Believe me I don't want Australia to go to war either! That it's on the other side of the planet from me does not matter it is the insanity of the people who have started this that does matter. I can only hope that the people there can have the clarity of truth and get out of the rule of these psycho killer nut jobs before it is too late. I see a glimmer of hope in that the number of people reading your substack has increased since I first got here so here's to hoping you have even better success!
No thanks. War is not a game or a fun thing. I along with many poor families who could not afford to send their children to college have sons and daughters in this fucked up situation and I to am ex military (a disabled Nam Vet) so sorry there will be nothing to party about!
So you celebrate war! You must be a politician! You don't believe your political party had any hand in it? Since this involves the very survival of the planet I do have a say in this. Your violent behaviour obviously is not the solution since you revel in destruction why are you even on this site? The people who instigated the whole thing are the enemy after all aren't your own party members playing along. Isn't your own military going down the same shit hole? Wake up.
Who went happily and who is projecting? What are you like 8 years old? You want your friends and family to die needlessly since there are two ends to destruction. The whole point is to go after the head of the snake that way you don't get bit. You obviously are not matured enough to have thought this through.
"It's crazy how the First Amendment explicitly says "Congress shall make no law" abridging freedom of speech or freedom of the press, and yet congress is preparing to do literally exactly that with all American TikTok users."
This. Congress doesn't want Americans to have freedom of speech. It doesn't want us to have freedom to choose whatever social media platform we like or to have a choice in press outlets. It just wants Americans to listen and believe the propaganda it wants us to believe. Well, they know where they can put it! Now more than ever, people need to tell Congress, their puppets in the press, and the professional propagandists we're not listening to what they have to say. It's time for them to listen to us! Tell them NO MORE WAR. Keep shouting it until they're deaf and/or comply with our wishes. We can't let up. There are so many lives counting on us.
I believe society has been diluted n dumbed down so much that they can't fight the most human basic, common sense approach to the insanity thrown upon us. Im angry, scared, overwhelmed. I find it astonishing that anyone watches 'tv' at all? Hanging on every word, they spew out!
The American military presence in Syria is illegal, not only from international law but, also American law. Unfortunately, soldiers take orders and will carry out those orders even when the orders are mired in the grey to black zones. But, the military leadership should know better and refuse to endorse criminal orders. The Syrian army with the help of the Russian special forces should surround the American force, capture them and take them to the Israeli border, force them over it, with a goodbye laced with, 'and don't come back.'
While this is true all the military leaders have direct connections to the Defence Manufacturing industry. All awaiting high paying jobs or hell probably have already collected a big bonus just because. All the ones that could put a wrench in the works are bought and paid for.
It is nothing short of amazing how the "leaders," all elected, of Western countries are willing to sacrifice their citizens on the alter of US/Western hubris. This is not authoritarian? You elect what you understand to be a democratic head of state, and they turn around and F^^k you over? I don't get it. Scholz hasn't been unceremoniously turfed over the 10 fold increase in energy which makes high inflation inevitable? Macron barely wins a confidence vote, but hasn't lost any confidence over it? Australians are being forced into austerity for no reason other than geo-political cronyism combined with racism, the stuff we point our fingers at when practiced by those we need to discredit. And the guy we like to call a fascist, Hungary's Orban, is one of the few making any sense.
Maybe if Australians can somehow get their government to stand up to Washington and opt out, that will make this madness less likely.
A thought exercise: what would be MORE insane than deciding to start wars among the three nuclear-armed superpowers...because the former hegemon is losing its grip on power and may have to face having its debts called...and claiming that the reason this enormous risk is justified is that China, facing a phalanx of US military bases, is acting "aggressively" off its own shores? Have we reached the limit? Are people fired from jobs writing dystopian sci-fi because their scenarios were too absurd, now writing history?
I've mentioned this before, so if you've read this, please skip it.
As much as I don't want WWIII, there is a separate problem that also needs to be discussed: The U.S. can't beat anyone in a war. That's a second reason not to have one, the first being: it is immoral.
But let me outline how weak the U.S. is:
We have some good soldiers, but I think they are about 50 and retired. A lot of good ones of today lost their jobs because they thought too independently, and were too tough--they wouldn't take the covid shot and got kicked out. Q. Why should anyone young and healthy not let their body create natural immunity?
I just don't think today's weak, obedient soldiers can do much. We lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, and numerous other places. We think words--propaganda--matter more than deeds.
But the ultimate "propaganda" is what is called "propaganda of the deed," and our deeds are: we start wars, and then lose them.
Our national debt also went from $1 trillion to $31.6 trillion in under 40 years. We're weak, dumb, compliant, fat, and beyond broke--we're bankrupt. You can't just print money without actually creating new goods and services. Our economy, like our weak military, is fake.
Morally, I oppose war.
But I also oppose it on practical grounds.
