Auntievenim

Is this the Monday aid shooting or this another new shooting at an aid site today?

Come on. Marital status? This is an attack on queer vets bar none. They just gave them blanket permission to deny someone based on "whether they have a wife or not," which is complete nonsense.

It's clearly just easier to do this and allow the VA to deny benefits to anyone and everyone who isnt straight than to outright say "you can deny care to gay and trans vets" and maybe miss out on harming lesbian vets by accident.

Marital status covers any non-traditional relationship, and allows complete discretion to the fascist who controls your health to determine whether you meet the standards. Horrific. I'm glad you pointed it out.

Edit: and shame on me for not reading the article first

In making the changes, VA officials cite the president’s 30 January executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”. The primary purpose of the executive order was to strip most government protections from transgender people. The VA has since ceased providing most gender-affirming care and forbidden a long list of words, including “gender affirming” and “transgender”, from clinical settings.

So yeah, explicitly to harm queer vets almost exclusively

If any terries on this here plane try getting froggy...

DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta told MSNBC that he respected Weingarten's decision "in this moment" and was confident that she would continue to fight for working Americans.

Which we will not be doing, obviously.

Iran has a right to defend itself

I laughed at thing perpeeing until I saw it was in the prompt lmao does it mean something?

I dont think its insensitive, but I do think you're missing the forest for the trees a bit with this part

the greatest enemy... is division itself

This was sortof poorly communicated on my part because its such a long winded concept but basically my original comment was an acknowledgement that the division was indeed the enemy but more specifically that the ruling class and those in power have consciously and intentionally placed these divisions with deadly accuracy in order to protect the meta interests at play.

For example, libya was a country in Africa mostly useless to america and had no real geopolitical weight in the global arena. When Syria sent suicide bombers to take down a commercial airliner the american government commited to a worldwide obfuscation of this fact because they were collaborating with Syria in military actions against other countries in the Middle East and needed to keep their appearance of impropriety at bay while they were publicly allied. So, at the behest of the american government, libya took credit for the bombings in order to create confusion around the investigation which was very clearly showing no evidence of Libyan involvement and extensive evidence of Syrian involvement. The original reporting of the bombing accused Syria of being the perpetrator, but due to America's pressure campaign the findings were decried as inconclusive.

Decades later, while Syria was committing a genocide and no longer a public ally of the US, libya once again became a subject of the spotlight. Why? Because america was welcoming them into their alliance of course. Libya had "given up their WMD's" (which they never even remotely came close to having) in exchange for being brought into the fold to fight the "evil regimes of the middle east."

Now, one might wonder at this point: what about libya changed in those intervening decades? The leader of their terrorist state was a dictator named qadaffi, and the noble nation joining the coalition was lead by.. the same guy. Objectively nothing about their government or country had changed except the fact that america now saw them useful to their perception management operations.

This is, again, a very poorly explained way of saying that what you percieve as division are actually carefully crafted splinters deliberately used to shatter the ability of anyone to accurately understand and describe the world around them. We are so constantly bombarded with sci-fi level propaganda and unconscious manipulation of narratives about the world around us that almost none of the things that divide people are even real in the first place.

Anti abortion politics was a manufactured astroturfed movement thought up by the highest levels of government and society in order to force a fascist resurgence within the country to destabilize the working class. The tea party movement was a manufactured astroturfed movement funded by billionaires in order to foment a fascist resurgence within the country to destabilize the working class. Illegal immigration is a direct result of american foreign policy destabilizing governments around the world and creating refugee crises that are so large no other country could afford to absorb them and the anti immigration panic is a manufactured astroturfed movement designed by the highest levels of conservative power structures to manufacture consent for holocaust style death camps. These are all factually proven right wing psyops that have successfully destabilized the country and created all the division that is so visibly causing our society to collapse.

In all of these scenarios, there are specific actors and groups directly responsible for and consciously in control of the supposed divisions no matter what they may be. Left or right is a burlap sack over your head that you cannot remove but can turn 180 degrees in between waterboardings. Take the sack off and look at who's holding the hose. It's capitalists every time. Doing something that is inherently destructive to society and the world at large specifically with the intent of profiting off the now destabilized workers, state, or country.

This is long enough so I'll try to wrap up. The real solution to divisions in society is by reducing inequality and the way to reduce inequality is by forcibly divesting capitalists from their capital and returning it to the people who produced it. All the divisions, all the wars, all the economic failures come from a single point and their entire game for the past 400 years has been to obfuscate that single point behind an led screen of shiny new things to get mad about instead of the people exploiting all of us for their own gain.

(The reference to libya is an example given in the documentary "hypernomalization" by Adam Curtis if you'd ever like to hear the story unfucked by my frantic desire to get this comment out lol Here's the link if you're interested )

Take a picture of their face, reverse image search, find their Facebook, and show it to them.

"Is this information up to date?"

If anyone has a more intuitive way to search for people based on facial recognition feel free to chime in because if they're gonna use it on us we might as well make use of it ourselves

Im saying your family stories are probably not as accurate as historians and authors who spoke to Germans in Germany in the 1950s about being nazis. Im very sure you're not lying about that being what they told you.

I'm calling you fantastical and wrong because painting a picture of nazi germany as a nation captive to a despot without any agency is holocaust revisionism. To say the German people were prisoners to the nazi regime is objectively false and all the documentation and research around the subject shows as much. They were very pleased with the reich and only started to sour once the war came home and started to get in the way of Germany's greatness. Please read the book I recommended. Anecdotal evidence doesn't prove this point wrong.

Good thing Iran flat out gave up their weapons program years ago and has allowed inspectors in to monitor the civilian nuclear project to verify they arent actually making weapons and were negotiating even more concessions in order to have sanctions lifted before this

These are things I dont expect you to know, internet stranger, but the state of israel explicitly knows this. They knew this and they still killed the nuclear scientists.

It's not about Iran having nukes. It is unjustifiable violence.

Evangelist Christian Armageddon is the endgame lmao

Not right then, just inevitably. As we are seeing lol