Willful ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal of knowledge. That refusal is complicity.
Outrage must now be the rarest of qualities because outrage spurs action. Indifference is the prevalent opposite, but it depends upon willful blindness, another form of complicity. The UK is awash with indifference, even to its galloping destruction.
The lies provide a convenient excuse for inaction.
By contrast, what can those who see through the lies do? It never is enough, it never could be enough, not even if the blood of every lamb were washed in the blood of every other lamb...
the time has come to bring down our ruling governments. non-violent regime change efforts to begin with: it has been established that there is a genocide (at least a 'serious risk' - this is why bernie won't say the word. under art. i and iii of the convention states must act. organised protesters must start litigating this in national courts.
It is not OK to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and not know that AIPAC owns your Congressional Representative. And it is not OK to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and you continue voting the same representative back into office because you think somehow they'll "change". Face it--they won't.
"grown adult with internet access". If we're assessing by physical age or other standard measures, then "grown adult" subsumes a lot of bodies in the West. But if we assess via accurate moral compasses, ability to sniff out lies and propaganda, and resistance to Fascist authoritarianism, I suggest that the population of "grown adults" shrinks markedly.
The best of our college campuses fledgling adults, many of the Jewish faith, were among the first to rise in opposition to the ongoing genocide. Joined by other students and institutions in a modest, peaceful demand of Boycot, Divest and Sanction, the "grown adults", led by Genocide Joe Biden and currently by the Obese Orange Wet Fart, responded with brutal, police state, crackdown tactics and cruelty. The courts are failing us and the future those students wanted is unattainable while criminals run the world.
Good one, thanks. -- Majority of Americans reading at or below 6th grade level is certainly believable in my experience. I had to deal with 'em for years in "Grade 13". What a revelation.
Yes, I'm aware, and you're right. But I do not need to be double-clipped tonight. Thank you very much. What I need is a troll repellent.
No one will see me on this thread for a while, so John gets his way. Every time this happens, and I don't see that I precipitated it, it's completely disheartening that someone's perception of me is so vituperatively opposed that it goes on & on. Then. like now, I need a sabbatical. See you.
I was pointing it out to each of you, because it is so far off topic.
Thst's part of the problem, people are so easily sidetracked and this us mot the time for that. Why you decided this was meant for you only, I'm not sure, it was not. But there is an ongoing eho fight between two of you that gets in the way too often, which is why, I suppose, it gets moved to its own "continuing" spot.
Just a word of caution, IF you find you are disagreeing with Vin, check yourself before responding. I have and do. Many times you will learn a great deal of info. We are all wanting the same path or close to it. : )
Davina, sister, John was waaaay outta line telling Vin he’d been in the “wrong profession”.
And things frequently get off-topic here. One of my first conversations with Vin and a few other people was why Colorado spruce grow just fine in Colorado but not in the eastern US. Had to do with native species.
I should let the good professor speak for himself, but he is referring to university, which increasingly resembles a sort of extended high school, teaching remedial subjects that should have been taught in high school but weren't.
Precisely. College freshmen, Grade 13, blunder in, expecting that doing what they did in grades 9 thru 12 will get 'em by like it did in 9 thru 12. Which boils down to memorizing what seem to them to be the choicest snippets of "information". But when they're told to expect to apply it -- given practice situations -- and are presented with a question such as: "You land on a foreign planet with the following environmental conditions . . . After a few days, which of the following feedback responses would you expect as compensation by your cardiovascular system?"
Critical thinking?
Then it's: "Gee Professor, thought my test was worth a lot more than a "D". And I muse, "What in the hell would cause you to think that?"
My daughter was a straight-A high school student, National Honors Society, captain of the Quiz Bowl team, etc etc etc. yet she was totally unprepared for college. She had to drop two courses her first semester and graduated in four years only because she took summer classes.
One of the big problems as I see it was that she almost never had homework in high school. When I’d inquire about it she’d say, Oh they give us time in class to do it.
Shouldn’t that time have been spent with the teacher actually teaching?
I love you my friend. I see it every day as well. We had a group of high school interns come in. Next thing the coffee fund money is gone which went to homeless street people : ( That had never happened before. To be an intern here, you are of wealth it's a system designed by the wealthy for the wealthy. There are camera everywhere in our lab, but................
Yes in Argentina High School is part of University. Excellent structure for education, sadly it may be the only thing in Argentina that is an excellent system : (
I am absolutely dumbfounded by the massive amount of gaslighting that Israel produces constantly.
