Zoological Left 🌍✌️🇵🇸🦏🐍🦒

Naturalist. Animal Welfare Advocate. Lefty-Leftist. Bibliomaniac. Artist. Shouldn't the ultimate right of any Animal be the continued existence of its Species?

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Wild to me that she doesn’t get as much shine as some of the other left electeds. She’s been incredibly poised, principled, and effective while maintaining her principles.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The United States overthrows governments that provide free education and healthcare, then installs regimes that torture, kill, and steal.

Then it has the audacity to point at the ruins and say:

"See? They cannot govern themselves."

This is like burning a house, salting the earth, and then laughing that nothing grows there.

I do not understand how anyone can see this pattern and still talk about "American leadership" with a straight face.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

The government of Lebanon just filed a formal complaint with the United Nations because Israel sprayed tens of thousands of pounds of poisonous cancer causing chemicals all over Lebanese farm lands.

If you still think this has ANYTHING to do with Hezbollah you're stupid.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Suleiman Obeid, former Palestine national team player and known as the “Pelé of Palestine,” was killed while trying to obtain food for his five children.

One of Palestine’s most prominent football stars did not die on a football pitch or during a match; he was killed while searching for a meal to feed his children.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

I mean WeedSocialist69 with 130 followers could have told us this but yes

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Donald Trump bragging about overthrowing Syria and installing Al-Qaeda terrorists there to serve the U.S.

He even floats the idea of using them to fight Hezbollah on behalf of Israel. The “Free Syria” movement was an obvious Zionist op.

[MAD CRAB 🦀🇭🇷🇵🇸 @bigmadcrab]

Liberals: “we wouldn’t have gotten into war with Iran if we voted for Kamala”

Biden admin: “yeah we were gonna do the same exact thing actually”

[★☭MassStrikeNow☭★ @strike_dr]

When Chuck Schumer was elected in 1974 he was considered the “progressive new voice” among the Democrats. Your progressive candidates, if successful, will necessarily become like he is now. Zorhan, AOC, Platner, watch them transform.

[Ajamu Baraka @ajamubaraka]

And you have confused, dishonest democrats pretending that a Harris govt would have done something different than Trump on Iran when all of them were convinced that Iran was ready to be toppled. That was a bipartisan position. Neoliberal democrats are fascists with a smile.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

A reminder.
Beware of controlled opposition

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Absolute madness in the US right now as the Uruguay national team gets pulled to the side of the road and treated like straight-up suspects.

​They literally just landed for the World Cup and security is already ripping their luggage open on the tarmac with sniffer dogs everywhere

​Qatar and Russia hosted without this level of paranoia but the "land of the free" is handing out pure humiliation to Global South athletes before a single match is even played, the double standards are screaming.

[Puma__Abedin @Shib2aPenny]

@briebriejoy Zohran, Aoc, Bernie haven’t uttered a single word about the races of Khsama and Jose Vega going up against two Zios. Literally everything they pretend to care about, havent said a single thing of support. How people still see anyone in the Dem party as a savior is beyond me

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Has any elected leftists weighed in on this race between Zionist war monger Adam Smith & Kshama Sawant -- a pro-Palestine socialist who successfully fought for $15 and made it a national issue? Or is this one too close to call?

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

SpaceX is set to debut at a staggering $1.77 trillion valuation. It is the largest IPO the market has ever seen and will make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.

But to make it happen Elon used his influence to get the rules changed so Index funds that hold millions of Americans’ retirement savings are forced to buy in.

That’s right. This IPO was engineered to make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire by risking your retirement savings.

You don’t hate capitalism enough. It’s all fake. It’s all a scam. It’s one giant pyramid scheme to funnel wealth to the ruling class off the backs of our labor and retirement savings.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

People really compare dyinġ from poverty to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.”

Poverty is a social construct driven by wealth hoarding in the post industrial age, not by any natural shortage of resources.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant profit-generating machine for corporations.

Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders.

That’s why everyone’s so unhappy. We’re not living with purpose. We’re not working together to build a better world and a better future, we’re just pulling levers to turn gears to make the arrow line go up on the graph in the conference room. It’s a hollow, pointless way for people to live.

It makes our whole culture vapid and soulless.

Music is made to be as profitable as possible, which means giving it the broadest possible appeal using formulaic song structure calculated to cause a chemical response in the largest number of human brains.

Movies are designed to draw the largest possible box office revenue at the lowest possible risk to studios and investors, often by just rehashing a movie that’s already proven successful in the past or by slapping together a story about an IP with pre-existing mass appeal.

Food is made to be fast and addictive rather than nourishing.

Healthy human connection has been commodified as social media intertwines with friendships and dating apps insert themselves into the development of romantic relationships.

Human sexuality is being warped and twisted as internet porn normalizes violence and degradation for the maximum number of clicks.

Attention and engagement have been monetized, creating an information ecosystem dominated by conflict and gossip designed to appeal to our baser instincts.

Advertisement is injected into every possible corner of our waking sensory experience, with any available space where the eye might rest or the ear might listen being flooded with psychological manipulation compelling us to consume. They’ll start running commercials in our dreams the instant they have the technology to do so.

You spend eight hours at the office working to generate corporate profits, then you come home and consume products to profit other corporations. You need your beer and snacks to unwind, your streaming services and social media to distract your mind from the stress of it all, your online clothing purchase to try to feel good about yourself, and your prescription drugs to get to sleep at night. People live their entire lives like this.

And that’s those of us who are lucky enough to be living in the global north. In the global south you get wage slavery and exploitation with far more toil, far less relaxation time, and no cheap products made by impoverished workers on other continents with which to comfort yourself.

All of humanity has been roped into this mess. And for what? To make the numbers in some bank accounts increase. To get some green arrows pointing upward on the stock exchange. To enable a few billionaires to buy islands and elections.

All while destroying the biosphere we all depend on for survival.

This, we are told, is the best possible system we could possibly be living under.

I personally do not believe this is true. I personally believe we can have better. Those who benefit from this current arrangement are going to assure us it’s impossible and do everything they can to stop us from changing it, but we do have the means to reclaim the wealth, dignity and happiness that they have stolen from us.

They built this whole machine on our backs. All we need to do is stand up.