#nuclear protests

[earhartsease]

sudden flashback to my friend Meryl who was a Greenham Woman (one of the many women who camped for years around Greenham Common air base in England in the 70s and early 80s to protest the presence of nuclear weapons) - her telling us about getting arrested with a bunch of other women breaking through a fence, and they're all piled in the back of a police van, and one of them says "hey, how many policemen does it take to tile a bathroom?" and another woman yelled "depends how thinly you slice them!"

anyway, those women fucking ruled

[notaplaceofhonour]

𝖂𝖊 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖉 𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖛𝖊𝖘 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖊 𝖆 𝖕𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖗𝖋𝖚𝖑 𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊…

[oldnewyork]

“ A group of women outside the Russian Mission to the United Nations in New York City protest the testing of nuclear arms on Nov. 1, 1961.”

[bugboy-behaviour]

‼️‼️URANIUM IS BEING ILLEGALLY TRANSPORTED ACROSS NATIVE LAND‼️‼️

[agelessphotography]

Arrest during anti-nuclear protest, Greenham Common airbase, Berkshire, Tom Stoddart, 1983

[degeneratedworker]

"It's better to be active today than radioactive tomorrow" Soviet Union 1991

[originalleftist]

We have to be prepared for the possibility, even the likelihood, that this SCOTUS will simply make up some flimsy grounds to hand the election to Trump, no matter what the results of the vote are.

This does NOT mean that there is no point voting- quite the opposite. The turnout must be so overwhelming that the attempted coup is obvious as the fraud it is, to rally mass protests and a general strike, and to give Democrats the backbone not to concede.

This is a fight for the survival of America- maybe the human species (Nukes, The Climate Crisis).

Accepting defeat is simply not an option.

[essektheylyss]

Wait, are people like... under the impression that Oppenheimer is somehow... a glorification of nuclear warfare? About the man who was so horrified by his involvement in the Manhattan Project and its results that he spent his life afterward lobbying against nuclear weapons development, the nuclear arms race and competition with the Soviets, and the development of the hydrogen bomb in particular, that he got blacklisted as a communist during the McCarthy years and was essentially erased from the scientific community because of it?

That Robert Oppenheimer?

[vhstown]

the people who r like "hobie uses cockney slang wrong!" and "he's not historically accurate!" ... do u get the point of his character . at all

[hypermascbishounen]

why do so many Christians specifically anthropomorphize animals so much? Like, not in actual just for biblical metaphors way, that makes sense. I always see them specifically dropping bible verses in their comments on animal videos while talking about what they assume is going on, and it's always *wildly* incorrect lol

[nucleqr]

my friend told me "i think the emperor would see that astarion only trusts himself and would say 'ok, i can work with this' and then just make a shitty ditto clone of him" so i took that and ran with it

would he even realize this is meant to be an approximation of him? like, he's aware of his features despite not knowing what he looks like, right...?

[illogicalghost]

anyone else learn about the nuclear arms race and mutually assured destruction at an impressionable young age, had an existential crisis about how we almost ended all life on the planet in thermonuclear hellfire and made it uninhabitable for thousands of years multiple times because of political differences, and we still have enough warheads on earth to destroy it a hundred times over sitting in the hands of insane megalomaniac politicians who could just end it all with a press of a button and never fully recovered since?

[bea-lele-carmen]

Marc Riboud An American young girl, Jan Rose Kasmir, confronts the American National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam march. This march helped to turn public opinion against the US war i (...)

On October the 21st, 1967, almost 100,000 people marched on Washington, D.C. to peacefully demonstrate around the buildings of the Pentagon in protest against the war in Vietnam. Then a Magnum photographer, Marc Riboud documented proceedings. The last frame he captured was that of 17-year-old Jan Rose Kasmir as she held up a chrysanthemum flower to a row of bayonet-wielding National Guard soldiers.

Kasmir was not aware of the photograph being taken at the time, but the image has come to represent bravery and the power of peaceful protest. Speaking to the Guardian in 2015, Jan Rose Kasmir said: “It wasn’t until I saw the impact of this photograph that I realized it wasn’t only momentary folly – I was standing for something important.”

Riboud remembered the day’s event for an essay about his career, which was published in 1989:

“One day in October 1967, I found myself in Washington, swept along in the slipstream of a cause at the time simple and straightforward. A vast, ecstatic crowd was marching for peace in Vietnam as the sunlight of an Indian summer flooded the city’s streets. Hundreds of thousands of young men and women, both black and white, were defiantly closing in on the Pentagon, the citadel of the most powerful army in the world and for a day America’s youth presented America with a handsome face. I was taking photographs like mad, running out of film as night fell. The very last photo was the best. Framed in my viewfinder was the symbol of that America youth: a flower held before a row of Bayonets. America’s might that day, presented America with a sad face.”

[bellamonde]

Be warned! According to Israeli intelligence officials, US is still interested in the nuclear deal and they expect a major twist in the coming months. The view is that the Islamic Republic is desperate and the only way they can stop this revolution is through economic improvements. Therefore, they’re keen on a nuclear deal and so is the US. In the middle stands the Iranian people and anyone who supports our cause. 

