Out of 654 Thai foreign workers questioned, all of them said they had been exposed to sexual assault.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events, which is worth checking everyday.
Sources : https://en.royanews.tv/news/55053 https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-protesters-storm-wreck-office-saudi-owned-mbc-channel
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
I'm still not entirely convinced by their debunking of the rapes(, not that i care, murder is worse than rape, being tortured dozens of minutes beforehand is still only marginally worse in comparison to the eternity of death, and we(sterners) have done so much more barbaric in our "prisons", sometimes for years), but i can't trust our journalists who don't have the necessary time to investigate before publishing, nor Israel who lies at least as much as our western governments(, if not even more).
> According to Paul Linebarger, atrocity propaganda leads to real atrocities, as it incites the enemy into committing more atrocities, and, by heating up passions, it increases the chances of one's own side committing atrocities, in revenge for the ones reported in propaganda.[5] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda
Some quotes :
> “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” Hannah Arendt
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> “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” Aldous Huxley
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> “For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.” Noam Chomsky
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> “If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.” Rudyard Kipling
On the occasion of the anniversary of the decisive Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, KHAMENEI.IR publishes the short documentary "Al Aqsa Flood Operation in Imam Khamenei's Words".
Because it's always interesting to learn about other point of views, they've got much more on khamenei.ir and elsewhere, as well as other websites such as Al-Jazeera, as you know.
That they call this a success means that they can't envision any other path than the armed struggle in order to succeed. As long as their demands aren't for the total disparition of Israel(, ideally it should exist outside of the Middle-East, in the u.s.a. or Europe), but to be aligned with their neighbours and palestinians' desires, then Israel should agree, and doesn't, instead it's asking to steal more territories and tries to overthrow every neighbor not aligned with the west.
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1843406404612432213 : !
B.t.w., if you missed it : ! !
My personal opinion is something similar to William Blum in his book "Rogue State"(, although with more rules, nobody would like to bet on a natural resolution) :
> What, then, can the United States do to end terrorism directed against it ? The answer lies in removing the anti-American motivations of the terrorists. To achieve this, American foreign policy will have to undergo a profound metamorphosis, as the contents of this book testify.
> If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days. Permanently. I would first apologize to all the widows and orphans, the tortured and impoverished, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism. Then I would announce, in all sincerity, to every corner of the world, that America's global interventions have come to an end, and inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the USA but henceforth—oddly enough—a foreign country. I would then reduce the military budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims. There would be more than enough money. One year's military budget of $330 billion is equal to more than $18,000 an hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was born.
> That's what I'd do on my first three days in the White House. On the fourth day, I'd be assassinated.
> Washington, DC, January 2002
https://x.com/zunguzungu/status/1831095086811373825
Israelis are defending themselves from people weaker than them, so brave.
It's a unilateral massacre of civilians, nothing like a war, and the result of indoctrinating israelis since their birth to f*cking hate palestinians.
At least Russia's claim about n.a.t.o.'s encroaching the Black Sea and the surroundings of Moscow is more valid, and could have easily been avoided(, if we listened to their demands of a "sphere of influence"). A few millions of poor palestinians can't manage to defend themselves or their territory, they're not a threat justifying a war unilateral massacre
And by creating much more palestinian terrorists/resistants than they've murdered, their security has been lowered, if "Bibi" wasn't already on this path, now any future peace plan is even more compromised, Yigal Amir has won.
There may not be anyone right now to stop them from taking always more, but perhaps that, one day, israelis will be treated like they treated palestinians for a change. And we(sterners) will also be treated like we treated the rest of the world(, e.g., maintained in poverty/inequality, used in proxy wars, feeling our powerlessness, etc.). Or we could also evolve to avoid international domination/hegemony.
(Still think that one day every nation will fragment into city-states and borders will be meaningless, for Israel as well. Or not. And that a good plan could be to change them into something closer to islam and the policies/decisions of the islamic states, perhaps)
Read the rest here : https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/harris-says-far-too-many-civilians
Other sources : https://x.com/SaeedDiCaprio/status/1822312372788240644 https://x.com/stephensemler/status/1822071625941938337
Monster : https://x.com/Kahlissee/status/1822646721278595080
New capital prepares to host Independence Day ceremony
https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1817015733907267870
How many more will have to die ?
