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From Caitlin Johnstone Website
Just another friendly reminder that establishment propaganda is the single most overlooked and under-emphasized aspect of our society and the left will never accomplish any of its goals until it prioritizes countering mass-scale manipulation above all else.
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Western imperialism is capitalism's life support system. Without the US-centralized empire constantly sabotaging socialist governments, propping up global financial institutions and controlling commerce and currency at gunpoint, capitalism would've died long ago.
Pull the plug.
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Capitalism is collectivism in denial. Money only works the way it works and exists the way it exists because we all collectively agree to pretend that those made-up, imaginary conceptual constructs are real. The collective is free to change that collective agreement at any time.
Capitalism is collectivism. If the collective wants to switch to another form of collectivism that doesn't let people starve and die for not having enough imaginary numbers in their bank accounts, the collective is free to change the rules of its collective improvisation.
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Becoming more conservative as you age isn't maturity, it's an admission that your values are based entirely on securing your own net worth.
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Representation is important so that everyone can buy into the fiction that anyone can make it to the top in this system.
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Silicon Valley coordinates its censorship of speech with the United States government, which is really just government censorship with a middle man. Government censorship outsourced to corporations is still government censorship, in the same way that a military occupation outsourced to mercenaries is still a military occupation.
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