Mildred Mistmilker

[sayruq]

For those who don't know, Ansar Allah (aka the Houthis) has been threatening Israeli and American ships in the Red Sea for weeks now on behalf the besieged people of Gaza. They've shot at American war vessels and have claimed direct hits.

Yesterday, they took Galaxy Leader, an Israeli ship, and brought it to a Yemeni port. The main goal isn't to take crew members hostage but to make the Red Sea unusable to both America and Israel. This will have big military and economy consequences for both countries.

The longer the assault on Gaza goes on, the more you will see scenes like these.

[generalissimo-kneedeepincynide]

The American empire crumbling before our very eyes is both amazing and terrible,and this falls in the amazing category

[samsfenders]

worst trait you frequently exhibit on nights out

wander off by yourself

make out with strangers

fall over a lot

step on people's feet when dancing

steal stuff (like street signs and glasses from bars)

give your number/socials to people you shouldn't give it to

pick fights with strangers

very loud

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[nativenews]

[2spirit-1spoon]

The language being used here is dangerous. It echos statements Israel has already made referring to Palestinians as animals.

Not only is this anti-indigenous so vague it applies to all of us globally, but it makes us out to be worse than our oppressors. It puts them above reproach because it paints natives as too inhuman to deserve humanity or humane treatment. It's Nazi propaganda.

They are trying to reframe the genocide as a positive. As conquering an evil the way pilgrims "conquered" the wild west in the name of their God.

So now is a very good time to remind and teach everyone that Hitler liked the way USA treated natives so much that he used it and modeled his own abuses after it.

Natives are in fact, objectively not similar to Nazis. The US government is. And seeing the US government back another genocide using the same language they used on us has been triggering to say the least.

How Hitler found his blueprint for a German empire by looking to the American West

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Americans must recognize the ugly history of how the Nazis were inspired by the long and brutal U.S. campaign ag

Hitler Modeled His Plan for Global Conquest After America’s Manifest Destiny

This article supplements Fascism, a Slate Academy. To learn more and to enroll, visit Slate.com/Fascism.

European colonizers killed so many indigenous Americans that the planet cooled down, a group of researchers concluded

The diseases brought to North America by Columbus and other colonizers killed 90% of indigenous populations, sparking a global cooling.

List of Indian massacres in North America - Wikipedia

You know how they manufactured consent to do this to iu? By painting us as savages, not humans.

Animals to be culled and tamed.

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Assimilation with Education after the Indian Wars (Teaching with Historic Places) (U.S. National Park

And justify our deaths by saying our lives are theirs to take in the name of God.

Netanyahu Accused of 'Genocidal Intentions' in Gaza After 'Holy Mission' Speech

"The biblical reference to Amalek is genocidal," noted one theologian after the prime minister invoked an ancient enemy. "The Bible commands

[psychotic-gerard]

you read something like israel does not allow palestinians in area c in the west bank to have cisterns to collect rainwater and for a moment the rage you experience is so blinding that you understand very easily how people are radicalised

[ultraviolet-divergence]

While it has been said that West Bank Palestinians receive much of their water from Israel’s national water utility, this is misleading for Israel does not give Palestinians water; it sells them water. To be more exact, Palestinians are forced to purchase water from Israel to satisfy demand; and some of the water they purchase comes from their own aquifers.

This is the case because the Oslo II Accords (1995) – which, according to some, were supposed to lead to peace – gave Israel control over the water resources of the West Bank, stipulating that Palestinians will receive only 20 percent, while Israelis, inside the “Green Line” and on West Bank settlements, make off with 80 percent. As the iniquitous distribution of water reveals, Oslo became the continuation of control by other means.

[backwardsorbust]

What's going on in the congo rn is one of many many reasons that the right to repair is a VITAL tenant in leftism imo

[backwardsorbust]

At this point smartphones, laptops, and other similar devices are necessary for daily life in the US. Like if I did not have a phone and a laptop, I couldn't hold down a job, it would be extremely difficult to access public transportation, my education depended upon my ability to access the internet, etc. Tech companies know that their products are indispensable. So do they make products that last? No of course not, they need you buying a new device every two years. That just makes sense under capitalism. But ofc this system spreads far beyond our borders; this system of planned obsolescence is supported by the plunder of the global south for lithium (like in Bolivia) and cobalt (like in Congo).

The imperialist extraction of resources could be challenged if, say, we could repair a device rather than needing to purchase a new one. Companies like apple know this, and have gone out of their way to make such things impossible just to continue making shit products for too much money. It sucks!

[saamdaamdandaurbhed-deactivated]

can i ask for some reading about what's going on in Congo and how it's related to cobalt mining?

