"Both sides do nothing for the american people!"
And yet here you are, representing a mysterious third option, which also doing nothing.
i need answers…
So lemme get this straight: Ukraine is currently ruled by *checks notes* corrupt NATO and CIA-backed genetically ingeneered antisemitic neonazi zionist ultranationalist drug addicted LGBTQIA+ satanists that also run biolabs???
There's a lot to unpack in that tweet but let's just throw away the whole suitcase
The worst part is this is being sold, ideologically, across Africa. Anywhere you see sympathy towards Russia on the basis that they’re somehow, “standing against the Woke West,” you will see an entirely bizarre conspiracy theory about how The Jews were behind COVID 19, homosexuality (”degeneracy”) and “globalism,” which when used as a term in this context represents a belief the Jews own enough of business and government bodies to own anywhere that uses capitalism.
Russian propaganda is insidious and likes to make itself ambiguous and dress to appeal to any counter-culture, to subsume it and tilt it, if it can. Or at least, convince everybody outside that subculture that THEIR influence dominates in that subculture. This is why so many hard/far leftists in the west associated all social progress or positive social developments with Marxism/Leninism/Stalinism/Trotskyism.
So we’re going to be unpacking this conspiracy theory shit about the Jews somehow controlling mutant COVID biolabs and owning the global monetary system across every wanna-be socialist tinpot dictatorship across Africa for the next 80 years.
what's funny about people who pretend to support syrians to spite ukrainians and those that support ukraine is that they don't know just how out of touch this sentiment is with the very same syrians that they claim to support
recently, I’ve been thinking too much about this photo.
Do...do people think Syrians are pro-Russia?? The guys that carpet bombed Aleppo??? They know Putin is propping up Assad's dictatorship right??? The guy responsible for the Syrian war?? The one whose family pretty much destroyed Syrian democracy?? Whose forces are responsible for the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths??
They don't actually care what Syrians believe in. They are using them as a weird 'gotcha' West cares about Ukraine, but they don't care about Syria! Why nobody is talking about Syria! Also Assad is anti-imperialist uwu
Just so y'all know, these are the people Putin's tight with.
Block JavaScript on the site settings of your browser to get past the paywall. Yeah NYT is a shill, but that just means they gloss over the US's war crimes, not that they're inventing the Syrian government's. But media literacy is wasted on tinhats who think Wikipedia has an anti-communist bias because it records actual genocides.
The maga-packed US Supreme Court decided this week
* to protect bigotry under the guise of religious beliefs
* ended Affirmative Action
* struck down Biden’s plan to extend studen loan forgiveness
This is codified bigotry. If your beliefs require you to be a bigot, it’s time to question your beliefs. Bigotry being legally protected is pushing the US back to the Jim Crow era. The decisions regarding Affirmative Action and student loan forgiveness is part of the deliberate, systemized goal of maintaining oppression perpetrated by powerful, rich white people. Making it even more difficult for anyone but privileged, powerful white people to get an education and opportunities, to be able to afford college. It’s an attempt to keep the deck stacked against everyone but themselves. It’s anti-egalitarian. The far right goes to war daily against LGBTQ people, against PoC, against women. In supreme court decisions, in the vile bigoted laws they try to enact locally. In their public statements. In their tweets
Seeing the first amendment being waved around as an excuse to allow protected bigotry makes me sick to my stomach.
Call it what it is. FASCISM. BIGOTRY. DISCRIMINATION. CLASS WAR.
Please vote. It matters who is in office, on the national and local level.
What part of the Supreme Court blocking and striking down every single move on student debt makes people still think Biden can cancel the debt with One Weird Trick that he hasn't tried yet?
Like in this exact example! Using authority under any Act of Congress is subject to judicial review and puts us right back at Packed Courts. There is a system of checks and balances in this country and there's never going to be a unilateral decision on this scale that can be made by just one man, idgaf what some leftie Podcaster who hasn't studied US civics since high school says!!!
Louisiana Gov. Jon Bel Edwards (D) vetoed three bills targeting the LGBTQ community on Friday.
HB 648 would have banned gender-affirming care for minors — barring puberty-blockers, hormone treatment and surgeries. In a 6-page veto message sent to state House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, Edwards argued that the bill is part of a “targeted assault on children.”
How do you protect a culture that is being wiped out?
For Uighurs, this is more than just a hypothetical. Repressive measures against the ethnic minority have progressively worsened: The Chinese government has corralled more than 1 million of them into internment camps, where they have been subjected to political indoctrination, forced sterilization, and torture.
