Revolver Otacon 🌷🌻

My body is made of 80% LSD, 5% Roses, and 15% video games/writing and creativity.

I also write fanfics

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Hillary lost Michigan. Kamala Harris lost Michigan. 77% of Democrats no longer have a favorable view of Israel and here you are tweeting endless support for an AIPAC-funded candidate who says Israel comes to her in her dreams and refuses to call Gaza a genocide.

All of this to try and elect Haley Stevens, who wants the slaughter of Arab and Muslim children to continue unabated. There must be a word for this.

[Torah Jews @TorahJews]

Why did so many Middle Eastern Jews have to flee their countries after centuries of living among their neighbors? Why did their departure coincide with the rise of Zionist activity and propaganda in the region, as well as events such as the 1950 Baghdad bombings?

Pity Hen blocked us. We’d love to hear his answer.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

According to this stalwart women's advocate, if you accuse a powerful man of rape but then move to Russia, everyone should assume she's a scheming liar.

Biden had many other women accusing him of sexual harassment and assault over many years but they were dismissed by most liberal feminists as liars or irrelevant.

Few people treat this #MeToo stuff as anything other than a political toy: zero consistent standards for when to #BelieveWomen beyond: "does doing so align with my political and ideological goals?"

[Ashleyy @dontsippy]

Eight women and girls accused Biden, yet the establishment and its media arm protected and defended him. Andrew Cuomo was accused by more than 13 women, but the establishment supported him, and elected Democrats endorsed his candidacy twice just a few months ago. CNN never had segments against his candidacy. Warnock allegedly abused his wife to the point that she called the police after he allegedly ran her over with a car. The establishment and its media arm protected him and still do. I’m all for accountability, but ask yourself why they’re doing this to this particular candidate. Why do they suddenly want a moral high ground

[Gio獅 🇭🇹 🇧🇷🇮🇷🇸🇳 @TheSportProhet]

Western chauvinism in a nutshell. You can go to Iraq, kill, torture, and rape brown people, but lay a hand/sexually assaulting a white woman, and suddenly everyone discovers your "propensity for violence." That wasnt made clear previously🤨🤨🤨🤨 Colonial logic has always worked this way: violence against the colonized is normalized; violence within the imperial core is the real moral scandal cause this is the civilized society🙄🙄🙄.

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

I like how they hard pivoted from claiming he’s a fake doctor, when that recycled hit went nowhere again, to attacking him for being too credentialed.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Liberals are racist, but just displace it onto foreign governments

They pretend to like Muslims, but spread fear about Iran

They say they are anti-racist, but go into a panic about the Chinese “peril”

They pretend to like Black people, but denounce African liberation movements

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

AOCIA said she can't work with MTG or any conservative Republican who is critical of Israel because they are evil monstrous anti-Semites and doing so means becoming tainted by it yourself. Ok, fine. Then the fact that she gleefully endorses genocidal Zionist anti-Palestinian racists with glee when they're running uncontested and just recently led the Israel Day Parade alongside war criminal mass murderers like Smotrich, proves that by her own standards she herself is a gleeful anti-Palestinian racist genocidal Zionist scumfuck.

[Gary Spedding @GarySpedding]

Yesterday the BoD acting President, Adrian Cohen, released a statement claiming that event organisers had 'refuted claims that the event is marketing real estate over the Green Line' and then made out that those protesting the event were motivated by a mixture of false pretence and Jew hate.

Today we have evidence proving beyond any doubt that brochures for West Bank settlements were handed out and properties in the illegal settlements of Ma’ale Adumim and Givat Ze’ev in the occupied West Bank, as well as Ramat Eshkol and Givat HaMatos in occupied East Jerusalem.

Properties in 'Judea and Samaria' were being directly offered to attendees by companies at the event.

Will we now get an apology from the @BoardofDeputies acting President and will they publicaly disassociate themselves from this event offering properties in Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory that even our own UK government accepts as being illegal under international law?

https://t.co/2iLex0evo1

[Revolver Otacon 🌷🌻 @CicVisious]

@owenjonesjourno ????

[Revolver Otacon 🌷🌻 @CicVisious]

@owenjonesjourno @els_3ls @0Calamity Here's the evidence. Wanna change your mind old sport?

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

When critics pointed out black-and-white factual errors from the beginning to the end of the NYT’s “Screams Without Words,” one of the most consequential fabrications in the paper’s history, used to justify a genocide, the paper steadfastly refused to address them. Only when video evidence emerged directly contradicting part of it did they offer a soft “update” to the piece.

Note how differently critics of the Kristof piece are treated. Where the original article did not interview a single victim, Kristof spoke to 14, all corroborated in other ways too. The critics do not challenge a single fact, instead they argue that the behavior described is simply impossible, or dogs would never do that, and all the witnesses and victims are biased against Israel and should not be listened to. Not a single honest criticism of what he has reported has been presented that contradicts the facts he laid out.

Yet those critics — who hysterically impugn his character and even in many cases suggest he should be executed — get a polite and respectful reply from the Times. (And in their reply they double down on their old Screams piece, stridently and without evidence.)

