I lived through the homophobia of the 70s through 00s and “eww it’s unnatural” was as common and tedious a refrain then as it is now against our trans friends.

Whenever I hear people talk about “basic biology” or “nature” or “common sense” in order to bind the outgroup, this comes to mind.

a doctrine at war with nature

That is what it sounds like.

I know, I know—comparing struggles is gauche but when the rhetoric is a xeroxed mad lib that sounds as wrong now as it did then, I can’t help it. I’m not equating the magnitude of the oppression or denying that the African diaspora holds an exceptional place in American history through our modern day. (Not trying to be like that dumb novel that was like “catholics were the real Holocaust victims”.) The comparison to this unambiguously wrongheaded historical text is a tasteless one but brings with it the comfort that in future hindsight, this might be how all those “it’s just common sense, it’s just basic biology” boot stompers are gonna sound.

Ja jo men vi måste också bromsa ökningen så mkt som möjligt även när den är över. Blir så trött på collapsology när foten fortfarande är på gaspedalen. Som komplement till att försöka stoppa? Ja absolut. Men som “lösning” är det skrämmande optimistiskt. Påminner mig om den där gamla “Tryggare kan ingen vara”–serien där dom försöker skydda sig mot nukes med en lutad dörr.

Nukes can destroy large areas. Please disarm them.

It sucks that the supposedly communist land is supplying the capitalist oligarchy.

Trumps order om att engelska ska vara landets officiella språk ersätter tidigare beslut av president Bill Clinton om att myndigheter och andra som vill få ta del av federala pengar måste ge information på flera språk och hjälpa dem som inte pratar engelska. Detta förbjuds inte, men kravet tas bort.

Tidöpartierna går alltså ännu längre än Trump, när dom aktivt ska förbjudas med hjälp på andra språk i det ondsinta syftet att skapa incitament att lära sig svenska. Men ja jo han hade ju tagit en titt på den europeiska fulhögern när han gjorde upp sin populistiska plan. Så tror iaf jag det är. Att det här är avsiktligt för honom. Han körde sin birtherstrategi för att plocka rasiströsterna.

Frankrikes president Emmanuel Macron uppger att han är redo att diskutera en gemensam europeisk kärnvapenstrategi efter att Tysklands valvinnare Friedrich Merz uttalat att kärnvapenmakterna Frankrike och Storbritannien delar med sig till andra europeiska länder.

I am not saying this is enough or trying to minimize the damage done by IDF or ignore any of the seven myriad lives already lost to murder in the name of war. Maybe many times that, indirectly.

I can’t forget that.

They’re going to continue the attacks after the six weeks ceasefire.

😭💔

Wikipedia.

The most prominent example of these debates is the Syrian civil war. Several studies claim that a climate-induced drought between 2006 and 2009 led to mass migration into urban areas, contributing to grievances and unrest that erupted in the 2011 protests. The repression of the latter marked the start of the civil war.

Apparently there are plenty of denialists about this online; outright liars if they say that the UN report says the opposite of what it actually does say. Get better news sources, folks.

Finale of Checkmate, Lincolnites is out.

Haven’t seen it yet because the yt-dlv is four and half gigs so I’m waiting on that. That’s over three thousand floppies.

And people think it’s weird that students are protesting.

Snopes.

But the video actually showed the opposite — Palestinians evacuating in a southerly direction toward Rafah in November 2023.

Admirable restraint.

To our friends in the international community, I say: is your memory so short?

Over 2300 killed, 70% civilians.

Mira Fox writing in The Forward.

The inescapable images splashed across international news networks and social media of starving children and rubble in Gaza are not commonly shown on Israeli television or newspapers.

I’m no fan of revenge to begin with, even as I’m steeped in a culture founded on a punitive conceptualization of justice, and then from there taking the leap to this incredibly wack idea that if someone hurts us, we can kill someone * to make up for it.

What makes that wack idea even wilder that it’s so often paired with an idea of escalating revenge. Some sorta cockamamie “OK, we couldn’t get the right guy, but at least we killed 100 people with his eye color, that’ll do for now, more killing tomorrow” perspective.

Which brings us to the second point: Kan is not OK. They’ve been complicit in a propaganda campaign and misinformation bubble. Citizens of Israel have been deceived by them.

Now, I don’t watch the ERC very often so I don’t care either way. Exclude or include one of the countries or both or neither, in the end what I want is peace, and I want everyone to be safe and OK. A song isn’t the biggest problem when people are actually dying.

Jewish Currents interviewed two Biden staffers about why they each signed the November 14th ceasefire letter, why they have not yet resigned, and whether they think Biden is listening.

Oxfam writes:

“It is unimaginable that the international community is watching the deadliest rate of conflict of the 21st century unfold, while continuously blocking calls for a ceasefire.”

Using publicly available data, Oxfam calculated that number of average deaths per day for Gaza is significantly higher than any recent major armed conflict including Syria (96.5 deaths per day), Sudan (51.6), Iraq (50.8), Ukraine (43.9) Afghanistan (23.8) and Yemen (15.8).

Sometimes statistics can obscure the human horror of events; hopefully it can also bring it to light so things can change.