Phenomenological Pagan. Socialist, Music Lover, Empathic Ambivert, Gay, Neurodivergent, Wanderlust. Advanced Panpsychism. Integrated Info Theory. Metaphysics.

Kansas City, MO
Joined December 2010
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This image perfectly summarizes the politics of Latin America's right-wing elites: total subservience to the US and Israel. They exploit "nationalist" rhetoric, but are loyal to foreign imperial powers. This is from a rally in support of Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro dynasty.
On Sunday, Senator and presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro led a rally in São Paulo. Videos show his supporters proudly displaying US and Israeli flags. Bolsonaro has vowed to deepen ties with Israel if elected, even pledging to move Brazil's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem within the first six months of his presidency. Critics warn that second a Trump-aligned Bolsonaro presidency would subservient to Washington and Tel Aviv, with devastating consequences for Brazil and the Amazon. Bolsonaro faces off against incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a runoff election October 25. Footage from Florencia Abregú and Viory.
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Once upon a time Bill Clinton and the US had a reasonable and rational relationship with Vladimir Putin and Russia.
We are constantly told how evil Vladimir Putin is and that he cannot be trusted. But then I see this 2013 interview with Piers Morgan, in which Bill Clinton stated that Putin had honoured all the agreements they had made, saying, "He kept his word on all the deals we had made"
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UnitedHealth used their profits to pay out $11.2 billion directly to its investors during the first 9 months of 2026. This was split between $5 billion spent on stock buybacks to boost their value and $6.2 billion paid out as cash dividends. What does it say about our nation's healthcare system that a handful of bigwigs and predatory middlemen can extract over $10 billion in under a year and pocket it for their own private profits? How many claims were denied to make that possible? How many innocent Americans had to suffer? These massive profits rely on automated claim denials or strict prior authorization rules, which delay and block medically necessary treatment. How many vulnerable patients were subjected to emotional and financial stress in their time of need so UnitedHealth can make these profits? Taking billions of dollars out of our healthcare system and funneling it to wealthy investors is a cruel and immoral heist. They are stealing essential resources away from places where that money is needed most like direct clinical care, patient access, and lowering out-of-pocket costs for patients. Maximizing returns as a health insurer means generating worse patient outcomes. Americans are suffering and dying in preventable ways to make a few people richer. This is some serial killer shit. It doesn't have to be this way.
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A farmer, tired of rats destroying his crops and stealing his grain, came up with a clever but cruel plan. He threw a dead pig into a deep, abandoned well. Attracted by the smell, nearly 80 rats rushed into the well to feast on the carcass. At first, everything seemed wonderful. There was more than enough food for everyone, and the rats ate until they were satisfied. But when the food was gone, they discovered something terrifying. The walls of the well were too steep to climb. They were trapped. Days passed, and hunger turned into desperation. Desperation turned into aggression. The rats that had once eaten peacefully beside one another began fighting for survival. Eventually, they began killing and eating each other. One by one, their numbers dwindled until only a single rat remained. Its eyes were bloodshot, and it had survived by consuming its own kind. Then the farmer returned, lowered a rope into the well, and rescued the last surviving rat. But he didn't save it out of kindness or compassion. The farmer knew the rat had learned to survive by hunting other rats. When he released it into his fields, it would continue killing its own kind instead of eating his grain. The farmer had turned his enemy into his greatest weapon. And that is the lesson of divide and conquer. Those who control the trap don't need to fight the battles themselves. They simply create the conditions in which others turn against one another. The rats believed their enemies were the other rats. They never realized that the true enemy was the farmer who had put them there. The greatest danger isn't always the enemy standing in front of you. Sometimes it's the one who created the conflict and stands quietly watching you destroy each other. Before you turn against your neighbor because of their political beliefs, ask yourself who benefits from keeping Americans divided. While we fight each other over Republican and Democrat, we may be overlooking those who profit from the conflict. Perhaps the real question isn't which side you're on, but who built the well—and why they want us fighting at the bottom of it.
