#climate holocaust

[nando161mando]

"Either we overthrow this system or the ruling class march us to global climate holocaust. Organise for revolution."

[dougielombax]

Denialism doesn’t just apply to genocide.

It applies equally to other atrocities such as mass displacement.

And other things such as indisputable facts like climate change.

This should go without saying but some dumb fuckers are so determined to shift the metaphorical goalposts that they’ll do anything but admit that they might just be wrong about something.

[historyforfuture]

عاجل | المدير العام للمستشفيات في ‎#غزة الاحتلال أجبر وطرد المرضى والجرحى من مجمع الشفاء

🛑اســتـشهاد طفل من الخدچ بالعدوى وبدء “العد التنازلي” لحياة 35 آخرين

🛑 استشهاد كل مرضى العناية المركزة في ‎#مجمع_الشفاء الطبي البالغ عددهم 22 بالإضافة إلى 6 من مرضى غسيل الكلى

‎Manager of hospitals in Gaza:

All the patients in the intensive care in Al Shifa hospital whose number is 22 in addition to 6 of dialysis patients were martyred.

The occupation forced and expelled the patients, the wounded and the IDPS from Al Shifa hospital.

One of the premature babies died by infection and the countdown for the other 35 began .

[zhabe]

my three degrees from mads mikkelsen verse keeps growing

[didanawisgi]

Wicked Globalists Are Causing Starvation and Poverty Under the Guise of ...

[vydumaj]

I think I personally could get rid of ulf kristersson just by walking up to him in completely flat shoes and standing straight in front of him and staring down at him . he’d be crying in just a few short minutes if not less

[johnbrownanarchist]

Just made a playlist called “music for the impending international nuclear exchange” its needs to be about 20 minutes long and it ends in “we’ll meet again”

[carolkeiter]

Uncensored Truth > Independent News  |  Outliers to Mainstream Networks

As George Monbiot writes in Nationalise Us, “It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action.” Though in many ways I’m quite systematic in certain routines, I also dive spontaneously into activities and simply ‘go with the flow’. That’s precisely what I did one evening a few weeks ago, intuitively deciding to hang out at a populated…

[unravelingwires]

Pyramidologists

The issue with conspiracy theories is that they get frustrating after you know too much about them. The concept that the Egyptians couldn’t build the pyramids on their own is based on several racist assumptions that become obvious once you think for a few seconds. Flat earthers are really far-right radical Christians offended by the idea that the Earth isn’t the center of the universe, as that would imply that they don’t hold a special space in the cosmos. The King family really believes the government killed Martin Luther King Jr., and our main evidence against such an assassination appears to be that the government claims it never happened. “Lizard people” is code for Jewish people. “The Illuminati” is code for Jewish people. “Elites” is code for Jewish people.

There are a lot of conversations in certain academic disciplines about what learning will do to your mental state. I’ve heard it most discussed between Holocaust historians, but I’ve been most involved in discussions between climate change researchers. I’ve always been quick to anger, and science hasn’t helped that. Science is my passion and curiosity and excitement, but that comes with depression and cynicism and anger. I think that’s just the way I’m going to be.

[specialagentartemis]

I get variations on this comment on my post about history misinformation all the time: "why does it matter?" Why does it matter that people believe falsehoods about history? Why does it matter if people spread history misinformation? Why does it matter if people on tumblr believe that those bronze dodecahedra were used for knitting, or that Persephone had a daughter named Mespyrian? It's not the kind of misinformation that actually hurts people, like anti-vaxx propaganda or climate change denial. It doesn't hurt anyone to believe something false about the past.

Which, one, thanks for letting me know on my post that you think my job doesn't matter and what I do is pointless, if it doesn't really matter if we know the truth or make up lies about history because lies don't hurt anyone. But two, there are lots of reasons that it matters.

