Major Tom

Torn between politics and video games.

[Major Tom @MajorTom617]

@theintercept Not Presidential, cowardly. Not beautiful, horrific. Not cool, grievous. Not ready for whatever, following orders. Not proud, sick.

[Madeline Pendleton @JeanGreige]

Unironically because the Dalai Lama’s contract with the CIA expired. No I am not joking.

[Major Tom @MajorTom617]

@ryangrim So many people like this think "the market" trumps physics and when it doesn't they blame "socialism."

[Major Tom @MajorTom617]

@JezziiB I mean if the robots are smart enough to quit working until conditions improve...

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Female lead with no romantic interest, the bad guy is a cop, and the Terminator learns to have feelings. They'd call this woke if it came out today

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This is why people built guillotines.
GOP Rep. Troy Nehls, when asked about 60% of Americans struggling with affordability: "Affordability? What are you talking about?... I'm gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails. I'm gonna get me some nice rib eyes... Maybe the 60% of Americans don't work as hard as I do."

[MoshiMoshiMoan @MoshiMoshiMoan]

It's 2029
You just bought a PS6
It cost 1200 dollars
All games are digital
They each cost 80 dollars
You have 4 in your library
Yesterday it was 5 but Sony removed one
They offered no refund, its just gone
You'd strangle yourself with the controller cord but its wireless

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

It's almost like American stock market is overinflated

[Richard @ricwe123]

That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.

What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.

This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.

And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......

[Major Tom @MajorTom617]

@hankgreen You are why the math ain't mathin'? I should have known!

[Russell @ATLCWorker]

You're "just not that into politics?" Your boss is. Your landlord is. Your insurance company is. And every day they use their political power to keep your pay low, raise your rent, and deny you coverage.
It’s time to get into politics.

[Major Tom @MajorTom617]

@ggreenwald @matthewstoller So if the Republicans wouldn't have let Biden get away with this level of corruption, what's the deal with either party letting Trump get away with it? Some perfect storm of corruption and ineptitude/laziness/cowardice?

[Major Tom @MajorTom617]

@BanButterfly That is the most insulting part of what the richest people are doing: not even enjoying the wealth. They fake happiness and pretend to be normal.

Useless. Meaningless.

They'll share misery and suffering, so I guess that's worse nothing.

[Ban @BanButterfly]

Si alguna vez alguien te dice que el dinero compra la felicidad solo recuérdale que el hombre más rico del mundo tiene una cuenta donde finge ser su mamá y allí publicó una imagen hecha en IA de el celebrando su propio cumpleaños

[Just.A.Thought 💭 @e_galv]

Being a “conspiracy theorist” is accepting the truth decades before other people call it “breaking news.”

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

remember when young people on TikTok discovered the Osama Bin Laden letter to America published on the Guardian site wherein he talks about the Zionist Israeli occupation and destruction of Palestine fully backed by the US creating resentment in the entire region, it went viral, and then the Guardian responded by deleting the article and TikTok banned any mention of it?

[Daniel Ahmad @ZhugeEX]

This is what China did in 2009 when there was a similar scandal.

[Major Tom @MajorTom617]

@ChShersh @punk6529 Goddammit so much

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

@realmoshefogel Hi Moshe. I have a few questions about your claim:

1) How many of those 1,200 were civilians?

2) How many of them were killed by the IDF and its Hannibal directive?

3) Was Israel bombing and killing kids in Gaza and the W Bank prior to Oct 7?

4) Were Israeli babies beheaded?

[Major Tom @MajorTom617]

@omgsidewalks It's actually evil and they're intentionally preventing revolution.

[Major Tom @MajorTom617]

@benwehrman This is the sort of point that makes this planet feel like a prison.