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Creative regurgitater.

#FreePalestine

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Iran Deal by Obama:
•0 Americans killed
•0 Iranians killed
•0 bombs dropped
•$0 spent on war
GOP: THIS IS AN TOTAL FAILURE! WE LOST!

Iran Ceasefire by Trump:
•15 American soldiers killed, ~700 injured
•1900 Iranian civilians killed, 26,000 injured
•$45 BILLION in taxpayer money wasted
•18 countries bombed or involved in war
MAGA: THIS IS A TOTAL WIN! SO MUCH WINNING!

[love drops @lovedropx]

When someone you love offers a bid for connection, you say yes every time. When someone sends you an article, a video, a funny post, it’s a bid for connection. They are trying to connect with you. When someone shares details about their day, their life, their thoughts, or their feelings with you, that is a bid for connection. They want to connect with you on a deeper level. They are trying to pull you into their world. If you love them, you say yes every time. Yes, even if the article they send is not particularly interesting to you. Yes, even if it means listening to them ramble about a game you don’t care about and think is stupid. Yes yes yes. And let’s hope they always say yes to your bids, too.
— Unknown

[Dave on Twit-ter @BeardMarshall]

@Harrisbro777 Probably shouldn't listen to your friend because he knows 💩.

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MAGA, you dumb.

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

Trump: “We’re not supposed to be seduced that way, right? But I am. When somebody’s nice to me, I love that person. Even if they’re bad people. I couldn’t care less, I’ll fight to the end for them.”

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#FreePalestine

[Adel El Zabayar @Zabayar]

Soldado israelí le dice al joven palestino que siga su camino, luego practican tiro a distancia y lo asesinan.
Israel no es un estado sino una organización terrorista.

[Slim @onu_slim]

Your parents are getting older at 75 and they haven’t told you how scared they are.

They are not dying, or becoming a problem, or of being the reason you’re stressed, the reason your money is tight, the reason your patience runs out. They watch you build your life and they quietly pray they are not in the way of it.

That silence you mistake for peace, it isn’t always peace. Sometimes it’s a 70-year-old man swallowing his needs because he doesn’t want to be a burden to the child he suffered to raise, sometimes it’s a 68-year-old woman who once moved mountains for her family, now unable to move without help, smiling so you don’t worry.

They have already grieved the version of themselves that was strong, they did that alone, quietly, at night.

What they have left is you.

Not your money, not your success, you. Your voice on the phone, your presence in the room, the way you look at them like they still matter, like they are not just a responsibility to manage but a person to love.

One day there will be no one left to call you by the name they gave you, in the voice that first said it, no one who remembers who you were before the world got to you.

That day is coming, you don’t know when.

So before it arrives, go home, sit down, put the phone away, let them talk.

The chair will empty, make sure you left nothing unsaid.

Goodnight

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@ksorbs When's the last time you worked, Kevin?

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@OhDear_Friend

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@EricLDaugh

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The objective of the war has become undoing the consequence of the war.

The stupidest war in history.

[Dave on Twit-ter @BeardMarshall]

@realBrandonGill You realize Christianity came from the third world, right?

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@gregkellyusa We're not back in the day anymore. Move on, cuck.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Doctors are manually operating ventilators in order to keep babies alive in Cuba.

The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. This’s a crime against humanity.

[Dave on Twit-ter @BeardMarshall]

@johnkonrad What about the MPF ships?

[Anna Horford @AnnaHorford]

Endless propaganda has convinced Americans that bombs dropping in the Middle East is “normal.” As if those families don’t have jobs, school, hopes & dreams. As if every life lost isn’t someone’s entire universe.

Geographical luck. That’s the only difference between you & them.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's disgusting that this is the closest thing to a mass-scale antiwar protest in the United States right now.

The problem with these "No Kings" protests is right there in the title. They're saying "We don't want a king, we want a president!" But Donald Trump is not a king. He is a president. And that's the real problem: US presidents are extremely evil men who do extremely evil things.

Donald Trump is a US president who is doing US president things. US presidents consistently murder people with unforgivable acts of mass military violence, mistreat immigrants and marginalized communities, and promote tyranny for the benefit of corrupting special interests in defense of the US empire and the capitalist status quo. That's what their job is. If they weren't willing to do these things, they wouldn't get the job.

Trump is not some freakish aberration; he is the product of the same American political status quo as his predecessors. He became president the same way they did, and the powers he now wields were given to his office via mundane executive, legislative and judicial decisions and precedents before he was ever elected.

But because the "No Kings" protests are organized by liberal defenders of that same political status quo, the demonstrations cannot address any of this. The whole thing is designed to be as large and inclusive as possible while also ensuring that it doesn't disrupt the established order in any meaningful way. They make no real demands. They coordinate the demonstrations with police and government officials. Protesters show up for a few hours with their brunch signs and their orange guy shirts, and then they go home without inconveniencing anybody.

They are not protesting against the US empire. They just want a more polite, photogenic empire.

They are not protesting the corrupt oligarchic political system which gave rise to Donald Trump. They just want the corrupt oligarchic political system to give rise to presidents who make them feel less uncomfortable.

The problem is US presidents, not kings. The problem is the US empire, not Trump. The United States needs drastic, revolutionary change, not daytime protests designed to be as inoffensive as possible. As long as Americans are protesting against fictional monarchies and easily replaceable oligarchic puppets instead of resisting the actual imperial machine, the abuses are going to continue.

The war in Iran is the most obviously evil American war in generations. People should be flooding the streets in every major US city. Washington DC should be on fire. Soldiers should be deserting en masse. Instead we're seeing these stupid fluffy lib theater conventions where people get together to do nothing.

Americans of conscience should be feeling deeply embarrassed right now.

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@GuntherEagleman

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@EricLDaugh

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@OneBadDude_ @realDonaldTrump Correction: Non-stop for the Epstein Class.

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@Yopp3Yopp @WallStreetApes It's not that scary.