Mastodawn

Why many people lose hope in a world of injustice: My personal reflection on strength, truth, and oppression
#Injustice #Censorship #HumanRights #TruthMatters #FreedomOfExpression #Oppression #Resilience #GlobalInequality #Accountability #SocialJustice
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2021/09/now-i-understand-why-many-people-commit.html

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Artun Faliro 16h ago

Political #theory 101 and #unpacking #thesetimes:

Hegemony is not the same as #oppression — the oppressed in the former (hegemony) consents, partly or fully, to the oppressor, whereas in the latter (oppression) the oppressed is poised to #dissent and #resist and seek #liberation, and might oppose not only individual powerful actors but also epistemological, #structural and historical injustices.

#hegemony #unpacking

Diotima 1d ago

Dio's not so daily witchy facts:

Wicca is a lovely religion, but not all pagans are Wiccans. And the modern def of 'pagan' itself is, AFAIK, a reclamation.

The word originally was one militant Christians used to belittle us and other us. Pagan, literally, was "villager" or "rustic" or some stuffs.

Redneck, if u like. Country folk. Unenlightened.

U don't need to hide any more. U dont need to be what they wanted you to be.

Does pagan fit u? Okay!

But are u a witch, a follower of Meilikki, an acolyte of Anubis?

OWN. IT.

#witch #witchy #pagan #Christianity #religion #oppression #resistance

John Griogair Bell 2d ago

“people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/03/17/people-will-come-to-love-their-oppression-to-adore-the-technologies-that-undo-their-capacities-to-think/ #adore #aldousHuxley #book #capacities #CommunicationMediaStudies #love #MassMedia #MassMediaInfluence #MassMediaUnitedStates #Massenmedien #MeDiasETatsUnis #MeDiasInfluence #MoviesTV #music #neilPostman #OFfentlicheMeinung #oppression #people #PerformingArts #PerformingArtsTelevisionHistoryCriticism #PoliticalSciencePoliticalProcessMediaInternet #politics #quote #SocialScience #SocialScienceMediaStudies #SociologyReference #technologies #think #TVHistoryCriticism #undo #unitedStates #USA #willComeTo

Tim Mocarski 3d ago

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

James Madison

#quoteoftheday #Tyranny #Oppression #War #Resist

TRADFEM 4d ago

FÉMINISME 101 : L’OPPRESSION n’est pas la même chose que la DISCRIMINATION.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://tradfem.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/feminisme-101-loppression-nest-pas-la-meme-chose-que-la-discrimination/

Kevin Karhan

3d ago

Personally I expect the #FCC to sooner or later ban #journalism aka. anyone who isn't praising #Trump 24/7 and banning #journalists as well as #media from overseas as a whole.

So I'd hope that @dw_innovation / #DWnews improves upon their work re: access, not just for people from heavily censored locations like #Russia ¹ but generally.
- Please do make a presence in the #Fediverse beyond merely watching out but also more prominently advertise your #OnionService on @torproject / #Tor: https://dwnewsgngmhlplxy6o2twtfgjnrnjxbegbwqx6wnotdhkzt562tszfid.onion

For those curious, there's a checker tool to see if #Roskomnadzor blocked a #domain...

https://www.dw.com/en/youtube-whatsapp-blocked-in-russia/a-75940102

#InternetCensorship #Censorship #MediaFreedom #PressFreedom #InformationWarfare #Disinformation #Propaganda #Oppression #Germany

How Russians cope with censorship: Questions to a DW expert

How can Russians stay informed when many international news websites are blocked and Russian media shut down? Anja Terveen, Customer Experience Manager at DW recently conducted a survey and we asked about the results.

Deutsche Welle

Mark 4d ago

#Iran building #ShadowState inside Georgia. I was interrogated for saying so

I know about being targeted by this government as several of us raised concerns about Iran’s expanding influence in #Georgia — including the operation of an unaccredited Iranian university on Georgian soil — the #security services summoned us

Ins Georgia today, exposing #foreign adversary influence is treated as crime, while the network itself not #harassed

https://kyivindependent.com/iran-is-building-shadow-state-inside-georgia-i-was-interrogated-for-saying-so/

#authoritarian #Freedom #oppression

Iran is building shadow state inside Georgia. I was interrogated for saying so

On March 7, 2026, a crowd of Georgian citizens gathered outside Iran's embassy in Tbilisi. They held aloft portraits of recently killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and chanted a pledge of obedience to the supreme leader of a foreign theocracy. A few blocks away, thousands of other Georgians continued the pro-European protests that have filled Rustaveli Avenue since the disputed November 2024 elections, demanding a new vote and a return to the Western path we fought for — and nearly died building. T

The Kyiv Independent

Silkester 4d ago

Pete Hegseth's Holy War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFNVjphnuw

#Hegseth #ChristianNationalism #HolyWar #ChristianExtremism #Evangelists #Oppression #Tyranny #Politic

Pete Hegseth's Holy War

YouTube

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 5d ago

#KarlMarx is the most consequential #economist of the past two centuries, and his work as a #sociologist identified the struggle against #oppression as a key motor of history. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1883 he died in London. Meanwhile, the #RulingClass keeps adapting and lives on.