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One of the biggest challenges for a developing anti-imperialist, at least in my experience, is learning to differentiate between those who actually want to end the oligarchic empire and those who just want the empire to act a bit more cosmetically nice than it does. These are two completely different positions, especially because the latter is pure fantasy: you cannot have a globe-dominating unipolar power structure that doesn't use violent force to maintain that world order. Yet the two groups often wind up moving in overlapping circles.
I've never had trouble knowing what my own position is toward the empire, but I've often struggled figuring out who shared that position. There was a long unfolding process of going "Ohh, we're not on the same page at all. You want entirely different things from what I want."
Most of the sectarian fighting you see on the left splits along those lines: those who want to end the oligarchic empire, and those who want the oligarchic empire to be a bit nicer. These two positions are ultimately irreconcilable, so those factions will never get along.
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If there are indeed extra-terrestrials and they are indeed flying around our world in strange aircraft, we are more likely to get the truth about this from the extra-terrestrials themselves than from the US military.
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The US government is pure swamp; you can't use the swamp to fix the swamp. Democrats were never going to use a Special Counsel to remove Trump. Trump was never going to take down the Deep State. The US government isn't going to investigate itself and reveal the truth about aliens.
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Perhaps the best explanation for the many reports of unidentified flying objects demonstrating maneuvers and features we don't understand is that we're hurtling through a vast and mysterious universe that our barely-evolved primate brains know almost nothing about.
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If there are ETs visiting us they probably already treat this planet more like a home than we do.
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Humans focus on outer space to avoid focusing on inner space.
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Maybe the world really did end in 2012. Everything's been unraveling into an exponentially expansive field of weirdness ever since
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