It’s the height of hypocrisy for @AOC to say she'll boycott @edsheeran given her endorsements of genocidal politicians like @RepJeffries, campaigning for @KamalaHarris, and supporting Iron Dome weapons funding for Israel.
But AOC empathizing with Ed Sheeran is unsurprising given that both of them have made it clear that their personal careers are much more important to them than using their internationally prominent positions to stand up against the genocidal apartheid state of Israel.
In reality, the sellouts by @AOC are even worse, as an elected representative of the Democratic Socialists of America. If AOC had decided to use her elected office to fight the genocidal, anti-worker Democratic Party, she would have antagonized the party leadership but a majority of working people would have agreed with her. She could have combated establishment opposition by building mass movements of working people to support her, as I relentlessly did during my decade on the Seattle City Council.
The cowardice and complicity of @NYCMayor Mamdani and AOC is what history will remember, along with the cover given to them by the DSA leadership. They claim to be pro-Palestinian but support genocidal politicians to ensure their own comfortable careers in the capitalist Democratic Party.
Do you mean stand as in the way someone would stand after you sodomized them with a cinder block or are you actually serious about the politician who has done absolutely nothing for the past several years, spare for doing things like voting to end the railroad strike
Only in a country where the left’s politics are completely consumed by celebrity culture can a government official who voted to fund the Iron Dome, Israel’s most important technology in its ability to wage genocide with impunity, moral grandstand and pretend she’s less complicit in said genocide and the crackdown on free speech than some D-list singer.
Let’s be very clear: the reason we’re even in a wave of brutal McCarthyism—where artists are canceled for saying Free Palestine and Palestinians are snatched up by ICE—to begin with is because an administration that *she* served as the sheepdog and told us to keep voting for wanted to commit genocide without Columbia students yelling at them for it.
@burner1693878@transhevik >they’re an ambush predator!
>if they’re going to attack they’re going to stand still right in front of you and do nothing
"In the first place it’s a simple matter to prove to Stirner that his egoistic man is bound to become communist out of sheer egoism."
-Marx in a letter to Engels, november 19th 1844
Florida (where this happened) as a law called the “free kill” law that basically states medical malpractice that results in a death can’t be charged/ prosecuted if the victims is above the age of 25 and unmarried, if both of those apply they can just kill you and get away with it
When my appendix was ruptured in the ER and I was screaming for over an hour at the top of my lungs but the doctor forgot to put in an order for medication because it was shift change
This is my friend she is a trans woman and she was beat up by a crowd of people in Austin Texas this past Wednesday night and I need to know who was filming this?