Notices by Kawa Tora (kawatora@kolektiva.social)

I hear so many people say "any vote not for Biden is a vote for Trump."
That is absolutely ridiculous.
What if I didn't vote at all?
If I choose to vote, I will vote for a party and candidate that represents my values. I will vote Green.
Dems and MAGA both support more oil drilling. Dems and MAGA both support Israel and the genocide of Palestinians.
Dems and MAGA both want more cars and more pollution. Fuck them both.
#GreenParty #JillStein #Green2024 #ClimateCrisis #Environment #FreePalestine #GenocideJoe #TrumpForPrison #EndFossilFuels #FuckCars

@SilverRainbow
A polymorphed dragon would have the physical characteristics of a cat including it's weight. Transmutation spells change the form of the creature.

Your dragon is using an illusion spell.

@rvawonk
This is Trump's only shot to not die in prison. He has to take over the country. His cult of idiots will support him. Biden needs to federalize the national guard in Texas and order any governors who have mobilized guard units to be arrested for insurrection, ASAP.

@nicholas_saunders @mondoweiss @palestine
Ford and General Motors owned factories in Germany which built machines for the war and continued to operate even after the invasion of France and Poland. The US government took no action to make US corporations stop feeding the German war machine. I consider that to be support.

@mondoweiss @palestine

The USA also supported Nazi Germany, right up until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

When South Africa practiced apartheid and slavery, many nations wanted to sanction them. The USA vetoed it at the UN.

The USA committed genocide against Indigenous Americans and still holds them in concentration camps called reservations.

America supporting genocide and apartheid isn't a bug, it's a feature.

@w7voa

People who have worked in public service jobs like teachers were already eligible for forgiveness after 5 years, before Biden got elected. He just made it 10.
If someone has been paying on a loan for 20 years and it's still not paid off, the loan was an act of criminal loan sharking. Of course it's canceled.

This is Biden doing nothing and trying to make it look like he is keeping his promise when he isn't.

One neat trick with debt in America. If you don't pay, all that happens is you get a bad credit score. Most Americans will never be able to finance a house anyway. A bad credit score means nothing.

I bet Biden could find some money for Americans to get debt relief if Americans pretended to be Israeli Defense Forces and promised to use the money to kill some little brown Muslim kids.

#GenocideJoe #Gaslighting

Talking to some Americans, I realized they need a history and geography lesson about Palestine. This may apply to many people in the EU and UK as well.

1. Apartheid
All of the areas of this map of so-called Israel marked with solid colors are for (mostly white European) Jewish people. Jewish people get Blue Identification cards. The areas marked in grey stripes are ghettos. The indigenous Palestinians have been forced into, Golan, The Occupied West Bank, and Gaza. Palestinians have Green identification cards.
Palestinians may not travel freely and are subject to daily torment and harassment and even murder at the hands of Israeli Defense Forces aka IDF.
Palestinians cannot walk on certain streets or drive on others. Walls with gates and Israeli guard towers lock Palestinians into zones or sectors. Israeli Defense Forces can shoot unarmed children without penalty. Palestinians have no rights.

2. History
Israel did not exist before 1947. It is a made-up country.
The UK controlled Palestine at the end of World War 2. There was rightfully a lot of sympathy for the Jewish people of Europe after the holocaust. The UK allowed large numbers of (mostly white) European Jews to migrate to Palestine and the United Nations passed a resolution saying there should be a Jewish state and and Arab state. In 1948, the European Jews decided they only liked half of that resolution and they took over the whole country. A white religious minority took over the country of Palestine and started calling it Israel.
Over the years Israel attacked neighboring Arab countries and took land from them. They helped more and more (white) Jews to come from Europe and America (but not Ethiopia) and now the population is almost an even split between Palestinians and Jews but most of the land belongs to the Jews

3. Gaza
The Western media purposefully misleads you about Gaza by calling what is happening a war. It is not a war. Gaza is a ghetto controlled by Israel and now after keeping the Palestinians in Gaza locked into a ghetto for decades, Israel wants that beachfront oil-rich land too. They are bombing second class citizens of Israel because they don't want to share the land with brown people of a different religious background.

4. Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
The goal of Israel in Gaza is to kill or bring about the forced removal of Palestinians to make way for Jewish settlements and oil wells.

Summary:
The country is called Palestine

The religious terrorists running the country call themselves Israel

Gaza is not a country and there is no war. Gaza is a ghetto controlled by Israel. This is extermination and colonization.

