Benin Bryant

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Benin Bryant

Benin Bryant

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The Best Democracy Fear Can Buy https://t.co/wNWErAfoYW

Brooklyn, NY Beigetreten Ocak 2012
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Benin Bryant
Benin Bryant@beninbf·
The 2024 election is set to take place against the backdrop of 10/7 and the destruction of Gaza. What is the cost of our democracy and is it worth it? @beninbf/the-best-democracy-fear-can-buy-441d92b1157d?sk=08c1cbbb400bdaef43d28767b03f7b0e" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@beninbf/the-b…
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jønny🔻
jønny🔻@jonnysocialism·
If a party's co-founder goes on a podcast to promote it, and states that women "are not even real people" & should not be able to vote- That is an official position of that party until they remove that person from leadership and denounce their position.
jønny🔻@jonnysocialism

"The ACP has never said anything bad about LGBT people or women in its official statements" Your co-founder went on the DHS agent Myron Gaines' Fresh N Fit podcast and said explicitly that women shouldn't have civil rights and has praised the idea of making being gay illegal.

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jasper nathaniel@infinite_jaz·
Truly fuck this @CBSSunday segment on archaeology in the WB, which leads with the settler narrative, uncritically platforming some of the most nefarious, genocidal Israeli pseudo archaeologists before giving a few minutes to a Palestinian, who @sethdoane immediately challenges.
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Benin Bryant
Benin Bryant@beninbf·
@thestustustudio @ASU The U.S. and Israel attack Iran, killing 168 children at a school, and your concern is over these professor's discussing Iran's right to defend themselves? I hope this means you've never posted anything about academic freedom.
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Stu Smith
Stu Smith@thestustustudio·
🚨 “Iranian propaganda is really helping us,” Sinwar’s “political theory,” and no condemnation of terrorist groups — Inside an "anti-imperialist" discussion featuring an @ASU professor On Lara Sheehi’s Psychic Militancy podcast, Sheehi, a former GWU professor, spoke with former VT professor Bikrum Gill and ASU’s Alexander Aviña. The entire conversation should set off alarms for anyone paying attention. At one point, they seriously entertain the “political theory of Yahya Sinwar” and go so far as to say that “we are so dependent on it today.” That alone should be disqualifying in any serious academic setting. But it does not stop there. Aviña leans directly into the idea that violence is not merely historically contingent or analytically understandable, but a moral right. He frames it in explicit terms, asking whether people have a “natural right to resist tyranny via armed struggle.” That is not detached scholarship or theoretical exploration. It is a moral endorsement of violence as a necessary political tool in a capitalist and “colonized” world. It is also worth noting that his academic expertise touches guerrilla insurgency movements in Latin America. Then comes the part that should really make people pause. In the same conversation, Aviña praises Iranian propaganda outright, saying, “Iranian propaganda is really helping us… they know what they’re doing.” A sitting American professor describing the information operations of a hostile regime as helpful is not normal, no matter how much some corners of academia try to dress it up as critical theory or anti-imperial analysis. The discussion keeps escalating from there. The group credits Hamas and Hezbollah with “bringing” political possibility into being, then takes the next step and argues that condemning those terrorist groups is itself immoral. What is especially telling is that Aviña acknowledges the line they are approaching, admitting that “we can get in trouble” and that there could be “legal proceedings” for saying these things. They know exactly how far they are pushing it, and they say it anyway. And through all of this, Aviña is not pushing back. He is not introducing caution, context, or even minimal skepticism. He is nodding along, reinforcing the arguments, and helping carry the conversation forward.
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Benin Bryant@beninbf·
@coldxman Your tweet is so incomprehensible it would more aptly be understood as “not even wrong”. The only way one can understand how you came to such a convoluted explanation of material events is via your employment with Bari Weiss’s The Free Press.
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Coleman Hughes
Coleman Hughes@coldxman·
But we have de facto given millions in “defensive military aid” to Gaza already. Hamas used it to build the largest ever bomb shelter network, and then didn’t allow civilians to use it during a war. The problem is not our asymmetric sympathies, it’s the psychopathic terror org.
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson

