Neocons think of the world as a giant game of Risk. This world view is narcissistic, simple-minded and dangerous. But here it is, exemplified by a CIA director:
Glenn Greenwald offered this detailed description of what it means to be a neocon.
Whenever I say that public health got almost everything wrong about COVID, I'm speaking literally. This 12-minute video sums up the 4 years of insanity that has destroyed our trust in public health institutions.
Joe Rogan:
So there's this giant resistance right now to the idea that X is the new source of the world. They're the mainstream. It's the new source of the world. These people that want to cling to authority and say, "No, you're not. God damn it. You're not a journalist." You guys fucked us too many times, and we don't believe you anymore. And so the only way for us to find out what's real and what's not real is if someone posts it online, and then everybody looks at it, and then you get the Community Notes, and that's way better than the New York Times telling me that the Fruit Loops in Canada are exactly the same as the Fruit Loops in America, except for a bunch of shit that's banned. And that's the whole point of the whole fucking thing. Yeah, meanwhile, they're fact checking, RFK, Jr, so now I don't trust you anymore either.
Tonight I posted the following on FB:
If you want to know what's really going on in the world, it's time for you to grow up and participate at X (Twitter). Don't be scared away by your "friends" who will call you names if you dare to listen to facts and opinions they don't approve of. At my website, Dangerousintersection.org, I've been following/analyzing the corporate news for years and I can guarantee you that corporate media "journalists" repeatedly fail to ask obvious questions. They are totally captured by their corporate masters and their main mission is to manipulate you to be gaslit and coerced to believe the BS power-hungry entities such as the U.S. government, Big Pharma, the Military Industrial Complex and the Censorship Industrial Complex.
Will you find nuts and kooks at X? Absolutely. But at least big topics are not being filtered and vanished systematically at X as they are elsewhere (such as here at FB). At X, you will eventually find many credible voices that you will learn to question, learn from and treasure. You will not agree with them on everything, which is a good thing! Give it a try. Within a month or so you will start to see an upside down version of the fantasy-world you now inhabit, the one you are now afraid to question if you are not yet on X.
Have you ever wondered about the horrors the U.S. (through its CIA) has caused to the people of Syria? 500,000 dead and 10 million people displaced. Jeffrey Sachs explained this on Morning Joe:
I think we have to step back and not put this in partisan terms. This is a US mistake that started seven years ago, and I remember the day on on your show, when President Obama said, Assad must go. And I looked at you and Joe, and I said, how is he going to do that? Where is the policy for that right? And we know they sent in the CIA to overthrow Assad. The CIA and Saudi Arabia, together in covert operations, tried to overthrow Assad. It was a disaster. Eventually, it brought in both ISIS as a splinter group to the jihadists that went in. It also brought in Russia.
So we have been digging deeper and deeper and deeper. What we should do now is get out and not continue to throw missiles, not have a confrontation with Russia. Seven years has been a disaster under Obama, continuing under Trump. This is what I would call the permanent state. This is the CIA. This is Pentagon wanting to keep Iran and Russia out of Syria, but no way to do that.
And so we have made a proxy war in Syria. It's killed 500,000 people, displaced 10 million. And I'll say predictably so, because I predicted it seven years ago, that there was no way to do this and that it would make a complete chaos. So what I would plead to President Trump is get out like his instinct told him, by the way, that was his instinct. But then all the establishment, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Pentagon, everybody said, no, no, that's irresponsible, but his instinct is right, get out. We've done enough damage seven years, and now we really risk a confrontation with Russia that is extraordinarily dangerous, reckless.
