US Authoritarianism
“Well I’m from the US and *I* learned about the trail of tears in school” Learn to look beyond your own experiences. Maybe that post is for the majority of people educated in the US who aren’t from California new York or Maryland.
www.theverge.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20941822
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-lebanon-hezbollah-news-10-14-2024-70c8cf5a93eec9ea643a5fda5670da93
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"We would expect the government of Israel to investigate it and, if appropriate, we expect them to hold people fully accountable." - 6 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for shooting civilians fleeing north Gaza. - 32 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for murdering Ayşenur Eygi. - 69 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for raping a Palestinian prisoner on video tape. - 69 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for running torture camps. - 113 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for tying a human shield to the hood of an IDF jeep. - 117 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for committing war crimes as determined by a UN inquiry. - 120 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for IDF snipers murdering 7 people in Jenin. - 140 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for a military court with a 99% conviction rate for Palestinians. - 157 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for murdering Shireen Abu Akleh. - 161 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for burying people alive in a mass grave. - 176 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for a mass grave with 180 men, women, and children buried in it. - 182 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for murdering Hind Rajab. - 195 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for murdering World Central Kitchen aid workers. - 238 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for sexually assaulting and raping Palestinian women. - 271 days since Matt Miller called on Israel to investigate itself for destroying Israa University in Gaza. "Israel is conducting hundreds upon hundreds of investigations." "We would expect the government of Israel to investigate it and, if appropriate, we expect them to hold people fully accountable."
At a certain point it is just willful ignorance to not learn what it is the most evil chunks of our country wants to do and why. ——— Just rolling out of bed, anyway. Yes on second look this is old. I don’t think that takes away from my doomsaying ‘that’s the direction they’re going’, first abortion then the gays then racial hierarchy. These are the traditional values of America that we have stripped away. Anywhoo here’s an article about it and Il make a follow up post https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/23/how-indiana-reacted-mike-brauns-comments-interracial-marriage/7138541001/
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/24208432 > > Call a right “enshrined” all you want, but if a judge decides it’s better to protect law enforcement officers from their own actions than to allow the public to view killings performed in the name of “public safety,” the public gets nothing. Neither do the people serving the public and providing them with information, like the Ocala Gazette, which was recently hit with an order forbidding them from publishing a jailhouse video it had legally obtained. > > Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25193608/no-1st-here-either.pdf
Broadely , I would attribute it to things getting worse. And the increased awareness and reaction to things getting worse. Sliding it neatly in with the rest of the modern pantheon of stories where, they don’t contest things are bad. It’s just that the villains want to solve the problems in a way that’s worse.
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Promised Land - Credit Andy Singer 2024
theintercept.com
Last Friday, Israel attacked a meeting of Hezbollah leaders in the southern Beirut neighborhood of al-Qaem. It was an assassination operation following the detonation, days before, of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies that had been packed with explosives. In al-Qaem, the Israeli military boasted of a “precise strike” in the “heart of Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut.” The language conjured images of a brazen operation against a well-protected military compound, a Pentagon of its kind, a wholly valiant endeavor. In reality, this was a massive strike that completely leveled a residential building, one that killed Hezbollah leaders just as much as it did countless families inside. Many of those families remain under the rubble, with others still missing. Almost every time news emerges from south Beirut, the Western news media parrots the language of the Israeli military, as if “Hezbollah stronghold” is part of the neighborhood’s name. Defenders of this kind of language may point to the usage of “strongholds” to describe bases of support for the Democratic Party or U.K.’s Labour, but these are usages in a Western context, a use nobody is confused by. In Lebanon, the connotations are obvious. And they directly serve Israeli interests.
Second [video](https://files.catbox.moe/i5qr3o.mp4)
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25527694
[EJI](http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/sep/21)
Yeah no guys this is a modern food nutrition thing. Paired with -I would say- a rather mild jab at how American education has a bit of a nonsensical ‘Stalin bad’ attitude towards educating its population about the history and impact of the USSR. Gj 👍
They want to have a terrorist group they can fight, rather than a different type of government. Like George Bush and the original Iraqi Army before we betrayed them and turned it into ISIS.
