Ciah

music/movies/marxism

[Ciah @ciahbelle]

hey guys…

my self-written-recorded-and-produced debut album, The Pink Room, comes out this Friday, October 28th.

click the link to pre-save please!! 💗

https://t.co/dj15XANKW4

[Milo S @MiloS_WSWS]

#BradleyClouse died at #Astemo Berea last week. The plant was cited in 2016 & 2020 for the same machine-guarding violation. I'm investigating. If you work there & know anything about lockout/tagout, contact me confidentially. His family deserves the truth.https://t.co/sADjQdpNni

[Madeline Pendleton @JeanGreige]

Oh are people just now realizing fascism is and always was an anti-communist ideology? And the capitalists peddled horseshoe theory to subdue you into not becoming a communist? And in reality the way to be truly anti-fascist is to be a communist?

[hot dam historian 🦅 @hotdamhistorian]

you're right there's nothing that could explain this, i wonder why this keeps happening

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

I really feel like workdays should be 10am–3pm or 9am– 2pm. There’s no reason for people to spend most of their lives at work. Let people go home and have time for their families, partners, friends, and rest. That’s why everyone is so miserable today.

[Roger Waters ✊ @rogerwaters]

Well said brother.✊🏼🕊️

[🔻 max 📕 @MaxistLeninist]

Kind of a joke that the whole world has to act like 9/11 was some kind of unique tragedy every year when the US terrorises the entire planet every week

[aster 🌼 @themermacorn]

Joe Biden carried out a GENOCIDE. Obama bombed and starved Yemen for the entirety of his presidency. Toppled governments in Honduras & Libya. Clinton bombed Afghanistan, Somalia, and Sudan. Democrats are just as evil and hawkish as Republicans.

[sofie ☭ @darlingube]

as an american my full support is with the people of venezuela as they resist US invasion by any means necessary. venezuela has the right to defend itself.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Capitalism is all out of ideas. It's no longer innovation vs. supply/competition vs. demand. Its only goal is maximising value extraction from already stressed buyers. This isn't Dynamic Pricing. It's Vulture Pricing. Welcome to the future of the extraction economy.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I re-watch this clip whenever I catch myself wondering if I've been too hard on the Democrats. It's easy to forget how evil they are when they're not in power.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The Democrats make everything about identity politics to deflect from the fact that their party exists to serve capital, not people. They have nothing of substance to offer the people so they dangle symbolic wins in our face as they collude with Republicans to serve the rich.

[Meg ✦ @Flicky0ps]

Capitalism is better than socialism because one man gets to be a trillionaire instead of everyone having healthcare

[Edward Ongweso Jr @bigblackjacobin]

we truly live in hell

[📕 @SwampCommunist]

Ran out of the 400 flyers I printed in the first hour, you would be amazed how many people explicitly went there looking for something more radical

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

It's good that @ZohranKMamdani is being so transparent so early. This is no different to assuring white supremacists, "I'm going to have people in my administration who are KKK."

He could just shut up but he's instead choosing to publicly pander to genocidal racists.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israel tortured and sexually humiliated Greta Thunberg.

Some excerpts from her interview with the Swedish paper Aftonblatet:

"They grab me, pull me to the ground, and throw an Israeli flag over me."

"They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me."

"They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. ‘A special place for a special lady’, they said. And then they had learned ‘Lilla hora’ (Little whore) and ‘Hora Greta’ (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time."

In the corner where Greta was sitting, the police placed a flag.
"The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted ‘Don’t touch the flag’ and kicked me in the side. After a while, my hands were tied with cable ties, very tightly. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me while I was sitting like that."

"They were thrown to the ground and beaten. But I could only see it out of the corner of my eye, because every time I lifted my head from the ground, I was kicked by the guard standing next to me."

Greta was then taken into a building to be searched and undressed. "The guards have no empathy or humanity, and they keep taking selfies with me. There’s a lot I don’t remember. So much is happening at once. You’re in shock. You’re in pain, but you go into a state of trying to stay calm."

Outside, she was forced to take off her clothes again, she says. "It was mockery, rough handling, and everything was filmed. Everything they do is extremely violent."

"It was so hot, like 40 degrees. We begged the whole time: Can we have water? Can we have water? In the end, we screamed. The guards walked in front of the bars the whole time, laughing and holding up their water bottles. They threw the bottles with water in them into the trash cans in front of us."

"When people fainted, we banged on the cages and asked for a doctor. Then the guards came and said, ‘We’re going to gas you.’ It was standard for them to say that."

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Thunberg says the Swedish government greatly downplayed the abuse she and her fellow Sumud Flotilla activists suffered, and wouldn't even bring them water.

"We were together and told them about the treatment we received. About the lack of food, water, about the abuse. The torture. We showed them the physical injuries we had – bruises and scratches. We gave them all our contact details – I gave them my father's number and the number of our contact in the organization. We were clear: everything we say now must be released to the media."

"They didn’t do anything, they just said: ’Our job is to listen to you. We are here and you are entitled to consular support.’"

"We said over and over again: we need water. And they saw that the guards had water bottles. The embassy staff said: ’We’ll make a note of that.’ One of us, Vincent, said: ’Next time we meet you, you must bring water.’

Then it took two days before the embassy staff showed up again.

"They didn't bring any water, except for a small bottle of their own that was half empty. Vincent, who was in the worst shape, got to drink it. We kept asking the guards, 'Can we have some water?' but they just walked around with their water bottles and didn't answer."

"I said, 'Are you going to leave us like this? If you leave now, they will beat us up.' But they just kept walking."

When Aftonbladet compares emails sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to relatives, with what the captives describe telling embassy staff, it becomes clear that the seriousness of the situation has been downplayed.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes the scene at the port, where Greta Thunberg was beaten for hours, as follows: “She told us about harsh treatment and that she had been sitting on a hard surface for a long time.”

On Saturday, several media outlets published testimonies that Greta had been subjected to torture.

Aftonbladet has spoken to three other members of the flotilla who largely confirm what Greta Thunberg says and who have all experienced various types of abuse and humiliation. We have also spoken to relatives. Everyone is highly critical of how the Swedish embassy staff acted.

[jana the evil witch (resurrected) @nobodysdaught3r]

they waited for gaza to reach stage 5 of malnutrition (which is irreversible) to finally speak up.

it’s just so they could claim to be on “the right side of history” while choosing to be silent for months and months before that. fuck all of you.

[IA nastya: they finally killed her + no mech⚢♿︎ @carmillatism]

i think society's acceptance of pitting science/math against lierature/history has done irrefutable damage to us as people