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After I started to comment these atrocities, they now fill my feed every day. As I watch them, first I usually either cry a bit or swallow my tears, after which anger arises. This should happen with each and every one of you. There is no justification, why will allow this to #JusticeForAll #HumanRights #StopTheViolence #Nospecificcountrycodesarepresentinthetweetprovided.

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Sandfeen Aug 28

Why Weak Societies Choose Tyranny The pinnacle of tyranny would be a system that allows politicians, elites, and bureaucrats to control a population without force or coercion because the people love their servitude. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, an eerily relatable dystopian novel, with this idea at the forefront. Unlike Orwell’s 1984, there is no overt oppression. The state does not have to stamp on human faces with its jackboots or erect an inescapable surveillance state. Rather, the people of Brave New World happily chain themselves with meaningless pleasure and distractions. The authorities do not rule through terror and rage, the central elements of 1984, but instead give the people everything they ever wanted. A pharmaceutical called Soma becomes the opiate of the masses. Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, likens it to Christianity without tears. While religion requires years of moral training, Soma allows citizens to achieve peace simply by swallowing tablets. It is the perfect escape from reality, a holiday from the facts. Lenina, the female counterpart to the protagonist Bernard, cannot comprehend why he refuses Soma, preferring discomfort to something that can remove it. When Bernard states, “I’d rather be myself, myself and nasty, not somebody else, however jolly,” Lenina sees this as a sort of pathology and repeatedly encourages him to take the wonder drug. Bernard explains, “I want to know what passion is.” He understands that there is more to life than merely being content, craving genuine experience, including suffering and intensity, rather than being emotionally regulated by the World State. Lenina’s bewilderment stems from her conditioning to regard unhappiness as a technical problem, encapsulated in the society’s common saying that “a gram is better than a damn.” The people of Brave New World are not captives but satisfied customers. Children are produced by the scientific state, relieving people of the responsibility of parenthood. This grants them the ability to engage in promiscuity, where everyone belongs to everyone else, while filling their free time with cheap entertainment and endless sporting events—what would be referred to as slop today. As Neil Postman observed, Orwell saw totalitarianism through the lens of fear, while Huxley saw it through pleasure. There was no need to ban a book in Brave New Worldbecause there was no one who wanted to read one. An abundance of low-quality information rendered censorship unnecessary because no one could hear the truth through all the noise. Huxley threw shade at civil libertarians who passionately opposed tyranny because they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. Humanity in its rawest form is portrayed by John the Savage, an outsider free from the World State’s conditioning. Upon coming face-to-face with this spiritually neutered society, he completely rejects it: “I don’t want comfort, I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.” Huxley’s dystopia is not imposed on an unwilling population but instead requested by a hollow one. Which leads us to the question: How do people become so weak that they get on their knees and beg for totalitarianism? Good times make bad times possible. Once a certain level of luxury and safety is achieved, people start to resemble the hobbits from the Shire. They are so far removed from evil that they forget it even exists and become defenseless in the face of it. Andrew Lobaczewski, who studied the psychology of totalitarianism from inside Poland’s communist takeover, wrote: “During good times, people progressively lose sight of the need for profound reflection. They lose the capacity to differentiate human nature, and emotion begins to dominate intellect. Once a critical mass starts operating on the pleasure principle, any excess mental effort seems like pointless labor.” Lobaczewski warned that it is not as simple as some people losing the