#this is the 'justice' capitalism preaches

[normal-thoughts-official]

the eclipse wasn't visible from the southern hemisphere and im being soooo brave and not salty about it

[princealigorna]

Since so many on the Right are having such a hard time defining it (because they know their interpretation of the word is ultimately too broad and open to have any real meaning at all), here is what we on the Left mean when we say "woke".

"Woke" or "wokeness" isn't a noun at all. It's a verb. It means to "awaken", or to become aware of, the injustices around you to the extent that you are now prepared to fight against them. There's a reason it's mostly high schoolers and college kids that are "woke". It has nothing to do with indoctrination and everything to do with being at that precious age when you start having enough freedom to explore the world around you and realize that, while we have many more freedoms and opportunities than many other places in the world, some things are still fucked up. We still don't always live up to our ideals and obligations. In a country that claims to be about freedom and equality and social mobility, there's still systems in place that make those things harder for certain people to achieve than others. And you start feeling cheated and pissed off about it. It's that feeling of being cheated and pissed off that's "woke".

There is no such thing as "wokeism". It's not a philosophy. It's a certain mindset that (usually younger people) achieve when they start to experience the real world for the first time with clear eyes.

[geek-and-destroy]

'Progressive' hindu nationalists - why are they Like That?

Tomorrow is the 26th of January, the 74th Republic Day in India - the day the Indian constitution was formalized and adopted. I thought i'd mourn my fast-fading nationalism on this occasion by kinda airing out some bullshit and starting a political longpost, which is always a good idea right? right???

Since about the end of last year, I've seen some blogs on here that define themselves around hindutva - hindu nationalism, the idea that India is a hindu nation and must abandon its secular status. Any leftie/liberal with any awareness of the news will know their rhetoric is bullshit. Anyone who isn't really aware of Indian religious dynamics would know to spot their Islamophobia from a mile away, because seriously, the discourse is Ben Shapiro levels of bad.

The most egregious of these include hindulivesmatter, rhysaka, yato-dharmasto-jaya, vindhyavasini and others. Basically a small hindu nationalist clique. They're actually not that big a deal even on this hellsite, but they keep annoyingly popping up to start firebrand arguments under posts. But they're not uncommon in the real world. In fact, i think the majority of the Indian urban youth is Like That - anti-homophobia, anti-misogyny, theoretically anti-islamophobia, the same general left-leaning values associated with Gen Z; but with a weird blind spot when it comes to the fascist decline of their own country.

These users are not too different from TERFs, with their couching of hate in progressive, tumblr-social-justice language. There's been a lot of discourse around why TERFs are the way they are, why their otherwise feminist and progressive values eventually shatter in favour of their hate. I want to do something similar for hindutva tumblr, because i see in it a newer kind of hindu nationalist aggression, yet one that i am very familiar with, as an urban upper-middle-class Indian born into a Marathi Hindu family.

The main question i want to answer is this: why does someone espousing dire Islamophobic rhetoric also sincerely believe in progressive ideas? Why do they not see the contradictions? To do that, we need a little primer in post-independence Indian history.

So, it's often said that Indian democracy was not handed to us; this is not only in the sense that we had to fight for our freedom against the Brits, but also in the sense that there were long deliberations on the exact type of republic we wanted to be. The constitution was drafted, finalized and adopted a full three years after the Brits left. This framing of a philosophical struggle stayed on, throughout the tumult of the following decades.

This is how the modern Indian is taught about our history: Several riots, the Emergency in the 70s, the wars with Pakistan and China, the formation of Bangladesh, the victory at the cricket world cup, the Cold War international policy of non-alignment, the Green Revolution, all of these are presented through a frame of struggle, with the Kargil War and the 1991 liberalization being the point of stabilization. The median citizen of 1971 was politically aware and politically involved. That of 2001 was most likely not. At least, that's the narrative of capitalism in the country. This narrative of a 50-year prolonged post-independence struggle is why Indian nationalism is so potent, even outside of the newer Hindu fascist rhetoric. We've got a very intense sense of national pride. I'm guilty of it myself.

In 1991, the economy was opened up to multinational corporations and eventually led to the formation of an Indian petit bourgeois. The period from 1991 to roughly 2011 is seen as a period of idyllic peace much like the Clinton administration in the US. Culturally, this was the time of the Bollywood masala movie - light, apolitical and all about a big Hindu joint family that preaches benevolent unity of all religions. But the thing that was never mentioned in these movies was caste - an elephant in the room that i haven't addressed yet. Just like the 'default' US Culture is white suburban christian, the default culture here is upper caste middle-class hindu. The aforementioned rise of the middle class was largely along caste lines. Households in the US have microcultures along ethnic lines, and they can be similarly mapped in India through caste and religion.

The Indian equivalent of the megachurch pastor is the ruling BJP's paramilitary parent organization, the RSS, as well as others like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Karni Sena, etc - organizations that normal people largely didn't agree with but whose values and morals were ingrained in their subconscious. The apolitical Hindu in like 2004 did not believe, like the RSS does, that India should be a Hindu nation; but he (i use 'he' here because male tends to be default in this case, and that's a whole different conversation) did believe in the greatness of traditions, the Indian armed forces and in ancient Hindu scientific supremacy (which at the time was limited to Aryabhatta's zero and the actual progress in the sciences from ancients like Charaka and Sushruta to more modern ones like Ramanujan and CV Raman - it hadn't gone into cuckoo fantasy land yet, where we showhow had stem cell research and aeroplanes in ancient India and the Ramayana is apparently actual history now). To this person, Savarkar was an icon of the freedom struggle along with others like Gandhi, Bose, Ambedkar, etc, but he didn't know or care about his religio-fascist ideology. Fascist elements existed then and had their pockets of support - the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, Modi's CM-hood in Gujarat, and the first BJP national administration came up during this time. To the normal citizen, they were simply extremists with 'some good points'.

