s-.k.

Avoid false absolutes; reality is delightfully, disturbingly complex.

[s-.k. @Iskbmc0]

Don't pray. Educate.

[vaudais toujours 🍉 🍉 @TFilastin]

Parmi les images du week-end, celle de deux octogénaires en sous-vêtement entourés de personnes cagoulées, qui aurait été prise à Paris, place de la République, a beaucoup circulé sur les réseaux sociaux. On retrace l'itinéraire de cette fake news ; car oui, c'est de l'IA.

[ADAM @adamemedia]

ISRAEL is behind the psyop blaming the FRENCH protests on Muslims. Zionists are on national television spreading lies about synagogues being burned but not mosques. All the large hasbara accounts are parroting this with identical posts and scripts. Stay informed. Recognise what psyops and propaganda look like.

[Anita Zsurzsan 🇵🇸 🕎 @iamjourjean]

The French: *carrying guillotines,* *singing the Marseillaise and Internationale,* *building barricades on the streets*
EU leaders: wow look at what Islam did to France :'(

[jamie @gnuman1979]

Ouch.

[Batıkan Baksı @BatikanBaksi_]

Estonya’dan birisi bu YouTube kanalında SSCB döneminde Sovyet ve doğu blok ülkelerindeki caz, funk, disko, psikedelik, surf, swing, big band, elektronika albüm ve şarkılarını toplamış. Derya deniz bir arşiv.

https://t.co/Rd0GsIK7NG

[Emma 🇨🇭 @EmmaRobinsonss]

La manœuvre la plus abjecte du gouvernement Lecornu et de Macron consiste à imputer la colère populaire à LFI, plutôt que de reconnaître leur responsabilité dans cette colère : leur politique, leurs échecs, leur mépris du peuple et dix années durant lesquelles ils ont profondément transformé le visage de la France, au point de faire de ce qu’elle était autrefois l’ombre d’elle-même !

[Reggie Saxx @ReggiSaxx]

This can’t be blamed on Blacks and Muslims so everyone’s silent about it

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Supreme Court burns to the ground in Albania, Parliament and the Department of Education has been stormed, the Prime Minister is in hiding and the country is effectively in the hands of the rebels.

Albania rejects blatant corruption and their country being sold.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Two days ago, the Israeli army blew up the family home of journalist Radwan Mortada in Bint Jbeil

The terrorist demolition of Radwan's home comes as his film exposing the players behind Israel's pager attack becomes the most viewed documentary in recent history at Al Jazeera

[chloe @Dykeocletian]

That is the reason that these things are done: because you do not pay attention when the much greater violent act, against the people over the course of decades, is carried out. This is the only language that the ruling class knows.

[Ali 👊🏻 @mhuseinali]

Buat yang ga ngikutin demo di Perancis.

Tau trigger awal demo ini bisa jadi besar karena apa?

> Ada murid SMA protes sekolah negeri toiletnya bocor dan banyak tikus.

> Anak yang protes dipukul polisi sampe mulutnya berdarah bahkan ditembak depan muka. https://t.co/GhkbLcOv0b

> Beberapa anak juga sampe dimutilasi tangannya sama polisi. https://t.co/9TardqZ6vo

> Puncaknya ada anak ditenggelamin sama Polisi. https://t.co/Uz2QWSPq94

> Police brutality ini bikin kesadaran kelas seluruh murid SMA Perancis terbangun.

> Intel mulai menyusup. Beberapa manasin pake isu kalau demo ini penyebabnya imigran muslim buat kambing hitam kerusuhan. https://t.co/iOXVJMCiAK

Njir brutal banget takut kayak di mana ya 😭😭😭

[Kali Akuno @Kali_Akuno]

Share this and tell folks to study it. This is a common tactic employed by the reactionary forces of the state to try and discredit protest movements everywhere.

[dr. mohammed hamad - Gaza @Medo198518]

I have a confession to make...

For a long time now, I’ve been feeling something strange. It isn’t depression or sadness. It’s something I can’t explain, and I don’t know when it began.

