#cruelty : a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others

- French: cruauté

- German: die Grausamkeit

- Italian: crudeltà

- Portuguese: crueldade

- Spanish: crueldad

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Disaster capitalism at work. This is the business model, folks.

#DisasterCapitalism #plunder #destruction #cruelty #profit

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-war-bets-ethics-concerns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick.

Friend link bypasses the paywall: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-april-18-dc10dc138ec2?sk=88535911cf3233927dd5ac9a18302423

#ukraine #journalism #news #russia #russiaisATerroristState #USA #shame #warcrimes #lies #loser #iran #greed #cruelty

Adrian Carrasquillo: We Forget About ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at Our Peril. The abuses are piling up, and Democrats and activists are desperate to get the word out.

#Prison #ICE #DHS #Florida #‘AlligatorAlcatraz #detention #immigration #NativeAmericans #Miccosukee #Everglades #concentrationcamps #abuse #gestapo #torture #cruelty
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/we-forget-about-alligator-alcatraz-at-our-peril-dhs-ice-deportations-everglades-detention-facility-florida

Detaining life:🚨1000s of lives so far. AA #detention cen➡️key site for Trump’s mass #deportation regime *good fractal sense, then, that Rep WS, after an unann visit to the fac last wk, described: as a “monument to #cruelty.”

Introd: No Cages in the Everglades Act: last sum -never became law. Saw:💔1500 detainees housed in cages at the site -smelled like urine...

“Vile, disgusting place: you'd never want anyone you care about to spend 5 mins in, WH'ed in cages.
#ICE #USPol
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/we-forget-about-alligator-alcatraz-at-our-peril-dhs-ice-deportations-everglades-detention-facility-florida

"Watching those who pretend to be religious carry out the most wretched actions against others for power or money is enough to make me start thinking seriously about souls, something I haven’t done until now."

"It’s especially stark and shocking to see how much of this palpable evil comes from people who claim to be God-fearing."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/16/i-thought-hell-would-freeze-over-before-i-agreed-with-the-pope-but-in-a-world-riven-by-cruelty-that-day-has-finally-come

#meaningoflife #god #evil #church
#cruelty #violence #corruption #religion

Fueling generations of hate 💔

#Heartbreak #cruelty

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/israel-escalates-attacks-on-medics-in-lebanon-with-deadly-quadruple-tap?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A quotation from James Howell

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]

More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83382/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #cruelty #cutting #fightingwords #gossip #hatespeech #insult #language #rhetoric #sharpness #slander #speech #sword #verbalabuse #words #wound