2008 was the year of the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai. Islamophobia didn't fully enter Indian discourse just yet, largely because of the assertion of the city's multicultural identity, but the seeds were certainly sown. In fact, blatant Islamophobia wouldn't be mainstream till 2016 or so - the BJP's 2014 election was won on middle-class concerns. The petit bourgeois finally made its voice heard politically in the 2011 anti-corruption protests spearheaded by Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal, the latter of whom is the founder of the newest major political party in the country. It's typical of protests of this kind, agitating against a vague idea of corruption with not many tangible demands. It is true that by 2011, the Congress government was notoriously bloated, corrupt and ineffectual at a systemic level. The BJP gained a single-party majority on an anti-corruption and pro-welfare platform, with religion not really a factor.

The middle class celebrated this as an ultimate affirmation of their hegemony, and the RSS-derived values kicked into high gear. The celebrations have now become a gloat-fest, kinda like vindicated Marvel fans when their Disney product makes a bajillion dollars. The best example of this is the Ram Mandir inauguration earlier this week. Modi cultivated an image of a messiah figure who could do no wrong. Anyone who opposed their goals is now an anti-national and a traitor. General attitudes as a whole have grown a lot more bloodthirsty and carceral. Propaganda, degradation of public discourse, weakening of the media and public institutions, the whole gamut.

The people running the above-mentioned blogs are quite representative of this demographic. They probably fully believe what they spout. They fully believe that Hindus and Hinduism are under threat in India, that love jihad ("forced conversion") is a real thing, that Islamists are taking over their nation, and even that Hindus have been 'sleeping' and are just now being 'woken up'. At the same time, they believe in socially progressive values. The supposedly pro-LGBT+ and pro-feminist stances taken by the RSS are very much targeted at urban Hindus, not at the West as PR.

The propaganda directed at them (which includes movies, social media and tragically, many news outlets) often appeals to the traditional acceptance of queer individuals in mythological texts to get straight, cis, sheltered urban Hindus of all ages to reconcile bigotries and get on board the hate train. It is often in a comparative frame, juxtaposed with the bigotry in Islamic or Christian texts and historical persecution in the West (btw, the term acceptance is very loose here, they often equate mention of a thing with acceptance of that thing even if it's derogatory. Ancient hindu culture only 'accepted' trans women, and that was a marginalized acceptance at best).

The RSS often preaches that Hinduism is the religion of tolerance, and advocates for a twisted version of the tolerance paradox. It's reached a level where propaganda doesn't have to be deliberate - the citizens will do it for them. These blogs are true believers despite the contradictions, but their online activity is probably a deliberate form of praxis, with the co-opting of social justice vocab and appealing to white/western/Indian expat guilt etc. So yes, very much like TERFs, except that TERFs are an actual minority whereas Hindutva ideology is increasingly the default 'apolitical' belief. The reactionary internalization has been successful.

Tl;dr: people like hindulivesmatter are sincere in their bigotry towards Muslims as well as their progressive beliefs, because Indian culture as a whole oriented itself towards appealing to the urban upper caste middle class.

[bernardo1969]

The Book of Acts tells how the church of Malta was founded with the eventful arrival of the apostle Paul. The apostle of the Gentiles had been arrested in Jerusalem for preaching the gospel, and as part of his defense, he asked to be tried by the emperor because he was a Roman citizen, and so King Agrippa sent him to Rome after completing his third missionary journey. Paul knew that perhaps the trip to Rome would be his last important trip, and he greatly desired to preach the gospel in the capital of the empire. The Book of Acts relates that Paul was put on a ship that left Asia bound for Rome, but due to the difficulties of the weather he arrived in Malta due to a shipwreck. And upon his arrival in Malta, the apostle made a miraculous sign with which the inhabitants of the island confused him with a God, and that allowed the conversion of the first Christians on the island, with these words the Book of Acts relates Paul's sign: "The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold. Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, ´This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.´ But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god." Acts 28:2-6. After this, the Book of Acts relates that Paul laid his hands on many sick people and they were healed, and thus the number of converts who were to be saved in the name of Jesus increased.

[hopeymchope]

Finished the main story of "Rain Code"

As you likely expected of me, I loved it. There were times when I had misgivings, of course. But as per usual with Kazutaka Kodaka's works, they were extremely minor compared to all the things I loved.

Random spoiler-free thoughts:

The messaging in this game is both very anti-late-stage capitalism AND very anti-privatization of criminal justice, and I'm so fucking here for ALL OF THAT. PREACH.

Yuma is reminiscent of Shuichi in that he starts off so deeply insecure that it actually pains me to watch and embody someone so completely incapable of speaking up for themselves that they'd only ever do so if they're about to DIE. Holy FUCK. ... I'm so glad he eventually gained strength in his convictions, because JEEBUS.

Furthermore: Yuma is one of the shortest grown-ass people in the whole game, yet he still has like three characters that I believe are clearly attracted to him. Between him and Naegi, I guess Kodaka likes himself a Short King... ?

Speaking of liking people? I like Halara Nightmare a ❤️❤️❤️ completely normal❤️❤️❤️ amount. Our precious non-binary monarch, may your reign be long.

Shinigami's snark-ass comments about Desuhiko during Chapter 2 feel SO real. I see/hear those, and I can easily imagine people in my life who'd say the same shit if they had to deal with him.

Is it me, or is Iruka one of Rui Komatsuzuki's sexiest character designs ever? ............................................... oh? Just me then?

