Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 30

@DrBonesMD @Steve @Wileymiller Alt text: Washington Post comic by Ann Telnaes:

The Washington Post
Democracy Dies in Darkness

While frame is black, as if painted over, in large brush strokes.

@SecurityWriter Especially if it actually blocks trackers and isn’t a bullshit ad industry grift like Eyeo’s AdBlock Plus.

Like lemmings off a cliff…

(Contrary to popular belief, lemmings do not jump off cliffs en masse. They, can, however, be pushed off cliffs by corporate interests – as the ones in the Disney documentary that created the popular perception were.) https://mastodon.au/@largess/113366080999759929

Buh, Felon Husk is such an environmentalist… https://mastodon.online/@ampersine/113369697576534208

@glynmoody Man, if only there was a term for this.

It’s amazing to me how otherwise intelligent people keep getting surprised by kings¹ choosing monarchy² over democracy.

¹ billionaires
² fascism

@RickiTarr * because the precarity is how they maintain control

Billionaires and fascists.

Israeli ‘journalist’ just threatening all Arabs on German TV, calling us dogs.

Somehow feels appropriate that this is spoken in German.

#Genocide #Israel

@kerubo @denki @VulcanTourist @avlap2 @ayoub You know what, I’m going to save my “benefit of the doubt” for people who don’t call other people dogs and rats while defending a literal fucking genocide.

@Free_Julian_ @MadeyeTheCarnaptious Alt text: Cartoon: a huge Israeli missile labelled No Mercy about to fall on a woman grieving a lifeless baby in her arms with blood splattered on the ground under them. Another huge Israeli missle labelled No Witness about to hit a cameraman wearing a press jacket who is recording the tragic scene.

@fasterandworse Which would be great if them “running around” didn’t pose an extinction-level threat to our species due to untenable resource and habitat depletion.

Billionaires and trillion-dollar monopolies is not a failure of capitalism; it’s capitalism working exactly as designed. The biggest lie you’ve been told is that capitalism is essential to democracy. The truth is capitalism tolerates democracy when it’s weak and replaces it when it’s strong.

In case you skip reposts, please read this and share it:

#israel #palestine #gaza #lebanon #warCrimes #pariahState #ethnicCleansing #genocide #apartheid #USA #UnitedStates #America #UK #Germany https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/113352351898127321

@denki @VulcanTourist @kerubo @avlap2 @ayoub Hey Tobias, quick question: why do you think she’s warning German Arabs and not Germans in general? Aren’t German Arabs just, y’know, Germans? Do you think it’s maybe because she’s a racist piece of shit defending a country that’s actively engaged in carrying out a genocide?

@dropbear As always, let’s make societal/systemic/infrastructural issues ones of personal responsibility so we can pass the buck.

Having civil discourse with the oppressors of others doesn’t mean you’re diplomatic, it means you’re privileged.

@blogdiva @onepict @paulbiggar Are we taking about the American Corporate Libertarians Union?

@danilo Defending Mastodon gGmbH is definitely not the hill I wish to die on so I’ll just wish you a lovely weekend and leave it at that :)

@z3r0fox @avlap2 @ayoub She begins by addressing any Arabs who are watching.