Estelle Platini

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2025-09-08 07:38:02 GMT

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A small minority of well-born men exercised despotic power over their fellow citizens in the name of an aristocratic conception of society, twice around 400 BCE.
After the surrender, the Athenian Ekklesia (assembly) soon divided into three camps:
* supporters of a “patrios politeia” (ancestral constitution),
* preservers of democracy,
* proponents of oligarchy’.
Debate and inaction continued until September 404 BCE, when the Spartans chose to intervene. They asked the Athenians to choose thirty men to manage all the affairs of the polis.
‘The Thirty initially avoided drafting a precise constitution. Instead, they sought to: a) establish a functional interim government; b) eliminate opponents; and c) reform the laws.’
https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Thirty_Tyrants/
#coup #oligarchy #extremeCentre #extremeCenter #history #Athens #Sparta #AncientGreece #Antiquity #history #democracy #metics #war #Peloponnese #defeat #Republic

2025-09-08 07:24:48 GMT

This thread will show bits of a history of the extreme centre 🧶
#coup #oligarchy #extremeCentre #extremeCenter #history #Athens #FrenchState #AncientGreece #Antiquity #history #democracy #defeat #Republic #raceMaking #stateRacism #complicity #entanglement #farCentre #farCenter

2025-08-31 14:23:17 GMT

"We force animals to adapt to the constraints of farming modelled on the mass production of manufactured goods, whereas farming should respect the ethological needs of animals. This is a transgression because we grant ourselves an absolute right that we do not have. This violence towards animals is a condemnation of us. Yet our relationship with animals could be an opportunity to think about a way of inhabiting the Earth that makes coexistence with other species possible. This requires new foundations for ethics and politics."
– Corine Pelluchon
#ownership #coexistence #eugenics #capitalism #extractivism #appropriation #landGrab #plantations #slavery #nature #separation #epistemology #speciesism #antiSpeciesism #animals #philosophy #beliefs #squash #inhabitability #grievability #farming #quote #quotes

2025-08-23 19:10:49 GMT

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Plantations industrialised with capitalism – Let's spin a sugary yarn 🧶
@npub13yy…7csh @npub1uc0…cpgf @npub1cu2…k4pj
#EstelleSays #sugar #tobacco #accumulation #racism #extractivism #landGrab #raceMaking #lineofColor #racialization #rapeCulture #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #whiteFragility #Discovery #Encounter #Columbus #plantations #America #history #slavery #England #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Bristol #Liverpool #London #decolonial #antiRacism #sweet #sweets #Caribbean #marketing #commOdon

2025-08-17 15:08:22 GMT

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‘It is not a Sunday in the countryside that we need, but a less artificial life.’
—Bernard Charbonneau, in « Le sentiment de la nature, une force révolutionnaire », 1937
It is our disconnection from nature that gives rise to the feeling that we lack something, that an essential part of our existence is missing.
@npub1wde…dg4n @npub1uqy…kvhk
#tourism #nature #wilderness #BienVivir #wellLiving #SilentSunday #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #postDevelopment #beliefs #degrowth #philosophy #quote #quotes #citation #citations #EstelleSays #technique #technoCriticism

2025-08-16 15:49:06 GMT

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Who was Bernard Charbonneau? 🧶
Bernard Charbonneau was raised in the Bordeaux bourgeoisie. He obtained his agrégation in 1935.
In 1945, he decided not to pursue an academic career and, ‘eager to live in the countryside, he obtained a position at a small teacher training college in the Pyrenean foothills, in Lescar, France, where he remained until his retirement’. (written by Daniel Cérézuelle, in ‘Ecology and Freedom: Bernard Charbonneau: Pioneer of Political Ecology’, Lyon, Parangon/Vs, coll. ‘après-développement’, 2006)
He viewed technical progress as the source of ever-increasing organisation, and therefore greater conformity, hence less freedom. He was a close friend of Jacques Ellul for six decades.
In his own words (in Combat nature no. 106, August 1994): https://lagrandemue.wordpress.com/2019/11/20/bio-graphie/
#biography #postDevelopment #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #Pyrenees #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #JacquesEllul #Ellul

2025-08-16 12:10:42 GMT

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‘The people do not exercise power. Instead they cast a vote in the ballot box, a kind of magical operation by which they ensure a freedom that is no longer present in their daily actions. Political life comes forward as resignation.’
Bernard Charbonneau in L'État (1949)
#quote #quotes #vote #politics #elections #bureaucracy #technocracy #conformism #progress #personalism #State #sovereignty

