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use your free will kindly

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

everyone knows that the sole reason Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein and Noah Smith refuse to recognize the ongoing Gaza genocide even though every major human rights organization and the UN and countless genocide scholars have done so, is because they're Jewish supremacist Zionists. That's it. It's pure tribalism for them, nothing more. It's a genocide done by fellow Jews, and they will never, ever accept that. Never. Solely because they too are Jews. That's it. That's the only reason.

If the exact same fact-pattern happened, but it was Russia doing it, or China, or Iran, or Turkey, France, Germany, and every human rights organization that they say is the highest expression of objectivity when it comes to determining human rights violations in every other context, from Amnesty to Human Rights Watch, officially stated that it was genocide, they would accept it in a second without a moment's hesitation. But not for Israel. Not for their fellow Jews.

And that is the most revealing thing about these figures who publicly brand themselves and made very lucrative careers as universalist liberals who eschew all tribalisms, transcend all parochial notions of petty identity-narcissistic in favor of a cosmopolitan worldview that treats every human as fundamentally equal.

That's all a facade. It's all bullshit. They're the most tribal petty narcissistic scumfuck degenerates alive walking on this planet, because they're most wealthy overly privileged little cunts who are solely motivated by what their fellow tribesmen do halfway across the world, and will do everything in their power to cover for them and launder them and ensure they will be able to continue their genocidal mass slaugher and rape of entire peoples.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Imagine openly defending these animals.

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @taste_of_tbone]

God I love shit like this. Thanks for the free campaign ad, Fox!

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

here is part of the Parts Unknown episode Anthony Bourdain did in Gaza. Bourdain insisted they go there so he could counter the genocidal racist Zionist propaganda and dehumanization of Palestinians, by merely showing them as they are:

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

when Anthony Bourdain said free Palestine and called out the racist vilification of Palestinians by the media and political class: "The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity."

[Adam Smith @adamndsmith]

Amazing how Tucker Carlson, of all people, can succinctly sum up what happened with Jeremy Corbyn in a way that the media and political class here will still ardently deny

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Israeli targeters saw exactly what you see in the photo. Paramedics attending to the wounded. They murdered them all deliberately. AOC and our theater kid mayor run to Twitter to denounce every fake antisemitic incident imaginable. Can they say a word about this?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Thomas Massie has lost his congressional seat against a primary opponent whose Israel lobby funding made the race the most expensive House of Representatives primary in history. Massie has been a rare Republican opponent of Israeli abuses on Capitol Hill.

The spending on Massie’s ouster topped out at a staggering $32 million when all was said and done. The second- and third-most expensive House primary races were also heavily slanted by Israel lobby funding, with AIPAC pouring millions into toppling progressive Democrats Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman.

Americans just watched the Israel lobby openly manipulate yet another election, and then in like two weeks they’re going to hear their government tell them they need to regime change another foreign country to bring “democracy” to its people. Americans themselves do not have democracy.

The ceasefire with Iran is tenuous and could end at any time. Washington is currently drumming up ridiculously transparent pretexts to justify attacking Cuba. And you just know as soon as the bombs start falling on whatever country they’re going to fall on, Americans will be told this is a good thing because it will bring freedom and democracy to whatever population is getting ripped apart by military explosives.

It’s just so silly how often the US propaganda machine bangs on about “democracy” while vast fortunes are poured into slanting the American electoral process to advance the agendas of plutocrats and special interest groups.

Let’s bring democracy to the Iraqi people! Oh no, the Russians are interfering in our democracy!

And meanwhile nothing of the sort actually exists in America. When the elections go toward whoever can afford to spend the most on manipulating and deceiving the public into voting their way, that’s not democracy. That’s plutocracy.

The rich buy up news outlets and social media platforms, pour funding into think tanks and lobby groups, and sponsor the primary campaigns of anyone who disagrees with them, and in so doing they are able to exert enough influence to get the public to vote in whatever way advances their agendas.

That’s why Americans have a joke of a minimum wage and no normal healthcare system. It’s why corporations are allowed to exploit the working class and pollute the environment without consequence. It’s why AI is being shoved down our throats with zero regulation while it consumes our clean water and takes our jobs. And it’s why American-made bombs are still falling in Lebanon and Gaza.

The rich and powerful are going to keep doing this until they are made to stop. They’re going to keep using their wealth and influence to manipulate public behavior until people stop allowing them to. You can’t vote this problem away, because they control the votes.

Forget about bringing democracy to Cuba. Try bringing democracy to the United States.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

This is a legendary white woman

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Americans, your tax money is funding acts of genocide. Report on today’s Israeli attacks on Lebanon, which have killed 12 civilians, including two children, so far.

Also footage of bombing from close to the site of the report.

Cameraman: @aliezzeddine00

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

When Somali Americans were accused of fraud in Minnesota, there was endless discourse about what it supposedly revealed about Somali and Muslim culture.

Will those who led that discussion do the same for this massive fraud ring and the monolithic group the FBI just arrested?👇

[Atrioc @Atrioc]

we are reaching levels of debt and gambling that are truly a wonder to behold

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

Now I understand why Contrapoints doesn’t regularly do debates or podcast interviews- she’s a fucking idiot.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

The work of demons

[soli @solisolsoli]

Happy International Workers’ Day! Together and Strong.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

Palantir, a CIA front company, now has its tentacles in the food supply, our healthcare data, our growing autonomous weapons industry, the military, the entire US intelligence community, border patrol, Space Force and so on.

Seemingly, Palantir is soon to become the testrun for Yarvins "sov-corp", a privatized version of govt that replaces the existing govt and is ruled by a CEO dictator. That is, unless we do something about it.

https://t.co/L0GlaYtsp6

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It continues to be a bizarre aspect of US politics that so many American Christians defend Israel even when it attacks Christian villages and churches and kills Americans and/or Christians (as Israel often does), and even seem grateful to pay for it.

The Mike Huckabee complex.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

The first player to score in a Merseyside derby at Hill Dickinson Stadium 🇪🇬👑

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

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