Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire

#Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #Absurdity #Atrocity #Skepticism

#Photography #Panorama #Hammock #KinderhookCreek #NewYork

The Doors - When The Music's Over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeIcjnIEVfE

we want the world and we want it now.

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
"Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term."

Think Israel Is Bad? Wait Until You See Its Society!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1h5kshVfAM

Israeli society isn’t just celebrating the genocide in Gaza—they’re actively participating in it…

NAME IT

Tilda Swinton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2CMrfxdKI

“State-perpetrated and internationally-enabled mass murder is currently actively terrorizing more than one part of our world”

#Genocidal #mentality of #RegimeChange: the #murders and “#disappearances” of thousands of #Pinochet’s political opponents — it’s important to recall the central role played by Richard #Nixon and Nixon’s national security advisor, Henry #Kissinger, in this #atrocity.

#southernstrategy #EndOfTheMyth #StrongmanCapitalism #DemocracyIsBadForBusiness #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #911 #fistbump

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/today-50-years-ago-henry-kissinger?r=11rw36&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post