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Netanyahu and Sa’ar rebuke Ben Gvir over abuse of flotilla detainees — days after UN and NYT confirmed systematic sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners

Prime Minister Netanyahu said Tuesday that while “Israel has every right to prevent provocative flotillas of Hamas terrorist supporters” from reaching Gaza, “the way that Minister Ben Gvir dealt with the flotilla activists is not in line with Israel’s values and norms.”

He ordered authorities to deport the detainees “as soon as possible.”

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar addressing Ben Gvir directly: “You knowingly caused harm to our State in this disgraceful display — and not for the first time. You have undone tremendous, professional, and successful efforts made by so many people. No, you are not the face of Israel.”

Ben Gvir had posted a video of detained flotilla activists, writing “This is how we receive terror supporters. Welcome to Israel.”

The rebuke comes days after the New York Times published an investigation documenting the systematic rape and sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody — findings the UN Human Rights Office subsequently confirmed, saying it had “systematically documented” sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners, including children.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

During my interview last year, she accused me of bringing up the issue of “hostages” and “prisoners,” even though she herself had asked me to clarify my social media posts. Today, she is accusing me of lying “extensively.”

The audacity.

The first question I should have asked was: controversial according to whom?

Controversial to those who refuse to see Palestinians as human beings. To those who label every Palestinian a “terrorist” or a “barbarian.”

When I was abducted, I was blindfolded, handcuffed, beaten, and sexually abused. So why do you and others believe we have no right to question the language used by both our oppressors and journalists like you?

Why is an Israeli automatically called “a hostage” and “a victim,” while a Palestinian is reduced to “a prisoner” or “a killed terrorist”? And when Palestinians are women or children, they are described as “human shields.”

What on earth is the criterion?

What makes one person a “hostage” and another merely a “prisoner”? What makes one life worthy of grief, outrage, and endless headlines, while another is erased through language designed to dehumanize?

Who decided that Palestinians do not deserve the same language of humanity?

Anyone who understands English can see who is actually distorting my words.

My point has always been clear: why are Israelis called “hostages” while Palestinians are denied the same humanity and moral urgency? Why is that so difficult to understand?

Yes, this is about language. That is what the conversation was and still is about.

As survivors and witnesses of a genocide, we have every right to challenge the language, narratives, and double standards used by governments and journalists to justify or normalize war crimes.

I trust that people and history will deliver a far more honest verdict on this exchange.

Meanwhile, we will never give up our right to speak the truth, share our stories, and fight for our fundamental rights.

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

They were caught on video doing it. When the video was leaked to Israeli media, Israelis stormed the prison and demanded the release of the soldiers who did the raping. Israeli media then turned the rapists into television stars. All of that happened. On camera.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

what happened over the past few days is pretty amazing. The Israeli regime knew Nick Kristof was going to publish his NYT piece on their actual systematic rape of Palestinians including children and the use of dogs to rape, so they fabricated a new "report", the most insane one yet copy-pasted together by a proven fraud that repeats all the already debunked falsehoods and relies entirely on known proven hoaxers, and they actually got the NYT, BBC, CNN, AP, Reuters to launder it for them a day after the Kristof piece came out to bury it. They own the entire media class completely.

[Kate Willett @katewillett]

Last time I was in Cuba I met a man whose mother was dying an extraordinarily painful death from rickets. She was 100% treatable with Vitamin D and calcium, which are in our breakfast cereal in the US.

So yes I think it’s good to bring vitamins and medical supplies to Cuba.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

AOC will not team up with MTG to sanction Israel because of identity politics

But she teamed up with Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton to call for more sanctions on China

[E ☭ 🇫🇷 @Melsmchf]

The reason I accept Gerald Horne’s dialectical interpretation of American history and social development is because of situations like what happened with Christian Smalls.

For all the talk about class that comes from the left, what I find fascinating is that we do not have a labor leader in this country as radical as Christian Smalls, and yet he still is not valued. Dude just swung for the fences and created the first labor union in Amazon history. When he pulled this off, it was on the level of the first labor unions forming against Ford. And yet look how quickly the white left was willing to forget him. This is why you’re going to lose people. This is why I don’t let y’all agitate toward Black people when I’m in the room, because a lot of you do not like Black people. It is time to acknowledge that. You view us as an “other” you can hold up so you do not get called racist, but when our lives actually matter, you want us to shut up. His critique of your favorite politician was correct. He just came out of jail, and these people did not speak on him during two situations where he realistically could have died. If you are terminally online and do not know enough people who have been in jail, then you do not know what goes on in there. You do not know how vicious the NYPD is. You are just talking crazy. Some of you need to really check yourselves. Or maybe not. Maybe this is just who you are. But if that is the case, then I know for a fact that no long-term left-wing movement is going to survive if it does not seriously confront this racism. Not because racism will be solved under capitalist production—I do not believe that—but because you cannot build a movement while dismissing this. He was not screaming some identitarian politics. He simply said your favorite politician did not check for him when he was in jail both times. You need to sit with that instead of crying about it.

It is what it is. And that is why I always advocate for Black nationalist organizations.

[Dr. NSPM-7 Whoa🔻🌺 @dasmadchengyal]

AOC LIED at the DNC. she LIED. & you guys have not once challenged her on that. you don't even acknowledge it. but you have smoke for Chris Smalls who *actually* put his life & freedom on the line for Palestinians, Cubans, & American workers. WHEN has AOC done such? NEVER.