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cookie-nom-nom · 3 months

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“The only thing that we're not doing is we're not shooting [immigrants] who come across the border, because of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder.” -Greg Abbott, Texas governor

Hey, so in case y'all aren't aware, the governor of Texas is defying the Supreme Court's order to take out razor wire on the border that severely endangers the lives of people trying to cross, under the grounds that Texas is protecting itself from invasion. Abbott is threatening to pit the Texas national guard against Federal troops. It's probably a bluff, but praying for Republicans to be rational rarely works. Extremists are literally calling for succession from the United States.

I don't think it'll come to fighting, but the fact Abbott is so openly defying federal orders and blatantly threatening militant action is pretty terrifying. Especially if he's just allowed to do this, which would set a very dangerous precedent for what states can get away with.

#im breaking the blackout for Palestine for this one bc like y'all. I'm getting kinda freaked out here #I hate it here so much #literally the other day i was like 'at least I'm not in Florida' and then #I mean people fly confederate flags here they've been itching for a second civil war ever since the last one ended #Texas would be quashed but also we're full of 2nd amendment nutjobs so I imagine there'd be guerilla fighting #idk. I think Abbott will be forced to back down so I don't want to fear monger but it's not great here #politics #usa politics #greg abbott #texas #this blog has gotten so political ah #:(#something to nom on

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callese · 1 year

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#capitalist system #us war monger #us colonialism #capitalism kills #priorities in the usa #this is amerikkka

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personal-blog243 · 6 months

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Guys am I dreaming or did a CONSERVATIVE page just perfectly sum up leftist economic and political ideology POSITIVELY!

It was turning point usa that shared this! That means that even conservatives do agree with left wing thoughts on these issues! If we can just communicate we can build a bigger more inclusive movement and actually do something about this system the conservatives also disagree with!

Never forget that both the left and right hate authoritarianism, poverty, war, a predatory and corrupt economic system, etc.

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xtruss · 11 months

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War Criminal & The Deadliest War Monger Kissinger Behind 3 Million Civilian Deaths – The Intercept

The former US diplomat’s actions caused, among others, 150,000 Cambodian civilians to die, an outlet investigation has claimed

Henry Kissinger, the foreign policy eminence grise who has advised half a dozen US presidents, has caused the deaths of over 3 million people, according to an Intercept report published Tuesday to mark the realpolitik strategist’s 100th birthday.

While critics of the Nixon-era secretary of state and national security adviser often describe him as a war criminal for his pivotal role in numerous US-backed genocides and coups, the report argues Kissinger's body count has been widely underestimated, particularly regarding the secretive, highly illegal expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia in the 1970s.

Between the genocides he sponsored in East Timor and Bangladesh, continent-wide terrorism, coups and death squads in Latin America (known as Operation Condor), the fomenting of civil wars in Southern Africa, and the carpet-bombing of Cambodia and Laos under the guise of chasing the Vietnamese, Kissinger is believed to be responsible for over 3 million civilian deaths – more if one counts the casualties that have resulted from advice he gave the private sector.

Kissinger has 'only' acknowledged that his actions caused the deaths of 50,000 Cambodians and blames the Vietnamese, the supposed targets of the US bombing campaign (the coordinates of which were logged incorrectly so as to be recorded as legal strikes within Vietnam).

Intercept reporter Nick Truse argues the number is closer to 150,000, pointing to numerous documented examples of egregious and deliberate undercounting of civilian casualties. The figure represents over six times more civilians than the US has killed in airstrikes since 9/11.

Transcripts from the Intercept's “exclusive archive” of declassified US military documents from a secret Pentagon war crimes task force reveal it was Kissinger’s decision to relay the n-president Richard Nixon’s often drunk, belligerent trash talk about Cambodia into coherent instructions to the Pentagon to begin a “massive bombing campaign” in the country in 1970.

Kissinger’s now-infamous directive to shoot “anything that flies on anything that moves” exploded the secret war, tripling the number of bombings by the end of the year. He allegedly approved all 3,875 individual bombings of the war, and the bombers dropped over 257,000 tonnes of explosives on Cambodia in 1973 alone.

The Intercept’s archive also revealed numerous brutal ground raids on Cambodian villages that have since been all but memory-holed; Truse confirmed via interviews with survivors that the raids were far deadlier than reported. While the airstrikes were frequently hushed up as “pilot error” – “errors” that were nevertheless repeated thousands of times – the US Army, in an internal investigation, actually blamed its press corps when ground troops were caught looting a village they had just raided.

