P-MAC

EST. Stuttgart 1986

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Deadly bacteria found in major US city's water system traced to Mark Zuckerberg's $800 million, $META, data center, per TechRadar

[Danny Manus @DannyManus]

Mitch McConnell is actually the best Metaphor for, and representation of, America and our political system. He spent almost a century making the world a better place for only himself and his friends, married an immigrant while working tirelessly against other immigrants, manipulated the system to increase his power only to be usurped & made impotent by someone even more unethical, unscrupulous and power hungry. Then when the system is finally done with him, they keep his dead body on life support just to use him for one more power move until finally allowing him sweet sweet death while his wife flees the country and his children go into hiding. And when it's all said and done, he'll be best remembered for a meme that made him into a turtle. America.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

[Douglas Farmer @D_Farmer]

This @StarTribune photo from today should make it rather clear how ICE operates by default.
Two agents holding down an observer, third pepper spraying straight to the face from inches away.
The federal government is attacking a major city with violence on a daily basis.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

If you think the violence you’re seeing has nothing to do with Gaza, you’re not paying attention.

When you normalize genocide and a decades-long military occupation, when you normalize the mass slaughter of children, assassinating journalists, bombing hospitals, and starving people, there are no norms left to protect.

And that was all before Trump. Until you can see the deeper issues of a system that allows its children to go hungry but always has money for war, until you can see the connections of how the brutality we normalize outside our borders comes back home, things will only get worse.

A political and media class that aids and supports horrific violence against innocents across the world, will not hesitate to turn it against their own.

[P-MAC @patmcmillin]

@PDWolves Clark's three fouls were all and-ones

[P-MAC @patmcmillin]

@crispy_hexagon Spa

[P-MAC @patmcmillin]

@crispy_hexagon 😂😂

[P-MAC @patmcmillin]

@hooboyilltellya apparently you can import your followers and tweets https://t.co/GAUMuIQJK1

[P-MAC @patmcmillin]

@hooboyilltellya Haha, fair enough. I'm over there now and it's pretty good! Just need to get more people..

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Israel knows it can commit war crimes with impunity.

That is why it has launched its largest assault on the West Bank since 2002.

We are witnessing the total erasure of Palestine - and our government is shamefully complicit.

End all arms sales to Israel, now.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Why does the Biden administration support the Israeli genocide and war crimes even in the face of virtually universal condemnation, at massive expense, and to the point of totally debasing the rules-based international order? Why do it?

People fall back on narratives about the power of AIPAC in US elections etc, which is real but also doesn't capture the whole story. The truth is that US capitalism depends on it, and the US ruling class broadly understands this fact.

The key thing to understand is that capitalist growth and accumulation in the imperial core (the US, Britain, Germany etc) relies heavily on the appropriation of cheap inputs and resources from the periphery and semi-periphery of the world economy (broadly, the global South). They need the South remain a subordinated supplier within global commodity chains.

In order to maintain this arrangement, it is imperative for them to suppress sovereign economic development in the South. Because the "problem" with development is it means Southerners begin to produce for themselves and consume their own resources. This makes resources and inputs more expensive for the core, which constrains consumption and profits.

Economic sovereignty in the periphery threatens capital accumulation in the core. To avoid this, the core states constantly intervene to prevent or crush any movement or government in the periphery that seeks national liberation and economic sovereignty.

The US started to support the Zionist project in the 1960s, and invested heavily in the Israeli arms industry, with the explicit intention of using Israel as a staging ground—a massive military base—for counter-revolutionary interventions against rising Arab socialist and national liberation struggles in North Africa and the Middle East. The US could not accept the prospect of sovereign development in that region: liberation movements had to be crushed or destabilized and they used Israel to help them do it. Israel is not an "ally" in the conventional sense. It is a proxy.

They support Israel for the exact same reasons that they have backed assassinations or coups against liberation leaders across the global South: Mosaddegh, Lumumba, Nkrumah, Allende, Arbenz, Sukarno, Sankara...

Israel assassinates movement leaders in the Middle East and interferes in regional political processes, all in concert with the US, but it also constantly bombs the frontline states, destabilizing their societies and economies and forcing them to divert resources toward defensive spending rather than industrial development. The Zionist project is intolerable not only because it is murderously hell-bent on ethnically cleansing Palestine, but because it creates chaos and instability across the whole region.

The core states used South Africa in the very same way. The key reason that Western powers supported the apartheid regime in South Africa – against overwhelming international condemnation – was because it served as a highly militarized Western colonial outpost that was geared up to run counter-insurgency operations not only within South Africa, but also in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, the DRC, etc., leaving immense violence and chaos in its wake.

The vast majority of the world—and international law itself—supports Palestinian liberation, but Palestinian liberation would constrain Israeli power and open the way to regional liberation movements, and this is strongly antithetical to the interests of Western capital. So this is the situation we are in. The Western ruling classes are willing to back obscene violence in Gaza, and shred the liberal values they claim to believe in, because they want to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation and geopolitical hegemony.

You cannot appeal to imperial power in moral terms. The only way the US will stop propping up the Zionist regime is when it becomes too costly for them to do so. This will come down to the strength of the resistance and regional political and military opposition, but also the extent to which people can coordinate boycotts, divestment and sanctions, and punitive measures under international law.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

Naz Reid.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Why is Fox News hosting a presidential debate when they had to settle a nearly $800 million lawsuit for lying to its viewers about the 2020 election being stolen?

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

We are at a point where Israelis can slaughter civilians in Gaza and the West Bank with total impunity. This is worse than what we saw in apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia. The closest analogue is the European colonization of the Americas, where killing was done for sport and resistance was annihilated.

[Dr. Richard Harambe @Richard_Harambe]

If Trump wins Biden can still run again in 2028

[soul khan, msw @soulkhan]

netanyahu visiting congress now is straight up like if they'd invited hitler to the capitol during the holocaust

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Remember: it’s not a war in Gaza, it’s a genocide & ethnic cleansing.

You don’t get to slaughter 15,000 children and induce a famine and get to call it “war.”

[Senator Lidia Thorpe @SenatorThorpe]

I stand in solidarity with the Indigenous Kanak people of New Caledonia, who are facing down violent French colonial forces on their homeland. Indigenous resistance is a global fight. From Palestine to Kanaky, to Aboriginal Land, together we fight for justice ✊🏾