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If you needed another indicator that the UN is toothless at best and actively harmful at worst, just remember the image of a smug, silk-suited diplomat holding aloft a tiny paper shredder while his government commits full-scale, real-time genocide completely unchecked.

German stay out of genocide challenge: impossible. Nicaragua to ICJ: End Germany’s support of Israeli ‘genocide’ in Gaza www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/...

Remember: if you have children, keep Anti-Oedipus locked away in a gun safe until they're responsible enough to use it

"israeli citizens aren't responsible for the actions of their country!" Perhaps not, but most wish they were.

Academics should be forced to spend four years in a revolutionary organization before they're allowed to pick up Deleuze

People complaining about the LA tower graffiti have to be the most cucked people ever. To see the egregious waste private ownership imposed on their city and yet still bend over backwards to uphold the sanctity of "private property" is absurd. These people worship garbage

There are two primary forms of trans politics: that which stands in unconditional solidarity with and centers the material needs of transsexuals, and that which makes gender just another matter of individual expression within late capitalism divorced from concrete material demands.

Are they related?

Italo Calvino is Italian for "Italian Calvin."

The hobby-ification of non-work time has had terrible consequences for humanity

The US, UK and Israel are going to take the lack of an order for Israel to halt military action and run with it until they've murdered as many Palestinian civilians as they can get away with.

The media posts so many of these small landlord whine-pieces. "I hate big landlords too!" Yeah okay Josh. your bio says you worked in finance, moved "property development" and already own 12 units.

"Mom and pop landlords" are so obnoxious. Like goddamn just sell the building if it sucks so much to be a landlord. Nobody is forcing you to own it!

"And is not one man for another, even the most intimate, an object of fantasy, of the imagination?" - Feuerbach on desire

Brecht would have hated what's become of the term "Brechtian"

This is the progressive version of "But do you condemn Hamas?"

Fellow leftists, saying the ANC are the good guys is just “stepping in it.” Don’t do that. Please. The SADF will absolutely use it against you

Anyway the lib social media strategy is pretty much to accuse anyone on the left of LARPing. They want that to lead you to pull away from the left. Don't play their game, prove them wrong by becoming more serious and active in offline political organization.

Liberal inactivity is based around the deeply held belief that social stability will last forever. Instead of taking politics seriously, they shame any who do. You end up with critiques like this which are less "they aren't effective enough" and more "they're fools for doing anything"

goated

Fell asleep on my phone and woke up to this

20,000 dead and 50,000 wounded in two months is apocalyptic violence. Violence directed at children, at civilians, at doctors, journalists, medics and aid workers. If you can accept this, you can accept anything. You’re an enemy of humanity. This has revealed all our true selves.

not to be an alarmist but it feels like things are getting objectively worse

Less than a year away!!!

One of the problems with the practice of mutual aid is that it rarely addresses the mutual part. That's not to say people who can't contribute shouldn't get aid, but isn't part of the idea that we build up new structures rather than just latching on to capitalism's depersonalized systems of charity?

It's funny how all of Hemingway's talent as an author has been simplified into "he wrote simple sentences"

The people who say things like "Yeah Kissinger did bad things, but he was still a great statesman!" have the same vibes as the people who love to talk about how Triumph of the Will is actually a masterpiece "artistically speaking"

So, who ended up winning this? henrykissinger.rip

Does anyone actually know one of those Elon dickriding crypto/TSLA memelord guys in real life? What does a person like that do? Can they convincingly act like a interesting and thoughtful human being offline?

This might be possible if Israel hadn't shut down and bombed the only airport in Gaza in violation of international law...

Since the start of this conflict I have been in contact with people of all ages who immigrated from Palestine, and have never felt disrespected because of my identity once. I have, however, experienced transphobic abuse multiple times in response to criticism of Israel.

Nobody wants Palestine to be hostile to gay and trans people more than Israelis. We see right through the fake concern.

Great minds of BlueSky at work coming up with the worst analogies of all time

Hey, tell Israel, not me!

I leave Bluesky for one month and come back to find you all haven't bullied the Israel apologists nearly enough smh

If the war resumes tomorrow its because Israel decided to begin attacks again. No one in Palestine is responsible for Israel's bloodthirsty acts of vengeance.

Not joining a militant org is even worse than a vote for the other team!

Vote scold but about joining a militant communist cadre organization