It encourages us to distrust historians when they talk about other aspects of history. You might think it's harmless to believe that Pharaoh Hatshepsut was trans. It's less harmless when you're espousing that the Holocaust wasn't really about Jews because the Nazis "came for trans people first." You might think it's harmless to believe that the French royalty of Versailles pooped and urinated on the floor of the palace all the time, because they were asshole rich people anyway, who cares, we hate the rich here; it's rather less harmless when you decide that the USSR was the communist ideal and Good, Actually, and that reports of its genocidal oppression are actually lies.

It encourages anti-intellectualism in other areas of scholarship. Deciding based on your own gut that the experts don't know what they're talking about and are either too stupid to realize the truth, or maliciously hiding the truth, is how you get to anti-vaxxers and climate change denial. It is also how you come to discount housing-first solutions for homelessness or the idea that long-term sustained weight loss is both biologically unlikely and health-wise unnecessary for the majority of fat people - because they conflict with what you feel should be true. Believing what you want to be true about history, because you want to believe it, and discounting fact-based corrections because you don't want them to be true, can then bleed over into how you approach other sociological and scientific topics.

How we think about history informs how we think about the present. A lot of people want certain things to be true - this famous person from history was gay or trans, this sexist story was actually feminist in its origin - because we want proof that gay people, trans people, and women deserve to be respected, and this gives evidence to prove we once were and deserve to be. But let me tell you a different story: on Thanksgiving of 2016, I was at a family friend's house and listening to their drunk conservative relative rant, and he told me, confidently, that the Roman Empire fell because they instituted universal healthcare, which was proof that Obama was destroying America. Of course that's nonsense. But projecting what we think is true about the world back onto history, and then using that as recursive proof that that is how the world is... is shoddy scholarship, and gets used for topics you don't agree with just as much as the ones you do. We should not be encouraging this, because our politics should be informed by the truth and material reality, not how we wish the past proved us right.

It frequently reinforces "Good vs. Bad" dichotomies that are at best unhelpful and at worst victim-blaming. A very common thread of historical misinformation on tumblr is about the innocence or benevolence of oppressed groups, slandered by oppressors who were far worse. This very frequently has truth to it - but makes the lies hard to separate out. It often simplifies the narrative, and implies that the reason that colonialism and oppression were bad was because the victims were Good and didn't deserve it... not because colonialism and oppression are bad. You see this sometimes with radical feminist mother goddess Neolithic feminist utopia stuff, but you also see it a lot regarding Native American and African history. I have seen people earnestly argue that Aztecs did not practice human sacrifice, that that was a lie made up by the Spanish to slander them. That is not true. Human sacrifice was part of Aztec, Maya, and many Central American war/religious practices. They are significantly more complex than often presented, and came from a captive-based system of warfare that significantly reduced the number of people who got killed in war compared to European styles of war that primarily killed people on the battlefield rather than taking them captive for sacrifice... but the human sacrifice was real and did happen. This can often come off with the implications of a 'noble savage' or an 'innocent victim' that implies that the bad things the Spanish conquistadors did were bad because the victims were innocent or good. This is a very easy trap to fall into; if the victims were good, they didn't deserve it. Right? This logic is dangerous when you are presented with a person or group who did something bad... you're caught in a bind. Did they deserve their injustice or oppression because they did something bad? This kind of logic drives a lot of transphobia, homophobia, racism, and defenses of Kyle Rittenhouse today. The answer to a colonialist logic of "The Aztecs deserved to be conquered because they did human sacrifice and that's bad" is not "The Aztecs didn't do human sacrifice actually, that's just Spanish propaganda" (which is a lie) it should be "We Americans do human sacrifice all the god damn time with our forever wars in the Middle East, we just don't call it that. We use bullets and bombs rather than obsidian knives but we kill way, way more people in the name of our country. What does that make us? Maybe genocide is not okay regardless of if you think the people are weird and scary." It becomes hard to square your ethics of the Innocent Victim and Lying Perpetrator when you see real, complicated, individual-level and group-level interactions, where no group is made up of members who are all completely pure and good, and they don't deserve to be oppressed anyway.

