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violetmadder

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Disturb the comfortable; comfort the disturbed.

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futurebird , to random
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I decided to find out if any progress had been made on the science behind why some ants are attracted to electrical fields. After filtering out exterminators (it's so demoralizing to search for information on creatures you love and find nothing but people who know nothing about them boasting about how they will kill them all) I found what looked like a blog. But, who the heck is "James Brown"? Never heard of the dude. Maybe he could be my new friend if he likes ants enough to blog about them!

violetmadder ,
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@wa7iut @futurebird @wmd @alexwild

Google doesn't care about burning down their brand. They have so much power and such a large monopoly they don't need to care about appeal anymore.

They're burning down facts, communication, news and learning.

The people who built this botshit want us all floundering and disconnected.

I keep wondering when they'll try rolling out some kind of Ministry of Truth to "save" us and tell us what's real.

futurebird , to random
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Exciting ant queen collecting trip in AZ. Why does it feel like all the coolest ants are in the South and South West. It's not fair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1CkkkKbOM

violetmadder ,
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@futurebird @dotsandlines

Wow! How do you relocate a whole colony when the queen is (presumably?) deep inside the woodwork??

violetmadder ,
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@futurebird @kechpaja

Ooh, Pica?

As in, the rodent? Or, you are compulsively eating the pest roaches? Or is Pica the name of a different roach-preying friend? 🤔

violetmadder ,
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@mozz @ninjaphysics

The trouble is, being the enemy is their actual job. From the ground up.

violetmadder ,
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@mozz @ninjaphysics @BendingUnit

It has "evolved" to the biggest mass incarceration system on Earth.

violetmadder ,
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@mozz @ninjaphysics @BendingUnit

The conclusions of abolition may sound simple, but the reasoning behind it goes much, much deeper than this "lego block" assumption you're scoffing at.

Note where Rodney King (1991) falls on the timeline of this chart:

violetmadder ,
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@mozz @ninjaphysics @BendingUnit

Yes. The prison population has finally begun to go down somewhat, but the apparatus is still expanding.

You may have heard of the 85-acre Cop City they're trying to build in Atlanta. You probably haven't heard much about the others, like the one near Nashville that will be over 800 acres.

Anyway-- I highly recommend Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow.

She's a civil rights lawyer, but even she thought the complaints about the system were exaggerations, for a very long time. When she finally really connected the dots, it shook her badly. We've been conditioned to accept some truly horrific things as "normal".

violetmadder ,
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@mozz @ninjaphysics @BendingUnit

Sure, and your chart doesn't show the longer period where it stayed steady before it suddenly climbed. I just grabbed the first chart I found, there are many ways to visualize it. Either way the backlash after Rodney King didn't slow it down at all.

violetmadder ,
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@mozz @ninjaphysics @BendingUnit

Yes!

I first encountered her work in this video of a lecture she gave at Chicago University. It kicked my (pretty white and sheltered) worldview right in the gut and I had to sit down for a long minute.

Usually the discourse is funneled into little silos of separate (and polarizing) topics, and this was the first time I really started to grasp how poverty and the lower classes are used as integral parts of a bigger machine, and how the parts relate to each other.

https://youtu.be/Gln1JwDUI64

PacificNic , to random
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For years they said fascism was coming, but it was here all along. You couldn't have stopped it with voting.

You never could have.

The state was never going to tell you when it became fascist.

violetmadder ,
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@lawas @wallamidyl @PacificNic

From an indigenous perspective, basically the Nazis won and we're all speaking German right now.

But the VBNMW crowd wants to split hairs, how dare you say this is fascism actually fascism is VERY different there are such important distinctions and you're making the term meaningless look at all these freedoms we still have, it doesn't officially count as fascism until there's one obvious dictator and nobody even pretends to have elections anymore and we're lined up in neat rows getting systematically shot-- by Republicans, mind you, Democrats could get away with anything, oppression doesn't count when they do it-- THEN and only then do we get to blow that whistle.

...When it's too late.

glencoe , to random
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sick of the press doing the 'how can the far right be surging when all we've done is platform them without cease, without interruption and let them openly lie and incite with very little pushback on every channel for the last ~20 years' kayfabe.

