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slabbedasque retweeted
It’s crazy this even needs to be said, but if you are a westerner your ONLY job is to oppose the abuses of the western empire. Not Iran. Not China. Not Russia, Cuba or North Korea.
If you live in the US or one of its allied nations, then you live under the single most tyrannical and murderous power structure on earth, and that’s where your focus belongs. You do not have any legitimacy in squandering any of your energy and attention criticizing human rights abuses in empire-targeted nations while living under a globe-spanning empire that is fueled by a nonstop river of human blood. It is not okay for you to use your western privilege to attack the nations your own government is working to help absorb into the power structure you live under.
Whenever I say this online I’ll get some Trotskyist or anarchist babbling about the need to express “solidarity” with Iranian political prisoners or whatever, but whenever I press them on what actual, material benefit those expressions of “solidarity” bring to the people they’re meant to help, they can’t point to anything solid. Whereas I can point to some very obvious ways in which contributing to an imperial war propaganda campaign can help grease the wheels for real material actions which hurt actual Iranians.
If you’re a westerner, you have an obligation to use your voice responsibly. If you are feeding into the latest “the people in the empire-targeted nation need liberation from their evil tyrannical government” war propaganda narrative with your expressions of “solidarity” and your blind insistence on treating all bad things as equally bad, then you are using your western voice irresponsibly, and you are morally culpable for the mass slaughter you help facilitate with your recklessness.
It’s not okay to be a citizen of the western empire and act like human rights abuses in an empire-targeted nation are of equal or comparable concern to the far more egregious abuses of your own leaders and their allies. It’s also not okay to be a fully grown adult and believe the use of force in empire-targeted governments is happening separately from their targeting by the empire, as though Iran would look the way it looks today if the US and Israel had not been working to collapse and control it for generations.
Iran has only survived the latest imperial onslaught because Tehran tightly controls what happens in that country. The only reason we didn’t see Xinjiang absorbed into the western power umbrella with the help of CIA-backed separatists is because Beijing waged a sweeping crackdown on the extremist factions who’d been launching attacks in the province. The only reason North Korea has gone relatively unmolested by the western empire in recent years is because its government obtained nuclear weapons. It’s baby-brained analysis to pretend such things happen independently of the US and its allies working to take control of unabsorbed nations and force them into compliance with Washington’s capitalist world order.
The western empire therefore makes the world a crueler and more abusive place not only by its direct acts of cruelty and abuse, but by the way it forces its targets to choose between (A) annihilation and (B) using extreme amounts of force to retain their sovereignty. The empire we live under is responsible for the vast majority of the dysfunction and misery in our world, and yet you as a westerner want to spend your time yelling at Iran? Fuck off, man.
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Les pires criminels du gouvernement israéliens se sont immédiatement joints aux autorités états-uniennes pour amplifier la tentative de déstabilisation de l’Espagne menée par le régime marocain, qui est aujourd’hui le principal allié de Benyamin Netanyahou et de Donald Trump.
Les politiciens Français qui ont contribué à cette opération et l’alimentent malgré l’évidente manipulation savent ce qu’ils font et sont des traîtres à la nation.
Ceux qui ne le savent pas ou se taisent sont des profonds ignares qui doivent être écartés de la direction des affaires de la nation.
Mis felicitaciones al Presidente del Gobierno de España, Pedro Sánchez, por su profundo compromiso con la acogida de la inmigración y la "diversidad humana".
Como alguien que demuestra una gran preocupación por Hamás y los residentes de Gaza, le llamo a traducir las palabras en hechos: abra las puertas de España y conceda refugio a los residentes de Gaza que solicitan emigrar. Esta es una excelente oportunidad para contribuir un poco más a la "diversidad humana" de España.
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slabbedasque retweeted
Female soldiers of the Israeli army, for entertainment, are throwing grenades over the separation wall, causing them to explode and tear apart women and children who are left homeless in Gaza.
Save this video.
