“Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real #resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly #nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an #oppressive #state.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
#oppressive
Due to the greed of outsourcing, the #ukgovernment including local government does not have joined up computing.
Communication is fraught.
As illustrated by the debacle of the #oppressive one-login, each service has its own entry system, separate database, and possibly runs on an out of date operating system.
When the 'mainframe' was replaced by first mini-computers and then the PC, the uk descended into chaos.
Considerable consolidation and update is needed
#Data is control: what we learned from a year investigating the #Israeli #military’s ties to big #tech
Our reporting revealed a symbiotic relationship between the #IDF and #SiliconValley – with implications for the future of #warfare
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/israeli-military-big-tech
#Gaza #genocide #WarCrimes #AI #Israel #war #HumanRights #BigData #privacy #Orwellian #1984 #dystopian #authoritarian #oppressive
Digital #ID to become law in U-turn from #Labour Government
#ToxicLabour
#DigitalID is to be made law for all adults in the #UK in a screeching U-turn from the Labour Government. [Not in Labour #Manifesto]
Keir #Starmer is expected to announce the full plans later this week, with LBC speculating an announcement could be made on Friday
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25495657.digital-id-become-law-u-turn-labour-government/
#authoritarian #LabourLies #dishonest #Orwellian #oppressive #ToxicStarmer
For #comedians around the world, the laughs often end as #democracy fades
#Trump diminishing space for #FreeSpeech shows Trump’s America is moving towards #authoritarianism. Senator Bernie Sanders, speaking to MSNBC, said the country was on a path towards becoming more like #oppressive #regimes in #Russia and #Saudi Arabia. “This is just another step forward,” he said.
#DictatorTrump #USSA #ComradeKrasnov #ThoughtPolice #threats
#FactCheck:
Are #White #SouthAfrican ‘#refugees’ fleeing #racialpersecution?
#Afrikaners, a #Whiteminority who ruled #SouthAfrica with an #oppressive grip, #dispossessed the #Black majority during the #colonialera and #apartheid.
#Check out : #Israel is a #democracy, perhaps in the way that all our so-called democracies evolve, more #authoritarian, more #oppressive, more #oligarchic, more #differential and #unequal - anyway #Israel is an #occidental #invention
« The next morning I left the festival and made my way from Ramallah to Jerusalem. I had to wait an extra hour or so for a taxi with the right color license plate, yellow, and so be allowed to cross through a checkpoint in Israel’s wall and onto the road to Jerusalem on the other side. I made small talk with my driver, then retreated back into my thoughts of the journey so far. It was my sixth day in Palestine, but I felt like I had been here for months. The days were filled with tours, the nights with talks—even the meals felt like seminars. Some of this is just being abroad somewhere far from home. But most of it was the specificity of this place—how much it seemed to embody the West and its contradictions, its claims of democracy, its foundations in exploitation. Of all the worlds I have ever explored, I don’t think any shone so bright, so intense, so immediately as Palestine.
But when the light cleared I had new eyes, and I could see my own words in new ways—and the words from which they were derived—the stories, columns, speeches, and talks presented by “willing intellectuals.” So much seemed obvious. I now noted a symmetry in the bromides—that those who claimed Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East were just as likely to claim that America was the oldest democracy in the world. And both claims relied on excluding whole swaths of the population living under the rule of the state. Riding in that taxi toward Jerusalem, the truth of this struck me as undeniable. I’d spent most of my time in the Occupied Territories, a world of minority rule. But even in the state proper, caste reigned. Palestinians living in Israel have shorter lives, are poorer, and live in more violent neighborhoods. Certain neighborhoods in Israel are allowed to discriminate legally against Palestinian citizens by setting “admission committees.” The committees, operating in 41 percent of all Israeli localities, are free to bar anyone lacking “social suitability” or “compatibility with the social and cultural fabric.” Openly racist appeals are the norm, as when Benjamin Netanyahu warned in 2015 that “the right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves.” For all my talk of being fooled by the language of “Jewish democracy,” it had been right there the whole time. The phrase means what it says—a democracy for the Jewish people and the Jewish people alone. »
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
"And when the woman at the next table gets up and excuses herself to squeeze by you with a smile, you wonder, ‘Does she think that about me too?’ And that feels #oppressive." – Panti Bliss 2/2
Brilliant words-applicable to any #minority whose rights are being ‘discussed’.
You can watch the whole speech here: https://youtu.be/WXayhUzWnl0?feature=shared
Why I'm Angry at #Religion | Greta Christina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrA3QTV2qVM&list=WL
#atheist #atheism #christianity
In this thought-provoking video, author and activist #GretaChristina delves into the reasons behind her deep frustration with #organizedreligion. Drawing from personal experiences and broader societal observations, she examines how religion has often perpetuated harm, hindered progress, and shaped #oppressive systems.
#ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #CelestialBeing #Darkness #ShatteredArmor #BrokenHalo #GlowingEyes #Despair #DarkChains #CorruptedWings #Ethereal #FallenDivinity #GrimAtmosphere #Isolation #ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #celestial #darkness #shatteredarmor #brokenhalo #despair #chains #etherealwings #fallen #divinity #grim #oppressive
"At this stage of confusion and uncertainty, in the midst of chaos, because they have yet to fully take #authority, their abilities to silence, intimidate, and enforce increasingly #oppressive actions against you are limited. Exercise the rights you currently have before they are taken from you."
It is 75 degrees where I am right now; the dew point is 74. That is #dank and #oppressive. :WIH: :REPENT:
The dew point for #JerseyCity has been in the low 70s all day. That's #dank and #oppressive.
The dew point in #JerseyCity right now is 73°F . . . oh my that's #oppressive and #dank.
The dew point is 72 degrees. Oh my. #dank #oppressive :WIH: :REPENT:
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My right to 💀 life is being 🌊 submerged. I won't fight for freedom that I don't have.
#righttolife #humanrights #humanrightsviolations #injustice #oppression #persecution #civilrights #oppressive #equalrights #equalprotectionunderthelaw #resistance #civildisobedience #protest #activism #fightforfreedom #palestine #diversity #palestinesolidarity
"You've used our website for all of five seconds. Would you like to take a survey about your experience?"
:holdthepain:
"There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers – and gives them to you." — John W. Campbell — — — #JohnWCampbell #quote #quotes #quip #sarcastic #suffocating #oppressive #answers #knowitall
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