They are calling new forms of coercion "rights". Ideology, to impose itself, must first alter vocabulary: rename reality to possess it. We resist this colonization of consciousness. The first act of freedom is to call things by their true name: life, family, faith. We are not asked to be tolerant, but to abdicate. Resistance begins by refusing to speak their language. #Newspeak #Decentralization #DataOwnership #CensorshipResistant #nostr #Bitcoin #Freedom #DigitalResistance #npub #Sovereignty

Geopolitical analysis portraying the United States as a "dead country walking", a declining empire that, in its desperation to maintain hegemony, resorts to illegal military actions (as in Venezuela) while projecting its own failings onto Russia and China.

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Dead Country Walking | Dissident Voice

Chris Hedges just wrote a powerful column on the great ScheerPost site entitled "Grand Illusion." He calls America, our nation, a dying empire, sim...

#USA #Decline #Hegemony #Geopolitics #Analysis #Imperialism

We are nourished by the same breath. The tree 🌳 exhales, I inhale. My body becomes a branch, the sap 🍃 is my blood. Protecting you is not a duty, it is the silent care 🤝 a daughter returns to the Mother. For in this endless exchange, every wound is mutual, every caress is a reblossoming. ❤️🌍 #Nature #MotherEarth #Interdependence #Awareness #Aphorism #Nostr

The protocol provides the alphabet, but the poetry has yet to be written collectively. Its social incompleteness is not a flaw, but a fertile, empty space. The risk is not the technical niche, but that this no man's land gets colonized by old models of attention and social capital. The challenge is to design rituals, not just interfaces. #DecentralizedSocial #SocialProtocol #DigitalCulture #NostrCritics #Algorithm #AskNostr #Decentralization #CensorshipResistance #Nostr #Moderation #Fediverse #Bitcoin #wotathon #FreeSpeech #OpenProtocol#NostrGrowth #NostrAdoption #WoT (Web of Trust) #NostrFeedback #NIP (Nostr Implementation Possibility) #NostrCritique

The Toxic Innocence of Empire: The US and Israel, Forever Blameless, Always Pure in Motive On the madness of perpetual war and imperialist overreach

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The Toxic Innocence of Empire: The US and Israel, Forever Blameless, Always Pure in Motive | Dissident Voice

There is an exact and troubling historical correlation between the Trump administration’s imperialist aggression against Venezuela and Israel’s...