plannediridescence🍉

co-creator insistent on finding magic in the mundane. interdimensional travel agent facilitating the happiest trip✨️

[chimera @chimeraxmachina]

I need US americans to start giving a fuck. What your government is doing to the people of Cuba is a crime against humanity and if you‘re not fighting back against the Democrats and Republicans you are complicit and no better than Israeli settlers.

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

Working 40 hrs a week so billionaires can eat children.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It’s not even making them happy. All that exploitation and extraction, all that parasiting and hoarding and manipulating politics and inserting themselves into governments, and it’s not even making them happy.

It would be terrible if these obscenely wealthy oligarchs were robbing everyone else of happiness in order to make themselves exponentially happier than all of us. But they’re not even making themselves happy. They’re fucking miserable. Everyone involved in this abusive dynamic is suffering from it — even the abusers.

And really, how could they not be?

Can you think of anyone less likely to be happy than someone who can’t be content simply retiring with a house and maybe twenty million dollars in the bank, ensuring that all their material needs will be cared for for the rest of their lives? Someone who must instead press on until they have obtained more money than they could reasonably spend in a thousand lifetimes?

Can you think of anything less conducive to happiness than becoming so much wealthier than everyone else that you have to isolate yourself from normal society, eventually surrounded only by people who are in your life because of your wealth? Never knowing how they truly feel about you or what they’d be doing with their lives if not for your vast fortune?

Can you think of a more surefire path to a lifetime of dissatisfaction than spending your years storing away wealth like some kind of fantasy dragon creature hoarding gold in a mountain, while people panicking over paying their bills look upon you with disdain?

Can you imagine a more miserable way to spend your days on this planet than becoming an oligarch and manipulating state power to ensure that your unfathomable wealth will never be redistributed to the needful and the struggling, and that ordinary people will forever remain trapped as powerless gear-turners whose labor exists solely to turn billionaires into trillionaires?

I know I can’t.

The plutocrats who control our society are not sincerely dedicated to the pursuit of happiness; if they were, they wouldn’t be plutocrats, and they wouldn’t be controlling our society. Happiness comes from contentment with one’s present experience, and those who keep compulsively amassing wealth for its own sake can never experience that contentment.

As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his poem “Joe Heller”:

True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.

I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!

The Elon Musks of our world can never have the experience of having enough. They exist in a permanent state of lack. They’ve got a giant hole inside themselves that can never be filled, no matter how much money they throw into it, no matter how many private jets and private islands and media outlets and bought politicians they try to fill it with.

We are ruled by deeply wounded and dysfunctional emotional infants. The people who control our society are whipped about by primitive forces within themselves that they don’t understand. Their actions are motivated not by the pursuit of the common good, nor even their own good, but by psychological disorder and unconscious compulsion.

And yet we are assured this is the best possible way to run a society.

I kind of doubt that. I really don’t think that’s true.

[Dimitar @Dimitar72937896]

@_rathbone Am Goyim Chai

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇦🇷 Firefighters in Patagonia posted video evidence proving that what little equipment they had was sabotaged.

[Arrepentidos de Milei @ArrepentidosLLA]

Esto es en Ruta 40 Puente Salamin, El Hoyo. La Policía tiene la orden de no dejar pasar a los camiones de bomberos y a los brigadistas voluntarios que quieren acercarse a apagar el fuego. Javier Milei y los gobernadores nos entregaron para vender las tierras

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

An Argentine wildfire survivor says he is no longer shocked by what is happening. He says it is 100 percent intentional, a deliberate land grab driven by the value of their minerals.

He says the puppeteers are no longer hiding in the shadows. Everything is out in the open now, yet the people affected have no voice.

The mainstream media will not speak out for them, and neither will the so-called “new media.”

[♡ mari/cohe ♡ @noinconsistency]

boy do i have something to tell you

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

OMG how is this not in media??

An Israeli soldier who came to Argentina posing as a tourist and set forests on fire has been caught.

Israelis who used their connections fled the scene.

