We’ve been clowning on MSM for their puny showing for the last few years, but this whole situation really shows their true danger and their capability to crush any opposition to the western empire. MSM all those years sucked because it was peacetime, they honestly did not gave any shit for what they posted, they were just making some quick buck. All those op-eds we roasted in the dunk tank? They’re all nothing, just filler material for the imperial media.

But now, we’re all seeing the full might of the western media war machine looks like when they have a set goal in mind and with the full support of capital. Absolute information control, multi narratives meant to appeal to literally everyone, information overload preventing people from effectively discerning fact from fiction, and most importantly turning it into a spectacle thus disassociating people from reality.

And really have no right to be surprised by this because I was reading “How to Read Donald Duck” (Para leer al Pato Donald) a week before this war. It’s written by a Chilean socialist during Allende’s time and talked about how America uses Disney as a weapon to spread capitalist thought under the guise of innocent children entertainment. But even better is that the edition I’m reading is the latest one with a preface written after Pinochet’s coup, where the author was targeted and entire printing of the book was burned or dumped into the ocean. Namely it talked about the influence of western owned- media in controlling the narrative and spreading capitalistic views in the lead up the coup, in particular how they attacked socialism as an evil foreign influence all while presenting themselves as innocent apolitical outlet, when in reality they’re funded by the CIA.

We the left must NOT and NEVER underestimate the power of western media, all AES states views them with scorn and limits their publication for very good reason. And for those who still criticizes or doubts China’s censorship of western media, it is because they fully recognized the influence it can have on the people’s consciousness. The MSM have been in this business for over half a century, they perfected their craft in Indonesia, Chile, and many more victims of imperialism. Because when the time that the left will finally have to face capital head one, we must be aware about the full strength of the enemy.

I was born in a western country but have a very Russian sounding name. Already had coworkers give me shit like I personally invaded Ukraine. Knowing how dumb your average American is anyone vaguely eastern European is going to be labelled a Russian too. Seeing how openly xenophobic people are on the internet and how little pushback it gets is genuinely kinda terrifying to me. Anyone else feel worried about this shit?

Holy shit can people shut the fuck up. I’ve seen way too many people unironically saying that we need to uncritically repeat Ukrainian propaganda (even after it has been proven to be false) because it’s ‘necessary to keep morale high’ or whatever.

So a friendly work acquaintance messaged me this evening to say that they’ve lost two clients today because someone they know got in touch with them to say he was posting pro-Russia stuff on Facebook. He’s an Ed Miliband level socdem who made a criticism of NATO and the rhetoric before the invasion two days ago. Apparently he messaged me because he knew I’m a commie and didn’t know who else to talk to. He’s freaking out about who sent the message to clients and whether they did / will to others, as well as the lost income obviously. People have lost their fucking minds.

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edit: Makes me glad for this place and you comrades. Keeps me sane while I keep my mouth shut at work.