Ina Kale

Russian-American in Thailand 🌿
@inakale in blue

[Ina Kale @pulhery]

The biggest threat to Western Civilization: compassion. https://t.co/t2JAfim0BO

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

we burned this much healthcare while triple tapping a girls school in iran for israel. also, straits still closed. never any money for social services or medicare for all though.

[Peter Beinart @PeterBeinart]

Because El-Sayed won by a smaller than expected margin, people may now underestimate what an extraordinary campaign he ran. How many senate candidates get outspent that dramatically and still win? His campaign offers a model for how Democrats reclaim both nationalism and populism https://t.co/q1mnQgyzyn

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW.

AlJazeera just dropped a ONE HOUR documentary about ISRAEL’s CRIMES against the PALESTINIANS.

This is very HARD TO WATCH.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is extraordinarily rare.

In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented.

An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor.

The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts.

In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination.

Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light...

I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (https://t.co/Xg1hoSRtNy) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it.

Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period.

In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want.

In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again.

Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “There’s two major lies Republicans tell all the time. Number one: Immigrants do crimes in overwhelming numbers. That’s a lie. The evidence is the exact opposite. The evidence shows migrants are responsible for a much lower share of crime per capita than documented citizens are. The second biggest lie is there are far too many people voting in this country and we have to restrict them. The problem is far too little people are voting. Voter fraud, not a problem. The real problem is voter suppression”

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Republicans and Democrats just UNITED to push deeper US military integration with Israel

Ro Khanna: “Now let me just be clear, Mr. Netanyahu actually wrote to a member of Congress to put this section 224 into the bill.”

The House voted on Section 224 of the NDAA, a measure expanding US Israeli military cooperation, especially on CYBERWEAPONS.

Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Sarah Jacobs tried to remove it.

They LOST.

Almost the entire House backed the measure.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

makes sense why maga loves israel so much

[Ina Kale @pulhery]

@haugejostein @michaeljswalker @novaramedia enjoyed every minute of it ❤️ we need part 2

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

The West’s decline will continue as long as its leaders keep clinging to the rhetoric that they must “defeat” other major powers rather than cooperate with them.

[adri ♡ @socialistadri]

"Massie lost. Israel won. Trump won. This party does not have ANYTHING. They don't have any GOALS. They don't have any AGENDA. It's just TRUMP." Hasan's reaction to Thomas Massie losing the primary for Kentucky.

[Ina Kale @pulhery]

@hasanthehun Russia was and still is a colonial Empire, wtf. Soviets has been doing slavery type of labor until late 70s, farm workers wasn't allowed to leave kolkhozes and scientists wasn't allowed to leave their closed work cities.

[Ina Kale @pulhery]

@hasanthehun please remove this prison light from the dog

[Ina Kale @pulhery]

@hasanthehun exactly what's happened with putin, got himself into a Ukraine trap with Crimea "success"

[Ina Kale @pulhery]

@yanisvaroufakis he tried actually and failed

[Paul Blest @pblest]

Five hrs ago the US created a permission structure to invade any country and arrest any head of state for the crime of being an obstacle to Trump’s agenda. Can’t emphasize enough how your personal opinion on Maduro should be a thousand yards away from this conversation right now

[Ina Kale @pulhery]

@apotae_ actually this
https://t.co/0jaEKZ879l

[Ina Kale @pulhery]

what Acemoglu got wrong
https://t.co/82snWmFyrT

[Volodymyr Ishchenko @Volod_Ishchenko]

Sharing my recent papers that develop a class perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war:
• Class or regional cleavage? The Russian invasion and Ukraine's 'East/West' divide (European Societies)
• The Minsk Accords and the Political Weakness of the “Other Ukraine” (Russian Politics)

[Ina Kale @pulhery]

@hasanthehun Cenk is old old

[Ina Kale @pulhery]

@hasanthehun he loves winners because he steals their rizz like Little Zaches