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I love this woman.

Ann Wright is a retired US Army colonel who once worked for the State Department, but she was one of only 3 State Department officials to resign in protest of the Iraq War. She has been on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla before aboard the Challenger 1.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Wright

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Thomas Deininger

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This scientist crafts stunning visual art through chemistry.

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I do get this and agree that we should welcome anyone who has a change of heart and promote for it collectively and try to encourage them and give them the opportunity to change. If not only for the reason that their all a product of their upbringing and fell for a cult.

But if I had to choose whom to help financially (like as a single person contributing). Between someone who voted for Trump but now feels the consequences of his policies, and someone who has consistently opposed those policies— I’d lean toward helping the latter. If there was only one person who happens to be someone like this, it would be a different story.

But "prioritising" like this might not fall under consistent values either.

I do actually care marginally about the guy in that reddit screenshot who voted for Trump and is now worried that he might lose his medicaid funding because I did not fucking stutter when I said healthcare is a human right but the people losing their internships and job offers to the hiring freeze are straight up hilarious.

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I would like to take this opportunity to wish Israel a very happy "Get Your S*** Pushed In." Fire when ready, Iran.

(Pt.1)

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AfD schwurbelt übers Klima

Im Trias gab es dreimal so viel CO2 in der Atmosphäre. Damals gab es zwar keine Menschen, aber die Dinosaurier fanden's herrlich!

Kein Zusammenschnitt. Das Haus hat genau so reagiert.

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Normale Dinge die man sagt

Irgendwie hasse ich die CDU fast mehr als die AfD. Bei der AfD weiß man wenigstens wo man ist. Und bei der CDU (weiß man das zwar auch aber) aber der Großteil ihrer Wähler sehen sie noch als die neutrale Partei die "Realpolitik" macht anstatt zu dem neuen Kurs zu stehen: Wie die FDP Opportunisten, wie die AfD konservativ mit Tendenz zum faschistischen.

Wenn ein Staat, dem vorgeworfen wird, einen Genozid durchzuführen, einen anderen Staat angreift und ausgerechnet der deutsche Regierungschef das als "unsere Drecksarbeit übernehmen" bezeichnet, dann hat das doch irgendwie ein Geschmäckle.

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Ah yes. A little bit imported homophobia for us ... as a treat. We're already quite satisfied with the home made one by CDU.

Pig queen Glöckner forbade the LGBT flag from being hissed on the Reichtags building and this coalition plans to "review" the "Selbstbestimmungsgesetz" which allowed trans people easier and less expensive access to change their marker. Not to mention the clowns who met with Ron Desantis for whatever reason.

Europe has to get independent fast. And not just defense-wise but technology wise.

"If you're not american, why do you even care-"

US-based company YouTube just nuked the government funded channel for HIV prevention in Germany. The channel is purely educational and had no prior (or current) violations.

Assuming you guys get elections again; if I see a single person telling non-US-americans to stay out of it, it's on sight.

(german source) As of writing, the channel has been reinstated due to public backlash, but is missing several videos.

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We were just covering "Lavender' AI in our ethics on AI class:

"During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based. One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all.

Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity. According to the sources, this was because, from what they regarded as an intelligence standpoint, it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses. Additional automated systems, including one called “Where’s Daddy?” also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences."

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+972mag fact check:

MBFC Bias Rating: Left-Center Bias

Factual Reporting Rating: High

Fact-Check Record: Clean (No failed fact checks in the last 5 years)

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Click the actual post, it will take you to the tweet itself and the article. And tw only for my palestinian friends, but this is harrowing. And just.. depraved. No words. I really think it is worth reading.

"There is a feeling that senior officials in the army are aware of their failure on October 7, and are busy with the question of how to provide the Israeli public with an image [of victory] that will salvage their reputation.”

To be clear, the framing of the article is shaky, but the details of it is stomach churning. IDF is using AI to generate targets. Every civilian death was intentional.

“These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”

I also want to add something that became clearer to me from philippine politics, as a survivor of Duterte's war on drugs where cops literally shot at me.

The duterte administration called every single leftist voice "terrorists", using that to push out laws making it legal to redtag, leading to arrests and imprisonment, literally murdering activists in broad daylight- it should have made it clear to everyone that the word "terrorist" as a descriptor is just a boogeyman. A tool of the fascist.