one important question for anyone who supports "defensive" military aid to Israel such as the Iron Dome is: do you support defensive military aid for Palestine? Will you fund a Golden Dome for Gaza to protect its civilians from Israeli missiles? And if not, why not?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AnaKasparian I never have. Feel free to continue lying publicly, though. Those checks don’t cash themselves and you aren’t talented enough to be relevant with the truth.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Today, the FBI and NYPD disrupted a plot by a member of a pro-Israel terrorist organization to assassinate Nerdeen Kiswani. This is a reprehensible act of political violence. There is no place for it in our city nor our country. I am thankful Ms. Kiswani is safe and the assailant is under arrest.
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Benin Bryant
Benin Bryant@beninbf·
@mehdirhasan I notice how you didn’t attempt to refute a single fact that Blumenthal pointed out in his tweet. That’s because it’s easier to dismiss his argument, than contend with it.
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Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan·
I don't normally reply to this troll but if you want a reminder of what a grifter and liar Max Blumenthal is, the guy who the Russian government hosted at the UN, here's Blumenthal citing Amnesty International whenever it's convenient to him and his agenda. Oh, the hypocrisy!
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Max Blumenthal@MaxBlumenthal

Mehdi Hasan spent years crusading for regime change from Syria to China based on phony State Dept human rights reports that were easily debunked. He zealously celebrated the Al Qaeda takeover of Syria, and has kept quiet ever since about Israeli troops occupying the country while prisons full of ISIS fighters were emptied along Iran's borders. Mehdi is now hyping a bunk regime change narrative to discredit Iran's leadership as they face down a campaign of state destruction imposed by Israel and the US. His source is Amnesty, the EU-backed NGO which legitimized the Kuwaiti incubator babies hoax that enabled the US to launch the First Gulf War on Iraq. On January 8 and 9, Mossad-backed rioters murdered hundreds of police officers, guards and civilians across Iran, while burning down government buildings and mosques. The extensively documented regime change riots provided a bridge between the 12-day-war and the current assault on Iran, and form the blueprint for Israel's stalled plan to destabilize the country from within. At the time, Amnesty described the rioters as "largely peaceful protesters," as though they were staging a lunch counter sit-in. Amnesty also held rallies in Europe throughout January which supported the toppling of Iran's government. Mehdi confidently echoes Amnesty's deceptive language in order to browbeat his interview subject, presenting him as a criminal while his colleagues at Iran's Foreign Ministry face the threat of assassination by Israel. With his deployment of yet another shabby regime change narrative, and his characteristic refusal to acknowledge any facts which might undercut his pre-packaged argument, Mehdi has joined the US-Israeli information war against Iran. None of his virtue signaling about Palestine can deflect from the insidious role he's playing.

