@MarvinFreeman Yet, those who respond to this genocide committed by a government with hate directed at the entire Jewish community are hitting Jewish opponents of the war along with the war criminals.
Antisemitism, like any other form of ethic hate, is the mother of all political dumb bombs.
@Lazarou "So does this" smirks the rest of the world after a blockship is deliberately sunk in the Suez canal while water levels remain dangerously low in the Panama Canal.
We can stop the ship carrying those bombs here at a US port, or the Yemeni warriors can stop it at sea. May the obstacles combine into an impassable gauntlet.
reminder that if Netanyahu & the US gets away with this in #Gaza — targeting journalists, targeting hospitals and schools and refugee camps, starving millions of children, mass murder on the scale of tens of thousands, shutting down press, internet and information, killing humanitarian workers, preventing crucial aid convoy, firing on people receiving aid, and planning resettlement of regions based on ethnic identity — these methods will be normalized & advanced by other western nations & govts
@seachanger Lots of this is shit not even Putin does in Ukraine. Putin is plenty bad himself and BTW he is a longstanding enemy of the LGBTQ community. More generally, his policies basically combine the domestic policies of Trump with the foreign policy of GW Bush.
Netanyahu by comparison is doing the sort of shit STALIN did in Ukraine (notably starvation as a weapon of war), what Imperial Japan did in China and Korea(kill all/loot all/burn all, the "three alls") and generally acting like your worst nightmare about the middle of the last century.
"Resettlement" based on ethnic identity is another one of history's ugliest crimes, this time comparable to what settlers on Turtle Island did. Even the same language: of settlers and settlement.
@carl_klitscher@seachanger When this war is over, may it be Netanyahu hiding in a tunnel, looking at his pistol as his world collapses around him. May the ground over his head thunder and shake as the fury of the whole world slams home.
Florida's Supreme Court just nuked the right to privacy despite strong language in their state constitution. Here are the relevant articles of FL and AK constitutions. Worrisome to think a simple change in Alaska courts could do the same here. But also, FL is going to flip blue, because this is BS that women won't put up with. #abortionhttps://wapo.st/3IYT8ii
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In Florida you cannot vote if you don't have a state ID. On top of that, Florida is also a "Real ID" only state for drivers licenses.
Voter ID alone is said to give about a 5% edge to the GOP, as people with ID are about 5% more likely to vote GOP than those without it. Add "Real ID" and that edge grows. Now add felony disenfranchisement for any of Florida's huge laundry list of felonies. There are lots of people here who are simply not allowed to vote.
Some years ago, some GOP meathead said "if everyone was allowed to vote we'd never win another election." Truer words are rarely spoken.
Then there's the crude shit, like fliers about "how to vote" with fake warnings about warrant checks at the polls or even parking tickets having to be paid up. Unofficial GOP operatives have done shit like that, usually in Black neighborhoods or even the parking lots of Black churches for many years.
Then we have the DeSantis special election police and those 20 people they arrested and threatened with years in prison for technical voting violations that were difficult to even know were issues. Targets were those who had been told their voting rights had been restored after a conviction but where in fact this process had not completed. This sends a message "vote and we will seek any reason to arrest you" to those who they don't want at the polls.
The 2000 "butterfly ballot" fracas that transferred enough Al Gore votes to Ralph Nader (and was called out by Nader for this) happened in Palm Beach County, Florida. May have been that year cops set up a "highway safety" checkpoint somewhere in the US between a Black neighborhood and their polling place.
All of these incidents are just times when they got caught.
These pieces of shit never fight "fair" because they'd always lose if they did.
If you are allowed to vote, PLEASE show up and vote to protect abortion even if this means voting for Mickey Mouse for President over the genocide of Gaza.
If a 60% margin is needed to approve the referendum, add another 5% for votes lost to Voter ID, and a bit more for all the other voter suppression. Yet the referendum is expected to pass, which is why DeSantis fought it so hard. This implies actual support for abortion rights could easily be 70% or even more, possibly everyone that doesn't attend Southern Baptist or similar church services every single Sunday.
In 2008, the French government raided the small village of Tarnac, initiating a massive terrorism case that subjected ten defendants to a decade-long ordeal. The case ended in a total defeat for the prosecution.
Yet today, at the bond hearing for Jack Mazurek, who is accused of taking action to #StopCopCity, Atlanta prosecutors called attention to the presence in Jack's house of books associated with the exonerated Tarnac defendants.
For the prosecutors engaged in this witch hunt, facts are beside the point. All that matters is using the blunt force of the judicial process itself to try to crush dissent.
This is the NYPD, marching in formation. This message was posted by a former NYPD officer who now is a representative. The police are the army of the rich. In order to heal the world's many woes, they will have to be toppled. Not just resisted, not just protested.
The Atlanta Police Foundation is trying to forcibly integrate one of their donors, Talitrix, into a city control for ankle monitors. They regularly smuggle the companies of their board members and donors into public resources, which is a major feature of their possibly-criminal, pay-to-play, racket.
Talitrix sells ankle monitors with real-time updates including biometrics. Atlanta is already the most surveilled city in the United States. This kind of contract would essentially turn the city into an open-air prison for anyone out on pre-trial bond, and would be mostly Black men.
@defendATLforest If enough people cut off the bracelets, they won't have enough jail cells for everyone and the program will break down. This has already happened to CBP and ICE. A supermajority of single men w/o worries about protecting family members fitted with tracking monitors by ICE and CBP cut them off and disappear. There are so many cases the risk to each "absconder" is very minimal. This was what "zero voluntary cooperation" can achieve
They killed an activist while destroying an urban forest to replace it with a police training center. they are charging the survivors with terrorism. they are repressing the bail fund. they are throwing away signatures asking for a vote. people wonder why some resort to sabotage.
The abusive behavior that was being used to manipulate Lasse Collin into bringing on more maintainers for #xz went unnoticed because abusive behavior in Open Source communities is so pervasive. In context, we can clearly see it was part of an orchestrated operation. Out of context, it looks like just another asshole complaining about stuff they have no right to complain about. https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/
@swelljoe@Sibshops The ONE defense against this does in fact require access to source code: audit or potential audit by mutually opposing parties that hate each other too much to conspire to hide something