Looks badass. I love how she seems to have decorated the wheel spokes with foliage.

They are trying a genocide, looking like the villain while doing it kind of comes with the territory.

I have some kind of a Samsung but it doesn’t have that button.

At least, I don’t think it does.

Nice. I need to get a better phone.

I think you’re right - women are also socialized to seek out social/interpersonal connections more than men; this is a big factor in why the suicide rate for elderly men tends to be significantly higher than for elderly women.

This doesn’t explain the 60 year olds but with the elderly (70+) women in my life, the vulnerability to misinformation is also an artifact of their comparatively poor levels of education. They were schooled with the expectation that they would be SAHMs.

@Lupo how do you get such long screenshots?

They’re basically fancy ways of saying “non white”.

There’s a use case for making that distinction but it’s a lot narrower than expecting people to self-identify in those terms.

Which, within that use case (e.g talking about wide and systemic oppression by white-led cultures) I guess that could be like the argument some people from certain countries have made that “Third World” is useful term because it does retain the history of its useage, whereas when it’s exchanged for terms like LDCs>Global South>LICs>etc that sort of obscures the historical material conditions and relational aspects which inform the present. Or something.

Thanks, those were both really good articles!

Seems “BAME” is being rejected mostly for qualities it shares with the term “PoC”.

* She. It was the previous one, not the one that has actually laid the charges.

Pretty sure the UK term was BAME, but US culture is pretty pervasive.

If you read the articles on this, the timeline makes sense. No one has to be “psychic”.

• In 2015 Palestine applied to join the ICC.

• Mossad’s harassment of the ICC’s chief prosecutor seems to have begun straight after that.

• Israel was already breaching international law with the settlements and flouting of the Geneva Conventions, and had been accused of war crimes in e.g. 2014.

If an entity is repeatedly accused of committing crimes it’s not really some crazy conspiracy if prosecutors start taking an interest in their activities. And the more they escalate their criminal activity the more likely it is that an investigation and eventual warrant will follow.

Let us know what you go with!

I feel the same way. He’s not my friend and he’s not a cute kid or something. He’s a genocidal war criminal.

Noooo not the alpacas!! They deserve better.

For real tho I’m not looking forward to pandemic 2.0.

That would be a really positive outcome, their commandments are pretty good.

It is pretty bad. The part where the Mossad guy “ambushed” the judge in a hotel room is blatant intimidation.

Definitely. The US isn’t likely to like either side given one of them is tight with Iran and the other one has dealings with Russian mercenaries.

@victorz - The “fast”/ big obvious ones are Darfur and Gaza, but there’s also probably Oromia, slow genocide in West Papua, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, and I think Nagorny-Karabakh and Tigray could start up again at some point. There is obviously a genocidal component to the Tatmadaw’s activities in Myanmar but right now they seem to be getting their asses kicked by the alliance which includes ethnic minority armies.

Then there are the more obscure genocides that are mostly only mentioned outside western and english-language news media, for example the ongoing slow genocide of the Baloch people in the Balochistan region.

Not all armed conflicts are genocides.

Is it naive of me to think American news must have at least reported on the international intervention into the 2004-2005 genocide?

And the separation of Sudan into two countries in 2011? Those were both pretty big; I thought that would be why the person above was calling this an old conflict.