Notices by paul (amiserabilist@beige.party)

STOP! i can only get so erect.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1gv028v/put_up_or_piss_off/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy sunday afternoon."

@Kierkegaanks @TheBreadmonkey @spiegelmama

@Kierkegaanks @madeindex

i find it funny that blowing kids up is cool but using gas, germs or nukes is a bridge to far.

@madeindex @Kierkegaanks

i love sharing these things.

i am a broken record with these links.

we could live on a nice planet if we killed the rich and not each other.

@madeindex @Kierkegaanks

bigger profit margin killing less efficiently.

War Is A Racket

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

And what is this bill?

This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.

https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

@Kierkegaanks @madeindex

elon has a list of everyone who ever insulted him online and has a swarm of ai killer drones and space missiles.

on Monday, 20 January 2025 he will unleash hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM

@JonChevreau @GottaLaff

violence is what they wanted.

trump just made it a valid political platform.

he will go old testament on his enemies and his cult on theirs.

think the good old days of lynchings.

It is a really jarring moment to be a historian. To know what might be coming is alarming. To realize that no one around you sees it or acknowledges it is a weird place to be in. Its like time traveling without time traveling. 1/8
I study the 19th century and the 2020s look a lot like 1820s. Frequent epidemics? Check. Inflation? Check. Xenophobia and deportation schemes? Check. Womens rights losses? Check. Rampant backlash against womens economic freedoms and jobs outside the home? Check. 2/8
Growth of carceral facilities? Check. Legislation to forcibly institutionalize disabled people? Check. Targeted attacks on Indigenous peoples? Check. Extreme religious fervor? Check. Efforts to shape public school curriculum with religious rhetoric? Check. Tariffs? Check. 3/8
The antebellum era was a time of progress, but it was also a time fuelled by hate. Slavery fuelled the economy, and antislavery efforts were not very radical on the whole. Hatred against immigrants was widespread and poverty was extensive. 4/8
Everything we are seeing right now happened in the early 1800s. And these choices were fuelled by white supremacy, misogyny, and xenophobia. I really wish more people understood that we've been here and done this. Life only got better for those who actively oppressed others. 5/8
Its time to learn from that history if you havent already. We cannot go back to that. For anyone despairing, its also time to learn from the radical activists who shaped resistance. 19th century activists didnt lose hope, we cannot lose hope either. 6/8
Abolitionists, womens rights organizers, workers rights unions, disability rights orgs, and pro-immigration orgs did the work under far worse circumstances with very little global solidarity. We have better tools, connections, and resources. 7/8
If youre in despair, pick up a history book. Before every win for human rights came a fight for it. We are now a part of that fight. We are not alone. We have all of these histories to guide us. 8/8
People have been asking for book recs - I will make a google sheet next week with some recs! This weekend I am resting, spending time in nature, and making crafts. The work to protect human rights never stops - carve out rest when/where you can.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1855260283138199848.html?utm_campaign=topunroll

One theory of democracy is that its main purpose is to allow peaceful revolutions. The idea is that majorities voting in elections approximate the result of a coup. In 1962, John F. Kennedy famously said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

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

@Kierkegaanks

By reprogramming the voting machines, Elon R. Musk became the only cadet to overcome the Kobayashi Maru simulation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1gnyxzi/investigate_the_validity_of_this_election/#lightbox

It is a really jarring moment to be a historian. To know what might be coming is alarming. To realize that no one around you sees it or acknowledges it is a weird place to be in. Its like time traveling without time traveling. 1/8
I study the 19th century and the 2020s look a lot like 1820s. Frequent epidemics? Check. Inflation? Check. Xenophobia and deportation schemes? Check. Womens rights losses? Check. Rampant backlash against womens economic freedoms and jobs outside the home? Check. 2/8
Growth of carceral facilities? Check. Legislation to forcibly institutionalize disabled people? Check. Targeted attacks on Indigenous peoples? Check. Extreme religious fervor? Check. Efforts to shape public school curriculum with religious rhetoric? Check. Tariffs? Check. 3/8
The antebellum era was a time of progress, but it was also a time fuelled by hate. Slavery fuelled the economy, and antislavery efforts were not very radical on the whole. Hatred against immigrants was widespread and poverty was extensive. 4/8
Everything we are seeing right now happened in the early 1800s. And these choices were fuelled by white supremacy, misogyny, and xenophobia. I really wish more people understood that we've been here and done this. Life only got better for those who actively oppressed others. 5/8
Its time to learn from that history if you havent already. We cannot go back to that. For anyone despairing, its also time to learn from the radical activists who shaped resistance. 19th century activists didnt lose hope, we cannot lose hope either. 6/8
Abolitionists, womens rights organizers, workers rights unions, disability rights orgs, and pro-immigration orgs did the work under far worse circumstances with very little global solidarity. We have better tools, connections, and resources. 7/8
If youre in despair, pick up a history book. Before every win for human rights came a fight for it. We are now a part of that fight. We are not alone. We have all of these histories to guide us. 8/8
People have been asking for book recs - I will make a google sheet next week with some recs! This weekend I am resting, spending time in nature, and making crafts. The work to protect human rights never stops - carve out rest when/where you can.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1855260283138199848.html?utm_campaign=topunroll