2025-08-16 12:02:15 GMT

Here I am slowly spining a yarn of Bernard Charbonneau 🧶
#development #revolution #conformism #progress #personalism #State #nationState #anarchism #anarchy #technoCriticism #technique #bureaucracy #technocracy #industry #economy #capitalism #spectacle #property #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #goodLiving #city #rurality #historyOfIdeas #philosophy #politics #vote #elections #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #longThread #yarn

2025-07-31 20:27:10 GMT

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"The Zionist produces and defines itself through the animalization of the Palestinian."
"Palestinian liberation is an impossibility in the current ordering of knowledge and being, similarly demanding through its realization the end of […] this world, and modernity."
This paper "posits that Palestinian freedom necessitates the creation of new worlds and [the getting rid of encumbering] constructs such as modernity and the Human."
https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/ by Scott Campbell @npub1xas…ggup
@npub1uqy…kvhk 🧶
#pessimism #epistemology #grievability #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #PalestinianLivesMatter #Zionism #intellectualHistory #colonialism #genocide #ongoingNakba #brutalization #philosophy #europe #europeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #SylviaWynter #praxis #raceMaking #entanglement

2025-07-31 20:23:52 GMT

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"Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
by Scott Campbell @npub1xas…ggup
“Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror
(continued) 🧶
#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking

2025-07-31 20:17:13 GMT

"Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc-warrants-palestinian-skepticism-and-the-glimpse-of-justice/
cited in https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/
@npub1zxn…0kqm 🧶
#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss

2025-06-22 19:31:13 GMT

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"The attack on Iran is just the latest crime in the Israeli regime’s path of destruction across the Middle East. Its Western-backed impunity has become a global threat."
by Craig Mokhiber : https://agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2025/06/20/etats-voyous-lillegalite-des-attaques-israeliennes-contre-liran-soutenues-par-les-etats-unis/
@npub1qj0…wryw
#Israel #Iran #imperialism #proZionism #colonialConvergence #war #oilAndGas #nuclear #NPT #geoPolitics #squash #brutalization #USWars #internationalLaw

2025-05-12 16:14:31 GMT

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In Marronage Lies the Search of a World
by Malcom Ferdinand: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/14/1/182/294316
#reservations #silenciation #responsibility #emancipation #religions #whiteness #coloniality #modernity #separation #ecology #environmentalism #natives #indigènes #autochtones #maroon #marronage #MalcomFerdinand #AndreasMalm #Malm #wilderness #nature #decolonial #GreenSpaces #Maroons #colonization #imaginaries #systemicRacism #lynching #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #BlackMastodon #plantation #plantationism #agroForestry #structuralRacism #decolonialRead #longRead #gardening #Antilles #Caribbean #environmentalJustice
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2025-05-12 15:24:41 GMT

"The experiment begun in 1492 was accompanied by a new relationship with the world and with each other, based on the novel idea that the prosperity of human societies lay in the submission of a wild and free nature to the rational act of exploitation. From then on, the entire living world was put to work, and in this first planetary empire, people, plants and animals became commodities circulating from one corner of the hemisphere to the other."
wrote Sylvie Laurent in her book "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
#wilderness #progress #SylvieLaurent #capitalism #extractivism #capture #appropriation #grabbing #marchandization #Discovery #encounter #ChristopheColomb #Colomb #plantations #Antilles #America #Americas #history #slavery #agroBusiness #agriculture #NewWorld #quote #quotes #beliefs #belief #labour #technoCriticism

2025-03-10 17:43:11 GMT

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"The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World", by Vincent Bevins
#Book presentation: "In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful."
#Quote from book: “I fear that the truth of what happened contradicts so forcefully our idea of what the Cold War was, of what it means to be an American, or how globalization has taken place, that it has simply been easier to ignore it.”
Recension: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/enduring-cold-war-imperialism-on-vincent-bevinss-the-jakarta-method/
Interview: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-world-the-jakarta-method-built-a-conversation-with-vincent-bevins/
@npub1uc0…cpgf @npub1ny7…uv57 🧶
#VincentBevins #indonesia #ColdWar #USWars #anticommunism #history #ThirdWorld

