I see so many headlines and blurbs saying, in effect, Drumpf and his administration are basically an organized crime outfit. Okay great, then why don’t pundits act like it! What are two basic techniques gangsters, and other crooked organizations employ? Kompromat and false flags. That kind of thing is second nature to these types (as fictionalized on the TV show Blacklist, which is now looking more and more like a documentary!). They get compromising info on somebody and use it to turn them. Example, whenever I’ve seen pundits scratching their heads on why say Ted Cruz, or Rubio, or Graham did complete 180’s regarding Drumpf. JD Vance too. It’s not greed, or being power hungry, those are givens. It’s that someone has kompromat on them. And the other is false flag operations. That’s standard issue in world politics, organized crime, and so on. Does any pundit really believe this last shooting wasn’t staged? I mean come on, a well guarded smallish event, and some dumbshit little guy was able to evade security. Please. False flag, perfectly timed to deflect from, well a million things. But no, pundit after pundit, even the so called “smart” ones on msnow don’t seem to ever even consider the possibility.
Hopefully my reputation as an anti-conspiracy guy is established here. This one though.
As with with anyone who attempts such an attack, he’s an idiot. He thought he had everyone fouled because he was walking around with guns, something millions of Americans do every day. I don’t know how he got in the room near the gun detectors, but he had no plan after that. He ran right into security. He thought he was Neo.
The “conspiracy” then is; allow security to be just bad enough to let someone like that get close but the sheer numbers make the final charge impossible. Another aspect is, at this point, they have a succession plan. They have enough in place that a few of the top heads could be removed and the empire would continue.
he was living in a video game reality where brave men take down hundreds of goons with their weapons.
Came with a loaded shot gun . Not the weapon of choice
And that’s exactly what they count on - people who instantly rule out conspiracies. Put another way, they take advantage of reasonable people like you. I get your take on conspiracies, but it’s kinda like the saying “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you!”.
As for this particular incident, isn’t it odd that it was so easy for this clown to get so close, especially after the previous so-called attempts at other events? And isn’t it odd how the administration is making hay with this as far as pushing through other agenda items?
Did not get close at all. Trump and his administration were under no direct danger.
You have a point. It’s part of the “flood the zone” propaganda method. Lie boldly and openly, call everyone else a liar, people don’t know what’s true anymore.
But not you. Your supremacy rises above the plebs in society to overcome this
Propaganda techniques don’t require special intelligence to understand. That’s why they work. Anyone can know what they are, and also believe they only work on other people.
It’s the paradox of knowing it’s better to be humble, but true humility is not thinking you are better. Cultivating curiosity is the key to get out of that trap. Always know that there is more to know, that you can be wrong, that you are wrong about something right now.
The propaganda that AOC, sanders and Mandani are agents of change
The propaganda that change can occur through bourgeois elections.
The propaganda that trump is a threat to democracy but not the oligarchic order that produced him.
special intelligence shouldnt be required in identifying propaganda in a class conscious society
Those are interesting topics.
I don’t know how you and I could discuss them in any reasonable manner
The propaganda of king charles visit to the United States
In fact, if by change, you mean revolution, you are fully right.
If by change, one means social progress, you are fully wrong. And social progress has occurred, social welfare, national health insurance, except in USA, trade unions, right to strike, freedom of press, minimum wages, end to children work, public freedom and rights of men. Look at the countries where these progresses did not occur ?
Honestly, even if i am not fully happy with Western political system, i prefer to live in France, rather than in China, a totalitarian state.
About class and class consciousness: the matter has been a permanent topic among revolutionaries. why the proletariat support capitalism and fascism, against its material interests.
Two importants authors : Gramsci and Lukacks.
Very roughly, the first one explains that the capitalist system is maintained by a superstructure, which is organized in the institutions, and in the culture. The ideology of the dominant class is the dominant ideology and the class struggle is also an ideological struggle.
The ideological apparels are religion, medias and so.
Pundits are correct. It wasn’t a false flag. The shooter is a real person with a real background that can be identified and investigated.