Kissinger's carpet-bombing of Cambodia paved the way for the Khmer Rouge, the genocidal dictatorship that killed 2 million Cambodians – 20% of the country’s population – which he privately (and approvingly) referred to as “murderous thugs” while helping them secure regional allies.

Kissinger has never been prosecuted – or even officially charged – with war crimes, nor has the US military made any systemic efforts to hold accountable the troops who actually did the killing.

— May 24, 2023 | RT

#Henry Kissinger #The Deadliest War Monger #War Criminal #Vietnam #USA 🇺🇸

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feckcops · 1 year

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Stop the arms race madness

“German chancellor Olaf Scholz has declared the war a ‘turning point,’ vowing to spend an extra €100 billion on the German military in the coming years. Not to be outdone, French president Emmanuel Macron plans to raise his country’s military budget by 40 percent by 2030 — a 100 percent rise since he first took power in 2017. And in the United States, no expense is ever spared in funding the military-industrial complex, which has more than doubled since the start of the new millennium.

“But while it’s a bonanza for them, it’s the rest of us who have to put up with the costs — and the dangers that result.

“This is evident in Germany, where the backdrop to the proposed €100 billion arms spending spree is an ever-increasing struggle for the country’s poorest to stay afloat. This in large part owes to spiraling gas and food prices, which have forced many people to turn off the heat. In France, the country’s military ambitions come as a hard sell for the millions being asked to work more hours for less pay: Hugely unpopular pension reforms have been rammed through the National Assembly, while inflation bites into the household incomes of average workers. In Britain, the government is stealthily introducing massive budget cuts of up to £28 billion in public services, at the same time declaring a doubling of the annual defense budget over the next seven years.

“Nowhere has the war been more explicitly linked to sacrificing workers’ rights than in Denmark, where the government has abolished a public holiday in order to finance increased defense spending. ‘There is war in Europe, and we need to strengthen our defenses ... and that will require everyone to contribute a little more,’ says the Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen ...

“This is not just a European problem. In South Korea, a proposal of a sixty-nine-hour work week was announced almost simultaneously with an annual increase of almost 7 percent to the military budget over the next five years. All these new squeezes on working-class living standards must be seen in relation to their government’s efforts to fund more arms.”

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loneranger0369 · 1 year

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Hey... so... That happened....

Lot of uninteresting talk in the Video, but the most important points.

US blowed up Nordstream Pipeline.

US Media covered ONLY news about some "UFO", which the "US FORCES" apparently "Shot down".

(Before I get into it, let me just say that I am not Muslim. I am not Ukrainian. I am just an Indian living in Europe)

The US Media channels are completely owned by the Government, Left or Right. Their use/function is only to push forward the Agenda of the side they represent (Left or Right).

Due to US Involvement in Middle East and its wars in Syria and Iraq, there was a Mass-Immigration of Arab people into Europe. Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Greece suffered the most, but took in these Refugees and gave them Chances to live peaceful lives.

How many Refugees did the USA welcome?

I assure you that none of the other Middle-Eastern Countries welcomed Refugees from Syria and Iraq, due to fear of Collapse of their Developing Societies, which could occur due to the Backwardness of the people from these affected countries, I read. They only used to collect Clothes for the Refugees and donate them.

This "Cold"-war between US and Russia has been torturing Europe since the end of WW-II. Germany too suffered a lot. Not all Germans are Nazis. They WERE of minimum amount, but did monstrous things. Nothing Nazi happening in Germany now.

Hitler probably wanted one Currency and one language around the world. But is that different about US?

(Almost) Everything around the World is sold in US Dollars. English is spoken almost all over the World. How is USA different from the Nazi Group of Hitler? Many Americans "jokingly" tell Britishers 'If it weren't for us, then you all would be speaking German.' Who exactly is Nazi here?

For a long time, US Dollar was costlier (or had more value) than Euro. It was almost twice as valuable as Euro (1 US Dollar = 1.79 Euro) last year (maybe it was more). The ONLY Country (of the NATO Group), that profited from the War between Ukraine and Russia (or from the Russian Occupation of Ukraine), is USA.

THE ONLY COUNTRY!

But yeah... USA is the land of the Brave and the home of the Free.. (or the other way around. WHO FUCKING CARES???!!)

Right?

Due to the Inflation that has been happening all over Europe, due to the Russian Monstrosity in Ukraine, many things have become extremely costly.

