Gtrain62🛩

it's pretty much all over
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[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Sky News ran a segment about how a Jewish volunteer group is on the streets fighting "record levels of antisemitism", and zero antisemitism occurs anywhere in the entire segment. It's just a group of thugs cruising around intimidating non-Jews by impersonating law enforcement.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Bezalel Smotrich: "Come live in the West Bank. I hope this incentive will help us bring one million settlers and kill the idea of a Palestinian state."

There are no two sides. There is only the boot and the face. Stop pretending otherwise

[ΛЦƧƬΣЯIƬY IƧ MЦЯDΣЯ @sdgrumbine]

Stop talking to me about policy fixes if you won't talk about the lack of democracy.

You can't steer a vehicle when you're not allowed near the wheel.

The issue isn't that the media gets things wrong. The issue is that oligarchs own the media, fund the politicians, and shape the policy.

Capital is calling the shots.

Until we confront who government actually serves, we're debating solutions in a system designed to ignore us.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

There have been videos circulating online for hours of Palestinians burning to death after another Israeli attack in Gaza.

Palestinians are so dehumanized that Israel can kill them in the most horrific ways without even generating headlines or outrage.

[Warren B. Mosler @wbmosler]

@NotHoodlum Policy that keeps unemployment over 4% and then punishing people who can't find jobs.
:(

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

If you support these ghouls, give yourself a long, hard look in the mirror. Who are you? What have you allowed to enter your head and neutralise your soul?

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Older generations say, “We also struggled in our 20s.”

No, you didn’t. You didn’t pay rent that consumes half your entire paycheck. You didn’t work 2 jobs just to cover basics. You didn’t apply to 200 jobs and face silent rejections. Gen Z isn’t dramatic. They’re drowning.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's easy to point at Jillian Segal and make fun of how crazy and stupid she is, but the Albanese government is the only reason her craziness and stupidity is a problem.

The thing about Segal and all these "antisemitism advisors" they're setting up in western governments is that they're just random people with strong political opinions who are being elevated to ridiculous levels of influence. They're not experts, they're just people who happen to hold the political opinion that it should be illegal to criticize the state of Israel.

Which wouldn't normally be an issue; our society is full of individuals with terrible political opinions. The problem is that our government has selected these cartoonishly ridiculous Zionists to help shape policy in immensely consequential ways that erode the civil liberties of our nation. Our leaders are the ones to blame for these inept lunatics wielding absurd levels of influence; left to their own devices they'd just be harmless idiots. They're only harmful because they're being given the power to do harm.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Landlord: Rent has gone up.

Businesses: That’s a natural part of doing business.

Suppliers: Materials cost more.

Businesses: That’s a natural part of doing business.

Worker: My labour costs more.

Businesses: Whoa, whoa... Let’s not get unreasonable here.

[Maitreya Bhakal @MaitreyaBhakal]

Just so everyone is clear, the gripe here is that China is destroying the profits of the western bourgeoisie, because they are forced to make their products cheaper to compete with Chinese competitors.

This is the central argument of 100% of all western economic analysis of China. The more affordable China's products, the more it destroys their monopolies and their profit margins.

As always, the purpose of such propagandists, as well as their "elected" governments, is to make the interests of the bourgeoisie appear like the national interests of their respective countries. It's the first rule of bourgeois economics: What's good for the bourgeoisie is good for the proletariat.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

“Work isn’t supposed to be fun,” “medicine is supposed to taste bad,” “life is supposed to be hard.” Why? Says who? We’ve been brainwashed into believing life is supposed to be miserable but it doesn’t have to be. That’s the whole point of advancement: to make life suck less.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Fuck Charlie Pickering

[Nicole Chvastek @NChvastek]

Australia's 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty.

But if you believe NewsCorpse a modest pay rise for low income earners will kill us all.

[Gtrain62🛩 @Gtrain62]

@NChvastek They say the same thing after every minimum wage rise. There is no correlation between minimum wage rises and inflation, bankruptcies and unemployment

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The term “Unskilled worker” is made up by capitalists just to justify why a person working 40+ hours a week is still poor

[Michael J Wyllie @michaelJwyllie]

No wonder politicians in Australia don’t do anything bold.
A few min tax changes to help even things up get scare campaign after scare campaign from all the right wing fuckwits out there.

[Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social @k_eagar]

@yanisvaroufakis @MikeCarlton01 Having followed international conflicts for 50 years, my conclusion is that Israel is the most evil of them all. Israeli society is clearly deeply damaged. What was once intergenerational trauma has now warped into intergenerational paranoia & violent hatred. A pariah state

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The abuses and atrocities people defend using "antisemitism" accusations are orders of magnitude more dangerous than antisemitism.

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

Mass poverty and mass hunger blight our society, but we rarely talk about it. Mass poverty is a political choice, made by those who will never experience it. Poverty destroys life chances, reduces life expectancy, and stunts children's development.