The Quuuuuill

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

think of it this way. do you want power over someone else? because i don’t. i want to live my life in peace and enjoy the company of people i love and who love me. the powerful though? they’re addicted to power. and they want to experience power during sex to enhance the feeling of their orgasm. they are at the most powerful when the person they are fucking is a child.

does that make sense?

welcome to what happens when a single corporate entity owns a monopoly on a sector. it turns into extortion rackets so fast because everything is secretly just mob shit in the background

while this stance is correct, let’s not platform this nazi transphobe shitstain again

i’ve been using Qwant when i search news

DON’T

it’s not perfect, but i’ve just been gathering interesting links into my org roam notebook

we could do something crazy like create new IPs

thank you

was this… not how it worked before?

the conflation existed before .world even existed. it’s the general sentiment i see across mastodon starting around 3 years ago that lemmy, not just lemmy.ml, is a tankie cesspit.

just one thing… the threadiverse is not the fediverse. the vast majority of the fediverse rs dominated by microblogging systems like mastodon and misskey. whether or not the fediverse gains more popular traction will have very little to do with lemmy. it’s very early days for the threadiverse and piefed or mbin could still make waves

your best bet is to consider another instance that directly opposes lemmy.ml’s moderation style (though i don’t know who defederates from it): slrpnk.net, lemmy.blahaj.zone, or db0 (i forget their full domain).

if you want to go a step further you could also switch to mbin or piefed. personally i find they’re less far along than lemmy which is why i’m on a lemmy instance instead of an mbin instance, but also the death of your friend is a pretty strong motivator. you want to do right by and honor your friend’s memory. x also grapple with my Ukrainain friends, both still present and forever lost, and ponder if what i do helps them or hinders them. you’ll find your way

This is a scenario where a single node VPN would reduce, not increase OP’s security stance. You do have to worry about NK hackers breaching your services because they’re all exposed through the single node VPN server. Same attack surface, less knowledge needed to hit the target with the payload.