Dib✊🏳️‍🌈

I used to do esports things, now I tweet about politics a lot and play games for fun

[Dib✊🏳️‍🌈 @Dib_gaming]

On today of all days, in this time of all times this work from Akala really hits home.

https://t.co/PgcRpTcxk7

[Mesarvot מסרבות @Mesarvot_]

Read the refusal declaration of Ella Keidar Greenberg that refused today and was sentenced for 30 days in military prison👇

Gather, Organize, Resist.
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[Dib✊🏳️‍🌈 @Dib_gaming]

In America you get fined for giving a woman a short haircut and not cutting a boys hair short.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Arkansas Republican bill would ban giving "gender-nonconforming" haircuts to minors.

H.B.1668 would hold liable "any person who knowingly causes a minor's social transition" — including change to clothing or hairstyle.

Penalty starts at $10,000 minimum up to $10 million damages for certain forms of gender-affirming care.

#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is actually an extraordinary admission to make for a US Vice President https://t.co/VXRNYuVFdc

Vance explains that "the idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things."

But he laments that it didn't quite work out this way: as he explains it turns out that poor countries (mostly China) didn't want to just remain cheap labor forever and started moving up the value chain themselves. Which is why, according to him, globalization was a failure.

Meaning that the objective of globalization wasn't to reduce global inequalities but very much to maintain them, to institute a system of permanent economic hierarchy where rich countries would maintain their hold over the most profitable sectors while relegating poor countries to perpetual subordination in lower-value production.

This is basically all you need to know to explain 90% of U.S. foreign policy these past few years: colonial thinking is alive and well, and America's shift of strategy in recent years - away from the previous "Washington Consensus" of "free" markets towards a much more overt attempt to contain and restrict China's development - stems precisely from this mindset.

From semiconductor export controls to investment restrictions, these policies aren't about 'national security' in any genuine sense - they're about trying to preserve a global economic order where, simply put, poorer nations know their assigned place and stay there. At the very core, that's the "China threat": a China that stepped out of the economic lane assigned to it by the West.

It's deeply ironic when you think of it: a global game allegedly designed to "spread market principles" worldwide is being abandoned precisely because it worked too well. When China succeeded better than expected, the response wasn't to celebrate the validation of the game's effectiveness but to change its rules. Precisely because the real unspoken game - but now clearly stated by the U.S. Vice President - was to maintain global inequality, not eliminate it.

All in all, in case they hadn't yet gotten the memo, this sends a very clear message to the developing world: economic development will require challenging a U.S.-dominated economic order that views their advancement as a threat rather than a success. Which incidentally is why Vance's words might actually help accelerate the very redistribution of global economic power he laments, pushing more nations to recognize that genuine development requires strategic independence from a system intended to keep them in their place.

[Dib✊🏳️‍🌈 @Dib_gaming]

@KChicktay Ballatro esports caster when? 😜

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

they're going to send us to gitmo for saying the truth about israel, that it is a genocidal apartheid state. fascism is here. wake up.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

All of this

[Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn @JonathanCohn]

I long for a Democratic Party that understands that Ronald Reagan is the root of so many of today's problems, not one that whitewashes his record (and crimes!) and pretends that he was some type of fine statesman.

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

They teach us that Hitler killed 6,000,000 Jews

But they don’t teach that Churchill killed 3,000,000 in the Bengal Famine

Or the King Leopold killed 13 fucking million Congolese

They are very selective about what we know and what they don’t want us to know!

How is Churchill who’s celebrated any better than Hitler?

From what I can see they’re both monsters!

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Elon Musk isn’t a genius—he’s a government-funded grifter under investigation. Every contract, every dollar, every scandal—it all connects.

Keep this: It’s a roadmap for every move Musk and DOGE make.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

the mayor of nyc is currently collaborating w the trump admin in a quid pro quo scheme allowing ice to operate in nyc, because trumps doj dropped his previous quid pro quo scheme charges.

meanwhile this is what the liberal governor is busy with. eliminating education.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

We knew it, but seeing the data laid out – it's still shocking: higher taxes for most, deep cuts to Medicaid & SNAP—all to fund tax breaks for the top 1%.

It's difficult to fully grasp the scale of the con being perpetrated on Americans right now by the Trump administration.

[Dib✊🏳️‍🌈 @Dib_gaming]

@joburglawyer Wealth tax is good. We’ve needed one for ages. Don’t be a simp for billionaires. Wealth tax won’t affect you bro.

[Jase @_Jase_C_]

@bethanyshondark You call this an accident??

[Dan McClellan @maklelan]

More on DOGE's lies. WSJ investigated & found only $2.6 billion in cuts, with only 2% coming from DEI. The largest category was research (that neither Musk nor his hacker bois understand) into Alzheimer's, brain injuries, education, etc. It's a mendacious & stupid kakistocracy.

[Dib✊🏳️‍🌈 @Dib_gaming]

@Matthewtravis08 That’s a pretty shitty attitude to have to your neighbour.

[Stan Veuger @stanveuger]

Even looking narrowly at federal budgetary impact DOGE is almost surely *costing* money once you take account of future settlements, cost of hiring replacements, increased pay of future hires to compensate for DOGE uncertainty, etc.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

Wild to think if Dems let this man lead the party Trump never would’ve been President