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✨NEW DOCUMENTARY✨
Despite what we're constantly being told, we are not free — we're imprisoned within capitalism.
feat.
@existentialcoms
Ayesha Khan
@cushbomb
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Jessica Gordon Nembhard
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nothing terrifies the ruling class more than this
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"in communism you'll be sent to a work camp"
meanwhile in capitalism:
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democrats: it could get worse
socialists: it could get better
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insert any individual societal issue and this is the trajectory of every single leftist. you start with a single issue, realize it's connected to other issues, and then realize they're caused by capitalism
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I was forced into wage-labor under capitalism starting at fifteen
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I don't think most of us are prepared to fully acknowledge the lengths to which capital is willing to go to uphold this system
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it's so difficult to watch things like this. if the left doesn't reexamine our approach to violence we're doomed
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NEW DOC EP✨
What happens when we simply paint capitalism green without addressing its fundamental global operating principles? What is the dark side of the energy transition—particularly for the Global South?
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“Fascism has established itself in a most disguised and efficient manner in this country. It feels so secure that the leaders allow us the luxury of faint protest. Take protest too far, however, and they will show their other face..."
– George Jackson
Biden is now giving a completely one-sided, dishonest speech about these campus protests.
“Dissent must never lead to disorder.”
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the company that chartered the ship that crashed into the Key Bridge was sanctioned last year for barring workers from reporting safety issues. the ship itself was detained last year for malfunctioning, and the company that owns the ship has been sued for safety violations (1/8)
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can't stop thinking about how horribly we have all been robbed of everything it means to be human. our ancestors would look at our lives in utter horror. future generations will look back on this as a terrifying dark age
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the fact that zionists find it so controversial when you suggest a single-state solution where everybody has equal rights is because Zionism is founded on exclusion. their ideology requires an exclusive ethno-state, and by the nature of creating an ethno-state... (1/5)
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Israel is as evil as nazi germany, zionists are as evil as nazis, and what's happening in gaza is as evil as the holocaust. being "pro-palestine" isn't enough—we must be pro palestinian resistance by any and all means necessary. this must stop
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so six months later we've learned that there were no 40 beheaded babies, the mass rape allegations against Hamas were never substantiated, & that the number of Israelis killed on Oct 7 was substantially lower than what they claimed, with many actually dying from "friendly fire"
BREAKING: The New York Times is desperately attempting to do damage control after one of their lead writers of the widely debunked "mass rape" atrocity propaganda hoax, Anat Schwartz, was shown to be a genocidal racist maniac. They're trying to pretend it's just a decorum issue
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it's insulting how stupid they think we are. record low approval ratings and tens of thousands voting uncommitted, so they shuffle her out to dangle little carrots
The Biden administration just announced a plan for 30 MILLION student loan borrowers to receive debt relief.
This would allow so many people with student debt to buy houses, start a family, go back to school, and so much more.
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I've never seen a more safe and privileged ideological group of people so desperate to be oppressed
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🇴ne in six live below poverty line
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🇮infant mortality is higher than Cuba's
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🇲edical bills are biggest cause of bankrupcy
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harm reduction is a set of practical strategies aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. harm reduction is not the process of voting for a candidate that oversaw a genocide. hope this helps!
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the street protests were an important start, but since october we've seen them make literally zero difference. now more people are relearning the importance of disruption and occupation. this is making the ruling class increasingly agitated—they prefer polite, permitted protests
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"capitalism isn't perfect but it's the best we can do"
meanwhile rainwater is no longer safe to drink anywhere, 50 million people will die every year from cancer by 2050, our bodies are full of microplastics, and most of the planet will be uninhabitable by the end of the century
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to manufacture a single tesla model Y battery you need: 12 tons of rock for lithium, 5 tons of cobalt minerals, 3 tons of nickel ore, 12 tons of copper ore, 441 lbs of aluminum, steel and/or plastic, and 112 lbs of graphite. it also requires displacing hundreds of tons soil
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the thing about capitalism that a lot of people haven't really come to terms with yet is that it was never about the things themselves—never about the products or services—but always primarily about the profits. it's always been about capital accumulation (1/4)
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Happy
#striketober
!! 🎃👻✊🏼
It’s 2021 — we’re valuing ourselves and sayin buh-byeeee to toxic workplaces 😘💅🏻
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aoc, ilhan omar, stacy abrams, and bernie sanders are all throwing their weight behind biden. there has never been a more clear indication that the democratic party is a barrier to our liberation, and that there is no compromising with it, no reforming it. it's a hostile entity.
