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EndemicEarthling

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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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radiophobicsherkpop, to random
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I'm plodding through Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra in one or two page chunks at bedtime and I'm honestly not getting the sense he was a great writer.

The way it reads I can see how people could tie him in with Ayn Rand and Hitler, and I'm wondering if the writers I've read who have good things to say about his work have been filtering it through their own lenses to an extreme degree.

Maybe I should read Twilight of the Idols instead?

Or go back to RAW's Cosmic Trigger which is fun?

EndemicEarthling,
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@radiophobicsherkpop Nietzsche considered TPZ his masterwork. Few Nietzsche scholars agree.

Beyond Good & Evil or On the Genealogy of Morals are better places to start.

faab64, to politics

Just to understand the BS of Biden about a port in Gaza, remember that there are these land entries into Gaza available RIGHT now.

It's truly sickening to read and listen to all the nonsense about Biden using American Navy to set up a port of "entry" into Gaza while ignorijg the fact that there are 7 points of entry to the besieged Gaza, with over 130 trailer trucks waiting to be approved by IDF in Rafah and 100s of Jewish extremists blocking the passage of trucks via Karam Abu Salem border crossing.

The goal is not to help palestinians, it is to set-up military access and a way to deport Palestinians from Gaza in the name of humanitarian intervention.

#FoodAsWeapon #Biden #Gaza #Propaganda #GenocideJoe #Propaganda #Hypocrisy #Genocide #Politics #Israel #SaveGaza #StopIsrael
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@israel

EndemicEarthling,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel Or just a way to extend the kayfabe that the US might maybe one day do something Serious about how really truly pinky swear annoyed they are at Israel right now for doing a Bad (while Israel continues to exterminate as many Palestinians as they can and ensure the uninhabitability of the Gaza strip for years or decades to come, changing facts on the ground).

EndemicEarthling,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel Nothing. Hence kayfabe (pretense).

The handwringing is performance for the domestic audience, to limit the loss of votes from those increasingly uncomfortable about US complicity.

EndemicEarthling,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel If the US administration actually considered Palestinians human beings, it would stop arming Israel.

EndemicEarthling, to Israel
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I'm no kind of expert in , but I've just come across the crime of , which is a , one with a lower legal threshold to prove than .

I wonder, as a matter of communication strategy, why this is hasn't been used more frequently as a widespread description for the criminal acts of the and citizens participating in the blockade of . Is it simply because it is not as well known (and so has less emotional resonance) as genocide?

Under international law, there is also the crime of , which is distinct as well, which has its own standards.

Though it wasn't until the 1970s that starvation was accepted by the US and its western allies as a crime against humanity. Even after the horrors of (including especially the Siege of , the most destructive and fatal siege in human history), the US and its allies still wanted to maintain the right to use starvation as a weapon of war.

So it seems that the same events and actions could potentially be prosecuted under murder, extermination, starvation or genocide, with each crime requiring somewhat different levels and types of evidence to prove.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_(crime)

EndemicEarthling,
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@bifouba Ah, hadn't twigged on that. What is the nature of the extra legal protections in the genocide convention?

NewsDesk, to news
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U.S. President Joe Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping Israel” in its war against Hamas. The mounting death toll in Gaza is “contrary to what Israel stands for,” Biden added. “And I think it’s a big mistake.” AP reports:
https://flip.it/07X1Rv

EndemicEarthling,
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@NewsDesk Almost as though what happens to Israel is the only thing of importance for Biden.

This is like wanting to stop (or maybe only somewhat lessen) police brutality purely because it gives police a bad reputation.

Even as he putatively argues for Israel to slow the rate and obviousness of its genocidal violence (using US supplied weapons), he still avoids making an argument that treats Palestinians as human beings, worthy of equal dignity and justice.

alexwild, to random
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We have lots of great reasons to change from fossil fuels to renewables, but one underappreciated one is that oil money funds a disproportionately large portion of the resurgence of white supremacy.

EndemicEarthling,
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@alexwild The dirty energy industry has been running a multi-decadal campaign of disinformation, disruption and dismantling even the vestiges of democracy.

