Yukon Cornelius 🇵🇸
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We can't afford no liberals in times like these | just another Marxist grad student | He/him
Dish With One Spoon/Onterrible
Joined March 2019
tweets from 1789/1793/1799/1815/1830/1848/1871/1936/1940/1944/1958/1968
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"The colonial world is a world cut in two." Fanon.
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remember when someone got mad about the description 'post-Soviet' and mockingly asked if we should call countries 'post-British empire' too, as if doing so wouldn't immensely clarify the world.
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turning 21 in prison, meaning she was only 20 when she did it. what a noble, courageous soul.
Zoe is one of 10 activists in prison on remand for action against an Elbit Systems facility in Filton, Bristol, in August. She spent her 21st birthday in prison 💔. 2/
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this photo from Yellowknife is my new favourite thing
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Incredible to see historical revisionism start this quickly.
President Biden — having weathered the first major foreign crisis of his presidency — touted a ceasefire deal that appears to end the bloody 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas
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the point of drinking coffee was to commune with Allah and now you use it to drag yourself through your office jobs
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if you think soldiers in WW1 died for something worthwhile you don't understand anything about the 20th century.
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it's probably worth stating that Israel killed the only ever elected Palestinian leader last night.
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remember one time a Zionist told Eliana the Hebrew* characters in her display name were 'gibberish' and she replied "it's Yiddish, our ancestors spoke it for 900 years".
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the post encampment climate on campuses is crazier than I imagined.
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should not escape notice what this UAW activist cites as the beginning of his politicization
Fresh off of the United Auto Workers’ blowout unionization victory at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant, we spoke to a VW worker there about why the drive won and where the UAW goes from here.
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I saw a banner from the Chilean protests saying "we are the children of the workers you couldn't kill," another demonstration of the extremely powerful historical consciousness cultivated by the Left and popular movements in Latin America.
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Fidel may be the only political figure who comes across *better* the more you see behind the scenes
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Just logically, why would being democratically elected mean you can't be accused of war crimes or genocide?.
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World War I propaganda is so weird because there was so much of this romantic historical LARPing among Modernist Nightmare War.
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just wanna wake up in my low-rent municipal apartment and get on the fare-free bus to my job teaching history to students who are attending higher education for free.
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This looks legitimately interesting but also. that cover photo
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I try not to do this too much but mass protest against complicity at Columbia while storm clouds gather for a DNC in Chicago is too much for us '68 heads.
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seems almost unbelievable that in 1945 'let's be friends with the USSR forever, let the European empires die, finish off Franco while we're at it' was a mainstream position in US politics.
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The International will be the human race, so jot that down.
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this is one of my favourite things any revolutionary state has done
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@lavenderashtray the unsuccessful struggle to visually represent how fucked things are is one of the best pandemic subplots.
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Engels's description of post-famine Ireland is apocalyptic
'Visit to Ireland' (1856) by Frederick Engels from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Correspondence, 1846-1895. International Publishers, New York. 1936. Engels writes to Marx of his impressions of Ireland after the first of his three visits.
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I guess it's become a cliche to point these things out but "Jew haters out!" being scrawled on a German window as a form of harassment is mind-shredding levels of historic irony.
A barber put a Free Palestine poster up, and had their windows graffitied with “Free Israel” and “Jew haters out!”
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My favourite "left response to inflation" is the one of the Italian popular classes in the 1970s
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funny seeing a MEMRI translation of Nasrallah explicitly refuting antisemitic explanations of the US-Israeli alliance in favour of a materialist one.
@FitzInfo Yep. Blaming the USA for the actions of Israel and Zionists has been Nasrallah's modus operandi for a while now. I believe this clip is from Al Manar TV Lebanon on September 3, 2012.
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I never really internalize how much shit in the UK has been privatized, like what do you mean the postal system and water.
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here's a question: who is governing the United States at the moment.
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very recently saw this all-timer
My favorite thing about human beings are the vulnerable flash autobiographies people leave in the comments under videos of songs on youtube.
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Israelis spying on ICC prosecutor: she's really just another _____
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Cover photo for a book on the politics of diasporic Irishness in the 21st century.
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there's over 200,000 Lebanese Canadians, you might think Canadian politicians might think of them and say literally anything about acts of aggression and terror against their country of origin.
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"in Canada, if someone is nice to you, you are encouraged to report them as a spy".
Has a stranger ever tried to inflate your ego? It could be elicitation. Elicitation is a set of techniques used by foreign agents to extract information from you. To learn the warning signs of elicitation, read the #CSIS Travel Security Guide:
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actually every time That discourse comes up I think of when she said "I'm indigenous to the Levant which is why my ancestors spoke a unique Germanic language for a thousand years".
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'Tankie' was coined to describe defenders of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, which the virtual totality of young radicals in the West were disgusted by.
Tankies during the Vietnam era were literally chanting for the Vietcong to win 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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'what does the climate strike achieve w/out communist leadership/more militancy/etc' is exactly the wrong question imo, it should be 'why do high school students have more mobilizing capacity than the organized left and why isn't it attracting them'.
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when the FBI is interrogating them all and you just get Krieger saying "ODESSA. You know, the Ratlines," also kills me.
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Islamophobia is the dominant reactionary ideology of our era.
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Never in history have the boys been more back in town.
Fidel Castro and his men stopping alongside a road to take a photo just before liberating Havana (1959)
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the contrast between the sterile theatre that was supposed to be happening here and the passionate articulation of the truth that actually ensued is remarkable.
One-by-one, pro-Palestinian protesters continuously disrupt a House Judiciary Committee hearing about free speech on college campuses.