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the supreme court just handed biden the power to do literally anything he wants and you better bet your ass that he's absolutely, without a doubt, not going do a single goddamn thing with it
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we've been too kind to the vote blue crowd. they continue to yell "four more years" over people who criticize biden's support for genocide. think about that. these people aren't upset at his actions, they want genocide. they're down with it all. just as long as biden is doing it
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Israel is the most insane state. a bunch of white eastern europeans emigrated to palestine, changed their names, invented a language, killed & displaced the Indigenous population, built towns over their bones with hebraicized names based on made up scriptural geography (1/2)
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not only did this man gain his wealth by inheriting the fortunes of an apartheid emerald mine owner, but the only way that Tesla is even profitable is by selling the carbon credits it earns for its EVs to polluting companies who use them as "carbon offsets"
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shai davidai's petulant toddler stomp characterizes everything you need to know about the nature of the zionist ideology
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@deepimpactcrier
um cooking is actually ableist? that's why I have a servant deliver my food to my doorstep
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the way to defeat fascism is through a leftwing movement that seeks to undo the harms created by capitalism, not by rallying around the banner of liberalism which itself created the conditions for fascism in the first place
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it's very telling and very funny that liberals are somehow intellectually unable to take those second and third steps to tie together issues under a structural analysis. if a teenager can do it why can't you lmao
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Pretty sure this is regular capitalism
Which stage of capitalism is it where we sacrifice our grandparents for the good of the stock market?
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@NathanJRobinson
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hey
@nytimes
still waiting on you to take accountability for the Anat Schwartz scandal
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a youtube influencer with half a million followers is asking what non-electoral movements have achieved. I'll start with just a few: the abolition of slavery, the 8-hour day, the weekend, the civil rights movement...and, ironically, the right to vote itself
It’s really easy to caricature the anti-electoralist left as online misanthropes whose politics is “firebomb a Walmart” and then not firebombing a Walmart. It would help to dispel that myth if they were more vocal about what specifically their methods have achieved.
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they're just dropping our trash onto them
American planes drop aid spoiled and expired food for children into northern Gāza:
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socialism will always be a greater threat to liberals than fascism because fascism doesn't threaten the basic capitalist principle of private ownership of the means of production
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as the missiles finally fall in Israel, I wonder if the white settlers there with dual citizenships will realize that their violent settler project is no longer worth it and flee back to new jersey or sydney or wherever they came from
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it's horrifying that 3 activists in their teens & twenties are facing decades in prison for an anti-war direct action supporting Palestine. they could spend years in prison while the real criminals — those arming a literal genocide — get rich
we stand with the Merrimack Three ✊
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@Variety
cool thing about the Nuremberg trials is that they set a precedent for aiders, abetters, and propagandists to be prosecuted as well ;)
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AOC, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Presley, Cori Bush, and Jamaal Bowman all voted to smear anti-zionism as being anti-semetic. Rashida Tlaib voted present. but please, tell me that cool story again about electing progressives to push the democratic party left
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your credit score is basically a score on how willing you are to pay rich people for money. like if you borrow a lot and you pay a lot of interest your credit score goes up, and if you don't do that it goes down
decided to split a payment for a $60 Amazon purchase over 4 months to see what would happen and my credit score went up THIRTY NINE POINTS because of it
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it's become starkly clear how meaningless the framework of "rights" and "laws" are under bourgeois liberal democracy. what's the point of a law or a right in a class society where the ruling class controls the application and enforcement of those laws and rights? 
