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Shattering the mirror doesn’t change what is reflected.

https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-and-iran-a-shared-struggle/ thanks to this newsfeed, for the article: https://news.abolish.capital/

https://youtu.be/QPYUOPVsBq0

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  • So you’re telling me a beaten child or dog isn’t conditioned to feeling fear.

    What, exactly do you think PTSD, c-PTSD, dissociative disorder, personality disorders and any number of other diagnoses are? They’re certainly not innate.

    Edit to add, do you still cry when your meals are delayed, or your stomach aches?

    No. You’ve come to accept (you’ve been conditioned) and understand you will eat again, a discomfort will pass.








  • People hoard because of artificial scarcity. There’s nothing wrong with being prepared, but dairy farmers are paid to pour out milk from over milked cows, to keep prices above a set threshold and take a writeoff, rather getting a writeoff to donate it to surrounding communities. Del Monte peach farmers were going to destroy over 400 cling peach trees in California, because Del Monte is closing, rather than find new buyers, grain is wasted, water is extracted for a pittance, bottled, sold back to communities, rather than communities investing more now to make sure clean drinking water is conserved and distributed for an affordable price for their community members, medicine is unresearched because the profit margin wouldn’t be high enough, etc ad nauseam.








  • Flock, based in Georgia and valued at $8.4bn, says its cameras scan license plates billions of times each month in about 6,000 communities in nearly every state in the US.

    Georgia. Of course.

    He wrote on a GoFundMe created to pay for legal expenses: “I will take the silver lining that this can be a catalyst in a bigger movement to roll back intrusive surveillance.”

    He should move that fundraiser to givesendgo or elsewhere, immediately, based on GoFundMe TOS.

    Flock did not comment on vigilantes knocking out its cameras but did publish a blogpost in mid-July about helping government agencies respond if a camera is damaged.

    We’ve planned for it,” the company wrote, adding that protection plans are available for purchase.

    😲 J/k

    Law enforcement is aware of the backlash and responding. Dozens of state fusion centers – collaborative hubs where federal and local agencies share intelligence about crime and terrorism – circulated memos across law enforcement agencies this summer directing officers to monitor anti-Flock advocacy as part of a directive to protect national security, according to reporting from journalist Dan Boguslaw. One report Boguslaw obtained from a Wisconsin intelligence agency calls for increased vigilance and patrols during protests and events such as a “national week of action” in mid-August. That intelligence digest also advised local law enforcement to report “vandalism, disruption or sabotage” of ALPRs to fusion centers.