Imperialist? You have a strange relationship with that word.

I think that’s a good point and it’s something I run into often. It seems like everyone expects propaganda to be so obvious and clumsy that, when it happens, they’ll be able identify it immediately. But it turns out that what we’re guarding our minds against is anything contrary to our existing world view, not the things we’ve already uncritically accepted. And what we’ve accepted are largely things we’ve observed through the lens of media.

It’s also hard for people to imagine the massive scope of such a conspiracy and how it could be so well organized. It’s easy to explain how media employment bias works in a hierarchy of personal interest, but that system doesn’t work perfectly and it generates a lot of contradictions which I think westerners have conditioned themselves to simply ignore. Even I want to imagine the propaganda machine to be an elegant and cunning device, but the real workhorse seems to just come down to writing “China/Russia/Iran Bad” headlines enough times. Getting past that bias with americans has been the biggest challenge in my experience. It’s pretty depressing.

We had the power to save the earth, but we were so busy mining shitcoins we sorta forgot to care

It was virtually nothing but ignorant and hysterical ukraine hawks when I left. I’m sure it’s so much worse now that I really don’t even want to look.

Lol, yeah, then def not worth your time unless you’re very attached to it.

Just in the last few years, looking at the deliberate efforts of cutting off all diplomatic relations with Russia. Banning and smearing all foreign opposition media. Assassination of diplomats. Rampant militarized racism. Trade wars. Mass sanctioning and coups of any nation who opposes US war interests. Endlessly blocking UN efforts. Endlessly blocking hostage negotiations. Constant escalations… It really establishes that the US and it’s allies have completely lost interest in any form of diplomacy and seem to be preemptively closing those exits just to keep any form of diplomatic resolution off the table, thus ensuring a hot world war to keep the military economy running.

You were talking with someone who mentioned BE positively in regard to Venezuela, so I was curious which video you were referring to. I’m also familiar with the subject of US influence on the Nazis, so no that’s not at all a bullshit subject. I’m saying I’m familiar with BE’s bullshit, writ large.

I’m very familiar with BE’s bullshit, thanks.

Interesting choice to omit Isntreal as the original source for these claims. Is CNBC admitting that creates a credibility problem?

Mr. Beast and China are censoring my freeze peach! I need to log into a social media website conspicuously owned by a US defense industry contractor and let everyone know the truth some shit I just made up 30 seconds ago!

Which video? The one where he’s essentially backing an ongoing US coup attempt in Venezuela?

Oh no! The illusion of amerikkkan democracy will end! Anyway…

Not at all familiar with this phone, but maybe check the ribbon cable connecting the display to the board. Is it possible to reflash the roms?

“Venezuela’s struggle is Israel’s struggle”

Yep. Gulag.

Can we please stop saying “left wing liberal” or implying in any way whatsoever that such a thing does or could exist? Liberalism is a hard-right ideology down to the core and slapping vacuous identity politics stickers on it to get more votes does not move the needle a nanometer. At bare minimum, the left begins at anti-capitalism, otherwise it’s just right-wing infighting.

Weird seeing US media finally come out and halfway say this considering how many articles I’ve read that try to deny it. In all my life I’ve met only a handful of americans who didn’t think using nuclear weapons to mass-murder civilians was ‘necessary bECAuSe BuSHiDo’ or some stupid fucking shit. When you talk with americans about the fact that the US knew Japan’s surrender was already in progress and this grandfather of warcrimes was done just to prevent surrender to the Soviets (essentially just violent anti-communism), psycho burgerland fucks still defend the atrocity.

Cool, now do Iraq.

Because it expands google’s monopoly and mass surveillance network.

No, I’m not supporting that statement. It’s too reductive and I understand why you have some very raw nerves on the subject; I certainly do.

I think we may be interpreting the intent a little differently, though. I mostly feel like I’m just helplessly drowning in sadness and horror in front of a screen all the time, and I generally try to cope with satire or sarcasm. I try to avoid being quite this glib or insensitive, but I probably fuck that up a lot, too. Reads that way to me at least.

On the other hand, if Zelenskyy negotiates peace directly, the next NATO-proxy government will just throw it out because his presidency is illegitimate. Which could be used to buy the time the Kiev regime has been looking for. Seems to be why Russia recently said they are open to peace talks, but consider trusting Ukraine to be impossible.