@nise_yoshimi
“The Germans would have won if they took Moscow and/Leningrad” is such right-wing cope. The Soviet leadership would just have moved further east and the Axis would have been even more overextended and dealing with logistical nightmares.
@jrc1921
@OLAASM
You could have a photo as explicit as this and it just wouldn’t register today. Governments are no longer outed and shamed by the media; rather they use the media to manipulate and control.
🧵 On Saturday, January 27th at the
@KamalaHarris
"Get The Vote Out" event in Las Vegas, two visible members of the Muslim community wearing hijabs were not let in by campaign officials.
The Biden/Harris campaign is clearly fanning the flames of Islamophobia.
@HamptonThink
Expecting individuals to sacrifice fundamental human experiences like love, relationships, and starting a family in order to navigate economic hardships is just cruel.
@SiestaSocialist
The only people who defend him are teenage edgelord Maoists whose main exposure to communism is memes rather than research. The geopolitics surrounding the Vietnamese-Khmer conflict is not hard to learn about.
@TransMaoist
The Soviet leadership aimed to support a socialist government in Afghanistan. The U.S. intervention was rooted in capitalist imperialism, to secure access to resources, markets, and geopolitical dominance in the region.
@ColdEmpanadas
In a way this put the "Re'im music festival massacre" into perspective: dancing in the desert may seem like a neutral act, but when one fully sees the context, it is anything but, and violence against it is warranted.
@kyivhlibchik
The swastika was an ancient religious symbol before the Nazis appropriated it. Whatever the origins of the red-and-black flag, it was used by the UPA and is synonymous with the atrocities committed by Bandera’s followers.
Aaron Bushnell felt like he lacked the power to do anything about the U.S. support for Israel slaughtering Palestinians. You may not think his sacrifice was constructive but he is not alone in his despair and passion. Shame on those who do have power and do nothing.
@nise_yoshimi
Alexander the Great: Bro, it is amazing how much of a genius I am at doing war!
Hephaestion: Bro, you do war so good! Also, you’re mad hot! I love you, bro!
Alexander: I love you too, bro! Let’s conquer India!
@CivesVero
The right is incredibly well-armed, violent, with pretty much open allies in law enforcement. Self-defense isn’t about “optics” or spin. It’s literally about survival.
@jvpliveNY
@babadookspinoza
@Columbia
It's not acceptable and hopefully the world wakes up and realizes
@columbia
does not care about the safety of its students on campus. They only care about pleasing those donors who make their support for higher education contingent on blind support for Israel.
@SwampCommunist
It makes sense. Mao was on the far left in terms of wanting to radically alter Chinese society, economically, politically, and culturally; Stalin was a center-right Bolshevik who almost always opposed radical transformation, the exception being rapid industrialization, which 1/2
Danica Roem has been transitioned for a very long time. She's been continually referred to by her gender for years in the Virginia legislature. It's shameful, mean spirited, and against decorum for
@WinsomeSears
to refer to Senator Roem as "sir" and she should apologize.
@kyivhlibchik
No one is stopping Ukrainians from using the blue-and-yellow flag. Those who choose to use the symbols of the UPA, Bandera, Nazis, and OUM because they genuinely support the far-right nationalists who collaborated with the Nazis
@HamptonThink
Tragic but in world full of people looking the other way you can understand his horror and his frustration. We are not just ignoring what is happening in Gaza; we are complicit in what in any other situation we would call a humanitarian crisis and catastrophe
@jaketapper
RIP to the two people Ridge Alknois murdered because he was too macho to pull over when he felt drowsy.
He is not a hero and you’re a Pentagon groupie
The 9/11 hijackers were not anti-imperialist martyrs but reactionaries who would only undo capitalism so we could return to a feudal caliphate. They’re indistinguishable from the nobles of the Middle Ages who opposed capitalism because they wanted to preserve absolute monarchy
In the U.S., Oregon Senator George E. Chamberlain has demanded the creation of a super war cabinet to take control of the war effort from President Woodrow Wilson. This comes after a winter fuel crisis and “coal famine” caused by rationing.
@nise_yoshimi
Soviets were amazed at the cheap price of bananas and the year-round availability of pineapples. Of course, these things are not so much the result of US prosperity as a U.S.-run global economy where forced labor makes these luxury items cheap and accessible.
@DCArtsDirector
Instead of making DC look like the quintessential place where politicians fail upwards, you could have hired someone from DC’s art scene who wasn’t a crooked politician busted for ethics violations. Shame on you
@AlexKomaWCP
He literally stood next to a homophobic/transphobic sign, took a photo of it, posted it to his social media, and when people called him out on it, he compared himself to Jesus Christ being crucified 😂
LENIN: Wait wait wait
TROTSKY: (coughing like a first-timer)
STALIN: Paul Atreides is Hegel’s Napoleon, the messianic hero
LENIN: But really a false prophet
STALIN: Wheels within wheels
TROTSKY: (coughing intensifies)
@bengrossbg
@VKlker
Endorsing candidates with significant policy differences dilutes the potential of the socialist movement. Endorsements should prioritize candidates committed to working-class interests, not perpetuating the systems that oppress them.
