Imagine you had the opportunity to play chess against the elite's best player knowing full well you could best them but at the last minute they took all your major pieces and generously gave you their pawns.
We're being played and subdivided into tiny factions of disparate entitles so blind to the big game while in pursuit of their 'rights' that eventually there will be nothing left except ephemeral echoes of the Great Split which will ultimately leave the rich in their bunkers, while we expire, laughing at our stupidity while they wait for Gaia to heal.
So true yet so many feel it's more beneficial for society in general to disregard #DivideAndConquer and continue to fight amongst themselves and others.
When people realise the battles against corporations, for the planet, against imperialism, for LGBQT, against racism, for Palestinian justice, against genocide, for peace, against homelessness, for the indigenous, against Capitalism, for equality, against oligarchy, for democracy, against slavery, for education, against religious fundamentalism, for neurodiversity, against war, for freedom, against exploitation, for tolerance and against hunger ARE ALL ONE FIGHT, we will almost be there
You can now find an improved TikTok hashtag analysis tool on the Bellingcat Github. We've simplified the installation instructions for you. The tool uses David Teather's TikTokApi TikTok scraper. See the updates and command-line interface here: https://github.com/bellingcat/tiktok-hashtag-analysis
The tool analyses a hashtag and provides you with a list of related hashtags in use order. See below some examples from the recent Maui fires.
Shows the related hashtags to #mauistrong, a hashtag which was used for the Maui fires. The top related hashtags are #maui and #lahaina. Interestingly #lahainaisnotforsale and #wakeup are also related hashtags that are referring to some of the conspiracy theories surrounding the cause of the fires.
Shows the related hashtags to #directenergyweapon, a hashtag which was used for one of the conspiracy theories around the cause of the Maui fires. The top related hashtags are #dew and #maui.
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see the utter nonsense of everything including all the solemn stuff given out by professional asses about the spiritual life; and simply to burst out laughing, and laugh and laugh, with the sky and the trees.
~Thomas Merton
"Countries like #Germany, #Italy and #France are not yet beginning to spend 2% of GDP. Indeed the German defence budget for 2023 is lower than it was for 2022. What sort of signal does that send? I wouldn't let #Britain off the hook either. Rishi Sunak said Britain will 2-2.5% of GDP 'when the economy allows' - that, I'm afraid, isn't good enough and we are a long way short in this country. So the Western European countries frankly need to #WakeUp"