Voltairine

Should Fist Nations ask and accept money for broken treaties, stolen lands, genocide, and thus give up demanding that US respects the treaties, respects the holiness land, water and air?

How would that help European colonialist culture, which is sick and corrupt to the core and in desperate need of healing?

Asking for reparations from state is not dignified, especially when slavery continues stronger than ever. As long as constitution de jure allows slavery, talk of reparations is nothing but cover up pretending that slavery has ended and legitimizes real slavery that continues to exist. Begging for reparations from the current slaver means selling…[Read more]

The Sabocat show!

I’m sorry @So Far From Heaven but I need to say this. In my view that is advocating and acting out violence. You may have different opinion and every right to express it.

for trying to continue discussion started in other thread in this thread, intention of which I may have misinterpreted.

Before we shed our mortal shells in this lifetime, I want us to try to have a better understanding of historical obstacles that must fall away, so that all this humanity and compassion has a chance to evolve us to a better…

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Questioning consent to state monopoly to violence is far from advocating violence. The motivation for the question is preventing violence.

Which one is more violent situation and outcome:
a) watching passively murder in progress, when the murderer is wearing a cop uniform?
b) trying to interfere and prevent the murder with least physical force…[Read more]

This sounds like partial strike. They refuse to continue rioting, in the fear of facing charges and because union is no longer promising to pay their legal fees.

And Pentagon etc convince others required convincingly enough for coup by 25th, get ready to say ‘President Pence’.

I’m so getting ready for Prepe the Flog memes… and prepenting that already. 😉

the lockdown and consequent severe economic depression drastically lowers CO2 emissions, much more efficiently than any “positive” government action.

Walls of cinnamon work as natural repellent with at least with some ant species. Not that I see any necessary problems with ants peacefully sharing a garden with you. If your ant colony is the kind that herds aphids, then some more complex negotiation and balancing may be required. Kindly asking ladybugs to come for a feast of aphids is the first…[Read more]

Taking this question in full seriousness, I would rather say that there’s only magic to be had. Deep questions of philosophy of mathematics, and everything that follows (physics etc.) from taking a position in that area and firmly believing in it is inseparable from magic.

The real problem, I would estimate, is not presuppositions and limitations…[Read more]

Yes. And racializing this issue is most unfortunate. Indigenous communities have been at forefront in ecological protection, as well as the first most victims, but this really is about all of us. We share the same planet and ecology regardless of color of skin.

“I seek to amend this legislation not because I take lynching lightly, but because I take it seriously, and this legislation does not,” Paul said, arguing that “this bill would cheapen the meaning of lynching by defining it so broadly as to include a minor bruise or abrasion. Our nation’s history of racial terrorism demands more seriousness from…[Read more]

Poor old white, really could not expect that a cop would physically assault him. Probably just asking directions or something, so trusting…

I can’t respond to Kennedy speech, I can’t speak with Kennedys – them dead. Hear/Here a song by Dead Kennedys, called Riot:

“Tomorrow you’re homeless…tonight it’s a BLAST” – Hard to crystallize this situation any better.

I have nothing else to respond to Kennedys, can’t talk with dead people.

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“There is simply no way in which the global economy gets to grow without fossil fuels”

“Rather, it views a combination of the raw power of the state and the innovativeness of private markets to work together to create as soft a landing as possible.”

Raw power of states (armies???) and markets, as we know them today, still remains fully committed…[Read more]

How much has the use of fossil fuels dropped because of and during the Covid closure, any numerical estimates yet?

We know from various testimonies that it’s been a hefty chunk. Air has cleared so much that people in India saw the Himalaya mountains first time in their life, etc. similar stories.