Saturday, June 29, 2019
President Trump
So, which criticism by the media and others do you prefer?
A) Saber-rattling
B) Coddles dictators
You know, you were smart enough to get elected; apparently, that was the easy part. These individual negotiations with various governments are more challenging than getting elected; you should think about them that way.
I like this word; now I can finally use it. This is a context for it where it's not pompous. Statecraft.
A) Saber-rattling
B) Coddles dictators
You know, you were smart enough to get elected; apparently, that was the easy part. These individual negotiations with various governments are more challenging than getting elected; you should think about them that way.
I like this word; now I can finally use it. This is a context for it where it's not pompous. Statecraft.
I have a question.
What about taking this Tweet literally instead of metaphorically?
What can be done now to address this concern of injustice in the past?
A parallel is being drawn between past and current events by Minister Zarif; he has the right to do that, people have the right to interpret events.
However, since the first event is still clearly of major importance, and he's saying that restitution was never made, can the first event now be addressed to resolve it as much as possible for Iran?
Friday, June 28, 2019
I think that I should stop writing for a while, even if it's only for a few days.
Spending half a week writing about nuclear weapons is stressful. I don't know how people do it for a living.
There's never been peace in the Middle East in my lifetime. I'm not far from being 50 years old.
I can't believe that Mr. Assad is getting what he wants. It's unthinkable; it's so evil.
There's never been peace in the Middle East in my lifetime. I'm not far from being 50 years old.
I can't believe that Mr. Assad is getting what he wants. It's unthinkable; it's so evil.
MR. ASSAD CAN'T BE THE PRESIDENT OF SYRIA! HE HAS TO LEAVE!
https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/06/28/rigging-system/government-policies-co-opt-aid-and-reconstruction-funding-syria
You mean that, in spite of your differences, he invited you anyway?
He wanted to support women's sports.
Now you're the little star that you knew you would be, your publicity expanding in direct proportion to the rudeness of your rejection, while the same people who attack him about everything he says treat you like a hero.
Now you're the little star that you knew you would be, your publicity expanding in direct proportion to the rudeness of your rejection, while the same people who attack him about everything he says treat you like a hero.
https://deadspin.com/megan-rapinoe-cannot-make-this-any-clearer-1835936942
There are countries where women can't walk out of their own homes without being covered from head to toe as if they should be ashamed of being female. There are countries that have assembly lines where the genitals of little girls, even toddlers, are cut apart and sewn together to ensure that they'll be marriageable when they're older. There are countries where girls and women who are raped are then accused of dishonoring their families and murdered by their male relatives. Nobody can make you sing the national anthem of the country which, for all of its faults, for all of the ways in which it falls short, for all of the ways in which its ideals are perverted and misinterpreted and battered, gave you the opportunity to be where you are today. Nobody can stop you from using the right of free speech, which this country protects, to call the President every derogatory thing there is to call someone, while he refrains from answering in kind.
Do I agree with everything that the President does? No. Do I think he has a fantastic track record as the rare, sensitive man of his generation? No.
I'll tell you what, though; he doesn't need anything from you. That's not why he invited you. Maybe you don't appreciate the United States and the invitation you were given, but you could have politely declined and said or written something dignified and thoughtful about why. If you don't respect the man, you can at least respect the office.
I support gay rights and the media knows it. I support gay rights despite having had some instances in which I was mistreated by gay people, which I have never discussed. I am not a racist, and the media knows that, also. Not once, during all of the years that I was subjected to sexual harassment and worse by the conglomerate while the first U.S. President of color wasn't only a bystander but was also a participant, did I turn against black people. I wasn't misled by the conglomerate, which horrifically exploited President Obama's race to portray the abuse of women and children as a civil rights advancement.
