Listen to a reading of this article: Neocon erotica publication The Atlantic has a new article out titled "The Rise of the Liberal Hawks" which is infuriating as much for its sycophantic empire apologia as it is for the fact that much it is entirely correct.
Russia is depicted as Stalinist, when the audience are right wingers, and as fascist religious fanatics when the audience are progressives. (That Ukraine wholeheartedly embraces fascist narratives is conveniently left out of this last one.)
In this, russophobia resembles the antisemitism of not so long ago. Jews were depicted as bloodsucking capitalists and at the same time made out to be bomb throwing revolutionaries and pointy headed intellectuals.
Good reminders of the depths of the intricate deceptions the American people and we the people around the planet are being asked to decipher. The weight of the propaganda is extreme.
The Atlantic is Laurene Powell Jobs’ menstural rag. Lefties love war now because they want to fly trans and BLM flags over every embassy, it’s the new cultural imperialism. DEI CRT struggle sessions in the military are designed to give the left control of the last non politicized institutions so they can crush dissent. Meanwhile, they will continue to disarm law abiding citizens while letting criminals run free. As Mao said, political power grows from the barrel of a gun.
How Sanders and his DSA cohorts can presume to accept the killing rationale while waving a social justice banner for domestic change is, I think, an insight to the price of admission into the faux democratic process as put on by the single-party tyrants.
The self-described “rebels” can talk about corporate graft until they’re blue in the face. They can tweet about America’s apartheid partner in the Middle East, and stand tall against the baseless claims of anti-semitism, but they cannot confront the baseless claim of “unprovoked” that has been used to rewrite the history and backstory of the Ukraine war. If Sanders and other progressives are going to pay the devil to hold office in Washington, only to cover their eyes and mouths when it comes time to honestly address America’s imperialism, they are fooling nobody but themselves. They are subservient and neutered by their own compromises. I believe that if Sanders and Co. were serious and honest, they’d recognize that resigning and starting a truly adversarial political party us in order.
Got LGBTQ+ACDEFHIJKLMNOPRSUVWXYZ, but politics in the USA is still binary, even the concept of left doesn't equal liberal is beyond intelligent discussion. That's a good indication of where the money wants discourse to go, i.e.: to hell in a basket.
One of the more pathetic developments around the Ukraine war is the newly resurrected process of buying indulgences. The catholic church realized that forgiveness was a product to be sold as far back as the middle ages, the left has now learned that they can salve their soul for the crime of not standing up to an unjust war by giving money to "relief" organizations which are really nothing more than private money laundering operations. The modern day indulgences are just as pathetic, craven and cynical as the old world form in the church. The left tells themselves they are helping by donating money to victim relief funds but never really keep track of the status of those funds and don't really care about the results of their donation after its been made. At least they are sleeping well at night.
There are now 100s of identified scam websites for ukraine aid, fund raisers for ukraine are happening in almost every major company in America. I would bet billions have been raised for humanitarian relief. The problem is most of it is just one more angle to steal from people.
"You can take issue all you like with his use of the word "left" to describe liberal supporters of capitalism and empire who just want the empire to be a bit less embarrassing and maybe forgive their student loans, but that's the fault of the generations of psyops that have gone into sabotaging the left and destroying its memory, not Tierney's."
Not entirely. The use of the word "left" to describe liberals and DemocRATS is the fault of people just like Tierney... all of whom should know better. You yourself, Caitlin, used to regularly conflate these disparate groups, but to your credit, have mostly removed that from your writings. One of the things I appreciate about you.
All leftists should take issue with being marginalized, smeared and disappeared by the those presstitutes who think there is a tent large enough for peace advocates and war mongers, for American exceptionalists and socialists, for anti-fascists and fascists, for free speech advocates and censors, and for authoritarian bootlickers and revolutionaries. This is a long term right wing propaganda coup enabled by people like Greenwald, who unlike this author, refuses to be corrected, but instead doubles down with even more left-punching propaganda which discredits his own articles much like a turd in the punchbowl.
