Sometimes we're called to arms to defend democracy, to defeat fascism or any militant extremism, but in the end we have to coexist, heal, rebuild, that's why we have to humanise even our opponents and enemies. As we've seen in the Holocaust where dehumanisation leads.
If your activism involves dehumanising others even those that dehumanise you, you're still part of the cycle of hate, even if it feels warranted, justified.
“First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists...
Then they came for the trade unionists...
Then they came for the Jews...
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me” – Pastor Niemoller
It begins with words, those we use of others. Yes, we have freedom of speech but that's not a freedom to hate. Hate leads to dehumanisation and harm, harm to holocaust.
We must stand up, wherever and for whomever, against all forms of dehumanisation. History teaches us where it leads.
We remember Holocaust Memorial Day, so as not to repeat it or the cycle of hate and monstering of others that leads to it.
These days, that remains the Jewish people but also Palestinians, Rohingya Muslims, Immigrants and Asylum Seekers, Trans people.
Many people don’t realise that Roma, those with mental and physical disabilities, abortionists, Jehovah Witnesses, non-conformist pastors and clergy, certain intellectual opponents, communists, and tens of thousands of homosexuals were sent to concentration camps by the Nazis.
Swap out 'homosexual' and replace it with Israeli, Palestinian, Immigrant, Transgender... and you know we haven't left behind the language of hate.
The Nazis spoke of Lebensunwertes Leben “life unworthy of life”, especially the Jews but also of others, e.g., gay people:
“We must exterminate these people (homosexuals) root and branch… We can’t permit such danger to the country; the homosexual must be entirely eliminated.” – Heinrich Himmler.
We live at a time when the Jewish people remain villified, some blamed for the actions of an Israeli government 3,000 miles away, actions many of them critique themselves. Actions, whatever your views as to their excessive nature were brought on by a message of hate, sometimes mutual.
"...Discrimination has not ended, nor has the use of the language of hatred or exclusion. There is still much to do to create a safer future and HMD is an opportunity to start this process." – HMD Trust
Holocaust Memorial Day is critical still to remember, despite its decline in remembrance.
Bergen Belsen Memorial
"#HolocaustMemorialDay is a time when we seek to learn the lessons of the past and recognise that genocide does not just take place on its own – it’s a steady process which can begin if discrimination, racism and hatred are not checked and prevented...
I thought AI was the greatest threat to humanity but no, it's human intelligence that is.
Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries
"The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer
www.investing.com/news/stock-m...
Here you go Viktor, yours was the Cappuccino, and Vladimir, black, three sugars, right? Donald I used your personal gold MAGA mug, just how you like it. Javier and Tayyip, I forgot yours, let me go back. Sorry for my "GREAT STUPIDITY!"
lnvitees includes UK, Jordan, Russia, Qatar, Turkey. Argentina & Hungary say they will join, France says it won't to which Trump threatened 200% tariffs on champagne & wine.
A Board of Peace with Trump and Putin on it, both of who've ignored the sovereignty of other nations, is not a board of peace
The DJT Board of Peace to oversee Gaza will be run by a $1bn a ticket international members club chaired by Trump and anyone he appoints as his successor.
It's mandate may go beyond Palestine to any conflict zone. Critics see it as a Trump-run rival to the UN.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...
We will not let anyone “bring down the American Empire.” President DJT via Truth Social
Trump shares photos of US occupied Greenland and Canada
A 2004 satire, Team America World Police, feels more like a prediction now
[1] American-European War
[2] American Civil War
[3] Global Trade War
[4] None of the above!
Crazy that the US is sabre rattling war with Greenland, Denmark & NATO, – and Minnesota!
The 11th Airborne Division aka the "Arctic Angels" is a US Army multirole infantry division made up of light & airborne elite troops specialised in "arctic warfare, airborne operations, combined arms, maneuver warfare, & urban warfare," based in Alaska.
Now ready-to-deploy to Minnesota or Greenland?
#MAGA spoof hats saying, ‘Make America Go Away.’ and ‘Nu det NUUK’, Danish for ‘Now that's enough (nok)’ a pun on the #Greenland capital #Nuuk metro-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/metro.co...
"Putting American workers first" so long as they are white Christian heterosexual non-disabled and dressed appropriately for the 1950s.
The US is currently a Back to the Future reboot with a Tesla instead of a DeLorean
President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire #Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a message he sent to #Norway’s prime minister over the weekend. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...
Donald Trump’s duties on imported goods are paid almost entirely by American importers, their domestic customers and ultimately US consumers, a study from a think tank has concluded. Read more: bloom.bg/4jNnBRT
📷️: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
The fact that SecDef or SecWar as now known and the Commandant in Chief are prepping 1500+ soldiers for deployment to... Minnesota and perhaps Greenland, not N Korea, Russian border, Iran or some other usual suspects military arena. Who had Minnesota down as the start of the 2nd American Revolution
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, BBC & Bloomberg have confirmed it
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
He'll be after the Nobel Prize in Economics next, because, he changed the world order through global tariffs, made inflation disappear just by saying it was so (ignoring the tariffs), banning credit card interest over 10%, forcibly removing ½ million immigrants to make space for America first jobs
Trump writes to Norway's PM, saying because they didn't give him "the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace...The world is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland"
A sulky teenager wants to run the world
