The fact that reactionary populism is rising worldwide and many people find Trump—a narcissistic, boorish, national chauvinist—far less vile than the aristocratic "world order", and yet there is zero self-awareness or a modicum of reflection by the sociopathic establishment class on why that's true, is a fascinating look into mass elite delusion

"By the way, in case you didn't know, we had staff working out of an office in the Pentagon. Toodles!" #OperationMockingbird

💯 https://xcancel.com/caitoz/status/1892368455493701986

I'm just a humble info nerd and not an expert. But, as one of the few who followed – in real-time – the Ukraine/Russia conflict since the Maidan protests (2013), the subsequent US-backed street putsch/coup (2014), and the subsequent civil war (2014-2022), I had to take a break from Twitter right after the invasion in early 2022. It was beyond frustrating as someone who actually did the proof of work to try and understand a serious conflict driven by a casual series of multi-state machinations...yet, suddenly, everyone was an "expert" confidently truncating the antecedents and declaring demonstrative fallacies with regard to a place they couldn't even label on a map the day before. So, of course, just like everything else, it quickly devolved into the cesspit of juvenile politics – where rationality goes to die and where every situation is a good guy-bad guy binary...because that's how normo-political people analyze a complex world. The entire catastrophe really is a case study in the effects of State-political narratives coupled with anti-social media platform incentives.

"Who will pick the cotton?" https://xcancel.com/roxrussell/status/1891832665755562211

Although transitory governments do, the State underlying them doesn't "corrupt". It always works exactly as intended: To forceably extract time and energy from the ruled and transfer them to the rulers

Black Jesus was extremely underrated. Hilarious and surprisingly heartfelt.

A few dim-witted progressives are now finally discovering what a few dim-witted conservatives discovered over the past decade – that promoting and building a lawless institution of absolute power and total coercive control over people's lives has consequences. Statists of all stripes are slow, please be patient.

"You don’t reform tyranny. You abolish it." 💯 https://xcancel.com/StevenNekhaila/status/1890822404202750028

Deeply listening, genuinely empathizing, and discovering common ground with people you disagree with is a superpower in today's age.

Our fight is not against human beings, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers that reign over the world's present darkness

Important Ashigaru PSA https://xcancel.com/Diverter_NoKYC/status/1890776947510124838

[independent critical thinkers – perpetually unhappy because of immoral constructs that are immutable across tribes, and perpetually lonely regardless of whose tribe is in currently in power – not polled]

Hi DOGE, I lost a ton of money at the Treasury I was forced to send to them under duress (threats of violence) that preceded to be spent on morally repugnant acts like mass murder, and paying the salaries of people who rob people in order to pay for their mass murder. If you could find all of that money and return it to its rightful owner (me) that'd be awesome, thanks. 😘✌️

0.6% of the US population rules violently over the remaining 99.4% and statist cult members quibble over whether to call their authoritarian imperium a "democracy" or a "republic"

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The religion of politics will not save a moribund empire.

Phriday Phonk

"Another man's evil does not make you good. Men have used the atrocities of their enemies to justify their own throughout history." https://xcancel.com/JoelWBerry/status/1887518786846077330