I'm convinced that there must be a huge propaganda budget, and that there are AI bots flooding the internet with lies. It's all much the same dozen or so themes.
Today's lies that struck me the most were
1. If HAMAS stopped and surrendered, Palestinians would no longer suffer.
2. A huge amount of concern for the prisoner in the tunnel, allegedly starved by HAMAS.
Everyday the same lies get repeated over and over in various threads.
Whilst attention has been focussed on Gaza, the IDF and the settlers have been busy in the West Bank, evicting Palestinians from their homes, and then destroying the buildings so they are uninhabitable.
There is a massive pripogaanda budget with another $150m allocated this year not to mention it's mob bots on social media such as FB policing any pro-Pal speech. Just learned Shitsrael is taking a dozen or so MAGA influences (think dumb and dumber) on tours of Shitsrael so they can respawn it's lies and hatred back in the US.
"It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025...... ". Simple and profound Caitlin! Thanks ever so much. When you frame it like that it shows with clarity the stupidity and the lack of feeling, heartlessness and greed of those who yet deny and find excuses for the savagery of the Israeli genocide.
What are you actually doing to help? The legislature controls funding. Want to flip that? If so what seats? What 'leftist' candidates are you helping? If not that what? What positive action items should we be doing to stop this?
Each of her posts - including this one - ends with: "... All my work is free to bootleg and use in any way, shape or form; republish it, translate it, use it on merchandise; whatever you want. ..."
All points right on the money. Idf thugs and cowards should still be all wearing baby clothes far less holding rifles. The stupid fucks are misfits from global society and the most evil racist deranged cunts in all history. Posting their own sanctioned atrocities against innocent unarmed civilians. Civilized society must hold these bastard thrill killers and all their online keyboard ass licking sycophants ( including many fascist apologists on this site) to account when the time of reckoning comes. Jail, shaming, career destruction etc. fight fire with fire. Idf and their pathetic lying propagandist sycophants are cowards. One and all.
There is hope that Israel has been watering the seeds of its own destruction with "leadership" under a corrupt and accomplished world-class liar- Netanyahu and his cohort of radical, extreme right-wing accomplices. This will not help the people of Gaza in time unless some event triggers a revolt with muscle. If Israel attacks Iran again, it may trigger a FAFO event. Such a response could also end catastrophically for the world. Increasingly, I see the possibility of the use of nuclear strikes by desperate losers without enough conventional weapons stockpiled to prosecute the wars they want.
President Trump and Netanyahu have something in common: they both are running from full accountability. If the court systems could adjudicate, and those things hidden could be revealed to the public, there is a possibility we could replace them with more competent leaders who believe in true negotiation with seasoned diplomats.
No, I don't see that happening, but the world is full of surprises.
In the meantime, keep Gaza and the photos taken there in the public eye. Speak out. Each time this is done, it will reach someone who somehow missed what is happening.
We have officially entered a deeper darker period where the rule of law is blatantly ignored. If any entity tried arresting the perpetrators of the Gaza genocide they will be physically destroyed. Even issuing arrest warrants have seen sanctions and threats leveled against the ICC.
Today most of the powerful nations are fully supporting this barbarity. Any attempt by other nations to stop it will mean WW3.
Willful ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal of knowledge. That refusal is complicity.
Outrage must now be the rarest of qualities because outrage spurs action. Indifference is the prevalent opposite, but it depends upon willful blindness, another form of complicity. The UK is awash with indifference, even to its galloping destruction.
The lies provide a convenient excuse for inaction.
By contrast, what can those who see through the lies do? It never is enough, it never could be enough, not even if the blood of every lamb were washed in the blood of every other lamb...
the time has come to bring down our ruling governments. non-violent regime change efforts to begin with: it has been established that there is a genocide (at least a 'serious risk' - this is why bernie won't say the word. under art. i and iii of the convention states must act. organised protesters must start litigating this in national courts.
Law is meaningless. Enforcement is the only thing that matters.
enforcement of the genocide convention.
Yup. The only thing what matters is the force to do it. The convention itself is meaningless.
judges can order the arrest of workers who load weapons and ammunition on ships and airplanes bound for israel.
They won't.
It is not OK to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and not know that AIPAC owns your Congressional Representative.
And your Senators.
Especially your Senators.
It is not OK to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and not know that AIPAC owns your Congressional Representative. And it is not OK to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and you continue voting the same representative back into office because you think somehow they'll "change". Face it--they won't.
