But not too democratic because then the economy suffers amirite? Like, in the democracies, the poors must always be kept on a leash otherwise they might start getting ideas, right? RIGHT?
We don't call Israeli prisons "Jewish-Power-run" just because they are currently run by Ben-Gvir. Maybe we should though.
Oh no? Because what, the far right settlers who form the base of Jewish Power and Religious Zionism are not terrorists? If you really believe that I know some olive groves in the West Bank that could really use volunteers for the harvest. Or are the settlers justified because they are the chosen whites?
Not to mention that the Jewish-Power-run Ministry holds about 3000 Palestinian hostages:
In August 2023, 1,264 Palestinians were held in administrative detention in Israel, without charge or trial, the highest number in three decades.[42][95][96] After the start of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, the number of Palestinians held in administrative detention rose from 1,319 to 2,070 between 1 October 2023 and 1 November 2023.[97][98][99] The number of prisoners in administrative detention continued to increase to 3,291 in January 2024.[100][101]
So we should also be calling it the Otzma Yehudit-run Ministry of National Security of Israel?
Heh, might as well have some fun with it: The Jewish-Power-run National Security Ministry of Israel. Sounds pretty fucking fascist.
And the Religious-Zionist-run Ministry of Finance of Israel.
They start sounding pretty cooky aren't they?
I thought your laws for example had standards about news vs entertainment, which is why the idiots at Fox keep getting away with misinformation.
There should be a law for owners of media being kept at arm's length.
Donate to the Hind Rajab Foundation. Many IDF criminals are dual citizens, and the HRF is going after them in their other countries.
That's why Mitbestimmungsgesetz can be goddamn fucking awesome.
Because we sit at the pinnacle of history, judging all the past generations who came before us. Holy Whig historiography Batman.
My girl, I wish you have a long life. I wish you will have many children and grandchildren. And I wish all of those children and grandchildren to be deeply ashamed of you, deeply resentful of the shame you brought to them, and that they work to correct the evil you brought to the world. May you live to be 110 and spend the last decades of your life in the contempt of the people you love the most and in anger seeing them destroy the entire edifice of hatred that you put up. May you seethe in resentment at the good works of your descendants.
Secret magic formula? Meh.
It's all right. When their archaic petro-economy collapses, we'll send them equalization payments.
Guayas- Ecuador – The Hind Rajab Foundation, in partnership with the March 30 Movement, has filed a ground-breaking legal complaint with the Ecuadorian authorities. The complaint targets...
Hind Rajab Foundation <3
A theocracy and an autocracy collaborating to contain a genocidal apartheid ethnostate.
I fucking hate the 2020s.
Also known as "courage".
This has gone on long enough, but I just have to mention one last thing: non-protestant christianity is not "archaic". The Orthodox church for example classifies Maria Skobtsova -that woman was a legend- who got killed in WW2 as a martyr.
Have a nice day.
Door's right open buddy. Nothing stopping you. The UK left, so can you.
What's genuinely terrifying is that this is not an accusation that they can fight in court, it's an administrative declaration of a death sentence. Israel has become Judge Dredd.
Good Friday Agreement.
Here is an example from Canada: «‘He paid the ultimate sacrifice’: Hamilton solider remembered in Ottawa». This was a soldier standing sentry, who was shot in the back before even realizing he was a target. He just happened to be there when the gunman decided to go at him with no warning. Now, there are many things broken with Canada, but this turn of phrase is not one of them.
The "martyrs" referenced by the Turkish minister are people working at a defence industry. Arguably, the minister is reasonable to consider them as people engaged in the performance of a national duty. Hence the language of "sacrifice".
Now, we can of course have a discussion about the meaning of sacrifice, the problems with nationalism and militarism, alienation in modern society, etc. But beyond that, there is nothing extraordinary here, other than using a vocabulary that sounds muslimish.
Are you equally disgusted when officials use the language of "ultimate sacrifice" for cops, firefighters, etc who are "killed in the line of duty"?
Or are you just triggered that the language used here reminds you of Iran, Hezbollah, etc?
