Shaahed Ahmadian

self-learner newbie

[Shaahed Ahmadian @aShaahed]

The whole point.
No need to add anything.

[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.

[نجاح محمد علي @najahmalii]

عندما قال قدس سره :
لن أسمح بسقوط بغداد،
لم تُغلق المطارات..

و عندما أستشهد، كان مطار بغداد مفتوحاً لترامب لينفذ قرار الاغتيال ..🔥

[Shaahed Ahmadian @aShaahed]

😂😂😂

[Caleb @CalebSol]

Still the best tweet

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Being aggressively pro-Palestine is the most efficient way to weed all the worst people out of your life.

[Esmaeil Baqaei @IRIMFA_SPOX]

سیاوش را کشتند، اما خونش در شاهنامه به خاموشی نرسید:

از ایران و توران برآید خروش
جهانی ز خون من آید به جوش

از همین روست که تاریخ، بعضی رفتگان را بیش از زندگان به یاد می‌آورد. آنان هنوز خواب را از چشم دشمن ستانده‌اند چون در حافظه او ایستاده‌اند.

به هنگام حضور نامبارک قصاب غزه و‌ بدخواه ایران در سخنگاه سازمان ملل، اغلب حاضران به نشانه انزجار از پلشتی و بدسگالی او سالن را ترک کردند. هیأت ایرانی نیز پیش از ترک سالن، این تصویر را برجای گذاشت تا یادآوری هیبت شهید سرافرازمان #سردار_سلیمانی ذهن کژاندیش اهریمن را مشوش‌تر کند و خانه ��رزوهای عنکبوت را سست‌تر از همیشه در نظرش آورد.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

@TreyYingst Don't terrorist attacks require the targeting of civilians? This was an armed, on-duty soldier in a military considered to be an occupying force under international law. How does that remotely fit the definition of "terrorism"?

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

An unforgettable hero and leader.

[Shaahed Ahmadian @aShaahed]

درس‌های هنوز نیاموخته، ۶:

Some of what you call empathy is terror, and terror can't coexist with boundaries.

You need to feel the difference in your body. Empathy is warm and had room for you in it. Fear is cold, or hot, and makes you smaller.

[Iran Embassy Sarajevo @IRANinBiH]

There is no such thing as an I_s_r_a_e_l_i land—not even the size of a pinhead.

[zeno @zenomek]

این ژست ریاکارانه یک لحظه هم جدی نگیرید. اینکه من ضمن محکومیت یک طرف مواظبم طرف مقابل سواستف��ده نکند. این احتیاط را صرفا وقتی آمریکا و اسراییل جنایت می‌کنند می‌بینید و امکان ندارد مثلا حوادث دی را محکوم کنند در عین حال مواظب باشندو هشدار دهند آمریکا و اسراییل سواستفاده نکنند.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

A reminder that Fred Hampton is younger than Donald Trump.

What a different world we could have had.

[Shaahed Ahmadian @aShaahed]

@mabukittens Yes

[Shaahed Ahmadian @aShaahed]

@NedBertz Seems your inbox is closed

[محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf @mb_ghalibaf]

Instead of funneling billions to its terrorist proxy, Israel, and 750 bases, this failing empire could spend that cash on its own people, but nah, that'd make too much sense for this regime.

Scotty, man [?], your credibility is on the line. Do something.

https://t.co/zz1x0VWKyQ

[Sirius Black @siriusbmemes]

@stats_feed I wanna say israel but it's not a country

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

There is a famous Persian proverb that says: To test the tested is a mistake.
So, to you, foolish Trump: this economic campaign you have launched has existed for 47 years. Carter began this move decades ago, and now his corpse is food for snakes and ants. You too, after paying the price for your crimes, will die, and your filthy carcass will be devoured by snakes and ants. But the Islamic Republic of Iran will remain resilient and steadfast.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

I’m sick and tired of the USA being held up as a beacon of democracy.

A lobbying group working on behalf of a foreign government — AIPAC — has bought almost the entire US Congress.

We’re seeing this on full display right now as US politicians across the spectrum are being used as puppets to crush all criticism of Israel.

Whatever America’s political system is, it isn’t a democracy.

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

It’s all Palestine 🇵🇸

[Will Schryver @imetatronink]

🤡🌎 The State of Hormuz

Trump declares his intention to make the Strait of Hormuz a US territory ... well, after they "finish defeating" Iran, that is.

Bold words for a man whose mighty navy has been banished from the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Gulf of Oman.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The quote of the century.