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27 May, 6 tweets, 2 min read
If I wanted to sabotage the pro-Palestine movement, I would make myself a part of the conversation by criticizing Israeli abuses and supporting Palestinian rights, then I'd start going "This rise in anti-semitism sure is concerning though, can we pause and focus on this please?"
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This tactic is such a prized weapon by establishment narrative managers that immensely influential imperial media figures will intervene to help ratio ordinary citizens if they try to bring consciousness to it.

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28 May
If Moscow hadn't intervened in Crimea in 2014 and Syria in 2015, the US wouldn't have begun training us all to hate Russia in 2016.
At some point Russia and China both realized that if they don't start taking bold action to prevent the US empire from absorbing the entire world, they're going to slowly see their allies and trading partners disappear until they've got no choice but to join. That's all this is.
If Russia would've just let the US do its thing with the Ukraine coup and the proxy war to topple Damascus, there never would've been a Russia panic. But then Russia would've eventually found itself surrounded by a sea of hostile empire and forced to relinquish its sovereignty.
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Growing up in crushing poverty is inherently traumatic. Not everyone who's been traumatized goes on to hurt people, but everyone who hurts people has been traumatized. Supporting a status quo which includes an impoverished underclass is supporting widespread crime and violence.
Everything about the US-centralized empire is trauma-creating, from its domestic policy to its foreign policy. It ensures that there will always be more and more criminals to imprison, radicalized extremists to kill, apartheid measures to justify. It self-perpetuates, by design.
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The US is not a puppet of Israel. Israel isn't a puppet of the US for that matter. Saying one puppets the other is like saying Ohio puppets Nevada; they're both member states of the same undeclared empire ruled by uncrowned kings who use governments as weapons to kill and steal.
The lines between nations within the US-centralized empire are no more real than the official elected governments of those nations. It's just a single unified power structure which uses whatever narratives it requires to justify its continued campaign to rule the entire planet.
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