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2) My response was prompted by Chris Knight's piece, but it's in general a critique towards the entire leftist meltdown that focuses on Chomsky eclipsing the only people that matter in this story: the direct victims (the abused women and children) and the indirect victims (all the rest of us who suffers under patriarchy and capitalism).

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That's been cathartic, thank you for reading, and apologies for typos or not super-well-expressed thoughts, I wrote it on a whim.
I should have put 3 disclaimers at the beginning, but I just started answering and thought of it later. So here they are:

1) My heart and thoughts are for and with the victims first and foremost. The direct ones, towards I express all my solidarity: I believe and support you, sisters.

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Welcome to Patriarchy, whose pet project "Capitalism" has been the most successful of all, permeating also these spaces that theoretically are against hierarchies and oppression. You know what's the first thing patriarchy teaches to young women: ignore and minimise the red flags, and never dare to fight back.

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basically to benefit their own interest, when not actively participating in violence again women and children (that same violence they ascribe to migrants, transpeople, indigenous people, black people - all magically absent from Epstein's best friends circle), they are happy to turn a blind eye on it.

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@Iva852 ~ I have so missed the melody of your words. Thank you. ❤️

"'He takes bribes blatantly, and now he’s being a racist blatantly. He’s pathetic as a president, and I just want to apologize to everybody in the country for supporting this rotten, rotten man.'”

#Trump #Obamas #racism
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It isn’t just that it is proprietary, though it is that. It’s that we spent a decade fighting to keep Wikipedia safe from the US government, often getting lectured for not doing *enough*, and the community just says “sure we’ll use the platform obviously compromised by Vladimir Putin”. Just embarrassing.

"Flooding the public with a mix of real facts, misinformation, and disinformation produces confusion by design. 'It creates chaos,' [Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou] said, and chaos helps people who want to discredit survivors. If everything is tangled together, bad-faith actors point to one questionable item and try to dismiss the entire body of truth."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/epstein-survivor-anouska-de-georgiou

After striking for 3 years and winning healthcare, the company shut down the paper... so a coalition has come together to figure out how to do a worker-owned local paper for PGH. I love this so much, have donated, and I super hope they can make it happen.

https://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-paper-coalition-post-gazette-closure/70188816
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Ellie Leonard shares her experience of combing through the Epstein files dumped by DOJ. She and others are finding some files labeled with warnings that they contain child sexual abuse images or information —CSAM.

Leonard thinks the Trump regime is deliberately booby trapping files in this way, at the same time it makes searching the files cumbersome and difficult.

#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
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https://www.blueamp.co/p/be-careful-these-files-are-no-accident

"It’s no accident. The only place that had those files before they were sent out to the masses is the DOJ. The only people who ever had access to documents that included CSAM were the United States government. And now they’re in the hands of unknowing citizens who are trying to do the right thing. They only came from one place. And they only came for one reason."

#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
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A year later, the US Congress passed a law requiring the US government to impose sanctions on foreign firms investing more than $20m annually in Iran’s energy sector.

In 2015, Iran signed a nuclear deal that banned uranium enrichment at Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility and allowed only peaceful development of nuclear technology for energy production in return for the complete lifting of sanctions.

#US
#Iran
#sanctions

#USA #Trump

I didn't really think about how noisy a seismic retrofit might be.
Summer is not impressed.
I decided we should get out of Dodge for a bit.
Off to the beach we went.
Here comes too many Summer photos.
#Summer #DogsOfMastodon

It's interesting how many of these people are in academia.

It's about half an hour before the Attwenger show at Alte Mälzerei.

(Austrian folk hip hop kind of thing)

#Regensburg

The reason white men stopped going to college in the US is so they wouldn't have their views proven wrong at the cost of a failing grade and wasted money.

@EricLawton @DifferentDrummer ~ I became involved in Darpa in 1966, a new shiny thing. Quite a trip it has been.

@EricLawton @DifferentDrummer ~ Someone asked me what influenced me to become a Geo Physicist and I replied because of the International Geophysical year of 1959. I have been met with many a glassy eyes on that one.

@deborahh @Em0nM4stodon @Mojeek ~ Interesting. I have had good results but will keep my eyes open. Odd, that I get better results from Ecosia than I do Bing.