@SwampCommunist
only happened because the NEP wasn't working. Anarchists like Mao because he was willing to go to extremes to realize something approaching full communism whereas Stalin only went to extremes to protect the existing Soviet state. 2/2
@BMarchetich
“The people we are bombing can see a handful of Democrats speaking against the bombing! Well, they would if their TVs worked.” Bottom line: in terms of concrete wins on Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, student loan forgiveness, we are still where we are pre-Bernie 2016.
@Zuk_DC
@jeremiah4dc
Studies and reports have consistently shown disparities in policing practices and the disproportionate targeting of Black communities. Ignoring these systemic issues based solely on personal experiences overlooks the broader societal realities faced by marginalized groups.
@nise_yoshimi
Socialism: the final frontier. These are the market forces of the people’s republic. Its five-year plan: to corner strange new markets; to seek out new profits and new export opportunities; to boldly allocate resources where no resources have been allocated before!
@nise_yoshimi
NIXON: What, ah, what do you get when, when you cross a Caesar salad with a, uh, a Greek salad?
KHRUSHCHEV: Salat?
NIXON: Well, ah, you get, you get a Byzantine salad.
KHRUSHCHEV: O chem, chert voz'mi, ty govorish'?
@Zuk_DC
@jeremiah4dc
@DCPoliceDept
Im the one who offered studies while all you could do is use crime statistics to justify the harassment of innocent Black people. And it is mostly workers of color who do the REAL labor in DC: the builders, drivers, servers, clerks, and cleaners, the ones being profiled!
@mitchdyla
“Grundrisse” is essential as a prequel to Capital but I would add “The Civil War in France” because of its Marxist analysis of a historical revolutionary movement.
@nise_yoshimi
Largest famine in human history because Mao thought China could industrialize quickly thanks to “vibes” instead of Soviet experts. Truly the Peter Griffin of communist revolutionaries
@Zuk_DC
@jeremiah4dc
According to a 2020 ACLU analysis of data collected by
@DCPoliceDept
, 72% of people stopped are Black people, even though Black people only make up 46.5% of the population. The analysis also found that 88.6% of youth under 18 who are stopped are Black.
@fractioncommie
@SwampCommunist
He was initially on the right and even emphasized the importance of practicality in praxis initially, but after 1949 he moved further and further left.
@batko_anarkhiya
@babadookspinoza
As a former Oklahoman, the state is in the full grip of the MAGA crowd obsessed with guns, God, and gays. Meanwhile, Oklahoma continues to have some of the worst social services in the country, despite having a very poor and ignorant population.
@tiffanie_tx
Toby Keith was openly racist and an embarrassment to Oklahoma. Hope he voided his bowels when he saw the big empty void on the other side and realized what his legacy is
@CMBrookePinto
Except most people who are arrested in DC are never charged with any crime. But you and a lot of the DC consultant class are fine with this because it will be ordinary hardworking Black Washingtonians who suffer profiling and police harassment
@Zuk_DC
@jeremiah4dc
@DCPoliceDept
I just linked you an ACLU study. Again, anecdotes aren’t evidence. There is are multiple studies about racial profiling and how Black people are disproportionately targeted in D.C. You can also look at racial inequalities when it came to vaxxing during the pandemic.
@Zuk_DC
@jeremiah4dc
@DCPoliceDept
Something tells me you have the intelligence to Google these studies yourself. You haven’t because you want to believe what you believe and you’re not interested in facts that prove your beliefs are wrong.
The Bolshevik government today abolished courts and prisons for minors. Cases involving minors of both sexes under 17 years of age who are found to have engaged in socially dangerous acts are subject to the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Public Charity.
@Karl_Was_Right
@SiestaSocialist
Communism aims to eliminate class divisions and create a just society but doesn’t inherently negate individual spiritual pursuits. The distinction lies in separating personal beliefs from institutionalized structures that historically perpetuate inequality.
@DEricSayers
The best scapegoating money can buy… Charles Allen is not toxic. What is toxic is paternalistic “experts” funding a recall of a public servant because they know they can’t run a candidate on their right-wing racial-profiling platform in the District. Shame on everyone involved.
@SenBobCasey
Protestors didn’t protest Goldie because it is Jewish-owned. Celebrity chef Michael Solomonov is a leading figure in the culinary movement to rebrand Arab food and culture as “Israeli” and is known as an avid supporter of the apartheid regime.
A more accurate version of this post that is significantly less alarmist:
Protestors in Philadelphia stand outside of a restaurant owned by Michael Solomonov, known by locals for… well, here’s the header photo description of a NYT piece from 11/3
@EarlOfThePseud
The courts have been far more effective in stopping anti-trans legislation at the state level than the Democratic Party—just like the Dems never codified Roe v Wade, even when they had the opportunity.
@OhNoSheTwitnt
Protestors didn’t protest Goldie because it is Jewish-owned. Celebrity chef Michael Solomonov is a leading figure in the culinary movement to rebrand Arab food and culture as “Israeli” and is known as an avid supporter of the apartheid regime.
