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Photographer, sweary socialist. Centrist government is pro-genocide (the "Moderates"). Their political economy is failing & there's no "Plan-B". Only socialism & global co-operation can save humanity & the planet. #BDS Trans right = human rights

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · Jul 4

A handy list of companies to boycott that are working in or connected to Israel or the occupied territories in the West Bank. Boycotts work and the Israeli extremists are frightened by them. Don't trade with genocide.
#BDS
#NoThanks
bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS...

Guide to BDS Boycott & Pressure Corporate Priority Targeting

Ending the complicity of states, corporations, and institutions in Israel’s ongoing, live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza is the most effective form of solidarity with the P...

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anti genocide league ☭ 🍉 @khilroi.bsky.social · 18h

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Grumpy Old Lefty Git 🏴Ⓐ #Ubuntu @grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social · 17h

The Dems had PLENTY of opportunities to stop this happening, including but not restricted to:

1) Biden using the unprecedented immunity granted him by a RW SCOTUS to STOP Trump from running.

2) Harris TRYING to win. (By pledging to stop arming a genocide + NOT wooing RW scumbags.)
#SocialistSunday

Screenshot of the beginning of an article in Middle Eastern Eye.

Headline: Biden voters passed on Kamala Harris because of Gaza, new poll shows

Subtitled: Survey found that Harris lost 'because of the Biden administration's support for Israel's genocide of Palestinians'

[Photo with caption: US Vice President Kamala Harris listens to US President Joe Biden speak about the Los Angeles fires during a meeting in the White House's Roosevelt Room in Washington, DC, on 9 January 2025 (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)]

By Umar A Farooq
Published date: 20 January 2025 17:45 GMT
Last update: 8 months 3 weeks ago

Nearly a third of US voters who cast their ballots for former President Joe Biden in 2020 decided against voting for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential elections because Biden supported Israel's war on Gaza, a new poll has shown.

The poll, conducted by the Institute of Middle East Understanding and YouGov, attempts to provide a possible answer to the question of why Harris received six million fewer votes than Biden received in 2020.

The survey, which was released last week, found that 29 percent of Americans who voted for Biden in 2020 and didn't vote for Harris in 2024 cited "ending Israel's violence in Gaza" as their reason for withholding their vote.

"Vice President Harris lost votes because of the Biden administration's support for Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza," IMEU said in a statement announcing the poll.

That reason surpassed the economy, immigration, healthcare, and abortion, all of which have historically been major voter issues in past presidential elections. Foreign policy is often a low factor in voter turnout.

Screenshot from a Common Dreams article. The photo shows Kamala Harris looking as if she's wondering what went wrong, during her speech conceding defeat.

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'Damning' New Poll Shows Price Kamala Harris Paid for Backing Israeli Genocide in Gaza | Common Dreams

Vice President Kamala Harris' refusal to break with the Biden administration's suppo...

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Photo of Genocide Joe looking cocky.

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The Supreme Court told me that I'd be immune from prosecution for any acts carried out for political reasons.

I said "Well, so what?! Let the bastard win."

On a black background, large, yellow capital letters read: FAFO!

Superimposed, blue letters read:
Fuck around,
Find out!

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 16h

Please, I need to see more of this 😆

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 17h

There are similarities between Labour & the Democrats and they are all negative. Dems blame the "non-voters" for Trump when it's their own leaders' inability to change the script that gave the world Trump 2. And who wants to vote for a genocide supporting party anyway? Saying that makes me trumper.

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Bad Boy 🔻 of Mandalore 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇷 @dindjarinsway.bsky.social · 18h

Big shame....NOT
#PariahState
#IzrahellIsATerr0r1stState

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

come at me then ....

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

lol I'm not even from the US - you're just angry that your chosen liberal saint has been besmirched aren't you

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

All I posted can be contested point by point if you like. [pleased to meet you too]

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

and still no "Resist!"

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

2 Million workers on the streets is phenomenal!

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 1d

Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2M Workers Into the Streets

The next day, one million people joined a demonstration in Rome, which highlighted Italy’s complicity in the genocide.

truthout.org

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

Tacks under the tyres and superglue the doors shut

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

ffs hasn't there been enough of this "my dick's bigger than yours" fuckery already?

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

Under Obama: 10 x the amount of bombings than under President Bush (and Bush did the illegal second Gulf war with Tony Blair, so...).

Biden signed off on $680m to genocide before leaving the scene.

Red or Blue no US president should be sainted as they are so often by liberals.

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

But you give us a timely reminder :)

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

"Ceasefire" is a lie

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 1d

"New footage shows tent camps in Deir Al-Balah sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians as the humanitarian crisis deepens."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNn3...

LIVE: Scenes from Gaza — Thousands Displaced in Deir Al-Balah Tent Camps

YouTube video by DRM News

www.youtube.com

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

and real deaths

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

2016: U.S. dropped an estimated 26,171 bombs across seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan. Obama.

It was a 40% increase on 2015 US bombings. And I want to point this out: Under a red or blue president the material support for Israel's war crimes is the same

Bar chart showing the amount of military funding Israel receives from the US. It contrasts military funding with aid and military funding is hugely higher in dollars. Source: US government.

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

That's your own racist notion, not mine. I am speaking on the misuse of power and the liberals who defend it

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

The West had many Putin friends until they didn't. In UK all major parties had a "Friends of Russia[n money]" organisation and invited the oligarchs to tea on the lawn at parliament. Blair and Putin exchanged gifts for their families. Classic case of "follow the money and power"

Photograph shows 4 people standing beside each other on a rooftop. Bono ("Knobbo" from U2), Tony Blair, Putin and Bob Geldof after an international meeting (G8) in 2001.

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

yes where the fuck is Resist?

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

Will it be anything like "Resist!"?

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

The irony is lost on the liberals

@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 1d

And apparently it is given to people who beg Israel to bomb their country #Machado This award is the neoliberal mask slipping off the face of inhumanity

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 1d

As I said, after the AI crash, we’ll have to give remedial education to so many young people.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 18

So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other.

Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

screenshot of a Tumblr post from user ecofear yelling "what is HAPPENING" in response to a screenshot of a quotetweet from user @Ovichknox reading "this is so scary to me. i recommended a book to a friend recently and she came back to me a day later saying it was really good and i asked if she finished it already and she said "yeah i got chatgpt to summarise each chapter into 3 paragraphs to it was easy to read"
which is replying to a tweet from @alz_zyd reading "Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt l got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred…"

Followed by a a reblog from tumblr use moonglade-poetess reading "Hey guys, with so much love, and as someone with an actual English degree:

Please just use Sparknotes if you're going to do this. I get it. I do. But chatgpt or other genAl shit doesn't actually know what's important for you to know, and in some cases it might fully make shit up. Use sparknotes. Failing that, talk to someone who did read it. I'm begging.

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