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"People who promote a US/NATO war with Russia are more dangerous and depraved than racists, homophobes, transphobes and antisemites, and they should be treated accordingly. They are the most dangerous extremists on earth. This should be completely uncontroversial and obvious to literally everyone."

Hah! Now THAT'S a hard pill for people to swallow.

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There is truly totalitarian and barbaric censorship in the US. And atrociously corrupt government.

I often wonder how did the US manage to trick so many people into believing that there is any “freedom of speech” or “democracy” in that country.

Apparently nearly everyone in the US (at least those who watch TV and read mainstream media) hate Russia and Russians. A cheap American propaganda is a constant “admonishment” of the “Russian regime.”

But is it any better in the US with its own endless propaganda and legalized crimes?

This is just my personal opinion, which is based on personal experience: no, it is not. I think it’s worse because of that hypocrisy and because the crimes are disguised as “democracy” and “law.”

I am Russian and for over a decade of living in the US, I have been clearly observing how much “official” hatred there is toward anyone who is of Russian national origin or ancestry.

It’s probably because I was “unlucky” in the US – I spent 2/3 of my life in Russia and had no idea what physical violence is. I also have never been to a court in Russia and never had any encounters with the police in Russia. That is, the first time I saw the cop in close proximity was when I moved to the US and started being physically attacked so that I had to call them to report the crime – in hopes they would investigate.

I have observed truly outrageous and impenetrable level of corruption and “official” crimes in the American “law enforcement” and “courts.” When I tried to speak about it, I was being attacked and silenced. That experience gave me a totally different perspective – no more rose-colored glasses for me. If there is censorship and endless crimes anywhere – then it is right here, in the US.

https://1dissident.substack.com/p/the-fifth-circuit-assists-in-crime?s=w

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Sometimes I wonder just how many of us are aware that our humdrum brains pretty often run on schemata, the psych term that's likely underpinned by whole brain processing of a behavioral state and output. And twisted through these schemata are various threads of propaganda; it's I think why propaganda is so insidious, woven into the brain states that run large portions of our lives. So I despair about that "how many of us" --- when I see when I see my native NYC brethren chanting the name of Nazis. It's truly stunning what automatons we humans can be, wired of course to massa through those strands of propaganda.

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I've followed Caitlyn's advice in the last point. It's the only sound advice. Unfortunately they all wound up dead. I'm not sure if being right is always right.

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This should be called The War of Four Hundred Kitchens because it is really about the flag officers and arms guys getting new kitchens for their wives in Northern Virginia.

Why are we fighting in Ukraine? to preserve their borders? but what about Texas and their borders?

We are led by people who are willing to risk vaporization to win The War of Four Hundred Kitchens.

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"In this war Russia has killed many Ukrainians and Ukraine has killed many Russians and the US empire has killed many Ukrainians and Russians" and to get here it has killed many Americans (by underfunding health, education, and domestic infrastructure).

Joe Biden is working hard to kill more people through starvation than the combination of Chang Kai Shek, Churchill, Hirohito, Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin.

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On that last one, sometimes when I look at how easily the majority of people are fooled over and over again, I wonder if the human race even deserves to survive. Maybe we're just too stupid as a species to deserve that.

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@@“When a loved one is very self-destructive you can't control their fate; at some point you've just got to let them make their mistakes and hope something in them wakes up before they wind up dead. That's pretty much how you've got to be with the entire human species at this point.”

I love your fiercely unapologetic voice! Seems now to me: We’re merely a collectively swarming chaos riddled abuzz about honey; envenomed with great narrative nectar within this ever increasingly closed loop and cutthroat hive mind struggle. Just sayin ~

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Last comment from Caitlin today......

"When a loved one is very self-destructive you can't control their fate; at some point you've just got to let them make their mistakes and hope something in them wakes up before they wind up dead. That's pretty much how you've got to be with the entire human species at this point."

Sadly, in this example, the USA is no longer a loved or respected one, such respect now as dead as the 20 million dead from their criminal mistakes since WWII.....and rising daily, spurred along as a proxy war for the objectives of a few.

Next, South East Asia and China. The US warmongers can't get it on soon enough.

For this to change, in contrast to Caitlin's long term optimistic words above, it will first need a disaster of such magnitude as to involve the deaths of millions of Americans (or the threat of same) for the American people to wake as to the environment they have allowed their government to inflict upon their country for decades...and the world for over 70 years.

In my opinion, there is no other alternative. The supremacy of reason has been the casualty.

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Those who support war can do so only because they haven’t had to fight and experience the inhuman results. Bravo Caitlin for an excellent reminder of where humanity is heading. The most shocking thing is the almost complete disregard for the dismal results of our governments policies. Until we get bribery/donations out of politics voting for either party will prove pointless.

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“When a loved one is very self-destructive you can't control their fate; at some point you've just got to let them make their mistakes and hope something in them wakes up before they wind up dead. That's pretty much how you've got to be with the entire human species at this point.” That may be the most concise description of how I feel about where we are than anything I’ve read this year.

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Funny thing is, it's likely a whole lot less elaborate than all this. Biden's pals need stop Nord Stream II, but a whole bunch of CHEAP gas & oil from burying their long collapsed fracking pyramid. Slick-water shale fracking has always been a phenomenal way to waste other people's money. It exemplifies peak oil, where you throw investor's capital down $20K holes, a couple miles out, eight to a pad, overlapping, kicking, re-re-refracked with 3-5 million gallons of lethal brine, full of ionizing radiation, that leaks as you're drilling, and then cement-jobs, annulars & actual steel casing fails & spews into aquifers, streams, crops, livestock, people as methane shoots into the atmosphere (and they're now planning for 1.9 million diagonally drilled bores, which cannot be plugged as abandoned. Katrina (destroying Gulf platforms in 4.8K' to 9.6K' deep water & 32K' to 37K' offshore wells) enabled this. This war's to STOP any Russia competition.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/online-censorship-ukraine-russa-google-facebook-twitter/280304/

https://mronline.org/2022/04/27/u-s-media-are-lying-about-russian-atrocities-in-mariupol-says-embedded-reporter-at-ground-zero/

https://mronline.org/2022/04/27/how-the-corporate-interests-and-political-elites-watered-down-the-worlds-most-important-climate-report

https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2022/04/25/vijay-prashad-any-critic-of-us-imperialism-is-accused-of-being-a-stooge-for-somebody-part-2/

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I'm 80 and there's never been a more dangerous moment in human history than the present moment. The psychopathic idiots who planned and fomented our present circumstance are now clamoring to push it over the precipice. While they hide in their bunkers the rest of us can only watch and wait. The end.

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Apr 28, 2022·edited Apr 28, 2022

Let me check first with Biden's Ministry of Truth (LOL)

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"It must be the most soul-destroying thing in the world to go to journalism school, study hard, graduate in front of your whole family, work your ass off building up a resume, get a steady job, and then find yourself writing hit pieces about disobedient Youtubers for The Daily Beast."

You forgot, chopping your genitals off and calling yourself "Sarah".

Now there's dedication (or psychosis) for you.

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