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New York Times: Trump “ambushed” the South African president with “what he said was evidence” of a “fringe narrative” with “false claims” of a White genocide.
Quoting Historian Shai Hazkani and Tamir Sorek on how religious rights’ vision for Jewish supremacy and Palestinian elimination has gained mainstream acceptance in Israeli society:
Hazakani and Sorek analyzed Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg's sermon "Time to Crack the Nut," which outlined a plan to dismantle what he termed the four "shells" protecting Israeli democracy: media, legal system, government institutions, and the military's ethical constraints. Ginzburg, a #Chabad-trained rabbi who became influential among religious Zionist settlers, particularly the "hilltop youth" militia, advocated for the complete removal of Palestinians from historic Palestine.
Key survey findings from March 2025:
- 82% of Israeli Jews support forcibly expelling Gaza residents (up from 45% in 2003)
- 56% support forcibly expelling Palestinian citizens of Israel (up from 31% in 2003)
- 47% believe the Israeli military should kill all residents when conquering enemy cities, following the biblical precedent of Jericho
- 65% believe a contemporary Amalek exists, with 93% of those saying the biblical commandment to "blot out Amalek" applies today
There’s a particularly high support among younger Israelis, with 66% of those under 40 supporting expulsion of Palestinian citizens and 58% endorsing total elimination of enemy populations.
[…] Ginzburg's achievement is indeed the result of shattering the shells, even if the "crackers" weren't always his direct supporters. Hebrew media, the first shell, was always enlisted but maintained a veneer of professionalism. Recently, for the most part, it has abandoned even this pretense, and since the massacre in the Gaza envelope, many journalists have abandoned critical coverage, with some even joining the bellicose calls for revenge, expulsion, and extermination.
[…] The judiciary, which refused to openly declare Jewish supremacy in the Land of Israel and their right to expel, exterminate, or starve their enemies — while simultaneously playing a crucial role in preserving the occupation — was seen by Ginzburg as a stumbling block that "we must break... through mockery and 'contempt of court.'" It appears that the second shell has also undergone change, if it hasn't been completely removed already: about two months ago, Supreme Court Justice David Mintz rejected a petition by the organization "Gisha" to compel Israel to ensure humanitarian aid delivery to the Strip, ruling that this constitutes a "biblical commanded war," effectively authorizing the denial of food, water, and medicine to millions of Gazans. Mintz's ruling, a resident of the settlement Dolev, joined by Chief Justice Yitzhak Amit and Justice Noam Sohlberg from the settlement Alon Shvut, is already claiming lives.
[…] The education system, part of that same second shell, became a workplace where Jewish teachers promoting universal values risk dismissal (for Arab teachers, this danger was never foreign). Education researchers point to a sharp shift toward ethnocentric nationalism in curricula since the Second Intifada, and this process has led to high support for expulsion and extermination, particularly among those who completed their studies in the past 20 years. 66% of those 40 and under support expelling Arab citizens of Israel, and 58% want to see the IDF replicate Joshua's actions at Jericho. Generational gaps in political attitudes aren't unusual, but in Israel it has widened dramatically since the beginning of the 21st century.
[…] It seems there's little need to elaborate on the Knesset and government. Ginzburg himself demands that "the government — whether left or right — we must eliminate. We must bring it down, and when a new one arises, bring that down too, and so on — until establishing Torah rule in the land." The five election cycles held within three and a half years show that here too, Ginzburg can boast of considerable divine assistance.
The two scholars argue that October 7th provided the opportunity Ginzburg had long awaited to implement his vision. They trace how his ideology has penetrated Israeli institutions - from media abandoning critical coverage to Supreme Court Justice David Mintz recently ruling that denying humanitarian aid to Gaza constitutes a "biblical commanded war."
They conclude that without rejecting Jewish supremacy entirely and establishing genuine equality between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, Israel will continue its trajectory toward what they describe as a "Spartan and ostracized society."
Shai Hazkani, a Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, and Tamir Sorek, a Professor in the History Department at Penn State University, are both academic historians specializing in Israeli/Palestinian history. They have written extensively on the subject. Hazkani’s book, “Precious Homeland: The 1948 War — The Hidden Letters” (2024), and Sorek’s book, “The Optimist: A Biography of Tawfik Zayyad” (2023), are notable works in this field.
לפני 20 שנה שירטט הרב יצחק גינזבורג, האב הרוחני של נוער הגבעות, חזון לחיסול המוסדות הדמוקרטיים והשלטת עליונות יהודית. אחרי 7 באוקטובר נראה שהחזון הזה הולך ומתגשם במדויק לנגד עינינו
Quoting Israeli ex PM Ehud Olmert on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza:
[…] What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate killing of civilians, without limits, cruel and criminal. We are doing this not because of accidental loss of control in a particular sector, not because of a disproportionate outburst of fighters in some unit—but as a result of policy dictated by the government, knowingly, intentionally, wickedly, maliciously, recklessly. Yes, we are committing war crimes.
