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The pendulum swinging analogy in politics is really crap.
First off, an actual pendulum does not swing interminably. It slows and stops.
Secondly and more importantly: there's nothing inhererent about public consciousness that necessitates a back and forth.
It "swings" in America because we have an entrenched two-party system in a pretend fight with each other, and yet it doesn't swing at all when it comes to oligarchic control of institutions and the increase in state power.
I don't understand why the pendulum analogy continues to be used. If [a lot of] people under 30 years old can't read an analog clock [let alone one with a visible swinging pendulum], under what circumstances would they even encounter a pendulum to know how it behaves? The idea that it would require some external power source to keep it swinging indefinitely would be even further off their radar.
Having said that, here in Canada we have a 2.5 party system which essentially results in a significant amount of "voting against the bad party" rather than "voting for the good party".
Having said *that*, I find it hard to distinguish between any of the parties [of either country] when they all seem to be getting out of their Tesla Cybertruck in a Lockheed Martin parking lot while wearing a Bitconnect T-shirt and using their Apple iPhone to check the current stock price of BP.
@jmhorner Haha that's kind of hilarious, I didn't think about the pendulum being a part of a clock at all, I was thinking about just the idea of a pendulum. I have, in fact, not been around clocks with pendulums/ pendula for a long time.
I think the rest of what you said does indicate that representative democracy combined with oligarchy is relatively short lived and must fail, regardless of where it occurs.
I currently live in an apartment building and downstairs in the "cardboard recycle room" is what I call the TAILAI (pronounced "tie-lie"... Take An Item, Leave An Item) where folks can exchange "still useful items" for free. Just a couple of weeks ago I actually saw a six foot tall grandfather clock and the pendulum weight must have been at least an eight-inch brass disk.
The World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed that the hunger crisis in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, confirming that one in three Gazans goes without food for days.The programme said in a statement that crowds of people waiting for aid in Gaza
Novara Media told a high court judge how the proscription of Palestine Action has inhibited our journalism. He must allow a judicial review, writes Charlotte England.
I blame this on all the retards who think there is such thing as a list of guilty people that is being hidden. The pundits on the right were begging for this OP to happen. Fnkn tards.
The famine we’re seeing in Gaza now is the most horrific stage of Israel’s starvation campaign, a UN expert on food has told Al Jazeera. He’s calling on coun...
One of the things that pisses me off is when I go to log in to a website I haven't been to in a while and it says "Incorrect password." But I know it's the correct password because I use a password manager and haven't changed it.
I do the "forgot password/reset password" dance, but then, when I go to enter a "new" password I just copy my old password anyway . . . and THE WEBSITE REJECTS IT SAYING "YOU CANNOT USE AN OLD PASSWORD"!
Israel's killing of starving Palestinians is built on a global order that has normalised the spectacle of violence, the silencing of dissent and the punishment of those who dare to resist
National parks look fine, but cuts and staff shortages are hollowing them out. A former superintendent explains what’s really happening behind the scenes.
They'll say "It's in our National Interest." But it's still for wars and deals were made. It's always about resources and money. There is no end to it, at least for now. But the country with the most money and resources is the winner, imo.
Setting the scene. Pompous, kicked-out-of-Reform-UK, far-right elder man makes a snide comment at Zarah Sultana. Zarah responds with a glove full of lead.
Another reason to bring up the only to beat these fucks.
Homeschool, and take their budget away.
I usually dont like homeschool, because who knows if that person is smart enough. Well, if you managed to figure out P Into V, then you are already prolly smarter than 80% of teachers.
Be ashamed all of those who continue to support or remain silent in the face of this depraved evil killing. Israel is an evil, genocidal pariah state. #warcrimes #genocide #gaza
You have not experienced gaslighting until you experience the gaslighting of Zionists. It is the most extreme form of gaslighting. They can commit a genocide and make you think that you are at fault for talking about it.
Last night we were at a family dinner at my father's house, and after I dared mention what was happening in Gaza, I got very aggressive backlash from my fami...
