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[Gravvy 🇲🇽 @coutixszn]

“hate watching the country where you live is disrespectful”

me celebrating all of Belgium’s goals:

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

The problem with the World Cup is every single match feels like you’re going to die if your team loses

[maddie @madsssagascar]

im genuinely intolerant of religion like in a way that even progressives probably think is problematic. you have this made up idea of existence from a story book and you reject the reality of the world around you to the point of hate and violence. while looking stupid as fuck

[zaeed @zxidtxt]

the horros of being seen as nothing but a mother and a wife but that people will try to sell you as ideal

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

We can finally stop pretending we don’t know how OpenAI and the rest of the Silicon Valley AI cartel intend to stay profitable.
The answer is, and always has been, war.

If you consider the monstrous infrastructure required to sustain these systems.
We are talking about colossal, billion-dollar data centers.
We are talking about tens of millions of dollars burned daily just on cooling systems, the relentless, devastating strip-mining of the earth for rare-earth metals to build their GPUs, and the astronomical power consumption required to train these massive models.

Then you'd realise that there is absolutely no way they are recouping hundreds of billions of dollars from $20 monthly subscriptions and a handful of API tokens.
Every single wire, every server farm, and every algorithm was designed from the ground up for military contracts, autonomous weapons, and global surveillance.

Mega-corporations are the true, unmasked face of evil we need to fear and not the pathetic, spineless puppet politicians they buy, lobby, and install into power to act as their PR mouthpieces.

People condemn the "British Empire" for its savage imperialism in Nigeria, completely forgetting the Royal Niger Company, the ruthless, profit-driven private corporation that actually bought, sold, and brutalized the region while hiding behind a corporate charter.

People remember Hitler as the singular monster of the Holocaust, but they conveniently grant amnesia to IBM, who built the punch-card tracking systems that organized the extermination camps.
They forget JP Morgan, British Petroleum, Standard Oil, IG Farben, and the rest of the corporate titans that funded the fascist machine, supplied the fuel, and provided the logistical backbone that made such an industrialized horror a reality.

People blame George W. Bush for the Iraq War which turned into dirty slaughterhouse that eradicated millions of Arab lives and sacrificed thousands of American troops.
But they conveniently look the other way when it comes to Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and the rest of the defense and oil conglomerates that bathed in the blood of the Middle East and walked away pocketing hundreds of billions of dollars.

You look at these slick, modern corporations with their fancy campuses and you wonder how they sustain their endless wealth? The answer is terror, the answer is wars and endless wars.

If the American hegemony were to miraculously collapse tomorrow, do you really think the wars would stop? Nope, not even for a second.

These corporate parasites hold no loyalty to any flag.
They will simply and happily pack up, migrate to another global superpower, change their letterheads, shuffle a few board members, and continue spreading terror and devastation across the globe to feed their own insatiable greed.
It is an endless cycle of parasitic migration: from Britain, to Germany, and then directly into the veins of America.

America today will beat its chest on the global stage, claiming to be the supreme fighter of "Antisemitism" and the supreme defender of human rights.

Yet they conveniently omit that after World War II, under Operation Paperclip, the United States gleefully absorbed the very architects of the Nazi regime.
It was the exact same fascist scientists, the complicit corporate bankers, the brutal intelligence officers, the chemical engineers, and the rocket manufacturers who facilitated the Holocaust that moved to America.
The US swallowed them whole, along with their blood-stained equipment, their stolen trade secrets, and their patents.

The only difference now is the crosshairs. Their target is no longer European Jews; the crosshairs are fixed squarely on the rest of the Global South. The names of the companies and their leaders have all changed, but the core, venomous philosophy of absolute imperialism is still very much alive, breathing, and hungry for its next war.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

War is the worst thing in the world. Westerners talk about it like it's a fucking video game, like "hurr durr, we just go in there and achieve our objectives and win," when really war means shredding human bodies to bits.

Children burning to death in front of their parents.

People holding their own guts in their hands as their life slowly slips away.

People getting trapped under rubble and dying excruciatingly slow deaths of suffocation or dehydration.

People picking up pieces of their beloved family members.

