Ian Cook

Follow world news, watching global trend towards autocracy.
Retired geophysicist - believe the science !

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@MeLive007 Okay

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@yousef_ki1 Okay

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@beccarala @awambmrgw @AlboMP We don't want it

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@BladeoftheS No

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

1/ I used to be a federal criminal investigator. I'm now a Musk biographer who recently published a book about Musk, PROOF OF DESTRUCTION. Not a single federal criminal investigator who has researched Musk as I have would doubt that he's coordinated aiding the Kremlin since 2022.

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@rachelrwithers That'd be so much better than anything we've tried to date

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@strategywoman Beautiful

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@RonniSalt Got my copy ordered, looking forward to listening to it Ronni 👍

[fuck elon Send him back to Africa @NASA_ND]

Do it now

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

Nick Bryant, as part of a fantastic speech to the NPC, asked rhetorically should Labor make concessions to RW populism.
I say absolutely and categorically NO!
Pandering to Trumpism, racism and lies will destroy the remnants of egalitarianism and progressive politics that survive!

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

If you're on my feed today and wondering why I'm so reactive and typing in all caps, realize we are at an endgame for American democracy.

Security is ultimately about ruthless prioritization. What is most important to us? What is the nature of the threats we will face? Where should our limited defensive resources go? When shit hits the fan, how much shit should be involved, exactly, before we escalate and notify additional parties of the situation? If we notify too often, we risk becoming Girls Who Cried Wolf.

Tweeps, in this situation, I have determined the risk has exceeded my own tolerance levels.

If you aren't worried, you aren't yet seeing things clearly enough.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The western empire behaves irrationally because it is ultimately run by irrational forces.

The gears of capitalism are turned by the blind pursuit of profit.

Plutocrats and interest groups lobby and bribe in the blind pursuit of power and control.

Empire managers blindly continue the policies and agendas of the previous generation of empire managers, moving war machinery and control mechanisms around the world pursuing planetary domination for its own sake.

And all the individuals running this operation are deeply unconscious people — more unconscious even than the average human — whipped about by forces within themselves that they're not at all aware of like unresolved trauma and maladaptive coping mechanisms.

The empire is flying blind, which is why it looks like it's flying blind. It's why it's doing completely irrational things like destroying the biosphere we all depend on for survival, continuing to work toward global hegemony despite all the evidence that this will fail, continuing to make life harder and harder for the people who live under it despite growing discontent and revolutionary sentiment swelling in the background, and preparing for an unwinnable and self-destructive war with China.

The empire is behaving illogically because it is illogical. The gears are turning themselves. There is ultimately no man behind the curtain, no scheming manipulators unleashing all these evils to advance some grand plot which will benefit them. They're more like bacteria in a petri dish mindlessly consuming the food scientists placed there without slowing down as supplies begin to dwindle. They might have elaborate rationales and narratives to justify why they're doing what they're doing, but ultimately they don't know. They are doing it because they are swept up in the momentum of forces which they do not understand, both internally and externally.

The challenge facing us is to become a conscious species. A species that is responsive rather than reactive, driven not by primitive unconscious impulses and habit but by an alert and truth-based relationship with reality. That's what's being asked of us here in this slice of spacetime. That is the existential hurdle we must find some way to get past. And the western empire is the largest and most concrete manifestation of that obstacle.

[Ian Cook @iancharlescook]

@SenatorWong I'm beginning to miss the more outrageous shitfuckery of the LNP. It was deplorable but entertaining with a rort a day to read about.
Labor are disappointing in their LNP-liteness which makes them grey and boring to read about.

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@deniseshrivell @MikeCarlton01 Seems similar to some geniuses I know

[Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell]

Everywhere you look you see the direct consequences of politicians making decades of decisions which weren't made with our needs in mind.

And the real kicker - we voted for them to do exactly that!

Time for that to change 🙌🙌 #auspol

[Ian Cook @iancharlescook]

@DavidShoebridge So the NACC's first ever finding is that the NACC is corrupt