The system must be dismantled.
Not reformed at the edges.
Not made more polite while it extracts.
That is not utopian.
It is the bare fucking minimum.
Scorch Empire.
18/18
Every time we look away from Sudan.
Every time we accept that Iran's regime and its people are the same.
Every time we charge our phones without asking whose hands bled for the cobalt.
Guilt without action is self-indulgence with better aesthetics.
They deserve our solidarity.
17/18
What we are watching cannot tolerate anything it cannot control.
Cuban refusal. Iranian sovereignty. Congolese resources. Palestinian land. Trans people. Immigrants. Black people. Queer people. Anybody who refuses.
And we are complicit.
Not equally. But materially.
16/18
The white christofascist nationalist project running this country is not a departure from American foreign policy.
It is American foreign policy with the polite language removed.
Previous administrations did the same.
This one has simply stopped pretending.
15/18
Iran. Palestine. Sudan. The Congo. Cuba.
Not separate stories.
Same book, same hand, same money, same vocabulary of threat and liberation this empire has deployed since it decided it had the divine right to organize the world in its own image.
14/18
This is colonialism as mechanism.
As present tense.
The minerals in your phone have blood on them. That blood belongs to Congolese people. The company that secured access did so under a peace deal that was never about peace.
13/18
This is not about communism, or any other bullshit excuse that Empire feeds the propaganda machine.
Cuba has been under embargo since 1962, strangled across 6 decades.
Shut off the oil, watch the lights go out, announce regime change.
At the same time, Sudan burns. The Congo bleeds.
12/18
The Trump administration's oil blockade cut off Cuba's fuel.
The grid collapsed.
Island-wide blackout.
Then Trump: "I can do anything I want with it."
Said as a compliment to himself with the entitlement of someone who's never wondered whether the food will spoil.
11/18
Now look at what else is happening while the cameras are pointed at Iran.
Cuba's national power grid has literally fucking collapsed.
Tens of millions without electricity, food refrigeration, hospitals at capacity in a climate where heat is not an inconvenience but a medical condition.
10/18
When you notice the satisfaction in their voices as they describe the bombing of Iranian cities, the zip-tying of children, the disappearance of Immigrants, you are not misreading them.
The research says you are seeing them accurately.
For some of them, it is pleasure.
9/18
Research from the Association for Psychological Science confirms that everyday sadism is a "measurable personality trait," and authoritarian institutions are particularly effective at attracting and empowering people who carry it.
8/18
Regime change is the vocabulary empire uses when extraction is the actual goal.
Both truths exist simultaneously.
The Iranian government is oppressive. The U.S. bombing it is imperial violence dressed as salvation.
The conservatives are fighting the conservatives.
7/18
Bombing a people in the name of liberating them is a lie so old it has its own fucking institutional infrastructure.
This country has never gone to war to free anyone.
It goes to war to protect interests, resources, and Empire; to satisfy the Zionist consensus dominating Washington.
6/18
Let me be really fucking clear: the Iranian people deserve freedom.
The Islamic Republic is conservative, authoritarian, repressive. It has brutalized its own people, crushed dissent, imprisoned and murdered activists for decades.
That is true.
That is real.
5/18
Same fucking playbook: the threat horizon moves. The bombs fall anyway.
The schoolgirls are still dead.
4/18
This war was never about the nuclear program.
The U.S. has been managing the narrative of an imminent Iranian nuclear threat for 40 years with the consistency of a well-rehearsed propaganda program. (It is.)
3/18
Before bombs fell, Oman's Foreign Minister said Iran agreed to full IAEA verification, agreed to never stockpile enriched uranium.
Peace was within reach.
The Arms Control Association: no evidence of imminent nuclear threat. Diplomatic options not exhausted.
None of that stopped anything.
2/18
For 21 days I've been sitting with this, watching horrors stack before each one could be processed.
Trump bombed 2 days before the next round of peace talks.
Thousands killed. Strait of Hormuz blockaded. 18 hospitals struck. 170+ schoolgirls killed. Cuba in crisis.
All Empire's playbook.
1/18
What if the plan is to stage an attack on American soil for the purpose of blaming Iran, which would serve as a justification of extreme escalation?
Anyway.
Gnight.
3/3
What if that move was to prevent state and local governments from seeing that there are no imminent threats to American soil.
2/3
As I'm laying here with my thoughts before bed, I happened to think about the reports of the White House interrupting the flow of information pertaining to imminent threats, including Iranian warfare.
1/3
This current administration is just another step in the overall plan. I wonder how far they will go before everyone else decides that the only option is to dismantle the entire infrastructure.
Scorch Empire.
6/6
Per the documentary “Bad Faith,” this behavioral health information was used for “micro-targeted Facebook advertising.” Doing so among these vulnerable populations, they’ve discovered, results in a high-yield conversion to extremist Christian Nationalist ideology.
(Cont'd)
5/6
What’s worse is that, within certain datasets provided by pastors, members’ self-identified mental health status and otherwise protected information was also harvested and weaponized within the system to target the vulnerable.
(Cont'd)
4/6
Then, all of that information is run through advanced systems to make various determinations about a course of action.
(Cont'd)
3/6
These networks include a vast web of pastors from megachurches and small-town churches, alike.
Once these organizations gain access to this data, they cross-reference it with voter files.
(Cont'd)
2/6
For years, networks of Christian Nationalist organizations, rooted in the foundations established by Paul Weyrich, have been mining data from church directories across the nation for targeted advertisement and other major political messaging and propaganda decisions.
(Cont'd)
1/6
Paul Weyrich was central to the founding of The Heritage Foundation, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Moral Majority, and The Council for National Policy, of which Charlie Kirk was a prominent member.
The CNP's blueprint helped design Turning Point USA (TPUSA).
Make sense, yet?
8/8
I highly recommend anyone interested in learning more about Christian Nationalism watch the documentary "Bad Faith," which is available on Prime and Tubi.
(Cont'd)
7/8
"...As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections, quite candidly, goes up as the voting populace goes down."
- Also Paul Weyrich
(Cont'd)
6/8