It doesn't take much courage to play to a bloodthirsty crowd. You can try defying a President when it's your blood that the crowd wants, and when he throws you to that crowd to cement his own popularity, the way that President Obama did to me in 2010, and when you have subsequently slogged through every agonizing, persecuted day of years of protesting against the dissolution of human rights under an onslaught perpetrated by the pillars of society, only to be faced with the prospect of his Vice President being the frontrunner in another election because the American media can't stop lying, and when you're still being called a dumb, blonde slut despite all evidence to the contrary, then you'll have something to be really angry about.
I'm a DEMOCRAT.
Stop hacking my phone.
Stop hacking my email. Stop hacking my bank account.
There is no reason for me to be under this type of surveillance, particularly since it's being done without a warrant and for the amusement of a bunch of lying hypocrites who seem to want me to spend the rest of my life miserable and isolated.
Maybe I'm an amateur.
Maybe this is a very amateurish thing to say, but here it is.
If Europe is going to give money to Iran, then Europe had better not continue to criticize the United States for refusing to accept refugees from the Syrian civil war which Europe also failed to prevent or to stop. Assad needs to leave. There's no other acceptable resolution.
I can't believe that there's even speculation that the Iranian government is going get a credit line from extorting Europe with threats, while the democratically elected government of Venezuela is waiting to be slaughtered by a dictator.
If Europe is going to give money to Iran, then Europe had better not continue to criticize the United States for refusing to accept refugees from the Syrian civil war which Europe also failed to prevent or to stop. Assad needs to leave. There's no other acceptable resolution.
I can't believe that there's even speculation that the Iranian government is going get a credit line from extorting Europe with threats, while the democratically elected government of Venezuela is waiting to be slaughtered by a dictator.
Even so, it remains my contention that the Iranian government has a framework for its decisions.
When a government has a framework for its decisions, then the possibility is there to engage intellectually with that government.
I'm not saying that the people in power in Iran don't like being powerful. I think that most people who end up powerful are not there by accident.
Do I think that the Iranian government's characterization of its population being in ardent support of its policies is false? I sure do.
I'm not saying that the people in power in Iran don't like being powerful. I think that most people who end up powerful are not there by accident.
Do I think that the Iranian government's characterization of its population being in ardent support of its policies is false? I sure do.
Nobody should be financing Iran, not for any reason.
Quote:
Since the Syrian conflict broke out in 2011, Iran has been among Bashar al-Assad’s most reliable partners, extending almost $5 billion in lines of credit to the Syrian regime and pouring resources and military personnel into the region. Iran has continued to back the Assad regime, despite its egregious use of chemical weapons and indiscriminate targeting of civilians. Tehran has deployed as many as 2,500 soldiers on the ground—including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces and Artesh (Iran’s regular army)—and utilizes locations like Tiyas and Shayrat airfields in Homs and Al-Kiswah base south of Damascus to launch attacks.
Article:
https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2018/oct/04/state-department-report-6-irans-human-rights-abuses
Since the Syrian conflict broke out in 2011, Iran has been among Bashar al-Assad’s most reliable partners, extending almost $5 billion in lines of credit to the Syrian regime and pouring resources and military personnel into the region. Iran has continued to back the Assad regime, despite its egregious use of chemical weapons and indiscriminate targeting of civilians. Tehran has deployed as many as 2,500 soldiers on the ground—including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces and Artesh (Iran’s regular army)—and utilizes locations like Tiyas and Shayrat airfields in Homs and Al-Kiswah base south of Damascus to launch attacks.
Article:
https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2018/oct/04/state-department-report-6-irans-human-rights-abuses
No, President Trump is interested in sincere negotiation. He wouldn't offer it if he weren't.
Quote:
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution described request of negotiations by the United States as a deceptive effort and maintained: Negotiation is an effort to deceive [Iran] into doing what the U.S. desires. It is like you hold a weapon, so the other side does not dare come close; you says ‘drop the weapon, so I can do whatever I want to you’. This is what they mean by negotiation. If you accept their request, you will suffer the worst things, and if you don’t accept it, you will face the huff and puff and their hassles over human rights excuses.
