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[Snake of Reason @shankologist]

Heroic efforts from #Quakes74 tonight, especially Benji and Daniel. Still on top!

[Snake of Reason @shankologist]

The craziest thing about the #Quakes74 comeback against STL was how crazy it wasn’t. Yes, the final goal was awesome. But the team is just playing so professional. What a week.

[Snake of Reason @shankologist]

Top of the table, baby! #Quakes74

[San Jose Earthquakes @SJEarthquakes]

Loss Angeles FC

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[Ajamu Baraka @ajamubaraka]

Neoliberal fascist democrats laying foundations for continued aggression against Iran. Both capitalist parties are warmongering criminal enterprises that must be opposed and defeated as vehicles for oligarchic rule.

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

Please understand that Trump is not the exception nor is he unique to American history; he is a byproduct of it. He is the unfettered, morally bankrupt rotten core of American white supremacism/ imperialism staring back at us. It's always been there, its just more unmasked now.

Deep down I think the liberal corporate media/ establishment doesn't actually have a problem with Trump's policies per say (look at Pelosi, Schumer and other Dems comments on ravaging Iran), but rather that he's exposed the facade of America. That's what they find so difficult to stomach and contend with. He doesn't care to mask the true face of America's horrific violence or disregard for human life.

American imperialist hegemony built itself upon a veneer of moral supremacy that legitimized it's violence as necessary and good. America was a brand, a business, with a very specific image that needed to be sustained.

Marketed through its media, corporations and propaganda expeditiously— it depended upon upholding an illusion (myth) of moral and civilizational superiority, that covered over its true evils. That always gave it the upper hand because it was inherently benevolent.

This justified it's global dominance, even though it was always maintained through such unforgiving brutality. Yet Trump routinely exposes this with both his incompetence and variable honesty, even though he's not actually trying to be honest.

Hence they purposefully make Trump seem like an outlier to the presidency. Recall the years long obsession with the Russian collusion narrative, because of the optics.

His victory over the neoliberal feel-good, female empowerment candidate (Clinton), made America, the self-anointed bastion of democracy and progressivism in the world, look bad. That it couldn't actually elect a borderline fascist or overt racist when racism had just ended with the first Black President previously. That it must have been that some foreign entity that helped him win.

People today laud war criminals like Bush and Obama because they perceive the US presidency through the expectation of a performance. Trump lacks the relative decorum of his predecessors to mask the fallout of policies which are just as destructive as theirs, if not more.

Trump is only an exception to American history in that he doesn't outwardly behave *presidentially* because he wasn't coming off of the traditional, cookie-cutter DC establishment politician conveyor belt.

He doesn't possess the charm, wit or likeablity of his predecessors to paint over America's horrors. He has laid it all bare; gloves off, mask off.

He's given them permission to show their true essence and not be ashamed of it. There is no need to hide it any longer— the violent white supremacy— unleashed to maximum capability. Maximum lethality, not tepid legality; as Hegseth put it.

He's told them to take pride in it; to do it boldy. No fanciful language or need to spin the reality of what they're actually doing or believe in; unrelenting and unabashed; not restricted by or accountable to, any entity or semblance of morality. Just raw power.

He is America's true face.

[Ajamu Baraka @ajamubaraka]

Capitalist priorities are clear. Money to fight imperialist wars that benefit the capitalist class is priority but money for People(s)-Centered Human Rights - housing, healthcare, education, universal free daycare, are out of the question.

[TaniaSaidWhat @TaniaSaidWhat]

Capitalism’s structural flaw is that once capital reaches a certain scale, it can purchase politics, government, regulations, competitors, and media, creating a self-reinforcing cycle that compounds wealth for the ones on the top.

The system that claims to reward merit increasingly rewards incumbency. That’s not a bug that can be patched with regulations, because we see that our entire political system is a cesspool of lobbyists advancing corporate interests by paying the politicians to take positions favorable for them.

Furthermore, capitalism’s end result is- the deployment of the nation’s military on its behest. Which is where we are at now. So it’s not about selling $10 tshirts, it’s if you acquire so much wealth, that you ban others from making that shirt, and you can pay the child laborer in Indonesia even less, and if they revolt, you send your military.

That has been the logical endpoint of allowing unlimited capital accumulation to operate inside democratic institutions that are, by design, purchasable.

Whether it is Chiquita bananas (also known as united fruit company), Dole pineapples, production of rubber by exploitation of Congolese- for ABIR (Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company, JP MORGAN CHASE- owning 15k slaves as collateral, Tiffany & co- by exploiting slaves picking cotton- it’s all of it.

