More than 200 people (children and women) died in the bomb attack on Al Fakhoura School. The school belonged to the United Nations (
@UNRWA
) and housed Palestinian settlers who survived the bombing of their homes. (1st video was recorded 2 days ago, the other one was on November
I have never voted for a candidate in my life.
But I will be voting for Bernie Sanders in the democratic primary and the general election. If I’m doing that, there are probably tens of millions in that same position.
Let me explain why I’m doing this now:
Racist violence and police murder are inherent to capitalism. It will be around until we get rid of capitalism.
Knowing this is also key to finding short term ways that we can collectively get some semblance of more immediate reprisal 4 these injustices
Follow me for a second
Just in case ppl insinute that my opposition to Israel's murderous acts means something else-
Im a Jew. My grandmother escaped the holocaust. My great uncle fought Nazis in the streets in Germany. I grew up around radical Jews that wanted revolution
I'm just fucking principled
Twitter employees could stop all layoffs by having all employees stick together and shut down all operations til they reinstate all.
Strike. Form a union.
We're in the biggest strike wave in the US since the 40s, w thousands of strikes in last 2yrs. Tech workers- get on board.
Stop saying this.
Before Oct 6th, from January to August, 37 Palestinians kids had been killed by IDF in 2023.
Thats not a ceasefire in any real sense.
If your argument is there can b no ceasefire cuz there was one b4- u have no argument.
And Israel has broken ceasefires too
Bernie is 100-150 delegates behind Biden w 2000 left. California’s not done counting, & Biden will look stupid in debate vs Bernie. If he demolishes Biden bad enough- folks’ll turn.
Biden got $400mill in free ads from MSM pundits. Let’s have 2 hrs exposing how rightwing he is.
A week of protests and rebellions in most cities and hundreds of small towns and suburbs has still not gotten the other 3 Minneapolis cops charged.
In order to make power suffer consequences- lose profit- until they meet demands
we have to start strikes/work stoppages.
I'm fine
and I'm right.
According to polls, most of the US agrees with me. Not to mention the rest of the world.
The only use I can see in that Variety article is to scare people into silence.
Don't let them scare you.
Love or hate "The Irishman", we all have to admit one thing:
With the radical direction that the working class in the US is taking right now-
Its curious timing to have a big budget "unions are corrupt" movie come out right now.
International law is all a show
The US has a law that it can declare war on The Hague if US officials or military r brought up on war crimes
Under capitalism, states protect capital
Only solution is a world where the ppl democratically control the wealth we create w our labor
If you’re saying that ppl should support Biden because of the Supreme Court-
Remember that he famously bent over backwards to get Clarence Thomas appointed
While telling a Black woman her sexual assault case was fake
Thats not a "base".
International law allows for combatants to b treated at a hospital & even for weapons to be there.
It actually even allows for hospitals to have armed security forces to protect it.
They found weapons for 2 fighters. And killed a now untold amount to do so.
After the Israeli military entered Al Shifa Hospital, they announced what they found.
Boots, bags with the Hamas logo and some NATO-made weapons.
The White House announced that "they had information that there were tunnels and Hamas fighters in the hospital."
Where are the
U believe that two Israeli lives r worth more than 67 or more Palestinians killed, many of them kids.
U support killing so far 28,000 human beings, most women&kids as retribution4the killing of (Israel's official count) 800 Israeli civilians.
This means you're racist, Michael.
RAFAH this RAFAH that!!!
This WAR or maybe it should be called a MISSION in GAZA is,has & will always be about the return of the HOSTAGES!!
133 More!!!
#BringThemAllHomeNow
#aoc
#thesquad
#Rafah
The hostage deal happening now is pretty much what was offered weeks ago.
15,000 Palestinian deaths later- Israel didnt get anywhere close to "eradicating Hamas".
If Hamas is in tunnels, bombing buildings ONLY kills civilians.
Murdering Palestinian civilians was/is the goal.
So, the US is enabling an actual coup in Venezuela.
If you've been worried about Russian bots influencing elections here, I'd hope you express outrage about this.
Biden:
-Helped get Thomas&Scalia on SupremeCourt.
-Will veto m4a if congress approves
-Locked kids in cages, more immigrants in cages than Trump
-down 4 war as much as republicans
-wants to cut social security
-in bed w oil and natural gas corps
Why is he “better than trump”?
