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Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 5mo ago

Every political leader around the world who kowtows and prostrates themselves for this brain dead imbecile as he commits war crimes and murders children should be put in prison. You don’t get to give pretentious oratory about the rules-based international order then sign on to this rancid farce.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Q: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it? TRUMP: You could say both

History is What's Happening@historyiswhat.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"...the Colonies are the breeding-ground for the type of fascist mentality which is being let loose in Europe today… The fight against fascism cannot be separated from the right of all colonial peoples and subject races to Self-Determination." George Padmore, How Britain Rules Africa (1936)

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 7mo ago

I keep reflecting on the surrealness of Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, invoking an anti-communist essay by Vaclav Havel to declare at Davos that the American-led neoliberal capitalist world order is a “lie”

In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless. In it, he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself? His answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, this shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world, unite!” He does not believe it. No one believes it. But he places the sign anyway – to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists. Not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false. Havel called this “living within a lie.” The system’s power comes not from its truth but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source: when even one person stops performing — when the greengrocer removes his sign — the illusion begins to crack. It is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.
Christy Somos@christysomos.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It’s not just McBride. I’m not sure the public realizes how deeply the 🇨🇦 + 🇺🇸 military integrated. So if CAF are carrying out Trump’s orders on exchange - what happens if there’s a conflict between the two country’s interests? My latest in The Economist: www.economist.com/the-americas...

Canadian soldiers have been carrying out Donald Trump’s orders

As the American president becomes more aggressive, this is becoming a problem

economist.com

Christy Somos@christysomos.bsky.social · 7mo ago

BTW: The soldiers that Trump/ the Pentagon ‘stood up’ for potential deployment to Minneapolis? The 11th Airborne Division’s Deputy Commanding General, Operations is highly-decorated CAF Brigadier-General Robert McBride. More to come on this story: 11thairbornedivision.army.mil/dcgo/

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 7mo ago

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.