Third Planet Reportage, 11/12/2024
Syria, Der Starmer, Trump & the Arrival of Fascism
It was Katrina’s birthday yesterday, 10 December. She is 21 or 52, depending on which parallel world you’re in.
I don’t think she will mind in the slightest if I take over her Liberal Socialism section for a moment.
I have been intending to do a general update post, which has been mostly written, but this will be delayed until next week. First, I thought I’d do a little proper journalism (if characteristically offbeat). Then on Friday I have a speculative fiction story for you which is part of my Immigration Control collection. I mention that here because I think anyone who appreciates this present post will, in fact, also appreciate that story. Hopefully you’ll get what I mean when you read it. So for those of my subscribers who don’t generally read spec fic, and perhaps didn’t subscribe for that reason – please do give that particular story a chance. I think you may find yourself pleasantly surprised. And there’s a fair amount of that sort of theme in a lot of my spec fic (this one in particular). I’m a big one for the ‘outsider’ looking in trope. It kind of applies well to myself.
Anyhow, I am minded to make this present kind of post a regular feature, as and when it occurs to me. It’ll probably be a little sporadic – so don’t fret on that account – but I hope you’ll enjoy my take on worldly events here on the third planet. Given it’s somewhat political (or geopolitical, even, with a splash of history and a healthy dose of intelligent theory), it does belong here in the Lizzy section.
[By the way, the Great Image Generator offered me some really cool images from that prompt - I’m going to bear that one in mind for future reference; and as you’ll see, it really has surpassed itself this time]
The following started off as me just setting some thoughts down, out of personal psychological necessity I would say. I get like that fairly regularly. And of course I have to get them down whilst they’re still fresh in my mind and feeling important and relevant.
Specifically, it arose in consequence to a note I posted, which has so far garnered over fifty likes, with a lot of restacks and a fair amount of replies, both agreeing with me and, indeed, vehemently disagreeing. I’ve never had such a successful note, in terms of engagement, the irony being it was a very spontaneous, somewhat angry reaction to all these Democrats in America bemoaning the election of Donald Trump. That and the ongoing genocide in Gaza perpetrated by Israel, with the full support of the Democrats – which is the irony. And some might say very few Americans do irony.
And I do want to say at this juncture that if you are American, and you’re the sort of person who thinks ‘this doesn’t apply to me’ (and possibly feels a little insulted if you think I am applying it to you), then please rest assured that you are absolutely not the target of my anti-Americanist tirades. So you’re right – it doesn’t apply to you. Ironically (there’s a lot of irony about these days – you may have noticed) I have actually visited America a few times, and each time I was met only with friendly, welcoming, warm and cheery people. Which sort of makes it worse. It’s a crying shame I think, and what gets me is how such nice people keep on voting for evil deceitful monsters. It’s that cognitive dissonance thing again.
So, that note, and a few of the replies, led to my setting down all these thoughts. I had to do it – like I say, it’s a psychological necessity.
Then, once I’d done that, it struck me that I should set myself maybe an hour or so to do a bit of research online and provide you with some useful links. It also helps that I know how to speed-read.
This was for two reasons I think. First, I have recently been graced with a small group of new subscribers who, I get the impression, are attracted by my take on world events and geopolitics and the American Empire and suchlike, and I wanted to give them something in return for their support, which does, truly, mean the world to me. Every one of my subscribers does, and I sincerely hope that if and when I ever get to the likes of five hundred or a thousand I will still feel the same about each and every one. It is just as important to me to give something in return as it is to feel supported. Thus, turning what was initially just me letting it out into something of value, with all these references and tips towards other writers in particular, other useful sources of information for the like-minded, strikes me as a decent thing to do.
Also, I wouldn’t want them to think that I only write my ironic speculative fiction. I am little miss eclectic, after all.
