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2024-09-14 17:19:58

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@npub1knz…c73p Did the tour roll through your area yet?

2024-09-11 15:04:20

Hard to call someone else a liar when you get up on stage and deploy a lie that leverages a pre-existing and carefully cultivated stereotype that Arabs/Muslims are terrorists and are therefore, more than capable of committing a "mass rape" against innocent civilians. And that this is being consistently regurgitated, all to reinforce support of a genocide against innocent civilians on the other side of the wall...
So, who are the racist liars in this election? I can't tell them apart.

2024-09-02 00:48:47

Any updated polling in Israel on the function or legality of sexually assaulting kidnapped Palestinians inside IDF torture camps, or... Perhaps even on the existence of the torture camps themselves?

2024-08-31 12:49:59

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I'm just telling you right now -
Dehumanization isn't particular, thoughtful or incisive - Once you cross that threshold, there is no going back. Our concern and solidarity should be exclusively with Palestine today. However, when these ghouls identify their next target, and there will be one, just don't be surprised if it's you.

2024-08-31 12:44:04

Rather hard to believe that Madame Vice President is at all concerned about dead (or tortured, or disabled, or kidnapped, or dispossessed, or traumatized) Palestinians that her administration is directly responsible for, despite her vacuous and duplicitous claims, in light of her alleged plans for preventing additional deaths and atrocities:
- More weapons
- More diplomatic cover
- Threats against anyone who interferes in the genocide
- Continuous lies about a "ceasefire"

2024-08-28 00:44:06

Remember when a bunch of Americans were implicated in supporting the Israeli government's illegal and violent dispossession of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and on American soil no less, and the outrage wasn't directed against the prospective settlers investing in land theft, but instead at the people who sought to disrupt that illegal activity?
Remember Joe Biden and Karen Bass tacitly endorsed the illegal practice by refusing to comment on what was actually happening that day?

2024-08-27 21:38:56

"[At the DNC] Harris included a throwaway line about how she and Biden were working so that "the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination." The Palestinian people were already pursuing those rights; the U.S. has been actively preventing that from happening."
https://defector.com/everyone-at-the-dnc-speaks-for-palestine-except-for-palestinians

2024-08-27 01:15:16

"79% of Israeli weapons imports come from the United States." (Vijay Prashad)
When the genocide is finally over and they begin to get a true accounting of the human cost, make sure you assign 79% of the death toll to the Biden-Harris administration(s).

2024-08-26 23:29:54

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We're not coming back from this. And we shouldnt be allowed to either. But I feel like a lot of people just assume that we are?

2024-08-26 23:22:56

The moral path in this situation is so apparent such that anyone even abiding what's happening in Gaza lands you squarely in the wrong. Deference to the Bystander Effect doesn't quite rise to the level of ethical conduct.
And so when we talk about those who are actually *doing* the what's happening in Gaza, we're talking about a world-historical wrong that will haunt humanity until its bitter end.
So I just really don't know what anyone is talking about unless they're talking about that.

2024-08-26 18:42:14

“Naysayers will tell you that we couldn’t do this and couldn’t do it properly. That we were not going to make it through.” he said, turning to look into the eyes of his stone-faced officers. “You guys performed the way you were trained to perform.… To protect this city and protect these people. Because you stepped up, we protected this city tonight.”
Protected it... from what?
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/chicago-democratic-national-convention-police-suppression/

2024-08-25 17:45:41

How will they "surge aid" into Gaza while every few days allowing the IDF to Frog March starving, injured or disabled, traumatized Palestinians, in groups ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of people, all while guns, drones and jets are pointed at all of them, waiting for an excuse to commit terrorism with impunity?
Logistics would seem to be a good place to start. That is of course if you were worried at all about these people. Which the Biden-Harris administration is not.

2024-08-24 16:33:55

I think everyone at the DNC should have been forced to ingest, Clockwork Orange-style, an hour-long reel of the carnage that their President has precipitated upon Gaza before allowing anyone to discuss the matter in any capacity.
At least then we would have some kind of shared appreciation for what we're talking about because I sincerely think that most Liberals/Dems are actively avoiding any sober perspective on what's happening in favor of deferential racism fronting as savvy geopolitics.

