Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes"

"Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all/
Together we stand, divided we fall"

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

I think I just had some profound realizations with that #MarshallMcLuhan quote "a medium is not neutral - it does something to people". Twitter fragments our thoughts, attention span, and civil discourse. That is why #TeamDrumpf chose it as their medium.
Which also leads me to 1/

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@SFFHRAuthor @OMGno2trump That may be the case, although the issue is with the stereotyping. We are all stereotyping each other, and wearing the labels 'deplorable' and 'nasty woman' in order to troll the other side...it's all madness and hysteria, moral panics and propaganda. Reason and dialogue pining.

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@OMGno2trump https://t.co/VIihCc2KyH

There is an investment in both the dem/repug party to incite division and create echo chambers so that nobody is capable of talking to each other anymore. This is reminiscent of the famous Milgram experiment on social obedience
https://t.co/39zvHgwqEU

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@FMGhost09 @OMGno2trump https://t.co/VIihCc2KyH

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@Dye1935 @Lily_Warrior @OMGno2trump https://t.co/VIihCc2KyH

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@OMGno2trump I totally agree that those are actions we should take, John. I was simply trying to calm some of the hate, but it seems that there is a deep investment by many in the hate that fuels your protest. If you give in to the anger, you're falling for the soft-minded propaganda.

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@freemyer43 @ACreativeMuggle @OMGno2trump I completely agree. The trouble is, are you going to execute them like they want with everyone else? Because that makes you no different, and is precisely the hypocrisy of the 'duped left' which I was trying to point out initially. How do we heal the soul of a nation so divided?

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@ACreativeMuggle @OMGno2trump Nobody said buy them a beer or befriend them. Are you going to shoot them or live with them? This is what I'm getting at. If you choose anger, and mob mentality violence, you are no different than they are. They will still be citizens here after Drumpf, and we have to make plans.

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@TwiHusband @OMGno2trump The funny thing is, I never asked for 'unification' with another group by saying we should be besties. I am merely pointing out the fact that when Drumpf is gone, there will still be people there that are citizens. If you choose to treat them like they treat you, it's #hypocrisy

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@Lily_Warrior @OMGno2trump Amazing how easy it is for things to be misinterpreted in such a hostile way. This was a call to not be hypocritical in assuming that only one side is being duped. There is disinformation in both blue and red.
You have been living with Nazis, they've lived in US the whole time...

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@FMGhost09 @OMGno2trump Nothing to do with acceptance. Has everything to do with not engaging in the same level of behavior which you are criticizing in another. This was a call to not be a hypocrite, and to be a real hero and stand for decency, even when others will not. This is what Dr. MLK called for

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@Skepmi @OMGno2trump You all missed the point of what was said, but what does that matter in this knee-jerk, reactionary climate we have today? I appreciate the trauma you've been through, and I'm in no way acting as an apologist for their behavior; I'm simply saying hateful propaganda is everywhere.

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@dalel2000 Sick that you support ripping any child away from their parents, and that you would frame the picture of people's desperate saga of survival in a world gone mad in such a racist way. The only sickness here is the sociopathic degradation of empathy, kindness, compassion you show.

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

"At least during the internment of Japanese-Americans, I and other children were not stripped from our parents. We were not pulled screaming from our mothers’ arms. We were not left to change the diapers of younger children by ourselves."
What a time to be alive: #RiseAndResist https://t.co/nuhFkFJhN6

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

For your consideration. I would appreciate a read—and a share. https://t.co/llCUna6kXB

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

That's why I'm also throwing my hat in with the @DemSocialists. I would like to invite any citizen reading this to join me out there in real life making change happen. Beyond the wall of polarization and finger-pointing there is a field; meet me there. I love you all!

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

I think I just had some profound realizations with that #MarshallMcLuhan quote "a medium is not neutral - it does something to people". Twitter fragments our thoughts, attention span, and civil discourse. That is why #TeamDrumpf chose it as their medium.
Which also leads me to 1/

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

But before I go, I would like to say also that #Capitalism is a medium for the market. Therefore, capitalism does something to people just the same. What if we just all decided to pursue other mediums for the production of our lives? What if local communities were off the market?

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
— Marshall McLuhan, “Culture Is Our Business”, 1970, p. 66
https://t.co/wuzf8V7kUa
#MarshallMcLuhan

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

I’d like to propose that we are already fighting World War III. We are not merely getting perilously close or or waiting for the other shoe to drop. We are in it. We are in fact neck deep in the next “War to End All Wars.”
https://t.co/1v0lPuWGPQ

[Robert "Button-down Lips & Roller-blind Eyes" @astralalchemy]

@gollum1419_g @realDonaldTrump Wish I had my glasses on so I could watch it all in another dimension