For once I can not totally stand behind that. What is basically wrong with the whole article is that liberals are equated with the left. That is fundamentally wrong and completely distorting the picture. US liberals are neo-conservatives and a bunch of self proclaimed phony progressives who would probably just barely pass for social democrats anywhere else.
1. Psychiatry Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
2. a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements.
That is exactly what it is with this 'war'. Everything is justified to the brim. We couldn't ask more of fanatics who are unable to hear any other arguments as hard as you try to convince them.
I wouldn't hit the link and read that article, but from the excerpts you provide, I sense a strong sickly smell of smug enjoyment in rubbing "the left's" nose in their hypocritical warmongering.
I put "left" in quotes, because the author smears the left (intentionally) by mistaking it for what professor Nancy Fraser calls "Progressive Neoliberalism" (do the Google), a pose deployed by Democrats, where identity politics is used to mask pro-corporate economic and pro-war foreign policies.
The unintended consequences of this War reveal to what strenuous lengths the current social politic will go to Not to give Peace a chance.
It’s this social politic of speaking to everyone as if to achieve social unity is an
utter fantasy. The Left, right, centre dialogue is just nonsense taken seriously by the manipulative.
To find the truth through having many diverse voices speaking up is entirely the opposite. The truth comes first, and not the social unity with its social correctness cowering all who disagree.
The Atlantic journalist is dead wrong in his myopic focus of what’s important in the creative dynamic of war showing the worst of a immoral mortal world , people have been trying to overcome for millenniums.
Boring to death to those who are appalled by the stupidity of our social leadership to solve anything practical like finding peace. It requires real courage unlike living in the paranoid fantasies of fear for social entertainment ?
Russia is depicted as Stalinist, when the audience are right wingers, and as fascist religious fanatics when the audience are progressives. (That Ukraine wholeheartedly embraces fascist narratives is conveniently left out of this last one.)
In this, russophobia resembles the antisemitism of not so long ago. Jews were depicted as bloodsucking capitalists and at the same time made out to be bomb throwing revolutionaries and pointy headed intellectuals.
Good reminders of the depths of the intricate deceptions the American people and we the people around the planet are being asked to decipher. The weight of the propaganda is extreme.
So tired of "unprovoked Russian invasion".... NATO??
The Atlantic is Laurene Powell Jobs’ menstural rag. Lefties love war now because they want to fly trans and BLM flags over every embassy, it’s the new cultural imperialism. DEI CRT struggle sessions in the military are designed to give the left control of the last non politicized institutions so they can crush dissent. Meanwhile, they will continue to disarm law abiding citizens while letting criminals run free. As Mao said, political power grows from the barrel of a gun.
How Sanders and his DSA cohorts can presume to accept the killing rationale while waving a social justice banner for domestic change is, I think, an insight to the price of admission into the faux democratic process as put on by the single-party tyrants.
The self-described “rebels” can talk about corporate graft until they’re blue in the face. They can tweet about America’s apartheid partner in the Middle East, and stand tall against the baseless claims of anti-semitism, but they cannot confront the baseless claim of “unprovoked” that has been used to rewrite the history and backstory of the Ukraine war. If Sanders and other progressives are going to pay the devil to hold office in Washington, only to cover their eyes and mouths when it comes time to honestly address America’s imperialism, they are fooling nobody but themselves. They are subservient and neutered by their own compromises. I believe that if Sanders and Co. were serious and honest, they’d recognize that resigning and starting a truly adversarial political party us in order.
Got LGBTQ+ACDEFHIJKLMNOPRSUVWXYZ, but politics in the USA is still binary, even the concept of left doesn't equal liberal is beyond intelligent discussion. That's a good indication of where the money wants discourse to go, i.e.: to hell in a basket.
"War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class men off to die."