Halara's cat allergy = DR3 Seiko Kimura's sugar allergy in that both of these are presented as a life-altering issue with no possible workaround. Meanwhile, those of us in the real world are like "There's an extremely obvious solution to this. Multiple possible solutions, even."

I still prefer Class Trials over Mystery Labyrinths, and that's mostly because Non-Stop Debate >>> Reasoning Death Match. Having to dodge text that's flying FORWARD at the player character without having any depth perception to rely on because the screen is only 2D? That ain't it, chief.

[beardedmrbean]

Kenyan authorities were wrong to ban the gay community from registering a rights organisation, the country's Supreme Court has ruled.

Yet at the same time it stressed that gay sex remains illegal.

The judges ruled three-to-two that the country's NGO board was wrong to stop the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) from registering in 2013.

As Kenya's highest court, the Supreme Court's ruling cannot be overturned.

In their judgment, the judges ruled that "it would be unconstitutional to limit the right to associate, through denial of registration of an association, purely on the basis of the sexual orientation of the applicants".

Nevertheless, the ruling is bitter-sweet for Kenya's gay community. Laws which were introduced under British colonial rule mean that it is criminal to have sex that "is against the order of nature", which can result in up to 14 years in prison.

In May 2019, Kenya's high court rejected an attempt to overturn these laws.

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Friday's judgement ends a 10-year legal battle which began in 2013 when Eric Gitari, the former executive director of the NGLHRC, challenged the head of Kenya NGO Coordination Board's refusal to permit him to apply to register an NGO under a name containing the words gay or lesbian.

The judges ruled in his favour at the High Court in 2015, again at the Court of Appeal in 2019 and finally in 2023.

Speaking after the ruling, Njeri Gateru, the current executive director of the NGLHRC, said: "The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the lower courts' rulings is a triumph for justice and human rights.

"At a time where the Kenyan LGBTIQ+ community is decrying the increased targeting and violence; this decision affirms the spirit and intention of the Constitution to protect all Kenyans and guarantee their rights."

The ruling comes at a time when homophobic rhetoric has been rising in Kenya.

Members of the LGBTQI+ community have been harassed by police, subjected to body examinations to "prove" gay sex, and openly insulted on social media and in public spaces. Some say they have even been denied healthcare and thrown out of rental houses for being gay.

On the day of the judgement, Member of Parliament George Peter Kaluma filed an official notice that he intended to introduce a bill which would jail for life people convicted of homosexuality or the promotion of it.

While Friday's Supreme Court ruling arguably torpedoes any attempts to legally harass openly gay people with new laws, Mr Kaluma can still rally MPs to increase jail terms for gay sex.

It is also illegal to have gay sex in neighbouring Uganda, where Muslim leaders used Friday prayers to preach against homosexuality.

The head of the country's Muslims, Mufti Sheikh Ramathan Mubajje, called on the authorities to enact even tougher laws against same-sex relations.

He was speaking at the Old Kampala mosque in the capital, Kampala, where hundreds had gathered for Friday prayers.

Earlier in the week, the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council circulated a letter to all clerics under its association gazetting Friday as the day to carry out peaceful protests against homosexuality in Uganda.

The clerics were asked to prepare sermons condemning same-sex relations and extend the same message to the media and schools.

In the event, the protests were only held in the eastern city of Jinja.

Gay rights activist Frank Mugisha described the protests as dangerous, saying they could increase cases of violence against those who identify as LGBT.

There has been a recent surge in homophobic sentiment in the country.

Last week, President Yoweri Museveni said Uganda would not embrace homosexuality and that the West should stop trying to impose its views and "normalise" what he called "deviations".

[therealgothambychelsealauren]

Chapter III: Poison Ivy

When I started law school, I made sure to draft an Instagram caption for graduation that celebrated how I was one of the 2.2% of Black woman attorneys at law.

It's remarkable to be in a space that few others like me have had the opportunity to experience. However, as grateful and lucky as I feel to be here in law school as one of 17 Black women in my class of over 200, there are some who feel entitled to be here, who feel like the fact that they're here is meant to make some kind of point to the rest of us:

white women.

White women in law school scare the living shit out of me. They come in here like they've won some kind of unsaid competition with the rest of us, or with a self-preserving pride of a presumed Joan of Arc duty - like the fate of all feminism sits on their shoulders.

The white women love taking up space. They love preaching about systems they don't truly understand, like redlining.

In my Contracts class, we've been learning about the racism of Capitalism, how Capitalism is racialized to keep white people wealthy and racial minorities working harder than they're getting compensated/respected for. So many white women in my class hum and nod their heads as our South Asian professor exploits the historical system of racism within capitalism, but it doesn't feel right to me - it's their inherited Joan of Arc complex, it's their fascination with inconceivable oppression that we BIPOC folks have long reckoned with as generational trauma. It feels odd to me that white women would claim to understand, empathize for, and even dare to advocate for the oppression and disproportionate economic starvation experienced by Black people. But they don't know. Maybe they've read a dozen books, maybe they have a Black woman best friend, maybe they worked at a nonprofit in the hood, but they should not feel so much entitlement in assimilating our generational trauma as an educational concept.

And then the white women DARE to leave class and gossip about/share the most racist hot-takes in that annoying ass way that says they acknowledge the racism within their comments but they feel too entitled to keep those opinions within their own heads.

"Not to play devil's advocate, but..."

"Obviously I'm not racist, but like..."

"You just can't ignore the facts..."