In a confrontational move, President Trump lashes out at a federal judge overseeing his Harvard case, threatening to appeal efforts to curb federal funding
Blockade of #zionist tourists in #Syros. Cruise did an effort to land them but the locals chanting "Free #Palestine" made their effective blockade. Despite threats by riot cops, local people effectively saved their land from the presence of (rich) people who commit #genocide. #Zionazis left from the port as they arrived. kafeneio.social/@baskin/114896…
Great protest and great victory in #Syros #Greece. Locals protesting against the genocide in #Palestine in response to the arrival of Israeli - owned cruiseship Crown Iris to the island, forcing it to leave the island. Israeli tourists onboard were provocative, chanting. Some disembarked and tried to aggressively face the protesters, but were pulled back by security forces. We cannot carry on with business as usual with the genocide ongoing.
Israeli passengers on a cruise ship arriving in Greece on 22 July were unable to disembark the vessel due to a large crowd of pro-Palestine protesters demonstrating against the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
i remember seeing a @nugger post a while back about how western cowboy ballads are extremely similar to old european battle-poetry
i'd like to offer a more specific interpretation: big iron is old norse skaldic poetry through a modern lens. not similar to, IS.
skaldic poetry was written from a third-person objective viewpoint, just like the song. they often contained a moral lesson at the end, such as how humility is often a desirable trait in a warrior, like "Oh, he might have went on livin' but he made one fatal slip When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip"
they tended to rely on poetic descriptors of weapons: loki's "wounding-wand" vs the ranger's "big iron."
they relied on something called kennings which were compound words, such as bow-gautr, meaning bow-warrior, functionally identical to gunslinger. poetic rather than literal descriptions of the person's role
skaldic poetry followed a specific 6 lines verse -> 3 lines chorus -> repeat pattern, which modern music does not follow, but the repetition rhythm of "big iron on his hip" matches very closely and shares the same mnemonic functions
"the town of agua fria" is a heiti: a combination of two common terms to create a setting. "frostwater" is a literal example, "agua fria" means "coldwater"
identical cultural artifacts separated only by time and location. the same people do the same things they always do regardless of time or location.
New footage released by the Palestinian news agency Wafa shows families living in tents inside a damaged football stadium in Gaza City, amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes.
An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people have packed into locked rooms and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.
You can hear Robin Mark’s entire song “REVIVAL” taken from the “Revival in Belfast” album here: https://youtu.be/f4HeIXYqaSs?si=sciX-X0zMu4ffIYv.The set is n...
A doctor in Gaza named Nick Maynard reports that Israeli snipers are now shooting starving civilians in different body parts on different days, based on the injuries people show up with for treatment. There’s a head day, a leg day, a genitals day, etc.
“The medical teams here have also been seeing a clear pattern of people being shot in certain body parts on different days, such as the head, legs or genitals, which seems to indicate deliberate targeting,” Maynard says. Caitlin Johnstone #gaza
Are you even a bitcoiner if you choose X over Nostr? I'm genuinely curious. Are they so desperate to farm an audience?
Nevermind the plebs though, where the fuck are the cypher punks? Or are they all here. Where is Blockstream? Core? I know @675b84fe is here but where are the researchers etc? Is everyone hiding out on private signal channels?
In my office bathroom, there are two light switches: one at the entrance, one at the very far end after a row of stalls. You have to turn both switches on, if you only turn the one at the entrance on, the bathroom is very dimly lit, with barely any light peeking into the stalls.
People are so goddamn lazy that they would rather sit in the stalls, shitting in the dark, than walk across the bathroom to turn on the second light switch.
"Shitting in the Dark." Sounds like a country song.
DUBAI: Twenty-one children have died from starvation across the Gaza Strip over a 72-hour period, the head of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said Tuesday.
Puter is a privacy-first personal cloud that houses all your files, apps, and games in one private and secure place, accessible from anywhere at any time.
According to data from Shodan, a search engine that helps to identify internet-linked equipment, over 8,000 servers online could theoretically have already been compromised by hackers.
