Good night 🌃

https://youtu.be/WckRfWe40J0

Brilliant title and article by Matt Taibbi

"...professors who say they’re being “picked apart and destroyed” because their school is losing $400 million of taxpayer funds while sitting on $20 billion in assets (or in the case of Harvard, losing $686 million when it’s sitting on a $53 billion). Do they know what that sounds like?"

https://www.racket.news/p/the-angst-of-the-well-endowed

Another masterfully crafted post by the one and only Caitlin Johnstone.

(Originally posted on X)

< In Movies We Understand That The Genocidal Child Murderers Who Blow Up Hospitals Are The Villains >

Remember in The Dark Knight when we all applauded the Joker for heroically blowing up a hospital?

Or remember when we watched Star Wars and cheered for the protagonist Darth Vader as he destroyed a planet to punish the rebel scum for daring to resist him?

How about when we watched Schindler’s List anxiously hoping the Nazis would be able to thwart the diabolical scheming of the villain Oskar Schindler to prevent them from committing genocide?

Or when we watched Avatar and cheered for the interstellar megacorporation and its army of mercenaries to displace the indigenous people of Pandora to steal their land?

Or when we watched The Pelican Brief hoping the heroes would find some way to kill Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington to stop them from reporting the truth about their crimes?

Or when we watched The Pianist and wept at the evil Jews attacking innocent Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?

Or when we watched The Lord of the Rings and booed the villainous men, elves and dwarves fighting to survive a siege by Saruman’s heroic army of orcs?

Or when we watched V for Vendetta on the edge of our seats worried that the government would fail to stomp out the rebellion, suppress the truth from coming out, and impose more authoritarian measures on the people?

Or when we watched Revenge of the Sith and cheered for the hero Anakin Skywalker mass murdering children in order to wipe the Jedi out of existence?

Yeah, I don’t remember that either.

Nobody seems to have trouble figuring out who the real villains are when it’s happening in the movies. The narrative managers and spinmeisters make it a lot harder to sort out the villains from the victims in real life.

Normally it’s misguided to view any conflict as simply evil villains murdering innocent victims, but not with Israel and Gaza. It’s an apartheid state that’s backed by a globe-spanning empire, raining bombs onto a giant concentration camp packed full of children because they’re the wrong ethnicity.

It’s pretty black and white, actually.

Excellent post by the incomparable Caitlin Johnstone.

(Originally posted on X)

One of the dumbest narratives we're asked to swallow about Palestinians is that they are guilty of anti-Jewish prejudice which makes them comparable to Nazis. Palestinians didn't choose the religion of their oppressors; any hatred they have toward Israelis is because Israelis are the ones oppressing and murdering them, not because of their religion. Expecting Palestinians not to hate the oppressors who hate them because those oppressors happen to be Jewish is shitbrained thinking.

Every so often you'll see the IDF plant a copy of Mein Kampf in a building in Gaza and then wave it around as though it would somehow justify what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, and it's just so stupid. The reason we've come to abhor hatred toward Jews in the west is because we know the west has an extensive history of committing atrocities against Jewish people because of their religion. Palestinians harbor no such prejudice and are guilty of no such crimes. Any violence they've inflicted upon Israelis has been in an effort to keep their land and resist tyrannical oppression, not because they have some weird European Hitlerite hatred toward Jews.

Palestinians would hate their oppressors whether the oppression was being inflicted by Hindus, Buddhists or Catholics. That's normal. That's how people's minds and emotions work; we hate people who hate us, and we hate people who abuse us. Any failure to understand this is a failure to put yourself in someone else's shoes and imagine what it would be like to live in their situation. It's a sign that you lack normal human empathy.

Interesting article by Kit Klarenberg. That whole project was cooking for a long, long time. Of course with involvement of the CIA and MI6.

https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/stepan-banderas-sinister-mi6-alliance

https://www.cryptopolitan.com/imf-revises-standards-to-include-crypto/

Snowpiercer

Resistance ✊️

Interesting 🧐

And Americans. Saw it with my own eyes and left the place.

Nobody should choose death. But there is free will. I you are doing it on your own, so be it, but no other people should be involved.

Thanks. Have a wonderful weekend too 😊.

Actually it is located entirely in Switzerland. It connects the German speaking part with the Italian speaking part of Switzerland.

Good morning 🌄. I wish you the same 🫂.

Deep dive into the newest release of GIMP 3.0. A milestone.

https://youtu.be/BQrW3hdrzH0

Interesting. Although I don't need real time notifications I'll still give it a try.

Yes. Amber is also on Fdroid. I'm using it. That one made sense to me. 😄

Thanks a lot. Will take a dive into this.

I found this app on Fdroid. Citrine, Nostr relay for Android

Why would I want to run a relay on my phone? 🤔

#asknostr

Brilliant idea 🙄

So actually when you think about it, everyone living in Gaza is serving a death sentence.

Let that sink in.

And remind me again, what is their crime?

Sad but probably true.

Good morning 🌄

Do you think this is a global thing or does this especially describe the Western/European societies?

Post by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on X:

WAKE UP, People.

Today, Palestine is a REVEALER of the system we live in. Not long ago, European Jews were genocided in 'civilized' Europe, under everyone's eyes: they were "unseen", and not many seemed to care. Today, millions of people "see" and are trying to stop Israel's genocide - protesting, seeking accountability - invoking the very legal framework that was crafted after the Holocaust to ensure "never again". But, from the US to Europe, they are either ignored or harshly punished.

Far too many states are enabling the genocide of the Palestinians, while turning also repressive toward their own citizens. This is both revolting and scary. We must stop it now.

As a photographer you know that shadows matter 🧐

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And who enforces this?

https://video.nostr.build/6c93f6b1166d1462a8a41822d1ef2f5bd7d18d51e6f13d965fc56ae1213cd2c5.mp4