The other reason was to simply show what is possible to discover and learn oneself within only one hour’s research online. With the Internet, after all, we have the largest repository of collected and collated human knowledge ever imagined (with the possible exception of the Galactic Archive, naturally – yeah, of course they’re watching!). And so there is, really, no excuse for self-inflicted ignorance. Yes, granted, a significant proportion of what you encounter on the Internet is lies and propaganda and all that, but if you approach it and sift through with an intellectually open and honest mind it is, I firmly believe, possible to discern the worthless from the valuable.
My trick is to get the keywords/phrases right but then ignore the first ten hits, which are almost inevitably the official narrative.
Having said that, there is a little bit of cheating involved as I do already know a fair few reliable corners of the hallowed Internet to visit – but then again that’s the purpose of providing links – so that you, too, can archive those sources for yourself and save and consult them for future reference. Many of them, I would guess, are already familiar to you.
Maybe there’s a third reason, which is that it sort of means I’d be kind of doing some proper journalism (even if a lot of the sources are collated from other journalists). Journalism in the strict, or traditional and old-fashioned sense of the word, that is – someone who writes a journal of observations for public consumption. Katrina does this a fair bit in her own journal, by the way, and this entry in particular is a great example, of which she’s a little bit proud (it’s about her little conspiracy theory regarding the Lia Thomas thing – the transgender swimming issue from a few years ago, if you remember – she believes it was all a manufactured setup designed to sow discord). She writes very engagingly, I’d say. In her world she was, in fact, first known publicly as a journalist. She’ll tell you about that sometime I’m sure.
I am also minded that given these sorts of reactions do, understandably, pop into my head on a very regular basis, I will endeavour to continue posting this kind of thing. I hope you approve – let me know if you do (that like, comment and share thing again!). And if you don’t, or you are somewhat indifferent, then the great thing about free speech is the freedom to not listen.
Anyway, there was a little intro. And I think this probably does fit best into the Liberal Socialism section here. Although this section was initially designed to allow Katrina to talk about her parallel world (the politics and geopolitics, that is, along with the Lizzy Manifesto – I must do a (pinned) overview of that soon, then let her do the longer articles on each aspect and link to the overview as and when), I am minded to say that perhaps anything to do with this world’s politics and geopolitics, as written by me that is – should also belong in this section.
So there. Intro over. Here’s what I wrote the other day (09 December 2024). It’s a bit emotive, but that’s only to be expected, considering recent events. Emotional opinions. Not written with links in mind, as they were an afterthought. Next time, I shall be more purposeful, and do a proper journalistic article.
Ah – and I’m also minded to, rather than try and locate some topical images for you, I’d see what interpretations the Great Image Generator came up with. No IP issues either with that approach.
To all those American Democrat supporters out there, endlessly trying to defend the indefensible simply because it’s not Trump, and bemoaning the fact they have Trump.
As if Democrat administrations are any better.
They’ve gone and done it again, you see. I’m talking about Syria. They, with their murderous proxy Jihadists, have destroyed yet another good country. Of course they will believe in all the bullshit propaganda they imbibe from CNN, or whichever other corporate propaganda outlet they watch on the idiot box. They probably believe Assad was some kind of evil, murderous tyrant or dictator, guilty, amongst other fabricated lies, of the loaded and suggestively worded accusation of ‘gassing his own people’. No, that was yet another false flag.
Far from being the ‘brutal dictator’ they are predictably accusing him of being (the usual phrase, it must be said, for designated enemies of the Empire), under President Assad, Syria was a country in which people of all faiths lived side by side in peace and tolerance. They were neighbours and they visited each other for special meals and occasions. The Syrian people had free healthcare and free education, and women were not oppressed, but enjoyed equality. Until the Empire showed up.
All of that is gone now. What is to come must be frightening in the extreme for them. Those who are still there, and may not be able to flee and claim refugee status. Certainly not in the current racist climate of the likes of what Europe has become.
Now they will be inflicted with the shocking evils of neoliberalism, in which the likes of Blackrock and Vanguard will be sticking their parasitical talons into that country and raping and pillaging her for anything and everything of value. As with Ukraine. I believe the CIA showed up there too. No surprises there, then.
