Posts by AdrianS@www.minds.com
(DIR) Post #AbGZCz0jeOZeH4cLse by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-10-29T03:29:55+00:00
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#CIAchristianityExposed as tool of empire, genocide, hate.Ha ha ha! #NewFascistGOPspeaker Mike Johnson is a Zionist 1st, American 2nd: try him for treason!Bible believing fundamentalist fanatic deranged new GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson has no place for #peace in the midEast, he only reads what he wants to in that Bible, somehow the dumba55 skipped the quintessential Christian message from Christ himself: 'love God and your neighbor as yourself' which is the definition of Christianity, the only real certainty in the Bible. He instead chose the demented certainty of 'there can never be peace btn Jews and Palestinians' from cryptic 'prophecy book of Revelation' nobody really understands. A55hole imperialist warmongers masquerading as Christians.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TIoKIeeZt0
(DIR) Post #AbH4bq5hgPNQo4HuyW by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-10-29T03:31:30+00:00
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#McCarthyism2p0 to destroy unions, workers, middle class, the left.#PalestineDerangementSyndrome.Wow! Entire #BillionaireWh0reSenate condemns #FreeSpeech in America. We don't need these tyrants and f*** Bernie, Biden dems and fascist repubs! Tell these tyrants: move to Iran or Saudi Arabia if you hate free speech and want to live in a religious fundamentalist nation ruled by demented priests like 2000 years ago. We like America with free speech, Constitution and secular rule. #Abolish2WarParties.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14_7llZLPM8
(DIR) Post #Abg1nTYGw78IIPJwvI by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-11-10T21:47:22+00:00
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#NSOstateSpies aid govt assassinations worldwide.I bet #NSOgovtSpyware is strong-arming Biden and Blinken to take them off the #BannedList of software.https://theintercept.com/2023/11/10/nso-group-israel-gaza-blacklist/
(DIR) Post #AbpvOBTbbOxqUMkWWG by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-11-15T14:54:51+00:00
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#WarsBasedOnLies.Israel can no more eradicate Hamas than the US military eradicated the Taliban after 20 yrs of occupation, the Taliban took over as US military departed. Today's children orphaned by Israel in #GazaGenocide are tomorrow's Hamas fighters, same as the Taliban. All Israel is doing is creating more 'terrorists': all bc they refuse to be grown-ups, sit down and negotiate a real, lasting #peace that deals with the issues. Psycho leaders continue war4profit.Israel should just admit they just want revenge, they'd be far more believable.
(DIR) Post #Abw2rsBdkbhzygD3hI by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-11-18T15:22:40+00:00
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#ChristoFascistMikeJohnson demands Israel keep bombing Gaza.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awiyEV_rOIY
(DIR) Post #Abw2rv1TCsM8m0TTlI by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-11-18T15:21:57+00:00
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Son of #HolocaustSurvivor thrown off train by #DemSenatorCrisCoons for daring ask him to support #GazaCeasefire where 4700 kids have been murdered by the Israeli invader.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGL14fBcNoQ
(DIR) Post #Abx56gya6kiccQFu0u by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-11-18T16:12:34+00:00
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#ceasefire
(DIR) Post #AcD5h7OsRweLWfHd0S by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-11-25T14:05:30+00:00
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Dear Comrades:On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Trotskyist movement in the United States, the Plenum of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party sends its revolutionary socialist greetings to orthodox Trotskyists throughout the world.Although the Socialist Workers Party, because of undemocratic laws passed by the Democrats and Republicans, is no longer affiliated to the Fourth International—the World Party of Socialist Revolution founded by Leon Trotsky to carry on and fulfill the program betrayed by the Second International of the Social Democrats and the Third International of the Stalinists—we take interest in the welfare of the world-wide organization created under the guidance of our martyred leader.As is well known, the pioneer American Trotskyists 25 years ago brought the program of Trotsky, suppressed by the Kremlin, to the attention of world public opinion. This act proved decisive in breaching the isolation imposed by the Stalinist bureaucracy on Trotsky and in laying the foundation for the Fourth International. With his exile shortly thereafter, Trotsky began an intimate and trusted collaboration with the leadership of the SWP that lasted to the day of his death.The collaboration included joint efforts to organize revolutionary socialist parties in a number of countries. This culminated, as you know, in the launching of