PS: This doesn't pass the smell test. If there's a good explanation, the press needs to make it clearer. According to the article, it worried about charges of antisemitism. All right. But it's hard to believe that this step was the best way to act on those worries. One of the authors with an article in the issue put it this way: “You just don’t solicit work, peer review it, have people sign contracts, advertise the articles, and then cancel not just one article, but an entire special issue.”
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
Trolling on X takes a new and sinister turn, Ian Proud writes. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On 18 July I…
The US’s six largest health insurers reported massive profits last year, doling out billions on stock buybacks and dividends. That hasn’t stopped them from pushing for sharp hikes to Americans’ insurance premiums.
the US used to be much more polluted than it is now, but people developed rules and systems to fix that. It will be interesting to see if Indians are capable of doing that.
Die Linke bekommt momentan keine Demonstration zustande, die das Massker in dem schmalen Küstenstreifen verurteilt. Unser Kolumnist kann darüber nur den Kopf schütteln. 👉 nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192750.…
From panic and pain due to the forced separation of families and their homes, thousands of migrants move on to total helplessness, in unknown countries, without relatives or the slightest idea of where to go
H ΕΡΤ και το ERT NEWS έχουν ρεπόρτερ στην Σύρο, αλλά δεν έχουν ρεπορτάζ για το πακέτο που έριξαν οι Συριανοί στο Crown Iris.
Η ΕΡΤ υπάγεται στο γραφείο του πρωθυπουργού, Κυριάκου Μητσοτάκη, συνένοχου στη γενοκτονία που διαπράττει το κράτος του Ισραήλ με πρωθυπουργό τον Μπενιαμίν Νετανιάχου.
Οι γενοκτονοι εκδρομείς του Crown Iris, που θαύμασαν το όμορφο λιμάνι της Σύρου και ΞΕΚΟΥΜΠΙΣΤΗΚΑΝ χωρίς να πατήσουν πόδι σε αυτό.
Μια τεράστια ηθική νίκη των Συριανών. Να είστε περήφανοι για την στάση σας, όσοι τιμήσατε το αίμα τόσων νεκρών αμάχων. Είστε οι πρώτοι που κάνετε μποϋκοτάζ απέναντι σε τουρίστες χώρας που διαπράττει εγκλήματα πολέμου στην πράξη, εμποδίζοντας την αποβίβαση.
Ούτε στην Σύρο, ούτε πουθενά, με την Παλαιστίνη, ως τη Λευτεριά.
Η εταιρεία DIAMONA GREECE συστάθηκε το 2019 από μία ισραηλινή εταιρεία, την BLOOM -TREE LTD και έναν Ισραηλινό υπήκοο, τον Alon Gingis. Σήμερα η Diamona Greece ανήκει στις εταιρείες BLOOM -TREE LTD κατά 87,5% και στην κυπριακή DIAMONA HOLDING LTD κατά 12,5%. Σύμφωνα με το ισραηλινό μητρώο επιχειρήσεων, η BLOOM -TREE ανήκει κατά 50% στον Eyal Elkon και κατά 50% στον Arie Yehuda Elkon.
Η DIAMONA GREECE είναι θυγατρική της Κυπριακής DIAMONA Holding. Τα ονόματα των Eyal και Arie Elkon εμφανίζονται και στα Panama Papers ως μέτοχοι της εταιρείας Foothold Capital Ltd. Συνιδρυτής της DIAMONA GREECE ήταν ο Ισραηλινός, πρώην στρατιωτικός του IDF (ένοπλες δυνάμεις της χώρας), Alon Gingis, ο οποίος έως το 2022 διετέλεσε CEO της εταιρείας
300 πολίτες της Σύρου μπλόκαραν την αποβίβαση Ισραηλινών τουριστών από το κρουαζιερόπλοιο Crown Iris – Υποδοχή με γιγαντοσημαίες της Παλαιστίνης thepressproject.gr/300-polites…
Περίπου 300 πολίτες της Σύρου έστειλαν ηχηρό μήνυμα αλληλεγγύης στον παλαιστινιακό λαό, μπλοκάροντας την αποβίβαση Ισραηλινών τουριστών από το κρουαζιερόπλοιο Crown Iris. Με γιγαντοσημαίες της Παλαιστίνης και πανό που έγραφε…
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