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I tried to answer him, thinking "fair enough" but I have my reasons for not doing the research myself, and I'd never call @zei_squirrel a shady propagandist...then I find out that @yanisvaroufakis blocked me. Whoa. I'm a nobody on X, how sensitive can one get?

Last few weeks I filled up my car with gas at $2.20, then at $2.70, then $3.20, and today $3.85 per gallon.

58,000 Americans died in Vietnam. Over 3,000,000 Vietnamese died. And for fifty years, American culture has centered the grief of the 58,000 while treating the 3,000,000 as a backdrop. As scenery. As context. As "the Vietnam War experience." They built a wall in Washington with American names on it. A beautiful wall. A solemn wall. Good. Mourn your dead. But understand what that wall does not say. It does not say why they died. It does not say what they were doing there. It does not say what was done in their name to the people whose country it actually was. It does not mention My Lai, where American soldiers massacred an entire village, old men, women, children, babies, and the officer who ordered it served three years of house arrest before being pardoned. Three years. House arrest. Pardoned. For five hundred people murdered in a ditch. It does not mention the 2.7 million acres of Vietnamese forest doused in Agent Orange, a chemical weapon disguised as herbicide, that is still deforming Vietnamese children today. Not in 1970. Not in 1985. Today. Children born in 2020 with bodies twisted by a war their grandparents fought. And the chemical companies that made it are still in business. Still profitable. Still un-prosecuted. And yet they send us human rights reports. They grade our democracy. They warn us about our behavior. The audacity is so enormous it becomes almost impressive. Almost.

@zei_squirrel Wow. I was never sure about Varoufakis, just a feeling, but @ChrisLynnHedges interviewed him a couple of weeks ago, I didn't get around to listen, but I put a check mark next to his name, bc Chris Hedges, you know. I guess I'll have to revise...

Yanis Varoufakis recently started a podcast for Unherd, which he has worked for since at least 2023. Unherd is a Zionist propaganda factory funded by genocidal Zionist Islamophobic racist far right hedge fund billionaire Paul Marshall, who also funds GB News and the Spectator, two of the most unhinged Zionist propaganda rags in Western media. It goes without saying that Marshall's media products constantly pump out the most deranged CIA-Mossad anti-Iran atrocity propaganda to launder the murderous war against it, and Yanis happily plays his own part. The podcast is branded as a "heterodox left versus heterodox right" gimmick, with Yanis teaming up with some right-wing cunt and each of them playing the role of edgy outsiders to their supposed political affiliations. In two of their recent episodes on Iran, Yanis steps up to play his assigned role for his genocidal Zionist billionaire owner Paul Marshall, and says Iran is an evil, fascist, monstrous, murderous "regime" that engages in "predatory expansionism" and is solely responsible for any economic issues in the country, without once mentioning the murderous economic terror campaign waged against it for decades. And he concludes by saying that "the left" is foolish and stupid and pathetic for saying otherwise. Of course, there is no such "left" that says any of this, because the entire pseudo-radical Western left is fully in line with Yanis the Zionist-owned cunt in laundering CIA-Mossad propaganda about the barbaric evils of Iran. But because the podcast is based on the gimmick of him being the epic edgy outsider, he has to present himself as battling the evil crazed "left" and present himself as the sane, principled, moral alternative, by regurgitating CIA-Mossad propaganda. Yanis is paid untold hundreds of thousands of dollars by Zionists to prop up and launder Zionist propaganda machines. So if you were wondering why he so gleefully launders CIA-Mossad atrocity propaganda on Iran, it's because his pockets are filled to ensure he does so.

"...if one of us ain't got freedom, ain't none of us got freedom."

I never understood the hostility toward Yemen's Houthies. All they asked was for Israel to stop the gen0cide and they'd back off. Was that so hard to accept? Maybe it's a bit more involved now, but the same question can be asked, do we really need these wars? I mean, WTF

@RadicalJesus44 @ChuckModi1 @aaronjmate @DanielBMate @kthalps @DrGaborMate @TorahJews @jvplive @JewishPeace Also Miko Peled @mikopeled

Some Jewish folks we recommend people follow who are standing up to the genocides and wars in the Middle East & calling out The Government of Israel with their tyranny are @ChuckModi1 @aaronjmate @DanielBMate @kthalps @DrGaborMate @TorahJews @jvplive @JewishPeace And many more. Note: Dr Gabor Mate is a Holocaust Survivor calling this out as are many Holocaust Survivors. That should speak for itself.

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I can't believe humanity, kill kill kill, starve and maim, exterminate other critters, blow up the atmosphere, destroy the ecological systems that make life possible, and for what? Owning shit? Never learned the concept of sharing? Hell on earth is no longer just an expression

@Mishi_2210 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 64 63 + 64 = 127

More than any atrocity I've heard/read about in these awful times, this little speech had me bawl my eyes out

@EricRWeinstein thecradle.co

Is there no place to simply get news on Iran, Israel, the Gulf, US forces and the Middle East? Everyone is cheerleading for something or the other. I want to know what is actually happeing to first approximation. How are you accomplishing this if at all? Thx in advance.

I suppose the reason why the US population isn't out on the street against this war (even though the majority doesn't approve) is they don't feel the pain -- no black oil raining on their houses, their streets, their trees, their kids

"Let's talk about one of the oldest lies on Earth. The lie that white people are civilized..."

@zei_squirrel This is absurd and deranged to hear a person being up in arms over someone "liking" various posts which are all true. As for plugging her article at the end of her rant, why would I ever read anything in the Free Press?

why did you not reach out to me for comment since you are apparently a "reporter" and I am a subject of your deranged coverage? My email is in my profile. You could have easily sent an email. You fucking hack. Everything I said about the NYT piece is 100% corroborated by reporting in the Times of London, The Intercept, Haaretz, NBC News, and the UN CoI reports. The NYT itself later corrected its original hoax story, and fired their lead on the ground "reporter" on it Anat Schwartz because I exposed her history of being a genocidal Zionist maniac calling for turning Gaza into a "slaughterhouse". And Adam Sella, who is her partner's nephew, was a food blogger with zero reporting experience. These are all easily verifiable facts that I would have told you to include in your piece. But instead you just went "OMG SHE LIKED A POST ON INSTAGRAM OMG OMG SHE LIKED IT OMG", screeching like a deranged hysterical freak. But what else should we expect from a depraved scumbag who gleefully laundered the genocidal starvation of Palestinian babies and children by going "well akshually some of them had other illnesses before they were starved to death by my precious death and rape-cult, so it's totally fine!!!", also of course laundering the deliberate destruction of the health infrastructure and blocking of medicine to further mass murder Palestinians. You pretending to be morally outraged and clutching your pearls over factual information I shared and that was liked by someone is the height of Zionist shameless sadistic depravity.

no decent person would use this moment to talk about iranian civil liberties

I agree... I actually never heard this particular claim, which isn't even true, but I've heard enough crap like that for far too long

After all these years I still can't believe the way this is discussed in the media, like sports coverage, who hit whom more and who's gonna win on and on. Is that what ppl want to do with their freaking technology? Kill and main each other? Maybe destroy life on earth? Over what?

@queersocialism This is so shameful and cringe. This a**hole should really know better.

should be a national emergency just how much these liberal talk shows are continuously making millions of american’s gleefully incurious and belligerently infantile politically. just a tragedy that this is the source that millions of people are relying on to stay informed

Yes. "It was absurd then and it's even more absurd now."