Japan has moved in a decade from pacifist protest to broad acceptance of stronger defense, driven by regional threats and doubts about U.S. protection. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/16/japan/japans-pacifism-meets-reality/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #constitution #article9 #pacifism #defense #us #sdf
🗺️ This is for everyone who has a #government that does horrible things in their name, who voted for a campaign promise but got nothing or the opposite, who has been disappointed repeatedly, who feels unheard, or who never even got a chance to vote!
🖼️ If you can relate, feel free to use this as your profile image so that others like us can see they are not alone, and those affected by our countries #politics see we disagree!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/114133104483587481
My friends from #Israel have been telling me of #racism & #hate towards them - as soon as people find out where they are from.
Those same friends think the settlers are insane, demonstrated against the #government & oppose #Netanyahu.
Also noteworthy: Israelis = >21% Arabs, Druze, Muslims, Christians...
🇮🇱🧑🤝🧑 ≠ 🇮🇱👮 being from a place doesn’t equal complicity.
If a #Palestinian friend in exile can distinguish this better than many unaffected people, what does that say?
But I suspect the "lone wolf" school of white supremacist mass-murder-as-propaganda, as practiced by that Norway van bomber Seymour cites, can be sheeted home to the Unabomber. Partly because they share his utilitarian disregard for individual human lives, but also because their texts tend to include eco-fascist elements remarkably similar to Kaczynski's.
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Many who condemned his tactics were scolded by our fellow anarchists and militant greenies, and especially primitivists (people like John Zerzan and Derrick Jensen). They claimed our commitment to nonviolence only served the interests of ecocidal power, which could only hear us if we spoke in its own language; violence.
But unlike them, we could see Kaczynski's crypto-fascism for what it was. Despite it being clothed in the sentiments and language of radical environmentalism.
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