the translation of the speech of one of the dockworker’s leaders in Genoa, before the departure of the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla www.normanfinkelstein.com/why-i-am-sti...
the translation of the speech of one of the dockworker’s leaders in Genoa, before the departure of the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla www.normanfinkelstein.com/why-i-am-sti...
Epstein victims' lawyer: While we have seen the documents, you haven't. When you see the documents, you're going to be appalled. The American people deserve to see everything. Evil flourishes in the darkness. RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES!
it’s wild when people self admit that they wouldn’t have found the holocaust a major enough issue to not vote for a candidate. this is literally no different. if genocide isn’t a red line for you then nothing will be. fix your heart
the lobbying behind AI is like the lobbying behind guns more here: www.404media.co/podcast-trum...
it’s disappointing to see an ostensibly left-wing populist party embrace suppressing the civil rights of one of the most marginalized groups in the UK
Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
i generally agree, provided there’s the ability to override if necessary, but i don’t think google (or any large US-based tech company for that matter) is a trustworthy arbiter of safe code
unfortunately i don’t think there is a single police force in the country, but especially in any major city, that can be trusted to do the right thing in this circumstance. a disturbing number of law enforcement are either nazis themselves or cozy with nazi groups
i feel like the miserable-ness of Windows cannot be understated, between the AI bs, ads, and surveillance features, it doesn’t feel like your own computer anymore. plus proton is magical and KDE is quite user friendly/windows-esque. not a painless experience but also not thaaaat bad
Christina Hayes Rest in Pride, Queen 💔😔🏳️⚧️
A good question to ask oneself politically is 'what do I need to ignore in order to maintain my commitment to x, y, and z?' Because if you, for example, need to ignore a whole group of people's humanity in order to vote for a horrible politician, then it may be too costly to your soul.
you were lecturing to trans people that our deaths are acceptable if it means your party will win, what did you expect to happen?
that’s a car, how do you get that mixed up with a sociopolitical philosophy they’re such different concepts
A public health catastrophe. Not “immanent,” not “potential.” This is the catastrophe.
right, this is another direct step towards thiel taking total control of the country and we all need to be calling that out
Genuinely have no idea how much longer I can take literally every trans person around me being on the edge of falling apart - and every now and again losing someone I can't help keep together - while the cis people just kinda nod and assume we're all being hysterical.
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it makes me so fucking mad that a person could not only do a mass shooting against innocent children, but do so knowing full well that their despicable actions will be used to demonize their entire community. fuck her so fuckjng much for this holy shit. absolute evil. may the children rest in peace
There are very few things that enrage me more than exploitation of marginalized and racialized people clothed in the language of social justice. Yes this is about a case and yes this is deliberately vague but holy shit does this make me angry.
Trump is not the end boss of this, the police are. Defund the police was the compromise position. It's the nice option and a practical one and instead Biden gave them more and more and adopted a back the blue mindset, dismissed BLM, and the liberals largely forgot about the movement.
"do you have the right to your own body" is one of the fundamental questions when dealing with fascism. Fascists answer no. If you also find yourself answering no to things like transgender freedom & abortion, then at minimum you don't have the path out of fascism worked out.
there needs to be repercussions for writing “news” like this. Articles like this are fanning the flames of a civil war and consequently are going to get people killed
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
you’re literally proving the point by using “trumpistan”, another weird racist characterization. it’s the US! the US is a fascist authoritarian regime. stop trying to pin this as something like other countries do and not ours when brutal authoritarianism has long-been an american tradition
how convenient that you forget to mention that the US has committed a genocide of the global south the past 70 years to ensure communism didn’t succeed… The US has never been a moral or even “good” country, it’s been evil from the very start, and liberals are unable to recognize that
maybe a better way of saying it is liberalism enables fascism. it happened with the social democratic party of germany prior to the nazis, and has happened in the US. you can’t be against fascism and for capitalism, the two systems are inextricably intertwined
see this argument falls apart once you recognize the fact that there are several fantastic alternatives like pritzker and walz and such and yet liberals like you by and large are choosing to get behind the guy who’s just Trump but with a D next to his name (newsom)
it’s not legal. the laws don’t matter now to the trump regime. only whatever helps them inflict maximum suffering. looking at things like this through that lens will explain these things better than the framework of law
in the wake of everything that’s been happening the past few months i 100% understand now why people like mao, mlk, etc. hated liberalism so fervently. their “resistance” is unprincipled and they suck up power, energy, and attention away from those actually trying to fight the foundational issues
historically, authoritarian regimes are overcome through revolution or a collapse of leadership. i don’t think we should assume we can overcome this moment through electoral means anymore. make of that what you will
It occured to me today that nothing these tech companies have built, in their algorithms and LLMs, has been free of racism, or sexism, etc. Doesn't it seem that there's a sort of reverse Roko's Basilisk here where we should all actively work to kill any AGI they create? Because it will be lethal.