[SizweLo @SizweLo]

Donald Trump announced that his Secretary of War will “run” Venezuela until the United States can carry out what he calls a “safe, proper and judicious transition.” This is not happening.

As of right now, Venezuela’s militias, specifically the Bolivarian Militia and the urban paramilitary networks known as colectivos, have not backed down. Far from allowing America’s Secretary of War and a US-appointed “group” to run the country, they have become the primary agents of what is rapidly evolving into a chaotic and dangerous resistance.

Since the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Caracas has effectively become a ghost town. Citizens are skipping work, businesses are shuttered, and people are staying indoors because of the colectivos.

The leftist paramilitaries are now the most visible armed presence in the capital.

While Delta Force and US air assets achieved overwhelming tactical dominance during the brief raid that removed Maduro, they have not established persistent control over residential neighbourhoods. That vacuum has been filled locally, block by block.

The colectivos have also reframed the conflict. What might once have been portrayed as a struggle to defend Maduro has now been recast as a “decolonial war” against US occupation.

This narrative shift matters. It transforms the struggle from regime defence into national resistance, and it makes the colectivos the main obstacle to the “security” Washington claims it intends to provide.

Despite US assertions that Venezuela’s military was “incapacitated,” Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino López appeared on national television alongside Vice President Delcy Rodríguez to declare that the armed forces and militias remain loyal to the Bolivarian Revolution.

Whether or not this reflects unified command is beside the point; it signals continuity, defiance, and an intent to resist.

America’s Secretary of War has insisted that “President Trump sets the terms.” In practice, those terms are already being rewritten by asymmetric warfare. This is not a promising start.

According to the Robert Lansing Institute, if the United States limits itself to air power and special operations while leaving Venezuelans to manage the transition, insurgency is likely to emerge not as classic guerrilla warfare against US troops, but as urban unrest, terrorism, and targeted attacks on perceived collaborators.

Conversely, Lansing warns that a large and prolonged US troop presence would almost certainly catalyse a broader, more organised armed resistance.

Either path is bleak. Trump has initiated a process he cannot easily reverse, and there is no clean off-ramp for him or his war secretary.

Over the next six to twelve months, the most probable pattern is episodic violence: bombings, armed clashes in pro-Chavista strongholds, targeted assassinations, and cartel-linked criminal activity exploiting the breakdown in authority.

The so-called “Iraq model” becomes increasingly likely the longer the US maintains a visible, large-scale military presence on Venezuelan soil. If Washington truly intends to “run” Venezuela until a transition can be engineered, it will require, and likely lose, a significant number of soldiers.

The contradiction is clearest around oil. While US officials talk openly about rebuilding Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, militias and loyalist military units are expected to target those facilities to prevent the foreign plunder.

This dynamic is already visible in the Orinoco Belt, which accounts for roughly two-thirds of Venezuela’s oil production. The United States may control ports and terminals, but militias control pipelines and territory. Production is in freefall.

Trump has promised to sell “large amounts of oil.” For now, that promise is being blocked by asymmetric warfare, the very phenomenon US officials publicly acknowledge while underestimating its consequences.

In short, the United States may “run” oil terminals and fortified government buildings, but Venezuela’s militias run the streets and much of the rural heartland.

What Trump and his handlers face a law-enforcement nightmare in which every urban block risks becoming a bloody battle zone. And by every available indicator, that nightmare has already begun.

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

Anyways, I'm upgrading my theory from "Trump is a pedophile who trafficked kids" to "He killed kids to hide the evidence"

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.

📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration and who we call our neighbor.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“IF YOU AREN’T FROM THE US, STAY OUT OF OUR POLITICS”

US military, CIA coups and clandestine operations in foreign countries since WWII:

🇮🇷 Iran: 1946
🇨🇳 China: 1946-1949
🇬🇷 Greece: 1947-1949
🇮🇹 Italy: 1948
🇵🇭 Philippines: 1948-1954
🇰🇵 Korea: 1950-1953
🇮🇷 Iran: 1953
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1954
🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1954
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1958
🇵🇦 Panama: 1958
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1959
🇨🇩 Congo: 1960
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1960-1964
🇨🇺 Cuba: 1961-1962
🇱🇦 Laos: 1962
🇪🇨 Ecuador: 1963
🇵🇦 Panama: 1964
🇧🇷 Brazil: 1964
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1965-1975
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 1965
🇨🇩 Congo: 1965
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic: 1965
🇱🇦 Laos: 1965-1973
🇬🇭 Ghana: 1966
🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1966-1967
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1969-1975
🇴🇲 Oman: 1970
🇱🇦 Laos: 1971-1973
🇨🇱 Chile: 1973
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1975
🇦🇴 Angola: 1976-1992
🇮🇷 Iran: 1980
🇱🇾 Libya: 1981
🇸🇻 El Salvador: 1981-1992
🇳🇮 Nicaragua: 1981-1990
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1982-1984
🇬🇩 Grenada: 1983
🇭🇳 Honduras: 1983-1989
🇮🇷 Iran: 1984
🇱🇾 Libya: 1986
🇧🇴 Bolivia: 1986
🇮🇷 Iran: 1987-1988
🇱🇾 Libya: 1989
🇵🇭 Philippines: 1989
🇵🇦 Panama: 1989-1990
🇱🇷 Liberia: 1990
🇮🇶 Iraq: 1990-1991
🇮🇶 Iraq: 1991-2003
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1991
🇸🇴 Somalia: 1992-1994
Yugoslavia: 1992-1994
🇧🇦 Bosnia: 1993-1995
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1994-1996
🇭🇷 Croatia: 1995
🇨🇩 Zaire (Congo): 1996-1997
🇱🇷 Liberia: 1997
🇸🇩 Sudan: 1998
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 1998
Yugoslavia: 1999
🇲🇰 Macedonia: 2001
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 2001-2021
🇻🇪 Venezuela: 2002
🇮🇶 Iraq: 2003-present
🇭🇹 Haiti: 2004
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 2004, 2013-2014
🇵🇸 Palestine: 2006-2007
🇾🇪 Yemen: 2009-present
🇸🇾 Syria: 2005-2009, 2011-present
🇱🇾 Libya: 2011

*Note, this is not a complete list

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

I recently visited an old communist who was in his 80s & dying

Hadnt seen him in yrs. He always had clear analyses

I wanted2talk about how2beat back growing cynicism

But after hello, he said: "I envy u! Being alive at a time of such great opportunity to build a radical mvmnt!"

[Congolesa Rice @judeinlondon]

Sorry but it’s very funny they’ve not deleted this

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

If someone works full-time and receives SNAP, that means your taxpayer dollars are subsidizing the company's profits bc it refuses to pay them a livable wage.
This can only be said so many ways; it isn’t difficult to grasp.

[𝙰𝚆o𝙻 @Coleidoscopes]

I remember finding taco bell sauce packets in a drawer of the refrigerator, and that's what I had to feed myself for and entire weekend when I was 8 years old

I remember when I hid in a closet and ate bad sandwich meat at 2 a.m. when I was 14

Before she died, my mom used to tell this cute story about how she found me eating jarred salsa with a spoon when I was 3, I just "loved it so much," but what she didn't mention was that a jar in the fridge door was all there was for me to find for myself to survive on

I have a lot of memories I never want children to be forced into reliving for the rest of their lives

I don't know if it's brokenness or lack thereof that makes people so wicked, but I'm going to choose to be grateful that you don't know what it's like or hope you can overcome what has made you so rotten

It's one thing to be a troll on the internet and another to actively advocate for the starvation of people you have deemed lesser than you

No, I wasn't born to people who were the shining example of hard work and good choices, but I also starved just like you think I should have, and I will never be able to forget it

$35 a year to prevent that for even a single child I will never meet will be money well spent

This is the only trauma dump I will ever write; I hope that it finds you well, and you truly consider what hunger means for millions of children born to parents and conditions out of their control

[Michael Kandel @K_A_N_D_E_L]

I love my stay-at-home robot