Publication:
http://english.khamenei.ir/news/6861/For-40-years-they-have-failed-to-defeat-the-Iranian-nation
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution described request of negotiations by the United States as a deceptive effort and maintained: Negotiation is an effort to deceive [Iran] into doing what the U.S. desires. It is like you hold a weapon, so the other side does not dare come close; you says ‘drop the weapon, so I can do whatever I want to you’. This is what they mean by negotiation. If you accept their request, you will suffer the worst things, and if you don’t accept it, you will face the huff and puff and their hassles over human rights excuses.
Publication:
http://english.khamenei.ir/news/6861/For-40-years-they-have-failed-to-defeat-the-Iranian-nation
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Check out all the people whom Twitter thinks don't violate its rules.
______________
Those are a few of the Twitter accounts that are at Google search results for "guns on Twitter" and "machine guns on Twitter." There are a lot of them
There are a lot of results for "knives on Twitter."
This is a screenshot of the first 2 Google results for "porn on Twitter":
_________
Twitter hasn't censored this account:
There are a LOT of Google results for "suck my dick on Twitter."
I have decided not to peruse a comprehensive list of swearword combinations at Twitter. There are only 24 hours in a day.
Twitter and Google are both apparently blase about this one:
That is an active account. People are Tweeting "Kill Donald Trump" at it.
It is the first Google result for "kill Donald Trump on Twitter."
There are a lot of things that Twitter doesn't seem to have prevented:
Yet, Twitter has started a policy which it's going to use to censor the President.
I don't think I have advocated for censoring the President. If I did that, would I not be setting myself up to be censored by the U.S. Government? If I think that he doesn't have the right to free speech, then which American citizen do I think has that right?
If you were me
would you be angry with the multimillionaires and other privileged people who made you homeless for their own amusement? Would you be sickened by their accusations that you like the lifestyle that they have forced on you because you can show off for hidden and illegal cameras? Would you be fed up with their constant whining about how victimized they are by you?
Scale when I'm carrying moderately heavy bags
I wouldn't say that the amount of weight that I'm carrying today is comfortable, but it's nowhere near the weight that I carried for my first two years of homelessness in Boston, or what I carry when I'm homeless and don't have a locker.
Justin Bieber
Are you in a Sinister Ugly Sweater design phase, in which you're hoping that these hideous creations of yours are going to take off as a fad? I suppose they might; could you live with that on your conscience?
I don't know which lyrics from your latest song to pick apart first. I think I'll limit what I have to say about it to asking when it was that you thought that empathy was one of your main characteristics. What makes you think that you're a nice person? What's the evidence of it?
I'm not asking you how much you believe in G-d or whether you believe that Jesus forgives you and loves you no matter what you do. I'm asking you a much more mundane question; when you think about how you spend your average day, when you evaluate the things that you do and say from the time that you wake up to the time that you go to sleep, what is your opinion of the things that you do and say?
I don't know which lyrics from your latest song to pick apart first. I think I'll limit what I have to say about it to asking when it was that you thought that empathy was one of your main characteristics. What makes you think that you're a nice person? What's the evidence of it?
I'm not asking you how much you believe in G-d or whether you believe that Jesus forgives you and loves you no matter what you do. I'm asking you a much more mundane question; when you think about how you spend your average day, when you evaluate the things that you do and say from the time that you wake up to the time that you go to sleep, what is your opinion of the things that you do and say?
Some diplomatic suggestions for President Trump
After thinking about these Tweets, I have some suggestions for how you could approach your next Internet shout-out to the Iranian government.
Why don't you Tweet things along the lines of "Fuck you, Iran. I can see your pussy from here." I think that would go over really well. You've Tweeted countless things like that about me during your Presidency, and somehow I have managed to maintain an occasionally productive dialogue of sorts with you.
Stop hacking my phone.
Stop hacking my email. Stop hacking my bank account.
There is no reason for me to be under this type of surveillance, particularly since it's being done without a warrant and for the amusement of a bunch of lying hypocrites who seem to want me to spend the rest of my life miserable and isolated.