~George Carlin
One of the more pathetic developments around the Ukraine war is the newly resurrected process of buying indulgences. The catholic church realized that forgiveness was a product to be sold as far back as the middle ages, the left has now learned that they can salve their soul for the crime of not standing up to an unjust war by giving money to "relief" organizations which are really nothing more than private money laundering operations. The modern day indulgences are just as pathetic, craven and cynical as the old world form in the church. The left tells themselves they are helping by donating money to victim relief funds but never really keep track of the status of those funds and don't really care about the results of their donation after its been made. At least they are sleeping well at night.
There are now 100s of identified scam websites for ukraine aid, fund raisers for ukraine are happening in almost every major company in America. I would bet billions have been raised for humanitarian relief. The problem is most of it is just one more angle to steal from people.
The current liberal support is a derivative of the Clinton Russia-gate campaign. Putin and Russia were demonized.
Lies are deadly.
"You can take issue all you like with his use of the word "left" to describe liberal supporters of capitalism and empire who just want the empire to be a bit less embarrassing and maybe forgive their student loans, but that's the fault of the generations of psyops that have gone into sabotaging the left and destroying its memory, not Tierney's."
Not entirely. The use of the word "left" to describe liberals and DemocRATS is the fault of people just like Tierney... all of whom should know better. You yourself, Caitlin, used to regularly conflate these disparate groups, but to your credit, have mostly removed that from your writings. One of the things I appreciate about you.
All leftists should take issue with being marginalized, smeared and disappeared by the those presstitutes who think there is a tent large enough for peace advocates and war mongers, for American exceptionalists and socialists, for anti-fascists and fascists, for free speech advocates and censors, and for authoritarian bootlickers and revolutionaries. This is a long term right wing propaganda coup enabled by people like Greenwald, who unlike this author, refuses to be corrected, but instead doubles down with even more left-punching propaganda which discredits his own articles much like a turd in the punchbowl.
For once I can not totally stand behind that. What is basically wrong with the whole article is that liberals are equated with the left. That is fundamentally wrong and completely distorting the picture. US liberals are neo-conservatives and a bunch of self proclaimed phony progressives who would probably just barely pass for social democrats anywhere else.
Losing your appetite for endless war? Well, Militor® can help:
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schiz•o•phre•ni•a,
n.
1. Psychiatry Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
2. a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements.
That is exactly what it is with this 'war'. Everything is justified to the brim. We couldn't ask more of fanatics who are unable to hear any other arguments as hard as you try to convince them.
I wouldn't hit the link and read that article, but from the excerpts you provide, I sense a strong sickly smell of smug enjoyment in rubbing "the left's" nose in their hypocritical warmongering.
I put "left" in quotes, because the author smears the left (intentionally) by mistaking it for what professor Nancy Fraser calls "Progressive Neoliberalism" (do the Google), a pose deployed by Democrats, where identity politics is used to mask pro-corporate economic and pro-war foreign policies.
The unintended consequences of this War reveal to what strenuous lengths the current social politic will go to Not to give Peace a chance.
It’s this social politic of speaking to everyone as if to achieve social unity is an
utter fantasy. The Left, right, centre dialogue is just nonsense taken seriously by the manipulative.
To find the truth through having many diverse voices speaking up is entirely the opposite. The truth comes first, and not the social unity with its social correctness cowering all who disagree.
The Atlantic journalist is dead wrong in his myopic focus of what’s important in the creative dynamic of war showing the worst of a immoral mortal world , people have been trying to overcome for millenniums.
Boring to death to those who are appalled by the stupidity of our social leadership to solve anything practical like finding peace. It requires real courage unlike living in the paranoid fantasies of fear for social entertainment ?
You didn't mention the all important.
nUkraine came as an out for the hacksxxxxines viruganda big Harmacide.
They changed the narrative to maintain it, duh.
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American democracy is a lie, and a weapon. American democracy is a bioweapon