in reply to Steve Swan

rights don't exist. there's only force.
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The inability of the International Court of Justice to act is the best proof of this.

if you have no means to enforce your rights, they dont exist.

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I was married to an abusive alcoholic.

Then I dated a pretty manipulative and creepy guy.

I left both of those relationships, because they were not healthy.

And it fucking SUCKS to hear men out saying "women want to be abused." Fuck you very much. Blame the abuser, not their victim.

So a man manipulates a woman and you get mad at her for being preyed upon? What the actual fuck is that about??? How is that an appropriate attitude to have about victims of actual abuse?

in reply to Artemis

When a man who knows and cares about me starts talking about his dating life and goes off on "why do women like jerks?" it's the worst fucking feeling.

Like, dude, that's me. I married a real jerk, a real piece of shit. I thought he loved me. I thought I could help him. I thought we'd both grow and emotionally develop together. I thought we were a team.

And by the time I figured out we weren't? Well, then I had to figure out how to leave.

in reply to Artemis

The only reason it feels shameful to identify myself as a victim of spousal abuse is that for some reason some people who hear that are going to make the determination that I am gullible and masochistic, and if I had just been smarter, no one could ever have hurt me.

I don't get how women are excoriated whenever we are perceived as "disloyal" but when we "stand by our man" the way we were taught to, holding out hope that he will change, we're dumb bitches who want men to hurt us.

in reply to Artemis

I'm so sorry that I gave my partner second chances. I'm sorry that I listened and tried to evaluate if maybe he was right and I was wrong. I'm sorry I forgave him for things. I'm sorry I let things go. I'm sorry I hoped for better from him. I'm sorry I tried to help him deal with his emotional issues.

What a dumb bitch I am for loving someone and not throwing in the towel the moment I sensed something was wrong. But what's that? Oh, you would have condemned me harshly for that too? Cool. Cool.

in reply to Artemis

By the way, I am not fucking sorry for any of it. I wish I had understood what was happening sooner and left. I wish I had not accepted mistreatment.

But now that I'm in a healthy relationship, all those things that kept me with that shitty guy are the things that make THIS relationship work. I don't assume the worst about him. I consider the possibility I could be wrong. I offer forgiveness. I am supportive when things are tough.

My ex was literally taking advantage of my capacity for love.

in reply to Artemis

I think it's because society sets women and men up to have different expectations for heterosexual relationships. We all grow up surrounded by examples of men treating women, especially those they sleep with, badly. It's a norm we're all implicitly and sometimes explicitly taught to expect. That leads to a lot of bad behavior from men towards women and a lot of self/victim blaming from women - and a lot of cookies being baked for normal men who are straight but realize women are people.
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I've always hated the term "marriage equality" because traditional marriage is so unequal and was literally invented to institutionalize inequality, but in some ways normalizing same sex relationships being visible in public has the potential to help improve straight relationships because now you can have a marriage without a presumed "head of household" in traditional terms. There's a reason straight women watch so much gay men's porn (besides hot male bodies): respect.
in reply to Artemis

You may be talking about a different dynamic, but especially re: all of those divorced angry guys, I see something more like...

They thought women were like vending machines, and you put in "the work" of being "nice" and they expect certain things back. Except women, like most people, don't enjoy entitlement, especially when, as is often the case, they didn't ask for those things in the first place.

So "I guess I should have been an asshole all along." YOU WERE DUDE THATS THE PROBLEM.

The entire #Gaza has been turned into a slaughterhouse for human beings.
Death is awaiting everywhere in Gaza, theirs not one single safe spot

This is not a movie
This is not AI
This is not a painting
This is a flood of starving people being slaughtered.

This is Gaza

TODAY!

#Gaza #Israel #Starvation #Inhumanity #FoodAsWeapon
@israel @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

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Την Τετάρτη 2 Ιούλη συμμετέχουμε στην κινητοποίηση έξω από την Intracom Defence, που καλεί ο Συντονισμός Εργατικής Αντίστασης, σωματεία, συλλογικότητες και φορείς του κινήματος αλληλεγγύης στον Παλαιστινιακό λαό!

- Να σταματήσει κάθε στήριξη της ελληνικής κυβέρνησης στην Intracom Defense που στηρίζει την γενοκτονία των Παλαιστίνιων!