I think you're underestimating my faith in your abilities, President Trump.
I also think that you are underestimating the power of Twitter as a diplomatic tool.
This is funny, but it's not solving the conflict with Iran:
This is funny, but it's not solving the conflict with Iran:
Thank you @MSNBC, real professionals! @chucktodd @maddow pic.twitter.com/7ZCkcUQ4yA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2019
I would not talk like this.
We don’t want #Iran to get a nuclear weapon. We withdrew from the #JCPOA and are moving ourselves towards a set of policies which will convince Iran to behave like a normal nation. pic.twitter.com/mhEF0b8F5h— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) June 18, 2019
In my opinion, the Iranian government is operating from a strict set of definitions about right and wrong, according to its belief system. "Normal" is an inflammatory word to use in this context, and it's particularly inappropriate when it's being said by a senior official in a country where unsuspecting citizens are being filmed in the bathroom without their consent every day.
I would start with this.
Iran fought against the ba'ath party before Kuwait was occupied; against Al-Qaida before 9/11 and against Daesh before their attacks on Europe. Appreciate that the world will not have a better friend than Iran, if peace is what you seek. #UNGA
— Hassan Rouhani (@HassanRouhani) September 25, 2018
Sometimes people forget what they're fighting for.
https://www.mfa.org/collections/featured-galleries/arts-of-islamic-cultures
War, conflict, discussion; the ultimate goal should always be a healthy peace which allows for the best of humanity to flourish. Otherwise, nobody wins, not really.
War, conflict, discussion; the ultimate goal should always be a healthy peace which allows for the best of humanity to flourish. Otherwise, nobody wins, not really.
President Trump
You could try not being offended, for a change. You're not the most humble guy who ever lived.
The Iranian government has a rationale, and it seems to be a less simplistic rationale than that of the Assad regime, which is "I'm in charge; shut up or I'll kill you."
Your Tweets about Iran will be more effective if you personally have a specific profile in your mind of what Iran's concerns are, and you can call it up at will. You don't have to agree with the other side of any argument; to understand the other side in detail will give you flexibility and breadth in your interactions.
It's no secret that the United States is powerful. You don't have to take the time to do what I'm suggesting; that's why it might help to defuse the situation if you did.
The Iranian government has a rationale, and it seems to be a less simplistic rationale than that of the Assad regime, which is "I'm in charge; shut up or I'll kill you."
Your Tweets about Iran will be more effective if you personally have a specific profile in your mind of what Iran's concerns are, and you can call it up at will. You don't have to agree with the other side of any argument; to understand the other side in detail will give you flexibility and breadth in your interactions.
It's no secret that the United States is powerful. You don't have to take the time to do what I'm suggesting; that's why it might help to defuse the situation if you did.
Am I missing something?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/iran-warns-repeating-mistake-violating-borders-190627054156202.html
Did the Iranian deal include increased funding for the Iranian government if it starts attacking American property?
Is Europe planning to finance the Iranian side of a U.S.-Iran war?
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Please don't misunderstand me.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/06/26/middleeast/iran-zarif-us-trump-obliteration-intl/index.html
Iran has threatened to destroy Israel before, which would be a bad idea for a number of reasons. For one thing, using a nuclear weapon on Israel would poison everything around it. Nobody can control fallout from a nuclear weapon.
I have previously said that I don't want to talk about Israel a lot because I doubt my ability to be objective, because I don't know enough about it, and because I don't want my being a(n admittedly unobservant) Jew to mislead other people to give me an authority that I don't have. I think it's accurate to say that Israel was created in the aftermath of WW II, when it was irrefutable that Jews needed a recognized legitimacy in a world that had persecuted them and driven them from place to place for centuries. Land was taken from people who were already living there to create this state, which would make anyone angry, and it wasn't random land, it was land of religious significance to people everywhere. It is impossible to overstate the visceral and enduring impact of giving this particular part of the world to form a Jewish homeland. To threaten to destroy Israel is maybe a manifestation of a thought process that is guided by absolutes.