Preservable Milk, which was 85 Cents per Liter (or 0.85 Euro/L) became 1.79 Euro per Liter.

Vegetable costs soaring high... Everything now costs almost double as it did in 2021.

I understand that USA and Russia have Problems of Understanding and Accepting one another. But does Europe have to suffer continuously due to their childish Tantrums? Can they not solve their Issues in a neutral place?

Ukraine is almost completely destroyed.

Russia is almost completely banned everywhere and by almost everybody.

USA and its Citizens are living their lives as normal. Yes, many Americans are hardworking and many live in Poverty. Is the American Government doing anything for them? Now, that would be a Joke. Americans don't even have proper health Insurance, according to what I read here on Tumblr, but everyone jumps into any Conversation and defends the "Great" America.

Homelessness is rampant.

Homeless people are not allowed (by the US Police) to live somewhere on the Streets or in some other open Place. Yet people always want to defend the US.

How many Protests happened in the USA, to stop USA from doing Wars in Iraq?

How many "peaceful" and "innocent" Americans protested against US Involvement in Syria?

How many Americans voiced against US Involvement in Afghanistan and against US funding the Taliban?

Yet, America is a great Country and innocent people live and work in America. Nothing bad is to be said about America.

Why?

Who gave US the Authority to blow up such Pipelines?

Who gave US any Authority to take life-altering Decisions FOR others also?

Is US the World's Bully? Imposing strict Rules and other Bullshit on everyone, while it is basically being monstrous...? Is that not Bully-Behaviour?

Will the USA ever learn Limits? And what Limits it should not cross?

Will the USA ever learn to MIND ITS OWN F*CKING BUSINESS?

I am afraid, that if this continues, then horrible things will happen soon. Hiroshima- and Nagasaki-horrible...

But, does anyone care..?

Maybe very very few do

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mondoreb · 1 year

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#asteroids #end times events - Part Two #forever is a long time #free speech = approved speech #government conspiracies #media manipulation?#possible government hand-outs #pre-war propaganda #real fake news #same as it ever was #smart end times survival strategy #the intolerance which dare not speak its name #the perfectibility of man #the relationship between Trump and the media #the USA is going down #those without a conscience #weather-mongers

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headspace-hotel · 10 months

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Researching herbicide resistance in weeds.

A decade ago, everyone said rotating applications of different herbicides was key to stopping herbicide resistance.

Then, around 2015, evidence from a large study emerged saying that this actually causes weeds to be MORE resistant, so the best thing to do is to spray a combination of multiple herbicides mixed together at once.

Now that is being called into question too. Whoda thunk it...

Herbicide resistance among weeds is only getting stronger. Recently, scientists found an annual bluegrass (Poa annua) on a golf course that was resistant to seven herbicide modes of action at once. Seven. SEVEN. Amaranth plants been found with resistance to six herbicide modes of action at once. Twenty years ago, the narrative was that resistance to glyphosate (Roundup) was unlikely to become widespread; today it's the second-most common type of resistance.

What's more, plants are developing types of herbicide resistance that are effective against multiple herbicides at once and harder to detect. Instead of changing the chemical processes within them that are affected by the herbicides so the herbicides don't work as well, they're changing the way they absorb chemicals in the first place. Resistant plants are producing enzymes that detoxify the herbicides before they even enter the plants' cells.

It took Monsanto ten years to develop crop varieties resistant to Dicamba (after weeds made 'Roundup Ready' crops pointless). Palmer amaranth evolved Dicamba resistance in five years.

So I asked, "Why are all the proposed solutions dependent on using more herbicides, when we know damn well that this is going to do nothing but make the weeds evolve faster?"

The answer is that chemical companies have the world in a death grip. They can't make money off non-chemical solutions, so chemical solutions get all the funding, research, and outreach to farmers.

But why do chemical companies have so much power?

One of the biggest reasons is the U.S. military.

In the Vietnam war, all of Vietnam was sprayed with toxic herbicides like Agent Orange, which was incredibly toxic to humans and affected the Vietnamese population with horrible illnesses and birth defects. Monsanto, the company that made the herbicides, knew that it did this, but didn't tell anyone. The US government didn't admit that they'd poisoned humans on a mass scale until Vietnam veterans started dying and coming down with horrible illnesses, and even then, it took them 40 years. (My Papaw died at 60 because of that stuff.) And the soldiers weren't there for very long. As for the Vietnamese people, the soil and water where they live is contaminated.