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Conversations with Coleman
Conversations with Coleman@ConvoswColeman·
Coleman Hughes pushes Glenn Greenwald on the Israel lobby’s influence in Washington. @Coldxman: “The entire pro-Israel lobby was outspent...during the Obama years by the dentistry lobby…It’s not nearly powerful enough to get us involved in all these wars that people like to blame on it.” @GGreenwald: “If we are going to frame it as binaries—either AIPAC is all powerful and omnipotent…or the alternative is AIPAC is really kind of weak—I think it’s a disservice to the discussion. The truth lies in the middle, but far closer to the end of the spectrum where they’re extremely powerful… “This is a lobby devoted to the interests of a foreign country. And there’s nothing that remotely competes with the power of the pro-Israel lobby in terms of lobbies that come from other countries. And that's the reason why it gets so much attention. It’s just such a bizarre phenomenon of American political life.” Watch Coleman’s response—and the rest of their debate on Israel and U.S. foreign policy—now: youtu.be/AEvJQoowZUI
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marah khalad@mar80549·
Twitter is trying to hide my post. If you see it, please leave a dot to help me
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Xcommander 🇦🇪@UAExCOMMANDER·
Respectfully, Oman’s FM ignores decades of reality. Iran may not have started this specific week of fire, but they built the "Axis of Resistance" that set the region ablaze. From Hezbollah in Lebanon to Houthis in Yemen and militias in Iraq & Syria, Tehran has exported instability for years. You can't ignore the arsonist just because the house is finally on fire.
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Badr Albusaidi - بدر البوسعيدي
Whatever your view of Iran, this war is not of their making. This is already causing widespread economic problems and I fear they promise to get much worse if the war continues. Oman is working intensively to put in place safe passage arrangements for the Strait of Hormuz.
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Sana Saeed
Sana Saeed@SanaSaeed·
Just watched the video of the Iranian woman filming a US-Israeli double tap strike that would claim her life. The fear in her voice is palpable but she does not stutter when she declares her testament of faith - she chose to spend her final and terrifying moments, committing herself to her faith. Her voice, its tremble and strength, brought me to tears. For the past 3 years, we have seen so much similar footage come out of Gaza, out of Lebanon - last moments caught on camera, last moments drenched in fear, resistance and a clinging to God. You don’t have to be a person of faith - I don’t even think you need to like religion, or Islam - to understand the profundity of what we are witnessing in these moments. These are not inevitable deaths, they are engineered. And what we are witnessing, over and over again, are human beings in their final moments - at their most vulnerable, most alone - making one last act of defiance against a world that has decided they are not worthy of continuing to live.
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Benin Bryant
Benin Bryant@beninbf·
@RaniaKhalek “The war was triggered when Hezbollah launched rocketsat Israel on 2 March.”… The author of the article would have you believe that it was Hezbollah that “started” the military engagement despite Israel, having broken the cease-fire numerous times since it was first announced.
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Kate Emerson 🇵🇸 🔻
Kate Emerson 🇵🇸 🔻@KateEmersonBri·
I have been reading a lot. Love everything by Norman Finkketstein and Miko Peled's books are eye-opening. BUT, for quite a while, it is the voices of Palestinians that are echoing in my head, so here are just a few i have read and recommend to those who really want to KNOW: Everything ever written by Edward Said. Just all of it. All of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's novels, especially the most recent, Discipline. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad. I can't impress upon you hard enough how important this book is. All of Susan Abulhawa's writing. Her most recent book Every Moment Is a Life: Gaza in the Time of Genocide, just recently published, is a must. The very lovely If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose by the murdered poet Refaat Alareer (with a foreword by Susan Abulhawa) is beyond beautiful and read his other works too. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. by Hindi Noor is the most political poetry you will ever read. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Khalidi Rashid must not be missed-you have to read it. I have more, of course, but these are good starters :)
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Nathan J Robinson
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson·
He's wrong. Washington could stop Israel any time it wanted by pulling our support, imposing sanctions, threatening them with military action. Everything Israel does is with US permission. The fact that we WON'T do these things does not mean we can't.
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara

Terrifying revelation. Mearsheimer warns that Israel is highly likely to use nuclear weapons against Iran because they cannot win conventionally. He says Washington has absolutely no power to stop them from pulling the trigger.

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susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى
Dear Fam, I'm excited to tell you about my first children's book. I decided to self publish this one; so, for now, it's only available to buy from my website, and only in the US. There's a magic part of the moon called Al-Qassam, Palestinians will use its magic moondust to get free, and free the rest of the world too (from the people and their affiliates who stole Palestine and rob/oppress other countries). Because, the only life worth living, is a life in service of others. susanabulhawa.com/books/palestin…
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Tom London
Tom London@TomLondon6·
I have been studying the EFFECT of propaganda I believe that people with high intelligence and advanced education are NO LESS likely to be manipulated by propaganda than anyone else BUT, of course, they generally think that they ARE superior to the “easily manipulated masses”
Mountain@sharpeleven

Had a couple of friends staying over the weekend. Both graduates, both “left leaning,” he’s got a PhD in Social Studies. Both rely on BBC Radio 4/Guardian for their current affairs information. Both believe that Starmer “stood up to Trump” and that we’re not involved in the war

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Benin Bryant
Benin Bryant@beninbf·
@pawelwargan @ireallyhateyou That meal is typically served to soldiers before they deploy to some active combat zone. This is nothing if not foreboding.
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Paweł Wargan
Paweł Wargan@pawelwargan·
Eating overcooked meat out of a styrofoam container, in her car, before heading off to die in a campaign to massacre children for the Epstein class. Imperialism offers nothing but pathetic, meaningless, and cowardly lives and deaths for those who choose to serve it.
Dom Lucre | Stealer of Narratives@dom_lucre

🔥🚨BREAKING: This American soldier just showed off her steak and lobster meal that was provided to her thanks to the Department of War’s $22 million spending that has infuriated liberals across the nation.

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Benin Bryant@beninbf·
I recently attended a “pitching and publishing” panel at @Columbia headlined by editors from @Harpers @verge and @nytimes, including NYT editor @chameauleon. It was a great experience, and the panelists were so very gracious with their time and expertise! Special thanks to my writing instructor and author @Vukovic, for bringing our class to the event!
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