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Well now we have Trump at the U.N. taking a page from the Hillary Clinton playbook and threatening to “annihilate” Iran. (To be fair, Clinton’s word was “obliterate,” not “annihilate”. ) This is a proposition for mass murder of millions of innocent people, a nuclear detonation, and possible nuclear war. Whether most Americans generally realize it or not, they actually want a socialist president, not more of these deranged Republicans or corporate Democrats. This is no theory. The latest poll…

White people, and especially Americans, tend to hold some pretty weird beliefs. But top of the list may be the belief that we have a basic right to permanent emotional comfort. This is a confusion of basic human rights with elitist privileges. A particularly bizarre dramatization of this belief is that paying audiences for the arts have a right never to experience any emotional discomfort. Another is that our lawmakers and other celebrities seem to have an extra-special right to be buffered…

Sending out RESIST™ fundraising emails while voting to defund universities that don’t line up with genocide is some bullshit. Our lawmakers are obviously terrified of college students. Two administrations in a row would physically attack them for voicing opinions about their tuitions funding genocide. Every corporate news network and both political parties have been all in for Israel for close to three years. And yet look where public opinion is now. Students seem to have had more influence on…

EVERY DAY, ZIONISTS BOTH “LIBERAL” AND “CONSERVATIVE” PUT CORPORATE PROFITS AND MILITARY LETHALITY AHEAD OF JEWISH SAFETY. THEY CLAIM TO DO IT OUT OF A LOVE OF JUDAISM. THIS INCLUDES SITTING POLITICIANS, CANDIDATES, PARTY LEADERS AND STRATEGISTS, HIGH PROFILE MEDIA COMMENTATORS, BUSINESS LEADERS, PRESIDENTIAL “FRONTRUNNERS,” AND THEIR FANS AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC. WE ARE USED TO SAYING THESE PEOPLE ARE BAD AT POLITICS, BECAUSE THEY ARE. BUT RARELY DO THEY GET ACCUSED OF ANOTHER THING THEY…

We like to imagine that we’re doing ourselves a favor by simping for our favorite oligarchs…that during societal collapse we improve our own odds of survival by betting on and lining up behind the right members of the ruling class. Sadly this is mistaken. The Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and their billionaire paymasters do not love you. They do not even like you. U.S. politicians are best understood as abusers. Come on strong, earn your trust, promise to keep you safe, convince you…

what could be worse than betting on wildfires, and then making sure you win by just setting the trees on fire yourself? how about betting someone else's money on israel and then making sure you win by just setting the humans on fire yourself whether you like it or not, if you have a bank account or a tuition or pay taxes, your money is right now being betted on any number of absolutely despicable ventures, including genocide. it is very profitable, though not for you. we have not lived in a…

It is indeed a relief to see most of the country turn against genocide. It was all well and good for Biden to crack some heads on college campuses, but how can Trump and Schumer possibly arrest 3/4 of the country? Most Americans have had enough of this capitalist gaslighting that expects us to believe that they are doing it all for the love of democracy or of Judaism. At the same time, the killing hasn’t slowed down, and you and I are still the ones buying Israel the weapons to do it. An…

While “Border Czar” Tom Homan’s latest warning to Democrats who criticize ICE that “there’s still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted” is nonsensical, it does highlight many of the ironies of the debate around ICE. First is the total contradiction between Dem words and Dem actions. What these cynical politicians say in public to score political points is the opposite of how they vote. Consistently and hypocritically they fund,…

I don’t like it when "human nature" gets blamed for evils that are actually the fault of very specific rich and powerful people or very specific economic political or aesthetic systems that are neither inevitable nor universal but really just a handful among infinite possibilities that humans could try or have tried through the millennia The human species is neither a virus nor a cancer nor inherently evil but is having its potential for evil drastically increased by a stupid economic system…

TRAVEL DAY THOUGHTS FROM AIRPORT HOTEL...WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, SO MANY OF THE APPARENT CONTROVERSIES, PLOT TWISTS, AND REVERSALS OF FORTUNE THAT CORPORATE MEDIA SELL AS SHOCKING WERE AMAZINGLY PREDICTABLE AND REALLY JUST PART OF THE PLAN ALL ALONG. In case it wasn't obvious, it was always the plan to provoke Hamas into giving Biden and Harris an excuse to divert tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Israel to commit war crimes. In the process they would knowingly neglect the needs of…

What is capitalism? Maybe I don't know exactly, but I know it's more than just buying and selling things, which has been done around the globe for many millennia before anything like capitalism ever appeared on this planet. In the three hundred thousand year span of human existence, capitalism is just a tiny blip. If you don't like the word capital or capitalism, feel free to call our current system by some other name. But whatever it's called, it's this thing that requires us to organize our…

THANK YOU NEW YORK VOTERS FOR SEEING THROUGH THE GASLIGHTING “VOTING YOUR CONSCIENCE IS UNREALISTIC” SAYS THE DEMOCRAT WHO JUST LOST “THE WORD SOCIALISM SCARES THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS” SAYS THE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN WHO'S ACTUALLY THE ONE WHO'S SCARED OF SOCIALISM “YOU AND I MIGHT LIKE SOCIALISM BUT JOE BLOW DOWN THE STREET WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND” SAYS THE ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRAT OR BILLIONAIRE-OWNED MEDIA PERSONALITY WHO ONLY GOT RICH OR POWERFUL BY MANUFACTURING HOPELESSNESS IN…

The vast majority of national-level Democrat politicians are what we call “AIPAC Democrats”. Not because they have Israeli citizenship, or are Jewish, or religious, or concerned with Israeli or Jewish safety, but because they are charisma-challenged, bad at their job, and unable to win their elections without the massive election interference, financial help, and smear campaigns that AIPAC provides. Of course none of this has helped win the AIPAC Dems much in the way of political power, but at…

So…now that U.S. taxpayers have been forced to sacrifice billions of dollars to arm Israel’s genocide, does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals? So...now that AIPAC has spent hundreds of millions of dollars interfering in U.S. elections to sabotage popular progressive candidates, does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world…

I often say on here that genocide is the worst crime that human beings have ever invented. But that’s not really true. There’s one worse. Omnicide: the killing of everything. Unfortunately, omnicide is not a fantasy. The project is underway. The entities committing it and profiting from it are actually the same governments, militaries and corporations committing and profiting from genocide. That is, the U.S. government, the Israeli government, their militaries, their big tech corporations, and…

My childhood friends, family and teachers taught me that genocide is wrong. Anyone who commits it, funds it, or profits from it is a criminal. No exceptions. Now I'm told that I need to be wishy washy about genocide. I am asked to make exceptions for certain important political parties or important corporations or important religions. Now I'm told that opposing genocide means I'm being too much of a perfectionist. My childhood friends, family and teachers taught me about the trans Atlantic…

Everywhere we travel on this tour, it’s the same, familiar political situation: the so-called liberal party has abandoned the left and the population is suffering more as a result, the so-called liberal party’s support has collapsed, and fascism is getting a field day. Anybody who still believes that so-called liberal politicians compromise with the far right “to win votes” is truly a fool. This fascist comeback we are all enduring is absolutely deliberate, and so-called liberals are helping it…

I Swear was a great movie experience for me. Highly recommended. As someone who has Tourette’s Syndrome, it was a tremendously rare and emotional experience to see someone like me portrayed sympathetically in a movie. Basically never happens, certainly never this convincingly. I felt seen and understood and touched. It’s a tear-jerker. I also thought it might be worth trying compare the experience of the protagonist with my own, which is a little different. The fact that the main character in I…