Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Reuters reports that Facebook and Instagram are now allowing calls for the death of Russians and Russian leaders in exemption from the platforms' hate speech terms of service due to the war in Ukraine: "Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy."
This is why anyone should be deeply suspicious (and push for the removal) of any so-called “anti-hate” legislation and policies. Hate is a powerful weapon the system wields against the public.
By only allowing the public to take out their frustration on a small subset of ‘approved targets’ the system weaponizes the entire public against that group. Not only is this a terrifyingly effective weapon, it also deflects blame from the real flaws of the system.
Last night on the Amanpour News show, she interviewed Yatsenyuk the former Ukrainian prime minister. Remember Victoria Nuland's quote "Yats is the one". He is claiming that Putin is the aggressor and that Putin has a Nazi style. Why would the US media interview a known Nazi Bandera follower like Yats? Yats is calling for WWIII.
What a shit outfit is the West: what a slimy, hype-oriented, goon ordered society it is. Hypocrisy is our stock in trade. It permeates every facet of society. Our touted, high-flown values are a myth, a duck-blind as cover for the basest, most-ignoble behaviour we claim to despise when incarnated in individuals. Russia has stopped referring to the West as "friends" and "partners". The truth is, as defined by our governments and institutions, we are barely human. And the ramifications of that are existentially dangerous: among other things, it means we are expendable. But is that who we really are? Or is it time to roundly denounce these elements of illegitimate, immoral power, shun them, contradict them at every turn: their war-mongering hatefulness doesn't represent us in international relationships anymore. I no longer tune into my country's national broadcaster on the subject of Russia: it is nothing more than a propaganda arm for government, a government that has sent troops and arms to the Baltics, and Russia - encircling countries, contributing to and exacerbating a tense, hateful and utterly biased situation that has forced Putin's and Russia's hand.
I wonder what the psychological value is of giving those who complied with severe government overreach and the stripping of basic freedoms a chance to cheer the governments actions directly on the heels of the pandemic?
My theory is that healthy people don't want to rule the world, they just want to live and be happy. That leaves geopolitical politics to psychopaths, sadists and psychotics, which is what we see playing out in our world these days. And the great leverage points are nation-state governments and corporations. We can thank the British monarchy for both. It's why our civilization sucks.
I think Betteridge's law of headlines applies here. Unless by "we" you are referring to the oligarchs that rule America. But that's not me or anyone I know. Or do you mean that we are responsible for allowing our political and media apparatus to be bought by the oligarchs? Even this I reject as akin to blaming us for our obesity and additions. (We are weak and they are strong and they profit from our illness.) This war is for profits and institutional budgets/careers in the Nato zone, in which it serves no other purpose that I can see.
The western freak-out will make some Russians think "thank goodness we struck now and not later". The government needs no propaganda with Michael McFaul around. The big difference between Russia and the West is that only one side is willing to fight. The other side thinks it can win with sanctions and using proxies. Time will tell if that is a good strategy.
You must be aware that, in a time of unreason -- and you can't beat war for that -- reasonable people are among the first to be stood against a wall and shot .... metaphorically or literally.
"Vladimir Putin is no Peter Parker, but neither is Zelensky or Biden or any of the other empire managers overseeing this campaign to overwhelm all challengers to US global domination."
If any of them were, then they'd be trying their best to avoid any innocent bystanders getting killed as they are trying to win. That's a common superhero story trope: villain endangers innocent people to distract the hero, and the hero saves those people because that's what real heroes are supposed to do, even if it means that the villain gains the advantage or gets away.
We never see world leaders hold their fire so as to avoid harming civilians. They are all the furthest thing possible from heroes, with possible exceptions like Jeremy Corbyn.
This is the logical corollary of Critical Race Theory, which views the entire "white" population (including Asians and Hispanics) as the promoters and/or beneficiaries of "white supremacy." Of course such evil, racist ideology is applied to Russians. That's no surprise.
Senior US military leaders appear to be the "adults in the room" resisting immediate escalation, as has been the case for the last decade. They know better than anyone Russia's military capabilities, and are hesitant to test them. We must all hope and pray for their safety, because the fools in the foreign policy establishment, Congress and the punditry are drunk on their own "exceptional" propaganda.
Perhaps one of the reasons such "leaders" have jumped on the hate Russia bandwagon is their visceral fear of talking about what was more and more obviously a planpanic. Perhaps Caitlin herself should tone down the war talk by talking about THAT genocide, which has now surpassed the "unique" 6 million mark.
This is why anyone should be deeply suspicious (and push for the removal) of any so-called “anti-hate” legislation and policies. Hate is a powerful weapon the system wields against the public.
By only allowing the public to take out their frustration on a small subset of ‘approved targets’ the system weaponizes the entire public against that group. Not only is this a terrifyingly effective weapon, it also deflects blame from the real flaws of the system.
https://peakprosperity.com/rats-in-a-cage/
The most effective way to protect truly marginalized people is to support individual rights and have a strong cultural disgust against censorship.
