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Mental toughness is the ability to forgive yourself & move on • egalitarian distribution of wealth, bottom-up economics, labor rights, feminism (blk), funny ish

[Where da ___ at? @Sunny_dynamite]

"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength."

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Has any elected leftists weighed in on this race between Zionist war monger Adam Smith & Kshama Sawant -- a pro-Palestine socialist who successfully fought for $15 and made it a national issue? Or is this one too close to call?

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Jimmy Dore: "We preach democracy to China. But we don't have democracy here - the oligarchs run everything. The Princeton study proved 90% of people's wishes never become law. Only the top 10% of wealthy matter."

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

ZIOS: it's antisemitic to say Jews control the media

ALSO ZIOS: controlling all the media is a lot of work. "Instead of trying to control the whole world," [yes, that's a direct quote], all we have to do is control AI, because people trust AI and that's where everyone is getting their information.

[Muna @infernape_914]

“AND THE HOME OF THE-“

*record scratches*

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Romanticizing all the shittiest parts of NYC is loser behavior. The humans are what make the city cool & interesting, not the awful infrastructure or the smell of garbage or the ludicrous cost of living or any of the other failures people try to rationalize

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

IDF murdering a 14-year-old Palestinian boy.

This is a good example of why Israel is so incredibly concerned about governing any negativity toward them

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

The Albanian people took 1 look at Palestine and Lebanon and said fuck that to israel and Kushners’s money!

You gotta respect it 👏👏👏

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Imperialists keep having to invent socialist massacres to deflect from the reality that capitalism is one continuous, world-spanning genocide.

We often hear about the 140 people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall over a period spanning 28 years. But we never hear about the 9,900 people who die every single day because they lack access to healthcare — a direct outcome of imperialism's denial of sovereignty to the global periphery.

We often hear about some number of people who supposedly died at Tiananmen Square in 1989 — a highly-contested narrative. But we do not hear about the 1,545 people who die every single day because of Western sanctions — 38 million people in total over a fifty year period.

Given the sheer barbarism of the imperialist world system, we should marvel at how mild the actions of socialist and revolutionary projects are by the standards of the systemic and unrelenting violence they are forced to confront. And there is certainly no need for progressive forces to be apologetic or ashamed about these measures.

[Midwestern Marx @MidwesternMarx]

The U.S. Government has killed so many great leaders so that financiers & pedophiles can continue to run the world.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Do people think Israelis fall out of the sky? They are Americans. They are from Germany, Russia, the UK, France.

It's a Western colony. Founded, armed, and supported by the West, and made up of Westerners.

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Her story needs to be taught just like Anne Franks was

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

America imposes 60 year embargo on Cuba: “Why is Cuba poor?”

America imposes sanctions on Venezuela and does a coup: “Why doesn’t communism work?”

Israel blows up Gazan infrastructure including airport & blocks development: “Why isn’t Gaza Dubai?”

CIA imports drugs & GOP opposes gun regs: “why is there urban crime?”

Bipartisan duopoly criminalizes protests: “Where have all the protestors gone?”

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Every year, imperial propagandists ritualistically invoke this or that version of the 1989 events at Tiananmen Square to portray China as a murderous dictatorship. And every year, scores of people seek to rebut the claims by appeals to video footage and other evidence of what happened.

But I think we can be more forceful: Unlike in the Soviet Union, the Western-backed counterrevolution failed in China. Looking at the historic mortality crisis caused by capitalist restoration in Eastern Europe, this fact alone likely saved tens of millions of lives — and prevented imperialism from extinguishing the flame of socialism altogether.

From that perspective, the events of 1989 represent a major victory for socialism and the global working class. This, no doubt, is the primary source of the imperialists’ lingering outrage.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Meanwhile on Chinese TV: "I visited California in the 80s. They were promising high-speed rail. China didn't even have highways."

40 years later, they have built zero. China: biggest high speed rail network.

