An important article here. [Gifted, no paywall. NYTimes]: The Untold Story of the Network That Took Down Roe v. Wade
A conservative Christian coalition’s plan to end the federal right to abortion began just days after Trump’s 2016 election. By Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer
> Make no mistake: This is an authoritarian escalation.
> Blaming outside agitators or interests always was a propaganda ploy and remains so now.
> It is no accident that this indefensible police crackdown comes in service of an indefensible war. The very extremity of protest repression speaks to desperation on the part of institutions of the American establishment.
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the #injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” “Those who profess to favor #freedom and yet deprecate #agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.” - Frederick Douglass #Genocide#Gaza#Palestine#quotes
> “There was absolutely no sign of any violence, of any antisemitism at all,” says Bartov, who warns antisemitism is being used to silence speech about Israel.
Denying a Jewish ethnostate in the region of Palestine's divine right to exist is part of the IHRA definition of antisemitism accepted by nearly all countries, so this is antisemitic, just like the French Resistance and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising were anti-German.
And finally, it's Saturday! This weekend I want to dedicate it to myself, to rediscovering what I want to do, what I like, not doing what is needed, what others want, what is necessary. Have a great free weekend to all of you! #WeekendMood#Weekend#Freedom#FreeSpirit#FreeSoul
@msquebanh I suppose my point is that there's plenty to blame the US for with regards to Gaza without also blaming the US for Germany's own special form of fuckery.
This place is crazy. We're all so proud of our freedom to be free in a free federated free society of free freaks and what's the number one topic of discussion?
How other people are doing it wrong, associating with the wrong people and companies, daring to allow communication with the bad company.
(I mean yeah, harassment does happen to people who aren't me, and it happens quietly where the rest of us can't see it, I know... but I'm not talking about targeted harassment, just the raging flamewars that fuel the commercial network's outrage economy)