Two examples among many to point out that the orders come from above(, or, as they may admit on the occasion, public-private partnerships), hate Youtube all you want but don't be blind to their pressure(, you could also remark that the government itself is taking orders/"advices" from other people, i.d.k.) :
- https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/18/eu-opens-infringement-proceedings-against-musks-x.html
- An anti "hate speech" law has been voted by the european parliament a few days ago : https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/youre-big-brother-eu-parliament-votes-to-make-hate-speech-an-eu-crime
I'm sure that you could find many more people than these, as well as examples of bot armies and wikipedia editing, but here's some other recent examples :
- This irish bill(, wtf, honestly)
- A political party has been accused of terrorism apologia in France, as well as the daughter of a member of our parliament
- And more
Of course, yeah, even if i regret that things aren't better, i'm also glad that things aren't worse. Unfortunately they're progressing towards the latter.
God(&gods)( in the material world, but also) in the world of Idea(l)s(, and probably other worlds inaccessible to humans as well) :
https://t.me/theredstream/6232
Too many of their natural ressources are still in foreign hands, we'll just continue to make them suffer for their rebellion, under the guise of human rights..
The title isn't exact :
Moreover, their relations were only re-instaured after the western-supported coup by J.Añez :
(Here's Colombia's president 6 hours ago b.t.w., among other examples)
(no need to point out that it would be safer for them not to take position for//against any side. The article also spoke of Argentina, here's an interesting 2mn-long point of view)
They claim to fight disinformation yet speak about a "technical glitch", classic, just like cops lying on their depositions, what a way to set an example.
Après l'attaque au couteau qui a tué un enseignant à Arras, le président de la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes demande à pouvoir expérimenter des logiciels de reconnaissance facile aux abords des lycées, notamment pour "identifier les personnes suivies pour radicalisation terroriste".
Tant que le gouvernement te considère encore dans "l'axe républicain" tu n'as rien à craindre, tkt En fait c'est plutôt une bonne chose que le monde libre se lâche, notre liberté était notre seul argument depuis un siècle, l'inconvénient est que notre propagagande n'a pas besoin d'arguments, ni même de dire la vérité(, je repensais l'autre jour au fait que tout le monde a oublié lorsque les médias reprenaient en cœur que V.Poutine était en phase terminale d'une maladie inconnue, tout le monde a oublié, ce qu'il se passe actuellement à Gaza est plein de mensonges aussi mais on s'en fout, alors bon, ça continuera et c'est comme ça, certaines raisons que j'ignore(, mais dont je ne peux mettre en doute l'existence,) empêchent une paix durable, c'est ainsi, si des gens pensent connaître ces raisons et veulent prendre le temps de les partager ci-dessous je leur serait reconnaissant).
Ah oui flûte, j'ai oublié que j'étais resté sur un compte de lemmygrad(, défédéré de lemmy.world), j'essaierais de m'en souvenir la prochaine fois, même si là peu importe, c'était juste pour faire une prédiction facile, beaucoup de personnes voient très bien ça venir dans l'avenir proche. Je me demande si c'est un des nombreux objectifs de ces séries policières, y'aura les drones aussi, survolant les villes à la recherche d'infractions, et puis la surveillance en ligne, on parle même depuis quelques jours d'un couvre-feu en cas de manifestation non pacifique(, genre on a oublié le but originel d'une manifestation, qui n'est que la forme moderne domestiquée/civilisée des émeutes sauvages, rien ne changerait si 0% des manifestant.e.s étaient des casseurs, mais pas mal de choses changeraient s'ils étaient 100% à en être, difficile de leur en vouloir s'ils pensent que c'est la seule option restante et qu'une manifestation ne sert à rien, faudrait toujours des représentants du gouvernement présents pour prendre leurs remarques, répondre à leur questions, et débattre des causes à l'origine de leur colère, ça semble pas nécessaire que les choses soient ainsi, beaucoup de problèmes semblent facilement améliorables si seulement on les considérait comme des problèmes à résoudre), on interdit des rassemblements pro-palestiniens au nom de nos valeurs, c'est l'ordre républicain ma bonne dame, toute enfreinte à la loi est immorale(, beaucoup de changements dans la loi viennent de changement dans les mœurs qui viennent de cette possibilité laissée aux infractions), et cette censure au niveau de l'union européenne applaudie par des gens curieusement naïfs au