The targeting of the Uighurs isn’t limited to the camps. Since 2016, dozens of graveyards and religious sites have been destroyed. The Uighur language has been banned in Xinjiang schools in favor of Mandarin Chinese. Practicing Islam, the predominant Uighur faith, has been discouraged as a “sign of extremism.”
Beijing frames these moves as its way of rooting out terrorism, separatism, and religious extremism. But the aim of China’s actions in Xinjiang is clear: to homogenize Uighurs into the country’s Han Chinese majority, even if that means erasing their cultural and religious identity for good. What is taking place is a cultural genocide.
The repercussions bear heavily even on Uighurs living outside the country. Their burden is more than just raising awareness about what is taking place in their homeland—a task many have taken up at great cost to themselves and their families. It’s also about preserving and promoting their identity in countries where few people might know who the Uighurs are, let alone what the world stands to lose should their language, food, art, and traditions be eradicated.
In an effort to understand what this kind of cultural preservation looks like in practice, I spoke with seven Uighurs residing in Britain, France, Turkey, and the United States. As chefs, poets, singers, filmmakers, language teachers, and musicians, each of them is contributing to this work in different ways. All of them are passionate about ensuring that their heritage will be passed on to future generations. None of them is under any illusions about what’s at stake if they fail.
“Every Uighur now is under very big psychological pressure,” Omer Kanat, the director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit, told me. “We cannot sleep at night.”
Calling the Russian invasion of Ukraine a "US proxy war" is harmful because it
- is factually incorrect by any reasonable definition of the term "proxy war"
- perpetuates Putinist propaganda about why the war is happening in the first place
- (the actual reason the war is happening is because, due to mass protests and collective action by the Ukrainian people, Russia's grip on Ukrainian politics has been broken, and as an imperialist power Russia finds this terrifying)
- contributes to right-wing attempts to discredit the idea of financial and military aid to Ukraine (which Ukraine is unfortunately reliant on to make significant gains in this war)
- denies the agency of the Ukrainian people by incorrectly framing them as the puppets of a western country
- is a form of "both sides"-ism, something that is thoroughly inappropriate in one of the most black-and-white conflicts of this century so far
“The harm to the institution is entirely self-inflicted by Roberts and his ethically challenged majority. The court continues to take on flawed cases that have no business being heard, and making arbitrary rulings based on their political whims, dressed up in originalist fantasies. It has to be stopped That could include enforcing a code of ethics, legislation the Senate Judiciary Committee is going to take up after the July recess, and measures recommended by the Brennan Center, such as limiting justices’ terms to 18 years and ensuring that each president gets two appointments to the court per presidential term. It would create a revolving core of justices, giving those whose terms were up the chance to take senior status and still participate as needed either on the Supreme Court or on a lower court. All of that would be great, but what the country urgently requires is an expansion of the court to block this six-member wrecking ball.”
Source: dailykos.com
And like fucking clockwork, a bunch far lefties/communists/"don't vote revolution" people crawl out to say "this is Biden's fault, he and the Democrats let this happen, they could have pressed a button that would have magically made loans go away with no consequences but didn't"
I want these people to fall off a cliff
I mean, they will twist themselves into absolute fucking pretzels to come up with literally any way possible not to mention the actual and readily obvious reason for this happening (three MAGA judges appointed to SCOTUS by Trump), as that would imply that Trump was in fact bad, Hillary Clinton would not have done this, and they were possibly in the wrong by refusing to vote for her. So yes, they still gotta find some way for Biden to be at fault. Somehow!!!
Since the "president can't just wave a magic wand and eliminate student debt without any pushback from any parts of the government, especially the MAGA-hijacked part" strategy didn't work, since the president does not in fact have a magic wand, one wonders what ludicrous fantasy they will come up with now. But I'd also like to mention that Biden's response to all this was "this ruling is utter bullshit, SCOTUS are total hypocrites, I'm still going to work to find a way to do this under another law and with the Education Secretary, flipping both middle fingers at you, Scranton Joe out." And you know, I kind of like that. At this rate, SCOTUS and its terrible, terrible friends WILL radicalize him into supporting full forgiveness for everyone, and I have no problem with that. Though doubtless the Online Leftists will, because they'd rather be mad at him for imagined nonsense that they think he could have done, rather than support any of his actual successes, recover from setbacks, and work for more.
