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Calling this set, "Thought crimes on the Russian-Ukrainian and Western War"
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Imagine having a Ukrainian flag in your handle alongside Lebanese and Palestinians flags...
UKRAINE SUPPORTS ISRAEL, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE
World peace, you say?
But is it "electable"? Because our consultants indicate that while peace does indeed poll well, for those who are heavily invested in the military industrial complex, war and conflict are necessary evils. Their words, not mine.
And ultimately the latter group is our primary constituency.
I oppose the genocidal empire's genocide in Palestine, but I support the genocidal empire's proxy war in Ukraine!
I understand how things work!
I'm a white Jewish man from just outside Kansas City, Missouri, USA and it is my sincere, deeply held belief that I have the unique, inalienable right to purchase land, 10,000 kilometers away, that was recently stolen from a violently dispossessed brown family primarily because they are not Jewish.
I'm sorry, why do you think that is racist?
If anything, it is you who are racist for opposing my absolutely ludicrous, indefensible position on the matter.
The fact is that Marco Rubio is a far more committed fascist than Donald Trump, being far less distracted by market considerations and country club memberships, Rubio has the bandwidth to remain laser-focused on raining terror and installing colonial outposts across the globe. And still, despite all that, he was given 100% US Senate approval during confirmation.
Perhaps there's a lesson in there?
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@donray@mastodon.online I've had posts removed before but I could maybe kind of understand why previously. I think I may have used the word "scum" or spoke 'too soon' about October 7th which... fine... I guess. But it had been a while since my last trespassing and I don't think they really have a case here?
And what's funny is that these posts got maybe 2 boosts and a couple likes each... What we are we worried about here?
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Like, honestly... How does this violate any guidelines? This isn't even a hot take.
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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green Gerry, when you say "we" you are referring mainly to a Western cohort in the so-called "developed world" or is it everyone?
I ask because surely the consumption 'rates' vary wildly from say Lusaka to London and I am wondering, does a model for "de-consumption" exist in the world already? If so, it may help to render the demand more legible for people who cannot conceptualize just what consuming less looks like and may also mitigate dramatic, reflexive reactions to the proposal
"The story’s first crime is not that it uses bogus data to back up its argument, but that it offers none while claiming that a “troubling trend” is now “erupting in violence.”
... When newsrooms skip this part, it’s usually because the facts aren’t there, but they refuse to let that spoil a good headline."
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/detroits-teen-takeover-panic-revives-an-old-racist-media-playbook/
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social the ICIJ, who was behind the Panama Papers, is funded primarily by the National Endowment for Democracy, which is funded by US Congress (and is also, it should be stated, a CIA carveout).
The goal of the Panama Papers was to expose Russian circumvention of economic sanctions. And it was actually extremely successful in that regard. The rest was a bunch of noise intended to conceal that latter fact and present the appearance of neutral investigation.
Oh so Mark Carney popped by Riyadh after the Warmonger's Ball in Ankara to shore up his Human Rights bona fides by making deals with Prince Bonesawman?
Cool... Love these Western Values
Every time the War Boys get together, it is so staggeringly obvious how 1. Subservient Europe is to a full-on fascist military empire in the United States and 2. how oriented this group is to an anti-democratic and pro-colonialism perspective.
This is a collective currently waging a catastrophic proxy war, collaborating with terrorists in Syria, Sudan and Mali and that is actively waging economic warfare upon dozens of states.
But to the average midwit - these are the Good Guys.
Kind of think being anti-genocide and anti-pedophile should be a baseline requirement for running for office in any so-called Democracy, but it seems like the entirety of the Western world is finding it very challenging to stock its political shelves with anything but pedophilic, genocidal monsters.
But hey, uh, yeah make sure you vote for the lesser of two evils or whatever.
India sat by quietly and watched as the US Navy fired on an unarmed Iranian naval ship, claiming the lives of upwards of 100 sailors.
Its oil can sit there for eternity as far as I'm concerned.
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"I can't get my local representative to even pretend that I deserve healthcare, but here's why the Iranian government needs to start listening to its people:"
Just a reminder as to what The Good Guys were doing before handing over the reins to Trump and the Bad Guys.
I hate Barack Obama as much as I hate Joe Biden as much as I hate Donald Trump.
The difference is that Trump knows he's being a pig when he shoots from the hip. Obama thinks he's being profound. And Joe Biden thinks he's at an IHOP.
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@yogthos@social.marxist.network endlessly amusing that the UK government sold off virtually all of its intelligence and other sensitive private information about its citizens to American tech ghouls. It's not that they are a colony of the United States (although that's mostly the case), so much as they are a colony of Silicon Valley.
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@UsagiTsukino@kolektiva.social "They'll think of something" he said without a hint of sarcasm or awareness.
"Just War Theory" being brought up once again to defend US aggression, and this time by such a principled and devout follower of Christ such as JD Vance, should hopefully put that dogshit notion to bed in perpetuity.
Hey, St. Augustine -
Therefore a flaw, you see
You've reasoned quite
Illogically
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Trump loves to use the weekend to prime Stock Market confidence ahead of Monday morning, but Iran and Yemen are both going out of their way to disrupt that recurring program, pressuring US allies in East Asia and Europe in the process.
Here's to a financial bloodbath beginning in roughly 6-8 hours
Linking out to Bluesky from the Fedi should be punishable by a short-term ban.
Screenshot it or quote it. The links don't even "work" half the time.
re: Last Boost
Keir Starmer apparently "lashed out" at Trump and Putin today because he wants to blame other people for the messes that his own (along with his predecessors') government has actively generated.
