Peace Bird

No more war! #GreenNewDeal #MedicareForAll #FreePalestine

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Tech plutocrats are the high-budget expression of the “everyone is twelve now” theory. You wanna go to Mars? Of course you do, you’re twelve. You think you can merge your consciousness with machinery and unlock the key to immortality? Hell yeah my twelve year-old homie. You’re gonna invent an Artificial Superintelligence God who will solve all our problems? Bless your twelve year-old heart.

Their visions for the future of humanity are never particularly wise or intelligent. It’s just a bunch of drugged-up rich guys using their vast fortunes to chart a course for our species that would sound totally awesome to the average preadolescent boy.

You ever hear Jeff Bezos’ vision for our future? He brings it up once in a while. He wants to ship most of humanity offworld and have us all living in these giant spinning space tubes called O’Neill cylinders while only a few lucky individuals get to remain on humanity’s home planet. It’s true, look it up.

This is the best these freaks can come up with. Transhumanism. Space colonization. Virtual reality. ASI. Immortality. These are all visions which revolve around escape. Escaping from the human condition. Escaping from our planet. Escaping from reality. Running, running, running away in a mad scramble to get anywhere but here.

These aren’t positive visions for the future, they’re signs of deep psychological immaturity. They’re the symptoms of an inability to be with what is. Whenever you hear these guys bloviating about transcending our humanity or colonizing space they’re just telling you they’ve got a lot of unresolved early childhood trauma which led them to construct an entire personality around avoidance and restlessness.

They don’t know how to be at peace. Not with themselves, and not with the world. These are very emotionally primitive individuals. They are not wise. They are not kind. They are not happy. They are not even particularly smart. They just have a particular kind of cleverness which has enabled them to succeed as parasitic middle men siphoning wealth off of other people’s labor in the specific type of dystopia we happen to live in.

And yet these are the men we’re allowing to rule our world. These are the people to whom we have handed the steering wheel of human destiny. A bunch of emotionally stunted manchilds who are drowning in a nonstop internal deluge of shame and inadequacy and unresolved mommy issues.

These are the men who have become our kings, because capitalism elevates whoever is wounded enough to do whatever it takes to claw their way to the top.

You trust these guys to shepherd us into a healthy world? They can't even be here now, at peace in their own skins.

This isn’t going to cut it. We can’t led these infantile narcissists lead humanity into the future. We’ve got to create a better system for ourselves.

[Peace Bird @BerniePeaceBird]

Tyranny or Revolution, by @ChrisLynnHedges https://t.co/Hgg6HFpFEk
From Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis (1776): “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, endure the fatigues of supporting it.”

[Peace Bird @BerniePeaceBird]

@omgsidewalks Cancelled all of those, don't miss them at all. Life is better not scrolling for crap to not watch.

[Peace Bird @BerniePeaceBird]

@HoodedMan I've gardened in California since 1980—veggies, fruits, herbs, no problem. That road sign was likely an ag inspection station checking for pests to protect commercial farms, not banning home gardens. CA law protects the right to grow food for personal use . Still going strong 45+

[Peace Bird @BerniePeaceBird]

10 years ago, a little bird flew onto Bernie Sanders' lectern in Portland... and somehow inspired this account too. It's been one wild flight! Grateful for every like, reply, and fellow bird-brained friend along the way.
Still hoping for peace. #BirdieSanders #10YearsStrong

[Peace Bird @BerniePeaceBird]

This Peace Bird is still looking for peace. Remember when a little bird reminded us? #MyXAnniversary

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

53 years ago today, the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America’s direct role in the Vietnam War.

I remember seeing this anti-war PSA back then. Its message is sadly still very relevant today as Trump drags us into another unpopular war.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

https://t.co/vi8JiM1OQB

[Peace Bird @BerniePeaceBird]

https://t.co/oTHjJEK4rv

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

When 3.5% of a population actively participates in sustained, peaceful protest, it can topple authoritarian regimes — like the one currently in the Oval Office.

We need 12 million people to show up on March 28 to get to 3.5%. Will you be one of them?

Find out how at https://t.co/tnq2yloBld

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

I think that is the best advertisement I’ve ever seen.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

If you're a service member being ordered to prep for deployment for the War in Iran and you have moral and/or ethical misgivings on all this, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.

Call the G.I. Rights hotline: [phone]

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Last night, Trump bragged about how he and Republicans "lifted" 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.

The reality is that their Big Ugly Bill kicked millions of hungry Americans, including many children, off of vital food assistance programs.

Here's what else it did.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

A commenter recently asked me why the political class is so willing to let everything be destroyed, when all they'd be ruling over are the ashes of the Empire. For them, however, it's not the ashes. As courtiers of the ruling class, they are protected members of society that not only get saved from the destruction, but profit from it as well.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

First, journalists who step one foot over the line are targeted. Then scrutiny fades—and power operates in the dark.

The real question isn’t “Did Don Lemon trespass?”

It’s: why is the government working this hard to handcuff reporters?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

How should we respond to Trump’s tyranny? History shows us the answer.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

"It definitely feels as if we're experiencing to some level the Israelification of America through ICE. We know that ICE has an office in Tel Aviv, which is very bizarre for a sovereign American institution. Why would they need an office that has to do with our borders and our customs enforcement in a foreign country? It's not even something connected to the military or something international. It's literally about our borders. So why is there an office in Israel? I don't know. Why does ICE have contracts with Palantir and other Israel-aligned technology software companies, AI companies run by American Zionists?" - @anyaparampil

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[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Logging on to make it clear-- we're not doing this same cycle again...

[Peace Bird @BerniePeaceBird]

This is amazing https://t.co/bGrYg75ZHE via @YouTube

[Peace Bird @BerniePeaceBird]

Bots and trolls can’t protest.
We can. We Will. We will prevail.
#GeneralStrikeNow #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory #ArrestKristiNoem #TruthJusticeLove #AbolishICE