Sleepless Floaty Thing

QLD Aus.
Opinionated - Life Learner - Human Rights -

[Sleepless Floaty Thing @Shamwark]

@livstruly_ @peetasliv Cult

[Sleepless Floaty Thing @Shamwark]

It's gonna be tight #qldpol

[Sleepless Floaty Thing @Shamwark]

@delmaclifton I'm gonna be up late....

[friendlyjordies @friendlyjordies]

Send this to a mate who isn't even awake yet and get them to the polls

[Sleepless Floaty Thing @Shamwark]

@Jim_Pembroke Vote labour

[Sleepless Floaty Thing @Shamwark]

@Jim_Pembroke Vote labour. Cost of living is bad enough we don't need another stint of LNP coming through and fucking shit up like Newman did

[Queen NomNom De Plume @stinginthetail]

Using Mining $ for 50c fares, $1k to every household for power bills, govt power co to force prices down, reduced car rego by 20%, invested massively in renewables. Plus free school lunches. Bonus: not forcing women or raped children to give birth. #qldpol #QLDER #qldvotes

[Peter Murphy @PeterWMurphy1]

Qld Premier @StevenJMiles has rebuked Liberal Leader David Crisafulli for refusing to accept Qld Police data showing a reduction in youth crime, instead making up his own figures. So, the Qld Libs are at the "alternative facts" stage of the campaign. 🙄 #qldpol #QldVotes #crime

[politic@l spinner @Justabogan]

Well said timbow. Scary stuff #qldpol

[politic@l spinner @Justabogan]

David Crisafulli is just a clone of his hero, Campbell Newman
Has everyone seen this..disgraceful. #qldpol 👇👇

[Caffeinated Toddler @CaffeinatedTdlr]

AIDS from COVID! How are people not freaking out about this yet?

We’ve been saying it for years.

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome correlation with SARS-CoV-2 https://t.co/gdj0lc6rP5

[Sleepless Floaty Thing @Shamwark]

This is what happened last time. Iran waited to the point that everyone thought they'd backed out... They had not.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱ISRAELI INTEL: IRAN RECONSIDERING RESPONSE

Some Israeli officials believe Iran is getting "cold feet" and reconsidering a major response against Israel.

Concerns over triggering a full-scale regional war they fear they couldn't win are reportedly driving this hesitation.

However, Hezbollah is reportedly growing impatient with Iran and may soon launch its own unilateral attack on Israel.

Source: Times of Israel, @sentdefender

[Sleepless Floaty Thing @Shamwark]

@karenmitchell__ All if this.
But also what comes after... You escape and are left with the horrible guilt, not knowing who you are, what we're lies vs truth... Rebuilding your own reality from the mess they created

[Sean tooker @Seantooker2]

First it was the strange hue of the trees now it’s a real life nightmare.

This is very hard to take, it must be shared because none of us can escape this.
A catastrophe like we’ve never known is unfolding & exploding at an incredible rate. 🧵

#tasmania

[Sleepless Floaty Thing @Shamwark]

@AdameMedia Western ✨ Democracy ✨

[Sleepless Floaty Thing @Shamwark]

I was so prepared to see him get mauled
Really glad he wasn't

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Man tells a bear he’s not invited and has to leave…😳🐻

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

A Journey into Collective Madness, Led by Zionists

After seeing another Gazan father holding his dead little daughter in his hands, and crying his soul out yesterday, a thought occurred to me: what are the long-term effects of exposure to high daily doses of extreme brutality, disfiguration, dismemberment, and extensive infanticide?

The individual level needs to be addressed separately. What I'm referring to is the cultural, psychopolitical level, one often referred to as collective consciousness, which social media, commonly shared across political, cultural, and lingual barriers may be understood to be creating, for the first time in human history.

What does it do to our humanity to undergo such a long period of being collectively subjected to A Clockwork Orange-like treatment, involving direct injection of the most obscene forms of violence into our shared nervous system, memory, and capacity for moral judgment?

Do we value life as dearly today as we did 9 months ago? Do we see bodily integrity the same way? Moreover, do we think humanity and humans have an innate sense of morality at all? Or have we been stripped of this belief, which is vital to any sense of protectedness in human society?
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Far from being purely philosophical, this thought experiment may assume critical societal importance in the way this prolonged exposure to gruesome violence is perceived by people given the role of committing legal violence by society, namely police officers and soldiers.

Seeing Israeli police getting gradually more violent in the way it demonstrations, and watching clips from those events, I could not but feel a sense of 'if we're allowed to dismember, run over, and destroy Palestinians, why can't we do this to you?'

If carrying out the most barbaric forms of violence against one group of human beings is forcefully legitimized, as evident both by the length of time it is allowed to take place and the zealous backing it receives from Western countries, why must it be limited to just that group? Isn't this the right way to deal with people who challenge your supremacy and authority?

And while no one is going to explicitly say to German or Canadian police officers 'Do unto demonstrators as Israel does unto Palestinians', the deeper layer of reality itself says just that. By sanctioning this behavior and protecting it vehemently and through policy and censorship of dissent, a soldier or police officer the world over is made to feel unjustly disadvantaged by being allowed to do less than an Israeli soldier to people who don't obey the rules.

It is not that we haven't seen severe police and military brutality before. but we've never before seen the serial disfiguration of innocent people, children, and babies presented as just, moral, and righteous. But we are seeing it now.

It is exceedingly vital for mental health experts and political scientists (who must be anti-Zionists to be able to perform this job) to start talking about the damage Israel's streamlined and Western-protected genocide is doing to humanity's psychology and to its political culture. This discussion should have started long ago, and it must start as soon as possible. So if you're reading this and you're fit to talk about this, please do.
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No passive voice here

It would be disingenuous of me to conclude this text without calling by name the reason for both the conversation about our damaged collective consciousness not happening, which is the same formal reason given for the support Israel gets in weapons and policy, i.e. internal censorship and the enforcement of pro-genocide discourse in Western societies.

Antisemitism is used as a bludgeon to silence dissent and stifle the conversation. And it is not just any conversation, but one about the most pressing moral issue on the international agenda at the moment, and, even more fundamentally, if not urgently, it is a conversation about the very basic elements of the human experience: life and death, childhood and innocence, fairness and justice, privilege, and violence.

If Israel's identity wasn't clear enough, the use of antisemitism to force an almost nonexistent and lopsided conversation about what it's doing is done by Jewish and Zionist lobbies in the West while displaying a staggering level of influence (not to say control) over policy and discourse. I am not revealing any secret - AIPAC and ADL brag about this openly.

Why and how was this allowed to happen will remain a top question on the people of this world's agenda for a long, long time. This whole thing may prove a reputational blow to the Jewish people from which it may not be able to recover. And I wouldn't count on Western powers being able to stifle the conversation forever. Zionism, culminating in this genocide and the way it has been served in the West may be the most fatal error in all of Jewish history.

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@Phil_Sledge

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Can we talk about David McBride next?

[Zoe Daniel (she/her) @zdaniel]

The good news grows.
Julian Assange is home, now the government says protection for whistleblowers is on the agenda, perhaps a Whistleblower Protection Authority. Our democracy depends on whistleblowers knowing they will not have their lives ruined for shining a light on corruption. Let’s do it!