Kan du ikke svare skikkelig da? Du insinuerer i vei om andel, prøver å benekte at du mener det er et problem, hvilket gjør det særs merkelig å ta det opp, og du unnlater å svare som om dette er et politisk intervju hvor du er kommunikasjonscoacha på å avlede/avspore.
Dåsemikkel.
slabbedasque retweeted
"FIFA are telling you to not believe what you've seen because they've got something else instead...are we stupid now?"
@kickback_nedum isn't convinced by FIFA's non-explanation on England's first goal
@ESPNFC
3 VM-kamper. Så Mexico, Canada og Sveits i sin helhet, og jeg tenker alle lagene ville kunne holdt plassen i OBOS-ligaen.
slabbedasque retweeted
I promised. I delivered.
My debunking of Israel’s latest reboot of the 7 October mass-rapes hoax:
A "landmark" report built from old claims, liars and grifters, repackaged for complicit media.
No victim count. No case list. No evidence of mass rapes.
electronicintifada.net/conte…
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Oh Look. The Hasbara Bat Signal Went Up Again!
Nicholas Kristof publishes a story about Palestinians being tortured and sexually abused in Israeli prisons in the @nytimes … and suddenly, within HOURS, the entire Western media machine magically rediscovers Hamas rape stories all over again.
What incredible timing.
@CNN.
@BBC.
@CBC.
New York Times.
@globeandmail.
ABC Australia.
Times of Israel.
Le Monde.
New York Post.
Different countries.
Different newsrooms.
Different editors.
Yet somehow they all wake up the very same morning speaking in the exact same language:
“Systematic.”
“Deliberate.”
“Weaponized.”
It’s honestly impressive.
Like watching synchronised swimming for genocidal PR.
And of course the star witness behind this latest media frenzy is Cochav Elkayam-Levy, whose credibility was already torn apart in israeli media after she helped spread some of the most grotesque and still unverified October 7th atrocity propaganda.
The same ecosystem that gave us:
“40 beheaded babies.”
“Babies baked in ovens.”
Mass rape stories that kept changing every six weeks.
Claims so insane and inflammatory that even israeli media eventually started backing away from them.
Yet somehow these people are still treated by Western media like the fucking Warren Commission.
And notice how this works every single time.
The second Palestinians start being seen as human beings…
The second people begin talking about torture camps, rape, starvation, dead children, destroyed hospitals, mass graves, or Palestinians being disappeared into israeli prisons…
BOOM.
Emergency narrative deployment.
Suddenly every front page in the Western world is flooded with stories reminding you that Israelis are the real victims here.
It’s like clockwork.
And spare me the fake outrage from these media institutions.
These are the same outlets that spent nineteen months helping normalise:
The flattening of Gaza.
The mass killing of children.
The destruction of every university.
The bombing of hospitals.
The targeting of medics.
The starvation campaign.
The torture videos.
The sniping of journalists.
The endless parade of dead Palestinian families treated like weather updates.
But now...NOW...they suddenly care deeply about sexual violence.
How convenient.
And notice the difference in standards.
If Palestinians describe torture or rape inside israeli prisons?
“Claims.”
“Allegations.”
“Disputed.”
“Needs verification.”
If an israeli state-linked investigator says Hamas did something?
Instant global headline.
No skepticism.
No caution.
No restraint.
Straight onto the front page of every major newspaper on earth before breakfast.
Palestinians need forensic evidence, satellite imagery, DNA samples, twelve witnesses, and a signed note from God to be believed.
israeli officials just need a press conference and a grieving tone of voice.
And let’s be very clear:
This isn’t about protecting women.
These depraved assholes do not give a rat's ass about women.
You cannot spend almost two years excusing the obliteration of thousands of Palestinian women and girls,
defending torture camps,
laughing off dead mothers clutching shredded children,
and then suddenly pretend to be the global feminist task force.
What they care about is narrative dominance.
They needed Kristof’s story buried.
And fast.
So out came the emergency media package:
same framing,
same buzzwords,
same emotional triggers,
same coordinated roll-out,
same moral panic.
Because the one thing this machine cannot tolerate is sustained public attention on Palestinian suffering.
