Caleb Hacker

Check out my new single, Again! Streaming everywhere now.

[Caleb Hacker @iamcaleb]

I just released a new song today. I wrote it for one of my dearest and closest friends, Digo, who passed back in August. Check it out. I hope you enjoy it. Give it a spin in honor of him. It’s his birthday today.

LINK: https://t.co/7dTRw8cauI

[Caleb Hacker @iamcaleb]

@LoLoVonz This is incredible. I love it! 😂

[zellie @zellieimani]

Zionism is not a religion. It is a political ideology rooted in white supremacy and settler colonialism, designed to eliminate the indigenous population of Palestine. There is no Israel without the genocide of Palestinians.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You are not crazy for feeling like everything is wrong.

You are not dramatic for wondering why everyone is acting like this is fine.

You are living in a world where genocides are debated like football scores, where entire nations are punished because they refused to kneel, where the architects of catastrophe retire into foundations and lecture circuits.

If you are not at least a little revolutionary inside, you are not sane.

You are sedated.

[Zoldyck @Michealkaiser_]

This is what a holocaust looks like.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The slavery apologists said: but we fed them. Housed them. Gave them religion. Brought them from savagery into contact with civilization.

The colonial apologists said: but we built railways. Hospitals. Legal systems. Brought order to chaos. Raised the standard of living. Gave them modernity.

The contemporary apologists say: but we give aid. Promote democracy. Protect human rights. Stabilize fragile states. The world would be more violent without our presence.

The structure is identical across five hundred years.

The framing is always:

We gave. We brought. We raised. We provided.

The passive voice is always assigned to the other person.

They received. They were brought. They were raised. They were provided for.

Never:

They had. They built. They governed. They decided.

They were capable, before and without you, of existing as full human beings with the right to determine their own conditions.

That sentence.

That is the sentence that colonial ideology, in all its iterations, cannot say.

Because once you say it, once you actually believe it, not as a liberal sentiment but as a foundational reality, the entire justification structure collapses.

And all that's left is what it always was.

Taking.

Just taking.

From people who had every right to what you took.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

If you can’t comprehend why genocide is an eternal redline for most of the world’s people, maybe you should shut the fuck up with your constant moralizing about how other people vote or protest 😅

[Kevin McHale @druidDUDE]

Persecution of Christians in America is just as false as anti-white racism in America. You are not victims. Just because people expect you to be held to account like anyone else doesn’t mean you’re being oppressed.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

I can’t believe so many of you are just casually using AI.

[Drew @HeyImReallyDrew]

Stop sharing AI and share real art.

Stop using AI and use real thinking skills.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Increasingly clear that the future of the species hinges on the American/Israeli empire collapsing before the climate does

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Iran is better than the United States. The United States is worse than Iran.

This is true not because Iran is especially good, but because the United States is especially evil.

Iran isn’t blanketing a major metropolis with military explosives, killing over a thousand people including hundreds of children. The United States is doing this with its partner in crime Israel.

Iran isn’t continuously bombing and invading countries around the world, toppling governments, circling the globe with hundreds of military bases, targeting civilian populations with siege warfare and brandishing nuclear weapons at its enemies in the name of securing planetary domination. Only the United States is.

The US empire is the single most murderous and tyrannical power structure on earth, by an extremely massive margin. No one else comes anywhere remotely close. Not Iran. Not anybody. Every government in the world is morally superior to the most evil government, and the most evil government is the United States.

Whenever I say this I get US empire apologists going “We’re only the ones fighting the wars and dropping the bombs because we happen to be the ones with the power to do so!”

But that’s false. The US isn’t the world’s most vicious government because it happens to be the most powerful, it’s the most powerful government because it’s the most vicious. It’s the power structure which was willing to do whatever it takes to rule the world, no matter how profoundly evil.

Genocides. Starvation sanctions. Nuclear brinkmanship. Imperialist extraction. The deliberate creation of failed states and humanitarian catastrophes. Policies designed to keep entire regions in a continuous state of division and strife. The United States and the globe-spanning empire structured around it have inflicted depravities upon our species which cry out to the heavens for vengeance. If you could truly comprehend the scale of the suffering it has created over the years, even for a second, you would never stop screaming.

Another objection I’ll encounter when I make these observations is “Well, I’d rather live in the US than Iran!”

And it says so much about the western worldview that people think this is an argument. Sure it’s probably nicer to live in the United States than Iran, especially now, and certainly ever since the US has been deliberately strangling the Iranian economy with the explicitly stated goal of making its citizenry so miserable they wage a civil war against their government.

But it’s so revealing that westerners see someone saying Iran is better than the United States and think it’s a statement about where they personally would prefer to live, because it shows how completely invisible US warmongering is in their worldview. Washington’s acts of mass military slaughter simply do not count as immoral or abusive behavior in their eyes, because they are being inflicted on foreigners overseas. So they automatically assume the comparison is asking which country would make your feelings feel nicer to live in as an individual.

The fact that the US government happens to export the majority of its abusiveness to other countries outside its own borders doesn’t make it any less murderous and tyrannical, it just means the people bearing the brunt of its savagery happen to live in other places. Their lives don’t matter any less than American lives, and only a warped, American supremacist worldview would feel otherwise.

The US government is quantifiably morally inferior to the Iranian government. It is quantifiably more tyrannical, more murderous, more destructive, and more megalomaniacal. It is the very last power structure on earth that should have any say in who leads Iran and how the Iranians ought to conduct their affairs. It is not morally qualified to be making those decisions.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

Free Palestine

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

No, this is incorrect. The key isn't finding a balance between blissful ignorance and painful awareness, it’s learning to find happiness in sources that don’t depend on the delusional belief that everything is fine.

It’s very possible to be both happy and well-informed. We live in an explosively beautiful universe, and getting to experience anything at all is amazing. The fact that our world is plagued by human butchery and degradation does not cancel out the majesty of a bird in the sky, or the ecstasy of the wind upon your skin.

It is true that we live in a civilization of unfathomable cruelty. It is true that our biosphere is being strangled while human and non-human beings are subjected to horrific abuses in a society which elevates the worst art, the worst values, and the worst people to the highest levels of prominence.

It is also true that getting to live even a single moment on this astonishing blue planet is a gift worthy of immense joy and gratitude.

These things are both fully true at the same time. They do not negate each other.

Don’t find your happiness in the belief that everything is okay, because everything is not okay. If you spend your life squirming around trying to avert your gaze from the truth and psychologically compartmentalizing away from reality, you will never know actual happiness.

Instead, find your happiness in that which cannot be corrupted by this fraudulent dystopia.

Your connections with your loved ones. That’s real and authentic.

The radiance of the natural world. That’s real and authentic.

The crackling aliveness of the senses. That’s real and authentic.

The boundless peace deep down at the heart of your being which reveals itself if you listen closely enough. That’s real and authentic.

These things can supply endless happiness, even as the world burns, and even as you weep at its burning. Because it is entirely possible to honor the grief and tragedy of this world while also delighting in its beauty.

You can weep for the dying oceans while marveling at the stars.

You can rage for Gaza while reveling in the earth beneath your bare feet.

You can open your heart to all the suffering and to all the wonder.

You can fall to your knees in both anguish and gratitude.

You can do these things because feelings move through you if you don’t cling to them. You feel them fully without resistance, you invite them in to have their say, and then you let them leave when they are done.

It usually doesn’t take long; a few minutes, maybe even seconds. Then you get up and go back to marveling at the miracle.

Feelings are meant to be felt. If you simply feel them all the way through when they come up instead of repressing them or trying to manage them, they move through fairly quickly without setting up a permanent residence in your chest.

But you’ve got to really let them have their say. You’ve got to give yourself fully over to them. This takes practice if you don’t know how to do it, and because of the way our culture conditions people it tends to be harder for men than for women. But it’s a skill like any other, and anyone can teach themselves how to do it.

Appreciating the beauty of this terrestrial experience likewise takes practice. Everything is crackling with beauty all the time, but we don’t notice it because our attention gets wrapped up in mental stories. Just make a conscious practice of noticing beauty at every opportunity, and your aperture for appreciating beauty will get wider and wider. You can learn to live your whole life in this way, from moment to moment.

If you can get the hang of these two skills—appreciating beauty and feeling your feelings all the way through—then there will be nothing stopping you from living a joyful and fulfilling life while also having an entirely truth-based relationship with reality.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Americans love to say, "We are better than this."

When?

During slavery?

During Jim Crow?

During Vietnam?

During coups in Latin America?

During Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Palestine?

At what exact point was this mythical moral golden age?

Maybe the problem is not that they fell from greatness.

Maybe the problem is that the greatness was always propaganda.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

May this be a day of Solidarity.
A year of Solidarity for Freedom: from apartheid, injustice, impunity.
For the Palestinians.
For the Israelis,who need it too.
For us.
Solidarity is STANDING TOGETHER AS ONE 🌎human rights movement to end a system of 🌍oppression & impunity.
#WeR1

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

It’s #BlackHistoryMonth and I have to ask:

Are people including enslaved Africans, descendants of those enslaved, and Black people whose unjust, low-wage labor sustained the economy in the 1800s/1900s as immigrants when they say “immigrants built this country”?

Because chattel slavery was for the express purpose of building empire.

But our ancestors weren’t folks who came here seeking a better life.

They arrived in chains, were bred like cattle, and severely violated, sexually and otherwise. Their trauma shouldn’t be diminished or forgotten, even in efforts toward freedom from ICE’s inhumane, violent tactics.

We can only get to justice for all when truth is taught, embraced, and spoken.