When you're fat, weak, lose conflicts, propagandized, and have no practical skills, but just have ideology, you should strive to lose weight, become strong, stop starting conflicts, aim for truth, and develop real skills that people actually need, just like a person with a worthless four-year degree in some pointless major who decides to become an electrician instead.
That's what the U.S. needs to do. It needs to clean up its own room before it criticizes the world.
What if the u.s. brought, clean water, food, housing and access to education rather than bombs, wouldn't the u.s. win all wars? Take Cuba for instance, just stop helping.
We've wasted $100 billion on Ukraine. For those in favor of this, are you aware how much of that money and the weapons never even made it to Ukraine? Apparently, a bunch of the weapons went to Africa.
Maybe we could have fixed our own impoverished cities, which are run by Democrats. They've been violent and poor for 50 years. I buy into the theory that the Democrats suck, and about 90% of the Republicans suck, and they want you poor, fat, sick, depressed, isolated, and distracted, so they can extract as much money as they can from you, and then have you die early. Because we could have fixed a lot of problems in America by now if we wanted to.
The populace in the US is beyond any hope at this point. The way its "servants" in the Congress behave actually reflects it. They play dumb specifically because the audience buys it.
Do I think the asshole airing the WIFI question is this thick? He could be, but I don't think he is. He words the question so his stupid electorate gets appropriately scared.
Similarly the other day that Hyacinth bitch feigning Substack ignorance while grilling Taibbi and the other guy - does she mean it? No, she deliberately puts down the platform to suggest it's not worth paying attention to. Since her retarded electorate expects to believe that.
It would seem people of some other nations where supposed "freedom" and "democracy" rules, like Australia and New Zealand, could actually rise up and have their governments obey their will. Which would then propagate hopefully to sleepy Europe and the jaded USA. But it doesn't seem to be the case. Down under is now more like down and out.
Nope , he is as stupid as he sounds. Listen to CONgress interrogating Matt Taibbi, that tells you all you need to know about the intelligence of CONgress.
I love you Caitlin : ) I ask myself that everyday, How do I/WE get out of this dopey situation? I really do, I ask that out loud over coffee. Coming from science almost immediately out of the womb, if something is illogical I ask why does this event not follow science. With so many chaotic events that are completely illogical all at tipping points, I mean come on, nuclear war how fucking illogical is that, OFF SCALE! My thought always comes back to finance losing control. It's not unreasonable to think the collapse of the world banking system is being covered by nuclear war is it? People are fucking assholes most of the time even without threats to their large sums of cash stolen from poor and working people. Bernie is coming to Chicago March 39th and of course the personal invite because I was a fucking moron believing in Bernie since 1993 giving him shit tons of money, and I am embarr ass ed to say maxed out twice. I will miss the opportunity to stand close and yell, You Fucking War Pig! When Bernie stood on the stage in South Carolina nearly screaming "Joe is a friend of mine he would make a great president" I knew there would never be a solution coming from the political world, I am a fucking moron , I am sorry for adding to their ability to extend their power through my stupidity. As you can tell it's just a cup of coffee you and me here. The system is at an end, what is the equation ,
(End Stage Capitalism / Resource Depletion) x Climate Change= Nuclear War . Just so you know electric cars aren't the answer, the world has about 20% of the copper necessary to convert the current demand system to electrification so......................... As a friend, Want Less, Have Less, Love MORE.
I swear,i had to tune out from this bat shit crazy planet for some time there. Between the US mafia boyz and their western minions hanging out their arses! and i quote 'unelected UK' minion prick! The hypocrisy,foolery, and awe.. all i imagine is a world without them.. hate is such a strong word, but there's no other that comes to mind.
Believe me I don't want Australia to go to war either! That it's on the other side of the planet from me does not matter it is the insanity of the people who have started this that does matter. I can only hope that the people there can have the clarity of truth and get out of the rule of these psycho killer nut jobs before it is too late. I see a glimmer of hope in that the number of people reading your substack has increased since I first got here so here's to hoping you have even better success!
No thanks. War is not a game or a fun thing. I along with many poor families who could not afford to send their children to college have sons and daughters in this fucked up situation and I to am ex military (a disabled Nam Vet) so sorry there will be nothing to party about!
You are a jerk.
You should apologize.
Lots of people went to Vietnam who didn't want to go. Some of them Australian, so are you standing outside their homes spitting in their faces?
So you celebrate war! You must be a politician! You don't believe your political party had any hand in it? Since this involves the very survival of the planet I do have a say in this. Your violent behaviour obviously is not the solution since you revel in destruction why are you even on this site? The people who instigated the whole thing are the enemy after all aren't your own party members playing along. Isn't your own military going down the same shit hole? Wake up.
