Date: Sunday, 12 January 2025
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/caitlin-johnstones-fine-list-of-people
https://theduran.com/caitlin-johnstones-fine-list-of-people-to-dismiss/
Caitlin Johnstone’s Fine List of People to Dismiss
11 January 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
Caitlin Johnstone published on January 11th a list of people to dismiss — to distrust and to avoid. Unlike what some commentators might do, her list wasn’t a list of individuals but of types of individuals, who were categorized according to specific beliefs they hold; so, right away, it’s being addressed only to the more intelligent readers. It’s not addressed to the majority of people, who think illogically if at all. Even more remarkably, it’s a list of specific types of societally very dangerous and harmful beliefs, beliefs that produce enormous amounts of suffering for millions of different types of victims; so, it is only for people who have compassion — a virtue that is higher than love (which is only to acquaintances that one interacts with and self-identifies with and is thus in some sense a reflection of self-love and therefore compassion is quite different from love, because compassion is instead selfless and thus far nobler than love). Her list is therefore intrinsically political, and this causes it to be morally courageous, because it very publicly takes a stand regarding numerous types of people whom she detests in public. Since it is a rather long list, she was probably dismissing the vast majority of the public. HERE IS HER ARTICLE:
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https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/31-surefire-ways-to-make-me-lose
“31 Surefire Ways To Make Me Lose Interest In Your Thoughts About The World”
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
JAN 11, 2025
Every day I interact with all sorts of people from all around the world and all across the political spectrum, and I learn a lot from those conversations. Over the years, though, I have learned that there are many people who just aren’t going to have anything worthwhile to say, because their worldviews are too clouded with confusion and bullshit for them to offer a lucid perspective on much of anything.
There are signs I look for to show me whether someone is not worth the time and energy it would take to interact with them, which allows me to use that time and energy more productively. Here they are in no particular order.
Easiest ways to make me lose all interest in everything you have to say:
1. Support Trump and the Republicans
2. Support Democrats
3. Ignore Gaza
4. Talk about “antisemitism” like it’s a major problem that needs to be urgently prioritized
5. Blame the world’s problems on “the Jews”
6. Still buy into the “Hamas uses human shields” narrative in the year 2025
7. Regurgitate empire propaganda about how bad and evil China is
8. Babble about “Russian propaganda” as though it’s a major problem in the west compared to domestic western propaganda
9. Unquestioningly buy into the official narrative about whatever nation or group the empire happens to be targeting on a given day
10. Try to convince me that this time the empire is telling us the truth about the Evil Dictator who needs to be regime changed
11. Parrot Pentagon propaganda about Iran
12. Demonstrate an unwillingness to counter-research against your own biases
13. Regurgitate lies about communism which even a tiny amount of research would quickly debunk
14. Act like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a completely unprovoked act of aggression to which NATO powers were an innocent passive witness
15. Focus primarily on sectarian infighting and social media drama instead of on fighting the empire
16. Pour energy into culture war diversions
17. Shit on trans people
18. Demonstrate an inability to distinguish between smart conspiracy theories and dumb ones
19. Promote dumb conspiracy theories when the culprit is garden variety capitalism
20. Have literally anything whatsoever to do with QAnon
21. Believe Trump is a Russian agent
22. Believe everything the TV told you to believe about North Korea
23. Support US military interventionism anywhere on earth
24. Support any of the obvious US regime change plots in Latin America
25. Automatically assume the mass media are always telling the truth
26. Automatically assume the mass media are always lying
27. Side with the powerful
28. Support and defend any billionaire for any reason
29. Support and defend Israel for any reason
30. Support and defend the western empire for any reason
31. Show signs that you have outsourced your responsibility for understanding the world to any pundit, political party or ideological faction instead of finding out what’s true for yourself.
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MY COMMENT: I would not be presenting her list here if I didn’t agree with virtually everything on it; and, so, I shall merely state my strong objection to her item # “14. Act like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a completely unprovoked act of aggression to which NATO powers were an innocent passive witness”: That assertion by her so grossly understates the reality as to misrepresent the reality, which is that the U.S. Government raped Ukraine in perpetrating a very bloody February 2014 Ukraine coup that grabbed Ukraine and immediately started the war in Ukraine, which U.S. war against Russia essentially compelled Russia in February 2022 to invade Ukraine in order to protect its own national security from the U.S. regime’s very real threat to place its nuclear missiles in Ukraine at the nearest-of-all borders to The Kremlin, a mere five minutes of missile-flying-time away from annihilating — beheading — Russia’s central command. Perhaps Caitlin Johnstone is simply ignorant of all that history, but I don’t want my readers to be. The reason is that this reality happens to be the very biggest geostrategic danger in our time (WW3) — the U.S. Government’s determination to conquer Russia.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
