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nus, 6 days ago to Israel

A picture is worth a thousand words: #Israeli settlers assault the #Palestinian journalist Saif Al-Qawasmi in occupied #Jerusalem

https://x.com/ihcentoo/status/1798361357580186036
@israel @palestine

#Palestine #Israel #FreePalestine

nus, 16 days ago to random

"Starchild (who is assaulted in this video) has been a mainstay at #Libertarian events for decades.

"He has served in positions of leadership at virtually every level. A dedicated activist, his recognition was so widespread, even speculation on his next outfit became a ritual before every convention.

"To watch him get and assaulted by #MAGA insurgents—for holding a sign saying "No Wannabe Dictators" at his own convention—speaks volumes as to what #MisesPAC has done to the #LibertarianParty"

Stolen from https://x.com/JoshEakle/status/1794736851661582689

nus, 19 days ago to israel

@RememberUsAlways

You're so racist against Palestinians that you had to post the same picture twice

@nicholas_saunders @palestine @israel

nus, 21 days ago to Israel

Just a reminder that in 2023, the United States House of Representatives conflated criticism of #Israel with hatred of Jews.

> The House “clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism”.

#HR894 is not the "Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023" (#HR6090) but it's a different building block on the same chilling premise.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/6/anti-zionism-is-antisemitism-us-house-asserts-in-dangerous-resolution

@liveposting

#antisemitism #FreePalestine

nus, 22 days ago to liveposting

Thoughts for #Zionists:

If all #Palestinians are culpable for the actions of #Hamas because they voted for them 18 years ago, does that mean all Israelis are culpable for the actions of Benjamin #Netanyahu?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

@liveposting

#FreePalestine #Zionism

nus, 23 days ago to environment

If you needed another reason to be wary of #JohnFetterman: He's recently allied with Ron DeSantis in attacking lab grown meat.

There's no rational reason to hate lab-grown meat besides traditionalism, but plenty of reasons to attack #FactoryFarming - it's bad for the #environment, animals are kept in horrible conditions, the government subsidizes it...

Fetterman even chooses a strangely Trumpian insult too: "Crash and Burn Ron."

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/8/24151435/john-fetterman-lab-grown-cultivated-meat-ron-desantis-florida-ban

@liveposting
#RonDesantis #LabGrownMeat

nus, 25 days ago to random

@stux I was curious about a few Mastodon-related things

1. Did full-text search on mstdn.social stop after February 16? Searching for "a" in posts doesn't reveal anything past then (see screenshot)

2. Would you be open for emoji suggestions?

3. If yes to #2, what would be the easiest way to offer a small collection so you'd have to do as little work as possible

If this is too much trouble, I totally get that. The server's still working perfectly and you do a lot of work keeping it that way 🥰

nus, 26 days ago to Jewish

I missed the HUNDREDS of #Jewish people who were arrested during #Passover for protesting the genocidal actions of Israel.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/not-like-other-passovers-hundreds-of-jewish-demonstrators-arrested-after-new-york-protest-seder
@liveposting @israel @palestine
#FreePalestine #IsraelisATerorristState #Israel

nus, 26 days ago to gaming

@atomicpoet I feel compelled to tell you there a Devolver Digital #videogame sale going on right now. I haven't gotten any of them (besides the Hotline Miami games, out of their original sale) but I feel really compelled to grab a couple more.

nus, 28 days ago to Israel

Kudos to the AP pointing out #Israel is governed by the far-right and that one of its most prominent members is a #terrorist supporter...

... Only a couple paragraphs below describing the #bigotry and #racism that Israeli nationals hurled at #Palestinians.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-jerusalem-march-gaza-6058a191644b6bde5366a40d7f736590

#IsraelIsAterroristState #FreePalestine

nus, 1 month ago to conspiracy

What's the #ConspiracyTheorist explanation for #Building7? Like sure, if you believe it was made to come down artificially, why? If the point was to instill fear in the American people, weren't the #TwinTowers enough? Why did the government have to take down that little building, too?

@liveposting
#conspiracy #ConspiracyTheory

nus, 1 month ago to liveposting

What's the #ConspiracyTheorist explanation for #Building7? Like sure, if you believe it was made to come down artificially, why? If the point was to instill fear in the American people, weren't the #TwinTowers enough? Why did the government have to take down that little building, too?
@liveposting

nus, 1 month ago to Israel

Here's a funny accidental admission that #Israel's existence depends on America's goodwill in addition to its money.
@israel @liveposting

nus, 1 month ago to conservative

Unsurprising, but very sad: conservative "#tradwife" influencer #LaurenSouthern discovered being in a "traditional" marriage felt like being enslaved, she felt compelled to rationalize her husband's abuse, & the "anti-feminist" life was incredibly lonely and made her want to die:
https://unherd.com/2024/05/lauren-southern-the-tradlife-influencer-filled-with-regret/

