Indeed, hence the keen interest by western intel agencies in what Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza - you never know when it might come in handy to move a terrorised population from place to place based on some barely plausible excuse because you want the land they're on or just want them gone for some reason.


Yes, for most, it hasn't sunk in that the Empire will inevitably come home one day and wreak the same havoc as it did abroad. The ruling classes see us in the same light as Palestinians, whose fate they're completely indifferent to, except when it profits them. Their psychopathy is exposed for all to see in their support for the Gaza genocide but all they have to do for people to forget this (if they even remembered in the first place) is engineer another crisis and present themselves as saviours.

The divide and rule psyops are sophisticated and being constantly refined after decades/centuries of practice. Throw AI into the mix and we really are in for a fun ride. For me one of the most horrifying aspects of events in the past few decades has been the cynical co-opting of the environmental movement, bringing shallow green discourse into the mainstream to serve private interests and of course fermenting a reaction against much needed genuine action because people lump it in with the phoney 'green' agenda from the hypocrites in power who continue business as usual at full throttle towards the cliff edge. As you know, 'Leftists' should be up in arms about this and the dominant economic growth paradigm but are still too conditioned, docile and I hate to use DA's word here but he's right, cowardly.