EndemicEarthling, to random
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Surprising precisely no-one, it turns out that the industry has been polluting public discourse and policy development for even longer than previously thought, according to the latest historical research into the lobbying and PR efforts of the companies who openly publish business plans incompatible with a habitable planet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240308154439/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/08/oil-industry-has-sought-to-block-state-backing-for-green-tech-since-1960s

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EndemicEarthling,
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@makkhorn Make it an annual and then we're talking.

EndemicEarthling, to Israel
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Every single week for the last 21 weeks upon land, there have been thousands upon thousands (sometimes easily tens of thousands) of people gathering in support of a in and calling upon the Australian government to stop supporting in its .

Every Sunday in Hyde Park at 1.30pm,* we've listened to speakers, speakers, speakers, politicians of various stripes (though neither of the major parties, of course, as they both remain complicit in support of the government responsible for most of the slaughter), elders who lived through the , teenagers organising , community leaders, poets, faith leaders and more, with perhaps 75% of the speakers being women, and almost all being people of colour (most of the exceptions being MPs).

*Except when has dictated otherwise, giving priority to (much smaller and only) occasional pro-Israel rallies and forcing a shift to Saturday a couple of times, under threat of .

Then we've marched (or rolled) with flags, banners, signs, drums and (loud!) voices: Arab, Aboriginal, African, Anglo, Asian and more; from those too old to walk (in wheelchairs) to those too young to walk (in strollers).


1/6

EndemicEarthling,
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I have been to scores of rallies and marches over the decades: for climate justice, for First Nations justice, for clean air, anti-war, pro-refugee, against misogynistic violence, for marriage equality, against the erosion of civil liberties, for freedom of the press, against police violence, defending forests, opposing new coal mines, mourning , for respecting science, supporting people of conscience in court, and more. I've done so with groups of all sizes: from crowds of 200,000+ to arrestable actions with just three or four others. I've supported strikes, participated in sit-ins, locked myself onto things, marched, chanted, been a rally speaker, joined in flash actions, brought along friends and family, lobbied MPs in sit-down meetings, held banners, made signs, and so on and so on. I have witnessed multiple acts of unprovoked against peaceful protesters (and been the target of some, with the scars to show it), and appeared as witness or defendant in multiple court cases as a result (no convictions recorded), including a case that went to the NSW Supreme Court.

My point isn't to boast of my activist credentials, merely to establish that I know a thing or two about protests in these lands now called Australia. So perhaps you might believe me when I say…
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EndemicEarthling,
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These rallies in support of Palestinians in (and the ) have been, hands down, the most successfully sustained I've ever witnessed on this continent. Individual events have occasionally been bigger—the massive effort in 2003, a handful of climate rallies, the annual march—and there are protests that have been sustained much longer (nothing comes close to the multi-decade ), but I've never seen weekly rallies of this size sustained for anything like this long (>5 months and counting).

As I understand it, it is not just here on land in Sydney either, but similar events have been held weekly (or close to it) in most capital cities, with myriad further protests beyond that.
3/6

EndemicEarthling,
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In over two decades of regular participation in protest, not once have I seen mainstream media cover an event in a way that I felt did it justice. Two or three times an article or video story has come close. But they have been the exception. If they bother covering protests at all, most major media outlets look only for angles to discredit what is happening.

And thus has it been for this movement. After the first week, when tabloids could push a (now discredited) claim of antisemitic chants, and the second week, when politicians floated the idea of criminalising certain expressions of public solidarity with Palestinians (even as they were being slaughtered by Israeli bombs in unprecedented numbers), the mainstream media has almost entirely ignored us. Breathless, extensive coverage of every speaker at a recent (apparently much smaller) pro-Israel rally. But almost total silence when it comes to arguably one of the most significant protest movements of recent decades.
4/6

EndemicEarthling,
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So imagine my surprise to discover a very brief mention of yesterday's march in this piece in : https://web.archive.org/web/20240303150944/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/03/australia-to-announce-gaza-aid-as-pro-palestine-and-pro-israel-supporters-rally.

