American Oligarchy, Good Friday Twitter Roundup

Why is it that only foreign countries have evil oligarchs who buy and sell politicians, and the US is free of them? Something in the water? This list obviously only scratches the surface:

Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren

U.S. oligarchs: Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2022: $266 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 2012: $18 billion 2022: $180 billion Bill Gates Wealth 2012: $61 billion 2022: $133 billion Warren Buffett Wealth 2012: $44 billion 2022: $125 billion Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2022: $7.25

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

How dumb do you have to be to believe that journalists - who work at Bloomberg and the Bezos-owned WPost or Comcast or CNN - are worried about billionaires controlling media ().

They're only petrified that the *wrong* billionaire, one who may not censor for them, might reign.

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ @caitoz

YouTube has been deleting videos disputing the US government narrative about Russian war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, validating concerns that Silicon Valley platforms would begin censoring anyone who challenges the authorized version of events in this war.

Not an endorsement:

Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard

Max Boot perfectly illustrates the thinking of those in power: in order to save our democracy, we must destroy it; in order to protect freedom of speech, we must end it.

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

Yesterday was a flagship day in corporate media. It was the day they were forced to explicitly state what has long been clear: they not only favor censorship but desperately crave and depend on it.

Even if Musk doesn't buy Twitter, never forget what yesterday revealed.

This German woman perfectly understands liberalism/libertarianism as John Mearshimer described it: "The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities." “They have no concept of a liberal, post-modern, life. A concept of life [as something that] each individual can choose.” As Mearshimer explains, or at least suggests, the idea of each individual choosing their own “sweet mystery of life” (Scalia) is the essence of liberalism/libertarianism and, despite what the German woman says, it is not the vision of a society conducive to human thriving that most people—when the implications smack them upside the head—prefer. We’re seeing that rejection now with the parental led uprising against the aberro-sexual and racial agenda being pursued in government schools. The parents, even if they don’t phrase it quite like this, want their children to be raised by the government as normal humans, in a traditional sense. That’s the delusion they live within—a government that’s responsive to normal people. However, the German woman is expressing the vision that our ruling elites are willing to have us die for in a WWW3:

tim anderson @timand2037

Seems to be a common #German and western european racist view of the #Russian people. Well, western europe is the cradle of #Fascism.

True/False, sourcing? It does seem clear, based on the video of Dr. Phillip Karber at West Point that a lack of a US/NATO presence near the front lines—or even at the front lines—would be totally improbable:

Angelo Giuliano 🇮🇹 🇨🇭/ living in 🇨🇳 @Angelo4justice3

Russia — “We already have prisoners among the military personnel of NATO countries, we will show all this when we put them on trial. The whole world will see what really happened.”

Lastly, here’s an interesting perspective on why this Russian action has been a “special military operation” up to around now—not a war. But it will probably become a war soon:

Part 2 Scott Ritter: A Conversation About Ukraine

But here’s a war:

Xx @Xx17965797

Fauci: "You use lockdowns to get people vaccinated." Straight from the horses mouth.