Similarly, during the "war on drugs," the US military sprayed Roundup and other chemicals on fields to destroy coca plants and other plants used in the manufacturing of drugs. This killed a lot of crops that farmers needed to live, and caused major health problems in places such as Columbia. The US government said that people getting sick were lying and that Roundup was just as safe as table salt. (A statement that did not age well.)

So chemical companies make money off arming the USA military. The American lawn care industry, and the agricultural system, therefore originates in more than one way from the United States's war-mongering.

The other major way is described in this article (which I highly recommend), which describes how after WW2, chemical plants used for manufacturing explosives were changed into fertilizer producing plants, but chemical companies couldn't market all that fertilizer to farmers, so they invented the lawn care industry. No exaggeration, that's literally what happened.

This really changes my perspective on all the writings about fixing the agricultural system. The resources are biased towards the use of chemicals in agriculture because the companies are so powerful as to make outreach and research for non-chemical methods of agriculture really hard to fund. All the funding is in finding new ways to spray chemicals or spraying slightly different chemicals, because that's what you can actually get ahold of money to look into. It is like the research has to negotiate a truce with the chemical companies, suggesting only solutions that won't cause lower profits.

Meanwhile my respect for Amaranth is skyrocketing.

Who would win: The USA military-industrial complex or one leafy boi

#military industrial complex #plants #agriculture #environment

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decolonize-the-left · 6 months

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Thinking about Project2025 and how it's at every level and branch of government. How entire cities are now under their thumb.

How Biden is saying "Israel has a right to defend itself" while calling Cop City protesters terrorists for not wanting a more deadly police force to be trained. But didn't stand with rail workers when they demanded better treatment when it was freezing and trains were being derailed.

How an epidemic on par with HIV ravaged the globe and Biden allowed pharma companies to exploit the world with price tags after promising it'd be public access.

Thinking about how in all this Israel and the USA are said to test tactics and weapons on Palestine.

How the USA stands with Zionists and how many people have told me, a native American, that Palestinians are in the wrong.

How the last 75 years don't matter. Only the last 2 weeks.

And real fucking talk?

For all the "progress" liberals pretend we made how are we here?

Americans and several of the Allied countries would not hesitate to conduct Manifest Destiny 2.0 and have blatantly stated as much.

Americans are saying things that my great grandmother heard about reservations and then later about native liberation. They're saying things the pilgrims told us before that. We're animals. Savages. That we are to blame. That when we die out it'll be because we didn't fight hard enough. That we don't deserve to even be here.

And you know what, I would hope this post would reach some of them but I genuinely feel as if liberals are as far gone as MAGAs are.

They will read this and just go and on and on about how bad the other guy is.

How justified they are to keep voting blue. Just like MAGA's whine until their privileged lives being "ruined" by "woke lies" justified them voting for Trump. Just like Israel is justified. Like every fucking war criminal ever has been.

BUT

I implore you to STOP trying to fucking justify everything! Nobody fucking cares about the reasons you use to support a genocidal war monger who's legacy before this was signing one of the most racially marginalizing bills in US history.

How about you try justifying taking a fucking risk, instead?

People in Palestine are being bombed every fucking day and you want to twiddle your thumbs about NOT voting for the guy who said it was okay and for what? Because your life might not be as comfortable as it is right now? That's your concern from your home with a roof?

Call me a fucking conspiracist but I haven't been wrong yet: Biden is a fucking Project2025 plant. And him and Hillary both have done nothing but make the democrats more and more conservative by catering to the "centrist" votes for decades.

Now we're here. They've compromised so much and want to look so "fair" that a genocide is being paid for on American tax dollars and what are liberals tellings us, what are they saying? ITS JUSTIFIED???? AND TO VOTE FOR BIDEN AGAIN

Y'all are so worried about everyone voting blue to avoid republican fascists that you don't even CARE how bad the people youre voting in are. You haven't even noticed the fascists you put in office yourselves.

You forgot your boundaries.

And isn't it funny how rad/fems and TERFs got mainstream around the same time? You know, the white supremacists based ideology that seeped into the mainstream because nobody was critically consuming or gatekeeping what was "empowering to women" for fear of being 'cancelled'?

Why? Cuz if you hate them you hate women. Just like if you criticize america then you're an anti-american Russian/spy/plant. Like if you support Palestine then you hate Jewish people. If support BLM then you obviously hate white people.

And that's it, isn't it. That's what it all boils down to.

White supremacists are and have been manipulating & gaslighting us en masse.

