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[James ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ @JamesSHayden]

i love.

[steve2bacon, CMT 🥓🍩 @steve2bacon]

the united states as soon as the stock market is closed for the weekend

[DiEM25 @DiEM_25]

This heat is not only a climate emergency, it is class war. The rich burn the planet, then buy air conditioning, private pools and second homes while workers are left in overheated flats, unsafe jobs, failed public services and burning cities. Climate Action Now!

[gha*da 𓋹 @ghayo0da]

Climate change will always affect the poorest people first. The Global North is responsible for around 92% of excess historical carbon emissions, yet the Global South suffers 90% of the economic costs and the vast majority of climate related deaths

The Global South has been living through the climate crisis for decades while the rest of the world ignored it. Now that the heatwaves are hitting the North, people want to equalize the suffering. But you cannot equate a heatwave in a wealthy nation with a heatwave hitting millions of people living without access to power or cooling infrastructure. Indigenous peoples have been on the front lines warning us about the destruction of the biosphere for decades, and capitalism completely ignored them to keep extracting profit. Climate change under capitalism is just a continuation of global exploitation, the poorest always pay first.

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

I hope America collapses while the majority of Boomers are still around because they deserve to live through it.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

This guy got a longer prison sentence than GHISLAINE MAXWELL
https://t.co/qXydCeYz0M

[anna @annakatherines_]

It’s so funny that he’s literally the Joe Rogan of the left but like 100x more powerful and they kicked him out of the DNC 😭

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

There are two types of racism in the west: the kind that’s considered acceptable in polite liberal society, and the kind that’s widely frowned upon.

The acceptable type of racism is the kind which considers it fine and normal to drop bombs on Muslim families overseas. The kind which sees starvation sanctions as a minor issue whose pros and cons are assessed solely on the basis of whether they will be successful or unsuccessful in achieving regime change. The kind which views imperialist extraction from the global south as the natural order of the world, with centrists and progressives squabbling only about how evenly that plunder should be distributed among westerners.

The unacceptable type of racism is the kind which affects other westerners. The kind whose consequences western liberals have to see.

If a white woman calls the police on a black man minding his own business in the park, western liberals will send her viral on social media, and she will be unwelcome in polite society until the heat dies down. If a celebrity is caught on tape uttering an ethnic slur, they’ll be unpopular for a while, and will be considered a liability by sponsors and film studios. This is the wrong kind of racism.

That’s what you’re seeing whenever the western press completely ignores a dozen Palestinians getting killed by western-made munitions on the same day the entire news media focuses on some allegation of “antisemitism” with no material consequences other than some western Jews feeling emotionally upset. The former is the right kind of racism, while the latter is the wrong kind. One is seen as acceptable and normal, while the other is a horrifying abuse.

Western racism falls into two distinct categories because our entire civilization is built upon the polite kind, whereas the impolite kind is useful to the powerful only as a wedge issue to keep western populations divided against each other. Mainstream western politics is often just a culture war between one major party which embraces both the polite and impolite kinds of racism against another major party which only embraces the polite kind of racism, thereby ensuring that no political energy goes toward ending the polite kind of racism.

The polite kind of racism is much more important to the powerful in the 21st century, because it’s an absolutely foundational component to their rule rather than merely a useful tool. Without the imperialist extraction of labor and resources from the global south at extortionate prices, you wouldn’t see sprawling megacorporations turning millionaires into billionaires and trillionaires who then use their wealth to manipulate western politics to promote their own agendas. Without nonstop military expansionism and the abuses of the western intelligence cartel, the managers of the western empire could not dominate our planet.

That’s why every few years westerners get to vote on whether or not to advance the impolite kind of racism in their society, while the polite kind of racism never appears on the ballot. You’re allowed to vote on whether or not your government will become more abusive to immigrants and other marginalized members of your society, but you’re never allowed to vote on whether or not war, militarism and imperialist extraction will continue. This expression of racism (or white supremacism, or xenophobia, or western supremacism, or whatever you want to call it) is considered too important to be left to the will of the electorate.

