I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?

because you agree with her and need her for so much more
because Trump’s position on Palestine, and so many other vital issues, is so much worse – and it’s a binary decision
because by the time she would be in position to do anything the situation will have changed, perhaps leaving very little of Gaza, or perhaps having developed into an even wider war
because https://www.yahoo.com/news/extreme-danger-harris-earns-stunning-143857259.html?guccounter=1
because you are not a fool

Merlyn Enchanted

In secret unlit chambers
guided by wizardry
all eternity to see
Omniscient night, stirs wonders,
bubbling sublime,
catches fluid rhythms in catechisms,
spells out vivid ceremony,
illumined rhyme before this avid mind
Walls of obsidian crystal, unable to penetrate
What we do for love’s allure; allowing
liens upon a will of magic
Enchanted inward, intense, piquant elixir
Decanted pure fumes,
deep draughts of ecstasy,
conjured music
commingle,
lost in beauty and laughter.

@br00t4c

but the difference is one side attacks with scary truth, while the other scarily attacks with lies

@br00t4c

voting is not a privilege, or merely a right
voting is our basic duty as citizens in a democracy (or democratic republic)
attempting to prevent citizens from
exercising our basic duty ought to
be considered Treason

@br00t4c

because we have to kill all the women we can, in the name of pro-life

@br00t4c

is that the same Travis Kelce as on Grotesquerie?

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-11-2024

#uspolitics #ushistory #useconomy

..."Washington Post economics columnist Heather Long noted that “[b]y just about every measure, the U.S. economy is in good shape.” Inflation is back down, growth remains strong at 3%, unemployment is low at 4.1% with the U.S. having created almost 7 million more jobs than it had before the pandemic. The stock market is hitting all-time highs. Long adds that “many Americans are getting sizable pay raises, and middle-class wealth "...

@br00t4c

the legal and socially acceptable negation of rights we hold dear is not sufficient to condone mass murder and terrorization of a civilian populace

Terrorists cause death and destruction
to bring attention to their point.
What do we call terrorism for its own
sake, as we see so often these days
by our ubiquitous mass shooters?

How #California #police officers have hid past #misconduct
#video #transcript
For decades, California police departments that want to sever ties with officers for misconduct have agreed to let them resign and to keep the bad behavior confidential in order to avoid lawsuits. But as a result, hundreds of officers have landed new jobs in law enforcement with no records of their past misconduct. John Yang speaks with investigative reporter Katey Rusch for more.
https://www.pbs.org/video/sanitized-records-1728160650/

Look at the many outrageously stupid
ways we handicap ourselves by insisting
on dividing ourselves into fake categories
to enforce inequalities.

@br00t4c

what is an effective tax rate and how is it that billionaires with their dedicated accountants pay more?

Capitalism became what it is through the interaction of theory and practice. There is no need to have our thoughts about rational wealth creation and distribution tethered to the “capitalist” brand. Rather, we can come to understand that any map to be useful must follow the territory, not the other way around.

It is a war because life is war of all against all. It is war because war is the accepted exception to thou shalt not kill.

people are so bored they have nothing better to do than police other people’s sex lives? we need better tv.

Why not evolve into a model in which people are educated and encouraged to develop skills which they offer on an open market, businesses which they form cooperatively, nonprofit enterprises for social welfare which are seen as a good and proper function of citizenship, you know, freedom?

We come together in society to make a better life possible for each by making it possible for all. Take a long think along the imaginary journey of a life totally by and for oneself. Not much there. Even what was once abundant has been used, is being used, by a great many other individuals, who, by this frame are each by and of themselves, scurrying about to find wherewithal to survive. Is that the free and independent picture held by those who insist on each for oneself?

Today’s challenge: current conditions in context

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It’s not about
black or white
might is right
fuel to fight

It’s not about
East or West
who’s the best
forget the rest

It’s about
me and you,
if we so choose,
what we can do

We have the option to find ourselves, learn more than we can alone, in relationship. Not only the reflection, but the changing, the interaction of bonding, the realizing of self that only becomes in interaction or communication.
Yet so much of our time together is about masking, hiding, mistrust and denial of understanding. Is this because our significant role models lied to us, misunderstood their relationship to us?

Violence feels good. It is a cathartic release of rage. When done as a group activity, it helps to solidify the group. Especially in religious cultures that have severe restrictions on sex, tribal violence can be a useful binding agent, and a useful warning to those who might dissent.
What do you think?