the Fourth International in 1938. The Transitional Program, which remains the keystone of today’s program of the world Trotskyist movement, was written by Trotsky in collaboration with the leaders of the SWP and at his request was submitted by them for adoption at the founding Congress.The intimacy and thoroughness of the collaboration between Trotsky and the leadership of the SWP can be judged from the record of struggle in defense of orthodox Trotskyist principles in 1939-40 against the Petty-Bourgeois Opposition headed by Burnham and Shachtman. That record has had profound influence in shaping the Fourth International in the past 13 years.After the murder of Trotsky by an agent of Stalin’s secret police, the SWP took the lead in defending and advocating his teachings. We took the lead not from choice, but from necessity—the second world war forced the orthodox Trotskyists underground in many countries, especially in Europe under the Nazis. Together with Trotskyists in Latin America, Canada, England, Ceylon, India, Australia and elsewhere we did what we could to uphold the banner of orthodox Trotskyism through the difficult war years.With the end of the war, we were gratified at the appearance in Europe of Trotskyists from the underground who undertook the organizational reconstitution of the Fourth International. Since we were barred from belonging to the Fourth International by reactionary laws, we placed all the greater hope in the emergence of a leadership capable of continuing the great tradition bequeathed to our world movement by Trotsky. We felt that the young new leadership of the Fourth International in Europe must be given full confidence and support. When self-corrections of serious errors were made on the initiative of the comrades themselves, we felt that our course was proving justified.However, we must now admit that the very freedom from sharp criticism which we together with others accorded this leadership helped open the way for the consolidation of an uncontrolled, secret, personal faction in the administration of the Fourth International which has abandoned the basic program of Trotskyism.This faction, centered around Pablo, is now working consciously and deliberately to disrupt, split, and break up the historically created cadres of Trotskyism in the various countries and to liquidate the Fourth International.The Program of TrotskyismTo show precisely what is involved, let us restate the fundamental principles on which the world Trotskyist movement is built:1. The death agony of the capitalist system threatens the destruction of civilization through worsening depressions, world wars and barbaric manifestations like fascism. The development of atomic weapons today underlines the danger in the gravest possible way.2. The descent into the abyss can be avoided only by replacing capitalism with the planned economy of socialism on a world scale and thus resuming the spiral of progress opened up by capitalism in its early days.3. This can be accomplished only under the leadership of the working class as the only truly revolutionary class in society. But the working class itself faces a crisis of leadership although the world relationship of social forces was never so favorable as today for the workers to take the road to power.4. To organize itself for carrying out this world-historic aim the working class in each country must construct a revolutionary socialist party in the pattern developed by Lenin; that is, a combat party capable of dialectically combining democracy and centralism—democracy in arriving at decisions, centralism in carrying them out; a leadership controlled by the ranks, ranks able to carry forward under fire in disciplined fashion.5. The main obstacle to this is Stalinism, which attracts workers through exploiting the prestige of the October 1917 Revolution in Russia, only later, as it betrays their confidence, to hurl them either into the arms of the Social Democracy, into apathy, or back into illusions in capitalism. The penalty for these betrayals is paid by the working people in the form of consolidation of fascist or monarchist forces, and new outbreaks of wars fostered and prepared by capitalism. From its inception, the Fourth International set as one of its major tasks the revolutionary overthrow of Stalinism inside and outside the USSR.6. The need for flexible tactics facing many sections of the Fourth International, and parties or groups sympathetic to its program, makes it all the more imperative that they know how to fight imperialism and all of its petty-bourgeois agencies (such as nationalist formations or trade-union bureaucracies) without capitulation to Stalinism; and, conversely, know how to fight Stalinism (which in the final analysis is a petty-bourgeois agency of imperialism) without capitulating to imperialism.These fundamental principles established by Leon Trotsky retain full validity in the increasingly complex and fluid politics of the world today. In fact the revolutionary situations opening up on every hand as Trotsky foresaw, have only now brought full concreteness to what at one time may have appeared to be somewhat remote abstractions not intimately bound up with the living reality of the time. The