Slop.

I once wrote a youtube comment that merely listed a series of locations and dates where America toppled socialist movements or governments. It was in response to someone, I said something like “Tell that to [list].”

The comment got shadow-deleted.

I once, as a test, wrote a comment that merely said “West Bank.” Shadow-deleted. At that point I think my account was flagged for talking about Palestine, so the censor was stricter for me.

There is also fierce censorship on the major subreddits. I don’t really post on reddit so I haven’t experienced it, but the censorship is flagrant enough that I think a lot of people are aware of it.

Then you have Snowden’s leaks, arrests and assassinations of whistleblowers, mysterious deaths of civil rights activists during the George Floyd protests, a media in near lockstep with the State Department, widespread involvement of the military and intelligence communities in Hollywood (Theaters of War discusses this), rampant propaganda about foreign countries, and… oh, right, the actual fucking wars and interventions America conducts constantly. US involvement in the Middle East since 9/11 has contributed to over 4 million deaths and displaced over 38 million refugees by some counts. America midwifed the conflict in Ukraine for a decade or more. The Gaza genocide is just an acute expression of standard US foreign policy.

We have a government owned by corporations. 70% of Americans want single-payer healthcare but our politicians would never dream of it, because they’re all vetted and bribed. The housing industry is gamed by big finance. Rents are skyrocketing while the bulk of our politicians are landlords themselves. Adjusting for inflation, the minimum wage has fallen 50% since the 70s. The opiate crisis continues unchecked. The food industry has free rein to sell the most addictive, obesogenic foods science can conceive of. Student debt is insane. There’s infinite money for war but no money to help ordinary people, because politicians don’t want people to realize that change is possible.