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YouTube video by Daniel Baryon | Anark Everything is on fire! Now what are we going to do about it?

Everything is on fire! Now what are we going to do about it?

by Daniel Baryon @anark.bsky.social

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Some folks, e.g. Stalinists, confuse these things, for example claiming that condemning Iran's violence necessarily invites a war of aggression. They get these things confused for two reasons. First, they are stupid. Part of being stupid is not having clarity. Second, they are evil.

Maybe it necessitates humanitarian intervention, but as scholars have pointed out, "humanitarian interventions" barely exist & we shouldn't depend on other states to carry them out. In the history of the world, maybe there were 2 total genuine "human interventions". The rest are propaganda

None of this necessitates a war of aggression on Iran like what Israel and the US are doing right now. Wars of aggression are not humanitarian interventions aimed at holding the Iranian government to account. They're simply another state exercising its own capacity for evil.

If we subscribe to the basic moral principle that people are responsible for the evil they commit, even if it is just one fraction of the total evil in the world, then the Iranian government should be identified as culpable for that evil and should be held to justice.

The fact that the US killed scores of people does not erase the fact that Iran also killed scores of people, even if the US killed several orders of magnitude more people. I don't see why people (Stalinists) are being scandalized that we reserve criticism for the Iranian government.

Anarchists correctly claim that all states are structurally coercive & violent—a fact so obvious even non-anarchist scholars agree. Anarchists don't claim all states are *equal in power or harm.* Nonetheless, asymmetries in power don't erase weaker states' coercion & violence.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows | RNZ News Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

Half of NZers agreed billionaires shouldn't exist while people struggle with basic necessities

68% supported billionaires being taxed more

37% were in favour of introducing a billion-dollar wealth cap to minimise the amount of wealth any person could legally hold

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The majority of UK academic institutions now no longer post on X - LSE Impact For the first time, more UK universities and associated organisations are inactive on X than active.

💥New post | The majority of UK academic institutions now no longer post on X

✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #X #AcademicSocialMedia

Poster for Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Tonight's watch is 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'

I can't imagine the demand for train travel from Springfield and Darfield being that big but so much of Rolleston commutes to the city for work every day, this could be viable

Selwyn-Christchurch train trial to test demand for service | Star News A commuter rail service between Selwyn townships and Christchurch is being investigated by a community board, with planning under way for a one-off...

I hope the trial shows a demand for rail. The buses to the commuter towns are great but get stuck in traffic just like cars do, a train could bypass the traffic and get someone to the city faster than driving

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Leeloo dallas multipass.

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A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

me every single day

thinking i might explain petrichor to an uninterested younger coworker at lunch tomorrow

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

So many of us have spent years warning about the dangers of Christian dominionists in the U.S. government...

Talking about cultural appropriation and Orientalism are still important parts of that discussion, but talking about the decline of American cultural imperialism and the increasingly global outlook of younger generations is also important

Why gen Zs on social media are having 'a very Chinese time in my life' - ABC News Some Chinese Australians have mixed feelings about the sudden global embrace of Chinese culture after the trend emerged late last year.

As an out of touch middle age person, I've found reading about this trend fascinating

I feel like a decade ago, white westerners doing this would have been "cancelled" in the online spaces popular with young people, today there's a lot more nuance in the discussion

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I may not like it, but it’s my chungus life

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Critical Theory In Context Interviews John O’Neill About The Socialist Calculation Debate In this episode of the podcast Critical Theory In Context, Jacob Blumenfeld discusses the socialist calculation debate and its contemporary implications with John O’Neill of the University of…

In this episode of the podcast Critical Theory In Context, @cominsitu.bsky.social discusses the socialist calculation debate and its contemporary implications with John O’Neill of the University of Manchester. www.indep.network/critical-the...

Source: Margaret Law Callcott, ed and trans., Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert 1795-1821, (The John Hopkins University Press, 1991), 334, 340.

Read a 1819 letter by a white woman complaining about how overwhelmed she is by domestic labour because her husband doesn't help around the house and she has to manage 'the servants' by herself. What she called 'the servants' included slaves. One wonders what the slaves thought about this.

Photo of two hippies at a protest in the 1960s holding a sign reading "bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity."

If Donald Trump is the "Peace President," it brings to mind the old slogan from the protests against the Vietnam war: "bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity."