Oliver Stone pretty much sealed the deal in my mind that the CIA assassinated JFK, that’s one major so-called “conspiracy theory” cemented as probably true.

The U.S. state has poisoned its own citizens before, dropped bombs on people in its commonwealths. Is it poisoning the water supply? What reason would they have? Weakening agents, toothpaste lobbyists putting shit in the water to rot our teeth in order to spike demand for their product? Testing bioweapons that cause esophageal cancer? Water that causes acid reflux at the behest of Big TUMS? Their justification for using bioweapons in San Fransisco and New York were to “test against a possible hostile bioweapon attack”, so we know the Amerikkkan state doesn’t need justification to do anything, it’s completely arbitrary and irrational at times – as fascism is wont to be.

What about our news media? We know mainstream news outlets are bought and paid for by RFA and the NED and other NGOs the alphabet boys and the pentagon use to maintain hegemony. What about the news outlets we trust? We know the U.S. state will brazenly ban and shut down entire websites and newspapers if they’re deemed a security risk (as they did with that Iranian website), but usually it’s a soft-ban where social media and streaming corpos deplatform news outlets like the Grayzone, RT, Lee Camp, etc. Who’s to say that the state department isn’t carefully cultivating a drip-feed of true info to keep us content as a portion of the population “in the know”, but just little enough to ensure that we aren’t keen on the absolute, total, nightmarish barbarity of it all – just little enough that the masses will consider us conspiracists forever. Does there exist a sort of “information bubble” that will never be popped until the state is destroyed?

I’ve heard some people claim that we give the modern state too much credit, that it’s much weaker than it was in the Cold War days because they refuse to adapt and change strategy, and it’s led by a bunch of senile fools who promote shit like “cisgender woman of color CIA agent” propaganda. On the other hand, communists seem to be split on exactly how strong the state is – are we all on a list, or is the bureaucracy so disorganized and overwrought that a true “list” is improbable?

I don’t know. Materially, if all of this is true, or if none of it is, it won’t impact the fact that we need to organize, nor that Marxism is a science and framework for responding to the material reality as far as we are capable of witnessing it. It just bothers me. The neoliberal hegemon, in all of its cruelty, is capable of trying anything and for any reason, most usually profit.