Grassroots organizer confronting the interplay of global capitalist economics & war with energy policy, the climate & extinction crisis & environmental justice.

San Francisco, California USA
My substack "Surviving The 21st Century" unpacks environmental, economic, social justice and political challenges facing the planet and human civilization, and lays out solutions to those problems. Here's a highlighted post. "It's Gaza, not Hamas" LINK: ericbrooks.substack.com/p/it… The Phrase “Israel’s War with Hamas” Denies That Israel’s War Is On Gaza & Denies The Gazans’ Right To Choose Their Own Leaders & Destiny..
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Replying to @realrobdurden
End stage..
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Replying to @okdemocrat18
So.. You'd be at brunch while Harris continued (as she emphatically insisted she would) to fund and arm the bombing to death of tens of thousands of innocent PaIestinian children..? It takes a very special kind of butt stupid evil, to be you..
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What a hapless, gutless, loser, with no media skills. @realDonaldTrump would be a fool to appoint this clown @SebGorka
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Replying to @tiberiusfiles
Norman Finkelstein is the foremost scholar on the history and the current situation. They can start here and then search for other speeches and interviews he has done. History of Israel-Gaza Conflict - Finkelstein Teach-In piped.video/watch?v=nUfWTHbC…
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Replying to @briebriejoy
lsraeIi propaganda always ramps up when they suffer a particularly bad PR moment like that shooting.
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Replying to @gumby4christ
This shows so clearly this is all just a game to these people. They're both reality show performers, no different than when Trump worked for the professional wrestling networks. Good wrestler vs Bad wrestler. & the liberals & conservatives are the dupes falling for it every time.
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Replying to @sfliberty
🤣 Real capitalists and libertarians know that this is complete buIIshlt..
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Replying to @OGBlackRedGuard
Vegans? There are lots of different types of vegans with lots of different approaches to activism for waking people up to act ethically & save the planet. Most importantly you're blaming your action or inaction on others. It should be based on objective reality. @BlackRedGuard1
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Replying to @OGBlackRedGuard
Yup. Shays' Rebellion and countless other working class struggles of that era show that the so called 'Revolution' was elitist, property owner, buIIshlt.
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Think long & hard on whether you might end up in prison for your social media posts & public statements. You're openly spreading hate & falsehoods to foment genocide - incitement prosecutable at The Hague. We WILL pursue putting people like you in prison. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incite…
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Replying to @SabbySabs2
Jesus Christ, these people are so deeply evil, that they would so easily make such blatantly insane, genocldal statements in public.
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Replying to @SabbySabs2
She was literally a CIA infiltrator sent in to dumb down the women's rights movement.
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Replying to @Sir_Cuffington
Huh? I've been a vegan for 30 years. I would not 'guilt' you for that.
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No, car free streets increase foot traffic & commerce. SF's downtown is a ghost town because 1) office workers left in droves to work from home during C0VlD, & 2) the real estate oligarchs who own SF commercial property charge rents so high small businesses can't afford them. See: "A 2016 study of over 100 cities showed that footfall increased on pedestrian-only streets resulting in retail sales also rising by around 49 per cent." at: euronews.com/next/2023/09/21… @carlatcole
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Nonsense. They are brainwashed and indoctrinated to be that way. Don't mirror your oppressor by demonizing children.
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Replying to @shift_in2_turbo
Let's be crystal clear about TuIsi Gabbard. Her DHS just arrested and imprisoned a peaceful protestor challenging lsraeI's genoclde on the PaIestinians, and is pushing to deport him when he is a legal resident. Gabbard is a dangeous lsIamophobe.
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Replying to @existentialcoms
I went toe-to-toe with EIon when I was a local SF organizer against a lame Solar City shell game he & then Mayor Gavin Newsom played to undermine a big community-based renewable energy program (to favor EIon's private solar business, and PG&E). EIon was inept. We kicked his butt.