When I told a friend about it, they said they felt exactly the same way. I thought it was a coincidence, until I realized that we were all carrying the same bitterness.

You see them wandering the streets, walking as though they’re going somewhere, but you can’t tell whether they’re thinking about something or simply walking because they have to. Nothing sparks their curiosity anymore. Nothing surprises them. Someone might read the first line of a news story about an entire family being killed, put their phone away, and ask how much a kilo of tomatoes costs.

There is nothing surprising about that anymore.

I think about everything we’ve witnessed over the past three years, the faces we memorized before losing the people behind them, the images we’ve learned to scroll past, and the news stories we no longer bother to finish reading. I remember how we once mourned tragedies that had nothing to do with us, like the tragedy of Rayan, the Moroccan child.

How did we become so accustomed to the news of our own deaths?

My God, what has happened to us?

In the tents, people don’t have the luxury of stopping. They must search for water in the morning, find a way to afford food, count what little money remains, and worry about what they’ll do if one of their children falls ill tomorrow.

A grief that never ends.

We’ve grown tired of complaining, too. We already know what others will say, and we know we’ll repeat the same words tomorrow. The tents will remain tents, and what we’ve lost won’t return simply because we talk about it. So silence feels like the lesser harm to our hearts.

Two weeks ago, I asked an eleven-year-old boy selling tissues in the market why he wasn’t going to school.

He looked at me and said:

“And even if I went to school, what would change, sir? My mother and I wouldn’t find anyone to feed us. How would you and your education help me then?”

I didn’t know what to say. Damn it, he was right.

At eleven, he had already learned that feeding his bedridden mother, the only person he had left, mattered more than school, his future, or his dreams.

But there’s something else we rarely talk about.

Even when you decide to speak about your pain, you hesitate. You begin telling your story, then remember that the person listening has lost their home and family, or endured something worse than you have. So you shorten your story and say you’re fine.

Everyone wants to talk, but who has any room left to listen?

Two friends might sit together, each desperate to speak, only to exchange the same familiar question: “How are you?” They give the answers they’ve grown accustomed to giving and leave, while the words they came to share remain trapped in their chests.

I’ve given this phenomenon a name: **“Herd Numbness.”**

I don’t know if the name is accurate, or when all this began. I only know that we’ve seen too much, lost too much, and been forced to keep living, even on days when we weren’t sure we’d make it through.

For a long time, I’ve felt something strange. And whenever I try to understand it, I look around and realize that everyone else feels it, too.

I don’t know whether we’ve grown accustomed to what happened to us, or whether we simply no longer have the strength to feel it as deeply as we should. I don’t know if this unsettling silence brings relief, or if words themselves have nowhere left to go.

All I know is that we are no longer who we used to be.

And the strangest part is that when I look around, no one seems surprised.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

A new UN report by Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese exposes the role of influential international media and digital platforms in facilitating genocide in Gaza, legitimising atrocities and obstructing accountability.

Read the full report here: https://t.co/qGhoBEhRsp

[s-.k. @Iskbmc0]

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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Pretty funny to see everyone blame this (rightly condemned, to be clear) on whatever their political bogeyman is: I've just seen people say that this is because of, take your pick, "communism," "Islamism," "third worldism," "Russia," and "China".

As if France needed any outside help to riot... Maybe some people need to brush up on our history, or read Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables"...

This isn't to romanticize the rioters in the least. A reminder that in Les Misérables there's the figure of Thénardier, a horrendous scoundrel who exploits the chaos around him, robbing corpses and fleecing anyone he can.

Every chaotic moment in French history has its share of Thénardiers, and this one is no exception.

It's just too easy, and actually useful to those in power, to blame this on outside forces. At the end of the day, this anger was made in France, is happening in France, and can only be solved in France.

And, as painful as it is to hear, if one studies history, this is pretty much exactly what's expected at the stage France is at.

People have studied this. Whether you take Ray Dalio’s six-stage cycle theory, Peter Turchin’s "elite overproduction" thesis or the Chinese dynastic cycle framework, they all come to the same conclusion: when debt piles up, public services crumble and those in power become incapable, the streets eventually explode.

