I have a genuine question: why are people so resistant to understanding that Ukraine was taken over in a far right coup in 2013/2014? They built statues honoring Nazis. They run around with Nazi insignia. Why are people so committed to defending this? It’s bizarre.
Capitalism cannot sustain itself without colonial extraction of super profits. When you side with processes that seek to reestablish colonial extraction in a country, like the war on Iran, you are siding with the continuation and strengthening of capitalism.
Israel has murdered double the amount of Lebanese kids this week than were killed on Oct 7.
And it's hardly a story.
Led by wanted war criminals they're destroying an entire region. The EU supports it.
This is after they murdered 25,000 Palestinian kids and continue to do so.
🇮🇷🇲🇽: Mexican University Students Honor Iranian School Girls Killed in U.S. and Israeli strike
Students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico held a memorial on campus for over 186 girls killed in the US-Israeli bombing of Shajarat Tayyibah Primary School in Iran on February 28.
Bad Bunny’s show wasn’t revolutionary and it wasn’t “soft imperialism” (yes, some are calling it that) - it was a celebration of Latin American culture and a nod to PR independence. That’s all, nothing more, nothing less.
If we want more, something more substantial and ideologically sharp then go to our radical intellectuals - there’s plenty of them. From Mariategui to Martí - or Rodney. Expecting it from a reggaeton artist and writing statuses about how insubstantial it was is just lazy.
Critiquing Bad Bunny’s art is easy, lazy, cheap engagement. Go do it with our sophisticated ideologues, with our radical thinkers. Yea, you’re not going to get those thousands of likes, it’s not as motivating.
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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