And furthermore, I predict we shall be shortly treated to an incessant parade of propaganda involving ‘discovered atrocities’ – all of which, take note, shall be fabricated and staged lies (in fact it’s already started – here’s one from the BBC, which can always be relied upon for this sort of thing). As usual. And here’s an even better example, which contains all the classic triggers.
Then there’s all the refugees, which are already being denied asylum in one European country after another. More than that, they are already being deported. And that’s sure to please all the racists there. And subject the genuine new asylum seekers to new suffering under the new regime.
And even more – there’s Israel – currently undertaking a land grab in southern Syria (not acceptable under international law – it goes without saying – not that international law has ever been a deterrent for Israel – or America, come to think of it – they will ignore it when they wish, and cite it when they wish to attack someone else’s country). This is not only a further egregious example of ethnic cleansing, it means that strategically, Lebanon is about to be surrounded. The words ‘Greater Israel’ spring to mind.
One would be forgiven for thinking all this was entirely coordinated.
This is the real America. This is what evil empires do.
Clearly, with the full support of the Great American Public, infantilised unspeakably and conditioned into the kind of racist faux-patriotism they are all too quick to condemn in others, against whichever designated enemy their glorious corporate state decides is refusing to accept vassal status.
So how can anyone be proud of the so-called United States of America? I used to try hard to find something of value or goodness in that monstrous nation. But there is little point in trying anymore. You would be searching for a very long time, Sisyphus-style, and you will never find what you are looking for.
Are the American people capable of exercising sanity and compassion and empathy for the other? For the people of Syria? I say not.
They do not, ever, spare a moment’s thought for the tens of millions of innocent children, and their families, whose lives have been irrevocably destroyed by the actions of those imperialist monsters they keep insisting on voting for. And of course, these so-called Democrats, conveniently ignore the fact that the thirteen-year assault on the good and ancient peoples of Syria began, not with a so-called Republican, but with another Democrat administration, the Obama-Biden horrorshow. Biden-Harris? I see no difference.
Well, do I hope all those Americans enjoy a safe, warm, consumerist Christmas this year? Perhaps it would be good if they didn’t, if there was any hope that suffering might just provoke some kind of empathy in them. But I doubt it would. You see all those tens of millions of children, and their families, they will not be entitled to such a warm and safe midwinter. Neither this year, nor any year.
Forever and for the rest of their lives.
So when these Americans try exhorting me to treat them with love and compassion and respect I say how could I possibly? For that would be hypocrisy and mendacity of the highest order, and I possess something called ‘integrity’. Integrity and principle.
It is not for me to treat them with compassion or respect. It is for them to treat everyone else with such virtues. And, may I say, each other and themselves. For I don’t think they do respect themselves. They don’t have that in their life-lexicon.
So no, I could never be proud of that dreadful nation or its people. Only those Americans who comprehensively reject their corporate state and all it stands for. Only those who take it upon themselves, with maturity and compassion, to learn themselves the truth, and to keep hold of that humanity. Only those, that dwindling minority, the virtuous, who ironically don’t belong there, or deserve to live in such a dystopia.
Those I do respect – and you know who you are. None of this applies to you.
Have I said enough? Possibly. But there’s never enough derision could be levelled or pronounced in these matters.
And those of the future – they must know these truths. They must be granted an immunity from lies and propaganda and fabricated, false versions of history. It pains me even now to think of those countless generations not yet born who may grow up innocently believing in the monsters’ version of history, a projection of their own evil onto others. Humanity will not survive, I know, if all this truth itself does not survive.
Perhaps that is enough. Meditate on that in your consciousness, all my good friends.
And now here’s another irony for you. And another duplicitous evil. Starmer, that faithful servant of the deep corporate state, is currently condemning President Assad and celebrating the impending rape of Syria with one voice, whilst with the other, he is visiting Saudi Arabia, the genuine embodiment of all those propaganda lies he and the rest of them have been levelling against Assad.
And he, and that rest of them, know perfectly well what they do. They are, in essence, knowingly rubbing everyone’s faces in it. This is a measure of them, you should understand.
