Mage

Mage

@magex.bsky.social

capitalism must die

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The protests have spread to Serbia. That is Spain France Italy Albania Greece Turkey India Indonesia all protesting at the same time. It's time to force the billionaires out of power.

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A moral compass largely determined by their paycheck

Ant@agramuglia.bsky.social

The H3 Podcast crew leaving now is great, but like...they still stood by Ethan after EVERYTHING ELSE he did. So I don't have a ton of praise for them.

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I’m still on vacation but have 30 min in the car to read more about Ethan Klein’s latest fuckup. I saw ppl saying he “groomed” his affair partner…on the one hand apparently she’s nearly 30. On the other hand she’s dumb enough to work for a genocidal monster so yeah maybe put her in a conservatorship

Rebecca Watson@skepchick.org

tired: ethnic cleansing wired: Ethanic cleansing

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You’ll have heard a lot about violence among French protestors. You’ll hear very little about the violence committed by French police against the protesters. And you’ll hear almost nothing about the violence of austerity. This is not a coincidence. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/class-war-...

graceblakeley.substack.comClass War in France – And the Media Still Ask All the Wrong QuestionsAs protests erupt across France, you’ll hear almost nothing about police violence, or the extreme violence of austerity.

Larry David being simultaneously a Zionist boomer with no actually funny skills, and also putting forward great ideas like two workday siestas and pet parental leave and bereavement among others. I suggest the DSA takes note of some bullet points lol

I’ll say it. Idk why but kids (read Gen Z and later) are weirdly against sex in media (movies, shows, whatever). Whether it is a gratuitous sex scene or not, I think 80’s movies were legendary BECAUSE they showed people being comfortable in their own skin. And people say it was mostly nude women

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I think my point is, “banning” anything for the sake of it just removes the life flavor out of works of art. Do we have a romance? I’m sorry, unless your story includes asexual people and such, I expect to see crazy sex because that’s what happens in real life.

On that last point, my girl friends told me their kids (between 12 to 14) do not dance, do not dress, their parties are just them hanging out. So idk, maybe I’m just an out of touch millennial lol

I’ll say it. Idk why but kids (read Gen Z and later) are weirdly against sex in media (movies, shows, whatever). Whether it is a gratuitous sex scene or not, I think 80’s movies were legendary BECAUSE they showed people being comfortable in their own skin. And people say it was mostly nude women

But hey, if you have gone a little beyond purely mainstream Hollywood you can see how much dick and ass men showed. It was literal soft porn I should not have seen on Sunday tv when I was like 8. But I’m not a pervert, so I guess it all turned out fine

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My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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Vivek Ramaswamy is surrounded by an army of median-weirdness, median-competence GOP strategists, activists, pollsters, ad makers... Like, this is their "just do normal base shit, it's Ohio for gods sake" team. The first ten thousand people you'd draw from the RNC resume pile would approve this ad.

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this is the reason these questions are asked. it doesn't matter how well el-sayed answers, the media get to write a headline with his name and the muslim brotherhood in it. heated, islamist, implications, criticize, disavow, dual loyalty, scary man bad

CNN@cnn.com

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political movement, during a heated exchange at a town hall. https://cnn.it/4s7r1TL

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Replying to @bigjoel.bsky.social

I thought it was very revealing when we learned she's actually a human sized mouse and all the Theranos money was spent on cheese. Deep, surprising, and interesting.

Fellas, is it gay to be a man in love with a sexy Latina and have sec with her while this music plays? Many “capital G” gamers are trying to argue this and I’m unconvinced 🤔

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

"featuring new music from electronic duo Justice, composers of the original score from Grand Theft Auto VI." www.rockstargames.com/newswire/art...

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Profits generated by AI firms in one part of the global economy are being sucked into US equity markets, fuelling the boom even further. This kind of circularity is typical of periods of overaccumulation - and these tend to end in globe-spanning crises. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-mon...

graceblakeley.substack.comThe AI money loopThe AI boom has brought back the global imbalances that fuelled the financial crisis. Plus, SoftBank’s bet on the Gulf, and the call centre workers in Manilla losing their jobs to chatbots.

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This can’t be real. Yet somehow is. Please stay till the end. The last line is…👌 Introducing Democrat Jaime West, running for election for Fayette County Council, District 4 in Indiana. (🎥 Viva Frei)

You basically described DARVO. Being a victim experiencing trauma symptoms doesn’t condone your future actions as an abuser. Wanting a homeland where to belong is only natural human need. Invading, killing and subjugating is putting that need into violent practice.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

I just recognise that there's a very deep sensitivity here. It can be hard for non-Jews to understand the intergenerational trauma and terror of people who have been subject to centuries of extermination attempts, merely for being who they are. Please try to bear the context in mind. Thank you.

Zionism isn’t the “feeling” or the “need”. Zionism is the action of subjugation, genociding and otherwise destroying the other one perceives as “less” deserving of what you want. Sorry, but no. You trauma doesn’t give you any right to dream for something that means destroying others.

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It really doesn't matter. The same tropes and narratives will play out again and again and again, and all it really does is calm the liberals down a bit so the only people with the material power to do anything can continue their uninterrupted slaughter.

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Zionism is a violent ethnonationalist ideology. This was always known even to its earliest modern thinkers. To pretend otherwise is functionally the same as saying "We're not enslaving your race because we're racist - we just want to make our nation stronger".

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Notably Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of modern Zionism, used this same "It's not that we hate Arabs, it's just impossible for both of us to get what we want" apologism while outlining the ideology ("he called it polite indifference") It's like they knew from the start exactly what their movement was.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

So you could reasonably argue that an *outcome* of Zionism is racism. But that is not the same as stating “Zionism is racism”. Racism is not where it came from. It is not what motivated the deep yearning for safety, for a refuge, whether 80 years ago or 800.

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Being marginally well known means people just make up an entire life & worldview for you. I’ve always found it interesting. It reminds me of how I used to play Barbies with my cousin when we were little. Adults aren’t allowed to play Barbies, so they do it with other humans they don’t actually know

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So funny tourists tried to pre-emptively cancel GTA VI for having a strong female protagonist when it's on the verge of total cultural domination. Enjoy your gender swapped Harry Potter fan fiction and Kid Rock's new album

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

"featuring new music from electronic duo Justice, composers of the original score from Grand Theft Auto VI." www.rockstargames.com/newswire/art...