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When anti-war protesters are labeled "hecklers". When the major repositories for patriotism are the military and professional sports, it's best not to look too deeply into the mirror: it has already fractured and the reflected image likely won't be pleasant.

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Nov 1, 2022·edited Nov 1, 2022

I think I've figured out the problem. They've changed the definition of "democracy" and didn't tell us. Now it means "the right of the political and economic elite to do whatever they want to further their own interests without any interference from the commoners." If you use that definition every time you hear them talking about "democracy", suddenly it all makes perfect sense.

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Nov 1, 2022·edited Nov 1, 2022

The DHS is poison to American democracy. The last throes of American self-government, veiled under the rationale of securing American "freedom" while doing the opposite.

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You write:

"Our ongoing descent into tyranny in the name of opposing tyrants calls forth a very simple question: if defeating autocracy requires becoming an autocracy, what's the point of defeating autocracy?"

Perfectly encapsulating the current schizophrenia. It is classic, thanks. We are in the midst of an international, fully insane, coup d'etat. Western values? Thought they were human values.... No wonder irony is discouraged. These tyrannical forces are so out to lunch they are afraid of and incapable of irony.

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Caitlin writes:

"According to a draft copy of DHS’s Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, DHS’s capstone report outlining the department’s strategy and priorities in the coming years, the department plans to target “inaccurate information” on a wide range of topics, including “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”

Exactly! And people wonder why there are skeptics. It's because you have to say the following, OR ELSE.

* The Russians blew up their own pipeline.

* Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

* Nancy Pelosi’s husband’s attacker must have been MAGA.

* The Jan. 6 protestors nearly overthrew the U.S. government.

* The vaccines don’t kill anyone, especially young athletes.

* No one ever told the Russians that NATO wouldn’t enlarge itself by 16 countries, and push its nukes right up to Russia’s borders. In other words, don't ask why the Russians do anything. Just say they hate freedom.

* Masks work.

* BLM was not a grift. It made the lives of black people better because it wasn’t about rich people * making money off of the problems of poorer citizens.

* No teachers are groomers.

* The WEF loves you and wants you to be happy.

* Brazil’s election was on the up-and-up.

* America is a democracy with honest elections. DON'T QUESTION THE ELECTIONS.

Say otherwise, and you’ll get kicked off of YouTube, Facebook, and—until recently—Twitter.

But skepticism is never wrong. Skepticism is always right because if you don’t question the narrative, like Assange and Snowden, then you’re just a stooge for the 21st Century Goebbels who run our world.

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What I got out of the Intercept article: DHS equates dissent with violence. The conflation of dissident opinions with violence is the sole foundation of DHS jurisdiction. Otherwise, they'd be out of work, as there isn't much going on in the world of foreign terrorism. The angle Caitlin missed is that we're losing free speech to keep dull-witted terrorism investigators employed.

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"Muh Democracy!" is but a pretext.

If there is any truth in The Iron Law Of Oligarchy, we are reverting quickly to the mean.

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"The problem with "western values" is that the west doesn't value them."

The problem with western values is that they're all about making massive profits for the military-industrial complex at the expense of the working poor and world peace. No surprise that we live in an autocracy, not a democracy. Capitalism doesn't flourish in a true democracy.

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I love Lee Fang! He's who I missed the most when I parted ways with The Intercept and Democracy Now.

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Democracy is pretty well done. The foot is on the brake of progress, the motor has seized up. All the energy is expended in holding back, rather than creative going forward. The big worries, like education, jobs, mortgages have been supplanted by bigger existential worries, constructed as coming from outside. That's the imposed cognitive infrastructure, and everything depends on the public's reaction to enforced "austerity" on everyone but the elites.

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I sort of see it as 'destroying Western values to defend WOKE idiocy!

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If only people weren't in a state of chronic comatose, and engrossed in the divisive and toxic narrative of the "us and them", then maybe humanity and the world would have a chance to heal and start working towards acts of creation instead of destruction. But alas, I have lost all hope, and my despair is breaking my heart.

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Holy fuck "cognitive infrastructure" is such an insanely and ominously Orwellian phrase.

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Nothing generates faith and trust in government more than when they secretly work to oppress us, manipulate us and destroy our freedoms. These actions are not in good faith as they claim. They know they are doing evil but hide behind the idea 'but the law says we can'. Legalizing your evil does not make it right or good.