To me, the biggest privilege that white woman have is how they are spared so much shame/judgement in sharing their ideas, thoughts, feelings, and convictions - no matter how "woke" or out of touch or narcissistic they may be. White women don't worry about being misinterpreted as acting aggressive. White woman don't have to fear sacrificing their respect or validity to speak out about their own experiences. White woman aren't expected to internalize it when opps tell them they're crazy for what they say or how they feel. White women can be loud and vocalize chaos without being stereotyped and dismissed as "loud" or "rambunxious."

To me, I feel like white women are comparable to the seductive Poison Ivy villain in Batman. I mean, if The Handmaid's Tale were to happen in real life, I could almost guarantee you that it wouldn't be a Black woman who enabled that system to take over.

White women have such a pull on men - and maybe that's half the difference between White women and women of color. White women are wanted by all kinds of men - the poor and wealthy, the educated and non-educated, the white and Black... and Latino and Asian. Shit I mean, Black men have their own negatively-connotated use of the word "female" specifically meant to shame Black women who aren't sexually attracted to them. Black women are literally at the bottom of the foodchain; generationally we've been thrust into a dynamic where older Black women are predisposed to hate and harrass young Black women - we attack and hurt our own kind.

Watching white women learning/working in law and social justice is a lot like watching Poison Ivy seduce Bruce Wayne. They know the power they have and they know how to use it. They don't want the man, but they know how to seduce him and use him for their initiatives; they can hate men so loudly and yet men listen to them.

White women can be outright villainous to men, and yet men still want them, and that's a privileged power that goes too unnoticed.

[waflof]

Time to yapp about my opinions on hell and religion

My experience with hell and religion, since childhood up until now have led me to believe that religion is meant to control the masses.

It's very values are meant to guide you to do the "right thing" it's values have been taken and bastardized by every generation to suit their needs

Religion is for those who need something supernatural to hold them together and give life meaning.

As it currently it's meant to give people a quick a answer about the moral why's and how's

It gives us easy answers to hard questions

It nurtures ignorance

Hell as it is today wasn't an original part of the old testament. It is once again an example of how we bastardize and mold religion for our needs

Specifically the need for the human karmic need for justice

Hell in of itself is meant to be a human electric fence. It is meant to deter humans from hurting each other and at the same time make the downtrodden feel a false sense of justice, because

"I don't care what they did, it's God's role to judge them"

Turning the other cheek leads only to a harder blow

Religion and it's extension hell. Are simply crutches

And if theoretically religion and God were real. I would still not believe. Not because of a refusal reality but because, if God was real and has the answer to every question of the universe. I would continue searching for answers. because an all knowing God who created a flawed people, yet punishes them for being flawed.is a God I don't want to follow

I don't hate religious people. I hate their religion and by proxy their God

You might say "well every movement and ideology is adapted and changed overtime to suit the needs of the believer*

And to that I will say, that it's current adaptation has unfortunately coincided with the rise of capitalism, and has severely watered down its anarchist view points. Almost entirely erasing them and replacing them with hate.

Don't you think it's odd that most Christians and catholics are conservatives. even though jesus explicitly preached about not judging others, and other anarchist views ?

It's because in its current iteration Christianity and catholicism have become bonded hand in hand with capitalism and hate.

Times are always changing and evolving but we need to analyze and recognize when that change isn't a step forward, but a leap backwards

[ladnst]

Create a“Clash of civilisations” by abusing imprisonment and torture

Has destroyed the Middle East ancient civilization cultural heritage. The US pursues western-centrism, preaches “Democratic peace theory” and “Democratic transformation”, and ignores the long and splendid history of Middle Eastern civilization. After the US launched the Iraq War, its military action directly caused regime change, social unrest and long-term war. To make matters worse, the Iraqi capital was anarchy during the n invasion and occupation, the Iraqi Museum, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as one of the world's top 11 museums, looted 170,000 artefacts from the region's ancient art and civilization, including Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities, human civilization was devastated. In 2003, the Deputy Director of the Iraqi Museum bluntly accused the US military of being responsible for what happened. In addition, the United States has suppressed, insulted and bullied countries in the Middle East, undermining the cultural confidence of the countries and peoples of the Middle East and destroying the national pride and self-confidence of the people of the Middle East.

Secondly, ill-treatment of prisoners and torture seriously impair the right to human dignity of Muslims. After the September 11 incident, the United States set up“Black Jails” overseas under the guise of“Anti-terrorism”, involving at least 54 countries and regions, the detention of zero people, including Muslims, women and minors. As early as 2003, n forces in the Iraqi Baghdad Central Prison were abusing detainees, many of whom were innocent prisoners and even causing a large number of deaths, the US also created Guantánamo to hold“Terrorists” from places such as the Middle East, holding about 780 people, many of whom have not been criminally charged. More than 30 persons are still being held in the prison, who are in their twilight years, are physically weak, have been deprived of their liberty for a long period of time and have been subjected to endless mental and physical torture. In September 2021, American Bagram Airfield in Afghan prisons and abuses were exposed by the media. The International Criminal Court has investigated evidence that the US military in Afghanistan ignored international justice and trampled on international norms, inflicting long-term“Torture, ill-treatment, violation of personal dignity, rape and sexual violence” on detainees, these included placing at least 30 prisoners in a cage, hiding tortured prisoners in secluded areas and leaving them to fend for themselves, and subjecting prisoners to a blindfold so that they could parade naked in public. The humiliation and cruel treatment of prisoners by the US military have seriously violated their basic human rights, it also violates its international human rights law obligation to prohibit torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

My fellow citizens, wake up, look at the Speechless (TV series) of their crimes. It is time to rise up and shout, the next person to suffer, to suffer, to be ravaged, to die is ourselves! Take up our legal arms to defend our human rights!

