ryan kaveh sheldon
@oxidentalist.bsky.social
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c18 lit / slavery, ameliorationism, and quantification /
we have a world to win /
c18 lit / slavery, ameliorationism, and quantification /
we have a world to win /
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Israel’s military launched its first ground incursions in months into parts of southern Lebanon. Since agreeing to a cease-fire in November, Israel has been conducting near-daily strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah has not responded militarily since the truce.
Israel Launches New Ground Operations in Lebanon Despite Truce
For months, Israel has conducted near-daily strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah has not responded militarily since a November truce.
trib.al
July 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Israel’s military launched its first ground incursions in months into parts of southern Lebanon. Since agreeing to a cease-fire in November, Israel has been conducting near-daily strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah has not responded militarily since the truce.
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"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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www.haaretz.com
June 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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if i were a plant i think i’d like to have my leaves spritzed on hot days
June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
if i were a plant i think i’d like to have my leaves spritzed on hot days
Membership in knowledge communities is also restricted according to a racial/civilizational logic: if you’re part of that great exclusion zone known as the global south, your murder can always be retroactively justified as strategically necessary
All the people talking about whether or not Iran’s nuclear facilities have been “obliterated” and I haven’t heard one person mention that Israel proudly assassinated at least 14 scientists
June 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Membership in knowledge communities is also restricted according to a racial/civilizational logic: if you’re part of that great exclusion zone known as the global south, your murder can always be retroactively justified as strategically necessary
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This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.
June 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.
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ngl I think the idea that feelings don't need to be justified in order to be respected is one of the sicknesses of modern culture
“I’m explicitly admitting there is no threat and it’s an absurd notion but because a religious group is delusional about the fake threat 400k of my neighbors are assholes”
I thought this was a perfect shitpost but he’s serious
I thought this was a perfect shitpost but he’s serious
June 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
ngl I think the idea that feelings don't need to be justified in order to be respected is one of the sicknesses of modern culture
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Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies
June 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies
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Every day, starving Palestinians in Gaza have no choice but to try to get food for their families, knowing full well it’s a trap and they’re likely to be murdered. This bait-and-switch starvation/extermination move will be studied for decades, after it can’t matter. Unforgivable.
June 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Every day, starving Palestinians in Gaza have no choice but to try to get food for their families, knowing full well it’s a trap and they’re likely to be murdered. This bait-and-switch starvation/extermination move will be studied for decades, after it can’t matter. Unforgivable.
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Kindly close the New York Times browser window, close your eyes, and ask yourself if you really are for U.S. bombs shredding human beings for the crime of living in a state that doesn't want to submit to U.S. hegemony.
June 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Kindly close the New York Times browser window, close your eyes, and ask yourself if you really are for U.S. bombs shredding human beings for the crime of living in a state that doesn't want to submit to U.S. hegemony.
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CENTCOM cooked up a military operation independent of the president?
The Pentagon ordered a diversionary flight of B-2 bombers as misdirection, per NYT, because they were afraid Trump was giving the attack away to Iran via his social media posts
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...
June 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
CENTCOM cooked up a military operation independent of the president?
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once sleeper cells infiltrate the brain they are virtually impossible to remove
June 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
once sleeper cells infiltrate the brain they are virtually impossible to remove
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Wonderful that in the 22 years since the Iraq war there is still no serious anti-war coalition in either US party.
June 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Wonderful that in the 22 years since the Iraq war there is still no serious anti-war coalition in either US party.
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Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv
June 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv
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They were wrong in 2003 and they're wrong now.
June 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
They were wrong in 2003 and they're wrong now.
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the media is so deeply complicit
June 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
the media is so deeply complicit
And it did all of this to protect (and later, after failing in that, punish the loss of) Western resource dominance. So much wreckage and devastation to support oil flows and revenues, and eventually, to demarcate where and for whom sovereignty exists.
1953: US orchestrates a coup in Iran, deposes democratically elected prime minister
1953-1979: US supports dictator reinstalled in coup
1980-88: US supports Iraq in war w/Iran
1979-present: US sanctions on Iran
2018: US abandons nuclear treaty with Iran
2025: US bombs Iran
1953-1979: US supports dictator reinstalled in coup
1980-88: US supports Iraq in war w/Iran
1979-present: US sanctions on Iran
2018: US abandons nuclear treaty with Iran
2025: US bombs Iran
June 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
And it did all of this to protect (and later, after failing in that, punish the loss of) Western resource dominance. So much wreckage and devastation to support oil flows and revenues, and eventually, to demarcate where and for whom sovereignty exists.
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can you imagine thinking the anti-war left is who you should be attacking right now?!?! absolutely disgusting
June 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
can you imagine thinking the anti-war left is who you should be attacking right now?!?! absolutely disgusting
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I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.
June 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.
The US, the greatest purveyor of global violence, attacked a country it had been pretending to negotiate with—and did so in collaboration with a genocidal client regime. That is what has happened. It’s not “WWIII”; it is part of a history of militaristic surplus extraction in West Asia.
June 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The US, the greatest purveyor of global violence, attacked a country it had been pretending to negotiate with—and did so in collaboration with a genocidal client regime. That is what has happened. It’s not “WWIII”; it is part of a history of militaristic surplus extraction in West Asia.
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No war but class war.
June 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
No war but class war.
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I can't help but think about how the Bush-Cheney administration set this up.
The domestic opposition to US war with Iran must be resolute, immovable, and massive.
No nuances, just clarity:
US out of Iran.
US must cease supporting Israel's military.
The domestic opposition to US war with Iran must be resolute, immovable, and massive.
No nuances, just clarity:
US out of Iran.
US must cease supporting Israel's military.
June 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I can't help but think about how the Bush-Cheney administration set this up.
The domestic opposition to US war with Iran must be resolute, immovable, and massive.
No nuances, just clarity:
US out of Iran.
US must cease supporting Israel's military.
The domestic opposition to US war with Iran must be resolute, immovable, and massive.
No nuances, just clarity:
US out of Iran.
US must cease supporting Israel's military.
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I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.
June 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.
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No qualifiers, no caveats: hands off Iran!
June 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
No qualifiers, no caveats: hands off Iran!