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It's crazy how Obama intervened in the Democratic primary to install a lifelong warmongering corporate whore who can't think or talk and when he loses they're gonna blame it on Ryan Knight.
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There was a recent scandal where major tuna companies like Starkist and Bumble Bee coordinated with each other to inflate prices instead of competing. They found they could make more money by working together against consumers than by working against each other.
Anyway, that's oligarchy in a nutshell.
If you've ever wondered why power tends to move in the same direction whether you're talking about corporate, government or military dynamics, that's why. It's because cooperating with each other against common people works best for the powerful. It's always easier to punch down than sideways.
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If you just mentally muted the shrill verbal soundtrack which accompanies US politics and watched where the money, resources and weapons were moving instead, you wouldn't have been able to tell a new president took office in January 2017. The same will be true after January 2021.
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Robert A. Heinlein said "Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal." We act based on untold millennia of conditioning, then tell stories about why that action makes sense. This is as true of empires as it is of individuals. MSM narratives are rationalizations.
Imperialist elites are ultimately no more clued-in on why they do what they do than anyone else. They're acting out the same evolutionary, cultural and personal conditioning as the rest of us-essentially just the seeking of security and control-and then telling fancy stories.
It could have just as easily gone any other direction. If things had been a bit different and Mexico had wound up being the unipolar hegemon and Saudi Arabia had refused to comply with its interests, all our plutocratic media would be calling for sanctions and explaining to us in Spanish why the House of Saud must go. If the interests of power were served by everyone wearing tinfoil on their heads, the oligarchic media would spend all their time explaining why that's necessary and everyone should do it. The rationalizations come after the primitive impulses to act.
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Killing people and selling their organs will get you labeled a murderer. Selling the weapons used to kill the same number of people for the same amount of money in wars you actively lobbied for will get you labeled a job creator.
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My favorite hobby is watching Americans reaching around trying to come up with reasons why I as a foreigner should not voice opinions about their government.
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