Prof Zenkus
anthonyzenkus
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UPDATE: GAZA is under full seige by Israel effective today.All food, medicine and other supplies are completely blocked from getting in. Starvation is a war crime.
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TameeOliveFern
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BREAKING: Israel says as of this morning, it has laid siege to Gaza and two million Palestinians, preventing entry of all food supplies and other goods.
This is GENOCIDE
@edgarblythe,
It has been for some time.
And it's still aided and abetted by the US.
Not to mention all the bloody cheerleading.
Department of Ethnic Cleansing:
JUST IN: Tucker Carlson says it makes no sense that White people can't have a homeland to themselves.
"Every other group in the world has the right to its own homeland except white people."
Jess 🇨🇦
MeetJess
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Elon Musk urges Trump to 'think about' pardoning George Floyd's murderer
This is fkn insanity now
Matt Binder
MattBinder
"as a cold war kid, i'm happy that Ronald Reagan was in office" - Elissa Slotkin, the official Democratic response to Trump
oh hell yeah baby that's the winning message!!!
my god we are cooked
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
Department of Ethnic Cleansing:
JUST IN: Tucker Carlson says it makes no sense that White people can't have a homeland to themselves.
"Every other group in the world has the right to its own homeland except white people."
Does anybody know when Tucker actually went nuts?
Margaret Kimberley
freedomrideblog
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Trump stated on social media that he would kill all the people of Gaza. Biden was different in that he was committed to doing the same thing but claimed he wasn’t doing it.
When I was fifteen and walking down a major road near Corpus Christi the cops pulled in and stopped. The driver spoke through his open window. "Have you got your papers?" he said. My confusion over being asked such a question gave him his answer and he immediately drove off. I suppose my Grandfather's Indian heritage could make me look Hispanic; I don't know. He had been documented with Cherokee and he claimed two other Native American people's blood but there is no documentation for Choctaw and what he called Tejas. My other ancestors were from England and Wales and Ireland, as well as Western Europe. I don't know. I get accused of being different things to different folks. One guy who worked for me a bit one day gave me an accusing look and mentioned my "slanty eyes." Once on a sidewalk in Manhattan a man told his wife as I passed, "Make way for big Luigi." That same day a man told me , You Jews are going to have it all anyway." None of this makes me angry. I find it mostly amusing. It helps demonstrate that focusing on ethnicity instead of humanity is a loser's philosophy.
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
"Make way for big Luigi."
How did he know that's what you call your penis?
It's always good to have someone announce it to the ladies.
"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy."
Elon Musk (right out of Ayn Rand's musing)
In my view empathy is a fundamental first for building stable societies.
Prof Zenkus
anthonyzenkus
Biden started his presidency by lying to voters about $2000 checks. Trump began his second term by lying about releasing the Epstein files. Not comparing the two, just using these two examples to support a point.
I believe these things were done on purpose. The lies. I argue that neither party had any intention of doing what they said they were going to do. And making a big show of the promise - then lying right to our faces - promising the thing and then not delivering - that was on purpose.
The purpose, I believe, is for both parties to send a clear message to voters that the parties have no intention of keeping their promises. The goal is to have us feel powerless, beaten down and to let us know that we are not in control; to dim expectations from the get go.
"Don't even think about universal health care, because we didn't even do that easy thing we promised we were going to do. And we could have. we just didn't feel like it."
This is a psychological technique used by abusers to let their victims know who is in control, never to expect too much - and then on the rare occasion that the abuser does follow through on a promise, it must be celebrated loudly and the victim must express eternal gratitude for the measly crumbs they were given.
**** that.
RetroCoast
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Breaking: FBI Director Kash Patel asks for bodyguards who are NOT FBI agents
He has requested to replace his FBI security detail with private contractors due to fear of disloyalty- and possible harm.
Chris Sosa
ChrisSosa
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Everyone should be shouting from the rooftops demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil. No one is safe in a nation where you can be disappeared for protesting. It won't end with immigrants on green cards. This is a system test.