You know your friends that learned to gaslight an audience with therapy speak? The one that makes you afraid to call them out cuz they're better with words than you and could just as easily turn everyone against you if they use enough buzzwords?

That's the tactics white supremacists are using.

"I must be quiet so I don't say something wrong and look like a bigot" "if I speak, I may say the wrong things" "I may say the right thing the wrong way"

They have made you AFRAID to speak against genocide!!! Wake the fuck up!!!!

They aren't event trying to hide it! The IDF made a post that straight up says "you are an anti-Semite if you speak against Israel"

WHICH IS JUST STRAIGHT UP UNTRUE!! So may Jewish people have come forward against Israel and against Zionism and to support Palestine!

Israel's government is Zionist and that is not an inherently Jewish trait! Making you you believe otherwise is part of the propaganda and manipulation so you Stop speaking up. You can support Jewish people and Palestinians both.

Israel and the USA want you to believe that it is one or the other and that's not true.

The only people who benefit from trying to make you choose between which humans get to live are the white supremacists who cheer when this rhetoric starts to normalize conversation about which people are more worthy of living than another.

You have been gaslit into supporting genocide.

Gaslit into going down a white supremacist pipeline.

Gaslit into giving your silent consent.

Snap out of it.

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robertreich · 11 months

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The Hard Hat Riot: A Forgotten Flashpoint in America’s Culture Wars

Missing from most history books is a key moment leading to the culture wars now ripping through American politics.

In 1970, hundreds of construction workers pummeled around 1,000 student demonstrators in New York City — including two of my friends. The “Hard Hat Riot,” as it came to be known, ushered in an era of cynical fear-mongering aimed at dividing the nation.

The student demonstrators were protesting the Vietnam War and the deadly shooting of four student activists at Kent State University that occurred just days before.

The workers who attacked them carried American flags and chanted, “USA, All the way,” and “America, love it or leave it.” They chased the students through the streets — attacking those who looked like hippies with their hard hats and steel-toed boots.

When my friends in the anti-war movement called to tell me about the riot later that day, I was stunned. Student activists and union workers duking it out in the streets over the war? I mean for goodness' sake, weren't we on the same side?

According to reports, the police did little to stop the mayhem. Some even egged on the thuggery. When a group of hardhats moved menacingly toward the action, a patrolman apparently shouted: “Give ’em hell, boys. Give ’em one for me!”

The construction workers then marched toward a barely-protected City Hall. Why? Because the mayor’s staff had lowered the American flag in honor of the Kent State dead. In a scene eerily foreshadowing the January 6th Capitol Riots, they pushed their way towards the building.

Fearing the mob would break in, city officials raised the flag.

The hard hats also ripped down the Red Cross banner that was hanging at nearby Trinity Church. They stormed a Pace University building, smashing lobby windows with their tools and beating students and professors.

Around 100 people were wounded that day, many of whom were college students. Several police officers were also hurt. Six people were reportedly arrested, but only one construction worker.

My friends escaped injury but they were traumatized.

The Hard Hat Riot had immediate political consequences. It was, in my opinion, a seminal moment in America’s culture wars.

Then President Richard Nixon exploited the riot for political advantage. His administration had been working on a “blue collar strategy” to shift white working-class voters to the Republican Party.

“Thank God for the hard hats,” Nixon exclaimed when he heard about the riot.

But rather than passing pro-labor policies to court workers, which would go against the values of the pro-business Republican Party, Nixon sought to use cultural issues like patriotism and support for the troops to drive a wedge between factions of the Democratic Party.

Nixon invited union leaders, some of whom were involved in the riot, to the White House. They presented Nixon with a hard hat inscribed with “Commander in Chief”and an American flag pin. Nixon praised the union workers as, “people from Middle America who still have character, and guts, and a bit of patriotism.”

Nixon’s strategy to use the Hard Hat Riot to appeal to blue collar voters paid off. In his 1972 re-election campaign against the anti-war Democrat George McGovern, he secured a victory with ease and gained the majority of votes from organized labor – the only time in modern history a Republican presidential candidate accomplished such a feat.

The Hard Hat Riot revealed a deep fracture in the coalition of workers and progressives that FDR had knitted together in the 1930s, and the later alliance of Black Americans, liberals, and blue-collar whites that led to Lyndon Johnson’s landslide re-election in 1964.

The mostly white construction workers who attacked the demonstrators had felt abandoned — and forgotten – as the Civil Rights movement rightfully took hold. They felt stiffed by the clever college kids with draft deferments, and burdened by an economy no longer guaranteeing upward mobility.

