Today virtually everything is fake, a con designed to trick or distract the marks (us) from the looting, plundering and predation of those running the con for their own self-interest.
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com
– “…Melville understood that we want to be conned: we want to believe the elixir will make our aches and pains go away, that the new face in politics will clear out the rot of corruption, that rising prices for everything means we’re getting richer and so on. Orson Welles’ weird and wonderful documentary F for Fake reminds us that a successful fake is essentially identical with the real thing: so the S&P 500 hitting 3,000 means we’re all getting more prosperous, right?”
It’s Not Just the News That’s Fake–Everything’s Fake
That we fall for the fakes and cons is understandable, given that’s all we have left in the public sphere.
What do we mean when we say corporate media is fake? We mean it’s a carefully crafted con, a set of narratives, cherry-picked data and heavily massaged statistics (the unemployment rate, etc.) designed to instill the…
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
I feel this is so true and so sad.
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Indeed, Lara. Makes you wonder why there aren’t more alcoholics and drug addicts trying to anesthetize themselves.
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Because they’re already anesthetized???
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Itis all fake news. The corporate media. The Duoply zionist democrat nonsense. The zionist gop nonsense. The zionist altright nonsense that calls Uber-zionist Tulsi Gabbard Antiwar. America is so controlled by The Zionists, The Bankers, The Pentagon, The fake Plutocratic Prozionist Duopoly that some people might thing there is a drop of integrity left. There is not. The worst zionist warmongers like Biden and Tulsi Gabbard will even try to say they are antiwar. Even old Sanders who has said is ok to screw the palistinians and keep the shit going in the middle east.
Tulsi Gabbard voted for the anti-democratic, austerity-driven PROMESA, which has inflicted nearly as much long-term misery for Puerto Ricans as Hurricane Maria.
Boing Boing
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Ambrosia, something tells me that finding the right presidential candidate isn’t the answer.
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Charles Hugh Smith is right – everything is fake. I just wrote a very short essay on my blog as to how I feel about “everything” lately – if time permits, check it out: https://ixiocali.com/2019/07/23/i-disagree-a-short-essay/
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Thanks for the link, Sha’Tara. It seems to pretty much hit the nail on the head.
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