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22 Sep, 8 tweets, 3 min read
So are Australians just fine with the normalization of police using rubber bullets and other projectile weapons to get rid of protesters now? That the sort of country we all agree we want to live in from now on?
#auspol #Melbourneprotest
Because we all know this is the norm now, right? That they'll be using these weapons to drive peaceful protesters out of any area they're not wanted, including peaceful protesters whose positions we happen to support? We all understand this isn't a one-off thing, right? #auspol
Is that what we want? It's important for us all to come up with a concrete collective yes or no answer to this question that will stick for the foreseeable future, because that call is currently being made for us.
melbactivistlegal.org.au/2021/08/22/sta…
And we want to live in a nation where police assault peaceful protesters with less-lethal rounds if those protesters are protesting without the permission of the police, do we? That's what we want to have in place, permanently, going forward?
You disagreeing with someone doesn't make them "violent". So you believe it's fine to physically assault someone for "disrespecting" an inanimate object?
Seems that way to me, too.

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24 Sep
I keep getting American men telling me Australians need to fight a civil war. You guys live directly under the single most tyrannical regime on earth, you've got more guns than people, and you've yet to fire a shot. You'd literally soil yourself in a civil war and you know it.
They remind me of the soft little manchildren in Australian think tanks saying we must go to war if China invades Taiwan. Bitch you would faint if you ever caught the faintest glimpse of the horrors of war.
Look at this big man. You know he'd cover his face and scream like a baby if he ever had a gun pointed at him.
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24 Sep
I don't know who needs to hear this but there is no functional difference between a politician who votes a certain way because they want to and a politician who votes a certain way because inescapable systemic pressures push them to.
It's just like Trump supporters saying he wanted to fight the Deep State but the Deep State wouldn't let him. It's like, okay, so? Who gives a fuck? Either he's an asshole or an impotent puppet, either way fuck him. Same with AOC and her constant establishment capitulations.
Whether they're serving the empire because they want to or because they have to, it's clear and undeniable that electoral politics isn't the way to advance the interests of normal human beings. The system simply does not allow for that.
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21 Sep
War with China: Are we closer than we think?

I'm three minutes into this #60MinutesAustralia episode and they've already had on a senior analyst from the state-funded and military industrial complex-funded @ASPI_org.
Oh my god this is bat shit fucking crazy. They're playing ominous music and suggesting that China could not just attack but actually INVADE Australia at any time.
"Australia's future is you're going to have to fight for it if you want to keep it, and the idea that China would never attack, even never invade, well I wouldn't count on that."
~ Grant Newsham, former Marine spook and current China hawk think tanker
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21 Sep
Crazy

They'll make you poor,
then shame you for being poor,
then push you into a job that keeps you poor
at a billionaire megacorporation.

They'll make you crazy,
then shame you for being crazy,
then sell you the cure for crazy
at eighty bucks a pill.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/crazy
You're a failure if you can't make ends meet
on impossible wages at an impossible cost of living
with a worthless degree you will never pay off no matter how hard you work
while advertisers blare at you about your insufficiencies,
while the news man tells you war is normal,
while Hollywood tells you the system is working perfectly,
while armed police guard grocery store dumpsters full of food from the hungry,
while executives go on five billion-dollar space rides for fun,
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Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
19 Sep
Not even the craziest imperialists want a hot war with China. They'd much prefer China to bow and be absorbed into the US-centralized empire as so many other nations before, or to collapse and fragment after a decades-long subversion campaign a la the USSR. In that order. 1/
The empire will happily make life miserable for Chinese people in coming decades to pressure Beijing into accepting that it's in the people's interests that the PRC kiss the ring.

The problem of course is that China will be resisting these maneuvers in ways that can blow up. 2/
It's entirely possible for any of the planned escalations and proxy conflicts geared toward undermining nuclear-armed China to provoke a response which causes a chain reaction from which there is no return. A simple miscommunication, misfire or weapons malfunction could do it. /3
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19 Sep
The US and its allies are not surrounding China with an ever-increasing military arsenal to prevent them from cutting off trade routes, they're doing it so that they can cut off China when the time comes.
forbes.com/sites/davidaxe…
"U.S. Navy should prepare to blockade China, according to Bradford Dismukes, a retired Navy captain and political scientist. “Globalization has made China, a great continental power, dependent on the use of the sea and thus vulnerable to coercion from the sea,” Dismukes wrote"
"Blockading China would require a coordinated effort by the whole of the U.S. government and its closest allies. 'There should be no limits on the geographic scope and nature of blockade-enforcement actions,' Dismukes wrote."
forbes.com/sites/davidaxe…
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