#propaganda

Isn't it awkward that the arguments of the custodians of capitalism are generally so self-serving and LAZY, full of clichés and meaningless concepts? It just so seems that these billionaires have become dumb by leaving all critical thinking skills at the foot of the altar of holy money

"Pairing “personal liberties” and “free markets” is a staple of libertarian rhetoric. It is, in fact, the slogan of the libertarian magazine Reason: “Free Minds and Free Markets.” But these abstractions obscure far more than they clarify. What happens when freedom of thought and speech come into conflict with “the free market,” i.e., with letting business owners do whatever they like?

In 2017, socialist writer Freddie deBoer wrote an essay for the Post titled “Corporations are cracking down on free speech inside the office — and out.” In it, he cited a variety of cases in which employees had been fired at various companies for expressing opinions during their free time that their bosses disliked and concluded that as “businesses gain new ways of observing the private lives of employees, they will become more adept at policing those off-the-clock moments,” and “all of us will become less free.”

Could the deBoer piece be published in WaPo now? It depends on whether Bezos cares more about the “personal liberties” half or the freedom of capitalists to police their workforces however they see fit. Given his own history of firing workers for criticizing his company at union rallies, it’s pretty clear that he’d choose the latter."

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/bezos-washington-post-free-market

#USA #Capitalism #Libertarianism #Censorship #Ideology #Propaganda

Das #Ansehen der #USA fällt gerade im #Ausland ins Bodenlose!
Nachdem man bereits nach dem Treffen mit #Präsident #Macron und #Primeminister #Starmer durch das fortwährende Vortragen von russischen #Propaganda - #Lügen und falschen Zahlen durch #Präsident #Trump unangenehm berührt war, ist es einfach #beschämend, wie die 2 #Maga #Feiglinge #Vance und #Trump den #mutigen #Zelensky, der #Russland die Stirn bot und unerlässlich für sein Land eintritt, ihn hier im #Auftrag von #Putin vorführen und mit falschen #Abschuldigungen einen bombardieren, der sich als nicht Muttersprachler, garnicht bei so viel Unsinn dessen erwehren kann!

https://youtu.be/siDLgWjq8Gk?si=ltp0IMqvRoASAmPT

Meiner Meinung nach sind die ganzen #Verhandlungen mit den #Russen heiße Luft. Die #Maga #Faschisten möchten so eskalieren, dass sie die #Ukraine und #Europa den #Russen uberlassen können.
#Trump wollte bereits 2017 aus der #NATO austreten.

Er hofft, dass die #Europäer dann seine #Wirtschaft mit #Waffenkäufen ankurbeln, während er die #EU mit #Strafzöllen belegt.

Ich sage #Boykott aller #amerikanischer #Marken und #Waren jetzt!!!
Belegt die #US #Konzerne wie Amazon, Google, X und Facebook mit #Steuern und #Auflagen!
Keine #Waffenkäufe der zukünftigen #Bundesregierung in den #USA, #Kündigung bestehender #Verträge!

Zeit, dass #Europa #Zähne zeigt... 💪

Modern information-based anxiety comes from following and believing in the current and historical events as advertised by those declaring said events. When you believe in, repeat, and opine on these event narratives, you compound that anxiety and excite it in others, bringing them into bondage to the same stories and fantasies.

Most events advertised by media and government are fiction. What you see on the Internet and TV is not real. What experts, foundations, agencies, governments, and nonprofits say is never the truth. None of it is real. It is all agitprop. It is all agenda-driven manipulation. None of it has ever been real. There is always an angle or agenda behind the way the information is presented. Those images and sounds and slogans and speeches are NOT reality. It is a false reality offered for you to buy into.

Reality is between you and your neighbor. How you treat your neighbor ... whether or not you treat your neighbor as equal in dignity and rights ... or whether or not you use your fears of government stories as an excuse to hate and abuse your neighbor ... which is why they give you their stories in the first place. By stoking division they can rule you, fleece you, control you, and profit from you.

In the Game of Thrones the Tyrion character was used to tell us who rules:

"What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? No. It’s stories. There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it. And who has a better story than Bran the Broken? The boy who fell from a high tower and lived… He's our memory. The keeper of all our stories. The wars, weddings, births, massacres, famines, our triumphs, our defeats, our past. Who better to lead us into the future?"

When you believe someone's stories, that person rules over you. The person who crafts the stories that you take for reality has control of your mind and your life. Whoever crafts your reality is your master. They keep ramping up the anxiety to stunt critical thinking and invoke emotional responses and emotional investment in narratives crafted to steer people into doing their bidding.

#Propaganda #Media #News #Politics #Religion #GameOfThrones

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