The class and race based tensions that Nixon exploited would worsen over the next half century.

I witnessed this when I was secretary of labor during the Clinton Administration. I spent much of my time in the Midwest and other parts of the country where blue-collar workers felt abandoned in an economy dominated by Wall Street. I saw their anger and resentment. I heard their frustrations.

Many Democrats, whether they will admit it or not, have not done enough to respond as Republicans have destroyed unions, exacerbated economic inequality through trickle-down nonsense, tried to gut just about every social safety net we have – and stood in the way of practically every effort to use the power of government to help working people.

Today, the right is trying to channel that same anger and violence against the Black Lives Matter movement, the LGBTQ+ community, particularly drag queens and transgender people, and whatever they consider “woke.”

It is the same cynical ploy to instill a fear of “the other” as a means to distract from the oppression and looting being done by the oligarchs who dominate so much of our economy and our politics.

As such, today we face the same questions we faced in 1970:

Will we finally recognize that we have more in common with each other than those who seek to divide us for political and economic gain?

Can we unite in solidarity, and build a future in which prosperity is widely shared by all?

I truly believe that we still can.

#youtube #history #politics #Republicans #Richard Nixon #Donald Trump #Video #Videos #Economics

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What's happening in Palestine truly brought out the worst in people. I've been blocking people left and right. Folks try to give positive examples of rebellions from the past like the end of apartheid and the Haitian Revolution,some ghouls respond by saying "Well,those are not good examples because look how poor and corrupt those countries are now", annoying white homonationalist gays don't shut up about how it's bad to root for Palestinians because they "push gay people off roofs and behead them" (Pinkwashing really worked on their pea sized brains,some of them even went on sponsored trips to Tel Aviv 🤮)even f*cking radfems found the video of a 13 year old girl who gave interviews twice in three years and say "Well why is she wearing a hijab now????I won't root for people who put a hijab on a kid!!!" The genocidal ghoul who is unfortunately the president of the USA says "I mean civilians die in wars it's inevitable and idk if Palestinians are telling the truth so idk the numbers of dead people" while dumbass USamerican liberals STILL talk about "harm reduction" I mean,how do these people not hear how repulsive they sound? How can anybody's support for people who are the target of a literal GENOCIDE be conditional? My god I knew westerners were drowning in racism and Islamophobia but the depth of their hatred really is vomit inducing. I pray we all get to see a free Palestine and the fall of all war mongering capitalist empires that funded not only Palestinian,but also Afghan, Iraqi, Yemeni, Libyan,Syrian and so many more people's suffering in our lifetime. I pray it won't be exhausting to just exist as people from SWANA in the future. I pray they all thrive and not just survive in the future. I have hope because how can I not when Palestinians themselves still do,and it feels shameful to momentarily lose hope when I'm just a privileged woman following updates from the comfort of my home.

You articulated so much of what I'm feeling too. I think what makes it worse is how so much of the propaganda we're seeing is the same kind of propaganda the West used to justify the invasion of Iraq, Iran and Syria. All of it has been debunked. Yet people fall for it again and again and again and SWANA people die for that. The truth is right in front of people but they refuse to see it because they've become so comfortable not seeing Brown and Black bodies as human. It feels crazy. And yeah it is utterly strange to see people you share a culture with being massacred day in day out and to feel utterly destroyed by that, only for people to claim it's a lie, and then to also rmr what we feel is trivial to what people in Palestine are enduring. And as you said, they have hope and rage and so must we.

#anon #palestine #swana tag

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kendrixtermina · 5 months

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Don't fall for the "terrorist" trap

I wish to once again remind everyone that smearing Palestinians as "terrorists" was part of a deliberate propaganda strategy that is calculated to make people confused or afraid of speaking out.

Islamophobic tropes were deliberately crafted by mongers of fear & war to be whatever would be most repulsive to westerners to get people so emotionally riled up it bypasses their thinking.

But 'islam' and 'westerners' are arbitrary targets here, the selections of which was probably down to geopolitical interests. With this tactic you could get any group A to hate any group B. This is why, for example, Indian islamophobia looks a bit different: Here, politicians smear muslims as things repulsive to Indians, like being alien conquerrors & cruel to animals. It's probably also why there has been this frankly absurd non-sequitur effort to smear Palestinians & their supporters as Nazis in both Germany and Israel, because people there hate Nazis, or at least don't wanna risk their wealth, reputation & power by being called Nazi.