They're surging because you fucking marketed them non-stop, you are their biggest cheerleaders and you deserve nothing but scorn and misery for it.

violetmadder ,
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@peachfront @pete @BeAware @glencoe

It first occurred to me when I realized that Trump's trials were turning into just one more horrible Reality TV show. TUNE IN NEXT SEASON FOR THE SENTENCING!! dramatic music, closeups of shocked faces, oh the suspense

And kayfabe is the perfect term because I swear Vince McMahon must be writing our political storylines right now, that's how absurd and grotesque the whole mess is.

violetmadder ,
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@peachfront @pete @BeAware @glencoe

And the other reason kayfabe fits perfectly, is how resistant people often are to believing it.

What do you MEAN wrestling's "not real"?? Look how much they hate each other! Look at the fighting! The blood!

What do you mean they actually drink together after the show and collect their paychecks from the same oligarchs?? That's ridiculous!

When the rumors really started to break through into common knowledge in wrestling fandom, some people were highly pissed off-- and some people probably STILL don't realize the big match outcomes are scripted.

violetmadder ,
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@BeAware @peachfront @pete @glencoe

Sure, and it takes a tremendous amount of athletic skill to be able to put on a show that looks so spectacularly violent WITHOUT frequently maiming everybody.

futurebird , to random
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Square cube law? Square shumb law!

Arthropods can get humongous. The main reason they don't is they are far too tempting targets for warm-blooded vertebrates.

But about that? Why couldn't an arthropod also be warm-blooded? Maybe some were.

And that thing you heard about "giant insects needed higher O2 levels" also questionable. Arthroplura was still around after the levels crashed... something else ended the golden age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZoJyWxGi1A

violetmadder ,
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@tuban_muzuru @futurebird @Ruth_Mottram

I would shriek in wonder and delight. And hold it and pet it and care for it and name it George.

paninid , to random
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If you think of “AI” as a purpose-built Big Lie force multiplier, things start to track.

violetmadder ,
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@trochee @GGMcBG @paninid

People look like ants to them. That's how far gone they are.

Nonilex , to random
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FYI
I’ve decided not to report much on ’s trial. It is evident that he, Beau’s widow, & the family were in deep .
In that grief, Hunter & Hallie self-medicated w/a highly addictive drug. Hunter already had a predisposition to , & he did what people addicted to drugs & alcohol do — made terrible decisions.
He admitted it & admitted to committing crimes during his addiction.
Detailing that painful time for the purpose of humiliating his family is cruel.

violetmadder ,
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@Nonilex

That's a good choice.

It's ironic, though, after the 1994 crime bill Biden helped write with NO SUCH MERCY for millions of other people struggling with their own traumas and substance abuse over the decades.

poligraf , to palestine group
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« Children are starving in Gaza because of Netanyahu’s policies. »⁣⁣⁣
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@palestine⁣⁣
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🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️ ⁣🇺🇸

violetmadder ,
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@LightFIAR @poligraf @palestine

I'd be down.

moss , to random
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One of the buddhist priests where I practice, an elderly white man, saw my rainbow water bottle, smiled, and said, "Avalokiteśvara is trans." :ablobcatcry:

Infinite compassion is trans.

I love them. I love this. Especially since the bare minimum of compassion is what transphobes lack. Infinite compassion is part of how we keep making society kinder.

Happy pride. 🧱

violetmadder ,
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@moss @tea

Oh that's marvelous! Warmfuzzies.

futurebird , to random
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Thom Hartmann is disturbed by a field of wildflowers... but not an insect in sight...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-loss-of-insects-a-desperate-7fe/comments

It's hard to quantify the loss of insects since we have never kept great track of them to begin with.

violetmadder ,
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@futurebird @stevenbodzin

https://www.audubon.org/news/north-america-has-lost-more-1-4-birds-last-50-years-new-study-says

violetmadder ,
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@stevenbodzin @futurebird

Define "plenty".

Let's say we haven't lost 90% yet, say it's 25%. You wouldn't pull 25% of the tubes and screws out of an engine and still expect it to keep running properly, now would you?

Okay, so natural systems attempt to heal, and organisms reproduce, but just how much damage do you really think it can take? How many keystone species are already gone, causing damage and ripple effects we're not going to fully see or understand for years?

Systems fail in cascades. Between the changes in weather, introduction of invasive species and diseases, habitat loss, toxins-- we are in very, very big trouble.

violetmadder ,
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@stevenbodzin @futurebird

The trouble is it's really difficult to fully grasp the scale and complexity of the issue, and the usual level of education people have on science and biology falls woefully short.

