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    A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink.

    “I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

    “Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

    The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

    How do you not understand that most of us were raised under the same indoctrination and have experienced the same propaganda as everyone else here? We’re not the ones still propagandized by that upbringing, education, and media exposure. I suggest starting here to learn how to see past it.












  • For anyone unfamiliar with this malarkey: Reconciliation (United States Congress)

    Budget reconciliation is a special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress set up to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate. The procedure overrides the Senate’s filibuster rules, which may otherwise require a 60-vote supermajority for passage. Bills described as reconciliation bills can pass the Senate by a simple majority of 51 votes or 50 votes plus the vice president’s as the tie-breaker. The reconciliation procedure also applies to the House of Representatives, but it has minor significance there, as the rules of the House of Representatives do not have a de facto supermajority requirement.

    The Senate filibuster rules aren’t formal law. They’re rules the Senate imposed on itself over the last hundred years, and it can remove them just as easily. Both parties want these supermajority rules because they don’t want to pass bills that aren’t bipartisan.

    So Democrats would have to get 60 seats who never vote against their own party. But it doesn’t ever work that way because there are always some rotating villians in those seats. If necessary, they’ll use other dirty tricks, for instance the Parliamentarian, who blocked a minimum wage increase in 2021. Congress is Kayfabe.





    • ☑ Do something every day to help undermine public perception of the empire.
    • ☑ Draw attention to its abuses in places like Gaza.
    • ☑ Get people laughing at its absurdities and hypocrisies.
    • ☑ Spread distrust in the imperial propaganda services known as the western press by spotlighting their deceptions and manipulations.
    • ☑ Help people to recognize all the ways their government is screwing them over for the benefit of the rich and powerful.
    • ☑ Facilitate the collective dawning of the realization that everything westerners have been taught about their society and their world is a lie.
    • ☑ Help people to understand that it really, truly does not need to be this way.
    • ☑ Use every means at your disposal to help open up the next pair of eyelids to the ugly reality of the empire.