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f800gecko, 24 days ago

@thomasfuchs

Disgusting white men dismissing mass graves, 20k+ women and children put to death, two thirds of the home of 2M+ people razed, thousands maimed, thousands in detention, all in the wake of decades of expropriation and summary imprisonment, torture and assassination.

Palestinians don’t have that luxury, nevermind a platform on a Nazi-owned site called X from which to spew self-righteous invective.

The white guys are terrified the truth is coming out...

f800gecko, 26 days ago

@SocraticEthics

A fascinating tactical assessment of one zone of battle in Ukraine.

And an interesting end comment as to youtube suppressing accounts making information lile this available.

f800gecko, 28 days ago

@RememberUsAlways @palestine @israel

Including genocide?

f800gecko, 29 days ago

@DrALJONES

Some Jewish students: courageously (or even modestly, quietly) expressing opposition to the slaughter in Gaza.

Other Jewish students: on TV news ‘feeling unsafe’ because of the slaughter in Gaza.

As human a situation as any.

But there is a choice.

All the evidence is before us now.

There can be no pleading ignorance later.

#gaza

f800gecko, 29 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

Bearing in mind a lot of that censuring talk is really just for show. Not one oligarch has been meaningfully slowed (I’d be glad to learn of any who have) and I’ve just read the UK now deems Russian oil refined elsewhere not to be of Russian origin. The loopholes being for fascists everywhere are seemingly endless.

f800gecko, 29 days ago

@angiebaby @Miro_Collas @happymilk @palestine

I wonder if that’s how she also looks upon 30k+ slaughtered Palestinians…

It sounds like the Dems’ version of ‘crisis actors’.

f800gecko, 29 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

You’re correct it’s more complicated than I portrayed it; here’s a good summary of why I feel this way:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-sanctions-effective-1.7126099

The story on the UK treatment of Russian oil refined outside Russia is in my boosts of today.

f800gecko, 29 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

Also, a ton of ‘seized’ oligarch money and other Russian assets—many billions—sits in limbo.

It could be properly confiscated and used to fund the Ukrainian war effort, but it appears to be easier to extract such sums from American taxpayers than from a banking system designed to be and remaining faithful to fascists.

f800gecko, 29 days ago

@radiofreearabia @Miro_Collas @palestine

I understand the anger, but "Shitreal" is not a helpful term. Israel and its millions of citizens (Jewish, Palestinian and other) are there and need to figure in a solution.

Sanctions can be useful, but the first priority in my view is honest and unimpaired news reportage.

Netanyahu and his fascist collaborators know truth is a huge risk & so have been targeting journalists and aid workers.

This represents a soft point we need to relentlessly pursue.

f800gecko, 29 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

I agree on the hypocrisy of the West; it is no more evident than in the enormous budget package just passed by the Senate.

I disagree it’s wrong to punish Putin and his criminal friends for their effort to destroy Ukraine.

Prigozhin, remember, was one of them until Putin had his airplane shot out of the sky for having turned against the regime with his slow motion putsch.

If you are ultra-wealthy in Russia, you are a thief either fully with Putin or dead.

f800gecko, 29 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

So, you’re friend to the man who, like Netanyahu:

1. Pursues a scorched earth ethnic cleansing policy on lands he considers his (see Georgia, Chechnya, Ukraine, etc).

2. Has political opponents beaten, jailed, tortured and murdered (see Yushchenko, Navalny, etc).

3. Targets journalists and cultural commentators for beatings and assassination (see Anna Politkovskaya, etc.—scores of them).

4. Has repressed just about every non-Russian Orthodox religion…

1/2

f800gecko, 29 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

…other than that of the Hasidic Jews of Russia, with whom, for some reason, he goes out of his way to be friendly.

5. Runs a bigger propaganda machine than Israel and helped install the US president who declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s.

6. Has doubtless been hard at work behind the scenes to the genocide in Gaza so as to further divide the American moderates who will decide if Trump returns.

Forgive me for wondering if you know what hypocrisy is.

2/2

f800gecko, 29 days ago

@Miro_Collas @faab64 @palestine

He was hand-picked by Yeltsin and he replaced those oligarchs he didn’t care for with friends at the first opportunity, but, yes, they helped put him there, and those who remain do so only at his pleasure if they wish to maintain their status.

f800gecko, 29 days ago

@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

Bye, friend. Good luck with your campaign to gain support for Gaza.

f800gecko, 1 month ago

@justicesandwich @mondoweiss @palestine @israel

How is it ‘hate speech’ to oppose the slaughter of 30,000+ and counting?

Set all the religio-ethnic nonsense aside and let’s think about it:

How does anyone justify 30,000 lives taken, thousands more maimed, millions displaced, parched, starved, and no end in sight (other than total annihilation), in reply to 1,200 needlessly lost to zealots nurtured by decades of discrimination, subjugation and a political & leadership failure on all sides?

f800gecko, 1 month ago

@DrALJONES

Of course.

Why else spend so much on otherwise senseless slaughter?

We deserve what nature has coming for us.

f800gecko, 1 month ago

@DrALJONES

Agree on the first bit. I know there’s much more to the conflict. But who knows what hidden wealth is also at stake?

As to the second, I remain deep in thought.

The problem is we are all like the rich: fundamentally unwilling to change our habits, to give up anything. Yes, we’ve been manipulated. But the rich will not change. Only we can change.

Until everyone feels and acts like Greta, we’re doomed.

How do we get that way?

f800gecko, 1 month ago

@DrALJONES

I don’t mean to be argumentative, but I think many people knowingly vote for political psychopaths because they’re willing to do the necessary dirty work—like climate change denial—required to maintain our lifestyle (energy guzzling autos, detached homes, low taxes, global travel, gadgets galore, etc).

The political psychopaths enable the corporate psychopaths because it helps them maintain funding & power.

1/2

f800gecko, 1 month ago

@DrALJONES

As long as we decline to change our own habits, the 1% won’t either.

Where I completely agree with you is in the fact that marketing has warped our minds as to what ‘value’ is and who’s accountable for the cost of how we live (no one, apparently, or at best the same hobbled governments we elect to maintain all our shit as per above and who we love to blame because it lets the rest us off the hook).

2/2

f800gecko, 1 month ago

I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.

2/

f800gecko, 1 month ago

This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable.

• William Shatner

/end

f800gecko, 1 month ago

@Npars01 @StillIRise1963

Not just media companies—two infamous examples being IBM and IG Farben.

f800gecko, 1 month ago

@Npars01 @StillIRise1963

I’m glad you shared those links - I’d never thought to look.

From the IBM one…

‘In early 2021, Black published the 20th anniversary edition with special public events and a syndicated article stating that in twenty years, "not a comma has been changed", adding that "IBM has never requested a correction or denied any facts in the book."’

f800gecko, 25 days ago

@paezha

Some other wag said it means being as stridently independent and self-reliant as a house cat with no idea where the food and comforts come from.