For the folks bitching about the university protests — another history lesson. In 1974, students, activists, and community members working to improve conditions for chicano students on the University of Colorado campus occupied a building for an extended time. The movement was marred by two car bombings that killed members of the movement (unclear who perpetrated these events).
Does anyone reading this think those students and activists were on the wrong side of history?
@mcnado The activists killed - Los Seis de Boulder: Francisco Dougherty, Florencio Granado, Heriberto Teran, Neva Romero, Reyes Martinez and Una Jaakola.
Burning down a refugee camp is not a tragic mishap, especially if you first burned down the refugees original homes, their hospitals, their water pumps and treatment plants, and their fields. No, it is not a mishap. It is an intentional act of violence against people who have lost everything.
@Frankyt@mcnado We must also not forget that Netanyahu is attempting to correct HIS gigantic mistake RE: Hamas and the Palestinians , years ago at an incredible humanitarian cost. He is a WAR monger ….. NOT a diplomat OR a man of peice. Jews need to speak-up against this misguided leader.
@Kathmandu@mcnado YES !! Israel needs to tell Netanyahu to step-down NOW. Humanitarian is NOT in ANYONES vocabulary if you are going to destroy EVERYTHING just to get at the root cause that NETANYAHU started. I’m telling the world that there is NO plan to destroy Hamas ….. aside from just killing everyone in the way. It ‘s beyond barbaric and stupid.
The thing I don’t understand about folks who support what Israel is doing in Gaza is this — if as a child/teen, someone bombed their home, killed their family, made them see their friends incinerated or dismembered, what would they do?
Do people not understand how terrorism thrives? Hopeless young people, with little left to lose, are prime targets for terrorist recruiters. Give them a common enemy, and you’re all set. Israel has created another generation of two of Hamas.
@mcnado They've learned morality from the state, politicians, and pundits: in the contemporary rhetorical sphere, declaring something "good" or "evil" is more often a statement of the speaker's partisan alignment, not an objective observation.
"Their team" does violence and scares "my team"? They are evil terrorists. "My team" does the same? That's just necessary for goodness to prevail.
Remember folks, before Dobbs, Republicans claimed abortion was too unsafe to be performed in a clinic, but now in Florida they think C-sections can be. It was never about safety.
Florida allowing clinics to perform C-sections outside of the hospital is a horrendous handout to private equity on the backs of women and babies.
For perspective, driving DOWN the C-section rate is literally a quality metric for hospitals. Widespread availability elective C-sections doesn’t improve outcomes, can cause future complications, and of course C-sections are high-risk, often frenetic surgeries. This should not be performed somewhere that doesn’t have NICU and ICU services, period.
Do I want Biden to do more to get Israel to stop killing civilians? Yes. Do I think US dollars should ever go to Israel? No. Fuck ‘em. They have an economy. They have nukes. They can protect themselves. We have no business being tied up with them, particularly since Israel has backstabbed the US for decades.
AND,
Much of US-Israel policy is tied up in legislation and treaties that Biden can do fuckall about, and Israel has a huge and effective lobby.
I’m just gonna say it — this “Genocide Joe” thing is the dumbest fucking liberal shit I have seen in years.
Joe Biden can do more to try to rein in Israel, but Biden doesn’t run Israel. He isn’t CIC for IDF. He isn’t deciding what hospital to bomb. He isn’t deciding what border crossings to close.
You know who is pushing the Genocide Joe narrative? The fucking Russians and the Israelis. Why is that? Well, it’s an election year, and Trump is a hard right, pro-Israel puppet.
@mcnado Another thing that really bothers me is a slogan I've seen various places that's pushing the false notion US taxpayers are funding Israeli healthcare. It is *remarkably * similar to the "why are our tax dollars going to Ukraine and not Hawaiian wildfire relief" slogan that was later conclusively demonstrated to be Russian disinfo.
(Also, if Israel has better healthcare than the US, that's because it's basically impossible to have a worse healthcare system than we do.)
@liferstate yeah, the old “we have people we could help with those dollars here”, whilst voting against spending any dollars ever to help anyone here. Dorks.
People putting their bagged dog poo in my recycling bin hours after the recycling was picked up — why? Everyone here knows the purple bins are recycling. If you’re going to put dog waste in the wrong bin, why even pick it up at all? How fucking lazy do you have to be to not just carry it home with you like all the rest of us with dogs?
@mcnado A few times someone put a used disposable diaper into our personal compost bin. I understand the confusion because at the time the City accepted disposable diapers in the City compost bin. Our personal bin sits permanently out back in the laneway against our fence. I stuck a note with big letters on the inside of the bin saying. "Do not put diapers or doggy bags here. This compost is for our garden and we don't want plastic or poop." The deposits stopped.
Sometimes, people just need a bit of polite educating.
The current SCOTUS continues to do what they’ve been doing since Dobbs. They make one decision that is pretty middle of the road “yep, that’s the right call”, and then the next five or six big decisions are all deeply unpopular, and wildly partisan. They think people don’t see the systematic erosion of democracy, separation of church and state, and equality. They are so fucking removed from actual society that they think this will all blow over.
Two ways to look at the 2nd known human case of H5N1 in the US — one is to say oh heck another case, that’s not good. The other way of looking at it is that there are thousands of infected cows interacting with hundreds of dairy employees, and we’ve found two cases, both of whom had pinkeye.
Wierd that the GOP that was so concerned with antisemitism on college campuses a week ago has nothing to say about Nazi references in Trump campaign social media posts.
Now is a great time to remind everyone venturing into the #backcountry in #Colorado that until July, it is functionally still winter at altitude. It often freezes at night, and can be very cold and wet for days on end. Carry clothing layers, dry backups, and gear to survive wet nights below freezing. Expect deep, wet snow in the woods, making route finding difficult, and travel frankly exhausting and slow. Weather can go from T-shirts to needing a parka in minutes as storms hit the divide.
UN vehicle struck, UN worker from India killed. UN has not identified attacker, but IDF is not denying responsibility and blamed the occupants for traveling through a war zone.
When someone commits large scale tax fraud, they are stealing from you. They benefited from public services like roads, fire protection, and police, but they didn’t pay for it.