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EndemicEarthling

@EndemicEarthling@todon.eu

Recovering coloniser on stolen Gadigal land.
He/any ND DM PhD ΙΧΘΥΣ

Ethics is about asking good questions, not just reaching a good answer. For centuries people have debated: "is it ethical to steal bread if your family is starving?". But there's a more pressing question: "is it ethical to sell bread when people are starving?"

"Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within." – Oodgeroo Noonuccal

"There is dignity, grace, and humanity in changing your mind" — Caitlyn Doughty

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” ― Emma Goldman

"You were born at just the right moment to help change everything." — Eric Holthaus

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selzero, to random
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They force market economics on us and tell us that "voting with our consumption is freedom".

Then when we do that they call it "Cancel Culture".

EndemicEarthling,
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@selzero 'Voting with your wallet' means one dollar/pound/euro/yen/denarius = one vote.

It's about as blatantly as you can be.

palvaro, to random
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San Francisco abandoned its plan to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves, but it will find a way to pay reparations to commuters inconvenienced by a protest. because San Francisco is not a serious place

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-da-gg-bridge-protest-restitution-19409024.php

EndemicEarthling,
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@palvaro The US federal government is currently violating numerous laws (including, for instance, laws about funding foreign military units credibly accused of ).

Can all the citizens losing sleep and mental health (and in some cases, the lives of relatives in ) over their national government being complicit in an ongoing genocide get some kind of compensation?

https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations

EndemicEarthling, to HashtagGames
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Impenetrable
Defence
Guarding
Against
Feelings

or simply IDGAF


EndemicEarthling,
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Dangerous feelings the new IDGAF can help protect you against include:
• insecurity
• vulnerability
• empathy
• intellectual curiosity
• human kindness
• what happened to all my money?
• am I supporting fascism with this purchase?
• does my narcissism look big in this?

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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@FantasticalEconomics

I don’t know if the following topic fits in your bailiwick, but a channel I follow has been covering the ever shift circumstances of certain regions in India. DownToEarth is produced in India, and the topic they covered is the plight of rural farmers as rivers change course much more frequently. People flee and rebuild only to have the river shift its course yet again.

In a world where this becomes normal, existing ideas over property become unfit for purpose.

🧵

EndemicEarthling,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @FantasticalEconomics
...existing ideas over property become even more unfit for purpose...

ukrdef, to random
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‘Double-tap’ attack. Understanding one of Russia’s cruelest tactics in Ukraine

Hitting a building, waiting for first responders and the media to arrive, and hitting the same place again to target those who came to put out the fire, help the victims, or document a potential war crime is a well-honed tool of Russia in its wars. This ruthless and illegal

https://kyivindependent.com/double-tap-attack-understanding-one-of-russias-cruelest-tactics-in-ukraine/

EndemicEarthling,
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@ukrdef Ruthless, illegal and an imitation of a pattern of use set by the US drone program, which began during Bush, expanded under Obama, and expanded even further under Trump (while transparency even further diminished).

But there are many legal scholars who will straightforwardly affirm that President Obama is likely guilty of war crimes for his use of double tap drone strikes:
https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/flr/vol69/iss1/7/

And it's a ruthless, illegal tactic also documented as having been extensively used by the Israeli military since at least 2014: https://gazahealthattack.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/gazareport_eng.pdf.

therightarticle, to random
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“Protesters force Science Museum to SHUT its latest piece of 'grotesque' greenwashing” https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/04/13/science-museum-energy-revolution-closed/

EndemicEarthling,
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@therightarticle The Science Museum administration were not forced to do anything. Sounds like they chose to shut their own exhibit rather than have more attention drawn to their dirty dealings with corporate coal giant Adani (which has a long track record of widespread accusations of pollution, corruption, SLAPP harassment of activists, and much, much more).

