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Truth against liars

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Prof. Farhana Sultana's avatar Prof. Farhana Sultana @farhana.bsky.social
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I am either shadowbanned on this site, or many racist/Islamophobic influencers and zi0nists have put me so many blocklists blindly subscribed/followed by others, esp newcomers, that my posts are hardly seen by many. This is discourages me from staying here or posting more often. Advice?

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Wagatwe, it feels like this meme describes American shiatlibs precisely.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil's avatar Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social
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Um we see them literally all the time in public life, ESPECIALLY these days

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*You* don't see racists much in public? Where are you situated? Because I would love to not see racists around in public.

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Omri Marian's avatar Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social
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Last night the Israeli Stasi... eh police, again brutally attacked anti government protesters. In one of the videos an officer can heard yelling at a protester "I will rape your mother", when he's on the ground, while another officer kicks him.

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That is due to killing off the security and humanitarian NGOs operating in Gaza. Difficult to distribute food and medicines if those doing it are being targeted, and their security being killed. Hamas and IDF are responsible, but Israel is assuming more responsibility day by day. Pottery Barn rule.

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Huh? Biden has gone out of his way not to deal with this issue, going so far as to ask UAE to pay the PA and Saudi to offer normalization, rather than confront Smotrich or make Netanyahu deal.

I am saying not confronting this keeps the problem going.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Stella's avatar Stella @antlervel.vet
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❌ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness ✅ shit was mid

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She really doesn't like to be reminded of her views, and blocked me for reminding her.

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What do you mean, that is horrible slander? Why, if one searches for the n-word on the website for the 'Church of the SubGenius', I am sure that one will not find racist slurs at all—

Oh, no....

letmegooglethat.com?q=site%3Asub...

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Sjursen fought in Afghanistan and turned against America's imperial wars, and for that betrayal was exiled... to West Point military academy, because military leaders are less afraid of hearing criticism of America than you.

jacobin.com/2020/07/dani...

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Toytsu Ligners's avatar Toytsu Ligners @writewisely.bsky.social
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Yeah, "lore" like Daniel Sjursen, a traitor and enemy of America who wrote A True History of the United States — somehow they now let traitors be veterans of the US forces, and teach history at West Point. Very left-wing anti-American.

You know better, right?

www.harvard.com/book/united_...

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Yet that is basically what I wrote. That the government and elites benefit, while the bases are largely unpopular with locals who see the negative effects (environmental, prostitution from "r&r", tension, etc)?

bsky.app/profile/writ...

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Toytsu Ligners's avatar Toytsu Ligners @writewisely.bsky.social
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Interesting that the CIA did some analysis of Filipino perception of US military bases in the mid-80s and observed, sorry "believe" much the same as I observed, sorry "believe"

www.cia.gov/readingroom/...

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"believe" that government and public interests are not the same, and that a government might benefit from and want the presence of a US military base, even while such are unpopular with the locals? Does having personal experience with Filipinos and US bases matter towards "belief"? I lived there.

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Toytsu Ligners's avatar Toytsu Ligners @writewisely.bsky.social
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Recent translations and studies have improved, but given that Legge and Jung's interpretations were highly influential for the early 20th century, and Charles Luk was hardly more comprehensible, kind of makes sense. Yet Taoism really helps understand a lot of other alchemy and thought.

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RevM conflates elite benefits from the bases and geostrategy with mass popularity.

Somehow those who spend more time talking with locals, Asians and Africans, not elites, work out why colonialism is not popular faster.

See also
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/288995...

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There have been more protests against US bases than just these, but in East Asia alone:
"twelve major protests in Asia since the end of World War II—in the Philippines, Okinawa, and South Korea"
www.sup.org/books/title/...

I am familiar with the attitudes in these three countries.

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Jessica Kant 's avatar Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social
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Regular reminder that the courts are not your friends, and there is no direct relationship between what is legal and what is just.

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Umberto Eco wrote that reading laws gives an idea of what went on in a society, because there is no need to have a law prohibiting activities that do not occur.

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Nick Brumfield's avatar Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
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Look, I'll cut the malarkey. Joe Biden needs to pressure Israel to stop the slaughter in Gaza and not invade Lebanon or we're all effed.

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Toytsu Ligners's avatar Toytsu Ligners @writewisely.bsky.social
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They're dead, right? Nominative determinism.

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So you have a problem with Kahanists?

So you oppose their cooption of the Israeli state, and military?

Such as this?

youtu.be/HNkRJJ8Jz4k

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All human beings are responsible for their own actions, crimes and atrocities.

Netanyahu financed and bolstered Hamas as a way to divide the Palestinians and deter a Palestinian state.

Not an opinion, fact.

en.globes.co.il/en/article-f...

Ami Ayalon said this.

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Toytsu Ligners's avatar Toytsu Ligners @writewisely.bsky.social
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I said nothing like that. Could you point out a single statement I made that is not factual?

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You seem unaware of any perspective among antizionists other than "they must hate the Jews" and that makes it difficult to comm, given that you are ignorant of the basic ideas of those whom you wish to persuade.

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Jen Sorensen's avatar Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social
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This week's comic: Many white Americans fail to assimilate

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Israel has killed not only the (Hamas-linked) police/internal security, but also aid workers and their own security (see World Central Kitchen) —and if that is what they are willing to do with Chef José, imagine what they are doing to Arab and Palestinian charities who don't get press coverage.

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Before October 7th, Gaza required around five hundred trucks a day, and that was when there were structures and a rudimentary economy. Now most people are homeless and desperate, and the needs are far greater. And aid is at a fifth, at best, of before October.
reliefweb.int/report/occup...

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It has worked only two weeks in the last few months that it has been constructed, and currently has to be shipped to other ports due to bad weather.

And at best it would deliver one-fifth of the capacity of aid needed for Gaza.
www.npr.org/2024/05/04/1...

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