Defect The Empire

@ljmontello The worse part is that this supposed suicidal deference to the rules at all costs drop the instant they are facing socialists and progressives. Then they used every underhanded tactic and show complete mastery of them, they just don't use them against Republicans.

Again, the entire point of my post is that Republicans are always able to find loopholes to pass their agenda that Democrats refuse to use in kind out of deference to the rules while the goddamn dog dunks on them over & over.

@brianrdhamm @ljmontello The bigger the majority, the more democrats they'll have to assign as the designated villain to vote against and kill progressive bills. If they have a majority of 10, 10 will vote against. If they fill every last goddamn seat, they'll always have exactly half+1 vote against.

@ljmontello When you have a narrow, one seat majority, you can pass some things. The bigger the majority, the more things you can pass. Seems pretty straightforward.

"Dems can't use their majority to pass legislation because only 48 out of 50 of your senators are actually on board with the Democratic Party agenda." How do you don't find that a damning statement of a floundering, dying political party is beyond me.

@rushicrypto It is not being asked because they don't care and don't have the forward vision to see the problem. They truly think that money just materializes in their pockets from the ether. They are worse than toddlers.

If Ai replaces all the jobs, where do corporations expect people to earn money to continue being consumers? I am just not understanding why that simple question is not being asked.

@MilitarySummary Countdown to Israel breaking the ceasefire. They are likely trying to break their record.

🇺🇸 #Trump stated that Lebanon and Israel have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, which will begin at 00:00 Moscow time, aimed at advancing a peaceful resolution. He also added that he plans to invite the leaders of both countries to the White House for negotiations.

@PrasVector @BRICSinfo This will lead to them bombing the building the negotiations would take place in with just Aoun in it and then claiming they eliminated another terrorist.

@BRICSinfo Trump setting up direct talks with both Lebanese and Israeli leaders is a positive step. Face to face meetings can cut through noise and push for real de-escalation faster than endless statements. Hope it leads to actual calm on the ground.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says he will meet with Lebanese President Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

@BRICSinfo Translation: Trump and Netanyahu are luring Aoun to be assassinated at the negotiation table and laughing maniacally that this obvious looney Toony tactic has worked for a 4th time.

@catsfive @OopsGuess The US has openly been committing high seas piracy for the last year and a half (instead of covertly as it did it's entire existence) and you still believe supreme leader's Trump and your new Antipope Vance in every lie they tell you.

Aaaaand, the mask drops. THERE SHE IS! Venezuelan fishermen! Yes! With their fast boats with $200k of engines! Gotta get that 'catch' back to market so that it's freeeesh! No, a power that repeatedly turns shipping lanes, naval dominance, and open waters into instruments of coercion is called "Iran." The Hormuz crisis is a crisis for everyone but the United States. If it's a crisis for you, then you I'd suggest you build a time machine and go back to 1979--you've clearly lost the ability to build a cogent argument on this. The world can cope. Seethe. We spent 47 years doing it 'your' way. Now our arguments lie alongside the Iranian navy, at the bottom of the ocean, where they belong.

As Trump drags the world into another energy crisis, China is doing something far more consequential than trading slogans: it is building the foundations of energy freedom through hydrogen, nuclear fusion, and the broader shift to renewables. Oil and gas come with geography, chokepoints, fleets, and coercion. But hydrogen, fusion, wind, solar, and hydro point toward a different future: cleaner, freer, and far less vulnerable to imperial blackmail. That is why China’s new energy build-out matters. It is not just an industrial strategy. It is about breaking the old logic of U.S. oil power.

@ireallyhateyou Time to dig dirt on another Israeli acting darling. Being an ex-idf, it is not even a matter of "if".

So, two and a half years into an ongoing genocide carried out by Israel, Apple TV is releasing a show depicting an Israeli soldier (who for some reason is wearing a uniform in a Russian airport) as a victim. The fucking audacity.

@Notsu311406 The music is about women who crush your dick hard with their asses, BTW.

