f800gecko

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.

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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

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f800gecko, 1 month ago

@Npars01 @StillIRise1963

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

f800gecko, 1 month ago

@mondoweiss @palestine @israel

It would seem Simon Wiesenthal Center, et. al., have felt the need to reach for project work beyond the daily tide of antisemitism (which is quite real) now the last of the WWII era genocidal Nazi maniacs have all but died out.

How ironic they should land in a pogrom of Israel’s own making.

And how incompetent must Israel’s fascist boobs be not to have finished off ‘Hamas’ by now, even with the weight and slaughter-power of US-supplied arms.

f800gecko, 1 month ago

@StillIRise1963

agreed:

“we are living in the most critical moment since the end of the second world war”

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@mattblaze @lauren

Does it help if someone reminds you these are platforms run by Nazi sympathizers and other varieties of fascist?

Or are you being deliberately obtuse?

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@mattblaze @lauren

I think you are stupid in general if you don't get it.

That's not meant to be insulting.

It's a kindness, meant to challenge a misapprehension you have about yourself as a self-described 'scientist'.

Social and political sciences are disciplines, too.

You seem entirely blind to them.

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@br00t4c

All the same, she is fully and legally qualified for presidency.

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@gemelliz

Under the Ford administration, when you hear the word ‘development’, think environmental rape and taxpayer exploitation.

Because these abusive clown-faced ghouls can’t bear anything not yet crushed under concrete & pavement and restricted to paid access benefitting Ford’s organized crime pals.

They don’t give a shit about anything else. Almost nobody does.

We’re shouting into the wind here, aren’t we?

We deserve what’s coming—and it will.

Mother Nature feels no love for us.

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@appassionato @palestine

The incompetence of the fascist Israeli regime: 30,000+ dead, scores of thousands maimed, millions displaced, virtually all public infrastructure destroyed—hospitals included—and Netanyahu is still no closer to having finished off the ‘Hamas’ bogeyman.

A bogeyman that is, obviously, no less than a proxy for all Gazans, rooted in the hatred and stereotyping of racism, and one of Israel’s most successful propaganda triumphs, given the West’s readiness to swallow it.

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@Crowpine

And not just Israel.

Here in Canada, when the full horror is known , watch Poilievre blame Trudeau for it having been ‘on his watch’ despite himself being a rabid supporter of the ethnic cleansing program underway.

He’ll be partly-right-enough to dodge his own political demise - Trudeau as prime minister will have had ample access to people who know well the reality.

#cdnpoli #gaza

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@Jgmeadows @Crowpine

It’s amazing how much mileage he gets from the blame-game, but then I occasionally met people at work who operated the same way - they could generate ample criticism, but little in the way of creative or useful alternative suggestions.

Everything is complicated. That’s reality. But clowns like this have the luxury of making it all sound simple and easy, and we all want things to be easy…

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@somekindahate3 @FrankFrank @MisuseCase @bifouba @palestine

These people are dead to empathy and dead to reason. Anything that goes against the received propaganda is kryptonite to them, so they clothe themselves in what amounts to a thick layer of social media lead to keep it out of their tiny inelastic minds.

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@mondoweiss @palestine @israel

Look at a map of Palestinian communities in Israel and you’ll see this is a decades-long pattern:

“Armed clashes intensify in Al-Zahraa City, south of Gaza, as Israel finishes building a fortified highway, effectively splitting the enclave in two, from the north to the south.”

Palestinians are heavily policed on such highways (if allowed on them at all, need it be said).

Netanyahu’s contribution has been to accelerate to process.

#gaza #israel #genocide

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@DrALJONES

“believes it has the right to decide the Palestinians’ fate & future”

Somewhat understandable given the British having done exactly that with Balfour Declaration of 1917 and then again in 1947-48 when they packed up and departed the region, leaving the Palestinians’ fate entirely in the hands of the new overlord.

The West has never taken meaningful steps to right what followed. Why would they when there’s no money or geopolitical gain to be had from intervening?

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@DrALJONES

Our last hope now is to shame the West into pressing for change, a gambit that hinges upon the West itself remaining sufficiently non-fascistic so the majority of its own citizens are free to express their outrage.

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@DrALJONES

I agree with all that. At present it certainly does feel like the West’s fascistic elements remain very much in play—while FB, Instagram and all the rest provide a soporific distraction from issues like these for the masses (while also stoking the fewer but far more virulent crazies in the shadows); I sometimes wonder if that’s why governments have been so slow to regulate them more stringently.

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@DrALJONES

Absolutely. It’s shameful how we crowd these platforms regardless (I’ve left all but Messenger, which I seem stuck with owing to family there). Twitter has destroyed my faith in so many pundits who've been so loud on what’s wrong with things today. When push comes to shove, turns out they’re perfectly comfortable under (and feeding) the same corrupt leadership they claim to be against.

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@Miro_Collas @palestine

This is truly sick. And we sit here in the west throwing bread and watching. Disgraceful.

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@skykiss

American democracy remans in the crosshairs.

f800gecko, 2 months ago

@junesim63

This exactly:

“Glazer was saying that the Holocaust was an event in human history, not solely in Jewish history, and that its lesson is that dehumanization leads to atrocities and even genocide.”