Westerners are able to hold this compartmentalized video game mentality about war because war isn't something that happens to us. We've never had bombs dropped on our neighborhoods. We've never had the experience of seeing a severed hand on the ground after an explosion and trying to figure out who it belonged to. We've never had the experience of seeing our child's shredded body after a blast and thinking about how we'd carefully helped them dress that precious body for school just hours before.

We just see the movies. The propagandistic war documentaries. The sanitized news reports.

It's not real to us. It's not personal. It's just this cutesy Hollywood image of sexy Good Guys doing flips and spin-kicking evil Bad Guys off cliffs.

You know this is true, because if it wasn't then nobody would support US wars. If westerners had an actual, visceral understanding of what war really is and what it actually means, and if they could truly, deeply grasp that the people on the receiving end of those airstrikes are human beings just like them, there's no way they'd support inflicting such nightmares upon their fellow man.

Which is why everything in our civilization is aimed at hiding that reality from us. War is made to look heroic and glamorous. Middle easterners are framed as deranged subhuman savages. The flesh-and-bone consequences of western warmongering are hidden from public view as much as possible.

They need to do this because the western empire depends on war. War is the glue that holds the empire together. They need the mass-scale bloodshed to continue, and they need the public to provide no resistance to the bloodshed. The empire cannot exist without war. Peace cannot exist without the removal of the empire.

You watch these bespectacled pundits and pampered politicians babbling about war the way they'd talk about their plans for a kitchen renovation or a trip to Paris, and you just know if actual war ever showed up on their doorstep they'd literally soil themselves. They'd never recover. They'd spend the rest of their lives in shock and trauma, because what they saw would have shaken them irreparably to their very core.

It would impact them in this way because war is the worst thing in the world. Anyone with a functioning empathy center and a truth-based worldview would move mountains to prevent war from happening. And yet we are ruled by sociopaths who actively seek it out. War is the worst thing in the world, and we are ruled by the worst people in the world.

The world will never know peace until we cease to allow such creatures to rule over us.

[Isaac Hayes III @IsaacHayes3]

What’s happening to white people in Minneapolis is what’s been happening. To Black people in America for decades.

Unarmed, armed, resisting, not resisting, running, not running.

ALL OF IT IS POLICE BRUTALITY.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Wife of Renee Good, Becca Good, has just released a statement. :

“First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family. This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind. In fact, kindness radiated out of her.

Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine. Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow.

Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole. Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles.

What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy. And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever. We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine. On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.

Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.

We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee’s legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.”

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

People say the classics are outdated, but The Great Gatsby has never been more relevant.

[Corey J. Mahler @CoreyJMahler]

If you looked at the living standard of the Baby Boomers and the living standard of Millennials and Zoomers in a vacuum, you would assume the United States had lost a major war.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

Super fun optimistic piece releasing tomorrow

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

This is unbelievable. Apocalyptic. Inhuman. The Handmaids Tale but somehow worse.

A must read.
https://t.co/yEkgZKXBMf

[Ayesha A. Siddiqi @AyeshaASiddiqi]

really appreciate Taylor raising the alarm about this, wish more understood the stakes. our online activity is already heavily tracked. losing any vestige of anonymity and platforms becoming liable for user posts (section 230) is a massive threat to freedom of communication

[jack neel @jackneel]

Chase Hughes Explains How the CIA Secretly Recruits Influencers

“Stage one is I show you all of your browsing history, captures from your webcams on all of your phones and computers.”

(Via Jack Neel Podcast)

[‏Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs]

“If I must die, let it be a tale.”

Today marks the anniversary of the martyrdom of Dr. Refaat Alareer.

We will never forget you…

Dr. Refaat was killed by Israel on December 6, 2024.

[Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa]

If you read just one thing today, let it be this.

@mrmhawish's account of Israel's surveillance regime is a warning that we all need to hear. Because Israel is using Gaza as the testing ground for our worst nightmares.
https://t.co/5emgFkoASw

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

"In 2023...... 817,035 more women than men applied to universities and colleges, federal data shows. Boys also have lower mean scores on the SAT, score lower overall on the ACT and have lower grade point averages in high school."

Mediocre white men finding out they were the chief beneficiaries of DEI is.. amazing.