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Tattered

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Time for a proper introduction. I am a literature teacher, mostly retired. I love reading, music, baking, nature & cats. I am learning to boost a lot, which includes my passion for a truly inclusive world, so lots of support for Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, Women, Working Class, & other rights. I understand users who want Mastodon to be a quiet corner, but I am more concerned about what happens if we look the other way when people suffer.

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QasimRashid, to random
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This is just absurd. Israel is invading Rafah and meanwhile…

“Biden administration’s report on whether Israel has violated U.S. and international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza has been delayed indefinitely.”

INDEFINITELY😐
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/07/israel-gaza-state-report-00156619

Tattered,
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@QasimRashid Because they can’t tell the truth without admitting their own guilt.

augieray, to random
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"I'm so angry at Biden over Isreal/Gaza that I'm going to help Trump destroy democracy, weaponize the Justice system, send millions to deportation camps, lower the taxes on the wealthy and shift the burden to the middle class, cut Social Security, track and prosecute women having abortions, pardon the people who violently attacked Capitol police, dismantle NATO, help Russia, AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT do even more harm to Palestinians" is a take--it's just a really awful take, IMO.

Tattered,
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@augieray Do you realize that the choice of Biden or Trump is a choice forced on the people? That with sufficient pressure, a man deeply complicit in the slaughter of innocents could be forced to step down? That you are framing people of conscience as the problem at a time that your candidate is supplying murder weapons to murderers?

If you do realize, you are immoral, regardless of any “pragmatism”.

The problem is in Biden, not in those who refuse to support his complicity in genocide.

Tattered,
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@augieray Limit the violence by bypassing Congress to give the Israelis weapons?

But, anyway, that is a detail.

The point is that the electorate is being given a “choice” between two monsters; and you are blaming those who will not choose one. Not the monster; nor those responsible for making him the candidate. But those who have conscience.

And, thank you, I know my conscience won’t help me when American bombs fall on my country. Biden’s or Trump’s.

lednaBM, to random
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He's got a point....

Tattered,
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@lednaBM When asked if he thought he could ever become a Christian, Martin Heidegger responded that he could not rule out the possibility, but, if he did, he “would no longer be able to do what I do now; which is to say, think.”

Sadly, rather than Christianity, it was Nazism that took him.

And, despite later revoking it as his biggest idiocy, he remained antisemitic.

Like Hemingway, a man of complexities and contradictions.

QasimRashid, to random
@QasimRashid@mastodon.social avatar

So to summarize:
Adopting BDS is criminalized
Criticizing Israel is antisemitic
Appealing to ICJ is unwarranted
Funding UNRWA is banned
Appealing to ICC Is banned
Ending the occupation is off the table
Ending the settlements is off the table
The peaceful Great March of Return is banned
Protesting peacefully on college campuses is antisemitic
Demanding return of Palestinian children held in indefinite detention in Israeli prisons is not even an option

So what are Palestinians supposed to do??

Tattered,
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@QasimRashid At least most people now know where they would have stood when the Native Americans were being decimated. There’s a reason so many posters go back to 1947, or 1948 but not, say, to 1937 or 1938. The White solution to collective guilt after the Nazis was to steal somebody else’s land. Talk about that. Hamas is a consequence of that, like the IRA, a response to colonialism in their land.

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

“Concerning” spread of bird flu from cows to cats suspected in Texas

Mammal-to-mammal transmission raises new concerns about the virus's ability to spread.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of-bird-flu-from-cows-to-cats-suspected-in-texas/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Tattered,
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@arstechnica The slow motion apocalypse. Again.

zachklipp, to random
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Google went from “don’t be evil” to “help commit genocide or you’re fired”.

Tattered,
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@zachklipp Watch what Google, Meta, and Biden are doing to support Israel’s murder of civilians. If you are a dissenting American, think hard about how the same profiling and technologies and political attitudes might intersect at home. These evil people are not your friends.

ErikJonker, to Ukraine
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social avatar

Heartbreaking.
Zelensky: ""The Tripilska power plant, electricity in the Kiev region depends on it. Eleven missiles were headed towards it. The first seven we took down. Four destroyed Tripilska. Why? Because we had zero missiles. We ran out of all missiles."

Tattered,
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@ErikJonker Because the “free world” would rather help Israel slaughter civilians than stop Putin from slaughtering civilians.

US, UK, EU; all have shown their true colours.

Jaden3, to random
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The thing I am most interested in is time travel. I would be real interested in connecting with people on mastodon that have same interests 👌🏾
I tried writing a book last year but lost interest. Need more inspiration 🙏🏿

Tattered,
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@Jaden3 I’m a short story guy. Try Ann Vandermeer’s The Time Traveler’s Almanac and Mike Ashley’s The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF for some great stories.

Tattered, to random
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https://truthout.org/articles/what-does-queer-ecological-resistance-to-the-mountain-valley-pipeline-look-like/

thejapantimes, to worldnews
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Ukraine and its allies are losing the race to secure the ammunition Kyiv needs to hold off Russian attacks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/03/world/politics/russia-outpace-ukraine-ammunition-race/

Tattered,
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@thejapantimes Because Biden’s sending it all to Netanyahu.

indivisibleteam, to random
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Did you know that Trump can receive classified intelligence briefings as the winner of the GOP nomination? An erratic candidate who openly sides with dictators, stokes conspiracy theories and faces prison for mishandling classified materials should not have access to sensitive intelligence. Add your name if you agree: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/deny-trump-classified-briefings?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

Tattered,
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@indivisibleteam You know, four years in, people really should be asking why these posts are still necessary, and why those who could do something to stop him, simply, do not.

ned, to random
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"What is happening at Boeing is happening in every industry. A general trend toward financialisation & hedge fund culture that sees only numbers, not peoples lives or wellbeing. It's just that aviation has a way of making the corruption impossible to hide. It's the dead canary." - Ben King

Tattered,
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@ned @DoesntExist And it is exactly what the British government is doing and enabling. When Trump comes back, the process will, no doubt, accelerate in the US.

dangillmor, to random
@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

Musk flaunts his right-wing extremism, and his support for the people who want to bring down democracy. https://newrepublic.com/article/180007/elon-musk-great-replacement-theory-hate-video?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

But he retains Big Journalism's support for his toxic business.

