This wave of “Iran is crazy and attacking everyone for no reason” propaganda is actually likely to be pretty effective. Most Americans don’t actually “know” that they have military bases in all these countries and don’t know what these military bases are for. So pretending Iran attacking these places “for no reason” is probably going to be quite effective, especially since most Americans have been trained to think that Iran is a “crazy rogue state” that is dangerous and does stupid things.
It lets them stroke their ego while being proudly ignorant, because they can imagine themselves “not being so stupid” and preserve their sense of superiority and western chauvinism. They get to be the “good guy” in their heads, even while the US bombs schools and hospitals, because Iran is “crazy” and therefore inherently evil and dangerous, because why not throw a bit of ableism in there as well?
Remember that this sort of thing isn’t designed to be a logical reason for things, it is designed to elicit an emotional response in ignorant people so they refuse to actually go looking for the real answers and so they start to view reality as a threat, and remain contained in their safe little media bubble that keeps telling them USA #1 and all their enemies are evilbads who need to be destroyed, no thought required, only emotion, like cheering for the good guys in a Marvel movie.
What a dogshit country this is
Don’t worry, their vassal states are just as proudly smug and ignorant, if not more so, since we can compare ourselves to Americans and as long as we are only 99% as hateful and ignorant we can pretend we are still morally superior.
as we are only 99% as hateful and ignorant
Canada?
Australia, we’re only 99% as bad as Canada.
A significant portion of the user base of THIS PLACE were unaware both of the existence of greenlandic inuits and us military bases before Trump started rambling.
There isn’t anything wrong with being ignorant on a topic, no one can know everything, but the people who wear their ignorance with pride, who refuse to ever challenge it and learn new things are the problem.
Does Jon Stewart think the US launched its missiles at Iran from space
“Never believe that [reactionaries] are unaware of the absurdity of their replies.”I can’t believe a wealthy liberal would do this.
I still remember when he was doing lableak and the liberals were all coping that it was him doing a bit because of course he’d never say something so ridiculous.
How in the hell did Iran put their country next to all these American air bases in Qatar and Bahrain
Fucked up of them to attack all these countries for no reason at all.
Anyways fuck the talk show industrial complex, literally just propaganda
If they bombed NYC, you’d start crying again Jon
Sure, I would prefer if they bombed the mainland US
Ugh I used to love him so much before his retirement, I cannot tell if it’s just that he was always this bad or that he got worse as I got more radical.
Edit: Wow fuck Jon Stewart, but I apologize mister Kucinich I was not aware of your game.
I grew up in Cleveland, when Dennis Kucinich was on the rise. He was a great city councilmen, whose constituents truly loved him, but a terrible mayor of Cleveland, legendarily bad. It probably should have ended his political career, but he went on to be one of the few Congressmen who was on the extreme left at the time. Here he was talking about transgender in 2003, when most people hadn’t even heard the term. Even John Stewart wasn’t on board with the concept at the time.
He was well known to be absolutely incorruptible, and noisy, so he was run out of Congress when his district was specifically targeted by gerrymandering. He was well ahead of his time, he would have been a Congressional hero today.
I just remember him because my mom was a big green party supporter really liked him so he always seemed cool but I wasn’t nearly as checked in to politics as I am today. Like I was going to protests against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan back then and working for local organizations to legalize weed but that was about it.
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We’ve gotten more radical. He is the most tolerable lib and that’s not saying much.
Also be mindful that a lot of this stuff is written for him, he is a lot more thoughtful in his podcast.
I never listened to it because he’s been too lib in general for my taste for a long while, maybe I will give it a look. Also being written for him for cable tv makes a lot of sense (who the fuck watches cable anymore).
always was controlled opposition
you either die a hero…
God he’s still on air? cancel all late night talk show trash already.
Rally to Restore Jon Stewart’s Retirement
Disgusting
This article needs wider viewing. Written just after Occupy Wall St in the Baffler it totally shreds the Neoliberal late night comic fraudulence at the heart of their material.
Excerpts:
“ Stewart and Colbert, in particular, have assumed the role of secular saints whose nightly shtick restores sanity to a world gone mad.
But their sanctification is not evidence of a world gone mad so much as an audience gone to lard morally, ignorant of the comic impulse’s more radical virtues. Over the past decade, political humor has proliferated not as a daring form of social commentary, but a reliable profit source.
Our high-tech jesters serve as smirking adjuncts to the dysfunctional institutions of modern media and politics, from which all their routines derive. Their net effect is almost entirely therapeutic: they congratulate viewers for their fine habits of thought and feeling while remaining careful never to question the corrupt precepts of the status quo too vigorously.
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage.”
Jon could have said…
“Why didn’t they immediately attack the US? Oh, that’s right. We’d nuke them. Nuke them hard. Nuke them bad. Nuke them fast. Nuke them—” Jon realizes the his producer stage right has been manically gesturing a knife across the throat. Oops. They audience is thinking. In fact not only is there no laughter - the mood is like milk that’s gone instantly and horribly sour. “Oh. You know what? That’s really serious and kinda a big downer. I got a really good fart joke for you. So this guy…”
You should be a writer! Put a hexbear in the writer room! I nominate you.
I think my stay in the room would last a just a few days before I was rushed to the hospital and they discovered I “accidentally” ingested a near fatal dose of rat poison.
You’d just get treated like Wyatt Cenac
what’s John Oliver’s take on all this
