Lukeydu

Let’s dream up a better future shall we ✨

[Lukeydu @_lukeydu]

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Three "conspiracies" I subscribe to:

• Charlie Kirk's assassination was an inside job.
• Jeffrey Epstein didn't commit suicide.
• Donald Trump staged his own assassination attempt.

[Your Comrade drlearnalot @DrLearnALot]

It’s all made up and we can make it different.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Honestly, the most annoying thing about being human right now is knowing we already have the intelligence and resources to end world hunger, fight climate change, and cure cancer BUT greed and billionaires keep millions suffering instead.

The wasted human potential is heartbreaking.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

People who say "Zionism is just the belief that Jews should have a homeland" are hilarious. Zionism isn't some abstraction; we can all see its material manifestations with our own eyes. We can all see that Zionism means genocide, apartheid, and nonstop wars and abuse.

This isn't some kind of theoretical debate where we all get to have our own opinions about what Zionism is and what it entails. It's 2026, not 1890. The facts are in and the case is closed, kids. This is what Zionism is. This is the only Zionism in existence. What you see is what you get. And what you see is quantifiably one of the most evil things happening on our planet.

[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.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

There's actually legislation in Califomia to shorten the workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours without a reduction in pay, which would be the most transformative labor legislation in our generation, and it should be bigger news but it barely made a headline.

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

One reason AI is being pushed so hard is because it's the last "humanity can capitalism its way out of all its problems" narrative that has yet to be fully discredited. The idea is that if we can just create AI gods and let them come up with the effective-yet-profitable innovative technological solutions to our various existential crises that our own fleshy brains have so far failed to produce, then we don't need to dismantle the socioeconomic system we built that is destroying our biosphere and driving us to our doom.

Embedded in this logic is the same baseless assumption that has been plaguing us this entire time: that there are effective-yet-profitable solutions to be found. That we can simply let the free market deliver us desirable products that will both (A) cause us to stop cannibalizing our ecosystem and (B) create billionaires and trillionaires. Capitalism hasn't provided any innovations that have allowed us to consume our way out of our problems thus far, but because we've got these complex new AI technologies now, we can allow ourselves to move this entirely faith-based assumption into the purview of our new gods.

But that's just it: it's an assumption based on blind faith. There is no reason to believe we'll ever come up with technologies that are conducive to human and environmental thriving which also generate shareholder profits. Generally profits are generated by producing and consuming more products, which is exactly what has gotten us into this mess in the first place.

What this means is that capitalism has no ability to solve the problems we're coming up against as a species. There is no way to compete and consume our way out of the hole we dug through competition and consuming.

We need new systems. Human behavior cannot continue to be driven by competition and the pursuit of profit. We need to move into collaboration with each other and with our biosphere if we are to survive into the future as a species, and we will be unable to do this if we are excluding all possible solutions that don't generate revenue for the capitalist class.

AI is for many people just a psychological box that allows us to avoid facing this uncomfortable truth, because as Mark Fisher said, “It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” It's easier to imagine billionaire tech companies creating AI gods who will serve us up magical solutions to our urgent existential dilemmas which also facilitate continued economic growth than it is to imagine moving into collaboration-based systems where human behavior isn't driven by the pursuit of profit.

But that's just a sign of how insane our species has become. It's a symptom of our collective madness.

We need to wake up. We need to get real. It's adaptation or extinction time for us as a species, and that fork in the road is approaching very quickly.

[Lukeydu @_lukeydu]

I’m calling them the Democrublican party

[🌽🌽 Erica, The White Trash Socialist 🌽🌽™️ @herosnvrdie69]

Everything feels like this right now

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Fascism does not arrive saying “I am fascism.” It arrives saying “law and order,” “border security,” “anti-woke,” “election integrity,” and “national emergency.”

[contra @contra_press]

🇧🇴 🇺🇸 | Civil war-type scenes are emerging from Bolivia.

The government passed a law authorising US-backed President Rodrigo Paz to deploy the military against protesters.

Bolivian police and military forces have launched a joint operation to clear strike blockades in San Julián, Santa Cruz department, as a five-week general strike against neoliberalism continues to grip the country.

The crackdown came with full government backing — multiple ministers arrived for what was intended as a photo opportunity declaring victory over the movement.

Instead, entire communities mobilised, forcing security forces to retreat after more than four hours of sustained resistance on the highway.

The mobilisations, demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz, have left at least ten people dead, 37 injured, and over a hundred facing prosecution, according to the Ombudsman's Office.

Meanwhile, in El Alto — the indigenous city encircling the capital — daily popular assemblies are being held where communities vote on strike strategy and assess the movement's progress. A new form of grass-roots democracy is taking shape on the streets.

[Lukeydu @_lukeydu]

what the fuck

[Donna Malizia @donna_malizia]

Milano.
I nomi dei 18.457 bambini uccisi da Israele.