[Snake of Reason @shankologist]

@davidsirota We need a 100% clean slate in this country.

[Pat Just Pat 🍉 @PatTheSocialist]

We have to stop this shit. Billionaires poisoning us with AI centers we don't want, all for technology that's gonna replace us. Plus our water and electric bills go through the roof. Fk this.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

The world calls on Netanyahu to go fuck himself

[Snake of Reason @shankologist]

@gtconway3d @mehdirhasan It’s not so much that he’s dumb as that he is not an American asset.

[Snake of Reason @shankologist]

@SJEarthquakes The Quakes are an embarrassment not only to the city of San Jose, and not only to MLS, but to the entire concept of professional sports.

[Snake of Reason @shankologist]

@SJEarthquakes Espinosa had lost so much quality this summer. Horrible pass to create that chance for LA.

[Snake of Reason @shankologist]

Students these days giggling cuz I don’t know their tik tok memes, but can they Thizzle Dance i don’t think so

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The wilmington massacre/Insurrection of 1898 was a carefully orchestrated coup which overthrew a biracial government

It was a white supremacists campaign to strip black citizens of the right to vote & remove them from public office. Over 100 black citizens were murdered.

—On Nov. 10, 1898, white supremacists murdered African Americans in Wilmington, North Carolina and deposed the elected Reconstruction era government in a coup d’etat.
It was the morning of November 10, 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the fire was the beginning of an assault that took place seven blocks east of the Cape Fear River, about 10 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean. By sundown, [Alex] Manly’s newspaper [The Daily Record] had been torched, as many as 60 people had been murdered, and the local government that was elected two days prior had been overthrown and replaced by white supremacists.

For all the violent moments in United States history, the mob’s gruesome attack was unique: It was the only coup d’état ever to take place on American soil.

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[Snake of Reason @shankologist]

I wonder how well funded the “criminal justice partners” are compared to the police. How much funding is available for rehabilitation and homeless services when police budgets suck up so much public money? This disparity may account for these types of outcomes.

[Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ]

The problem is a lack of follow through in the criminal justice system. We’ve arrested this person multiple times in the past year. But we need our criminal justice partners on the county side to require treatment, remove individuals whose behavior is dangerous from society long enough to confirm they are rehabilitated, and so forth. We’re doing lots of law enforcement in San Jose but when it comes to drugs and mental illness the rest of the system that is not under the city’s control returns people to the streets. That is what needs to change.

[Snake of Reason @shankologist]

@SJEarthquakes Has SJ considered: A) defending or B) completing passes? Start with baby steps.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Dear Hatem,

Today, I had a dream that I was teaching in a classroom. The students were your classmates from 7th grade when I taught you all back in 2021. I asked a question and waited a few seconds. No one raised their hand. And then—I started to weep.
I wept because I realized you were no longer with us. I knew that if you were there, you would’ve raised your hand before I even finished the question, a smile on your face.
I asked your classmates if they knew what happened to you. They all said, “Yes.”
I’m writing this to you, Hatem, from Syracuse, in upstate New York—the same city where I lived when you used to call me in the fall of 2022, asking, “When are you coming back? Will you be my teacher again when you return?”
I remember walking down Euclid Avenue one day on my way to the library. I offered to turn my camera on to show you the university buildings as I walked. You loved the view—the trees, the open space. You saw students playing tennis on the court. I think you even saw a squirrel. You admired the cars and asked, “Do you ever hear drones?” You were in your home in Beit Hanoun, where the sound of drones never left the sky.
I told you we only hear passenger planes here, planes coming to or leaving Syracuse. You told me you’d never seen one. I said, “I hadn’t either—not until I left Gaza for the first time in 2019.”
I also told you something else:
“Hatem, you are one of my most talented students ever. If you keep going like this, I believe you’ll come to Syracuse, or to another university that would be lucky to have you.”
I don’t know why I’m telling you all this now. You didn’t appear in my dream today. But I’m writing this letter to invite you to come visit me in the next one. Come answer the question I asked. Come smile and raise your hand.
I’m waiting for you, Hatem.
In Syracuse.

Your teacher,
Mosab

(Hatem was murdered while searching for firewood on Oct 5, 2024)

[Snake of Reason @shankologist]

@sjeq74 @PROreferees I still can’t believe that match had VAR available and never once went to it for anything.