truth is that these principles now hold with increasing force both in political analysis and in the determination of the course of practical action.Pablo’s RevisionismThese principles have been abandoned by Pablo. In place of emphasizing the danger of a new barbarism, he sees the drive toward socialism as “irreversible”; yet he does not see socialism coming within our generation or some generations to come. Instead he has advanced the concept of an “engulfing” wave of revolutions that give birth to nothing but “deformed,” that is, Stalin-type workers’ states which are to last for “centuries.”This reveals the utmost pessimism about the capacities of the working class, which is wholly in keeping with the ridicule he has lately voiced of the struggle to build independent revolutionary socialist parties. In place of holding to the main course of building independent revolutionary socialist parties by all tactical means, he looks to the Stalinist bureaucracy, or a decisive section of it, to so change itself under mass pressure as to accept the “ideas” and “program” of Trotskyism. Under guise of the diplomacy required in tactical maneuvers needed to approach workers in the camp of Stalinism in such countries as France, he now covers up the betrayals of Stalinism.This course has already led to serious defections from the ranks of Trotskyism to the camp of Stalinism. The pro-Stalinist split in the Ceylon party is a warning to all Trotskyists everywhere of the tragic consequences of the illusions about Stalinism which Pabloism fosters.In another document, we are submitting a detailed analysis of Pablo’s revisionism. In this letter we will confine ourselves to some recent tests that show in the decisive field of action how far Pablo has gone in conciliationism to Stalinism and how grave the danger is to the existence of the Fourth International.With the death of Stalin, the Kremlin announced a series of concessions in the USSR, none of them political in character. In place of characterizing these as nothing but part of a maneuver aimed at further retrenchment of the usurping bureaucracy and part of the preparation for a leading bureaucrat to assume the mantle of Stalin, the Pabloite faction took the concessions as good coin, painted them up as political concessions, and even projected the possibility of the “sharing of power” by the Stalinist bureaucracy with the workers. (Fourth International, January-February, 1953, p.13.)An appeal from David North: Donate to the WSWS todayWatch the video message from WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North.Donate todayThe “sharing of power” concept, promulgated most bluntly by [SWP member George] Clarke, a high priest of the Pablo cult, was indirectly sanctioned as dogma by Pablo himself in an unanswered but obviously leading question: Will the liquidation of the Stalinist regime take the form, Pablo asks, “of violent inter-bureaucratic struggles between elements who will fight for the status quo, if not for turning back, and the more and more numerous elements drawn by the powerful pressure of the masses?” (Fourth International, March-April, 1953, p.39.)This line fills the orthodox Trotskyist program of political revolution against the Kremlin bureaucracy with a new content; namely, the revisionist position that the “ideas” and “program” of Trotskyism will filter into and permeate the bureaucracy, or a decisive section of it, thus “overthrowing” Stalinism in an unforeseen way.In East Germany in June the workers rose against the Stalinist-dominated government in one of the greatest demonstrations in the history of Germany. This was the first proletarian mass uprising against Stalinism since it usurped and consolidated power in the Soviet Union. How did Pablo respond to this epochal event?Instead of clearly voicing the revolutionary political aspirations of the insurgent East German workers, Pablo covered up the counter-revolutionary Stalinist satraps who mobilized Soviet troops to put down the uprising (“...the Soviet leaders and those of the various ‘People’s Democracies’ and the Communist Parties could no longer falsify or ignore the profound meaning of these events. They have been obliged to continue along the road of still more ample and genuine concessions to avoid risking alienating themselves forever from support by the masses and from provoking still stronger explosions. From now on they will not be able to stop half-way. They will be obliged to dole out concessions to avoid more serious explosions in the immediate future and if possible to effect a transition ‘in a cold fashion’ from the present situation to a situation more tolerable for the masses.”) (Statement of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International. Published in The Militant, July 6.)Instead of demanding the withdrawal of Soviet troops—the sole force upholding the Stalinist government—Pablo fostered the illusion that “more ample and genuine concessions” would be forthcoming from the Kremlin’s gauleiters. Could Moscow have asked for better assistance as it proceeded to monstrously falsify the profound meaning of those events, branding the workers in revolt as “fascists” and “agents of American imperialism,” and opening a wave of