I think, also, it is becoming very clear that Starmer’s ‘mission’ is and has always been to destroy the so-called Labour Party (as the controlled opposition), and pave the way for British Fascism, as embodied by the likes of Nigel Farage (plus whatever’s left of the corrupt Tory Party). Look what the polls have become – Farage’s Reform UK Party is now polling nearly a quarter of the vote! Twenty-four percent! Of course, so are the Tories (twenty-six percent), and Der Starmer’s no-different Labour are not far behind on around twenty-three percent. So that’s a full seventy-three percent of the Great British Public who intend to vote for fascism.
Notwithstanding that the Labour voters might not realise what they’re voting for, that still leaves fifty percent. Someone should remind them of what David Cameron once said – they are, indeed, all in it together.
So don’t worry too much, America – you’re not the only ones.
Mussolini, who wrote the book on it, of course (albeit with a guy called Giovanni Gentile), defined fascism thus: the merger of state and corporate power – a corporatocracy, if you like. You might also call it an oligarchy. And so when I gaze at the likes of America this is clearly what I see. A perfect fascist state.
But so is Britain. And yeah, pretty much every other nation in Europe.
It was George Orwell, of course, who once wrote that when British fascism arrives, it will not call itself fascism. It will rather arrive clad in sober English dress.
Clearly, he was telling the truth.
The future is now set, humanity.
Welcome to the New World Order.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
I did have an afterthought here, which was something about Godwin’s Law, propaganda, and misdirection. Playing on the fact that most people don’t actually know much about fascism. This deserves a longer treatment, however, so I should probably reserve this for next time.
I can suggest now, though, that perhaps all this stuff about Trump is a prime example of this. Perhaps Trump was (s)elected in order to provide a contrast. He has, after all, been relentlessly accused of fascism. But what if this is simply to make the Democrats look moderate (by comparison)? When the truth is, they aren’t really any different – if we take that definition of fascism we saw earlier. There’s no difference on major issues between the two of them, and any perceived differences are merely window dressing, designed to deceive.
And if Trump really was a Nazi, then one of the first things he’d do is take the Federal Reserve into public ownership. Meaning, ironically, he could cancel the national debt (you don’t pay yourself a debt, after all), which I believe is more than 30 trillion dollars now. Then he could lower taxes, eliminate poverty, create a free healthcare system, free education, improve the infrastructure and, erm, well, yeah, he’d have an extra 30-odd trillion to spend on imperialism. I mean he’s not exactly a socialist, is he?
So yeah, maybe that’s not a good idea after all.
Equally so, in view of what transpired to certain previous Presidents, I would imagine that if he even momentarily considered nationalising the money supply he’d get genuinely assassinated by a bunch of lone gunmen.
If it’s any consolation, my American friends, it’s no different in Europe. Here in France, where I live, we have Marine le Pen, leader of the far right, who is likewise only there to make Macron look moderate and progressive, when he is nothing of the sort.
Same in Britain with Nigel Farage, who is also only there to provide the contrast to make Der Starmer and the Labour Party look moderate. When equally so, they are no less fascist than the rest of them (and the Tories go without saying).
It’s all a deception, and the people are being played.
I do hope, then, that next time the Americans have an election, they can remember that the lesser of two evils is still evil, and most importantly, there are, as it happens, more than two options on the ballot paper.
If I was American, I’d have voted for Jill Stein. But that’s just me.
There should be more people like me.
Well, maybe not, come to think of it. This world isn’t big enough for even one me, let alone a multitude.
Anyway, I shall leave it there for now. As I say, I think that thing about Godwin’s Law and propaganda deserves a longer treatment, so I shall leave you with those thoughts, and come back to that next time.
Ciao. And have a nice day.
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we're not so much casting a vote in favour of some party, but rather voting against establishment politicians and thence arriving at the far-right. Le Pen in France, Wilders in Holland, Farrage in the UK, Meloni in Italy, the AfP in Germany...and so on and so forth. Trump. yes, ugly, but many voters are fed up (and a lot poorer), so it's easy to manipulate them with what will turn out to be empty promises. even more ugly.