What they've been doing to memorize periodic table :

@jstbrwsng2 @JoeYadaYadaYada @ireallyhateyou He was unremorseful if he never condemned the organization that ordered him to do it. Abduction is abduction. Just because a terrorist state issued the orders to abduct little girls from their families to abuse them, doesn't make them not be abductions.

@JoeYadaYadaYada @ireallyhateyou 1. That he was unremorseful and bragging about his crimes (it was the opposite) 2. That he was abducting girls will-nilly (he was executing arrest warrents)

In what might be his first response to the blowback regarding his resurfaced admission of war crimes, Israeli world-famous actor and IDF terrorist Tomer Capone posted this meme on his Instagram story. I mean, dude, you literally said those words. It's an interview with YOU.

@esjesjesj Or have any happiness at all. Even the "corporate mandated recreational activities" are projected to a T to cause as much distress and stress as possible.

This is just like the studies about working from home. Companies would make much more money from 4-day work weeks but they won’t do it because they can’t let their employees be too happy

@DogofPrabhupada @Ssaniya_

@Ssaniya_ Yes, Israel is a superhuman race

I just saw a horrific video of a dead Palestinian man lying on the street. A group of Israelis repeatedly drove a vehicle over his body, rolling back and forth while laughing and joking. WE. ARE. NOT. DEALING. WITH. HUMANS.

@viktor_wrk @Ssaniya_ Lol, you mean they'll be promoted? Like the rapists of Sde Teimam?

@Ssaniya_ It is horrible, where is the video? If it exists, please share it with the Israeli government, those soldiers would be punished. We do have lots of videos of Hamas and Hezbollah do much worse btw, they are being punished for this as well btw.

@jeremycorbyn It will succeed if all you do is sit down and let them arrest you one by one without an iota of resistance. The British police will gladly arrest every last person on earth if they offer no resistance. They get off on it. At least punch them for each arrest.

Yesterday, the government passed a law effectively banning repeat protests. The government is fed up with people protesting about genocide. Well, we are disgusted by its complicity in the greatest crime of our time. The government wants to silence us. It will never succeed.

@ireallyhateyou Just to remind people how little the "antisemite" accusation means from Israel. You can literally save tens of thousands of Jews but the moment you apply the same humanity to Palestinians they accuse you and smear you.

This Holocaust Remembrance Day I choose to remember Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish count and diplomat who, as vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross, managed to save more than 30k prisoners from concentration camps during World War II. In 1948 he was appointed by the UN to be the mediator in Palestine. His WWII past didn't help him when the Stern Gang (Lehi), a Zionist miltia, made him the target of a defamation campaign and released a caricature (attached) of him being kicked out of Palestine while giving the Nazi salute, with the text: "A suggestion to the agent Bernadotte: get out of our country". After Bernadotte didn't comply with the "suggestion" he was assassinated in Jerusalem by the Lehi on September 19th, 1948, along with the head of the UN's French military observers in Palestine. One of the commanders of the Lehi at the time, who was responsible for ordering the hit, was Yitzhak Shamir, later the Prime Minister of Israel.

@shaunking Why put the swastika there. The time to rehabilitate the star of David is long gone. It already means the same as the swastika.

Yep

@MAVX321 @Electromag25592 @SuppressedNws1 The dirty little secret is that the Nazis did not care about Jews. Eurpeans did. Europeans were antisemitic. The only reason Nazis persecuted Jews is because doing so made them popular. The poem doesn't start with "first they came for the Jews" for this reason.

@Electromag25592 @SuppressedNws1 How does this make sense? Jewish nazis ? The nazis were fighting the Jews.

🇵🇱🇮🇱Polish MP Konrad Berkowicz displayed an Israeli flag where the Star of David was replaced with a swastika and said: “Israel is the new Third Reich and that's exactly how its flag should look”

@Electromag25592 @SuppressedNws1 Putting the swastika there is irrelevant. Israel already turned the star of David into it.

@SuppressedNws1 Yeah

@SuppressedNws1 He doesn't need to put a swastika there. The star of David already means the goddamn same thing.