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The people are simply cognitive infrastructure by the elite intellectuals is meant to confuse us to think how clever they are?

This demented intellect sickly and pale in its the truth about people is on parade for all to see.

They refuse to stop treating us this way with the wealth we created begs the question how long can they live like this before succumbing to a horrible end of inflicting such rotten deceit upon our simple humanity.

Cognitive infrastructure is about to be redefined by us.

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FYI -- GG tweets – extracted ~Oct. 31 period https://twitter.com/ggreenwald

• The reason only Fox shows are willing to air stories that are critical of the US Security State -- like the gigantic one broken by Lee Fang today -- is because the rest of them (NBC, MSNBC, CNN) *employ* agents of the US Security State, and thus mindlessly mimic what they say.

• This is the same reason no national Dem politicians or NBC/CNN/MSNBC hosts have trumpeted Lee and Ken's stories: only Fox hosts and GOP politicians

• CIA and FBI are revered in left-liberal politics, as is censorship, so this story doesn't bother them.

• Because he broke a major story revealing it is the Biden Admin -- specifically the US Security State -- which directs Big Tech's censorship program to serve its own interests. Obviously, CNN or MSNBC wouldn't touch this story

• Since 2016, when Democrats decided they can't win elections unless they control the internet, they have, each year, escalated their attempts to force and coerce Big Tech to censor for them, using CIA/DHS/FBI as well.

It's a clear 1st Amendment violation

• That NYT regularly cites Media Matters - the David-Brock-spawned slimy sewer of partisan lies and DNC talking points - as some kind of neutral expert on "disinformation" shows both the fraudulent nature of the "disinformation" scam and what side NYT is on

• The DCCC now sends out begging fund-raising emails that explicitly refer to MSNBC as a communications arm of the Democratic Party

• Glenn Greenwald's haters typically want him to just criticize the Democratic Party within the limits of obedience to the party. Since he crosses the limits, they hate him with such irrationality.

Edward Snowden @Snowden - Glenn Greenwald broke the story that freed Lula from prison. For that same reporting, Bolsonaro sought to put Greenwald *IN* prison—he actually brought charges!

Today on this site: "Glenn must be sad Bolsonaro lost and Lula won." witter.com/figgityfigs/st…

• The funniest part was how Antifa marched in defense of state mandates, attacking anyone who questioned the merit of vaccine mandates (which @jeremycorbyn opposed). Even funnier was those who *opposed* this union of state and corporate to bar debate were called "fascists."

• Great work by @lhfang to expose crucial evidence on the most-overlooked point about Big Tech censorship. This censorship is not done at the sole or even primary initiative of Big Tech. It is so often done in conjunction with the US Govt and US Security State, which demands it

• It's very possible that the instantly formed media narrative -- Paul Pelosi's attacker was a MAGA fanatic who broke in to murder Nancy -- will be proven true. But right now there are so many glaring doubts and holes in that story that it just takes common sense to question this.

• I'd like to know:

* How someone broke into the home of one of the richest and most powerful families without setting off an alarm.

* How Paul Pelosi could call 9/11 in the middle of this.

* Who is the "unknown" person who opened the door for the police?

* Where is the video?

• What's most amazing isn't that the Squad is united in supporting Biden's Ukraine war polices and vocally defending unlimited funds to Raytheon. It's that they're now part of the DC group that brands critics Kremlin assets: the tactic Hillary revitalized and used against Bernie

• Not news, but @AdamKinzinger is a pathological liar: @Snowden is still a US citizen -- every bit as much as Kinzinger -- with the difference that one is a historic brave whistleblower, the other a loser on his way out of Congress, identifying with an anti-Semitic group (#fella)

• Once Adam Kinzinger slinks out of Congress, will be he be a CNN contributor, an MSNBC contributor, take a pity appointment with some mid-level State Dept. bureaucracy in the Biden Admin, or become a lobbyist for Raytheon?

• Many have forgotten that one of the first major differences between Obama and Hillary in 2008 was he said he'd negotiate with no preconditions with the leaders of Iran, North Korea, Syria, etc., while she attacked him as "naive and irresponsible" for it.

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