Notices by Masto.poetry (mastopoet@h-net.social)

Looking at the current set of miscalculations occurring in Israel and the USA, I am reminded:

Stupidity often looks like bravery.

Violence is often mistsaken for patriotism.

Or as a friend of mine father used to say ”you gotta be tough to be stupid!”

Why isn’t ICE arresting the homeowners that cruise home depot parking lots looking for cheap casual labor without documentation. It’s the homeowners that create the demand.

Thank g-d for small favors, the Israelis did not murder the 12, though they have been happy to murder 400,000+ Palestinians in the past year or so.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/4/madleen-gaza-flotilla-live-greta-thunberg-activists-to-arrive-on-june-7

Saw another post about how we are so isolated in a time when we most need community.

My question:
Who is doing that? Social media allows us to connect with thousands of like minded people around the globe and often dozens of people in our immediate area. The only people who are isolated are the ones that chose to be so. I literally have 10,000 friends, and most of them are real friends.

So far, the biggest problem I see with my call to arms when compared to the French and Italian resistance was they worked with the support of the allied forces.
Today, there is no outside force coming to dislodge our domestic Nazis.
We are on our own. Armed resistance might strengthen the fascists

@DrALJONES
Great! Except I wish white liberals weren’t such racist creeps when it comes to immigration

Someday, at our "Nuremberg" trails, this man needs to swing from a lamp post. Some of the orange clown patrol are honestly just that stup!d, but this one knows better, was raised better, and yet, turned his back on the teaching of his own mother to become his own little "Castro"

every democrat should have stood with him, making the sergeant at arms have to escort 214 members out, in fact that should have refused to go, making them have to physically remove them

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anthonywatkinsuplandpoet_whereas-the-nra-and-its-elected-agents-have-activity-7301726146906267648-88PR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAG_eNwBl-MP1IikRfg4sRUrFpRXOuCxsHk

@AnthonyFStevens @C_Miller
i dont see how the EU will be interested in the freedom of movement, if it doesnt include immigrants...speaking from across the atlantic, i may be missing something, but that is the way it appears at 3000 miles

to the folks staying on X, thats your business, but i wonder at the folks who joined the party in germany "for business purposes"?

@rad @AnarchoNinaWrites

so rato, you planning on dying for the cause? ok, good luck with that. not sure why you are so upset with what i said. hope your day gets better.

@rad @AnarchoNinaWrites
of course you nkow nothing about me and my situation, so keep judging.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
if we do this thing, resistors will be killed and others will be beaten and others will be locked up, maybe for the rest of their lives. if we all resist, we can overcome them, but not without great personal risk, people need to understand this.
pretending otherwise will lead to failure. is it worth dying for? is it worth suffering for? if not, dont play at it. playtime is over.

This, folks, this:
Ernest Crim III, MA

Public Teacher. Cultural Empowerment & Restoration Consultant. Black History. Antiracism. Hate Crime Victor. Speaker. Author. Content Creator.

Lincoln didn’t free “the slaves” and Gordon Granger, was accompanied by as many as 10,000 Black Union troops when he delivered the message of freedom in Texas on Juneteenth. So, let’s get it right this Juneteenth, y’all.

https://sleepingbearpressdontwakethebear.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/juneteenth-lets-get-it-right-this-time/

A thought about inflation:
Wages have gone up just over 12% in the last four years. In most products and services labor is equal to no more than 1/3 of the entire cost of the item.
So any increase in the cost of something in the past four years it’s higher than 4% is probably not wage related, in spite of what business publications are trying to spend most of the “inflation“ is not driven by wages, but instead by greed from the corporations and capitalist that own them.

@ATLeagle

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/celebrate/memday.pdf

starting in 1861, southern women decorated CONFEDERATRE graves, in 1868 it was co-opted to honor union soldiers.

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

On this Memorial Day, its important to remember American Business gave us the Nazi war machine before we had to expend a half million American lives to stop it.
In 1941, 250 American firms owned more than $450 million ($10 billion in today's money) of German assets. Major American companies with investments in Germany included General Motors, IT&T, Eastman Kodak, Standard Oil, Singer, International Harvester, Gillette, Coca-Cola, Kraft, Westinghouse, and United Fruit.
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GM and Ford agreed to convert their German plants to military production when U.S. government documents show they were still resisting calls for military production in US plants at home...

Oh, its also true that Memorial Day was originally a day for white southern women to decorate the graves of dead CONFEDERATE soldiers, until the 1960s, Black folks werent even allowed to participate in the by then, Union grave decorations...

We are celebrating the remembrance of white terrorists...

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the far west, and the white liberal who’s live most of their life in the deep south.
If you’re gonna be a white liberal in the deep south, you know racism is the number one issue and everything else in America flows from that.
If you’re a liberal somewhere else, you may be about everything except civil rights, and you give lip service to civil rights, but when the rubber hits the road you’re nowhere to be found.

Of course, there are exceptions, but in 65 years I haven’t found very many.