point de croire qu'il s'agit de "modérer" les insultes de haine, au lieu d'une propagande ennemie qu'ils ignorent de toute façon, d'ailleurs, j'ai vu une vidéo aujourd'hui contenant à la fin cet extrait célèbre, où il raconte qu'il s'occupait d'une guerre en Angola et qu'un tiers de son équipe était chargé de diffuser des désinformations, qu'ils envoyaient au Zambia Times et c'était repris ensuite par Reuters, l'AFP, et d'autres(, les journalistes n'ont pas le temps de faire leurs enquêtes ils traitent les dépêches de l'AFP&Co, Mediapart est une rare exception, et puis ils ne se versent pas eux-mêmes leurs salaires, ils savent que certaines opinions de leur part seraient mal vues si exprimées, et ont de toute façon déjà été pré-sélectionné.e.s pour leur conformité avec la ligne éditoriale), citant aussi ce genre de pratique pour Cuba et d'autres pays, maintenant la Chine a notre attention(, et s'en serait bien passée). Et puis ce truc de diaboliser nos opposants sans chercher à les comprendre ou à s'entendre, cette dangereusement commode facilité de croire que si on pense comme les autres alors on a raison(, même si on ne connaît pas le point de vue des hétérodoxes qui, e.lles.ux, connaissent notre point de vue), et dsl mais j'ai pas digéré ce qu'il s'est passé à France Inter(, Europe 1, le JDD, etc.,), je ne les écoutait pas assez pour savoir s'il était effectivement l'un des derniers grands médias orientés centre-gauche, mais pour les avoir écouté je vois pas en quoi ce serait une accusation que l'on pourrait leur porter à présent(, j'avais lu dans le passé que les journalistes étaient de "gauche" pour la même raison que les vendeurs de surplus militaire étaient de droite, j'ai pas l'impression qu'ils sont de gauche, ils se considèrent centristes mais sont pour un status quo capitaliste), là aussi y'a plein de solutions qui seraient efficaces pour contrer la concentration des médias, mais qu'on va ignorer sciemment, puis on va pas non plus avoir une chaîne d'info en continu qui serait pro-gilets jaunes ou, pire, marxiste, voire islamiste, il y a des limites à la liberté d'expression, un média doit être objectif, comme ça pas de diversité, et blablabla, faudra que ça change, dsl pour ce pavé inutile, un mod peut le supprimer si ça lui chante.
Unless the creatures, overall, would prefer to have never existed in the first place, then the Creator isn't evil and should be praised(, that's only one reason, for example an other one would be our search for Absolute/Greatness/Good/..)
And they've long gone past the retaliation of "an eye for an eye"
The worst is that we're still not offering a solution for this decades-old conflict, there must be a way to please both sides ! That's what our medias should talk about instead of always act as a powerless spectator or judge, where is the list of solutions, why don't we all know about the different possibilities ? Our actions only aim for the prolongation of the best outcome for us and the worst outcome for them, that's not fair and they have every right to hate us for this injustice. Once again, how to resolve permanently&virtuously this conflict should be the main topic 'on our televisions'/'in our newspapers', so that our leaders make the right/just/correct decision.
And an other word that they would refuse to attribute to fighters from our side, but would hate you if you refuse to use it for the fighters of the other side :
And weird.
People are saying that referendums represent the will of the people, as if it was unmoving. How many people would have changed their minds after the u.s.s.r. dissolution of 1991 for example ?
Also, i've looked at the opinion surveys for presidential elections of the last decades and it always moved a lot in the last weeks, a proof that they're consciously manipulative/lying i.m.h.o.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Australian_Indigenous_Voice_referendum#Advertising_and_media :
Mass media in Australia are highly concentrated, with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia dominating the landscape, owning over two-thirds of leading newspapers along with most online news websites ; three News Corp outlets occupy the top three positions in the nation, based on popularity and viewership.
The majority of News Corp's content was commentary, not reporting, so when the various articles and videos were examined together, around 70% of the coverage favoured "No" arguments.
I take it as a natural reaction to overload of stress/emotion/pain. Being able to cry is physiologically beneficial (you get rid of cortisol) and psychologically it can help you process the things you're going through more quickly. Trying to appear though by not crying seems counterproductive to me, but I understand in some cultures it is not socially acceptable to cry, especially for men.
