@der_raddler@dresden.network2025-07-19 19:39:38
Drüben auch meinem @… Account habe ich heute ein Bild veröffentlicht, welches für mich irgendwie symbolisch für unsere Gesellschaft steht. Zu sehen ist ein Gestell auf dem Heidefriedhof, an dem viele Gießkannen hängen, woben jede einzelne mit einem Schloss gesichert ist. Statt sich also solidarisch wenige Gießkannen - welche ja nur vereinzelt zum gießen der Grä…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-07-16 22:25:58
War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-09-15 10:24:44
Folks, Mohammed ( @…) has taken ill after his trip to the South to try and secure a place for his family.
It’s likely Covid.
It’s the second account I’m seeing of someone who visited the South falling ill with Covid in as many days.
Please help him cover cost of treatment in addition to everything else.
This is his fundraiser:
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-08-08 19:55:32
Jim Harbaugh says Chargers will move Joe Alt to LT following Rashawn Slater injury https://www.nfl.com/news/jim-harbaugh-says-chargers-will-move-joe-alt-to-lt-following-rashawn-slater-injury
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2025-08-16 13:38:12
Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Blessed Bakkhos, god of wine . . . Fertile and nourishing, whose liberal care augments the fruit that banishes despair."
Orphic Hymn 50
🏛 Roman mosaic of #Bacchus giving a libation, National Museum of Beirut…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-09-17 00:30:02
On The Road - To Xi’An/ Urban Spots 🟤
在路上 - 去西安/ 城市的点 🟤
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@bici@mastodon.social2025-07-16 03:09:54
ALYSSA MILANO 8X10 GLOSSY PHOTO IMAGE #2
@servelan@newsie.social2025-07-07 15:34:06
Ukrainian soldier dies weeks after release from Russian captivity with his organs failing due to torture - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/07/ukrainian-soldier-dies-weeks-after-release-from-russian-captivity-with-his-organs-failing-due-to-torture/
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-18 02:22:02
Vendor at the flea market at the car show we went to at Dwyer Memorial Park
#photo #photography #portrait #vendor
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-08-08 20:41:04
Jim Harbaugh lays out Chargers' plan to replace Rashawn Slater following Pro Bowl LT's season-ending injury
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jim-…