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    21 Nov 2019

    1. All complex states (polities) necessarily function in essentially the same way 2. ‘Democracy’, ‘freedom’, ’liberty’, etc, are propaganda terms and do not indicate real differences in function 3. State corruption, coercion, and violence need to be explained in different terms

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  2. 9 hours ago

    Nobody sane would organize a real corporation the way America Inc is organized, with one exception: America Inc has some similar design features to the way black projects are organized to ensure that everyone involved remains maximally in the dark about what’s going on.

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  3. 9 hours ago

    The nation-state-as-a-corporation has an org chart, showing how all the departments connect together. In America Inc the media department is connected to the think tank department which is connected to the defense department, etc. It’s convoluted, opaque.

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  4. 9 hours ago

    Think of the nation-state as a big corporation, like the way we used to talk of ‘Japan, Inc’. All of the institutions, regardless of whether they present themselves as ‘private’, ‘public‘, ’independent’, etc, are departments within this big corporation.

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  5. 10 hours ago

    What little truth there is to the claim of ‘independence’ in the US media – that its direction at the behest of the state is rendered opaque through the use of intermediaries – makes the system epistemically worse and not better. A state media would always do better.

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  6. 10 hours ago

    The fact that, e.g., in the US the state directs foreign policy coverage in the media via think tanks funded by the defense industry doesn’t make it more likely to be truthful. Just the opposite, this is clearly a WORSE system than simply having the state direct it.

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  7. 10 hours ago

    There are steps in anti-liberalism: 1. You notice liberal ideals lead to some perverse outcomes (questioning) 2. You realize liberal ideals don’t make sense (rejection) Most people stop here, but the most important step is: 3. You ask what those fake ideals are for (horror)

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  8. 10 hours ago

    The goal of liberalism is nothing less than the complete annihilation of the human spirit. This is not something it’s really possible to be honest about. It therefore requires a special sort of ‘double propaganda’ where you first convince people they’re uniquely free.

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  9. 10 hours ago

    Given that the US media is not any more ‘independent’ than the Chinese or Russian media, why does that same media spend so much time and energy trying to convince people that it is? Because the US has vastly more nefarious intentions than China or Russia.

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  10. 10 hours ago

    It’s easier to convince you that, e.g. “our censorship isn’t like their censorship”, if I mislead you about both. ‘Illiberal’ states are assimilated into a narrative that is useful for liberal propaganda purposes.

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  11. 11 hours ago

    If you know anything about China, Russia, etc, you’ll know that the media misrepresents them. But what’s more interesting is HOW they’re misrepresented. It’s not just a bias against those countries, it’s an attempt to create a contrast, to mislead you about how things work HERE.

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  12. 11 hours ago

    ”Western media isn’t like Chinese media, it’s independent and not subject to state control.” Yeah, who told you that?

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  13. 15 hours ago

    Our media does nothing other than propagandize, but part of the propaganda - repeated endlessly - is that it is NOT propaganda, only the media of other types of political regime is propaganda. That was the one trick needed to reduce the population to unthinking acceptance.

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  14. 15 hours ago

    Our media is indistinguishable from the media of the totalitarian states that constantly related everything to the greatness of communism or fascism. It's just relentless "liberal democracy is the only way" propaganda. It's incredible that anyone thinks otherwise.

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  15. 16 hours ago

    Because liberalism is a propaganda discourse, it's not really trying to give good explanations. It just seeks to relate events to the institutions liberals demand others adopt. Any given event is related to elections, free press, rule of law, etc, regardless of the causality.

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  16. 17 hours ago

    Our institutions run into problems every day, almost none become an election issue and very few ever make it into the press, yet we ROUTINELY solve these problems. The regulatory role of liberal institutions is obviously limited, yet we talk as if it was pervasive and necessary.

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  17. 17 hours ago

    An odd thing about liberal discourse is that it's devoid of a 'meso-level' of explanation. At the micro-level events are explained in terms of the psychological individual. At the macro-level, in terms of elections, the free press, etc. Everything in between is inexplicable.

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  18. Feb 1

    With Brexit, Britain can finally concentrate on native Anglo traditions like liberalism, universalism, proceduralism, and rootless cosmopolitanism instead of having those things imposed on it by the EU.

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  19. Feb 1

    Bad coronavirus takes expanding, multiplying, mutating at an exponential rate. Hundreds of thousands already infected.

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  20. Jan 31

    Britain in flames. People screaming, running through the streets. Chunks of land breaking off, sinking into the sea. SARS, MERS, ebola, coronavirus outbreaks. Vladimir Putin seen riding through the streets on a pale horse, cutting men down with his scythe.

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  21. Jan 31

    CITIZEN, YOU ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE 2020 PANDEMIC PREVENTION LAW. RETURN TO YOUR POD IMMEDIATELY.

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