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Cambridge, Liverpool, etc
Joined July 2008
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Norman Finkelstein, Cornel West, and Richard Wolff discuss how Tucker Carlson has changed recently, with West saying that we should give Tucker a chance to prove he's really changed for the better. West says that Tucker is going through a "spiritual transformation" and Wolff says that Tucker becoming more religious could make him pro-immigration and against mass deportation. Cornel West: "Now, he's changed again. People do change, I believe in people changing. And when they change, you give them a chance to be tried and true." Richard Wolff: "I suspect Mr. Carlson may have an epiphany around his squaring the religion with that deportation."
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Replying to @PostLeftWatch
Norman is a Lion when comes to Isreal and Palestine and dog shit when comes to almost anything outside of that.
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Imagine dedicating your life to meticulously analyzing historic structural injustice and international law, only to cap it all off by complaining that people who look recently arrived are buying too much fish at the grocery store. Absolutely broken by the internet.
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Norman Finkelstein's position seems to be he's pro-immigration but loves to stereotype immigrants. xitter.gq/PostLeftWatch/status/2…
Norman Finkelstein's thoughts about Mexican immigrants working construction in NYC, and how they're so hard-working that they get all the construction jobs, other minorities can't get those jobs, and the Mexican families all have ten kids, with Cornel West and Richard Wolff. Norman Finkelstein: "You're in New York City, you can't help but notice now, that most construction works are Mexican. It's just right there in your face. They're very hard-working, totally uncomplaining, I'm just speaking, I know Mexican workers. Very hard-working, totally uncomplaining, apparently live on nothing, I don't know how they do it." Richard Wolff: "Huge numbers of them in two, must be in little apartments now." Norman Finkelstein: "I know, if you're in Coney Island boardwalk, you see the mother, the father, and ten kids behind them, it's like a little army. So, it's very hard for an 'American', including American minority, to compete with them. It's very hard, 'cuz they work so hard, so fast, so uncomplaining, and live on so little."
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Norman Finkelstein complains about how he claims recent immigrants are all on food stamps and go to stores to buy "bags of salmon," and his best friend who is a doctor told him how immigrants go to the hospital for a cough or headache because "it's all free." Norman Finkelstein: "I walk into a supermarket, and I have to say, it gets a little bit under my skin, I'm the only one paying with money. Everybody's on food stamps. It does get under my skin. Because I see them buy these bags of salmon, $100... and they're paying everything with food stamps, it gets under my skin. And they're all very recently here, as last week."
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Norman Finkelstein complains about how he claims recent immigrants are all on food stamps and go to stores to buy "bags of salmon," and his best friend who is a doctor told him how immigrants go to the hospital for a cough or headache because "it's all free." Norman Finkelstein: "I walk into a supermarket, and I have to say, it gets a little bit under my skin, I'm the only one paying with money. Everybody's on food stamps. It does get under my skin. Because I see them buy these bags of salmon, $100... and they're paying everything with food stamps, it gets under my skin. And they're all very recently here, as last week."
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Norm is a son of Jewish immigrants who benefited enormously from the city's generous post-war welfare state and he still lives in his family's old rent-stabilized apartment on Ocean Parkway, which is fine, but he should know that people said the same about his family once upon a time. Cornel did well by saying "You have a right to your vibes but your politics are greater."
Norman Finkelstein complains about how he claims recent immigrants are all on food stamps and go to stores to buy "bags of salmon," and his best friend who is a doctor told him how immigrants go to the hospital for a cough or headache because "it's all free." Norman Finkelstein: "I walk into a supermarket, and I have to say, it gets a little bit under my skin, I'm the only one paying with money. Everybody's on food stamps. It does get under my skin. Because I see them buy these bags of salmon, $100... and they're paying everything with food stamps, it gets under my skin. And they're all very recently here, as last week."