There's always something more we can do, something to save, reasons to fight. It's strange how many people go from "oh it's not a problem" directly to "oh well nothing we can do" without much problem-solving in between.

I'm volunteering at local nurseries and gardens, and propagating native plants. Hopefully more word will get out about what people can do in their own yards (or neighbors' yards or even road verges) to help.

OGjester , to random
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If you don’t think there’s a literal civil war going on, set aside five minutes to watch a smidge of Fox ”News” tonight. I don’t think you realize how truly unhinged and detached from reality the Right has become.

violetmadder ,
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@KatM @OGjester @JonChevreau

I think I have a pretty good grasp on it.

Actually watching more of it gives me hives though.

violetmadder ,
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@_L1vY_ @KatM @OGjester @JonChevreau

One of my roommates likes to watch those nightly shows or other videos where people are making fun of Trump and all, and it's just not funny to me anymore.

5 minutes of that damn show The Apprentice was enough for me to decide I'd already seen enough, and didn't want to give that grotesquery one more minute in my head. I don't want to hear his voice, not even people doing impersonations to mock him. I don't want to see his face. I don't ever want to give him one more drop of attention or energy than what it takes to say he is a horrible person who needs to be stopped.

faab64 , to random

Two Red Crescent paramedics were murdered by #IDF while they were working in #Rafah last night. Their ambulance was hit directly and intentionally.

Of course the usual excuse by IDF is that there were #Hamas fighters in the ambulances. Ignoring that injured fighters are not legitimate targets, specially if they are inside an ambulance receiving care.

But Geneva convention doesn't apply to Israel unless we hold them accountable.
#WarCrime #RedCrescent #Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow

Bodies of 2 murdered Red Cresent ambulance staff being transferred to one of the last functioning care facilities in Rafah.
Bodies of 2 murdered Red Cresent ambulance staff being transferred to one of the last functioning care facilities in Rafah.
Bodies of 2 murdered Red Cresent ambulance staff being transferred to one of the last functioning care facilities in Rafah.

violetmadder ,
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@lymphomation @faab64

The primary blame for an atrocity rests squarely on the person who perpetrated it. Every time. Whatever their reasons or excuses, they chose to pull the trigger. The person with power is responsible for what they do with it.

Slaughtering 20 civilians per terrorist is a deliberate choice, for which there is NO excuse. Period. Bombing children is not an issue to quibble over.

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/

violetmadder ,
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@NatureMC @futurebird

Definitely not overstressing.

It's actually very hard to overstate the scale of this nightmare. The world of information is drowning in botshit.

In fact, I honestly believe it's a weapon.

futurebird , to random
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"Howdy folks. 'Tis the season to watch yer aphid herd right close. Beware of them dastardly aphid rustlers lurking 'mongst the leaves. They go by the name of lacewings, but ain't nothin' delicate 'bout 'em. They'll try to fool ya by masqueradin' as harmless lichen. Wicked! spits"

-Ant leaning on a tiny barbwire fence tipping her 10mL hat at you

#LichenSubscribe

violetmadder ,
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@futurebird

That face looks like an ant lion!

oatmeal , to palestine group
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#Rafah / Haaretz v Ynet

This is roughly how mainstream Israel media whitewashes IDF’s war crimes. If you start with Hamas militants targeted, every atrocity is acceptable to the Israeli ear

Haaretz: dozens dead in an Israeli strike at a camp; IDF: we attacked Hamas militants

Ynet: IDF eliminated senior Hamas commanders; Palestinians (claim): tents set a blaze (nothing to do with the attack on a densely populated refugee camp, presumably), 28 dead

@palestine
@israel

Nighttime scene of a massive fire in a refugee compound, with silhouettes of people in the foreground. Hebrew text overlay details the event.

violetmadder ,
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@oatmeal @palestine @israel

Ouch. Some angles I hadn't thought of, there.

futurebird , to random
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I have a soft spot for Libertarians even though I shouldn't and they don't deserve it. When I was a kid I had a weird neighbor who was always giving me Libertarian books... I wish I still had some of them they were WILD. He was a thorn in the side of the local, school board as well insisting that if they had an event at the school that involved politics Libertarians had to be included.

And in defense of the guy, he was about as likable and earnest as a Libertarian could be.