2024-08-24 13:49:07

Anyone caught saying some demented shit like, "The genocide will be worse under Trump." should be forced to declare how that is exactly... Start with what Biden's policies are today and branch out.
Because this comment only reflects a deeply uninformed and unserious relation to the depths of Joe Biden's cascading barbarism on the matter.

2024-08-24 13:12:13

"Uncommitted said the speech was never asked for or vetted by DNC organizers."
At a certain point, people need to accept that, for the Democratic Party, Palestinians are only human insofar as their suffering can be used to harm Hamas' opposition to Israeli supremacy in the region.
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-23-dnc-uncommitted-delegates-denied-speaker/

2024-08-24 03:02:39

I think the best part about this election is not that fascism is on the ballot, but that it's apparently the only thing on the ballot.

2024-08-17 14:39:24

Dont worry, fam -
They've got focus groups checking to verify what messaging needs to be deployed in order to achieve a plausible disassociation from genocide whilst still maintaining existing economic and military integration with the fascist settler colony currently spearheading the genocide.
You'll be fooled and recuperated in no time.

2024-08-16 11:55:52

Let's take a quick look at how the The New York Times is covering the bad faith "cease-fire" negotiations that the United States keeps rendering impossible due to its blanket diplomatic cover and routine weapons transfers leaving "Israel" under absolutely no pressure to take their foot off the genocidal gas.
Ah yes, very good. Tasteful, as always. A very serious institution this one.
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/112/971/538/270/793/200/original/94039631fdf1a1b4.jpg

2024-08-13 18:27:11

Trump's not in office and yet a US-orchestrated genocide is in progress.
Trump's not in office and yet a coup is underway in South America.
Trump's not in office and yet police (and Congress) are cracking down on the Right to Assemble.
Trump's not in office and yet fascist border architecture expands by the day.
Trump's not in office and yet unhoused populations are both growing and under greater abuse from law enforcement.
Fascism doesn't need Trump to flourish.

2024-08-13 01:11:25

L.M.A.O.
Imagine being sued over the most flaccid, purely symbolic sanctions package you've ever submitted into being in your entire country-killing career.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240807-biden-administration-sued-over-sanctions-for-israeli-settlers/

2024-08-12 14:09:16

The US and Israeli governments feel SO COMFORTABLE laying the blame for the horrifyingly routine atrocities that they commit, on Hamas. Why is that?
If you or your government are using the "Human shields" explanation for why a few dozen kids needed to be butchered in their sleep, then you are deploying a flatly racist explanation for your own government's willingness to kill for political gain.
Hmm, feel like there's a readily available term out there for this methodology...

2024-08-10 13:49:49

Running cover for the Biden-Harris administration's refusal to do anything, anything at all, about the atrocities that they are actively perpetrating is genocide apologia and only serves to reinforce the notion that liberals are not just merely comfortable with genocide, but actively support it.

2024-08-06 22:32:12

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Consider George Floyd being murdered in May of 2021, during the feel-good days of the election afterglow, instead of 2020...
Ain't no way those protests would have swelled the way they did.

2024-08-06 22:29:12

The Trump presidency was the first time that a lot of Americans ever considered, or approached awareness, that the United States were the bad guys.
Biden at least partially restored the cloak of patriotic ignorance to the point where not even a genocide could break the spell.
Fucking hell

2024-08-05 12:38:02

"[Massachusetts Governor Maura] Healey announced that stays in overflow shelters will be limited to five days, [with] a six-month waitlist for longer-term facilities. Also: the state won’t build any new overflow sites to keep up with the increasing demand."
When even purportedly 'civilized' states are taking these measures, there's cause for concern about what they will be un/willing to do about an increasingly unrelenting problem. And this pervasive posture ain't helping.

2024-08-01 21:15:31

Just as a heads up, the Biden administration's posture vis-a-vis Israel is absolutely no different than the arrogant manner in which the Bush administration conducted its Iraq invasion.
The media contempt, the tedious word games, the flagrant, but covert support for torture, the brazen acceptance of mass atrocities all in service of some nebulous outcome that they're too chickenshit to say outright.
What does that tell you about the nature of American governance?

2024-08-01 18:00:31

Lol?
https://defector.com/do-not-say-the-boeing-starliner-astronauts-are-stranded-in-space-which-they-cannot-presently-return-from-due-to-problems-with-their-spacecraft

2024-07-31 13:14:17

It's my contention that the efforts by the United States to hinder a ceasefire - the vetoes at the UN Security Council, the disruption of third party efforts to achieve a ceasefire and the maligning of international legal mechanisms - represent an overt attempt to grant Israel a long enough runway to achieve their military and political goals, allowing them to coordinate assassinations along with continuing the genocide in Gaza and annexation in the West Bank.
This is complicity.

