Taxonomic metonymy

USA; MI➡️NC; EN, FR, ES, RU; ML; TME; over 30 🇱🇧 🇵🇸 Translator, nature photographer, gardener, and native plant enthusiast

[tamamita]

While you sit there being excited about your video games, I'm watching Iran bomb Tel Aviv again

[el-shab-hussein]

Happy pride month

[missstrogen]

If you're a yankee, stop complaining about military spending and how it should go to funding public transportation. All your west, the wealth of your country, was stolen from the global south. Recognise this. Recognise that it was never yours. The army you complain about is the one that (attempts to) enforce this statu quo, and empower extraction of wealth. You live lofty lives because billions of people have been stolen from, murdered, had their lives destroyed. Stop wishing that you'd return to a time where that wealth extraction benefited you more.

Start caring about the crimes you benefit from, instead of the ones you don't benefit from enough.

[missstrogen]

If you're european don't think you get a pass either. Your system of governance benefits from the same blood. Your socialized healthcare is funded by the same bombs. Start caring about the crimes you benefit from.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[handweavers]

one of the many problems with 'listen to x voices' rhetoric is that in order to be in the diaspora & gain citizenship in the first place your family often has to conform, to some degree, to western policy regarding our home countries & then those are the most plentiful voices in the west who talk about our countries. they will try to convince you that this is "the true voice" of the people of that country but they will gleefully advocate for foreign interventions that result in the widespread destruction and looting of their home country + they will position themselves as the greatest victims in all of this. but they clearly do not view the people back home with any kind of genuine solidarity or kinship only as pawns in their own personal narrative (revenge for an imagined alternative life back home, one where you still owned land or a held position of power there) and an opportunity to seize power for themselves. & then people in the diaspora develop a complex when people back home don't like them and don't agree with them & start claiming that everyone in the home country is brainwashed and the only way to free them is by invading and bombing everyone. they don't even view their cousins and family back home as real people, in this type of person's mindset simply by coming to west you are made real in a way that the rest of the world is not, it's sickening. and i know this song and dance very well like i'm in the western diaspora and the amount of ppl i meet who position themselves as progressive people but on the topic of foreign policy re: the home country sound like they work for radio free asia and are on the cia's payroll and chomping at the bit begging canada and co to bomb their country of origin is completely insane & if you even try to push back against this you're socially ostracized. same people will do land acknowledgements and then shun you for not supporting our government warmongering overseas it's just maddening

[halfwar-halfpeace]

[feluka]

[Image ID: A screenshot of a tweet by Mohammed El-Kurd (@/m7mdkurd) that reads: "What Israel is doing in Lebanon is unambiguously genocidal against Shias. And it is unambiguously an attempt to reoccupy and even annex a huge part of the country. It's infuriating that we're pretending that there's a ceasefire. And even more infuriating that Western media continues to turn a blind eye to Israel's endless colonial expansion and insatiable hunger for Arab land." /End ID.]

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[faguscarolinensis]

Styrax obassia / Fragrant Snowbell at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[girderednerve]

Trump to pump $700M into coal power in the states, as he again blasts renewable energy • West Virginia Watch

The federal government will spend $700 million on building or refurbishing coal power infrastructure in a boost to coal, Trump said.

“It is hard to overstate the magnitude of this,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said. “If you look at our efforts across the whole government, so far 45 coal plants are open today that would not be open.”

dead miners today! dead miners tomorrow! dead miners forever!

[communistkenobi]

Traditional fascism embraced the ideal of fossil modernity because of the direct association with the values of strength, speed, and power carried by fossil fuelled objects such as industrial machines and motor vehicles. The historian of fascism Robert Paxton mentions Trump holding a campaign speech in an airplane hangar in 2016, after getting out from a plane that had just landed and taxied up there, which “is exactly what they did in 1932 for Hitler’s first election victory”. This example displays how the love of current far-right leaders for fossil modernity leads to a stunning resemblance with fascist symbolism (Chotiner, 2016). In Brazil, Bolsonaro delivered an analogue picture in May 2020 as he requisitioned a helicopter to fly six circles above the presidential square before landing in front of a crowd of his supporters who had rallied to demonstrate for a military coup. Fossil fuelled objects stood and continue to stand as the symbol of a virile, powerful and aggressive performance of modernity, and for the material fulfilment of authoritarian desires (Daggett, 2018; LeMenager, 2014).

Yet, while at the time of early fascist parties, the climatic toxicity of CO2 emissions was virtually unknown, far-right campaigns and governments today explicitly mock the global concern for climate change. Carbofascism, in this sense, could be different from historical fascism in so far as it merges its fascination for fossil modernity with a political discourse that promotes human domination over nature through the preservation and amplification of the fossil energy model as an endangered ideal of modern society. While fascism looked at fossil fuelled objects as the future of humanity, carbofascism would tend to consider them as the remnants of a golden age which need to be preserved in spite of their impact on the planet´s (and human) health. [emphasis mine]

Acker (2020) - What could carbofascism look like?: a historical perspective on reactionary politics in the COVID-19 pandemic

[faguscarolinensis]

Rhododendron simsii / Red Azalea at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[herpsandbirds]

Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera), male, family Parulidae, order Passeriformes, NC, USA

photograph by Danny Bales

[pissvortex]

Thank you for posting your tweets, I do not enjoy going there.

It’s really not a good or productive website to use at all but it’s my biggest foothold into relevancy because I know sometimes JD Vance sees my tweets telling him that his mom traded him for some pocket lint and a perc 20

[pissvortex]

Nobody is having fun on that website. One of the nazis who posted my address had a group of even more insane nazis post his birth certificate a couple of days later. It’s like the Abyss Watchers on there, just stupid chuds executing each other over and over out of some ritualized algorithm-induced compulsion. But for some reason the Vice President gets mad and starts twitter arguments with people in his replies. And one time the Iranians shot a ballistic missile at a target in Israel because a guy with an anime profile picture told them to. A japanese guy used the auto translate to call me names for calling the new japanese PM “female hitler” and the japanese government made me take my post down because I just responded with an image of the thing they used to kill Shinzo Abe. Cyberstalking and harassment is openly encouraged by the moderators. It’s the world’s public forum in the most despicable and honest sense of the term.

[pissvortex]

This is what I’m talking about man why is Hunter Biden name searching on twitter and replying to “Pissvortex”

[faguscarolinensis]

Viburnum x burkwoodii / Burkwood Viburnum at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[thalassarche]

Diamond Firetail (Stagonopleura guttata) - photo by Greg Oakley

[faguscarolinensis]

Viburnum opulus / Guelder Rose at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[ambermaitrejean]

Red-winged blackbird. Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Commerce City, Colorado. Photos by Amber Maitrejean

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[faguscarolinensis]

Pourthiaea villosa / Oriental Photinia at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC