ministry of truth

"When fascism comes to America" it will come from those calling everyone else fascists, apparently.

"The next war in Europe will be Russia vs fascism, only fascism will be called democracy." -Fidel Castro

Liberals have been crushing dissent with censorship and media control for years, under the guise of fighting misinformation but now they're taking it a step further, making it official. The Department of Homeland Security now has a new arm, the Disinformation Governance Board.

As I've gone from following the news in different ways over the years, I've thought a lot about why people disagree. Often people with fundamentally similar principles will be at each other's throats over differences in the stories they've been told. 

Some people believe Putin has been a great leader. Others think he's a mad dictator whose done nothing but evil. The truth isn't merely somewhere in between. It's not that some people think murdering journalists is ok, and others are against it. People are being told entirely different stories. Why are you being told these vague stories about Putin killing journalists but nothing about Julian Assange? You can't even directly challenge any individual piece of the story, because they're all intertwined into a whole narrative.

It's also a mistake to think THEY'RE being fed propaganda, while I'M watching a free press. Russia isn't North Korea. They have access to the internet, they have lots of different media outlets, alternative and opposition media. Much like us, they can choose to believe what they're told, or they can choose to dig deeper. Much like us, they mostly choose to believe what they're told, including most media outlets.

This is why it's so powerful to control the media the way our corporations do. Instead of state propaganda, we have corporate control over both government and media. They fell behind for a few years with social media taking off, but now they've got it back under control. I don't have much faith in Elon Musk, but it's been amusing watching the liberal freakout over the prospect of losing that control on even a single major platform.

So, this is why we disagree. I follow media that the Ministry of Truth would call disinformation. Liberals seem to think that it makes sense to crack down on anything that runs counter to their narratives. Look how problematic all this dissent has been, right?

Biden has the lowest presidential approval rating in modern American history. They'll tell us that's just misinformation too. Putin has an approval rating in the seventies. More misinformation, I know.. He doesn't need to throw his political opponents in jail. It's the US that's had to manipulate elections such that we keep electing people everyone hates. There's an argument to be made that the US has become less democratic than Russia.

I think it's rising fascism. We're an empire in decline, with the largest military in the world, which we use to brutalize country after country, far worse than anything Russia's doing. According to the array of stories I've chosen to believe, it's the US that needs to be stopped.

Crazy implausible that we could be stopped, except that it may happen naturally in the near future. With the US in decline, as China is ascending, they may overtake us, taking over the world economy. Sanctioning the US if they have to. Most of the world would switch to their side in a heartbeat. Our economy will be smoldering rubble. We won't take it well. There will surely be lots of chaos, maybe even balkanization. These things happen.

I'm well aware that my sources aren't perfect though. The narrative I've pieced together may be flawed. We do the best we can.