It’s OK to be a metiche (well, it’s not a good look but it’s tolerable). But to be both a metiche and a neoliberal (a fascist who doesn’t know it), it’s a bad combination
This starts slow but really picks up after awhile. Excellent discussion of a century of American politics:
Who can fail to notice 3 people having a rational discussion, about reality, while in Europe rage is aimed at anyone doing so.
Here’s another American, a lifelong liberal (in the American sense of the word: votes for the Democratic Party, or did, until it derailed itself into this other thing it is now), James Howard Kunstler:
No one says it like Kunstler. And if you’re one those people running around screeching: “every nation has a right to ‘join’ NATO”, maybe you live in some kind of fantasy world. And maybe you’d be better served if you constructed some kind of model in your mind better connected to things that are real. I know that’s impossible for some. Many believe that nothing is real. But take a dose of reality anyway, from Jim Kunstler:
Historians of the future, boiling acorns over their campfires, will wonder that amidst all the global strife of the 2020s, Americans barely noticed that the US government went to war on its own citizens. Was there something in the water — or, more specifically, in the Pepsi Cola? Or did those “vaccines,” which were so popular as an emblem of their obedience to The Science, turn their brains into something like an Oreo McFlurry? However it happened, said citizens marched themselves ardently into the VAERS database to receive gold stars on their vaxx passports thinking: jabs will make us free!
Speaking of The Science, the nation learned this week, via a strangely staged colloquy between Senator Marco Rubio and Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, that contra to official denials days before, our government was indeed running quite a few — I believe the actual number was 29 — science projects in the foreign land called Ukraine, discovered in the course of Russian military operations there. Loose talk about “bioweapons labs” was efficiently quashed by Ms. Nuland, who styled the work as an inventory of “biological research materials.” These included such science-y playthings as ebola, bubonic plague, anthrax, and sundry viral curiosities of nature. It looked like she was trying to get ahead of the story, as they say in the agit-prop industry.
Speaking of Russia and agit-prop, that’s all we hear on the air-waves, the cable channels, and the webstreams. “Russia, Russia, Russia.” And “Putin, Putin, Putin.” American news reporters must be living in Vladimir Putin’s head because they are so adept at reading his thoughts. Putin thinks this, Putin thinks that, they declare so brashly. They are all so sure of Mr. Putin’s every thought that Mr. Putin must have to check-in with American news media to find out exactly what he’s thinking. Lately, according to CNN, The New York Times, and the rest of the gang, Mr. Putin — or maybe it’s The Putin, as in The Science — is thinking of gobbling up all the other quaint little countries at Russia’s border like so many tater tots.
For your consideration: is it possible that Russian intel knew a little something about those Ukraine labs before February 24, 2022, and became concerned that another concocted freak-of-nature pestilence might get loose there on the Eurasian frontier? And you must wonder: America saw Russian troops mustering along Ukraine’s border for many weeks before their dastardly operations got underway, and yet nobody in those bio-labs thought to maybe stuff their bio-playthings in the incinerator? Weird, little bit. But, notice, of-a-piece with the sloppy-ass way that the US has handled the entire Covid-19 fiasco: a Chinese fire-drill inside a clusterfuck garnished with the rankest dishonesty from start to finish.
And to what purpose, after all? The cartoon character Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum crowed repeatedly about what a fine opportunity Covid-19 was to smash the operating system of Western Civ in order to Build Back Better: a new system in which the zombified masses would have nothing and be happy — at least for the weeks and months they remained in the earthly plane of existence before the “vaccines” they were induced to take infarcted their livers and lights, finally carrying them off to sprout wings and receive their issued harps and halos in cloud-land. And then Herr Schwab and his tiny band of ubermenschen would be free to enjoy their transhuman nirvana free of the swine-like multitudes previously cluttering up the planet.
Yes, life in the early twenty-first century looks more and more like a bad horror movie. And now the critics are moving in, savaging the production. “A massive murderous fraud,” many are saying of the Covid-19 extravaganza, and the audience, once back out in the blinding, clarifying daylight, are saying to themselves, Yeah, kinda seems like it was. Fraud vitiates liability protection. It is a well-known principle among the artisans of law. Moderna stock is down 70 percent and Pfizer more than 20. Wall Street has sniffed out a motherlode of rot, according to Mr. Edward Dowd, BlackRock investment advisor emeritus, who is saying it loudly over the alt-streams, making a whole lot of public health officials and doctors nervous as roaches when the lights flash on. Mom impersonator Rochelle Walensky, chief of the CDC, has concealed much dire information about the number of “vaccine” injuries and fatalities of the past year, while still importuning everybody to vaxx-up and boost-up, knowing they might be harmed by it. Does she just skate on that? And then, of course, there is Dr. Fauci, missing in action lately. (Anybody look for him down in Paraguay?) The clock is ticking on when the millions of lawsuits might commence along with prosecutions for crimes against humanity.
Cue “Joe Biden,” then, to crash the global economy and give folks other things to think about — like, how am I going to keep driving sixty miles each way to work with gasoline at $8 a gallon? How, indeed, is anything like an advanced economy going to stagger forward now that nobody in the world will sell each other anything? Well, it probably just won’t. All that’s left is the sound of money being shot out of cannons, and nobody seems to notice that it gets shredded in the process. America has gazed into the abyss and apparently decided to sign a lease and move in.
