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#OtD 4 Dec 1853 Errico Malatesta, mechanic and key anarchist theorist and organiser was born in Italy. Despite being repeatedly jailed, exiled and sentenced to death 3 times, he remained active and lived until the age of 78. Learn more in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/life-and-ideas-the-anarchist-writings-of-errico-malatesta

About time they started earning their own way #caturday

zombies and mummies are the same monster they just come from different socioeconomic backgrounds

Y’all are the best. Thanks for being kind and engaging, and for putting the “social” back in social media.

6 day suspension
can they be more jewish?

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d much rather have an entire Somali immigrant family with two happy trans kids living right next door to me than a white supremacist or a racist MAGA lunatic any day of the week.

Marjorie Taylor Greene was hired, trained, and paid by tech oligarchs & others from the very beginning to be a political troublemaker. With Trump’s downfall looming, Greene is now being strategically groomed to be JD Vance’s vice president.

Mark my words.

Once the human spirit has been quashed
And man no longer has free will or thought
And his soul is owned by corporate debts
No longer free to pursue ambitious dream
We'll be but chattel imprisoned by tyranny

The tyranny of digital ID to live and breathe
Surveillance, monitoring, then sanctioned
Our daily carbon footprint will be measured
Everything connected by intrusive smart grid
We will be rationed by status and complicity
For our opinions, thoughts and if we comply

This may be the most jewey wiki I have ever seen.

@Autumn The Jews, sometime later, I don't know when. They tried to mistranslate the Greek word virgin to maiden. The great word for virgin clearly translates to virgin, not maiden.

Arrest that dog!!!

It seems to me that the central thesis of buddhism - the full throated kind anyway - is "existence is tragedy." To live, have rational self-interest, and to experience the pleasures and pains inherent to humanity horrifies the founders of buddhism. Thus they war against desires, urges, and life-preserving instincts as an act of rebellion. The only reason it hasn't turned into a suicide cult is that achieving their highest goal (ontological suicide) is reserved only for those who spat in God's Face the hardest, rejecting everything about the blessings of life to the fullest extent.

I watched a clip from a buddhist monastery once, where they were making intricate decorations with colored sands. Every time they'd finish one of these pieces of art, some leader monk would undo it entirely. Why? In his words, to force the junior monks to meditate on impermanence and decay, to get them to stop attaching themselves to things. His reasoning was that attachments to this world keep you anchored here...as if that was a bad thing.

It really is just codified militant nihilism. Buddhism as I've seen it tells people that this world is a bad thing that ought to be escaped instead of a good thing that God created.

This anti-existence mindset isn't relegated to buddhism alone. It wormed its way into Christianity *very* early on by way of gnostic subversion. Since gnostics hold that some "evil" demiurge made the material world, they too insisted on reaching enlightenment through asceticism to achieve some sort of escape from reality. They too wanted to spit in God's Face. In the Church this simply got reworked to sound as though they weren't copying notes from these goofballs. But you may notice that gnostics and buddhists share the same aims and view of the world, so they naturally respect one another. The problem is, that means the churches end up giving an unearned respect to buddhism as well. For magisterial-apostate Christians, buddha is one of their highest saints and greatest teachers.

Don't believe me? One of the worst apostasies in Christian history is the canonization of siddhartha (the founder of buddhism) by the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Oh don't worry, our spiritual forebears renamed him "josaphat" and made his story look more Jesus-ey. That apparently makes it OK to tell Christians to kiss icons of him or else they'll be damned:
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02297a.htm

Remember. If Nicea II is valid and all of its anathemas are true, then you would *have* to believe that buddha is a saint despite his entire religion being militant nihilism. You would have to pray to guatama just like a buddhist would, only you use a different name (because then maybe God won't notice your idolatry or something).