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Anfang Juli wurden bei Luftangriffen der israelischen Armee zwei Zelthallen der palästinensischen Organisation Mayasem Association in Al-Qarara im südlichen Gazastreifen zerstört. 1/10
In den Zelthallen waren eine Suppenküche und eine Schule untergebracht. Die Hilfsprojekte der medico-Partnerorganisation, die mit Spendengeldern aus Deutschland finanziert wurden, hatten hunderte Familien unterstützt. 2/10
Solche Vorschläge beruhen auf einer rassistischen Vorstellung und verstärken sie (sehr wahrscheinlich bewusst). Hier werden Menschen mit am wenigsten Macht als Probleme definiert, um Schuldige zu erzeugen, statt tatsächliche Probleme zu lösen. Das ist billig und so auf so vielen Ebenen beschämend.
Da ja Schulpflicht herrscht, lässt sich das mathematisch nur erreichen, indem die “migrantischen Kinder" gleichmäßiger auf die Schulen verteilt werden. Also wenn das umgesetzt wird, indem deren Familien geförderten Wohnraum in den bisher weißesten Schulbezirken bekommen… Ach Frau Prien, SO haben Sie das nicht gemeint?
- Clashes, bombing in Khan Younis - Israeli forces kill 18 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn - Hamas seeks ceasefire guarantees as more are killed in Gaza - WATCH: Israel strikes Gaza school as more than 300 Palestinians killed in 48 hours - Israeli forces fire on Palestinians during confrontations with Israeli settlers
Der wohl hervorstechendste und auch erschreckendste Aspekt der deutschen Realitätsflucht liegt in der Haltung, mit Tatsachen so umzugehen, als handele es sich um bloße Meinungen. (Quelle: Hannah Ahrend | Nach Auschwitz. Essays & Kommentare 1; 1965)
The European Union has rarely played more than an auxiliary role in helping resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in spite of its multifaceted presence in the region.
With nearly 10 million subscribers, India’s largest English-language global broadcaster, WION (stands for ‘the World is One’) is an important media force.
I’d previously played the Commodore 64 version—a predictable top-down shooter with decent graphics for the old brown breadbox, but nothing remarkable.
The DOS version, released in 1989, really stands out. It supports VGA graphics and AdLib sound, delivering crisp colors and catchy music that were impressive for the time.
What blew me away, though, was the control options. Not only does it support keyboard and joystick, but you can also move and shoot using the mouse—a rarity for the platform back then. Even better, it actually works pretty well by the standards of the day.
Rambo III came out in many versions: arcade, Master System, Genesis. The computer versions are mostly similar, each carrying quirks unique to their platforms—you could find it on Atari ST, Amiga, MSX, C64, Amstrad CPC, and even ZX Spectrum.
The DOS release covers CGA, EGA, and VGA graphics modes plus a variety of sound options, offering a surprisingly eclectic experience. While critics favored the Genesis version, I think the DOS port holds its own. It’s more than playable and can deliver some solid fun.
The UK house of Commons this week voted 385 to 26 to proscribe Palestine Action, a grassroots group active in protesting Britain’s complicity in Israel’s
So when I went to Canada a month ago it felt like we were on the brink of WW3 but now I'm back and in Washington DC to do some production stuff for 4th of July and aside from heavily opinionated stickers on lamp posts, everything seems... fine? People are talking about some kind of bill that got a validation stamp. I'm not sure what it's about though. Maybe I should turn on the news.
Interview: Kshama Sawant on Zohran Mamdani: Winning requires a "fighting strategy", namely, understanding that:
Capitalism is a zero-sum game - You cannot hope to win substantial reforms for working class people by imagining you can sweet talk billionaires into agreement.
In addition, the duopoly, despite their differences, represents billionaires.
While Zohran Mamdani's victory warrants celebration, groundbreaking socialist campaigns of the past have fallen short on their promises to working people. Will Mamdani's movement suffer the same fate?