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the only campus intimidation or violence throughout the entire last 7 months has come from the police and from zionists
VIOLENT ZIONIST! This guy snuck into the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at UCLA and started putting his hands on multiple people, trying to provoke protestors. This is who they are. Violent pigs. Expose this guy:
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The Green Transition: the problem with green capitalism
Feat.
@maxajl
@triofrancos
@jasonhickel
@Beaskan
@MGSchmelzer
@nitaneise
@SergioChaparro8
Artwork by
@beemure
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we could EASILY be working ten, maybe fifteen hours a week max. our "standard of living" would remain exactly the same—actually it would improve because we'd have more free time. the only reason we work as much as we do is to line the pockets of the already wealthy
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in a bourgeois democracy you may have the "right to vote" but as we can see it makes no difference when one class has a monopoly on power
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it will never cease to bewilder me how we live in a world with rainbows, waterfalls, the milky way, sunsets, singing birds, food that grows on trees, and yet somehow we ended up here
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can you imagine how loudly liberals would be screaming if this was happening in iran or venezuela or cuba?
Cops storming peaceful protests at NYU after making violent arrests on students, faculty members, and community members during prayer.
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the TikTok ban accomplishes three crucial objectives for the maintenance of US global hegemony: 1) it stirs up xenophobia against china 2) ensures a US monopoly over tech, and 3) it silences a major platform spreading pro-palestinian information
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this is the perfect presidential debate for the moment. it's an unimaginably apt encapsulation of the united states, the precise point that this country has been violently and stupidly barreling towards since before 1776. it's exactly what this nation state project deserves
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if he was alive today you'd be calling him a terrorist
Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the lasting impact of his legacy. He dedicated his life to pursuing a dream of a world with more justice, equality, and freedom – the very core of our American values.
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they want to trick us into thinking that all of these different infrastructure failures are isolated events, the result of a few bad companies or careless individuals. this is of course not true. from planes falling apart to the Key Bridge disaster, they're all connected
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commercial airlines don't exist to facilitate air travel, they exist to create capital. consumer healthcare doesn't exist to help people, it exists to make a handful of people wealthy. so as we see the inevitable collapse of the products & services (2/4)
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this means that the state ideological apparatus will soon kick into full gear to make sure that we're all simply retrained to normalize airplanes falling apart mid-flight. and although this is a particularly horrifying example, it's nothing new. this is how capitalism works (4/4)
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no new year's resolution because this year it's the conditions that need to change
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on already occupied land, there has to be an ethnic cleansing. Israelis are for real offended when you tell them that they're not allowed to do anymore genocide and that if they want to live on that land they have to share it with the people who were there before them... (2/5)
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one of the most important and overlooked lessons that karl marx taught us is that it's ok to regularly ask your trust fund friends for money
In memory of Karl Marx’s birthday, I would like to share some of my favourite Marx quotes
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created in this system, the last thing we should expect is that the system will respond by making improvements or investing in quality control or safety. no. the system will respond rationally to its own imperative which is to continue capital accumulation unhindered (3/4)
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"communism sounds nice in theory but in reality it's all just propaganda and breadlines"
meanwhile, under capitalism:
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deregulation is of course to blame—but we can't talk about deregulation as if it's a departure from a mythologized "good" capitalism. the fight against regulations has always been a feature of capitalism—if all industries were fully regulated this system wouldn't function
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don't take my word for it that the zionist project m requires ethnic cleansing and the forcible transfer of an entire population. Take it from two of Zionism's earliest founders
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what's become clear in the past six weeks is that the primary reason the ruling class gets away with any of this is cuz people don't understand what's going on. they're not paying attention. I really believe that political education is our most potent revolutionary tool right now
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"democracy is on the ballot" ..no, it's not. two factions of capital are on the ballot. the united states is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, a democracy only in name. please stop pretending otherwise 🙏
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unable to look at this without weeping. so much heart wrenching sadness and hopeful passion. how can we *not* win? it's impossible
Hind Rajab was a frightened 6-year-old girl in Gaza who was killed while she hid alone in a car, along with the paramedics who went to rescue her; today, students at Columbia have seized the administration building and renamed it in her honor.