1/

violetmadder ,
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@moira @darcher @futurebird @richpuchalsky @jonquass @ehproque

The thing is, it's no accident that we do NOT have ranked choice voting.

And it's no accident that the Democratic Party spends more time and energy scapegoating 3rd party voters, than it ever will advocating for RCV.

The spoiler effect is a weapon, and they're viciously exploiting it. This is voter suppression, and they've trained a disturbing number of people to help them with it.

And while they have everyone trapped in this two-party funnel, we're just prisoners arguing over whether or not to take the "good" cop's deal, as if the bad cop is actually their enemy and not a tag team partner they're enabling and using to soften us up. Everybody's gathered around arguing so loudly about the damn lever, we stopped looking for another way to stop the trolley-- and what are we going to do about the assholes tying people to the tracks, anyway?

neonsnake , to random
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Starting to see lots of threads with "missing" posts, where my mates are responding to what appears to be bad faith questions - based only their response posts.

Guessing I'm either blocked or have blocked, and I'm counting this is a win, tbh.

violetmadder ,
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@CedarTea @neonsnake

I also very rarely block.

I use the feature for putting a note on a profile, to track who's said something particularly objectionable or just to remember where they stand.

I don't like blinding myself to the nasty stuff that's being said (especially to people who might be new or vulnerable) or the types of arguments being used in general discourse.

And I don't like helping people avoid the important issues I talk about that they don't want to think about.

faab64 , to random

The #Harvard Corporation officially votes to withhold degrees from 13 seniors for #protesting the #genocide in #Gaza.

This is truly outrageous.

#Politics #StudentProtests

violetmadder ,
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@faab64 @rad @milennialzero

Our "freedom" and "democracy" has always been shallow. Different classes ruled by different laws-- certain people get to feel free, while others get stomped.

I think what's happening now is, as climate change cranks up the pressure on us, the power structures are consolidating their hold and preparing for major unrest. They are focused on the resource scramble-- the competitive looting of our natural resources and what blood is left to drain from the lower classes, to be used to secure the nicer resorts they'll camp out in to watch the world burn.

They're getting less and less concerned with maintaining the plausible illusion of peace and security-- that's fading in favor of cultivating fear, insecurity, precarity. Normalizing large-scale violence and injustice, encouraging people to hope for nothing more than the dubious favors of the less horrible oppressors. The velvet glove is fraying as the iron fist prepares to tighten its grip.

gwynnion , to random
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The Very Serious Person perspective on Israel-Palestine is predicated on several interlocking beliefs:

  1. Palestinian lives don't matter and are automatically forfeit because of Hamas or whatever,

  2. Arabic and Muslim lives and perspectives generally don't matter,

  3. Israel is necessary for the US to project power against its Arabic and Muslim neighbors, and thus,

  4. Israel must always be allowed to "win" the "peace" process on its terms for that alliance to continue.

violetmadder ,
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@gwynnion

And if none of this sounds like it makes a damn bit of rational sense, well, we're just silly uneducated people who don't understand the amazingly complex nuances of Middle East history, right?

All this wouldn't be happening without SOME kind of very good reason that us unwashed masses are too lowly to grasp.

puppygirlhornypost , to random
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you know what i haven't seen on fedi that actually makes me a bit sad

violetmadder ,
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@puppygirlhornypost

It drives me bonkers how intersex folks get left out of so many discussions as if they're simply too rare to matter-- even though they're approximately as common as redheads.

While I lived in a place with a strong queer community of all imaginable sorts I knew several openly intersex people, for real, in person. Not theoretical, not imaginary, not a rounding error. Real. One still suffers from the medical consequences of what was done to forcibly assign them as an infant. They wonder what their life could have been like if they were allowed to choose how to express themselves and live whatever way could have come naturally to them.

Our world is incomplete without these people. They are an important part of the normal range of human variation.

(You have all met some, I promise you. Possibly dozens of them.)

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violetmadder ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor

Emphasis: all PROFITS.

$78/hr is what's left AFTER the overhead (minus whatever wage they normally get I suppose).

argumento , to israel group
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never gave a fuck about the hostages.

For the Netayahu regime, the hostages are worth more dead than alive, since they being dead "proves" that "Hamas is bad", while they returning alive would mean that Israel no longer has any reason to continue their onslaught.

