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Yasmine Nasser-rafi's avatar

It's fear and selfishness that's the cause of betrayal that makes bowing to the sinister force possible. Just read about the confirmation hearing about Trump's selection! Most are opposed but because of intimidations and threats they force themselves to be yes men and women to destructive individuals.

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Lindsey Louther's avatar

Whilst China is playing the “long game game”, BRICS is vacillating, Russia is placing its faith in a moribund UN for moral direction and the Arab world is playing statecraft, the Palestinians are being wiped off the face of humanity. What more do these statesmen need than a moral duty to intervene? It beggars belief that everyone is looking after their own interests whilst the US/Israeli coalition is committing genocide. Did Canada not prove that the US is not infallible?

I have to leave now to attend a protest action at the US embassy in Cape Town, South Africa.

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free_spirit's avatar

...and I don't want to hear another lousy excuse for why there are so many mass shootings. It's not "all in my head" and my hatred for everyone (or almost everyone) around here is justified. I went so batshit insane, I'm just glad I never gave into my impulses because I could have gotten 200 years to life for "being paranoid" when it's actually just self defense. I saw the smirks and condescending looks on their faces. Fuck America to hell, it will go down in history as the most hated country in the world 🖕

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free_spirit's avatar

Yeah think about how I feel living inside the most propagandized bubble in the world and the most violent colonizer is constantly telling Western media to the public that I'm always about to attack someone nearby for their own sociopathic amusement then has everybody in my vicinity stockpile on guns and live right next to me looking for an excuse to shoot me "but oh, i'm just paranoid" like you said hahaha!!

I avoided talking to anyone for 10 years just in case I was going to be shot at.

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dianna's avatar

I have seen more than ever in the past 18months the extreme arrogance, racism, and absurd fearfulness of us westerners.

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BettBeat Media's avatar

Amen.

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dianna's avatar

OUTSTANDING. Have posted on my FB feed.

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BettBeat Media's avatar

Glad you appreciate it. -K.

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Ben_H's avatar

Excellent chat. Thank you both!

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BettBeat Media's avatar

Most welcome!

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joe franks's avatar

Hahaha, now I get WHAMPOA - Western Humans Are the Most Propagandized Of All

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

Scott Ritter should stick to Russia since it is his area of expertise and stop talking about the Middle East.

He sounds like he is one of those Westerners who are propagandized.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

But the voters are voting on the choices that are given to them by the oligarchs and the people who are hardly able to keep the roof over their heads aren't donating to political campaigns.

The American people can't vote our way out of this, and to blame them for the US government means that you are using the same logic to Americans that you deplore when it is used against the Palestinians.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

No words for it - they lap up the propaganda like it’s life support. And regurgitate it. Brains? What brains. I turned off msm tv a couple years ago. It’s refreshing. But literally some people keep Fox News running 24/7 in the background - it has to be making permanent memories. Psychologists will tell you, hear something often enough it becomes embedded like it’s a real memory.

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BettBeat Media's avatar

Absolutely, we call it conditioning.

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BettBeat Media's avatar

We use it against the people, like Ritter, who from the comfort of their American homes blame the people suffering a genocide under their government’s bombs.

It’s baffling you’re more bothered by our counter attack, than their blame game.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

Of course I blame them for that!

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

Because they’re given two bad choices each time and told to choose. In fact, Americans have become very ignorant. They only see two choices. They only argue two choices. Black or white. Left or right. Democrat or republican. Hamas or Israel. Hamas or Palestine (bc the far right is too dumb to know there’s a diff between Hamas and Palestinians). Israel or Iran. Patriotic or unpatriotic. No ability for critical thinking. No ability to think beyond what media tells them to think. Crap, I’m starting to think people may have been onto something about the 5G towers, graphene, and the poke….

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

That's exactly what I was saying: "they are given two bad choices..."

And I still say that the American people aren't going to vote our way out of this. What have you to say about the massive amount of propaganda that they absorb every day? What do you think that it does to their (our) brains?

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

The US government has 800 military bases in 70 countries around the world.

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Susan Mercurio's avatar

I can tell you that in 78 years, I have seen that any tyrant anywhere in the world will be backed by the US government.

Think of the Marcos in the Philippines.

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