And you see this reflected in the consciousness of the western mind. Even relatively aware westerners who would place themselves on the far left of the political spectrum will often spend a lot more energy on domestic issues than the abuses of the western war machine.

Earlier this month the discourse on Left Twitter revolved around whether or not it was a “privileged take” to say that people shouldn’t serve in the US military, the argument being that many US military personnel come from disadvantaged backgrounds. I saw a lot of US progressives who furiously disparage ICE agents and American cops falling all over themselves to defend those who enlist in the US war machine, which is quantifiably far more murderous and oppressive than domestic American law enforcement.

The only way to see things this way would be to view those who live in the global south as less human than people who live in the United States. That’s the only way it could possibly make sense in your mind to see the abuses of your country’s domestic police forces as worse than the demonstrably more egregious abuses of the US war machine. You’d have to view a school full of Iranian children being blown up by the US Navy as less worthy of attention and opposition than an American being beaten by a police officer in the United States. You’d have to assume those Iranian lives don’t matter.

And those are some of the more awake members of western society. Most westerners are a lot less conscious and compassionate than that.

Westerners live in the most savage and murderous civilization on earth. We don’t feel like we are savage and murderous because we outsource most of our violence and slavery to overseas operations, but that’s what we are. We go about our lives consuming products made by wage slaves under an oppression machine that is defended through constant mass military slaughter, and then we wag our fingers at a viral video of some schizophrenic saying racist things in order to feel nice feelings about ourselves. That’s what western life is, right there.

We’ve got a lot of growing up to do. We are in need of drastic, revolutionary change, more extensive than probably most of us can imagine at this point in time. We’ve got a long, long way to go, and a whole, whole lot of wrongs we need to make right around the world.

[𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎 @hellspatisserie]

Functional life sentences from a U.S. court for a demonstration

[April foxy ☭🔻🏳️‍⚧️ @TransRightsFox]

we are seeing it in live time. it is so privileged to be clutching pearls and dogmatically citing dimitrov as if the manifestation of fascism is always the same way. 100 years of prison for anarchist zines, there is absolutely no excuse for this, this is fascism

[Greg @KlKESLAMMER_88]

No need to make it up.

[brecht apologist @madison_tayt]

people wanted my head on a pike for pointing this out

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

FYI: while 1984 is purportedly an allegory of the Soviet Union, George Orwell never even set foot in the Soviet Union himself. For the book's depiction of censorship and the rewriting of history, he drew instead upon his personal experiences working as a propagandist for the BBC.

[•ᴗ- @evadentz]

we should ban teenagers from ALL media. and then on their 16th birthday they are brought to a theatre to be shown a movie of a train coming directly at them to see if they react and flee in horror like they did in 1896

[James ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ @JamesSHayden]

but but the communists want to put you in labor camps!!!

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

ICE has revised its rules to say that detainees who work in custody aren't even required to get $1 per day, after a request from private prison giant Geo Group.

Geo Group also asked ICE to remove lines saying contractors needed to follow state and local laws around the treatment of detainees, asked ICE amend language to support its legal position in these cases, and asked that the standards specify that detainees are not employees of the facilities where they work.

In addition to removing the dollar per day minimum, ICE's new national standards complied with several of Geo Group's other requests, for instance the document now says detainees are not employees “and are not entitled to wages or benefits under applicable wage laws or labor regulations.”

https://t.co/gchghb1sqf

[el pendejo 🇨🇺 @danker_hank]

Insane psychological warfare, 10/10

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

Overhearing my family talk about world politics is like overhearing kids talk about what they think sex is.

[jen 🇧🇷🇪🇬🇩🇿🇲🇽🇨🇮 @rockleeisms]

they let some rapists walk away with no prison time but the people shutting down weapon factories get 6-8 years