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26 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The US has been rounding up Italian Americans and systematically exterminating them in concentration camps. If you don't believe me, you are a genocide denier. Questioning my assertion or demanding proof of my claim makes you guilty of genocide denial. You are basically a Nazi.
The basis for my claim that the US is genociding Italian Americans is the fact that I have asserted it. My assertion is my evidence. You must accept my assertion on faith and back economic sanctions against the US or I'll smear you as a genocide denier and compare you to Nazis.
The media always report the truth. If you believe otherwise you are a conspiracy theorist AND a genocide denier.
There you have it: rock solid proof. Checkmate, genocide deniers. #journalism
They have; you can't expect a genocidal authoritarian regime to tell the truth about such things. If you see any of these people on video saying they're fine, it's because the regime forced them to.
I do yes, he's Sri Lankan and doesn't speak Italian or English, but he's from a very prestigious think tank so I think we can take him at his word.

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Supporting universal health care and a living wage will get you mean tweets from the KHive. Opposing US militarism will get you smeared, targeted, marginalized and deplatformed. It takes a lot more courage to oppose America's status quo foreign policy than domestic policy.
One area of emphasis is far, far more tolerated by the oligarchic empire than the other. For this reason, the best way to learn what someone is really made of is not to look at their domestic policy, it's to look at their foreign policy.
And this dynamic of course exists because war is the glue which holds the empire together. There's a lot more power and a lot more capitalist infrastructure riding on the ability to continue US military expansionism than the ability to keep killing universal healthcare.
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False spirituality offers sedation and escapism from reality; it's very convenient for the powerful. True spirituality means expanding consciousness of reality: consciousness of our inner dynamics AND outer dynamics which lead to suffering. Nearly all spirituality today is false.
False spirituality helps you hide the ugly truths within and without by offering comforting narratives and practices which help sedate your emotional body. True spirituality brings consciousness to those ugly truths, within and without, and brings them into the light to be seen.
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