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@ kumars on bluesky

@KumarsSalehi

5 years

it's true that Bernie Sanders has never been a Democrat but unlike half the Democrats he has also never been a Republican

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you can’t undermine fascism with logical gotchas. Fascism is a disinhibiting force that assures people their most brutal impulses and hierarchal traditions are natural and good. The irrationality is the point

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M. Night Shyamalan’s full name is Movie Night Shyamalan

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Fidel Castro gave Cubans free education, universal health care and guaranteed housing but he was also mean to people who wanted to stop him from doing those things so it’s impossible to say if he’s bad or not

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it's meaningful that Bernie takes every opportunity to call Netanyahu a racist. Nobody in a Democratic primary is going to be where I would like on Palestine, but he's the only candidate who frames the issue as one of ethnic supremacy and not some esoteric religious disagreement

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we’ve been hearing for 6 years now from across the political spectrum that it’s not fascism unless it’s from the Fascism region of Italy. Well now that it is from the Fascism region of Italy can we call it fascism or does it have to be vintage 1922

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Jon Stewart watched the first wave of today’s fascism storm into congress and held a rally mocking the notion of political militancy because he decided the problem was that both sides were too crazy

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Hannibal Buress: • American landlord • blood sucker • will evict you, regardless of your manners Hannibal Lecter: • Lithuanian psychiatrist • blood connoisseur • will eat you, but only if you’re rude

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as abolitionists are constantly reminding us, this is the criminal justice system working as intended, protecting property and sanctioning fascist violence

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please compare this to literally any filmed interaction with American cops and tell me which society is a police state

Sharing Travel

@TripInChina

1 year

Tonight, at the Qiansimen Bridge in Chongqing.A man argued with the police, When the police stopped him from jumping over the railing. This situation is very common in China.😅😅😅

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leftists: everything is political conservatives: everything is being politicized liberals: nothing is political, including politics, which is temperament

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I'm old enough to remember when it was fashionable to dismiss Proud Boys as dorky LARPers with anti-PC opinions. Weird how today they look like a fascist militia with ties to the Trump campaign and carte blanche from the police. There is probably a lesson to be learned from that

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3 years

we have reached the glenngularity

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there is no overstating how fascistic Israeli society is today. Almost two-thirds of young Israelis identify as "right wing". Politicians have literally encouraged vigilante violence against Palestinians and Africans for decades

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Dana Perino says the I-95 traffic jam happened because the left won't let cops have "military-grade equipment"

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Tucker Carlson just said "what the Democrats really have in mind is a new version of Reconstruction" and then told his audience to look it up

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7 years

it's horrifying that even when the guy is wearing an actual nazi armband you people still won't shut the fuck up

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4 years

very weird to hear Warren dismiss the fact that Bernie beat a Republican because it was 30 years ago, seeing as 30 years ago she was a Republican

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5 years

yeah I watch SNL S ix hour N oam chomsky L ecture series

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Milo had planned to livestream the outing of undocumented students and show College Republican dickwads how to do it too. That was prevented

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Steven Crowder on Kanye: "he's not wrong about everything. Look, is there a conversation to be had about people with Jewish last names exploiting people in the performance arts? Yeah!"

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realizing just now the first time Crowder calls them “secular humanists with Jewish last names”. For fuck’s sake

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please, everyone. A racist has acted on fringe ideas to commit unspeakable violence. Now is not the time to point fingers at the people in power who share his worldview

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almost every American leftist used to be a liberal and not a conservative and yet there is an ever increasing number of people who act like someone helping immigrants in Martha's Vineyard is more unreachable and worthy of contempt than someone who wants them dead

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2 years

today is the birthday of Hugo Chávez, a guy who liked to hang out

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@Boringstein yeah, the fact that this is happening in real time the same week the right finally came out and openly embraced an act of anti LGBT terrorism should not be lost on anyone

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3 years

please stop generalizing about mysterious alien artifacts they are NOT a monolith

