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KanaMauna

@ai6yr

Considering just how obviously destructive DOGE has been, I am convinced that this dismantling of the agricultural system is also intentional. They want rotting crops. They know they can afford the price inflation; this is all to crush the rest of us.

Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫Jul 15

@KanaMauna @ai6yr
We've been saying it's a death cult all this time and I don't know what to tell people who still think that's a dramatic metaphor.

I have asked people who are still in denial that, if this is not a death cult, what is it? Never really get a response because there isn’t one.

Now that said, I don’t think everybody in the administration is a crazy. The rest of them are just complete sociopaths who are trying to beat us into submission like they’ve done with every single one of their ex-wives.

AI6YR Ben Jul 14

#politics

cynthia rose is desirable Jul 14

@ai6yr

meanwhile California's tomato harvest rots bc they've raided the fields....

I feel like screaming

Diane Jul 14

@cynthiarose @ai6yr

I kind of wonder if the Trump regime is taking lessons from Netanyahu about how to starve a population.

(It is slightly more correct to refer to both governments by using the same type of name)

cynthia rose is desirable Jul 15

@alienghic @ai6yr

god I hope not.

👊🇺🇸🔥Jul 15

@alienghic @cynthiarose @ai6yr Israel and Russia.

https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/deadly-exchange

Serge from Babka Jul 15

Thanks. the three of you for the reminder of what Deadly Exchange looks like.

#FediAntisemitism

@Avitus @alienghic @cynthiarose @ai6yr

Deadly Exchange | #TranslateHate

Translate Hate was created by American Jewish Committee (AJC) to explain antisemitism. This glossary aims to improve media literacy on antisemitism and hate, especially in the digital realm. See when Deadly Exchange is antisemitic.

AJC

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165383

Diane Jul 15

@serge

It's not anti-semitic to describe that the various international right wing movements cooperate and learn from each other.

And it's not like Netanyahu and his coalition invented intentionally causing a famine to kill off a local population. There's plenty of other examples throughout history.

There is plenty of documentation that there is a famine in Gaza, and that factions of Israel are the ones intentionally maintaining the blockade of food and critical supplies from reaching Gaza that are causing this famine.

It is pessimistic of me to think that Stephan Miller hates Hispanics so badly he would trigger widespread hunger in Los Angeles. But kidnapping farm workers and deploying troops does look like a first step of an occupation.

So maybe it'd be less Gaza and more Sarajevo, but that 1992 event has been long forgotten by most.

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

No fuel, no aid, no escape: UN agencies warn of looming collapse in Gaza

The fuel crisis in Gaza has reached a breaking point, threatening to bring all humanitarian operations to a halt and endangering the lives of everyone reliant on aid inside the enclave, UN agencies warned in a powerful joint statement on Saturday.

UN News

me_valentijn Jul 15

@serge @Avitus @alienghic @cynthiarose @ai6yr
That page makes no sense. It takes multiple different claims, and somehow concludes that they are all the same and ergo antisemitic:

1) Israeli training is responsible for US police brutality. (This is a gross mischaracterization of statements made by Jewish Voice for Peace. And obviously US cops don't need any help when it comes to being racist or brutal.)

2) US-Israeli joint military training makes both countries more racist and fascist. (How is this statement antisemitic? Fascists encourage each other, as always.)

3) Accusing Israel of murdering children is antisemitic. (It's a statement of fact that Israel indiscriminately kills massive amounts of Palestinian children and is in the midst of deliberately starving the rest.)

4) It's scapegoating to accuse Israel of complicity in US cops murdering Black people. (Well, no it's not scapegoating if the US cops actually doing it are blamed too. And again, this is a very "creative" interpretation of what was actually said by JVP.)

That page is as logically incoherent and full of false equivalencies as the rest of New Antisemitism.

@me_valentijn @serge @Avitus @cynthiarose @ai6yr

Diane Jul 15

It looks to me like right wing leaders do not say words to refer to an external objective reality, they say words purely for their emotional impact.

Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷Jul 15

@alienghic Could be. Yahu would starve Israelis, if it fed into his fantasy. @cynthiarose @ai6yr

Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦Jul 15

@Tooden @alienghic @cynthiarose@sfba.social @ai6yr you're right that Netanyahu would kill Israeli citizens to keep himself in power, he already ordered the military to shoot to kill Israeli hostages

Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷Jul 15

@vaurora And we don't really know how many Israelis were killed by IDF on Oct 7, when they were fleeing the Hamas attack. Anyone is expendable to the coward. @alienghic @ai6yr

Dataline Jul 16

@Tooden @vaurora @alienghic @ai6yr https://www.mako.co.il/pzm-soldiers/Article-199bdbb03215b81026.htm Boy do I have some ugly footage for you here. Footage from an Israeli gunner at the rave says a massive number of those civilians killed were killed by "friendly" fire. They just shot at everything running or trying to get in a car and drive on the ground. Basically it's on camera that at least anyone trying to leave that made it into that gunner's sights was exterminated. Hannibal directive stuff. The Palestinians maintained that the objective of the mission had been a military command target (related to the plans to cleanse and seize the strip, already underway) and a hostage taking operation (to get negotiating leverage). It wasn't in their interest to kill the civilians and they said they weren't actually expecting to encounter a rave (ref. all Hamas statements in the weeks following the attack) which fubar'd their whole operation.

טייסים מודים: "כשלנו בלהגן, מרגישים רע מאוד"

הם אמנם התעשתו מהר וזינקו לעוטף עזה, אבל מבינים היטב שלמרות שלחמו בגבורה, במבחן התוצאה כולם נכשלו במשימתם. וגם: הניסיון שכשל להחליף מסוקים בכטב"מים

mako

Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷Jul 16

@somebody I did read a lot of accounts to that effect. The baby-killing was 'propaganda' to get the world riled up, and that the body toll was also greatly exaggerated.
I simply cannot believe anything that comes out of the murderous zionists' mouths. They are liars. @vaurora @alienghic @ai6yr

Diane Jul 16

@Tooden @somebody

It's one reason I try to quote the UN, as I think they're relatively impartially especially when compared to Israel and the US.

hex Jul 15

@alienghic @cynthiarose @ai6yr oh no, that's silly. He's taking lessons from Pol Pot and Mao.

"It's gonna be a GREAT leap people, THE GREATEST leap ANYONE HAS EVER SEEN! We're going to leap back to when America was great. So many people will cry when they see what we're doing with this country."

Diane Jul 15

@Hex @cynthiarose @ai6yr

Yeah the attacks on universities do remind me of that old time cultural revolution

Sozan Jul 15

@Hex I think you nailed it.
@alienghic @cynthiarose @ai6yr

Dark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈Jul 15

@cynthiarose @ai6yr
Another reason to shop at the farmer's market.

AI6YR Ben Jul 15

@Darkphoenix @cynthiarose Alas, the same workers who pick the fruit for farmer's markets are the same ones being whisked away by masked ICE vehicles.

Dark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈Jul 15

@ai6yr @cynthiarose
and that is why I gave no specifics...

MsMerope Jul 14

@ai6yr
AND
it's f'ing mid July
IT'S TOO LATE NOW TO BOOST PRODUCTION!!!

somebody just wanted to dump their hunts/del monte stock because the stupid is so thick you can stand a spoon up in it.

Darwin Woodka Jul 14

should have ICE agents go pick vegetables instead of harassing the people that do

jj the Santa Barbarian Jul 14

@ai6yr a lot of tomatoes are rotting in the fields right now due to short handedness on some farms

Neil E. Hodges Jul 15

@ai6yr @cookiesinheaven They're too disconnected from food production to understand. :/

Steve Hersey Jul 15

@ai6yr Gods below, these people know nothing about tomatoes. Cruelty and incompetence.

thegardendude 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸Jul 15

@ai6yr Yeah good luck to them trying to lure affluent white people into the fields to pick tomatoes for minimum wage (or worse) in brutal conditions all day

COD Jul 15

@thegardendude @ai6yr In high school my wife and her friends thought picking corn would be a great way to get paid to get a tan. They lasted two weeks.

Randall Lee Jul 15

@chrisod @thegardendude @ai6yr Corn harvesting has been mechanized for decades. If they lasted two weeks that's impressive

@BLTpizza @thegardendude @ai6yr

COD Jul 15

This was 4 decades ago.

Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻Jul 15

@chrisod @BLTpizza @thegardendude @ai6yr two weeks is indeed impressive

@chrisod @thegardendude @ai6yr

Poloniousmonk Jul 15

My gf's little brother picked tomatoes. He lasted less than a week.

He was good at the beginning:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=y1dQazDYgag

AI6YR Ben Jul 15

@Uair @chrisod @thegardendude LOL on that comedy bit. Which is so true. All the people I have ever heard about immigrants taking jobs won't even get off the couch, much less do hard manual labor.

2xfo Jul 15

@ai6yr
These fuckers are trying to make me boycott tomatoes

kcp Jul 15

@RnDanger @ai6yr you won't be able to buy any soon so it won't matter

Karl Auerbach Jul 15

@RnDanger @ai6yr You could grow your own tomatoes. A lot of people do, even in small apartments. And the ones you do grow often taste much better than store-bought ones.