And what I know for sure is this:
A media system that treats Palestinian torture as a temporary inconvenience but israeli narratives as sacred scripture is not journalism.
It’s a media cartel whose job is to keep Palestinian death politically acceptable...
-- from The Anti-Zionist @movingthemedia
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This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opini…
slabbedasque retweeted
I got through a week and a half of the ADL's newly-released "Antisemitic Incidents 2025" dataset before I gave up. 🥴
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trigger warning: zionism
I'm sorry to share this, but I want to say over and over that "Israelis" are an exceptionally deranged society. This is the kind of sadistic Jewish supremacy that animates violence that no sane person can comprehend.
you can't hate them enough.
I know the tables will turn soon enough, and they will scream "holocaust" and "antisemitism". but we will remember.
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Christopher Columbus was so infamously cruel that the Spanish crown paid to send someone to Hispaniola in 1500 to investigate. This resulted in a 48-page report detailing the testimony of two dozen witnesses, and the investigator himself, of how Columbus had mismanaged the colony, cut off ears and noses, tortured colonists that questioned his authority, paraded women naked, and sold natives into slavery. He was arrested, tried, and stripped of his titles.
Some people that witnessed his barbarism, who had initially supported and participated in his colonization efforts, became so disgusted by Columbus's behavior that they also published accounts of his atrocities and began advocating for the rights of Indigenous populations. In particular, a contemporaneous Pope, and many other lesser Catholic figures, condemned Columbus explicitly, viewing his behaviors as grave offenses against G-d.
Matt, you are literally more of a cretin than people that died before 1600 BCE. I wouldn't call you a conservative, I would call you a barbarian.
Christopher Columbus is the ultimate IQ test. You immediately know that someone is a retarded halfwit if they start screeching some nonsense about how Columbus was a genocidal maniac or whatever. Intelligent students of history understand that he is one of the great men of western civilization. This is an awesome move by the White House.
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This is what it looks like when you give Zionists everything they want. This is Zionism put into practice.
The wars.
The massacres.
The bombed-out schools and hospitals.
The millions of displaced individuals.
The invasion of Lebanon
The explosions carpeting Tehran.
The hollowed-out moonscape of Gaza.
The horrific pogroms in the West Bank.
The child amputees.
The smell of the rotting corpses.
The assassinated doctors and journalists.
The blackened sky and the poisoned water.
The nonstop deluge of brain-melting propaganda.
The aggressive promotion of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism.
The erosion of free speech rights throughout the western world.
The corrupt warmongering politicians.
The legions of online hasbara trolls.
The soaring fuel prices.
Money which could pay for social services buying bombs for Israel instead.
All the death, destruction, instability and suffering that's being visited upon countless civilians throughout west Asia.
This is Zionism. This is what it looks like when you apply the political ideology of forcibly imposing the existence of a Jewish ethnonationalist apartheid state on historic Palestine. This is it. You're looking at it.
There is no alternate-reality version of Zionism where all these nightmares are not happening. There is no other kind of Zionism out there waiting in the wings. The liberal Zionist fantasy of a peaceful, egalitarian Israel is just that: a fantasy. It has never existed in real life.
In real life Israel cannot exist without nonstop violence and abuse. It's like a house that will fall down if it's not in a constant state of construction. At some point you realize the house should never have been built where it was built, and that steps need to be taken to rectify this error.
Zionism is a failed experiment. How do we know? Look around you.
Time to pull the plug.
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Can't get over how many leftists bought into the "we support the Iran protests" schtick. Where the fuck did you idiots think this was headed? What did you think you were promoting when you assisted the US empire's regime change sloganeering throughout the west? Fucking morons.
Dear conservative shitheads. If you think the flotilla activists are lying, go incognito and join the next flotilla. Test your love and trust in the IDF. Pretend to be a lefty. Walk in a lefty's shoes for once. Test your faith in fair processes without stating your affiliation.
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Glen Greenwald gives Piers Morgan a brief, but necessary lesson.
This is a must-listen.
We don't need these other clowns.
You nailed it Glenn. Thank you.