Now is as good a time as any to tell people that Rick Rubin is a behind-the-scenes rightwinger who tries to recruit music industry folks to Q-anon type stuff and is who (according to Kanye) convinced Kanye to meet Candace Owens and endorse Trump.
He just looks like a hippie.
Some people are taking my "art for arts sake" quote the wrong way.
I wasnt saying there SHOULDNT BE "art for arts sake".
I was saying there ISNT "art for arts sake". It doesnt exist.
All art has a political viewpoint. You dont notice it when it upholds the status quo.
If congress tries 2break railway workers power by trying to legally force them to take a deal they don't want-
Railway workers must disobey congress and strike anyway.
Congress and rail companies will cry about it and railway workers will win. It'll probably have 2b a wildcat.
My periodic reminder that some of the folks ur arguing w on Twitter are not real ppl.
There r actual agents of the state & corporate agents w 10 different avatars to put out ideas, make u feel certain ways, and waste ur time.
We have to spend more time talking to ppl in person
For those that say "talk to a Venezuelan" about the US-backed Coup in Venezuela, understand this:
Venezuelans living in the US, and many on twitter, are mostly from wealthier fams. They arent SIMPLY Venezuelan. They have class interests that arent the same as poor Venezuelans.
I believe that we need a world in which the people democratically control the wealth that we create with our labor. This would be real, actual power in the hands of the people. Actual “democracy”. You can call that communism, you can call it socialism, you can call it pancakes.
You are an economist with the Brookings Institute, whose staff has many ex-CIA in it.
You and the Brookings Institute are a huge part of the world's problems, and have advised the US on how to starve countries and extort them to broaden corporate markets.
Shut the fuck up.
In case it wasn't clear-
Warren's campaign knows they can't win enough primary votes, and so does her SuperPac.
Billionaires are now backing Warren specifically to siphon votes to "slow Bernie's momentum".
The Warren campaign is now admitting it.
You dont support unions even existing if u dont support striking.
The only reason there is a union, the only reason a union has the leverage to negotiate any contract in the 1st place: the threat of a strike.
He should b honest and say "fuck everybody in the unions, I got mine"
‘Arrow’ actor Stephen Amell says he doesn’t support the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes:
“I do not support striking. I don't. I think that it's a reductive negotiating tactic, and I find the entire thing incredibly frustrating.”
Remember when Trump was elected & we all said well at least we’ll get some great art out of it? Sorry To Bother You is that 1st piece of great art. A They Live/Repo Man for the bleak millennial reality of late-stage capitalism.
I'm here with Jewish Voice For Peace (
@jvplive
) where hundreds of us rushed in and occupied the Federal Building in Oakland.
The govt of Israel does not act on behalf of, nor represent, Jewish people.
#CeasefireNOW
#LetGazaLive
#FreePalestine
What I am endorsing is the movement that has grown around him that involves millions of people who are willing to consciously and openly engage in class struggle in order to make these reforms happen.
It'll be easier to shut down the economy and make an economic system where the people democratically control the wealth we create
than it is to wipe out police brutality and racist attacks while keeping capitalism.
the former has definable, achievable ends, the latter doesnt
Bullshit. This here journalist who writes for Newsweek is being boldly dishonest.
He didnt "refute his Jewishness".
Glazer said "[we] refute our Jewishness and The Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people"
I simply cannot fathom the moral rot in someone's soul that leads them to win an award for a movie about the Holocaust and with the platform given to them, to accept that award by saying, "We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness."
They actually quickly re-wrote Batman because Occupy was happening while/right before they were filming
& made it so that the newly added Occupy-like mvmnt (which, in reality, was happening in every city & town in the US) was in league w the villain.
I have many critiques- from the left- of the Venezuelan govt.
But in no way should anyone support a US backed- or Ruling Class backed- opposition and coup.
The argument ppl starved by US sanctions should support a US backed unelected leader to stop US sanctions is just crazy.
Aight-
I'm back cuz I know some writers for Variety, Indiewire etc follow me.
Those publications r running a story w no sources that was put out there by Radio Free Asia an official propaganda arm of the US State Department
I'm talking the Squid game smuggling North Korea story
Salute to Jonathan Glazer.
Not just for speaking out against the atrocities in Gaza & saying that his movie is about the present day- but I finally saw Zone Of Interest last night.
Since Under The Skin he has shown that you should not wait til post to figure out sound design.
