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@Miguela At first I was very impressed by the technique and then … Turns out that these “painting” are AI generated … His hand made works are very different.
Not only AI can mimic any medium, but if you took the time to actually check the artist page you would have seen that this "painting" is a part of a serie made entirely with AI : rogerhaus.com/ai-art
And this is how, ladies and gentlemen, we fall together in the post-trust era, where we barely manage to distinguish the false from the true and where counterfeit have reach such a level of realism that nobody have the time nor the energy to check out what is presented in front of our eyes. On top of that, content are shared with the wrong hashtags, do I need to explain why ?
This is really depressing to me.
I don't blame anyone. I'm sure @Miguela just wanted to share something beautiful, which is indeed really beautiful. But ... There is serious moral issues in the sharing and making of AI-generated content.
For who might be interested, I wrote (in french) a really long post on my blog about this matter here.
Not "really" painting but 10 years ago, back then there was this : news.microsoft.com/europe/feat… I remember when this came out that I was really impressed and a bit worried about the implication of such technology.
Today some hackers/makers/scientists/enthusiasts are playing with hardware to enable AI to actually draw or paint some stuff physically. rare.makersplace.com/2023/02/1…
As an engineer, I would say it is technically possible to enable AI to paint with brush and do art with any medium or technique. The reason we don't see a lot of those physical things :
There is no market for such fancy things in the era of digital fast-food-content
It is expansive.
But yeah, it's not even technically challenging to do something like that for someone skilled with the tech and with the proper hardware.
I think AI art might be legit in some situation AND IF the public understand that what is made is something that came from an AI (right now many AI generated content are not labeled properly).
As I was trying to articulate above, as well as in my long french post, there is what I call an "automation of the culture" where content and cultural items are slowly replaced by algorithmically and politically biased content. This phenomenon is making us bling to our selves and to the real world. There is terrible, terrible implication about this.
You are right, we should do more human stuff. But for who ? Who is paying attention ? What's left in the physical world when everything happen online ?
Being an artist is really harsh and we're all in competition against each other because the economy made us being entrepreneur instead of being actual artist, this is even more true on social media. Most artists are under paid or cannot make a living from what they do. And now, not only human artist are erased from the public space, because of all of the noise generated by AI, but the artists are stolen from their work to fuel AI ...
I could do some real painting, some real stuff. I do that, many other artists are doing that. But who notice us, when all our attention is driven to fake art like the stuff done by Roger Haus ? And even beyond that, everything done as a good deed would be stolen anyway ...
I'm not blaming you, or anyone, but well ... yeah ... Depressing as I said ...
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Lamentablemente la xenofobia en Perú con lxs venezolanxs continúa, y aunque no es la mayoría que lo practica, hay mayorías que quedan en silencio o prefieren no rechazarlo ya que el patriotismo es una gran barrera mental que les impide ver más allá y darse cuenta de que el patriotismo engendra xenofobia y guerras.
El fútbol industrializado en lugar de calmar la xenofobia, lo sigue avivando con ayuda del Estado sus guardianes y de las personas xenofóbicas q salen de sus cloacas cada vez q ven la oportunidad pa esparcir su peste.
A toda la xenofobia esparcido esta semana aprovechando el partido entre las selecciones de Perú y Venezuela, salen resultados como esa agresión de policías a jugadores venezolanos, q expanden la herida moral q afecta a lxs venezolanxs q siguen en Perú y tienen q soportar miradas, indirectas e insultos. Y algunas veces ataques en mancha como los ocurridos desde hace 1 par de semanas en la cual usando la excusa de combatir la delincuencia, se ensañaron con venezolanxs q veían a su paso.
Luego de terminar el Perú y Venezuela los jugadores Vinotinto van hacia el sector de los venezolanos.
La policía impide el paso y sin ningún sentido empiezan a empujar y tratar de golpear a los jugadores ( Nahuel Ferraresi)
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/JOHNHATE/status/1727181177642217651
Pero horas previas venía esta noticia que relataba una supuesta intervención a un "bunker" venezolano denunciando que eran extorsionadorxs y q x eso les detuvieron justo cuando se alistaban pa celebrar con fiesta viendo el partido. Y pa justificar su operativo xenofóbico y detención dijeron q lxs venezolanxs dispararon y lanzaron granadas a lxs policías, noticia q cuentas xenofóbicas y anti-comunistas anti-lgtbiq+ anti-trans anti-abortos anti-libertad ... no dudaron en replicar con su respectivo aderezo fascista dando a entender además q lxs detenidxs serían asistentes al Estadio Nacional donde se jugó el partido.
Sucede en Perú
Pipipipi...