Mamdani’s alignment with the Democratic Party is a worry.
"Goundbreaking campaigns, like those of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Bernie Sanders, have fallen short of delivering promises for working-class people once in office."
“The Democratic Party is a party of capitalism itself. The working class loses out more & more & is subjected to more & more misery with every passing decade."
While Zohran Mamdani's victory warrants celebration, groundbreaking socialist campaigns of the past have fallen short on their promises to working people. Will Mamdani's movement suffer the same fate?
I mean, at this point if any holder of a significant office doesn't play ball with the establishment how long would they last? Even just physically, come to that.
I take your point. However, sweetheart deals over decades with the billionaire class have clearly made things worse for the working class.
Imo, there's no alternative to fighting this fascist, likely psychopathic class.
And there're only several hundred of them. Their entire operation could be shut down by people power - massive strikes, mass disobedience, massive BDS, etc etc etc.
@violetmadder Indeed. Both Bernie and, in the UK, Corbyn, are examples of what happens when a politician deviates too much from what is acceptable: they simply are not allowed to even compete. Methods varied in the two cases, but the result was the same.
I've been encountering a lot of vocally religious people recently and it's catching me off guard because in my brain, any version of "god" is synonymous with "the tooth fairy" so I'm standing there perplexed why an adult is talking to me about how they're basking in the tooth fairy's love and how the tooth fairy is the ultimate power in the universe and how even me not believing in the tooth fairy is all part of the tooth fairy's plan for my character arc. As for me, I can neither confirm nor deny that the tooth fairy exists. I just simply accept that certain things are unknowable and while lore to explain it all is certainly interesting, I will never consider it historical fact.
@Paleo_1825Ngl I forgot about KJK I feel like spinster used to have drama about her on a daily basis and I was just like "I'm too not British to follow this."
It is not useful to understand the content of the Hannya Shingyo,reciting the sounds of this text is enough to orient the soul/consciousness of the disciple in the direction of the teachings.Zen is…
You're right...Let's not jump off the boat before the crossingi is over.
And yes, the Hannya Shingyo states it. Which is a good thing becauseI never really understood anything to this text. There is a good way not to understand it. Or things, in general...
Une très large partie de ce que l’on nomme ‘religion » relève en réalité de l’univers mental.Une très grande partie de ce que l’on nomme « conversion » relève en réalité de la substitution d’un uni…
Tomorrow is July 4th in America. Should you celebrate? You can celebrate that we once took down a tyrant, and that we should do it again, yes. Meanwhile, here is James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ speech about the 4th of July. youtube.com/watch?v=O0baE_CtU0…
In a Fourth of July holiday special, we hear the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist...
Historically, very few Jews could get into Ivy League schools — not because of “antisemitism” as many Jews claim — but rather because they just weren’t smart enough, which was reflected in their poor performance on the SAT test.
Dear fellow Americans,This 4th of July, we wish we could share your stories with the world, like we’ve done for 83 years.But we can’t.Our voice has been sile...
After spending the last year killing pretty much everybody else in the Middle East, Israel and its less-than-silent partners back in Washington finally
En résumé, ce que m’apprends la spiritualité :Les conflits, se résolvent en creusant et en élargissant.C’est à dire que la superficialité d’approche et/ou le manque d’ouverture des champs, sont les…
Republicans went ahead and passed President Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' in the House on Thursday despite most of the 'goodies' in the bill for conservatives having been st
The Canadian PM’s response to Trump’s tariffs is austerity and environmental destruction that puts Indigenous communities on the frontline of resistance, explains John Clarke
One of the key elements of the response of Canada’s ruling establishment…
Terina Hine takes apart the racist narrative around ‘grooming gangs’
A girl aged ten dismissed as a prostitute, police calling abused girls ‘slags’ and their abuse a ‘lifestyle choice’, children arrested for being ‘drunk and disorderly’ yet not t…
#1988 Daylight, spent the night without you But I've been dreamin' 'bout the lovin' you do I'm over bein' angry 'bout the hell you put me through Gary Ryan [Moss], American rock bassist (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts) is 61 youtu.be/bpNw7jYkbVc?si=tdBcgy…
Official Video for "I Hate Myself For Loving You” by Joan Jett & the BlackheartsListen to Joan Jett & the Blackhearts: https://JJatBH.lnk.to/streamYD Subscri...