ability to think rationally. It is worse, because those people then shame anyone capable of doing so. A clever, liberal, and merry individual is a good sport. A more far-sighted person predicting dire results becomes a wet blanket, a killjoy. The ability to have uncomfortable conversations without emotion taking over is, in Lobaczewski’s view, an indicator of whether a society’s future will be good or bad. It is easier to think about pleasant things. This leads people to eliminate any data or facts that cause them discomfort. That becomes a habit and eventually a custom accepted by society at large. Once the general populace accepts that inconvenient truths should be left unsaid, it becomes incapable of reaching correct conclusions. After all, how could you ever describe a picture that you refuse to look at? “Catastrophe waits in the wings of the communities that lose the capacity for psychological reason and moral criticism,” Lobaczewski wrote. “It is on the other side of this weakening of thought that the processes of the generation of evil are intensified at every social scale until they give rise to bad times.” It is precisely man’s dreams of happiness that can lead to chaos and suffering. This hedonistic view of happiness contains the seeds of misery, feeding the eternal cycle whereby good times give birth to bad times. Friedrich Nietzsche viewed socialism as demanding comfort for the greatest number of people possible. To question whether it is good for the masses to live in comfort has become a form of heresy. This reveals the spiritual atrophy that so many suffer from. Considering only the weak believe comfort to be a virtue, it is what Carl Jung would describe as the infantile dream state of mass dependency: the desire to gently slip back into the kingdom of childhood, into the paradise of parental care. Except this lack of friction has consequences. The perfect state destroys the soil in which great intellect grows. Genius, struggle, passion, strength, and wisdom are required to build a safe and abundant society. Yet once a certain level of comfort is achieved, it can destroy the very virtues required to obtain it. Nietzsche observed that it is the warmest heart that aims to alleviate suffering and hardship but fails to realize that it thereby wills the destruction of its own foundation. Comfort breeds mediocrity, which is then called good. Small people want one thing above all: that no one hurt them. We have taken this pathology to such a degree that we now obsess over hurt feelings and call this virtue. Pleasure, in its proper place, is a byproduct of meaningful goals, not a goal in itself. Aristotle saw that pleasure and comfort distort perception and proper judgment. While they do not cause us to misjudge something like geometry or mathematics, they can destroy our ability to decide what is worth pursuing and, therefore, what to do. Consider The Odyssey. Homer depicts Odysseus’ men on the island of the Lotus-Eaters, where they taste the fruit and lose all desire to go home. Much like Huxley’s Brave New World, they are not imprisoned. Rather, they simply stop wanting anything more. Odysseus has to drag his men back to the ships while they weep to stay. This is what comfort can do to men. It empties them of purpose. We intuitively understand this but fail to apply it to our own lives. We must make the same choice as Odysseus when he refuses Calypso’s offer of endless comfort and immortality. He knows she is more beautiful than his wife Penelope waiting at home. He knows that he and Penelope will grow old and die, a fate he could avoid by staying with Calypso. No one who reads these stories wishes he had stayed. We want him to choose the hard way home because if he took the offer, he would stop being admirable. Yet staying is exactly what our modern society asks of us. We are told that the island is the good life. But what happens to the man who caves to this temptation? In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche imagines a risk-averse society taken to its logical endpoint. The elimination of all struggle produces a man so diminished that he fails to possess even self-contempt or higher aspiration. Safety and sameness become the highest goals, creating “no shepherd in one herd.” Anyone who seeks to be anything more than normal becomes an aberration to be dealt with. Or, as Nietzsche puts it, they have “made the wolf a dog in man himself, man’s best domestic animal.”

