Notices by Cat West (catawu@mastodon.social)

@Gargron @Ameboid best one yet.

If we can’t take the power out of wealth, we have to take the wealth out of power.

Billion$ in grant money frozen to destroy climate initiative projects. Gee, I wonder who will pocket that money? We really need to investigate Citibank also. They are so tied into the massive money laundering of the criminal regime (for decades) that they should be thoroughly investigated https://www.castanet.net/news/World/538155/EPA-froze-green-bank-funds

Stop ‘clearing’ the unsightly results of poverty so that dignitaries can think you’re a better city than you are. This is what happens when a city values ‘appearances’ over problem solving. The cause of homelessness is billionaires, their empty buildings, and the low wages they pay, their wage theft from the poor, and the government praising them for being ‘successful’. It’s time to be Human again. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-atlanta-homeless-camp-death_n_679d36eee4b026a6f3bae281

@Gargron who’s that standing next to you?

@Gargron Yeah, they start out that way, steal your heart, gain your trust and then ambush you, steal your socks, and pretend they didn’t knock that item off of the shelf. I can see it’s already too late to warn you.

@ai6yr This has all the hallmarks of the worst crisis/catastrophe movie I have seen since December. We all laughed at the stupidity… but the script was apparently based on, with no exaggeration, the exact political responses from corporate minded elected officials. The movie even looks like it was filmed in that area. The point is: If it’s going to kill a lot of people, they won’t be around to complain about it, so, net gain for stupidity and lack of concern for survival. Meanwhile, cash in!

Have to pass on this little gem to parents out there (I’m traveling so picking up bits here and there)… : Be sure your hamster is DEAD. They hibernate. They get cold and stiff… but they are alive. That is all

@Gargron those are catnip eyes

@madeindex @Sable_Shade But that’s not what we are talking about, is it? We’re talking about artifacts, even the bones of ancestors being STOLEN and sold or displayed, WITHOUT PERMISSION. Please stop now. You’re on a different lane.

@madeindex @Sable_Shade Now you’re just being silly. I’m done with this one. Good evening.

@madeindex @Sable_Shade Aks the country when they want it back. It’s theirs. Not ours. Not yours. The notion that they have to meet a certain bar we set is a slippery slope. If they want it back, if they ask for the return, that should be immediate. There’s never a good time to finally return what was stolen. There’s only the moral obligation to do so.

@madeindex @Sable_Shade @curmudgeonaf @pzmyers @junklight Trade beads weren’t stolen. They were ‘traded’.

@madeindex @Sable_Shade @curmudgeonaf @pzmyers @junklight what is this regarding? There is no post attached to it.

@madeindex @pzmyers @junklight Taking without permission is theft. That is not the definition of renting/leasing.

@madeindex @Sable_Shade @curmudgeonaf @pzmyers @junklight “I steal your cultural objects and will not return them. I offer you objects of which I have many and no interest in, in exchange. All good?” No thanks. Destroying cultures by pulling their roots is how we get generational turmoil across the globe. Justifying it is elitist nullification of the value of other cultures. We are not superior.

@madeindex @Sable_Shade @curmudgeonaf @pzmyers @junklight Cultural objects stolen should not be returned only if the victims of that theft ‘meet certain standards’. You want to ‘protect history’? Stop stealing it. Study it where it existed.
The theft of objects, even of bones, human remains from villages, has always been justified and those justifications are always bullshit.

@madeindex @pzmyers @junklight Nothing justifies stealing art or cultural objects from the people who made them. Nothing. It’s the same as: “You’re too poor to raise your own children so we are kidnapping them. You’re welcome.”

People aren’t aware of this but Unions, all of them, operate as Non Profits. This bill is aimed at destroying unions in very short order. I’m surprised they aren’t raising an alarm on this bill. Do they think they are immune?

@Gargron I’ve been spotted