alfredo carillo

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

The Rafah crossing, where sick and wounded Gazans congregated to be evacuated, was bombed relentlessly. The intention to kill the already wounded is clear. The criminality is palpable. The complicity of the US-European rulers is mind numbing.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Politicians cannot vote their conscience when they know that if they defy billionaire-funded Super PACs, millions will be spent against them at the polls.

We must get Big Money out of our electoral process.

[alfredo carillo @dado1969]

@minomazz @FT L’equivoco è sempre lo stesso: considerare i liberali sinistra.
Stiamo scivolando in una deriva autoritaria di destra e finalmente scoprendo il vero volto dei liberali.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Billionaires in the U.S. are .0005% of the population, yet accounted for 18% of 2024 electoral spending.

Just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion.

This is not democracy. It is oligarchy.

Time to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.

[alfredo carillo @dado1969]

@minomazz Diranno pure che Waltz è un pericoloso socialista.
Il problema resta Kamala che ha il carisma di un palo della luce

[alfredo carillo @dado1969]

@minomazz Magari l’avessero fatto apposta, la realtà è più drammatica del complotto

[alfredo carillo @dado1969]

@gualtierieurope @Roma @Sabrinalfonsi https://t.co/hgzO9zpGXo

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

It has come to that: Haaretz went to print with chunks of text redacted by the censor. This is the price Israelis pay for the continued genocide: loss of their own political rights within Israel.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This new "pre-bunking" initiative by VDL is immensely dystopian and should scare the hell out of you because it'd fundamentally change Europe's relationship with reality.

Let's take the example of Gaza because, given VDL's unequivocal support of Israel to date, I'm sure she'd have loved to "pre-bunk" people's minds with a lot of Israeli propaganda.

"Pre-bunking", if it's going to be effective, basically involves defining an official government-backed "truth" in order to define opposing viewpoints as "disinformation".

It's fundamentally different from debunking because debunking involves exposing the falseness of an information that's existing out there, with proofs and rigor. For pre-bunking however, by definition there's nothing to debunk because it's a process that occurs before.

Which means it's a fundamentally different approach to dealing with our understanding of the world we live in: rather than constructing it based on existing facts which we try to analyze and derive meaning from, she wants our understanding of the world to be based on an official narrative. And when facts do finally occur, to analyze them through the framework of that narrative. It essentially brings us back to a world before the enlightenment, where religion and myths defined our understanding of the world instead of approaching it with rationality. It would be the triumph of dogma vs seeking truth from facts.

Again, it's quite easy to imagine how that'd work for Gaza if, much like Israeli society, we'd been plunged in the official Zionist narrative: we'd have reacted as they do, believing there are "no innocents" in the Gaza population...

The scary thing is that the West is already a big part of the way there: ideology and dogma are already way too prevalent in the way we approach the world, and it's extremely damaging. The right direction is AWAY from that, and very much not to make it official and double down as this horrible woman is suggesting...

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Very important article from @NaomiAKlein, one of the main Jewish thinkers of our age, which argues that Zionism is a perversion of Judaism, the pursuit of a "false idol" as she puts it.
https://t.co/e9nMCDaCjr

It is so important because the single most damaging direction we can take as a result of Gaza is to buy into Israel's current narrative that Judaism is Zionism, and that opposing it is therefore antisemitic. This is absolutely key, because from it stems absolutely everything else.

It would be immensely damaging because it takes an extreme, radicalized and murderous ideology "that commits genocide in our name" (quote from the article) and says "this is Judaism, the first monotheistic religion, from which the other 2 derive". There is no overstating how destructive this is to the very foundation of our culture, to the very core of our identity. Literally corrosive to who we are on a biblical scale.

It is also immensely damaging because of course everything Zionism stands for runs so counter to fundamental human values we all share:
- The sanctity of human life
- The belief that theft is wrong
- The belief that all humans, no matter their religion or ethnic origins, are equal
- Etc.

As Klein points out "it is a false idol that has led far too many of our own people down a deeply immoral path that now has them justifying the shredding of core commandments: thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet."

Coming back on this and saying that fighting for those fundamental values is "antisemitic" - a repulsive moral crime - is nihilistic to the extreme. It is a negation of our very humanity.

All this would ultimately not only result in Judaism destroying itself by becoming coopted by this militaristic ethnostate political project, but it risks destroying all the countries that support it alongside with it. The moral contradictions necessary to support this are just too overwhelming, it's like acid on the soul of these countries.

And that's why Jewish voices like Klein are so important. Because, as Mearsheimer and Walt argued in their famous book in the Israel lobby, accusations of antisemitism are "the Great Silencer", a scarily powerful tool to silence criticism of Israel's actions. And Jewish voices have of course the immense advantage of being able to say "I'm Jewish", kryptonite to "the Great Silencer". Which is why the fact so many of these students protesting today in US campuses are Jewish is totally silenced by so many media, as admitting it would reduce the potency of "the Great Silencer".

It's not only important because they have this "Great Silencer" kryptonite, but also because their activism is in of itself the best weapon against actual antisemitism, the real one this time, which does exist. If the current Israeli project of equating Zionism with Judaism did succeed and were to be commonly accepted, then naturally all Jewish people would be equated with Zionism and its actions, which anyone with an ounce of common sense can understand would make actual antisemitism surge.

The more Jewish people like Klein say "not in our name", the more Zionism is seen as it should rightly be seen: a "false idol" that "Jews need an exodus from", in order to ultimately resolve the biggest injustice of our age, that inflicted on the Palestinians.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Why I was banned from Germany: In the name of protecting Israel’s security, the German government has sunk to farcical new authoritarian lows. https://t.co/CNFGN9xvuR

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Have they lost their minds, along with their humanity? “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added-value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.” https://t.co/I8fyHOXjRl

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

An incredible excerpt, incl. in the body language of the BBC guy who at first never looks straight at Guyana's president (he would never interview like this a prez of a big country) and then gets totally lost & falls silent.

[alfredo carillo @dado1969]

@minomazz Vero pure che è probabile che tra quelle 700.000 persone ci sia l’intero bacino sardo dei clienti di quei giornali.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

The West believes in democracy, but not when governments it doesn't like are elected. It respects sovereignty unless it decides to invade, as in Iraq. It supports Taiwan's self-determination, not Kashmir's or the Kurds'. It supports human rights, but not in oil-rich countries. It stands up for human rights, unless it is not in its interest, as in Saudi Arabia. Otherwise, the West has… principles.

[alfredo carillo @dado1969]

@minomazz It is Giaina season again!

[alfredo carillo @dado1969]

@minomazz Avevo letto Mieli e funzionava lo stesso ;)

[alfredo carillo @dado1969]

@minomazz Dici che non parlerà di questa roba qua eh? https://t.co/D0cYLCArYq

[Tennys Sandgren @TennysSandgren]

johnny mac critiquing someone's on court behavior is fucking hilarious

[alfredo carillo @dado1969]

Sogno o son Dosto?
#Bicocca