Notices by Mr. Bill (bmacdonald94@hostux.social)

Are retaliatory #EU #tariffs on digital services possible? Do you just have to call them by another name?

Reading up on GATS.

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

«Estimates for ad valorem tariff equivalents of services trade restrictions for cross-border trade [...] ranging as high as 2000% when trade flows are relatively inelastic, as opposed to between 20% and 300% in most other sectors.»

https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2017/04/services-trade-costs_3781532c/dc607ce6-en.pdf

"GATS the way"

https://esil-sedi.eu/esil-reflection-gats-the-way-i-like-it-wto-law-review-of-eu-legality-and-fundamental-rights/

Let trans people talk about transphobia.

Not every instance of transphobia needs to be an excuse to have a discussion about how all hate is bad, or about how some other group has it bad too.

When trans people are hurt, shut up and let trans people talk about it.

@todymotmot ~ a hard eyed author that has dissected Fascism as it deserves. May as well learn what to expect.

The "crisis of masculinity" would more accurately be framed as "why do so many boys and men become dead-eyed rape murder monsters out of a perverse sense of male superiority" if we were being honest about it. The downsides affecting these men are all downstream from their refusal to recognize the humanity of women and other people.

@vruz We are drowning on this boat too. lol.

"Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life."

Hannah Arendt

"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."

Hannah Arendt

"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."

Hannah Arendt

"The Third World is not a reality but an ideology."

Hannah Arendt

"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence."

Hannah Arendt

"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. "

Hannah Arendt

They want to make a Martyr out of Luigi Mangione then...

#FreeLuigi #LiugiMangione #USPOL #PamBondi

I (still) imagine a future where the water runs clear, children are safe, the oceans are full of life, we stabilize and draw down greenhouse gases, peace is common, conflict is generative, and the many and fluid ways of living/being human all have the space to flourish, on and on into the future

"The world saw what Russian occupation looks like."

Three years after Bucha's liberation, Ukraine commemorates the victims of Russian occupation.

Ukrainian forces reclaimed Bucha, Kyiv Oblast, on 31 March 2022, revealing evidence of civilian casualties.

Bodies were found in the streets, in homes, and in mass graves, many showing signs of torture.
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Chuck Schumer Is Pushing Young People Away From the Democratic Party With His Toothless Leadership | Teen Vogue

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/chuck-schumer-young-people-democratic-party

“I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.”

— Malcolm X

“A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.”

— Malcolm X

“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.”

— Malcolm X

“Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.”

— Malcolm X

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”

— Malcolm X