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Replying to @carlatcole
See: "A 2016 study of over 100 cities showed that footfall increased on pedestrian-only streets resulting in retail sales also rising by around 49 per cent." at: euronews.com/next/2023/09/21…
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Replying to @Sir_Cuffington
But during the 1800s, would snotty disrespect from entitled white abolitionists have caused you to support slavery? Whether some activists are asshoIes is irrelevant to ethical, environmental & political choices. There are always self-righteous asshoIes. We need only ignore them.
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Replying to @DSANorthStar
😄😁😆😅😂🤣 "Don't look at that genoclde behind the curtain.." DSA is a total.. f'ing.. joke..
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Replying to @SocialistMMA
It's because they all listen to NPR (ie. CIA radio) as their core source of their views on the world. They are all utterly brainwashed and don't engage AT ALL in real-time critical thinking.
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Replying to @TrackAIPAC
Trump: "Most of them are dead." Can someone explain to this clown that 90% of Gazans are still alive..? @TrackAIPAC @SabbySabs2
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They can and should all be tried at The Hague under the UN Convention on Incitement to Genoclde. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incite…
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Replying to @berningman16
We can turn things around by letting the United States crumble, while we build co-op workplaces and communities at the grassroots level to replace it. And we can help the BRICS and the rest of the global East and South get out from under the imperial boot, and bank$, of the West.
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@aaronjmate it goes deeper. After I heard Democracy Now's ridiculous Ukralne 'interview' this morning, I looked up Oleksandra Matviichuk's funding sources. On pg 42 at the PDF link below you'll see the largest donors to her 'Center for Civil Liberties' are: 1) Free Russla Foundation (a free market investment firm think tank dedicated to privatizing the former USSR) 2) Open Society Foundation (anti-Russla 'CoIor RevoIution' propaganda media giant) 3) Sigrid Rausing Trust (NGO akin to and often working with Open Society Foundation to undermine Russlan ally states) 4) National Endowment for Democracy (US Congress funded ClA spinoff 'NGO' also often works with Open Society Foundation) Here's the link to the 'Center for Civil Liberties' 2020 Annual Report which shows those and other funders. ccl.org.ua/wp-content/upload… @MaxBlumenthal
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Replying to @Jairo_I_Funez
The Kurdish Rojava. (Although one could argue that the very act of allying themselves with the empire to secure their own freedoms and self determination kind of makes them 'bad guys' by default.)
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Any ldlot can say the word 'ceasefire'. Blden and Harrls could cut off the weapons with a phone call to lsraeI and end the genoclde overnight. Funny that you seem oblivious to basic facts like this..
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While there is little hope educating a brainwashed, pro genoclde, nutjob like Grossman, for the rest of you.. Israel began an endless illegal war on the PaIestinians to steal all their land and resources 76yrs ago, and PaIestinians have been legally fighting back ever since. See: piped.video/watch?v=SvaSPPj3…
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Replying to @CheburekiMan
Let's get them near The Hague, and see how that goes for them..
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Replying to @SocialistMMA
It's not stupidity, it is purposeful deception and misdirection. They know they are lying, and playing shell games with people's perceptions. Douglas Murray is a master at deception, gas lighting, and misdirection.
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Replying to @RyanRozbiani
Ryan.. She's lying.. Blden and Harrls could end lsraeI's genoclde on Gaza overnight, with a phone call informing lsraeI of an immediate weapons embargo. If she actually wanted the massacre to end, that is exactly what would have happened, months ago..
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The headline totally misses the underlying reality that a lot of people are rejecting this film because @GalGadot is an openly pro genoclde Zlonist and people are sick of watching tens of thousands of little PaIestinian children being bombed to death while Gadot promotes lsraeI. @ClayTravis
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Replying to @JeninYounesEsq
Have heart that this will be the end of lsraeI, and likely of the US Empire.
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Replying to @FranceskAlbs @UNRWA
We must go further, and investigate such ads, and other media manipulation, as Incitement to Genoclde under the Genoclde Convention of 1948.
