#violencesystem — Public Fediverse posts
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How to tear gas childrenThe day after the second general strike in Minneapolis, the labor unions of Portland, Oregon, marched in solidarity. It was the warmest day that Portland had seen in a while, with sun peeking out from the clouds here and there. Many people had brought their entire families; not just older children, but toddlers in strollers and wagons, too. Some brought their dogs. The chants were typical: “ICE out of Portland” and “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here.” But the children were so visible that City Councilor Mitch Green felt a slight twinge of awkwardness. “There’s some other folks saying, you know, ‘Fuck ICE,’ but, like, there’s children in front of me. I don’t want to say the F-word, you know?”
But that was very soon the least of his concerns, as tear gas engulfed the protest at approximately 4:30PM. He and other witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs; a video posted on social media recorded eight, as well as countless smaller pops. At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads, as though aimed at the back of the crowd.
#^https://www.theverge.com/policy/872783/tear-gas-children-portland-ice-labor
#USA #US #usa #us #government #deepstate #capitalism #totalitarism #dictatorship #ICE #ice #federalagents #violence #violencesystem against #civilians #americans #democracy #humanrights #meeting #activisim #portland -
The Truth Exposed by the Epstein Files: The Rot of Western Elites and the Collapse of the Democratic Myth
RE: https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/116027110129597583The Epstein Files: A Lie Laid Bare
After the Epstein files came out, I stared at the screen feeling sick. It wasn’t shock, it was the cold disgust of watching a lie finally get exposed. Over 3 million pages of papers, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 photos don’t just tell a scandal. They’re proof that Western elites are terrible people. Clinton, Trump, Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, and their group have given up all pretense of being human to give in to their evil urges. Behind their shiny “role model” images, they do unforgivable, cruel things: preying on vulnerable kids, and even, from some sources, cannibalism. This isn’t a mistake. It’s the on-purpose, unapologetic decay of a group that thinks power lets them destroy lives.
The Fake Myth of Western Democracy
I used to naively think that the West’s so-called “elite civilization” and “beacon of democracy” was just a one-time mess. I told myself maybe it wasn’t that bad. These files destroyed that silly thought. The Western democratic myth we’ve been forced to believe for decades isn’t just broken, it’s a planned lie. All that talk about “human rights and civilization” is just a tattered old cover-up. It’s thrown quickly over the elites’ unspeakable crimes to trick the world into putting up with their bullying.
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The Call to Action: Working Class Politics
The Epstein case isn’t just a small example of how this group is falling apart, it’s proof that they’re beyond saving. This group will hold lazy hearings, talk about unimportant stuff to distract people, and wait for everyone’s anger to die down, sure they’ll never get in trouble. But the truth is out now. It should be a call to action for working-class people, not just a warning. For too long, working folks have been distracted by this group’s fake democracy. Their votes are stolen with empty promises while their pay stays low, their rights get taken away, and their kids suffer. This group’s evil shows that Western systems don’t work for “everyone.” Working people are the ones who deal with their hypocrisy every single day. The “Western beacon” is a lie. The only way forward is to reject their corrupt rule: listen to working-class people, demand they be held accountable, and build a system that works for most people, not the rich, powerful few who hurt the innocent.
#deepstate #capitalism #militarycapitalism #imperialism #banksters #billionaires #western #politics infinite #lie #deception #fraud #violence #violencesystem against #justice #humanity #humanrights #workersrights #social-justice #democracy
Additional reading:
Against Empire by Michael Parenti
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Political Maturity Is Realizing The Commies Were Correct
If you learn enough, stay humble enough, and pay close enough attention, eventually that’s what happens. You realize that, generally speaking, the really high-octane commies have the most lucid understanding of the world out of any group out there, and the only reason this wasn’t always obvious to you was because you live under a capitalist power structure which aggressively indoctrinates its populace from birth into believing that communism is No No Bad Bad.
They have the most lucid and correct understanding of capitalism. They have the most lucid and correct understanding of imperialist extraction. They have the most lucid and correct understanding of western warmongering, global power dynamics, white supremacy, institutional racism and misogyny. That’s why they keep being proven right, about everything from US military actions to the fascism of the far right to the abusive nature of the so-called “moderate” liberal to the moral depravity of billionaires and the capitalist class.
