johnny cassidy

Old Young Cassidy - ''He's a brawling sprawling giant on the make for fame and fortune and then some!''

[johnny cassidy @OldYoungCassidy]

That's me, (Old) Young Cassidy -
"Taking on the world with two fists clenched and every male sense soaring!"
https://t.co/fyKaUz5ChP

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

If Japan isn't the best culture, how do you explain this?

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

New State Department report on foreign "subversion" is a virtual government blacklist that names 43 Americans + domestic orgs, including:
- Mamdani
- DSA
- Hasan Piker
- Amy Goodman

Full list:
https://t.co/Bexn6D7gpz

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Absolutely bat shit stuff here. Democratic lawmakers being forced to vaguely listen to their constituents on a 80/20 issue is being framed as “fear”. I cannot stress enough how morally depraved and cynical and hostile to democracy this nonstop torrent of Israeli propaganda is.

[William Merrin @william_merrin]

The Guardian wins the caption of the year competition :) #worldcup

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

“[Iranians] are trying to end the colonial period.”

Journalist Rami Khouri explains Iran’s relationship with its neighbors and argues that Iran is demonstrating what sovereignty looks like in contrast to many Arab nations.

[Jorge Gómez Naredo @jgnaredo]

Los guardaespaldas que el gobierno de EU le puso a @Claudiashein -como indica el protocolo de seguridad- estaban todos nerviosos: no están acostumbrados a que el pueblo quiera tanto a una presidenta y, esa presidenta, quiera tanto a su pueblo.

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🔴New investigation: Lionel Messi’s Ties To Netanyahu, The Israeli Military And Its Elite Spying Unit 8200

“The diminutive superstar has gained a massive following across the planet, not least in Israel, thanks to his numerous business and security connections with the Apartheid State. From being the face of an Israeli A.I. company led and run by Israeli spies, entrusting his private security to a team of Israel secret agents, MintPress explores the reasons why Benjamin Netanyahu considers him to be his favorite football player.”

By @AlanRMacLeod

https://t.co/tl68gCD82l

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

Trump just refusing to leave when they’re lifting the trophy.

Infantino desperately trying to get him to move.

Circus.

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

The only thing that annoys me more than grey filter is how they even started abandoning heraldic surcoats in modern movies.

Henry V (1989) vs some modern abomination of what's supposed to be Henry V.

The reason why this annoys me the most is because there should be no excuse for this. There is no reasonable way to explain why you would not include heraldic surcoats in a movie depicting medieval warfare, considering how important part of warfare this was, serving as an identification for nobles and their units in a time when standardized uniforms did not exist yet.

With most other things you could sort of make some lame excuse. Like for example grey filter - artistic choise (a completely horrible one that makes the movie unwatchable but ok), real historic armors are expensive, extras are expensive etc. But this is literally just a piece of cloth. It should be no problem for a movie of a budget of this magnitude to get historically correct heraldic surcoats and tunics for the soldiers, depicting their coats of arms, the colors of their factions etc.

Also imagine how stupid and unrealistic this is, if the medieval armies had no heraldic surcoats and other types of colorful identifications like tunics, badges, it would be extremely difficult to tell each other apart on the battlefield, practically impossible in many cases. Yes in modern movies you have scenes of two armies with knights on both sides only wearing armors with no identifications whatsoever (even banners are rare), and the commoners wearing colorless rags, the infantry troops are not fighting under their banners. It's ridiculous. How could they even be able to recognize each other.

So the fact that these modern movies don't include this shows me that they are not even slightly interesting in being historically accurate and giving a fair depiction of a certain time period, they have no interest in presenting history, in fact it obviously appears that they want to actively portray it in a much worse matter than it was, because they removed of the most colorful and coolest aspects of the time, which would have cost them absolutely nothing of significance to include.

[Law in Japan @Colin_P_A_Jones]

Not only was heraldry important for identifying military units, it served as a flashing “if we lose don’t kill me because you can earn money ransoming me” sign to your enemies, many of whom were only in it for the money and ransoming captured nobles could be a significant pay off.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Wow. Who would have thought?