2025-02-07 20:08:05 GMT

#Infrastructure in British #India:
"Natural drainage of Bengal was disturbed due to construction of a network of #railway embankments resulting in formation of poorly drained “compartments” in different areas of Bengal. This led to excessive silting, damaged crop production, increased chance of flooding and created stagnant water pockets that were apt for water-borne diseases like cholera and malaria."
Excerpt from: https://learn.culturalindia.net/bengal-famine-1943.html
#famine #starvation #agriculture #rice #Bangladesh #Churchill #wwii #transport #railways #railTransport‎ #crops #colonialism #BritishEmpire #BritishRule

2024-11-15 09:50:35 GMT

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News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective
Jonathan Cook: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-medias-role-in-lying-about-amsterdam @npub14gj…pm0c 🧶
#mainstreamMedia #massMedia #media #London #UKPol #Amsterdam #MaccabiTelAviv #football #soccer #JonathanCook #SkyNews #BBC #TheGuardian #DumpTheGuardian #Maccabi #TelAviv #Zionism #JewishSupremacy #conflation #antisemitism #NL #Netherlands #UEFA #EuropeIsrael #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #islamophobia #mediaCritique #disinformation #fakeNews #hooliganism #hooligans #OwenJones #UK #Britain

2024-11-15 09:31:24 GMT

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"About half of Britain considers itself to have a working class background. And yet only 8% of those who get jobs in telly are from the same background."
"Over the five years from 2018, distrust in the BBC had grown from 11% to 26%."
Carol Vorderman: https://bylinetimes.com/2024/08/30/carol-vorderman-alternative-mactaggart-speech-tv-industry/
#depoliticisation #media #London #Britain #UK #UKPol #discriminations #classism #snobs #privilege #bourgeoisie #middleClass #TV #television #UKRiots #power #broadcast #Channel4 #CarolVorderman

2024-11-10 08:07:40 GMT

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"It's like… my head is filled with something black and gooey, it takes up all the space, all the energy.
I try to force myself to do things, to see people.
But it exhausts me so much, it drains me out…
And it's often painful, I can see that people are angry with me."
~ Mirion Malle, in "That's how I disappear"
#depression #quotations #safety #selfCare #self #people #disappointing #relationship #relationships #friendship #mentalHealth #predictions #perceptions #beliefs #representations #probabilities #hallucinations #bias #psychology #SilentSunday #fragility #beliefs #hallucinations #bias #SilentSunday

2024-11-10 07:19:45 GMT

Depression is when we don’t care for anything. We want to stay under the duvet. The duvet is comfortable. We would like to get out of it but we only have the motivation to stay warm.
Depression can develop into a disinterest for the world. Smiles appear bland, uninteresting. Pleasure and displeasure become indistinguishable, leading to a progressive anaesthesia of emotions.
#EstelleSays #depression #selfCare #self #people #disappointing #relationship #relationships #friendship #mentalHealth #predictions #perceptions #beliefs #representations #probabilities #hallucinations #bias #psychology #SilentSunday #fragility

2024-09-29 21:10:25 GMT

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"The #law is the most powerful engine through which ideologies can become self-replicating engines. John Locke’s theory of property as the endowed right of white men to use and to produce worked like witchcraft—the natural world, which had sustained societies for thousands of years, could suddenly be taken by force, enclosed, and tilled for the sole profit of one man, with trespassers punished. The conversion of land into one person’s permanent property was not permissible under the indigenous populations who had long occupied it, nor was such a thing permissible anywhere in the world except Europe—and even there, only after the enclosure movements of the 1600s."
Mehrsa #Baradaran in her book: "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America"
@npub13yy…7csh 🧶
#memes #economics #property #enclosures #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #sociology #anthropology #patriarchy #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #honour #domination

2024-09-22 19:55:56 GMT

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"The Israel Lobby and U.S. #foreignPolicy" is a book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, published in 2007. In it, they emphasize that the lobby is not a cabal or a conspiracy but simply a powerful interest group, like the National Rifle Association of America or the agrobusiness lobby.
“Since World War Two, the United States has been involved in every nook and cranny of the world, fighting wars here, there, and everywhere. And to do that, you need a very powerful administrative state that can help manage that foreign policy. But in the process, what happens is you get all of these high-level, middle-level, and low-level bureaucrats who become established in positions in the Pentagon, the State Department, and the intelligence community — you name it. And they end up having a vested interest in pursuing a particular foreign policy.”
Watch John Mearsheimer discuss the US #DeepState: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFtyDy_Bt0&t=70s
#israelLobby #Trump #Biden #proSionism #MiddleEast #NATO #USA #USWars #Bush