I’ve spoken out many times over the years about the dangers that electoral politics hold for mass movements- reducing involvement to this one moment, this one person, and making it unclear to masses of people that power under capitalism comes at the point of exploitation.
Hey mainstream media pundits that follow me.
How about this take:
"The fact that millions around the country r taking to the streets in reaction to the police murder of George Floyd restores my faith in humanity and we need more of it."
It's the right take. Go ahead and try it.
The last time actors and writers were on strike together, in 1960-
is how we got health care, pension, and residuals on broadcast film.
That didnt exist in the film and TV industry until then.
A lot is possible with this kind of solidarity and this is the perfect time for it.
The Jewish community isnt a monolith
Jewish Communist Party members & Jewish progressives stood w CivilRightsMvmnt
Their ideological descendants are demanding a ceasefire
Jewish conservatives didnt stand w CivilRightsMvmnt. Their ideological descendants support Israels actions
Congratulations to Oakland Teachers!
They reached a tentative deal.
11% raise and more support staff.
No way they would've gotten this without striking.
Any deal made after this will be because folks know the threat of a strike is a real one.
Fuck that. Stop talking about James Bond being played by someone Black.
Stop making intelligence operatives/assassins/murderers look cool, and trying to make ppl of color feel connection to these enemies of the ppl.
You want a Black hero? Don't make them an agent of capital.
Although it is a known fact, as NYT has reported offhand, Hamas doesn't have tanks. And its confirmed to have been a tank shelling.
So- why are journalists refusing to "confirm" who did it?
What is journalism now? Journalists please respond.
UPDATE: As of 5:51pm eastern, the New York Times has been unable to confirm which country's tanks attacked the UN shelter. Reporters are working around the clock to get a list of all the countries with tanks on the ground in Gaza.
These struggles will radicalize millions of people and has the potential to organize
the working class in the US to a point we haven’t seen before. We keep going from there.
There r rebellions going on in most US cities right now.
So- "outside agitators"-
Where are they coming from?
Are the ones from LA trading places w ones from NYC? Are the ones from Atlanta trading w the ones from Houston?
The outside agitators need 2 get more efficient!
Viggo Mortensen was the only actor with a national platform to speak out against the bombing of Afghanistan post 9/11.
He did it on the Tonight Show while the promotion for Lord Of The Rings was happening.
You didnt see him promoting Lord Of The Rings after that.
Boom.
I'm A Virgo.
Comes out later this year
starring Jharrel Jerome, Mike Epps, Walton Goggins, Brett Gray, Carmen Ejogo, Olivia Washington, Kara Young, and Allius Barnes
Re Once Upon A Time In Hollywood:
The Manson Family were overt White Supremacists who tried to start a race war w the goal of killing Black folks.
They werent "hippies" spouting left critiques of media. They were rightwingers.
This fact flips Tarantino's allegory on its head.
Ai Wei Wei famous here partly cuz his was a good anti-China story.
But now that he has been here he says that censorship in the US is "even worse" than China.
He says that's due to how it “operates in a more concealed, solid and enduring manner.”
And Bernie, please, we don't want Joe to be your friend.
He's not a friend to the ppl, he's in the corporations' pocket. That oil bailout Trump is talking about? Joe will do it too.
Had a friend from my younger days that started pimping. They'r not my friend anymore.
Fuck Joe.
Predicting the future:
A lot of Biden's potential voters will stay home & not vote4him due2him endorsing Israel's mass murder & mass torture of Palestinians (among other rightwing stances).
He will lose to Trump.
Media will spin and say Biden lost cuz he wasn't rightwing enuf.
It's funny when there are people on here saying that me putting out my opinion on the politics Venezuela is me meddling where I dont belong-
BUT THE US BACKING TWO SEPARATE COUPS IN VENEZUELA, APPLYING SANCTIONS & WORKING W CORPS TO STARVE ITS ITS ECONOMY IS NOT MEDDLING AT ALL.
That politicians are beholden to the ruling class- not simply due to campaign financing (although that’s part of it) But that they are beholden to those who wield power through control of the economy-
Robots will not replace workers.
Here's why: robots don't buy stuff.
They need workers 2 also be the market to which products are sold.
This idea has been pushed to make ppl think that the working class organizing is useless.
And to sell bad sci-fi plots.
You cannot have full employment under Capitalism.
Capitalism must have a certain percentage of unemployed ppl to exist.
