cigarsirjim.bsky.social
He/Him
Philadelphia/South Jersey Bisexual Polyamorous Leatherman Council Communist
"It was not about me. It's never been about me.”
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
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(For legal reasons, this is a joke.)
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Just now?
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Don't be fooled by controlled opposition. Organize and fight back for real.
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Avoid 50501, Indivisible and the Democratic Party complicity they serve. Reach out to local Leftist groups and organize with them. Help build Mutual Aid structures that allow us to support each other directly instead of relying on exploitative Capitalist structures that reinforce oppression.
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Only an end to capitalism and the American Empire can meaningfully address the problems that we are facing. Any movement that doesn't center these concerns is it best misguided, and in the case of large-scale orgs like 50501 a deliberate misdirection and stifling of working class outrage and power.
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The simple fact is that the Democrats share equal culpability with the Republicans for our current state of affairs. Both parties uphold the same oppressive capitalist system and serve the same oligarchs in oppressing working class people here and all over the world. Trump is a symptom.
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50501, Indivisible and other Democratic Party affiliated groups are simply another means of controlled opposition. A way to funnel anger at the system back into supporting the system rather than trying to bring it down and replace it with something that truly serves the people instead of oligarchs.
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No, Intifada is a call for uprising against the genocidal Zionist "state" that has murdered countless Palestinians in their ethnic campaign since 1948.
The genocide is happening RIGHT NOW and has been going on for decades, carried out by the Zionists using weapons supplied by the American Empire.
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It does, actually.
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So yes, Zionist is an abhorrent, hateful, racist, genocidal ideology that must be fought against.
Intifada. Revolution. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
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"From the river to the sea" means restoring a free Palestine with equal rights for all, including Jews, as opposed to the Zionist apartheid state that exists there now, where the "Basic Law" outright declares that only Jews have the right to self-determination.
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Intifada means "uprising," and it is right for an oppressed people to rise up against their oppressors, as the Palestinians have done against the Zionists. I support them in their struggle against Zionist oppression and genocide.
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The fact that some Palestinians remain in Occupied Palestine (at best as second class citizens under the Zionist apartheid regime with few rights) doesn't mean that ethnic cleansing did not take place, but rather that the Zionist Entity's campaign of genocide & ethnic cleansing is ongoing.
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"Nakba" translates as "catastrophe" from Palestinian Arabic. It refers to the Zionist declaration of independence of the so-called "State of Israel" and the ensuing ethnic cleansing and genocide carried out against the Palestinians as they were driven from their homes and lands or murdered.
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Zionism is not synonymous with Judaism, whatever groups like the ADL or the so-called "State of Israel" try to claim. It is an abhorrent, genocidal ideology that is responsible for countless deaths from the Nakba to the present day, and must be opposed in all its forms.
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"Israel" is founded on genocide. It would not exist without it, and it's been ongoing since 1948 (supported by the American Empire).
Should there be Jews in Palestine? Of course. There have been for thousands of years, living peacefully with their Palestinian neighbors. Until the Zionists came.
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So to get that homeland, it justifies the Zionists wiping out the Palestinians and ethnically cleansing them from their homeland? Because that's the only way they could create a Jewish majority state inside Palestine- by murdering or expelling the Palestinians that they stole the land from.
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TLDR: Fuck the ADL, fuck Zionism, free Palestine from the river to the sea.
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Zionism also pushes other antisemitic tropes like the idea that Jews can never safely assimilate into other cultures.
All to fuel the apartheid "state" while continuing to engage in ethnic cleansing and genocide against the indigenous Palestinian people.
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But making Jews all over the world less safe and actively engaging in and supporting anti-semitism is part of the goal of Zionists in general and the ADL in particular. It encourages them to move to Occupied Palestine to drive up the population of the Zionist Entity.
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Oh no, we might give them justification to start kidnapping people and throwing them in concentration camps or assaulting protesters or any of the other things they are ALREADY DOING. 🙄
They are fascists. You can't kill them with kindness.
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From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free.
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This is all cover so they can continue the genocide. Starmer, Mertz, Macron, and all the rest will be falling all over themselves affirming the Zionist Entity's "right" to "defend itself." 🙄
It's going to get worse.
Don't flag in your support for Palestine.
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You know Biden and the Democrats did most of those too right? This problem didn't just appear when Trump took office. The American Empire has been rotten to the core since its founding.
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Oh, you're one of those. 🙄 Of course capitalists (that is to say, the folks who own the storefronts you're so worried about) feel differently. I suggest you try reading the book instead of just bashing it. You'll learn a lot about the exploitative history of property relations in this country.
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What does that even mean? 🤨
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The language is very accessible, it's not written for academics only.
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I read it last summer. NGL I don't spend a lot of time on theory, but when I do I want it to be something modern and applicable to our situation. This writer is a local activist in Philadelphia and her work is poignant and urgent tp the moment.