If only I could conjure up a sprawling, complex, monied and politically-interconnected system of prophylactic gaslighting in order to protect me from any criticism at all for my own egregious misconduct. I don’t have those resources.
I would need a very powerful social and economic system, indeed, to sell “logic” as idiotic as this: Whenever you criticize me for despicable things I actually did, you are criticizing my puppy, the Apple tree in my backyard and my second grade music teacher. That sad state of affair is where we currently are, as Glenn Greenwald describes.
Truly, it would take an immensely powerful political/economic force to sell that level of bullshit on a nationwide basis. It would take the kind of overwhelming power capable purchasing CBS and TikTok, as well as purchasing hundreds of members of Congress through AIPAC. With that kind of power and money and reach, we now see that one could even incentivize (or frighten) a college president to implore to her college students that 2 + 2 = 5.
What we are seeing in these modern times is that sufficient money and power can dispense with the simple logic and clear meaning of this Venn diagram:
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And then there is this, by GLENN GREENWALD . . .
Bari Weiss’ Latest CBS Moves Show the Ellisons’ Drive to Create Israeli State TV: Larry Ellison, the largest donor to Friends of the IDF, has been buying the largest and most influential America entertainment, news and social media corporations, purging them of Israel criticisms.
