chapotraphouse

"Foreign policy" is just euphemism for "fake shit that doesn't matter. Stop looking at it. You wouldn't understand, peasant. But if you MUST look then you better understand that it might look bad, but it's all necessary, and you better never question a single thing"

It's almost impressive (as an American) once you remove your head from the bullshit cloud and see that the stuff they de-emphasize, mystify, and lie about is actually the most important shit to pay attention to and (basically across the board with extremely few exceptions) oppose totally.

Unfortunately when you have a nation like the US where people are legitimately mostly ignorant of specifics about how exploited the world is, but also day to day conditions are dogshit at home, you essentially cannot get people to see the bigger picture that the world is suffering for the benefit of (mostly) our top few percent and the only way to end that suffering of the world and then suffering at home is to end the military industrial complex. I mean I try to tell Americans this shit and legitimately they stare at me like "uhhhh oooook? Wait how does that help me?" People nominally left-leaning (I won't call them leftists because, well, they aren't. But they might call themselves that).

Makes me feel like I'm the one on crazy pills when I'm yelling into the void day after day. Even the people who do become somewhat radicalized get caught in the day to day trappings of focusing on their own survival. Which I don't fault people as individuals for... it seems to be the entire setup of the system actually.

lol at 'overseas contingency operations'

also 'all options are on the table' for threatening to attack other countries

Hello nima shirazi or adam johnson, you've finally revealed yourself

Regime (Big bad government we don't like)

Don't forget prison camps (prisons), secret police (intelligence agency), propaganda (most public statements), for the "governments we don't like" genre.