In his first speech after the House passed his 'Big Beautiful Bill,' President Trump on Thursday announced he's working on a mass amnesty for potentially millions of illega
well you guys got Build Back Better and even more bloat, and all the migrants and immigrants, great work MAGA, Maybe we should start negotiations for the USA to become our 14 to 64th province/territories?
Call to Action: DC Protest, July 4th. If you are in the DC area we ask for all hands on deck. Gather at 2 PM at Logan Circle, culminating in a march to the White House. #3E #RefuseFascism #NoKings
The rise of fascism is a boon for tech oligarchs, who bet their future on forever wars and AI-powered, police-state surveillance. The billionaire nerds are now selling killing people with the same zeal they sold iPads.
Facebook mogul’s sudden appearance is increasingly typical of freewheeling West Wing during Donald Trump’s second term, which president has reportedly nicknamed ‘Grand Central Terminal’
It’s so frustrating that there is this illusion that we are all 49%/49% right now. Us versus them, good versus bad, and it’s all because of the BS that is the electoral system. It’s very likely 70% versus 30% and we’re just not seeing representative government.There’s just no common sense right now
Absolutely insane that every vote is a squeaker, and literally no one wants this bill but they don’t wanna get primaried. This bill is insane trash and will make everyone’s life worse except mine. And I don’t want the tax break. I want to pay for kids meals and Headstart with my taxes.
#mood, including the second part. An inlaw’s estate dodges some taxes, my lone worry is risks to how I’m buying “marketplace” health insurance. But largely, I get a few bucks more and the safety net crumbles. Fucking hell no thank you.
I think the first two years of college should be free, student loans should be at 0% interest and available to anyone who needs one, we should take care of our veterans, we should have free public transportation, the post office is not a business and should not be run like one, healthcare is a right
I am with you. I don’t understand this at all. This bill will make me more rich (tax breaks), but I don’t need it, I don’t want it. I want rich people like myself to pay their fair share. And it makes everything worse for almost everyone else.
In “The Red Devil” a play written by Antoine Rault there is a conversation between Colbert (Minister of Finance under Louis XIV) and Mazarin. The contents of this exchange have gone into the annals of history > Colbert: “When trying to find money, there is always a moment when messing about is no longer enough. Please, Lord High Treasurer, tell me how one can manage to spend more when already up to one’s neck in debt…” -Mazarin: “When you are a simple mortal, of course, and swamped in debt, you are sent to prison but the State… well the State is a different kettle of fish. The State cannot be thrown in prison. And so the debt increases! Every State does that.” Colbert: “Oh really? Is that what you think? However, we need money and how can you find any when you’ve already devised every imaginable tax?” -Mazarin: “We create others”. Colbert: “We can’t tax the poor more than we do already.” -Mazarin: “Yes, that’s true.” Colbert: «So, what about the rich?» -Mazarin: «We can’t tax the rich either. They would stop spending. A rich person who spends feeds hundreds of poor people». Colbert: “So, what should we do?” -Mazarin: “Colbert, your reasoning is completely illogical! Lots of people are neither one thing nor the other, neither poor, nor rich… French people work in the hope of becoming rich but dreading being poor! Those are the people we should be taxing, more and more! They are the ones! The more you take from them, the more they work to make up for it… That well never runs dry.”