(Stolen from #NathanJRobinson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1787518162440708421) @liveposting
#TraditionalMarriage #conservative #feminist #feminism

There were warning signs from early on. “If I ever disagreed with him in any capacity he’d just disappear, for days at a time. I remember there were nights where he’d call me worthless and pathetic, then get in this car and leave.” But she didn’t see them, thanks to the simplified anti-feminist ideology she’d absorbed and promoted: “I had this delusional view of relationships: that only women could be the ones that make or break them, and men can do no wrong.” So she didn’t spot the red flags, even as they grew more extreme. “He’d lock me out of the house. I remember having to knock on the neighbour’s door on rainy nights, because he’d get upset and drive off without unlocking the house. It was very strange, to go from being this public figure on stage with people clapping, to the girl crying, knocking on someone’s door with no home to get into, being abandoned with a baby.”
For, she tells me, she’s not alone. She tells me she knows many other women still suffering in unhappy “tradlife” marriages. One of her WhatsApp groups, she says, “is like the Underground Railroad for women in the conservative movement”. Some of these are prominent media figures: “There are a lot of influencers who are not in good relationships, who are still portraying happy marriage publicly, and bashing people for not being married while being in horrendous relationships.” She hopes that in speaking out she can reassure “all of these women who are thinking in their heads: I’m uniquely terrible, and I’m uniquely making a mistake” that no: something is more generally amiss.
All of this was, Southern tells me, difficult to square with her religious beliefs. She would pray by his bed when he was angry with her, hoping that if she gave him grace one more time he’d realise the depth of her love and be kinder. And if this didn’t work, she was encouraged to persist by the way online life had conditioned these beliefs into “listicle” form. But as she discovered, distilling religious traditionalism into viral bullet points does not provide an adequate framework for navigating the complexities of a real-world marriage. She thought, she told me, that “as long as I put on the high heels and the lipstick when my husband comes home, as long as I cook the best meal, as long as I’m always submissive, and say yes, sir, whatever you want, things will go fantastic.” And if it’s not fantastic? The listicle version of traditionalism would just say she should make more effort. It was, she says, “an embarrassing wake up call, finding myself consistently applying these rules and instructions I found on Twitter, and then never getting the results they were supposed to get, in the real realm of relationships”.

nus, 1 month ago to conservative

Unsurprising, but very sad: conservative "#tradwife" influencer #LaurenSouthern discovered being in a "traditional" marriage felt like being enslaved, she felt compelled to rationalize her husband's abuse, & the "anti-feminist" life was incredibly lonely and made her want to die.

https://unherd.com/2024/05/lauren-southern-the-tradlife-influencer-filled-with-regret/

(Stolen from Twitter - #NathanJRobinson to be precise) @liveposting
#TraditionalMarriage #conservative #feminist #feminism

There were warning signs from early on. “If I ever disagreed with him in any capacity he’d just disappear, for days at a time. I remember there were nights where he’d call me worthless and pathetic, then get in this car and leave.” But she didn’t see them, thanks to the simplified anti-feminist ideology she’d absorbed and promoted: “I had this delusional view of relationships: that only women could be the ones that make or break them, and men can do no wrong.” So she didn’t spot the red flags, even as they grew more extreme. “He’d lock me out of the house. I remember having to knock on the neighbour’s door on rainy nights, because he’d get upset and drive off without unlocking the house. It was very strange, to go from being this public figure on stage with people clapping, to the girl crying, knocking on someone’s door with no home to get into, being abandoned with a baby.”
For, she tells me, she’s not alone. She tells me she knows many other women still suffering in unhappy “tradlife” marriages. One of her WhatsApp groups, she says, “is like the Underground Railroad for women in the conservative movement”. Some of these are prominent media figures: “There are a lot of influencers who are not in good relationships, who are still portraying happy marriage publicly, and bashing people for not being married while being in horrendous relationships.” She hopes that in speaking out she can reassure “all of these women who are thinking in their heads: I’m uniquely terrible, and I’m uniquely making a mistake” that no: something is more generally amiss.
All of this was, Southern tells me, difficult to square with her religious beliefs. She would pray by his bed when he was angry with her, hoping that if she gave him grace one more time he’d realise the depth of her love and be kinder. And if this didn’t work, she was encouraged to persist by the way online life had conditioned these beliefs into “listicle” form. But as she discovered, distilling religious traditionalism into viral bullet points does not provide an adequate framework for navigating the complexities of a real-world marriage. She thought, she told me, that “as long as I put on the high heels and the lipstick when my husband comes home, as long as I cook the best meal, as long as I’m always submissive, and say yes, sir, whatever you want, things will go fantastic.” And if it’s not fantastic? The listicle version of traditionalism would just say she should make more effort. It was, she says, “an embarrassing wake up call, finding myself consistently applying these rules and instructions I found on Twitter, and then never getting the results they were supposed to get, in the real realm of relationships”.