What’s this? Actual coverage? Mentioned in a headline? And then read on—surprise, surprise—to discover yesterday's instance of sustained weekly protest demanding an end to genocidal violence is treated as though it were a one-off event in response to the 'Flour Massacre' (one of the few Israeli atrocities to have received more than passing coverage by mainstream media), and Guardian Australia immediately contrasts it with a pro-Israel rally on the other side of the continent, an event that video and other reports put in the mere hundreds (with a pro-Palestinian counterprotest of similar size, the counterprotest unmentioned by Guardian Australia).
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EndemicEarthling,
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Indeed, there is a clear pattern in nearly all Australian media reporting that has even mentioned the existence of this weekly act of bearing witness against the slaughter of children at a rate unprecedented this century: we are only ever mentioned if there is a pro-Israel event to contrast us with. Though there will of course be plenty of coverage of those occasional events that doesn't even mention the larger pro-Palestinian event, typically held nearby on the same weekend, and the previous one, and the previous one, and the previous one, etc.

Pointing out is hardly groundbreaking, I know, but sometimes the patterns are so blatant as to be worth a little repetition.
6/6

EndemicEarthling,
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Postscript:

The best of a bad lot is probably this ABC piece from November, which at least notes (unlike most) that the pro-Palestine rallies are:
a. weekly,
b. happening in many locations around the country,
c. are significantly larger than the contrasting one-off pro-Israel events the media always feels they need to justify covering pro-Palestinian activism in the first place.

Very few Oz media pieces touching upon pro-Palestinian activism have mentioned even one of those three points.

There are still numerous criticisms to be made of this article, but it's better than any other article from the mainstream press I've seen.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-19/pro-palestinian-pro-israeli-rallies-across-australia/103123204

EndemicEarthling, to random
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Latest comments from CEO are pretty much just this meme.

Not going to link to any corporate news reports on these comments, which all seem to add little to the content of this meme.

EndemicEarthling, to random
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Sometimes, I feel this.

Second half of quote from Franco "Bifo" Berardi. Quote continues: "I must resist simply because I can not know what will happen after the future. And I preserve the consciousness and sensibility of social solidarity, of human empathy, of gratuitous activity, of freedom, equality and fraternity, just in case, right?" (First half of quote in previous image)

masterdon1312, to DadBin
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Every single one of the 13,000+ by was robbed of their

EndemicEarthling,
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@masterdon1312 And the hundreds of thousands more whose futures include suffering from the long term effects of amputation, brain-damage, blinding, acute malnutrition, severe psychological trauma, being orphaned, displacement, homelessness, deprivation of education and living amongst deeply traumatised people. Key aspects of their futures have also been stolen from them.

EndemicEarthling, to random
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A five minute video from AJ+ displaying the name & face of one (or more) human being killed by Israel's in for each day of the escalation since , along with confirmed daily death tolls from the Gazan health ministry, occasionally interspersed with major developments, such as the temporary at the end of Nov 2023 or the ruling finding South Africa's genocide case against Israel plausible on 26th Jan 2024.

And this is the confirmed death toll of those whose identities are known. There are many thousands more missing, most of their bodies still lying under rubble. And yet more have been disappeared by Israeli military forces, some of whom later reappear, most with accounts of suffering various forms of torture & degradation during their time in Israeli captivity.

Finally, as I understand it (please correct me if I'm wrong), these numbers only include people directly killed by weapons of war, & may exclude those dying of thirst, starvation, disease, exposure, infection or despair, also caused by Israel's violence.

In years to come when experts examine the full impact of this conflict on the population of Gaza, we'll likely discover that the official death toll only ever told some fraction of the overall slaughter.

https://todon.eu/system/cache/media_attachments/files/112/015/591/244/879/900/original/2f4433c18b3c80c6.mp4

Crowpine, to random
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Veterans burning their uniforms in solidarity with .

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EndemicEarthling,
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@Crowpine This is how to do . What a powerful moment. None of us who empathise with the suffering of our neighbours are ever truly alone. Nor can we allow those who suffer to be cut off from human connection, support and care (as their oppressor so often seek to do).