But the same tactic may be used by russians or saudis to create anti-west sentiment, for example. (a religious society, the west may be smeared as 'godless', which maybe true for europe (however, aethiest =/= immoral), but many ppl in the USA are pretty religious actually... )

It's generally not a lack of empathy & moral feeling, but empathy & moral feeling being triggered deliberately in the wrong direction & manipulated. In truth nothing produces sadism & violence like the feeling of being morally justified & entitled, or the desire to "protect". That's why many zionists talk of 'self-defense' or 'murdered children' etc. the propaganda has switched on the caveman instinct to protect their kids & there's no room for thinking.

This is NOT defending them, btw, this is a consideration of strategy & how to fix the problem. (just like I would tell them that even if I accept their premises, bombing has never once solved radicalism)

We must resist easy simplification, 'for us or against us' & satisfying cathartic vengeance, so that we can actually see & understand each other instead of superimposing bogeyman images.

#gaza #free gaza #palestine #free palestine #watermelon #israel #usa #islamophobia

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dr-jem-nutcase · 1 year

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MvA h/c's (ctd)

This should be it, once and for all

Monger

His father fought in WWI and then became an alcoholic and left his family a few years after the war was over, when Monger was 3-4

Raised by his mother along with 5+ other siblings

NOBODY disrespects Mama Monger. She's right up there with God in his book

Fought in WW2. No question about that. He may have had activity in the Vietnam War, but no one knows

Has quite the potty mouth when really angry. In public, he Yosemite Sam swears to remain professional

He actually DID get his promotions from foiling escape attempts

Married for 60+ years. His wife's name is Carol. They got hitched right before he enrolled to fight. He still visits her and the farm from time to time, and she has no idea what all her husband does except that he's a general in the U.S. Army

Nobody knows if he had any kids. Though he's definitely an uncle

Age brought on more usage of jet packs, parachutes, and jeeps than walking

Bacon and eggs for breakfast. Almost every single day. And hot black coffee. Very hot. Scalding hot. The double vente drink mentioned in the movie credits is reserved for occasions and good times

Enjoys a good strong drink. It takes a LOT to get him drunk. Only his wife and a couple buddies from the army have seen him legit hammered

Has a cat allergy. Not severe though but enough to give him the sniffles and itchy red eyes

This guy's gonna make it well into his 100s

His middle name is Rex

The Invisible Man

Former name is Harry Graham Francis. He was from the Midwest USA

Captured in 1962 before Dr. C

NO WAY this guy wasn't a prankster. Was already one before he became invisible. Took full advantage of his invisibility in that regard

Ginger

Probably ambiverted. Somewhere in the middle between a shy awkward dork and a social butterfly

Was married and had 3 kids (boy-girl-boy, they're all gingers too!). He wanted a large family, but his wife thought three kids were enough

Deadpool's sense of humor but had to tone it down when he had kids. Woke it up at his capture but had to tone it down again when BOB came along

LOVED kids (not a pedophile). Kinda explains why he and BOB got along so well

For whatever reason, didn't like dogs

Was a pretty smart guy, almost up there with Dr. C. But he knew better than to brag about his smarts

6-7 years older than Dr. C

Picked on him not only due to the age difference but also due to his failed escape attempts, his hoity-toity temperament, and pride in his genius. The two always had mixed feelings towards each other. Not a bromance but not worst enemies either.

Was a physicist and researcher and enjoyed his work. But lost his passion for it about a year after he turned invisible and never bothered to get any sort of enthusiasm back

Lived in the outside world for two months after turning invisible. His wife and their firstborn (about 11-12 years old at the time) knew what happened and interacted with him and kept the truth hidden from the 2 younger kids. Then he was captured when people in his neighborhood started noticing some strange things going on

Didn't participate in any escape attempts, knowing there would be multiple consequences, like the monsters would be eventually found and captured all over again and potentially be in that cycle again and again, despite the fact he was invisible and thus the hardest monster to find

Had bouts of depression as a result of his experimentation and its outcome but wouldn't admit it

The heart attack that killed him was a result of long-term physical side effects of his experimentation. He developed a few minor physical problems, some episodic and some chronic, shortly after his experimentation but nothing big. Over the years, those problems got worse and a few new ones came. A bit like the Curie family's physical decline due to a lot of radiation exposure. If he was still visible at the time of his death, he probably would've looked pretty awful