#1984 Every time I think of you I always catch my breath And I'm still standing here And you're miles away And I'm wondering why you left John Waite is 73 youtu.be/k9e157Ner90?si=GSB3k1…
your words: "In the meantime, I'm decluttering... It's crazy how much crap we accumulate... From a very early age... right from training... The main value, the future, people, money, I declutter... THE SUPPORTER OF THE LEAST IS STRONG" ---------NOW declutter me and keep your ass off this page
It's nice of you to remind me of what I wrote, but I'm not old enough to have forgotten it. Is that what you think communism is? What a poor culture. It's Cynic philosophy, by Diogenes, 2500 years before communism. Communists take care of society. That doesn't concern me.
If you had read my entire page (but your eyes are getting tired, it's normal at your age) you would have seen my hashtags... Cynicism, kunism, but not communism...
Kunists believers in Kunism.We are Followers of Zero, Inhabitants of the Home of Judges,We are People of the 7th realm. Disciples of the Orange Men.We meditate create stories, travel the 7th realm and report our findings.
I have no idea what you're talking about. If you want to know more about Kunism, read Diogenes. Nothing else exists. And there's certainly no question of a kingdom, whatever that may be. Diogenes is, among other things, the inventor of the word “cosmopolitan”. It's just a way of living outside the system.
Some people talk about minimizing social media time and the associated doomscrolling, but every day Mastodon reminds me of how many kind, caring people there are. And how many I'm privileged to know on here. (And how many have adorable cats. Or dogs. Or goats.) People who appreciate the beauty around us; people who want to save the environment; people who want a good life for everyone.
It lifts me up, even when the news is horrific. Thank you all.
Feeling overwhelmed, like the worst of us make the rules for the rest of us? Like empathy feels like a curse right now? It just hurts, and you feel helpless?
You are worth fighting for. Sometimes winning doesn't look glamorous, it just looks like not giving up. Care for yourself, for the ones you love, being strong and feeling strong are not the same thing, just don't quit. I love you all, I'm sorry it's hard, but we need each other, community is essential.
Rutger Bergman makes an argument for compassion rather than empathy; in his phrasing, compassion is motivating and empathy is demotivating. There's lots more in "Human Kind" to explain it, I won't do it well, but it checks in the current situation.
He also low-key makes a big argument for fucking up fascists and psychopaths early, rather than waiting for them to take charge, which also checks.
Birds of Perth Willy Wagtail with light brown wing. The feathers are wet from the rain or the grass. In the last photo, the government spy drone is hovering, proving birds are not real.
An update of a drawing I did a couple years ago in which I did an stars-and-stripes-spangled rendition of David Bowie's Earthling album cover ( bowiebible.com/wp-content/medi… ) Drawn on the back of a business card from the Army 😄
Neighborhood Pond at Sunset from a Drone From a drone flight this Thursday evening using a DJI Mavic Mini drone at about 25 feet (or 7.6 meters) in southeast Michigan.
I would love to see almost any tech panel moderated by @pluralistic and Ed Zitron. Both are calling out the trash of our current phase of tech and I love it
Ed and I will be doing a presentation as part of the book tour for Enshittification on Oct 22 at the Seattle Public Library, as part of a lecture series presented by the Clarion West sf/f writers workshop. I believe it will be recorded and posted after.
Hundreds of people turned out Saturday afternoon, protesting near the now-closed federal women's prison in Dublin where some fear it may become an ICE detention center.
At a tense EBU meeting in London no vote was held on Israel’s expulsion from Eurovision, offering a temporary victory—despite mounting pressure from countries like Iceland and Slovenia and warnings about future participation
Do you remember the movie "Multiplicity?" Where each clone you make of someone is a little more retarded than the previous clone? Where they just keep getting dumber and dumber.? Hakeem Jeffries looks like a 5th Generation Obama clone. lol
Facts don't care about feelings. If you don't like it, you can leave! This one's for the "patriots." 😏Happy Independence Day. :) Check out my Substack, Plea...