The people of Gaza are Palestinians under Israeli rule. They are being slaughtered by the military of their own country.

The Western media gets away with this disinformation because most Americans couldn't find Israel on a map to save their own lives.

They get away with it because Israel chose a biblical name for their terrorist apartheid police state.

Stop watching Fox News.

#FreePalestine #Gaza #History #Geography #Genocide #Apartheid #Colonialism #Crusades #EndFossilFuels #WarForOil

@mekkaokereke
The roads of America and the laws around cars were built to destroy black neighborhoods and destroy the 4th and 5th Amendments.

Lots of people don't read the whole 5th Amendment,

" nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

Millions of black people had their homes and businesses destroyed for highways in urban areas and they were not compensated fairly if at all.

Robert Moses, the urban planner, not the civil rights activist, was an example of how urban planning was used to destroy black communities and restrict their movement. Tulsa style firebombing wasn't going to work everywhere, but bulldozers and asphalt had the same effect with less publicity.

The Carroll v. United States case in the Supreme Court
stripped Americans of their 4th Amendment rights, if they are in a car. Before this decision, cops needed a warrant to search people and their property. Afterwards a cop could use his own discretion to decide he had "probable cause". This is why 90% of the time when a cop is fucking with you, there is a car involved.

#5thAmendment #4thAmendment #JimCrow #BlackMastodon #History

Western Japan has been shaking nonstop for two and a half hours now. I don't think this has ever happened before anywhere.
#Japan #Earthquake #Newyear

@gooba42
The founding documents of the Confederacy made it crystal clear what they wanted and that they believed it was the will of God that Africans be slaves to Whites

@zleap
The Fugitive Slave Act was federal law as well. It affected all the states. Before that law was passed by a Southern controlled federal government, an escaped slave could be harbored and helped by anyone in a free state and there was nothing the slave state could do about it. They used to send bounty hunters north to track down escaped slaves, but if free black men or white men who sided with freedom stood up to the bounty hunters, they had to leave empty handed. Black people lived in segregated communities in the North. They formed vigilance committees which were like militias that required all able bodied men to come with guns if the alarm was sounded. Many slave catchers found themselves surrounded by armed black men when they tried to recapture former slaves from Northern black towns. The Fugitive Slave Act made helping those former slaves a federal felony.

Normal People: What was the civil war fought over?

White Supremacists: It was about states' rights.

Normal People: States' rights to do what exactly?

White Supremacists: To make and enforce their own laws.

Normal People: Laws regarding what?

White Supremacists: Property and theft.

Normal People: What kind of property? Theft of what?

White Supremacists: Well, people were stealing slaves and taking them to free states.

Normal People: Who was stealing slaves?

White Supremacists: The slaves were stealing themselves by running to the North and those damn Yankees didn't want to send them back.

Normal People: So what did the South do about it?

White Supremacists: They got a federal law passed in 1850, that forced the Northern states to ignore their own laws against slavery and recognize the South's right to have escaped slaves sent back. It was called the Fugitive Slave Act.

Normal People: So you pushed for a new federal law to force states to ignore their own state laws and constitutions in the name of "states' rights", is that correct?

White Supremacists: Yep,

Normal People: Then what happened?

White Supremacists: Those damn Yankees got control of the house and the senate and the presidency and tried to ban slavery nationwide.

Normal People: So they wanted to use a federal law to force Southern states to change their laws, kind of like with the Fugitive Slave Act you pushed for a decade earlier, right?

White Supremacists: No, this was different because this time it affected the South.

Normal People: So what happened as a result?

White Supremacists: We decided to commit treason against the USA and start our own country to keep slaves.

Normal People: So you admit the Civil War was about slavery.

White Supremacists: No it was about states' rights. States have rights to own slaves but no rights to refuse to recognize slavery.

#NikkiHaley #CivilWar #Slavery #Christofascist #GOP #ItWasAboutSlavery

Edit: Wow, a lot of people boosted and favorited this. Thank you.

I see a similar situation with women's reproductive rights right now. Some states already have laws that criminalize leaving the state to get medical care and subject women and anyone who aids them to lengthy prison sentences.
A Fugitive Reproductive Slave Act, if you will.
The Christofascists will lose both houses, the presidency and the Supreme Court because of it
#Dobbs #roevwade