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I get the reference on the one hand but I'm concerned what people who don't follow the series might think that flag means. (I can think of other sorts of imagery from One Piece that might have been a lot better to reference, honestly, like either the

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Revolutionary Army's

flag or all of the subtle

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sun symbol

variants that appear throughout the series.) I appreciate the article providing other examples of young adult protests that made pop culture references. Nice to hear more about the different trends among young protesters abroad.

Also, professor Suyanto's analysis:

"And I see it as effective … their voices became louder and many political elites have responded, though whether [their] response meets the public expectations is another matter."

"They don't need to take to the streets, confront authorities, or face police batons."

Indeed, but since Western media is ignoring it, we should all be exposing and talking more about Kahanism. That's probably the most accurate term we can use for the Israel-rooted supremacist viewpoint that so directly resembles nazism. It's a term genocide apologists and enablers can't so easily ignore or flip back or play down as they can with "nazi." There is obviously a longer history to it all, but people of conscience around the world should specifically know who Meir Kahane was and how-- despite being labelled as a terrorist even in Israel and the US-- his extremist legacy (this was a guy who literally taught people Hitler was right except that Jewish people were supposed to be seen as "masculine" and superior) lived on in the current sadistic attitudes and genocidal policies of the IDF, Knesset, and most of Israel's citizenry.

The only way this wouldn't be supremely disappointing would be if they were keeping all staff and only introducing this for lower-importance sequences to reduce the famously insane workload. But yeah, I know I'm only kidding myself to even entertain that idea.

The two matters aren't mutually exclusive and ultimately their motives don't matter as much as the effect. Getting riled up and indignant about some people's racism is useless and even counterproductive-- especially compared to focusing on the source.

Racism being systemic means there are barriers to overcome at every income level. Everyone has already bought into it at varying levels, so you can't just go "See, look, they're racist!" Outside of a few like-minded people, the typical response would range from shoulder shrugs to annoyance at best. Many will even perceive the accuser as acting superior.

If we're talking about racism on a systemic level, exposing that there IS someone who benefits is necessary to get people invested in societal healing. Most people are constantly tired and from their perspective, don't have the energy to care about what they perceive as other people's problems. Make it their problem too, and maybe something will change.

Campaigns and general influence by wealthy people who want poorer folks attacking their fellow poor folks and not them. Same as racism in general.

I had to actively seek sources out for my own sanity. The people compiling it don't cover every area I'd like, but there's good news happening too. Two sources I know of are Sam Bentley and Good News.

Yikes, proper waste handling could use more attention in the news, despite the seemingly endless flow of other problems. (Lots of good news too, but that gets even less attention.)

I'm sure in addition to what's been publicly stated as happening right now being indefensible even to the most in-denial people out there (at least out of those who want to be able to believably claim they care at all about human rights), it helps that in the UK at least, cases have been moving forward against war criminals with dual citizenship. (Identified "veterans" of the genocidal campaign have been charged elsewhere as well but I haven't heard how those cases are progressing yet.)

I thought so too at first, but then got to this part and learned it's not the first time:

Luigi Mangione is getting the Roxie Hart treatment.

The accused murderer will be the subject of a new musical set to premiere next month in San Francisco, titled Luigi: The Musical.

Also appearing as characters in the musical will be two of Mangione’s fellow inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center - Sean "Diddy" Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried.

The play is already sold out for its entire run.

The premiere comes 99 years after Hart - a fictional character based on accused murderer Beulah Annan - made her Broadway debut in Chicago.

Annan, like Hart, was ultimately acquitted of murder.

The term sodomy on its own usually means anal sex, but in this particular case, the verb form "sodomize" is indeed referring to

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anal rape.

They don't want Gemini, so they stated probably the best way to avoid having Gemini. It's a privacy-minded comment. Despite being Google's own phone, Pixels may be the only phones you can unlock to flash with a different ROM (GrapheneOS) and then be able to lock again after for security.

I had it here in Canada, decades ago. My memories are vague but I remember thinking it wasn't bad at all. (Probably no lung, but there was definitely stomach.)