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani talks about his campaign promises, criticisms over his tax plan and charges of antisemitism, during an exclusi...
Today when about to start one of the shows on my stage at this festival, an intern who looked like she must still be in high school full out dropped and busted one of the cameras another team was supposed to be recording with. She was clearly horrified and on the verge of tears but luckily her supervisor was very chill about it basically saying "ya live and ya learn!" I think that's great because that's exactly what I was thinking but I also know that if I were 17 I'd be thinking my life was over. 😅
Trump did this in his first term, kicked everyone off welfare. What was the result? All those losers had to go get jobs. And what was Trump's response? He bragged about lowering black and hispanic unemployment.
Sure it can. But the question is, can it do that powering the enrichment and reprocessing infrastructure with windmills while making sure a sea turtle doesn poke it's eye out with a plastic straw? 🤔
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the on-and-off Russian nuclear threats, scholars have been analyzing Europe's defense capabilities against Moscow's huge nuclear warhead fleet.
@nanook UK doesn't count since they don't have their own delivery system and they left the EU. The french are, you know, the french. Also, they have only, like, 290 warheads against Russia's 5000+. It's literally like showing up with a vagina to a dick measuring contest ;)
@pat The question wasn't, "Can European Union Build It's Own Atomic Arsenal", it was, "Can Europe Build Its Own Atomic Arsenal", and the question of delivery systems also wasn't there either, though I would argue it's easier to develop a delivery system than the weapons themselves, the massive conventional missile response from Iran demonstrates that.
@nanook you are right. But that's yet another issue there. Many countries in Europe feel kinda uncomfortable relying on the likes of the french and/or the Brits for nuclear deterrence. Technically, it's all NATO, well, almost all, but Eastern European countries kinda have bad memories of relying on allies when shit really hits the fan.
@pat I feel uncomfortable with their existence at all. It only takes one whack job and ww III here we are and an hour later the species is extinct, and we've had a succession of whack jobs here.
@nanook i feel ya. Unfortunately tho that shop has sailed a long time ago. But on the bright side, the risk is somewhat exaggerated. There's not enough nukes to make humanity extinct. Not by a long shot. Civilization would probably go the way of the dodos, and we'd go back to the stone age, sure, but extinction? C'mon ;)
@pat There are enough nukes that would lead to at the very least the entire collapse of civilization. Keep in mind the average H-bomb is between 100kt and 10mt though over 50mt bombs have been exploded. This makes Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like a fire cracker, and the Russians have 5000 or so, not sure what our current count is, and it's hard to say how accurate either is, but suffice it to say it would not be good for humanity. There is the nuclear winter theory, it's hard to know exactly how much dust would be churned into the upper atmosphere for how long, there is just how large of an area would be rendered uninhabitable after the explosion of all arsenals. These are all things that speculating on in detail is somewhat fruitless and there are some scientific experiments that are better left untried.
I'm not convinced. The earth is massive, there are a lot of people living in mountains who will never really be affected by anything. They're going to keep reproducing and keep teaching their kids how to read and write. What's really at risk is long and complex supply chains - especially those which depend on esoteric knowledge, like chip fabs. That said, there's a pretty good chance of those surviving as well, because while it is esoteric, it's also going to be the second thing every remaining country thinks of, after "food, water, shelter"...
@cjd @nanook yeah, I mean it sure wouldn't be easy and average lifespan would go down to like 20, maybe 30 years, but we'll definitely recover eventually. And considering that practicality every human society in recorded history developed some form of written language within like 1000 years sinc domestication of plants and animals became a thing, I'm not very concerned there with. We are way more resilient bunch than most of us realize.
@cjd @nanook might actually be a good thing when you think about it. Perhaps if we restart the civilization from scratch, we'll know how many genders there are this time around 😂😂😂😂
Demographic effects of a nuclear war is something I've seen mentioned before. The fact that high trust people tend to self-segregate to rural areas where they won't deal with low-trust people is relevant to what a post-apocalyptic world might look like.