It makes you an unwitting tool of the oppressor. The favorite, favorite allegation transphobes level at trans people, and conservatives at queer people, is that we're lying to push the Gay Agenda. We're liars or deluded fools. If you say something about queer or trans history that's easy to debunk as false, you have permanently hurt your credibility - and the cause of queer history. It makes you easy to write off as a liar or a deluded fool who needs misinformation to make your case. If you say Louisa May Alcott was trans, that's easy to counter with "there is literally no evidence of that, and lots of evidence that she was fine being a woman," and instantly tanks your credibility going forward, so when you then say James Barry was trans and push back against a novel or biopic that treats James Barry as a woman, you get "you don't know what you're talking about, didn't you say Louisa May Alcott was trans too?" TERFs love to call trans people liars - do not hand them ammunition, not even a single bullet. Make sure you can back up what you say with facts and evidence. This is true of homophobes, of racists, of sexists. Be confident of your facts, and have facts to give to the hopeful and questioning learners who you are relating this story to, or the bigots who you are telling off, because misinformation can only hurt you and your cause.

It makes the queer, female, POC, or other marginalized listeners hurt, sad, and betrayed when something they thought was a reflection of their own experiences turns out not to be real. This is a good response to a performance art piece purporting to tell a real story of gay WWI soldiers, until the author revealed it as fiction. Why would you want to set yourself up for disappointment like that? Why would you want to risk inflicting that disappointment and betrayal on anyone else?

It makes it harder to learn the actual truth.

Historical misinformation has consequences, and those consequences are best avoided - by checking your facts, citing your sources, and taking the time and effort to make sure you are actually telling the truth.

[nando161mando]

Lohse – Debunking Holocaust Deniers

[callingoutcomm]

2023: It's About To Get REAL...

2023: It’s About To Get REAL…

When I posted my first blog article on August 1, 2014, I had no idea that one day, over 26,000 followers from over 120 countries would be following what I wrote.  I had no idea that I would have such a huge amount of ideas to write about, ,and I had no idea the pressure I would put on myself to always post something that was perfectly written and edited. But now, 8+ years later, I totally get…

[historyforfuture]

Tenths of corpses in front of Al shifa medical complex in Gaza because there,s no place in mortuary refrigerators and inability to bury them bec. Of israeli targetting and surrounding the hospital.

مشاهد لتكدس عشرات جثامين الشهداء أمام مجمع الشفاء الطبي بغزة منذ أيام، بسبب عدم التمكن من دفنهم أو حفظهم في ثلاجات الموتى، تزامنا مع عدوان الاحتلال وحصاره المتواصل للمستشفى.

[fromchaostocosmos]

Like many others I'm worried about the USA presidential election and I'm worried for a variety of reasons.

I want to focus on specific worry I have in regards to said election.

I am Jewish and if don't already know Jews only make 0.2% of the world population, not even half a percent.

In the USA we make up 2% of the USA population. American Jews are majority democrat and our voting trends reflect.

The past two presidential ballots that have had Trump on them Jews were the second highest voting bloc to vote against Trump, the highest voting bloc being Black Americans.

I remember when Trump won the presidency and election night was not even over and how I saw people, leftist specifically, blaming Jews for his win.

Despite the numbers showing that we did not want him as president and did our best to make sure he did not win.

And the second time he was on the ballot, but he didn't win. Still we were blamed for not doing enough, for it being to close, for one thing or another.

Again regardless of what the facts had to say about how Jews voted and it was still the same people doing the blaming.

For a group that is only 2% of the countries population to be second highest voting bloc against Trump is something that I think is pretty impressive and we did it twice.

We currently are dealing with people openly celebrating one of the most horrific and tragic events in Jewish history since the Holocaust. We have people openly cheering on the deaths of Jews, calling for the deaths of more Jews, doxxing of Jews, calling us unclean, using blood libel, I mean you name it they are doing it and it is not coming from the Right only as one would expect. But rather from the Left.

Many Jews myself included who consider ourselves leftist and still do no longer feel safe in these so called progressive spaces and how can when our safety is at serious risk.