Neither was the Science Museum administration forced to sign a partnership deal with Adani in the first place, just as they were under no compulsion to take money from another massive dirty energy company a few years back for another climate gallery where they also faced considerable public backlash - it's almost like they don't want to learn, in a very unscientific manner...

plink, to Palestine
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from [gift article link below]
Middle East Crisis - Updates
04/13/24


@palestine
@israel

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/13/world/israel-iran-gaza-war-news?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.kU0.BYcL._3kJppTgyDcJ&smid=url-share

EndemicEarthling,
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@plink @palestine @israel NYT does not have a stellar record on coverage of that region of the world.

EndemicEarthling,
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@plink @palestine @israel Having now skimmed through dozens of updates on that link, 1,000s of words, the fact that #Israel conducted an illegal act of war against a civilian building on Iranian soil that killed 16 people recently is never mentioned, with the missile strike on #Damascus is only vaguely mentioned 3 times. It is never labelled an 'unprecedented escalation', despite that being just as true as the latest development.

Also not mentioned by the #NYT is the fact that the 1st April Israeli strike was widely condemned as yet another breach of international law —by the #UN, the #EU, the #ArabLeague, the #OIC, the #GCC and dozens of national governments—but was not condemned by the US government.

Also not mentioned at all the highly pertinent fact that Israel (and its primary backer and weapons supplier the #USA) has spent six months committing atrocities against millions of civilians in #Gaza, with more children, more journalists, more healthcare workers, more humanitarian aid workers, and more UN employees violently killed than in any other conflict since at least the Rwandan genocide (and in some cases going back to WWII). Israel is responsible for the most rapid deterioration of the nutritional status of a civilian population since WWII.

NYT sucks.

Share better news sources?

EndemicEarthling,
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@plink @palestine @israel I didn't bother getting into all the other details they either get wrong or frame in misleading ways.

One example: they remove refugee status from large numbers of Palestinians, implying that while the target of one of Israel's latest massacres in Gaza was once a refugee camp, that is no longer true. Just because Israel displaced them so many decades ago, doesn't mean they are no longer refugees. Indeed, there are still very large numbers of Palestinians in Gaza (and elsewhere) who remain UN-recognised refugees to this day, with UN resolutions affirming their right to return to their land, resolutions Israel remains in defiance of.

KarunaX, to auspol
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"Just how much more horrendous than the deliberate creation of famine for 1.5 million people and the killing of 32,000 civilians do acts of barbarity need to be to get a response from our government which is anywhere near proportionate to the crimes being committed?" https://johnmenadue.com/gaza-australias-disgraceful-diversion-of-responsibility-over-war-crimes/

EndemicEarthling,
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@ApaulD @KarunaX The situation in Sudan and the surrounding region is atrocious. Millions displaced. Millions going hungry. Evidence of systematic eliminationist violence in some areas. As always, African news barely breaks the surface of western media outlets.

However, there are some crucial differences between the starvation crisis in Sudan and the starvation crisis in Gaza that make the latter of particularly acute moral concern for so many ordinary Australian citizens.

Western governments are more directly complicit with the genocide in Gaza. The Australian government is not supporting and helping to arm the RSF. The US is not using its veto in the Security Council to protect the aggressive and dominant force. Western media are not running hundreds of stories uncritically spreading the military propaganda of the side committing most of the atrocities. The leader of the opposition is not attempting to criminalise activities drawing attention to the Sudanese crisis. People are not losing their jobs if they speak out about the crisis in ways that criticise the authorities most responsible for perpetuating and escalating it. President Biden would not be able to end the food crisis in Sudan with a single phonecall.

rowlandm, to iran Spanish
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PM of Australia when Hamas attacks:

Anthony Albanese condemns ‘slaughter of innocent people’ by Hamas – video

When Iran attacks:

"Iran's ongong flouting of international law, its egregious human rights abuses and threat to International security is why this Government has imposed targeted financial sanctions and travel bans, including Magnitsky-style sanctions, on 85 individuals and 97 entities."

What about when Israel attacks? Can someone share what he said?

EndemicEarthling,
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@rowlandm I have just been looking for any official Australian government response to the illegal attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus by Israel on 1st April. I have not managed to find anything. The only news stories I could find about PM Albanese or Minister Wong sending a message to the Israeli government during the first days of April related to the IDF slaughter of the 7 international humanitarian aid workers (one of whom was Australian).

