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Stuck in 2005. Proud socialist.

[Sara 🌸 @sunshaala]

It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love🍃

[lulu ⋆˚꩜｡ | CV REMAKE 🇶🇦🇴🇲 @p1astr1es]

the reason why Palestine isn’t being seen anymore because there’s barely any journalists left. 20% of Lebanon is now under Israeli occupation. 12 million people have been displaced in Sudan. Over 25 million people are facing acute hunger in Congo. Don’t stop talking.

[bONGO🪻 @wariocolosseum]

all the money spent on ai couldve been used to invest in basic necessities like healthcare, food and housing and i find that rlly sad

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

The reason Western politicians support Israel is because they are believers in colonialism and genocide.

No one even has to force them.

Almost every European country has colonized, and Zionism models itself on this.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

An excellent episode on Cuba’s revolution. Essential listening, especially given the current crisis, by the inimitable Helen Yaffe. https://t.co/0Gurfixhx4

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

You cannot understand the climate crisis if you don’t understand colonialism. You cannot understand colonialism if you don’t understand capitalism. Everything is connected. There is a subtle fabric of oppression that links every form of suffering around the world.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

The genocide of Palestinians began in the immediate wake of the Holocaust. And it was just ignored by the world.

[agent ndn @TheAgentNDN]

I went and read some communist literature to finally prove the communists wrong and then I realized why they tend to be right about everything.

[Soureh 🟩☫🟥 @Soureh_design2]

There's no international water in the strait of Hormoz

Now shove your useless international laws where it belongs

International law is nothing but a tool of neocolonialism

The "international community" is only concerned when their colonial power is threatened

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

Israel is blowing up entire civilian homes in Aadshit al-Qusayr, South Lebanon right now — during a ceasefire.

Civilian homes.

No justification.

Just deliberate terror and destruction to ensure civilians have nothing left to return to.

A war crime in broad daylight.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I joined @VarshaGandikota on Al Jazeera to talk about capitalism, imperial warfare, and the South's ongoing struggle for economic liberation. Join us for the conversation here: https://t.co/FbszNgEf8S

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Another hearty “fuck you” to @NPR for airing the Israeli ambassador saying that they are working on liberating the Lebanese people from Iran.

Let me be crystal clear; the only country bombing Lebanon for the last two years is Israel. The only country forcibly displacing over a million people is Israel. The only country killing children, paramedics and journalists is Israel. The only country committing egregious acts of ecocide with white phosphorus is Israel. The only soldiers who have threatened me and my colleagues for telling the truth are Israeli soldiers.

I am a witness. I have photos and video of all of it. NPR, do better. Your correspondent in Beirut knows what’s actually happening. Let them say it.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The hardest thing to explain to someone inside the imperial consensus is the concept of structural violence.

They understand individual violence.

One person harms another person.

There is a perpetrator and a victim and a clear causal chain.

What they cannot see, what the entire educational and media apparatus has been carefully designed to prevent them from seeing, is the violence that happens when a system is arranged so that certain people predictably die, predictably suffer, predictably lose, not because any individual decided to harm them specifically but because the overall arrangement of power requires their subordination.

The people of the Global South do not die of poverty because individual Americans wish them dead.

They die because the international economic architecture, the terms of trade, the debt structures, the conditions attached to IMF loans, the intellectual property regimes that prevent technology transfer, the agricultural subsidies that undercut developing world farmers, is arranged, in aggregate, in a way that concentrates wealth in already wealthy countries and extracts it from already poor ones.

And that architecture was designed.

It was negotiated.

It was implemented by specific people in specific rooms making specific decisions about who would benefit and who would not.

This is violence.

It does not look like violence because no one is pulling a trigger.

But the deaths it produces are just as dead.

And when you try to explain this to someone whose entire identity rests on the belief that what they have they earned, and what others lack they failed to achieve, you are not making a political argument.

You are dismantling the story that makes their life make sense.

They will not thank you for it.

They will defend against it with everything they have.

Because the alternative, accepting that their comfort is downstream of other people's dispossession, is not a policy position.

It is an identity catastrophe.

[Sara 🌸 @sunshaala]

@marureviere_ 😭😭😭 IT'S SO TRUE

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

A lot of people are under the mistaken impression that progress means advances in tech. Real progress is kids who are literate, free meals for public school students, a culture in which human art & poetry are celebrated. We're regressing rapidly & the only way forward is to read.