Israel's Ben-Gvir reportedly cancels trip to US.

Obviously the thousands of dead bodies are much more important, but I can't even imagine being so incredibly deluded and emotionally stunted that I'd have to cancel trips to other countries because so many peace loving and compassionate people want me arrested for war crimes.

WTAF allows these people to become so inhumane? WTAF is wrong with our cultures that any of these assholes live outside of jail cells?

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe are US presidents who died on the 4th of July. It does make one wonder.

Struggling With How To Create An Idiocracy In YOUR Country? Here Are Some Ideas:

First off, create an emotionally stunted populace. ... If enough people cannot tell right from wrong internally, it makes it much easier for them to believe the many lies (rationalized as “truths”) needed to believe in patriarchy, racism, crapitalism…

https://culturalptsd.org/how-to-create-an-idiocracy/

The Presbyterian Church, United States, the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country, has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution recognizing Israel’s war on Gaza as genocide.

The resolution, approved by the church’s General Assembly, also calls for divestment from Palantir Technologies and GE Aerospace due to their ties to the Israeli military and intelligence services.

It further urges church members to boycott Israeli products and to lobby the US Congress to impose an arms embargo on Israel, marking one of the strongest institutional positions taken by a major US religious body since the start of the war.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide

what's more humane? to allow a major corrupt and idiotic shit show (and here you can pick one of several) to continue or to…intervene in ways truly millions or even billions of people could benefit from?

OTOH if you speak in terms of good and evil, any status quo, even ones that have descended into utter dysfunction can be…protected more easily…

Because that IS what is happening.

I'll say it again in light of <gestures expansively> and my last post.

notions of good vs evil can be and ARE easily and extensively co-opted by some (and can include entire industries and ideologies, and help people lose focus on how our actions for ourselves can adversely affect others).

I don't think notions of humane and inhumane are as easily co-opted. Basing decsions directly in compassion for others as the main priority would…make the world so much better.

this country has long spent billions a year on a class of people who spy on others and deceive for a living, in exchange for them (supposedly) gathering essential info and acting in ways "to protect democracy".

And yet they "couldn't" point to these shit shows that tons of LAY PEOPLE have identified as our largest threats for (seriously) many decades? And instead they helped to grow surveillance states into grotesque realities and and make billionaires out of sociopaths...

Come on.

look, I know most people's ideologies get mixed up with identity and "belonging"

So growing out of certain beliefs… is always painful, especially when you realize they have contributed to harming others.

But the hour is late, and pretty much all US "intelligence" agencies have long contained fascist elements,(eg: overthrown democratically elected govs, and spied on social justice folks). That Trump's loyalists are running them now is an opportunity to re-evaluate the entire "need" for them.

The Democratic Socialists want your children to be fed healthy nourishing food and receive the best possible medical care, and to do that they intend to raise taxes on a handful of corrupt and squalid pedophiliac monsters who have stolen 1000x more money than anyone can spend—well not in MY America.

not usually my favorite genre (young adult emo and dystopian) and this is not a full endorsement, but The Free People's Village by Kern was an interesting read. I nearly quit it at about 30 pages or so, but it did have enough good stuff buried in it that I'm glad I kept going…Having said that, the very end of it is a personal reconciliation with a status quo that I don't think is inevitable.

Sorry about the terrible AI accounts that keep popping up..

It seems AI agents use invites to create more accounts so we disabled that for now, managed signups is often the choice

We’re really trying to suspend them all and we spend quite some time each day on this

I truly hate LLMs with all my heart, what a shitshow

I personally think a focus on being a decent human rather than a RealMan™ or IdealWoman™ would be a big help, but that takes being able to do unsexy things like consistently thinking for yourself about ethics and responsibility as well as being kind and compassionate to others. So I dunno if it would catch on.

DSA Video Going Viral

The Government™ has made an ad about Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative. https://youtu.be/mBW9QCVDSjY

Right now, the only thing holding back most police from deploying armed drones and robots is the policies of companies and the social stigma surrounding the issue. Neither of these will hold forever. We need regulation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/lawmakers-must-act-now-prevent-armed-police-drones

lol, scrolling by and see an article I won't bother with about a specific war monger control/surveillance freak billionaire PO Fascist S (Karp) who is upset and he says his cohorts are livid, just livid that they are being attacked by normal people

Good, I hope he fucking launches himself into space. Permanently. Today

These fuckin' headlines.

"Far-left extends victory streak into Denver"

Far-left? Far-left?!?

Only billionaires think fair wages, reasonable healthcare, decent schools, and viable housing support are "far left" issues.

*This is in addition to trails that are planned and vvery deliberately created by trail crews.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116842895533729314

I can't see the post quoted in the first of this thread, but I agree w/this. For a much less awful but kinda related example, think of hiking trails: In many places new ones based on what were originally deer trails end up being created*. People start following them because they see pathways that look promising, it's not that everyone who starts using them is in on some grand plan. It's just crapitalists are so emotionally stunted they don't see the suffering they create along the way

You cannot claim to act on climate while ignoring the massive emissions of war.

Count military emissions, expose the damage, and make those responsible pay for the harm done to the climate and ecosystems.

https://theconversation.com/wars-destroy-lives-and-the-climate-why-arent-we-counting-military-emissions-281129

#Iran #Ukraine #Gaza #war #military #climatechange #climatecrisis #pollution