Leah wants a revolution

Former wannabe movie producer and dreamer of a better world. I talk movies and leftist (NOT liberal) politics on @filmspectacle ☭

[Leah wants a revolution @ComradeLeah]

Hello, comrades! Here’s my latest video essay about the movie Minority Report and these dystopian times we’re living in right now 😅

[Film Spectacle @filmspectacle]

It’s been a little over 20 years since the release of Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, the start of the War on Terror, and the formation of Palantir. Here’s my latest video essay talking about it. Enjoy!

https://t.co/fZPWaLNERn

[Semitic Jew @semitic_jew]

This video could legitimately go on for years 😂

[MC Squared @mcsquared34]

500 million years ago a fish walked out of the ocean and now I work to pay taxes for a secret elite pedophile sex trafficking ring and bombing brown children in the Middle East

[Revolution of Consciousness ☯️ Sorcerer 🧙‍♂️ @A_refusenik]

Our rulers want us to lose faith in the human project.

[michael e. v. knight @michaelevknight]

"capitalism created abundance that lifted billions from poverty" No WORKERS created abundance, then capitalism would not allow most of the workers to benefit from the abundance because of a Price Tag, leaving them in Poverty. :(

[Revolutionary Blackout Network @RevBlackNetwork]

It’s called communism and has over 90% homeownership everywhere it’s been tried

[Five Times August @FiveTimesAugust]

You have to know by now this is all a show based simply on all the “crimes exposed” that nobody ever gets arrested for. You are being cliffhanged. It’s like binge watching a series on Netflix. Every episode’s script is built around getting you to the next one. You’re lead right up to the last minute, thinking something is about to happen, and then it’s “tune in next time!” — it’s the same formula for DC. At some point you have to catch on to this. It’s humiliating.

[merp @0xMerp]

being properly informed requires navigating so much propaganda now its absurd

[Axiomatic Enemy of the State @DeTocqueville14]

The group of money laundering degenerates who eat kids bankrupted the greatest wealth producing nation in world history.

You would think that more people would be upset about that.

[Remmelt Ellen 🛑 @RemmeltE]

College luddites reject "The Year of AI Exploration"

With this beautiful hand-typed letter.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Thiago Ávila — flotilla activist from Brazil, remains missing after he was arrested in Panama while on his way home from delivering aid to Cuba

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

If this happens I think well see wealthy families go to go back to hiring a governess and private tutors for every subject while poor kids are warehoused in public schools w AI tools looping propaganda all day

[#gaybaristapaul @PaulSorrentino3]

do not let democrats rewrite their part
in the genocide

[laura Smith @lauraSmITH0ff]

You know, a lot of us don’t want another lame “antiwar movement.” We want an anti-imperial and anti-capitalist movement to bring about a revolutionary transformation of US politics and the US economy.

[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

No Kings is a controlled opposition event. It is meant to keep Americans from striking or rioting against the war

[Leah wants a revolution @ComradeLeah]

@TheWrap No hierarchy on set doesn’t mean no hierarchy. This industry is making billions and most of the money goes to advertisers, the companies that own these platforms and apps, and the studios/production companies investing in these productions.

https://t.co/OFdvRhtfGD.

[Vision4theBlind @Vision4theBlind]

Any public figure that seems to be speaking truth is controlled opposition. Do you honestly think mainstream media would promote anyone that was truly against the agenda? These figures are put in place to give you the illusion that someone is own your side.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

They’re not even subtle.

[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.