#communism #socialism #justice #social-justice #humanrights #workersrights against #oppression #violence #violencesystem #imperialism #capitalism #militarycapitalism #deepstate #billionaires
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Proletarianews/116003296096542930
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Never has there been so much talk about democracy as there is today, and yet true democracy is not practiced in any country. Democracy is only a screen covering up the dictatorship of capital. Even before the war, the conservative English writer Fullerton called France a “financial monarchy.” Capitalism exploits democracy because this form makes it easier to conceal its iron dictatorship. The government, parliament, and press are merely clerks, servants of financial and industrial groups and trusts.
In his reply to Kautsky, who contrasted the proletarian dictatorship with “pure democracy,” Lenin emphasizes that one cannot speak of “pure democracy” as long as there are clearly defined classes. There is only class democracy. “Pure democracy is a false phrase used by liberals to fool workers. History knows bourgeois democracy, which replaces feudalism, and proletarian democracy, which replaces bourgeois democracy.”
The history of the 19th and 20th centuries, even before the war, showed us what the much-vaunted “pure democracy” under capitalism really is. Marxists have always argued that the more developed and “pure” democracy is, the more open, brutal, and merciless the class struggle becomes, and the more obvious the oppression of capital and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The Dreyfus affair in republican France, the bloody reprisals of the capitalist-armed mercenary army against striking workers in the free and democratic American republic, — these and thousands of other similar facts reveal the truth that the bourgeoisie tries in vain to hide, namely, that even in the most democratic republics, terror and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie reign supreme, manifesting themselves openly whenever the power of capital seems to be losing ground.
The imperialist war of 1914–1918 proved once and for all, even to the backward workers in the freest republics, that genuine bourgeois democracy is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Tens of millions of people were killed to enrich German and English millionaires and billionaires, and a military dictatorship of the bourgeoisie was established in even the most free republics.
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«Чистая демократия есть лживая фраза либерала, одурачивающая рабочих. История знает буржуазную демократию, которая идет на смену феодализму, и пролетарскую демократию, которая идет на смену буржуазной».
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Источник: #^https://leninism.su/books/4358-vladimir-ilich-lenin.html?start=9
#europe #european #capitalism #militarycapitalism #dictatorship #oppression #violencesystem against #democracy #workersrights #humanrights #revolution #proletarian #proletariado #socialism #socialismo #Lenin #quote #history #study for #future #social-justice -
The Gulf War Lies
The initial excuse given by the #Bush administration was that U.S. forces were needed in the Middle East to defend Saudi Arabia from an impending Iraqi invasion. But if the Iraqis intended to take Saudi Arabia, why did they not move into that country immediately after grabbing Kuwait and well before U.S. troops arrived? Contrary to the disinformation passed around, journalists could find no Iraqi troops massed on the Saudi border.
Bush claimed that his attack came only after "months of constant and virtually endless diplomatic activity," and that Iraq displayed no interest in a negotiated settlement. This was an outright lie.
In the one "diplomatic" session held with the Iraqis by Secretary of State Baker in Geneva, he simply ordered them to leave Kuwait. By his own account, Baker made no effort to explore Iraq's grievances with Kuwait. When the Iraqis floated peace feelers through the remainder of 1990, they were ignored by the White House.
The Bush administration was spoiling for the one-sided fight. White House spokespersons were quoted as describing an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait as "the nightmare scenario." Why so? Would not the avoidance of war have been a dream scenario? The policymakers understood that a peaceful withdrawal would remove the casus belli and deprive the president of "a glorious victory against aggression."
The president also claimed he was concerned with protecting human rights in Kuwait and elsewhere in the Middle East. But there was precious little democracy in any of the region's feudal emirates and autocracies. In Saudi Arabia, women were still stoned to death on charges of adultery.
In Kuwait, democratic councils and other organized political groupings were regularly crushed. One filthy-rich family controlled the country's politico- economic life.
It was also maintained that the United States was upholding the United Nations commitment to defend member states against aggression. But why
only in this instance? Both Syria and Israel invaded Lebanon and still occupied portions of that country; Turkey grabbed half of Cyprus; Morocco waged a war of aggression against the Western Sahara; Indonesia invaded and annexed East Timor at a great loss of Timorese lives. Yet Washington maintained close and supportive relations with all these aggressors. When Iraq invaded Iran, a few years before the Gulf War, Washington sent military aid to both countries. U.S. leaders themselves invaded Grenada and Panama. One can look with skepticism on Washington's sudden and highly principled intolerance of aggression.