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So I guess supporting GEN0ClDE is not a deal breaker for you..? Got it..
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Replying to @socialiststeve6
The military, the police, the FBI, Homeland Security, the Border Patrol, and the CIA. @socialiststeve6
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Australia. And she's using heavy image correction to correct both age & the inherent ugliness that arises from her cynical, manipulative, grifting approach to life. Here's a link that shows what she actually looks like, & this photo was taken 12 years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:E…
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Replying to @SabbySabs2
So it looks like maybe people were not down with killing PaIestinian children to get cheaper groceries. It's a good day..💗
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🤣 Jesus.. Rand-bros are so clueless and uneducated.. Adam Smith himself warned that unregulated markets lead to private monopolist tyrannies.
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Maine rocks! Town of Chester uses Maine's new ranked choice voting law to rank @DrJillStein #1 and she wins the vote there!
Trump 80% in 2020 to Stein 44% in 2024 is an amazing result.
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Replying to @HenshiG
It says "citizens of lsraeI" not "Jews" dumbass..
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What a deeply evil Karen.. Ms Gainey, you'd better think about the facts that 1) you can be prosecuted at The Hague for materially (and even for rhetorically) supporting the lsraeIi genoclde on the PaIestinians, and 2) many of us will diligently pursue the prosecutions of genoclde enablers just as was done at Nuremberg). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incite…
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Umm, John.. Without activists nearly every product you buy in your consumer nirvana would constantly threaten to maim or kill you, the world would've environmentally collapsed decades ago, & somewhere between 1945 & today global nuclear war would've broken out. You're welcome..
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Replying to @dancohen3000
And still no announcement about putting RFK in oversight of the FDA, CDC, NHS, etc, which could be the *one* good domestic policy outcome of electing Trump. @dancohen3000
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Replying to @caitoz
She means younger anarchists who have been infiltrated and coopted since the 2010s by US/EU empire manipulation. Fake 'NGOs' and media manufactured by billionaire manipulators like George Soros and Pierre Omidyar have tricked the latest generation of young anarchists into believing that the right wing working class in the US are a fasclst Nazl threat, and that Russla is likewise a fasclst threat. The deep state has taken the antifasclst self-ideation of young anarchists and twisted it into a caricature of itself. Soros, Omidyar, and the NED have been extremely effective in bamboozling the anarchist movement in Ukralne and Russla into believing opposition to Russla in Ukralne is a righteous antifascist cause. They've created an entire network of Useful ldiot anarchists in the region. The deep state success at this is unprecedented and astounding. @KB052276
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Replying to @caitoz
Having been an anarchist for over 40 years, I find a particular dismal hilariousness in the reality that the authoritarian empire state has managed to dupe and coopt a majority of young anarchists. We have fallen into an anarchist dark ages..
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Replying to @GeoRebekah
If you voted for genoclde. F'ck you harder. And you are about to lose because of that buIIshlt.
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We have been for quite some time. The EU Greens were coopted by neoliberal, corporate, Military Industrial Complex interests decades ago.
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My own hair is growing whiter by the day, for exactly the same reasons. Let's just think of ourselves as making the same transition as did Gandalf the Grey, to Gandalf the White.. 😉
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Replying to @SarcasmStardust
Tell that to Eugene Debs & the Socialists whose electoral runs eventually forced Democrats to give us the New Deal, Great Society, & Civil Rights legislation, enabling the 60s uprising & global environmental movement, massively changing the world for the better. Or the Chavistas who used elections to transform Venezuela.
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Replying to @keithdorejel
The housing 'crisis' is completely a creation real estate firms & billionaire real estate investors turning housing units into speculative assets to trade like poker chips on Wall Street. This is resulting in rampant gentrification & millions of units being purposely held vacant.
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Jesus.. lsraeIis are absolutely f'cking batshit insane..!
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Replying to @briebriejoy
Spot. On. Brie!
