 What if they staged a Cuba uprising and nobody came? Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix The US staging a domestic uprising in Cuba and no one's showing up for it reminds me of that old saying What if they had a war and nobody came? So much of what the US Empire used to do covertly through the CIA and now just does openly Says a lot about how much more effective its narrative control has gotten over the years The CIA used to infiltrate the media now spooks openly do punditry for mainstream news outlets The CIA used to oust governments covertly now the NED openly funds subversion The CIA used to stage uprisings now the Empire just says hey, we're gonna start some protests in Cuba If anti-government protests were proportionate to a government's actual malfeasance Washington DC would be completely inoperable 365 days a year because its streets would be continuously packed with millions of demonstrators Socialism leads to government waste and inefficiency Unlike our current system which wastes half of all food produced leaves more homes empty than there are homeless people and Sees clothing manufacturers destroy billions worth of excess inventory so poor people can't wear it Capitalism is so good at eliminating scarcity that it has to artificially create it to survive If you think Glenn Greenwald is a Trump or Joe Rogan is a fascist It's because you've disappeared as far into your own ideological anus as people who think Biden is a Marxist You can disagree with someone without making them the extreme opposite of everything you value If I wanted to crush socialism and anti-imperialism in the most powerful nation in the world I'd train Democrats to believe being on the left means shrieking about Trump all the time and Train Republicans that the left means forcing your son to wear a dress at kill whitey class It's weird how much of left discourse is about obscure sectarian Disagreements instead of like hey, we don't have the numbers to accomplish literally anything and we should probably try to do something about that Criticized Beijing's Xinjiang policy all you want, but its De-radicalization campaign was indisputably infinitely less draconian than the Western war on terror Which has killed millions and displaced tens of millions since 9-11 and Now it is winding down while the US Empire's war on terror has been continually expanding These two things are not equal. They are not even comparable The US and its allies are indisputably far far worse All the Western hand-ringing about Muslims in China is worse than hypocritical It's a joke the US Empire pretending to care about Muslims is like Exxon mobile pretending to care about the environment Healthy people want power to be proportionate to responsibility The more your actions affect others the more accountable you must be Unhealthy people want power without responsibility They want maximum power, but one all culpability off loaded onto the collective We are ruled by very unhealthy people We're in this strange human soup full of billions of people pesticides all kinds of radiation vaccines drugs food additives Petrochemicals and other artificial substances and we have no idea what it's going to do to us in the long term It's a worldwide biochemical improvisation People are tripping on mRNA vaccines right now because they're the newest addition to the soup But there's all kinds of stuff happening in this weird improvisation that we're all mushing ourselves around in and we don't understand How it will all dance together at all And we also don't know what's happening with our dying biosphere our plunge into dystopia our flirtation with nuclear war Our unsustainable systems and our collapsing empire We don't know where any of this is all headed and From a certain point of view it's quite beautiful