During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.Thank you for saving me the time it would take to post this
Is this from Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing consent?
Presuming this isn’t a bit, it’s from Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds.
Ah, okay. That’s one I haven’t gotten around to yet. I know Noam is pretty libby nowadays but manufacturing consent is a good introduction to how the western media apparatus functions.
Edit: apparently I did listen to it on audible before, but it’s been a while and it takes me a few listens before I start downloading it into my brain because I normally listen to communist audiobooks in the background at work
Dw, we tend to spam this so much you’ll memorise it before you know it
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I recognized the quote, probably because it’s spammed so much
Just didn’t know where I remembered it from, everything blends together for me.
While the quote is from Blackshirts and Reds, Parenti made another work very similar to Manufacturing Consent called Inventing Reality.
Parenti’s came out first and is much better than Noam “Little Saint James” Chomsky’s
The US put on a dazzling firework show today but it’s not what you think.
This does two things:
1- Keeps their citizens in line.
2- America is reminding the world of their military might. Imagine thousands of rockets across Venezuela… Game over
Can’t believe I posted this first
Save it July 4th tag this douche see if he bites lol
So what is the purpose of the US flying fighter jets over sporting events? 🤔
that’s just good old American yee-haw and mom’s deep fried apple pie and anyone who doesn’t salute our proud boys in their billion dollar death machines is doing 9/11 to Baby Jesus brought to you by Coca Cola and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Our glorious small fruits, their perfidious, dirty large fruits
Our glorious wild grown bush mids, their decadent, unnatural hydroponic dank chronic
Can we plz retvrn to reasonably strong weed?
This but unironically.
Honestly, smaller ones are often tastier in my opinion. The big ones just taste like sugar water
Our lean and dignified Apollonian raisins, their ridiculously swollen, barbaric Dionysian plums
China tends to rotate their crops
Just saying…
Rotation isn’t something you can do with perennials; it’s just a cultivar called the Shine Muscat
Wait until this person sees bananas in the wild vs. domesticated pesticide-free bananas.
What a bunch of medieval peasants.
Hey which country is freaking the fuck out over drones being flown over New Jersey again?
I mean if my country decided to just quietly start flying surveillance drones over the cities while going “heh, idk” I’d probably freak out a bit too.
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Intercontinental balistic fireworks
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Yet another despicable instance of the CCP keeping its population healthy and happy so they are too pacified to oppose its cruel authoritarianism! Such devious manipulation!
The way supposedly intelligent/important/self-important executives will just post total hysteria and/or awe about a bunch of fucking hopped up RC helicopters is really starting to grind my gears.
edit: I do aspire to command my own fleet of semi-autonomous self defense kamakazi nanodrones though.
We need an emoji for :but-at-what-cost:
Not sure what it would be. Maybe something like
@ 
?We could create that emoji but At what cost!
“Thousand of drones with bombs”, lol. Just wait until this guy finds find out that planes can drop much bigger bombs.
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I’ve only been to Shanghai twice but it doesn’t look like the SH skyline. Maybe SZ?
That’s the oriental pearl tower in the center. Has to be shanghai. Or that video is stitched together from multiple sources.
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Drones are the opium of the masses
Amazon growth into a cancer cell pls
this sucks actually > literally coolest thing ever