- Σταματήστε να εξοπλίζετε το Ισραήλ!

- Άμεση διακοπή κάθε συνεργασίας με το σιωνιστικό κράτος-τρομοκράτη!

- Λευτεριά στην Παλαιστίνη!

GHF boss defends Gaza aid operation after hundreds of Palestinians killed near sites
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Lies - as is to be expected from an Israel-backed org.

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #GHF
@palestine

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*clap* *clap* *clap* #trump already know about this! It's not a surprise. It's...been there for a while. You know who doesn't have to pay it? Me. Because you have to make a gobzillion of CDN$ before you get taxed, so it's good for small #American #tech companies wishing to do business in #Canada. The tax only hurts his friends. NONE OF CANADA'S TARRIFS HURT THE SMALL GUY IN THE US!!!!! NONE OF THEM! #news aljazeera.com/economy/2025/6/2…

Adam and John immediately screaming ‘Jew hate’ makes them sound like blue haired liberals, because that’s what THEY do.

To disparage and dismiss people and their reasoning as just ‘hate’ is disingenuous, especially when they disregard what we know as factual. Just as American Jews inflicted suffering on their own German Jews through their boycott pre-WW2 for the goal of an Israeli State, Israel and the U.S. are also just pawns in the game to those who remain unnamed and their agenda.

re: my post earlier about #cc #creativecommons #signals ...
this article is from almost a year ago but came across it via the wikipedia page for robots.txt

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lets be real. just like in meatspace, there will be no law or regulation that is going to fix this issue. we need dirtier tactics. a world that is safe from climate destroying, anti-social ai is a world that rids itself of it.

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This news already came yesterday.

Now we have more confirmations.

Looks like Jewish Nazis are now trying to make whole of Gaza (whoever it is they are not slaughtering & burning already) drug addicts by adding drugs to flour?

There was an episode in Star Trek Next Generation where one awful group does this exact thing to other groups.

What more depravities is this Jewish Nazi psychopathic society going to show all of us?

@palestine @lebanon @iran @israel @anarchy @anarchism

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These Jewish Nazi psychos arent just harming Gazans for today, they are harming them permanently & in perpetuity

Besides, making everyone in society addicted to drugs will ensure society can be destroyed thoroughly & everyone will be made far more vulnerable to blackmails

I dont think there is any other society in this whole world is as Demonic as these Jewish Nazi psychos that are aided & abetted by Western Imperial Nazis.

@palestine @lebanon @iran @israel @anarchy @anarchism

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Repeating my past recommendation to leave Spotify.

I have recommended leaving them in the past for their exploitation of artists.

Recently, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invested $700 million in military AI company Helsing. And he is also now their chairman.

With the profits he made from preying on artists and subscribers alike, he is taking a lead role in facilitating militarism, war, and genocide.

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Alabama Senator: "These inner-city rats, they live off the federal government. That’s one reason we are $37 trillion in debt. It's time we find these rats"


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The less faith I have that we’ll be able to work out a trade deal that the US leader will actually abide by, the more I think @pluralistic ’s idea of turning Canada into the land of software lock bypassing could work.

It feels like the software-nuclear option—it would do more harm than good if we didn’t dedicate ourselves to it for at least 5 years, and that would effectively stop talks.

But if the negotiations are subject to daily whims anyway… maybe we should just get it over with.

#cdnpoli

I’m rather enjoying the meltdown over Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory in NYC. The “centrist”, do-nothing Democratic Party establishment had it coming, and I’d like to think this is its comeuppance.

Will this cause the party to rethink its strategy moving forward? I have my doubts. But Moira Donegan is right—you can only antagonize your base for so long.

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Gaza’s Grassroots Effort to Ensure Humanitarian Aid Reaches Starving Palestinians dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-tribal…

USA, Europe, Canada and the Arab League are actively aiding and abetting the mass murder of babies, the deliberate deadly starvation of HUMANS in #Gaza

We have reached a level of barabarism that I never thought witnessing!

This world is beyond disgusting.

People simply living their lives and don't want to bother with these unpleasant images to disturb their comfortable lives.