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Replying to @YayAreaNews
🤣 43 other states including a *lot* of Republican states, already have the same law. (See link below.) What we should lament in this post & its replies is the clownish gullibility of snowflake conservatives & libertarians who whinge about such basic stuff as if it is some kind of vicious 'liberal' attack on their nutsacks.. 😉 sfmta.com/sites/default/file…
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Here's my 2024 version. Any folk musicians out there, feel free to use these as open source lyrics. Love Me, I’m A liberal 2024 I cried when the cops killed George Floyd tears ran down my spine I cried when we lost Ruth Ginsburg as though she was a grandmother of mine But Assange, he got what was coming he got what he asked for this time **So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal** I go to Black Lives Matter rallies and I put down the Proud Boys from hell I love Oprah, Obama and Beyonce, I hope every Black person excels! But don’t talk about abolishing prisons that will not go over too well **So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal** I *CHEERED* when Harris was chosen my faith in elections renewed I’m glad that right wingers and radicals got canceled and thrown off YouTube And I love the Palestinian children, but we MUST stop the Bad Orange Du-u-ude! **So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal** Oh, the white trash Donald Trump voters should all hang their heads down low I can’t understand how their minds work Isn’t Schwarzenegger still their he-ro? But if you ask me to defund the police, my answer is No No No No-o-o **So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal** I watch both The View and Rachel Maddow I try to see every side I respect both George Bush and Dick Cheney it’s a personal matter of pride So when they all say hate Russia and China you bet I’m along for that ride **So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal** I vote for the Democratic Party to keep fascists from taking control I support the Progressive Caucus their policies sure are bold And when it comes time for elections I vote Blue, No Matter Who, as I’m told **So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal** Sure, once I was young and impulsive supported free speech for every view Even joined in the Occupy protests solidarity was the thing to do But now that I’ve grown older and wiser I’ll report you for fact check review **So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal** ---
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Replying to @zei_squirrel
More accurately, it is the genocidal death cult of US imperialism..
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Replying to @Sir_Cuffington
They aren't really more sustainable. Especially in regard to fish. Watch these: Cowspiracy piped.video/watch?v=CkQTDLG0… Seaspriracy netflix.com/watch/81014008
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Just heard you for the first time when 'Vain' popped up in my 'Alice Smith' Pandora station! Wow! So good.. It is *very* hard to get a thumbs up on my Alice Smith station, and you just got one! Wishing you the greatest success. Well done.
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Replying to @caitoz
My life in a nutshell. And it has been well worth it, even with oligarchs controlling nearly everything. It's been a life well and happily lived, and I recommend it to others..
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Replying to @briebriejoy
Our government has been fascist (the merger of state and corporate power, enforced by mass surveillance, police violence and mass imprisonment) since the administration of Bill Clinton.
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Replying to @OGBlackRedGuard
I like most of your posts, but this one is just incorrect. Putin is not as you describe him. I challenge you to show credible independent links to evidence. I have no great fondness for Putin, but he very purposely saved Russia from disaster, in part by reining in its oligarchs.
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We have *got* to do something to stop these Tech and Real Estate billionaires from completely undermining our elections.
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Detail links on Oleksandra Matviichuk's anti-Russia think tank funders: Free Russia Foundation causeiq.com/organizations/fr… U S Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Law (main Free Russia Foundation funder) causeiq.com/organizations/u-…
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Replying to @Scott_Wiener
Oh brother.. This looks like some sort of FBI/DHS/Police psyop to justify criminalizing and silencing peace activists. Anarchists are *the* most staunch opponents of fascism and anti-semitism in the movement. There is no way that anarchists painted that graffiti. And, the anarchist circle-A and the Hammer & Sickle are almost *never* depicted next to each other because anarchism and USSR style state socialism are *literally* diametrically opposed to one another. This is a ridiculous and amateurish maneuver by law enforcement and/or alt-right instigators, not leftists..
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Replying to @freedomrideblog
Harrls reminds me of Boris Yeltsin, is so many ways..
