 Two parties of capitalist imperialists notes from the edge of the narrative matrix They don't just call Democrats Communists and Marxists in order to attack Democrats They do it to disappear the entire giant expanse of political spectrum that exists to the left of the Democratic imperialist Democratic Party They want you to think that's as far left as it gets Democrats refer to themselves as the left for the same reason Both mainstream factions work to shrink the Overton window and into a tug-of-war between Republican capitalist imperialists and Democrat capitalist imperialists between two opposing factions of neoliberal neocons The problem with the belief that we must start new social media companies because the US government keeps infiltrating the popular social media companies Is that it does nothing to confront the huge problem that the US government keeps infiltrating popular social media companies Until we turn and squarely address the problem that the world's most powerful government keeps infiltrating the popular online Platforms we use to communicate with each other in order to interfere in our communications They're just going to keep doing it their actions need to be stopped Sure, you can keep starting new social media companies in response to this problem But they'll either remain small platforms without any meaningful influence Or they'll be overpowered by the US government and made to facilitate US information interests That's the real issue To accept that we can only have Unrestricted political speech on small platforms is to accept that we can have free speech as long as no one hears us That we can say whatever we want as long as we speak it into a hole in the ground Starting new platforms isn't the solution to this problem The solution to this problem is loud forceful aggressive opposition to the US government Interfering with the way people communicate with each other on the internet until they stop This is actually very possible to do because the US government needs to preserve its image as an Upholder of liberal values if that image starts to deteriorate as public awareness grows that they are working to censor Worldwide political speech their behavior will need to change So what we can do is work to grow public awareness and opposition to the US government's increasingly intrusive operations in Silicon Valley That's a much better use of our energy than self Isolating our dissident speech into small online platforms that have no mainstream impact US government agencies would love it if we'd all self quarantine ourselves into obscure margins of the internet where we can't infect the mainstream herd with wrong think We'd be doing their work for them It's better to stay on the largest platforms and work to open some eyes China's going to invade Taiwan What how do you know well? We're pouring tons of weapons into Taiwan, and we know we definitely invade if the Chinese were doing that in Cuba. Oh So you've got some solid intelligence then I'm often accused of praising or supporting Russia or China Which is funny because I never actually do people are just so Acustomed to being told the US and its allies are pure good and its enemies are pure evil that anything outside This looks wildly imbalanced to them It's possible to saturate a civilization so thoroughly with propaganda that the entire normal baseline act of focusing one's Criticisms on the world's most powerful and destructive power center looks freakish and suspicious in contrast to what you're accustomed to consuming in reality Criticizing the US centralized empire with appropriate and proportional Forcefulness and focus looks like treasonous support for enemy nations for the same reason Sunlight would seem shocking and abrasive to someone who's lived their whole life in a cave We do not live in a free society We live in a highly controlled society where we are psychologically manipulated into mental homogeneity in service of the powerful Criticizing foreign countries for not having freedom like ours helps make our own society even more controlled We're told we're freer than other countries so that we won't see how unfree we are You can't look down your nose at countries like China or North Korea and still clearly see how controlled and homogenized your own country is You can't celebrate your freedom while still lucidly understanding your oppression The illusion of freedom is precisely where the reality of our imprisonment hides We've been conditioned to mistake being able to choose between two fake political factions for political freedom To mistake being able to regurgitate what we've been propagandized into saying for free speech People say I'm free because where I live I can say do an experience anything I want But that's not true. You can't you can only say do an experience what you've been conditioned to want to say do an experience by the Mass scale psychological manipulation you've been marinating in since birth You can do what you want, but they control what it is that you want There's no better illustration of how unfree we are than the way Westerners all think the same thoughts about how unfree people are in Countries the Western Empire just so happens to disapprove of We bleed in unison. I'm so glad I don't live in a tyrannical homogenized country like China where people aren't free to be individuals We won't be free until our minds are free Until all of us not just the lucky few who happen to stumble outside the narrative matrix Are able to shape their own perspectives based on truth rather than on what benefits the powerful Until we're able to become true individuals