Magnus Hultgren 🏳️‍🌈

Man ska skrika medan järnet är varmt. / Shriek while the iron is hot. *For a good time, follow me on Twitter. The button is right there.

[Magnus Hultgren 🏳️‍🌈 @HultgrenMagnus]

I am tweeting my 2003 book, "Shriek while the iron is hot", as a thread right here.

It's very much suited to be tweeted phrase by phrase. You'll see.

[Magnus Hultgren 🏳️‍🌈 @HultgrenMagnus]

@dieworkwear If I may remark, this tale of screenshots was broken in two, not thirds. While many these days appreciate the rapid one-two of the shot/chaser format, a more elaborate disassembly could have been achieved using a thread.

*ducks*

[Magnus Hultgren 🏳️‍🌈 @HultgrenMagnus]

@obiwonjohn @Timodc If it's blockchain, at least the chain will make it easier to prosecute, should the rule of law ever be restored.

[Magnus Hultgren 🏳️‍🌈 @HultgrenMagnus]

@Stewey444 @carolinerenard_ And the third is that they're still losers.

[Magnus Hultgren 🏳️‍🌈 @HultgrenMagnus]

@HiddenDragon51 @esjesjesj Even using the claim's numbers, the proportion of people killed matches the proportion of the population. The "conclusion" is the misleading and racist part.

For all we know, the background of people killed by white people could be the one that stands out.

[Yurok Around The Clock @HellcatBruce]

I don't know how you can watch billionaires openly manipulate the public on a mass scale never before seen in human history and think the real problem is that Democrats didn't try to convince people hard enough.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

On point. No additional words needed.

[celia @_celia_bedelia_]

TERFs: why are you so mean and abusive to us? Don’t you care about women? Our safety our health?

Also TERFs:

[Magnus Hultgren 🏳️‍🌈 @HultgrenMagnus]

@esjesjesj It's because of the cost efficient public health care. That all countries have. Well, almost all.

[Magnus Hultgren 🏳️‍🌈 @HultgrenMagnus]

@mushycrouton And by "before" you mean six months into... nineteen eighty-one?

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Wow. Crushing statement from President Biden: “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son - and that is wrong.”

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

As the COP29 climate meeting is reaching its end, it should not come as a surprise that yet another COP is failing. The current draft is a complete disaster. But even if our expectations are close to non-existent, we must never ever find ourselves reacting to these continuous betrayals with anything but rage.

The people in power are yet again about to agree to a death sentence to the countless people whose lives have been or will be ruined by the climate crisis. The current text is full of false solutions and empty promises. The money from the Global North countries needed to pay back their climate debt is still nowhere to be seen. The host country - Azerbaijan - is a repressive and authoritarian petro-state that has committed ethnic cleansing and genocidal acts towards Armenians. Civil society present at COP29 are being silenced, yet continue fighting and pushing negotiators towards the bare minimum.

All this while oppression, inequalities, wars and genocides all over the world continue to intensify. Those in power are worsening the destabilisation and destruction of our life supporting ecosystems. We are on track to experience the hottest year ever recorded, with the global greenhouse gases reaching an all time high just last year.

It is clear that our current systems are not working in our favour. The COP processes aren’t just failing us, they are part of a larger system built on injustice and designed to sacrifice current and future generations for the opportunity of a few to keep making unimaginable profits and continue to exploit planet and people.

With every negotiation, with every speech made by a world leader and with every agreement they sign, it becomes clear that it is up to us as a global collective to take the action we so desperately need and show where the leadership truly lies. They are not going to do it for us, as this COP29 yet again proves.
#COP29 #PayUp #ClimateJusticeNow

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

The first books the Nazis burned weren't the Torah.

They were German medical and scientific studies detailing the reality of the existence of transgender people.

Ninety years ago, fascists used the irrational fear of trans people as their keyhole into power.

And here we are...

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

whatever the literal exact opposite of a niche issue is, that's what climate change is

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Once you realize that Trump, his minions, and all the MAGA Republicans are working for Russia and Saudi Arabia, not America, everything they do makes sense.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

If the child on the left was old enough to pick cotton and the child on the right was old enough to attend Klan rallies, then today's children are old enough to learn about both of these and how they've led us to where we are today.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Tell me more about how you’re deeply concerned that men are transitioning just to prey on women in bathrooms but you’re not concerned at all about the men who are preying on women out in the open and becoming elected officials.

[katie @katefeetie]

is the left “obsessed” with gender, sexuality, race, etc, or are they just constantly having to defend people in marginalized groups against a right wing that’s ACTUALLY obsessed with gender, sexuality, race, etc

[🪬 chloe 🪬 @romainxlettuce]

“What radicalized you” — idk empathy apparently

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Just a quick note here in advance of Trump and Musk crashing the economy in 2025: Trump voters are going to blame Democrats for that too.

Read up on fascism and cults and stop assuming we have a rational electorate that’s actually looking at economic indicators. It simply isn’t.