In August 1990, Bush asserted that he was trying to prevent Saddam from monopolizing "all the world's great oil reserves." This alibi at least brought us closer to the truth: oil was definitely a consideration. But the charge was false. No single producer can control the global oil market, not even a powerful consortium like OPEC, let alone an individual leader like Saddam. Even with the 1990 embargo that cut off the oil from Iraq, the world's net petroleum production remained roughly the same.
The White House then charged that Iraq posed a nuclear threat. This polemic was tacked on to Bush's list of pretexts months after he had embarked upon intervention and immediately after opinion polls showed Americans responded apprehensively to the possibility of Iraq's developing a nuclear capability. In any case, with sanctions in place, it was impossible for Iraq to get the necessary materials to build a nuclear bomb.
In November 1990, Secretary Baker argued that the intervention would safeguard jobs at home.
This was the first time anyone in Bush's national security entourage had evinced concern for the nation's work force. Nobody specified how a costly massacre in the Middle East would protect jobs at home. In fact, after the war, unemployment increased slightly. Besides, there were more effective and less horrible ways of keeping Americans employed than wreaking destruction upon another nation.
Some Real Reasons
There were a number of compelling considerations for war against Iraq that the Bush administration preferred to leave unmentioned. First, #Saddam #Hussein was trying to stop the Kuwaiti slant drilling into his oil reserves and was trying to bolster the oil price he could get. His temerity in putting considerations about his own country's economy ahead of the interests of the international oil cartel suddenly made him an unpopular personage in Washington.
Second, thanks to the major networks, the Gulf War served as a video promotional event for the military-industrial complex, a rescue operation for a bloated defense budget. In July 1990, for the first time in years, the Democratic leadership in Congress was talking about real cuts in military spending. The Gulf War hoopla brought Congress meekly back into line.
Third, the quick and easy victory was a promotional event for interventionism itself, a cure for the "Vietnam syndrome" (that is, the public's unwillingness to commit U.S. forces to violent conflicts abroad). The Gulf War seemed to solve a problem U.S. interventionists long have faced: how to engage in military action without a serious loss of American lives. (Their concern was more political than humanitarian. Heavy losses make the intervention unpopular with the U.S. public.) The way to economize on American lives was to apply an air, land, and sea firepower of such superior magnitude that it could destroy the opponent's military capacity, infrastructure, and life support systems without any great commitment of U.S. troops.
It is not true, as was claimed by antiwar activists, that Iraq was bombed back into the nineteenth century. Iraq in the nineteenth century had a productive base roughly commensurate with the population needs of that time. The destruction created a far greater crisis than that. In March 1991, a United Nations mission to Iraq reported that the conflict "has wrought near- apocalyptic results" by destroying "most means of modern life support," relegating Iraq "to a preindustrial age, but with all the disabilities of post- industrial dependency on intensive use of energy and technology."
Not without cause did U.S. militarists boast that the attacks were "surgical." True, most of the bombs were free-falling and killed people wantonly. But the thousands of air strikes did surgically remove most of Iraq's electrical systems and seriously damaged the agricultural system. Without electricity, water could not be purified, sewage could not be treated. Hunger, cholera, and other diseases flourished.
The Gulf War was followed by a vindictive United Nations embargo that several years later still denied Iraq the technological resources to rebuild its food production, medical dervices, and sanitation facilities. As late as 1993, CNN reported that nearly 300,000 Iraqi children were suffering from malnutrition. Deaths exceeded the normal rate by 125,000 a year, mostly affecting "the poor, their infants, children, chronically ill, and elderly" (Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1994). Iraqi citizens, who previously had enjoyed a decent living standard, were reduced to destitution. So was realized one of the perennial goals of imperialism: to reduce to impotence and poverty all potential adversaries and upstarts.
Fourth, the Gulf crisis allowed U.S. leaders to establish a long-term military presence in the Middle East, a region of troubled regimes and abundant oil reserves. U.S. forces now could more immediately and effectively safeguard existing autocracies from their own restive populations.