2024-09-04 21:00:01 GMT

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"Doing what Andrea Skinner did [comes] with courage.
"Let us meet it with the respect and honor it deserves, with the respect and honor that Andrea Skinner deserves."
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2024/07/12/child-sexual-abuse-alice-munro-andrea-robin-skinner-janet-chwalibog @npub1yvh…nx54
#GeraldFremlin #availability #adult #family #adultDomination #adultism #incest #pedocriminality #impunity #ascendancy #sexualViolence #rapeCulture #intimacy #adults #domesticViolence #violence #health #mentalHealth #publicHealth #AliceMunro #NobelPrize #biography #biographies #literature #Toronto #RobertThacker

2024-08-30 08:12:05 GMT

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'The Labour administration […] intends to flatten social, political – and therefore class – conflict, and reassert the state as the sole “legitimate” agent of politics in Britain.'
'One could reasonably suggest that the particular vitriol reserved for Muslims by the Labour leadership comes down to an as yet not-entirely-tameable internationalist consciousness among Muslim communities in Britain, and their proven willingness to exert this electorally.'
Azfar Shafi writes: https://vashtimedia.com/starmers-project-depoliticisation/ @npub1g8l…5t3p
#KeirStarmer #Starmer #Labour #LabourParty #ideology #elites #neoliberalism #extremeCenter #UK #UKPol #raceMaking #riots #UKRiots #BorisJohnson #moralPanic #policeState #islamophobia #lawAndOrder #stateViolence #police #whiteSupremacy #Southport #standingArmy #depoliticisation #immigration #commonSense #NijjorManush

2024-08-26 20:34:18 GMT

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"This article presents how global governance […] targets moved from sovereign to corporate entities and its source from multilateral financial institutions to domestic U.S. institutions. […] The article describes the recursive process that led the U.S. government to assume global regulatory powers and to initiate deglobalization in its trade war against the European Union and China."
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/719925 @npub13yy…7csh
#globalGovernance #Iran #history #war #boycott #geopolitics #sanctions #reputation #politics #publicOpinion #research #institutionsDeceive #economy #foreignRelations #multilateralism #deglobalization #hegemony

2024-08-26 20:26:14 GMT

Read "War by Other Means" by Mathias Fuelling, an excellent review of "The Economic Weapon: The Rise of #Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War", by Nicholas Mulder, Yale University Press, 448 pages, 2022 https://oxonianreview.com/articles/war-by-other-means
#history #war #boycott #geopolitics #learning #learn #reputation #politics #publicOpinion #book #bookStodon #NicholasMulder #economy #foreignRelations #multilateralism

2024-05-19 16:25:22 GMT

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"After six year-old Hind Rajab was killed by the Israeli army, Britain’s national media failed to unequivocally pinpoint Israel as responsible, refused to follow up the story and cover important new information, and then moved on."
Des Freedman: https://www.declassifieduk.org/found-dead-in-gaza-no-murdered-by-israel/
#BBC #TheGuardian #England #Britain #UK #UKPol #media #manipulation #Guardian #DumpTheGuardian #institutionsDeceive #truth #journalism #ethics

2024-04-25 17:02:22 GMT

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#toDo
"28. Member States should instil a culture of the rights of the child and of responsibility of all professionals and adults in contact with children. Member States should consider systematically developing professional protocols and standards on child protection procedures and child protection safeguards, with the aim of ensuring that all organisations working for and with children have robust child protection policies and reporting mechanisms for situations of violence in place."
https://commission.europa.eu/document/36591cfb-1b0a-4130-985e-332fd87d40c1_en @npub18lx…svsd
#availability #adult #family #adultDomination #adultism #incest #pedocriminality #impunity #ascendancy #sexualViolence #rapeCulture #intimacy #adults #domesticViolence #violence #health #mentalHealth #publicHealth

2024-04-25 16:19:05 GMT

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"Incestuous rapes are bargain rapes committed by good guys who are not bad guys, but men who find it legitimate for women and children to be at their sexual disposal".
in "Le cerceau des dominations", Dorothée Dussy
@npub1yvh…nx54
#availability #adult #family #adultDomination #adultism #incest #pedocriminality #impunity #ascendancy #sexualViolence #rapeCulture #intimacy #patriarchy #masculinities #maleSupremacy #adults #domesticViolence #violence #quotes #citation

