The Blindness Of The Right-Wing Nationalist
They haven’t had enough of other people suffering and dying for their comfort … maybe we should let the old “The children in China are starving” reason go …
I am a member of the Authors Guild, with approximately 20,000 members who earn money from their writing in some manner. In my case, I am a full-time money earner for my family based on my writing, which ranges from this Medium presence along with Substack to nonfiction books, business writing, and yes, some fiction. I am also a consultant for several different defense/national security projects.
Even though I have been a vocal opponent to Israel’s attack on Gaza and have been associated with the founding of several cooperatively-owned organizations and businesses, I am in no way a U.S. security risk. I would never betray my country in any way. My opposition to war, economic and environmental exploitation, and discrimination/racism is rooted in a desire to live in a strong, healthy, happy community, and environment.
I advocate for peace, equity, and human rights because I want our people here in the U.S. to have the free, healthy, happy lives to which they are promised through the U.S. Declaration of Independence: “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Yesterday, the Author’s Guild released a statement regarding the U.S. House of Representatives law that would ban TikTok. Written by the guild’s legal staff, the statement strongly condemned the anti-TikTok law on two grounds; 1) it violated free speech for millions of TikTok users; and 2)specifically harmed thousands of authors using TikTok to promote their writing and reach readers.
An Author’s Guild member that — within his oppositional response stated he personally received no benefit from membership — wrote a statement in opposition to AG’s position on the TikTok ban. His main point was that AG’s legal team was wrong and ignorant.
I stated I supported their position. A member of this organization wrote me the following message:
I find it odd that you would align yourself with a country that involves itself in slavery, genocide, sex trafficking, and the production of lethal drugs. Could you explain why?
I too find that “odd” and my only answer is, “I am an American and I want my country to do better and be better.”
Of course, this individual meant “China,” but China isn’t my concern except for my nation’s vulnerability to their economic, social, cultural, and economic strength, as well as to their exploitation of natural resources and desire to economically and socially exploit our nation.
But the presence of youth-oriented, extremely popular video app TikTok isn’t real war …
Banning TikTok will only ensure that another platform takes its place.
Unaware, Uncaring, Ignorant
It’s amazing that an individual like the woman who attacked me is completely unaware of the U.S. history of slavery and its continuation to this day through the Prison-Industrial complex, along with draconian minimum wage laws, an open border with major corporations openly bringing undocumented labor in to exploit (tomatoes, sugar, pork — major producer Smithfield owned by Chinese investment consortium), genocide (funding & fully supporting Gaza and numerous other world conflicts for enrichment of select few), sex trafficking (this map will show you U.S. “hot spots” for it — created by DOJ data and Palantir big data corp), and of course, manufacture and sale of lethal drugs — Purdue Pharma’s Sacklers have yet to pay their $8 billion fine for costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 trillion and at least 500,000 lives.
Yeah, you’re sitting there grinding on TikTok spying on Americans for the ChiComs — totally fine with Sacklers killing half a million of your friends and neighbors and you’re not even yet after every U.S. city and county and state suing them — administering any justice.
In fact, let them get away with more because your propaganda tells you that Chinese fentanyl billionaires are totally responsible.
This is how easily propaganda twists the minds of the privileged.
A woman attacks me because she is 100% in favor of Israel (many people believe the TikTok ban is motivated by pro-Palestinian content which predominates on the platform while it has been heavily censored on the legacy, older-audience skewing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and to a degree, X).
She could not have less interest in the millions in this nation whose lives have been curtailed or destroyed by our country’s heedless rush to destruction on every front, from our crumbling infrastructure and failing military recruitment — seriously — maybe you are this 60 year old Zionist attorney and think your verbiage and BMW and bloviating is important, but few 18 year olds are enlisting in U.S. armed forces for any other reason than a place to live, food, and the GI Bill — and 3/4 of them can’t enlist because they are too fat, sick and nearly dead thanks to the endless array of junk foods, video games, and deteriorated education system — as it enriches a tiny few individuals.