@cjd @nanook oh absolutely. The high-trust city folk will be wiped out, that's fosho. After all, when you hit the big red button you target the population centers. Seems kinda obvious. I'll prolly be relatively good, at least for a while. Have a chunk of strategically insignificant land in the shithole of the Philippines. Even made friends with the local tribesmen and their shaman. We can start repopulating right there lol
@pat @Caleb James DeLisle In another half billion years our Sun will have expanded to the point where it boils all the oceans off and fries any remaining life. So my take is we had better develop interplanetary and even intersolar ability soon or assuming somehow we don't kill ourselves off sooner surely we and all other life here will disappear then. It's a bit depressing to me that we haven't discovered intelligent life elsewhere because I'm not sure it exists here.
@pat Based upon present day genetic variety, and I know visually it appears there is a lot but really it's very little for a species of our complexity, it is estimated that between 900,000 to 800,000 years ago there were fewer than 1000 individuals world-wide and that condition persisted for 100,000 years, so yea we "survived" but by a hair, and now are genetic diversity is reduced to the point where our ability survive something of similar severity would be doubtful.
Business is really booming for me right now. 👀 I keep half joking about needing to find a real job at some point but it has kind of hit me that somehow all these not real jobs have become a vocation of sorts because people will ask me an obvious question about... whatever it is... and I'll think "how could they not know this?" then I realize "oh I'm only thinking this because I've been doing this for ten years and this is their first time."
@GalacticTurtleBeing able to cut it as a freelancer is a big accomplishment. I know at 10 people who tried production jobs in the movies, and only one who made it pay off.
@LostInCaliforniaOh wow I did not think of it that way! If I were the tattoo type, I'd get a tally mark for each tour and let people assume it stood for the number of people I've killed. XD
Der Tögel ist doch genauso wie der Ganser oder die Guerot eine dieser gefallenen Mädchen der Publizistik, welche zu viel Quatsch erzählt haben und daher keine richtigen Jobs mehr bekommen und die sich um ihre Miete weiter bezahlen zu können auch noch dem allerletzten AfD Nazipack hinter der nächsten Mülltonne hingeben müßen. Für Geld. Was für ein trauriges Schicksal.
Das beschreibt exakt das Geschäftsmodel von Ganser, Guerot und ihren ganzen anderen Strolch Freunden. Wenn du meinst, das sei anders, erkläre das bitte. PS Du kannst lachen? Aber nicht echt? Oder?
PPPS Bei einem rechtsradikalen Kinderschänder ist der auch schon aufgetreten. Der Ganser. Aber das stört dich wohl weniger. Du hasst ja Jugendliche. Von daher dürftest du für Kinder auch nicht so viel übrig haben. Auf jeden Fall nicht für echte Kinder. Die sich nun einmal anders benehmen, als es deinen Propaganda Broschüren steht.
Der Ganser hat Kinder, schlägt diese nicht und ist verdammt guter Historiker , der sich nicht vor bestimmten Themen drückt. Hier geht es aber um Tögel und alles was er hier sagt ist belegt.
Ich habe geschrieben, daß Ganser auf dem Kongress eines Kinderschänders aufgetreten ist. PS Ob der Ganser seine Kinder schlägt oder nicht wissen wir nicht. Auf jeden Fall hat er keine Berührungsängste zu brutalen rechtsradikalen Kinderschändern.
Dieter Hallervorden - Frieden ist ein Meisterstück der Vernunft
Dieter #Hallervorden bei der Friedensprozession am 18. April 2025 in Dresden Die Schauspiel- und Kabarett-Legende Dieter 'Didi' #Hallervorden liess sich per Video zur #Friedensdemo in #Dresden zuschalten. Darin spricht er sich klar gegen die #Kriegstreiberei der Regierung und den von #Israel verübten Genozid in #Gaza aus.
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