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Norman Finkelstein complains about how he claims recent immigrants are all on food stamps and go to stores to buy "bags of salmon," and his best friend who is a doctor told him how immigrants go to the hospital for a cough or headache because "it's all free." Norman Finkelstein: "I walk into a supermarket, and I have to say, it gets a little bit under my skin, I'm the only one paying with money. Everybody's on food stamps. It does get under my skin. Because I see them buy these bags of salmon, $100... and they're paying everything with food stamps, it gets under my skin. And they're all very recently here, as last week."
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Netanyahu called the war on Iran his dream of 40 years
Germany's Chancellor Merz on Iran War: We now have costs exceeding €100 billion for Europe alone over the last eight months, solely because of the increase in energy prices caused by this conflict. More than €100 billion extra has been paid by businesses and consumers in Europe because energy has become more expensive as a result of this conflict. We have an economic interest in bringing this conflict to an end as quickly as possible.
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For those who don't, Umer Khalid has been in prison for over a year, mostly in solitary. During his hunger strike he lost the use of his legs and had to crawl to the toilet. He believes his case doesn't get any coverage because he is Muslim. instagram.com/p/DfFQb8hOOiM/
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If you kill a person *knowing* they are with their families, you also targeted their families
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the awful twitter video algo, if you go past the...not even porn but goonerslop posts and go past the gender war ragebait and the west has fallen content, will show you AI generated "found footage" videos of world leaders meeting aliens. sort of like an echo of the old internet
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We sometimes don’t grasp how sick and depraved our culture has become, so rapidly.
Remember when Western journalists discussed whether Israel had destroyed a hospital in Gaza City?
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I think about this a lot. They conditioned people to accept the worst atrocities within record time. Dark times ahead.
We sometimes don’t grasp how sick and depraved our culture has become, so rapidly.
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Now they’re doing the media rounds trying to sell their books. Sickening.
Words cannot describe the extreme evil, callousness, and banality of Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Brett McGurk who backed the genocide to the bitter end of their own rule. True Eichmanns in the Arendtian mold.
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In the past 100 days I’ve: 1. Armed Israel while it commits genocide in Gaza. 2. Provided Israel with daily surveillance reports to help it kill more people in Gaza. 3. Provided bases and military support for the US war on Iran. 4. Provided refuelling support for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen. 5. Arrested hundreds of Palestine activists. 6. Kept the Palestine Action ban in place. 7. Barred leading scholars from entering Britain. 8. Banned books by bestselling authors. 9. Capitulated to the oil and gas lobby, approving new North Sea gas extraction. 10. Committed to a massive military spending spree, diverting billions from public investment. 11. Made it harder for migrants to secure permanent residency. 12. Continued the war on asylum seekers. 13. Tightened welfare assessments to cut benefit spending. 14. Threatened pension security. 15. Abandoned my proposal to cap political donations. 16. Redirected international climate finance to fund domestic transport subsidies.
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What more do you need to see to understand what a demonic depraved degenerate parasitic entity Israel is
Those moments when Israeli police officers pinned a Palestinian child to the ground and choked him no human being with a conscience can remain silent in the face of such brutality. Human dignity demands that we speak out. Silence is not an option.
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Listen to the latest episode of the Byline Times podcast to hear me discussing the massive, three year long anti-Muslim and anti-migrant Great Replacement-themed influence operation targeting Europe and the US. Report: thegreatreplacement.dysinflu…
NEW PODCAST EPISODE: The far right anti migrant campaign that pushed the anti Muslim Great Replacment Theory - and made milions for the tech platforms. @marcowenjones joins @GoldbergRadio Listen: pod.fo/e/710a69 Watch: pod.fo/e/710a69
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Amro retweeted
Former Israeli military intelligence officer: “[Iran] is artificial state and what will happen with Iran is exactly what happened with the Soviet Union… its fate is to be dismantled, is to be shattered to pieces, as it should have been from the beginning.” Their goal is to destroy Iran as a nation, they don’t hide it.
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Yes. The present Iranian borders are incorrect.
Former Israeli military intelligence officer: “[Iran] is artificial state and what will happen with Iran is exactly what happened with the Soviet Union… its fate is to be dismantled, is to be shattered to pieces, as it should have been from the beginning.” Their goal is to destroy Iran as a nation, they don’t hide it.
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