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Replying to @CrowdvBank
Excellent speech @SusanSarandon , especially.. "I mourn for those who have been quiet during this televised genoclde. Because their loss is greater than death. Their's is the loss of compassion and a shared humanity." Also, thanks for reminding me of those crucial uplifting words of Howard Zinn.
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Replying to @anthonyzenkus
No, Marx definitely was not 'right about everything'. He was a brilliant economist, who profoundly and effectively unpacked the problem of capitalism. But his absurd predictions that capitalism would naturally and quickly be replaced, and his political strategies for ending it, were ridiculous failures.
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While I dropped my support of Kennedy as a candidate *hard* based on his vile comments about lsraeI and PaIestlne, Trump's appointment of RFK to be the Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS) is *HUGE* This may end the corrupt revolving door between the juggernaut ag, pharmaceutlcal, and blotech industries, and the US agencies that oversee them, and return us to protecting US consumers from the egregious profiteering, abuses, and deaths caused by these out-of-control industries. Here is the wiki link showing the 10 agencies overseen by the HHS Secretary. They include the FDA, National Institutes of Health (NlH), and the CDC. And contrary to the buIIshlt claim by @CNN Kennedy is not against vacclnes, he's against dangerous, poorly tested vacclnes and other pharmaceutlcaIs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United…
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Replying to @SabbySabs2
Rolling Stone has become a stenographer for neoliberal power. I'm guessing this story is largely a fabrication.
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Replying to @anthonyzenkus
Yup.. and will make some of them even worse.
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John Brown had the right mentality & intention, but did not strategize its implementation well enough, likely because he had a Chrlstlan religious, moralistic worldview, & did not incorporate an Eastern karmic analysis (ie. actions reverberate back to you). Same with Nat Turner. @shift_in2_turbo
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No Scott. There is no hypocrisy. You just don't properly understand what is going on in Ukralne. Start here - follow the reference links.. LINK: ericbrooks.substack.com/p/wh… @caitoz
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Yet another liberal shows how utterly clueless she is on how pervasively the CIA and US imperialism are embedded into agencies like the USAID, Peace Corps, NED, IMF, etc. Ruth, stop listening to NPR. It's twisting your understanding of the world into a hopelessly tangled pretzel.
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Replying to @EYakoby
It's a very clever, insidious mind trick to claim, that out of 8 BILLION people on Earth, only a tiny handful of mostly white European rich people who can afford to travel there (who lsraeI will ALLOW IN - meaning people who won't criticize lsraeI) can comment on PaIestine.
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Replying to @Inhumansoflate1
Huh? What evidence do you have for such an absurd statement? And, why would the oligarchs who run this country get rid of sham elections which ensure that they are laughing their way to the bank no matter who 'wins' the election?
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Replying to @eyuplovely
So.. The wars on Russia, Syria, and Gaza are 'soft power'..? 🧐
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Replying to @TheOmniLiberal
Meltdown? That is not remotely what will happen if Luigi gets the death penalty. Martyrs bring on revolution, not capitulation.. You are completely misreading the nature of our current global crisis, in which the entire world, and the working class of the US, are fed up with being ruled (and regularly murdered) by genocidal Western oligarchs and their corporations.
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Not just Soros and Omidyar.. The FBI has infiltrated youth anarchist antifa groups in the US and transformed them into Trump/MAGA obsessed holier-than-thou crusaders against groups like the Proud Boys (which the FBI has likewise infiltrated and manipulated). The FBI has done this in order to manufacture a cartoon civil war between a fake 'antifa' left and fake 'alt right'. It's all a US National Security State psyop to help drive a wedge of fear and hate between the working class left and the working class right in order to keep them polarized an neutralized, and voting in roughly equal numbers (out of fear of 'fascism') for the corporate controlled Democrats and Republicans - instead of joining together as oppressed workers to take down the oligarchy. @amandacrespi
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Replying to @SabbySabs2
Now if we could just get Hedges to tell the truth about Clinton's war on Yugoslavia (which Hedges supported and supports to this day..)