2024-03-30 19:49:40 GMT

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"Rewriting a passive construction to be active almost always makes what you’re saying clearer."
Example: Millions of dollars were embezzled from the company.
Revision: Two executives embezzled millions of dollars from the company.
Eva Parish: https://evaparish.com/blog/how-i-edit#passive-voice
@npub1a2z…l7vs @npub1m0g…jhzf @npub1rug…mrq5 @npub1m2z…uvde
#fragility #media #press #passiveVoice #passiveForm #grammar #news #information #selfCare #reputation #English #writing #editing #editingTips #impunity #litterature #books

2024-03-30 15:01:28 GMT

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"The bank was robbed yesterday with guns and knives."
‘ Such use of passive voice immerses the reader in details while neglecting the doer of the action’.
Study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364964200_The_Use_of_Passive_Voice_in_News_Reports_for_Political_Purposes
#fragility #media #press #passiveVoice #passiveForm #grammar #news #information #proZionism #OngoingNakba #GenocideJoe #manipulation #warCrimes #coloniality #propaganda #genocide #callToGenocide #reputation #whiteSupremacy #institutionsDeceive #DumpTheGuardian #NYT

2024-02-14 21:11:23 GMT

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“The term 'Caucasian' as a designation for white people originates in concepts of beauty related to the white slave trade from eastern Europe, and whiteness remains embedded in visions of beauty found in art history and popular culture.”
― Nell Irvin Painter, in "The History of White People"; W. W. Norton (2010); ISBN 978-0-393-07949-4; a 'New York Times' bestseller
#NellIrvinPainter #quotes #citation #racialization #history #learning #learn #slavery #racism #raceMaking #enslavement #whiteness #White #Caucasian #EuropeanCulture #beauty

2024-02-14 21:07:33 GMT

Here is an overview of how British rich nobility weaponised poverty to deport people into servitude.
Let's start with a landmark book:

2024-02-06 17:21:00 GMT

A doctor in child psychiatry says: "The abuser is capable of waiting to commit the act."
People scare the child by saying "Daddy's going to prison, and you wouldn't want that, because Daddy loves you so much".
"The legal system gives the benefit of the doubt to the aggressor and it's up to the child to provide proof..."
"You know full well that if you report a family that is deprived or in a precarious situation, you're more likely to be believed than if you report a family of teachers or doctors. It becomes a 'social problem' of poor people."
(fr) https://www.frustrationmagazine.fr/inceste-intime-politique/ @npub1w0w…3t8g @npub14cm…6ev9 by @npub169f…8h5g
#judiciary #adult #family #adultDomination #adultism #bias #incest #pedocriminality #impunity #ascendancy #trauma #sexualViolence #rapeCulture #intimate #patriarchy #health #publicHealth #mentalHealth #psychiatry #masculinity #virility #supremacy #maleSupremacy #MeTooIncest #psy #doubt #social #adults #domesticViolence #justice #violence #adults

2024-02-03 16:57:05 GMT

The "Costs of War" project, based at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, estimates that the total death toll in post-9/11 wars – including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen – could be at least 4.5-4.7 million:
Stephanie Savell (2023) https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeaths
Blair is one of the Western leaders who shares complicity for this appalling death toll: https://mondediplo.com/2003/07/01ramonet
State lying has been thrown down the memory hole by media outlets who welcome him with open arms.
(to be continued)
#Post911Wars #WarOnTerror #unjustWars #warCriminals #Blair #Bush #Sarkozy #entitlement #presumption #fragility #insecurity #stats #mortality #wars #diseases #starvation #costing #internationalLaw #costBenefit #IHL #casualties #collateralDamage #warCrimes #terrorism #counterTerrorism #war #warfare #civilians #ethics #grievability #StateViolence #violence #anthropology #epidemics #pollution #statistics #mortality #demography #diseases #injuries #conflicts #USWars #deaths #politics
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2024-01-31 20:09:36 GMT

How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper:
(2019) https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/
#TheGuardian #Assange #Corbyn #MI5 #MI6 #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #media #security #manipulation #coOpting #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #Guardian #DumpTheGuardian #manufacturingConsent

