WHO: @SocialistAlt Black Caucus
WHAT: Public mtg — Rebuilding the Black Liberation Mvmt
WHEN: Thursday, Feb 23, 7PM EST
WHY: Fighting the multiple crises facing Black workers reqs understanding capitalism as the root cause & socialism as the solution.
We need revolutionaries!
It was when Joe Biden refused
to pass voter protections
after Black people voted him in
on THAT PROMISE in 2020
that I finally accepted that
the FIX was ALWAYS IN
and this system
NEVER INTENDED TO PLAY
by the very rules that THEY SET.
Blakely from the top ROPE with the receipts
It is such a perfect send off to Luke Skywalker. He halts an entire army with the mere image of his ideal Jedi form and wins the day completely nonviolently.
An absolutely brilliant Luke moment.
The plan is greater Israel by any means necessary. That’s it. There is no other 12D chess going on here. The war is destroying the petrodollar, they don’t give a fuck. It’s not part of some deep strategy involving energy resources, it strengthens China immensely. They don’t care. They will burn everything to the ground to try to get greater Israel.
It was a common error in analysis to treat the Iraq war as “stupid” or “a mistake.” Paul Bremer dismissing the Iraqi army, obliterating the state through De-Ba'athification, creating the insurgency. It doesn’t make any sense as a strategy unless you understand that the war was for Israel.
The Iraqi state had to be pulverized so it could never again threaten Israel. Iraqi academics, engineers, specialists of all kinds had to be killed or chased out in terror. Then ditto in Libya, ditto in Syria. The only plan is to try to do that to Iran.
None of this was “a mistake.” None of it was “stupid.” The actual goals were just different from the justifications presented for public consumption.
The Israel lobby is immensely powerful but a war with Iran was always the one thing they couldn’t get. U.S. state planners since the Iranian revolution have understood what closure of the strait of Hormuz would mean. It is apocalyptic for the maintenance of the petrodollar that the U.S. empire depends on.
The lobby has been working our government for decades now. They’ve finally got a president blackmailed enough and a deep state zogged enough that the initial start of the war could go forward. Now they’re riding on the back of a tiger.
The cost of living crisis is coming home. They have to keep the war going over what will be increasing civil unrest. Eventually they’re going to push Trump into doubling down. The goal is to go nuclear. That’s what they think is the way out. Nuking Iran.
This is genocidal madness. It’s why everyone in Congress needs to be held accountable for not funding a single dollar for this illegal war. It’s why the anti war movement in this country needs to wake up and recognize that we are in a crisis moment. Our passivity will be taken by the ruling class as permission to do the unthinkable.
Black people surrendered black power for black excellence and liberal democracy for decades. Now when liberals surrendered their powers to republicans black people are lambs to be slaughtered again. We didn't build anything new since the 60s, while they destroyed everything.
If you think "globalize the intifada" means "kill the jews" you are simply a racist, or ignorant enough to listen to what racists tell you.
In the same way that racists thought "Power to the people" meant "kill white people".
I will never ever forget that Israel killed a boy with Down Syndrome by setting IDF dogs on him and if this was the only person that country had ever killed it would be enough to hate that scum colony forever
The world would be such a better place if we had more leaders like Ireland's new president, Catherine Connolly.
She drew from Ireland's own experience of colonisation.
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Stellan Skarsgård on his worldviews
"My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it"
"In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people"
(via @vulture)
"Israel is not a big block of reaction"
It is, actually. 85% of the Israelis supported the genocide, if not Netanyahu's methods. That's 35% more than half!
There are no progressive elements of Zionism that outweigh its reactionary character as an ideological tool of imperialism
@broseph_stalin If he caves all the Israeli $$ investors will leave and it'll for sure spell the doom of his company. He never should have put the picture up but now he can't take it down