"grown adult with internet access". If we're assessing by physical age or other standard measures, then "grown adult" subsumes a lot of bodies in the West. But if we assess via accurate moral compasses, ability to sniff out lies and propaganda, and resistance to Fascist authoritarianism, I suggest that the population of "grown adults" shrinks markedly.
The best of our college campuses fledgling adults, many of the Jewish faith, were among the first to rise in opposition to the ongoing genocide. Joined by other students and institutions in a modest, peaceful demand of Boycot, Divest and Sanction, the "grown adults", led by Genocide Joe Biden and currently by the Obese Orange Wet Fart, responded with brutal, police state, crackdown tactics and cruelty. The courts are failing us and the future those students wanted is unattainable while criminals run the world.
Very true Vin!
which is no coincidence. https://www.tiktok.com/@madeline_pendleton/video/7522178462929521951?lang=lv
Good one, thanks. -- Majority of Americans reading at or below 6th grade level is certainly believable in my experience. I had to deal with 'em for years in "Grade 13". What a revelation.
You know we're talking about the Gazan genocide here not your egos, right?
Yes, I'm aware, and you're right. But I do not need to be double-clipped tonight. Thank you very much. What I need is a troll repellent.
No one will see me on this thread for a while, so John gets his way. Every time this happens, and I don't see that I precipitated it, it's completely disheartening that someone's perception of me is so vituperatively opposed that it goes on & on. Then. like now, I need a sabbatical. See you.
I was pointing it out to each of you, because it is so far off topic.
Thst's part of the problem, people are so easily sidetracked and this us mot the time for that. Why you decided this was meant for you only, I'm not sure, it was not. But there is an ongoing eho fight between two of you that gets in the way too often, which is why, I suppose, it gets moved to its own "continuing" spot.
Just a word of caution, IF you find you are disagreeing with Vin, check yourself before responding. I have and do. Many times you will learn a great deal of info. We are all wanting the same path or close to it. : )
Davina, sister, John was waaaay outta line telling Vin he’d been in the “wrong profession”.
And things frequently get off-topic here. One of my first conversations with Vin and a few other people was why Colorado spruce grow just fine in Colorado but not in the eastern US. Had to do with native species.
Where did you teach grade 13? I didn't think the grades went that high anywhere any more.
I should let the good professor speak for himself, but he is referring to university, which increasingly resembles a sort of extended high school, teaching remedial subjects that should have been taught in high school but weren't.
Precisely. College freshmen, Grade 13, blunder in, expecting that doing what they did in grades 9 thru 12 will get 'em by like it did in 9 thru 12. Which boils down to memorizing what seem to them to be the choicest snippets of "information". But when they're told to expect to apply it -- given practice situations -- and are presented with a question such as: "You land on a foreign planet with the following environmental conditions . . . After a few days, which of the following feedback responses would you expect as compensation by your cardiovascular system?"
Critical thinking?
Then it's: "Gee Professor, thought my test was worth a lot more than a "D". And I muse, "What in the hell would cause you to think that?"
Hi Vin
My daughter was a straight-A high school student, National Honors Society, captain of the Quiz Bowl team, etc etc etc. yet she was totally unprepared for college. She had to drop two courses her first semester and graduated in four years only because she took summer classes.
One of the big problems as I see it was that she almost never had homework in high school. When I’d inquire about it she’d say, Oh they give us time in class to do it.
Shouldn’t that time have been spent with the teacher actually teaching?
I love you my friend. I see it every day as well. We had a group of high school interns come in. Next thing the coffee fund money is gone which went to homeless street people : ( That had never happened before. To be an intern here, you are of wealth it's a system designed by the wealthy for the wealthy. There are camera everywhere in our lab, but................
Vin, much like many of your previous posts, your rhetoric seems confusing at best, and your motives murky. Maybe you were in the wrong profession?
Yes in Argentina High School is part of University. Excellent structure for education, sadly it may be the only thing in Argentina that is an excellent system : (
The uneducated adults you mean. That is why Caitline starts with an image-message : "educate yourself" ?
It is not OK to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and vote for a Democrat or a Republican.
I am absolutely dumbfounded by the massive amount of gaslighting that Israel produces constantly.
I'm convinced that there must be a huge propaganda budget, and that there are AI bots flooding the internet with lies. It's all much the same dozen or so themes.
Today's lies that struck me the most were
1. If HAMAS stopped and surrendered, Palestinians would no longer suffer.
2. A huge amount of concern for the prisoner in the tunnel, allegedly starved by HAMAS.
Everyday the same lies get repeated over and over in various threads.
