If the Trump verdict woke you up or radicalized you, welcome to reality!
The bad news:
Things are way worse than you realize, and they're going to get even worse, very quickly.
The good news:
There are things you can do.
A 🧵 for those recently awakened:
1. Allow yourself grief:
When I first realized things were this bad (about 3 years ago), I was upset for days.
I didn't understand why...until I realized it was grief.
I grieved for the America that was lost (most of what I gieved was an illusion, but I got that later).
Aug 26, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
My friend @ChrisWillx gave a name to a feeling I've had but not articulated:
The "Fuck You Family."
TL;DRL: "Fuck you money" gives freedom, but a family can give the deepest and most fulfilling "fuck you" freedom.
I think he's right.
A 🧵 on this idea & my thoughts:
First, his text to me:
"Fuck-you money” is a meme but it’s also a truth.
There is an amount of wealth you achieve and typical restrictions and conventions no longer apply to you.
I also did a quick 🧵 on major takeaways:
1. It's NOT easy to get good info about self-defense, especially for civilians.
Many reasons for this:
-companies just want to sell shit
-no good beginner resources
-lots of idiots posting stupid shit 🤣
-And the biggest one: “gun guys” not understanding what civilians need
Sep 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
On this day four years ago, I did MDMA therapy for the first time.
I was born on my birthday, but Sept 14, 2018 was the day I woke up.
Thats when I began my life the way it was intended. When I started that long journey into myself, awakening to the true experience of life.
🧵
Don't mistake me—everything didn't change at once.
That was beginning of a long journey of healing and wisdom thats still going.
Every year on Sept 14th I celebrate my Awakening Day, review the progress I made in the past year, and set my primary intention for the next year.
Sep 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Like (most) Americans, I grieve for those lost on 9/11/01. A tragedy I'll never forget.
I also don't forget Iraq had nothing to do with it, yet the regime invaded them.
Nor do I forget the Taliban offered to give up Bin Laden, yet the regime invaded Afghanistan.🧵
Nor have I forgotten how the "temporary" security measures (eg TSA) are now permanent.
Nor have I forgotten how the regime used 9/11 to force in the Patriot Act, which created the modern surveillance state (FISA courts, NSA collection of domestic communications, Gitmo, etc).
Aug 23, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I didnt do what DMX and Gadaffi did, but DAMN do I understand the emotions that drove these two to preach at women instead of have sex.
Lemme see if I can explain it, because its not what most people think it is.
If you don't pay attention to current events (I envy you, and am trying to be more like you 🤣):
Looks like the Supreme Court will drop the decision overturning Roe today.
IF that happens--I would avoid cities.
If you cannot avoid a city, I'd be strapped and ready.
1/3
The people I know who track these things are throwing up the same red flags they did right before the Antifa/BLM riots in 20.
Obviously I hope they're wrong, but they believe that when/if that decision drops overturning Roe, cities will be unsafe for a period of time.
2/3
Apr 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We couldn't find a school that was a healthy and safe place for our kids to learn...so we got like-minded families together and started our own.
Twice.
Our "Waldorf style" school is now under construction (pic below) on acreage in Dripping Springs.
We hired an incredible headmaster who is attracting some of the best Waldorf teachers I've ever met.
One of the most common questions I get is "How did you do that?"
Mar 9, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The thread below got a valid question:
"What were the main issues he found contradictions about?"
There were several about the bias of the American media, but the main one, the one that he brain froze on, was "Why this war?"
He was emphatic that this was a humanitarian disaster and Ukrainian people were dying.
I agreed, and validated that concern.
It's real and awful.
I asked him about foreign wars in the past few decades. Brutal ones, like the wars in Yemen, Bosia, Somalia, Rwanda, etc.
Mar 8, 2022 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
A friend mine jumped instantly from Covid hysteria to Ukrainian hysteria.
Literally changed his avatar from "Get Vaccinated" to "I stand with Ukraine."
I SO wanted to say, "You just mindlessly believe everything you see on the TV don't you?"
That wouldn't help.
What did:
First I asked "Why do you believe this?"
And I listened.
I truly listened, with no interruptions, and was open what he said as I tried to understand his reasoning.
I even repeated his reasoning back to him until he agreed I got it.
Feb 26, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
A lot of people asked me why I posted about ignoring the Ukrainian/Russian war.
I don't know war, but I do know media, and everything about how the war is being covered is sending up major red flags to me.
Two quick examples:
1. Hero stories popup immediately, that end up not being true.
The 13 guards telling the Russian naval ship to fuck off (turns out they surrendered), the "Ghost of Kyiv" (doesn't seem to be true), the sunflower seed story, etc...