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Sandfeen Aug 28

The Pinnacle of Tyranny The pinnacle of tyranny would allow politicians, elites, and bureaucrats to control a population without force or coercion—because the people love their servitude. Aldous Huxley’s *Brave New World* explores this idea through an eerily relatable dystopian society. Unlike Orwell’s *1984*, Huxley’s world contains no obvious oppression. The state does not need to “stamp on a human face—forever.” Instead, citizens willingly chain themselves to pleasure and distraction. Authorities do not rule through terror, but by giving people everything they think they want. Soma, a government-approved drug, becomes the opiate of the masses. Mustafa Mond, the World Controller, compares it to Christianity without the suffering. By swallowing a few tablets, citizens can escape reality—a temporary holiday from the facts. Lenina cannot understand why Bernard refuses Soma, preferring discomfort to something that can remove it. When Bernard says, “I’d rather be myself, myself and nasty, not somebody else, however jolly,” Lenina views his desire for authenticity as a kind of illness. Bernard wants to experience passion and recognizes that life involves more than contentment. He craves genuine experience, including suffering and intensity, rather than emotional regulation by the World State. Lenina’s confusion results from her conditioning, which teaches her to view unhappiness as a technical problem. This belief is captured by the saying, “A gram is better than a dam.” The citizens of *Brave New World* are not captives but satisfied customers. Children are produced by the state, relieving people of the responsibilities of parenthood. Their free time is filled with promiscuity, cheap entertainment, and endless sporting events—what might be called “slop” today. As Neil Postman observed, Orwell saw totalitarianism through fear, while Huxley imagined a society where oppression would be unnecessary because people would willingly surrender themselves to pleasure. There would be no need to ban books, because no one would want to read them. An abundance of low-quality information would make censorship unnecessary; the truth would be drowned out by noise. Huxley warned that people’s “almost infinite appetite for distractions” could make tyranny not only possible, but welcome.

Novinky Aug 21

Čeští vědci jako první popsali zvláštní zimní blesky, označované jako SWAL, které se vyskytují v blízkosti větrných elektráren a mají specifické charakteristiky, což může přispět k lepšímu pochopení mechanismu vzniku blesků a zlepšení ochrany těchto zařízení. #SWAL #blesky #větrnéelektrárny

Čeští vědci jako první popsali zvláštní zimní blesky

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Genome demonstrates that British swallowtail butterfly is genetically isolated, distinct from other European machaon populations, at least 200,000 years ago. Genomic distinctiveness, morphology, ecological specificity justify special conservation efforts https://t.co/PvW64DGchL #conservation #butterflies #genomics #GB #EU

ERR Jun 1

California eelvalimised toovad demokraatlikule parteile raskusi, kuna skandaalid on nõrgestanud kandidaate nagu Eric Swalwell ja Katie Porter, jättes peale kolme peamise kandidaadi, kelle seas on Xavier Becerra, Tom Steyer ja Steve Hilton, samas kasvab mure, et demokraadid võivad novembris lõppvoorust välja jääda. #CaliforniaEelvalimised #DemokraatlikPartii #Valimised

WSJ: California eelvalimised valmistavad demokraatlikule parteile peavalu
BBC May 15

The article discusses the challenges facing the Democratic Party in California as they navigate a crowded primary field for the gubernatorial race following the dropout of frontrunner Eric Swalwell amid misconduct allegations, raising concerns about the potential for Republicans to gain ground in a state traditionally dominated by Democrats. #CaliforniaPolitics #DemocraticParty #USPolitics #US #GB

Americast - Why Democrats are panicking about losing California - BBC Sounds

The California governor's race is heating up as seven candidates prepare for a key debate hosted by NBC Los Angeles, with rising tensions and shifting poll standings following the exit of Eric Swalwell amidst controversy, creating uncertainty for Democratic leaders ahead of the June 2 primary. #CaliforniaElection #Debate2023 #Vote2024 #US

Candidates for California Governor Debate Tonight: What to Know

Demokratický kongresman Eric Swalwell ukončil svou kampaň na guvernéra Kalifornie po obviněních ze sexuálního násilí, která zahrnují tvrzení o znásilnění jeho bývalou zaměstnankyní a další obvinění od několika žen, přičemž Swalwell tato obvinění odmítá a plánuje se bránit. #SexuálníNásilí #Politika #Kalifornie

Demokrat ukončil kampaň na guvernéra Kalifornie po obvinění ze sexuálního násilí

Who cares what Aristotle said? If one swallow makes you feel like summer has arrived, go on and celebrate — they are a sight for sore eyes, that is for sure. #doodlewax https://t.co/FrHR3SfAtl -