“every sovereign country has the right to ‘join’ NATO”
Russia is not a threat to anyone. Unless you invade Russia (many tried, see below) or roll your military apparatus up to Russia’s borders.
russian red line, buffer against attacks from the west, WWII, WWI, Napoleon Blownapart, Prussian-Russian War (1750s), various Polish attacks, medieval German Knights, ...
the red line is what the soviets secured at the end of WWII
BTW, sweden also attacked Russia in the 1700s, they got screwed and shafted twice until the swedish empire was finished.
The military technical gap between Russia and the West is greater now than ever before (in Russia’s favor)
“Joining NATO” does not protect any nation’s security, autonomy, sovereignty, or democracy. On the contrary, it subordinates all of those to Washington’s command.
Oh by the way, Ukraine WAS sovereign, and HAD a democracy, until the USA overthrew its OSCE-certified democratically elected government in 2014 in order to install NATO and turn Ukraine into an anti-Russia military platform.
So go ahead, VOLUNTEER your country for the same scenario. Great idea!!!
I’d say, do you recognize yourselves? I mean, you think you do. You think you’re the same “good people” you’ve always been. It’s others that are the problem. It’s others that have to be… (wait for it)…. eliminated.
First you went after Libya. You watched your country bomb the shit out of it, send in a terrorist army, and beat to death and rape its leader in the ass with a bayonet on TV. And you cheered.
And when your leader, Hilary Clinton went on TV to laugh out loud about it and clap: “We came. We saw. He died.” You laughed. And cheered.
When your country staged the same scenario for Syria, you screamed YEAAAAHH! DIE!!! You went to bed nightly watching MSNBCCNNFOXNYTWAPO looking for a happy ending in your underpants, like B. Williams:
Instead of reality, instead of recognizing the reality of your country’s terrorist proxy or direct invasions, the mega violence of your bombs and missiles, the people you terrorize and kill, none of that matters to you at all. All you care about is DEMONIZING others, DEMONIZING some leader or another, and jizzing in your pants at the beauty of your megaviolence and your “superiority”.
That’s ALL YOU DO.
You don’t do anything else. This is your reason for being now.
You get your instructions on TV for who to hate. And then you HATE.
And you masturbate yourself signaling to others your hateful GOODNESS.
Call your friends. Point your fingers. Denounce others. Demonize. They’re DANGEROUS!
Corporate Media’s About-Face on Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis
July 5, 2018
U.S. corporate media spent years dismissing the role of neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s 2014 coup but it is suddenly going through a conversion, as Daniel Lazare reports.
By Daniel Lazare
Special to Consortium News
Last month a freelance journalist named Joshua Cohen published an article in The Washington Post about the Ukraine’s growing neo-Nazi threat. Despite a gratuitous swipe at Russia for allegedly exaggerating the problem (which it hasn’t), the piece was fairly accurate.
Entitled “Ukraine’s ultra-right militias are challenging the government to a showdown,” it said that fascists have gone on a rampage while the ruling clique in Kiev closes its eyes for the most part and prays that the problem somehow goes away on its own.
Thus, a group calling itself C14 (for the fourteen-word ultra-right motto, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”) not only beat up a socialist politician and celebrated Hitler’s birthday by stabbing an antiwar activist, but bragged about it on its website. Other ultra-nationalists, Cohen says, have stormed the Lvov and Kiev city councils and “assaulted or disrupted” art exhibits, anti-fascist demos, peace and gay-rights events, and a Victory Day parade commemorating the victory over Hitler in 1945.
Yet nothing has happened to stop this. President Petro Poroshenko could order a crackdown, but hasn’t for reasons that should be obvious. The U.S.-backed “Euromaidan” uprising not only drove out former president Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014, who had won an OSCE-certified election, but tore the country in two, precisely because ultra-rightists like C14 were in the lead.
When resistance to the U.S.-backed coup broke out in Crimea and parts of the country’s largely Russian-speaking east, the base of Yanukovych voters, civil war ensued. But because the Ukrainian army had all but collapsed, the new, coup government had no one to rely on other than the neo-fascists who had helped propel it to power. “
Five years ago, Ukraine’s Maidan uprising ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, to the cheers and support of the West. Politicians and analysts in the United States and Europe not only celebrated the uprising as a triumph of democracy, but denied reports of Maidan’s ultranationalism, smearing those who warned about the dark side of the uprising as Moscow puppets and useful idiots. Freedom was on the march in Ukraine.
Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West’s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.
These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity.
So keep screeching, denouncing, finger pointing. Please do. Continue with your content-free “commentary”. Continue with your ignorance self satisfied, self-righteous. Continue with your “educated” “reasoning”. Continue with your 2 minutes of hate. Continue your phone calls to “friends”. Continue your gossip, your denunciations, your hate and your personal insecurity.
Metiche:
You do not have a position. You scream but you bring nothing to the table. There’s no content in what you say. It’s meaningless.
The US/NATO overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014 to turn Ukraine into a NATO platform hostile to Russia. And has been bombing Russian speaking Ukrainians for the last 8 years, about 15,000 dead. Hyperventilating about Russia’s response, after they tried to negotiate for 8 years, without examining responsibility for what caused them to respond, is simply an empty position.
So go on. Continue your gossip. Continue your denouncing, your finger pointing, your blow torch hate. Que Dios te bendiga.
