Injustice Systems

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911

They went after many of them as well.

Smaller religious minorities such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Bahá’í Faith were banned in Germany, while the eradication of Judaism by the genocide of its adherents was attempted. The Salvation Army, the Christian Saints[clarification needed] and the Seventh-day Adventist Church all disappeared from Germany, while astrologers, healers, fortune tellers, and witchcraft were banned. However, the small pagan “German Faith Movement” supported the Nazis.
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the regime strongly opposed “Godless Communism”[170][171] and all of Germany’s freethinking (freigeist), atheist, and largely left-wing organizations were banned
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany

I did not know that the guy who originally gave the speech actually initially supported the Nazis and later ended up in a concentration camp. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_…) I’d always heard it in the same sense as “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

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A religion of cruelty exists to protect stupid rich people. The smart rich people are too stupid to realize they need regular people who are not guards. To make their conveniences.

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THIS. I just had a man in my office who was talking about how he was able to handle the police because he could look them in the eye. And it was just absurd. Cops know all the tricks.

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Okay, without looking it up, it’s either Burke, or someone with the first name of Thomas from England, eh?

All I know is that this shit’s been going on and off for millennia; and that, for some reason, USUALLY, an age of enlightenment follows.

And I have a BIG problem with the thought of Pastafarians just doing nothing.
https://www.newsweek.com/i-pastafari-church-flying-spaghetti-monster-interview-1515169

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… In New Orleans, Kathryn Olivarius finds, elites refused to do anything at all about yellow fever for a hundred years. Theirs was a mindset of fatalism and cruelty that reinforced the society’s many human hierarchies; they saw yellow fever as a dangerous rite of passage that the truly worthy would come through. But poorer people who survived yellow fever were rewarded with the worst, most dangerous jobs; white people used Black people’s supposed “natural” resistance to yellow fever to justify the continuation of slavery. And the wealthy often turned profoundly hypocritical when it was their own families in danger. (That era’s elite fled to their summer houses too.)

Olivarius’ book, Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom , which will be coming out next year, is about the Deep South—Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and eastern Texas. Since the work I was able to read was about 19th-century New Orleans’ culture of yellow fever, that’s what we covered in our conversation, which has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Some Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City could face up to life in prison if they’re convicted of splashing red paint and smashing windows during a protest, a potential punishment that stands out among demonstrators arrested around the country and one that critics say doesn’t fit the alleged crime.

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The question we must ask right now: Why is the GOP so determined to expire for good the extra $600 a week in federal unemployment benefits? The answer is not so obvious. For one, economists are certain that reducing unemployment benefits"will pull the rug out from the economic recovery." The pandemic is clearly not going away any time soon. The job market is still in the gutter and not looking at the stars. Of the estimated 40 million jobs lost during the first months of the pandemic, about 9 million have returned, and returned in a climate that daily batters any job opportunities that are out there.

Quoting Zachary Carter:

[Despite the economic recovery initiated by New Deal policies in the 1930s], the rich, as a group of Harvard economists observed, continued to “complain bitterly” of their tax burden, which they perceived as a violation of “divine right”—even though “the additions to their incomes, resulting from the government’s activities, are far greater in amount than the additional taxes they pay.” Jack Morgan, according to one chronicler of the family, viewed the New Deal “less as a set of economic reforms than as a direct, malicious assault on the social order.”

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Trigger warning…

Read an article about Trump & Epstein, and it linked to the following video. I’ve set the time to just before what I noticed in the background (which, I also notice, isn’t something that’s even mentioned in the comment thread). Prior to this moment, the camera is on the two gross men talking, but you get glimpses that Maxwell is behind them, talking intently with someone, and then there’s enough movement that you see there’s yet another wealthy man, and then, where I’ve queued it, you see who they were both talking to after they walk away: a young woman, literally cornered, and the look in her eyes as they leave her tells me she’s in trouble and she knows it but she doesn’t know what to do to get out of the situation.

This is the sort of thing that Maxwell did. She didn’t necessarily rape the girls herself, but she’s very much the reason they were.

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Over the past 40 years, I’ve noticed that privileged people often “take me in” their social groups solely to treat me as their pet “retard”, framing it as taking pity on me and getting me out in the world—which I don’t need help with, then shoving me toward working on their pet projects. They usually aren’t that raw about the language they use but I’m pretty good at seeing it for what it is. My response is always, “naw I’m good.”

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