theacharnian

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

If you listen carefully, there is something very soft about them too though. Their songs will sometimes go off into incredibly positive messages, which hit that much harder because they come from such anger. Example, in their "Hunger Games":

You are more than your take home pay
Making barely enough to make it through the day
I know, I know, I know
You are more than your ability to earn
You are more than your future successors
You are here, you are now
Surely, your existence is testament
To the successful lineage from which you were arrived
Here, now
You are stronger than you think you are
You are love
You are not alone
You are going through hell, but keep going
Be proud, be open
Be loud, be hopeful
Be healthy, be happy
Be kind to yourself
Be decisive
Here, now
Do not live every day as if it is your last
Live every day as if it is your first
Full of wonder and excitement
As you wonder along, excited
Marveling at the possibilities of all that stands before you
Here, now
[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 7 points 21 hours ago

Weak and timid liberals are paving the road to rabid right wing extremists. It happened in the US and Italy, it's happening in the UK and France, to an extent in Germany, and now here.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 13 points 21 hours ago

Sorry mate, this "money" thing can only be owned by humans. See, that dog over there, that chair, that building, or that chatbot over yonder, they can't own anything, because they're not human. If you are not part of humanity, you can't own human IOU credits. So, have fun at the island, we'll check in on you in October.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 22 hours ago

I wonder why he's not just joining the Libertarians.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 30 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

With the whole Glastonbury kerfuffle I've come to know more about this band called Bob Vylan. They have this lovely song, and it goes ike this:

I heard you want your country back
Shut the fuck up
I heard you want your country back
Uh-uh, you can't have that
The only place I know
Stolen right under my nose
By ignorant scum
Tryna lay claim to a land that ain't theirs anyway
Wait - what did you say?
I heard you want your country back
Ha! Shut the fuck up
I heard you want your country back
Uh-uh, you can't have that
I heard you want your country back
Ha! Shut the fuck up
I heard you want your country back
Well shit, me too
[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So did Apartheid South Africa for whites.

Death to apartheid everywhere. Never again this shit for anyone anywhere.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

Would it kill you to not jokingly deny the humanity of every person outside the United States, Liberia, and the Cayman Islands? Just say Fahrenheit. Jeez, yank.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 day ago (10 children)

To people put off by the slogan, a reminder that the IDF, being an occupying army, under international law is absolutely a legitimate target for violent armed Palestinian resistance.

Now, I wouldn't actually wish for death to anyone, so the best thing for all involved is for the Israeli apartheid to be dismantled and the IDF to be subsumed by the armed forces of the post-apartheid democratic government of the plurinational state of Palestine and Israel. So let's all wish for a gentle passing away to the IDF instead.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

In between the Matrix in 1999 and 2011 you have 9-11, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the 2008 financial crash. And that's just the big US-centric stuff.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

It's true yours is a far more civilized way of doing it. My version, if you really think about it puts a target on the back of the Dragons to be slain early so that their Hoard is redistributed to the Free Peoples. Your version ensures that no Dragon ever hoards up too much and we save ourselves all the Dragon slaying dramatics.

 
 

Paul Buitink talks to former Greek Minister of Finance (2015) and author of several books like 'Technofeudalism, What Killed Capitalism' about the risks of modern technofeudalism in which cloud capitalists extract rents from the public and distort public discourse. He says we need to tax big tech to the hilt since privatizing wouldn't work. Also he proposes how cities should create their own tech alternatives.

The gentlemen also talk about the euro, why Bulgaria shouldn't join and Greece should exit. The Netherlands should perhaps try to reform it or join a union with other hard currency countries. Yanis would like to federalize the EU but realizes it's maybe time to dismantle it. Also he laments Europe's military Keynesianism and thinks it's not wise to spend all that money on defense. The EU has taken the wrong turn and each path since 2014 when it comes to the war in Ukraine Yanis believes.

 

GENEVA – UN experts today called for safe passage for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ship carrying essential medical aid, food, and baby supplies to Gaza which departed from Italy on 1 June 2025.

“Aid is desperately needed for the people of Gaza to forestall annihilation, and this initiative is a symbolic and powerful effort to deliver it. Israel should remember that the world is watching closely and refrain from any act of hostility against the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and its passengers,” the experts said.

“The people of Gaza have the right to receive aid through their own territorial waters even under occupation, and the Coalition ship has the right to free passage in international waters to reach the people of Gaza,” they said. “Israel must not interfere with its freedom of navigation, long recognised under international law.”

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45430254

Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.

 

Good news! The city is trialing superblocks!

 

Embrace the JDA instead: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/

 

Seen on the non-Lemmy site.

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