Tom

Masters student at UAB. Here to engage with others desperate to understand the world a little better.

[Tom @wisertiger]

@pasmonorobot very frustrated customer. I have tried calling, website and at the station to recover over 10,000¥ from Pasmo account on my broken old phone. How do I transfer credit to a new phone? Please assist!

[Tom @wisertiger]

@pasmonorobot I am a very frustrated customer, unable to access over 10,000¥ of my credit. What happens if we transfer a Pasmo card to Apple wallet, and then lose the phone? I have tried to transfer the card detail to my new phone but it will not allow this!!! Please help

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

A few squiggly lines telling us unequivocally that our civilization is finished.

[Roger Hallam @RogerHallamCS21]

THE CENTRE WILL NOT HOLD.

You can see the fault lines emerging - these will only get dramatically worse as the liberal elites do deals which stop the reduction in emissions - i.e., create climate chaos which will destroy liberalism.

The greens will split - between those that are willing to confront capital and those that want to accommodate it and thus enable the corporate elites to destroy civilisation.

The only coherent strategy is to create a humane revolutionary political force that will institute a citizen assembly based government - and then wait for the system to crash. And then, fingers crossed, present a coherent alternative in competition with nihilistic fascism.

The "centre" is now structurally irrelevant - including Starmer, of course.

Just to remind you - this is what is at stake if we don't have revolutionary change:

"On our current path, civilisation as we know it will disappear. If we meet current commitments only – net zero by 2050 – perhaps some form of humanity will survive, managing the challenges of continued extreme weather events, ice loss, and sea-level and temperature rises." @Sir_David_King
https://t.co/UqtzwNDWwq

(Translation: billions of deaths)

https://t.co/IorJz4n1T6

[William 💙 SaveOurNHS @William_iamiare]

@ByDonkeys

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

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[قناة المسيرة @TvAlmasirah]

أجواء جهادية وإيمانية، وزوامل وهتافات ذات دلالات عميقة في مليونية ( مع #غزة جهاد مقدس ولا خطوط حمراء ) صنعاء - ميدان السبعين
#لستم_وحدکم
#لن_نترك_فلسطین
#معركة_الفتح_الموعود_والجهاد_المقدس

[Macklemore @macklemore]

HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

What the present moment reveals, once again, is that Western aggression during the "Cold War" was never about destroying socialism, as such. It was about destroying movements and governments in the periphery that sought economic sovereignty. Why? Because economic sovereignty in the periphery threatens capital accumulation in the core.

This remains the primary objective of Western aggression today. And it is the single greatest source of violence, war and instability in the world system.

The reason Western powers went after socialist movements across the global South during the "Cold War" (Cuba, China, the incineration of Vietnam and North Korea, etc) was because they knew socialism would enable the South to regain control over their own productive capacities - their labour and resources and factories - and organize them around local needs and national development.

When this happens - when people in the global South start producing and consuming for themselves - it means that those resources are no longer cheaply available to service consumption and accumulation in the core, thus disrupting the imperial arrangement on which Western capitalism has always relied (cheap labour, cheap resources, control over productive capacities, markets on tap). Remember, roughly 50% of all material consumption in the core is net-appropriated from the global South. This is what they are trying to defend.

But it wasn't only socialist governments that pursued economic sovereignty. After political decolonization, a wide range of movements and states across the South also sought economic liberation and sovereign industrial development. And Western powers attacked them with equal brutality (Indonesia, Brazil, Guatemala, the DRC...).

This is the key reason that Western powers supported the apartheid regime in South Africa, and it is why they support the Israeli regime today... as Western settler-colonial outposts that can be used to attack and destabilize regional movements seeking socialism or any form of real economic sovereignty, whether in Angola or Mozambique or Zimbabwe or any of the Arab nationalist or socialist movements in North Africa and the Middle East.

Iran has always been central to this story. Western states orchestrated a coup against the extremely popular prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. He was a left-leaning nationalist, not a socialist. But he wanted Iran to have control over its own resources (notably, oil), and for the US and Britain this was unacceptable. Mossadegh was replaced by a brutal Western-backed dictatorship. The revolution that finally overthrew the dictatorship in 1979 - and constituted the current government - wasn't even left-leaning, much less socialist. But they want national economic self-determination and that is sin enough. They are a target for the exact same reasons that Iraq and Libya were targets.

The same goes for China. China's path toward sovereign industrialization - whether socialist or not - means that it is no longer an easy source of cheap labour for Western capital. And as the supply price increases so too does the sabre-rattling from Western states and media.

So this is the situation we are in. The Western ruling classes are backing obscene violence and plausible genocide in Gaza, against overwhelming international condemnation, because they must shore up their regional outpost at virtually any cost. The vast majority of the world supports Palestinian liberation, but Palestinian liberation would constrain Israeli power and open the way to regional liberation movements, and this is strongly antithetical to the interests of Western capital. And now they are provoking war with Iran, risking regional conflagration, while at the same time encircling China with military bases, ramping up sanctions on Cuba, trying to contain progressive governments in Latin America, threatening invasion of the Sahel states...

It is intolerable and it cannot continue. The violence they perpetrate, the instability, the constant wars against a long historical procession of peoples and movements in the global South who yearn for freedom and self-determination... the whole world is dragged into this horrifying nightmare. They are willing to inflict enormous suffering and misery on hundreds of millions of people in order to preserve existing dynamics of capital accumulation. We will not have peace until this arrangement is overcome and post-capitalist transformations are achieved.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Dystopic, genocidal barbarism. What else is there to say.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Content warning.

Children in Gaza right now while the world debates antisemitism and flags on college campuses between brunch and movie nights.

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

Check this insane graph out.
This is what we’ve been warning y’all about for years - decades - now.
The Earth is crashing out of the safe #climate zone in real time.
Buckle up. There will likely be worse climate disasters coming this year than in any year yet.
Pass it on…

[Benny Wenda @BennyWenda]

Prabowo is a war criminal who is complicit in genocide in West Papua and East Timor. However, we are suffering under military occupation with Jokowi as well as Prabowo. Over 100,000 West Papuans have been displaced under this government. We are murdered whoever is in power.

[Sophie McNeill @Sophiemcneill]

#Rafah is where Israel ordered families to go. Where 1.5 million Gazans fled because they thought it was safe. It’s become the world’s largest refugee camp & Israel is now attacking it ⬇️ #WarCrimes #Genocide @CIJ_ICJ

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

Palestinians in the North of Gaza are starving.

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

So we're clear:
Friday 1pm: ICJ upholds South Africa's charge of genocide against Israel, imposes provisional measures.
1:01pm: To distract from ICJ, Israel accuses some UNRWA employees of collaborating with Hamas on Oct 7, based on "evidence" extracted under torture by Shin Bet.

[Elise Joshi @EliseJoshi]

I just mustered up every ounce of courage to interrupt White House Press Secretary @K_JeanPierre and urge the Biden Administration to stop approving new coal, oil, and gas projects.

The climate crisis is here now. @POTUS, listen to Gen-Z, scientists, and frontline communities

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Three of the most terrifying graphs on the internet right now.

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

We are losing the war against the fossil fuel industry very badly, due largely to the fact that most people still don’t even know they’re in a war against the fossil fuel industry