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Replying to @OGBlackRedGuard
The whole point of anarchism is that no one should be trusted with state power. And, actual communism and anarchism (eg. the Zapatistas) are the same thing. What you are describing (state power) is authoritarian state socialism (USSR, China, etc). Anarchists will never support that.
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🤣 Tell that to: Seattle and the WTO (1999) (which essentially ended further global free trade agreements..) Indie Media which created the modern independent social media movement Canada and the FTAA (the latter stopped) Occupy New York after hurricane Sandy New Orleans after Katrina Mutual aid campaigns anywhere/anywhen Nazi Skinhead punks anywhere (remember those?) Earth First and the Headwaters Redwood Forest Cop City The Green Party of the United States The Anti-Nuclear Movement Countless historical Wobbly union victories The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) The Zapatistas The Mondragon Corporation The Paris Commune The French Revolution Antonio Gramsci Ashanti Alston Utah Philips Emma Goldman Haymarket Square and the 8 Hour Day The Rojava South Korean democracy I could go on listing these for the rest of eternity.. Get an independent education @del_luccia
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@Mercy4ALL82 I stopped reading your vapid reply at @washingtonpost .. No one who trusts the Washington Post should be opening their mouth to school anyone, on anything..
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David lcke is a consplracy theory huckster. He's just playing into whacko "Jewz run the planet" fantasies to grift money from his viewers. @SocialistMMA
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Replying to @realDonaldTrump
Had some hopes that you might be different.. Now you are a war criminal, prosecutable at The Hague.. Change course and show that you can be the hero you claim to be.
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Replying to @hecubian_devil
Important clarification. Housing justice advocates are simply pointing out that markets have already *not* produced cheaper rents for decades, because they haven't. So your 'flatly not credible' assertion, is what is not credible.
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It's Palestine genius.. 😏
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Replying to @SabbySabs2
I can't wait to see KamaIa Harris get her ass royally kicked in the California governor's race. 😉 @SabbySabs2 @CaseStudyQB
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Replying to @briebriejoy
They are petrified that if 'safe states' do the right thing and vote Green against genoclde, that the obvious morality of this will catch on, and spread to swing states where voters will do the same. Fear based politics.
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Huh? The Gulf of Mexico suddenly has a new name because a handful of biIIionaire cIowns who illegally control Washington DC say so..? 🤣
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Greens would not accept Sanders. He can f'ck right the f'ck off. He sheepherded & destroyed a movement, & supported genoclde, only flipping after the election was over - then put forward legislation he knew would fail to pass. F'ck Bernie Sanders to the end of f'cking eternity.
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Replying to @EdWizardhands
Wow..! You got death threats..? on social media..? from nutjob trolls..? What a shocker, bro.. Way to miss the whole point of the discussion, that the bad behavior of a handful of nutters does not absolve you from the responsibility of looking at the facts and acting accordingly.
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Replying to @micah_erfan
Complete f'king buIIshit. Post actual links to independent sources that 'prove' your fairytale nonsense.
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Replying to @GlobeEyeNews
What presidency?
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Replying to @firasshams1
I vote third part every election.. 😉
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EU 'Green' Party Takes Off The Mask & Goes Full-on Fascist - Tells US Green Jill Stein To Drop Out & Support KamaIa Harrls So the European 'Greens' supported Bill Clinton's war on Yugoslavia, the fascist Bush/Obama/Biden coup and proxy war in Ukraine from 2004 to the present, and now they are supporting the Democratic Party as it funds and arms a literal genoclde by lsrael on the Palestinlans, Lebanese and Syrians (with its sights now set on attacking Iran) - all of this as KamaIa Harrls pledges to continue funding and arming the wars and genoclde. I think it is safe to say that the European 'Green' parties no longer exist at all. They have become nothing but neoliberal servants of war and empire. The *US* Green Party will NEVER support genoclde.
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