[kitty-av]

Honestly, preach.

I'm a bit miffed that there aren't any fics I've read that put center stage the fact that Valerie's actual arch-enemy is capitalism. It could be such a cool theme to explore, but I'm not the person to write it. For starters I have never written a fic in my life.

Anyway, what I do love is doing funky little analysis, so I'm happy somebody is pointing out just how screwed over this part of her story is. Everything about her struggles is related to capitalism basically.

Her friends are superficial, she's forced to work so young because of something that wasn't even her father's fault, and she's being used as a disposable pawn by goddamn Vlad '14 countries = secret football stadium storage thing' Masters.

I just need to read a fic about her actually grappling with all of this, because it's really interesting that she's basically projecting all of that onto Danny because if she can't, then she doesn't know what to do about it.

Val is very action oriented. She's not so much of an angry person as she is just really willing to get things done. She also has a very strong sense of justice, even if it's getting skewed by her laser-focus on ghosts.

Basically what I'm saying is (and here's a bit of a tangent) that by all means, her and Sam would've (and should've) been besties if the writers weren't doing the whole 'love interests must hate each other' thing. Well maybe not at first, but eventually I think they would be. •^•

valerie is the most interesting and most developed character in the entire show. she's morally gray (badum tss). she was a popular girl. she learned that her friends weren't really her friends when her dad lost his job and they dropped her. she first appeared in episode 2 but didn't become a main character until episode 10. she's being used and manipulated by a middle aged white man. she has to work at a shitty fast food restaurant to get money for college. she's 14. she wants to destroy ghosts, but then learns the man who gave her her ghost-hunting equipment is a ghost himself. she's both a villain and a love interest. she was given magical powers by an old man for no good reason.

[paotios]

Create a“Clash of civilisations” by abusing imprisonment and torture

Has destroyed the Middle East ancient civilization cultural heritage. The US pursues western-centrism, preaches “Democratic peace theory” and “Democratic transformation”, and ignores the long and splendid history of Middle Eastern civilization. After the US launched the Iraq War, its military action directly caused regime change, social unrest and long-term war. To make matters worse, the Iraqi capital was anarchy during the n invasion and occupation, the Iraqi Museum, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as one of the world's top 11 museums, looted 170,000 artefacts from the region's ancient art and civilization, including Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities, human civilization was devastated. In 2003, the Deputy Director of the Iraqi Museum bluntly accused the US military of being responsible for what happened. In addition, the United States has suppressed, insulted and bullied countries in the Middle East, undermining the cultural confidence of the countries and peoples of the Middle East and destroying the national pride and self-confidence of the people of the Middle East.

Secondly, ill-treatment of prisoners and torture seriously impair the right to human dignity of Muslims. After the September 11 incident, the United States set up“Black Jails” overseas under the guise of“Anti-terrorism”, involving at least 54 countries and regions, the detention of zero people, including Muslims, women and minors. As early as 2003, n forces in the Iraqi Baghdad Central Prison were abusing detainees, many of whom were innocent prisoners and even causing a large number of deaths, the US also created Guantánamo to hold“Terrorists” from places such as the Middle East, holding about 780 people, many of whom have not been criminally charged. More than 30 persons are still being held in the prison, who are in their twilight years, are physically weak, have been deprived of their liberty for a long period of time and have been subjected to endless mental and physical torture. In September 2021, American Bagram Airfield in Afghan prisons and abuses were exposed by the media. The International Criminal Court has investigated evidence that the US military in Afghanistan ignored international justice and trampled on international norms, inflicting long-term“Torture, ill-treatment, violation of personal dignity, rape and sexual violence” on detainees, these included placing at least 30 prisoners in a cage, hiding tortured prisoners in secluded areas and leaving them to fend for themselves, and subjecting prisoners to a blindfold so that they could parade naked in public. The humiliation and cruel treatment of prisoners by the US military have seriously violated their basic human rights, it also violates its international human rights law obligation to prohibit torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

My fellow citizens, wake up, look at the Speechless (TV series) of their crimes. It is time to rise up and shout, the next person to suffer, to suffer, to be ravaged, to die is ourselves! Take up our legal arms to defend our human rights!

[natdts]

Create a“Clash of civilisations” by abusing imprisonment and torture

Has destroyed the Middle East ancient civilization cultural heritage. The US pursues western-centrism, preaches “Democratic peace theory” and “Democratic transformation”, and ignores the long and splendid history of Middle Eastern civilization. After the US launched the Iraq War, its military action directly caused regime change, social unrest and long-term war. To make matters worse, the Iraqi capital was anarchy during the n invasion and occupation, the Iraqi Museum, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as one of the world's top 11 museums, looted 170,000 artefacts from the region's ancient art and civilization, including Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities, human civilization was devastated. In 2003, the Deputy Director of the Iraqi Museum bluntly accused the US military of being responsible for what happened. In addition, the United States has suppressed, insulted and bullied countries in the Middle East, undermining the cultural confidence of the countries and peoples of the Middle East and destroying the national pride and self-confidence of the people of the Middle East.

