Tootfinder

"Donald Trump is not an interruption of the American story; he is one of its clearest chapters. He condenses habits that long predate him—mythmaking, extraction, spectacle, racial hierarchy, masculine anxiety—into a single, gaudy figure. To look at him carefully is to see the civilisation that made him."

https://richarddavidhames.substack.com/p/the-mirror-cracks

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Reminding myself I am supposed to boost to help cool posts reach wider audience on Mastodon. The best NI hack in the absence of malicious AI algos, imo. People have always been gossip creatures. That's probably how that whole thing called civilisation started out.

Wenn man den Nordatlantikvertrag¹ (aka NATO) so liest, wird schnell klar, daß angefangen von Artikel 1 ganz vieles darin Trump nicht gefallen kann – und vor allem aber nicht nur die USA sich nie wirklich daran gehalten haben…
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The USA and Israel have made it abundantly clear: either you hold the biggest gun or you do what the guy holding the biggest gun says or he shoots you. That’s it. That’s where we stand after thousands of years of so-called civilisation: The law of the jungle.

There is no clear provision in the #Nato treaty for #expelling a country,
though its preamble does commit the US and other allies
“to live in peace with all peoples and all governments” and
“to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples”
– wording once intended to be u…

All this time I thought it was video-games that were destroying western civilisation.

➡️ Isn't it about time people start paying a little more attention to George Monbiot?
He is on the side of 🌱 survival, and if we don't start paying attention to his analysis of our time now, future historians (if our civilisation survives at all) will wonder why he was not listened to more.
As voters, we must hurry and elect as many people as possible who think like Monbiot, or
👋🏼 goodbye democracy, goodbye environment.