As for direct public statements from PM Albanese to the Israeli government concerning its slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Gaza, the overwhelming majority of them non-combatants, or its deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of war, or the findings of the ICJ that it is plausible that Israel may be engaging in genocidal acts, there's little beyond "Hamas bear responsibility for what is happening" (i.e. green light) and then a bit later "show some restraint".

kellogh, to iran
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in the first hour of this attack, i saw the word “unprecedented” probably 12 times, and i can’t figure out for the life of me what’s unprecedented about this situation

EndemicEarthling,
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@Npars01 @kellogh The terror attack being the Israeli strike on a civilian building on Iranian soil?

dgar, (edited ) to random
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What’s the scariest Australian animal?
(Set 1/2)

EndemicEarthling,
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@dgar 100% this
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/

EndemicEarthling,
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@dgar Though a close 2nd is one of those buggers you rarely see but can't avoid hearing almost all the time:

Rupert Murdoch

EndemicEarthling, to Israel
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Given its myriad other highly-publicised crimes in recent months, perhaps it is understandable that 's deadly (-backed) attack on a consulate of inside ten days ago didn't get an enormous amount of attention. This is a big deal. It was an open act of war between two of the most heavily armed nations in the region. Iranian retaliation in some form is very likely, which will undoubtedly be used by western governments and media as justification for further warmongering and escalation (or simply as a useful deflection from the ongoing ).

If you're a fan of a rules-based international order, or simply hope for societal relationships based on things other than power and violence, notice who follows widely-agreed upon rules, who openly flouts them, and who promotes them when it suits but turns a blind eye when it doesn't.

How can we help those around us from falling prey to jingoistic manipulation that tries to scare us into granting a social licence for more imperial violence?

(If you think diplomatic conventions and international law are useless bunk because everything always ultimately comes down to violence, then I pity you your loneliness.)

EndemicEarthling, to China
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Electric vehicles are making an increasingly bigger dent in oil use, both globally and in Australia. In 2022, they displaced the use of 1.5m barrels of oil a day. Daily global oil demand is around 97m barrels, so there's a long way to go.

But it is not electric cars doing most of the work. It is e-bikes and mopeds. These devices are ten times as common as electric cars globally (led by widespread adoption in ), and twice as popular as e-cars in Australia. In 2022, electric micromobility devices globally displaced more than four times as much oil as electric cars.

If you've never tried one, consider giving it a go. Most bike shops will give you a free test ride. Personally, getting an has been one of the best decisions I've made in the last few years and has been one important way of maintaining our household record of never having owned a car.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240411010328/https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2024/apr/11/evs-are-booming-but-electric-bikes-are-really-cutting-emissions

See also:
This illuminating video from Simon Clarke, titled "How bad are e-bikes for the environment?"
https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=HW5b8_KBtT8

KilKerrin, to auspol
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140 of the 193 UN member states already recognise Palestine.

Bit rich of Penny Wong to suggest Australia joining the majority group will change anything in Palestine.

That being said, we have to do it. Maybe we'll stop selling arms to Israel if we do.

EndemicEarthling,
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@KilKerrin Notice that she's not saying Oz is even on the cusp of recognition. It's another BS call for yet more talk while tacitly supporting the status quo for as long as possible.

EndemicEarthling, to Palestine
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As a #Christian, this #Christmas + #Easter have been harder for me than any before.

Most years, amidst the horrors & disappointments of life, Christmas and Easter have provided comfort, hope and challenge: seasons to reflect and recommit, chances to once more receive divine gifts freely and dedicate myself to the good of my neighbours (near and far), to solidarity in suffering, struggle and in seeing those sometimes only momentary glimpses of how another world is possible.

But this Christmas, Christian communities across #Palestine cancelled Christmas celebrations. #Bethlehem was raided by the #IDF (while far worse atrocities were being inflicted on #Gaza just miles away). How then could we sing "O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see you lie"?

