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this is the best explanation I've seen for "defund the police" as a slogan and policy

this article is very good as well: currentaffairs.org/2020/08/why-cr…

and see this thread, which includes the astonishing fact that the 3-year recidivism rate for prisoners who had access to pell grants and got a college degree was 5% versus 40% for those who didn't
spoiler alert: they got rid of the pell grants, bc the purpose of the neoliberal penal state is not to reduce crime, it is to punish those in the lower regions of the class and racial hierarchy. for more details see wacqaunt's work linked in this thread:
see this thread for another concrete proposal as part of the "defund the police" movement

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Sep 25
every day I read the daily write ups on the Gaza genocide and Lebanon massacres in the NYT, AP, BBC, Guardian, Washington Post, Reuters, and the outright brazen lies and propaganda is so infuriating, so enraging, because it's so patently absurd and deranged that any 10 year old with minimal critical thinking skills can see right through it.

It's difficult to conceive how any human being can lower themselves to this level of shameless cuntery to fabricate and publish this trash, whose sole purpose is to justify and launder the mass maiming, beheading, rape and murder of babies, children, girls, boys, women and men by a genocidal death-cult masquerading as a society
I'll post about this separately tomorrow because it deserves its own thread, but the AP in today's piece on the indiscriminate terror bombings of Lebanon cites a deranged fanatical genocidal Zionist freak who served in Israeli military intelligence and now heads a fake "think tank" propaganda front whose entire board is filled with Israeli military and intelligence officials as objective proof that there are Hezbollah missiles everywhere across Lebanon which is why Israel is legitimately bombing all of it.

They actually did that. And of course Melanie Lidman, the genocidal freak scum who migrated over to the AP from the Times of Israel propaganda rag contributed to that piece, and I am 100% that she was behind that paragraph. More on that vile scumbag here:
it's just astonishing. I'm looking up more information on that deranged fanatical genocidal Zionist woman the AP cited as their objective neutral source for Hezbollah having missiles embedded in every single Lebanese city and village which is why bombing all of it is legitimate, and she's the most unhinged propagandist alive. Her name is Sarit Zehavi.

She has AIPAC videos, she writes propaganda pieces saying the ceasefire deal will only cause more devastation to the region because Iran has to be destroyed, she demanded US troops stay in Iraq, she and her fake "think tank" front have said that every Lebanese civilian is a legitimate kill because they're all human shields.

This is the person the AP cited as proof without any evidence. They just cited her saying it, and then presented it as objective fact.

To the guy who wrote that piece, and to the two others who contributed to it, you're going to have some fun tomorrow.
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Sep 23
yesterday Jake Tapper fabricated out of thin air the claim that Rashida Tlaib said the Attorney General of Michigan made decisions to prosecute anti-genocide protesters because she's Jewish. She never said this. He just made it up.

He then used his position as CNN anchor to pressure Michigan governor Whitmer to denounce Tlaib over a statement she never made, and now, just hours ago, his fellow CNN anchor Dana Bash repeated the same lie that Tlaib made that statement as fact to prove that there is "widespread anti-Semitism on the left".

Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are fanatical deranged Zionist genocidal propagandist scum, and they are now just outright lying about the only Palestinian-American member of Congress to smear her and put a kill target on her. They want to kill her. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash want one of their deranged Zionist terrorist followers to do what they did in killing the 6 year old Palestinian boy and the Palestinian student who was shot and paralyzed.

That is what they are doing using their CNN positions, and no one in the media class is doing anything about it. They will face zero repercussions for fabricating and spreading a blood libel murderous racist lie about a sitting member of Congress who constantly gets death threats from Zionist terrorist scum like them.
recently I said that if the Nuremberg trial principles were applied, both Jake Tapper and Dana Bash would be hanged for all the genocidal murderous propaganda they have fabricated and spread with glee. And every single day they keep proving this right:
Dana Bash is one of the most unhinged genocidal racist scumbag pieces of shit alive, and the same goes for fellow Zionist propagandist scum Jake Tapper. Look at her face as she justifies the mass rape and murder of Palestinian babies, children and women:
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Sep 19
so the principle now established by the Western media and political class is that if you intercept an electronic device used by a member or supporter of a genocidal murderous terrorist political party, like say the Republicans and Democrats, AIPAC, every Israeli party, and implant an explosive in it, and then remotely detonate it whenever you like without care for if it actually blinds, maims or kills that specific person, but also anyone else around them at the time, or others who may have possession of it like their children, spouses, friends, etc., that's not only a perfectly legitimate thing to do, it's actually awesome and sophisticated and to be celebrated.

So the depraved principle that is now established by them is: It is perfectly fine and even great to want to intentionally maim, blind and kill all those people, and anyone who may be around them or be confused for them, at any time of your choosing, whenever you please.

That's a cool principle. Let's see how it works out for them.
to be clear these principles have been long-established. For example the Western media and political class recently reaffirmed you can put a kill target on writers, then murder them along with their relatives including young children. Bari Weiss did that:
when Ukro-Nazis car-bombed Daria Dugina, who whatever you may think of her was not a combatant, the Western media class celebrated with such utter glee. But that means you are all legitimate targets too. They can't even comprehend it. It's astonishing

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Sep 17
if planting explosives in electronic devices and blowing them up in civilian areas killing and wounding indiscriminately is fine and in fact great, what's wrong with putting explosives in cars in Tel Aviv? Oh right, only genocidal occupiers are allowed to do murderous terrorism
this is the point Chomsky made to a Zionist hack "reporter" who couldn't comprehend why the entire Western media and political class who hysterically cry about car bombs from those who are occupied and genocided, gleefully support state terror by Israel
"It's a great analytical error to describe terrorism as the weapon of the weak. Like most weapons it is primarily a weapon of the strong, and always has been."
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Sep 17
if Hamas, Hezbollah, or any group or person exploded electronic devices in Israel and killed children, it would be described by the entire Western media class as a horrific act of wanton evil sadistic terrorism. Israel does it and it's seen as an epic based move to be celebrated
what is the difference between killing children and civilians by intentionally exploding devices meant to kill them, and doing it by shooting or bombing them?

There is no difference.

It's the same act of mass murder, of actual terrorism.

But because Israel does it with Western arms, funding, weapons and intel it's epic and based and we all have to celebrate it as such
change the people killed and wounded for Israelis and the exact same means was used to do it, and the entire Western media and political class would be crying endless hysterical crocodile tears, writing 6000 word profiles on each and every one of them as pure Saints, like they do with all the genocidal Israeli Zionist baby-killing rape-soldiers on October 7 when they mention the Holy 1200 (a fake made up purely propaganda number as I detailed here: ).

It is the same with the entire depraved genocidal "human shields" propaganda, which like every Zionist accusation is of course pure projection and actually applies to them:

The entire Western media and political class can't even comprehend this. They can't even comprehend that the same genocidal murderous principles they apply to others should also be applied to themselves. It's incomprehensible to these depraved scum
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Sep 11
today is the 23rd anniversary of 9/11, and also of the entire media class losing their minds over Chomsky telling some uncomfortable truths about it
today is also the 50th anniversary of the first 9/11, a much worse act of state terror conveniently memory-holed by the Western media and political class because the US sponsored it: the fascist military coup against Chile's socialist government
as the media class began the "War on Terror" propaganda, in November 2001 Chomsky was pointing out that the US is the world's leading terrorist state and that "it's a great error to describe terrorism as the weapon of the weak: it's a weapon of the strong, and always has been."
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