The power to decree what is "disinformation" now determines what can and cannot be discussed on the internet. It is now in the hands of trained disinformation agents of the U.S. Security State.
Never refer to this abomination as anything but the Ministry of Truth, bad branding can sink this thing faster than a million high minded Tweets and Substack posts.
I am done being civil to my old liberal friends who have adopted this illiberal view that it is fine to empower government and large corporations to cancel, de-platform and ban speech they claim is disinformation while they spew the majority of disinformation.
There is a key to understand what is driving this. If you are left, you run on emotions. You feel first and then develop a narrative to deflect from the fact that you are basing your opinion on feelings and not facts. Then you call everything outside of that narrative as disinformation. And because you cannot effectively think outside your box of feelings, this all seems right, moral and rational to you.
But people that cannot do an honest self-assessment of feelings over fact are in fact dysfunctional. They are the last people we should be giving the keys to any disinformation power.
It is an "inmates running the asylum" situation... and we cannot let it be.
So DHS Secretary Mayorkas - himself an abject failure in his position - cites Ms. Jankowicz as an "expert in disinformation". Is that a thing? Are Ivy League schools now handing out degrees in "disinformation", or is it strictly on-the-job training?
Look, this isn't complicated. Here's what the First Amendment says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". There is simply no room for the government to determine what is the "truth". Creating this position legitimizes and advocates for censorship. If we are to remain free, this progressive hail mary cannot be allowed to stand.
Just watch the movie "The Lives of Others" , about the Stasi abuses in East Berlin, and you'll get a foretaste of what's coming here in ther US if progressives are allowed to have their way.
Wasn't Jankowicz herself one of the people who insisted, on the basis of no discernable evidence, that the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation"?
How'd that work out for her? Actually, she hasn't done half bad for herself, in spite of being dead wrong.
And those who were right about the laptop all along still were cast into Outer Darkness.
I would like to sum up their game with the following quote:
They are playing a game. They are playing at not
playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I
shall break the rules and they will punish me.
I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.
Knots – R.D. Laing (Psychiatrist and former Tavistock Institute Resident)
The only thing that matters right now is changing the rules of the game. The Ministry of Truth's main purpose is to make sure everyone plays the game. They want everyone to use the same pre-established linguistic models and talking points, whether for or against them, as long as you're playing the game. We should do the opposite, jettison their linguistic models and "framing," and do so with much humor, trolling them into oblivion. They're not smart enough to control humor. They'll try, but it will backfire.
New unified platforms and fundraising initiatives, more Substack, total boycott of mainstream media. That should be the movement.
Just like the grievance industry rose up to "fight discrimination," the content moderation industry is rising up to "fight misinformation." When the bureaucracy is in place, it becomes very difficult to fight and it grows like a cancer.
And why do we still even have a Department of Homeland Security?
Substack could simply be shut off by these gonifs. Imagine a DHS logo on the web page saying that the Web domain and site were seized to suppress disinformation. I can imagine them doing the same thing to Republican Party Web sites with the front page documenting the seizure declaring it a terrorist organization.
It'd be nice if Biden's Collective stopped playing and said the words out loud: We swore to uphold the Constitution but, truth is, we aren't in favor of protecting views other than our own, we plan to actively & violently eliminate freedom of association and we're all for taking your property [and eventually your lives] without providing you the luxury of due process [notice and hearing]. We're not going to ask you "how do you like it?' cuz, frankly, we don't care.
So the 'Mean Girls' and 'The Heathers' finally climbed to the top of the 'Security State' to persecute the evil-doers on Hillary's shit-list? May God have mercy on our souls.
Giving DHS the responsibility as gatekeeper for truth is like having a fox guard a henhouse. It was a mistake to consolidate so many agencies into one unholy amalgam, and we are paying the price for creating an impenetrable bureaucracy with little or no accountability to American citizens.
This is quite a gambit the government and their accomplices in corporate America are playing, one obviously geared to upending our individual liberties. It remains to be seen if they can be stopped or disrupted before things devolve too far, and I appreciate Glenn and his allies in the non-corporate media sounding the clarion call to action in the face of this perfidy.
As Ron Paul said, "In a nation of lies, the truth is treason."
We are all, by that definition, traitors, though I take that as a badge of honor. To be accused of treason by the thought police is like being called a bigot by the KKK or Black Panthers or a Jew Lover by Neo Nazis.
It is time to defund the thought police via primarying every representative who is on board with this, even via casual comments. Thanks to Tulsi Gabbard, Karl Rove and Nancy Pelosi are on the same page. They are both trash who undermine both freedom and the rule of law.
Government's practice of spreading its own disinformation metastasized to the judiciary last week: A judge in Florida ordered a man who defaced an LGBT mural to write an essay centered on a thoroughly false premise—that the 2016 massacre at the gay Pulse nightclub in Orlando deliberately targeted the LGBT community.
Given the Pulse myth deflects public attention from the perpetrator's explicit proclamation that he was retaliating for U.S. airstrikes in the Middle East, the judge was (inadvertently, I'm sure) serving the interest of the national security state too.
Never refer to this abomination as anything but the Ministry of Truth, bad branding can sink this thing faster than a million high minded Tweets and Substack posts.