Who went happily and who is projecting? What are you like 8 years old? You want your friends and family to die needlessly since there are two ends to destruction. The whole point is to go after the head of the snake that way you don't get bit. You obviously are not matured enough to have thought this through.
"It's crazy how the First Amendment explicitly says "Congress shall make no law" abridging freedom of speech or freedom of the press, and yet congress is preparing to do literally exactly that with all American TikTok users."
This. Congress doesn't want Americans to have freedom of speech. It doesn't want us to have freedom to choose whatever social media platform we like or to have a choice in press outlets. It just wants Americans to listen and believe the propaganda it wants us to believe. Well, they know where they can put it! Now more than ever, people need to tell Congress, their puppets in the press, and the professional propagandists we're not listening to what they have to say. It's time for them to listen to us! Tell them NO MORE WAR. Keep shouting it until they're deaf and/or comply with our wishes. We can't let up. There are so many lives counting on us.
I believe society has been diluted n dumbed down so much that they can't fight the most human basic, common sense approach to the insanity thrown upon us. Im angry, scared, overwhelmed. I find it astonishing that anyone watches 'tv' at all? Hanging on every word, they spew out!
The French give me hope ✊️
Unfortunately, the only people I know in France who are not in thrall to the Ukraine bs machine are a USAmerican like me & a Swiss friend.
I LOVE you Sharron. My thoughts exactly.
The American military presence in Syria is illegal, not only from international law but, also American law. Unfortunately, soldiers take orders and will carry out those orders even when the orders are mired in the grey to black zones. But, the military leadership should know better and refuse to endorse criminal orders. The Syrian army with the help of the Russian special forces should surround the American force, capture them and take them to the Israeli border, force them over it, with a goodbye laced with, 'and don't come back.'
While this is true all the military leaders have direct connections to the Defence Manufacturing industry. All awaiting high paying jobs or hell probably have already collected a big bonus just because. All the ones that could put a wrench in the works are bought and paid for.
The problem is you are not the MSM. So your reach is very limited.
I can see by your writing, you are exasperated.
Violent overthrow of government is the only action that ever works.
People will never wake up.
Funny how violence against government only works against your governments enemies.
I do not advocate violence, but historically it is only the real institute of change.
Oh and france is showing us the way. Start with protests. Then burning and looting. Some head lopping would be in good order. I vote guillotine.
Nothing will change until then.
If you want to scare the pricks back underground, it is the only way.
If not Ukraine is the sentence. Dragging young men off the streets to fight in a bullshit war started by America.
We've genetically modified and chipped Australia @ 82% and can use you to do whatever we want!!
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?facet=none&Metric=People+fully+vaccinated&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~AUS
After fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian, we'll fight China to the last Australian.
We're the masters of the universe!!!
It is nothing short of amazing how the "leaders," all elected, of Western countries are willing to sacrifice their citizens on the alter of US/Western hubris. This is not authoritarian? You elect what you understand to be a democratic head of state, and they turn around and F^^k you over? I don't get it. Scholz hasn't been unceremoniously turfed over the 10 fold increase in energy which makes high inflation inevitable? Macron barely wins a confidence vote, but hasn't lost any confidence over it? Australians are being forced into austerity for no reason other than geo-political cronyism combined with racism, the stuff we point our fingers at when practiced by those we need to discredit. And the guy we like to call a fascist, Hungary's Orban, is one of the few making any sense.
Maybe if Australians can somehow get their government to stand up to Washington and opt out, that will make this madness less likely.
A thought exercise: what would be MORE insane than deciding to start wars among the three nuclear-armed superpowers...because the former hegemon is losing its grip on power and may have to face having its debts called...and claiming that the reason this enormous risk is justified is that China, facing a phalanx of US military bases, is acting "aggressively" off its own shores? Have we reached the limit? Are people fired from jobs writing dystopian sci-fi because their scenarios were too absurd, now writing history?
End Stage Capitalism demands it.
I've mentioned this before, so if you've read this, please skip it.
As much as I don't want WWIII, there is a separate problem that also needs to be discussed: The U.S. can't beat anyone in a war. That's a second reason not to have one, the first being: it is immoral.
But let me outline how weak the U.S. is:
We have some good soldiers, but I think they are about 50 and retired. A lot of good ones of today lost their jobs because they thought too independently, and were too tough--they wouldn't take the covid shot and got kicked out. Q. Why should anyone young and healthy not let their body create natural immunity?
I just don't think today's weak, obedient soldiers can do much. We lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, and numerous other places. We think words--propaganda--matter more than deeds.
But the ultimate "propaganda" is what is called "propaganda of the deed," and our deeds are: we start wars, and then lose them.
Our national debt also went from $1 trillion to $31.6 trillion in under 40 years. We're weak, dumb, compliant, fat, and beyond broke--we're bankrupt. You can't just print money without actually creating new goods and services. Our economy, like our weak military, is fake.
