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It's not safe to #fly. Massive dysfunction in air traffic controllers and coordination.

It's not safe to #eat. Record numbers of tainted food, water, pharmaceuticals.

It's not safe to #breathe. Covid. Measles. RSV. TB. All rising out of control.

It's not safe to walk in street because some #Nazi with a fucking Federal badge and a gun wearing a mask might #kidnap you and send you to another country if you say the wrong thing.

This is #Republican America. #Hell On Earth.

"This is a hideous lesson for all of us about how the great evils we are familiar with in the past were made possible. And it must be restated. If we do not succeed in establishing that Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people is an intolerable crime, if we do not succeed in holding those who facilitated this genocide to account, then it is not just the Palestinian people who face physical ruin. We will have paved the way to hell for our species as a whole."
#Gaza #Palestine #Genocide #Complicity

#Empathy or #Hell
owenjones.news/p/israel-on-the

BattleLines with Owen Jones · Israel on the rampage in Gaza - and our media covers it upBy Owen Jones

The game does not start now but this new player is there:

»Cloudflare builds an AI to make life hell for other AIs.
Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet«

😈 theregister.com/2025/03/21/clo

The Register · Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk contentBy Simon Sharwood
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My guess is that the evisceration of government agencies is the first step towards privatization of everything. Within a couple of years venture capitalists are going to be running the national parks, running social security, running the IRS. Musk will make government dysfunctional and then say, look, these agencies cannot handle these functions, so we have to turn them over to the private sector. #hell

A quotation from Ingersoll

Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power. Why should the church pity a man whom her God hates? Why should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn in eternal fire? Why should a Christian be better than his God?

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago

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WIST Quotations · Lecture (1874-05-03), "Heretics and Heresies," Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago - Ingersoll, Robert Green | WIST QuotationsGive any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power. Why should the church pity a man…

A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven
Is Love’s location. No dogmatic creed,
No austere faith based on ignoble fear
Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace.
Unless the humblest creatures on the earth
Are bettered by thy loving sympathy
Think not to find a Paradise beyond.
 
There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1906), “The Way,” ll. 5-13, New Thought Pastels

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