I am done being civil to my old liberal friends who have adopted this illiberal view that it is fine to empower government and large corporations to cancel, de-platform and ban speech they claim is disinformation while they spew the majority of disinformation.
There is a key to understand what is driving this. If you are left, you run on emotions. You feel first and then develop a narrative to deflect from the fact that you are basing your opinion on feelings and not facts. Then you call everything outside of that narrative as disinformation. And because you cannot effectively think outside your box of feelings, this all seems right, moral and rational to you.
But people that cannot do an honest self-assessment of feelings over fact are in fact dysfunctional. They are the last people we should be giving the keys to any disinformation power.
It is an "inmates running the asylum" situation... and we cannot let it be.
So DHS Secretary Mayorkas - himself an abject failure in his position - cites Ms. Jankowicz as an "expert in disinformation". Is that a thing? Are Ivy League schools now handing out degrees in "disinformation", or is it strictly on-the-job training?
Look, this isn't complicated. Here's what the First Amendment says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". There is simply no room for the government to determine what is the "truth". Creating this position legitimizes and advocates for censorship. If we are to remain free, this progressive hail mary cannot be allowed to stand.
Just watch the movie "The Lives of Others" , about the Stasi abuses in East Berlin, and you'll get a foretaste of what's coming here in ther US if progressives are allowed to have their way.
FWIW, I did a Mary Poppins parody song in response to Nina's singing...please don't mind my pitchiness, the point wasn't my voice but that they are trying to sell us tyranny with a "spoonful of sugar" - https://wholistic.substack.com/p/the-mary-poppins-of-free-speech-parody
Wasn't Jankowicz herself one of the people who insisted, on the basis of no discernable evidence, that the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation"?
How'd that work out for her? Actually, she hasn't done half bad for herself, in spite of being dead wrong.
And those who were right about the laptop all along still were cast into Outer Darkness.
I wish a reporter just once dared to ask: what exactly are the 'hallmarks' of Russian disinformation?
I would like to sum up their game with the following quote:
They are playing a game. They are playing at not
playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I
shall break the rules and they will punish me.
I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.
Knots – R.D. Laing (Psychiatrist and former Tavistock Institute Resident)
The only thing that matters right now is changing the rules of the game. The Ministry of Truth's main purpose is to make sure everyone plays the game. They want everyone to use the same pre-established linguistic models and talking points, whether for or against them, as long as you're playing the game. We should do the opposite, jettison their linguistic models and "framing," and do so with much humor, trolling them into oblivion. They're not smart enough to control humor. They'll try, but it will backfire.
New unified platforms and fundraising initiatives, more Substack, total boycott of mainstream media. That should be the movement.
The Tower of Babel delenda est.
Just like the grievance industry rose up to "fight discrimination," the content moderation industry is rising up to "fight misinformation." When the bureaucracy is in place, it becomes very difficult to fight and it grows like a cancer.
And why do we still even have a Department of Homeland Security?
Mr. Greenwald is the best reporter in English on this planet. That is why I give him a monthly.
donation and urge all truthseekers to do the same.
Substack could simply be shut off by these gonifs. Imagine a DHS logo on the web page saying that the Web domain and site were seized to suppress disinformation. I can imagine them doing the same thing to Republican Party Web sites with the front page documenting the seizure declaring it a terrorist organization.
It'd be nice if Biden's Collective stopped playing and said the words out loud: We swore to uphold the Constitution but, truth is, we aren't in favor of protecting views other than our own, we plan to actively & violently eliminate freedom of association and we're all for taking your property [and eventually your lives] without providing you the luxury of due process [notice and hearing]. We're not going to ask you "how do you like it?' cuz, frankly, we don't care.
So the 'Mean Girls' and 'The Heathers' finally climbed to the top of the 'Security State' to persecute the evil-doers on Hillary's shit-list? May God have mercy on our souls.
Giving DHS the responsibility as gatekeeper for truth is like having a fox guard a henhouse. It was a mistake to consolidate so many agencies into one unholy amalgam, and we are paying the price for creating an impenetrable bureaucracy with little or no accountability to American citizens.
This is quite a gambit the government and their accomplices in corporate America are playing, one obviously geared to upending our individual liberties. It remains to be seen if they can be stopped or disrupted before things devolve too far, and I appreciate Glenn and his allies in the non-corporate media sounding the clarion call to action in the face of this perfidy.
As Ron Paul said, "In a nation of lies, the truth is treason."
We are all, by that definition, traitors, though I take that as a badge of honor. To be accused of treason by the thought police is like being called a bigot by the KKK or Black Panthers or a Jew Lover by Neo Nazis.
It is time to defund the thought police via primarying every representative who is on board with this, even via casual comments. Thanks to Tulsi Gabbard, Karl Rove and Nancy Pelosi are on the same page. They are both trash who undermine both freedom and the rule of law.
Government's practice of spreading its own disinformation metastasized to the judiciary last week: A judge in Florida ordered a man who defaced an LGBT mural to write an essay centered on a thoroughly false premise—that the 2016 massacre at the gay Pulse nightclub in Orlando deliberately targeted the LGBT community.
https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/florida-judge-orders-vandal-to-write?s=w
Given the Pulse myth deflects public attention from the perpetrator's explicit proclamation that he was retaliating for U.S. airstrikes in the Middle East, the judge was (inadvertently, I'm sure) serving the interest of the national security state too.