In fact it's almost eerie how France ticks almost every box of most cycle theories:
- Fiscal distress (debt is 119% of GDP and we now pay more to borrow than Italy or Greece),
- Crumbling public services: a reminder that these protests (now turning into riots) started with high school students protesting over the state of education
- Political paralysis and a legitimacy crisis (Macron has an insane 82% disapproval rate, he's definitely lost the Mandate of Heaven...)
- Popular immiseration with a record poverty rate at 15.4% and a median wage at only €2,190 net per month for a full-time private sector employee (you can't even afford to rent a decent flat in any major French city with this)

"Third worldism" or "Islamism" isn't the cause of any of this: French governments didn't borrow like there's no tomorrow (the last balanced budget dates back to 1974!) because the "Muslim Brotherhood" told them to, and it wasn’t Putin or Xi who left French classrooms without teachers...

Sadly the reactions - scapegoating - are ALSO typical of this stage of the cycle: Dalio lists among the classic markers of Stage 5 the emergence of "scapegoat classes who are commonly believed to be the source of the problems" (https://t.co/eZNSyIq91x), alongside a "loss of truth in the public domain," with people more interested in hunting for culprits than looking for solutions.

So what is the solution? Well, the way the Chinese dealt with it was basically a reset - regime-changing themselves with a new dynasty claiming the Mandate of Heaven, usually after decades of rebellion and war. Not exactly a hopeful prospect...

There is also the exception where a dynasty managed what the Chinese call a 中兴 (zhōngxīng, "restoration"): profound reform from within before the whole house came down. It succeeded a few times (e.g. the Tongzhi restoration during the Qing dynasty) but usually could only buy a few more decades, rarely more.

In 1945, the writer Huang Yanpei famously asked Mao how to break free of the cycle (https://t.co/bMOcrM6G6c), framing it in those terms: "People are careful and hard-working at first, for bold measures are the only possible ways to break through difficult conditions. But when things gradually get better, people begin slacking off: laziness may spread through a long history and is impossible to be corrected when it becomes a common practice. Gradually expanded territory requires corresponding increases in talent, but when the latter is insufficient, the central control will become weak. In a word, no one can escape the 'vicious cycle' of dynastic rise and collapse."

Mao replied that democracy was the answer, because "as long as the people can supervise the government, the government dare not slacken." And Xi later added a "second answer" (https://t.co/p6iV5lUCNk): a system capable of "resolute self-reform".

The jury is still out on whether China has broken the cycle, but if France has any hope of escaping it, it will need both answers at once: a government that truly answers to its people, and very resolute self-reform.

One thing the answer definitely isn’t: turning on each other. In all these cycle theories, division and scapegoating appear on the way down, never on the way back up.

[Dr. Emad. ayad @amir_ayyad88386]

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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Or you just need to watch Ridley Scott’s movie, which depicts Napoleon putting down a violent insurrection in Paris (13 Vendémiaire in October 1795) with artillery 👇

Violence in French cities is really nothing new, and didn't wait on "Islamism" or "third worldism"...

[Cécile diz @cecile_diz]

@confrontfr Avant je déplorais les violences des deux côtés mais depuis quelques temps lorsque je vois ce qui se passe avec les flics qui tabassent, éborgnent, blessent, humilient les gens, jeunes ou vieux, eh bien qu'ils aillent bien se faire foutre. Soutien aux jeunes, aux GJ.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

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God bless.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 Israeli settlers beat a 12-year-old boy and an elderly woman in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh, aid group says.

Several others were also attacked on Saturday in the West Bank, including Lex Pouliot, a staff member of the Vulnerable People Project, a humanitarian group founded by American filmmaker Jason Jones that reported the assault. The group posted footage filmed from a car as the settlers approached.

Also on Saturday, masked settlers attacked European diplomats who had come to observe the olive harvest near the village, northeast of Ramallah. Palestinian officials say at least four Palestinians have been killed and more than 100 injured in settler attacks since the harvest began this month. The Vulnerable People Project has also documented settlers stealing olives from Taybeh's groves in recent weeks.