Fifth, many wars are begun, noted Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 6, because of the political interests of leaders. By plunging into conflicts abroad, they seek to diminish the impact of troublesome issues at home, thereby securing their political fortunes. The war against Iraq came in the middle of a serious recession, one that President Bush was more interested in ignoring than resolving. In July 1990, his popularity also was slumping badly because of the savings and loan scandal. Every evening, TV news programs were peeling off successive layers of corruption, thievery, bribery, and plunder of the public treasury, in what was the greatest financial conspiracy in the history of the world. But once the media became preoccupied with selling the high-tech video war, the savings and loan issue was dropped from the evening news. The Gulf victory also made it harder to investigate disclosures implicating Bush in the Iran-Contra conspiracy, as he basked in what seemed like an untouchable popularity.
While the war was still in progress, I wrote in CovertAction Information Bulletin (Spring 1991): "The morning after victory, more of the American public may begin to wonder if the bloodshed and the $80 billion bill was worth it. They might recall that the only war worth supporting is what Benjamin Franklin called 'the best war,' the one that is never fought." Indeed, the slaughter perpetrated against Iraq and all its attendant hoopla were not enough to carry Bush to reelection the following year.
"Against Empire" by Michael Parenti
#^https://archive.org/details/against-empire_202601
#USA #usa #US #us #american #government #politics #western #propaganda #lie #deception #fraud #corruption #deepstate #imperialism #militarycapitalism #Pentagon #pentagon #military #warmongers #violencesystem #economy #murders #deaths #bombings #war-crimes #war #gulfwar against #civilians #humanrights #Iraq #iraq #kuwait #history #book
Additionally:The Nayirah testimony
The Nayirah testimony was false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990, by a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who was publicly identified only as Nayirah at the time, and presented herself as having been a volunteer nurse at a Kuwaiti hospital at the time of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. In her testimony, which took place two months after the invasion, she claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers taking premature babies out of incubators in a maternity ward before looting the incubators and leaving the babies to die on the floor. Nayirah's statements were widely publicized and cited numerous times in the United States Senate and by American president George H. W. Bush to contribute to the rationale for pursuing military action against Iraq. Her portrayal of Iraqi war crimes was aimed at further increasing global support for Kuwait against the Iraqi occupation during the Gulf War, which resulted in the expulsion of Iraqi troops from Kuwait by a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
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Detained Immigrants Detail Physical Abuse and Inhumane Conditions at Largest Immigration Detention Center in the U.S.
RE: https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/115964098568012211Since its opening, media reports and stories from people detained affirm the conditions, rights violations, and deliberate opacity the ACLU warned would follow the opening of this site. Recent reporting reveals alarming conditions at Fort Bliss. The site has already racked up 60 violations of federal detention standards within its first 50 days of operation.
Each pod holds 60–70 people who report chronic food shortages, with meals sufficient for only about 50 individuals. People are forced to ration food, skip meals, or take turns eating — and when food is available, it is often spoiled or partially frozen, causing widespread vomiting, diarrhea, and rapid weight loss. Basic hygiene supplies are scarce: pods receive only a handful of rolls of toilet paper, and people go days without soap, clean clothing, or access to functioning showers. Detainees describe tents and bathrooms flooded with foul water mixed with urine and feces, creating squalid and unsafe living conditions.
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If this is the state of a brand-new, billion-dollar facility within its first 90 days, the outlook for the next wave of military-base detention centers is dire. As detention sites open every few weeks nationwide, the ACLU anticipates that Fort Dix in New Jersey will be the next military site the Trump administration will use for mass immigration detention. There have also been reports of ICE scouting a Coast Guard base in New York for immigration detention.
What we are witnessing at Fort Bliss is not an anomaly; it is a warning. The conditions at Fort Bliss reflect a broader pattern of ICE evading oversight and accountability. The facility is a failed experiment that exposes the dangers of rapidly expanding detention, minimal safeguards, limited transparency, and virtually no oversight.
#USEmpire #USA #US #us #american #deepstate #militarycapitalism #dictatorship #lawlessness #violencesystem #federalagents #ICE #ice #violence #tortures #concentrationCamp against #civilians #democracy #constitucion #humanrights #social-justice -
RE: https://kafeneio.social/@heretical_i/115964400056044020
#USEmpire #USA #US #us #american #deepstate #militarycapitalism #imperialism #dictatorship #lawlessness #violencesystem #federalagents #fbi #ice against #civilians #americans #freedom #liberty #privacy #democracy #constitucion #humanrights #social-justice -
By the Numbers… Which Nation is the Deadliest Terrorist?
