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You can care about men's issues and women's issues simultaneously

It doesn't have to be one or the other

It shouldn't be one or the other

#human rights

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Navalny (Daniel Roher, 2022)

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Occupant suspected of killing civilians in Bucha "adopted" a child from Ukraine

russian media report that the parents of a 7-year-old boy were allegedly killed in Donetsk region, and he and other children were allegedly taken out of the shelling in 2022.

Before being "adopted," the child lived in the Velikolutsk orphanage in the Pskov region. After the boy was placed in the occupiers' family, he was immediately sent to a "correctional school to catch up on his knowledge."

The name of the occupier who "adopted" the boy from Ukraine is Viktor Filonov. Russian propaganda has already stated that he plans to raise the boy to be a "patriot of Russia."

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You wanna talk about settler colonialism? Talk about this:

During the two-year occupation of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, Russia has brought over 100,000 of its citizens into the city

(Svidomi)

100k people in 1 (one) occupied city. I'm not talking about Mariupol, I'm not talking about Crimea, or Donetsk, Luhansk. It's just Melitopol, it's just the last two years.

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https://x.com/kareemrifai/status/1750506478488690962?s=46&t=WLunzndd86TYqPF2E217iQ

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Every Jewish conspiracy theory is so much cooler than the reality.

"You've got space lasers" "You've got an underground tunnel system in NYC" no I fucking don't I've got religious trauma and an unhealthy fixation on pickled foods.

#i really do hate the conspiracy fanatics #ideas and words can lead to innocent suffering #esp if its so panicked and hysterical #its men that are going most crazy btw #propaganda #right win conspiracy theories amplified on internet by influencers with influence on emotions #not real expertise or knowledge #our country will spiral more into absurdity #which comes with awfulness #if reasonable people stay passive or fade #im just. #maybe one of last sane ppl

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#syria #russian trolls use the hell out of this and amplify it

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i'm tired of Eastern European countries being sacrificied by the West in order to appease Russia. this is exactly what happened after WW2, this is what might as well happen now

#seeing it as russias sphere unfortunately #didnt know what to do post cold war #so just ignored them #which was a mistake #everyone matters.

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the two sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are NOT Israel and Palestine— it is those who are open to working toward peaceful coexistence in the region, and those whose extremist beliefs and actions contribute to perpetual violence

it is worth asking yourself whether your activism is functioning to amplify and support the peaceful coexistence people, or the perpetual violence people

to be clear, there is absolutely room for vocal protest and activism in this paradigm; it is a necessity

but you need to understand that the total vilification, and therefore dehumanization, of one people or the other will only dig this hole of horror deeper

and if you are only able to perceive the existence of extremism among Jewish Israelis or among Palestinians, but not both, or if you are only able to empathize with the collective narrative of one people, but not the other, then I don’t know what to tell you, except that you have lost your way and have become a tool for those who would perpetuate violence

#extremism vs understanding #not just screaming echoing words that turn into violence #its true that seeing one ethnicity or nation as inherently bad just perpetuates the cycle.

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the russians shelled Ukrainian hospital during surgery. what is it, if not genocide and terrorism? Europe and the United States must recognize russia as a terrorist state!

don't be silent about russia's crimes, please continue to support Ukraine! don't let your politicians betray Ukraine, Ukraine needs help to defeat russia. real help that the USA and Europe are obliged to provide us according to the agreements.

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“The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.”

— Hannah Arendt, Responsibility and Judgment

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ukraine may be fighting the biggest modern empire in the world that wants to take its colony back to oppress and subjugate its people and culture as it has been for CENTURIES but that still not anti-imperialistic enough for some people

#ukraine

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really America. we are scraping the bottom of the barrel. you're telling me there are no people in the United States that are better than trump and Biden? really??

there are better Republicans than trump. those that aren't a threat to democracy. pretty much anyone is better than him.

so many people have allowed themselves to be bamboozled.

I would say we need someone to swoop in and save us, but that's a situation ripe for exploitation. it's what trump is claiming to do.

if only there was someone with integrity that wouldn't exploit people's grievances-- at the very least, someone who doesn't support insurrection and gaining power at all costs, including breaking our democracy.

#america #usa #trump #elections #i would say it's the media pushing it #perhaps it is #they say trump is polling well #who are all these wackos voting for him #it's like trump can do no wrong #and that's scary #we're heading for a precipice if he gets that mandate #at least it's only 4 years #maybe #unless he decides to change the constitution #and then there will be thunderous applause from the trumpests #silence from republicants who daren't oppose him #ugh #nastiness #democracy must survive or we are lost #candidates must work within the system not break it #not joke about revenge against enemies and being a dictator for a day #is that a biblical day or....?

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#syria

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“In this essay, I address the anti-Constitutional discourse that appears in the media: that the Constitution should be displaced by the fears of people who appear on television. This form of opposition to the Constitution poses as expertise. It takes the form of advice to the Court: find some way to allow Trump to be on the ballot, because otherwise people will be upset. Because we are used to hearing endless conversations about politics on television, where everyone seems to be a political advisor, it can seem normal to reduce sections of the Constitution to talking points. But we must pause and consider. In fact, rejecting the legal order in favor of what seems to be politically safe at a given moment is just about the most dangerous move that can be made. It amounts to advocating that we shift from constitutional government to an insurrectionary regime. Indeed, it amounts to participating in that shift, while not taking responsibility for doing so. Let me try to spell this out. In advising the Court to keep Trump on the ballot, political commentators elevate their own fears about others’ resentment above the Constitution. But the very reason we have a Constitution is to handle fear and resentment. To become a public champion of your own own fears and others’ resentments is to support an insurrectionary regime. The purpose of the insurrection clause of the Constitution (the third section of the Fourteenth Amendment) is not to encourage insurrections! If we publicly say that that Supreme Court should disregard it because we fear insurrections, we are making insurrections more likely. We are telling Americans that to undermine constitutional rule they must only intimate that they might be violent. To advocate pitchfork rulings is to endorse regime change; to issue pitchfork rulings is to announce regime change.”

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The Pitchfork Ruling - by Timothy Snyder

I’ve pushed fair use here, because I *really* want you to go read the rest of this essay.

#us #tim snyder #constitution #our institutions must hold!!! #or all is lost #constitution is a good thing actually #law on which our law is based on #structure is important #things fall apart #the center cannot hold #without it #institutions to be flexible to withstand such storms #biggest danger since civil war and we must wake up #those of us who arent on the wrong side of history already

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some loser: humans are innately selfish creatures

my psych book:

#ppl are both selfish and unselfish #some have more empathy than others.