One theory of democracy is that its main purpose is to allow peaceful revolutions. The idea is that majorities voting in elections approximate the result of a coup. In 1962, John F. Kennedy famously said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

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

@TheBreadmonkey

@jeffowski

any sufficiently extreme christianity is indistinguishable from extreme islam.

"Mad World" performed by Curt Smith of Tears for Fears with his daughter, Diva.

#notWeird

Trump claims Kamala Harris should be forced to 'concede the election' over CBS interview

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsOfTheStupid/comments/1g0hdm5/trump_claims_kamala_harris_should_be_forced_to/

“You remember when I used to say, ‘Darling, I want to watch our president tonight on television,’” he said. “And the husband looks, ‘I’m sorry, dear, the windmills aren’t wind. There’s no wind tonight, you can’t watch darling, we’re not gonna be watching tonight.’”

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1g0nmch/the_wind_is_bullst_trumps_weird_new_ramble_has_to/

I feel like if there's a concede election rule it should start with felony convictions awaiting sentencing maybe?

trump voters:

I can’t decide if they’re more stupid or insane.

@theropologist

@ElleGray

i prefer my grudge 21 day dry aged.

it enhances it's natural tenderness and deepens its flavour.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice.

“You can't truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you're capable of great violence, if you're not capable of violence you're not peaceful, you're harmless”

"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war."

Jonathan Cook
@Jonathan K Cook

In killing Nasrallah, Israel chose to open the gates of hell. We'll all pay the price:

Hezbollah has confirmed that its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was among the hundreds of Lebanese killed in Israel's massive bombardment of a suburb of Beirut last night.

Israel's decision to assassinate Nasrallah, using some of the enormous bunker-busting bombs the United States has been arming it with, is beyond foolhardy. It is outright deranged.

Israel has removed-and knows it has removed - a moderating influence on Hezbollah.

Israel's action will achieve nothing apart from teaching his successor, and leaders of other groups and countries labelled as terrorist by western governments, several lessons:

That Israel, and the West standing squarely behind it, do not play by any known rules of engagement, and that their opponents must do likewise. The current restraint from Hezbollah that has been so baffling western pundits will become a thing of the past.

*That Israel is not interested in compromise, only escalation, and that this is a fight to death-not just against Israel but against the West that sponsors Israel,

*That Israel's ideological extremism-its Jewish supremacism, and its endless craving for Lebensraum-must be met with even greater Shia- inspired extremism.

Decades of western terrorism in the Middle East unleashed a Sunni nihilism embodied first in al-Qaeda and then in ISIS.
Now, the West, via Israel, is fomenting for the Shia resistance its own ISIS moment. The moderates in what the West dubs "terrorist organisations" have once again lost the argument. Why? Because the US imperial project known as "the West" has once again demonstrated it will not compromise. It demands full-spectrum, global dominance - nothing less.

Israel may make very short tactical gains in killing Nasrallah. But we will all soon feel the whirlwind.

When that whirlwind comes, the job of our politicians and media will be to ensure we make no connection between this moment of savagery and insanity from us and the blowback.

The role of western establishments will be to cry victim, to insist "They hate us for our freedoms", for our civilisational superiority, because they are simply barbarians.

But what comes next, as with what came before, will be entirely predictable. Violence doesn't beget calm, it begets more violence. Israel knows that. Our leaders know that. But they opened the gates of hell anyway.

(Disclaimer: Nothing in this post, in line with Section 12 of the UK
Terrorism Act, in any way indicates, or should be seen to be encouraging, support for any group designated as a terrorist organisation by the British government.)

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

my opinion:

i do not think it is coincidence that at this time in the US election cycle Netanyahu has provoked chaos that works in the favour of putin and trump.