[…] What is happening in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks has no connection to a legitimate war objective. Our fighters are being sent by the state leadership—and the army leadership that obeys it—to wander around in the neighborhoods of Gaza City, Jabaliya and Khan Younis in an illegitimate military operation. This is now a private political war, and its immediate result is turning the Gaza Strip into an area of humanitarian disaster.
[…] One also cannot ignore what is happening among certain IDF units, including the special units, where the best and most daring fighters serve. There are too many cases of cruel shooting at civilians, of destruction of property and houses, even when this does not need to happen. Looting of property, thefts from houses, which in many cases IDF soldiers also boasted about and published in personal posts. We are committing war crimes. I do not share the opinion of Major General (Res.) Moshe Ya'alon, who said we are committing ethnic cleansing. But we are approaching a point where it will not be possible to deny that this is the inevitable result of what the government, the army and our brave fighters are actually doing.
[…] The time has come to stop, before we are all expelled from the family of nations and summoned to the International Court of Justice for war crimes, and a good defense will not stand for us.
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
The Government Emergency Operations Room in the southern governorates has categorically denied Israeli claims that border crossings have been reopened and humanitarian aid is entering Gaza, describing them as entirely false.
Federal authorities arrested and charged 32-year-old Emily Gabriella Sommer with assault Thursday after she allegedly spat upon Edward R. Martin Jr. on May 8.
I was born as an esl, 3rd world 4'1" vantablack raisinskin from lesotho. One day, when i was just a toddler, i experienced race dysphoria for the first time. I looked at my vantablack skin and i felt disgusted, how could an aryan like me have such disgusting features? For many years i loathed my existence, until one day, i discovered the race transitioning community on reddit. It was the solution to all my problems, i started saving money to travel to north europe in order to get access to race transition therapy and live like the aryan I always was on the inside. Once I arrived at my new home, I begun becoming my true self. I bought blue color contact lenses, started MRT (melatonin replacement therapy) treatment and booked surgeries to increase my height and transform my bone and facial structure. After 3 years on MRT I now live life happily as a 6'7" vantawhite blue eyed blond hair aryan.
“Yes, yes, oh benevolent protector of privacy, save us… without you we are lost… thank you, thank you, oh great not-for-profit for-profit!” exclaimed its love-struck cult of Big Tech-adjacent bottom feeders.
[ The Daily Beast: Kim Jong Un Fumes After Warship Launch Goes Spectacularly Wrong ] thedailybeast.com/kim-jong-un-… A lot of people are going to die for that mishap. Probably their families too.
@Patrick, Grand Arbiter I'm more in favor of putting the people to prison who turned what was supposed to be a peaceful protest, which is our right, into a riot which obviously isn't, and that person is Nancy Pelosi not Donald Trump.
Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of imaging. This means both sols have what we call “targeted” science blocks, in which we have images of […]
#Israel shouldn't be charged with #genocide because nothing would come of it, but #Netanyahu and every member of the #Knesset and #IDF from the grunt on the ground up to the Generals in-charge most definitely should.
I want to see them all hung from the gallows or against the wall in front of a firing squad of Palestinians.
Or... here's an idea... let's bring back the guillotine.
In 2025, playing your own music on an iPhone is surprisingly hard, unless you pay Apple or navigate a maze of limitations. So I built my own player from scratch, with full text search, iCloud support, and a local-first experience.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to colonize Gaza, saying, "We will take control of all the territory of the Strip". US President Donald Tr...
In 2025, playing your own music on an iPhone is surprisingly hard, unless you pay Apple or navigate a maze of limitations. So I built my own player from scratch, with full text search, iCloud support, and a local-first experience.
Le député communiste israélien Ayman Odeh a été expulsé de la Knesset pour avoir dénoncé les crimes de Benyamin Netanyahou à Gaza.
« Vous ne savez pas à quel point je vous vois faibles, vous êtes des gens très faibles. Vous avez tué 19 000 enfants.! (…) »
"77 ans après la Nakba, le monde assiste à une deuxième Nakba qui se déroule à Gaza. Vous pouvez essayer de me faire taire, mais vous ne pouvez pas faire taire le peuple palestinien, et vous ne pouvez pas faire taire les cris du monde."
Oh, were two Israeli government officials murdered? Please let me know when the number gets to 50,000 and I’ll consider reviewing my preferential trade agreements with Palestine.