Nobody really knows how to solve this problem. The only conclusion that I ever get to after thinking about it from my meager store of knowledge is that there are now many Islamic states and only one Jewish state. Being an American, I'm supposed to be wary of any government that has an official religion. If any generation has ever lived in a world without contradictions, I don't know that, either.
I will say again that I'm unhappy about the lack of recognition given to so many other genocides that have taken place, in which Jews weren't the target. There have been many. I think that it's time that everyone take stock of humanity's capacity for good and evil without flinching and to change the perspective on genocide. Genocide is the inevitable without setting in place societal defenses against it. It is not an anomaly. Violence is the only constant of every human society. We are a species that likes to kill, that even glories in sadism.
When I shower today, I will be watched by people who think that I deserve this degradation. I am a primary source of amusement for them every day. My anguished cries for help have gone unheeded for 9 years; my dehumanization as a law-abiding citizen and resident of the United States is total, is normalized. The only escape route which I have ever been offered is to sleep with and/or work for one of my abusers. Right and wrong aren't included in how my abusers think about how they treat me or how everyone else who uses the facilities which I use is also being criminally violated. I'm mentioning this to emphasize that Iran is not the only place where things which can be construed as human rights abuses occur.
As I have said before, I don't tell President Trump what to do, nor do I want that much power. Sometimes he listens to me and sometimes he doesn't. He has many experts advising him, and I'm not an expert. What I was trying to say yesterday is that there is less opportunity for dialogue to fail when each side understands why the other side thinks what it thinks.
Iran has threatened to destroy Israel before, which would be a bad idea for a number of reasons. For one thing, using a nuclear weapon on Israel would poison everything around it. Nobody can control fallout from a nuclear weapon.
I have previously said that I don't want to talk about Israel a lot because I doubt my ability to be objective, because I don't know enough about it, and because I don't want my being a(n admittedly unobservant) Jew to mislead other people to give me an authority that I don't have. I think it's accurate to say that Israel was created in the aftermath of WW II, when it was irrefutable that Jews needed a recognized legitimacy in a world that had persecuted them and driven them from place to place for centuries. Land was taken from people who were already living there to create this state, which would make anyone angry, and it wasn't random land, it was land of religious significance to people everywhere. It is impossible to overstate the visceral and enduring impact of giving this particular part of the world to form a Jewish homeland. To threaten to destroy Israel is maybe a manifestation of a thought process that is guided by absolutes.
Nobody really knows how to solve this problem. The only conclusion that I ever get to after thinking about it from my meager store of knowledge is that there are now many Islamic states and only one Jewish state. Being an American, I'm supposed to be wary of any government that has an official religion. If any generation has ever lived in a world without contradictions, I don't know that, either.
I will say again that I'm unhappy about the lack of recognition given to so many other genocides that have taken place, in which Jews weren't the target. There have been many. I think that it's time that everyone take stock of humanity's capacity for good and evil without flinching and to change the perspective on genocide. Genocide is the inevitable without setting in place societal defenses against it. It is not an anomaly. Violence is the only constant of every human society. We are a species that likes to kill, that even glories in sadism.
When I shower today, I will be watched by people who think that I deserve this degradation. I am a primary source of amusement for them every day. My anguished cries for help have gone unheeded for 9 years; my dehumanization as a law-abiding citizen and resident of the United States is total, is normalized. The only escape route which I have ever been offered is to sleep with and/or work for one of my abusers. Right and wrong aren't included in how my abusers think about how they treat me or how everyone else who uses the facilities which I use is also being criminally violated. I'm mentioning this to emphasize that Iran is not the only place where things which can be construed as human rights abuses occur.
As I have said before, I don't tell President Trump what to do, nor do I want that much power. Sometimes he listens to me and sometimes he doesn't. He has many experts advising him, and I'm not an expert. What I was trying to say yesterday is that there is less opportunity for dialogue to fail when each side understands why the other side thinks what it thinks.
