Noah was fired for wearing a Palestinian flag pin. Sophie, a DSA member, was fired for refusing to tell her colleague to remove their flag pin. June was fired for posting a tweet in support of Palestinian liberation.
The Anti-Defamation League’s call for the FBI and IRS to surveil, investigate, and possibly prosecute student activists is a new level in its McCarthyite campaign to silence any and all criticism of Israel.Â
“However avaricious, the titans of past gilded eras still saw themselves as human members of civil society. Contemporary billionaires appear to understand civics and civilians as impediments to their progress, necessary victims of the externalities of their companies’ growth, sad artefacts of the civilisation they will leave behind in their inexorable colonisation of the next dimension.”
@Rushkoff in the Guardian.
@skyfaller neither party wants my vote. Democrats in particular have rat fucked or co-opted any candidate I voted for.
They will no longer get my vote.
> Plans like putting 11 million immigrants in concentration camps.
Oh you mean the concentration camps that Obama built and then Trump expanded?
@njwatt
> the United States is not one of the primary actors in the area
Are you for real? The only superpower in the world, who has fought two wars in that region and is the primary supporter of Israel, is not one of the primary actors in this area? Delusional
@skyfaller so basically you're saying vote for Biden or go into the mountains and start a civil war?
@njwatt @skyfaller your concept of democracy is I get to vote for two candidates, both of which support a genocide in Gaza.
That's not a democracy
@njwatt @skyfaller again, how could a Trump presidency be worse for Gaza than Biden's policies?
@njwatt @skyfaller has Biden moved the embassy out of Jerusalem?
When Biden was VP he was part of administration that would drone strike weddings and double tap the location when help would arrive at the scene of the first missile strike.
Biden is actively assisting a war crime in Gaza _right now_ and you're focusing on a hypothetical, when I can demonstrate that there is no difference between the two
Bumfuzzled by losses among young voters, media outlets obscure how much Biden’s lockstep support of Israel is harming his prospects in the 2024 election.
@skyfaller @njwatt it doesn't matter who you put on the NLRB if you exercise your power as president to break a rail strike. It's that simple. When he had the chance to help labor he helped capital instead and no amount of appointments to a board that is split between Republicans and Democrats is going to make a difference
@skyfaller @njwatt Biden broke a rail worker strike. Standing at a picket line is symbolic and makes people forget he's a strike breaker
@njwatt @skyfaller ratchet effect is about ideology. Democrats keep moving rightward
@skyfaller there is no democracy for the United States to abandon. There are people alive today that remember not being able to vote in the South, and the civil rights act of 1968 did not fix it. The game of denying their vote just became more subtle, but the outcome remains the same.
The ratchet effect only goes one way, towards fascism. When Republicans get elected they push us towards it, while when the Democrats get elected it just pauses for a couple years, or advances slower.
@skyfaller America has systematically denied the peaceful transfer of power when it suited them.
Chile
Iran
Indonesia
The imperial boomerang was destined to come back to us.
Whenever someone says they're not going to vote for Biden, Democrats/liberals would yell at you about how you need to vote blue no matter who, because what about the marginalized communities and how bad Orange Man would be for them.
Well, what about the Palestinians? What about that marginalized community? How does voting for Biden protect that marginalized community?