Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

"Open brutality has again become celebrated in international conflicts, and a long time may pass before that changes."

There are No Rules:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-war-hamas-terrorism-ukraine-russia/675590/

There Are No Rules

States and quasi-states are using extreme, uninhibited violence against civilian populations.

By Anne Applebaum

Extract

The russian invasion of #Ukraine and Hamas’s attack on #Israeli civilians are both blatant rejections of that rules-based world order, and they herald something new. Both aggressors have deployed a sophisticated, militarized, modern form of terrorism, and they do not feel apologetic or embarrassed about this at all

Read more here🔗 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-war-hamas-terrorism-ukraine-russia/675590/

These people saying that, given enough time, they could write as well as Shakespeare is asinine. The idea that I could write plays or sonnets of the quality of Shakespeare’s is as ludicrous a proposition as Shakespeare thinking he could shitpost at my level.

Who could have predicted that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' "parental choice" voucher program would turn out to be a massive grift of taxpayer dollars to private Christian schools? https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/report-arkansas-voucher-program-gives

@johannes

When people say "Israel gets what it deserves" or when a Jew is saying that they're worried about a missing family member and the reply is "Free Palestine!", or when someone says "See, all religion is bad!", etc.

With >50 reports, my brain is fried.

I have coined a new term:

Spoon Eater.

For all those people who waste your time and energy, leaving nothing for the stuff that is important.

#spoonies #spoonEconomics

The current generation should not be burdened with guilt of the atrocities of the previous, it should however hold shame for the past. You can not build a mythic past if it is a shameful one. You can not idealize the past if you have felt it’s truth.

Reminder: if you find my (or anyone else’s) posts to be insufferably tedious, arrogant, stupid, or dull, you can protect yourself from the misery of having to read them! Mastodon has a set of secret features, available only to those who know about them, for controlling whose posts you see in your timeline. They’re called “unfollow”, “mute”, and “block”, and can be found in the menu next to each post.

But if anyone asks, you didn’t hear about them from me.

Did you know that home schoolers have their own NRA-like lobby?

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/10/john-oliver-takes-look-powerful-nra-home?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=80232

This is a very good time to speak carefully and attend to your language around state versus people.

The STATE of Israel absolutely engages in genocidal behavior.

But a whole lot of antisemites are trying to use that reality to sow hate by pretending that the state and the people there are one and the same.

They are not.