Post #159687

2026-01-27 13:40 UTC

@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @cstross@wandering.shop I flew home through Heathrow that night, and I remember the little knots of Americans desperately trying to phone home, I get why that turned to rage. OTH, if the post 9/11 rules applied during the civil war in Northern Ireland, the RAF would have been visiting, Boston & New York on a regular basis. I defy anyone to tell me that the World or the US is in a better place after the War on Terror.

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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org 2026-01-27 13:57

@MelvilleSpence@phpc.social @the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @cstross@wandering.shop "The War on Terror" is best understood as an autoimmune reaction, which now, 25 years later, has killed the organism.

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@lkanies@hachyderm.io 2026-01-28 03:46

@MelvilleSpence@phpc.social @the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @cstross@wandering.shop it has certainly only made things worse here in the US. It’s all show, and less actual security

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@MissConstrue@mefi.social 2026-01-28 07:22

@MelvilleSpence@phpc.social @the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @cstross@wandering.shop Ah, it was never designed to make the world better. It was designed to make a few people a lot wealthier. And much more powerful. Mostly people who already had yachts and private henchman. It was designed to allow for what Project 2025 has enacted. It was a long, long game to capture the Seven Mountains by putting in a panopticon. See also the UK and CCtv every few feet. And it is working perfectly for those on the other side of the camera. Palantir and the surveillance state couldn’t be more pleased. Me personally, I think we should hollow out them there mountains before they get any bigger. (7 mntns is a dominionist theology of Christian nationalists and Christian zionists who believe they have to control Family Religion Education Government Business Media Arts/Entertainment So they can take over Israel , converted the Jews and bring about Revelations. Because they are insane.

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