Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS

You merely adopted self-isolating… I was born socially distanced, moulded by it.

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@Grogu10062675 @PhilipProudfoot How dare you equate Judaism, a fine religion with a rich culture, with murdering babies? You're a disgusting anti-Semite for suggesting genocide is somehow a Jewish practice. Just cos Israel does something doesn't mean that thing immediately becomes Jewish.

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@jjbiggsy Look I get it, I still talk up '97 New Labour, but this lot are active participants in a genocide and are making trans kids kill themselves. I voted Labour, as always, but this is the first time I ever felt so betrayed and cheated. And physically sick - every day.

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@tastefullysaucy My understanding of the bill is that it seeks to interpret the treaty as if the protections afforded Māori (ie right to their lands) are actually meant to be afforded to everyone, including massive corporations. Is that correct or am I off? Thanks in advance for any explanation

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@BigBroLGND @tastefullysaucy You don't say. Most things need more than one solution; you can't bake a cake with just flour but having flour will help. Having a moron pointing at the flour saying "that's not cake" doesn't. What happened here is about hearts and minds, & you don't win at politics without that

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@Tim_Van_Hoesen @drjenwolkin What is, the statement in quotes or the comment after it?

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

Largely true, but also the genuine left politicians get destroyed by the media, and are treated as a joke so serious numbers can never vote for them. The rise of social media could've stopped that but instead it got bought up and controlled by the same elites

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

if right after picking Tim Walz as her VP Kamala had explicitly vowed to end the ongoing Gaza genocide by saying she would withhold all arms and funding supplies and diplomatic cover if it did not stop, and then also unveiled an economic package of free college, medicare for all, and a 15 or higher minimum wage, she would have easily won the election. That's just a fact, as all of this would have energized the Dem base and also poll very well among independents and even some Republicans.

Instead she ran on being the new version of Liz and Dick Cheney, vowing to endlessly continue the ongoing mass killing and rape of Palestinians and regurgitating genocidal atrocity propaganda hoaxes constantly, saying Iran is the greatest threat to the US and must be destroyed, having Mark Cuban as her main economic guru vowing to deregulate and cut taxes and "be good to Wall Street", and saying actually the Genocide Joe economy is wonderful and great and if you disagree you're too stupid to be able to properly read charts per Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias, Will Stancil and David Shor.

She ran a campaign by and for neo-con neoliberals, David Frum, Jeffrey Goldberg, Yglesias, Shor, and ate shit for it. She was humiliated so badly by a candidate, Trump, who said the most insane deranged shit constantly about Haitians eating dogs and cats, about how she's not really black, not having a plan for doing anything at all.

And you know why she and Democratic leadership did that? Because they didn't care if they lost. Losing is nothing to them. They keep their donor money. The Dem political PR strategist media class keeps its jobs. In fact, they get even more money because they'll switch to being epic based "resistance heroes" again and fleece their base of even more cash.

Kamala Harris and Democratic leadership intentionally threw the election instead of actually running a campaign that could win, because Israel is Uber Alles for them, Zionism sacrosanct, as are their other corporate overlords.

That's what happend in the 2024 election.

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@donpopio @BladeoftheS We used to be taxed the same levels but get services for our money. Then they cut the services. Imagine if Netflix suddenly dropped all their content except Friends, but charged the same rates.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

What is called when an ethnic group is forcibly expelled from their homes and land and not allowed to return?

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

It’s very simple

1. Saying “I’m not Trump” while ignoring the worsening conditions of the working class under neoliberalism gives fascist misdirection free reign

2. You can’t support a genocide and then berate people into voting for you by insisting you’re the good guys.

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

Badenoch suggests that the "rivers of blood" Enoch was the Neutral or even Goodenoch, which is somewhat horrifying

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

The Lemkin Institute has had it with the cynical lies and propaganda from Israel and the USA. One can have different views about the definition of genocide, but one may not use definitional disputes to deny genocide. If a genocide may be occurring, every nation is compelled by customary law to try to stop it.

Let us be clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The US is complicit in genocide. These are not political statements. They are statements that are made from knowledge and experience. Nevertheless, you do not need a PhD , a law degree, or X-ray vision to see the genocidal dimensions of Israel’s carnage in Gaza. It is clear in the behavior of the state and its military, on full display in yesterday’s horrific bombardment of a Rafah camp.

But even if there were legitimate doubts about Israel’s genocide, there is no doubt that Israel is committing atrocity crimes of the most barbaric kind. Israel must be stopped. Israel must be stopped now.

We are disgusted by Western leaders, especially in the USA, Germany, and the UK. They have demonstrated not only that they don’t care one bit about genocide prevention and human rights, but also that they are willing to allow an ally to commit atrocity crimes while they offer material and diplomatic support. It is reprehensible and the individuals involved in this gaslighting campaign should be deeply ashamed. They should also be put on trial.

Humanity has a choice: Either we decide that our children can all be killed whenever a superior force alleges that “terrorists” are among us, or we decide that under no circumstances will we allow these superior forces to lay waste to our world any longer.

We each must choose and act accordingly. The watershed moment is now.

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@CLITORIOUSBOB @timecaptales If that's your lived experience of what you personally have seen first-hand, I'm inclined to accept your evidence - but will suggest the relevant common factor at play is not the subjects' gender, but rather your presence

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@StockSquirrel23 @timecaptales Pfft that's not special, so can I. Only out, mind you...

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@broadwaybabyto V grateful for this. I have to advocate for my wife in medical settings a lot - which is frustrating since she's smarter and more impressive & formidable a person than me (but I'm male so male docs listen to me 🙄). Bookmarked to reread ahead of every appt, thank you

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@ZeynabDay @AbbyMartin So true, also notice how @AbbyMartin refers to "dead and alive" Palestinians as "bodies" as though it wasn't murder it was simply grim pragmatism.

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@tenphihik @AbbyMartin The Nazis experienced this exact problem which is why they switched to gas chambers, but obviously that was totally different because ... um, reasons and stuff

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

Is anyone actually happy with this shit? Anyone, of any political affiliation, sat at home thinking "Yeah, nice one, system's working fine – this is what I want"… Some fucking democracy.

[Rob Lavender Woke Up Cranky #TaxTheRich #NHS @law_ender]

@GarnhamArchie @Gomeracing People who genuinely don't want plaudits for doing good, as a general rule, don't mouth off on twitter to other people who do good out of a need to be seen as being better at doing good

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

So that's it, is it?

The West has now completely normalised the destruction of hospitals and the killing of medical personnel and patients.

How can the West claim moral legitimacy on anything ever again?

Its moral claims are buried under this rubble.