Kindness is Punk

The sheer horror of being conscripted into the Russian military is unimaginable. These soldiers reduced are cannon fodder and are treated as less than human, not even afforded basic sustenance. These aren’t soldiers; they’re disposable bodies thrown into a meat grinder by officials who are nothing short of war criminals. The cruelty is beyond comprehension.

Israel fighting for anyone’s rights is so fucking laughable

leave it to ML users to debate subjective experience. Don’t you think you’re being needlessly incendiary?

well we experienced different posts at different times then I know obviously it’s not a homogeneous board, nowhere is, but I can tell you that the subset I dealt with did.

that being said I’m not so interested in laying blame as I am with getting people to engage with the Democratic process outside of major elections.

Remember during the election when the Trump admin was supposed to be good for Palestine. So many people on ML specifically were convinced that Trump was going to solve the crisis.

it’s almost like the issues with the United States government run deeper than the President.

Who could have possibly predicted that Trump would side with Putin? What an utterly shocking development if only there had been years of obsequious praise, leaked intelligence to Russian officials, and repeated calls to dismantle NATO as clues! Truly, nobody saw this coming.

While that can definitely be true, it’s not the case in this instance, they actually did say Russia was justified and that Ukraine joining NATO provoked the war.

Car culture permeates North America to such a degree that people tie it to their very identity

It’s really hard for me to imagine us moving away from it but it’s very clear it’s toxic in every way it touches our lives.

From our dependence on Russian oil To the climate impact of hydrocarbons To the exhaust fumes being linked to childhood asthma To tire particulates being a huge source of microplastics to the enormous tax subsidies required to even make them viable to the ways it has shaped our society to be more isolated

I truly fucking hate cars.

Capitalists won’t be happy until our future is not but ash.

It’s pretty clear that Trump’s stance toward the slaughter of Ukrainians has been one of quiet complicity.

TLDR:

Israeli airstrikes killed at least six Palestinians guarding aid trucks in Gaza, according to Hamas, as aid distribution struggles due to looting and delays.

Israel says it allowed 300 trucks in since easing its blockade, but aid groups say it’s not enough and many supplies are stuck at the border.

The UN warns of extreme hunger, with two million people at risk of famine. Meanwhile, Israel intensified strikes overnight, hitting 75 targets.

The conflict, ongoing since October 2023, has killed over 53,600 Palestinians,