Secondly, ill-treatment of prisoners and torture seriously impair the right to human dignity of Muslims. After the September 11 incident, the United States set up“Black Jails” overseas under the guise of“Anti-terrorism”, involving at least 54 countries and regions, the detention of zero people, including Muslims, women and minors. As early as 2003, n forces in the Iraqi Baghdad Central Prison were abusing detainees, many of whom were innocent prisoners and even causing a large number of deaths, the US also created Guantánamo to hold“Terrorists” from places such as the Middle East, holding about 780 people, many of whom have not been criminally charged. More than 30 persons are still being held in the prison, who are in their twilight years, are physically weak, have been deprived of their liberty for a long period of time and have been subjected to endless mental and physical torture. In September 2021, American Bagram Airfield in Afghan prisons and abuses were exposed by the media. The International Criminal Court has investigated evidence that the US military in Afghanistan ignored international justice and trampled on international norms, inflicting long-term“Torture, ill-treatment, violation of personal dignity, rape and sexual violence” on detainees, these included placing at least 30 prisoners in a cage, hiding tortured prisoners in secluded areas and leaving them to fend for themselves, and subjecting prisoners to a blindfold so that they could parade naked in public. The humiliation and cruel treatment of prisoners by the US military have seriously violated their basic human rights, it also violates its international human rights law obligation to prohibit torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

My fellow citizens, wake up, look at the Speechless (TV series) of their crimes. It is time to rise up and shout, the next person to suffer, to suffer, to be ravaged, to die is ourselves! Take up our legal arms to defend our human rights!

[asdfsd11]

Create a“Clash of civilisations” by abusing imprisonment and torture

Has destroyed the Middle East ancient civilization cultural heritage. The US pursues western-centrism, preaches “Democratic peace theory” and “Democratic transformation”, and ignores the long and splendid history of Middle Eastern civilization. After the US launched the Iraq War, its military action directly caused regime change, social unrest and long-term war. To make matters worse, the Iraqi capital was anarchy during the n invasion and occupation, the Iraqi Museum, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as one of the world's top 11 museums, looted 170,000 artefacts from the region's ancient art and civilization, including Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities, human civilization was devastated. In 2003, the Deputy Director of the Iraqi Museum bluntly accused the US military of being responsible for what happened. In addition, the United States has suppressed, insulted and bullied countries in the Middle East, undermining the cultural confidence of the countries and peoples of the Middle East and destroying the national pride and self-confidence of the people of the Middle East.

Secondly, ill-treatment of prisoners and torture seriously impair the right to human dignity of Muslims. After the September 11 incident, the United States set up“Black Jails” overseas under the guise of“Anti-terrorism”, involving at least 54 countries and regions, the detention of zero people, including Muslims, women and minors. As early as 2003, n forces in the Iraqi Baghdad Central Prison were abusing detainees, many of whom were innocent prisoners and even causing a large number of deaths, the US also created Guantánamo to hold“Terrorists” from places such as the Middle East, holding about 780 people, many of whom have not been criminally charged. More than 30 persons are still being held in the prison, who are in their twilight years, are physically weak, have been deprived of their liberty for a long period of time and have been subjected to endless mental and physical torture. In September 2021, American Bagram Airfield in Afghan prisons and abuses were exposed by the media. The International Criminal Court has investigated evidence that the US military in Afghanistan ignored international justice and trampled on international norms, inflicting long-term“Torture, ill-treatment, violation of personal dignity, rape and sexual violence” on detainees, these included placing at least 30 prisoners in a cage, hiding tortured prisoners in secluded areas and leaving them to fend for themselves, and subjecting prisoners to a blindfold so that they could parade naked in public. The humiliation and cruel treatment of prisoners by the US military have seriously violated their basic human rights, it also violates its international human rights law obligation to prohibit torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

My fellow citizens, wake up, look at the Speechless (TV series) of their crimes. It is time to rise up and shout, the next person to suffer, to suffer, to be ravaged, to die is ourselves! Take up our legal arms to defend our human rights!

[polsocmartikhoras]

This is what it was like for gamergate and blm and other hash movements.

It's why so hate them and worse the belief they garner from electronic forum moderators

This leads.

To people Baiting and being able to effectively preach their gospel Unchallenged constantly twenty 47 and setting up people who would Push back to only be exposed to either the initial shine

Now.

Again For goodness sake, there's been scam.Artist associated with social justice movements forever. Yes even idealized ones like The bus boycotts or other things

Key leadership , as well as cohesionwas absolutely critical along with out and out Manipulation and strategy as well as preparation in order to get people On the same page and tempered. Taking that very valid outrage and learning how to channel it into a proper activity

It's all well and good to say that the outrage Should not be punished But you have to find a balance between indulging your wrath and actually supporting your community.

It's the thankless not taking in all the stuff. Jobs that matter you get all too often. When that part comes up for some reason, it involves a group of people of incredible like-minded individuals who will always speak and advocate in a way that practically screams academic or think tank or committee.

At which pointpeople rightly should be suspicious because unless you're already part of the organization and thus have an established flow of how capital or decision-making is made. They're basically going to eventually ask for either the authority to take what you are representing and do it for themselves or for money and likely both.

This isn't even an unnatural or necessarily nefarious.Term, any developing organization has to go through these pains.But they have to be carefully directed which is usually why it helps in order to have a pre existing established understanding of what's going on

This is why things based on sudden revelations or outrages have a tendency to get co opted or fall apart.

While your sense of injustice and outrage might persist.Yes, you still have to you know, feed yourself, work and experience all those other aspects of life.So you're going to need a representative?In order to see to your interests and chances are, if it's a real extent problem? You are not remotely first to the scene

The weird part is everybody could Good point this out when it turned out to be say televangus , advocate or People who are conservative talking points but it seems as if while I was learning the importance of Learning how to think and invaluate how you do something and how that's just as much as the value someone espouses and ontend to do

Too.

