CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM

JOHN RACHEL—What authority the woke mob claims is based on an inversion of the mechanism which has underpinned moral imperatives in the rich philosophical traditions of both East and West. Traditionally, after rigorous and thorough dialectic, we did what we did because it was the right thing to do. By inverting this, all that is done in the name of woke activism is right because it’s what they do. The woke have dispensed with the cumbersome process of arriving at moral truths by free, open, and constructive conversations, then respectfully and judiciously soliciting consensus and compliance. By unilaterally deciding they are on the right side of history and all important issues, their actions are deemed a priori correct and unassailable. It’s remindful of the German nation being led to believe in the 1930s that they were a super race of ascendant humans, thus their actions could not be evaluated and judged by external standards.

RAINER SHEA—Is it any wonder that during his 2017 Senate hearing, former FBI agent and pro-censorship fanatic Clint Watts used language which perfectly reflected what I just described? He said that “Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words. America’s war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.” Because of this risk inherent within a free and open internet, concluded Watts, the government must work with Big Tech to “silence” sources of “rebellion.”

His paranoia was entirely valid, because as someone who was radicalized towards Marxism-Leninism after years of reading debunkery of U.S. regime change narratives, I can say that actors like me are indeed created through letting people access information which goes against what the government says.

As Biden & Co. tighten their friendly fascist censorship regime, we observe more and more instances of officially “left” outfits crossing over to the enemy, Democracy Now! being one of the main examples.

SCOTT RITTER—The most recent defense expenditure authorization required that the ODNI establish a “social media data analysis center” to coordinate and track foreign social media influence operations by analyzing data voluntarily shared by US social media companies. Based upon this analysis, the ODNI would report to Congress on a quarterly basis on trends in foreign influence and disinformation operations to the public. As envisioned by Congress, the intelligence community would determine jointly with US social media companies which data and metadata will be made available for analysis.

In short, the intelligence community, using data obtained from the social media accounts of American citizens, will report to Congress how this data influences the political decision making of these same American citizens. If this does not make the most ardent defender of the US Constitution ill, nothing will.

An informal chat with Caleb Maupin as your guide to the multitude of news, lies, distortions, rumors, idiocies, hypocrisies, and ideologies that shape our world. Caleb discusses Joe Biden’s speech. While admitting that Biden said some encouraging and highly unusual things (for a US president), such as a debunking of trickle down economics, and recognising the need for a big jobs and infrastructure program, and other progressive notions, Maupin warns about the sinister undertones in the address, especially the effort by Biden (the collective Biden) to equate anti-imperialist nations and activists with “rightwing terrorists”—homegrown or foreign. Fact is, anti-imperialist states—Russia/Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Vietnam, Iran, China, etc.— have always been firm allies of progressives everywhere, and that makes them also anti-racist activists. Beware, says Caleb, of the emerging “woke imperialism” being promoted by the Biden crowd, representing the current “solution” chosen by the Democrats/Deep State wing of the US ruling class as a cure for the multitude of crises besetting a neoliberal leviathan unable and incapable of finding true solutions.