| A mature worldview requires skepticism toward power |
Government is your friend, and the media are its helpers |
| Powerful people sometimes make immoral plans in secret |
TV always tells the truth and the CIA exists for no reason |
| Extreme government secrecy makes it necessary to discuss possible theories about what might be going on behind that veil of opacity |
Just because a world-dominating government with the most powerful military in the history of civilization has no transparency and zero accountability to the public, that doesn’t mean you’ve got to get all paranoid about it |
| It’s okay to ask questions about important events that happen in the world, even if their government tells them they shouldn’t |
everything they need to know about reality comes out of Mike Pompeo’s angelic mouth |
| The very rich sometimes engage in nefarious behavior to expand their wealth and power |
Billionaires always conduct themselves with the same values that got them their billions in the first place: honesty, morality, and generosity |
| It’s important to remember the lies that led up to the invasion of Iraq, and the disastrous consequences of blind faith in government claims |
Believe “Iraq” is a fictional land similar to Narnia or Middle Earth, from the writings of a fantasy author named George Galloway |
| Syria is fighting to avoid becoming another Libya in a war of defense against extremist proxy armies of the US-centralized empire, who were given billions of dollars in military support with the goal of toppling Damascus |
Bashar al-Assad is a real-life version of a cartoon supervillain who just started murdering civilians willy nilly in 2011 because he loves murdering civilians, then in 2015 his friend Vladimir Putin joined in because he loves murdering civilians also |
| The extensive history of US government lies means you should always demand mountains of independently verifiable evidence when they make claims about unabsorbed nations |
Russia literally committed an act of war on the United States in 2016, China is orchestrating a second Holocaust, Maduro is deliberately starving the Venezuelan people because he hates them, Assad is using chemical weapons but only when it makes no strategic sense, Cuban spy crickets are trying to assassinate US diplomats, there’s novichok everywhere, and every noncompliant party in the Middle East is secretly working for Iran |
| It can be difficult to figure out what’s going on in a mass media landscape that is saturated with the propaganda of the US-centralized empire |
All you need to do to ensure you’re getting all the facts is watch television and run screaming from the room if you accidentally flip past RT |
| The Gulf of Tonkin incident was faked, the “taking babies out of incubators” narrative was a lie, Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, Gaddafi’s rape armies never existed and the Libya intervention was never really about humanitarian concerns |
It’s better not to think about such things |
| The latest WikiLeaks publications of internal OPCW documents provide ample evidence that we were lied to about the 2018 Douma incident |
Those documents aren’t real because The New York Times never reported on them |
| Increasing levels of government secrecy are making it easier for government agencies to do unethical things in secret |
Questioning your government makes you a Russian anti-semite |
| The billionaire class which owns the mass media has a natural incentive to prop up the status quo upon which it is built, and so construct an environment where reporters are incentivized to always support the establishment line |
If that kind of conspiracy were really happening, it would have been in the news |
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[–] late2thegame ago
This is very interesting. Can you post it as an image we can save?