SN Rasul

Writer. Journalist. Veteran delver into amateur music production.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

@TheTNHoller @VanJones68 Norman Finkelstein described him perfectly: "Van Jones wears the yellow/blue Zionist pin to advertise he's their slave. When Van Jones goes on Bill Maher and says dead Gazan babies, he knows his masters are not laughing with him, they're laughing at him: He's our slave."

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

the two biggest actual DEI cases in the world are Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who now run the US despite never having been elected to anything and being obvious moronic frauds and pathological liars. The sole reason they run the US is because they are Zionist Jews, in the case of Kushner one that fucks Trump's daughter. That's it. That's the only reason they are the most influential and powerful people on earth: They are Zionist Jewish supremacists, who fuck Trump's daughter in one case, and is his golf buddy in the other, and were pre-selected for that role by other Zionist Jews like Miriam Adelson.

Now if the media class including its alt-media substack blog scum faction actually cares about meritocracy and opposing DEI, meaning placing incompetent liar fraud grifters into positions of great influence and power, as they have been pretending for the past few weeks and still are by hysterically shouting about a professor they drove to suicide with utter glee by invoking that really deep concern, why have they never written or said a single word about these two Zionist Jews who are the very embodiment of DEI?

Or how about Bari Weiss, who now runs an entire media empire solely because she's a Zionist Jew while being a lifelong grifter, liar, fraud, incompetent hack?

Instead of expressing any outrage over that most disgusting depraved expression of actual DEI in the form of it embodied by these scum, they defend it. Matt Taibbi, that alt-media grifter, came out to say that the only reason anyone is critical of Bari Weiss is because they're jealous of her. They're jealous! And of course he also came out with a piece on Arday recently because he has to grift that cash too, he's never far away from that.

Everyone knows what is going on here: Nathan Cofnas who began this entire hysterical deranged mania on the part of the media class, is a Zionist Jew himself. He's not just a Zionist Jew, he's an open proud Jewish supremacist, writing that Jews like himself are Ubermenschen genetically, and therefore ought to run the world. They are natural leaders, and everyone else is a natural sub-human untermensch who must be enslaved by Jews, and if they have an issue with it and get rowdy they should be genocided like the Palestinians. That's his actual belief system.

So of course he's not going to point out the most craven form of real DEI as exemplified by Zionist Jews like Kushner, Witkoff, Weiss and himself, because his ideology is designed to launder that. That's the whole point. The whole point is to get everyone in the Zionist media class to hysterically whine and focus on people like Arday, so as to distract from and launder the most depraved sickening form of actual DEI, DEI that is applied to Zionist Jews.

Anyone who fell for this and joined in on it is not only a fucking idiot, but exemplifies true cowardice, because they know if they pointed their words at this actually existing craven corrupt institutionalized DEI for Zionist Jews, their life would be over in an instant. All your talk about merit, principle, justice, we have to have some universal rules of competence otherwise all of society and civilization and reason itself collapses!!! It won't save you, and you know it, because you aimed it at the wrong target: Those who actually have hegemonic power in the UK, US, and West generally. And that's not allowed, and you're a good boy, like that half-black "Magical Negro" Austin Tyler Harper (to use his own words he applied to Arday) for Goldberg's Atlantic. All you're doing is tapdancing for money through clicks and attention, you degenerate cowardly scum.

[Bob 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 Living in occupied Scotland @asimov200]

I think Caitlin speaks for most of us.

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

The Democratic Party has an anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim bigotry problem. And these “Democrats for Mike Rogers” can’t come up with a single reason (outside of El-Sayed being an Arab Muslim) that they oppose him.

[SN Rasul @snrasul]

The @SabbySabs2 x @briebriejoy hour today was an impeccable exercise in moral clarity.

[SN Rasul @snrasul]

@briebriejoy @KyleKulinski The nuances of evil beyond this should no longer relevant. The only acceptable response is disgust; the only solution therefore must reside outside of the two main parties. But my perspective from the “global south” might be what is colouring this perspective. [End]

[SN Rasul @snrasul]

This is how I experience the divide between someone I find myself agreeing with 99% of the time (@briebriejoy) and the "Platner left" (Gray, 2026) such as @KyleKulinski: I greatly appreciate both for their moral clarity on Palestine. (Contd.)