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كثير من الناس لا يفهمون فرنسا، ولم يقرأوا شيئاً عن تاريخها، ولذلك يتعاملون مع المظاهرات الحالية في باريس وكأنها بداية انهيار الحضارة الأوروبية، أو مقدمة لحرب أهلية بين المهاجرين والسكان الأصليين، وبين البيض وغير البيض. هذه التصورات السخيفة ليست سوى إسقاطات أيديولوجية يروّج لها بالدرجة الأولى اليمين الأمريكي والأنجلو ساكسوني، الذي يعاني من جهل فادح بتاريخ أوروبا، ولا يفهم طبيعة المجتمعات الأوروبية وثقافتها السياسية وتاريخ الحراك الشعبي فيها. هناك حقيقة أساسية يجب فهمها، وهي أن فرنسا ليست الولايات المتحدة، والفرنسيين ليسوا الأمريكيين أو الكنديين أو الأستراليين. فرنسا تملك واحدة من أكثر الشعوب وعياً سياسياً، ومن أعرق ثقافات الحراك الشعبي والنضال الاجتماعي في العالم. وتاريخها ليس مجرد تاريخ من المظاهرات السلمية، بل تاريخ حافل بالثورات والانتفاضات والإضرابات التي أسقطت ملوكاً وحكومات، وأعادت تشكيل النظام السياسي الفرنسي مراراً. ولا أتحدث هنا فقط عن الثورة الفرنسية عام 1789، التي أطاحت بالنظام الملكي القديم وغيّرت تاريخ أوروبا بأكمله. في عام 1830، أسقط الفرنسيون الملك شارل العاشر بعد ثلاثة أيام من الانتفاضة الشعبية في باريس. وفي عام 1848 أطاحوا بملكية يوليو وأعلنوا الجمهورية الثانية. وفي عام 1871 انتفضت باريس مجدداً وأقامت الكومونة، التي انتهت بمواجهات دموية قُتل خلالها آلاف الفرنسيين. وفي عام 1936، اجتاحت فرنسا موجة هائلة من الإضرابات العمالية التي أجبرت السلطة وأرباب العمل على تقديم تنازلات تاريخية، بينها إقرار أسبوع العمل من 40 ساعة والإجازات السنوية المدفوعة. أما المثال الأكثر إثارة فهو ما حدث في مايو 1968، عندما بدأت الاحتجاجات من الجامعات الفرنسية، قبل أن تتحول إلى انتفاضة شعبية انضم إليها نحو 10 ملايين عامل، وشلّت فرنسا اقتصادياً واجتماعياً وسياسياً. تخيلوا أن هذه الانتفاضة كادت تطيح بحكم شارل ديغول نفسه، الرجل الذي قاد فرنسا الحرة خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية وأصبح بطلاً قومياً في نظر ملايين الفرنسيين. ومع ذلك، لم يتردد الفرنسيون في النزول إلى الشوارع ضده، حتى اضطر إلى حل الجمعية الوطنية وإجراء انتخابات جديدة، قبل أن تنتهي رئاسته عام 1969. ثم جاءت إضرابات عام 1995 التي شلّت وسائل النقل ومؤسسات الدولة، واحتجاجات الطلاب عام 2006 التي أجبرت الحكومة على التراجع عن قانون العمل الجديد، وانتفاضة السترات الصفراء عام 2018 التي هزّت باريس لأشهر بسبب الضرائب على الوقود والضغوط الاقتصادية، وصولاً إلى المظاهرات المليونية ضد إصلاح نظام التقاعد عام 2023. كل هذا التاريخ، ثم يخرج علينا أمريكي لم يقرأ كتاباً عن فرنسا ليخبرنا أن المظاهرات الحالية تعني أن الأوروبيين على وشك الدخول في حرب أهلية بين البيض والمهاجرين! المشكلة أن الأمريكيين والأنجلو ساكسون عموماً ينظرون إلى المجتمعات الأوروبية من خلال ثقافتهم السياسية الخانعة للمؤسسة الحاكمة، وهي ثقافة أكثر بروداً وخضوعاً للسلطة، ولا تملك تاريخاً من النضال الشعبي الجذري يقترب من التاريخ الفرنسي. فالحقوق التي يعتبرها الأوروبيون بديهية، والتي انتزعتها شعوبهم عبر أجيال من الإضرابات والمواجهات مع الحكومات وأرباب العمل، لا تزال في الولايات المتحدة نفسها موضع جدل سياسي، أو امتيازات لا يستطيع ملايين الأمريكيين الحصول عليها. الأمريكي يقبل أن يعيش في دولة يدفع فيها ضرائب هائلة، ثم يضطر إلى دفع عشرات آلاف الدولارات للتعليم الجامعي، وقد يجد نفسه غارقاً في الديون بسبب فاتورة علاج طبي. أما الفرنسي، فلا يقبل بسهولة أن تتراجع الدولة عن مسؤولياتها في توفير الرعاية الصحية والتعليم والخدمات العامة والحماية الاجتماعية، لأنه يعتبر هذه الحقوق جزءاً من العقد الاجتماعي الذي انتزعته الأجيال السابقة بالنضال. وهذا هو الفرق الجوهري بين الثقافتين. الفرنسيون لا يرون أن عليهم شكر حكوماتهم على الحقوق الاجتماعية التي يتمتعون بها، بل يرون أن الحكومات ملزمة بتوفيرها مقابل الضرائب التي يدفعونها، وأن عليهم النزول إلى الشوارع إذا حاولت السلطة الانتقاص منها. وهذه الثقافة لا تقتصر على فرنسا، فإيطاليا أيضاً تملك تاريخاً هائلاً من الإضرابات والحركات العمالية والانتفاضات الشعبية، وكذلك العديد من الدول الأوروبية التي اعتادت شعوبها على مواجهة الحكومات في الشوارع دفاعاً عن مصالحها.
