{"id":114124,"date":"2022-04-29T08:44:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=114124"},"modified":"2022-04-29T08:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:52:49","slug":"beware-most-of-these-supernova-tik-tok-stars-are-cia-creations-set-up-to-disseminate-pure-government-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=114124","title":{"rendered":"BEWARE! Most of these supernova Tik Tok &#8216;stars&#8217; are CIA creations set up to disseminate pure government propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Woke Tik Tok Stars Tapped to Disseminate Government<br \/>\nPropaganda<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by Ben Bartee<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114126\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fdgdfgdgd.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fdgdfgdgd.webp 705w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fdgdfgdgd-300x221.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>Originally published via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/all-articles\/news-analysis\/woke-tik-tok-stars-tapped-to-disseminate-government-propaganda\/\">The Daily Bell<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tik Tokers, many of whom are barely out of adolescence, serve as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/03\/11\/tik-tok-ukraine-white-house\/\">latest conscripts in the corporate state\u2019s information war<\/a>. Their assigned task is to push its literal wars on their impressionable Gen Z audiences \u2014 whether kinetic (in Ukraine) or biomedical (using COVID terror):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em>\u201cOn Thursday afternoon, 30 top TikTok stars gathered on a Zoom call to receive key information about the war unfolding in Ukraine. National Security Council staffers and White House press secretary Jen Psaki briefed the influencers about the United States\u2019 strategic goals in the region and answered questions on distributing aid to Ukrainians, working with NATO and how the United States would react to a Russian use of nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meet Tik Tok superstar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@julesterpak?lang=en\">Jules Terpak<\/a>. When she\u2019s not attending cyber meetings with the White House press secretary and national security advisors (see below), Terpak mostly produces content that\u2019s a weird hodgepodge of vapid Cosmopolitan-style pop-culture clickbait and pseudo-intellectual commentary on tech and the digitization of social life such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@julesterpak\/video\/7069151865283284270?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;lang=en\">beauty filters<\/a>\u00a0and the intersectional tyranny of beauty standards or whatever<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@julesterpak\/video\/7024932169210432773?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;lang=en\">The return of low-rise jeans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@julesterpak\/video\/7067683417198071086?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;lang=en\">sponsored Bill Gates bootlicking to promote carbon-offset apps<\/a>\u00a0where you can \u201cdonate\u201d $15\/month to go \u201ccarbon-neutral\u201d (the Catholic Church used to operate the same scam when it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/law2.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/luther\/lutherindulgences.html#:~:text=An%20indulgence%20is%20the%20full,in%20a%20state%20called%20purgatory.\">sold so-called \u201cindulgences\u201d to the peasants<\/a>\u00a0in a pay-for-play scheme to access heaven. Back to the Dark Ages we go!)<\/li>\n<li>[<strong><u>unironically<\/u><\/strong>] decrying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@julesterpak\/video\/7052184336744893701?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;lang=en\">\u201cideology as poison\u201d<\/a>\u00a0wherein she quote-mines Terence McKenna (how dare she insult my psychedelic guru! )and pretends to understand the nuances of modern political discourse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34169\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/0-2-300x141.jpg?resize=300%2C141&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Props to her, at least, or charting out a new lane in terms of the mix of content.<\/p>\n<p><em>Side note: Scrolling through her videos, notice how she employs the classic Ben Shapiro technique of speaking super fast so as to create the impression of depth and expertise. By design, the viewer doesn\u2019t have time to process her nonsense before she moves onto the next thing, with the intended effect of the viewer just throwing his (or her, or zher) hands up in dialectic surrender.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ttp9Ol_zr6Y&amp;t=690s&amp;ab_channel=BreakingPoints\">Breaking Points<\/a>, and interview in which Terpak discusses her infatuation with WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki and her excitement at being invited to join her digital Ministry of Truth Pravda-style team:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"INSIDE The White House's Briefing with TikTok Creators | Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ttp9Ol_zr6Y?feature=oembed\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>03:00<\/strong>, \u201cThe White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was there\u2026 Jen Psaki was like \u2018I heard about this and I wanted to jump in\u2019 which of course, that\u2019s pretty cool\u201d (cringe)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Right off the bat, the fact that Terpak was so shamelessly enamored with Jen Psaki\u2019s appearance (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/all-articles\/news-analysis\/white-house-press-briefings-hit-all-time-low-behind-those-dead-eyes\/\">read all about what\u2019s wrong with Psaki and her propaganda \u201cpress briefings\u201d<\/a>) is a giant red flag.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>03:34<\/strong>, \u201cThroughout the entire thing they were actually kind of going to three key points, circling back within every question, kind of pushing them. So the first was of course that they want to deescalate the situation and basically that all decisions are being made based off of the want to put an end to this war as soon as possible. The second was more so that $250 million in aid has been sent over the past two weeks\u2026 so that\u2019s economic, military, and humanitarian. And the third point that they continued to push was that obviously Russia is having a harder time than they anticipated\u2026 They kept going back to those three key points.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(conditioning by repetition, classic indoctrination technique)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>07:10<\/strong>, the interviewer asks her about how the terms \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cdisinformation\u201d are weaponized by powerful corporate state actors at the highest levels of White House staff to silence critics, and how she views that fact in light of the context of the Ukraine war.