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

Japanese protesters appear to have found a loophole in the law that bans stomping on the national flag.
If you are projecting an image of the flag onto the ground and stomping on it, does it count as desecrating the national flag?

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

How does Marco Rubio look at himself in the mirror?
1. He invokes international law just after he tries to destroy the International Criminal Court.
2. He objects to Iran's gratuitous violence in the Strait of Hormuz after Trump gratuitously invaded Venezuela, bombed Iran, and threatened Canada and Greenland.
3. He says the U.N. should help as Trump defunds many key parts of the U.N.
His real plea: Trump made a mess of things with his war of choice against Iran. Will someone PLEASE help him extract himself from this disaster. https://t.co/VQy5kbIE6x

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

In other words, a US military invasion of Venezuela

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Sorry, what? 1971 and 1972? Is this a joke?

Here's what a 2024 study by the Justice Department’s own research arm found - that the Trump DOJ then deleted from its website: far-right attacks “outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism,” and since 1990, “far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Drugged up American soldiers. What could possibly go wrong?

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

looks like they're labeling anti-data center people terrorists too 👇
https://t.co/WwFUk7j1Le

[Law in Japan @Colin_P_A_Jones]

I have had the following experience many years ago in a taxi in Tokyo, so I am willing to believe anything.

Driver: so you are a foreigner

Me: well yes

Driver: My wife is from the Philippines

Me: Ah.

Driver: I went to the Philippines to die.

Me: Um …?

Driver: [long diatribe about how he used to be the president of a small construction firm that was bankrupted by a large Japanese construction company (that happened to be a client of mine at the time) which failed to deliver a promised subcontract deal, he used all his savings to make payroll, previous wife divorced him etc. went to Philippines to commit suicide, met a nice woman… etc.)

Me: wow…

Driver: I often thought of getting about 100 kilos of explosives and using it to blow up the [large construction company client] headquarters

Me: ah hahah ha

Driver: I used to know someone who could get explosives but it’s not so easy anymore

Me: ah …. hah…..

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Senator Lindsey Graham was one of the most loathsome warmongering anti-worker bigots in the halls of the U.S. Congress.

Graham was as vicious a proponent of imperialist war as they come. For decades, he was a hardened supporter of Israel’s ethnic cleansing and its apartheid state. He effectively called for Israel to use nuclear weapons on the Palestinian people, likened Palestinians to Nazi Germany, and urged that Israel “flatten” Gaza and the West Bank. He called for “regime change” in Iran and was an undying advocate of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. He described American funding for the bloody inter-imperialist proxy war in Ukraine as “the best money we’ve ever spent.”

Graham was virulently opposed to social democracy and socialism anywhere, and especially hated the planned economy in Cuba and social democratic reforms in Venezuela. He celebrated a possible return to capitalism in Cuba by saying “their days are numbered.” He called Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia “the drug caliphate.”

As working and poor people lost the ground from under their feet in the Covid pandemic, Graham used his position to speak out repeatedly against the bare minimum stimulus. Graham claimed that the relief package would encourage working people to be “lazy” and unemployed. It apparently gnawed at his insides that the Covid relief bill would pay the equivalent of over $24/hour in South Carolina versus the state minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, as the world's richest people doubled their fortunes and the incomes of billions of working people plummeted and over 160 million more people were forced into poverty.

Graham strenuously opposed abortion rights, introduced numerous anti-abortion bills, and voted for every bill he could to cut social assistance for working-class and poor families.

He was a staunch opponent of trans and queer rights. He voted for the horrendous Defense of Marriage Act (scandalously voted for by a majority of Democrats and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton), and called himself a “proud defender of traditional marriage.” He voted against repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and co-sponsored the bill against trans women in sports.

So in summary, good fucking riddance to Lindsey Graham. Never forget the misery he helped create for hundreds of millions of people. Shame on Democratic Party politicians, including Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Joe Biden, who are eulogizing Lindsey Graham.

We need to build militant mass movements of the working class and build our own party to defeat the right wing, the billionaires, and both their parties.