EndemicEarthling, to Palestine
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One hundred and twelve more human beings have been slaughtered in a single incident in , with a further 280 wounded.

In a section of where acute malnourishment is most dire and people are dying of hunger (and treatable infectious disease due to collapse health system, and dehydration/contaminated water due to destroyed water infrastructure, and from exposure, due to the destruction of the majority of all housing - not to mention all the direct deaths from weapons of war), one of the very few aid trucks that made it through the various barriers and delays that continues to implement was delivering food aid when it was surrounded by a crowd of desperate & hungry people.

At this point, accounts diverge. Palestinian witnesses say Israeli military fired into the crowd, killing and wounding hundreds, an account backed up by hospital staff subsequently overwhelmed by the enormous number of dead & wounded. The says they only shot (at) a few people who were threatening a nearby checkpoint, and the majority of the casualties were caused by the food truck driving over people & people trampling each other in the crush.

Who to believe? Those being bombed, shot, starved, dehydrated & told to either leave or die, or the ones doing that to them?
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EndemicEarthling,
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In support of their claims that (Palestinian) truck drivers delivering food aid to starving people in killed & wounded hundreds of Palestinians, the has released aerial footage of the crowd around the vehicles. Missing from that footage (so far as I could see): any people being hit by the trucks.

Every previous mass casualty incident event from crowd trampling/crushing I'm aware of has occurred in confined spaces (narrow streets, football stadium exits, music festival arena, etc) with thousands of people. In contrast, the IDF footage shows wide open spaces around the trucks, and clusters of hundreds of people, not thousands, around the various vehicles.

Once more, it is worth remembering just how many times the IDF have lied about previous atrocities they have committed. There are so many examples.

However, even if we took their words at face value & placed complete trust in their veracity, that is, even if most of the casualties were from a moving vehicle & a trampling crowd, why are there conditions of such desperate hunger that people would swarm round aid trucks in a dangerous manner, potentially making the drivers fear for their lives? Who is responsible for those conditions? Even in the IDF's version of events, they are still ultimately to blame for this catastrophe.

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faab64, to Palestine

Israeli KKK leader Itamar Ben Gvir, on X:

Total support must be given to our heroic fighters operating in , who acted excellently against a Gazan mob that tried to harm them. Today it was proven that the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza is not only madness while our abductees are being held in the Strip under substandard conditions, but also endangers the soldiers. This is another clear reason why we must stop transferring this aid, which is in fact aid to harm the IDF soldiers and oxygen to .

This monster is justify slaughter of over 100 starving civilians who were desperately trying to get some flour and food for their families.




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EndemicEarthling,
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@faab64 @palestine

  1. Cut a civilian population off from the material necessities of survival.
  2. Allow in only a trickle of aid, less than 1/6th of the previous (already inadequate) status quo. With only a fraction of this fraction reaching anywhere in the north.
  3. Open fire on the desperate, starving people seeking food from one of the rare aid convoys, perhaps even sending tanks to drive over the dead and wounded.
  4. Blame victims for their own deaths.
  5. Use their deaths to justify more genocidal collective punishment.
  6. When criticised, accuse critics of racial animus.
  7. Rinse and repeat.
Crowpine, to Israel
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Israel has murdered over 30,000 Palestinian civilians in less than 150 days. These are some of the names and faces of people Israel has killed since Oct. 7 across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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EndemicEarthling,
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@Crowpine Devastating.

And this is of course the confirmed death toll, of those whose identities are known and deaths confirmed. There are many thousands more missing, most certainly dead, with most likely under the rubble. And many more disappeared by Israeli military forces, some of whom later reappear, most with accounts of suffering various forms of torture and degradation during their time in Israeli captivity.

And as I understand it, this death toll only includes those directly killed by weapons of war and their immediate consequences, and may not include those dying of thirst, starvation, disease, exposure, infection or despair.

I suspect that when scholars examine the full impact of this conflict on the population of Gaza we'll discover that the official death toll only ever told a part of the overall story.

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