Stuart

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Curious mind. I make films.

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[Stuart @SameOldStuart]

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[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

“The rent is too high, the schools aren’t good enough, there aren’t enough jobs”: author and journalist @masumaahuja on why the generation inheriting this impossible world is taking to the streets

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Zuckerberg already admitted it wrongly suspended the No Kings Instagram account during the peak of a massive voter-mobilization effort.

Now, seven days before the midterms, Zuckerberg has suspended the account Angie Nixon’s Senate campaign uses to organize Latino voters.

At what point do repeated “mistakes” that suppress organizing by Democrats become an election-integrity crisis?

[The National @ScotNational]

BREAKING: Far-right agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, has been found guilty of harassing two journalists

The 43-year-old was labelled a 'bully' by prosecutors after freelance reporter Andrew Young and Daily Mail editor Jacob Dirnhuber felt forced to either leave their homes or employ extra security for fear of a 'vigilante' attack

[🕊️ @jimmyjposts]

“The only democracy in the Middle East.” 🙄

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Yesterday, I was barred from entering the West Bank by Israeli officials, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.

What's happening here in Palestine is unjust. We've just witnessed what Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and many others have called a genocide unfold in Gaza.

We came here to show the world, and to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. The Israeli government didn't allow that.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Whatever the punditry, whatever the propaganda, whatever the election result in Israel: replacing Netanyahu with Eisenkot won’t end the occupation, apartheid or the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Both are war criminals. Both uphold a system that subjects 7 million Palestinians between the river and the sea to occupation, domination and dispossession.

Different faces, same Zionist ethnonationalist project.

I repeat once again: Zionism is racism.

[Rivers 🇵🇸 🇱🇧🇾🇪🇨🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @RTVWOW]

This moderate chastising Netanyahu for his racism then goes on to suggest that only Zionist representatives really count.

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

It can be done. You can be funny and respectful and edgy all at the same time.

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

Damn I thought I had strong French energy but she's setting the bar very high.

[Stuart @SameOldStuart]

@drleighannjones I love him.

[Stuart @SameOldStuart]

@drleighannjones Agreed. Btw, an example is Mbappe and how he conducts himself when he lost. Immediately praised Kane and said he’s a worthy winner. He gets a lot of shit, but he has a healthy perspective when he loses.

[Ada Colau 💜🌈🔻 @AdaColau]

El “general” del ejército de @LulaOficial nos cita como símbolo de la solidaridad y la lucha por la democracia.

Vamos @Frente_Amplio_ ✊🏾

[vito @uaivito]

🤝🇪🇸 ¡ESPAÑA, CUENTEN CON BRASIL!

Los brasileños estamos listos para echar una mano en las redes sociales durante las elecciones españolas.

¡Mi perfil está a disposición de @sanchezcastejon!

ALGORITMO, ¡HAZ TU MAGIA Y CONÉCTAME CON LOS ESPAÑOLES!

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

This is what liberal Zionists who only focus on “the Netanyahu government” need to realize. The entire project was built on ethnic and religious supremacy. It has maintained a system of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians for decades. This is bigger than just one man.

[Tamer | تامر @tamerqdh]

بن غفير ينتقل من بيت إلى بيت بعد ذهابه لشاطئ البحر من أجل حث الإسرائيليين على التصويت، وذلك عبر إخافتهم بالتضخيم والادعاء بأن هناك إقبالاً وحشداً كبيراً من العرب على التصويت.

الجدير بالذكر أنه حتى هذه اللحظة، فإنّ نسبة التصويت في أغلبية المدن والقرى العربية لا تزال دون المتوسط العام للتصويت، الذي بلغ %55 حتى الساعة الرابعة مساءً... وما هذه إلا فزاعة للترهيب يستخدمها اليمين وعلى رأسهم نتنياهو .

