endless screaming

you gotta make sure not to neglect the things that matter.

some are going to do things i can’t legally suggest here, but if that’s not your thing & you feel helpless:

community care is important.

look around you & see what you can do to help others.

make sure care needs aren’t neglected.

7/9

i’m not saying “look away”, but radical antifascist action doesn’t look like watching a screen & shouting how angry you are.

you gotta do tangible acts.

the media landscape being controlled by fucked up interests means that part of what it’s doing is keep you paralyzed & distracted.

6/9

… for those around us.

it’s important to know what’s going on & to be informed, but watching atrocities live is not a substitute for action, and it is so important to find a balance.

if you’re sitting watching atrocities constantly, what are you not doing that you replaced with HorrorScroll?

5/9

i have a story about being shit on during 9/11, the media, & direct care that feels relevant right now:

i was just 9yo at the time.

my family was visiting relatives in new jersey, we had actually visited the towers on 9/9/01 as part of our nyc day trip.

i remember being woken up too early.

1/9 🧵

Ten people were killed

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

"At one end, the glasses are marketed as an everyday assistant – a voice in the frame that tells you what you are seeing. At the other end, people in Nairobi sit annotating the most intimate moments the camera captures: open-plan offices, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms."

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The entirety of liberal argumentation about media is "I'm a liberal and I like it, so it can't be right wing media, because that would mean I like right wing media, which is impossible, I'm a liberal"

if you remotely care about the iranian people and are vaguely familiar with even the basic notes of their history what you should be feeling is a deep deep sadness that this is a people that has been denied the right to effectively self-determine by both the khomeiniists and those bombing them

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to be affluent NYT op-ed columnists who are never in any danger of being fired.

This also exceeds the amount of money a small claims case can claim, it’s usually capped at $10,000

Trump's Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.

"An Intercept analysis finds that every member state of the Board of Peace has been rebuked for human rights violations."

"[A]llegations that [25] of the 27 foreign Board of Peace member states [.] [committed] arbitrary killings or torture."
#USA #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Belarus #Genocide #Torture

U.S. Catholic Bishops Launch Attack on Trans Healthcare; It’s Time To Fight Back While headlines were giving the Catholic church hierarchy plaudits for symbolic gestures in support of immigrants and a papal lunch with trans people, American bishops passed a major ban on trans heal...

Before praising the current papacy, remember that late last year the Catholic Church imposed one of the most sweeping bans on trans healthcare yet, cutting off life-saving care throughout its sprawling U.S. hospital networks:

it's weird how Platner's dumbassery seems to only be him doing stuff like working for Nazi mercenary companies, getting Nazi tattoos, amplifying Nazi posters, going on Nazi podcasts. No stories about him trying to deep fry a frozen turkey, just constantly flirting with white supremacy.

Screenshot of news article printed in Yahoo from Jewish Insider: “Platner faced blowback this week for boosting a social media comment about a looming war with Iran by Stew Peters, a neo-Nazi influencer who has frequently espoused antisemitic tropes and engaged in Holocaust denial. Platner's team said the post was made in error and "immediately" removed it after learning it elevated a "despicable account." In late January, however, Platner sat for a lengthy online interview with Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret who has also promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Near the end of their hour-long conversation, Platner, a fellow military veteran, called himself "a longtime fan" of Cornacchia's YouTube channel, "Valhalla VFT," and said it was "an absolute pleasure being" on the show.”

Screenshots of the Valhalla VFT YouTube channel thumbnails include vile racist images of the “Somali fraud scandal” and “robberies and looting” due to SNAP benefits being cut, depicting black people robbing stores

Graham Platner, the guy who had to cover his Nazi tattoo to save his senate campaign in Maine, went on the YouTube channel “Valhalla VFT” in January where he said he’s a “longtime fan of the show.” Check out these vile racist thumbnails from the channel & reporting on the antisemitic host.

A really difficult aspect of leftist organizing in the US is that we rarely have the funds to institutionalize our movements, and as a consequence our wisdom is rarely institutionalized and preserved.

It's hard watching this happen over and over again when it comes to talking about war.

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what could go wrong by making explicitly clear to all other nations that 1) you should never speak to the US, 2) you should never negotiate or normalize with the US, 3) get nukes and get them as fast as possible, 4) it doesnt matter who you are the US will threaten you whenever it wants

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

The Iranian people should have had the pleasure of killing Khamenei.

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

This is not how you go about liberating people or building a democracy

Portland shelters continue to have a racism problem - Street Roots City and county shelters underserve homeless Portlanders of color, a report shows. The report reflects Portland shelters' continued racism problem.

City and county shelters underserve homeless Portlanders of color, a Multnomah County report shows. Responses from Mayor Keith Wilson’s office voiced concern, but took issue with some of the county’s data points.

and this is why it is so beyond important that we do not take that fucking bait.

do not, ever, ever ever go in on this.

This business model cannot be rewarded. Do not ever do remote computing. I'm so serious. Do not do it! use a fucking potato computer if you have to! DON'T REMOTE COMPUTE EVER

I think everyone has pee stress-dreams