All told, it really does amount to the 99% who are enslaved and who suffer. Even the remaining 1% are as Orwell described in “Shooting an Elephant” — mask-wearers entrapped by their own fealty to corrupt, evil, inequitable, and abusive ideas that should be declared relics of the past and assigned to the same part of history as the Spanish Inquisition and Salem Witch trials.
This lady ignorantly attacked me (and behind the scenes, too, not in public) because she believes the propaganda she is fed. But the flaw in her abusive argument is a basic concept most of us learned in kindergarten.
Mind Your Own Business First, Worry About Others Later
Are there people in slavery in China? Yes: and there are here in the U.S. too, including tens of thousands of minors in sex slavery. Thousands of girls and boys being exploited for sex and not just in the “hoods” and “ghettos.”
We have already heard from many privileged individuals in Israel and the U.S. who can’t comprehend that even if Hamas killed 1,400 babies and beheaded 100% of them on 7 October 2023 and raped their infant corpses, this does not justify bombing 100% of an already impoverished and degraded area, Gaza, and killing 30,000 individuals, including more than 1,400 babies. Israeli social media, including TikTok, is full of videos of young Israelis not just celebrating the genocide in Gaza, but singing songs about it and mocking the poverty and lack of food and water the people there are suffering. IDF is apparently using food deliveries to gather people to kill. I read about this happening in WW2. I see it happening now and so have many hundreds of millions of others: on TikTok.
Here I am living in a country where I’ve worked nearly 50 years of my life as a responsible citizen, and I see where my country is sending unlimited dollars to Israel to do this, and assigned 1/4 of our military forces to ensure their security as they do this.
But I’m supposed to worry about some activities in China instead.
As to “production of lethal drugs,” I’ve already noted what the Sacklers and other opioid makers did, and other publications here and elsewhere have already confirmed that many of the new Pharma drugs instituted during the past decade have potentially fatal side effects. You can hear this for yourself on any of the Pharma commercials that are omnipresent on our media: only allowed in the U.S. and New Zealand.
China’s Policies Are Their Business
What goes on in China is their business. The U.S. has a porous border to drugs and humans because this is what the people in charge want and have wanted for nearly my entire life.
Another statement from an authority on these matters: “I don’t think most people on TikTok understand they are being used by the Chinese.”
All of us are being used, and have been used, to support the interests of a tiny few evil, debased individuals for my entire life.
There is no commitment in the U.S. to recognizing the very real and threatening problems that we face.
75% of us in this nation are obese or overweight. At least 30% suffer from chronic illnesses like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and diabetes.
We are expected to recruit young people for our armed forces from a group that also shares these health problems as well as educational deficits due to decades-long deterioration of our educational system — something for which so-called “conservatives” advocate even though it produces graduates that can’t meet minimum requirements for service in the military or many other jobs.
As to the “Chinese Communist Party” using information from TikTok “against us” — why would this organization not be entitled to the same information any business or company around the world can get, as well as multiple, redundant U.S. government agencies, from DIA to NSA to CIA and probably others I don’t know about and that you sure as hell don’t if you are more concerned about TikTok than the CIA’s Utah power-gobbling data center that kills wildlife within a 10-mile radius as it records every keystroke or swipe of a cell phone every single one of us make all day long every single day.
Why would these people — other than blind allegiance to a foreign country’s propaganda (Israel) — think that banning TikTok would accomplish anything other than what the Authors Guild has said? Violating what few “free speech” rights any of us have left, and hurting the authors who’ve been successful using the service to promote their creativity.
My God you are such headlong, heedless, lazy, stupid and evil fools. Idiots who cannot see beyond your own face lacking even the minimal ability to comprehend you’re not five years old and the world does not revolve around your tiny interests and comfort.
I’m not Oscar Wilde, I am Amy Sterling Casil and every one of you has so richly earned my total and complete contempt.
You are Lear. And look what happened to his daughters and him.
The layer of willfully ignorant American uppercrusts is busy destroying itself, but I don't believe it'll ever be toppled. People are too well-programmed, too easily manipulated. The elites control all the big megaphones--which is what banning TikTok is really about.