⚠️ Donald si připsal další z řady velmi nepříjemných porážek. Federální soudce Amit Mehta včera rozhodl, že Trump nemá prezidentskou imunitu pro klíčové jednání spojené s útokem na Kapitol z 6. ledna 2021. Mehtovo rozhodnutí se týká především Donaldova projevu na shromáždění u Ellipse (což je pro představu v podstatě park bezprostředně navazující na areál Bílého domu, odkud je to ke Kapitolu jen kousek), komunikace s politickými představiteli a dalších kroků, které soud vyhodnotil jako součást volební kampaně, tzn. že z toho nic nespadalo pod výkon prezidentské funkce (čímž se Trump dlouhodobě ohání). Donald Trump v tomhle případě podle soudu jednoduše jednal jako kandidát a nevztahuje se na něj ochrana prezidentské imunity. 👀 Proč tohle Donalda bolí? Protože tohle torpédovalo jeho obranu. Mehtovo rozhodnutí poskytuje přímou cestu k pokračování civilních žalob podaných v souvislosti s děním během samotného útoku a před ním. Mám pocit, že jsem o tom psal, ale připomenu. Těch žalob totiž na Trumpa už přiletělo několik, přičemž asi ty nejvýznamnější jsou žaloby dvou členů policie Kapitolu Jamese Blassingamea a Sidney Hemby. Oba tvrdí, že Donald podněcoval dav (svým vykládáním lidem, že je potřeba tvrdě bojovat, jinak o svou zemi přijdou), který na ně následně zaútočil. Další dost zásadní spor s Trumpem vede člen Sněmovny Eric Swalwell (D), který Donalda viní z podněcování násilí a spiknutí s cílem narušit ústavní proces potvrzení volebních výsledků. Významnou skupinu tvoří taky žaloby členů Kongresu, včetně té od Bennie Thompsona (předsedal sněmovnímu výboru, který událost v Kongresu vyšetřoval). Tyhle konkrétní žaloby se opírají mj o zákon Ku Klux Klan Act z roku 1871, který umožňuje trestat spiknutí vedoucí k omezení výkonu federálních funkcí (v tomhle případě certifikaci voleb). Soudce Mehta zároveň odmítl Trumpovu obranu založenou na prvním dodatku (svoboda projevu) s tím, že tahle ochrana fakt není absolutní, pokud je projev kandidáta spojovaný s konkrétními škodami. Mehta poslal do háje i ministerstvo spravedlnosti, které se pokoušelo Trumpa zbavit části odpovědnosti a přehodit ji na sebe, resp federální vládu (takže by případné odškodnění museli platit daňovi poplatníci). Pro sichr ještě dodám, že tohle není trestní záležitost, ok? Jde o civilní spory. Donaldovi tu nehrozí kriminál, ale potenciálně může přijít o obrovské peníze. A ano, je to naprosto zásadní porážka, nicméně platí, že Trump samozřejmě má ještě další možnosti, jak celou věc zvrátit. Může se odvolat k federálnímu odvolacímu soudu pro okruh District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit), což samozřejmě udělá naprosto nepochybně. Pokud u odvolacího soudu neuspěje (což si troufnu odhadnout), může se pokusit dostat věc až k Nejvyššímu soudu USA, který už prezidentskou imunitu řešil během kampaně 2024 a Donaldovi v podstatě umožnil se vyhnout kriminálu. SCOTUS si tehdy doslova vymyslel nové pojetí prezidentské imunity a přijal absurdní argumentaci Donaldových právníků, zároveň ale otevřel prostor pro spory o to, co ještě spadá pod oficiální výkon funkce (jinými slovy to, co má prezident reálně v popisu práce) a co už je soukromé jednání. Zásadní porážka? Ano. Definitivní konec celé věci? Ne. Platí to co obvykle = na další vývoj si musíme počkat. Rozhodnutí soudce Mehty si sami můžete projít tady (PDF): https://t.co/LwTPoOM0fY --- Baví a zajímá vás podobný info s kontextem? Pak můžete zvážit mou podporu přes https://t.co/I5yoormVN6 Díky těm, kteří to kafe pošlou, mám na psaní čas a můžu se tomu rozumně věnovat. Vaší podpory si moc vážím. 🙂 Díky za to, že mě čtete! #StayTuned ✌️ #Trump #CapitolRiots #CivilLawsuit