[base-and-superstructure]

Here's an article that will give you an overview:

Escalating violence and mining expansion lead to massive displacement in Congo

Prolonged conflict and escalating violence within the Democratic Republic of Congo have led to a record amount of 6.9 million people being d

[nebylitsa]

Palestinian scholars have emphasized that decolonization need not be predicated on settler evacuation, as occurred in former European colonies like Algeria or Mozambique. They insist that the issue has never been the Jewish claim to belonging and staying, but rather, the Zionist claim to sovereignty and domination.

"understanding apartheid" by noura erakat and john reynolds for jewish currents

[brattylikestoeat]

[nativenews]

[antiplondon]

[mikuspeaksthroughme]

The fact people will be like “well it is the oldest profession” like this wasn’t the reality and most of the women were literal slaves

[kaweebo]

Both can be true. 

[antiplondon]

Prostitution being ‘the oldest profession’ is a complete myth. A woman imbedded in an egalitarian hunter/gatherer society doesn’t need to swap sex for food, she has all the knowledge, tools, and resources she needs to feed herself.

For a woman to only be able to feed herself through transactional sex, requires a stratified society with food surplices, which would require agriculture first to create those surplices.

If a woman is swapping sex for any resource (food, clothes, coins), then the making of those resources came first, and as others have already pointed out, here and under other posts, midwifery came earlier than any other ‘profession’.

Saying ‘both can be true’ makes no sense anyway, if some of the first women in prostitution were slaves, then capturing and trading in slaves came first.

[exjade]

THANK YOU, I have always hated how it’s called “the oldest profession,” which carries this implication that the sexual slavery of women is somehow inevitable to the human race. And people say it with such nonchalance like “what can you do bitch? If there’s one thing that’s inherent to humans it’s that women are dehumanized, subjugated commodities!”  

[antiplondon]

It’s a myth created by Rudyard Kipling, an old, white, colonialist, dude!

The oldest profession in the world (or the world’s oldest profession) is a phrase that, unless another meaning is specified, refers to prostitution.  However, it did not start to acquire that meaning until 1889, after a Rudyard Kipling story, and it did not do so universally until after World War I. Formerly, various professions vied for the reputation of being the oldest.

The claim to be the oldest profession was made on behalf of farmers,[1]cattle drovers,[2]horticulturalists,[3] barbers,[4] engineers,[5]landscape gardeners,[6] the military,[7] doctors,[8]nurses,[9] teachers,[10]priests,[11]lay preachers[12]  and even lawyers.[13]

[femclasscirce]

I want to say a couple of things here about the original tweet without derailing the conversation. I don’t know what culture & time period this specific post refers to, but in ancient Greece and Rome, brothels are notoriously difficult to pinpoint. The Lupanar in Pompeii is the only example of a purpose-built brothel we have. In Athens, there’s building Z in the Kerameikon and not much else.

You’re probably wondering why that is. Of course, there’s the issue of survival patterns biasing archaeological data (ie Pompeii’s brothel survived because it was engulfed in ash whereas other, more populated cities like Rome or Athens changed so much over time that the evidence either got destroyed or irretrievably buried far beneath modern structures).

But it’s not just that. Why did obviously patriarchal, slave-owning cultures not leave more evidence of brothels? After all they were trafficking women captured during wars all the time. Slave traders went around the Mediterranean. The earliest brothel in Athens, allegedly created by Solon, was filled with enslaved women and girls. Why is there not more evidence of these spaces?

In short, because prostitution was embedded within the very fabrics of the cities to such an extent that it’s virtually impossible to detect it via material evidence. Taverns and inns frequently prostituted female waiters to make extra cash. Female musicians, dancers and acrobats were prostituted to male party-goers (sometimes they were even auctioned off by the host or the city’s governing body). A lot of the venues where prostitution happened blended with the cities’ lower-class housing.

This is actually an important point to raise: Roman men from upper social strata would rarely go to prostituted women in inns or alleyways. Their financial means allowed them to simply buy the enslaved girls, women, and boys they found attractive, and abuse them in the comfort of their home. In the comedies of Plautus (2nd century BCE), beautiful female slaves are portrayed as only serving the purpose of sex. Where are you going to find evidence for that in the archaeological remains ? Similarly, the famous Lupanar in Pompeii was not a venue for the upper classes - it was squalid and uncomfortable. The frescoes and paintings we find there are but fantasies of luxury meant for viewers who couldn’t afford them: poor men and enslaved men. (The brothel itself was staffed with enslaved women and children so once again, male solidarity>class solidarity.)

