I mean, yeah, but this is like showing a picture of the alphabet and saying “this is spot on for so many books.”

< looks around at Western countries with militarized police forces, brutal suppression of protest, and high incarceration rates >

“This is fine. Tankies are authoritarian.”

Clinton signed into law a whole raft of neoliberal policies that were started by Bush, and the cumulative effects of those policies over those decades are what we’re feeling right now and what we warned about back then. The frogs have been boiled while the populace bickers about which neoliberal corporate shill sits on the puppet throne. They’re after all our money and they’re getting it by distracting us with the political circus and dividing us with wedge issues.

And the same people that own the media also own and operate the state.

I’m so glad this stuff is starting to finally bubble to the top of the public consciousness.

Now, everybody read Marx.

You can hardly blame them. It’s a 24/7 onslaught of propaganda and it’s incredibly difficult to break out.

And even when I initially woke up out of it I frequently questioned my sanity. Is this real? Is this actually what’s happening? How can nobody else see this?

And then I wanted to go back to not knowing because of the incredible weight that knowledge puts on your shoulders, but it’s impossible. There’s no going back, at least for me.

Every single problem we face is caused or exacerbated by the logic of capitalism.

So yes, capitalism is bad. Sorry that pointing it out triggers you, but it’s important to do so that people begin to understand and we can collectively do something about it. Infinite growth on a finite planet isn’t feasible and it’s killing all of us.

It’s not just the news. It’s TV shows, movies, books, periodicals, commercials - even music. The oligarchs have massive influence over all of it and can manipulate the public at will.

There are six companies that control a very large percentage of the media consumed by Americans. They are all mega corporations. The media Americans consume is mostly corporate propaganda, and it’s invisible to us. It’s the water we swim in.

Whatever opinions the oligarchs want us to have are dictated to us.

It is not a coincidence that all our national political races come down to a wire, that we are divided almost 50/50. We are being intentionally divided so that we don’t unite and challenge the oligarchy.