With my family/peers - not at all.

With psychopaths in power and their supporters/goons - mildly to very.

I never read a book outside of school (which was all fiction books, which I never got into), and then I was gifted Zygmunt Bauman’s Globalization: The Human Consequences and loved it and realized non-fiction is a thing

They represent the bottom/extreme evil side, not the average. Human nature is a full spectrum of possible good behaviors and bad behaviors. People are mirrors, they reflect their environment, the conditions and ideas that they’ve been exposed to. They are shaped and limited by the overall systems that they are living under, that they did not choose/built themselves.

An issue with this is that they are documenting people in their worst moments (violence, fights, rape, abuse, drugs, accidents, etc.). What happens to that footage? Are all cops allowed to freely access it / share it between them? What if the footage gets hacked/leaks, and people all over the world can leer/laugh at people in their most vulnerable moments, or find them in real life and harass them?

Additionally, could police use out-of-context footage to sway public opinion on people (for example, only getting to a scene where a person was being hounded and attacked by people and then defended themselves, and so in the footage you only see that person being violent) (edit:) or in a protest where people become violent/confrontational only after police instigation

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they want to keep you riled up thinking someone is right around the corner waiting to get you

missing teenage girl posts

It’s tragically ironic, because they (the people at the top) could be seen as the biggest threat in these cases, with their system of sex trafficking/rape islands/etc.

Pretty generic, but the territoriality drives me mad.

We have an “open house” policy where stray cats can come and eat as they please. But whenever we adopt one of them they would almost without fail become territorial and chase/attack other cats that come to eat. Like, “bitch you were just in their predicament, have some empathy! You see us actively giving them food, they are not intruders stealing food”

Another thing is some cats’ refusal to get into a carrier/trap to go to a vet. “You’re obviously suffering and we want to help you, just get into the damn carrier already”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan

I’m sure there were other things/resources to extract/control there, but this is the one I know and remembered off the top of my head.

It’s also a good place to do a real life test of (actual) weapons of mass destruction. A showroom of violence for potential buyers across the world.

I’m not from there but I’ll say that The US doesn’t intervene overseas in order “to spread democracy” or “to protect the world from the evils of communism” but to protect its economic interests, to increase the profits of capitalists through industries such as weapons and oil, and to make sure that no socialism occurs that threatens the stranglehold of capitalism.

Some books to check:

• Major General Smedley D. Butler - War Is A Racket
• Tim Weiner - Legacy Of Ashes: The History Of The CIA
• William Blum - Killing Hope: US Military And CIA Interventions Since World War II
• Noam Chomsky - What Uncle Sam Really Wants

The issue is when it is done publicly, it is almost always done in bad faith to try and shame/put someone down and dismiss everything they said due to a mistake. If you want to teach someone you should send them a private message. Don’t put them on blast in front of everyone. It shows a lack of empathy and depicts you as someone who wants to appear superior/better than them. Of course, there are ways to do it publicly but courteously, for example something like “just fyi, it’s they’re not their :) but anyway, I do agree with what you’re saying [or] it was interesting to read your take on this”

COINTELPRO never went away

I doubt it but I hope it somehow signifies a lasting slowing down of imperialism, of protecting the interests/profits of foreign corporations over local populations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_involvement_in_the_Iraq_War

Would he even arrive in hell? To my knowledge, God (at least of the old testament) never really condemned sexual assault/rape or hurting children (the latter is even encouraged - “spare the rod, spoil the child”, the binding of Isaac, etc.). A rapist could marry his victim as a “punishment” (as long as she’s single, otherwise if she was another man’s property, both her and the rapist should die)

I mean, it’s been a threat to people and democracy across the world since at least 1898

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish–American_War / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny

y’all need to stand up against racism and discrimination

I concur, I think they should push towards a more positive internet. Though I think they are a bit wary of doing it ever since the toxic backlash to this blog post

https://blog.mozilla.org/blogarchive/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/

After they had gotten ahead and were in charge

Chiming in that I do agree with this specific sentiment. I think the issue with your overall statement is that it seems to imply that all boomers did this, while it only applies to the ones that got ahead. The system we’ve been living in for ages has been creating and rewarding cutthroat psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies - so it absolutely makes sense that the people that rose up in the economic ladder abused their position accordingly.

What’s needed is a program that analyzes and pinpoints the conditions that create violent behavior and uproots them (for example, living in scarcity with no economic security and feeling marginalized, having no empathetic communal support system, etc.)

(cc: James Gilligan)

This is heartbreaking. The psychopaths at the top are actively sacrificing human lives. Cutting back programs like FEMA/disaster aid.

The population. This theoretical organization would need to be safe guarded enough that the people would believe they can be frank in expressing their wants without being afraid of repercussions from their regime or external forces. (so for example, if the people say they want socialism, with things like cooperatives and local gardens, then the people from the international organization would help them achieve that)

The problem is that the people at the top don’t want informed citizens. There should be a citizenry(?) class through 3 years of high school, and there should be a sort of public access channel (including online) that disseminates all relevant political information (local and general).