2023-12-19 16:28:44 GMT

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Colonial Convergence
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, who teaches at the University of #Haifa, #israelPalestine, explained the paradox: “One can detest Jews and love Israelis, because Israelis somehow are not Jews. Israelis are colonial fighters and settlers, just like Afrikaners. They are tough and resilient. They know how to dominate. Jews are different. They are, among other qualities, gentle, non-physical, often passive, intellectual. So one can go on disliking Jews while admiring the Israelis.”
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, "The Israeli Connection. Who Israel Arms and Why", Pantheon Books, New York, 1987; cited by Alain Gresh: https://africasacountry.com/2009/08/south-africa-and-israel/ @npub1qj0…wryw
#history #support #antisemitism #judeophobia #raceMaking #politics #manipulation #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Apartheid #israelApartheid #quotes #SouthAfrica #ZA #Zionism #colonialism #armsTrade #solidarity #allyship #allies

2023-11-20 20:55:12 GMT

"As conflation and confusion abound after 7 October, we need clear thinking about antisemitism"
by:
David Feldman, director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism,
Brendan McGeever, senior lecturer at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism.
https://vashtimedia.com/2023/11/09/issues/antisemitism/hamas-israel-pogrom-antisemitism/
#pogrom #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #proZionism #Strunsky #DuBois #Birkbeck

2023-07-18 17:32:40 GMT

Watch Geoffroy de #Lagasnerie in March 2019:
"What describes itself as non-violent [militancy often] is the sacrificial acceptance of one's own exposure to state violence and the preservation of state violence."
"What is the point of saying that the institutions are legitimate if not of furnishing oneself with a clean conscience, of justifying the state's repressive apparatus?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SeHVsB9uM #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #philosophy #quotes #militancy #violence #institutions #police #FRPol

2023-06-20 18:02:21 GMT

"Science only treats nature as a set of objects, and as such will never be able to embrace the real in its entirety (which, as we have said, includes the objects, but also what renders them to be as objects)."
from Martin #Heidegger's lecture "Science and Meditation", published in Essays and Lectures (in 1954), summarised by Etienne Klein https://etienneklein.fr/conferences-de-martin-heidegger/
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#science #requisition #philosophy #metaphysics

2023-06-05 19:04:46 GMT

#Rationalism is a philosophical position or view that #reason is the source of knowledge.
Vernon J. #Bourke wrote that rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of #truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive."
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#quotes #philosophy #epistemology #patriarchy #whiteness #agnotology #historyOfScience #intelligence #factChecking #knowledge #publicOpinion #learning #sociology #wordsMatter #hashtags @npub1wde…dg4n #TESCREAL

2023-01-22 21:49:39 GMT

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“Public torture, in seventeenth-century Europe, created searing, unforgettable spectacles of pain and suffering in order to convey the message that a system in which husbands could brutalize wives, and parents beat children, was ultimately a form of love… It seems to us that this connection – or better perhaps confusion – between #care and #domination is utterly critical to the larger questions of how we lost the ability freely to recreate ourselves by recreating our relationships with one another. It is critical, that is, to understanding how we got stuck, and why these days we can hardly envisage our own past or future as anything other than a transition from smaller to larger cages.”
― David #Graeber and David #Wengrow, in "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" #history #learning #learn #property #family #sociology #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honour

2023-01-22 21:26:00 GMT

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“What makes the Roman Law conception of property - the basis of almost all legal systems today - unique is that the responsibility to care and share is reduced to a minimum, or even eliminated entirely. In Roman Law there are three basic rights related to possession: usus (the right to use), fructus (the right to enjoy the products of a property, for instance the fruit of a tree), and abusus (the right to damage or destroy). If one has only the first two rights, this is referred to as usufruct, and is not considered true possession under the law. The defining feature of true legal #property then, is that one has the option not taking care of it, or even destroying it at will.”
― David #Graeber and David #Wengrow, in "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" #slavery #family #familia #sociology #anthropology #law #patriarchy #bioPower #reputation #honor

2023-01-22 21:07:36 GMT

“...Slavery finds its origins in war. But everywhere we encounter it slavery is also, at first, a domestic institution. Hierarch and property my derive from notion of the sacred, but the most brutal forms of exploitation have their origins in the intimate of social relations: as perversions of nurture, love and caring. Certainly, those origins are not to be found in government...”
― David #Graeber and David #Wengrow, in "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" #slavery #family