James Curley

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[playful peter @w0rldmap]

Finished wordle, crossword, connections, spelling bee, strands and sudoku. Time to go to the liquor store

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

What’s particularly ridiculous about the flagrant American lie that President Maduro is some sort of drugs kingpin is that the US openly ran Afghanistan as a heroin colony for 20 years. The country under US puppet rule supplied 90% of the world’s heroin and the US-backed rulers all took their cut. After the Taliban ejected the occupiers, poppy production stopped virtually overnight.

As always imperial propaganda is pure projection.

[Lateef 🙃 @LateefSaka]

Venezuela has been trying to get the gold for years including filling a legal claim against the Bank of England noting that the country would struggle to effectively manage the spread of coronavirus. UN requested some funds be released to ensure humanitarian aid and the U.K. declined. This is who you think cares about the Venezuelan people.

[Jack Tye Wilson ☭ @bolsh3vik]

People on the left need to stop relying so much on the concept of "illegal invasions" going against "international law".

There is no "international law" under imperialism – and there never has been! The US has always acted unilaterally to assert its interests, from the Monroe Doctrine to the present day.

The very idea of a lawfully-governed "international community" was only over meant to be window dressing for US world hegemony.

Making "international law" the thrust of your critique sows illusions in the idea of a harmonious and rational capitalist world order, where imperialism can be defanged by diplomacy and UN discussions.

It also means you restrict yourself to the same language and outlook as Starmer, and the rest of the liberal establishment. That can never be a good thing.

We oppose the invasion of Venezuela not on the basis of legal abstractions, but from a class point of view. Because it infringes the elementary democratic rights of an oppressed and exploited nation. Because it will mean the parasitic carving up of its resource-rich economy, to enrich the US oligarchy. Because it will plunge into misery the workers and poor who were uplifted by the Bolivarian Revolution.

We oppose imperialism because we want to weaken and overthrow our ruling classes – which, by the way, is especially "illegal" and "against international law".

[James Curley @James__Curley]

I can't help being bitter about it now that we're here, and not at all because of Corbyn who has failed in his own way, but because this is what happens when all you try to do is win an election by sacrificing the ideology behind the win. We're reaping what you sowed you losers!

[James Curley @James__Curley]

Quitting Labour over this man is the one and only "I told you so" I have held in life

All the uni socialists I knew, jubilant over Corbyn losing in 2019 because Labour would 'finally be electable', didn't listen to criticisms of him being a spineless neoliberal shill

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

#BBCLauraK to Keir Starmer: "You've been incredibly clear, that Putins attack on a sovereign country, Ukraine, was wrong & ought to be condemned. What about Trumps attack on a sovereign country of Venezuela.. will you condemn that action against a sovereign state?

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

An utterly snivelling, craven, abject, fully castrated government

[lina | لينه @labushouk]

saying the US is a "dying empire" has become the equivalent of saying "late stage capitalism." they both predict an end, but offer no realistic pathway.

[Ammar Kazmi 🇵🇸 @AmmarKazmi]

What is happening in Venezuela is a dry run for what the US and Israel are planning to do in Iran.

Once you normalise kidnapping a head of state, everything is on the table. They have already flirted with assassinating Ayatullah Khamenei and have been planning further strikes on Iran for months.

Venezuela proves that you can't sit and wait. Time is on the enemy's side. The best defence is a good offence. And the clock is ticking.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Never forget Obama and then Biden teed Trump up for the coup against Venezuela. Joint project. Evil empire.

[josh! @queersocialism]

well

[James Curley @James__Curley]

Summer 2016 😳 and I've been (even more) insufferable since

[Jared 🗿🇵🇸 @b1g_damage]

Every white boy remembers the first time they heard A Tribe Called Quest

[josh! @queersocialism]

the us would rather wipe out the entire middle eastern region than tell its client state to stop its genocidal onslaught against palestinians and i just don’t think enough of us are truly grasping the level of unconscionable depravity the non-western world is up against

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

This is powerful. #GazaGenocide

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The BBC confirms that Israeli forces have bombed "safety" zones in south Gaza where they told Palestinians to evacuate to. Not once or twice. Repeatedly.
https://t.co/Mv3GeDuhnk

[Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa]

Israel is launching a ground invasion of Gaza tonight and they've cut all forms of communication to ensure that the world will not see or hear the crimes they are about to commit.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

An utterly horrifying update from Gaza today.

Israel is warning it will bomb Al Shifa Hospital, where an estimated 50-60,000 displaced Palestinians are sheltering.

https://t.co/WqnKDiaCMp

[Louis Allday @Louis_Allday]

I never want to hear “two state solution” again in my entire life. There can be no solution or just peace that entails the continued existence of the genocidal entity unleashing hell on Gaza in front of all our eyes.

[The Anti-Genocide Project @justinpodur]

Trapping 2 million people inside a fence and bombing them is one of the craziest and most depraved things a group of people has ever done to another in human history.