A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

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A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby Morty » Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:01 am

A Little About Me

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Well it looks like it's attack editorial season again, so I'm just going to write a bit about who I am and what I do in order to put everyone's mind at ease about me (or confirm all their worst suspicions, depending on where they're coming from). In any case I've acquired a lot of followers lately and I figure it's also a good idea to introduce myself in detail so people are fully aware of what I'm about and what I stand for.

I'd like to start off by publicly proclaiming that I am in fact a resident of Australia and not American so that Mueller doesn't indict me for conspiring to defraud the United States. Those thirteen Russian trolls will never face trial, but you can bet your ass my crony vassal state would ship me to the States in a heartbeat if they were asked to.

I write about US politics because that's where I reckon the head of the beast is. Australia is essentially an intelligence/military asset of the US-centralized international empire, so there's no point writing about Aussie politics if I'm interested in helping our species avoid extinction. And that's really the only reason I write.

Everything I write these days is focused on pointing to the fact that our world is becoming increasingly dominated by a sociopathic plutocracy with no loyalty to any nation or government, whose power-hungry manipulations keep marching our species toward extinction via nuclear annihilation or climate chaos. Until the people take their power away from these dangerous, exploitative warmongering elites, things are going to keep getting worse until we are at worst extinct or at best enslaved in a homogenized Orwellian dystopia where dissent is fully suppressed by AI censorship.

Since my focus is on worldwide restoration of power to ordinary people by prying it from the clutches of the oligarchs, my writings are often described as populist, and I think that's fair. I have faith that ordinary people as a collective are much better governors of the world than a few depraved elites, and I have faith that humanity can wake up enough to reclaim its power.

I believe capitalism is the underlying reason that these nationless elites have been able to so effectively seize control of the world's governments, media, militaries and infrastructure. The more you are willing to step on other people to get ahead, the easier it is to become wealthy, and the more willing you are to throw your fellow humans under the bus to exploit, manipulate, pollute, cheat, and enslave, the wealthier you can become.

This has led to a system where the wealthiest people are also the most sociopathic. It has also led to a system where money translates directly into political power, and therefore a system where we are all ruled by sociopaths. Nowhere is this more true than in the United States, which is where the nationless imperialist oligarchs focus their influence most aggressively.

In theory capitalism is fine. In practice it crushes the weakest and most disadvantaged while turning the worst among us into emperors. For this reason I am a leftist, but I am a leftist who understands that as long as unelected plutocrats control a political system, socialism cannot be possible. For this reason I focus a lot more on attacking the oligarchy than on promoting socialist policies. I start at step one.

For this reason I have often promoted the idea of working with anti-establishment conservatives toward this end, since libertarians, paleocons and civic nationalists are also generally interested in ridding the world of oligarchic influence and rampant corporatist corruption, as well as senseless military interventionism and Orwellian surveillance and censorship. I get a lot of criticism from the left about this. I insist that I am correct.

Leftists call me a right-winger and a Nazi. Right-wingers call me a man hater, an Iran propagandist and a Soros shill. Centrists call me a Russian propagandist, an Assadist, and WikiLeaks asset. Really I'm just a mother doing her best to turn our species away from the omnicidal, ecocidal trajectory it appears to be travelling on.

I oppose the following:

Oligarchy
US military interventionism (all)
Corporate censorship
Government secrecy
US intelligence agencies (all)
Capitalism
Corruption
Propaganda
Mainstream media (all)
Racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, bigotry in all forms

I support the following:

Government transparency
Sovereignty (personal and national)
Wealth redistribution and/or total redesign of the mechanics of wealth
WikiLeaks
Alternative media
Freedom of speech
Environmentalism
Spiritual enlightenment
Humans

Establishment loyalists write smear pieces about me because they can't get me fired since I'm crowd-funded and can't get me deplatformed since I don't have any platform beyond blogging and social media. Their only shot, then, is to circulate material making the general public suspicious of me so that nobody will read what I write. That doesn't really work either, though, because the most prominent lefty outlet in America spent all of last July throwing smear pieces at me and it didn't even slow me down. My leftist haters are out of ammo, and my centrist and right-wing haters only help me.