I don't, and I would know.
I disagree with President Trump about a lot of things, but I don't stoop to trying to increase my credibility by calling him mentally unstable.
Does the internationally recognized government of Venezuela need money?
Money is a more pleasant solution than U.S. military personnel.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/venezuela-crisis-guaido-envoy-urges-international-community-to-help
There are people who portray all corporations as being evil, but that isn't how I think about corporations. I have spent most of my working life as a corporate employee. I'm saying nothing against small business when I say that corporations can do things financially for their employees that most small businesses can't, and they do.
I don't think that there isn't a reason that corporations can't donate money to support the elected government of Venezuela. It's better to donate money to an organized structure which needs the money to solidify and progress, rather than to delay donations until they are turned into humanitarian band-aids to a dispirited population with no momentum toward independence or ability to think farther than a next meal.
Considering that corporations are and always were involved in geopolitics for their own interests, whether through lobbying or direct intervention, it's...I hesitate to say that it's disingenuous to prevent them from giving financial help to a nascent, internationally recognized government which has democratic goals. Maybe it's better to say that it's unnecessarily trepidatious, rather than disingenuous. I realize that there are laws about how much money can be given to candidates running for office in the U.S., but the U.S. doesn't have an incumbent leader who is starving the population or encouraging his military to run over his opponents with vehicles. In other words, you can worry about the long-term implications of allowing direct financial help from corporations later, particularly since the Russian government isn't worrying about the implications of its actions now.
Whoever caused this situation needs to leave office, and it almost doesn't matter who replaces him or how the transition is finalized:
That's a picture from an article which the New York Times published in 2016, about people starving to death in Venezuelan mental hospitals. When the article was published, I criticized the New York Times for setting the importance of psychiatric medication on par with or above food for these patients. I still think it's a valid criticism, of a mindset which automatically designates mental patients as being subhuman. Starving is starving.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/world/americas/inside-a-dysfunctional-psychiatric-hospital.html
I agree with Salvadoran Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandra Hill.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/06/25/americas/mexico-photo-of-father-and-daughter-dead-in-rio-grande/index.html
Stop hacking my phone.
Stop hacking my email. Stop hacking my bank account.
There is no reason for me to be under this type of surveillance, particularly since it's being done without a warrant and for the amusement of a bunch of lying hypocrites who seem to want me to spend the rest of my life miserable and isolated.
The way that I am treated by the conglomerate is a caricature of a double standard.
No matter how many pictures of themselves celebrities publish at social media, no matter how immodest and exhibitionist they are, they are not treated as if they are asking to be abused. They don't think that about themselves, and they are not treated the way that they treat me or the way that the rest of the conglomerate treats me.
They don't seem to realize how absurd their behavior toward me is.
They don't seem to realize how absurd their behavior toward me is.
Could we please avoid another sabotage of a potentially positive resolution?
How many times is the potential created by a concrete advance going to be thrown away by media frenzy about President Trump and the eagerness of other politicians to take advantage of that frenzy?
Russia, Israel and the United States have all just agreed again that Iran will have to leave Syria, which means that Iran will have to leave Syria. Perhaps now there is an opportunity for President Trump to renew his offer to talk to Iranian leaders without preconditions.
Russia, Israel and the United States have all just agreed again that Iran will have to leave Syria, which means that Iran will have to leave Syria. Perhaps now there is an opportunity for President Trump to renew his offer to talk to Iranian leaders without preconditions.
What are you talking about?
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/06/26/politics/france-iran-us-tensions-intl/index.html
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Every regime is different, President Trump.
This description definitely describes the Assad government, which doesn't even make a pretense of committing atrocities for any reason other than to make the population subservient to one person, Mr. Assad.