A more accurate version of this post that is significantly less alarmist:
Protestors in Philadelphia stand outside of a restaurant owned by Michael Solomonov, known by locals for… well, here’s the header photo description of a NYT piece from 11/3
@notPeterWood
@DCHomos
Funding recall campaigns by affluent individuals undermines democracy by enabling them to sidestep elections. They cannot win elections on right-wing “tough on crime” platforms so they use money to override the people.
@Zuk_DC
@jeremiah4dc
@DCPoliceDept
Again, statistics aren’t just cause for harassing a class of people based on their skin color. Also, racial disparities in policing extend beyond stop rates. There’s also the disproportionate use of force, biased decision-making in arrests, a lack of access to resources, etc.
@SocDoneLeft
@KyleBrovloski01
Get out of here with your half-baked utilitarianism. More crumbs for the working class is meaningless when for the hundredth and thousandth time the state mows down workers who dare to protest.
@MissPavIichenko
Progress on Twitter can be measured by how many trans accounts are promoting the Clean Wehrmacht and Double Genocide conspiracy theories
@tiffanie_tx
It's a reference to lynching people, and particularly Black and brown people were targeted because of white envy or wrath. After all, Oklahoma in addition to Toby Keith can also claim the worst race riot in US history
@returntohegel
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@Zuk_DC
@jeremiah4dc
@DCPoliceDept
And here is an academic study about systemic racism just from last year: Again, the evidence is there if you choose to look. But something tells me you already know the facts don’t support your normative worldview.
@primarycatdad
If he was too “nice” to Stalin (insufficiently repeating liberal bromides) it wouldn’t get published or reviewed positively in the capitalist press or bourgeois academy. Periodt
@ThatKid1871
@nise_yoshimi
Actually, you can explore hypotheticals and counterfactuals in comparative politics, a concentration of political science. You have to compare similar cases, but the conclusions you draw can then be applied to other cases. It is what Barrington Moore and Theda Skocpol did.
@SegravesNBC4
@BrianneKNadeau
@nbcwashington
“Our only issue is crime” translates to “We cannot win an election running on applying police batons to Black bodies, so we are going to buy a recall.”
@AlexKomaWCP
They are trying to scapegoat Allen and Nadeau to save Bowser’s career, because she’s a good soldier who tows the centrist party line and has no qualms serving donors over constituents.
But everyone already knows that…
@primarycatdad
Parenti is OK as a gateway but to really get settler colonialism you need the thinkers from the actual Global South: Fanon, Rodney, Nkrumah
@nise_yoshimi
“OH COME ON! You don’t have any special economic zones, you fucking donkey?! My gran could create more attractive conditions for foreign investment, and she’s DEAD!”
@arab_leb2
The celebrity chef of Goldie, Michael Solomonov, not only supports the apartheid Israeli regime but has promoted the claim hummus is an Israeli invention (contributing to Israeli erasure of Palestinian culture)
@Zuk_DC
@jeremiah4dc
While having Black leadership in prominent positions is important for representation, it does not negate the existence of systemic racism. Issues such as racial profiling disproportionately affect Black communities, regardless of the racial identity of those in leadership.
@DCGossipGworl
Recall supporters claim to care about the “D.C. community” but they send their kids to private schools, live in gated communities, etc. They have more in common with elites in other countries than ordinary hardworking Washingtonians.
@Israel_katz
@UNRWA
I think it says a lot that the people actually providing social services to the Palestinians (
@UNRWA
, not Israel) are on the side of the resistance fighters in the face of Israeli brutality)
@Zuk_DC
@jeremiah4dc
@DCPoliceDept
It’s not about arbitrary quotas or making anyone feel better. Racial profiling and disproportionate policing harm communities and perpetuate systemic injustices. Ensuring fair treatment for all individuals, regardless of race, is about upholding constitutional rights.
Since 9/11, D.C. has become whiter and wealthier. We are slowly seeing the demise of “progressive,” i.e. anti-racist policies.
@MayorBowser
and
@CMBrookePinto
are leading the charge to make it so the police can apply batons to Black bodies. Stop
#secureDC
@tbonier
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!” — Lenin
@RightToRebel0
@SiestaSocialist
In November 1975, U.S. NSA and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the Thai foreign minister: "You should tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs but we won't let that stand in our way."
@RightToRebel0
@SiestaSocialist
Even if you accept that Vietnam was a puppet of the "socialist imperialist" USSR, that doesn't justify Pol Pot becoming an agent of the US and CIA, with the Khmer Rouge going on to join a coalition led by literal royalists--all under the direction of Deng's China
@nise_yoshimi
samurai résumé circa 1500:
Merciless warrior seeks retainer position with ambitious daimyo. Adherence to bushido principles flexible.
samurai résumé circa 1800:
Learned portly warrior with many years experience operating toll roads. Can both work with and despise barbarians.
@CMBrookePinto
@DCPoliceDept
Heartbreaking indeed, but addressing gun violence requires more than interventions alone; it demands comprehensive gun control measures and addressing systemic issues such as poverty and lack of access to mental health care.