Greg Tides

Please stop being distracted 😵‍💫| Free speech absolutist ✊🏼 | All life is sacred 🙏🏼 | “What if kindness prevailed?” (from “Good People” by @poormanspoison)

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

Since there’s obviously a war on humanity going on, I figure - to fight back - I’d honor (what I feel is/was the best of what) humanity (has to offer), by drawing portraits of great humans, both deceased or still among us.
Let’s kick (the d)evil’s ass! ✊🏼😇

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The thing about this genre of tweet is that they're kind of right — Obama didn't have any "scandals" of the level we see from Trump. But the fact that the evil things Obama did weren't considered scandalous says profoundly ugly things about the kind of society we are living in.

Obama committed all kinds of atrocities while president that would be considered scandalous if we lived in a world that is even remotely sane. Destroying Libya and leaving it a smoldering crater of humanitarian disaster. Tearing apart Syria with the dirty war that featured pouring weapons into the arms of al-Qaeda affiliates. Initiating the US-backed incineration of Yemen. Lighting the fuse for the ruination of Ukraine with the US-backed regime change op in 2014. His notorious drone program. The list goes on.

But none of that stuff registers for the average Democrat. They don't care about it. They don't think about it. It's not even a blip on their screen. All they are interested in is the feelings Barack Obama made them feel inside about their favorite political faction. That's all they've been trained to focus on.

The typical westerner inhabits a mental universe that is completely divorced from reality. Atrocities are only committed by foreign states that their government doesn't like. Propaganda is something that only happens to people in other countries, or to people with different political ideologies. Scandals are whatever controversies the imperial media choose to focus on and inflame. The actual things that are happening in our world don't register.

This happens because we live in a mind-controlled dystopia where public thought, speech, and behavior are aggressively manipulated by mass-scale psyops in the service of the powerful. The news is propaganda. The search algorithms are wildly biased. The social media platforms herd us into isolated ideological echo chambers. Nobody who meaningfully challenges the information interests of the powerful is allowed to ascend to fame and influence. Hollywood is just a PR machine for the empire.

So most westerners are kept from forming an accurate picture of reality in their minds, which is what allows them to hold absurd beliefs like "Barack Obama never did anything bad." They're cut off from seeing all the immense suffering that's inflicted upon the world by the empire they live under and the sociopaths who rule over it, and in its place a crude crayon drawing of a world which confirms their power-serving biases has been inserted into their minds.

They can't see Libya. They can only see the feelings they felt while Obama was in office, and contrast them with the feelings they feel under Trump. This is the way they have been conditioned to relate to the world. Mass-scale psychological conditioning has turned them into drooling infants. And nobody benefits from this but the powerful.

We won't be free until our minds are free. We can't have a healthy world as long as we are thinking in the ways the powerful have trained us to think.

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

@davidicke also put into perspective certain elements of my own life/past.
Something just clicked for me while reading – especially the chapter “Breaking the Spell” – which before didn’t make total sense to me.

So thanks a lot for writing The Road Map, and all the other work you do.🙏🏼

🫶🏼

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

@davidicke Dear David,

Even though I’m not (always) that much of a reader… I devoured your book (The Road Map) within a week.

Like the last book I truly loved (James Corbett’s Reportage), I’m gonna buy some more copies to give away/lend out.

It is an awesome read, which…

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's Not Okay To Join The Military

“If you live in the west and you join the military, at no point will you ever be acting in defense of your country; you will be murdering people who are trying to defend their country.”

Reading by Tim Foley.

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

@therevjoeblank @acobasi Had he lived longer…

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

George 🫶🏼

[joe blank @therevjoeblank]

New - 8x10 Original pencil portrait of George Carlin, done in .3mm Uni nanodiamond lead on graphite drawing paper. Up for sale on my Buymeacoffee (link in bio) for super cheap, along with a few other pieces at heavy discount. I'm up against a wall with my cell hours away from /

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

I got a lot of shit for saying why I don't trust the Joe Kent trajectory and, why I was obviously put on the spot about it and could have been more articulate, I think the points I brought up are very reasonable.

If the top counter-terror spook resigns to amplify rhetoric (even if it's mostly accurate) that the current administration defines as indicative of "domestic terrorism" AND that spook was previously also funded by Peter Thiel, the co-founder and chairman of the intelligence contractor working to establish domestic terror pre-crime in the US, I think it's fair to be skeptical of him.

Trump previously considered making a pre-crime program using AI to flag the social media accounts of Americans who displayed "warning signs" of violence or "mental illness". It's main advocate was Jared Kushner. There have been many recent media efforts to equate criticism of Israel to "anti-semitism" and "anti-semitism" to mental illness. Most social media giants are owned or funded by people who lied about their ties to Epstein and also contract for (or are otherwise linked to) the US national security apparatus.

That same apparatus has expanded infrastructure for the supposed "War on Domestic Terror" with the blessing of every administration since George W. Bush, it is bipartisan, and they didn't just build it for no reason - they intend to use it at some point.

Also, the idea that there is a "civil war" in the White House, as proposed by people like Nick Fuentes, over the Iran War only helps JD Vance, who is also tied at the hip to Palantir's Peter Thiel.

I took a lot of shit in the past for my stances on Covid, on Trump being a neocon, and on Epstein's intel ties, etc. etc. way before it was "popular" to do so but which turned out to be correct. I am not here to be popular or to tell you what you want to hear. I have been early on a lot of stories that other people now take credit for after the fact.

I don't care if you like me and I don't care about getting credit, I care that some of you wake the fuck up and stop swallowing every single psyop they throw at you without thinking twice about it.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

if you think he is the good guy, try to grow a new brain

[George van Houts 💻📣 @georgevanhouts]

De Nederlandse politiek zit gruwelijk fout.
Behalve @FVD, @SP en @Denk een beetje.