Iran incorporates religion into its government in a more pervasive way. Why don't you study and think about the reasons that the Iranian government gives for its decisions, and consider how to approach that government on the basis of its own reasoning, even if you don't agree with it? If you can distill the Iranian government's major goals and place them in a framework for discussion, you will at least be utilizing a respectful method, which most people appreciate.
Nobody likes to hear "This is what we want; do it or else," as far as I know. You have many more years of negotiating experience than I do; if you have anecdotes you'd like to share at Twitter of people leaping up to do what you want when you tell them that, I'll concede the point.
Amateur foreign policy thoughts about Iran
I'm really tired. I've been working at night, and no matter how late I get back to the shelter, I have to get up before 6:30 a.m.
So, Iran and the United States are not getting along.
I admit to not knowing very much about Iran. I am guilty of having to strive against the ignorance which is part of a lot of American life.
Walking down the street, thinking about my impressions of the Iranian government, I was surprised to notice a resonance with some aspects of my personality, mostly stemming from a tendency toward absolutes. Hatred of moral corruption. Contempt for intellectual laziness. True and emotionally intolerable dissonance between what I think the world should be like and what it actually is like.
Obviously I can't agree with many of the Iranian government's ideas of how those tendencies toward the absolute should be practically applied. However, the starkness of character is probably more like me than any other person or human organization which is currently making the rounds of the Western media.
I live with my rage. I have to work around it, to connect with the humanity of people whose morals range from questionable to totally despicable; at least, that is my opinion of their morals. Maybe the Iranian government could try that; it has more control over its daily life than I have over mine.
I think about hitting and killing people every day, I'm so angry about how I am forced to live. I'm not joking; to live with rage is not funny.
So, Iran and the United States are not getting along.
I admit to not knowing very much about Iran. I am guilty of having to strive against the ignorance which is part of a lot of American life.
Walking down the street, thinking about my impressions of the Iranian government, I was surprised to notice a resonance with some aspects of my personality, mostly stemming from a tendency toward absolutes. Hatred of moral corruption. Contempt for intellectual laziness. True and emotionally intolerable dissonance between what I think the world should be like and what it actually is like.
Obviously I can't agree with many of the Iranian government's ideas of how those tendencies toward the absolute should be practically applied. However, the starkness of character is probably more like me than any other person or human organization which is currently making the rounds of the Western media.
I live with my rage. I have to work around it, to connect with the humanity of people whose morals range from questionable to totally despicable; at least, that is my opinion of their morals. Maybe the Iranian government could try that; it has more control over its daily life than I have over mine.
I think about hitting and killing people every day, I'm so angry about how I am forced to live. I'm not joking; to live with rage is not funny.
Wealthy people don't have to live with cameras in their bathrooms.
The conglomerate's abuse of me was never about what I look like or what I looked like. It had nothing to do with my past or present behavior.
It is a crime of power. It is about intimidation and coercion. It is shameful that so many media sources have abused the right which allows their profession to be by threatening to eclipse everything that I say with illegally filmed video of me.
It is a crime of power. It is about intimidation and coercion. It is shameful that so many media sources have abused the right which allows their profession to be by threatening to eclipse everything that I say with illegally filmed video of me.
This is appalling.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/06/russia-us-israel-syria-lebanon.html
Monday, June 24, 2019
This is a disgusting song.
https://youtu.be/I0WRCj3xTto
I hate this song. I hear it frequently and I hate it.
Being confronted every day with things produced by people who mischaracterize and degrade me is how I am forced to live.
Don't tell me how I feel about being abused. I talk about how I feel about this issue all the time. All of the abusers choose not to believe me, but that's not because I'm not being honest. It's because they don't want to take responsibility for their crimes.
I hate this song. I hear it frequently and I hate it.
Being confronted every day with things produced by people who mischaracterize and degrade me is how I am forced to live.
Don't tell me how I feel about being abused. I talk about how I feel about this issue all the time. All of the abusers choose not to believe me, but that's not because I'm not being honest. It's because they don't want to take responsibility for their crimes.