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5 years

I have plenty of issues with Bernie but it’s weird to see him accused of casual racism by staunch supporters of Elizabeth Warren, who casually identified as a Republican until 1996 and a Native American until sometime last year

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7 years

show me what democritus looked like THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRITUS LOOKED LIKE

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5 years

it's unfortunate Tulsi Gabbard won't make the next debate, more people need to hear the inspiring story of how she stopped being a fanatical homophobe when she went to Iraq and learned that gay soldiers can kill Muslims too

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6 years

I can’t wait till elon musk offers to buy twitter and delete it and everyone who calls it a “hellsite” has to pick sides for real

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4 years

lmao

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2 years

Marx said history is when something happens twice and it’s funnier the second time

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7 years

yes children, please google Marxism

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Yang: now I'm Asian, so I know a lot of doctors. I'm also a closet right winger, so I know making hacky racial jokes about myself puts conservative white people at ease

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it should be some sort of campaign finance violation for Larry David to play Bernie while personally maxing out his donations to Pete Buttigieg

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2 years

white supremacy will outlive the demographic majority of European Americans because it's not about the worship of white people. Its core is anti-Blackness and settler-colonial violence, and every defining feature of racism in this country goes back to that

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there is no better encapsulation of the Democratic message since Obama than "America needs a strong Republican party"

ABC News

@ABC

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"To the Republicans in the crowd, I say: Take back your party," Speaker Nancy Pelosi says at mayoral conference. "America needs a strong Republican Party, not a rubber stamp."

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Gillibrand: you see these strongly articulated positions? I'm right in the middle of them. You know that progressive legislation you like? I wrote the most confusing and arbitrary part of it

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Zizek [tugs at shirt]: now I am going to say something horrible. I know it is fashionable to be critical of racism and sexism and so on Peterson [dumbfounded]: what aboot Marx eh Zizek [snorts]: on the contrary, to be a communist today means to return to Hegel, and racist jokes

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there is probably no phrase in the American lexicon that evokes the organic ethnic community of fascism quite as vividly as “the heartland”

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Elizabeth Warren is the kind of politician who has to put out two statements

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Fox has been mocking this clip all day. You're laughing with them if you think trans and disabled socialists asking for solidarity is funny, and if you think it's bad optics you should ask why you care less about empathy with marginalized people than being made fun of on Fox News

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bizarre to see people who consider themselves socialists dismiss identity politics wholesale because it can be coopted by capital, like they've never heard of unions or the welfare state. Everything can be coopted by capital. That's the point

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who is supposed to believe that Elizabeth Warren will maintain the courage of her convictions on a debate state with our deranged roastmaster president when she can’t even hold her own against a walking bundle of nerves like Meghan McCain

Tom Elliott

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Under questioning from @MeghanMcCain , @ewarren — who called Soleimani's killing "an assassination” — now says “of course” he’s a terrorist

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an American soldier is a cop with a longer commute

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7 years

people ask what gives me hope

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socialism is very much current, but if we're using labels I'm more of a pretentious dipshit

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last fall Berkeley canceled—before reinstating―a student-led course about Palestine. Admin's professed absolutism on free speech is bullshit

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will your explainer explain why Scandinavian monarchies built the ships that carried enslaved people and forged their iron shackles? Why they industrialized by exporting to imperial Britain and Germany? I need a convenient counterargument for facts that make me uncomfortable too

Honda Wang 王宏达

@HondaWang

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Need to write a short explainer why social democracy wasn’t built on colonial plunder—how did dependency theory become popular again? Thought people had moved on from it in the late 90s.