So I'm seriously concerned because if we had two elections with Trump on the ballot where leftist blamed Jews despite the evidence showing Jews overwhelming did not vote for Trump and now we have this climate that we have and the odds of Trump being the Republican nominee are pretty high.

What is going to happen after this presidential because either way no matter Jews do, no matter how we vote we still lose.

(This is not me saying Jews should vote for Trump, G-d forbid no, do not do that)

[batboyblog]

Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #17

May 3-10 2024

Vice President Harris announced 5.5 billion dollars to build affordable housing and address homelessness. The grants will go to 1,200 communities across all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico. 1.3 billion will go to HUD's HOME program which builds, buys, and rehabs affordable housing for rent or ownership. 3.3 billion is headed to Community Development Block Grants which supports housing as well as homeless services, and expanding economic opportunities. Remaining funds focus on building housing for extremely low- and very low-income households, Housing for people struggling with HIV/AIDS, transitional housing for those with substance-use disorder, and money to support homeless shelters and homeless prevention programs.

At the 3rd meeting of the Los Angeles Declaration group in Guatemala Security of State Blinken announced $578 million in new US aid to Latin America. The Los Angeles Declaration is a partnership between the US and 20 other nations in the Americas to address immigration, combat human trafficking, and support economic development and improved quality of life for people in poor nations in the Americas. The bulk of the aid, over $400 million will go to humanitarian assistance to the Venezuelan people. Inside of Venezuela over 7 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance due to decades of political and economic instability. Over 7 million more have been forced to flee the country and live in poverty across the Americas. The aid will help Venezuelans both inside and outside of Venezuela.

The Department of Energy lead an effort to get the G7 to agree to phase out coal by the early 2030s. The G7 is a collection of the 7 largest Industrial economies on Earth, the US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy. To avoid catastrophic climate change the International Energy Agency believes coal needs to be phased out by 2035. However this has been a sticking point with the G7 since 1/3rd of Japan and 1/4th of Germany's energy comes from Coal. This agreement to phase out represents a major breakthrough and the US plans to press for even wider agreement on the issue at the G20 meeting in November.

President Biden announced a major investment deal in Racine, Wisconsin, site of the failed Trump Foxconn deal. In 2018 then President Trump visited Racine and declared the planned Foxconn plant "the eighth wonder of the world.". However the promised 13,000 jobs never materialized and the Taiwan based Foxconn after bulldozing 100s of homes and farms decided not to build. President Biden inked a deal with Microsoft for the land formally given to Foxconn which will bring 2,000 new jobs to Racine to help replace the 1,000 job losses during Trump's Presidency in the community.

200 tribal governments and the US territories of American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, published climate action plans. The plans were paid for by the Biden Administration as part of a 5 billion dollar Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program. The federal government is supporting all 50 states, territories, DC, and tribal governments to draft climate action plans, which will be used to apply for more than 4 billion dollars in grants to help turn plans into reality

As part of marking Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), the Biden Administration announced a number of action aimed at combating antisemitism and supporting the Jewish Community. This included $400 million in new funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program. The Program has supported Synagogues and Jewish Community Centers with security improvements like bullet proof windows and trainings for staff in how to handle active shooter and hostage situations. The Department of Education issued guidance to all schools districts and federally funded colleges stressing that antisemitism is banned under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These actions come as part of the Biden Administration's National Strategy To Counter Antisemitism, the first ever national strategy addressing the issue by any Administration.

USAID announced $220 million in additional humanitarian aid to Yemen. This new funding will bring US aid to Yemen over the last 10 years to nearly $6 billion. Currently 18 million Yemenis are estimated as needing humanitarian assistance, 9 million of them children, and the UN believes nearly 14 million face imminent risk of famine. The US remains the single largest donor nation to humanitarian relief in Yemen.

The Department of Interior announced nearly $150 million to help communities fight drought. The funds will support 42 projects across 10 western states. This is part of the President's $8.3 billion dollar investment in the nations water infrastructure over the next 5 five years.