You want to know what imperial conditioning looks like from the inside?
It looks like a person who knows that the United States has the largest prison population in the history of human civilization, and still describes other countries as "unfree."
It looks like a person who knows their healthcare system allows people to die from rationed insulin, and still describes other countries' economics as "failed."
It looks like a person who watched their government spend $2.3 trillion over twenty years building a state in Afghanistan that collapsed in just 10 days, and still trusts that same government's assessment of which other countries are "stable" or "democratic" or "ready for self-governance."
It is not stupidity.
It is something more structurally interesting than stupidity.
It is what happens when the story a person needs to believe about themselves is in direct conflict with the evidence their own eyes can see, and the story wins.
Not because the evidence is unclear.
But because the cost of following the evidence to its conclusion is too high.
Better a comfortable contradiction than an uncomfortable clarity.
The empire is built on that choice, made daily, by millions of people.
This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.
The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.
And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.
Record-breaking temperatures.
A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.
The response?
Yank out the instruments and walk away.
That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.
For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.
The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.
That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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🇵���🇮🇱La mayor traición en la historia de la humanidad
Cuando los judíos llegaron a Palestina huyendo de la persecución y el Holocausto, los palestinos les abrieron las puertas de sus casas.
Les dieron refugio, comida y protección.
Vivieron como vecinos durante décadas.
Y a cambio… los sionistas organizaron su expulsión, masacraron sus aldeas, robaron sus tierras y los convirtieron en refugiados en su propia patria.
Esa es la verdadera Nakba:
traicionar a quien te dio asilo y convertir su generosidad en tu colonialismo.
La historia recordará esta traición como una de las más grandes y dolorosas de la humanidad.
There's nothing "offensive" about comparing the actions and mentality of Israel to those of the Nazis. What is offensive is demanding that one country and only it -- Israel -- be exempt from those comparisons because it hurts people's feelings, or because it seems "bigoted" to compare them.
The whole point of the Nuremberg Trials was that the precedents set there would only have meaning -- i.e., be something beyond mere "victor's justice" -- if those principles applied to the actions of **all countries** in the future. Israel doesn't have some special, unique exemption from the imperative.
So let me get this straight:
When immigrants take jobs, it’s a national crisis.
When AI takes jobs, it’s innovation.
Can someone explain why we’re supposed to fear people willing to work, but celebrate technology designed to replace workers?
Instagram removed a story showing injured children in Gaza from today, calling it “child nudity.”
They’re trying so hard to suppress evidence of Israel’s genocide.
If you live in a country that sends poor people to jail for using drugs, but doesn't send rich people to jail for raping kids, you live in a shit hole country.
British woman on BBC:
"The oppression didn't start on October 7."
"You say 'Israel has the right to defend itself' — but what about Palestine, whose land was taken? Didn't it have the right to defend itself?"
"You speak of hostages. What about the Palestinian children under rubble — or in prisons? They are hostages too." 🇬🇧🎙️🔥🇮🇱🇵🇸💔
USA, don’t attack Cuba. Leave Cuba alone. They haven’t done shit to the USA since forever, there is no need for senseless war and the murder of innocent people because you dislike their political ideology. Grow up.
Can you imagine a world where Israel is hit by a missile every time they drop a bomb or fire a drone?
I can.
It’s called natural consequences of your behavior.
Iran shouldn't have to be launching missiles at Israel, because Europe should be opposing Israel's illegal invasion and Ethnic Cleansing of Lebanon.
It seems Europe ignores War Criminals when those War Criminals are bribing their politicians with pathetic sums of money.
There is vastly more evidence for the IDF raping Palestinians with dogs than there is for Hamas raping women on October 7. It’s a real thing that does happen. They just happen to think it’s hilarious.
"Estamos atacando la Franja de Gaza desde todos los frentes, hemos ocupado el 60% del territorio de Gaza y pronto alcanzaremos el 70%. En Líbano, hemos capturado el castillo de Beaufort y estamos destruyendo todas las aldeas libanesas fronterizas".
El Fuhrer sionista, Netanyahu, se dirigió hoy a las masas sanguinarias psicopáticas de "Israel" a presumir de que están ocupando el 60% de Gaza, mientras la bombardean desde todos los frentes, y de que están arrasando todas las casas de las familias del sur del Líbano.
Todo esto bajo un supuesto "cese al fuego", hasta los nazis en la WW2 intentaron esconder los cuerpos y sus crímenes en los campos de concentración... estos genocidas sionistas hacen ruedas de prensa exponiendo sus crímenes de guerra como trofeos.
Trump bricht heute das Meet the Press Interview mit Kristen Welker ab – live auf Sendung.
Auslöser: Welker konfrontiert ihn mit der langsamen Stimmauszählung in Kalifornien.
Trump nennt sie „korrupt" – dann NBC, ABC, CBS und CNN. Behauptet er habe einen Erdrutschsieg errungen und es gebe mehr Beweise als je zuvor für Wahlbetrug.
Welker: „Sie haben nie Beweise vorgelegt."
Trump antwortet nicht – steht auf – verabschiedet sich – verlässt das Set.
Welker hatte extra für dieses Interview nach Wisconsin gereist. Ein amtierender US-Präsident bricht ein Presseinterview ab weil eine Journalistin Fakten nennt. Das ist was Amerika gewählt hat. 🇺🇸🇪🇺
“The war in Gaza” is actually “the Genocide in Gaza”
“The war in Lebanon” is actually “the Genocide in Lebanon”
“The not war in Iran” is actually “the illegal war in Iran”
“The heightened tensions with Cuba” is actually “the unilateral U.S. aggression against Cuba”
“Collateral damage and human shields” is actually “murder children and innocent civilians”
The media uses euphemisms to control the narrative. The media is complicit