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the local news was on in the lobby at the doctor's office and they were airing a segment on boeing and I kid you not, ALL the "reporting" was just them sharing and repeating statements FROM boeing. not only is this not journalism, it's capitalist propaganda. blatantly (1/4)
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noam chomsky is an anti-communist propagandist who regularly met with jeffrey epstein even after he was known to be sex trafficking minors. yeah, he was influential to a lot of us early on, but what do anarchists say again? oh yeah, "no heroes"
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✨We're VERY excited to share with you our latest documentary episode, "Debunking the Myth of Homo economicus."✨
Featuring Bayo Akomolafe,
@David_S_Wilson
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@GeorgeMonbiot
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@KateRaworth
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@cushbomb
, Peter Fleming,
@TomCrompton
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"If it’s inaccessible to the poor it’s neither radical nor revolutionary."
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"in order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience."
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further, safety infrastructure mechanisms known as "fenders," which serve as protective barriers, were not present on the Key Bridge. one can easily imagine a scenario where these safety precautions were bypassed in order to cut costs despite the heavy flow of boat traffic
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the arc of history does not bend towards justice—at least not on its own. it's quite telling that this quote is a favorite of the liberal ruling class. I much prefer this quote by che guevara: "The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
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columbia is doing this to keep its wealthy donors happy. claudine gay resigned from harvard to keep them happy. the valedictorian's speech at USC was canceled for them. under capitalism higher education institutions can only ever serve the purposes of one class and one class only
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invented an ethnicity, self-Indigenized, teamed up with the world's most brutal hegemons, put the still living Indigenous population into concentration camps, had raves next to the concentration camps, and convinced everyone that if you criticize any aspect of this you're a bigot
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Israel could not be doing what it's doing if it wasn't for your money. the money you bust your ass for is making this genocide possible. you're going to work every day to sweat and strain so that palestinians can be murdered and so that Israelis can get free healthcare
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they lied about the mass rapes, they lied about the beheaded babies, they lied about the command center beneath al shifa. zionism is nothing but ideological window-dressing for genocide — it can only achieve its goals through distraction and deception
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✨NEW CONVO✨
We spoke with economic anthropologist
@jasonhickel
on his new book "Less is More" and why degrowth economics is essential for saving ourselves and the planet from capitalist destruction.
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think about how deranged that is. it's insane that they reject this option when in fact it's more than fair. imagine you invaded somebody's house and occupied 90% of it for 75 years, killed their whole family in the process, and your justification was that you had... (3/5)
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@jane27546
@doctor_cabral
damn I didn't realize God was a realtor. he just gave me your house. cough it up
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Leave Twitter just because it's fallen into disrepair and is crumbling before our very eyes? Babe, I live in the USA
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there is no legitimate threat of antisemitic hate on college campuses. it's a manufactured controversy designed by wealthy donors, a propaganda campaign designed to intimidate you and to silence dissent against an actual, realtime genocide taking place in palestine
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I'm not gonna kick you out, you can stay but we have to both have equal rights." & you were like, "No. it's all mine.." like WHAT? no wonder they have to go so hard with the propaganda and the mislabeling of antisemitism. their whole position is absolute dogshit. it's psychpathic
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"a second trump term would lead to outright fascism"
meanwhile under biden:
A photographer for FOX 7 in Austin was arrested during the protests at University of Texas Austin:
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they're running an anti-union, white supremacist, fiscally conservative zionist for the most important office in the world. with a cop as VP. the democrats are screaming in your ears at at the top of their lungs telling you who they are and what they represent. please listen
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biden is out. there's a lot to process about this whole saga but I think one of the most important things for the left is to recognize that (even in people like Bernie and AOC) there is no coalition building with the democratic party. it's a hostile entity
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