When unemployment rates lower past a certain point- u see WSJournal, FTimes, etc worry because it means that wages go up- &stock values go down- in real time
There's a graduate student worker strike wave hitting California and spreading.
It's a wildcat strike. Union leadership was afraid 2 strike.
Started at UC Santa Cruz and spread to UC Davis & UC Santa Barbara. Tell folks about it.
A new radical, militant labor mvmnt is coming.
The real Labor Day is May 1st, May Day.
They moved it away from May first in order to take all the class struggle and international solidarity along class lines out of it.
If you already know this, this message isn't for you.
We should demand that
every TV show and movie in production that has a police and/or pentagon or intelligence agency “advisor“ on it
must fire those “advisors“ immediately
they’re a huge part of the probl
police don’t shoot rubber bullets, they shoot steel bullets with a rubber coating.
they are trying to injure ppl. That’s the point. And if they kill ppl by accident, so be it.
that is, when they’re not shooting their normal bullets.
Ohhshit.
This has never happened this way in the history of SAG.
This is a strike authorization, allowing SAG to enter into negotiations while flashing their weapon.
This is a part of the biggest strike wave the US has seen in half a century.
We can shape the world around us
Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen things like the Anti-Iraq War movement mobilize literal millions of people onto the streets all over the world, but was unable to stop the war. We learned that power cannot be simply shamed into capitulating to the demands of the people.
@leekern13
Sire, I'm sorry that I don't aspire to your greatness and artistic advance, tho hope to also become one of 9 writers on Borat.
Read the whole thread. Its this event thats encouraging people to ignore primary evidence.
If they arent also showing a video of the thousands of murders, mutilations, burnings, kidnappings, and rapes by IDF from decades before and tge genocidal acts from the month since- its an IDF propaganda event.
We're going 2hav2have strategic targeted & general strikes 2force the hand of folks who have some of these politicians in their pockets. Imagine BART & Transit workers striking til Pelosi commits to MedicareForAll. Or West Virginia teachers striking 2 force the vote of JoeManchin
One correction-
Replace "middle" w "working"
The popularization of "lower, middle, & upper" class- as opposed2 "working class" vs "ruling class"- was an attempt2have classifications w income, but no functionality- hiding the economic exploitation of labor inherent in capitalism
can we talk about boots riley ??? I watched sorry to bother you (2018) and i'm a virgo (2023) and both are fun comedies with unique plots that criticise capitalism and the exploitation of middle classs WITH great and vibrant cinematography, I'm really in love with his works
In 2002,
Fox News pundit Michelle Malkin described my work as
"a stomach-turning example of anti-Americanism disguised as highbrow intellectual expression"
I had it at the top of my bio for almost 20 years.
Fuck it. I'm not going to act like I'm not disappointed.
But I do realize that to have been in a position to get my hopes up and be let down is what I call a good problem.
There must be an army of unemployed workers so that bosses can keep wages low by threatening workers with the idea of being replaced. The bigger that army is- the workers supposed "competition"- the lower the wages are.
And the point is to keep wages as low as they can
Never creating a mass movement at the point of contradiction under capitalism, which would mean organizing on the job in a way that could withhold labor collectively and shut down industry when necessary.
"Sorry To Bother You" may be the single worst film I've ever seen. It makes "Gigli" look like "Citizen Kane." Thoroughly clumsy neo-Marxist tripe, incredibly without a single redeeming quality. I almost wish MoviePass had gone out of business so I couldn't have seen it for free.
by taking the wealth that we create with our labor and controlling industry, controlling markets. And that elections, often leave people feeling disempowered after-
I'm going to simply destroy the lie that there are no elections in Cuba.
This first picture is from the 2008 Cuban elections. As you see there are multiple candidates for each particular office. (At least 3 or 4 are Afro-Cuban)
This interview with an anonymous Apple exec about the WGA strike is saying out loud what we know to be true:
Al large part of their worry with our strike is that they know it will inspire other industries to fight for what they deserve.
We have to win.
All the ppl spending time worrying about whether Sanders supporters will vote for Biden if Sanders loses-
Your time is better spent ensuring that Sanders is elected so you have nothing to worry about in that regard.
There are 27 out of 50 primaries left.
Pundits say theres no way for Bernie to win.
They lie.
He needs 60% of remaining vote
In this unprecedented crisis, many r seeing it CAN'T be Biden
Mail in votes will have more young ppl voting
Unprecedented situation.
Bernie can win.