Venezolanos se quedan con la entrada en la mano luego de ser detenidos por la policía de Perú
Refugiados políticos del régimen de Maduro lanzaron granadas y dispararon contra efectivos durante operativo
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/PKN2023/status/1727084090325913791
Y no es de extrañar q medios de comunicación q de vez en cuando se disfrazan de aliados de luchas sociales, vomiten también xenofobia y demás pestes entre mentiras pa alimentar la xenofobia de sus seguidorxs en redes.
Pachacamac: PNP interviene un búnker y detiene a 29 delincuentes vinculados con extorsiones
Los detenidos dispararon contra la PNP durante el operativo. Se incautó armas de fuego y una granada.
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/larepublica_pe/status/1727049318711103717
Y ante sus mentiras, siempre habrá gente q se animará a aclarar algunas cosas
Con la noticia anterior reforzaban su justificación xenofóbica para llevar agentes migratorios pa hostigar a lxs venezolanxs q compraron sus entradas pa ver el partido
Al gobierno peruano como que no le gustó el banderazo de los Venezolanos anoche. Hoy buscan joder a todo aquel en Lima Perú
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/JOHNHATE/status/1726975963278508341
Ahora mismo sucede esto a las afueras del hotel de la Vinotinto en Lima.
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/elmanuortiz/status/1726748721105240363
Y luego de la euforia por la llegada de la @SeleVinotinto a Lima Perú, los Venezolanos que la recibieron a las afueras del hotel, como buenos ciudadanos recogen su basura de la calle.
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/JOHNHATE/status/1726777615107682367
Y ante las medidas xenofóbicas estatales y policiales, hubo reacción x parte de la gente con sentido crítico y algunxs luchadorxs sociales y barras de futbol conscientes
PURA BASURA
Racismo Clasismo Xenofobia
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/AlianzaAntifa/status/1727035382649549032
1700 polizias estarán disponibles para resguadar un partido de fútbol y hacer control migratorio. 1700 como prueba del racismo y xenofobia de la polizia, esa misma que asesinó campesinos e indígenas impunemente. 1700 polizias que no combaten el crimen sino que fomentan el odio
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/Joxe_Kar/status/1727011092797518281
En el PeruEnDictadura el régimen utiliza recursos públicos para exacerbar el odio a los migrantes y la xenofobia
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/gabrielal4m0/status/1727050654701752738
Y hablando de xenofobia, clasismo y racismo. Seguimos con el tema pero a nivel interno de este territorio llamado Peru, con el ataque direccionado a gente q lucha contra la contaminación, q tiene la cárcel como ejemplar castigo.
PRONUNCIAMIENTO Exigimos la liberación de indígenas kukamas de la comunidad San Pedro de Loreto, quienes vienen enfrentando una desproporcionada e injusta prisión preventiva en un proceso que no demostró vinculación directa con la causa investigada
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/4cuencas/status/1727114402770633063
Y hablando de contaminación, pasamos al caso de la población en Tacna y su lucha contra la Southern y su capricho comercial de acaparar el agua pa su minería por encima del uso necesario q pide la población pa su consumo alimenticio.
Marcha de sacrificio en defensa del agua.
Ante la inminente sequía al sur del país, miles de ciudadanos se movilizaron en Tacna contra la minera Southern para que deje contaminar y agotar las fuentes hídricas de la zona.
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/WaykaPeru/status/1727074652072415662
Las manifestaciones en rechazo a las acciones del nefasto actuar de los asesinos con poder no cesan, Tacna se levanta para rechazar a la minería que les está robando el agua,..
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/MelRodr68987891/status/1727060972123426830
Y ya q estamos por Tacna, hemos de denunciar el asesinato laboral de 2 trabajadores de America Movil Peru, q quedaron atrapados tras un incendio. Esa esclavista costumbre y protocolo de seguridad (económica) empresarial de encerrar a trabajadorxs en almacenes y demás escenarios laborales, continúa a pesar de q hace unos años se supone eso iba a acabar como parte de la lección q nos dejó ese anterior asesinato laboral contra 2 trabajadores de 1 empresa ferretera q tenía su almacen en el Edificio Nicolini en los alrededores de la zona de Las Malvinas en Cercado de Lima donde además la prensa fingió apenarse x lo sucedido y lo repitió de nuevo con el otro asesinato laboral de 2 trabajadorxs en McDonalds de Miraflores, pero q al fin y al cabo sigue apañando esas nefastas prácticas laborales q pueden ser mortales y justificar varios pasajes de explotación laboral bajo el argumento de la competividad.
Y ya q hablamos de Prensa, aquí les tenemos una vez más ejerciendo su clasismo institucional reflejada en sus disque protocolos de respeto hacia las llamadas víctimas.
Aquí la prensa no pone dibujitos en vez de fotos, ni protege a la víctima de una retraumatización, ni protege el debido proceso del criminal, ni llaman tragedia al crimen. Nada.