Wasn't that old when he died, no older than his early 60s

If he was still alive when Susan came, he would've been on good terms with her but would've been too aged and weak to engage in combat

#mva #monsters vs aliens #general w r monger #general monger #warren monger #the invisible man #headcanons #dreamworks

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i-do-not-fangirl-i-fanwoman · 10 months

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Wow, y’all

I’m pretty sure I just unfollowed a CIA psyop with a leftist/progressive mask on

I mean just wow look at this screed

There is so much blatant misinformation in here it would take me DAYS and like a hundred links to show how nearly every single point in here has been debunked or is referencing a whole OTHER piece of corporate propaganda

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Oh and while I’m at it there’s a typo in one of these sentences let me fix it for you:

“The **USA’s** goals are regional (world) domination through trade and force.”

There you go 👍😎👍 have a nice day💕

#for real y’all be careful out there because there are some blogs out there wearing Progressive masks that are seriously sus

# we as Progressives don’t war-monger, knock it off

oh and in case anybody was wondering:

full disclosure the second graphic is several years old so the numbers are different so here’s this:

The USA is currently squatting in 85 countries

Eighty. Five.

China has bases in *drumroll* six

Six.

*saying with the same tone of voice you use when you ask your pet “Who’s A Good Dog”*

Who’s attempting global domination? Oh right it’s us!👍😁👍

Now I’m not trying to woobify ANYbody because I don’t think there’s a single country on the planet with completely clean fingers but if you want to see something interesting internet-search (I will not use the G-word they suck) the number of unhoused people in the USA and then search China’s Poverty Alleviation or here’s a link from a US American think tank:

Interesting

Now, I’m not one of those crazies that’s like “y’all need to learn Mandarin and start watching Wuxia full time fr yolo” because I lived through that kind of sh*t in the 80s when every. damn. body. was yelling about “Japan iS TakiNg OveR” and nothing happened.

But DO have some damn discernment when you’re taking in corporate media ffs

(whispers) but Wuxia IS pretty awesome you should check it out

and ps, why tf is everyone so quick to jump on debunking posts with Well You’re Obviously Being Paid by Villified Country so I’m not even gonna listen

but those same folks swallow corporate media whole without a single doubt

Who is paying for that piece on CNN or MSNBC that everybody else is reblogging willy-nilly that’s what * I * wanna know

#sh*t nobody’s gonna bother reading but you should #the so-called left now is so far to center they’re basically purple #if you want some real laughs lightly scratch the surface and see how quick they are to attack feminists it’s a hoot😄#waves at the CIA omg HI!!! 👋#zero-note special

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bills-bible-basics · 8 months

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AMERICAN AID TO UKRAINE: MY POSITION

Let me prefix the following by stating that my family is from Ukraine on my great grandparents’ side on the side of my father.

Someone on Mastodon — another social network — who I believe is possibly Ukrainian going by their name — asked me why I thought it was a bad idea for the USA to supply Ukraine with F-16s, which would undoubtedly be used to fly deep into Russian territory.

This person is confident that Ukraine will ultimately win the war, and is convinced that WW III will only begin if Ukraine loses the war. This person believes that the USA should give Ukraine even more weapons, including F-35s.

This person is apparently too blind to realize that WW III has ALREADY begun. As I have stated before, major wars don’t happen overnight. They build up slowly over time, with one provocative move after another until it is a full-fledged major war involving many nations.

This is EXACTLY what we see happening in Ukraine right now, as the USA and NATO provide Ukraine with more money and more weapons as the months pass. Sending F-16s is the worst step yet, and only serves to escalate the situation, and make it more dangerous. It is like a dry forest waiting for a lightning strike.

I wrote the following to this misguided person:

“If you even feel the need to ask these questions, then you are REALLY on the wrong side of the fence. But then, if you want a full-blown WW III, go right ahead with your foolishness!”

“Your foolishness, haughtiness and confidence is seriously misplaced, and your reasoning is seriously flawed. Violence only begets more violence.”

“There needs to be an immediate cessation of hostilities on BOTH sides, and the USA needs to immediately stop providing both money and weaponry to Ukraine before it is too late. This applies to the rest of NATO as well.”

“That is the ONLY way Ukraine will ever come to the negotiating table. President Trump knew this, and Vivek Ramaswamy realizes this as well. As Jesus taught, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’, and not the war-mongers!”

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I invite all of my friends to read my series called “If You Poke a Bear Long Enough” on the Bills Bible Basics website, once my home Internet service is restored.

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