[SN Rasul @snrasul]

@briebriejoy @KyleKulinski Palest*ne should represent a concrete red line past which you no longer have the privilege to be judged by anything else, i.e., Biden/Kamala are not better than Donald Trump because they didn’t invade Venezuela after funding an apartheid regime.

[SN Rasul @snrasul]

@briebriejoy @KyleKulinski but the latter, somehow finds it acceptable to support a party and a candidate (a vote for @AOC, for example, is equally if not more unacceptable because you have the audacity to think certain g*nocide denials are better than other g*enocide denials). (Contd. #2)

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Sure I can take a stab at explaining it. I've never commented on your Gaza position before, but I understood where people were coming from the last time this came up.

Judging from your replies to others in this thread it seems your primary objection is that you are not being judged by the same standards with which leftists judge Fox News pundits or Israeli national security ministers. Because you never explicitly came out and said "I want Gaza turned into a giant mass grave," you find it unfair that leftists characterize you as unacceptably sympathetic to Israel's mass atrocities, because they wouldn't single out a Republican senator or far right podcaster who's expressed the same views as you on Gaza for these sorts of criticisms.

But you are not a Republican senator or a far right podcaster. You are not a Fox News pundit or an Israeli national security minister. You are doing public commentary in a political sector which has predominantly framed opposition to the Gaza holocaust as the central issue or our times, and you seem to regard it as a tedious issue you'd rather people de-emphasize and move past.

You made a long and hotly controversial Instagram post last year explaining why you don't feel like you should have to make a video about Gaza, in which you slammed anti-Zionism in the pro-Palestine movement and placed Jewish feelings and concerns about antisemitism front and center in your reasoning. It wasn't explicitly "genocide-loving", but it certainly advanced positions that were favorable to the US-Israeli genocidal agenda.

It read as an exhausted, eye-rolling "Ugh, can't we just move ON from this?" dismissal of everyone's white-hot opposition to an active genocide, while defending many of the dynamics which ensure that Israel's abuses will continue to occur. Even in this very post right here you describe your position as "waiting for this to blow over", like it's just some boring distraction you can't wait for people to stop annoying you with.

And that's just directly contrary to the present zeitgeist of the political factions with which you have aligned yourself. People see you as pro-genocide because you are far from sufficiently anti-genocide in a political environment where being anti-genocide is of utmost importance to people of conscience.

I am a left-wing political commentator, and if I had spent three years de-emphasizing and dismissing the Gaza holocaust I am 100% certain that many leftists would be hounding me about it to this day, even if I made the occasional tweet saying Benjamin Netanyahu is bad. People would see my output as not reflecting the urgency of the issue at hand, and they would criticize me as unacceptably sympathetic to the forces giving rise to the genocide.

I'm just some schmuck who posts opinions on the internet, but since you asked, that seems to be what's happening here.

[Iranian Zaitunay Bay @IRANinZB]

Hormuz is closed go fuck your self!

[James Li @5149jamesli]

I disagree with Nick: voting Dem to "punish" the GOP misses the bigger game.

Case in point: the same Zionist billionaire Paul Singer who funded Massie's GOP opponent in KY is now funding Democrat Haley Stevens in Michigan.

To fix America, we must vote out the Zionist uniparty!

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The U.S. has been significantly weakened by the war with Iran.

This administration depleted our missile defenses, drained our oil reserves, sacrificed our men & women, inflated the price of consumer goods, increased our debt, and neglected our domestic needs…

all for Israel.

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

The two most despised countries on the planet

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

My raw milk ages better than this.

[Ken O'Keefe @RealKenOKeefe]

To this day, I stand by those words.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

There is simply no justification for the United States pushing through vessels along the Omani coastline in the Strait of Hormuz. You can cry and scream about "freedom of navigation", but at the end of the day, the Memorandum of Understanding was very clear that Iran would control the traffic through the Strait of Hormuz during the initial 60-day window.

