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15 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Fingers Of Light

Fingers of light peel away the hiddenness of badge-wearing sadists and Apache helicopter war crimes.

Fingers of light peel away the lies of the dust-faced gargoyles on screens in dark rooms.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/fingers-of-l…
Fingers of light peel away the dead writings of dead men from healthy brains made of living flesh.

Fingers of light peel away the gray film of knowing which masks the beauty of seeing everything for the first time.
Fingers of light peel away the wallpaper of verbiage overlaying life as it actually is.

They emanate from the heart of a turtle in the center of your forehead that is older than the stars, and I rock you gently in my willow tree arms as they peel away the darkness.
Heed well the words from my crooked beak, you skyfaced marvel:

The outcome of this adventure is engulfed in mystery.

The world in which it transpires is swimming in mystery.

The eyes with which you behold it are made entirely of mystery.
The awareness in which you examine it is the origin of all mystery.

We cannot know what the fingers will turn up next.

Anything can happen here.

Anything.

Let your eyes remain as wide

as befits this wild ride.

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16 Dec
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"Most of the energy going into this debate has been focused on personalities; on AOC, on Dore and on his critics. But really this is just the latest manifestation of a perennial dynamic."
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The revolutionary struggle is ultimately always a battle of movement vs inertia. One side says "We need to move!" and the other side makes clever-sounding arguments for why not moving is actually the better strategy right now. In such debates, the movement side is always correct.
We're stuck. We're stuck in power-serving holding patterns that our driving us toward death and dystopia.

When something is stuck, you try to create movement. You wiggle it around to try and un-stick it. You don't fuss too much about which movements are "right", you just move.
That's all we're really trying to do here. We're trying to get things moving against a globe-spanning empire that is working to keep things inert. We're wiggling the stuck object back and forth, this way and that, trying to free it up from the inertia it's stuck in.
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You Have No Obligation To Conform To A Wildly Sick Society

"You have no obligation to conform to a society which brands you a Russian propagandist for criticizing the most powerful and destructive institutions on earth."
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You have no obligation to conform to a society which brands you a Chinese propagandist for advocating peace and detente instead of loyalty to the continual unipolar domination of a sociopathic global empire at all cost.
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The US empire staged a coup in Australia to oust PM Gough Whitlam in 1975 for insisting on Australian national sovereignty, then staged another one to oust Kevin Rudd in 2010 for being too friendly with China. US troops in Australia are therefore an illegitimate occupying force.
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The new imperialism doesn't look like old-school ground invasions, it looks like multi-front cold wars, starvation sanctions, drone strikes, arming proxy militias, CIA-backed coups, and mass psyops of unprecedented sophistication. Peace activists need to look in this direction.
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Yet Another Major Escalation In Establishment Internet Censorship

"YouTube, whose corporate owner Google is arguably the most powerful company on earth, is now deleting user videos which claim the US election was fraudulent."
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At no point does the video publishing platform attempt to argue that it is removing these videos because they jeopardize anyone's health or safety, as it did when it began deleting videos deemed to be spreading misinformation about Covid-19.
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