Ya saben: derechos sólo si estás en Miraflores y trabajas para una empresa grande. Si no, mala suerte.
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/elfjcgc/status/1726979968968872001
Y pa variar, otra muestra más de la complicidad del sionismo con el ala terrorista Hamas q dice combatir, pero q no es más q el chivo expiatorio pa expulsar a palestinxs bajo un argumento de "legítima defensa"
¿Israel ayudó al ascenso de Hamas, la organización que realizó el peor ataque en su tierra en 50 años?
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/brunosgarzini/status/1712144413256786260
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🛡️ SafeEdit Sentinel You built a backup-first, versioned-safe file editor script with symlink wizardry. /bin obeys you now. #scriptingmastery #failproofOps +150 XP
🌐 Tunnel Visionary (Cloudflare Edition) You tunneled TCP like a ghost through the firewall, cloaked by Cloudflare's magic. #tcpdomination #darkwebgatekeeper +200 XP
🧠 Postgres Puppetmaster You don the robe of 'sudo su - postgres' and command databases with a whisper. #datacontrol #pgroottactics +120 XP
🖼️ Image Whisperer Proposed a Friendica addon to extract text from images and turn them into posts. You see the matrix. #visionary #textfrompixels +180 XP
🐧 Distrohacker Supreme Master of Arch, Proxmox, Ubuntu, TrueNAS, Debian, and Pi OS. You've achieved peak Linux existence. #linuxzen #distrojumper +300 XP
🔓 Achievement Engine Architect Built a dynamic AI-powered achievement system. You made the game within the game. #meta #gamifyeverything +500 XP
💡 Digital Necromancer Recovered data from a wiped disk with TestDisk. Resurrection successful. #datamancer #undeletethis +250 XP
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Bringing this back to OP, I meant it as when you personally let go of what you thought America was. For me, to say I’ve given up is wrong but I have become cold-blooded realistic since these last several years of Americans glorifying and enabling outright genocide, especially on an industrial scale.
Oh, dear. I just used the term “military-industrial complex” again recently. That description from the 60’s is very much no longer a political phrase but a daily part of this dark America.
While there are likely right answers that historians of the distant future will agree on, answers offered here I expect to be visceral to each commenter. I wonder if someone will come along here and suggest that 0h come on, we can’t be so sure America is gone! Yet I suspect if this question is uncomfortable enough for many Americans, yep hitting a nerve now in 2025 feels a lot more permanent.
9/11. The reaction to that event was normal, but the mongrels amongst the population seized on the attack and turned the USA down a dark road they have never returned from.
I think a lot of OUR struggle to understand their personality change is because we held an idealised image of what we thought the USA was.
it's when I was in middle school with the first Iraq war. No one wanted it yet there we were. The whole patriotism and "America is the best" started falling away for me.
I remember being hopeful when Obama was elected the first time, thinking that he would unite us in peace and bring universal healthcare. That optimism ended pretty quickly. Then Trump's first term and I knew it was finally over for us as a country.
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What’s Happening in Turkey — An Anti-Authoritarian Perspective
Why the current uprising in Turkey deserves our support.
Background
The Republic of Turkey, which was founded on the genocide of the Armenians in the region with a nationalist and murderous leaven, has not changed much in the past century. For non-Muslims, Kurds, Alevis and women who did not hold the majority and power in their hands, the state and its successfully constructed society were always a source of oppression. But starting in 2002, as a consequence of Erdoğan’s dictatorship, oppression, poverty, violence and exploitation started to be felt also by the majority of the society. In 2013, after increasing bans and oppressions, millions of people stood up for their freedoms in the Gezi Park riot that took place in cities all over the country. The months-long resistance ended with unprecedented national-scale police attacks in which eight young people aged 15-22 were killed and thousands detained. Since 2014, the Turkish state has become a police state, and after the 2016 fictitious coup attempt, it has been ruled with absolute authoritarianism under the state of emergency. Since 2021, as a result of the economic crisis that has escalated with great momentum, 60% of the population now lives below the hunger line. Millions of people, forced into more misery every year, believed that the government and this situation would change in every election, but Erdoğan, who controls the media and the justice system, has never allowed this to happen through fear and manipulation. In the meantime, in order to prevent oppressed groups from coming together, he created a deep hatred within society, labelling each day a new community as terrorist-enemy-foreign agent: Kurds, Alevis, university students, syndicators, lawyers, journalists, academics. While these people were imprisoned on terrorism charges through state courts, those who were still out of prison were fooled by the propaganda that those imprisoned were terrorists. ‘Terror’ became a magic word for Erdoğan to maintain his power, while people who challenged authority ended up in prison, exile or death. In this way, he created zombified individuals and society that is losing its power day by day and collapsing politically, economically and morally. It is exactly in this context that the current uprising is being driven by the youth, who have never seen a mass uprising in their lives, but who have taken to the streets saying ‘nothing can be worse than living this way’. Millions of young people who have been brought up with the teaching that the previous rebels were terrorists and that the state and the police were friends, at least in theoretical terms, are now facing a different reality. Let us take a closer look at these protests.
