"München gives #NaziGermany 2.0 the middle
finger. The demonstration against AfD was apparently broken up due to too many people. 250,000 were in the streets …
#Biden abandons strategic ambiguity wrt #Taiwan as US readiness is at a historic low, giving #China the greenlight to escalate from "exercises" to invasion.
#theguardian / The ghost of apartheid has come back to haunt Israel and give hope to Palestinians
The parallel between the treatment of Palestinians by Israel and the apartheid regime in South Africa: a systematic campaign of oppression, dispossession, and violence against marginalized groups, language used to justify these systems and the ways in which they have been perpetuated over time. An international action is needed to address these issues and prevent further human rights abuses.
[…] Even as a teenage Zionist of the left in South Africa – before the illusions of that identity collapsed under the weight of their absurdity and I found my way into the ANC – my anti-apartheid inclinations made me especially uncomfortable that Israel was the apartheid regime’s closest ally. Many of us were appalled in 1976 when Israel hosted South African prime minister John Vorster, an avowed Nazi imprisoned during the second world war for his work in a paramilitary sabotage organisation linked to Hitler’s abwehr, his military-intelligence service. Even more so, later, when it turned out that Israel was negotiating arms deals with South Africa, which violated the UN arms embargo, and even cooperated on nuclear-weapons development.
Life in the Third Reich
Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
Drawing exclusively on interviews and personal letters and diaries from the earliest days of the Nazi party to the final hours of the thousand-year Reich, this book reveals how the Hitler cult influenced and corrupted every aspect of public life. Every part of German life was shaped by its malign influence.
Sarah and Allie slip on some armbands and kick march around the studio… No, I’m not doing this. I refuse to put swastikas on our cartoons and there’s no good jokes to write here about this literal Nazi episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. Listen to this episode, punch a Nazi, and learn from history.
The Weimar Republic, the more tolerant democratic government that existed before Hitler, recognized the rights of trans people, though in a begrudging, limited way. The rise of Nazi Germany destroyed this relatively open environment.
Elon Musk is threatening to end his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts.
In Join Mastodon's first tweet after being un-banned is a quote tweet of Twitter Support's "we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter" thread stating:
"As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea."