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get his fuckin ass

26.01.2026 23:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
NDP is for labour. Youโ€™re labour. Sign up for the NDP

NDP is for labour. Youโ€™re labour. Sign up for the NDP

26.01.2026 22:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.

illwill.com/lies

26.01.2026 03:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 110    ๐Ÿ” 68    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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Arizona AG suggests state's self-defense laws allow residents to shoot masked ICE agents Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said during an interview that residents could fire upon ICE agents who are masked if they feel they are in danger.

thenationaldesk.com/news/america...
Arizona AG suggests state's self-defense laws allow residents to shoot masked ICE agents

26.01.2026 02:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Toronto Consulate Tel: 1-416-595-1700 Post Mailing Address: Consulate General of the United States 360 University Avenue Toronto, ON M5G 1S4 Canada (+0 EST)

ICE has 5 field offices in Canada.
Shut them down
@mark-carney.bsky.social

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25.01.2026 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

"...the Colonies are the breeding-ground for the type of fascist mentality which is being let loose in Europe todayโ€ฆ The fight against fascism cannot be separated from the right of all colonial peoples and subject races to Self-Determination."

George Padmore, How Britain Rules Africa (1936)

25.01.2026 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ’ฏ

24.01.2026 20:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Strategy of tension, but not in secret, but before our very eyes.

24.01.2026 20:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RIP Michael Parenti

24.01.2026 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

they are preparing for the inevitable certainly and for another short and scrambled electoral period,

23.01.2026 04:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
In 1978, the Czech dissident Vรกclav Havel wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless. In it, he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself?

His answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, this shopkeeper places a sign in his window: โ€œWorkers of the world, unite!โ€ He does not believe it. No one believes it. But he places the sign anyway โ€“ to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists. 

Not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false.

Havel called this โ€œliving within a lie.โ€ The systemโ€™s power comes not from its truth but from everyoneโ€™s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source: when even one person stops performing โ€” when the greengrocer removes his sign โ€” the illusion begins to crack.

It is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.

In 1978, the Czech dissident Vรกclav Havel wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless. In it, he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself? His answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, this shopkeeper places a sign in his window: โ€œWorkers of the world, unite!โ€ He does not believe it. No one believes it. But he places the sign anyway โ€“ to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists. Not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false. Havel called this โ€œliving within a lie.โ€ The systemโ€™s power comes not from its truth but from everyoneโ€™s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source: when even one person stops performing โ€” when the greengrocer removes his sign โ€” the illusion begins to crack. It is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.

I keep reflecting on the surrealness of Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, invoking an anti-communist essay by Vaclav Havel to declare at Davos that the American-led neoliberal capitalist world order is a โ€œlieโ€

21.01.2026 03:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 382    ๐Ÿ” 106    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Itโ€™s not just McBride.

Iโ€™m not sure the public realizes how deeply the ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ + ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ military integrated.

So if CAF are carrying out Trumpโ€™s orders on exchange - what happens if thereโ€™s a conflict between the two countryโ€™s interests?

My latest in The Economist: www.economist.com/the-americas...

20.01.2026 21:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 95    ๐Ÿ” 57    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

Dead Kennedys made like three records about it

17.01.2026 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1409    ๐Ÿ” 379    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

courting a U.S. invasion of your own country is the highest level of treachery imaginable . look at these stupid assholes. obscenities

16.01.2026 03:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ben bergereich

14.01.2026 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

and in order to do so he moves his phone from his right to his left hand prior to,

09.01.2026 22:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

they didnโ€™t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they donโ€™t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

09.01.2026 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23423    ๐Ÿ” 7129    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 338    ๐Ÿ“Œ 331

Never escaping the adage "men are afraid that women are laughing at them; women are afraid that men will kill them"

09.01.2026 19:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2011    ๐Ÿ” 599    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Narco Rubio

07.01.2026 03:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hell yes! Finally

06.01.2026 23:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hell yea

23.12.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
20.12.2025 22:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

start up nation

20.12.2025 19:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œThe day the Nazi died ? โ€ฆAnyone ?โ€

14.12.2025 02:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Viewpoint was amazing, fullstop

11.12.2025 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RIP Asad

11.12.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Historical Materialism or Verso ought to do a publication of Viewpoint

11.12.2025 17:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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