Here’s my take: We don’t know what will happen. US is playing a nasty game here - on one hand, Biden says the deal is dead and then on the other, they let it leak that the deal is still alive. They’re playing both sides. But they’re discounting the people of Iran - the people are the wild card. At this point, nothing is set in stone. We don’t know what will happen. All I know is that we shouldn’t stop fighting for a free Iran and should never give up hope. Without hope, life is meaningless. 

[shirzan140102]

The U.S. Must NOT "Resurrect" the JCPOA

The volume of news coming out on a daily basis and the complexity of many developing situations makes it hard to tell what's really going on and predict what will happen next. With that having been said, I came across this headline earlier today, which, if true, is extremely troubling...

I can already see people scratching their heads at my reaction - After all, don't we all want peace? - but allow me to explain why this is problematic.

The reinstatement of the JCPOA would solidify the current regime's position, thereby nullifying everything from the past few months. As much as I wish I were blowing things out of proportion, I am not. The current regime in Iran WILL BENEFIT from the JCPOA.

If this is true, this is especially infuriating, because this will keep the current regime in power, regardless of how many lives they've destroyed during the past 40+ years and how much they've contributed to the destabilization of the region.

The implication of this development, if this is true, is that this will undermine America's support of Ukraine; bringing back the JCPOA will empower the current regime and allow them to continue their heinous actions against Ukraine.

Finally, keep in mind that most U.S. allies/associates, including those that have stepped up to help the people of Iran, ostensibly follow its lead on many things. This means that, if this is true, the best case scenario will be that they cannot help the Iranian people to the best of their abilities.

In short, if this is true, all the blood that's been shed will have been for naught. The people of Iran will remain trapped by the current regime, which will undoubtedly become even more brutal if it remains in power, and their spirits will be destroyed with this failed bid for freedom.

Again, I'm not exaggerating at all, so allow me to reiterate the main point of this post: If this story is true, the U.S. government will be empowering this regime and condemning the people of Iran to further tragedy.

I'm sick to my stomach and heartbroken, and I'm just praying that there's more to this story.

[originalleftist]

Something to remember about anti-Israel protests is that they are, quite frankly, an exercise in futility.

I'm not talking here about any protests against the actions of the Israeli government, but protests specifically supporting the destruction of Israel, or targeting the Jewish people.

They will never achieve their maximalist goals of totally destroying Israel, much less the dreams some Islamists have of some kind of global caliphate, or that some of their Western supporters have of some sort of worldwide violent anarchist/socialist revolution.

Leave aside what you think SHOULD happen (and if you think the above goals should happen, don't you dare claim to be "pro-peace" or "anti-genocide"), but just look at what IS.

Israel has nukes. Like every other nation that has nukes, those nukes exist as a deterrence against an attack that would destroy the nation state, a threat of final retaliation. Mutually Assured Destruction.

As long as Israel has those nukes, the most the maximalists could ever achieve is for Iran to get nuclear weapons and use them on Israel, and then get nuked by Israel in return (and no, you can't take all a country's nukes out reliably in a first strike, this is literally why nuclear submarines exist), or for a coalition of anti-Israel states to attack Israel conventionally, win (which depends on the US not intervening), and then get nuked by Israel. Probably shortly followed by the rest of the world, once the taboo on nuclear first use is broken in a post-Cold War World.

Now, I don't doubt that many so-called "pro-Palestine" activists around the world would be happy to trade every life in the Levant or the larger Middle East, including all of the Palestinians, if it meant wiping out the Jews "Zionists". But that's because their real motive is Anti-semitism (and general hated of the "Western establishment"), not being pro-Palestine. I am admittedly just some random white guy from the West myself, so I can't speak for anyone actually living there or part of those communities, but it seems to me that if you were "pro-Palestine", you'd want Palestine to be free and alive, not a burned out wasteland.

And if that's what you want, then I don't see how you get there except by working with reformers in Israel to get a peaceful solution that is acceptable to both peoples, however impossible that may currently seem.

Also note that the above does not mean that Israel can do whatever it wants with impunity. Nukes are great as a deterrent (albeit with a risk of eventual escalation or accidental launch), but they are shit for making other countries do what you want, because the best use for them is to make sure they never get used. Israel is a small nation, in terms of geography, resources, and people. Even in wealth its really only middle of the road (Wikipedia lists Israel as having only the 28th largest GDP, right between Austria and the United Arab Emirates). It cannot defeat every neighbouring country by force, it cannot defeat Iran by force, except by nuking it (see above for why nuclear first use is a terrible idea for everyone), and it's frankly struggling just to beat Hamas in Gaza. Israel has a nuclear deterrent against its own destruction, but it relies on the support of other nations, primarily the US, to avoid ever reaching the point where it has no options left but to use those nukes.

Again, this is not a question of what would be the case in an ideal world, but of what currently is, and is likely to be the case for at least the near future.

And if your politics aren't based in reality, what's the fucking point?