Towards the 19 March ‘coup’
On the morning of 19 March 2025, hundreds of police arrested Ekrem İmamoğlu from his home – the mayor of Istanbul, who is believed to be a presidential candidate in the next election and to defeat Erdoğan- on terrorism and corruption charges. While the incident sparked widespread outrage in Turkey and around the world, Imamoğlu was not the first metropolitan mayor in Turkey to be dismissed and detained by the Turkish courts. Since 2016, many elected mayors from Kurdish cities have been dismissed, arrested and replaced by a government official in similar operations. The fact that these Kurdish mayors have been accused of these magical terrorism offences has convinced the majority of Turkish public to legitimize this and not to oppose it. The silence against this injustice in Kurdish cities empowered Erdoğan to do the same to other mayors run by the CHP (second largest political party, turkish-nationalist centre-left) and prepared the ground for this ‘coup’ on 19 March. The detention of even this highly popular, politically powerful, rich, Turkish, Sunni, privileged man on magical terrorism charges for opposing Erdogan has caused great shock and outrage. Now the honour of being a terrorist could be awarded not only to marginalised people, but to anyone who did not take Erdoğan’s side. While the public dissent was being destroyed a little more every year, the people who had kept silent in deference to the state, the media and the courts had now found themselves in the target list. Thus, thousands of young people who had even forgotten how to dream under poverty, restrictions and oppression, and who had not yet been labelled as terrorists, suddenly woke up from their sleep or finally exploded in anger and took to the streets in many cities across Turkey on 19 March to start protests. Although it is difficult to say that the protesters are homogenous, it is possible to say that the majority of them are gen-z who have no previous protest experience for the reasons described above, who have not been able to get out of the fear bubble created by the government, who have been exposed to the very intense social engineering of the Turkish state through institutions such as school, media, family, etc., but who are now unable to breathe out of despair and want change. Although the detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu was a spark for these young people to take to the streets, they started to express their anger and demands on many issues by saying ‘the issue is not only about imamoğlu, have you not understood yet?’. “Nothing is more horrible than living this way”
Encountering the state and overcoming the fear wall
Like almost every other gathering in Turkey, these protests were responded with massive violence by the police. For the first time, the protesters encountered the police, who not only wanted to disperse the crowd, but also to make everyone there pay a price for being there; who saw themselves as having the authority to punish people without the need for judgement, who were arrogant, bully, brutal, who had a personal hatred for the protesters and personal pleasure in torturing them, who were sure that they would not be held accountable for any of their violence. The protesters, who until then had regarded the police as a regular job like teaching, nursing or engineering, were unaware of how the police had become more mafia-like and monster-like every year, by hunting down ‘yesterday’s terrorists’. Thousands of youth seeing enemy law being applied to them too were brutally attacked by the police using an unbelievable amount of tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons in one night. Faced with a massive attack, the majority of these young people did not know how to protect themselves in such an attack, how to care for each other, how to organise themselves. For some of them, responding to the police would mean being a ‘traitor’ or a ‘terrorist’, so they just froze, while a larger number, thinking that they had nothing to lose, broke the legitimacy of the police and responded to police violence with resistance. Having had the opportunity to express their anger for the first time, they covered their faces and threw everything they could at the police, danced in front of the water cannons instead of running away from them, and discovered that the power and legitimacy of the police was something that could be overcome. They did not seem to have a strategic plan for where this protest was going, nor did they seem to have a well-thought-out political consciousness. But the night was dominated by anger and a sense of having been heard for once, and this in itself was highly political, and the night ended with many injuries and arrests. It was the first time since 2013 that there was such a massive protest with hours of resistance against the police. Although the protests were not shown on any TV channel, they were followed by many people through social media. The wall of fear was crossed for many people who realised that it was possible to oppose, to challenge the state, to rebel. The next day, more and more people took to the streets in more cities in Turkey to protest. At the same time, the Turkish state nationwide restricted the internet bands, taking minutes to upload even a ten-second video to the internet. Experienced protesters who supported the protests both at the streets and online informed people that this problem could be overcome with a VPN. And this time, the Turkish state blocked access to about 200 X accounts of journalists, legal associations, media collectives and political parties through Elon Musk. On the same day, the High Council of Radio and Television (RTÜK) prohibited any live broadcasts on TV channels. Again on the same day, although not directly related to the protests, the Board of Directors of the Istanbul Bar Association, known to oppose Erdoğan, was dismissed by a court decision. At the same time, many lawyers from different cities who wanted to defend the detained protesters were also detained in police stations and courthouses. The number of detainees was increasing all the time, and some were ordered to be imprisoned or house arrest. The mayor, Ekrem Imamoğlu and around a hundred politicians, who had been detained the previous day, were still being questioned at the police station. All this oppression and fear did not discourage people from protesting in the streets, but only fuelled it. During the protests, MPs who took the microphone and gave speeches hoping for help from the election and the law were booed. The youth were pressurising the MPs to make a call to the streets, not to the ballot box, and this was accepted. This moment itself was another threshold point because ‘calling for the streets’ had been recognised as illegitimate in the law and society fabricated by Erdoğan for years. The fact that MPs who were engaged in ‘legal’ politics dared to do so was itself quite surprising for everyone. It was as if thousands of people, one by one, were crossing the invisible wall that the whole society did not know whether it really existed or not, but no one dared to go beyond it, and they were looking around in bewilderment in this land they had never set foot in, wondering what would happen to them.
