Alessandro Calogero

Sto solo dando un'occhiata...

[Alessandro Calogero @AlessandroCalog]

La dura verità...

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Nobody wants to believe they're the villain in the story. Nobody wants to believe their government is run by psychopaths who are inflicting unfathomable evils upon populations around the globe in order to rule the world.

It's much nicer to believe you're the Good Guys. Much easier to sit with the idea that your government might make an innocent mistake here and there, but overall is a driving force for the good of humankind, and is certainly superior to the villains it makes war with.

That's a fiction, though. It's a comfortable lie. A fairy tale that westerners tell themselves to avoid a profoundly uncomfortable truth.

The truth is that we are the villains.

We are the terrorists.

We are the tyrants.

We are the evil regime.

Our soldiers aren't out there defending our country, they're out there murdering people for defending their country. They're not fighting for freedom and democracy, they're fighting for money and power.

Daniel Crimmins from the US Army 3rd Infantry Division wrote the following about the Iraq War in 2015:

"Then you realize you haven’t seen anything to support the idea that these poor fuckers are a threat to your home. You look around and you see all the contractors making six figure salaries to fix your shit, train Iraqis, maintain the ridiculous SUVs the KBR dicks ride around in. You consider the fact that every 25mm shell costs about forty bucks, and your company has been handing those fuckers out like shrapnel flavored parade candies. You think about all the fuel you’re going through, all the ammo and missiles and grenades. You think about every time you lose a vehicle, the Army buys a new one. Maybe you start to see a lot of people making a lot of money on huge amounts of human suffering.

"Then you go on leave, and realize that Ayn Rand has no idea what the fuck she’s talking about. You realize that Fox News and Limbaugh and John McCain don’t respect you or your buddies. They don’t give a fuck if you get a parade or a box when you get home, you’re nothing to them but a prop.

"Then you get out, and you hate the news. You hate the apathy, and you hate the murder being carried out in your name. You grew up wanting so bad to be Luke Skywalker, but you realize that you were basically a Stormtrooper, a faceless, nameless rifleman, carrying a spear for empire, and you start to accept the startlingly obvious truth that these are people like you."

That's the reality right there, folks. We can wake up and start living in reality, or we can remain asleep in the fiction.

It's time to wake up to the reality that western civilization is a depraved dystopia where most people are sleepwalking in a propaganda-addled stupor under an empire that is fueled by human blood. And it's time to awaken to the fact that as westerners it is our duty to tear that empire down brick by brick, for the sake of our children and grandchildren, and for the sake of our fellow man.

[Alessandro Calogero @AlessandroCalog]

@IrenaBuzarewicz Good morning ☕

[Maurizio Acerbo @maurizioacerbo]

La denuncia di un'europarlamentare polacca dovrebbe far riflettere

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[Isabelle d'Artagnan @isa_dartagnan]

Quand j'étais enfant, on m'expliquait que l'URSS et l'Allemagne de l'Est étaient totalitaires parce que l'État espionnait tous les messages privés.

Il y avait des films sur la Stasi, sur l'absence de vie privée et d'état de droit.

#chatcontrol

[Alessandro Calogero @AlessandroCalog]

@lutherblister Per lui solo lame...

[Serpico RET NYPD DET @SerpicoDet]

😢💔

[Nico Piro @_Nico_Piro_]

Il parlamentare Usa Ro Khanna è stato posto in stato di fermo dal Ku Klux Klan #Israele (Cit) durante la sua visita nellq Cisgiordania occupata
I coloni brandivano fucili d’assalto M4 di fabbricazione Usa contro un deputato Usa. Vi immaginate cosa accade ai palestinesi?

[Angelo Gambella @agambella]

👇

[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

l'#UnioneEuropea viaggia a vele spiegate contro l'#autoritarismo: 13 anni dopo il sacrificio di #Snowden approva #ChatControl, controllo di massa delle comunicazioni. Un'assoluta mostruosità:

https://t.co/Z84YHZnXwx

[Alessandro Calogero @AlessandroCalog]

@IrenaBuzarewicz Good morning ☕

[Stefano Mazzurana @Ste_Mazzu]

L'operazione è raffinatissima: investire migliaia e migliaia di miliardi dei cittadini europei in armi, ridurli in povertà assoluta, malati, ignoranti, gettare il continente nella miseria più nera dimodoché Putin non trovi alcun vantaggio a invaderlo. Geniale

[Alessandro Calogero @AlessandroCalog]

@IrenaBuzarewicz Good morning ☕

[Alessandro Calogero @AlessandroCalog]

@lutherblister Tom Bombadil? Decisamente un personaggio interessante.

[Angelo Gambella @agambella]

Chat control è stato adottato nonostante la mozione per respingere il testo del Consiglio ha ottenuto la maggioranza di 314 voti a favore del rigetto; servivano 361 voti della maggioranza assoluta. Molti assenti hanno favorito l'adozione della misura temporanea fino al 3 aprile 2028.

[Kety ✊🏼🇵🇸☭🚩 @Kety_geretto]

Condividete per favore 👇

[Ilaria @lucrezia_ilaria]

Bravo @Dani_DellaValle

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

That is a fact.

[Alessandro Calogero @AlessandroCalog]

@IrenaBuzarewicz Good morning ☕

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Victim of capitalism sleeps outside the Victims of Communism Museum.