Proudofus.uk Mar 7

They said English culture doesn't exist. They said it in English. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The most spoken language on Earth. Born on this island. Fifteen hundred years ago, three tribes crossed the North Sea. Angles. Saxons. Jutes. They brought words we still use today. Earth. Water. Fire. Love. Mother. Father. Child. They called their language Englisc. They called this place Engla land. Land of the Angles. Then the Vikings came. They didn't just raid. They settled. Became neighbours. And when you live next door to someone, your languages merge. Sky. Skull. Knife. Window, the Viking for "wind-eye." They. Them. Their. Those aren't English words. They're Viking. Ordinary people chose them because they worked better. Then came 1066. The Normans conquered England. The new rulers spoke French. For three hundred years, English had no official status in its own country. But the people never stopped speaking it. The farmer called it a cow. The lord called it beef. Pig and pork. Sheep and mutton. That class divide is still on your plate tonight. English didn't die. It swallowed ten thousand French words and came back stronger. Today. One and a half billion people speak this language. Every pilot on Earth speaks it. Half the internet is written in it. No academy designed it. No king commanded it. It was built by ordinary people. On this island. They said English culture doesn't exist. They said it in English. You're the reason these stories reach millions of people. Not sponsors. Not ads. You. https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧 -

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Mehdi Hasan Mar 2

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paulg Dec 7

Suicide Why did I do this, Why did I lie, Why did I chose that I wanted to die? I picked up that knife, And slit up and down, The blood rushing out, my life ending fast was a definite doubt, I swallowed those pills, I knew the many people that kills, The taste sour in my mouth, My breath now was going south, Slower and slower I began to breath, Why did he have to leave, I lay on the floor, Trying to reach the door, My screams no one heard, Not even a single word, I begged to God, Don't let me do this, Don't let me die, Then for no reason, I began to wonder why, I remembered his face, Oh I want to leave this place, I crawled out the door, Blood rushing out more and more, The trail followed me into the kitchen, I opened a drawer, Then everything I used to fear, Became so clear, As I held that gun to my head, I knew in a minute Id be dead, BOOM... Standing over my body I began to realize, That Im not the only person people will try to victimize, Why did I do this, Why did I lie, Why did I chose, That I wanted to die?

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jack Dec 1

Outrage Is The New Drug <p>In 2020, outrage is the latest drug of society. It’s more acceptable than alcohol and it’s more addictive than anything you can swallow, smoke or inject, because while heroin or methamphetamine are clearly harmful, anger feels so damn righteous.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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paulg Nov 29

Suicide Why did I do this, Why did I lie, Why did I chose that I wanted to die? I picked up that knife, And slit up and down, The blood rushing out, my life ending fast was a definite doubt, I swallowed those pills, I knew the many people that kills, The taste sour in my mouth, My breath now was going south, Slower and slower I began to breath, Why did he have to leave, I lay on the floor, Trying to reach the door, My screams no one heard, Not even a single word, I begged to God, Don't let me do this, Don't let me die, Then for no reason, I began to wonder why, I remembered his face, Oh I want to leave this place, I crawled out the door, Blood rushing out more and more, The trail followed me into the kitchen, I opened a drawer, Then everything I used to fear, Became so clear, As I held that gun to my head, I knew in a minute Id be dead, BOOM... Standing over my body I began to realize, That Im not the only person people will try to victimize, Why did I do this, Why did I lie, Why did I chose, That I wanted to die?