kms

Make your own assumptions. You were going to anyways.

[kms @Mindyabyz]

@taorres @broadwaybabyto Its not about who so much, as why. The very fact that you're invoking "high intelligence" and "ideology " says everything that needs to be said about you. Good job.

[kms @Mindyabyz]

@taorres @broadwaybabyto Ever ask yourself why the worst CEOs and billionaires are in favor of UBI? You probably should.

[Scott Squires @scottsquires.bsky.social @scott_squires]

Covid reality

[kms @Mindyabyz]

"Jonathan Turner, chief executive of UK Lawyers for Israel, argued that critics were unfairly condemning Israel for starving Gaza’s population, and ignoring the health benefits of reducing “obesity” among Palestinians."

https://t.co/A868iGeAsT

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

you might be lovely but you're not special..

[kms @Mindyabyz]

https://t.co/Hi6YRG8HKl

[tern @1goodtern]

WHOA. This isn't just a video, it's a sledgehammer thread.
Absolutely amazing.
Make sure you read all ten tweets and then share it.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Liberals hate socialists for the same reason socialists hate liberals: because socialists are the thing liberals pretend to be. Socialists stand for truth, justice, peace and equality while liberals only pretend to stand for these things, and they both know it. Liberals know their favorite political party supports war, militarism, oligarchy and inequality and is rife with power-serving corruption, and socialists know it too, so they can critique these dynamics in ways that have the unpleasant sting of truth.

Liberals don't mind it when some dopey right winger criticizes their ideological faction, because the rightist has no idea what they're looking at and offers up the dumbest and least relevant criticisms imaginable. When a socialist critiques that same faction they do it in ways the liberal knows are true, and it causes the liberal to experience cognitive dissonance. If you love AOC it's not going to bother you when a rightist calls her a woke commie terrorist lover, but someone to the left of you pointing out the various ways she serves the ugliest aspects of the US empire will grate against some of your most deeply treasured belief systems.

Most liberals secretly hate socialists more than they hate rightists, because while rightists attack their political agendas, socialists attack their egos. They expose core identity structures for the sham that they are. Cognitive dissonance is uncomfortable, and nobody enjoys feeling like they've been exposed as a phony.

That's what liberal left-punching is really about. It's not about "political pragmatism" or any of that nonsense. It's petty, vindictive egotistic meltdowns dressed up in reasonable-sounding words. It's never anything nobler than that.

[Shane Martínez @martinezdefence]

When you're at the grocery store checking for "Product of Canada" labels, remember that most of our domestic fruits and vegetables are grown and harvested by migrant farmworkers from Mexico, Jamaica, and the Eastern Caribbean.

Produced in Canada under a system of laws that benefits the multibillion-dollar agriculture industry at the expense of the migrant workers who sustain it.

Produced in Canada by migrant workers who pay into EI but are denied access to regular EI benefits.

Produced in Canada by migrant workers who, in Ontario, are denied the right to join a union.

Produced in Canada by migrant workers who are regarded by the state as good enough to work, but never good enough to stay – no matter how many years of service they put in.

Canada's history of systemic racism and exploitation in agriculture exposes the falsehood of the claim that "we are all in this together." Class consciousness demands more than exercises of purchasing power in difficult times. It demands solidarity with workers in our collective struggle for economic justice and liberation.

[kms @Mindyabyz]

Hard relate.

[Alison Burke @TiredActor]

If you have a chronic illness, this exact appointment has happened to you

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

I mean, at the end of the day, a majority of disabled people spent 5 years warning people that fascism takes hold because of the eugenics of pandemics and we were all told “not everything is eugenics,” so…

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

if you're worried about the rise in fascism, I made this video for you..

[Theo Gregoire @TheoGregoire]

The "what happens after a general population becomes so enraged and outraged against their ruling class that they start cheering for assassins?" 👀:

"At first, the people only whispered their support. Then shopkeepers began giving shelter to the narodovoltsy assassins. Soon, factory workers declared holidays when ministers were killed. By 1905, crowds openly celebrated each dead official, and even the Tsar's own guards began refusing to protect his ministers." - Police Report, St. Petersburg, 1904-1905

"When Plehve's carriage was bombed, thousands gathered to dance on the bloodstains. Within months, assassinations were so celebrated that children played 'revolutionaries and ministers' in the streets, always fighting to play the assassin. Two years later, the entire system collapsed." - From "The Fall of the Romanovs," 1905

"The first assassination attempts were condemned. Then the people began calling them 'heroes of the nation.' By 1911, every failed attempt against the Qing officials was celebrated in secret societies. Soon they weren't secret at all - entire streets would feast when a Manchu noble was killed." - Sun Yat-sen's writings, 1912

[230Fightback @230Fightback]

We’ve spent some time at the Real Estate Forum today. KingSett should know that we’ll keep following them as long as they keep pursuing 214-230 Sherbourne.

[Thorncliffe Park Tenants @tparktenants]

Rent striking tenants from 71, 75, and 79 Thorncliffe Park protested this morning at the Real Estate Forum, where landlord PSP Investments’ head of real estate is speaking.

We will continue to oppose PSP Investments’ attempts to force us out of our homes and community.

[Raani Begum @raanibegum]

Not to alarm anybody (?) but mask bans and assisted suicide bills are being pushed *rapidly* at the same time as lack of funding for healthcare, survival etc. Like if you take just one step back to look at the full picture, it's actually... A lot.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It should be illegal to force homeless people to relocate. If a rich neighborhood is the best place to sleep rough then the rich should be forced to look at a daily reminder of the dystopia they live in until the underlying problems which cause homelessness have been fixed. You shouldn't be allowed to hide such things to make people comfortable.

All the laws designed to criminalize homelessness and force the unhoused to relocate are just one more way our dystopia hides its abuses and contradictions from public view, the same as propaganda and internet censorship and murdering Palestinian journalists. They want the homeless out of sight and out of mind in the same way their wars and genocides are out of sight and out of mind.

They just want the homeless to go "away", because they can't fix the injustices and inequality which causes homelessness without upending the power structure they rule. They wish all the symptoms of poverty and injustice in our society could be hidden on the other side of vast oceans like their wars are.