Just as the border wall and other border security measures are largely Security Theater, the coming "mass deportations" will be mostly a variant of that, call it Anti-Immigrant Theater. There's no way (ask any expert) logistically or economically it could ever work to really deport 20 million people, but the fascists will make a big show of looking like they're trying it, with very scary video of raids and detentions and loading people onto buses, etc etc. A lot of people will suffer and it will be a human rights atrocity but it won't really be what they are promising. Just like most election promises.
“There was polling done in January that showed that half of people who voted for Biden believe that Israel has committed a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. And there are only a handful of Democrats in Congress who share that opinion. Public opinion doesn’t automatically translate into political representation — it has to be forged. And unfortunately, the movement infrastructure isn’t there yet. “
What’s the deal with people who post images of just text on here and then they just have to add alt text for the images. Why not just type the text in the first place? #mastodon
The U.S. has conducted over 100 weapons transfers to Israel since Oct. 7, including over $106 million worth of tank ammunition and $147 million worth of parts for 155 mm shells, the Washington Post reported earlier this month.
@johncarlosbaez@kevinrns the little dip in your graph even for US alone is due to covid, most likely. Overall there’s no slowdown in our march toward global doom.
Yesterday my wife was on the way to taking our daughter to school via our electric cargo bike, as usual, and a classmate's father taking the classmate to school in a car pulled up beside them and offered to take our kid the rest of the way. As if the only reason we'd be biking is because of economic necessity. My wife replied "No thanks, we LIKE biking"... Now I'm wondering if maybe I should make a flag or sign for the bike that says "we're not poor, we just like bikes"... or "we just hate cars"? Or "we just believe in climate change and live by our beliefs"? #climatechange#bikes#bicycles#carsRuinCities
@avantgeared@precariousmind@Radical_EgoCom but it’s not an entire thing like communism or capitalism or anarchism. It could theoretically be compatible with anything. You could have fascist permaculture or neoliberal permaculture or whatever. It’s like comparing the color of your refrigerator to the architecture of a whole house.
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