AI6YR Ben Jul 15

@karlauerbach @RnDanger I grow a lot of tomatoes, but not everyone can do so, and it's not easy, you can't produce nearly as many tomatoes as you eat (particularly in terms of how much we use in sauces, things like ketchup, etc.), and not all year round (etc etc etc)

2xfo Jul 15

@ai6yr @karlauerbach
I usually get a glut of tomatoes in late August but i enjoy them all year. I'm afraid I'm gonna need to start growing better

https://www.growbetterveggies.com/

Karl Auerbach Jul 15

@RnDanger @ai6yr We grow some of our tomatoes as well. I like the Momotaro variety, so I plant seeds in our heated greenhouse around the end of February. I usually get about 35 starts. Then I replant about six to eight of those starts into outdoors beds or greenhouse pots. The remaining starts generally go to a local church where they sell 'em for a couple of dollars each.

We finally get tomatoes in August through October.

If we want super high quality tomatoes of other varieties we can drive about 4 miles to Love Apple Farms.

There's a seed grower if we drive in the other direction

https://www.tomatofest.com/Tomato_Seeds_on_Sale_s/43.htm

there is beauty in simplicity Jul 15

@ai6yr they want to starve and bankrupt us

Athamanatha Jul 15

@ai6yr
You can't solve fascism with money.

Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫Jul 15

@athamanatha @ai6yr
Yeah it's like trying to cure Ebola with blood transfusions.

Fat_Farang Jul 15

@ai6yr US cuts off chips to China. Chinese government sets a goal to produce them domestically, then develops a plan and supplies the resources to make it happen.

US government plan when faced with a self-created shortage, cut off external supply and hope capitalist forces correct the problem. Any suffering caused waiting for that to happen is a price they are willing to let us pay.

Simply Simon Jul 15

@Fat_Farang @ai6yr What do you mean, “Apple can’t setup an entire supply chain from dirt to iPhone between now and the beginning of August!?” They’re Americans, goddamnit!

*sparkling anxiety* Evelyn Jul 15

@ai6yr
Here's to our government-imposed tomato-free summer.

Dave Rahardja Jul 15

@ai6yr I truly wonder what this administration is trying to accomplish.

Hanlon’s Razor suggests that the motivation behind these stupid decisions lies somewhere between incompetence and magical thinking, based on nothing more than what plays well on conservative TV and talk circuits.

I think this administration is staffed by deeply racist and ignorant people who have escaped consequences all their lives, and expect to continue to do so no matter their actions.

Steve 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸Jul 15

@drahardja @ai6yr perhaps some of that is going on, but imho Miller and his ilk know exactly what they are doing and are relishing in the cruelty.

Dave Rahardja Jul 15

@numbercrow @ai6yr I think there are two groups that are actually intentional in their actions: the Steven Miller and Peter Thiel types who want to go back to subjugation and slavery, because they are truly ghouls who want to implement an iron rule of a “superior” few; and the industry titan types who have no values beyond wanting to transfer as much wealth as possible from the public to the industries they occupy while the going is good (I include Elon in this group).

But I also think these groups are TINY compared to the army of middle-managers who have been put into positions where they can actually make decisions and implement rules every day. Those people think they can profit solely through loyalty and proximity; they have no hope of being *actually* part of the groups above. This majority appears to be quite stupid and incompetent, to the point of self-harm, because they think they can outrun reality.

Annie G Jul 15

@drahardja it is my conviction that this has always been true of the vast majority of middle managers - a basically useless layer of bad mayo between the meat and the bread.

Pēteris Krišjānis Jul 15

@drahardja @numbercrow @ai6yr basically this. You have clearly nazis, who want to do ethnic cleansing, tech bros who just want to use access to reprogram everything, your regular old nazis that still want racism via law, and tons, tons of dumb opportunists who most likely start to wonder if they have made a deal with devil they can't walk away from.
None of them are smart, but they don't need to be - they enjoy being ruthless, cruel and country struggling to respond.

Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫Jul 15

Frank Bennett Jul 15

@ai6yr The tomatoes that *can* be harvested mechanically are what we used to affectionately call "Davis square tomatoes" up north—unpalatable fruit suitable for processing into red paste. Watch for TV adverts touting new tomato paste and ketchup brands sporting the American flag. 🍝🇺🇲

@KanaMauna @ai6yr
We've been saying it's a death cult all this time and I don't know what to tell people who still think that's a dramatic metaphor.

I have asked people who are still in denial that, if this is not a death cult, what is it? Never really get a response because there isn’t one.

mcSlibinas Jul 15

@ai6yr The beatings of economy will continue until economy improves.