keenan

one of those super gangster leftist musicians

[keenan @oklittlerocket]

it’s rocket science bro not music theory cmon it can’t be that hard

[keenan @oklittlerocket]

@DG21or5 @bunkercat36 There’s two American occupation zones in this picture

[Carlos @agent_of_change]

Mao Zedong died fifty years ago today, on 9 September 1976.

Half a century on, the standard way of dismissing the achievements of Chinese socialism is still to invoke Mao as a monster – a tyrant with tens of millions of deaths to his name.

That story doesn’t get a warm reception in China itself, where people understand the achievements of the Mao period perfectly well. In the 27 years between the founding of the People’s Republic and Mao’s death, life expectancy in China rose by 31 years – more than a year gained for every year of Mao’s leadership. Literacy went from under 20 percent to around 93 percent. The population, static between 400 and 500 million for a century, reached 900 million. Land was irrigated, universal healthcare established, feudalism dismantled, land given to those who worked it, and a path to women’s liberation opened up. After a hundred years of foreign domination, China was unified, sovereign and able to defend itself.

There were unquestionably mistakes and excesses, but these were part not of some megalomaniacal scheming (as Cold War historians would have it) but the unforeseen outcomes of trying to solve genuine and unprecedented problems: how a poor peasant country escapes underdevelopment on its own resources, and how a ruling communist party avoids the ideological decay that eventually destroyed the Soviet Union. The party’s own verdict is that Mao’s errors were “the errors of a great proletarian revolutionary”.

Which is why Deng Xiaoping, himself purged and humiliated during the Cultural Revolution, could still say that without Mao’s leadership the Chinese Revolution would not have triumphed, and that for the party and the people he remains “a very precious treasure”.

https://t.co/mrDJLpTYuE

[keenan @oklittlerocket]

@briebriejoy killed them with grace

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

If you tried this with a U.S. soldier they’d kill the child

[Jozu 🇵🇦 @JozuJoestarr]

If Berserk were released a thousand years ago, it’d be on the level of Greek legends like the Odyssey that would be studied in classrooms forever

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Western officials are like "Violence has no place in our society [bombs a school]. We've all got our differences and disagreements [sponsors a genocide], but it's important for us to find a way to make peace [starves a civilian population with siege warfare]."

[keenan @oklittlerocket]

@coughdropsh toe - goodbye (live version). 9 minutes of magic.

[keenan @oklittlerocket]

@EdbieLigerSmith @sircalebhammer yes. caleb is a talking head for “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” rhetoric that critiques the individual who is a victim of a rigged system. there is a reason rightists want to talk to him. he is a vessel for lowering class consciousness.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

A message to the U.S. troops:
Disobeying orders and being discharged from the army has fewer consequences than being tried for war crimes.

[keenan @oklittlerocket]

@miltonthe4th @MarcoFoster_ @KyleKulinski everybody get dressed and do your hair for john

[Sarah @DDGSarah]

You could tell an American this was filmed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and they’d believe you. It’s Tehran.

[keenan @oklittlerocket]

@miltonthe4th @MarcoFoster_ @KyleKulinski he fucking talks to a camera every day in a suit brother

[keenan @oklittlerocket]

@CallaWalsh it was always the liberals seldom the leftists w the horrible takes

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

Michael Parenti explains why the US🇺🇸 has conducted so many covert CIA and over military interventions since WW2, and destroys the myth that the US intervenes to support ‘democracy’.

Remember this as Trump threats to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.

[Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian]

To the people of the United States of America

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to end of the bed and pulled my legs apart forcefully.

I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head.

While I was blindfolded, I felt a man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera, so I believe they were filming me.

I cannot describe what I felt. I wished for death. Every moment."

— UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese reads Palestinian survivor accounts of rape, torture, and killings in Israeli detention.

18,500+ have been detained since October 7. At least around a hundred, including a child, have died in custody. And some 4,000 are forcibly disappeared.

“What is lost in Palestine will be lost to us all.” — @FranceskAlbs told the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

[keenan @oklittlerocket]

@EdbieLigerSmith @BernieSanders can you articulate why putin is more left than people think? i genuinely ask in good faith

[Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung]

It's all very abstract until you look at one. Just one. And imagine what she's going through after 7 years in this cage.

This is why we had to break them out.