210 sats \ 3 replies \ @freetx 30 Mar \ parent \ on: Tough Questions for Libertarians 8/15 libertarian
I was not a Gary Johnson supporter (not against him really, just seemed pointless to support). However, I was with him on the Aleppo incident.
The implication that we should (a) know about every single foreign conflict, and (b) have strongly held views on such issues is in fact a psyop procedure promoted by the military-industrial complex. It implies that we are police of the world and should meddle in every single corner of it.
Now perhaps the joke is he failed geography or something, but the truth is a US president should primarily care about domestic issues and only concern themselves with foreign issues if there was a direct risk to the homeland.
Fair enough. I agree with you on domestic focus vs foreign. Still, I think it's a pretty bad look when you don't even know that this is a city and that there's a war going on. It would have been better to say that he doesn't have an opinion because he hasn't studied the issue deeply, and nevertheless the focus of the president should be on improving citizens' lives, and to only intervene in foreign conflicts if it has a direct impact on citizens' lives.
Of course, the MIC controlled media would respond to that negatively either way, by calling him naive or heartless, just like how they accuse anyone skeptical of funding Ukraine a Putin apologist. You're absolutely right that our media is continually engaging in a psyop, and it's why we can't have nice things in this country
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The "Aleppo Moment" was a designed hatchet job by the corporate press. It happened right after the first polling showed him taking more support from Hillary than from Trump.
The interview had been very friendly and was not even remotely touching the topic of ISIS, yet. Then this deep state hack abruptly asks "What would you do about Aleppo?" Normally, even if only for the audience's sake, there's a transition between topics that gives people a moment to get their thoughts in order. They never just dive into a hyper particular element of a topic like that.
Also, all of the previously smiling hosts turned on him, right on queue: "Oh my god" "Are you serious?" It was obviously designed to catch him off-guard and it worked. That's the game, though (or at least it used to be), and ultimately he was a bad candidate because he wasn't prepared that kind of stuff.
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I oppose assistance to Ukraine
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