Keir Starmer and his air force actively participated in the genocide of Palestine in Gaza. His Navy supported the United States in Venezuela. His government sanctions Iran. And now his military is participating in Israel's attempted genocide in Lebanon. Fuck him.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/04/10/lebanon-mod/
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@zer0unplanned yeah, same. I bailed as soon as Elon took over. I do like being able to access the "bird dot makeup" on this platform, but they are not always reliable in terms of maintaining an updated flow
Whenever I am trying to halt a Far Right political insurgency, I find that it is best to behave exactly as the Far Right does in order to achieve my objectives.
Spreading the contagion to stop it. Let's see how it goes.
https://theintercept.com/2026/07/30/bob-vylan-germany-deport-palestine-israel/
Cancel your Drop Site membership but definitely keep picking up and running with Politico scoops, you absolute reactionary fucking nitwits.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/telegraph-and-politico-owner-says-journalists-must-support-israel-or-resign
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Qasim, are you trying to say that the CIA is not here to help? Because I'm going to need to rethink some things...
RE: https://mastodon.world/@Shebeencounter/116930027573402982
Reminder that China's version of GPS allows missile operators in Iran (or anywhere) to outmaneuver US THAAD/Patriot systems allowing for detection and course correction mid-flight which is why US forces are in active retreat across West Asia.
And this is why Israel's ass remains on the sidelines - Iran would be pummeling targets across occupied Palestine with relative systematic ease if Bibi Dog were let off leash.
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@truthaddictvt@masto.ai there appears to be a deeply held belief in Liberal circles that the reason Democrats do not win is because "The Left" says mean things about them online while also making "unrealistic" demands irl, (i.e. healthcare and a reduction in genocidal tendencies). So the emerging tactic appears to be, philosophically support the Republican plan to purge/muzzle the Left and then somehow, with this cohort isolated, Democrats can better attract "independents" and win elections.
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You can either get to work demanding that your electeds begin behaving in a manner that is becoming of someone aligned with the basic principles of human morality, or you can accept the agency and strategy of those who arise to do so in lieu of your participation, and in response to your complicity.
Resist or don't. But if it's the latter, then definitely be quiet about it.
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If you were at all shocked by the support that the United States and Europe and East Asia and Australia provided to Israel during its genocide in Palestine, while it waged a war of starvation and ultraviolence, most acutely against children, then it's because you ignored what was happening in Yemen before it. These are Western values. And the Gulf Goblins yearn for them.
Saudi Arabia owes a debt to the Yemeni people. And it's time to collect.
A nuclear weapon won't save them.
In a truly dizzying development, the United States is now floating air strikes against yet another country. This time it is Mali, where the Trump administration is considering attacking French and Ukrainian-linked Salafists who have been actively at war with the Malian government on behalf of their Western backers.
One of the goals appears to be attempting to drive a wedge between the Sahelian governments and their Russian defenders.
https://news.antiwar.com/2026/07/22/sebastian-gorka-pushing-for-us-military-action-in-mali/
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And again, if the United States experiences any kind of similar energy shocks (which is increasingly inevitable), whether for automotive or residential heating/cooling, then they will face pressure on the homefront to pull back on LNG exports and at that point Europe is absolutely fucked.
You know why Europe backed regime change in Venezuela? Any ideas as to why they are so supportive of far right regimes taking over across Latin America? Explanations as to why they are virtually silent on Cuba?
It's because just like in West Asia and Africa when similar developments emerge, Europe stands to materially benefit from the new arrangements.
So next time Human Rights are invoked, understand that if that is at all a factor, it is a distant one to money and resource availability.
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"We will make you even more wealthy if you agree to feed your people into the Russian machine."
- Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer, Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, Olaf Scholz, Ursula von der Leyen to Volodymyr Zelensky
This is your civilizational war - a glorified kickback scheme that sacrifices the stability and livelihoods of MILLIONS of Ukrainians on behalf of European colonial privateers.
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@lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net because it was comically ill advised and only a puppet who has given up his humanity and his commitment to his people would ever dare try it. Humor endures even on the gallows, as they say.
The "moderate" position inside the US Democratic Party (aka The Good Guys) is pro-genocide, pro-oligarchy, anti-affordable healthcare, pro-war and generally agnostic about climate change.
In case you were wondering how absolutely fucked that country is.
I appreciate the gravity of the current situation regarding the Western production of AI and while I also appreciate witnessing the activism and analysis that have confronted that development, I feel like we're all kind of oddly ignoring the growing pestilence of widely distributed, readily available and almost impossible-to- regulate terror drones.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/el-obeid-sudan-hospitals-rsf-drones
"To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world...
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."
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@donray@mastodon.online mastodon dot world: No salty language directed at world leaders and/or relatively generalized ideological subgroups.
If you helped pave the way for genocide, the only thing I want to hear out of your mouth, and preferably from your knees, is an apology followed by a resignation, then followed by all the dirt you have on your co-conspirators.
But from a policy perspective, you failed, son. That'll be all...
The European Union, as it stands today in its allegedly Liberal posture, is a right-wing, pro-war, anti-immigrant, colonialism-oriented institution and its destruction would make the world a better place.
"The leaders of 22 of the EU’s 27 countries have called for urgent talks over the Ceuta border breach... And in a letter to the bloc’s leaders, they highlighted a Spanish domestic [migrant amnesty] policy as a “pull factor”, demanding it be eliminated."
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/03/how-europe-betrayed-leftwing-spain-over-ceuta/