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Rogan: Jordan Peterson tells me you're like a cool Marxist Zizek [sniffles]: I consider myself an atheist Christian Rogan [impressed]: there's this Israeli scientist who says Moses was on DMT Zizek: yes but, are we aware— [notices a blunt] what is this, marijuana? Degenerates,

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pretty damning that the Dem leadership in California killed single-payer, also pretty damning that Kamala Harris hasn't said shit about it

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[waits until all the takes are in] the 4th of July was originally a pagan holiday

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what idiot decided to call it "found footage horror" and not "cinéma scaryté"

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anyone calling on the left to ease up on “cultural issues” is telling you they’d rather coddle their conservative relatives than protect the most vulnerable people in society, who will always be our core constituency because unlike your fascist uncle, they have nowhere else to go

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south park didn’t ruin a generation of white men, it just taught them that anti-semitism is a big joke and being a nazi is hilarious

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Mayor Pete's plan to expand national service shows he's a man with bold ideas who can unite Republicans in both parties

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your allergy to identity politics isn’t building working class power, it’s triangulation and it always empowers the right in the end. If you think class politics today can be divorced from antiracism and feminism, you are doing culture war too. You’re just on the wrong side of it

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conservatives [maniacally]: eye-rainians liberals [somberly]: uh-rainians leftists [trilling gratuitously]: irrrrrránis

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the very existence of a meek mill implies the existence somewhere in the world of an assertive mill

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when you’re about to drop the most fascist mixtape of 2017

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Rachel Maddow is on MSNBC repeating that there is “no parallel” to Soleimani’s role in the US and basically portraying him as a terrorist supervillain

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you, vulgar materialist: you don't hate mondays, you hate capitalism me, dialectical: you hate mondays and capitalism, because the inexorable logic of capital is always already inscribed in the very notion of mondays

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this is what is happening to refugees right now across Denmark, where the governing Social Democrats have spent the better part of a decade rebranding as culturally conservative populists defending the working class from the pro-immigrant elite

Mazen Hassoun

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Such a heartbreaking and painful photo. Syrian refugee Asmaa Al-Natour bids farewell to her Danish neighbor after the Danish authorities forced her to leave her home and sent her to deportation camps.

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This was not unexpected and it shows how astroturfed the backlash to defund is. 76% of the contributions to the yes on H campaign came from PACs. Only 21% actually came from SF. The police, media, and property owners manufactured a crime wave just for this

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@sfchronicle

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BREAKING: San Francisco removes Chesa Boudin in historic recall. See live election results, including vote breakdown by district:

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the greatest trick the Democrats ever pulled was convincing a majority of their constituents that either the Republicans are in charge or no one is

CNN

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The top two Senate leaders are nearing a power-sharing agreement to hash out how the divided chamber will operate, with Democrats in charge of setting the schedule but both parties likely to hold an equal number of seats on Senate committees, sources say

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your German word of the week is "Backpfeifengesicht"

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the best type of Chris Hayes tweet is the oblivious epiphany about the nature of the system which is promptly forgotten by the time he does his show

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pro-immigrant students knocked over the Berkeley College Republicans' sorry ass wall

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3 years

Israel denies 2 million Palestinians equal rights, 4.5m in Gaza and the West Bank any rights at all, and 7m the right of return. Lots of countries have elections. When people say Israel is the Middle East's only democracy they really mean it's the only country run by white people

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reading Marx isn’t about understanding the structural instability of capitalism and the latent power of working-class organization, it’s about having fun and being yourself

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sorry which government is the Latin American one

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now that Nathan Fielder has a virtually unlimited budget let's take some time to recognize the best and most cost efficient prop from his previous show, the framed portrait of Lana Del Rey in his office that is always there and never acknowledged

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in my 2 years in NYC I cannot count how many airhead liberals I heard claim that New Yorkers are tolerant bc they all coexist on the subway

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3 years

Joe Biden seems awfully eager to compromise with people who won't even admit he's going to be the president

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in Iran owls aren't considered wise, they're actually thought to be stupid as far as animals go. Everyone assumes this is a cultural difference between people in Iran and the West when the real cultural differences may lie with the owls

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Elizabeth Warren: dump the guy who ghosted you Bernie Sanders: never date a ghost. You just can't do it. Let me be clear. If you dump a ghost in this country you will regret it for the rest of your life