[Dyab Abou Jahjah @Aboujahjah]

🚨🇬🇧 Lidor Dafna filmed himself destroying one of the last remaining food production facilities serving a starving population, then posted the footage on social media as a trophy. The United Kingdom now faces a simple test: will it arrest and prosecute a man, who remains an active soldier of an army carrying out such crimes, or once again permit a perpetrator of genocide to walk freely on its soil and return to Gaza and Lebanon to continue committing his crimes? We have filed our complaint. Now it is up to the British authorities to act.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

They are calling murder robots "next-gen search & rescue."

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@AssalRad The West Bank is not a suburb of Tel Aviv. Its occupation is unlawful: Israeli soldiers must leave (ICJ 2024).

By omitting context/legal frameworks media like @nytimes have contributed to the “humanitarian camouflage” that frames Israel's crimes as proportionate hence acceptable

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

That story about Google killing hundreds of thousands of trees in Finland for its data center project is such a perfect microcosm of what capitalism is doing to our world.

Recent mass media headlines are saying the tech giant "illegally" cut down "250,000" trees, but both claims paint an inaccurate picture of what actually happened. Google killed 400,000 trees (250,000 near a town called Muhos and another 150,000 near the village of Otanmäki), and unless the company's executives actually wind up going to prison for this, their actions cannot properly be described as "illegal".

I don't know who first coined the saying "If the penalty is a fine, then it's legal for rich people," but it certainly applies here. The Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority has reportedly ordered Google to suspend all “measures that significantly change the environment," saying it will "consider enforcement proceedings and fines" if the megacorporation does not comply. Google's parent company Alphabet has a net worth of around four trillion dollars. Whatever paltry penalties Finland might impose for these ecocidal actions, it won't have any meaningful effect on Google.

Giant corporations do this shit all the time. They calculate that the fines incurred by their abusive actions will be dwarfed by the massive profits they generate, issue fake apologies as needed, and leave it to their armies of lawyers to minimize the damage. That's why the Sackler family is still worth billions despite all the fines Purdue Pharma was slapped with while creating the US opiate epidemic.

A 2017 Harvard study titled “The Opioid Epidemic: Fixing a Broken Pharmaceutical Market" contains the following paragraph:

"Although civil claims and criminal charges were brought against Purdue and its executives, the resulting penalties paled in comparison to extended-release oxycodone profits. In May 2007, the company and its president, chief counsel, and former chief medical officer pled guilty to falsely marketing extended-release oxycodone as 'less addictive, less subject to abuse and diversion, and less likely to cause tolerance and withdrawal than other pain medications.' As part of the plea bargain, Purdue agreed to pay the federal government $600 million and 27 states $20 million. The three executives agreed to $34.5 million in fines but avoided jailtime. By contrast, Purdue has earned an estimated $31 billion in total revenues from extended-release oxycodone since its launch. Rather than deterring fraudulent marketing, the penalties simply became a cost of doing business."

A cost of doing business.

That's how things work under capitalism. The law primarily exists not to protect people or the environment, but to protect the interests of capital. If you destroyed a Google data center you'd probably be charged as a terrorist and spend decades in prison, but Google can destroy the natural world around you and get off with a finger wag and a symbolic fine. If you stole millions of dollars from your employer you'd go to prison for grand larceny, but if your employer steals millions from its employees you need to win a class action lawsuit to get back what they stole from you.

Proponents of capitalism often pretend they support minimal government intervention in civilian affairs, but their entire model is at all times propped up by state power using force to protect the haves from the have-nots at every level of our society. Corporations are free to destroy the environment, destroy your health, rob you, exploit you, and manipulate your government to their advantage, and if you ever take action to stand up to this world-devouring onslaught, the state will lock you in a cage.

In school we are taught that that the law exists to protect ordinary people from bad people, but that's not true at all. Under capitalism, the law exists to protect the very worst among us from everyone else. That's why we are seeing our planet being turned into dust and ashes for no reason other than shareholder profit.

It's an insane system, and it needs to end. These freaks are feeding our entire biosphere into the woodchipper.

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

Brazil’s Lula da Silva created a social media army of 10+ million people in a WhatsApp groupchat to help fight the meta suppression and algorithms.. and it worked…

First of its kind of mobilization in human history!