Jaybefaunt🏳️🌈
Jaybefaunt
Stop assigning more loftiness to what the "elites" are doing than what
they actually do. It's not that deep. There isn't some metaphysical demonic secret society that's the reason why the world is in chaos. It's more simple than that: It's just greedy morally repugnant groups that want to own everything, including us because they think they're somehow more qualified because they and their ancestors exploited surplus value out of us and they falsely think they're "blessed". Baby, it's not that deep. They just want to keep up a money hoarding lifestyle and they think more of themselves and their status than there's necessary to think. Stop overcomplicating it. We just have to take back what's owed and create a system that limits their control to the same level as all workers
Ryan Grim
ryangrim
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The lawyer for Mahmoud Khalil, at today's hearing, said that she has been unable to speak to her client once since his detention.
Does any of this sound like the America you were taught about growing up? A legal permanent resident kept incommunicado with no charges specifically
@edgarblythe,
It sounds very much like the McCarthyism I was taught about.
Okay, Schumer's speech was a head fake. This is the Senate D caucus trying to fool their own supporters. Sorry to say that but that's what's happening.
2/ The plan seems to be to vote for cloture and then Thune agrees as his part of the bargain to allow a vote on basically an amendment to the bill. Probably something like Murray's bill. So you give up the 60 vote threshold. Have a vote on each version and the GOP one wins. End of story.
3/ The point of this to temporarily confuse the issue so that Senate Ds can say they vote for their version while allowing the GOP version to pass. The critical point is that it's handing the GOP the 60 vote threshold for nothing.
- I think this is by Josh Marshall
Bluesky handle normalisland.co.uk
\NormalIslandNws
President Trump’s free speech plans are going so well that he has kidnapped a man from his home in front of his heavily-pregnant wife. ICE agents disappeared Mahmoud Khalil so effectively, even his lawyers couldn’t find him, all because he expressed the wrong opinions. The man’s terrifying message was “please stop exterminating my people”.
Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian Hamas-loving terrorist who is guilty of speaking while being brown. Among his monstrous crimes was distributing leaflets at Columbia University. This is clearly unforgivable. If your people are being slaughtered by the empire, the only acceptable thing to do is politely shut the **** up.
Legality was the justification for the abduction of Khalil, but technically, there is no legal basis for deportation because the legal US resident has committed no crime. Clearly, it’s the law that’s wrong, so we don’t give a **** about legality now.
Sensibly, Khalil’s lawyer wasn’t allowed to speak to her client because he hasn’t been charged with a crime. Therefore, due process does not apply to him. Same goes for his supporters, meaning any international students who express support for Khalil will be abducted by ICE. Only Zionists are allowed to study in the United States of Israel.
Khalil can’t stay in the USI because he is a radical Hamas-loving terrorist, just don’t mention he had security clearance in the UK, and worked in the British embassy in Syria where his former colleagues speak extremely highly of him.
The White House refused to comment on the whereabouts of its hostage, but explained “free speech without limitations” has its limitations. For example, it does not extend to opposition to genocide.
We were initially told Khalil had attended an “illegal protest”, but when it turned out protests aren’t illegal because of the woke first amendment, the White House explained Khalil had undermined US foreign policy. Obviously, no self-respecting government would tolerate brown people disagreeing with its decisions. Undermining US foreign policy is one of those unofficial laws that can and will get you killed.
If Khalil was in a foreign land, the empire would blow up his entire neighbourhood, which explains why Trump wants to send him to Syria. Either Al Qaida will do his dirty work, or Al Qaida’s boss, Israel, will. Either way, Khalil must pay the ultimate price for pleading for mercy for his people.
I guess we’ll never know why Khalil is so hateful. He spent his childhood in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, presumably because Israel blew up his family home. Trump wanted to send him back to Palestine, but sadly, Israel won’t let Palestinians go back to Palestine. It kind’a undermines the “go back to where you came from” argument, doesn’t it?
Khalil is not allowed to return home because his family history in Palestine goes back as far as his grandparents could trace it, and this makes colonisers jealous. Only those of European ancestry are allowed onto Palestinian land these days in accordance with the Bible.
Disturbingly, anti-Semitic protests have erupted in support of Khalil, including one held by Jewish students. It’s unclear whether Trump will deport those Jewish students to Syria because Israel certainly doesn’t want them. All we know is anyone who opposes genocide must be cleansed from the empire to ensure all subjects have the same opinions x