I really, really don’t think what blue voters want to hear right now is “military takeover is redundant because we can crack down on crime more effectively.” They want to hear “this is fascism and we won’t stand for it” and vanishingly few national dems are doing that
oh another thing about gavin newsom
they’re kidnapping trans women and forcing them to choose between male detention centers, where theyll be tortured, sexually abused and forcibly detransitioned, and leaving her whole life behind via self-deportation. but please go on with your “reasonable concerns” about trans rights
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There is not one marginalized, racialized, or oppressed group whose oppression or destruction is an acceptable cost for saving "democracy." Not one. If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving. Either we all get saved or none of us do.
“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”
I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.
that’s because you are morally okay with the subjugation and repression of certain minority groups if it ostensibly means it will protect yourself and your family i hope you embark on a journey to fix your heart someday, have a nice weekend
in a convo about newsom you said “What if people don't want a Nazi in charge and their two choices are a Nazi or a non Nazi?”, with Trump being an obvious Nazi, implying that newsom is not one himself, which i don’t think we can assume based on his actions suggesting otherwise
why do you assume Newsom is not a Nazi? He has had Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, both literal nazis, on his podcast and agreed with them on many topics. he’s extremely violent against the unhoused. he’s passed legislation that makes farm workers lives harder. why not support pritzker instead?
socialism, definitionally, is workers owning the means of production. how is this that? to me this seems like the ultra-wealthy currently in government positions consolidating and centralizing corporate power (i.e. textbook fascism), not the workers seizing the means of production
… this is literally capitalism. this doesn’t provide worker-owned control of anything, if anything it’s a consolidating corporate state. what do you think the word communism means?
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
the real answer is information destruction. the big ai companies are all openly aligned with fascists, LLMs help with polluting the internet, esp the most popular online platforms, with hallucinated misinformation that makes it harder to find real information, esp. about political horrors
it would’ve saved everyone a lot of time, including you, if you just told everyone you’re a TERF upfront. Trans people aren’t making the dems lose, their unwavering commitment to corporate interests above all else is, they don’t care about what their actual constituents want.
you don’t beat fascism by sacrificing minorities to them. are you genuinely that evil-hearted and naïve? if the democrats are okay with killing trans people, then they should expect to never see support again from a large percentage of the queer community.
Gavin Newsom shares the same policy as this guy when it comes to homeless people. Not a better version of this, just this.
if democrats don’t care to protect trans folk then they should expect to lose support from a significant portion of the queer community. if y’all don’t care if we die then we don’t care if you lose every election for the rest of time. you don’t beat fascists by sacrificing minority groups to them
right? like i feel like i’m going fucking insane talking to these people, their souls are rotten to their very core and i genuinely don’t know what you do with people who don’t get why slavery was and is so indescribably horrific
wow, liberals are really proving the whole “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds” thing in real time. maybe, just maybe, there should be a strong firm line in the sand against fucking SLAVERY. no amount is acceptable. do you hear the words you’re speaking?
you clearly do not, otherwise you’d give support to someone who is *showing* they want everyone protected, like pritzker, but you’re actively deciding to instead support someone who is transphobic, violent against the unhoused, and friendly with Nazis. you are deciding to throw support behind that
and if none of that is disqualifying for you, then we aren’t “in the same foxhole”
He’s transphobic, violent against the unhoused, silent on the concentration camps, and increasingly friendly with Nazis (one of the first guests he had on his podcast was Steve Bannon). How is none of that instantly disqualifying for you?
Most people don't want to get to the fundamental truth of a liberated self or future: that everybody would be a little bit transgender. cissexuality is a violently imposed state of being. agency and bodily autonomy, the desire to self-realize, these are at the heart of being human.
hopefully within a year the company goes completely bankrupt 🙏
im just praying and hoping that it collapses sooner than later so everyone can realize how many tech CEOs are complete charlatans. but what will do it? when they eventually run out of money?
Maybe it’s because I’m a state legislator, but I’m worried about the under reaction here. She didn’t spend the night on the House floor. She’s being DETAINED AGAINST HER WILL BY REPUBLICANS UNTIL SHE FOLLOWS THEIR ORDERS. This is 🦇 💩
The Fair Games Coalition — made up of 60 worker organizations including unions Unite Here Local 11, UTLA, and United Farm Workers — is holding a rally at the Coliseum on Thursday to demand a "new deal" for 2028. The coalition "warns of massive protests and strikes if workers’ needs are ignored"
can’t wait until someone who actually wants to fight gets elected into your position, you have been an active help to the trump administration, we can’t afford that right now
i find random men who harass random queer people online like you’re doing here a lot scarier than any unhoused person i’ve ever met, genuinely
i am losing my fucking mind at the executive of the Israeli cyber directorate coming to the united states to engage in literal child sex trafficking tourism and being caught in a sting
if you are willing to give up on trans people’s right to exist just for your “coalition” to win, then why would you expect trans people to want to be a part of your coalition? what’s difficult to understand about that?
Gavin Newsom and Buttigege both seemingly want to be the American Keir Starmer, and Americans sympathetic to that pitch should glance over at how things are going across the pond
me in 2004: oh nice, now i can catch up with all my new college friends! me in 2025: we need a nuremberg 2 for everyone who worked at facebook
i definitely think the dominance of first person shooters in the gaming market isn’t full organic - wouldn’t be surprised at all if it turned out some 3 letter agencies have been trying to groom millions of young men to become bloodthirsty detached-from-their-humanity freaks
what I want out of the next president is someone who thinks general sherman didn't go far enough
More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.
The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.
#ReleaseTheCuomoList
These are concentration camps.
when i say the NYTimes deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, crosswords, connections, and wordle, the wirecutter, the athletic, and all their podcasts. the nyt have repeatedly chosen to be right-wing stenographers, not reporters
i wish i started a weight loss journey before i started transitioning, feels like im stuck between not wanting to eat more to avoid getting more severe obesity but wanting to eat more to help with my transition :’)
please understand that ice is the fucking ss
More women need more guns.
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
delete your account, fuck you
that shit will probably actually have microchips in it or whatever they feared about being in the covid vaccines. every conservative accusation is a confession lol
The US military is the largest terrorist organization on the planet and it’s never not been ever since the US has held global hegemony. It’s always been an evil job lol
truly abhorrent, and for a labour party to be doing this. it should be unconscionable. the UK needs jeremy corbyn and zarah sultana’s new party more than ever.
Just like you should not be on Twitter, you should not be on Substack. There are viable alternatives that aren’t The Nazi Bar.
capitalism is legitimately a mental disorder. not everything has to grow constantly! there’s nothing wrong with a service in steady state, even if it doesn’t have 1 quadrillion users yet, would much rather have a small social media app not overrun by nazis than billion users but 90% are nazis
NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing. A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:
we must start a national sport of hunting down drones, destroying them with baseball bats, etc etc
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
we were literally going to find VACCINES for CANCER
… the AHA needs to be completely reformed if these are the types of decisions you’re making
can relate, the cognitive dissonance between watching the world burn (literally) and spending most of my hours awake on a job that’s not really doing anything for the betterment of the world but being told is of utmost importance is genuinely fracturing my pysche
Not to be too dramatic but I think we string up every self described Nazi, neonazi, fascist, white nationalist, white supremacist, etc. Reconstruction did not go far enough and we should learn that lesson.
Good morning to everyone who likes seeing Peter Thiel so so so scared ONLY
that’s why a lot of them have been building underground bunkers and/or compounds. they don’t plan to be around when full civilizational collapse happens
she’s a registered republican and her family is known for being on board with the MAGA movement. she made an ad about good genes as a white, blonde haired, blue eyed woman. recognizing it as anything other than eugenicist rhetoric is being purposefully ignorant and honestly concerning