savage repression against them?...What to DoTo sum up: The lines of cleavage between Pablo’s revisionism and orthodox Trotskyism are so deep that no compromise is possible either politically or organizationally. The Pablo faction has demonstrated that it will not permit democratic decisions truly reflecting majority opinion to be reached. They demand complete submission to their criminal policy. They are determined to drive all orthodox Trotskyists out of the Fourth International or to muzzle and handcuff them.Their scheme has been to inject their Stalinist conciliationism piecemeal and likewise in piecemeal fashion, get rid of those who come to see what is happening and raise objections. That is the explanation for the strange ambiguity about many of the Pabloite formulations and diplomatic evasions.Up to now the Pablo faction has had a certain success with this unprincipled and Machiavellian maneuverism. But the qualitative point of change has been reached. The political issues have broken through the maneuvers and the fight is now a showdown.If we may offer advice to the sections of the Fourth International from our enforced position outside the ranks, we think the time has come to act and to act decisively. The time has come for the orthodox Trotskyist majority of the Fourth International to assert their will against Pablo’s usurpation of authority.They should in addition safeguard the administration of the affairs of the Fourth International by removing Pablo and his agents from office and replacing them with cadres who have proved in action that they know how to uphold orthodox Trotskyism and keep the movement on a correct course both politically and organizationally.With fraternal Trotskyist greetings,National Committee of the SWP***Read more from The Heritage We Defend by David North: The Origins of Pabloism The Metaphysics of Nationalized Property The Nature of Pabloite Opportunism Cannon’s Struggle Against the Cochranites The Split in the Fourth International James P. Cannon’s “Open Letter”https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/11/16/wyos-n16.html
(DIR) Post #AcPSMcBZQOaTlZlpbc by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-11-26T21:00:45+00:00
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#endTheCIA.'#injustice takes place, few are guilty but all are responsible: #indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. We're all responsible for indifference.The final nail in the coffin of CIA operation #Russiagate aka 'Russian hacking tilted US election to Trump' made up fake news, used to steal 2020 presidency from Bernie and elect life long CIA/bank slave Biden as president.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86se_HtJLFo
(DIR) Post #AcWSLhODx087iuyJSC by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-12-06T01:16:48+00:00
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#BiblicalGovernanceExposed.Having been raised and spent most of my life in church, when I hear talk about #BiblicalGovernance it can only mean 2 things, both 100% unacceptable:1. Government like there was 2000 years ago when the Bible was written, translation: total corporate tyranny and we're the obedient slaves, or2. Govt and society like they have today in Iran, Saudi Arabia or any other #theocracy. Remember Iran had a secular government elected back in the 1950's but USA CIA did a coup and brought about the religious fundamentalists who kill women for not wearing their 'modest headscarves' aka hijabs, but do what the US corporations and big oil want them to do; it's why you never hear the DC crooks criticize Saudi Arabia or their tyrant MBS, bc he can literally lower oil output and raise GAS prices and cost you the election, or they'll bribe Kushner with $ 2 bn investment like they did and buy Trump saying 'MBS didn't murder the WaPo journalist' when it was obvious he did it. 1 or 2 is what #billionairesDoingWar4Profit want to impose on us so they can continue their demented #religionOfGreed with max profits for the rich and enslaved, obedient population, and they're using K0ch billionaire big $ CIAorganizedReligion to push the world this way. They're ready to completely destroy the earth 4 profit, while deceiving people with the 'futurist religion' where the super rich invest in 'going to Mars' but not in saving earth or its poor.PS. The church is one of the most corrupt, tyrannical institutional models in our society, not bc they mean to be corrupt, but bc they follow a 2000 year old model that was designed for power to be abused by 'God's representative' aka priest, preacher, bishop, pope or whatever his title. No, I'm not talking about what your deluded brainwashed self thinks it's 'supposed to mean' I'm talking about what this would mean in our society, in real life here and now. Good stuff that comes out of the church happens bc there are some good people in the church - and it happens in spite of this institution and its ancient corrupt design, not because of it: it's a testament to the power of good people everywhere to overturn even the most evil designs at times, but you can never permanently defeat bad institutional design, unless you design something new, designed to be incorruptible or corruption resistant.