RE: https://kafeneio.social/@syphilia/115950435720528811Based on comprehensive data from conflict databases, academic estimates, and reports on civilian casualties in foreign wars (excluding domestic conflicts or genocides within a country’s own borders), the United States is responsible for the highest number of civilian deaths in other countries since 1960. This is primarily driven by major US-led or US-involved interventions, with total estimates exceeding 4 million civilian fatalities across multiple conflicts (figures vary due to challenges in attribution and indirect causes like famine or disease exacerbated by war).
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Here are the major US-sponsored proxy wars that killed civilians:
Afghan-Soviet War (1979–1989): US provided ~$3–6 billion in arms and aid to mujahideen fighters as proxies against Soviet forces. Civilian deaths: ~800,000–1.5 million (from bombings, landmines, and proxy guerrilla warfare; total war deaths ~1–2 million, with civilians ~50–75%).
Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988): US supported Iraq as a proxy against Iran via intelligence, loans (~$5 billion), and dual-use chemical precursors (enabling mustard gas and other weapons used in attacks like Halabja, killing ~5,000 civilians in one incident). Civilian deaths: ~100,000–500,000 (total war deaths ~500,000–1 million; civilians ~20–50%, including ~50,000–100,000 from chemical weapons).
Angolan Civil War (1975–2002, US involvement 1980s–1990s): US backed UNITA rebels (~$250 million in aid) as proxies against the Soviet/Cuban-supported government. Civilian deaths: ~300,000–500,000 (from fighting, mines, and famine; total deaths ~500,000–800,000, civilians ~60%).
Yemen Civil War (2015–ongoing): US supported Saudi-led coalition with arms (~$100 billion+ sales), intelligence, and logistics as proxies against Houthi rebels. Civilian deaths: ~150,000–377,000 (direct ~85,000, indirect ~292,000 from famine/disease; UN and Costs of War estimates).
Syrian Civil War (2011–ongoing, US proxy support 2012–2020): US armed and trained moderate rebels (~$1 billion+) as proxies against Assad/ISIS. Attributed civilian deaths: ~50,000–200,000 (in broader war; US-backed groups involved in ~10–20% of total ~500,000 civilians killed, per Airwars and Syrian Observatory).
Other Notable Proxies (Aggregate ~100,000–300,000): Includes Indonesian invasion of East Timor (1975–1999, US arms/support: ~100,000–200,000 civilians); Mozambican Civil War (1977–1992, US-backed RENAMO: ~100,000 civilians); and scattered drone/support ops in Somalia/Pakistan (~5,000–10,000 civilians since 2001).
The total number of civilians killed by US-direct action or through proxies is at least 7 million.
The above-mentioned 7 million victims do not include the number of unborn children, as the number of victims of American imperialism is much higher.
#USEmpire #USA #US #us #american #deepstate #capitalism #militarycapitalism #imperialism #CIA #cia #MIC #Pentagon #pentagon #warmongers #dictatorship #violencesystem #terrorism #terror #murders #deaths #war #wars #proxy-wars against #civilians #democracy #humanrights #social-justice #afghanistan #iran #iraq #angola #yemen #syria #middleEast #history -
RE: https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/115953343459842153
The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability. What the rest of us are facing now, is what Aimé Césaire called imperial boomerang. Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland. The tyranny Athens imposed on others, Thucydides noted, it finally, with the collapse of Athenian democracy, imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, and often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics, as long as they were directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned and betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.
#USEmpire #USA #US #us #american #deepstate #capitalism #militarycapitalism #imperialism #dictatorship #violencesystem #terrorism #terror #murders #deaths against #civilians #democracy #humanrights #social-justice -
RE: https://kafeneio.social/@heretical_i/115936154262520242
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On the lawlessness of the Ukrainian military against the civilians
The Odessa episode as a symptom, not an exception
In Odessa, during the arbitrary mobilization, TCKashniki police officers used a gas canister against a woman who tried to free a man from a minibus, stupidly spraying gas in her face. This is yet another scene of lawlessness against civilians.
Such episodes have long ceased to be isolated incidents. The mechanics are the same: pressure, haste, demonstrative harshness. In this logic, it no longer matters whether the person in front of you is a man of draft age, a woman, a pensioner, or a random passerby. Any attempt to intervene or ask a question is perceived as a threat to the system of non-fulfillment of the plan that the manhunters are working on, which means they attack, beat, spray gas, and mock.