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I think anybody who is excited that missiles are raining down on Tel Aviv are just frankly quite stupid and not somebody that I could have a genuine conversation with. If you are incapable of caring about multiple things at once you’re a bit dumb is all I’m saying. Idk I care about all civilians and I don’t hold them accountable for the actions of their government and idk why that’s a controversial thing to say in 2025

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Es müsste eine Plattform geben wie AbgeordnetenWatch die solche Aussagen von Politikern zu Themen klar aufzeigt. Also nicht nur Abstimmverhalten shamen sondern auch so Sachen.

Vielleicht würde das auch ein paar AfDlern die Gaulands Gerede verleugnen die Augen öffnen.

Friedrich Merz über einen möglichen schwulen Bundeskanzler:

Die Frage der sexuellen Orientierung geht die Öffentlichkeit nichts an. Solange sich das im Rahmen der Gesetze bewegt und solange es nicht Kinder betrifft – an der Stelle ist für mich allerdings eine absolute Grenze erreicht -, ist das kein Thema für die öffentliche Diskussion. [x]

Friedrich Merz mit Mr. Epsteinfiles:

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I will predict that it is not long before some will demand women can't wear pants else it be crossdressing.

Well shit, the Republicans brought a certain anti-online porn bill back to the table.

The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act.

This should alarm you guys.

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That's exactly it. The porn wars thing is an even better example to see the slippery slope (without any trans people). Like okay: conservatives will push for the sex work ban (ignoring that this makes it worse considering no legal protections are available) and they will push for the porn ban. Is it really such leap from that to "don't dress indecent"? And then TERFs turn around and say yes actually don't dress indecent, you are catering for the male gaze ...

... Congratulations you landed at the exact same result as conservatives. Their thinking process that this is supposed to help women from being forced directly or indirectly to perform femininity is of course different from the conservatives reasoning that women are naturally inferior, nurturing and pure. But it's the same result.

If they truly want to discourage women from suppressing themselves and being oppressed then they should do the same thing pro choice people tell the pro "life" people. Actually support the process of implementing that: encourage work place diversity, information workshops for how social media and advertising is pressuring young women to conform to unwritten standards, boycott companies who do perpetrate such nonsense and shame people who want to solidify this as the base for women existence.

But like the pro life vs choice debate it's fairly obvious which requires more effort. Just banning stuff and letting millions suffer the consequences they were comfortable to accept (because they won't ever be in this situation or don't think they will be) or actually putting in effort to change things like the origin radfems (in general sense) who are most definitely turning on their graves looking at the current wave.

“gender criticals” do not give a flying fuck about gender nonconforming people and in fact actively want to oppress them too evidence #183638773366373

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It's kind of sad. There are legitimate TERFs who don't see that their fight against trans people hurt themselves at the end. Like even if you are bigoted and don't think trans people have grounds for existing, you have to at least see how getting together with conservatives will hurt you too in the long run. I am genuinely interested in their reasoning. Do they:

Understand they are only used by conservatives and accept that as long as they get to their goal of getting trans people out of public life?

Think they can distance themselves fast enough to not have their publicly shared endorsement of conservatives anti-trans opinions be seen as helping their reach and with this helping them spread opinions like the above which ultimately hurt women at the end?

Think they are able to only promote and use the conservatives anti-trans rhetoric but simultaneously push against their misogyny so they don't get any guilt of having helped them push those narratives?

Understand they are used but think them agreeing on a common enemy will have them more empathetic to listen to their issues (since the conservatives are showing that they care about women and children, surely they will support implementing more equality afterwards)

Don't understand they are used

Because I get the feeling that an overwhelming amount of TERFs who may have started out just being "concerned citizens" has been swept away with the notion of "We first have to solve the trans problem, then we'll move next" while forgetting the very core feminist belief that...

Bodily autonomy is absolute.

“gender criticals” do not give a flying fuck about gender nonconforming people and in fact actively want to oppress them too evidence #183638773366373

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Finally remade my tumblr and this time not to lurk...

From now on I am just going to write what comes to mind whether it's:

My views on stuff

Vents about international politics

Vents about national (german) politics

Sometimes personal stuff

So far I only reblogged things and never interacted with anyone (which arguably many tumblerinas do).

But I really want to find like-minded people to just talk.

I am maybe also searching to join some discord groups (branching out a little).

So whoever is interested just DM me.