Morally, I oppose war.
But I also oppose it on practical grounds.
When you're fat, weak, lose conflicts, propagandized, and have no practical skills, but just have ideology, you should strive to lose weight, become strong, stop starting conflicts, aim for truth, and develop real skills that people actually need, just like a person with a worthless four-year degree in some pointless major who decides to become an electrician instead.
That's what the U.S. needs to do. It needs to clean up its own room before it criticizes the world.
What if the u.s. brought, clean water, food, housing and access to education rather than bombs, wouldn't the u.s. win all wars? Take Cuba for instance, just stop helping.
We've wasted $100 billion on Ukraine. For those in favor of this, are you aware how much of that money and the weapons never even made it to Ukraine? Apparently, a bunch of the weapons went to Africa.
Maybe we could have fixed our own impoverished cities, which are run by Democrats. They've been violent and poor for 50 years. I buy into the theory that the Democrats suck, and about 90% of the Republicans suck, and they want you poor, fat, sick, depressed, isolated, and distracted, so they can extract as much money as they can from you, and then have you die early. Because we could have fixed a lot of problems in America by now if we wanted to.
I love the old one they always went with "there's no money for that"! Now they continually blame the other party. All bullshit of course.
The populace in the US is beyond any hope at this point. The way its "servants" in the Congress behave actually reflects it. They play dumb specifically because the audience buys it.
Do I think the asshole airing the WIFI question is this thick? He could be, but I don't think he is. He words the question so his stupid electorate gets appropriately scared.
Similarly the other day that Hyacinth bitch feigning Substack ignorance while grilling Taibbi and the other guy - does she mean it? No, she deliberately puts down the platform to suggest it's not worth paying attention to. Since her retarded electorate expects to believe that.
It would seem people of some other nations where supposed "freedom" and "democracy" rules, like Australia and New Zealand, could actually rise up and have their governments obey their will. Which would then propagate hopefully to sleepy Europe and the jaded USA. But it doesn't seem to be the case. Down under is now more like down and out.
Thanks for the different perspective.
If these Congresscritters aren't as stupid as they sound, they all deserve Oscars. But we should all be wary of wolves in moron's clothing.
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As you point out, though, if this is an act, then it's the electorate taken in by them that's that dumb. Sadly, that's a way larger group of people.
Nope , he is as stupid as he sounds. Listen to CONgress interrogating Matt Taibbi, that tells you all you need to know about the intelligence of CONgress.
"Listen to CONgress interrogating Matt Taibbi" - that's what I referred to in the third paragraph.
Preach Caitlin
I was just writing that every casualty is civilian in their own country.
Any time you are presented with a dichotomy, ask yourself who presented that dichotomy and whether all choices just happen to favor the presenter.
"OK, so do you want to buy this car for 72 easy monthly payments or our special one time offer of 84 easy monthly payments?"
"I don't want to buy this car!"
"72 payments it is! Picture yourself behind the wheel of this thrilling Yugo...."
I love you Caitlin : ) I ask myself that everyday, How do I/WE get out of this dopey situation? I really do, I ask that out loud over coffee. Coming from science almost immediately out of the womb, if something is illogical I ask why does this event not follow science. With so many chaotic events that are completely illogical all at tipping points, I mean come on, nuclear war how fucking illogical is that, OFF SCALE! My thought always comes back to finance losing control. It's not unreasonable to think the collapse of the world banking system is being covered by nuclear war is it? People are fucking assholes most of the time even without threats to their large sums of cash stolen from poor and working people. Bernie is coming to Chicago March 39th and of course the personal invite because I was a fucking moron believing in Bernie since 1993 giving him shit tons of money, and I am embarr ass ed to say maxed out twice. I will miss the opportunity to stand close and yell, You Fucking War Pig! When Bernie stood on the stage in South Carolina nearly screaming "Joe is a friend of mine he would make a great president" I knew there would never be a solution coming from the political world, I am a fucking moron , I am sorry for adding to their ability to extend their power through my stupidity. As you can tell it's just a cup of coffee you and me here. The system is at an end, what is the equation ,
(End Stage Capitalism / Resource Depletion) x Climate Change= Nuclear War . Just so you know electric cars aren't the answer, the world has about 20% of the copper necessary to convert the current demand system to electrification so......................... As a friend, Want Less, Have Less, Love MORE.
I swear,i had to tune out from this bat shit crazy planet for some time there. Between the US mafia boyz and their western minions hanging out their arses! and i quote 'unelected UK' minion prick! The hypocrisy,foolery, and awe.. all i imagine is a world without them.. hate is such a strong word, but there's no other that comes to mind.
Just free julian Assange ✌️
Viva la France ✊️
Even more LOVE : )
For sure, Caitlin! As usual, you are on the button!!! Thank you!
GO CAITLIN!!!