Pierce Delahunt (he/they)

Social Emotional Leftist Educator, M.Ed.
Teaching Socialist Emotional Learning

[Pierce Delahunt (he/they) @DelapierceD]

Capitalism vs Socialism is
not Business vs Government

Governments can be Capitalist
Businesses can be Socialist

The question is who holds power:
Workers/People or Bosses/Capital?

[Pierce Delahunt (he/they) @DelapierceD]

They made it legally explicit

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

A Delaware state judge just ruled that corporations can vote in local elections.

Over 200 "artificial entities" (LLCs, trusts, corporations) are now registered voters in Fenwick Island. That's 12% of the electorate.

Delaware has more corporations chartered in the state than people who live there. If you think Citizens United was bad, meet its logical conclusion.

Corporations aren't people. They don't have kids in local schools, they don't drink the water, they can’t be jailed for crimes, and they shouldn't get a vote.

(Photo: Cape Gazette)

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

Have to wonder how things might be different if Obama had bothered prosecuting Bush admin war criminals instead of opting to “look forward as opposed to looking backward”

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Journalist Rania Khalek completely dismantles Piers Morgan. She brilliantly compares asking people to condemn the resistance against a supremacist settler colony to asking Jews in the 1940s to condemn resistance against Nazi Germany. Absolute masterclass in intellectual honesty.

[Pierce Delahunt (he/they) @DelapierceD]

The US has bombed 7% of the countries on Earth in just the last 20 years

[Pierce Delahunt (he/they) @DelapierceD]

@SchmittNYC @ryangrim Eat shit you fucking colonizer

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Who runs Cuba is not my business or your business. But if my tax dollars are spent to block a NICU from getting fuel, then that is my problem and it should be yours too.

Do you know how expensive it is for us to enforce this blockade? We need that money here, and those babies need the power to stay on.

This is Erich, he’s 2 months old, and here’s the doctor explaining how they hand pump his ventilator when the power goes out

[ebonically intelligent papi 🌻 @julianakilrose]

Black ppl: the cops arent there to protect us

Police unions: cops arent there to protect

Supreme court: cops dont need to protect people

Cops: we dont want to protect you

Abolitionists: Okay so maybe we dont need cops...

Everybody else: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SAYING

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

They’re not even subtle.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

"Man in military fatigues" is a new one.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

The people who did this to Gaza want to lecture you about human rights

[Maria Dubovikova @politblogme]

One of the most heartbreaking examples of nonverbal communication to emerge from Iran.
I cannot call this a mere propaganda piece. It is the unbearable truth, laid bare through the profound art of cinematography and animation.

[Chris @chriskunzler]

Always great to hear the thoughts of close Jeffrey Epstein's close associate Alan Dershowitz

[Self Hating Gringo @chainsawtom]

@zei_squirrel @CallaWalsh Here https://t.co/bnM5Y9lwUa

[African Stream @african_stream]

'I HATE ALL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS'

‘I hate all American presidents.’ South Korean woman Do Keum-Yeun, then 81 years old, uttered these words during a 2017 protest against the installation of a US missile defence system in her village.

Her sentiments, which imply that no US leader means well for the world, especially for the Global South, should be the guiding principle for all Pan-Africanists and anti-imperialists regarding the forthcoming US elections in particular and its politics in general.

Regardless of who wins the US elections, Africans and other people of the Global South will still get the short end of the imperialist stick.

Video credit: @BBC

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇻🇪 Hugo Chavez:

"Years ago, someone told me: 'They’re going to end up accusing you of being a drug trafficker—you personally—you, Chávez. Not just that the government supports it, or permits it—no, no, no. They’re going to try to apply the Noriega formula to you.'

They’re looking for a way to associate Chávez directly with drug trafficking. And then, anything goes against a ‘drug trafficker president,’ right?"

History can teach us so much about the future if we just listen.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Dopey right wingers who learned the phrase "Monroe Doctrine" like ten seconds ago have been mindlessly parroting those words all day to defend Trump's Venezuela assault, and what's grating about it is they actually think they're talking about a real thing.

They're like, "No no it was totally legit, see there's this thing called the Monroe Doctrine which says we get to control everything that happens in the western hemisphere and treat half the planet like it's our own personal property."

Really the Monroe Doctrine was just racist US imperialists telling racist European imperialists 200 years ago that the everyone and everything in Latin America belongs to Washington. They were saying "See these brown people over here? These are our brown people. They belong to us. You're welcome to use and exploit the brown people in Asia and Africa all you want, but these brown people are ours. Only we get to use them."

The briefest moment of critical thought would immediately tell anyone that the Monroe Doctrine has always been made-up nonsense, but these bleating human livestock can't even be bothered with that. They're just yelling "Monroe Doctrine! Monroe Doctrine!" like a bunch of trained parrots without the slightest thought as to what it is they're actually saying.

It's exactly the same as me writing on a piece of paper "Everyone on my street has to do what I say; I control everyone and everything on this street and I get to decide what happens in all these houses and who lives where," and then calling it The Johnstone Doctrine and treating it like it's a valid legal document.

It's just some bullshit made up by dead assholes two centuries ago. The fact that they called it a "doctrine" doesn't make it any more legitimate than if some schmuck wrote it on Twitter today and called it The Monroe Tweet, or said it on TikTok and called it The Monroe TikTok Video. Nothing about it constitutes a valid argument for why it's fine to invade a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader to steal the country's oil. It's the same as just saying "Yeah we stole Venezuela because we wanted to."

Pathetic NPCs. Unthinking empire automatons. It's so gross when someone opens their mouth to speak and nothing comes out but bullshit they were trained to say by the most powerful people in the world.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

in 2002 the US regime orchestrated a coup in Venezuela, and Chavez was kidnapped and taken away by helicopter to be executed by CIA-Mossad agents. But the Venezuelan masses came out onto the streets demanding their president, and quickly overthrew the fascist coup regime and forced Chavez' return. This was all captured in the brilliant documentary "The Revolution Will not be Televised".

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

In an attempt to discredit Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos, officials spread rumors that he was gay, hoping this would undermine his credibility in a region shaped by machismo. He responded by writing a poem:

“Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco; Black in South Africa; Asian in Europe; a Chicano in San Ysidro; an anarchist in Spain; a Palestinian in Israel; a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristóbal; a Jew in Germany; a Gypsy in Poland; a Mohawk in Quebec; a pacifist in Bosnia; a single woman on the Metro at 10 p.m.; a peasant without land; a gang member in the slums; an unemployed worker; an unhappy student; and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

Marcos is all the exploited, marginalized, and oppressed minorities resisting and saying ‘Enough.’ He is every minority beginning to speak, and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power—and the good consciences of those in power—uncomfortable: this is Marcos.”

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Last night's attack on Venezuela fits into a long history of brazen US interventions in Latin America and the world.