Geriatric Gardener<p>“The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/leak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leak</span></a> was never about an <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/app" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>app</span></a>. It was a diagnostic stain, exposing the rot festering beneath the Mythic US’s <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/veneer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>veneer</span></a> of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>. The fleeting obsession with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> and personnel errors encapsulated the farce: a society expertly trained by its <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/distraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>distraction</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/machine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>machine</span></a> to fixate on trivialities while the Operational US – the militarist-oligarchic core – wages <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illegal</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/wars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wars</span></a> with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/psychopathic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychopathic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/impunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impunity</span></a>”</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/hailyb/p/beyond-the-app-americas-willing-acceptance?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/hailyb/p</span><span class="invisible">/beyond-the-app-americas-willing-acceptance?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Yemen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yemen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a></p>