Whilst attention has been focussed on Gaza, the IDF and the settlers have been busy in the West Bank, evicting Palestinians from their homes, and then destroying the buildings so they are uninhabitable.
"there must be a huge propaganda budget"
Add up the corporate value of every Western media outlet, and you have your number.
YES 💯
There is a massive pripogaanda budget with another $150m allocated this year not to mention it's mob bots on social media such as FB policing any pro-Pal speech. Just learned Shitsrael is taking a dozen or so MAGA influences (think dumb and dumber) on tours of Shitsrael so they can respawn it's lies and hatred back in the US.
Nothing stops israelis except a bullet between the eyes, you know like they're doing to Palestinuan children? Reciprocity would work for me.
It is not OK to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025 and believe that claims of antisemitism have anything to do with protecting Jews.
💯
"It’s not okay to be a grown adult with internet access in August 2025...... ". Simple and profound Caitlin! Thanks ever so much. When you frame it like that it shows with clarity the stupidity and the lack of feeling, heartlessness and greed of those who yet deny and find excuses for the savagery of the Israeli genocide.
It’s also not okay not to know who you are enslaved by in 2025.
It’s not okay to give part of your labor to the empire and accept it as part of life.
It’s not okay to see other people like you swear it out in constant unrelenting heat (100 degrees F and more, and not be aware of the cause.
It’s not okay to freeze to death in the great outdoors called the streets of the world and to accept it in servitude to Masters.
It’s not okay to know what rules the world and support that inequality.
It’s not okay not to know and admit who is enslaving you…
It’s okay to feel your emotions and quation authority…
Lies. Four letters that spell Israel, the Terrorist Genocide Racist State. Cancel it, and supporters.
It's not ok to have yours and other countries creating censorship laws for trying to talk about what's happening.
Can I translate this to Portuguese and share?
Yes please!
What are you actually doing to help? The legislature controls funding. Want to flip that? If so what seats? What 'leftist' candidates are you helping? If not that what? What positive action items should we be doing to stop this?
Each of her posts - including this one - ends with: "... All my work is free to bootleg and use in any way, shape or form; republish it, translate it, use it on merchandise; whatever you want. ..."
All of Caitlin’s posts are free to use as you wish
So yes 👍
translate and share widely 💯
Thank You Caitlin
All points right on the money. Idf thugs and cowards should still be all wearing baby clothes far less holding rifles. The stupid fucks are misfits from global society and the most evil racist deranged cunts in all history. Posting their own sanctioned atrocities against innocent unarmed civilians. Civilized society must hold these bastard thrill killers and all their online keyboard ass licking sycophants ( including many fascist apologists on this site) to account when the time of reckoning comes. Jail, shaming, career destruction etc. fight fire with fire. Idf and their pathetic lying propagandist sycophants are cowards. One and all.
There is hope that Israel has been watering the seeds of its own destruction with "leadership" under a corrupt and accomplished world-class liar- Netanyahu and his cohort of radical, extreme right-wing accomplices. This will not help the people of Gaza in time unless some event triggers a revolt with muscle. If Israel attacks Iran again, it may trigger a FAFO event. Such a response could also end catastrophically for the world. Increasingly, I see the possibility of the use of nuclear strikes by desperate losers without enough conventional weapons stockpiled to prosecute the wars they want.
President Trump and Netanyahu have something in common: they both are running from full accountability. If the court systems could adjudicate, and those things hidden could be revealed to the public, there is a possibility we could replace them with more competent leaders who believe in true negotiation with seasoned diplomats.
No, I don't see that happening, but the world is full of surprises.
In the meantime, keep Gaza and the photos taken there in the public eye. Speak out. Each time this is done, it will reach someone who somehow missed what is happening.
When it's "over" these ZioNazi vermin should be hunted down and prosecuted.
We have officially entered a deeper darker period where the rule of law is blatantly ignored. If any entity tried arresting the perpetrators of the Gaza genocide they will be physically destroyed. Even issuing arrest warrants have seen sanctions and threats leveled against the ICC.
Today most of the powerful nations are fully supporting this barbarity. Any attempt by other nations to stop it will mean WW3.
The "powerful nations" are losing power by the day. I hope that ZioNazis will be destroyed. It will be a photo-finish!
I'm sorry to say I think you are right 😢
Hunted down with AK47s, Jackie.
Starved to death.
Like Jimmy Dore and Brianna Joy Gray?