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Starvation #FoodAsWeapon #Inhumanity

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US says Haitians can be deported – days after ruling Haiti unsafe for Americans | Haiti | The Guardian
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Hypocrisy on full display

#Haiti #USA #Trump #Fascism #Xenophobia #Racism

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I got approved for SNAP (food aid) less than 24 hours after I applied due to being $6.50 below the income cutoff for expedited application 🎉

one big effect: I'll be much better able to afford occasional non-food expenses like allergy meds (if unmedicated, my allergies here are so bad during mid to late summer that I'm incapacitated, it's unreal how bad hay fever can get)

another: I'll more easily be able to take opportunities for alone time like the one I'm having now, without having to figure out how to drag multiple kilos of food with me like I did this time.

in reply to Robert R.

How tattoo ink travels through the body, raising risks of skin cancer & lymphoma

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Comments at the link above.

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In a nutshell:

Danish twin study found people with large tattoos (bigger than palm-sized) had 2.73 times higher rate of developing lymphoma & 2.37 times higher rate of skin cancer

Tattoo ink particles migrate through the body to lymph nodes & other organs, ...

>100K ppl now follow subreddits like r/ICE_raids, r/LaMigra, & r/EyesOnICE, where IMM lawyers, journalists, advocates, & everyday ppl post RT updates on raids & doc ABUSES w little oversight.

“I’m a vet -the ppl impacted by #ICE are my neighbors, friends -part of the comm I was raised in. What’s happening in this country has every mark of a fascist takeover. I didn’t serve/grandfather didn’t fight in WWII -to live in a ‘papers please’ regime.”
#Immigrants #Fascism #USPol migrantinsider.com/p/inside-th…

“Palestine Action is not an armed group. It has never been responsible for any fatalities and does not pose any risk to the public. Its methods do involve property sabotage, which is, obviously, illegal. But if killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is? Law-abiding protest has so far failed to stop the genocide. More than 50,000 innocent children have been killed or injured. In what circumstances could civil disobedience ever be justified if not now?
I can only say that I admire and support Palestine Action wholeheartedly – and I will continue to, whether that becomes a terrorist offence or not.”
- Sally Rooney

#freepalestine #ukpolitics

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One wonders how the 6 assholes on the Supine Court would take this data to make it something more horrible, frightening and destructive? I'm sure those filthy assholes will find a way!

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'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid


#Gaza #genocide

IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes


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@Friendica Admins @Friendica Developers @Friendica Support What is the consensus on adding relays in #friendica, do they actually help #federation, do they reduce it, speed it up, slow it down, increase it, as a concept I understand it as say #hamradio relays, it allows your reach to go further, but since my instance is federated, how much further do relays actually deliver my posts, and again does it actually help to have them? I have tried a few, with mixed results and I am rather baffled by their existence and usability in relation to my instance, any clear answers would be appreciated.

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To understand what relays do you need to understand how federation works. Your posts can't reach every server because your server doesn't even know that most of them exist, so initially they'll only go to servers where at least one person there follows you. If someone reshares or replies it then it'll also go to the servers where they have followers.

Relays exist to fill in the gaps since all your posts are sent to them and then sent on to every server subscribed to them. With a lot of followers you'll have a wide enough reach without them, but until then they're useful for getting out there.

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M'arriba tard 😒

Europa torna a renyar Espanya perquè l'acomiadament és massa barat.

«les indemnitzacions que es paguen després que un treballador perdi la feina ni són suficients per compensar el dany sofert, ni per dissuadir l'ocupador de fer-lo fora.»

Al @diariara.

#Treball #Feina #Justícia #Igualtat

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in reply to HaleakalaCrater

the line is "everyone hates him. The elections are just super corrupt. People can't vote him out.", but his longevity is probably greatly supported by
1. getting to run against Democrats, in SC
2. Democrats being so repulsive overall that more plausible politicians will not even switch parties just to beat Graham
3. Graham having a primary lock due to appealing to boomer Christians, AIPAC funding, and pork
4. Incumbents also tending to win in general due to pork: "I got the government to secure you this specific advantage and I'll do it again" is always more persuasive than "if you vote for me I'll get you an advantage as a rookie senator"
5. getting to face primary threats only from Republicans, in SC: a Republican can't easily even promise to TRY for the pork that he'd need to win, because he'd piss off Republican primary voters who value "small governments" but give a pass to the pork-laden status quo.

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the Axiom Mission 4 crew docks to the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module on June 26. Axiom Mission 4 is the fourth all-private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, welcoming commander Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, ISRO (Indian […]