I really don't think there's much left to smear me about. I've said a few things that make people uncomfortable; I don't mind Mike Cernovich retweeting my stuff, I think it's okay to ask questions about things like Seth Rich and Pizzagate, and I am absolutely certain that we are being extensively lied to by establishment media about Russia and Syria. I stand by all of the above, and if anyone has a problem with that I don't care.

I was recently accused in a Progressive Army smear piece of being a "WikiLeaks asset", which is a new one for me. This is false. I have no relationship with WikiLeaks beyond my very enthusiastic and aggressive support for the outlet. I have never received any money from any WikiLeaks affiliate that I know of, nor for that matter from the Russian, Syrian, Iranian, or North Korean governments, nor for that matter from Soros or any other plutocrat.

Every once in a while a man who raped and pervasively abused me for years makes fake accounts on Medium telling people that I am a fraud because my husband writes my articles for me. This is false. I've been very open about the fact that my husband and I have a very intense and intimate relationship and we do everything together, including working on my articles, but they are mine and I retain full authorship and editorial authority over them. We're basically the way we are on our podcast all the time; a lot of laughter, swapping of ideas, handing the laptop back and forth and coming up with witty one-liners together. It infuriates my abuser that I have a good feminist man who deeply cherishes and supports me now, and he wants people to hate me for that.

That's all I can think of as far as things people might try to smear me for in the near future. I'm sure there's stuff I'm missing, but whatever. Haters gonna hate.

Love you.


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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby Jerky » Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:13 am

Wow. I had no idea she was only 16 years old. Impressive!

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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby Morty » Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:33 am

CIA: Russia. Is very bad. Must be stop.
Media: Ok but WE don't mess with other people's elections right????
CIA: welllllllllllllll huehueyumyumyumyum

8 second James Woolsey video at link: https://t.co/RHoapteU8R


Long version:

Ex-CIA Director Thinks US Hypocrisy About Election Meddling Is Hilarious
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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby 82_28 » Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:09 am

^^^Hahah (RE Jerky). That's lame to say but so true. Overall Johnstone sucks. I just think people dig her because she is good a contradicting everything. I can't tell. She really does not take a stand on anything and I am ok with being both for and against shit because I know differing standpoints exist. But she sometimes simply defends the indefensible. She says she does it because of nuclear annihilation and climate chaos. Well, why not preface each essay that way to begin with. She's just making excuses. She simply likes to be contrary. She has read a shit ton of people who have written on behalf of the left and the right and figured she could become an agitator of centrism. Or something.

In other words. While I have not in any way read anything close to the extent in volumes she has published on the "crowd-sourced" platform she utilizes, I can sort of tell she only does it for herself. Sure, call it the "old boy's club" or corporate decisions or something. Why is she not published in WSWS, breitbart, newsmax, or Truthdig etc? Because she is inconsistent and that is fine -- all of our minds float around and land somewhere depending. It's why she felt the need to write this. While she may have one, to me, she does not appear to have a moral capstone.

Also, she is forcing us to question she, herself, because of how personal she is taking this. First off, dump being "real" on the Internet. Let your spirit fly, but keep who you are secret if you ever envision one day having to write a passive apology. Write provocative shit and get provoked. Who knows what kind of threatening mail she gets. Let your personality glow. Not your identity,

I dunno. I am as left as one could possibly get. I do not trust her actually. When I see her name I already know what she is going to say. . .
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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby American Dream » Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:55 am

How ironic. A very Little About Caitlin Johnstone, which sidesteps most of the ugly truths.
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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby Morty » Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:33 am

I don't read/watch/listen to a whole lot of her output, but just following her twitter it's obvious she's one of the wokest female writers currently going around, is all I'm trying to say. Her main problem is Americans don't want to face reality for more than 5 minutes at a time of their choosing. The polished writers you find in gainful employment at respectable alt journals are too safe (or too specialised) to ever be in danger of saving the world.
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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby stefano » Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:48 pm

I really like her, I read her all the time.
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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby streeb » Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:58 pm

I had no idea she was only 16 years old.