[Lukeydu @_lukeydu]

what the fuck

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Gaza is taking its last breaths, and the situation we have reached is extremely dangerous.

Temperatures are rising to suffocating levels, and the tents where hundreds of thousands live have turned into ovens made of fabric and plastic. There is no electricity, no air conditioning, no fans, no cold water. People try to sleep, but heat, hunger, and fear make sleep seem like an impossible dream.

Clean water is scarce, cleaning supplies are almost nonexistent, and essential medicines are unavailable. Skin diseases are spreading in a terrifying way among children and adults, while garbage piles up and sewage mixes with displacement areas, spreading even more suffering.

Long lines form for food, yet many return empty handed. Aid is decreasing, and most relief centers have stopped or are no longer able to meet even the minimum needs.

At night, rats, insects, snakes, and scorpions crawl into the tents, while during the day people face unbearable heat and endless hunger. There is no safety, no privacy, and nowhere to go. Meanwhile, killings and destruction continue daily, while Gaza’s space shrinks day by day, forcing people into smaller and more overcrowded areas.

This is not life. This is not displacement. This is a complete collapse of everything that allows human beings to live with dignity.

What more is the world waiting for? How many children must go hungry? How many patients must die before the world acts? Do not stay silent. Speak about Gaza. Share what is happening.

[Mikey Intifada @MicSchirtzer]

hi so we've actually reached you don't need to know the numbers of the deaths camps stage of the US holocaust

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

A reminder: At this moment, the Israeli regime is continuing its genocide in Palestine with murderous attacks on civilians in Gaza and bloody pogroms in the West Bank, abusing thousands of Palestinian hostages in dungeons and torture camps, perpetrating the crime of apartheid, bombing Lebanese villages and towns, unlawfully occupying Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria, openly celebrating the regime’s pirating, torture, and sexual assault of crew from the humanitarian flotilla, preparing for further aggression and war crimes in Iran, corrupting Western governments, and persecuting human rights defenders through regime proxies across the globe. Do not let complicit media corporations erase these realities, distract you, or weaken your resolve to fight this evil. The threat is spreading and the moment is urgent.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Listen to Granny Bibbins, folks.

Once you give up privacy… you don’t get it back 👀

[Lukeydu @_lukeydu]

I don’t mean to sound anti semitic or nothing, but um, just thinking about the terms “jewelry” and “jewel” …kinda wild

[Subi-doo @subi35460]

Trump is not the leader of MAGA—he is its rotten, beating heart. And once he is gone, MAGA will cease to exist.

This was never a movement of ideas or enduring principles — it was a fucking grotesque sacrament of personality, where countless souls willingly dissolved their own identities into the fevered ego of one orange conman. They donned the red caps, echoed his vulgar expressions, and fused their grievances so completely with his that they no longer knew where their rage ended and his began. A cult in all but name, built on messianic delusion, shared hatreds, and the desperate need for a strongman “daddy” to “own the libs” and make them feel whole again.

When the man finally falls — as biology and time inevitably demand — the entire movement will collapse into farce. No intellectual scaffolding remains, no worthy heirs capable of wielding the same dark charisma, only infighting pretenders trying to ape the grift will remain. What lingers will be a bitter, fractured remnant—emotionally crippled followers mourning their lost fake messiah, trying to figure out how to fill the empty void in their fucking hollow souls.

MAGA was never about America first. It was about one narcissistic grifting piece of shit and the millions who surrendered their fucking minds to him. When Trump is gone, it deserves nothing but a swift, unceremonious burial in America’s history.

Looking forward to the day MAGA is fucking done and dusted.🖕

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

Albania has officially drawn the
line, Sazan 'lsland is being cleared. In an stunning turn of events, Albanian authorities have
launched an active enforcement operation to kick
out foreign developers and private security
personnel occupying Sazan Island. The decisive
action marks a total collapse of the controversial €1.4 billion luxury real estate deal that aimed to turn the protected national marine reserve and
former military base into an exclusive private playground for global elites,
The eviction comes after four consecutive weeks of historic
hundred-thousand-strong protests that completely
shut down the capital city of Tirana, refusing to allow their native coastlines and ecologically sensitive wetlands to be privatized by foreign
investors, the Albanian public unified under a
single, unyielding demand: "Albania is not for sale, the courts faced with a historic political crisis, mounting
domestic fury, and a widening anti-corruption
investigation by special prosecutors (SPAK), the
government was forced to pivot, by deploying state forces to reclaim Sazan lsland, Albania has
sent a clear message to international billionaires
and foreign developers trying to bypass environmental protection laws, This historic victory for citizen-led activism proves that the collective voice of a nation can successfully overpower backroom corporate deals and protect sovereign land.
The people spoke, and the
government had to listen.