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let no one enter here who is ignorant of paradox

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Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19h ago

"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize

nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 2d ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGVb... more on media distorting sensibilities on war and genocide. Still reviewing my growing suspicion of the relevance of manufacturing consent theses

Western media insiders reveal how Gaza coverage was silenced | The Listening Post (2024)

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 2mo ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z9U... The average western lib grasped the concept of refugee, war and peace, etc, when russia invaded ukraine. Russian artists and classics were even being cancelled and geo-strategic existential arguments became a no no! some lib reading this thinks I'm putin's puppet

nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 6h ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jEy... Reminder that there isn't anything necessary about the western style accusatory guilt regimes prompting people to doing the "right" thing.. It's a consequence of a certain kind of historical accident, made to feel universal via the ideological tyrannies upon

#795 Owen Flanagan - The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility

YouTube video by The Dissenter

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nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · yesterday

en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gen... Guilt, bad conscience, and the like

nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · yesterday

en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gen... Guilt, bad conscience, and the like

The Genealogy of Morals/Second Essay - Wikisource, the free online library

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nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 4mo ago

www.instagram.com/reel/DPusmWQ... In the book, he demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion(words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong today...very nietzschean

nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 6h ago

actually began when y'all refuse to be signatories to the Rome statute, et al... the mentioned conflict and genocide is but a latest expression

nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 6h ago

1. The US began weakening the legitimacy of the courts with their differential attitude to Palestine and Ukraine. 2. India was buying the same in beginning of war and selling it for cheap to europeans, so I'd say, there's precedent. Move beyond vibes guys, lest incompleteness n contradiction

nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 6h ago

actually began when y'all refuse to be signatories to the Rome statute, et al... the mentioned conflict and genocide is but a latest expression

nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 6h ago

1. The US began weakening the legitimacy of the courts with their differential attitude to Palestine and Ukraine. 2. India was buying the same in beginning of war and selling it for cheap to europeans, so I'd say, there's precedent. Move beyond vibes guys, lest incompleteness n contradiction

nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 6h ago

1. The US began weakening the legitimacy of the courts with their differential attitude to Palestine and Ukraine. 2. India was buying the same in beginning of war and selling it for cheap to europeans, so I'd say, there's precedent. Move beyond vibes guys, lest incompleteness n contradiction

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h ago

We are sanctioning the ICC because we are a country that commits war crimes. We are buying diesel from Russia to fund Putin’s war machine because we are a country that likes *other* countries that commit war crimes.

nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 6h ago

1. The US began weakening the legitimacy of the courts with their differential attitude to Palestine and Ukraine. 2. India was buying the same in beginning of war and selling it for cheap to europeans, so I'd say, there's precedent. Move beyond vibes guys, lest incompleteness n contradiction

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h ago

We are sanctioning the ICC because we are a country that commits war crimes. We are buying diesel from Russia to fund Putin’s war machine because we are a country that likes *other* countries that commit war crimes.

nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 3mo ago

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... just for memories too on this lancet study that analyzed effects of sanctions on 152 countries between 1971 and 2021, and their incredibly morbid effects..

Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis

Sanctions have substantial adverse effects on public health, with a death toll similar to that of wars. Our findings underscore the need to rethink sanctions as a foreign-policy tool, highlighting the...

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nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 3mo ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJYf... whatever you wanna think of humanitarian aid, you wouldn't be wrongheaded to politically orient your attitudes toward the enterprise, "noble" intentions notwithstanding... and ofc, imperialist history and all such tragic relations with Africa, etc

Zecharias Zelalem@zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 9h ago

I've provided an explainer for @aljazeera.com on the African frictions of Ethiopia's war; why Eritrean soldiers have intervened on behalf of the rebels, what possible role could an alliance between Eritrea, Egypt, Sudan and Somalia play, the geopolitical mess in the Horn of Africa here for you.

Will Ethiopia’s neighbours intervene as Tigray war escalates?

Tigray’s renewed war is testing Ethiopia’s already strained regional ties.

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nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · 11h ago

not gonna fixate on what happens in elite pedagogical spaces beyond stating the obvious. These places are designed to be beyond the reforms that the indignation at them suggests, and might not reflect priorities of violence against women, with the contradiction of women in these spaces sometimes 1/

nî maina africana@barbarianatthegate.bsky.social · last wk.

I know y'all know this...the equivalent of hazing frat procedures in the real world is what epstein was up to in extorting people after enjoying in vice together. or thru mere affiliation. It's a signaling to the individual of consequences if they're deviant from expectations w/o even explication