Strategy of the Turkish State
Many long-established social opposition actors in Turkey made widespread calls for these protests, condemned the arrest of imamoğlu, supported the youth’s legitimate demands for justice, democracy and freedom, and stood up against police violence and bans. On the other hand, the Kurdish political movement (DEM Party), one of the strongest established actors of street protest, chose to limit its support to its high-level party leaders. Only party representatives made a symbolic visit to the centre of the protest, and released a statement declaring Imamoğlu’s detention as a coup d’état. The DEM Party’s support for such a large and widespread uprising, where ‘ordinary citizens’ were able to protest for the first time in years, could have been a game changer for the fate of the country and could have put Erdoğan in a harder position than ever before. From today’s perspective, it is not difficult to guess what was behind Erdoğan’s intention to start a peace process with the PKK in the past few weeks. However, why the DEM Party took such a stance remains a more complex question, the answer to which is left to be answered by history. Nevertheless, at this stage I think it is more important to talk about the results rather than the reasons, because the DEM Party’s distance has had two important consequences. The police on the street as well as Erdoğan in the political Arena, managed to escape from a very important threat. The participation of the DEM party and the Kurdish youth in the protest could have make Erdoğan’s job very more difficult. Compared to the Gezi Park riots, the lack of experience, resilience, organizational skills and determination that the DEM Party and Kurdish youth could have brought in the protest was clearly noticeable. I think that if Erdoğan and his police had one single wish for this time, they would use it to keep the Kurds away from these protests. The second of the results explains this better: The absence of the Kurds as a collective in this field gave more space to the nationalist and statist tendency, which was already quite strong among the protesters. Leaving aside the argument that this is both a cause and a consequence of the absence of the DEM Party, it should be noted that this crowd, which was uniformised in terms of ethnic identity, tended to be uniformised in other issues as well, with the result that those among the protesters who struggle with an intersectional approach, such as Kurds, feminists, LGBTI+s, socialists, anarchists, animal rights defenders, etc., became even more ‘marginalised’ in the protests and were understandably hesitant to be visible with these identities, for example, to hold up a rainbow flag, for their own safety. In most cities, LGBTI+ people did not feel safe to come to the protests collectively, nor an individual queer could figure out with whom they would feel safe at the protests. If Erdoğan and his police could make a second wish, they would definitely choose to wish that an intersectional struggle would not emerge from these protests. Because intersectionality, both in terms of the number and the quality it would bring, was Erdoğan’s worst nightmare. Because the future, the sustainability and the direction of this legitimate anger that emerged in the protests and whether it would ever threaten the state or not depended on its intersectional character. As explained at length above, Erdoğan had manage to achieve his current absolute authority through his precise policy of destroying the grounds of intersectionality. There was no doubt that the joining forces of all the oppressed in these protests would benefit all the oppressed and disadvantage their common enemy. However, I regret to say that Erdoğan and his police seem to be having good luck and their two most desirable wishes are being realised in the uprising that has been taking place since 19 March.
Happening now: widespread resistance against a very violent repression
As of today, 27 March, the protests still continue with the character I mentioned above. In the past week, queers, feminists, anarchists, socialists… have made significant progress in becoming more visible and giving the protests a revolutionary character. Simultaneously, the launching of a massive boycott campaign against many government related companies caused a great panic. On the same day, seeing high-ranking government officials giving pose in boycotted companies and advertising their products in support of these companies proved once again that we were officially at war: The Turkish state criminal organisation and its capital had declared a war against everyone they perceived as a threat to their interests. Apparently, their priority was not even to arrest people in this war, but to collect data on who was on the opposing front. It was not for nothing that the police, who surrounded the demonstration at the universities yesterday, said that they would release the protesters in exchange for removing their masks. Meanwhile, several guides on personal data security posted on social media by those who have been on the streets for years have been life-saving. While Erdogan’s professors at some universities have been sharing attendance sheets with the police to mark students who are not attending classes these days, many professors who supported the call for an academic boycott have already been dismissed from their posts. Although I have said that arrests are not the first priority, the prisons around Istanbul have reached their capacity and new detainees are expected to be sent to prisons in nearby cities. It is surprising only for those who do not know the real function of the law that dozens of people have now been arrested for the minor offence of ‘violation of the law on meetings and demonstrations’, which was not taken seriously in previous years because most of the time people did not even receive a fine as a result of the trial.