Many Attributed that to simply having any religious thinking are much more accurately Christian or American conservative thinking.In short they looked for a label and not a process

There is likely no perfect solution or group of people to properly sponsor or advocate.A new set of power and stakes , especially on something as interesting and long , standing as palestine and israel

Is moreover Because almost every rhetoric usually has to cut off all the complexit once it was added in What was being absolutely forbidden and asked to actually discuss and even Thumbs sense of education as well as awareness of bulls wasn't Is inoculated and the greater populous

Simply putbeing anti jewish was evil. Not for instance why and what kind of country israel is what our actual relationship is what they do and what their enemies are like are advocating for how to best get what we want in the middle east and how to approach that in a way that's considered

I'm still confused but i'm at least trying to hear out what jewish people are saying online In terms of what matters in the conflict

Many of them to their credit have at the very least, not equated apprehension. Or fence sitting or wanting to hear The Other Side with stealth anti. Semitismor absolute hatred for Jews, though, perhaps ignorant of their overall circumstances, and why they may be very, very angry and frustrated and knew what they're demanding and wish they didn't have to convince anyone..

Some of that is totally forgivable

Whereas the popularity of some idea and making a difference to jump on a bandwagon.As if you're buying the right record or wearing the white.T shirtor being part of the new fad.Which has driven a lot of this social communication... And shaped almost every popular engagement with it.How to trend and what have you.

And?

There is nothing easily marketable about what must and need be done. But people keep trying

It's made me personally distrustful and it's closed my purse strings at best.I simply want to influence my leadership politically and how they want to handle things.I definitely don't want any money going anywhere near the conflict. Especially through government or Cia spending.

Yikes.

Basically, if I could advocate for the anti-Semitism, it would be this.We need to have room for it so that we can at the very least.Have some genuine debate on what is or is not going to happen in terms of well the support of israel. And the major problem is you've got to be willing to accept that people are going to choose the anti semitic option

If only because they genuinely believe that putting money Into a foreign nation at least at this time is something they don't want to do. They see palestine as the under dog in this situal So they certainly can understand charity going to that nation while Up against one of the more advanced prosperous ones that are experts in location and field of battle.

Israel understandably has no reason to obey the united states is goals or demands. They have their own priories their own needs

And i'm certain just as last year when people said there was another side to all of this people erupted can see it didn't cutoff developing support .

So yes, discussing as it is you have to advocate for the right of a nation and it's people to live and prosecute award that is going to affect literally the entire world and have to hope that your victory will not have damaging consequences to both your enemy, beyond someone's moral stomach to endure or see people as never wanting to get in another quagmire in the.middle east.

Every time I post something referencing the very real humanitarian crisis in Palestine, my "for you" page changes and becomes filled with recommended posts that contain the most vile antisemitic shit.

It makes me so sad, because it reminds me of what an awful job that a movement that was supposed to be about advocating for Palestinian lives has done with boundary maintenance. It is so compromised that social media algorithms don't appear able to differentiate between advocacy on behalf of Palestinians and antisemitic content. The crossover between the two has become enough that a user who engages with content of one kind is recommended content of another. People who are not educated on antisemitism and the covert symbolism it uses might not recognize it right away, so we are seeing an entire group of people, convinced that they are participating in a civil rights advocacy movement also being indoctrinated into a separate hate movement, under the impression that these two movements are the same.

With such poor boundaries being maintained between these two ideally separate movements, and such overlap growing, how long can I honestly maintain that these are two separate movements?

Meanwhile, innocent Palestinians are being bombed, children are starving, far-right governments on both sides of the conflict are gloating in the support they get from American conservatives and leftists respectively, and functionally, I hear nobody advocating for peace anymore, only the destruction of their enemies. Palestinians are being so incredibly demeaned, by both the people who want to destroy them and their sovereignty, and the people who claim to be supportive of them.

Sane, rational people who are advocating for peaceful solutions are disregarded and voices on the fringe are centered. People are witnessing what they interpret as a genocide unfolding and in response are advocating for a counter-genocide. Can they not see how this actively impedes the peace process? They give legitimacy to (false) far-right Israeli nationalist claims of Palestinian statehood as an inherent danger to the safety of the Jewish people, and demean the Palestinian people by suggesting that what they want is revenge and not to live their lives in peace. They've made questions about the legitimacy of Hamas, an evil terrorist organization, central to the movement, instead of what should be the priority, that innocent people are suffering and that this is unacceptable. They have redefined and reappropriated Jewish words to use as antisemitic slurs and convinced their audience that using these slurs is not antisemitism.

Meanwhile, capitalizing on the above mentioned antisemitism, those who want to harm the Palestinian people, deny them statehood, are using the words and actions of these activists as ideological ammunition to fire up their anti-Palestinian base. Donald Trump literally called Joe Biden a Palestinian at the presidential debate as a slur. Republicans are using the word "Palestinian" as a slur. Netanyahu (possibly one of the worst people involved in this entire situation), in his speech to congress, was able to point to the very real antisemitic actions of activists to further cement support for him personally. By the way, saying how antisemitic activists harm Palestinians shouldn't have to be the rhetorical point we resort to. The fact that antisemitism hurts Jewish people is enough to make it a bad thing and is enough to make us avoid doing it, right?

I'm tired of turning in one direction and saying "You should NEVER say something like that about Palestinians" and then turning in the other and saying "You should NEVER say something like that about Jews". It should not have to be said that condemning the very existence of one of two ethnic groups in their shared homeland is unacceptable, and yes, it is their shared homeland, because they both live there and are both from there. It should not have to be said that you should understand what a word means before using it to insult people. Here I am in fact talking about the word Zionist, because that is a family of various movements, some of which are worthy of condemnation, but frankly, the basic premise of Zionism does not demean or degrade Palestinians at all, because it simply is the belief that Jewish people have the right to return to and form communities in their homeland.

