As funny as this is, that tweet was taken out of context, it was in response to Trump trying to blame fuel prices on destruction of Russian refineries, not datacenters.
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@rk70534.bsky.socialReposted by @ntm.bsky.social"Meta has shut down Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif’s Instagram account, which contained an extensive archive documenting ' #Israel #’s' war on #Gaza, according to a statement posted... appealing for help restoring the page."
@ntm.bsky.socialIt reached peak absurdity when I saw the account of a former local bike activist retweeting bizarre shit like attacking a saying a Palestinian woman doesn't get the right to wear a keffiyeh because she criticized Hamas, and that it's cultural appropriation (of her own culture).
@ntm.bsky.socialFrom what I have observed of leftists still on X, I see two common patterns of RW entryism: Ethnonationalist framing: Campism and rigid non-interventionism feeding into the idea the world should be separated into ethnostates Normalization of antisemitic vocabulary: using terms coined by neo-Nazis
@kaseygifford.bsky.socialReposted by @ntm.bsky.socialTo put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center.
@ntm.bsky.socialYes, there needs to be bare minimums, but we also need to be work effectively within whatever remaining functioning parts there are in the system, and reshape the system towards a better future. Letting centrist democrats win because of petty grievances is no path to that future.
@ntm.bsky.socialThe impulse to purity test candidates has got to be the most counter-productive impulse of major factions of the DSA. Yes, it sucks when candidates don't live up to promises. Purity testing does nothing to change the incentives (it creates more of an incentive to lie), and won't build dual power.
@ntm.bsky.socialOther than the residual radiation coming from Xitter, what are the other "hitlerite particles"?
@ntm.bsky.socialAlso, it might be more economical for a computing co-ops if the major data centers didn't get electricity discounts subsidized by surges in bills for everyday household consumers.
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@ntm.bsky.social@ntm.bsky.socialThe source of this footage was never heard from again
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@ntm.bsky.socialExactly what I made @corkboard.at for.
@ntm.bsky.socialWill talks be streamed or recorded?
@ntm.bsky.socialYes, Einstein would most likely prefer a federated one state solution over a 2-state solution that forces displacement of many peoples on both sides, or the current apartheid state.
@ntm.bsky.socialThere were people in Israel and Palestine who worked towards peace, but Netanyahu, and American far-right warmongers worked to disrupt it, and Netanyahu helped Qatar fund Hamas in the interest of divide and conquer:
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@ntm.bsky.socialIt's not "ancient history" when the Netanyahu line who thwarted efforts at peace in the 1930s, 1990s, and 2000s are still in power.
@ntm.bsky.social"No Betar members cheered Hitler" lmao
![The Militarization of the Revisionist Movement
Jabotinsky's last act was to inspect a Betar parade. Betar, the
Revisionist youth organization, was described by a number of critics as
another "brown shirt" movement of the 1930s.
Jabotinsky constantly explained it was just an accident that his youth wore the same brown shirts as the Nazis' Sturm Abteilung , but the image of the Revisionists as the Jewish Nazis persisted. The similarities - chauvinism, militarism, a demagogic appeal to the middle classes and a hatred of the labor movement and the left - were simply too obvious to be ignored. ... It is known that several Betarim did in fact attend Fascist Party training schools. Terrorist attacks on Zionist rivals were routine in Poland.
When Robert Gessner, an American Communist journalist, was in
Poland in the mid-30s, he saw the Betarim in Poland "march through the
streets and wear shirts like their Nordic brothers in Germany. ...I had seen
them singing 'Poland for Pilsudski, Germany for Hitler, Palestine for
Jews.' " Although this particular slogan may have been new, the militarization of Revisionism was not. Joseph Schechtman, Jabotinsky's official biographer, reports that between July 1924 and February 1925 every public meeting in Paris addressed by Jabotinsky
was the scene of well-planned heckling and disturbance [by Jewish Communists and Bundists]. ...Young supporters of Jabotinsky organized a "self defense" composed mainly of the Student Corps, Barissa. ... When the usual riot had started, the troublemakers were soundly thrashed and kicked rather roughly downstairs.
In Palestine they, along with the "Battalion of the Defenders of the
Language," "repeatedly broke up meetings in Yiddish on the grounds that
speaking a 'Diaspora' language in Palestine was profaning Zion.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:zfysi73b7avlxkfukg6crgkq/bafkreig56jjtd4liwsb6uqdrehvpmolnluyejhwo7idmlzi667a47vu7vm@jpeg)
@ntm.bsky.socialThat said, Einstein would probably be considered an anti-Zionist by today's standards as he opposed borders and ethno-nationalism, was more of a cultural Zionist than a political Zionist, and wouldn't like the kind of 2SS that today's liberal Zionists puah.
@ntm.bsky.socialIn case anyone is tempted to "try it"
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@ntm.bsky.socialAlbert Einstein, who is a pro-peace Zionist who was asked to be president of Israel, called the party of Herut (now Likud, the party of Netanyahu) "closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties." He condemned Zionist terrorism.