161 Reasons🏴12th&L Crew

Organized Educated Agitator/People’s History-Colonialism, Racism, Political Repression/Abolition&Anarchism/IWW/The most violent element in society is ignorance

[161 Reasons🏴12th&L Crew @DancingEmma627]

It's funny to see right wingers react to Rage Against the Machine. It's embarrassing to watch progressives, centrists, & wannabe radicals laugh about that while talking shit about far-left activists. Knowing nothing about their fav band. Never hearing a word & knowing every lyric

[Gritty is the Way @Gritty20202]

both sides

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

not to downplay the effects of ideology and racism but I’ve discovered today that a majority of causal US media consumers genuinely think Gaza is a sleepy, semi-autonomous Arab club med. w/ an actual economy, freedom of movement and control over its civil society. Many such cases

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

Luke Skywalker rooting for the empire. Wild times.

[tara al-alami @taraalami]

Palestinian Youth Movement has compiled a running list of literature about Palestine.

I highly recommend adding these texts to your reading list:

https://t.co/7IHX8eMyyG

[161 Reasons🏴12th&L Crew @DancingEmma627]

Makes me smile.

[UNICORN RIOT @UR_Ninja]

Georgia prosecutors have indicted 61 individuals under the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, for their alleged participation in the #StopCopCity movement & for, as they put it, promoting “virulent anarchist ideals.”

>https://t.co/e780XcTk1d<

[161 Reasons🏴12th&L Crew @DancingEmma627]

Also, the Plutocracy series is really well done as well.

[Jeff Rosenstock @jeffrosenstock]

People love to scramble to their keyboards to have a big gotcha moment defending capitalism. Fuck off losers.

[New York City Antifa @NYCAntifa]

today is fake may day.

[Anarchist 💣Federation ❤️🖤 @AnarchistFed]

OTD 1944, Spanish Anarchists and Republicans of the The 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad "La Nueve", in exile from fascist Spain, are the first to enter Paris and liberate it. 1/

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

In A World Ruled By Propaganda, A Sane Worldview Will Necessarily Be A Fringe Worldview

One of the worst mistakes you can make when formulating your understanding of the world is to begin with the assumption that the truest and most accurate position must lie somewhere near the center of the two major political perspectives you see laid out all around you.

It’s a mistake not only because assuming that the center position must be the best one is a type of fallacious reasoning known as the middle ground fallacy (the correct position between “Drink a gallon of bleach daily for good health” and “Drink zero bleach daily for good health” is not “Drink half a gallon of bleach daily for good health”); it’s also a mistake because the entire framing arises from a situation that has been artificially engineered by the powerful.

It’s a well-documented fact that the rich and powerful pour vast fortunes into manipulating the political and media landscape in ways that serve their interests. Their control over the news media and Silicon Valley tech platforms is used to set the agenda and influence public perception by determining what issues will receive attention and which won’t in ways that preserve the political status quo they’ve built their empire upon, thereby shrinking the Overton window of acceptable debate down to a very narrow spectrum whose outcomes can’t threaten their interests in any way.

We just discussed this dynamic with regard to US aggressions against Russia and China; the Overton window is being narrowed to a debate between which US enemy should be the target of the most imperial aggressions, with voices who advocate detente with both countries finding no platform in mainstream politics or media. This is what Noam Chomsky was talking about when he said “the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”

People assume there must be truth in the mainstream worldview because so many others are invested in the mainstream worldview, when really the only reason that worldview is mainstream in the first place is because so much wealth and influence has gone into making it mainstream. In reality the assumption that the truth exists anywhere in either of the two mainstream political viewpoints promoted by the managers of the western empire is an example of the bandwagon effect, which describes the cognitive bias in which humans tend to take on beliefs, behaviors, styles and attitudes solely because that’s what the people around them are doing.

This bias would have had evolutionary advantages early on in our development as a species. Back when our evolutionary ancestors were prey for prehistoric carnivores, it was a survival advantage to start running for your life if you saw other members of your tribe running, even if you personally didn’t see what they were running from. As primates whose survival depended on social cohesion, being rejected by the tribe would mean almost certain death by predation or starvation, so it was necessary to conform in whatever ways prevented that rejection from happening.

But we don’t live in prehistoric times anymore. We live in a civilization with a highly complex information environment that is being continually manipulated away from truth and accuracy and toward the advantage of powerful people who rule over us. If you go along with the herd, you’ll be deceived.

In truth the so-called “centrists” or “moderates” of our world are really violent extremists, because they support the most murderous and tyrannical power structure on our planet, and are only regarded as moderate because they sit in the mid-range of a completely artificially created spectrum. A perspective that is actually sane will be about as far away from their perspective as you can get.

Because the majority of people have been duped by propaganda into espousing mainstream political perspectives, those with an accurate read on things will necessarily be a small fringe minority until that dynamic changes. As long as your entire civilization is structured around deceit-based perspectives which serve the powerful, going along with the crowd will prevent you from forming a truth-based perspective that serves human interests.

So you’ll have to get comfortable rejecting mainstream orthodoxies, dismissing mainstream media, and shunning mainstream politics, because those things are all inseparably interwoven with the matrix of deceit by which our rulers have pulled the blindfold over this civilization. This won’t be a sign that you’re out of touch or a kooky crackpot or some snobby hipster who rejects all things mainstream out of a pathological need to be different, it will be a sign that you are seeing things clearly.

This can set you apart from your tribe at times; as Terence McKenna said, “The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.” But we can still find each other online, so we’re never really alone, and the cost is definitely worth it. The sincere pursuit of a truth-based perspective is ultimately the surest path not only toward a healthy society, but toward lasting happiness as an individual as well.

[161 Reasons🏴12th&L Crew @DancingEmma627]

Pretty much the entire history of protest songs.

[Patrick Ruffini @PatrickRuffini]

What’s the left’s answer to this?

[regular steve albini @electricalWSOP]

House shows are the linchpin and ideal expression of a thriving underground music scene. Everybody formed in one of those scenes has moments from house shows burned into their very identity, indelible for life. This is heartbreaking.

[K(sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyett]

Guess it’s time to dust the meme off again for the liberals.

[marciahoward38thstreet @marciaxthree]

Nihilism is the tool of the oppressor. We stand with the family of Ricky Cobb II. Community event 1-5, Grilled foods. BLM Rally and Vigil 5-9, food by Pimento Kitchen. #rickycobb #rickycobbII #blm #BlackLivesMatter #cuapb #mnteenactivists #fsfapv #gfgm