Behind the veil of criminally incompetent figureheads and spokesmen you can name are extremely intelligent psychopaths and sociopaths, backed by tens of thousands of amoral everyday professionals, far removed from the implication of them “just following orders”; grinding in the rat-race for their paycheck.
I’m talking about data scientists and engineers — operating essentially as intelligence operatives — waging psychological warfare using the data aggregated by surveillance capitalism, and disseminated via big tech (fb, insta, tiktok, reddit, etc) and fascist state media platforms (fash news, sinclair/nexstar, newsmax, oann, twitter, etc)…
I’m talking about teams of lobbyists, “think tanks”, lawyers, marketers, strategists, etc architecting all their plans behind closed doors, ghost writing all their legislation, etc.
I’m talking about the financial backing of ruthless authoritarian megalomaniac capitalists; the oligarchs (Murdoch, Ailes, Koch’s, Prager, Putin; plus thousands of others you’ve never even heard of) and corporations they own.
The above is why fascism is winning. Trump, Miller — the entire nazi party — couldn’t have achieved any of this without the for-profitexpertise of propaganda networks (media/SM), surveillance capitalism (SM/ad-tech), and secret police (aka “intelligence” orgs = Mossad/NSA/CIA/MI5) that these oligarchs have been constructing for longer than most of us have been alive.
Behind the veil of criminally incompetent figureheads and spokesmen you can name are extremely intelligent psychopaths and sociopaths, backed by tens of thousands of amoral everyday professionals, far removed from the implication of them “just following orders”; grinding in the rat-race for their paycheck.
I’m talking about data scientists and engineers — operating essentially as intelligence operatives — waging psychological warfare using the data aggregated by surveillance capitalism, and disseminated via big tech (fb, insta, tiktok, reddit, etc) and fascist state media platforms (fash news, sinclair/nexstar, newsmax, oann, twitter, etc)…
I’m talking about teams of lobbyists, “think tanks”, lawyers, marketers, strategists, etc architecting all their plans behind closed doors, ghost writing all their legislation, etc.
I’m talking about the financial backing of ruthless authoritarian megalomaniac capitalists; the oligarchs (Murdoch, Ailes, Koch’s, Prager, Putin; plus thousands of others you’ve never even heard of) and corporations they own.
The above is why fascism is winning. Trump, Miller — the entire nazi party — couldn’t have achieved any of this without the for-profit expertise of propaganda networks (media/SM), surveillance capitalism (SM/ad-tech), and secret police (aka “intelligence” orgs = Mossad/NSA/CIA/MI5) that these oligarchs have been constructing for longer than most of us have been alive.