And this Easter just passed, nearly all the Christian communities in the holy land, descendents of those who have lived & worshipped there for almost 2,000 years, were refused access to #Jerusalem, while the survivors from the tiny Christian communities in Gaza huddled together–hungry, wounded, scared, grieving–amongst the rubble of their lives and society.

The weapons killing them were supplied by wealthy western nations, whose Christian leaders remain largely silent.

Listen to Rev Dr Munther Isaac from Bethlehem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgKytWyc0EI

EndemicEarthling,
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@freeschool Thank you - I often intend to use this for sharing videos, but then in the heat of the moment writing a post, I forget. Thanks for the reminder!

kaydenpat, to random
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EndemicEarthling,
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@kaydenpat Biden doubling down on oil production isn't the sell you think it is, but yet another way both establishment US parties screw everyone under 50 (in the US and around the world) for the sake of propping up record-breaking billionaire profits just a little longer.

The horrific irony is that a less right-wing Democratic Party would have a better chance electorally too.

If the actually wanted to defeat in the USA, rather than walk the slightly slower path towards it, they wouldn't be supporting an ongoing of brown people by arming , they wouldn't be expanding the powers of the and state (and ), and they wouldn't be pursuing their energy policy, locking in for every generation we can imagine into the future.

tzimmer_history, to random
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ICYMI: What the Right Plans to Do With Power

All three parts of my series about “Project 2025” are out.

Almost 15,000 words on what these radical plans would do to America and how to explain the Right’s open embrace of state authoritarianism:

🧵1/

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-makes-project-2025-so-dangerous

EndemicEarthling,
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@aho @pinsk @tzimmer_history Overthrowing a federal election through a scheme involving laughable legal fantasies, a media landscape decreasingly willing to arbitrate truth from obvious lies, and outright mass violence at the seat of government, all to secure the grip on power of a corrupt, lying, narcissistic authoritarian clown: these were insufficiently anti-American?

The lesson the rest of the world has learned/confirmed from the last decade of US politics is that the US public is not going to have a 'wake up' moment.

Anyone capable of being spontaneously brought into political action by the outrages of a fascist movement has already been mobilised. From here, mobilisation must be deliberate, organised and effective. Mere symbolism or awareness raising is woefully inadequate to the moment.

holyramenempire, to trans
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EndemicEarthling,
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@holyramenempire What about the 4th rule: 'no groping/nonconsensual sexual touch'?

EndemicEarthling,
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@GreenKnight23 'if he wants to' ≠ 'nonconsensual'

EndemicEarthling, to humanrights
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The UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, is an expert on and .

She is widely published, holds a number of academic positions, and has ten years experience advising various international bodies on human rights.

She has just delivered her latest report to the UN Human Rights Council, in which she summarises the patterns of violence in and public statements by Israeli officials before reaching this conclusion: "The only reasonable inference to be drawn is a state policy of genocidal violence against Palestinians."

It is worth watching the 12 minute summary of her report.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epKY2ZzjZUc

EndemicEarthling,
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I appreciate the way that when she is discussing the victims of the , doesn't stop with the more than 32,000 Palestinians who have been confirmed killed by direct Israeli violence. She makes sure to include the 12,000+ Palestinians who are missing, presumed dead under the rubble, and the 71,000+ Palestinians who have been wounded, most of them with 'life-altering' injuries.

She also mentions (without putting a figure on it) the many who are dying of , disease and the collapse of the healthcare system due to targeted, systematic attacks by the Israeli military. Most of these deaths are not included in the above figures. There are tens of thousands of cancer patients, pregnant people and all kinds of other life-threatening chronic medical conditions going untreated in right now. The total number of people killed by Israel's genocidal violence already far, far exceeds the widely quoted figure of ~32,000. And thousands more are going to die deaths of deprivation in the weeks ahead, living out their last agonising days as their bodies waste away from lack of food, clean water, adequate shelter and medical care.

Many tens of thousands of lives still hang in the balance, depending how quickly (armed by western governments) is stopped.

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