BREAKING: City-wide ICE raids in Los Angeles result in numerous high-profile arrests.
Arrests include an Iranian national charged with stealing more than $83 MILLION in Amazon goods and more than a dozen members of transnational gangs charged with cargo theft, kidnapping, and attempted murder.
Some of the gang members were in the US on false immigration papers and were receiving asylum benefits.
NASA astronaut and Spokane, Washington, native Anne McClain will participate in an event with students from the Mobius Discovery Center located in her hometown. McClain will answer prerecorded questions submitted by students from aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute Earth-to-space call on the NASA STEM YouTube Channel. The event will take place at […]
TEHRAN, May 21 (MNA) – The National Virtual Space Center has announced plans to take legal action against Google for distorting the name of the Persian Gulf.
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Eben noch mussten die Beitragszahler sie dafür entlohnen, dass sie den Mächtigen auf die Finger schauen – nun arbeiten sie von einem Tag auf den anderen selbst im Auftrag eben dieser Mächtigen: Journalisten, die von öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien in d…
“Surely any human being can imagine what it’s like to be waiting for a loved one who does not come home. Any one of us can feel the unfairness of being carted away without due process. It would take an act of sheer will to ignore the human beings — so critical to the working of the country, so deeply integrated into our communities — that ICE is sweeping up. They may be undocumented, but they are not invisible.” #resist #ICE #Nashvillenytimes.com/2025/05/22/opinion…
Democrat WA state Governor Bob Ferguson has signed a radical "Student Rights" bill into law that reportedly strips parents of the ability to obtain their child's medical records, mental health records, records of discipline, or any student-specific file maintained by a school.
It also strips parents of the right to receive prior notification when medical services are offered to their child.
A NASA photographer took this picture of a flower called Borshchov’s tulip near the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 7, 2025, ahead of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky launching to the International Space Station. The flower is unique to Kazakhstan, attracting many to study […]
"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fingered four potential causes of childhood chronic disease in a bombshell report released Thursday — the first step in the Trump administration’s bid to reverse what it calls a health “crisis” impacting 40% of America’s kids.
The report identified poor diet, environmental chemicals, lack of physical activity and chronic stress, and overmedicalization as likely responsible for persistent maladies — including obesity, autism, cancer, mental health issues and allergies — warning: “The health of American children is in crisis.”
The report also calls for further inquiry into the link between vaccines and chronic diseases — saying there has been “limited scientific inquiry” into the issue.
The research will be used to create police recommendations by August of 2025, which will be presented to President Trump.
“President Trump wants every child in America to grow up and to live a long and healthy life,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters of the “historic” assessment."
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. singled out four potential causes of childhood chronic disease in a report released Thursday.
Renowned for the world’s tallest trees, Redwood’s landscapes span from open prairies and oak woodlands to pristine rivers and untamed coastline. This ancient home has supported people for thousands of years.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said the court's decision regarding the Shin Bet chief's dismissal was 'outrageous and harmful to democracy.' Should a temporary cease-fire include a hostage return, Netanyahu said it will be taken into consideration
So a few hours ago, I quietly switched the Small Technology Foundation web site over from the Hugo-based static site running on Site.js to the new dynamic version I built using Kitten*:
What I initially thought would be a weekend project turned into three months 😀 (During which, Kitten improved a huge amount thanks to issues that surfaced while porting the site and implementing a custom CMS for it.)
I’ve tried not to break any links and my focus was on porting existing content first. If you notice any glaring issues please ping me. In the coming days I’ll be updating stuff (with my lovely new admin panel) and writing more about the porting process.
Also, with this, our last site using Site.js has been ported to Kitten so I’ll be archiving Site.js this week.
@ryanprior I can update it from anywhere, including my phone. I can add a tag to a new video on our Vimeo and have it show up. The funding page was already dynamic so I don’t have two different workflows to manage. And, well, it means I’m eating my own dog food (as I was earlier with Site.js) so Kitten gets stronger for it 😀
My bronchiectasis is mild. My “ground glass opacities” are nodules and granulomas which look benign and are currently small enough to warrant only monitoring. Bloodwork indicates my symptoms are mostly from infections, not allergies, and I am slowly recovering from those infections.
She said I’m on the right track with nebulizing saline and nasal lavage, although “God gives us mucus for a reason” so I’m not to rinse my sinuses more than 3x per day, 2x per day preferred. I must continue masking in public and avoiding infections like the plague, which they are for me now. Both the Skyrizi (monoclonal antibody medication for treating Crohn's) and Crohn’s Disease itself make me extra vulnerable to infection, and yes, Crohn’s may be expressing itself in my lungs. Oh yeah also I'm old now, she reminded me.
