Steven M. Palazzolo

Boston Realtor and Bartender... GenX.. Virgo..☮🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 🇷🇺 🇸🇾 🇮🇪🇮🇹🇻🇪Free Luigi FreePalestine...Waiting patiently for the empire to collapse.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The genius of the American regime was never that it convinced everyone to agree.

It was that it convinced millions to hate each other more than they hated the class robbing them both.

That trick is failing now.

Because the debts are too visible.

The wars are too stupid.

The media is too absurd.

The border is too managed.

The cities are too decayed.

The hypocrisy is too total.

And the elite deviance is too constant to keep calling incidental.

At some point the audience stops booing the actors and storms the accounting office.

That moment is approaching.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They taught their children to fear the word "socialism" while their government was overthrowing socialist governments across four continents.

They taught their children that democracy was their "greatest export" while their intelligence services were assassinating democratically elected leaders.

They taught their children that America had never lost a war while losing wars.

They taught their children that the market was "free" while using military force to open other countries' markets.

They taught their children that they were "the good guys" and then sent those children to places that had never been given the option of seeing them as anything else.

And the children came home broken, or did not come home, and the country called them "heroes" and moved on, and the next generation of children was taught the same things, and the cycle continued, and the people who profited from the cycle donated to the libraries and universities that produced the textbooks that kept the cycle running.

This is not a conspiracy.

This is an ecosystem.

And everyone inside an ecosystem experiences it as nature.

[Steven M. Palazzolo @smikep911]

@Fun_Viral_Vids2 She’s. 🎯

[Steven M. Palazzolo @smikep911]

@MeghanMcCain Obesity

[Steven M. Palazzolo @smikep911]

@aroog1278 newspaper page is smaller on one side.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Miriam Adelson FUNDED Clintons before Trump — Cenk Uygur

Why?

'Because THEY DON'T CARE about Democrats, Republicans... THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEIR BELOVED ISRAEL'

[Mahdi @ItsMahdiAsadi]

wait until people find out there's two of them 😭

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"At least I'm not them" is the most important sentence in American political life, and almost nobody says it out loud.

At least I'm not on welfare.

At least I'm not undocumented.

At least I have insurance, even if it's bad.

At least my kids go to a real school, even if it's underfunded.

At least I'm a citizen.

At least I'm not in that neighborhood.

Every one of these sentences requires a "them."

A category of person positioned just below you, whose existence makes your own precarious situation feel like success by comparison.

The empire does not need to lift you up.

It only needs to keep someone visibly below you.

And it has spent two hundred and fifty years making absolutely sure there is always, always, a "them": by race, by status, by citizenship, by neighborhood.

So that the people being squeezed from above spend their energy looking down instead of up.

[Steven M. Palazzolo @smikep911]

@LangmanVince 🤷‍♂️ I’d still rather attend an Iggy Pop show than a Rick Springfield show

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Ask yourself why the people one paycheck from disaster are often the most ferocious defenders of the system that put them one paycheck from disaster.

It's not irrational.

It's the last available source of dignity.

If the system is fundamentally broken, fundamentally rigged, fundamentally indifferent to whether you live or die, then the years you spent believing in it, working within it, sacrificing for it, were wasted.

Worse than wasted.

They were the actions of someone who didn't see what was obvious.

That is a very hard thing for a person to accept about their own life.

It is easier, psychologically, emotionally, in every way that matters in the moment, to defend the system than to accept that you gave decades of your life to something that was never going to give anything back.

The defense isn't about the system.

It's about not having to grieve your own time.

[Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2]

There is NO deal. It’s a memorandum of understanding. It’s a framework of negotiations. You’re agreeing on how you will negotiate for the next 60 days etc… Everything has been kicked down the road. w/@21WIRE
https://t.co/naKCj8HrFK

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

When the empire produces a generation of people who cannot afford housing, who carry unpayable student debt, who work three jobs with no healthcare, who are one medical bill from destitution...

And those people are still the most reliable defenders of the empire...

You are not looking at a failure of the ideology.

You are looking at its masterpiece.

The ideology does not need your material wellbeing.

It needs your identification.

And you can be broke, medically uninsured, evicted, and still experience the world through a passport that whispers, in a thousand small ways, that you are better than the people on the other side of the border.

The empire gave you nothing that keeps you warm at night.

But it gave you the feeling.

And the feeling turned out to be enough.

To keep voting. To keep defending. To keep directing your anger at the people below you and the foreigners outside you.

And never quite at the people above you who designed the whole arrangement and are laughing, in their way, at how well it holds.

[Steven M. Palazzolo @smikep911]

@Salem_GeorgeJ @its_The_Dr Historical Nuance
While the hatred of laissez-faire capitalism and free markets was genuine, the regimes effectively used private enterprise and corporate monopolies as tools for state power n war preparation, rather than implementing true socialist ownership.
State Capitalism

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

The goal of Zohran Mamdani and AOC is to normalize leftist tolerance towards Zionists

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

$1,000,000,000,000 dollars ($1 trillion)

Imagine worshipping an economic system that funneled this much wealth to just one person off the backs of the people’s labor.

Capitalism is the biggest scam in history.

[Steven M. Palazzolo @smikep911]

@N3verCl3ver @bobblestockrob @beyoncegarden True religion is a mental disorder.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Don’t trust anyone who tries to reduce class war into a Red/Blue game

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

When Obama bombed Libya, the justification was "humanitarian intervention." "Protection of civilians." "Responsibility to protect." The language of international law and moral obligation.

Libya was subsequently destroyed. It has open slave markets today. The humanitarian outcome was catastrophic.

But the language was immaculate. The syntax was perfect. The suits were pressed and the speeches were moving and the Nobel Peace Prize sat on the shelf while the drones flew.

Trump bombs things and says it's about the oil.

In terms of honesty, pure, raw, unmediated honesty about what American power actually does, Trump is more accurate than any of his predecessors.

This is not a defense of Trump.

This is an indictment of everyone who made the polished version seem acceptable.

The lie was always more dangerous than the liar currently in office.

Because the lie had good manners.