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@Grimeandreason Optimism of the will

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

The European Citizens' Initiative titled "Justice for Palestine" has currently gathered roughly 900,000 signatures in its campaign to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement.

The initiative confirms that the European Union should halt this agreement based on Article 2, which mandates respect for human rights, citing ongoing Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They have a ritual called the Pledge of Allegiance.

They make children recite it.

Every morning. In school. Standing, hand over heart, facing the flag.

One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

They start doing this when children are five years old. Before children can read. Before children can form political opinions. Before children have any framework for evaluating what they are pledging or to whom or why.

They are trained in devotion before they are capable of skepticism.

And then, twenty years later, when someone presents them with evidence that the nation they pledged themselves to at five years old has committed systematic atrocities across the world, people are surprised that rational argument doesn't land cleanly.

You are not arguing with an adult's political opinions.

You are arguing with something that was installed before the adult existed.

This is not an accident.

A population capable of genuine critical thought about its own government's actions is a population that is harder to send to war.

Harder to tax for military budgets.

Harder to keep quiet when the next intervention begins.

So they start early.

Every morning. Hand over heart.

Before the questions can form.

[Natalie Strecker @StreckerSpeaks]

Interesting isn't it how @metpoliceuk hasn't arrested a SINGLE Briton who has committed WAR CRIMES participating in a GENOCIDE despite being given a dossier of at least 10, however, are arresting OLD PEOPLE for holding pieces of paper opposing genocide! @AmnestyUK @hrw @IntlCrimCourt

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Kwame Nkrumah said this in 1963.

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By the same logic, we citizens cannot be free if we are constantly monitored by Big Tech, by surveillance capitalism, biometric digital-ID, spyware and intelligence agencies. Why can't they all just fcuk off?

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

The press can’t be free if it’s constantly under watch.

Check out our recent event to learn why Congress shouldn’t renew the spy law known as Section 702 of FISA without making reforms to protect journalists and Americans from warrantless surveillance.
https://t.co/SDxVLq8sFx

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Let me help.

[Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley]

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[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

Well said Akala ❤💚

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@MonikaCinnyRoll @JessieNYC I'm the firestarter
Punkin' instigator
You're the firestarter
Twister firestarter
https://t.co/JqgdsthZj3

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@rdd147 @Commonismz Warehouse fires now trending IRL

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Warehouse fires are trending in IRL

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Warehouses burnt down, a Molotov thrown at Sam Altman’s house, a politicians home shot at because they supported a data center — a spree of attacks on the ruling class appears to have begun.

Every attacker will now be deemed a terrorist by our government and by the entire ruling class. That’s inevitable.

But what the ruling class desperately doesn’t want you to know is that they made this moment inevitable.

Their greed has made so many people so destitute and desperate that people across America resorting to lashing out was bound to happen.

What the rich and powerful don’t want is for you to look at the underlying causes of these acts.

https://t.co/HA5JaWwczr

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

@wesstreeting

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Polls show that in many European countries citizens now see China as a closer ally than the US which is increasingly viewed as a threat.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Only 12% of people polled last month in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain see America as a close ally.

Meanwhile, 36% see the U.S. as a threat.

For comparison, China is seen as a threat by 29% of people polled in the same six countries.

https://t.co/RRp3MR4Msk

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Apple Maps has erased Lebanese towns that Israel has occupied and is destroying.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

I literally had to go see this for myself. Sure enough. Apple Maps has removed almost every town in Lebanon from the map while keeping every podunk town in Israel and Syria clearly marked.

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Whose streets?
Our Streets!

[Alex_politics @comuflauta]

En Estados Unidos se están enfrentando a un problema que dice mucho de su sistema.

Miles de jóvenes, especialmente de barrios pobres, se están organizando en masa para “invadir” espacios públicos de la capital en lo que las autoridades llaman “teen takeovers”, como si reunirse en la calle fuera un delito.

Y para el capitalismo americano, básicamente lo es. Washington D.C. vive bajo un toque de queda juvenil constante: actualmente es ilegal que grupos de más de 8 menores se reúnan en determinadas zonas a partir de las 8 de la tarde.

¿El origen del problema? Décadas de abandono institucional, privatización del espacio público y ausencia de ocio asequible en los barrios más pobres de la ciudad.

El capitalismo ha construido estadios de béisbol de 900 millones de dólares en Navy Yard, pero no ha sido capaz de darle a sus jóvenes un parque donde estar sin que los detengan.

¿Y cuál es la respuesta de esos jóvenes? Ir en masa, durante un corto periodo de tiempo, a generar disturbios en las zonas más ricas de la ciudad.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”