This Machine Kills Fascists

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[This Machine Kills Fascists @HeightnLonesome]

@chadwaytweety Cool AF. Makes me think of pine drops I've seen a few times @ central OR. Also parasitic of mycorhyzal fungi and of a pipe family-and a magical find imo.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

I have to apologize in advance, because I think I’ve failed to explain this with sufficient clarity on my part, and it’s important to get this right. Our current global population of 8+ billion people is only alive because of a supply chain infrastructure built up over the last 60 years or so which saw dramatic scaling of natural gas extraction infrastructure (largely in Qatar and North America), dramatic improvements in oil extraction from existing Persian Gulf wells, and a tremendous amount of downstream chemistry that processes raw gas and oil to produce critical substances for our world such as helium (He), sulfuric acid, phosphate fertilizers, nitrogenous fertilizers, polyethylene, naphtha, aluminum smelting and so on.

The sulfuric acid that extracts phosphate (for fertilizer) from phosphate rock ores, for example, comes from pulling excess sulfur out of “sour” crude oil. (The core chemical reaction converts tricalcium phosphate into phosphoric acid and gypsum, with very high efficiency.) The “sour” refers to sulfur content. Without high-volume oil extraction, you don’t get the sulfur needed to produce this key type of fertilizer. And without the low-cost energy from the gas extracted from gas fields like Las Raffan, you don’t get the Haber-Bosch process that pulls N2 Nitrogen out of the atmosphere and breaks it to form ammonia (NH3) which becomes the feedstock material for nitrogenous fertilizer. (I’m simplifying the steps, but you get the idea.)

If these raw materials that normally pass through the Strait of Hormuz don’t get restored in short order, we aren’t merely facing annoying economic effects like higher food prices, higher diesel prices, fuel rationing, supply chain disruptions, loss of food packaging plastics and so on…
...we’re facing a loss of the infrastructure that keeps 8+ billion people alive on this planet.

If you lose 25% of the global supply of these critical substances, you will sooner or later lose 25% of the global population: 2 billion people. The Persian Gulf, by the way, supplies roughly about one-third of the world’s fertilizer that traded in the global marketplace. Do the math.

Right now, literally 50% of the global population is kept alive from food that’s fertilized using nitrogenous fertilizers derived from natural gas. A significant portion of that gas normally comes out of the Persian Gulf. But no longer. Not since Trump bombed Iran and started this war, resulting in Iran closing off the Strait of Hormuz.

QatarEnergy, which suffered extensive damage to two of its LNG processing trains and suffered a catastrophic explosion when trying to restart one of its processing trains a few weeks ago, has already declared force majeure and publicly announced a 3-5 year repair time for its damaged gas trains. So if we’re lucky, then QatarEnergy’s gas will be fully back online possibly around 2030. That’s if the war stops tomorrow and the repairs can get under way.

But if Iran chooses to strike additional gas trains – a feat that is easily achieved by Iran, possibly in retaliation for Trump’s latest threats to target and destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure – the repair time grows to ONE DECADE. And that assumed Qatar could even get the financing to fund such an effort, which itself seems doubtful.

Should that scenario unfold, the entire planet will be lacking critical energy, helium, nitrogenous fertilizers and their parent molecules (ammonia, urea, etc.), affordable aluminum smelting and other outputs that are downstream from Qatar’s gas production. This shortage will last ten years in a best-case scenario. During that decade, it is impossible that all 8 billion people will have enough to eat. It is also impossible that all the world’s current industrial manufacturing operations will economically survive, which means widespread global job losses.

The lack of fertilizer means a mass die-off on planet Earth is unavoidable if the infrastructure destruction in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, etc., escalates to the point of all-out war. Iran has so far decided to refrain from achieving the near-total destruction of critical infrastructure across the region, but that restraint may end quickly if Trump escalates the U.S. bombing campaign to target Iranian power plants, bridges, water treatment facilities and other key civilian infrastructure.

Stated differently, the fate of some significant portion of the world’s 8 billion people now rests in the hands of an orange mad man who demonstrates zero understanding of the ramifications of his escalation actions. And if he proceed to make good on his threats, he will unleash a series of events that will make the continued survival of the full 8 billion people on planet Earth quite literally impossible, likely for a decade or longer.