@palestine @israel

violetmadder ,
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@argumento @palestine @israel

And if they come back alive, they'll have things to say about what they've seen and experienced, which could be... inconvenient.

otownKim , to random
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For those who are bitching about President Biden and saying the Gaza situation will cost him the election, WTF do you propose?! Third party has ZERO chance! Have you learned anything from 2016?!?!?! The Orange shit stain suggests that Netanayu "finish the job!". How dare anyone say they or both sides are the same. If that's your belief, unfollow me now!!!

violetmadder ,
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@otownKim

I learned a great many things in 2016.

I learned that the Democrats would rather let Trump win, than let Bernie run.

I learned they helped "elevate" Trump to a "serious candidate", while helping push the Republican party to the right. They are feeding the very monsters they pretend to be fighting.

violetmadder ,
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@farbel @otownKim

I was at the 2016 DNC. I saw how Bernie's delegates were treated.

For that matter I saw first hand how his largest rally was reported in the papers at HALF its actual attendance.

And then there were the shenanigans in the counting of the California votes, the shredder truck at the registrar's office...

If it wasn't rigged, why the fuck was their defense in court "it doesn't matter if it's rigged we have no obligation to hold a fair primary anyway so go suck it", anyway?

violetmadder ,
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@farbel @otownKim

They pulled on his leash and he went to heel like a good little fucking sheepdog.

They never would have let him run in the first place if that arrangement wasn't settled from the start. Just like Chris Hedges tried to warn us.

But go ahead, keep telling yourself that voting for war criminals is good actually.

violetmadder ,
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@farbel @otownKim

I don't have much respect for him anymore. Not since he threw in the towel and got behind a candidate so bad she managed to lose to an orange clown. Not while he's calling war criminals his "good friends".

He used and betrayed us.

violetmadder ,
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@farbel @otownKim

I'm not asking for a fucking dream candidate.

I'm asking for someone who is NOT A MONSTER. Not Kissinger's goddamn protege. Not an arms dealer who sells weapons of mass destruction to theocratic dictatorships that treat women like livestock, such as the Saudis. Not somebody who helped push shit like the 1994 crime bill that stuffed MILLIONS OF AMERICANS into concentration camps. Not somebody complicit in genocide.

Just because corrupt assholes have such a deathgrip on power they can always make sure one bad candidate is always-- ALWAYS-- standing next to somebody even worse, isn't going to make me abandon the bare minimum of basic human decency.

Fucking Orwellian headgames.

violetmadder ,
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@farbel @otownKim

If Obama had codified Roe v Wade we wouldn't be in this situation.

Democrats handed the Supreme Court to Republicans with a bow on top.

The "good" cop and the bad cop are both our enemies.

violetmadder ,
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@farbel @HeavenlyPossum @otownKim

If nobody thought Roe v Wade was at risk, why did Obama promise to codify it as his FIRST act in office? Anyone who knows how important that issue is, had been pushing for it for decades. When the time came, Obama didn't say "I wish I could but I don't have the votes". He said it was "not top priority".

I'm going to say it once more, and then I'm done wasting time on you. The two-party system is a good cop / bad cop tag team. The "good" guys are enabling the bad guys, NOT fighting them. They would rather lose, on purpose, than ever let us pass meaningful reforms that would threaten their moneybags.

Miro_Collas , to palestine group
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Rutgers and University of Minnesota reach resolutions with Gaza protesters | US campus protests | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/rutgers-university-of-minnesota-protest-agreement

"Eight out of the 10 demands were met, but Rutgers students, faculty and alumni were still fighting for the remaining two: the actual call for divestment as well as severing ties with Tel Aviv University."


@palestine

violetmadder ,
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@Miro_Collas @Infoseepage @palestine

One wonders.

I hate this.

raph , to random
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Since October 7th, I've joined protests, fundraising events for Gaza, and students on university campuses.

As a Jew and someone who has a ton of friends and family in Israel, I want to share some thoughts on claims of antisemitism in student encampments and the broader Palestinian solidarity movement:

1/17
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #students #universities

violetmadder ,
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@raph

At the ceasefire rallies I've been to, Jewish participants were welcomed very warmly. If I see anyone hassling them I'll step in if I can. It's so despicable to see the ADL and even US legislation muddying the waters on this issue. It's unbelievably reprehensible to exploit and muddle real horrors as cover for the perpetration of even more horrors.

mikeblake , to palestine group
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"I hope you will receive it with love" 😭❤

Students in occupied Gaza.