To me, if you're crying you're admitting that something is stronger than you, that you're powerless, and i still find it useless, i guess that i just have a bad image of it(, it can be beautiful though, like tears of joy, or of an emotion which isn't defeat). But i clearly(, and subconsciously,) don't treat men, women, or children, in the same point of view in regard to crying, i'd never think of saying "man up" to a woman hurt to the point of tears, yet i find it admirable when a man swallow his pain, and straighten his profile in order to act after whatever happened, that's the common thinking, i'm not the weird one here(, even if my descriptions are very imperfect), but since modernity changed so many things they may end up suppressing the differences between men and women, or not, w/e.
If I suppressed my emotions, I would still be influenced by them, but I would have no conscious control over them, which would again result in limiting my rationality
On the contrary, suppressing your emotions helps to act rationally without being overwhelmed by them, and i.m.o. there's no real difference between emotions and reason, since our feelings can be explained rationally, we're often saying that "reason ignore the heart's own reasons", but that's not true, we are indeed influenced by subconscious feelings that we would be unable to analyse, but that's a minor side and i don't make a distinction between the cold reasoning and the hot emotions, i'm deciding with both a'd i think almost everyone does the same.
I find the terms inner strength and beauty to be also very vague.
100%, i realized it when i was writing the examples, and the example you gave me is another very good one, you can indeed find effeminate/weak persons who are "tough motherf*ckers", i didn't give enough thought behind what "internally strong" may mean, and it also depends on the situation, it's not because you're weak or ugly internally at one time of the time that you can't act beautifully or strongly at another time.
I agree with you that it's reductive to stop on two adjectives.
Well, it doesn't come from me and i have a story and some good memories from it. But in a few words, i asked someone special(, ~9 years ago,) if he had a motto, and he told me that the masonic triangle is "Strength · Beauty · Wisdom", i still haven't checked if it's true(, but discovered a few years later that it's in the Kabbalah). It stayed in my mind and i naturally decided to apply it to men and women and divide it in internally//externally. Just to say that somewhere.
While reductive, i think it has a lot of truth in it.
I don't see any reason to propagate just one way for men and one way for women.
Men have testosterone, have sexual fantasy when they touch women, and read comics when they imagine themselves fighting.
Women have estrogens, in their fantasy they imagine themselves being touched, and read romantic novels when they're preparing themselves for the unavoidable desire they'll attract.
Yeah, i'll need to edit this message, if you're reading this line give me 30-40mn i want to do something first.
Not that i care but i'm sure that your comment made sense in your mind, would you mind sharing it with me ?
Do you interpret relieving your emotions by crying as being weak ?
Yeah, obviously, would you say that it's a sign of strength ?
Or perhaps feeling emotions as being weak ?
"Emotion" is a vague term. Some emotions like bravery(, often a borderline foolishness,) are assimilated with strength. Some emotions like the feeling of defeat, self-pity, the lack of resilience, the fear of authority/punishment that makes you betray others/ideals, that's weak. Always interesting to see how Chelsea Manning is stronger than a lot of men in this regard. Men love to fight, so kinda appreciate to be hurt in a way, and are proud of their scars.
Some emotions are beautiful, such as the one expressed in poetry, others are ugly and you don't need examples to get what i mean.
It's easier to exclude men from external beauty and women from external strength than it is to exclude them from internal beauty and strength, respectively.
And do you find women more flawed, because they're physically weaker than men ?
We have our qualities and flaws, some women are stronger than some men and some men are more beautiful( inside&outside) than women, and it's reductive to stop at these two adjectives, as well as obviously erroneous to draw conclusion on an individual from generalities.
Here's what i answered to a previous comment if you're interested :
Admittedly, beauty is more useful in times of peace than strength, if i count the benefits(, women can give birth and that's the most important thing in Nature), women have more of them than men, but if we can keep some of our qualities i won't say no.
Why would it be better if there were no distinction between men and women ? Or between countries, or citizens ?
What's the use of showing your vulnerability, is that something that others like to see ? And it's not difficult, what's difficult is to take upon yourself and desire the struggle.
We're men, alike rocks, people/life hit us and we don't move, this has advantages and inconvenients, we generally appreciate women's sensibility, and i suppose that most of them appreciate to be able to rely on men when they're needed.
Admittedly, beauty is more useful in times of peace than strength, if i count the benefits(, women can give birth and that's the most important thing in Nature), women have more of them than men, but if we can keep some of our qualities i won't say 'no'.
That's how things are in general.