This would plunge Earth into a 10+ year “dark ages” and likely see the loss of billions of lives, the fall of numerous governments around the world, and economic destruction on a scale no living person has ever witnessed. Nor has history ever witnessed that we know of. Add in a dose of civil unrest, large-scale uprisings and regional warfare, and you have a recipe for global instability and systemic collapse that no one in a position of power has seriously pondered. The impacts of this would be, arguably, similar to planet Earth being struck by a high-velocity (and large) asteroid, unleashing mass kinetic destruction and a dimming of the sun, causing photosynthesis collapse on a global scale, lasting several years while food crops fail, famines take hold and nations tear themselves apart from the inside. And I haven’t even covered the climatic changes that would end civilizations around the world.

It almost seems like a cliché to state we are facing, “the end of the world as we know it,” but hell, we are literally facing the end of the world as we know it. And Trump, infused with all the madness and arrogance of a rogue emperor who has lost the plot, is pushing us all right to the edge of the abyss.

I would normally say, at this point, “I hope you have a year’s supply of food” to make it through what’s coming, but honestly that won’t be enough if Trump pushes us into an all-out infrastructure destruction war. The loss of the 60+ years of human infrastructure that has allowed the population to double from 4 billion to 8 billion over just a few decades will be REVERSED, and the population will shrink from 8 billion to 4 billion or possibly even less, depending on wars and economic strife.

Trump isn’t merely at war with Iran, in other words. He’s waging war on the entire human race. He is assaulting the very civilizational infrastructure that made our modern population possible to sustain. That infrastructure can be destroyed in an instant, with a rebuilding time of a decade or longer. And once it’s gone, there’s no going back to the way things were in 2025.

And during the new dark age, what will billions of human eat if there’s no fertilizer available for agriculture?
The honest answer is that they’ll sooner or later start eating each other.

Prepare accordingly. And demand an end to this senseless war before we all find ourselves in the cross hairs of global destruction and the death of billions of human beings.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

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[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

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[the artist formerly known as hackberry @chadwaytweety]

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[This Machine Kills Fascists @HeightnLonesome]

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She's just tryna help ye sing it as High & Lonesome as ol' Bobby.

[Kim Iversen 🇺🇸 @KimIversenShow]

There's no coming back from this.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them"

—Assata Shakur

[Mzilikazi wa Afrika @IamMzilikazi]

“The poor die defending the rules that keep them poor because they mistake obedience for belonging.” ~ George Orwell #WakeUpEverybody✊🏿

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If a bird hits your window and falls to the ground stunned, grab a colander.

Most window-strike birds aren't dead. They're concussed. Birds that look limp and unresponsive often recover within 30 to 60 minutes if nothing eats them in the meantime, which is the actual problem.

A stunned songbird on the ground is an obvious meal for cats, crows, jays, and any neighborhood predator paying attention.

A kitchen colander solves it. Place it gently over the bird, upside down. The mesh provides ventilation, the holes let the bird stay oriented to the sky, and the metal or plastic rim is heavy enough that nothing's getting through to investigate.

Lift it after an hour. If the bird flies off, you did your job. If the bird doesn't fly, or you see blood, an obviously broken wing, or fluid from its mouth or nose, call a wildlife rehabber.

Window strikes can cause invisible internal injuries that need real care.

While you're at it, treat the problem at its source: the window. Vertical strips of tape or decals on the outside, no more than 4 inches apart, make the glass visible to birds and prevent the next strike.

The fix takes 20 minutes and saves songbirds for the life of the window.

The colander is for the bird that already hit. The tape is so the next one doesn't.

[🪶Native Patriot 🇺🇸 @LaNativePatriot]

Ford & every other company that does this can go to heII

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

If there were a thousand people living on an island, and one of them was making life miserable for everyone else, soon there would be 999 people living on the island.

How strange, then, that a few oligarchs and empire managers get to push around an entire planet full of humans.

I mean, right now we're all sitting around hoping a few sociopaths in Washington and Tel Aviv don't collapse the global economy with their reckless warmongering against Iran. There are so many of us and so few of them, and yet everyone's sitting around going "Golly gosh I sure hope I'll be able to afford food in the next few months, hopefully the orange guy acts sane and normal for a while so my family gets to eat."

These are not gods sitting on Mount Olympus exerting omnipotent control over our fate from on high. These are ordinary men with ordinary flesh and bone bodies, walking upon the same earth we walk on. They have soft skin and internal organs. Their heads must remain firmly attached to their necks if they're to continue to draw breath.