2024-07-28 18:01:21

When this kind of quip becomes a recurring Republican talking point in the next month or so, just as Dems are realizing they have no choice but to moderate their support of Israel, people like Biden and the rest of the party flack can accept the blame for the rhetorical catastrophe they find themselves in.
Wanna deploy bad faith accusations of racism? Then prepare for them to leveled back at you.
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/112/865/413/254/338/663/original/51782ebecb896ed8.jpg

2024-07-26 01:58:34

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@npub1lgd…weyh condemning protests while a credibly accused war criminal freely stumps for an ongoing genocide in front of the most awful and destructive people on earth is a tough start for the leadership tour

2024-07-23 01:01:53

Lining up behind a candidate on-demand is the least effective thing you can possibly do as someone allegedly interested in making the country/world a better place to live.
Is your life perfect?
Do you have zero demands??
Really???
If so, then zip it.
Some people actually have needs that require attention and support and you barking at everyone to 'fall in' only serves to silence these groups and allows politicians to skate without any accountability. You're the one that's not helping.

2024-07-22 22:59:56

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If you think this habitual chauvinism is going away just because a crusty war criminal is gonna go lay down until he dies, then I have bad news about your naivete vis-a-vis the pathological American desire to dominate and plunder. It is woven into the very cultural fabric of these United States.

2024-07-22 22:54:45

I think Biden's first term is virtually indecipherable from Reagan's time in office, right down to the flagrant war crimes and the intentional tarnishing of international bodies who were built to exert pressure on warring factions in order to mitigate harms both economic and humanitarian.
Remember this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States

2024-07-17 21:22:03

fwiw whenever I see folks promoting their Amazon lists around here, all I think about are the workers whose bodies will be put at risk fulfilling the orders.
"Individuals shouldn't be held responsible for ending exploitative systems" and fair enough but we can also make choices and when possible, should desperately avoid strengthening those same systems with our patronage.

2024-07-14 15:15:17

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@npub15f5…68kp so your takeaway from a demented old man making a throwaway comment about beating Trump at the ballot box is that he was calling for Trump to be assassinated?
You're a baby.

2024-07-14 15:12:46

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@npub15f5…68kp whatever you say, buddy

2024-07-14 15:11:05

Actually, let me accept the narrative -
I agree. Using violence as a political tool is never acceptable and anyone using it as such forfeits my electoral support.
This isn't my argument, it's yours. Now lay in the bed you've made.

2024-07-05 19:56:38

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@npub1a4g…yuyx That's *Dr.* Grima Wormtongue

2024-06-30 18:23:36

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@npub178r…qekt this is pathetic, but good luck with whatever you're trying to do here.

2024-06-28 21:08:43

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@npub1a4g…yuyx "The party has been split into two factions: Pro-dementia vs. Anti-dementia" was good, too

2024-06-28 16:14:14

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@npub1scr…teus how's the climate in Palestine?

2024-06-28 15:20:34

Some of us were 8 months ahead of the news cycle.
https://mastodon.world/@Shebeencounter/111327261303205477
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/112/694/919/453/972/116/original/8ab515504b1fe751.jpg

2024-06-25 12:56:40

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@npub1a4g…yuyx I don't fly much, but I opt out every time and they always get so steamed

2024-06-25 12:41:46

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@npub1a4g…yuyx Do you participate in the Face Scan that they suddenly decided to do everywhere with no apparent public debate?

2024-06-24 12:03:28

"If you don't vote for our Bad Guy (who is making everything worse), then the other Bad Guy will win and make everything worse!" comes off like the most lazy, childish and non-strategic battle cry imaginable.
Maybe these people can be ignored.

2024-06-19 14:06:12

Happy Juneteenth y'all -
Most of the chocolate you purchase is born from circumstances involving forced labor with much of the "labor supply" consisting of children. Might be a good day to meditate on that situation.

2024-06-13 12:34:34

If your concern were human dignity and flourishing, your commitment wouldn't be to the career ghoul that has supported every single Defense Authorization, War Authorization, Domestic Surveillance program, Law Enforcement funding bill, vindictive, racist Crime Bill and Arms Deal that has ever been passed through the Senate/WH.
So long as "fascism" is directed outward, there's no problem. But when it (inevitably) turns inward, well...