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Every country especially in the west needs to be doing this. These wealthy people are not going to stop killing us and making our lives worse. No Kings won't get it done. Neither will voting. This is the way out. If we don't take it they will and it won't get better.
To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad: Do not blame the French people for this. We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no. Here are the numbers your media won't show you. 70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today. 79% want a tougher immigration policy. 77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration. 83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home. And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years. This is not a fringe. This is the French people. In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again. That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway. So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations. In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders. It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed. What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it. The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did. So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this." The French never chose this. They were forced into it. If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us. If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.
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Police are the enemy armies occupying our cities. Fuck the police. We will win, comrades.
La policía de la ultraderechista Meloni retrocediendo hoy ante los manifestantes estudiantiles antifascistas en Milán.
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. Israel does not exist. Israel has never existed. Israel was created by the British to pay off their WWI debt. Israel wasn't mandated by "GOD", but by Banksters, Accountants & the British Government. It's call the Balfour Declaration where Great Britain gave away a land they had no legal right to, to a large group of emotionally damaged European Jews.
If every people deserves self-determination except the Jews, that’s racism. Calling it anti-Zionism doesn’t change the double standard. Criticize Israel’s government. Demand better policies. But Jewish freedom isn’t a mistake to be undone.
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This is a huge scandal: The campaign of Brazil's far-right, US-backed presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro paid a US company that sells an AI system for manipulating elections. Bolsonaro's right-wing party also paid the US company, which maps voters and makes fake social media accounts to spread disinformation online targeting crucial voters. This revelation comes after Meta admitted that it censored the accounts of left-wing candidate Lula da Silva and promoted Bolsonaro on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. This is the source (only in Portuguese): intercept.com.br/2026/10/16/…
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Here is the CEO of Lockheed Martin telling investors the demand for his company to make bombs and missiles is “permanent.” The US endless war machine is the world’s biggest terrorist organization and both parties fund it to the tune of $1 trillion a year.
