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Ok, I hate the elite rich rulers just as much as you, probably more even, but still I think this kind of nothing burger hate porn against some imaginary cabal with evil masterplans is actually detrimental to the cause. These are literally like 10 people that are so disconnected from normal people that they are basically ill from it, and most of them act just.. childish. They lucked into it most of them, and are serenaded as geniuses until they lose contact with any way to look at themselves and ask what they want and regressed into, well babies. First of the ideas to connect is that they don't need to control any masses. They have it by means of just how capitalist societies are set up, the rich get richer. There is no way to drop down to become a proletariat. It is impossible, even by fucking up every second for the rest of their lives as much as possible, there will be a gap down to the "rich upper class". But even if they did, they could never adopt the culture of the upper class. The tools that serve as officers in the class war and spend lives working out different ways to pretend they provide value. Most of the class war is in reality fought by giant soulless entities that shed the involvement of, say a president vp, "Boss", like nothing because they are multinational machines with culture and "legal person" status whatever the fuck that is. For these demonic unstoppable planet killer entities, profits is the only goal and zealous lawyer servants and fallen lobbyist dealers make sure that happens, if only to suckle for a bit longer. They know full well how replaceable they are, and are either sociopaths or has chosen to push deep deep down that they are in fact doing crimes against humanity and actually perform actions that will destroy the planet on behalf of something that is not even alive, so that they can taste a whiff of the abundance that the elite enjoy.The media conglomorate and political jesters do engage in secret objectives, but they don't have control.
In like terms of prevention of upproar or anti rebel operations, the weapon makers are trying to automate riot control openly, and they suck at it. They are not even close to the insane ingenuity we see from the Ukraine defense strategy. We see a whole people engaging in spirited and necessary invention, modernization and training, because they are under attack.
But in terms of who is responsible for controlling the masses, just looking at qanon and the_donald operations when it now has leaked that they were psyops we can reduce that holy god they truly suck at their jobs. Just read any cia declassified destabilization or attempt at controlling masses of people. You will be calmed by how intensely inept they are at the art form, and I think forevermore youth shall never be controlled because any attempt without fail has been met with feces and, well, mostly blood, but also they never successfully controlled any masses for longer than some brief moments where any agenda was spent as a tipping point suggestion, but then botched and either blew up in their face or they shat themselves or it would have happened anyway. If any psyop was successful it's because they hope it was them. It's like with the sharks in lending and hedgefunds. They openly rig the system and pay the fines, then brag about making more than the fine that they in any case pay because it was easier for the lawyers to settle as the bitch in the relationship, like all politicians do in a hypercapitalist society.
All in all, no cabal and it's dangerous to give them a shadowy intelligence avatar when they are just human like us but with more power. The demonic entities that are harikiring the planet to win a ritual of highlander style king of the hill race to extinction of the human race is maybe something worth more attention as they are barreling through our last shred of hope for the next generation to be able to live and eat due to the planet becoming an insane bio wmd itself from the incredible journey of big oil astroturfing campaigns that makes the four horsemen look like amateurs
Been holding on to this one for a while
I love it, but why the petty downvotes?