He hates them, and constantly demonstrates his contempt for them.

And every day that they stick around, they betray their fundamental weakness.

Tattered,
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@dangillmor Perhaps, sir, you might consider changing “fundamental weakness”, which is a traditional liberal kindness, to “fundamental complicity”, as, after all this time, there must be little chance that it is anything else.

gfarrell, to random
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Tattered,
@Tattered@mastodon.social avatar

@gfarrell I’m not sure America would recognize it.

tzimmer_history, to random
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Exactly! All this “let the people decide” talk is remarkably backwards. The people decided in November 2020: Trump lost, and attempted an auto-coup in response. That is the sole reason why the insurrection clause came into play at all: January 6 was the anti-democratic part. 1/

Tattered,
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@tzimmer_history I wonder what it would have been like if Biden had really wanted to repair the damage Trump has done to the system.

magdelenehall, to random
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Anderson and Braverman shout loudest, but one man has led the toxification of the Tories: Michael Gove
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/02/lee-anderson-suella-braverman-michael-gove-toxification-tories?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Tattered,
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@magdelenehall Does Beckett not remember the Thatch? Or all the jiggerypokery of the CPS in the Major years? Gove is a product of decades of right-wing policy and practice.

Furthermore, the Tories have always been toxic. Nye Bevan called them “lower than vermin” He was right. They’ve always been the vicious thugs they are now. We’re just further away from the positive change that the Attlee government gave us.

thejapantimes, to worldnews
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Vladimir Putin ridiculed the idea that he would invade Ukraine, right up until he ordered close to 200,000 troops over the border. Can his word be trusted? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/03/03/world/stopping-putin/

Tattered,
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@thejapantimes Why phrase it as a question? For goodness’ sake!

anneapplebaum, to random
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Donald Trump, who is not the president, is using a minority of Republicans to hand a victory to Russia, and to weaken American power and credibility. Why?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/one-global-issue-trump-cares-about/677592/

Tattered,
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@anneapplebaum It really doesn’t matter why a Nazi does anything. What matters is why he is still free to do anything, given the evidence against him.

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to climate
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If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.

So.

The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?

According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.

No, really:

"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:

"Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."

Gets better.

He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)

"People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.

Not gross revenue.

Profit.

So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?

"Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?

"ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...

"The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science

#oil #BigOil @fuck_cars #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #ClimateChange #environment #ExxonMobil #Exxon #business #economy #politics #capitalism #ClimateCrisis

Tattered,
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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars He’s the CEO of Exxon! We know he’s an evil lying shit before he opens his mouth. Everything else is just embellishment.

blepharon, to Israel
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Oops!

Who did Starmer speak to before "not" threatening Speaker Hoyle?
"The President of Israel" - the obvious person to consult on matters of Parliamentary protocol.
Silly me, thinking the Clerk to the House of Commons & Erskine May would have given better advice. But no, Starmer went to the President of Israel.
Source - Sky news via Skwawkbox.

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/02/23/starmer-admits-spoke-to-israeli-president-before-torpedoing-snp-gaza-motion-sky-deletes-vid/





Tattered,
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@blepharon Remember when The Guardian was convincing us that Corbyn was “antisemitic” and that Starmer was the future? Some dots just join themselves.

thejapantimes, to worldnews
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Democratic standards across the world fell in 2023 amid the spread of wars, authoritarian crackdowns and declining levels of trust in mainstream political parties, according to a study. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/02/15/world/politics/democracy-wars-polarization-study/

Tattered,
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@thejapantimes Surely, it is the trustworthiness of mainstream political parties which is the issue, not voter trust. If parties want people to trust them, then being trustworthy is the answer. This means keeping election promises, punishing the corrupt, and so on.

drclareharris, to random
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If the press spends too much time focusing on the haters, it’s harder and harder to see us lovers out here.

Tattered,
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@drclareharris Is it just me, or do the haters look like a Nazi parody of the Village People?

DemocracyMattersALot, to random
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It's Biden or fascism.

Having trouble voting for Biden? Boost another ticket in the run up to 2028—when the incumbent is ineligible.

In 2024, a vote for ANYONE BUT Biden/Harris IS A VOTE FOR THE GOP.

Sit it out? That’s a vote for GOP.

Democrats are far from perfect. Change the system! If you choose to destroy it, you may not see democracy again in your lifetime. Trust the collective history of third-party and other spoilers.

Tattered,
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@accretionist @DemocracyMattersALot I take your point.

Unfortunately, I will be voting for no-one, as I am a Brit in Japan, watching the American hegemony spin the world towards its doom, as oil, and arms, and tech oligarchs get greedier and more desperate.

But, if I were American, I would hold my nose and vote for Biden; because a GOP lunatic really would be worse, whoever gets picked.

Tattered,
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@accretionist @DemocracyMattersALot I have no question regarding Russia. Putin is very dangerous. China is more complex. There are possibilities of positive developments there, as Xi is not a lunatic. However, officially, as far as China is concerned, Taiwan is a disobedient province, not a sovereign state. It remains unfinished business after the civil war.

I’d rather no state was throwing weapons around. Xi is less likely to listen to those who only profess peace.

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