Sonali Gulati

Filmmaker, Educator, Feminist, Queer, Activist

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@motazazaiza9 @ZohranKMamdani I wish Zohran was still using his platform to speak up for Palestinians. Not one word since 8/22 even though the genocide continues at breakneck speed.

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@pinarayivijayan Thank you Sir for speaking up on this issue. History will remember you for your humanity and for standing on the right side of history.

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@ZohranKMamdani Can the guy on the right get any more stylish?

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@ThePatriotOasis By the midterm, when the piggy banks open back up for donations

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@zohranmamdani Why wait till September? Why not now?

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@zohranmamdani Heartbreaking. If someone said that dogs are being starved to death and shot at when they come near food, most Americans would be horrified. But that’s the extent of dehumanization of Palestinians. That’s how far gone we are as a society.💔

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@zohranmamdani Thanks for sharing this. Time to expose them all.

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@zohranmamdani May you continue to speak truth to power. In solidarity and in community.

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@zohranmamdani @EuroMedHR Thank you for continuing to speak up for humanity.

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@RollingStone @HIMANSHU We’re waiting for you to release the Zohran anthem, something we can all sing and dance to as we bring in the new mayor.

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@BobbyVylan Thank you for speaking up

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@sahouraxo Day 629 of a genocide!!!

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@zohranmamdani Thank you for speaking up for Palestinians.

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@ZohranKMamdani Poor people who were forced out of NYC now be like “phew! We can finally move back to…Mamdanistan!” Mamdanistan Zindabad!

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@andrewspurgeon @allenanalysis Wait till you see what’s coming next

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@KellyReneOnline @allenanalysis Hawaii is stolen land by America to build a military base

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

How much more evidence do we need that the dems don’t give a damn about anyone (trans, immigrants, the list goes on.? They sat quietly while the guy said some of the most vile things about us. He spoke of segregation. And not one reaction. Not one shout. Not one word.

[Sonali Gulati @sonaligulati]

@ProudSocialist Yup! Same guy who calls indigenous people returning home to their ancestral land of Mexico “illegal”. It’s a pattern!

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The thing about this genre of tweet is that they're kind of right — Obama didn't have any "scandals" of the level we see from Trump. But the fact that the evil things Obama did weren't considered scandalous says profoundly ugly things about the kind of society we are living in.

Obama committed all kinds of atrocities while president that would be considered scandalous if we lived in a world that is even remotely sane. Destroying Libya and leaving it a smoldering crater of humanitarian disaster. Tearing apart Syria with the dirty war that featured pouring weapons into the arms of al-Qaeda affiliates. Initiating the US-backed incineration of Yemen. Lighting the fuse for the ruination of Ukraine with the US-backed regime change op in 2014. His notorious drone program. The list goes on.

But none of that stuff registers for the average Democrat. They don't care about it. They don't think about it. It's not even a blip on their screen. All they are interested in is the feelings Barack Obama made them feel inside about their favorite political faction. That's all they've been trained to focus on.

The typical westerner inhabits a mental universe that is completely divorced from reality. Atrocities are only committed by foreign states that their government doesn't like. Propaganda is something that only happens to people in other countries, or to people with different political ideologies. Scandals are whatever controversies the imperial media choose to focus on and inflame. The actual things that are happening in our world don't register.

This happens because we live in a mind-controlled dystopia where public thought, speech, and behavior are aggressively manipulated by mass-scale psyops in the service of the powerful. The news is propaganda. The search algorithms are wildly biased. The social media platforms herd us into isolated ideological echo chambers. Nobody who meaningfully challenges the information interests of the powerful is allowed to ascend to fame and influence. Hollywood is just a PR machine for the empire.

So most westerners are kept from forming an accurate picture of reality in their minds, which is what allows them to hold absurd beliefs like "Barack Obama never did anything bad." They're cut off from seeing all the immense suffering that's inflicted upon the world by the empire they live under and the sociopaths who rule over it, and in its place a crude crayon drawing of a world which confirms their power-serving biases has been inserted into their minds.

They can't see Libya. They can only see the feelings they felt while Obama was in office, and contrast them with the feelings they feel under Trump. This is the way they have been conditioned to relate to the world. Mass-scale psychological conditioning has turned them into drooling infants. And nobody benefits from this but the powerful.

We won't be free until our minds are free. We can't have a healthy world as long as we are thinking in the ways the powerful have trained us to think.