Try minutes later.
Slavoj Žižek called it like 10 years ago during the Snowden leaks, I believe, that leaks don’t change anything anymore.
That you can have the evidence out there, and no one cares.
He was working off the evidence we had about the failures and lies about the Iraq War, and then the lies about illegal spying on US citizens, and in both cases, the evidence coming to light basically changed nothing about how the US government conducts itself in either regard.
I think he called it early, but was fundamentally correct, having the evidence out there means nothing anymore when the majority of society simply isn’t even paying attention.
54% of American adults read at below a sixth grade level, and I personally think that has something to do with it.
Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths
Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
“Oh that was long ago they no longer do that. Well yeah, they’ve never apologized for the things they did, no one has ever faced any kind of justice, and the same people who did the thing last time are still in power. True, there are claims that they’re doing the same thing right now, but those are just conspiracies, I said they’ve changed already!”
The US did lie about Nelson Mandela being a bloodthirsty terrorist who would immediately genocide all the white people, but not about Hamas. Why don’t you condemn terrorists?
The state department did lie about Libya’s threat and was involved in the horrible dismantling of their state in favor of jihadi warlords, but not in Syria, why are you linking non credible journalists? No I will not check the leaked documents.
The CIA WAS confirmed to have instigated hundreds of coups as recently as the 2010s, but not in Ukraine. You’d have to be a bot to believe such nonsense.
The US did lie about Cuba being a brutal totalitarian baby murdering state, and did downplay how horribly exploitative and violent they were in their imperialism before the revolution, but you have to believe North Korean defectors, it’s not like they’re being bribed to say the biggest lie they can. Btw they had the Korean genuhhhhhh… War coming, they did invade the south of their own country and that’s the part the US wanted.
Are there any examples of something that was a conspiracy theory being validated by confidential documents later? I can’t think of any, even though secret agencies sure did do a lot of crazy stuff.
