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https://twitter.com/Lydia_Hammi/status/1764765999067275381

KBDH carried out sabotage

KBDH's Aynûr Ada militias carried out a sabotage action against a factory in Istanbul. In the action, the factory's three-story warehouse was completely burned and reduced to dust.

Aynûr Ada militias of the United Women's Revolutionary Movement (KBDH) said, "On February 28, our militias went into action in Beykoza (Istanbul). We carried out sabotage against a factory warehouse in Ornekko. As a result of the action, the factory's three-story warehouse was completely destroyed. Our forces successfully left the area after the operation."

🇩🇪 #Germany: The Tesla Gigafactory in Brandenburg state was shut down today after the militant leftist “Volcano Group” sabotaged the facility’s electric supply. The group claimed they were targeting Tesla’s “green capitalism” policies, and called Elon Musk a “techno-fascist”. Tesla facilities have been targeted in Brandenburg state in the past, with another power supply site targeted in an arson attack in May of 2021.

📸: Reuters

"I see the citizen enforcement that’s unleashed [during Prohibition] as the first incarnation of the grassroots 20th-century right. In a very powerful way.

It was Roy Haynes, the commissioner of Prohibition, who essentially declared that there were all sorts of threats to the nation, the threat of modernism, anti-American values, and he argued that anti-Americanism could be ratcheted out if citizens were vigilant in enforcing the Prohibition law.

So Haynes really framed the argument about why citizens not only need to observe the law themselves but become vigilant in backing the law as a way of tamping down on all sorts of social change. His vision was very much a vision of white protestant Christian nationalism."

– Lisa McGirr

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/12/prohibition-history-how-the-ban-on-booze-produced-the-modern-american-right.html

‘We are the masters of the house’: Israeli channels air snuff videos featuring systematic torture of Palestinians

Israeli TV channels aired a number of reports showing the torture and humiliation of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. The videos are consumed by the Israeli public as entertainment, revealing the sadism of Israeli society.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/we-are-the-masters-of-the-house-israeli-channels-air-snuff-videos-featuring-systematic-torture-of-palestinians/

ryan walters, a school superintendent in oklahoma and has repeatedly spread anti-lgbtq rhetoric such as the groomer panic. there is a petition is going around to get him out of that position. they’re about halfway to their goal, please share this around

https://chng.it/PV9QLJ6y68

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Some of the most violent and cruel people weaponize niceness/politeness to appear more innocent. They want a group of people dead, but it's only "political" when minorities speak up for themselves.

It's not just a lack of empathy. People who have empathy can be racist monsters. People who have low empathy can also be not bigoted. I've seen white dudes who show empathy towards other white people, but also go off on a murderous rant about some racial minority. Then white people insist he's a "good guy" cause he's nice to them.

What causes this disconnect? One aspect is dehumanization. Bigoted propaganda of all kinds is often dehumanizing. Comparing minority groups to pests, vermin, dogs, rats, monkeys, etc. This kind of propaganda works, and is a related concept to how armies use such propaganda to dehumanize the enemy so soldiers are more okay with killing. People capable of empathy can hurt those they dehumanize. Hate crimes are not just the work of sociopaths, but more frequently the work of neurotypicals.

Totally not suspicious: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703