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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉

@aashisjoshi.bsky.social

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I think broadly about decolonization, ecological overshoot, and collapse 🇵🇸 🌏 When faced with our own destruction, we act against reason

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Jun 3

The ruling class of the West & Global North knows that food & resource scarcities & unlivable conditions leading to mass migrations & geopolitical turmoil are inevitable & imminent. They know full well that there is no way... 1/

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · 7h

Did you know that there are hunting channels on Youtube where white Americans upload videos of themselves killing bears and lions and antelope and other wildlife? It is but a short step from this to hunting people the way Zionist Jews and US imperialists do in Palestine.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · 12d

Recognition from a few Western nations who will continue to support Israel and walkouts at the UN rather than sanctions from the rest — are such performances all that Palestinians are going to get? Are these meant to cheer them up a bit before they are slaughtered? This is fraud.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · 20d

If you dropped a bomb over here the world would instantly become a better place.

Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · 21d

Folks in the West — it is your moral duty to disrupt your nations’ institutions and economy. Stop working. Don’t make Palestinians pay the price of your careers, promotions, vacations, and other privileges with their lives. More than half a million of them have already. Enough.

Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · 23d

Of course Israel and its backers the US, UK, and EU are not interested in ending their genocide of Palestinians. They are monsters.

The grimmer truth is that the rest of the world is not interested in making them stop. We are cowards.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Sep 5

The world must come to our senses and cut economic ties with the Israel, US, UK, EU, and their allies and vassals. If we want to stop their extermination of the Palestinian people as well as the genocidal-ecocidal destruction they intend to expand over the 21st century, that is.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Sep 4

White guy tells Palestinians what their liberation should look like.

Apparently they should be willing to "coexist" with people who want them slaughtered and starved.

Apparently Israelis are also "deeply traumatized".

Fuck these brain-dead Israeli sympathizer Zionist frauds.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 31

The world’s unwillingness to take action to protect the Palestinian people as well as halt climate and ecological destruction shows that the modern organization and governance of our societies based on electoral politics and nation-states will lead us to catastrophic ruin.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 28

Let’s see if this post gets taken down. This is after all an evidence-backed statement.

Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 25

Israel “targeted a Hamas camera” in their strike at Nasser hospital today, killing 20 people and wounding many dozens.

Monsters like these have never walked the earth before, and the world is letting them get away with the most heinous crimes and shameless lies ever witnessed.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 23

It’s not a famine that’s going on in Gaza, it’s a genocide by Israel-US-UK-EU in which one of their methods to mass murder Palestinians has been to starve them.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 21

Please donate and share to help Palestinian people and families survive.

Link: lifeline4gaza.com

Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

No one is coming to save the Palestinian people. Only radical disruptive action on a massive scale can protect them from the annihilation your ruling class has planned for them. It has got to be you, and it has got to be now.

Withhold your work. Global strike now!

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

Learn from the freedom struggles led by Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and other revolutionaries and freedom fighters who took on the genocidal might of European empires. This time you have to take the fight to them at home and disrupt them from within.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

It’s become clear that there’s little help coming their way. Much of the rest of the world cowers before the financial and military might and savagery of the US and its European and Euro-colonial allies and cronies.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

They’ve already massacred hundreds of thousands.

The Palestinian people cannot do it themselves. They have live streamed their starvation, slaughter, and constant terror for almost two years for the world to watch in horror yet take no substantial action.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

You have got to organize collective action to disrupt their ability to continue the genocide. You have got to make substantial sacrifices to do that — if you don’t, your ruling class will make millions of Palestinian people pay with their lives.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

It’s going to be very hard — it’s going to be the biggest fight of our time. Protest rallies and marches aren’t going to cut it. They are not going to make the Israel-US-UK-EU genocidaires have a change of heart and stop the genocide.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

Yes, it will be risky. The empire will strike back hard. But ending a ruthless high-tech genocide being carried out by the most powerful and evil people and nations on earth is never going to be easy or risk-free.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

Organize mass civil disobedience. Refuse to work. Support one another financially and in other ways while you do. Choke their Zionist-imperialist death machine by cutting off the supply of labor that helps keep it running.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

No one can disrupt their genocidal Zionist-imperialist ambitions but you, citizens and residents of the Euro-American empire of the US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. Your genocidal ruling class gets their wealth and power from the work you do and the taxes you pay.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

They intend to kill all Palestinians in Gaza, then do the same to those in the West Bank. Wipe out millions of people who are indigenous to that land so they can expand their settler-colonial terror state. Their appetite will only keep growing.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

If there ever was a time to take inspiration from his life’s work resisting and overthrowing the forces of empire and attempt to emulate it, it is now.

Israel-US-UK-EU are not going to stop unless they are stopped.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

... where the Indian public refused to provide the work and labor necessary to keep the British imperial regime in India running. Yet it’s the civil disobedience and non-cooperation that offers a material challenge to power.

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Aashis Joshi 🔻🍉 @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

We rather disingenuously focus only on the non-violence part and organize (oftentimes) massive but meek, non-disruptive protests while ignoring the more substantial civil disobedience and non-cooperation part of the liberation struggle he led, ...

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