(DIR) Post #AcdXd9lETSLb7Aq1fk by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-12-09T01:22:35+00:00
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@minds is a FBI/CIA permanent state tool too just like facebook. They censor people and truth everywhere, ever since Trump Jan 6 everyone telling truth is being censored even more.
(DIR) Post #AchssSh5Es0JqdsPdg by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-12-11T17:09:11+00:00
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#CovidForcedVaccinations.Let me be clear: #bigPharma locking us down and forcing medical experimentation Covid shots into our bodies, along with #bigWar, are the pinnacle of #capitalism aka #religionOfGreed, not of communism or any other form of tyranny they try to scapegoat. Same with the emergence of Covid highly likely from the CDC Fauci funded Covid lab in Wuhan. It's the feudalist tyranny of big $, power and unleashed greed - which is a vice not a virtue in every single religion and moral tradition in the world. Capitalism is not the end of history and civilization like the corporate propaganda wants us to think, it's the gutter of human devolution, where we're all slaves of billionaires and corporations, and our bodies are their guinea pigs for medical, industrial, big war and psychological experimentation, in their pursuit of absolute power, profit and domination. Capitalism's ultimate goal and unavoidable outcome is the entire world as an open air prison camp like Gaza. This is the unstated end goal of capitalist religion of greed, not the 'communist conspiracy' as they like to scapegoat the dissenters for their own crimes and sociopathic pursuits. It's the ultimate dehumanization and involution of the species back into a stimulated predatory beast state, a weaponized human more aggressive and enslaved than our cave men ancestors.PS. Like Nazi Germany and Hitler's deranged world conquest dream in ww2, this demented ideology is based on a false teaching, false assumptions, a brainwashing of Americans and humanity that we're to stop learning and adopt fixed belief systems created by the 1% to lock down our minds, our growth and development, when we were in fact designed to be emergent, always learning beings, ready to adapt and better ourselves with the infinite power of our minds. Reich wing ideology aka Nazi-ism like capitalism and fanatic fundamentalist statist religion, locks down the power of the human mind, subjecting it to fixed dogmas so people can be easily controlled and enslaved for profit using nationalism and other class war identities (built in loyalties) to be used by the rich against the rest of us. In other words our system of 4 profit education blocks human thinking and development instead of expanding it instead of pursuing the real possibilities of future utopia, peace and a much better world which is possible.
