Salem

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[–] Salem@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago

A year ago criticism of the occupation and genocide was political blasphemy but the protests and activism has started trends in these states to lay the groundwork to "always have been against this". These states aren't real democracies; they are class dictatorships violently repressing , covertly and overtly, the dissent of their own citizenry.

The truth of the matter is that these states are losing the facade of human rights, democracy, and freedom to favor Israel. These are the expositions of the obsolescence of liberal democracy to respond to the demands of the people in an immediate sense; only delegates can act within the boundaries of the state and the people have no access to the levers of power except for voting for delegates - pre-compromised by their own interests and influences - who make decisions on behalf of their constituencies with nothing to compel them but a whim.

The state has expended its tools in suppressing these dissidents. The dissidents delegitimize the state through the persistence of protesting, activism, and engaging in direct action to express discontent and publicly decry the illegitimate action by the state.

[–] Salem@hexbear.net 44 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If this leaves Gaza near emptied then this is an admission that Israel murdered 1m+ people.

Last thread there was a question of what gives people hope. I will give my answer here:

Religion. I'm an atheist, but the concept that God is there watching and among the oppressed and suffering is one that moves me greatly. The concept in Christianity that God will suffer and does suffer with the oppressed, destitute, the slaves, and outcasts of society is one where we see hope beyond hope, and salvation beyond annihilation.

[–] Salem@hexbear.net 60 points 4 days ago (9 children)

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1923479173903024601

BREAKING: The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, according to a report by NBC News, citing five sources with knowledge of the effort, including two people they said with direct knowledge, and a former U.S. official.

[–] Salem@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS5w11VNPXg

It's bizarre, like Jimmy Carr's stand-up but in podcast form.

[–] Salem@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I prefer those old-timer accents.

[–] Salem@hexbear.net 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/South-Africa-v-Israel.pdf

If anyone wants to be reminded of the case against Israel in the ICJ.

I suspect that Netanyahu is prolonging the war to occupy all of Gaza to facilitate the cover up of the corpses and maimed bodies. The bulldozers also crush bone and decayed flesh into sludge; the bodies are erased - they are unidentifiable and near unquantifiable - not unlike cremation.

I think Trump's Freudian slip of the numbers left in Gaza was likely close to the truth; as he said in his plans to relocate 1.5m people. That the truth is there are 1.5m people left in Gaza.

I think the ICJ/ICC are waiting for the war to end, but more than likely the individuals in charge of these institutions are being blackmailed, bribed, and threatened by the US, Israel, and other Western accomplices.

[–] Salem@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this guy also a Zionist

 

How did you get your first job? Apartment/house? Dating?

I ask because I really only did so after years of bouncing around from colleges, summer abroad programs, living with friends, and really just use Zillow or StreetEasy to look.

(I also ask because I want a distraction from the world that isn't entertainment or documentary/non-fiction and often daydream about what things I could have done different had I known things - real life skills - earlier.)

[–] Salem@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That last paragraph you wrote reminded of that page from Flowers for Algernon, where the father defends his son Charlie from his mother.

Matt - the father - loved his son and accepted him regardless of his disabilities.

We should all be grateful we are not divorced from love, even if just as a concept of it, as Emily May is.

[–] Salem@hexbear.net 38 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

How many children have died? Was it 10k or higher?

[–] Salem@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

The evidence is overwhelming that denial propaganda has to ignore or discourage people from investigating into the claims. It isn't just the scale of catastrophic damage but the rhetoric of Israeli politicians, media, micro-celebrities in Israel, and the entire society espousing genocidal rhetoric on social media, interviews, and public statements. Netanyahu quoting Amalek was the huge and first red flag for special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, but even recently ministers like Smotritch claiming "it'd be a good, moral, righteous thing to let 2 million people starve but 'the world won't let us'. "

[–] Salem@hexbear.net 33 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Francis appointed 80% of the current cardinals, I think. It is something to take solace into at least

[–] Salem@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

oh , yeah sorry. meant to put it in the general thread

 

Greetings, people of the Hexbearteriat,

In 2018, I confronted a potential familial disappointment—typical bourgeois drama of "career" and "personal fulfillment." After my courtship failed to bear fruit, I sought wisdom and solace in my poetry and fine wine.

Alas, being cut off by my Lord Father and being unlikely to inherit, I sought new opportunities within the Ducal Guard. While my sympathies lie with my burgher brothers, and their pursuit of property and riches do offend my noble sensibilities, I still found myself needing of their advice and patronage.

What irony that the Ducal Guard exists to protect the prestige and property of both burgher rights and those born with noble privilege! The shame and bizarre transition where wealth and not lineage dictate the future will always confound me!

I ultimately ventured my service into the Ducal Guard not for vulgar financial gain, but to restore my honor (and avoid becoming a bishop!) and secure my place in court.

The initial compensation was meager in coin but plentiful in dignity, yet with years of loyalty compensation has achieved parity with dignity.

(Unlike the bourgeois who worship spreadsheets, we aristocrats understand service transcends mere compensation.)

I shall entertain your provincial inquiries. Do proceed, but mind your manners.

Yours Truly,

Jean Deaux, Page of Chevalier Gilles de Rais.

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