Mike Rot

I wanted to sit in a corner & make art but you assholes had to fuck up the world. No War But Class War. Toronto Icon. Letterboxd: rot

[Mike Rot @Mike_Rot]

My stance is simple: I’m anti-genocide, I’m anti-genocide by bombs, by climate, by virus. People are getting wiped out at various speeds and each of us has to put our sentience to good use. #ClimateAction #Palestine #Israel #covid

[Mike Rot @Mike_Rot]

Euphoria discourse must never die!

[Adeoluwa👑 @OmoAlade005]

Not enough people are talking about the amount of syrup Cassie poured on her food

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ New footage released by B’Tselem shows an Israeli soldier opening fire on a Palestinian family’s car in Hebron as it was slowing to a stop on June 5.

🔹Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was shot in the head and killed. His parents were also wounded, with his mother remaining hospitalized.

🔹B’Tselem says footage shows the “car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever”

🔹Soldiers left without providing aid to the infant or his injured mother

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

2020‼️

[History Speaks @History__Speaks]

The West Bank is literally worse than the Jim Crow South at its peak. Constant mob ethnic violence, targeting the indigenous Muslim and Christian communities. No accountability; pogroms are legal and facilitated by the Israeli state.

[Michael Kandel @K_A_N_D_E_L]

when your story flops in the conversation circle

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Israeli newspaper: Yes, we did it on purpose.

MAGA Zio-bot: No, Israel did it by mistake (followed by 10 paragraphs of hasbara bullshit)

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

SAVE WEST BANK CHRISTIANS.

Following the Israeli settler attack on the Christian village of Taybeh, I have received several phone calls from residents inside the village. People are terrified — fires are surrounding the village, and settlers opened fire on homes and civilians.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh right now — setting fields on fire, hurling Molotov cocktails at homes, and attempting to set the village gas station ablaze.
https://t.co/QiOAbofNdn

[James Li @5149jamesli]

It’s absolutely treasonous that 97% of members of Congress believe a foreign country’s account of the attack, and not the first hand testimony of our own veterans.

I appreciate the efforts of Thomas Massie, but at this point, we are not sovereign.

[Nathaniel Arfin @ArfinNathaniel]

Man who just lost a defamation suit and was ordered to pay $885k says what?

[Mike Rot @Mike_Rot]

This kinda seems like a big deal.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

Thomas Massie confirms Israel dropped NAPALM on the USS Liberty.

34 men were burned alive, skin peeling off, by ISRAEL!

[Joe Murgia @TheUfoJoe]

😵‍💫 Grusch: The U.S. Government is Aware of Non-Human, Corporeal-Bipedal, and...Sentient-Plasmoid Life 😬

@RealAmVoice: "Can you confirm for us, how many species? Recent reports have said that there are perhaps four different alien species: Grays, Nordics How many species are you aware of?"

David Grusch: "I certainly don't have the compendium. It's a continuum from corporeal-bipedal type life to, you know, what I would consider is like, sentient-plasmoid life. But there are there are several that the U.S. government is aware of."

[Astral🛸 @The_Astral_]

Marco Rubio was briefed on recovered alien bodies. 👀

According to Leslie Kean, former Senate staffer Kirk McConnell was present for classified briefings alongside Marco Rubio about alien bodies.

[Mike Rot @Mike_Rot]

@dmrider the very same person whining that some podcast isn't accepting his invitation to join their podcast as some kind of burn also didn't seem to give a fuck about giving the opposition a voice. a pattern.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

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[Mike Rot @Mike_Rot]

that's quite an accomplishment for having been totally decimated for months.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

US President Trump says Iran shot down Apache helicopter and vows to respond https://t.co/Y1i0plFAu2

[Mike Rot @Mike_Rot]

Shortly after people collectively designated a time to bang pots and pans during the lockdown to show appreciation for the frontline workers. Last time I felt part of the world.

[Mr. Mike @mrmikeMTL]

Can anyone pinpoint the exact moment when everyone in society started losing their morals?

[Mike Rot @Mike_Rot]

@ATomalty You math good did AI help you?

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israel's cruelest & clearest genocidal act in Gaza was the deliberate bombing & burning of Gaza's fertility clinics & IVF centres

Over 5,000 embryos, unborn babies, murdered in a single strike!

How can anyone argue "it's not a genocide" when the evidence is beyond any doubt? Why would Israel systematically destroy Gaza's IVF clinics one by one?

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

In 1879, JP Morgan paid a man to invent the lie that is the foundation of modern economics.

A billionaire who helped start Amazon just exposed the whole thing on Diary of a CEO, and once you hear it you will never look at paychecks the same way again:

146 years ago, a guy named Henry George wrote a book called Progress and Poverty.

It was the first mainstream book about the rich systematically stealing from the poor, and It literally became the bestselling book in the history of the United States at the time.

The working class was reading it everywhere, and the people at the top of the economy completely lost their minds.

So JP Morgan personally brought a man named John Bates Clark to Columbia University, which was essentially the intellectual headquarters of Wall Street, and told him to fix the problem.

Clark wrote a book called The Distribution of Wealth. In it, he invented something called the "theory of marginal productivity," which claims that because markets are perfectly efficient, the amount of money you earn reflects EXACTLY the value you contribute to the economy.

If you make $15,000 a year, that's because you're providing $15,000 of value. If a hedge fund manager makes $500 million a year moving money around, that's an accurate reflection of the value he creates in the world.

And Clark literally said the quiet part out loud IN HIS OWN BOOK.

He wrote that they had to prove to working people that no matter how much they make, whether it's a little or a lot, it accurately reflects their value, because if workers ever concluded that their labor was worth more than they were being paid, they would revolt and destroy the entire system.

That was the whole point. The theory was built to prevent a revolution.

And it worked so well that it got absorbed into mainstream economics and is STILL taught as a foundational principle to this day.

Every time a CEO tells you "the market decides your salary," they're repeating a framework that was literally commissioned by JP Morgan in the 1800s to convince you not to ask for more.

Nick Hanauer, the billionaire who told this story, also shared the numbers that prove why it matters right now:

The median full-time worker in America earns about $60,000 a year. If that same worker had maintained the same share of GDP they held in 1975, they wouldn't be making $60,000. They'd be making $120,000. That gap goes all the way up to the 90th percentile. If you earn $180,000 today, you'd be earning $250,000 under the old distribution.

The ONLY people who benefited from 50 years of economic growth were the top 10%, and the vast majority of that went to the top 1%. That is trillions of dollars every single year that used to be wages for ordinary working people and now sits in the accounts of the wealthiest people on the planet.

This happened because of policy. Tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for the powerful, and wage suppression for everyone else, all justified by an economic theory that was invented specifically to make you believe you deserve exactly what you're getting.

And the craziest part is that GDP growth rates in America were 4 to 4.5% for decades when workers were included in prosperity. As soon as the neoliberals took over in the mid-1970s and implemented these policies, GDP growth fell to 3% and eventually to 2%.

Including people in the economy doesn't slow growth down. It's literally the thing that CREATES growth. And the theory that convinced the world otherwise was a hit job paid for by one of the richest men in history to keep workers quiet.

What do you think?