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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1d

"300 people on their knees — in fear, no doubt — started shouting, 'Free Palestine! Free Palestine!' calling him a génocidaire and a baby killer ... You could see that Ben-Gvir was stunned by that. His people, the police, they were all stunned by it. They expected us to be cowed, and we weren't."

Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

Global condemnation is mounting as hundreds of international activists remain in Israeli prison days after the military raided and captured dozens of boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Greta Thunberg told Swedish officials she was held in a cell infested with bedbugs and deprived of food and water.

Journalist on Gaza Flotilla Describes “Torturous Conditions” in Israeli Custody

“They were throwing people’s medicine in the bin in front of them and laughing in their faces,” says Kieran Andrieu.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 16m

Those social safety nets in Europe? Yeah capital is coming for all of that shit. They need a power rebalancing through poveritization of the masses.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 18m

Capitalism is in crisis mode, and it is clawing back ALL of the concessions it made to avoid a communist revolution in the West.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 21m

It says so much that even the scraps Dems are trying to defend from cuts are too costly for the media, political and business elite.

Theyve all coalesced behind the idea that this country needs a hard shift of all power towards capital.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 28m

The answer to if there is a sufficient number of dems willing to do this is no.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 33m

You will never have a world where the vast majority of people aren't dependent on selling their labor for survival under capitalism. It eliminates the coercive power the wealthy elite have over our lives.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 38m

Its not looking good for humanity, ill say that.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 40m

If this were even a remote possibility the 40 hr work week would have been done away with decades ago.

Funnily enough, advances in technology never seem to give workers more liberty under capitalism. I wonder why.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 49m

Can they create the killbots they need to impose their will upon the masses before people wake up to the reality of class politics? Possibly.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 52m

Capital is trying to figure out is how they can own everything on earth and get all the profit while also convincing billions of people that this arrangement actually a good thing

So far they've been pretty successful, but the cracks are starting to show.

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maya ventura @mayawalkwith.me · 3d

sanae takaichi is, importantly, also a fascist

Jill Wine-Banks @jillwine-banks.bsky.social · 4d

Sanae Takaichi is set to become Japan’s first female prime minister. As of July 2025, 65 countries have had a woman serve as either president or prime minister. She makes it 66. Why is America so far behind with zero?? Let’s pass #ERA and elect a woman. Tell me who you’d support.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 1h

Have you ever actually read animal farm?

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2h

No she tried to be republican lite, and ate shit because of it.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2h

The craziest thing I’m chasing down: I don’t believe that stargate abilene has even close to enough power, nor is it possible for them to build it before the year 2027. They have a 200mw substation and an unfinished 350mw gas turbine plant.

They need 1GW+ and it’s still in the design phase!

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2h

So when you see a candidate who claims to be progressive but also joined the PMC infamous for crimes against humanity Blackwater, you should probably be wary of that guy.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2h

Turns out the military isn't just poor kids tricked into doing bad things, but also a lot of people who want to enact their violent fantasies on anyone deemed an acceptable target.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2h

No we dont. Desire for status is a function of a society built on hierarchy

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2h

Turns out its only sustainable when there are people somewhere else to hyperexploit for superprofit

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2h

We arent seeing mass defections or ignoring of orders from the military. I wonder why that is.

Could the military be yet another arm of capital that isn't beholden to the people af all? The answer is yes.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2h

If Gavin Newsom is the nominee in 28, im not voting for him. Fuck this zionist anti trans piece of shit.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 14h

A real sicko

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 19h

Read this article and only one response stood out as anything other than zionist drivel.

You are on the right side of history, zionists are not. Do not pay any mind to the cries of a bunch of war criminals, sex pests, and grifters.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 19h

Send your fattest Texan super soldiers to Chicago ASAP to take out Big Woke.

no, FATTER THAN THAT.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 19h

Yes lol

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 19h

He looks like Stavros Halkias if he grew up in an abusive household of midwesterners.

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 19h

I’m not body shaming but I’m also honest this Texas boy is gonna roll through Portillo’s once and switch allegiances

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