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France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you
March 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Right. Times of conflict are when the helpers do show up. Thinking of the creation of the Red Cross/Red Crescent in the 1860s.

And the creation of Doctors Without Borders in response to the forced starvation during the Biafra civil war in Nigeria.
hollyglightly.bsky.social Holly Glightly 🧿🌌 @hollyglightly.bsky.social · Mar 28
With all this shaking & crumbling, I keep wondering what seeds will sprout from the fissures. I can't predict them, that's the beauty of them. But there will be new, good things that come up through the cracks. Some even radical. That will be the only way to move forward after all this.
March 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A refreshing perspective in sour times
From a Facebook post from Rebecca Solnit: "It's striking that people add up the countries that went right word in leadership to declare a trend, while the rejections and left trends don't get tallied up much. So here goes: Lula is back in power after one term of Bolsonaro; Poland dumped its far right leadership; the right didn't triumph in France as predicted (though it's chaos there and centrist Macron is unloved); the UK got its first labor government since forever; Mexico elected a progressive woman; Germany is a mess but with left-of-center PM after all those years of Merkel making conservatism look good; Australia has a labor Prime Minister; Spain has a socialist Prime Minister." She goes on to note that in places like the US we have pivoted right however. But that it's worth mentioning that one reason given for the invasion of Ukraine, is that having a democracy on its border, was threatening an autocracy in Russia.
January 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM