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[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The images of kids submerged in freezing floodwater, in flimsy tents that won't survive another winter, make me SICK.

I think of Primo Levi’s words that every European learns by heart at school - only to forget when entering politics or diplomacy.

The shame of our time.

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

Just in case, someone, like @v_x did not get it: all the protests across Europe are, at heart, anti-war protests.

People are saying: we want pensions, student grants, holidays. We want to study, raise children, play music and dance.

We do NOT want to build tanks and drones, kill children or bomb cities.

We don’t believe you when you tell us: “If we don’t wipe them out (terrorists, autocrats, barbarians — tick as appropriate), they’ll come and wipe us out.”

You’re lying to us. You’re lying to us.

You believe in life organised around violence, plunder and domination. We believe in life organised around life itself.

You live in a world where everyone is at war with everyone else. West against East. South against North. Christians against Muslims. Israel against the whole world. Rich against Poor and you and us against each other.

You live in a world of bombs, spies, enemies and foreign agents. We live in a world where none of that exists.

Our worlds are incompatible.

and.. you’re killing us.
meanwhile:

“I know spending more on defence means spending less on other priorities.” — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, 12 December 2024. He went on to name pensions, health and social security.
https://t.co/fpDIK9TJMi

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Children freezing to death in Gaza…

[Rob Pursey @robpursey]

when hip hop was fun 🔥

[gabrielle @legitimatetiger]

mystics have always said that the universe is a song but they forgot to mention that the song in question is actually a banger

[Michael Agwu @MichaelAgwuart]

Not to brag, but i made this artwork from electronic waste

[Evreni Merak Ediyoruz @evrenseImerak]

Bir biyolog, ormandaki bir mantarın biyolojik aktivitesini synthesizer’a bağladı. Mantardan gelen sinyaller, enstrümandan müzik olarak duyuldu.

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

The Right-Wing libertarians who worship Adam Smith might love Landlords and adore property, but in reality, Adam Smith was far more nuanced and had many critical things to say about Landlordism.

Michael Hudson explains.

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

Happiness, music, love.

Meanwhile, France, and the rest of Europe, is under cyberattack. Fridges are dying, food is rotting on supermarket shelves, and France’s central blood bank came within hours of losing blood stocks.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah (@alaa) at our talk at @Graeber_social described how, after the Egyptian uprising, people endured hardship for so long that in the end they were ready to accept any ruler, if only the suffering would stop.

I hope the French and other Europeains figure out fast how to take the structures that keep life going into their own hands, before shock therapy rolls over them, the kind that makes any dictator look like a kitten.

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

А русская версия в исполнении группы Аркадий Коц тоже хороша.

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

This is from Chris Smaje’s review of Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse.

@davidgraeber understood it better than James Scott.

Smaje’s point is that overthrowing a ruler is not enough: we need alternative structures that prevent power from hardening into oppressive hierarchies.
But @davidgraeber and Sahlins’s On Kings adds more: power is sustained not only by institutions and coercion, but also by myth, ritual and religious ideas. Often apparently egalitarian societies may imagine a hierarchical cosmos.
https://t.co/vcxdle1q29

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

I call my parents. Dad says: “We have a problem. We took a punch. Mom’s lying down with her blood pressure up.” Just in case someone worried about it, nobody attacked or punched my parents, but it turned out the phone company had sent them an unfair bill. And now they have to immerse themselves in a bureaucratic battle.

Apparently, if one doesn’t respond in time, one’ll never get the money back. Somewhere in the long list of special rules there’s surely a clause saying how long you have to complain about mistakes.

I relaxed and told them: just pay it, we’ll sort it out later. And then I thought: this is how we all live, in a world that’s one big minefield. Relax for a minute, and who knows how it will turn out.

@davidgraeber wrote that one of the main sources of income for American banks is late fees and other “punishments” for disobeying their rules, written in fine print in an endless customer agreement, while the average American pays monstrous interest on credit card debt.

For people for whom an unexpected bill can mean losing their health insurance or getting evicted, it’s not just a “punch.” It’s a regular, brutal flogging.

How amazing that perfectly legal everyday violence has seeped into every nook and cranny of our lives, and hardly anyone is outraged.

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

Since some of the most famous Jewish political figures, from Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg to Emma Goldman, were on the left, it is especially crazy that somehow, it seems that only one form of political identification with Jewishness is considered legitimate: we all have to support Israel's horrific government.

And all the other ways of being Jewish are under such intense attack that, in some parts of the world, they can put one's life at risk.
ps
Artem Kirpichenok and his laywer Inna is still in Israeli prison.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Thanks for helping so many of us ENGAGE! https://t.co/yzfiua0b6w

[MMTUK Policy Research Group @MMTUK_PRG]

Taxes don't fund govt spending. Spending creates the pounds, and taxes remove them later. A government deficit is the private sector's surplus, to the £. The numbers have to balance, it's an unavoidable accounting reality.

#MMT #Economics #UKEconomy

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

"Young people are like: Please give me an alienating bullsh*t job! I just want to pay my bills!"

In 2018, David Graeber published the book Bullsh*t Jobs: A Theory, arguing that capitalist economies have become “vast engines for producing nonsense” held up by hordes of soulless jobs offering meaningless work.

Almost a decade on, the problem now is that there aren't even "bullsh*t jobs" available for young people to pay the bills and move out of their family home, argues @DaliaGebrial on Novara Live.

Watch the full show on our YouTube channel.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Today’s budget was a missed opportunity to put an end to a failed economic model that impoverishes the many and enriches the few.

[John Barry @ProfJohnBarry]

Text I’ve sent into @BBCgmu that they have not read out in relation to their coverage of the UK budget …once again we see the myth of “the government is like a household” and “there’s no money”… the government does not create money for funding public services via taxes …

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tesco are making £4bn a year in profit.

About 50% of their staff are on Universal Credit.

Why don't we crackdown on this unneeded benefit for billionaires?