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Terpak clearly does not have the background knowledge to process and answer the question coherently, which would be fine if she just acknowledged she was out of her depth honestly. But instead, she goes off on a string of unintelligible talking points that Psaki or some national security apparently whispered in her ear like a serpent. She muddles through about a half-minute going on about \u201cdepictions of violence, \u2018subjective morale,\u2019 \u2026 something, something, TikTok comments section,\u201d and never coming close to answering the admittedly difficult question.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>09:00<\/strong>, the interviewer attempts to rephrase the question more directly, albeit still gently: \u201cHow do you prevent yourself from just being used as a talking point receptacle? It\u2019s easy to say \u2018oh my gosh Jen Psaki\u2019s here, I\u2019m just going to repeat whatever she says\u2019\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Terpek again delivers a self-unaware, incoherent talking points word salad: \u201cAll of these [TikTok influencers] are very much \u2026 independent thinkers\u2026 At the end of the day, like, just still approaching this White House briefing and the information we learned there as you would every day with the content on the platform\u2026 and it also pushes back on you if you\u2019re not putting the correct information out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here\u2019s the kicker at\u00a0<strong>12:00<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em>\u201cI grew up watching like NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams\u2026 so, like, when I was watching NBC Nightly News, I always associated with Brian Williams\u2026\u00a0<strong><u>I have been getting a lot more respect for legacy media over the past year<\/u><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>How long until Jules gets a job as a talking head on MSNBC? Or Fox News, for that matter \u2013 there\u2019s not much of a difference anymore, especially when it comes to consensus-engineering to start new wars. Wars for geopolitical interests they don\u2019t understand (and that other people\u2019s kids die in) are catnip to corporate media people.<\/p>\n<p>Without a hint of self-awareness, Terpak claims that Russia\u2019s big military problem in Ukraine is \u201csoldier morale because they don\u2019t necessarily understand why they\u2019re invading fully\u201d \u2013 the implication being that Slay Queen Psaki and the propaganda team she assembled, with Jules playing a starring role, not only understands the nuances of the Russian invasion but is committed to conveying to their audiences the objective truth free of an agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Here she dinging the irony meter is in a separate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@julesterpak\/video\/7074267578721373486\">TikTok video uploaded to her channel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em>\u201cGen Z is particularly great at giving misinformation more reach\u2026 Every single day, I see people falling for false narratives that could change their entire worldview.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>False narratives altering worldviews, huh?<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34168\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/00-3-300x118.png?resize=300%2C118&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=gen+z+trans+tolerance&amp;sxsrf=APq-WBsrzwcieiD2-uCOcF9PKljkzTJ7Nw:1647529058175&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjTzJOCtM32AhW0QfEDHRaOCbQQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=625&amp;dpr=1#imgrc=PEcr434aZkkO9M\">GLAAD<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34167\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/000-4-300x169.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2021\/06\/lgbt-gender-identity-ipsos-2021-survey\/\">World Economic Forum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Many Genders Are There?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iqqaZQI1kI4?feature=oembed\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"There Are Only 2 Genders | Change My Mind\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WtftZPL-k7Y?feature=oembed\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Terpak offers the definitive takeaway in distorted media representations of reality:\u00a0<strong><em><u>\u201cBasically it\u2019s just a mess on all human levels,\u201d<\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0she concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Truer words were never spoken.<\/p>\n<p>For sure, this Tik Toker\u2019s valley girl vocal aesthetic (where the confusing upward inflection concluding every declarative statement, like, makes it sound like a question?) and her obvious naivet\u00e9 and ignorance regarding US foreign policy are mockable.<\/p>\n<p>But, really, overall, the whole situation is really just sad.<\/p>\n<p>Terpak apparently means well, and appears to genuinely believe that she\u2019s doing something noble partnering with the White House digital propaganda all-star team. She comes off as more personable and level-headed than most internet narcissists.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, she\u2019s being used as what Lenin called a \u201cuseful idiot\u201d \u2013 in this case, an internet personality with a large following who can be counted on to repeat government talking points with an official-sounding digital meeting with Slay Queen Jen Psaki.<\/p>\n<p>We no longer live in a serious world. Spare yourself from Biden muddling through future Congressional addresses \u2014 the current State of the Union is:\u00a0<em>totally fucked beyond repair<\/em>. Let use predicate the creation of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gab.com\/2021\/09\/12\/what-does-a-parallel-society-look-like\/\">breakaway parallel society<\/a>\u00a0on this reality, and the desperate need to restore sanity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cGive it up for working stiffs<br \/>\nAnd those who sell their bodies time and future<br \/>\nThe popular people who can shout and spread<br \/>\nA catchy rationalization<br \/>\nLet\u2019s have a cheer for androids, robots,<br \/>\nServants and their masters<br \/>\n\u2018Blind leading the blind\u2019 and \u2018slavery is freedom.\u2019<br \/>\n\u2026Of course someone asks are they still victims if<br \/>\nThey never realize it?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>-NOFX, Pimps and Hookers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armageddonprose.com\/subscribe\/\">Armageddon Prose<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/armageddonprose.substack.com\/\">Substack<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/benbartee\">Patreon<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gab.com\/benbartee\">Gab<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArmageddonProse\">Twitter<\/a>. Please support his independent operations however you can.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armageddonprose.com\/woke-tik-tok-stars-tapped-to-disseminate-government-propaganda\/\">https:\/\/www.armageddonprose.com\/woke-tik-tok-stars-tapped-to-disseminate-government-propaganda\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke Tik Tok Stars Tapped to Disseminate Government Propaganda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}