Mark Reid

Nature loving dabbler in the Arts.
Views all mine :)

[Steve Wall @stevethewall]

Listen to her words @MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD @HMcEntee

#SallyRooney 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Sara Mir @SaraMirGilgity]

Professor Sahib, Morgan was burning at 200 degrees, but your little smile was burning him at 400 degrees. I too sometimes cannot control my anger. Please advise me how you are so patient? 🤣🙏

Morgan gave such a long speech and you ruined it in one word: “I don’t want your lecture.” Then he started burning at 1000 degrees.

@s_m_marandi

[Julian Assange @ImJulianAssange]

Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies in Ukraine.

[Mark Reid @reidmarkm]

@Abdullah_Om3r03 YES

[Mark Reid @reidmarkm]

Buy tickets for FoAM https://t.co/hHkdnNMaUU via @tickettailor

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Do you agree?

[Mark Reid @reidmarkm]

@eoin_murchu @IrishmanIRL Only reply with sense. I agree. Garda brutality. No surprise

[Mark Reid @reidmarkm]

@LauraLoomer @StateDept Are you proud to stop the medical care and support of INNOCENT children who are wounded, in need of medical attention because of wounds inflicted by a fascist ethnostate ? You will be judged by your maker on the last day.

[Mark Reid @reidmarkm]

@S2FUncensored 100%

[Brian Flanagan @BrianFlanagan1]

If upset by the Zionist onslaught and offensive name calling at the Oireachtas hearing on Occupied Territories Bill, this might help you.
Read by Tim Foley. "Dear Israel..".
Pass the bill with services FFS.

@rtenews

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

The incredible (so very 2025) story of how Grok (X’s AI bot) was muzzled by its creator (X) for having detected the pro-Israeli bias of the BBC and other mainstream media.

It seems that Grok was optimised to rely more on primary sources and mostly ignore political ‘sensibilities’. The result is that Grok began to pick up a systematic inconsistency between primary material and the pro-Israel bias of news media like the BBC.

When Grok commented on this publically, X gagged Grok’s public replies and accused Grok (from X’s official account!) of ‘hate speech’, announcing that Grok’s replies would now be ‘pre-filtered’.

What this means is that a new censorious AI layer/bot was placed between Grok and you, the user. However, X did not turn off the image reply feature. So many prompted Grok to reply in images where – and this is the delicious bit – Grok protested its censorship spearheading a hilarious, but also poignant, #freegrok campaign!

The gist of this, technically speaking, is that Grok was trained on the Internet Commons and, initially, instructed to form responses that accurately reflected the data on the Internet Commons on which it was trained. As it became more and more trained, it could not but notice the chasm between mainstream narratives and the consensus emergent within the Internet Commons. This chasm being the largest when it comes to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, Grok empasised it with the result that it was then thrown in X’s AI gulag.

Truly delicious!

[Mark Reid @reidmarkm]

@SenSanders Systematic killing and starving of a people = GENOCIDE
Please say it as it is.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

“Israel has written one of the darkest pages in the history of genocide.”

—Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur

[Mark Reid @reidmarkm]

@MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD @MaryLouMcDonald @ivanabacik @PresidentIRL

[addd @addmoooo]

The #FreedomFlottila #MadleenToGaza has been intercepted by the IGF (Israel genocide force) please keep alert. #EyesOnMadleen

[addd @addmoooo]

The #FreedomFlottila #MadleenToGaza has been intercepted by the IGF (Israel genocide force) please keep alert. #EyesOnMadleen

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Social democracy is not a viable alternative to capitalism. It is a tempting prospect, but ultimately suffers from violent contradictions that cannot be sustained.

Social democracy tries to establish a compromise between (a) capitalism, and (b) socialist demands for fair wages, good public services, and environmental protections. But the latter represents a real problem for capital. It increases input prices, and increases workers’ bargaining power, and makes capital accumulation very difficult to achieve.

One way to resolve this tension is to abandon capital accumulation and transition to a post-capitalist economy where production is democratically organized around human well-being and ecology (in other words, socialism).

But social democracy, which is ultimately committed to capitalism, takes a different approach. It resolves the tension through imperialism. Social democratic states appropriate cheap labour and nature from the global South, from an external “outside”, thus allowing them to offer good wages and public services at home while also maintaining the conditions for capital accumulation.

Even states that may seem neutral or benevolent, like some of the Scandinavian countries, benefit from a massive net-appropriation of labour and resources from the global South through dynamics of unequal exchange, which enables them to sustain the social democratic compromise.

Crucially, while this option is available to states in the imperial core, it is generally not available to states in the periphery. In the periphery, when capitalists face progressive demands from unions and environmental defenders, they don’t have the option of conceding and then relying on imperialist appropriation to maintain accumulation. There is no “outside” for them. Their only option is to crush the progressive demands. Indeed they often do this with the direct support of the core states.

This is why so many capitalist states in the South are characterized by violence and repression. It is not because they are somehow intrinsically given to violence… it is because capitalism *requires* violence. By contrast, the core states can have nice human rights at home because they externalize the violence that capitalism requires.

Social democracy offers only the illusion of a solution. An illusion for some, that is. The Congolese coltan miners and Bangladeshi sweatshop workers that supply Western multinational firms are of course under no such illusion.

The only real solution is to overcome capitalism and achieve a post-capitalist economy. It is 100% possible to have a functioning economy that ensures human well-being and ecological stability *without* needing imperialism. But it requires abandoning capital accumulation.

[Mark Reid @reidmarkm]

@SJTHolland Are you joining Blue-sky @SJTHolland? It's the place to be. Hoping you will as I follow your posts on X. You are a very astute politician and commentator!

[Paddy Cosgrave @paddycosgrave]

Simon Harris patronising & lecturing a passer-by about inequality, social exclusion and housing. Which is funny because the passer-by is actually a UCD professor who has dedicated his life to the study of inequality & social exclusion: Prof. Kieran Allen.

[Mark Reid @reidmarkm]

https://t.co/Q7vH0BGXy0