This is your brain: This is your brain on media echo chambers: Prior to the US election I wrote a couple of articles saying that if Biden wins he will be attacked by the right as a Xi Jinping puppet even as he escalates dangerous cold war aggressions with China, in exactly the same way Trump was attacked by Democrats as a Putin puppet even as he
Yeah, you sure are getting a lot of Tweets, but are these accusations getting a play on corporate media? Do you have any links to corporate media making such accusations (other than possibly quoting Tom Cotton and labeling him a "conservative")? I didn't think so. I told you before, it's going to get nowhere near the traction that Russiagate got.
The game of portraying other nations with two completely contradictory accusations is getting really, really tiresome. They will do anything to portray Russia an an inept place with a failed economy, then tell you that President Putin has omnipotent powers over the entire world. China is a more complex reality than Russia. China is a dictatorship unlike Russia which is not (a good case comparison is the internet which in China is heavily controlled with severe censorship while the internet in Russia is free and open and in fact less controlled than in the UK). China does have some serious human rights issues. Though the USA with over 2 million prisoners is hardly in a position to preach from a pulpit of moral superiority. China, however also offers tremendous benefits to the world economy. By Western design we are now totally mainline junky addicted to their manufacturing base. That was a choice the West made, China did not force us down that path. It has of course had great benefit to hundreds of millions of Chinese who do live better lives today than before. I do not buy the idea that USA controls China or that China controls the USA. They are competitive partners with some regional disputes that are inflated by US politicians who prefer to spend their time accusing foreigners of American society's ills instead of doing their job and addressing the USA's own issues and shortcomings. One recalls Susan Rice recently going from acknowledging that the racial tensions, protests and riots have a 350 year history behind and underneath their social and historical context, to insisting that there was still no doubt that Russia was engineering the current racial conflicts in the USA. As a friend of mine said "the best and the brightest" as she is held up to be and that is how the B&B think or at least what they say on CNN. One should recall the phrase "the best and the brightest" originates in teams of university educated smart staff of the Kennedy admin. By the time their foreign policy, that they in part extended, in part created came to fruition in the years to come, there was a trail of 10 million corpses across the world, 5 million of whom were Indochinese. China is not however Vietnam or Indonesia nor Iraq nor even Brazil, China is a very big player with the world's most relevant economy. The US empire's imperial ruling class still refuse to accept what President Vladimir Putin told them at the Munich conference 13 years ago that resulted in US leaders like McCain putting the Russian president on the shitlist. The Biden people want a world that is monopolar and under exclusive US power and control but they have no choice but to realise that world no longer exists and 800 plus military bases only weakens the US economy and drains public resources budgets. The irony is that China's communists are trying to teach American leaders that it is markets not military that conquer the world in our time. Does anyone in the Biden sphere even get the Elephant in the Room on China ? That Elephant is TESLA. Elon Musk is a better Secretary of State and Sec of Industry when it comes to China than any public official. During the last two election cycles the only American politician to visit TESLA was Andrew Yang, who owns and drives a MODEL X. The single most important American company with the world's single most advanced science and engineering innovation across multiple fields of expertise was literally ignored by both parties. Except for when AOC insulted TESLA with an ignorant remark that confirmed that she is nothing but an actress who speaks from out of her backside. The TESLA gigafactory in Shanghai that went from muddy field to producing MODEL 3s in a record time period is the first ever foreign branded factory that the Chinese government has permitted to be self-owned. The usual procedure in China is that foreign brands have to partner with a Chinese company that is in part or whole owned by the Chinese state. China's leaders comprehend how important TESLA is to the world more than any American politician that they waved their own rule to allow Musk and TESLA to own fully the TESLA Shanghai gigafactory without a Chinese partner corporation. TESLA cars Made in the USA have over the years had some quality control issues which the post-sale service dept tends to have to fix. Issues which should not come out of the factory. The immediate recognition once the cars rolled out of the Shanghai factory was that the China workforce is in fact making better quality TESLAs. The workforce at TESLA is not like at APPLE who makes everything at the lowest price to sell at the highest price. TESLA's mission in China is help China clean up their polluted air by selling EVs and to get the vehicle price down for both Asia and now even for Continental Europe until the German gigafactory is built. What the well chosen highly motivated Chinese workforce is revealing is that China's education system may not teach about freedom and democracy but apparently it does teach math, science and engineering at the highest level of integrity. Meanwhile TESLA's factory floor US workforce are a product of a two-tier education system based on property taxes that is not only a disaster for them but for the US economy.