Time and time again, the United States has shredded the MOU by attempting to retroactively alter the terms because they didn't "like them". Of course you didn't like them. They suck... because you LOST.

Oil sanction waivers a la Article 10? Torched.
No new sanctions a la Article 9? Blown up.
Iranian administration of traffic a la Article 5? Nope.

You can whine all day long about how it's "wrong" for Iran to strike those vessels, but this is a rational response to a war of choice from the United States. You don't get to claim "right vs. wrong" when the Trump Administration is solely to blame for this situation in the first place. The Strait of Hormuz was open before this war started.

The REASON that the United States was attempting an Operation Freedom 2.0 along the Omani Route was BECAUSE they were trying to actively undermine the Iranian control of the Strait. They were trying to actively push through enough vessels in a short enough period of time to shift the strategic landscape of the conflict.

I have seen time and time again people claim, "Iran doesn't know what's best for them. If they just didn't strike vessels, they would get massive sanctions relief"... No, they wouldn't. Because President Trump and the United States had no INTENTION of sticking to the MOU. The goal was to use this 60-day window to shift the landscape so that they could topple the regime or secure outcomes they could not have in the initial MOU.

This isn't "the US operating in good faith and those pesky Iranians messed everything up".

This is the United States blatantly trying to unilaterally alter the terms of the MOU by shredded the oil waivers, sanctioning new entities, and pushing vessels through the Omani Route.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Today some DSA person told me the best way to make changes in US politics is to work within the Democratic Party to elect left-wing candidates and advance progressive agendas.

I said, "You guys have been trying that for ten years with nothing to show for it."

I mean, how much longer is it going to take before people admit that the "change the party from within" strategy isn't working? Do you want another twenty years? Another fifty? Do you need to spend the next century watching a handful of vaguely progressive imperialists get elected to Congress and then getting primaried out by opponents with mountains of special interest funding before you admit that you're not making any meaningful gains? Our planet could be lifeless before then.

The Bernie Sanders "revolution" was ten years ago. Large factions of the American left took up his call to take over the Democratic Party using primary elections throughout the nation, and ever since then it's been a two-steps-forward, two-steps-back addition of zeros. The people never got President Bernie, and the few progressive gains made on Capitol Hill were either kicked out like Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman or went full pro-establishment like John Fetterman. The few who stuck around have turned out to be perpetually disappointing empire managers like AOC who know how to straddle the line between left-wing lip service and status quo swamp monster.

It's time to admit the commies were right, kids. The factions on the so-called "far left" who've been rejecting electoral politics and calling for real revolution against a system designed to suppress leftward movement have been completely vindicated over the last decade. You cannot change the system using a political party that is designed to prevent change.

The Atlantic has an article out by David Brooks titled "Democrats Became Great by Fighting the Left," and in a sense this claim is absolutely correct. It's not correct for the reasons David Brooks suggests, but it is correct that the reason the Democratic Party has been allowed to remain so dominant is because it is such an effective tool for thwarting all leftward political movement in the United States.

In the article, Brooks (who last year published an article titled "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" shortly before showing up in the Epstein Files) begins by rehashing the same tired old Hillary 2016 talking points arguing that the loony left is full of communists who must be forcefully opposed by the sensible center. What's more interesting is the brief history lesson that comes later, in which Brooks notes that after World War II the Democratic Party leadership took action deliberately "in order to block the leftward advance" toward socialism within its ranks.

That's all the Democratic Party has ever existed to do. If it wasn't such a successful tool for suppressing leftward advancement, the party would not be permitted to exist as a mainstream political force by the capitalist oligarchs who run the country.

It is the Democratic Party's job to prevent peace, equality, justice and socialism. That's the only reason it is permitted to exist in the hub of the capitalist empire, and that is the only reason why ten years of effort to change the party from within has produced no meaningful results.

The experiment has been run, and the results are in. You can't conduct a socialist revolution using a party whose primary function is to suppress socialist revolution. This has been conclusively established.

It's time to find another way.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Trump's instinct for self-preservation is usually very strong, but nothing could motivate Israel to want to assassinate him more than this statement: