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Sep 6 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
It's not okay for grown adults to call the invasion of Ukraine "unprovoked"; that's a fartbrained fairy tale for idiots and children. You have a whole internet full of information at your fingertips. Fucking use it.
mate.substack.com/p/by-using-ukr…
readthemaple.com/yes-the-ukrain…
mate.substack.com/p/siding-with-…
"It's an UNPROVOKED invasion!"
"It's an UNPROVOKED invasion!"
"It's an UNPROVOKED invasion!"
"It's an UNPROVOKED invasion!"
"It's an UNPROVOKED invasion!"
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Sep 5
Ukraine is the Gulf War of the 2020s. Both were used as propaganda devices to win back public support for interventionist foreign policy after it had been diminished by previous wars: Vietnam for the 1990 Gulf War and Iraq for the Ukraine war. But remember what happened in 2003.
The Gulf War was aggressively marketed as a "good" and easily won war to beat "Vietnam syndrome", meaning to show Americans still disgusted by Vietnam that the US can still fight and win wars quickly. But then baby Bush used that willingness to go to war for the Iraq invasion.
Now we're seeing triumphant empire manager articles like this about how previously war-weary "progressives" are overcoming their skepticism of military interventionism. Which is fair; many are.

But remember what comes next.
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Sep 3
I'm as distrustful as anyone of the new UFO narratives, but when congress is saying "threats to the United States national security are expanding exponentially" from them, it probably deserves attention. I don't know why they're saying it, but they're not saying it for no reason.
There are a mountain of reasons to be intensely distrustful of every aspect of this, but there are plot holes to be found in any claim about what's really going on here. I'm not willing to commit to any one narrative of what this is really about.
vice.com/en/article/3ad…
Not many people from my sector of the political fringe are looking at this, and I think that's partly because there's so much uncertainty and partly because it doesn't really fit into any of our models for understanding the world. But whatever it is, it's worthy of attention.
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Sep 3
Some Worship At The Feet Of Roadkill

Some worship at the feet of deities, at the feet of gurus, at the feet of dead prophets, at the feet of stone idols, in churches, in temples, in mosques, in Mecca.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/some-worship…
Others worship at the feet of roadkill, at the feet of the dead roo by the side of the freeway, at feet of the cat who crawled its way to the nature strip and died after being clipped by the wheel of a Toyota Camry.
They worship at the feet of a stranger's eyes, at the feet of steamrolled wives, at the feet of circling birds in a cloudy sky, at the feet of a stifled intersection packed with logos for fast food and fossil fuels.
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Sep 2
We've all had the experience of wanting to change something undesirable about our behavior but not being able to. This happens because the forces driving that behavior are not yet conscious. This is what's happening with the self-destructive behavior of humanity as a whole, too.
There's a misconception in our society that people stop their self-destructive behavior when they apply "willpower", which is really just empty head noises. Actually people change when there's an expansion of consciousness. That's what we're waiting on with the human species too.
That's ultimately why we're destroying our planet despite knowing it's bad for us. We can talk all we want about capitalism, corruption, empire and ecocide, but underneath it all what we're really looking at is the struggle of a thinking species to become a conscious species.
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Sep 2
NAFO is people in their sixties hiring people in their forties to construct an artificial imitation of what 4channers in their teens and twenties were doing back in 2015.
It's the most astroturfed thing that has ever happened. From the very beginning it was clear it was a contrived imitation. Like okay they're doing the frog brigade thing. Who's their Pepe? Oh it's the Shiba dog. From all those memes. How fresh.
But there's so much consensus among the political/media class that this is something awesome and cool that we can probably expect similar information ops from the empire well into the future.
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Sep 1
Hilarious to see the Biden administration calling Trumpers extremists while things like this are happening.
thegrayzone.com/2022/08/31/jon…
Can you imagine? Can you imagine if the military and a MAGA pundit had honored open Nazis at a Pentagon event during the Trump administration?
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