Last night on the Amanpour News show, she interviewed Yatsenyuk the former Ukrainian prime minister. Remember Victoria Nuland's quote "Yats is the one". He is claiming that Putin is the aggressor and that Putin has a Nazi style. Why would the US media interview a known Nazi Bandera follower like Yats? Yats is calling for WWIII.
What a shit outfit is the West: what a slimy, hype-oriented, goon ordered society it is. Hypocrisy is our stock in trade. It permeates every facet of society. Our touted, high-flown values are a myth, a duck-blind as cover for the basest, most-ignoble behaviour we claim to despise when incarnated in individuals. Russia has stopped referring to the West as "friends" and "partners". The truth is, as defined by our governments and institutions, we are barely human. And the ramifications of that are existentially dangerous: among other things, it means we are expendable. But is that who we really are? Or is it time to roundly denounce these elements of illegitimate, immoral power, shun them, contradict them at every turn: their war-mongering hatefulness doesn't represent us in international relationships anymore. I no longer tune into my country's national broadcaster on the subject of Russia: it is nothing more than a propaganda arm for government, a government that has sent troops and arms to the Baltics, and Russia - encircling countries, contributing to and exacerbating a tense, hateful and utterly biased situation that has forced Putin's and Russia's hand.
I wonder what the psychological value is of giving those who complied with severe government overreach and the stripping of basic freedoms a chance to cheer the governments actions directly on the heels of the pandemic?
Living through this mass hysteria, it's easier to see how we ended up with something as absurd and cruel as Japanese internment camps in the 1940s.
Are we close to the point where they start arresting people en masse for being "Russian state agents?"
My theory is that healthy people don't want to rule the world, they just want to live and be happy. That leaves geopolitical politics to psychopaths, sadists and psychotics, which is what we see playing out in our world these days. And the great leverage points are nation-state governments and corporations. We can thank the British monarchy for both. It's why our civilization sucks.
I think Betteridge's law of headlines applies here. Unless by "we" you are referring to the oligarchs that rule America. But that's not me or anyone I know. Or do you mean that we are responsible for allowing our political and media apparatus to be bought by the oligarchs? Even this I reject as akin to blaming us for our obesity and additions. (We are weak and they are strong and they profit from our illness.) This war is for profits and institutional budgets/careers in the Nato zone, in which it serves no other purpose that I can see.
The western freak-out will make some Russians think "thank goodness we struck now and not later". The government needs no propaganda with Michael McFaul around. The big difference between Russia and the West is that only one side is willing to fight. The other side thinks it can win with sanctions and using proxies. Time will tell if that is a good strategy.
The answer to your article is a resounding Yes!
Idont see why it should change. As a progressive American I've thought that weve been the baddies since the Vietnam War Era.
You must be aware that, in a time of unreason -- and you can't beat war for that -- reasonable people are among the first to be stood against a wall and shot .... metaphorically or literally.
Traitors all!
"Vladimir Putin is no Peter Parker, but neither is Zelensky or Biden or any of the other empire managers overseeing this campaign to overwhelm all challengers to US global domination."
If any of them were, then they'd be trying their best to avoid any innocent bystanders getting killed as they are trying to win. That's a common superhero story trope: villain endangers innocent people to distract the hero, and the hero saves those people because that's what real heroes are supposed to do, even if it means that the villain gains the advantage or gets away.
We never see world leaders hold their fire so as to avoid harming civilians. They are all the furthest thing possible from heroes, with possible exceptions like Jeremy Corbyn.
FYI -- Last summer Vladimir Putin wrote an article about the historical relationship between Russia and Ukraine.
https://russiaeu.ru/en/news/article-russian-president-vladimir-putin-historical-unity-russians-and-ukrainians
In summary - US made Putin intervention "regrettable but NECESSARY".
Some of the banned vodkas are US/Canada made with misleading Russian style labels.
Since putin is probably a " jew", the jews of the "west" are thereby "anti-semitic" lol and since "Russia" is anti- west he also is "anti-semitic."
This is the logical corollary of Critical Race Theory, which views the entire "white" population (including Asians and Hispanics) as the promoters and/or beneficiaries of "white supremacy." Of course such evil, racist ideology is applied to Russians. That's no surprise.
Senior US military leaders appear to be the "adults in the room" resisting immediate escalation, as has been the case for the last decade. They know better than anyone Russia's military capabilities, and are hesitant to test them. We must all hope and pray for their safety, because the fools in the foreign policy establishment, Congress and the punditry are drunk on their own "exceptional" propaganda.
Perhaps one of the reasons such "leaders" have jumped on the hate Russia bandwagon is their visceral fear of talking about what was more and more obviously a planpanic. Perhaps Caitlin herself should tone down the war talk by talking about THAT genocide, which has now surpassed the "unique" 6 million mark.