Da Booby
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“Two sources told BuzzFeed that British intelligence found no evidence of Russian meddling in either the 2016 referendum vote or the 2017 general election.”
So, in other words, we need a war with Russia!!!
Remember the Cold War? The Booby does. Back then all the anti-establishment “smart people” thought a war with Russia (the USSR) was stupid and unthinkable, and any suggestion that Moscow could possibly be up to no good was met with derision and rage.
How times change. Now all those anti-establishment “smart people” have become the establishment, and suddenly the only thing they talk about is “Moscow’s up to no good”, and “we must confront Russia”!
If the Booby was cynical he’d say this is, was, and always will be, just a war for empire, no matter whose band of intellectuals hold the reigns of power.
“I read a lot of stuff every single day, and every single piece is starting to look like any other. I took the following from the Guardian, but it could have been any MSM outlet really.”
Except for die hard true believers no cares what the mainstream media says anymore. They’re losing control of the narrative. Yes, hard core Democrats will still flock to the New York Times, and hard core Republicans will still flock to the Wall Street Journal. But everyone else has stopping taking the mainstream media seriously, and are increasingly seeking out alternative – albeit imperfect – alternatives.
Perhaps that’s why the New York Times is floating the idea that we have too much freedom of speech these days (it’s dangerous, you see).
What the NYT can’t or won’t see is that people have had just about enough of the New York Times and the rest of the MSM.
“So, there is a cycle of social unrest in the United States, which is 60 years old. So, you go back to what happened in the 1960’s. It could explode, and I think it is going to explode, and there is going to be a major problem”
This is exactly right. 60 years ago we had a soft coup in which the radicalized left took control of the West, not by getting elected (politicians have far less power than we realize), but by taking control of our universities. Now they get to groom and indoctrinate our lawyers, judges, bureaucrats, schoolteachers, journalists, entertainers, etc., etc., etc.
The 60s, the Revolution, and the Reign of Terror: Losing the Cold War Has It’s Advantages
What we’re seeing now is the reign of terror that always follows revolutions, whether France, Russia, or Iran, etc. etc. etc. Nothing new, just a lot of denial within our ranks.
And still no investigation into whether the US tampered in Ukraine’s elections.
Still no one has been held accountable in the US for funding and arming ISIS – deliberately or otherwise.
No one in the US has been held accountable for creating a failed state in Libya.
And yet half the country is still clinging to this bogus Russian collusion hoax.
The world has indeed gone mad.
“If you look at the amount of time people spend in ‘their’ Facebook, the power of repetition becomes obvious. 245 million social media interactions. On top of half a million articles. How were people supposed to believe, in the face of such a barrage, that there never was any collusion?”
True. But those who believed did not need a lot of convincing. These articles and these “social media interactions” didn’t so much convince as provide rationalization for what the audience already wanted to believe. And have no illusions, the audience was entertained, which is also why it doesn’t care that the whole thing was a charade.
That no one in the mainstream media stood up and said, “Hold on! There’s no proof!” is itself proof-positive of their political bias and that of their audience.
We need only read Neil Postman’s now-classic book Amusing Ourselves to Death. Though it’s about TV, its applicability to the internet world is chilling.
