Laniakean Simian 🌍

Curious Humanoid, Arm-Chair Revolutionary, Earthling.
Proud Laniakean!
Dude/Sweet.

[This American Life @ThisAmerLife]

Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code.

Hear the story: https://t.co/0gLhP4L8rL

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

A Palestinian activist once covertly attended an Israeli propaganda training. They instructed participants to stop trying to convince people & instead keep saying "it's complicated" & "you don't know enough". If that doesn't work, pull the antisemitism card & say "why are you so obsessed with this small nation 6,000 miles away".

Israel knows it can't sell apartheid & genocide to the world, so it seeks instead to make as many people lose interest in the topic as possible through gaslighting & intimidation

Israel's second tactic is to promote Islamophobia as much as it could to deflect attention & keep people frightened of the "enemy within"

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

Palantir and Anthropic targeted Minab school, aided by Pentagon stale data and Hegseth psychopathy stripping target review staff.

And it was a triple tap, not a double tap. Children killed on first strike. Parents killed by second strike getting surviving children. Rescue workers killed by third strike rushing in after second strike.

Unforgivable.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

A reminder that leaked Israeli studies found that pushing pro-Israel propaganda to Westerners didnt work and instead they advised spending millions blasting the West with racist Islamophobic content demonizing Muslims instead.

[99% Johnny Graz @jvgraz]

From here on forward, I will be referring to the Holocaust as "the German-Jewish conflict".

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

Interesting that when Trump came to China, Xi welcomed him with a team of happy children waving 🇺🇸🇨🇳 flags; and when Xi comes to the US, he gets a heavy bomber fly over his head.
Different societies have different aesthetics and values.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

In meetings with @kajakallas and other EU counterparts, I warned of the severe long-term consequences of facilitating and supporting Israeli-U.S. war crimes, whether in Gaza or Iran.

That major folly aside, @SecGenNATO should know by now that groveling never satisfies a bully.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

This is why Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, speaking at the Afro-Asian Solidarity Conference at Bandung in 1955, said that “NATO today is one of the most powerful protectors of colonialism.”

This is why Amilcar Cabral, leader of the anti-colonial movement in West Africa, observed that “Portugal would never be able to launch three colonial wars in Africa without the help of NATO, the weapons of NATO, the planes of NATO, the bombs of NATO.”

And it is why Fidel Castro, in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and during the intervention in Libya, declared in 2011 that “NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression in the history of humanity.”

From the start, NATO’s function has been to consolidate US and European imperialism under one roof.

[stache X. @ElStachioo]

There’s a declassified U.S. report out there stating, in remarkably clear terms:

“Nigeria must never be allowed to consume its resources. If Nigeria’s people grew too numerous, they might consume too much of their own oil, gas, and mineral resources, which Washington considered essential for its own prosperity.”

I won’t say more than this.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Iran President Pezeshkian at the UN:

"Those who are terrorists and train terrorists tell us that we are terrorists."

"For two hundred years, Iran has not attacked any country. For two hundred years, we have always defended ourselves."

"They bombed and killed these children, with weapons supplied by America and Israel. They were guilty of nothing. They had committed no crime."

"In Gaza, they murdered more than eighty thousand innocent people."

"Then they say others are terrorists, these are the ones causing instability -- are we the ones causing instability?"

"Anyone they want to destroy, they label a terrorist."

"Palestine remains a wound on the body of the conscience of the international community, and Gaza remains a symbol of the failure of international mechanisms to prevent the suffering of civilians."

"Israel murders thousands of people in Gaza every week. But Iran was bombed while at the negotiating table."

"Yet Israel receives billions of dollars in free weapons as a reward, and it is licensed to bomb any capital it wishes."

"The nuclear bombs are in Israel, but the inspectors are in Iran. Israel kills, yet Iran is sanctioned, and this is a tragedy that would make anyone you tell laugh."

"We must not build a world in which military power replaces legitimacy, sanctions replace diplomacy, terror replaces politics, and war replaces dialogue."

"We have found our answer. We need power. Because a nation that cannot defend itself, they crush it in this world."

"Let him know: the Iranian nation, in the face of force, will not bow its head, and will make the aggressors regret it."

[Laniakean Simian 🌍 @laniakeanSimian]

@ClaraJuneqnor Americans never learnt the lessons of the three little piggies story and so they still make their houses out of cardboard.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

The fascist imperialist will tell you he is guided by a thirst for resources or a divine right to dominate. The liberal imperialist will tell you that he is guided by the “rules-based international order”. Then both will bomb your family and take your wealth.

[Laniakean Simian 🌍 @laniakeanSimian]

@barandbench

[Laniakean Simian 🌍 @laniakeanSimian]

India is on Rewind!

[Dhruvaa @ripper_dhruvaa]

Brahmin blood cannot be transfused into lower caste patients. 😭

Rewa MP: patient is in critical condition and urgently requires blood. A Brahmin boy agreed to donate blood to patient, but the doctor refused to transfuse blood because the patient is from a lower caste.

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Supreme Court bench led by Justice Satish Chandra Sharma mutes the audio of the proceedings in Noida DM Medha Roopam's plea against Allahabad HC order.

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

This is exactly what happened in the Delhi Govt vs Union of India case. 5-judge bench issued a ruling, 2-judge bench differed over its interpretation, referred it to another 5-judge bench to clarify. This took 8 years, while status quo stayed. See: https://t.co/LcaRSKZ3Nm

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

#BREAKING #SuprmeCourt Judge Justice Dipankar Datta prima facie expresses that the 2023 law on the appointment of Election Commissioners does not appear to ensure an independent selection process.

A nominee of the Prime Minister in the selection committee cannot be expected to defy the PM, Justice Datta says.

"Inclusion of cabinet ministers fails to provide an independent counterweight that a neutral selector would. It becomes largely ornamental."

"Free and fair elections depend on a truly independent ECI. It is not enough for the ECI to be independent; it must appear to be independent," Justice Datta pronounces.

[Laniakean Simian 🌍 @laniakeanSimian]

Gold and land are last line of defence for a family's finances.
Work towards removing the unprecedented levels of corruption in this country especially by the brokers of faith in this country.
Corruption and development are mutually exclusive.

[Piyush Chaudhry @piyushchaudhry]

Gold INR has beaten all asset classes hands down in the last 25 years.
There's enough money in the world to fund the productive assets: businesses and infrastructure that Mr Kotak is talking about. For instance, Government's Tax pool itself has grown from 11-12 Lac Crores in 2014 to 38 Lac Crores last year. If anything, it's the menace called Corruption that's stonewalling India.
Yet, the hate for people's Gold is massive.
No Indian should ever part from Gold unless the family situation warrants it. Or, you really have some good business ideas of your own.
Gold is the only Hedge against the mismanagement of the Government.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Me zoning out so I don’t run my fucking mouth.