Here is a story you can be forgiven for not knowing about, since the masters of your information economy would just as soon you didnt’.

Please do watch. Later into the piece, you will hear Max Blumenthal describing one small piece of why the Colombians are in the streets to stay.

It seems that our Empire was conditioning their “aid” to the Colombian government (a long-term bootlicker to neoliberal US imperialism) on literal Body Counts.

So the government, in their capacity as valuable employees of the corporate northern demon, and incapable of meeting their monthly kill goals any other way, started rounding up useless peasants, gunning them down into mass graves, dressing them up as rebels, taking pictures and sending them up the chain to Hell Corporation’s main office.

For murdering their completely innocent poor brothers, they were rewarded for their loyal slavery with a wage paid by Satan himself, which is to say: You and me. The American taxpayers, as represented by the policy architects and assorted ghouls who spend our money this way with one hand, and slap us over and over again with the other, shouting “How are you going to PAY for that!!??” in response to any question about the threadbare safety net.

Those innocent peasants aren’t just going to kill themselves you know.

Colombia, by the way, falls into the majority of countries, the ones where universal health care is a human right. This does not, however, cover treatment for fatal headshot by colonialist capitalism, or other acts of a fat twisted rich god.

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The death cult requires human sacrifice.

The main difference between places like rural Colombia, Yemen, Gaza, and places closer to home is that the ritual murders don’t typically happen summarily and bluntly, or with guns, unless you’re driving while black or something way out of line like that.

Here, the innocent peasants often actually are expected to kill themselves. The elites just provide incentive for that by reinforcing the narrative that we’re all individuals, responsible for our own destinies, and taking away our alternatives one by one, until suicide for Moloch is the only one left.

Until then, you can get gay-married though, ’cause the Empire is so woke now. Have some pot, too, unless you want to work for Biden, or live out your fitful life in Kansas. Be sure to look into joining the henchman army yourself too, regardless of where you fall on the gender spectrum. We’re offering generous educational incentives!

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The main reason I went down this road is one single word in the screenshot.

Pensioners.

I’d feel a little silly, personally, going into the streets to demonstrate for the overthrow of my murderous government, if that same government was paying my rent every month.

Though I’ve never actually hit the bricks for that purpose yet, I want to preserve my option to do so.

Without the cognitive dissonance.

It makes no practical sense.

I’m trying to listen to my gut more. My gut’s not smart. Its speeches are loud and fundamentalist. It wants to be right, more than it wants to be safe.

It wants, for real, to live free or die.