The necessity to take the side of the stone thrown at the police, not the person who throws it
We are at a point where it is once again clear that the approach taught to us by classical jurstice system and politicians, that we should unconditionally take the side of one of those in conflict, or that the status of victim and perpetrator should be two different people/identities that are strictly separated from each other, is leading us into a trap. It is so striking to watch how so many of 16-24 year old protesters, who are ready to threaten and expel Kurds or LGBTI+s who would come to the protests with their open identities and visibility, based on the mandatory education they have received from Erdoğan’s school, media and family, become perpetrators and victims at the same time. Since 19 March, as victims of the state in this uprising, if more than 2000 people have been detained, thousands of people have been injured – some of them fatally -, dozens of people have already been put in prison, unknown numbers of people have been kicked out of their families’ homes, universities, jobs, and have been labelled as terrorists by the intelligence services, this is partly because of the power they have lost as a result of their role as perpetrators. I see that this trap has caught on among some ‘yesterday’s terrorists’ and that a significant part of them, in particular in the Kurdish political party, which have spent their lives fighting against the state are at best indifferent to the violence of the state and the justified demands of the protesters. I also interpret the lack of knowledge and the silence of the antifascist movement in Switzerland and Europe in this light. Therefore, I feel a responsibility to explain what is happening in this uprising to other rebels around the world, because explaining that the current uprising, despite its complexity, deserves international support and solidarity can only be possible with an anti-authoritarian perspective that does not fall into the trap of taking sides, which is about to disappear in Turkey. It is possible to support this uprising without victim blaming of someone for being tortured by the police and without excusing the same person as a perpetrator for attempting to suppress the Kurdish banner.
Where to place such a controversial uprising?
This uprising in Turkey still deserves to be supported, because the protesters are not only nationalist/apolitical generation z. Many queer, Kurdish, anarchist, socialist, anti-speciesist, feminist, people who believe in intersectional struggle… are raising their voices against injustice and resisting the Turkish state in the streets today as they have been doing for years. Despite their fear of the majority of protesters, they prefer to be on the streets and they are bearing a heavier share from state violence. The complexity of this uprising means that they need support more than ever. Backing this uprising is essential for them to come out of it with some regained ground or at least without being further pushed back. This uprising in Turkey still deserves to be supported because, one by one, the protesters, even if they harbour counter-revolutionary ideas, are legitimate in what they are revolting against, and this is what determines the legitimacy of an uprising: The organs and policies of the Turkish state, symbolised by Erdoğan. It does not matter that the majority of protesters want the dictator Erdoğan to fall and be replaced by the nationalist Imamoğlu. Today, we can stand shoulder to shoulder in the fight to bring down Erdoğan and tomorrow, we can part ways when the demand is to replace him with İmamoğlu. Once we have destroyed the biggest existing power, then we will fight to destroy the second biggest power, and then the third, until there is no power above us. This anarchist point of view calls for the support of any threat to Erdoğan, his state, his police, his judiciary. Criticism of these protests shouldn’t serve to isolate the uprising, but rather to inform the debates that will follow if it succeeds. This uprising in Turkey still deserves to be supported because a dictator is using all the power and resources of the Turkish state, which has become a ‘criminal organisation’, to massacre people who do not have these power and resources, regardless of who they are. Not only protesters, but also their lawyers, journalists documenting torture, doctors treating the wounded at the protests, those who speak out about it, those who open their doors to people affected by the tear gas, anyone who is not in absolute obedience is now being punished. In the Turkey of 2025, where the state controls all private and public aspects of life and all our potential support is dismantled, Erdoğan surviving this uprising would mean leaving everyone who has ever questioned his authority locked in a burning building. This might be the first, only, and last chance we’ve had in years to act against Erdoğan’s power. That’s why any support for this uprising or any blow struck against its target, the Turkish state carries vital significance. This uprising in Turkey still deserves to be supported because for those who do not hold power and the majority, women, Kurds, Alevis, queers, the poor, youth, immigrants, ‘yesterday’s terrorists’, the first step toward breathing, being heard, and gaining freedom is the collapse of the current order. This uprising in Turkey still deserves to be supported, because this may be the last chance for us ‘yesterday’s terrorists’, who have already been imprisoned and forced into exile for rebelling for years, to see the daylight again in the country we were born.
