In spite of advances in knowledge thanks to the scientific method, all the old ignorant myths & superstitions, the archaic memes & imagery, the mistaken beliefs, misplaced faiths & general wrong-headedness are alive & well & strong & thriving. Humanity is a hopeless mess, doomed.
@CatRivendell
@ask_aubry
I'm subscribed to an alert that notifies me of the proximity of sex offenders in my precinct in Cleveland. The number, by the way, is staggering, so much so as to make it obvious that sex offenders are everywhere. You can't get away from them.
X is reaching the red line of Zionist toxicity. Reading one post and its replies, most of which were smug supporters of us-backed Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, was enough to make me regret coming here today. No humanity, no remorse among the replies for the levelled
@EmmaJoNYC
@JamesMa96163439
The real reason Biden was foisted into office. The imperial war machine is back running on greased wheels. This is the true first priority of the Disunited States of the Federal Reserve Bank.
As I was growing up, people were afraid of atomic bombs. They were always spreading fear. Our President was assassinated. Communists were coming. Dominoes were falling. Dictators needing killing. Weird subhuman foreigners were constantly threatening our 'values'. If we didn't
@DrRJKavanagh
@robertgreenwald
One unarmed black man requires an army of heavily armed storm-troopers descending on him like death itself. His life was hanging in the balance. And for what?! That's America.
I'm in the US. Almost everything that comes at me is an attempt to trick me, sell me, scam me, or keep me in the dark or deluded. It's abrasive. Offensive. It wears people down. The incidence of depression here is high and getting higher. Coincidence?
@Tiamat_Amagi
@historyinmemes
"well over a decade" = over forty years. No social or political message that Bob wrote and recorded has ever deviated from salience and relevance. It's as powerful now as it was then. Listening still. 🙏
@RevDrBarber
Not a surprise. What is surprising is that anyone is surprised. If you don't recognize that you are being ground underfoot in a long historical class war, you are lost. Already lost.
@artsakhic
Americans have not yet been told what to think or how to feel about this, therefore they think and feel nothing. They are in a state of suspended judgement until their government provides the missing programming.
Local man threatens to commit suicide with handgun. Police are called. Predictably, they arrived and fatally shot the man. It's all they know. Such events are pure solid America. Our values. Wealthless person pushed to the breaking point? Exterminate him. Move on. Back to work.
@AlanRMacLeod
As I've been saying for decades, 'geniuses' aren't necessarily a boon to mankind. They generally exploit their advantages for personal gain and look down on common folk. They are among the most supercilious and contemptuous of people. We err in celebrating them.
@CatRivendell
@ask_aubry
I don't have data and I don't care to debate it, but the situation was no better and was perhaps worse on a per capita basis when I lived out in rural America.
They've cleared the X timeline of imagery of the genocide and of pro-Palestinian posts just as they've cleared Palestine of journalists. We all know instinctively who 'they' are.
The Zionist censorship is Orwellian, and the Zionist pack dogs rabid. The nature of X has changed
@Volfan376
@cryptowala65
@iluminatibot
This key realization annihilates almost everything about our government. Trillions for world conquest, but nothing to benefit people here or anywhere, nothing to correct mistakes or save the planet.
Don't appeal to Americans. They are powerless. They can't even be counted upon to save themselves. Their federal government is a thing entirely apart from and independent of the people, most of whom fully dedicate themselves, hearts and minds, to ball games.
@dereckapurnell
It's about class -- working class or privileged class. Not skin color. The 'elite political class' is just as you described it, plus cold, calculating, ruthless, amoral, even inhuman. They are driven by the same ideology.
@docMJP
@TurboKitty
I've said it so many times I'm hoarse: Term Limits! These career politicians ride the gravy train all of their life while finding ways to sell out their constituents with disarming smiles. As time goes on, they become plutocrats, their families ride high, and the nation drags low
Congressman Rick Allen (R-GA) asks Columbia University President if she's aware of the curse from God for not helping Israel.😱
The US🇺🇸 is fast approaching a fascist-theocracy… 🤔
Governments of nations that commit genocide are capable of anything.
They are not constrained by any human qualities: no common decency, no mercy, no morality, no ethics, no principles, no values. The US, the UK, the European nations, Israel, have dropped all pretense at
Reset your brain. Think back over your lifetime. All those peoples and places the US has demonized were actually good. You were programmed. It was all lies. You can undo the programming. Be brave enough to get off the bandwagon and let it go to hell without you on it.
@AriBerman
White invaders murdered the brown natives and stole their land to build a piratical corporation calling it their nation using imported black chattel slaves while thumping their book of white Jesus but no racism was involved.
@richimedhurst
There's something wrong about how history is taught in the US, if we can say it's really taught at all & this goes back at least to the 70s. Determinants of historical events are simplified, cherry-picked, taught as certainties. Question orthodoxy & get flunked.