Diversity is good, but cry if you want to, i won't support weakness on my part, and i will keep being annoyed if i encounter a weak man(, just as women may be annoyed by "ugly" women, i.d.k.).
Lol no, you can be both, and both can be wise/smart, etc.
But in general, women are more beautiful than men and men are stronger than women, perhaps that people nowadays see egality as uniformity, i.d.k.
But weakness(, inside and outside,) is a flaw/defect, as is (internal&external )ugliness, and other flaws.
As a general "rule" : women are beautiful(inside&outside), while men are strong(inside&outside).
Promoting weak men is a mistake in my opinion.
One post and zero comment from criitz.
Ideally a fusion of Reddit and Lemmy's content was what your bot is aiming to do, first thought it'd be illegal, but since we don't have human reposters i'm glad there's at least a bot instead.
Then cite a sentence that you found nonsensical if you're interested in this topic, and if not, thanks for the chat anyway.
I remember that i've played with a website that automatically produced such texts in school once, like 15 years ago, now i'm thanking Google to have given us Chat-GPT(, and the chinese people talk(ed) a lot about a.i. in the few manhuas i've read, much more than Japan, Korea, or the West), not saying that you didn't write this yourself, nor that i really care, i'm just saying 🤷♂️.
Would you say that you're a materialist then, that 'i/I'dea(l)s don't exist, would that be your "argument" ?
Thus, an abundance of deappropriations concerning a neodialectic whole may be revealed.
This one above is self-explanatory of course :), but could you please be kind enough to explain :
The subject is contextualised into a subcultural papalism that includes consciousness as a totality.
I don't understand how consciousness as a totality would be included, thanks :) !
And while i could eventually understand how «textual situationnism» could lead to division in a world who hasn't found(searched?) how to be united in diversity, i'd say that "your" usage of the word «serves» is a bit too strong for my tastes(, since "you" didn't meant, like, 100% of what art serves, then it's all right, i'd agree, just that the emphasis on "involuntariness" could be more marked).
But it turns around the idea that the "real Human" can't be found, that Idea(l)s don't exist independently, such as this other informative myth ?
Join Reclaim The Net.
Welcome to the future. This'll become more and more commonplace, it's one of the reason why police t.v. shows are useful.
(edit : my bad, the first post was deleted by mistake so i rewrote the title from memory, it was Suharto's resignation* in 1998, not death, following riots killing an estimated 1000 people. He died ten years later, in 2008.)
It is also the 74th anniversary of the founding of China's People's Republic today, not a coincidence(, just as, e.g., Russia's war in Ukraine happening on the same "anniversary" as the western-backed 2014 coup). China was only allowed to exist in 1978 once they welcomed capitalism. Their overwhelming success wasn't expected however.
The Material Design catalog app for Jetpack Compose.
Here's the corresponding source code for, e.g., one of the four tooltips given as an example
Samples can either be in Material 2 or 3 according to your preferences. You have interactive examples of : \- 1 Badge ; \- 2 Bottom App ; \- 3 Bottom Sheet ; \- 6 Buttons ; \- 6 Cards ; \- 3 Checkboxes ; \- 11 Chips ; \- 5 Date pickers ; \- 3 Dialogs ; \- 3 FAB(, floating action buttons) ; \- 3 Extended FABs ; \- 8 Icons ; \- 3 Lists ; \- 4 Menus ; \- 2 Navigation Bar ; \- 3 Navigation Drawers ; \- 3 Navigation rails ; \- 4 Progress indicators ; \- 2 Radio buttons ; \- 2 Search bars ; \- 7 Sliders ; \- 5 Snackbars ; \- 2 Switches ; \- 9 Tabs ; \- 12 Text fields ; \- 4 Tooltips ; \- 3 Time pickers ; \- and 6 Topbars.
Also, does anyone know of a more suitable community on Lemmy to exchange this kind of information ?
Just like workers, they don't have to beg, they already have the power to increase the price of raw materials to help their development, but are opposed to each other, in competition instead of a mutually fruitful collaboration, seems like a worthwhile solution to neo-colonialism. Quite certainly simplistic since it doesn't stop there(, for example they'd have to gain back their mines/.., redistribute the wealth and ensure that their oligarchs won't live&invest outside, etc.), but it's a step, a bit like when workers strike together in order to obtain better conditions, and realize that they're the ones in charge after all, something like that. After thinking again about this it seems indeed too simplistic, i'd be interested to know your thoughts about this.