If you’re interested, the Roman historian Thomas McGinn has an interesting chapter on “Zoning” within the ancient city of Rome which investigates why there were no clearly-defined prostitution spaces, no red-light districts. You will not find any ancient equivalents to DeWallen, Kabukicho or Reeperbahn in the corpus of evidence. Prostitution was simply everywhere. Areas of leisure, such as circuses, temples, inns, or baths, were normal solicitation places.

And since it was everywhere, it is now invisible.

[thedreamthieves]

283,000 likes………giant meteor strike the earth rn holy shit. oh my god.

[insomniac-arrest]

"maybe it's not your pussy" is such a funny phrase and also correct. People wonder why chores are so hard and it's like, friends we used to have a whole intergenerational team on this and now Grandma is locked in a beige box. Cooking is hard.

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog the problem is capitalism and not your pussy

[pekingopera]

wow now white people want to adopt Palestinian orphans like they are rescuing poor little exotic pets fuck white savourism fuck genocide Palestine will be free

[xielianss]

That's literally a form of genocide btw:

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Article 6 - Genocide

Genocide

For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

ICRC Database, Treaties, States Parties and Commentaries, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998, Article 6 - Genocide, https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/icc-statute-1998/article-6 (Last accessed on 13.11.2023)

[vyorei-deactivated20251211]

Beautiful display of solidarity ongoing right now from the US calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

Source: @jvplive on Twitter

[thestationerysorcerer]

But America can't afford universal Healthcare (which Israel has mind you). America can't afford student loan forgiveness. America can't afford childcare subsidies. Fucking tired of these clowns.

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

"we were actively an accessory to genocide. and now the weather"

[vyorei-deactivated20251211]

Copied from the OG Tweet as it's too long to screenshot. Source is @Jonathan_K_Cook on Twitter:

The missing context for what's happening in Gaza is that Israel has been working night and day to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland since even before Israel become a state – when it was known as the Zionist movement.

Israel didn't just cleanse Palestinians in 1948, when it was founded as a Western colonial project, and again under cover of a regional war in 1967.

It also worked to ethnically cleanse Palestinians every day between those dates and afterwards. The aim was to move them off their historic lands, and either expel them beyond Israel’s new, expanded borders or concentrate them into small ghettoes inside those borders – as a holding measure until they could be expelled outside the borders.

The 'settler' project, as we call it, is a misnomer. It's really Israel's ethnic cleansing programme. Israel even has a special word for it in Hebrew: 'Judaisation', or making the land Jewish. It is official government policy.

Gaza was the largest of the Palestinian reservations created by Israel's ethnic cleansing programme, and the most overcrowded. To stop the inhabitants spilling out, Israel built a fence-barrier in the early 1990s to pen them in. Then when policing became too hard from within the prison, Israel pulled back in 2005 to the outer perimeter barrier.

New technology allowed Israel to besiege Gaza remotely by land, sea and air in 2007, limiting the entry of food and vital items like medicine and cement for construction. Automated gun towers shot anyone who came near the fence. The navy patrolled the sea, stopping boats straying more than a kilometre or two off shore. And drones watched 24 hours a day from the sky.

The people of Gaza were sealed in and largely forgotten, except when they lobbed a few rockets over the fence – to international indignation. If they fired too many rockets, Israel bombed them mercilessly and occasionally launched a ground invasion. The rocket threat was increasingly neutralised by a rocket interception system, paid for by the US, called Iron Dome.

Palestinians tried to be more inventive in finding ways to break out of their prison. They built tunnels. But Israel found ways to identify those that ran close to the fence and destroyed them.

Palestinians tried to get attention by protesting en masse at the fence. Israeli snipers were ordered to shoot them in the legs, leading to thousands of amputees. The 'deterrence' seemed to work.

Israel could once again sit back and let the Palestinians rot in Gaza. 'Quiet' had been restored.

Until, that is, last weekend when Hamas broke out briefly and ran amok, killing civilians and soldiers alike.

So Israel now needs a new policy.

It looks like the ethnic cleansing programme is being applied to Gaza anew. The half of the population in the enclave's north is being herded south, where there are not the resources to cope with them. And even if there were, Israel has cut off food, water and power to everyone in Gaza.

The enclave is quickly becoming a pressure cooker. The pressure is meant to build on Egypt to allow the Palestinians entry into Sinai on 'humanitarian' grounds.

Whatever the media are telling you, the 'conflict' – that is, Israel's cleansing programme – started long before Hamas appeared on the scene. In fact, Hamas emerged very late, as the predictable response to Israel's violent colonisation project.

Israel could once again sit back and let the Palestinians rot in Gaza. 'Quiet' had been restored.

Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.

[sandmandaddy69]

[luxgalador]

happy 11th birthday god i wish that were me

[parkchanwoohoo]

Weeping at this. Frighteningly similar to how I sound