The US as it was founded is over. It's been and continues to be fully infiltrated and commandeered by a foreign entity. We are now just servants, slaves, labor and cannon fodder for Zionists.
@MintPressNews
The USD comes in the _trillions_, tens and hundreds of trillions, from the "Federal Reserve Bank," a private entity, independent of the US government. In fact, the US government is deep, deep debt to this entity. The FRB seeks to rule the world and uses nations to do its dirty
Six dead in Baltimore. Tragic, yes. Meanwhile, let's autograph more bombs for Israel to drop on Palestinian civilians. How many have been slaughtered with our weapons, our money, our silence?
I knew a guy, truly quite gifted, whose life and potential were derailed by a nightmarish experience in a famous Ohio university. He was placed in a bedbug-infested dorm room, then flippantly accused of plagiarism by a fool of a professor. My friend's takes and papers were so
@JoshuaPotash
This entire thread is absolutely familiar to anyone who has served time in a US corporation. Truly, nothing has changed, nor is it likely to. Being used as a mule wears you down & out. Your brain & emotions lose their edge. You become resigned, servile. It's our glorious Way.
@AprilAubade
@thinking_panda
Christians are among the most vicious, violent, and merciless of peoples in spite of the socialistic pacifism of their teacher's teachings. The human capacity for hypocrisy is boundless
It's no longer accurate to refer to the US or the UK as it they were sovereign. They have been co-opted and are being steered by foreign agents from within and without. Money and the goal of whole-world domination have far exceeded nationalism in the minds of the power echelon.
Education has shriveled. People used to be generally more broadly educated, far more articulate, more thoughtful & critical, far less reactive & easily duped. Evidence of the truth of this exists in records & recorded media. Underprioritization of education is national demise.
I'm supporting three cats on my pittance. Homeless cats break my heart. Stepped out the back door and there's another one, starving, beautiful eyes. What can I do? I can hardly afford food for myself any more. Of course, I took out food and water. The nights are still cold here.
Without 'X' I wouldn't know even the inkling of world events I'm able to gather from it; but the process is akin to working in a sewage plant nearly overcome by the foul stench all day long. In exchange for all the dubious knowledge gleaned, time is wasted while spiritual
Americans used to laugh at Chinese people all riding bicycles. Now, facing high fuel prices here, Americans are turning to bicycles while people in China have been driving electric cars & riding electric bicycles for years already. If you live long enough, you see things change.
Why did no one ever question the misnaming of the influenza epidemic of 1918 which began _unsurprisingly_ on a US military base, Fort Riley, Kansas? The Fort Riley, NOT 'Spanish', pandemic killed approximately 40 million people, young and old.
@SollenbergerRC
@lizzym4jam
Couldn't possibly be the only one. Counties across the country can be reasonably expected to have done the same thing by one creative means or another. They rigged primaries, too. No faith left in any aspect of this mere semblance of a nation.
@JeremyWard33
In all natural and artificial disasters, capitalists see only money, opportunities to exploit, sell, profit. There is no human element in their world. That is farmed out to the PR department.
@everequivocal
In fine hypocritical fashion, the US govt goes far beyond merely meddling in the elections of sovereign nations to actually & cynically subverting & rigging them.
How can Americans persist in being so deluded & naive about their own country? Each one imagines the nation to be some impossibly idealized version based on centuries of myth, hype & poetry. None look & see what the monstrosity is actually doing. The discrepancy is mind-bending.
A small aside: to my human 'mutuals' here: i appreciate you all. This expression inspired by the fact that 80% of the accounts that follow me are fake, porn, etc, barnacles.
🙂🙏
China is only mentioned in our news when we can latch onto their pain & especially when we can stick our fingers into its wounds & give a twist. We've lost any semblance of humanity. We're openly fascistic sadists lusting to get Russia and China into our torture dungeons.
I'm still buying from China whenever I have the option and whenever I have a choice. I'd buy Russian-made if there were any such choice at all in our 'free market'. I'm actively boycotting Israel & European. 🙏
@DrZyklon90
@REVMAXXING
DPRK deserves respect for maintaining its sovereignty against the focused enmity of The Great Satan for seven decades while so many others have become gelatinous vassals and cannon fodder for it.
Reuters is displaying images Blinken yapping like a hellhound about democracy against a background of black smoke from fires, destruction, and death--all so typical of the US presence in the human world. A nation that fails to excise the cancer of a US presence must suffer the
@Public_Citizen
World hegemony is an expensive proposition. It requires the sacrifice of every other societal benefit. Americans tacitly support the beggaring of the nation, the deprivation of the masses, all for empire.