2024-06-13 01:43:18

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@npub1gkl…pamv I'll give it a look. Thank you

2024-06-13 01:43:18

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@npub1gkl…pamv I'll give it a look. Thank you

2024-06-12 22:46:48

How would the "destruction and death" be worse under Trump? Im begging someone to tell me...
Fuck Donald Trump to death, but this claim is a specious hallucination. Biden is a butcher, the likes of which Trump could only dream of ever aspiring to. If you're refusing to reconcile this unassailable fact, then you can stop pretending to be a "good guy". You're just a goblin. And more than that, a cowardly one.
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/112/606/057/589/355/281/original/908e990a39582736.jpg

2024-06-11 14:44:13

"We called upon people in ["Israel"] to sign up for daily shifts at Tarqumiya checkpoint to deter the settlers, document what is happening, alert the police, and demand that they do their job. More than 900 Israeli citizens signed up for this initiative, taking shifts, establishing a daily presence there."
https://prospect.org/world/2024-06-11-israel-settlers-blocking-aid-gaza/

2024-05-29 20:15:18

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@npub1gkl…pamv and then Biden thanked the pigs for their service.
https://mastodon.world/@Shebeencounter/112366623683113175

2024-05-29 00:54:27

Which is to say that despite what's happening in Gaza being a primarily US-driven catastrophe, I sincerely think there is a desperate desire for some Americans, including among those who would call themselves Leftists, to separate the actions of "Israel" from the authorizations and armaments of its benefactor.
And I don't have a great explanation for this beyond a lazy claim that these folks have been deeply propagandized and deluded by the supposed "promise" of those United States.

2024-05-23 22:06:36

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@npub1a4g…yuyx Dave Matthews (of the Dave Matthews Band)

2024-05-22 01:27:06

The world - Israel needs to chill.
The US - Repugnant! *Sends more weapons.
World - Ceasefire now.
US - Counterproductive. *Sends more weapons.
World - Aid needs to enter Gaza now.
US - Ok, we're gonna build a, uh, pier? *Defunds aid agency *Sends more weapons
World - Palestine is now a state.
US - No it's isn't. *Threatens to starve everyone *Sends more weapons.

2024-05-22 01:08:34

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@npub1sac…apc0 So you mean Trump would be accusing campus protesters of antisemitism and then setting the dogs on them?
Oh wait, that was Biden, too, live from the "imperial core"

2024-05-21 20:48:43

The more you hear folks complaining about Trump engaging in "genocidal" language while Biden is actively funding, arming and running cover for an active genocide really gives up the game, doesn't it?

2024-05-15 18:31:38

If Genocide represents the lesser of two evils, and your entire political praxis hinges on electing the lesser of two evils, which implicitly includes global weapons distribution, sanctions regimes, predatory trade deals and natural gas sales, then your system sucks shit and deserves to die a swift death.

2024-05-14 23:46:00

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@npub1tav…7qgr The best the American Psycho could do was not send bombs in support of an active genocide campaign for barely a week.
Lesser eviling like a boss

2024-05-05 12:23:23

It's not enough to stand against genocide after genocide begins happening. You have to stand against the conditions that produce genocide.
Colonialism, industrial arms production, economic embargoes, systematic dispossession, embedded surveillance infrastructure, permanent occupation, forced demilitarization of one party and the hyper militarization of another -
The inevitability of October 7th and its aftermath was determined nearly a century ago.

2024-01-04 18:17:00

They've destroyed their homes.
Forced them to flee at gunpoint.
Cordoned them off into smaller and smaller areas.
Rendered their lives virtually unlivable by depriving them of basic human necessities.
Oh and they're raining bombs upon families every chance they get.
And none of it would be possible were it not for the financial, diplomatic and tactical support of North America and the EU.

2023-12-11 13:09:08

If Israel never dropped a single bomb, Gaza would still be a concentration camp restricted from conducting business with the outside world, whose people would be suffering under the boot of an occupying army that steals its land, displaces its people, kidnaps its children and murders anyone it pleases with impunity. Nothing about October 7th, or its aftermath, has changed the reality inside the Gaza Concentration Camp for its inhabitants and there's nothing anyone can say that changes it either.