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it is impossible to overstate how serious of an escalation this is against the Palestine solidarity movement. Trump is circumventing Congress to officially equate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism and force universities to treat BDS as a hate crime

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President Trump will sign an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, thus bolstering the Education Department's efforts to stamp out "Boycott Israel" movements on college campuses

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yeah I like dune, dune recruitment for a pyramid scheme

web3 is going just great

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SpiceDAO wins a $3 million auction to buy an extremely rare storyboard book of Dune, only to learn that owning a book doesn't confer them copyright January 15, 2022

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Frito-Lay's practices reveal the horrors workers are subjected to, even with union protection. This company decided it was an efficient allocation of capital to target the family of a man they injured and stalk them in perpetuity. Unionization is the floor

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eid mobarak to all my friends who are celebrating Nowruz. It's morning in Iran and the first day of spring. My grandma always says you can tell a good year by its spring. By the looks of it, people in Iran are ringing in the worst new year in memory. My heart aches for them

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the year is 2019. The recently bolstered Republican majority in Congress voucherizes Medicare while Democrats sing "We Are the Champions"

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6 years

remember like a month and a half ago John Oliver told liberals the US has never interfered in Venezuela? Would be interesting to know where that drone came from

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2 years

NFT guys are like “merry christmas don’t forget to scam your family”

The Red Ape Family 

@TheRedApeFamily

2 years

Don't let family members change the topic, holiday dinners are for discussing #NFTs and onboarding new users. Nobody cares about the weather, pets, movies, etc. Keep the conversation laser-focused on #NFTs .

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in 2014 Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists forced Israel’s largest shipping company Zim to drop Oakland from their lines after successfully blocking them from unloading. 7 years later they tried again, and we stopped them again. This can be done in any port city

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anyone who has paid attention to US politics for more than 5 minutes in the past 30 years should be able to tell you the most common problem with liberals is not that they are “too liberal”. It’s that they’re too conservative

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people will tell you BDS doesn't work. That's not true. 30 states have enacted laws against it because it works. After the 2014 massacre in Gaza, Israel lost half of its foreign investment

Israel: Foreign direct investment plunges almost 50% as Boycott Divestment and Sanctions take toll

FDI down to €5.7bn in 2014 from €10.5bn the year before.

www.ibtimes.co.uk

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who is this woman’s father? Wrong answers only

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climate fatalism is climate denial

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normally resent these sorts of takes but this is an all timer

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kind of fucked up they called it "curious cat" when it's common knowledge that curiosity has been disastrous for the cat community

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@mobleywho absolutely, right wing politics in general offer people a sort of release valve for their frustrations by enjoying the real or imagined domination of others

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not watching wonder woman because of my commitment to BDS, boycotting dumbass superheroes

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I used to be a conservative who hated SJWs and now I'm a leftist who hates wokeness which just goes to show people really can change

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the only people who care about IQ tests are either nazis or overcompensating idiots

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this is a real poster the David Horowitz Freedom Center put up on my campus today. Nice artwork

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3 years

the weirdos freaking out about AOC want us to believe they just don’t trust politicians or whatever. Give me a break. Half of them spent the primary running interference for Tulsi fucking Gabbard because they prefer her socially conservative signaling to AOC’s cringe radlib idpol

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this, I claim, is the tragedy, that the boys are in a Hegelian sense always-already in town

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3 years

we won again. Israel's largest shipping company has not unloaded in the Bay Area since 2014. Palestinians have asked us to disrupt Israeli capital flows and you can do it too. The #BlockTheBoat week of action continues in your city:

AROC #FreePalestine

@AROCBayArea

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Historic victory for #BlockTheBoat & #BDS ! After 2 blockades honored by ILWU Local 10, we have successfully turned away the apartheid-profiteering ZIM shipping line from the port of Oakland. The International Week of Action continues to ensure that ZIM is turned away everywhere!

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computer, show me the most liberal Zionist bullshit ever

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