from Middle East Eye Telegram channel
@palestine

Young girl speaking Arabic standing in the door of a school. Her words transcribed to the bottom of screen: "We the people of Gaza are very happy when we see American students standing with us and feeling for us. So we wanted to thank you in our own simple way. I hope you receive it with love. " She waves the camera into a one room building where about 20 children, ages 5 to 12 sit around a long table, holding signs with University names . The camera stops at each sign and the students say "Thank you Columbia. Thank you Emory. Thank you Sciences Po. Thank you Palacion. Thank you U.C.L.A. (I tear up here with their heartfelt precise pronunciations of each school name) Thank you Students for Justice for Palestine" Then the children all smile ear to ear and wave.

violetmadder ,
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@JapanProf @chiraag @mikeblake @palestine

The meaning of words is being twisted by high-budget propaganda departments.

You're not antisemitic for wanting children to live.

tramm , to random
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I hope you haven't failed to notice that coming week @pluralistic is giving two public talks in #Tartu, the first one on overcoming the #enshittocene and the second one guiding us to #seizethemeans of computation. And you can ask questions! https://infoaed.ee/cory/ #primavista #tartu2024

violetmadder ,
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@tramm @pluralistic

I don't see a time listed for the 8th?

appassionato , to palestine group
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Pro-Israel attackers, armed with sticks and other weapons, attack a Gaza solidarity encampment on the University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] campus on Wednesday night [David Swanson/Reuters]

They used fireworks, irritant chemical sprays, poles made of metal and sticks made of wood – as well as fists and feet – and more than 100 students were injured, according to protest organisers, some of whom were admitted to hospital.

@palestine

violetmadder ,
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@appassionato @Nazani @palestine

US police share training with the IDF. This whole scenario should be setting off BIG alarm bells in everyone's heads right now. What's happening in Gaza is HEADED OUR WAY.

mondoweiss , to israel group
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For months World Central Kitchen leadership censored material coming out of its Gaza operation and refused to honor staff concerns about our work there. They are finally taking a stand after personnel were killed but it is much too late.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/i-resigned-from-the-world-central-kitchen-because-it-refused-to-tell-the-truth-about-the-israeli-genocide-in-gaza/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

violetmadder ,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel

Behind the Bastards' It Could Happen Here podcast covers this, plus an interview with someone who has worked alongside WCK people in a variety of countries. It's an excellent, balanced look at the situation.

(basically NGOs have some major issues, because capitalism, the guy who wrote the complaints has very legit points, but also WCK has some interesting strategies that are useful for genuinely helping people and hopefully the guy in charge is wising up some since this horrific attack)

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/

breadandcircuses , to random
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Here's a rant from Stephen Moore that I strongly agree with...

Something has changed.

I feel no sense of joy using the internet. No curiosity. No intrigue. No excitement. That feeling of tapping into an endless world of possibilities is gone, replaced with a begrudging realization that I’ll have to enter it again and battle to find what I need, trudging through ads, paywalls, vitriol, disinformation, and more.

I’ve come to the realization that I kinda hate the internet now.

It's polluted with ads of every form, type and size — popups, banners, baked-in ads on videos, sponsored posts — and they are now invasive to the point that they have harmed the internet experience. They are everywhere.

Worse, we’re tracked around the internet (thank you cookies) in an attempt to make these ads more ‘relevant’; instead, they’re just creepy and have convinced huge swathes of the internet-using population that their computers are listening to them.

Thanks in part to these ads, most websites are bordering on unusable. Huge areas of white space that are really video ads struggling to load. Then, a chatbot pops up to ask if you need help (and if you engage with them, the advice is the opposite of helpful). Then popup windows offering you shitty PDF guides in return for your email address.

FULL ESSAY -- https://www.trend-mill.com/p/i-kinda-hate-the-internet-now

violetmadder ,
@violetmadder@kolektiva.social avatar

@breadandcircuses

I used to be GOOD at using search engines. I'd sculpt my terms with booleans and quotes, subtly tweaking and ahhhh there it is what I was looking for...

Now, it's everything I WASN'T looking for, flooding in to drown out anything good. Bullshit, and bullshit, and scams, and botshit, and actual human content made by people who give an actual damn about what they're saying just vanishes under the clamoring sewage.

I hate it. I hate it so much.

It was so beautiful, when it actually worked. Now it's lost. Eaten. Cannibalized. Infested. Shambling. Coming for our brains.

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