It gets to be a place where an important question becomes hard to ignore: do those who are doing well in the status quo duck and hope their good fortune will hold, and so acquiesce to Russia becoming North Korea all the way?
A large crowd as always at the weekly march in Tbilisi. Georgians have been protesting in 8+ cities every day for the last 507 days.
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"Silence in the face of an explicit threat of civilizational destruction is complicity. And complicity, as the post-war architects of international justice understood with terrible clarity, is where atrocity finds the oxygen it needs to become real."
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If only it were the people who paid for this to happen.
The ignorant/naive/polluted revel in cruelty directed at others, possibly because they feel helpless disadvantage cogs. The cruel revel in being placed where they can pull strings, possibly because they feel they've been denied their rightful place because of that democracy & rule of law crap. 🤮
I still can't decide if it's "better" if his supporters are clear-eyed and only take the stuff they believe will benefit them, or if they believe him as he clearly does. As in: is the very frank spectacle of absurdity and cruelty something people really can stomach and applaud? Ignorant or cruel?
Good point! It feels like we're doing a whole lot of stuff expressly to not focus on the climate crisis.
have you seen your government's national security warning on ecosystem collapse? No waves, not even a ripple.
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It's not Friday yet, or is it?
What a tiring week...
Fundamentally what they are all saying is that nobody is an authority on anything unless they say so.
Quite far from funny if that's method and not hubris, right?
What's also bad is that accommodating him as "getting things done with questionable style" has been as global a phenomenon as the impotence of those who insisted on listing the death and destruction he's wreaking. Decades of humane progress have been exposed as mere posturing by the moneyed.
When it's all about himself, everything that is going on in the world is about himself, and no-one has a right to do anything but clap, and the himself in question is an amoral, callous, cruel and lazy person elected by the discontent and the frenetic and supported by the self-important, it's bad.
The tiny South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency as a worsening fuel crisis linked to the Iran war exacerbates power supply issues and threatens essential services across the country. bloom.bg/4sFdSQH
📷: Tama/Getty Images
The UN has announced that 32 million globally are now at risk of poverty purely because of the Iran War.
"We killed people we labeled terrorists, and we put very clunky names on what we do to blow up meaning as well. Also, of course, we think we sound cool".
Okay, I concede, you're right, he's nuts.
The amount of humanity spoken of is incomprehensible.
Can't even...
Remember the lists of false and misleading statements from Ugly & Destructive 1?
We're at the suffocating the world stage with that, with the question being if we pop it... or not.
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We haven't found a way to root out bully-ism in all the years that they were more or less contained in their holes because on top, the whole jockeying is basically the same and once attained, not given up. Below, it's more of a survival within reality. Leaders without hunger for power are rare?
The show as a sanity & survival of societies detonator that wakes up more and more dulled, cynical, apocalyptic, driven to doubt fundamental truths and confused brains to stand up and laugh & scorn them back into their holes. 👍 There are many detonators around, e.g. regen.melbourne/earthshots
He may yet succumb to his other pathology: not seeing what the others are seeing. He'll die a winner in his mind. That's also the only excuse for so many country leaders not calling him out or giving him the Merkel look.
Or they'll all fall back into wishful thinking. Whatever happened to that Carney moment of middle mights coming together etc - all I've seen created were more bilateral deals, no alternative anything. I sigh.
Oh God... when "postering" works as well as the intended verb, we're far advanced on the road to a hell of our own making.
I have to admit I haven't been listening so: you really think he's lost it? Not just postering? Seems he'd be doing the same so as not to seem as if it's all bluster - no?
Their kind seem incapable of grasping that most people do not appreciate being sacrificed so someone else can make easier profits. Hereabouts right-wingers said that instead of everybody taking precautions so vulnerable groups would not be infected with Covid, old people should just suck it up.
That would be cruel indeed. For those who'd dared believe it, if it needs pointing out.
So that's right up there with all the other really destructive deadly things he's doing, the debasement of our dreams, what we can hope for.
No breaking news: he's no more?
