It’s no coincidence that, on Twitter, the only major platform where telecoms empires don’t (yet) hand-select which talking points are allowed a platform, economic justice and anti-military advocates have the widest reach.

The corporate state’s best defense against this disagreeable uprising of truth tellers is to pummel them in the press with cries about their lack of civility & allegiance with “foreign agitators.” This is the identical propaganda tactic used against labor leaders in the 30s.

There are many reasons why capitalist propaganda works so well on Americans. We’ve always have state media disguised under the cloak of “free enterprise” news corporations. A key function of this is duping the proletariat into thinking it shares the priorities of the bourgeoisie.

The instant you poke your mind’s eye over the prison walls of corporate propaganda, you understand that the singular purpose of Jeff Bezos owning WaPo is to keep you thinking that the guys demanding everyone be fed are the evil ones, not the guys who are conducting the famine.

There’s one guy in this race who thinks everyone should eat. There’s one guy in this race who thinks everyone should have a home. There’s one guy who thinks everyone should get to see a doctor. And yet many Americans hate him, largely due to the efforts of a capitalist press.

Twitter is not some utopian medium either. Spies lurk all over the place and there are lines you can’t cross. But its company valuation still relies on hosting as many high-traffic users as possible, and socialist thinking is incredibly popular. So they’re in a bind.