I don't understand how anyone can be without hope right now, personally. The imperial propaganda machine is crumbling in ways we've never seen in our lifetime. They wouldn't work so hard on shoring up narrative control if they didn't need it, and their narrative control is falling apart.

Look at Israel. This is an arm of the empire that understands the importance of narrative manipulation so acutely that they've got their own term for the practice, "hasbara", with countless systems in place for influencing the way westerners view the Zionist entity. But they're losing.

Israel and its supporters are more keenly aware of how important it is to control the narrative than maybe any other population on earth, and yet they are losing control of the narrative. Worldwide support for Israel is plummeting, with more American voters sympathizing with the Palestinians than the Israelis for the first time in history.

And Israel is panicking. They've been ramping up spending on propaganda and influence operations while billionaire Zionists like Larry Ellison use their fortunes to shore up more control over social media platforms and mainstream news outlets. They wouldn't be doing this if they didn't feel the need to, and it won't even work. No amount of propaganda is going to cause people to unsee two years of live-streamed genocide. Propaganda is a powerful tool, but it isn't magic.

The Zionists in the White House are panicking as well. Donald Trump has stated that his goal in securing a ceasefire was to rescue Israel from the PR crisis created by the Netanyahu regime, saying, "Bibi took it very far and Israel lost a lot of support in the world. Now I am gonna get all that support back."

These sentiments were echoed in a recent 60 Minutes interview with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who said that the president "felt like the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control" and needed to rein them in, not for the sake of Israel's victims but to "stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests."

So we're already at a point where elements of the empire are starting to change their behavior in response to public perception of the empire's actions. They are not doing this because they suddenly evolved a conscience, they are doing it because they need to maintain perception management. They understand that if the public turns against them past a certain point, they're in some very dangerous territory.