And yet they are permitted to terrorize the people with whom they share a planet.

I am reminded of a quote from Scientific American about an Inuit tribe's perspective on the problem of psychopathy:

"In a 1976 study anthropologist Jane M. Murphy, then at Harvard University, found that an isolated group of Yupik-speaking Inuits near the Bering Strait had a term (kunlangeta) they used to describe 'a man who … repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and … takes sexual advantage of many women—someone who does not pay attention to reprimands and who is always being brought to the elders for punishment.' When Murphy asked an Inuit what the group would typically do with a kunlangeta, he replied, 'Somebody would have pushed him off the ice when nobody else was looking.'”

In our society, we do not push psychopaths off the ice when nobody is looking. In our society, we let them rule the world.

We've set up systems which elevate those who are willing to do whatever it takes to get to the top, and which protect them once they get there. The ones with the most wealth are the ones who crushed their competitors and exploited the working class the most ruthlessly. The ones who get elected to office are the ones who agree to protect the interests of the rich and powerful no matter how underhanded they have to be. The ones who get promoted to leadership in the military and spy agencies are the ones who've demonstrated unwavering loyalty to the bloodthirsty empire they serve.

These systems shield people from the natural consequences of their actions. If you have a lot of money your survival doesn't depend on getting along with the other members of your tribe; you can just buy whatever services you need, and you can treat the people providing those services like garbage if you pay them enough. If you get elected to office your survival doesn't depend on advancing the interests of the electorate; you can be as horrible as you like and rely on your security services to protect you.

This is a perversion of the natural order of things. The rich and the powerful should not be allowed to do whatever they want to us and get away with it. They are massively outnumbered. Everything they have, they only have because of us.

Their wealth is dependent on workers and consumers. Their power is dependent on our collectively agreeing to treat made-up rules about government and law like real things. Their lives are dependent on our collectively agreeing not to turn against them in massive numbers and tear them to pieces.

We can have revolutionary change whenever we want to. We already have the numbers. All we need is the will.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The reason they tell you to vote is because the ruling class knows the people cannot vote their way out of a capitalist dictatorship when both parties are completely controlled by capital.

The only way to change a capitalist regime like the United States that values profits and property more than human life is to disrupt and take back the one thing the system cares about: Capital.

To do this the working class must organize a mass movement to seize the means of production and put the economy directly in the hands of the people, not the oligarchs.

A better world that puts people over profits is possible but only if we come together and fight for it!

[MM  @adgirlMM]

I don't know how else to say this, so I'll just say it plainly.

We are at Code Red.

If this administration is not put in check soon, everything that makes America beautiful is at risk of irreversible damage.

He is stealing, leasing and depleting our protected lands.
He won't stop.

Protecting our National Parks, U.S. national forests, and the majestic Arctic Refuge should not be a partisan issue.

Once these lands are destroyed, they are gone forever.

Future generations will never know or experience them. The wildlife that lives off them will not survive.

One man should not hold this power over the future of all Americans.

Call your Senators and ask them to protect our public lands and national forests.

Make it clear you will not support the reelection of a representative who votes to mine, drill, or log on our protected lands.

Code Red.

[Kid Riles @kid_riles]

Take a good look folks.

These are the Minnesota boundary waters. Every Republican senator voted to allow a Chilean billionaire to mine it. The minerals will go to China.

This truly enrages me.
It should you as well.

Fuck, and I mean fuck…
The @GOP 🖕

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Imagine still being for incremental change when everything is collapsing around us, the rich are hoarding all of the wealth, and the people are rightfully angrier than ever. This moment calls for revolutionary change, not voting for the bourgeoisie parties that brought us here.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed every single person in this video in Lebanon.

Every. Single. One.

Not fighters.

Babies. Children. Women. Entire families.

350 civilians slaughtered in one day.

Remember their faces the next time Israel claims it’s targeting “militants.”

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

It actually bums me out…

We have the resources to fix our society, stop our reliance on fossil fuels, and feed every person in the country.

But we don’t… because it would mess with the money of a tiny group of people.

Like… millions struggle so a handful can stay comfortable.

That’s insane when you really think about it.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Everyone should take 2 mins to watch this.

A father, helped by neighbours, digging for the body of his daughter.

Their home destroyed by Israel.

This is proper reporting and the reason Israel allows nobody into Gaza and targets journalists every day.