{"id":386197,"date":"2018-11-23T05:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T04:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nothing-adds-up-when-you-do-the-alternative-math\/"},"modified":"2018-11-23T05:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T04:02:38","slug":"nothing-adds-up-when-you-do-the-alternative-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nothing-adds-up-when-you-do-the-alternative-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Adds Up When You do the Alternative Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107361\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107361\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/3862527914_f77fea3ccd_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/3862527914_f77fea3ccd_b.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/3862527914_f77fea3ccd_b-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Dustin and Jennifer Stacey | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A disgruntled, off his meds, \u201clone wolf\u201d gunman walks into a bar. We all know how that story ends: He orders 300 rounds. The actual punchline is that we are all shocked that a hired killer for the US military would bring the slaughter home and murder a dozen or so of his compatriots for no apparent reason. Or rather, for reasons having nothing to do with \u201cgeopolitics\u201d. In fact, questions surrounding the wholesale massacre of civilians, infrastructure, even forests and oceans are best left to the \u201cexperts\u201d overseeing their destruction. If the logic of that particular irony is lost on you, perhaps you have not yet mastered \u201calternative math\u201d, which, like \u201calternative facts\u201dprovides falsified outcomes based on lies and delusions.<\/p>\n<p>Funnier still, is how we view military violence as somehow less disturbing than a single \u2018crazy\u2019 guy, even when lone gunman and soldier serve the same master, guided by the same imperative: Serve and protect neoliberalism. One killer obeys a direct and explicit order to kill, while the other is driven to homicide, compelled by the murderous dog whistle implicit in every aspect of life under capitalism \u2013 from its banking services, healthcare and housing policies (or lack thereof) farms, food production, political parties, infrastructure \u2013 all the way down to its dating rituals and coffee chains. The \u201cinvisible hand\u201d that guides the market also pulls the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/22\/nothing-adds-up-when-you-do-the-alternative-math\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Dustin and Jennifer Stacey | CC BY 2.0 A disgruntled, off his meds, \u201clone wolf\u201d gunman walks into a bar. We all know how that story ends: He orders 300 rounds. The actual punchline is that we are all shocked that a hired killer for the US military would bring the slaughter home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}