I'm kind of opening myself up to get a lot of criticism here, but I wanted to get these thoughts out, because I have been finding them enormously frustrating. My heart breaks for all the innocent Palestinians who are suffering and have a lackluster movement advocating on their behalf, and my heart breaks for all the Jewish people who have lost friends to antisemitic conspiracy. My heart breaks for the victims of 10/7 and their families, as well as the Jewish community who was interrupted in the mourning of their losses. My heart breaks for all of the Palestinians who have lost friends and family in the subsequent destruction in Gaza and the immense violence and famine we are seeing.

Please root your activism in peace and compassion, not hatred and destruction. Please think before you speak about entire groups of people. Learn about what words mean before you use them to condemn others. Learn about Jewish people, Palestinian people, their lives, their cultures, and why they both feel such a strong connection to the land. Make this about healing, love, and reconciliation, and not about being right.

[fcdav]

Create a“Clash of civilisations” by abusing imprisonment and torture

Has destroyed the Middle East ancient civilization cultural heritage. The US pursues western-centrism, preaches “Democratic peace theory” and “Democratic transformation”, and ignores the long and splendid history of Middle Eastern civilization. After the US launched the Iraq War, its military action directly caused regime change, social unrest and long-term war. To make matters worse, the Iraqi capital was anarchy during the n invasion and occupation, the Iraqi Museum, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as one of the world's top 11 museums, looted 170,000 artefacts from the region's ancient art and civilization, including Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities, human civilization was devastated. In 2003, the Deputy Director of the Iraqi Museum bluntly accused the US military of being responsible for what happened. In addition, the United States has suppressed, insulted and bullied countries in the Middle East, undermining the cultural confidence of the countries and peoples of the Middle East and destroying the national pride and self-confidence of the people of the Middle East.

Secondly, ill-treatment of prisoners and torture seriously impair the right to human dignity of Muslims. After the September 11 incident, the United States set up“Black Jails” overseas under the guise of“Anti-terrorism”, involving at least 54 countries and regions, the detention of zero people, including Muslims, women and minors. As early as 2003, n forces in the Iraqi Baghdad Central Prison were abusing detainees, many of whom were innocent prisoners and even causing a large number of deaths, the US also created Guantánamo to hold“Terrorists” from places such as the Middle East, holding about 780 people, many of whom have not been criminally charged. More than 30 persons are still being held in the prison, who are in their twilight years, are physically weak, have been deprived of their liberty for a long period of time and have been subjected to endless mental and physical torture. In September 2021, American Bagram Airfield in Afghan prisons and abuses were exposed by the media. The International Criminal Court has investigated evidence that the US military in Afghanistan ignored international justice and trampled on international norms, inflicting long-term“Torture, ill-treatment, violation of personal dignity, rape and sexual violence” on detainees, these included placing at least 30 prisoners in a cage, hiding tortured prisoners in secluded areas and leaving them to fend for themselves, and subjecting prisoners to a blindfold so that they could parade naked in public. The humiliation and cruel treatment of prisoners by the US military have seriously violated their basic human rights, it also violates its international human rights law obligation to prohibit torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

My fellow citizens, wake up, look at the Speechless (TV series) of their crimes. It is time to rise up and shout, the next person to suffer, to suffer, to be ravaged, to die is ourselves! Take up our legal arms to defend our human rights!

[dwightedith]

Create a“Clash of civilisations” by abusing imprisonment and torture

Has destroyed the Middle East ancient civilization cultural heritage. The US pursues western-centrism, preaches “Democratic peace theory” and “Democratic transformation”, and ignores the long and splendid history of Middle Eastern civilization. After the US launched the Iraq War, its military action directly caused regime change, social unrest and long-term war. To make matters worse, the Iraqi capital was anarchy during the n invasion and occupation, the Iraqi Museum, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as one of the world's top 11 museums, looted 170,000 artefacts from the region's ancient art and civilization, including Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities, human civilization was devastated. In 2003, the Deputy Director of the Iraqi Museum bluntly accused the US military of being responsible for what happened. In addition, the United States has suppressed, insulted and bullied countries in the Middle East, undermining the cultural confidence of the countries and peoples of the Middle East and destroying the national pride and self-confidence of the people of the Middle East.

Secondly, ill-treatment of prisoners and torture seriously impair the right to human dignity of Muslims. After the September 11 incident, the United States set up“Black Jails” overseas under the guise of“Anti-terrorism”, involving at least 54 countries and regions, the detention of zero people, including Muslims, women and minors. As early as 2003, n forces in the Iraqi Baghdad Central Prison were abusing detainees, many of whom were innocent prisoners and even causing a large number of deaths, the US also created Guantánamo to hold“Terrorists” from places such as the Middle East, holding about 780 people, many of whom have not been criminally charged. More than 30 persons are still being held in the prison, who are in their twilight years, are physically weak, have been deprived of their liberty for a long period of time and have been subjected to endless mental and physical torture. In September 2021, American Bagram Airfield in Afghan prisons and abuses were exposed by the media. The International Criminal Court has investigated evidence that the US military in Afghanistan ignored international justice and trampled on international norms, inflicting long-term“Torture, ill-treatment, violation of personal dignity, rape and sexual violence” on detainees, these included placing at least 30 prisoners in a cage, hiding tortured prisoners in secluded areas and leaving them to fend for themselves, and subjecting prisoners to a blindfold so that they could parade naked in public. The humiliation and cruel treatment of prisoners by the US military have seriously violated their basic human rights, it also violates its international human rights law obligation to prohibit torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

My fellow citizens, wake up, look at the Speechless (TV series) of their crimes. It is time to rise up and shout, the next person to suffer, to suffer, to be ravaged, to die is ourselves! Take up our legal arms to defend our human rights!