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So true!!! @ZelenskyyUa is an enemy of the Ukrainian people!!!
Let’s talk about the real genocide…. of Ukrainian men. It isn’t Putin. It’s zelensky and his regime. While sniffy flies between pointless summits, smiling for cameras and once again begging the West for cash and weapons, his enforcers kidnap ordinary men off the streets and send them to die. This is not defense of a nation. It is the calculated sacrifice of Ukrainian lives by a regime that refuses to negotiate and treats its own people as expendable…. Russia is not the enemy of Ukraine… but zelensky is!
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Yes to this. Voting will not fix the overall systemic issues we are experiencing.
Ben Becker from Break-Through News brilliantly explains how voting under capitalism is an illusion and that improving people’s lives requires changing the economic system: “All of the main decisions in your life, whether it’s who’s setting the rent, the cost of groceries, the job opportunities, or introducing AI—all of this is basically in the hands of a few corporations, and in that sense if you really want to change the economic reality, you have to change the economic system. You can’t just do that by voting.”
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This story is extremely important: A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning. Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election. This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.) Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"... The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns. Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Link here: panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
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🧵 It’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Here’s a list of treaties being violated by the U.S. government: · 1778 – Treaty with the Delawares · 1784 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix · 1785–86 – Treaty of Hopewell · 1794 – Treaty of Canandaigua · 1795 – Treaty of Greenville · 1805 – Treaty with the Sioux · 1809 – Treaty of Fort Wayne · 1830 – Indian Removal Act · 1835 – Treaty of New Echota · 1836 – Treaty with the Potawatomi · 1851 – Fort Laramie Treaty · 1851 – Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota · 1852 – Apache Treaty · 1855 – Treaty of Washington · 1863 – Nez Perce Treaty · 1867 – Medicine Lodge Treaty · 1868 – Fort Laramie Treaty · 1868 – Navajo Treaty (Long Walk) · 1877 – Sioux Act (Sell or Starve Act) · 1887 – Dawes Act · 1893 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii · 1898 – Annexation of Hawaii · 1898 – Treaty of Paris (Guam) · 1898 – Treaty of Paris (Puerto Rico) · 1900 & 1904 – American Samoa Deeds of Cession · 1903 – Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock · 1903 – Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty (Panama Canal Zone) · 1916 – Treaty of the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands) · 1947 – Military Bases Agreement (Philippines) · 1947–1994 – Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands · 1953 – Public Law 280 · 1975 – Covenant with the Northern Mariana Islands · 2016 – Dakota Access Pipeline · 2018 – Keystone XL Pipeline
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It's crucial to understand that this applies to ALL politicians, no matter what party. They ALL lie about what they'll do if in power. Surely we all know this by now. Electoral politics are a dead end. Revolution is the only solution.
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Obama on the midterms: “It is the most consequential election in history.” Democrats say this every election but when they get power they govern for Wall Street, the war machine, and Israel just like Republicans do. Insane how many Americans keep falling for it. There is no hope in a two-party system when both parties exist to serve capital and war, not people. The people have to make our own hope by rejecting this system and building a better one.
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Adam Schneider retweeted
I fully believe that not voting is a valid voting choice. When there are no good options ... showing up to vote merely agrees with this broken system.
I think this is going to be the first time I don’t vote in 15 years. The choices are awful on both sides. Below here is exactly why I’m not voting ⬇️ If you have to hold your nose to vote for a candidate you hate, you should probably show stay home.
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For many years, rich people and big companies in China used loopholes and offshore tax havens to try to avoid paying taxes. No longer. The Chinese government has cracked down on tax avoidance to make the wealthy and large corporations pay. Oligarchs in the West are frightened.
Across China, tax officials have gone into overdrive to boost receipts from the country’s richest people and biggest companies: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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