Turkey says some dead, injured after attack at state aviation site
ANKARA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Turkey said on Wednesday that a deadly attack was carried out at the headquarters of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS) near Ankara, while media reported a loud explosion at the site and showed footage of an exchange of gunfire there. "A terrorist attack was carried out against the TUSAS facilities in Kahramankazan, Ankara. Unfortunately, we have martyrs and injured people," Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on social media X.
The oil company, the bank and the car parts company want you to spend even more time commuting by car.
They are trying hard to make you not notice you're spending a week of your life driving each year.
Quebec mulls scrapping family doctors for healthy patients
Taking away people's family doctors: How to make sure you lose the next election.
Jordanian FM: Arab world willing to guarantee Israel’s security if Palestinian state established
“The Israeli prime minister came here today and said that Israel is surrounded by those who want to destroy it,” Safadi said at a Friday press conference shortly after Netanyahu finished his speech at the UN General Assembly.
“We’re here — members of the Muslim-Arab committee, mandated by 57 Arab and Muslim countries — and I can tell you very unequivocally, all of us are willing to guarantee the security of Israel in the context of Israel ending the occupation and allowing for the emergence of a Palestinian state,” Safadi passionately argued.
Netanyahu “is creating that danger because he simply does not want the two-state solution. If he does not want the two-state solution, can you ask Israeli officials what is their end-game — other than just wars and wars and wars?”
Also, video of the statement.
German police chase a 10-year-old boy with Palestinian flag during pro-Palestine protest in Berlin
TFW you support Israel so much that you start treating Palestinian children just like they do.
New abuse allegations emerge against once-venerated French priest
A French priest is to be expunged from his worldwide charity following revelations of his sexual abuse of women.
Turns out Abbé Pierre was a creep... This is like learning Mohter Theresa was a sexual predator.
Canadian mega landlord using AI ‘pricing scheme’ as it massively hikes rents
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28449417
> Canadian mega landlord using AI ‘pricing scheme’ as it massively hikes rents
When a Russian prisoner swap hit headlines recently, a jailed musician’s fatal hunger strike went unnoticed.
Ojibway-dubbed Star Wars film brings 'a new hope' for endangered language, say cast members
Scarcity-in-the-small
Discussions about scarcity and anarchism that I've seen online seem to always talk about "scarcity in the large", i.e. how does an anarchist society allocate production, food, labour, materials etc.
I've a question about anarchism and scarcity in the small. Say, a really nice location, eg. a breezy location in a very hot climate, or the room with the nice windows in the community centre, or Bag End at the top of the hill. Say, an anarchist community has decided to use the location for purpose X, but a minority wants to use it for purpose Y. Maybe an even smaller minority wants to do Z, and a bunch of other people have their own little ideas about how to use it. Some are transient and could be accommodated (you get it on Tuesdays 5-7) but others might not be ("our sculpture project needs to dry out in that specific spot for the next 4 months, we know it blocks the view but it's the only place the breeze hits just right!") or could be contradictory (the siesta people vs the loud backgammon players can't both use the spot at high noon) or antagonistic (the teenagers who want to party late vs the new parents who need quiet for the babies). And dis-association doesn't really help here because that's the nice spot for many kilometers around or there is literally no way to create another beach for our small island community because that's literally the only place on the island where sand exists, so we can't just off and leave. (* Many of these examples are imagining a hot summer in an anarchist Greece, sorry it's almost August.)
It looks to me like a simple non-life-and-death scenario like this could potentially completely poison and destroy a community and in the face of that it would be the little death of anti-authoritarian organizing. Like yea, when life and death matters are at hand, anarchists will band together and conquer the bread. But petty small-scale little shit where it's managing annoyances and small grievances, I don't think non-authoritarian decision making can solve. And I suspect it's crap like this that has killed off many intentional communities and experiments or made them veer away from non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian organizing.
Have anarchist thinkers seriously thought of this?
Quebec's housing crisis goes beyond supply and demand, says new report
Submitting for this truly astonishing quote:
>" Landlords in Quebec, however, feel they need to catch up to other provinces as Quebec is still one of the most affordable places to live in the country, said Jean-Olivier Reed, a spokesperson for the Quebec Landlord Association (APQ)."