Jury Acquits School Resource Officer, Scot Peterson, Ex-Deputy Accused Of Failing To Protect Students In Parkland School Shooting On All Charges –Miami Florida Reporting
– Peterson faced up to nearly 100 years in prison if convicted, although because of his clean record a sentence anywhere near that length was highly unlikely. He also faced losing his $104,000 annual pension. He had spent nearly three decades working at schools, including nine years at Stoneman Douglas. He retired shortly after the shooting and was then fired retroactively.
> Peterson's attorney, Mark Eiglarsh, argued that Peterson was being made a "sacrificial lamb" for failures by elected officials and administrators. He said the evidence proved Peterson's insistence that the gunshots' echoes prevented him from pinpointing the gunman's location is the truth and Peterson did everything he could under the circumstances. Criticizing his actions now is "Monday morning quarterbacking" using facts that were unknown to Peterson in real time.
He said the only person responsible for what happened that day is “that monster," referring to the gunman. He said two dozen students, teachers and others testified that they also could not pinpoint where the shots were coming from — some of them from inside the building where the shooting happened.
>> Several deputies who arrived during the shooting and students and teachers who testified they did not think the shots were coming from the 1200 building.
There has been a large-scale leak of information from Chinese concentration camps, where the Uyghur genocide has been going on for years.
Thousands of photos and documents of total horror.
Here are some photos of those sent to death camps by China.
Comments are superfluous here.
People keep writing me in anon that I draw Uyghur for hype.
You know what? You're right. I want people to hear about Uyghur.
It scares me that nobody cares about it. Both global north and global south seem to be blind about it. Even more: some westerners think that talking about how bad China is (yes, not only government - just like russia) is racist! They act like only white and western countries can be bloody empires, which is not true + actually racist, bc it harms those who already suffers, e.g Uyghurs.
We must stop pretending that the evil will somehow outlive their lifespan and just disappear. Instead, we must address the problem and combat it. Help those who fight against dictatorships, spread awareness, donate to a charity, etc - whatever you're able to do, even something small makes it better.
Here's how to help Uyghurs:
https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/
ukrainians are the last people who need to be somehow disillusioned about geopolitical interests around our country, because for ukrainians understanding those interests is not just a IR debate exercise that pops up once in a while, but a matter of survival
if you think that after nine years of war with russia and detrimental foreign policy from both the us and europe in regard to ukraine since 2014, ukrainians believe that western governments are now helping ukraine out of the goodness of their hearts, then you are the naive one
You (a male) was made uncomfortable by women defining women as female? The misogyny is staggering.
Oh, bless your transphobic heart. I'm not made uncomfortable by anyone defining anyone as anything. I'm saddened by anyone adding to the pain and grief and suffering of this world, and I feel that transphobic definitions of gender, forcing people born female to identify as female, forcing people born male to identify as male, forcing intersex people to identify as whatever their families or doctors decide to impose on them, just adds heartbreak to an already difficult world.
Only on occasion do U.S. Supreme Court Justices read their opinions aloud from the bench. But on Friday Justice Sonia Sotomayor did just that, reading aloud her 38-page dissent to the majority’s 6-3 ruling in favor of a Christian anti-LGBTQ business owner, Lori Smith, who claimed Colorado’s anti-discrimination law prevented her from expanding her design business to include weddings because she refuses to provide that service to same-sex couples. The case is 303 Creative vs. Elenis.
The Court ruled that, “The First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.”
In her dissent Justice Sotomayor exposed some of the many harms that ruling will cause, and called the “logic” in the majority opinion, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, “embarrassing.”
“The majority protests that Smith will gladly sell her goods and services to anyone, including same-sex couples,” she wrote. “She just will not sell websites for same-sex weddings. Apparently, a gay or lesbian couple might buy a wedding website for their straight friends. This logic would be amusing if it were not so embarrassing.”
I was just thinking about this tweet and can’t stop laughing what the fuck was he trying to say
June 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether workers can bring discrimination lawsuits based on unwanted workplace transfers that were allegedly motivated by bias, an issue that can make or break many cases.
The justices took up a case involving St. Louis police officer Jatonya Muldrow, who is seeking to revive claims that she was transferred to an undesirable post to make way for a male officer. Muldrow appealed a lower court's ruling that the conduct by the police department could not form the basis of a discrimination lawsuit.
The Supreme Court will hear the case in its next term, which begins in October.
Many of the thousands of discrimination lawsuits filed each year involve workers who allege they were transferred for discriminatory reasons, including as a way to force them to quit their jobs.
President Joe Biden's administration in May urged the court to take up the issue, saying rulings by lower courts dismissing such litigation misinterpreted federal anti-discrimination laws that only apply to "adverse employment actions" driven by bias.