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    The American liberal, faced with this reality, tends to concede that truth is in fact drowned out by a relentless tide of spin and propaganda. Their next move is always predictable, however. It’s another lesson dutifully drilled into them in their youth: “At least we can dissent, however unpopular and ineffectual!” The reality, of course, is that such dissent is tolerated to the extent that it is unpopular.

    Big-shot TV host Phil Donahue demonstrated that challenging imperial marching orders in the context of the invasion of Iraq was career suicide, when a leaked memo clearly explained he was fired in 2003 because he’d be a “difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.” [5] The fate of journalists unprotected by such wealth or celebrity is darker and sadder. Ramsey Orta, whose footage of Eric Garner pleading “I can’t breathe!” to NYPD cops choking him to death went viral, was rewarded for his impactful citizen journalism by having his family targeted by the cops, fast-tracked to prison for unrelated crimes, and fed rat poison while in there. [6] The only casualty of the spectacular “Panama Papers” leak was Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who led the investigation, who was assassinated with a car-bomb near her home in Malta. [7] Then there’s the well-publicized cases of Assange, Snowden, Manning, etc. That said, I tend think to such lists are somewhat unnecessary since, ultimately, most honest people confess that they self-censor on social media for fear of consequences. (Do you?)

    In other words, the status quo in the West is basically as follows: you can say whatever you want, so long as it doesn’t actually have any effect.


    from https://redsails.org/brainwashing/

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    so in amerikkka protesting is de facto illegal, since people get black bagged, the FBI probing them, and it’s legal to run over protestors with land yachts in some states

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    I fucking hate liberals so much.

    At least chuds are honest and say they hate me and want to kill me.

    Libs want the same thing but they lecture me about why I owe them an apology and a thank you while they’re doing it.

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      hot take but I’d say its %90 believing their own bullshit. I think about everyone Ive met over 60 in America and how their brain has little swiss cheese holes in it, I dont think Nancy is so different.

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          I don’t even think they were intentionally spreading the disinfo, plenty of them genuinely believed that Russia significantly altered the 2016 election results in some capacity, ignoring the litany of evidence otherwise

          Oh no, they purged some names from some ballots for primary voting iirc

          Oh no, they put out some misleading tweets that were drops in an ocean

          But some libs treat those things like they were on the level of a militarized coup

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            Yea for rank and file libs and libs on Twitter for sure, I meant like pelosi and other higher up ghouls who I assume are more likely to know better. Mostly just having a go at her for being yet another geriatric life appointment ghoul tho lol

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        True, just disheartening as a motherfucker to watch. Almost faith-eroding with how some of the locals I know still act about her, like there’s smth there to salvage.

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        Maybe I’m being too optimistic, but calling 80% of democrat voters Russian shills could be a bridge too far. I don’t think normie libs will buy it.

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      I really want a leak to reveal that the Kremlin was behind the liberal side of Russiagate as well as the conservative side lol. I don’t know why they haven’t thrown a million dollars in chump change at various democratic organizations just to muddy the waters

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        Honestly, I’m cynical enough at this point to believe the only reason the DNC threw a fit in the first place was a soft extortionary attempt.

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    This is bad obviously because some random peace kid is gonna go their life fucked

    However, this also means that (probably) the protests are putting a shitload of pressure on these Nazi ghouls to drop Zionism. If it wasn’t working, if it was easily ignored or whatever, they wouldn’t even acknowledge the protests. As they’ve done for almost 4 months now.

    Gotta pump those protest numbers. Time to look into the next DC mass protest.