Classy.

I really like her, I read her all the time.


Same. Righteous, honest to a fault, answers her critics, and basically has a waaaay higher hit rate with me than most of the stuff getting copy-pasted at RI 2018.
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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby Belligerent Savant » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:14 pm

^^^^^^^
Agreed.
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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby Jerky » Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:34 pm

Yeah, you "like" her and enjoy her work. But did you guys ever stop and think that this might be because it was tailor-crafted to your particular prejudices and worldview? Weaponized conspiranoid ramblings, which is a Very Real Thing, I'm sorry to say.

None of her beliefs, as she states them, stand up to the slightest bit of serious analysis. Enjoy her all you want, but recognize that she's junk food for the pop paranoia crowd.

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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby Elvis » Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:05 pm

Jerky wrote:None of her beliefs, as she states them, stand up to the slightest bit of serious analysis.


Like your blog articles. :lol:

I know almost nothing about the topic. If you want my opinion of Caitlin Johnstone, you'll have to ask SLAD for it. :lol2:
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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby Belligerent Savant » Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:11 pm

Jerky » Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:34 pm wrote:Yeah, you "like" her and enjoy her work. But did you guys ever stop and think that this might be because it was tailor-crafted to your particular prejudices and worldview? Weaponized conspiranoid ramblings, which is a Very Real Thing, I'm sorry to say.

None of her beliefs, as she states them, stand up to the slightest bit of serious analysis. Enjoy her all you want, but recognize that she's junk food for the pop paranoia crowd.

J.


Says the caricature that absorbs the "news" through a purely partisan lens.

I'm going to end here with a single note I reserve for spam emails:

"Unsubscribe"
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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby Jerky » Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:33 pm

You have no idea where I "absorb" my news from.

If you're really curious, however, it isn't difficult to figure it out. Most of my blog posts consist of suggested readings from other outlets. A wide variety of outlets (including some I generally disagree with, policy-wise).

Don't feel too slighted, BelSav. I was once where you are, high on the transgressive zing of believing shit that deep down I suspected probably wasn't true, but gosh, wouldn't it be cool, wouldn't the world be so much simpler, if it was?

I grew up. So can you.

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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby SonicG » Tue Feb 20, 2018 2:41 am

I am glad to read where she is coming from, but I find her baseline analysis of how capitalism works is quite naive and simple-minded, especially regarding the mechanisms of hegemony. So, her praxis is to "attack oligarchs"?

I have said it ad infinitum, but Cernovich and Posobiec? Besides their toxic neanderthal facades, they are con-men at their core. Cosmopolitan sovcit grifters for people a few IQ points above the whole Qanon and #GreatAwakening scam...Suggesting that some fruitful alliance could be forged with such folks is absurd.
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Re: A Little About Caitlin Johnstone.

Postby stefano » Tue Feb 20, 2018 4:50 am

Jerky » Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:34 am wrote:Yeah, you "like" her and enjoy her work. But did you guys ever stop and think that this might be because it was tailor-crafted to your particular prejudices and worldview?


Jerky wrote:You have no idea where I "absorb" my news from.


Ha.

The difference here is political. You (and AD) are very much a supporter of the centre-left establishment, the Hillary Clintons and Barack Obamas and such. Your big problem is not Empire, it's that racists are running Empire. I'm on a different page - Empire is the problem, the entire fucking thing must come down

Edit - and what, in particular, have you seen Johnstone report as fact that you are sure is untrue?
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