It's all so familiar. Move in, steal the land, denigrate and demonize the dispossessed indigenous peoples, deprive them of their food and water, murder them while calling them every dirty word and name in your vocabulary, ethnically cleanse the land, build over the graves of the
@jenmarya55
@Megatron_ron
@stardustnf
"Past performance is no guarantee of future results"
Whatever whitewashed-in-false-memories 'recollections' one cherishes about US history, it's all long-gone downstream and buried under the sands of time anyway. NOW we face a depraved dystopia deceptively creeping and crawling
Americans are so dehumanized and so passive, they do not actually care about anyone or anything unless and until told to care by their favorite pundits or preachers.
@jai_lies
@FoeckeKeith
Another fellow American goes down the drain while the rest who are circling it do their best to look in any other direction thinking, "Let someone else go down next. Don't let it be me."
As a child, I saw and heard appeals from charities claiming to be feeding the starving children in Africa and elsewhere around the world. Took me a while to realize who was actually causing it, and that they do not care. They have been starving children and murdering their
Israel is annihilating the Palestinians, razing their homes, hospitals, schools, wiping them out, denying that they ever existed in the most inhuman genocide in human history & Americans play along w/their government of soulless bloody puppets. Madness & horror. Madness & horror.
If Israel is involved, I'm out. I won't support them or any event in which they are present in any way or degree.
Unfortunately, this includes the US federal government.
No support for Israel, AIPAC, Zionists. "No votes for you!"
@ahouse4all
I suspect that, as always, people are not passively uninformed. They are actively disinterested & contemptuous of the predicaments of the disadvantaged & deprived. They are kinder to their poodles, or to whales & polar bears, than to human others.
Do all Americans harbor the deep dark fear that with one slip or false move their CIA or FBI could exterminate them? Does this unexamined fear constrict their thoughts, words, and behavior? Perhaps it's the entire nightmarish US federal government that looms in the dark shadows
Anglos and Europeans traveled the world for wealth. They killed, enslaved, and dispossessed indigenous peoples, cut down and shipped out all the trees, mined out all the minerals, until these ran out and then moved on to continue the rape. _This_culture_persists_. It is
@wmhuo168
@Kanthan2030
I reject and ignore the use of 'gods' in any discussion, even when I sympathize. Gods are long-since obsolete in our conception of the universe and our place in it. They are tools of social manipulation.
The US has sunk a thousand miles down since Kent State. Corporations rule the world. Fiat money flooding the world, flooding governments, in the hundreds of trillions, has dissolved and washed away all that was good in people. All moorings are gone.
I'm an old man with two young cats and it's as bad a mismatch as an old man with a young wife. They want to play all the time while for me it hurts to move. I just couldn't stand to leave them in the overcrowded shelter or on the cold mean streets. Makes me sad. At least they're
@AfricanArchives
I was just reading of the mistreatment of Lester Young by the racist US military during WWII. There must be thousands upon thousands of stories of such abuse. We can try to imagine that times have changed, but if they have, it's not by much.
American minds are boxes full of broken glass, shards, chips, chunks, fragments, shreds. At best, an American mind is a kaleidoscope of mismatched, inconsistent, contradictory, bizarre, goofy, warped & twisted junk.
@haikudegras
It's the ultimate security blanket. It buys immunity from laws; if you have enough you can buy the lawmakers & get laws jockeyed around to suit you; it buys doctors & the best healthcare; insurance; all the best for your family; walls & fences; great foods, wines, locations...
@RebeccaforWA
@secularcitizen2
Not so much 'reasonable' as 'human', 'humane'. This is what has been lost: our humanity. 215,000 have died from the corona virus and people could hardly care less. They express more emotion for bar closings, restaurant closings, ballgames and ballplayers.
I'm listening to a cassette tape circa 1982. It plays fine. Others are hopelessly unplayable. All were stored similarly in cardboard boxes. Damned things. Same goes for the sclerotic desiccated rubber wheels and belts in the player mechanisms. Forty years was too much to ask of
Say what will about Zionists, but remember, don't underestimate their savagery: they are the nearest thing to a pack of vicious hyenas to be found among humankind.
Turned on the TV news but couldn't stand two minutes of it. The US--actively in the midst of the worst genocide in 75 years, mass-murdering Palestinians with the madmen of Israel--is mouthing off about charging Russia with 'war crimes'. Unbelievable. Unstomachable.
Just had a conversation with an old friend in Taiwan. His naivety, his fantasies, about the US just make me sad. People around the world watch US TV and movies and believe the US is the place to be. Nothing I could say can put a dent in the illusions. People, sadly, have to learn
@BBCWorld
Any successful Chinese product or service is or will be a target. Nothing they say to undermine the service or product is remotely true. They just want to 'beat' down Chinese successes & regain US market control. Tik Tok will be Microsoft's 'booty'. The US is a pirate nation.
Society runs on people as fuel. It burns people like a tractor engine burns diesel. This engine is designed and built and run by racist imperial capitalists. It is mindless. It plows the world under and spits dollars into the banks.