It looks like I’m recovering from the worst of my infections, which I believe were RSV in March and adenovirus in April, plus something bacterial because I responded to antiobotics and anti bacterial eyedrops (pinkeye was but one of many symptoms). I need to accept infections may last a lot longer and be more severe than I thought normal.
After I take another month to recover, I will go back for lung capacity tests and an EKG to see how my heart’s doing. The pulmonologist guided me through my CT scans, pointing out granulomas, nodules, and bronchiectasis, and said several times how good my lungs looked. I still gots capacity!
Pix are of me killing time with the plastic lung model while waiting for the pulmonologist to arrive. I was with a friend who took these photos and also notes, for which I am very grateful.
19 Μαΐου 1919: Από τη Σαμψούντα στη Λωζάνη – Συγκλονιστικά ντοκουμέντα από τον Ταμέρ Τσιλιγκίρ στο Geopolitico! – “Βόμβα ο εκτοπισμός! Γιατί ακολοθούμε πολιτική εξόντωσης και καταστροφής; Θα λογοδοτήσουμε” Οι μυστικές συνεδριάσεις της Τουρκικής Εθνοσυνέλευσης (TBMM) στις 21 Αυγούστου 1922 αποτελούν από μόνες τους απόδειξη των εγκλημάτων γενοκτονίας που διαπράχθηκαν εναντίον των Ρωμιών. geopolitico.gr/2025/05/19-maio…
Οι μυστικές συνεδριάσεις της Τουρκικής Εθνοσυνέλευσης (TBMM) στις 21 Αυγούστου 1922 αποτελούν από μόνες τους απόδειξη των εγκλημάτων γενοκτονίας που διαπράχ ...
Lithuanians are preparing to meet the Russian Armed Forces (reenactment of the "forest brothers" period) Donald Trump, after returning to the White House, managed to rather quickly excite almost the entire world with his rather controversial decision…
fyi new post from OP where he talks about running proton GE experimental so maybe its bc of that since i can't find anybody else having that error. still fuck denuvo
maybe but i think its just experimental issue. i don't think a non-major proton update should touch the prefix and the error message would probably also be different.
A new NASA study reveals a surprising way planetary cores may have formed—one that could reshape how scientists understand the early evolution of rocky planets like Mars. Conducted by a team of early-career scientists and long-time researchers across the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the study […]
The diplomats confirmed the friendly and open nature of Belarus-Venezuela interstate dialogue. The Venezuelan foreign minister conveyed his congratulations on the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Otto von Bismarck: I will further every endeavour which positively aims at improving the condition of the working classes. ... As soon as a positive proposal came from the Socialists for fashioning the future in a sensible way, in order that the lot of the working-man might be improved, I would not at any rate refuse to examine it favourably, and I would not even shrink from the idea of State help for the people who would help themselves. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
While I'm certainly curious what will come out of the Altman/Ive collaboration, there's some part of me that can't help but read all the hype as, “Wait until you see what the butterfly keyboard guy and the world's greatest monorail salesman do together!”
Requested SMS/RCS app feature: Delete all the old 2FA verification code messages from history. No confirmation, just do it. Even better, just do it automatically every day for everything older than 24hrs.
The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students on Thursday, dramatically escalating the administration’s fight with the University and threatening thousands of current students.
I particularly like how he ends the essay -- pointing out that these sci-fi warnings ("killer/incomprehensible-to-us-mere-humans AI is imminent!") *can* have a salutary effect ...
... i.e. getting us to think about AI risks
but it also has a "criti-hype" problem: By making AGI seem imminent, it justifies massive AI investment
The Palestinian "Al-Ahrar" (Freedom) Movement strongly condemned the visit of Mahmoud Abbas, the so-called president of the Palestinian Authority, to Lebanon on Wednesday evening, aimed at reaching an agreement with the Lebanese government to disarm …
This one was, obviously, bittersweet to write: we’re shutting down app hosting on Glitch. This post covers how everybody can export your apps & download your code. I didn’t get into where the Glitch community goes next, because honestly we’re still figuring it out, but it’s still the end of an era. I’ll have more to share about this later, of course, but I just wanted to make sure everyone got the news straight from me. If you have any questions, you can ask in the forum. blog.glitch.com/post/changes-a…
The new U.S. Army uniform is a near replica of the World War II version. Can the Army meet its recruitment quotas of teen millennials with a throwback image from the Greatest Generation? Bill Whittle thinks the it's brilliant.
The new U.S. Army uniform is a near replica of the World War II version. Can the Army meet its recruitment quotas of teen millennials with a throwback image ...
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