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this is the problem rooting a system of ethics in an authoritative morality. morality is socially assigned where as ethics are derived based on reaching consensus. whether or not something is morally right or wrong is nearly indistinguishable from whether or not something is legally allowed or disallowed. the Israelis have been programmed for 80 years to believe that theirs is the most moral army because their interpretation of the torah tells them it must be so. the nazis believed they were right, and so did the americans and british they were drawing inspiration from.

much better to focus on ethics derived on features of what it means to be human and what dignities we must all have respected as we navigate the world

this has also been the case for prior genocidal projects

go open youtube in a private tab and see how long it takes for an innocuous video to get a recommended video from the manosphere, rightwingtube, or magaworld. youtube pushes nazi shit hard. if they’re not pushing it on you, it usually means their mathematical model for determining who right wing propaganda works best on indicates you’re not a good target, in which case they’ll mostly push meaningless drivel.

youtube and youtube culture have been dying a right wing nazi death for a decade now. all the best things people were doing are on patreon and nebula now

especially when the rich have no hesitations to comply and cooperate with fascist regimes

for sure. i just wanted to hit a number that someone couldn’t at all be doubted for “i could retire at 18”

once you hit $100M, you have enough to never work again. you could spend the rest of your living days spending time in a community making sure everyone there is fed, housed, and safe.

even just maintaining your personal status quo of working the way you did to get into 9 figures is inherently supportive of the global system of torture all of us are forced to live in. while i agree gabe newell, jay-z, and taylor swift shouldn’t be the main focus of our ire, i find the degree of worship they receive confusing.

if we’re hungry we’re less capable of revonution is the thinking

Wait Kotatsu is shut down? Shit…

it’s a multipart series. i was able to find the title but not a feed or a link. it’s titled The Butterfly Effect

i’ll have to find it, but there’s a fascinating journalistic podcast about how pornhub’s position as the tech giant of the porn industry happened effectively the same as every tech giant: not as a labor of love to advance something, but as a cold blooded disruption of a market to establish a new oligarchic overlord of a market sector. pornhub’s position as an invasive species in the sex work ecosystem has made sex work far less humane than it was before. moreover, sex workers, given their complete lack of societal protection given our legal criminalization of their profession, are more vulnerable to the whims of a modern robber baron

then organize and petition your government to leave Ukraine, you nerds. protest if your government is nonresponsive to protests. uprise if if your government is unresponsive to protests. there is a genocide being run by your military

why’d you rephrase rt without changing the meaning?

managers have insane priorities

time to go ham sandwich

And as we’re crossing border after border we realize the difference is none

G O O D .

propaganda works

reasons for Jews who are still connected to who theis people are to be against what’s happening in the levant:

1. it is obviously wrong
2. we have as a group of people direct knowlege of how wrong it is
3. our bodies are temples, meaning a few things. a) ever since the destruction of the second temple the necessity of a specific Jewish place for us to be safe has no longer made sense as we tried that and it didn’t work b) we have been keeping our connection to who we are just fine without an israel so we should focus instead on community c) as severed as we’ve become from that space, we no longer are indigenous there and our skills as story tellers are better used not to maintain that space but instead to preserve the stories of other marginalized people d) if we think of our bodies as temples it creates a beautiful challenge for ourselves: we must provide the services of a temple where we are. we must feed the hungry, minister to the sick, listen to the weary, and protect the marginalized, just as we were once strangers in the spaces we once existed in, so too are others, and we know from our stories and history that what really helps a broken soul is some soup and some friendship
4. we have kept the history of every attempted genocide against us and we have the knowledge that any and all genocides include a point where the targeted demographic is no longer obviously existing to whoever Pharaoh is this time but still it continues. in other words today it’s the brown Muslim, tomorrow it’s the Jew who isn’t obviously non-Palestinian enough. the day after that it’s the Jew who says “the killing can stop, we got everyone” and the day after that it’s simply the Jews not at the core of power with no pretense that any of this was ever about safety or security. we should know better than anyone at this point that killing only begets more killing, and that genocide is a self fulfilling frenzy.

almost as if zionism and israel do not represent all, or even most, Jews

compliance remains unacceptable