impressive than their ability to move them from "Believe Women" and #MeToo to "Tara Reid is a lying grifter".

Here is how politicians, media and government could eliminate conspiracy theories if they really want to"

-Stop lying all the time
-Stop killing people
-Stop promoting conspiracy theories (eg Russiagate)
-Stop doing evil things in secret
-End government opacity
-Stop conspiring

To support the censorship of online speech is to support the authority of monopolistic tech oligarchs to exert more and more global control over human communication. Regardless of your attitude toward whoever happens to be getting deplatformed today, supporting this is self-destructive.

I do not share peoples magical fascination with the word "tolerance". As far as I can tell it is an empty and irrelevant concept. This is not about tolerance, it is about trusting government-tied tech oligarchs to regulate speech around the world on monopolistic speech platforms.

The future of humanity depends on our ability to wake up a critical mass of people to how f-cked up things really are, and if speech which does not conform to establishment orthodoxy is censored on the platforms the mainstream crowd use to share ideas, that will become impossible.

"We need to stop fascism so let us give massive sweeping powers to an elite alliance of unelected authoritarians."

"Well I am a leftist and I have not been banned on social media."

That is because the left is politically impotent in our society. Unless this is just a hobby for you, at some point you should plan on the left becoming a threat to the oligarchs and warmongers. What do you think happens then?

Do you really think if the left actually becomes a threat to the status quo the Neera Tandens and Rachel Maddows are not going to suddenly discover a reason why you are dangerous and need to be censored? The only way to be fine with censorship is to plan on never challenging power.

Tech billionaires are not on your side, and neither are the government agencies and plutocratic media leaning on them to implement censorship. Those institutions do not give a shit about silencing the right, they want to implement measures to silence you. The left is being censored already, but it has not seen anything yet.

"As a leftist I am fine with censorship because it is not like the leftist revolution is going to be organized on social media."

Social media is not for organizing the leftist revolution you bonehead, it is for creating more leftists. It is for reaching the mainstream.

A leftists first and foremost job is to create more leftists. If the left becomes a potent political force, all the censorship protocols they have been putting into place these last few years will be used to stop it from infecting the mainstream herd. You should not want this.

Trying to stop fascism by making it invisible is like trying to avert a charging bull by putting your hands over your eyes.

If you want to stop the rise of fascism you need to change.

Change your sick society.

Profoundly.

Not just cover up the manifestations of that sickness.

Compartmentalizing and covering up the problem instead of pouring money and resources into creating a healthy society which addresses the underlying problems is the most shitlib thing ever.

Saying you are free to leave these monopolistic platforms and go to some fringe website no one uses is the same as saying you are free to dig a hole and yell into it.

There is no magical free market solution to this problem, because the problem is that imperial power structures are deliberately herding people onto monopolistic speech platforms that they can then censor under the guise of terms of service.

All of the most critical factors determining what peoples lives are like are invisible now. Most people do not even know they are happening. Oligarchy. Neoliberalism. Imperialism. Used to be you knew who the king was, and he would openly do anything he wanted. Now that is all kept carefully hidden.

Why is it kept hidden now?

Well there are a lot of factors, but mostly it is because the rank-and-file public discovered guillotines. Ever since then your rulers are out of necessity kept hidden from you, and so is their totalitarianism.

The United States government is the most evil and destructive force in the world.

Not Donald Trump.

The United States government.

This will not change in any meaningful way when Donald Trump leaves.

Massive amounts of manipulation have been poured into keeping you from seeing this.

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