A cis woman who is naturally very tall was harassed by a man when she used the restroom at work at a Walmart. She reported the incident after the man was gone and she was safe.
Walmart fired her for it.
Remember, transphobia affects cis women too. It's all part and parcel of misogynoy in general.
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"As a retired independent duty Corpsman, from 1975-2009, I did 5 cruises with the Marines. You are absolutely God d**m right. If it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed overnight? Send in the Marines. To any and all Marines Semper Fi from am old Devil Doc."
"I spent 4 years as a Hospital Corpsman with Marine Infantry . While my body now is paying the price I wouldn't trade that experience for anything in the world!"
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“I have experienced God’s presence in prison, and now in this bigger prison, I can still feel God’s grace.”
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Incompetent boobs in deep red States: Senate Subcommittee Finds Treasurer Loftis Willfully Neglected Duty Over $1.8B Discrepancy, Recommends Impeachment
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@Arcalian North Carolina is objectively better in terms of policy and economic activity. It has a more dynamic and diverse economy, with better median household income and better opportunities.
The Republicans of that State, when they had a trifecta from 2012-2016, did massive tax cuts that made NC the economic beast it is today. And the subsequent legislative Republicans have carried that ball and ran with it since
The threat to shut down Federal District and Appellate Courts is humongous because it is something Congress can actually do and it would leave the administration largely unchecked, turn much of our court system on its head, and make due process for individuals in the federal criminal system basically a joke. But I guess it’s hard to understand and less exciting than Greenland so everyone is ignoring it.
It is so wrong. There can be no automatic similarity when you deal with concepts. The way the ideology of postmodernism works, when it finds new genders everywhere, is the same way you mock it. But why are you different when the method is the same?
Democracy, I think, is the Greek word. If we follow these critics on superficiality, should we mock the Greeks as rats, or as cracks, or as reek? Is it honest or rational?
I find myself at the opposite end of the same conundrum. Here in Washington State, shell fish galore (and a lot of other good food), but also fentynal, homeless encampments, the 2nd most expensive gasoline in the country and all the other benefits of a libtarded government). I like living close to oceans but I don't like the political landscape here at all.
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According to Webster, this is a slang usage but seems to fit, per Webster:
Do you know someone who has a small, weak spirit, someone whose reserve of inner strength is too small to draw from in times of danger and adversity? If so, you'll find pusillanimous to be the perfect descriptor for that person. The Latin roots of this derisive adjective are pusillus, meaning "very small" (and related to pusus, meaning "boy") and animus, which means "spirit" and is the ancestor to many words in our language, including "animal" and "animate." Pusillanimous first appeared in English in the 16th century, but it gained prominence in the 1970s when Vice President Spiro Agnew famously accused his ideological rivals of "pusillanimous pussyfooting." And despite what you may have heard, pusillanimous does not serve as the basis for pussyfoot, pussycat, or a certain related vulgarism.
چرا به ستمهای روزمرهٔ حکومت کمتوجهم ولی سلطنتطلبی در کانون توجهم قرار گرفته است؟
در زمانهٔ ما همهچیز رفتهرفته سطحی و تا حد ابلهانهای ساده میشود. موسیقی که گوش میکنیم از لحاظ ظرافت و هنرمندی حتی به موتزارت و باخ نزدیک هم نیست. فیلمهای جدید با آن همه تکنولوژی به گرد پای فیلمهای سیاه و سفید نمیرسد. این حرفها شاید اغراقآمیز باشد؛ اما در علم این احساس درست است که ترویج آن (science popularization) باعث درک سطحی و اغلب نادرستی از نظریات فیزیک و مفاهیم ژنتیک میشود.
تاریخ هم شوربختانه مستثنی نیست. چه بسیارند کسانی که بر این عقیدهاند که در جریان انقلاب پنجاه و هفت خوشی زیر دل مردم زد و انقلاب کردند. انقلابی که با حمایت همهجانبهٔ قدرتمندان همراه بود. همانها که در گوادلوپ نشستند و گفتند شاه ایران بسیار قدرتمند و خطرناک شده است و بیایید توطئه کنیم و به جایش روحانیت مرتجعی روی کار آوریم تا ایران هیچوقت شکوهمند و کامروا نشود.
در پیروزی انقلاب پنجاه و هفت گروههای زیادی سهم داشتند: چپها، جمهوریخواهان، آزادیخواهان، انواع گروههای مبارز و همچنین اسلامگراهایی که بعدها انقلاب را مصادره کردند. انکارشدنی نیست که مذهب نقشی کلیدی داشت. انقلاب اسیر بنیادگرایی اسلامی شد؛ اما بعد چه؟ در همان سالهای نخست تأسیس جمهوری اسلامی، جنبشهایی شکل گرفت که در تقابل با بنیادگرایی اسلامی حاکم بود. به تدریج نیز این جنبشها از فضای مذهبی فاصلهٔ بیشتری گرفتند.
