Is this the new LARP? American politicians flying to the West Bank to cosplay as defenders of Palestinians while supporting the very institutions that make settler violence possible in the first place?
Brad Lander, we didn’t need you to fly to Palestine and get into a scuffle with settlers to prove you’re an ally. We needed you to stop investing our money in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, while it profited from the genocide of our people. We needed you to stop proudly identifying as a Zionist while condemning Palestinian resistance.
Palestinians don’t need your performative solidarity. We need you to stop supporting our oppressors.
And those who stand with Palestine cannot allow these gestures to buy our trust, erase politicians’ records, or earn them our votes. A photo op in the West Bank does not absolve anyone of their complicity.
Our standards for solidarity with Palestinian liberation cannot be lowered just because politicians have learned how to perform it.
In case you were wondering if Larry Ellison would use his partial ownership of TIKTok to shut down the exposure of his billionaire buddies and their weirdness, corruption and grifting … wonder no more. TikTok just shut down the media page of the world renowned, Oscar winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary film “MUSK”. The comprehensive documentary on all things Elon. It’s more f&@&’d then you can imagine. The best thing any of us can do now is to go see it! It will blow your mind. Billionaire broke mind virus. Hear it from the people who have known Elon over the years. #BrokeMindVirus
Here is the founder of #NoKings saying that if "Israel" could get a big red button to trigger the wholesale extermination of the Palestinian resistance, he'd support it.
@n0_ch1ldren Sherry Poppins did one of the best drag performances I’ve ever seen, the FULL 17-minute “MacArthur Park Suite” by Donna Summer. That’s legend behavior @SherryPoppinsNY
It’s beyond sad. It’s beyond disappointing; at this point, it’s disqualifying for anyone with ambitions for higher office as a Democrat, or a Republican, for that matter, to be fighting to keep billionaires from being taxed while kids don’t have health insurance and the cost of living goes sky-high.
These billionaires are also the ones hellbent on replacing entire workforces with the AI they are developing with our tax dollars (watch the “Musk” doc). We are also living through the largest wealth gap in modern history. At this point, the only way to balance out the economic forces that have bought our politicians and keep rigging the game against working people is through taxes.
Let’s hope Gavin gets some sense and walks this back. It’s crazy that this is what he chooses to spend his political capital, and part of his legacy, doing. He vetoed the bill that would have put a “kill switch” on AI for our protection. He vetoed a bill that would have gotten forever chemicals out of cookware. Time and time again, he goes with corporate interests over the well-being of the people, even after his own bipartisan legislature votes for something.
And here we go again.
Gavin, we aren’t looking for the Democratic version of Trump. That was a good goof. Please try something else. It’s tired.
The people need a champion, man. A real, bona fide champion who isn’t just tough in tweets or press conferences, but tough when it comes to the real imbalances people are struggling with every day: billionaires vs. people and the planet.
Btw @NYCMayor, who instantly has a tweet out every time there's a suggestion of an "antisemitic incident", hasn't said anything about this despite it happening two nights ago.
Nothing from @AOC either even though she was front and center when Mahmoud Khalil got released.
arguably the biggest fraud pulled by US media during this genocide is ignoring the very common and very open genocidal pledges from the entire Israeli gov in Hebrew
This has never been difficult to figure out. It’s never been a mystery. It was genocidal intent from the first day
The Atlantic put out an article claiming child trafficking was a "fake" epidemic.
Here's a photo of the owner of the Atlantic, Laurene Powell, getting cozy with Ghislaine Maxwell.
If @KamalaHarris had won these Democrats who are pretending to care about starvation in Gaza (while they keep cashing AIPAC checks) would be telling us that their Queen was “working tirelessly” to get food to the people.
I will never forget that the Gaza genocide started under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. If you think it doesn't matter where a genocide started and continued for 15 months, you're probably not really that bothered by genocide in the first place.