"The superiority of socialism is clear."

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Jacobin magazine, the principal mouthpiece of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America, today released a hit piece on Amazon labor leader Chris Smalls, @Shut_downAmazon.

It could be legit if Jacobin had had an honest critique of Smalls to clarify what class struggle unionist leaders should be doing. But the article is not that at all.

It’s a hatchet job against a leading labor activist who has refused to toe the line of the DSA and the business unionist labor leaders who give cover to the so-called progressive Democrats and to the Democratic Party as a whole, despite shocking betrayals by them against working people.

The crux of the real reason why Jacobin went after Smalls is contained in this sentence: “[Smalls] blames the two-party system for the state of the American labor movement…”

Smalls is spot on about this and the need to break from the Democratic and Republican parties. We need a new party of the working class.

The DSA leadership, on the other hand, sees giving cover to the Democratic Party as job number one. The Democratic Party is the party under whom the genocide in Gaza began and which engineered the breaking of the railroad workers’ strike — both under President Joe Biden. ALL Democrats in the House, including DSA star AOC voted to break the strike. The Democratic Party is one of the two most powerful capitalist parties in the world, and in no way represents working people or the oppressed.

Business unionist labor leaders are those who have made peace with the capitalist system and are driven by protecting their careers, which means placating the bosses, not organizing the rank and file against the bosses to win substantive working-class victories. Refusing to fight the bosses also means aligning with the parties of the bosses, like the Democratic Party.

The overwhelming majority of the labor leadership today is business unionist, with some crucial exceptions like Smalls. We need a reckoning in the labor movement.

Brother Smalls has put his life on the line for the antiwar movement in solidarity with the Palestinia people against the Israeli state’s genocide bankrolled by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Smalls went on a Gaza aid flotilla carrying food, baby formula, diapers and medicine in the context of catastrophic levels of mass starvation in Gaza. The flotilla was attacked by the Israeli military, who physically assaulted Smalls, and kicked and choked him.

In contrast, AOC has voted for the Iron Dome which is part of the Israeli state’s genocidal apparatus.

For having the temerity to expose AOC and other self-described “progressive” politicians, Smalls is called “narcissistic” by Jacobin, a term the magazine’s editors were apparently forced to retract after they got huge amounts of flak on all social media.

Personal attacks and character assassination like in this case are often used by the political establishment’s spokespeople as proxy for their real objections — in this case, the threat they feel from Smalls openly calling out the Democratic Party’s actual role.

The only way of rebuilding a militant labor movement is to pose a concrete threat to both the Democratic and Republican parties, which in turn requires a challenge to the business unionist labor leadership. That is the basis on which I won the nation’s highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax during the decade I was the sole socialist on the Seattle City Council.

I am now running as an independent revolutionary socialist against genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. I am calling for an end to all military aid to Israel and an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war. https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

You do not hate the United States government enough. What they’ve done to Cuba all these years is beyond evil.

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

BREAKING: The Louisiana Senate passed a disturbing anti-homeless bill that pushes homeless people into jails, forced treatment, and unpaid labor. Hours earlier, the same lawmakers voted to give themselves $1,000 to cover housing expenses, recognizing housing is too expensive.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

We need hear nothing more from this man. He is dead to me. He should be dead to all of us.

[Satina ☮ @SatinaLamore]

Bernie Sanders will be remembered as a coward and a grifter who made a career out of moral grandstanding and virtue signaling.

He's so dismissive of a one-state solution. But of course, he's ALWAYS maintained (even recently) that Israel must exist as a "Jewish state". The very notion of a "Jewish state" is racist and undemocratic, which is all you need to know about him.

It's why you have the likes of AIPAC thanking him.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

We’re gonna turn Cuba into a failed narcostate and then complain about it for years. Instead of an island producing a disproportionate share of doctors and medical breakthroughs, it’ll produce waves of migration and drugs and violence as the mafia that was thrown out by the revolution return