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I guarantee you none of these places are unaffected by having been part of it
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this is another example of something @RosasCatMimi brought up in relation to the spouses of Supreme Court justices being conspiracy theorists: even the people who are at the center of power now think 'real' power is somewhere else.
Very funny to post this when he is a celebrity who runs several major corporations and repeats Fox News talking points verbatim
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this is one of the most jarring things you discover in The Archives: in the 1960s and '70s everyone talked about the Cold War in the past tense.
fascinating tidbit in the old Letters page of the Times in which a Novosti functionary refers to another Times article as "a hangover of the cold war". in 1976.
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@AdamJLowy @citizenactionny @ceaweaver @NYGovCuomo @RocTenantUnion @housing4allNY @CASAbronx @nychange @caaav @garrar26 @CANY_ROC @rocDSA you're thinking of construction workers.
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this will only hurt the working class population of Will Smith.
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pivoting to being a pop history account and talking about how only non-Carolingian Europe has recognized the State of Palestine
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as joolsd pointed out once, this doesn't work because production wasn't social under feudalism.
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the ethnostate fandom.
why does every Zionist eventually support Hindutva.
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so there's just, pogroms happening in England then?.
The far-right have targeted the mosques in Hartlepool today and we are hearing about attempts in Liverpool and Middlesbrough. They are deliberately targeting places with very small Muslim communities. We need to stay vigilant and ensure they have the adequate protections.
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everyone knows the real injustice under Jim Crow was that whites couldn't use the Black fountains.
This is the real apartheid. The fact that Jews can’t enter into “Palestinian territory”. I reject this. I reject that some places are dangerous for me to enter because I AM A JEW. Enough with this hate. #EndJewHatred
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@RaxKingIsDead I'm not *just* saying this for the argument, although I also am--I don't understand what the problem is supposed to be.
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the funniest thing about the 'government-funded media' discourse is the idea that a government dollar produces media bias but a private one doesn't.
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oh my god lmao.
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this is like in Weimar Germany when judges instructed juries to take into the 'patriotic motives' of right wing assassins.
The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial says lawyers cannot call the 2 people he killed "victims.". Rittenhouse killed 2 people and wounded another with an AR-15 style weapon. The judge says "victim" is too "loaded" but will let lawyers call them "rioters, looters or arsonists."
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another vindication for woke feminist culture warriors.
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*huge* fan of this photo chosen to illustrate the CBC story on the by-elections today
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this is what they're calling a white supremacist vigilante group.
Safety patrol teams show up at University of Toronto to protect Jewish students as the school year begins
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the whole study of the construction of whiteness was just historians noticing stuff like this and going "oh my God. OH my God!".
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I know I always point this out but think how little this would have to change to be a pro-Western poster from ten years later.
'Europe's victory - your prosperity' — German poster from the Second World War (undated, ca. 1943) showing the European gauntlet punching Stalin.
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what's a good history of the American Revolution? not necessarily something lefty, 'reinterpreting' etc. because I literally don't know the basic course of events.
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Obviously the Ukrainian nationalists know the actual history and are cool with it but I guess the Western marks are supposed to believe there was some kind of Ukrainian army that fought the Soviets (or 'Russia') but that had nothing to do with the German invasion?.
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Canadian news: growing tent cities: why feds say it's not their problem. US news: Arkansas has criminalized "gay haircuts". UK news: emergency session of parliament called to discuss "defending single-sex table tennis".
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it's so depressing that the Temporary Foreign Worker program is finally controversial *but* only in a racist, 'Canadian jobs for Canadian workers' way.
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I'm kinda glad I lived to see the complete and utter collapse of the pretense of US moral authority.
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'Maduro's regime dominates the armed forces' is really an incredible rhetorical conceit.
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Is it normally good when a state describes an internal minority population as a "second front".
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, tonight:."We are dealing with a campaign on two fronts. The first front – Gaza. I said that we would exact a very heavy price from Hamas and the other terrorist organizations.
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Jameson's passing has already produced a classic Internet Asshole interaction
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global symbol of freedom and justice etc.
🇫🇷🇵🇸French youth are currently celebrating the left-wing coalition win using Flags of Palestine
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"The principles of the October Revolution guarantee the Palestinian people the right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state.". sharing this beautiful poster for the anniversary of the October Revolution
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"Unserious" is a good Marxist insult but it's not as good as "ahistorical".
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I guarantee you, 100%, if Martin Luther King Jr were alive today he would be horrified by CRT and BLM and if/when he spoke out against it, MSNBC and CNN would call him an Uncle Tom.
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the textbook for the class I'm TAing is lowkey Marxist-feminist in that it repeatedly suggests that periods of state formation and economic prosperity in ancient and medieval societies meant worsening restrictions on women.
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can't be repeated enough that when WW1 ended, the overwhelming consensus (outside of incipient fascist circles) was that it had been cruel and pointless and the mass popular pacifism this created wasn't dissipated until 1940.
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the problem with books is they always cite more books and then where are you.
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discovered an extremely funny discrepancy between English and French Wikipedia
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This is very carefully framed to make it appeal to liberals by seeming to target the far right, but we know it's not about them.
The RCMP is planning to conduct undercover surveillance online using fake personas to investigate ideological extremists in Canada, says an internal strategy document.
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don't mean to come across as sympathetic but it's interesting to me that among Saddam's last words on the gallows were "Palestine is Arab".
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I feel like most anglophone reformists would only ever talk about how better conditions make people more productive and here's Melenchon just saying "free time is when we're truly human" and "the goal is not to produce more, because that means the death of the planet".
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"In addition, Party organizers made a concerted effort to teach white male Communists in Harlem to dance, so that they would not be ashamed to ask black women to dance at Party social affairs.".
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This is so beautiful
Watch these protesters try to block a U.S. military cargo ship from heading to Israel. @Dena reports.
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