(DIR) Post #Acs1mHTpyR53zOiyLw by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-12-16T14:24:41+00:00
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#USempireDystopia prepares global tyranny:#weapons Israel tests in #Palestine will be used against us all:https://popularresistance.org/the-weapons-israel-tests-on-palestinians-will-be-used-against-all-of-us/
(DIR) Post #Acs2AO0RMWrvB9T6ae by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-12-16T14:58:23+00:00
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#GazaCeasefire #freeAssange #freetruth
(DIR) Post #Acs8rXxwo78GFIGZJQ by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-12-16T14:50:05+00:00
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#JailGenocideJoe;#WorldsNo1Terrorist blocks #peace in @palestine for the 3rd time, CIA war criminal Joe does this just like war criminals Bush, Obama and Trump, on behalf of their owners #billionairesDoingWar4Profit: just like Biden/Johnson blocked UkrainePeaceDeal in march 2022, a few weeks into the invasion, so he could blow up #nordstream cheap Russian gas pipeline and make Europe dependent of US LNG at 3x the cost, plus give Raytheon/BigWar $150++ bn so they'll kick $ millions back into the dem party and fascist repubs re-election scams, and to grease the wheels where ousted politicians can become lobbyists, there are 20 lobbyists in DC for every 1 politician (senator or House member), this adds up to an army of about 9,000 corporate big $ lobbyists twisting arms in DC, which is why we the people can NEVER get anything passed in that most corrupt town in the world. No m4a, no $15 minwage which should $25 no nothing, why Biden and fascist Repubs banned rail and airline strikes.PS. The Nordstream pipeline from Russia to Germany had been sanctioned by both Obama, Trump and then Biden prior to its completion so the US billionaire gangsters never liked Europe getting cheap gas and becoming a global competitor with cheap energy, now psycho Biden prolonged the war to give them plausible deniability to blow up the pipeline DC - USLNG lobby never wanted built. Meanwhile Israel is planning to unearth $500 bn worth of natural gas under Gaza after it's removed the population and build a Ben Gurion chanel competitor to Suez Canal - right through Gaza. https://popularresistance.org/us-blocks-gaza-peace-proposal-at-un-for-third-time-holds-world-hostage/
(DIR) Post #Acs9GVBaHSEyrZXnqS by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-12-16T14:29:12+00:00
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FascistAmerika.#cutUSmilitaryInHalf it'll still be the largest:#MoreMoney4BigWar while ppl are #homeless and starving in America, dying bc they're not able to afford surgery. Building #globalDystopia tyranny is not cheap and the US govt is h3ll bent on doing it, d*** the homeless and starving Americans in the streets.What happens when #billionairesDoingWar4Profit run the nation, own both the crooked dems and fascistRepubs - the uniWarParty. Our politicians are busy blocking peace deals in Ukraine and Gaza bc they'd rather rob us of more $ trillions to big war so they'll get a job for Raytheon when they leave office or as a lobbyist, and get $ hundreds of millions in kickbacks to their campaigns to get re elected.https://popularresistance.org/senate-passes-massive-886-billion-national-defense-authorization-act/
(DIR) Post #AdGcB0KgsSFzA4TehU by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-12-28T11:32:58+00:00
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#biggestLie.If capitalism aka #religionOfGreed profit maximization at any and all costs was natural and #humanNature - like the propaganda in world's most brainwashed nation USA says - the US govt wouldn't need #900militaryBases around the world to bomb people into submission to #billionairesDoingWar4Profit. In fact they would close all bases bc capitalism wouldn't need any global military enforcement being propelled by human nature itself.By comparison Russia only has 29 foreign military bases and China has 4.
(DIR) Post #AdTg1XOIZS0nnWcZV2 by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2023-11-18T15:20:28+00:00
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#ReichWingersCensorUs.#FoxFascistSnowflakes hate #FreeSpeech while they pretend to champion it, just like #JailCriminalInsurrectionistTrump who censored us during Covid.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFfDxsRIXns
(DIR) Post #Ade5qV7GkThGZcwm6S by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2024-01-07T23:00:51+00:00
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#worldsMostBrainwashedNation.NY Times exposed doing #IsraeliPropaganda of mass rape and 'decapitated babies', now completely debunked by Israeli newspaper #Haaretz and others, turns out this was just a #GazaGenocide justification propaganda campaign.Remember NYT doing 'Saddam has wmds and throws babies out of incubators propaganda' to push #IraqWar. MSM slaves of power, push 4everWar.Meanwhile the IDF did kill 13 yr old girl and babies in incubators in bombed Gaza hospitals.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ADsuyq0778
(DIR) Post #AdeaSbSQJadLWRdEps by AdrianS@www.minds.com
2024-01-09T01:09:39+00:00
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#Abolish2parties.Citizens are the holders of freedom, not the 2 parties.....:"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278