Propaganda

Military parade draws patriotic Americans from near and far: 'No better time to come to DC'

—Fox. I ain’t citing them, they can eat a great big bag of moldy dicks. I get that Fox is gunning to be the new Pravda (that means Truth, you know; the opposite of what it delivered); Fox liked to call themselves Fair and Balanced, and lol at that one. Speaking of, wonder why NewsNation keeps calling itself “Most Trusted” and using Chris Cuomo’s washed-out reputation to normalize right-wingers?

Probably because of the Fox executives they’ve hired, who are implementing that business model. So is CNN. This will further shift the Overton Window to the right, and look how that’s gone so far.

Personally, I think they’re a bunch of spineless ass kissers. It’s so easy to follow the, well, easy option Bigotry’s pretty easy, especially hen you’re born on third and just have to parrot what you heard growing up to fail upward to retirement.

Anyway, here’s something:

Courtesy of the USSR.

And North Korea.

This is a little different: Tiananmen Square’s flag-raising ceremony. This speaks to Orwell and how history can be written and rewritten.

We get to join the company of nations like this, now.

."We went back and forth, then we fell in love. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love."

What Trump admired about Kim was his brutality in dealing with his opponents. He’s mentioned that before, to.

Like Trump’s shows of “force” now, they are based on WEAKNESS not strength.

Kim knew there were other, better, more respected, more talented, and more prepared leaders who could step up. So he eliminated the most public faces of them. This scared many of the others into submission.

This allegedly involved having his own uncle executed, quite brutally, by an antiaircaft gun.

If you’d like, you can watch his half-brother be executed on CCTV in a public airport:

Nam had to be eliminated for multiple reasons: jealousy, a potential rival, embarrassing the regime (search him and Disneeyland) and his likely knowledge of North Korea’s Room 39, which he could spill to Western enemies if he flipped.

The capacity to do this to others was what Donald admired and loved.

His latest attempts to rekindle their relationship with Kim appear to have been rebuffed.

Putin, similarly, used his KGB methods to ascend the ladder via a mixture of brute force and kompromat—real or faked—within Russia. The result of these methods are seen in his brutal control today, including having Navalny taken out. (Let’s not pretend it was anything but, even if it wasn’t done by a bullet or a baton).

But all of these, again, come from a sign of weakness.

I don’t know, seems like we’re walking down some familiar, dangerous paths. This brings me back to Tienanmen Square—and then, January Sixth.

See, I read this book. Republic of Amnesia, Louisa Lam, I think. No, I’m not getting the quote, I just got suggested to a corneal specialist due to eye scarring, I can barely read at the moment so we blind on typoes, too, take the wheel autocorrect, I plugged this laptop into the TV for a reason.

She discusses how the memory of Tiannenmen has been changed: the actual protests and associated events are hidden or discussed with shame. I’ll return to Deepseak AI, I think it was a few months ago when you could ask about Tank Man, it’d start to answer with, pretty much, the generic first sentence of the Wikipedia article. Then stopped and “couldn’t find that.”

So, yeah, there’s that. But there’s also the rewriting that those who were part of rebelling against the government’s tyranny were rebellious and causing problems and therefore, don’t listen to them. Forget their memory. Now, the memory of the event is recollected as the morning raising or whatever. It’s supposed to rewrite it as patriotic. The author also notes that Tiannenmen Square has two meanings: the Gate of Heaven’s Peace (I got this wrong, I’m sure of it) and the Gate of Heaven’s Pacification. One involved peace, one involved slaughter.

She discusses Tiannenmen Square’s events in the context of this double0meaning., how it changed on that day and the deaths of those students , there and around the countrt rebelling, into submission, to pacify the heavens.

It’s quite troubling.

In the US, we have an almost mirror image in January Sixth where, frankly, the rioters needed to be corralled and punished. They were wrong and no number of out-of-context goofy memes can change that. They’re domestic terrorists who assaulted the Capitol of the nation to overturn an election and built a gallows to hang the vice-president.

There’s no fucking way around that.

In my post about Rambo, I discussed a bit how one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter and we see that dichotomy happening all around us.

And hey, as we ratchet things up toward WWIII with a new war against Iran, let’s remember just how dangerous nukes are, from the late Carl Sagan:

The conventional bombs of World War II were called "blockbusters", filled with 20 tons of TNT they could destroy a city block. All the bombs dropped on all the cities during World War II amounted to some 2 million tons of TNT -- two megatons. Coventry, Rotterdam, Dresden and Tokyo -- all the death that rained from the skies between 1939 and 1945 -- a hundred thousand blockbusters, two megatons. Today, two megatons is the equivalent of a single thermonuclear bomb -- one bomb with the destructive force of the second world war. But there are tens of thousands of nuclear weapons. The missile and bomber forces in the Soviet Union and United States have warheads aimed at over 15,000 designated targets. No place on the planet is safe.”

Ever learn about WWI being triggered by Archduke Franz Ferdinand being assassinated—but also because of the intricate web of under-the-table war treaties that bought into play?

Then all of Europe got involved and it was considered the War To End All Wars?

Something similar happened a few decades later, that’s a whole bag of vipers to discuss. But it ended with some nukes

Ever hear of Dead-Hand?

It’s a nuclear system designed to automatically return nuclear fire on the US if it detected an incoming missile.

Returning to WWI: you really think if some rogue state like North Korea—or a desperate one, like Russi—launches, there isn’t at least one other nation with a system like this that’ll trigger further nuclear retaliation that’ll escalate?

(Oh. If you really want to not sleep at night, don’t just think of nukes. Learn about kinetic bombardment and consider Elon’s drug addiction mixed with erratic control of satellites and how he’d probably like to ‘investigate’ without regulations, given the chance).