[Chris Webby @ChrisWebby]

#RawThoughtsVII ⚔️🕸

👁️ : https://t.co/6XBUOZlxpS

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

@Krispijnpunt @GhiKha1303 @ComedyCentralNL @ComedyCentral Hij zou zich beter focussen op de crux van het probleem.

Zag ‘m op de Andere Werelddag vorig jaar. Als dat al comedy mag heten… 😅

Kerel is minder grappig dan een uitdrogende drol.

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

@superjan @JimmyDoreShow @RealCandaceO Jimmy heeft ‘t in ieder geval al eens benoemd.

https://t.co/GfbtH20TTf

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

@iluminatibot

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You are asking the wrong question to the wrong person.

You are talking to someone who grew up on the receiving end of Western power, not someone who learned geopolitics from Netflix.

I do not have a problem condemning imperialism "from all sides."

I have a problem pretending that all "sides" are equal when one bloc:

Built 800+ military bases abroad.

Controls the global reserve currency.

Runs the main sanction machinery.

Overthrew dozens of governments on every continent.

And backs the last open-air concentration camp in Gaza while calling it "self-defense."

That bloc is not Russia.

That bloc is not China.

That bloc is the U.S., its European vassals, and its little settler attack dog in West Asia.

So let’s be specific.

When Russia moves in Ukraine, the West calls it "naked imperialism."

When NATO creeps east for 30 years, tears up arms control treaties, backs coups in Kiev, and turns Ukraine into a forward operating base, that is somehow not imperialism, just "security architecture."

When China insists that Taiwan is part of its own historical and legal space, it is "aggression."

When the U.S. sails warships 10,000 kilometers from home, encircles China with bases and missiles, arms separatists, and openly talks about "containing" Chinese growth, that is sold as "defending democracy."

You see the pattern, right?

You only ask me, "Why don’t you condemn Russia and China?" because you swim in a narrative where what Washington and Brussels do is never named as empire, only as "order," "stability," or "rules-based."

Let me make my position clear:

If Moscow tomorrow starts stealing other people’s resources, installing puppet regimes on other continents, and sanctioning entire populations into famine, I will call that imperialism.

If Beijing starts running coups in Latin America, crushing African economies with IMF-style conditionality, and building Guantánamo-style black sites, I will call that imperialism.

But that is not where we are.

Right now, what I see is:

Russia responding to 30 years of NATO encirclement on its own borders, asserting the red lines any serious state would draw to defend its survival.

China reacting strategically to a century of humiliation, rebuilding itself with discipline and patience, and securing its own periphery against a foreign navy that has no legitimate reason to be at its doorstep except to keep it down.

You want to treat that as equal to:

Iraq 2003, a war of choice based on lies.

Libya 2011, a "no-fly zone" turned state destruction.

Afghanistan, 20 years of occupation and then walking away.

Chile, Congo, Indonesia, Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Grenada, Panama, Yugoslavia, Syria, the list is almost endless.

So no, I do not "only" criticize Western imperialism.

I criticize the center of gravity of imperialism.

If a tiger bites you once and a mosquito bites you three times, you do not write a long essay about "both sides of biting." You deal with the animal that can actually kill you first.

That is what the Global South is doing.

You ask: "Why not condemn what Russia is doing in Ukraine?"

Because every Western politician and newspaper is already screaming about it 24/7, while carefully deleting the NATO, coup, and proxy-war context that led there.

My voice is not needed to reinforce the loudest propaganda machine on Earth.

You ask: "Why not condemn what China wants to do regarding Taiwan?"

Because for 150 years, European and American ships, soldiers, missionaries, and bankers carved Asia into zones like they were slicing cake.

China trying to secure reunification, however you feel about it, is not the same category as Europeans crossing oceans to carve up continents that never threatened them.

Russia wants a security buffer on its immediate border after centuries of invasions from the West.

China wants to finish a civil war and prevent a hostile military alliance from turning its front porch into a NATO aircraft carrier.

The U.S. wants no one, anywhere, to have the ability to say "no" to its sanctions, its dollar system, its bases, its vetoes, its bombardments.

You can pretend those are all "imperialisms" on the same moral plane.

I do not.

I live in a world where:

Washington arms Israel while it erases Palestinians in real time.

Brussels lectures Africa on "values" while backing French neocolonial currency systems.

The same Europe that starved my part of the world through colonies now calls Russian gas a "security threat" and Chinese investment "economic warfare."

And you want to talk to me about "balance"?

Here is my balance:

The U.S., Europe, and Israel are the primary axis of global violence today.

Russia and China are big powers with their own interests, but they are also the ones pushing back against a unipolar order that has strangled the Global South for generations.

If one day they become what the West is now, I will turn the same knife on them.

Until then, I am not confused about where the main gun is pointed.

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

@Rumpelstunzchen “Oud strontbruin elandaarsje” is ie.

Anagram van “Rob Arnoldus Adrianus Jetten” voor de duidelijkheid. 😉

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

@Claassen_pvv @dutchiestefan @Smokkfiskurr

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

@SanderSassen @DouglasKMurray Hasbarist prijst (opper-)hasbarist. 👍🏼

https://t.co/LS7FX1FA3E

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Douglas Murray EXPOSED as Israeli Asset @Lowkey0nline

[Greg Tides @GregTides]

@tom_lamoen Ook als ‘t Venezuela betreft, Tom? 😉

https://t.co/kVreoANdzs

[Agorist Nexus (Brandon) @AgoristN]

No nation does this unless it's mobilizing for war. It looks like the U.S. might preemptively strike Venezuela. This is the biggest military buildup since the Iraq War.