So these guys even hate "Panda huggers". The new nasty phrase? Like "whataboutism" ( all credible knowledge and understanding is based on comparison and point of reference, science, law etc) and "virtue signalling" ( I am old enough to remember a society in which a person Setting a Good Example was respected and appreciated for doing-so).
Yeah, you sure are getting a lot of Tweets, but are these accusations getting a play on corporate media? Do you have any links to corporate media making such accusations (other than possibly quoting Tom Cotton and labeling him a "conservative")? I didn't think so. I told you before, it's going to get nowhere near the traction that Russiagate got.
The game of portraying other nations with two completely contradictory accusations is getting really, really tiresome. They will do anything to portray Russia an an inept place with a failed economy, then tell you that President Putin has omnipotent powers over the entire world. China is a more complex reality than Russia. China is a dictatorship unlike Russia which is not (a good case comparison is the internet which in China is heavily controlled with severe censorship while the internet in Russia is free and open and in fact less controlled than in the UK). China does have some serious human rights issues. Though the USA with over 2 million prisoners is hardly in a position to preach from a pulpit of moral superiority. China, however also offers tremendous benefits to the world economy. By Western design we are now totally mainline junky addicted to their manufacturing base. That was a choice the West made, China did not force us down that path. It has of course had great benefit to hundreds of millions of Chinese who do live better lives today than before. I do not buy the idea that USA controls China or that China controls the USA. They are competitive partners with some regional disputes that are inflated by US politicians who prefer to spend their time accusing foreigners of American society's ills instead of doing their job and addressing the USA's own issues and shortcomings. One recalls Susan Rice recently going from acknowledging that the racial tensions, protests and riots have a 350 year history behind and underneath their social and historical context, to insisting that there was still no doubt that Russia was engineering the current racial conflicts in the USA. As a friend of mine said "the best and the brightest" as she is held up to be and that is how the B&B think or at least what they say on CNN. One should recall the phrase "the best and the brightest" originates in teams of university educated smart staff of the Kennedy admin. By the time their foreign policy, that they in part extended, in part created came to fruition in the years to come, there was a trail of 10 million corpses across the world, 5 million of whom were Indochinese. China is not however Vietnam or Indonesia nor Iraq nor even Brazil, China is a very big player with the world's most relevant economy. The US empire's imperial ruling class still refuse to accept what President Vladimir Putin told them at the Munich conference 13 years ago that resulted in US leaders like McCain putting the Russian president on the shitlist. The Biden people want a world that is monopolar and under exclusive US power and control but they have no choice but to realise that world no longer exists and 800 plus military bases only weakens the US economy and drains public resources budgets. The irony is that China's communists are trying to teach American leaders that it is markets not military that conquer the world in our time. Does anyone in the Biden sphere even get the Elephant in the Room on China ? That Elephant is TESLA. Elon Musk is a better Secretary of State and Sec of Industry when it comes to China than any public official. During the last two election cycles the only American politician to visit TESLA was Andrew Yang, who owns and drives a MODEL X. The single most important American company with the world's single most advanced science and engineering innovation across multiple fields of expertise was literally ignored by both parties. Except for when AOC insulted TESLA with an ignorant remark that confirmed that she is nothing but an actress who speaks from out of her backside. The TESLA gigafactory in Shanghai that went from muddy field to producing MODEL 3s in a record time period is the first ever foreign branded factory that the Chinese government has permitted to be self-owned. The usual procedure in China is that foreign brands have to partner with a Chinese company that is in part or whole owned by the Chinese state. China's leaders comprehend how important TESLA is to the world more than any American politician that they waved their own rule to allow Musk and TESLA to own fully the TESLA Shanghai gigafactory without a Chinese partner corporation. TESLA cars Made in the USA have over the years had some quality control issues which the post-sale service dept tends to have to fix. Issues which should not come out of the factory. The immediate recognition once the cars rolled out of the Shanghai factory was that the China workforce is in fact making better quality TESLAs. The workforce at TESLA is not like at APPLE who makes everything at the lowest price to sell at the highest price. TESLA's mission in China is help China clean up their polluted air by selling EVs and to get the vehicle price down for both Asia and now even for Continental Europe until the German gigafactory is built. What the well chosen highly motivated Chinese workforce is revealing is that China's education system may not teach about freedom and democracy but apparently it does teach math, science and engineering at the highest level of integrity. Meanwhile TESLA's factory floor US workforce are a product of a two-tier education system based on property taxes that is not only a disaster for them but for the US economy.
So these guys even hate "Panda huggers". The new nasty phrase? Like "whataboutism" ( all credible knowledge and understanding is based on comparison and point of reference, science, law etc) and "virtue signalling" ( I am old enough to remember a society in which a person Setting a Good Example was respected and appreciated for doing-so).