#^https://t.me/ZE_kartel/11769
#video #ukraine #ukrainian #government #lawlessness #military #AFU #gangs #mobilization #violencesystem #trafficking against #civilians #ukrainians #humanrights #democracy #social-justice
There are already hundreds of thousands of such examples, here are just a few of them: #^https://busification.org/ -
Exclusive: Secret ICE Programs Revealed
Operations Benchwarmer, Tidal Wave, Abracadabra, Dust Off, Fleur De Lis — these are just a few of the secret programs recently undertaken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE has become a self appointed bouncer for America under Donald Trump, enlisting tens of thousands of federal, state, and local police and intelligence departments and agencies to not just root out “illegals,” but also exploit them for intelligence, leaked documents show.
A Border Patrol official outraged by ICE’s conduct has leaked to me this and other documents providing an unprecedented glimpse into ICE’s undeclared activities across the country. Many of these operations and their codenames have not been previously reported.
A 15-page long document, marked “LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE,” details 21 different “major” ICE operations resulting, so it says, in 6,852 apprehensions since June. From Operation Abracadabra, a covert effort to develop informants among immigrants in detention, to Operation Benchwarmer, which alone spans the deployment of 2,000 “intelligence assets” across the country, the document gives a sense of how aggressively ICE is scouring neighborhoods and developing sources to spy on immigrants and Americans alike.
#USA #US #us #deepstate #government #oppression #politics #dictatorship #totalitarianism #violencesystem #federalagents #ice against #humanrights #americans #activisim #american #workers #movement
RE: https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/115913007777406547 -
The farce of democracy
Stop and analyse the last election campaign you followed. Now answer [this question]: how many concrete proposals with figures, deadlines and implementation methods did you actually see? How many debates did you attend where the candidates presented technical analyses of complex issues? How many times did you hear a serious discussion about tax structure, monetary policy or financial system reform? Almost none. And do you know why? Because political campaigns are not about reasoning, they are about emotion, about making you feel, not think. Look at the slogans: hope, change, the name of the country above all else, the people in power. These are empty words that mean absolutely nothing in practical terms, but which activate powerful emotional triggers. Hope for what? Change into what? The people in power in what way? No one explains because there is no need to explain. The goal is not to inform, it is to excite. It is to make you identify with a narrative, with a character, with a story that makes you feel part of something bigger. Election adverts are designed like soft drink commercials, with exciting music, images of happy families, smiling children, waving flags. No one is selling you a government plan, they are selling you a feeling, a feeling of belonging, of hope, that this time will be different, and you buy it, not because you have analysed the data, but because the narrative has touched something emotional inside you.
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Politics has ceased to be a space for rational debate and has become a stage for manipulated emotion. Modern democracy has a clever trick: it gives you freedom of expression, but carefully controls the scope of that expression. You can say whatever you want; in theory, you can create your own blog, your own channel, your own social media profile and express your most radical opinions. The State will not knock on your door and arrest you for disagreeing with the government. And that is exactly what makes you believe you live in a free society. But look at what happens when someone actually threatens the system. First, they try to discredit them. If you question the fundamental structures of power, they do not censor you directly, they call you crazy, a conspirator, an extremist, a disinformer. They create categories that make any structural criticism seem like the product of an unbalanced mind. “Conspiracy theory” has become the expression that automatically disqualifies any analysis that connects dots that should not be connected. Most people are afraid of being associated with these categories, so they censor themselves before anyone else has to censor them.
Second, they control visibility. The digital platforms where you express your opinions are not neutral; they have algorithms that decide who sees what, and these algorithms can show you to millions or bury you in oblivion. All this without having to explicitly ban or silence you. You keep posting, you keep writing, you keep talking, but your words go nowhere. It’s like shouting in a soundproof room and believing you are exercising your freedom of expression.
Third, they destroy you economically. If you have too much reach and insist on questioning what should not be questioned, they don’t need to arrest you. They demonetise your channels, cancel your bank accounts, cut your contracts, put pressure on your advertisers. In a society where money is survival, cutting someone off economically is more effective than any classic state censorship, and the best they can do is maintain the facade that we live in a free country.
#^https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/the-farce-of-democracy
#deepstate #capitalism #oligarchy #banksters #bigpharma #bigtech #MIC #Pentagon #militarycapitalism huge #money #politics #power #violencesystem #democracy #mindmanipulation against #humanrights #humanity #social-justice #freedom #liberty
Think about class struggle, not party attributes.