#AntiWar

[redd956]

There's been a lot of discussion around art and humanity around the whole AI studio ghibli thing, but I think it's also important to acknowledge Studio Ghibli's origins in postwar and antiwars sentiments, alongside its goal of capturing the subtle beauty of life.

It's not only a mocking of Miyazaki's work, the humanity behind art, and all of those who worked in Studio Ghibli films, but it's also a mocking of the environmental, corporate, and antiwar concerns that Ghibli has always highlighted and fought against.

Ghibli is a reflection of life, in the hopeful aspects that Miyazaki has wanted to see it change in. He and his artists have poured their experiences into these works, and that includes the fires that burned Japanese cities down during WW2, and the cancers that haunted them decades after.

When you see an imperialistic or anti-environmental company running around with this ghiblified artstyle cooked up by an environmentally destruction generative AI, it is more than a mocking of art. It is a stain against the survivors who were part of these stories.

[radicalgraff]

Improved military billboard spotted in Rochester, New York

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

[whereserpentswalk]

There's a place where living armor still walks.

It's an old battlefield. A location of a particularly bad memory for some cultures. There are ruined buildings, undetonated bombs, corpses, so many corpses. But what lasted the longest was the power armor. The armor that still walks.

They're old models of power armor. Made way back before the mega corporations started getting cheap with the internal processes of such things. Decades pass and they're still functioning. And they way they were made; they would do anything they need to to make sure they're whoever is inside doesn't die.

They're capable of automatically walking if the user isn't able to walk. And in their automatic walking mode they're capable of running from targets, even attacking hostiles if the user doesn't override such protocols. The only problem with this is that they never bothered to let the armor know when the person inside was dead.

All of the armor that contains dead bodies just keeps walking. With the starships they were meant to come back to long since flown away, they just wander forever, looking for rest and safety that does not exist for them anymore. And because of their automatic defense, if anyone tries to remove the bodies they'll consider it a hostile attempt to disarm, and attack. The governments and corporations involved decided that it wasn't of any use to try.

So the armor walks. Some in perfect condition, others with massive holes, or missing body parts, marking their deaths. And they wander. Locals know not to go anywhere near them. They're about as hostile a threat as local raiders or wildlife, and far less easy to reason with. But you can avoid them. And if you don't go close you'll just see them, walking to nowhere. Useally you'll just catch a glimpse, something moving, not quite human but human shaped, in the distance. Occasionally you'll even see a sign of the body inside, parts of the old armor fallen off, to reveal ancient bones.

There is a place where the dead still walk.

[omens-from-discworld]

Discworld (Jingo):

Good Omens

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

",There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people"

Howard Zinn

[blnxpc]

鋲で打ちつけられた秒(The Pinned Second)

鋲 /byō/ = pin, rivet, tack

秒 /byō/ = second

病 /byō/ = sick

廟 /byō/ = mausoleum

The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15:17 AM on August 6, 1945.

[degeneratedworker]

'For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship!' Soviet Union 1989

[thepopculturearchivist]

LIFE, February 2, 1928

[historyandarthijinks]

Art of War (1)

Over the Top (1918) - John Nash (1893-1977) [Great Britain]

Oil on Canvas

[Image Description. Painting of British WW1 soldiers climbing out of a trench and sluggishly marching towards the smoke of war. Two lie face down, dead in the trench. A dead body is splayed in the vibrant white snow between climbing soldiers. Gloomy skies of clouds and smoke loom behind the scene of snowy plain and red-brown trench. ]

Painted by John Nash, WW1 veteran. Painting was commissioned to commemorate the 1st Artists' Rifles. The scene in the painting recalls the group removing themselves from rest, in response to a German Attack on December 30th, 1917 at Welsh Ridge.

1st Artists' Rifles experienced heavy casualties during the war.

You can see this painting in person at the Imperial War Museum in London, United Kingdom.

[radicalgraff]

The destruction of Gaza, by USA weapons.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Oona A. Hathaway

What most analysts have failed to note, however, is that this lack of legal accountability for decisions by the U.S. president, including decisions to direct the military to use lethal force, is nothing new. It has long been the reality for most of the world outside the United States. For decades, American presidents have waged illegal wars, plotted to assassinate foreign leaders, unlawfully detained and tortured people, toppled democratic governments, and supported repressive regimes without any possibility of legal accountability in either domestic or international courts.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Despite what you might have heard, Trump is seeking even more military spending. The cycle repeats, and the only ones who win are the defense contractors, lobbyists, and government cronies who profit from endless war.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/antiwar/as-doge-allegedly-cuts-spending-the-military-industrial-complex-is-getting-a-blank-check

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[nickdewolfarchive]

boston, massachusetts april 1970

anti-war rally, boston common

photograph by nick dewolf https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/52083188164

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

Anti-war graphic by Krime

[blnxpc]

CEASEFIRE NOW