Mastodawn

“We're going to have to reject #dehumanisation of opponents. We're going to have to move beyond “enemy” #narratives. We're going to have to emphasise cooperation and respect, and we're going to have to reduce the drivers of conflict.”
The new world order is here.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/21/the-new-world-order-is-here-and-neoliberalism-is-dead/

The new world order is here, and neoliberalism is dead

The world order is changing. Military power no longer guarantees victory, economic warfare is replacing invasion, and identity politics is proving stronger than force. In this video, I explain why the old assumptions of geopolitics — that superpowers always win, that regime change can be imposed from outside, that missiles...

Funding the Future

BellingenNSW Mar 8

A processing system for Australia's first female leader?

Agriculture businessman David Farley and Hanson’s candidate "...likened former prime minister Julia Gillard to a “non-productive old cow” that should be destroyed ..."

The Narrandera-based irrigator mentioned the country’s first female leader while talking about "cows being destroyed using new abattoir technology."

“So it’s designed for non-productive old cows. Julia Gillard’s got to watch out.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/08/one-nation-candidate-contesting-sussan-leys-seat-likened-julia-gillard-to-non-productive-old-cow-ntwnfb

Final Solution Killing Centres
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/killing-centers-an-overview
#Women #Australia #misogyny #dehumanisation #Zeitgeist #IWD2026 #Hatespeech #abattoir

One Nation candidate contesting Sussan Ley’s seat likened Julia Gillard to ‘non-productive old cow’

Pauline Hanson says ‘get over it’ and fully backs David Farley, her party’s candidate in Farrer byelection

The Guardian

BellingenNSW Feb 18

Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts

"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts
#misogyny #crime #dehumanisation #commodification #racism #supremacy #corruption #UltraRich #RacketTheory
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Toni Aittoniemi Feb 10

You make think you have attended enough lectures on #dehumanisation ,but really, you should be obsessed on this topic.

Dehumanisation is the single most important tool of #oppression, and it’s everywhere right now!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Txgnz5P3-Yc

The last time politicians talked like Trump | David Livingstone Smith

YouTube

Libby Feb 5

From 1983, but never more up to date

#crucifix #aPerfectCircle #dehumanisation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcer_tZkHmc

https://genius.com/A-perfect-circle-annihilation-lyrics

Crucifix - Annihilation (Lyrics)

YouTube

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Aurin (ki, ki, kis)Feb 4

*grumbles* in general, when you're upset about wrongs, make a habit of considering the perspective of the VICTIMS, not only the perpetrators. Yes, we need to do something about them. But not by verbally and rhetorically revictimising the victims.

It's like they were cast as non-people by whoever wronged them, and then well meaning people come along and try to oppose the wrongs, while in their minds, the non-people are still non-people. Poor, beautiful, innocent non-people who shouldn't be wronged, but non-people nonetheless.

If you pay attention, you can see this dynamic play out everywhere on basically any topic.

#dehumanisation #othering #SocialJustice #SocialJustice101

BellingenNSW Jan 27

Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness

"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."

A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204

Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book

Bernhard Waldenfels: A Topography of the Other (Topographie des Fremden, Suhrkamp Verlag)

Inquire exclusive translation rights for A Topography of the Other from Bernhard Waldenfels or use our online form for non-exclusive reprint permissions

Suhrkamp Verlag

BellingenNSW Jan 26

Truth-telling and justice

* “I can understand how Corowa is now known as the place where we have 40 neo-Nazis march up and down our main street on a Saturday morning. Now we’re starting to remove flags. I can understand how someone can see it cascading.”
A regional NSW council voted to remove the Aboriginal flag to promote ‘unity’ – it did the opposite >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/26/a-regional-nsw-council-voted-to-remove-the-aboriginal-flag-to-promote-unity-it-did-the-opposite

* "The rise in voting support for One Nation, which mirrors the success of populist politicians in the United States and United Kingdom, provides further evidence of the rise of a more hardline, right-wing populism, which often celebrates rather than questions the history of European imperialism.”
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Opposition to moving Australia Day from January 26 is hardening: new research
https://theconversation.com/opposition-to-moving-australia-day-from-january-26-is-hardening-new-research-273795

* "People don't understand that the current policies are still embedded in their colonial roots.” >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-25/truth-telling-closing-the-gap-indigenous-affairs-agenda-2026/106260862

#PostReferendum #zeitgeist #SettlerSociety #FirstNationsPeoples #WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy #EuropeanColonialism #FarRight #EthnoNationalism #dehumanisation #Empire #Australia #equality #governance #NSW #TruthTelling

Image: NSW North Coast tribal boundaries, Tindale's map 1974

BellingenNSW Jan 18

"Australia remains the only liberal democracy not to have adopted its own constitutional or statutory bill of rights. Instead there is a patchwork of local laws and international agreements...The Australian commitment to human rights is always subject to political whim."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/18/for-all-the-talk-of-australian-values-our-rights-as-citizens-and-humans-remain-fragile

Hartmut Rosa, Situation and Constellation, On the Disappearance of Human Agency
"Particularly in our professional lives – but increasingly also in our leisure time – our decision-making is prescribed in advance by guidelines and forms, algorithms and apps, right down to the smallest of details. The role of situational, sensitive consideration and judgment is being replaced by the constellation-based machine logic of execution, which we wield on a daily basis. »Agree«/»Reject« – this is how agents of action turn into executors of actions."

"...When spheres of discretion and judgment disappear and the creativity of human agency is eliminated from everyday practices of execution, we feel an increased sense of powerlessness. And as our power of judgment dwindles, so does our energy to act."
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https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/hartmut-rosa-situation-and-constellation-fr-9783518588338

#HumanRights #citizens #dehumanisation #BillOfRights #HumanAgency #HumanAction #PowerOfJudgment #machine #algorithm #robodebt #HumanInTheLoop #HITL #HeterogeneousEnsemble #assemblage #apparatus #ToDoList #governance