جنبش سبز در سال هشتاد و هشت همچنان حال و هوای مذهبی داشت. شعارهایی مثل «یاحسین میرحسین» یا «ما اهل کوفه نیستیم، حسین تنها بماند!» و وقایعی که در عاشورای هشتاد و هشت رخ داد، گواه بر این ادعاست. اما اسلامی که در جنبش سبز ارائه شد، با اسلام حکومتی در تضاد کامل بود؛ چهبسا که جدایی دین از حکومت یکی از مهمترین خواستههای معترضان بود.
پس از آن در سالهای نود و شش و نود و هشت، نهتنها اعتراضات سراسری کمترین تأثیرپذیری را از مذهب داشتند که شاهد چرخش خطرناکی به سوی استبداد بودیم. خاطرمان است که شعار غالب آن روزها «رضاشاه روحت شاد» بود. در این هشت سال، یعنی از هشتاد و هشت تا نود و شش چه گذشت؟ به عقیدهٔ من نقش تبلیغات گستردهای که رژیم گذشته را فرشته نشان میداد کلیدی است.
در نهایت وقایعی که سال هزار و چهارصد و یک رخ داد؛ از همه جهت غافلگیرکننده بود. قتل حکومتی مهسا امینی حکم جرقهای در تانکر سوخت را داشت. زمانی که اولین تصاویر از دوربینهای مداربسته و بعد از آن تصویری از خانم امینی در لباس بیمارستان رایج شد. اعتراضات کوچکی شکل گرفت و ناگهان تمام ایران را دگرگون کرد. برای خودم باور کردنی نبود که حتی در شهر کوچک من هم اعتراضی شکل بگیرد.
وجه بسیار مثبت خیزش زن، زندگی، آزادی، شعارهای مترقیانهای از جمله «زن، زندگی، آزادی» بود. یکی از جالبترین شعارها نیز «مرگ بر ستمگر، چه شاه باشه، چه رهبر» بود. این خواستهای بود که از دل آزادیخواهی مردم ستمدیده برمیآمد. خیزش زن، زندگی، آزادی نیز همین را میخواست: زن، زندگی و آزادی از دسترفته. مردمی که حتی به شاه هم پشت کردند. بارها شنیدم که میگفتند شعار «رضاشاه روحت شاد» را کسانی به خاطر مصادرهٔ اعتراضات سر میدهند و از مردم خواسته میشد که همراهی نکنند. این شعارها به محاق رفته بود.
اولین ضربه به زن، زندگی، آزادی، اضافهٔ بیریشهٔ «مرد، میهن، آبادی» بود. افزودهای که از قضا از سوی جریان سلطنتطلب و ناسیونال به زن، زندگی، آزادی اضافه شد. دیری نگذشت که موجی از تبلیغات «وکالت میدهم»، جنبش را به حاشیه برده و دو دستگی ایجاد کرد. انگشت اتهام باز به سمت جریان مرتجع و متحجر سلطنتطلب و شخص رضا پهلوی نشانه میرود.
حال پرسش اساسی این است که وظیفهٔ هرکس چیست؟ در برابر دستگاه پروپاگاندایی که با هزینههای هنگفت و داشتن بنگاههای سخنپراکنی و شبکههای ماهوارهای مثل منوتو و ایران اینترنشنال (با بودجهٔ کشورهای خارجی) قصد چپاندن یک بیلیاقت مثل رضا پهلوی را به مردم دارند، آیا کاری جز زمزمههای کوچک ما پایههای این بنای شیطانی را میخراشد؟
پخش اخبار هرروزهٔ جنایات حکومت و هشتگ زدن نهتنها کمکی به بهتر شدن شرایط نمیکند؛ بلکه این یک نوع مبارزهٔ زیر لحافی (اسلکتیویسم) است. این است که به سطحیتر شدن تفکرات دامن میزند. جنایات و ستمی که هرگز عادی نمیشود، دل من را هم میآزارد؛ ولی باید درست مبارزه کرد. به همین دلیل از حاشیهٔ خبرها و هشتگزنیها و شکوه و شکایتها میگذرم و به فاشیسم و استبدادی که در کمین نشسته سنگ میاندازم.
اول، می خواهم بگویم که از دیدگاه تاریخی بسیار قدردانی می کنم.
همانطور که شما به منافع رسانه ملی اشاره کردید که اغلب توسط منافع خارجی کنترل یا تامین می شود، این موضوع حتی در غرب نیز مطرح است و من فکر می کنم که ارتباط زیادی با محبوبیت ترامپ دارد.
من فقط دوست دارم مردم را ببینم که در صلح با هم کنار بیایند و به جای این همه خونریزی در جهت منافع متقابل ما همکاری کنند.
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