Saturday, June 22, 2019
That's not what I'm going to be remembered for.
The conglomerate is making sure that there's only one thing that anyone is going to think about me.
My brain is up here. Where's yours?
Yeah, I can tell you're really moving on.
___________
You are obviously no longer making your career revolve around bullying and victim-blaming me.
Congtatulations. That must have taken a lot of strength.
I'm being sarcastic.
Here's a question that's not sarcastic; it is shocked:
Did you take this money?
I can't transfer the address for that article to this page. Here's the title of it:
If these people were just ridiculous, they wouldn't be such a menace to society.
Unfortunately, they're not just ridiculous. They are also influential.
There are cameras in my bathroom.
She knows about them; she watches me from them, like everyone else who knows that they're there and who isn't trying to stop this disgusting crime.
Does she think that's not cruel?
Friday, June 21, 2019
Maybe I now know why misanthropy isn't listed as a Deadly Sin.
The sins which are part of that list aren't nearly as tempting. Maybe whoever wrote it wanted to be realistic.
I've already been sexually assaulted by hidden, illegal cameras today.
So has everyone else who uses the bathrooms, showers and locker rooms which I use. So have hundreds, if not thousands, of other unsuspecting people in the Boston area and the rest of the United States, who are being criminally victimized because of the voyeurism and involuntary pornography which the conglomerate has promoted for almost a decade and which political leaders are miserably failing to prevent.
This is a picture from today of "Dear Evan Hansen" ads on the sides of public buses in an MBTA parking lot:
As I have said before, the caption written on the cast of the arm of the person in the picture is "#You Will Be Found." For years, the conglomerate has tormented me with its jeering campaign of telling the world to look for the illegally filmed videos of me on whatever sordid websites have published them online. The entertainment industry could not be more hypocritical or disgusting about this issue. People who hack celebrity email or phones and who distribute or threaten to distribute celebrity nude pictures are quickly apprehended, sued and prosecuted. I have never even consented to having such images filmed of me, nor do I have the financial resources to stop the disgusting abuse which the same people who make public statements about their rights have mirthfully and even self-righteously inflicted on me and EVERYONE AROUND ME FOR YEARS.
The MBTA has been complicit in taking advertising money to promote crime. President Trump's election did not stop this type of harassment, which began while Barack Obama was President. There are years of my online documentation of similar, and worse, advertising. I am somewhat calloused now, and the issue is not as prevalent as it was before Me Too gained prominence. However, it was frequently emotionally debilitating to be surrounded by threatening advertising everywhere I turned for years. It is also a major test of my faith in people that I have been specifically, deliberately, self-righteously excluded from what ought to be the intelligent conclusion of everyone who knows what has happened since 2010. Nobody could deserve how I've been treated, or how I'm continuing to be treated, nor is there any plausible excuse for the criminal victimization of everyone else violated by the proliferation of voyeurism and involuntary pornography. The exclusion of these issues from the latest feminist attempts at equality has made all of the abusers feel absolved of responsibility; they are as vicious as ever, and it seems even to be worsening as time passes and my desperate requests for help continue to be ignored or even laughed at.
As I have said since 2010, the opinions of evil and/or ignorant people can't hurt my feelings or damage my self esteem. The laughter is an indication of how much the abusers enjoy their illicit power and have no thought of stopping their crimes. That's why their amusement is distressing. A fly which is having its wings torn off by smirking children isn't preoccupied by how its tormenters feel about it.
Also over the last few days:
-a car with a California license plate, 7LKC708, parked next to the Pine Street Inn
-a music video showing a woman with short, blonde hair spraying her hair from a bottle. The conglomerate has ridiculed me for my thinning hair (and my teeth, and my spider veins, and my aging skin, and my less-than-gravitationally-defying breasts, and my perversely thick body hair, and many other physical flaws) for years. I have finally started to follow conventional wisdom about hair care and no longer wash my hair every day in the shower. I use dry shampoo at night, when I'm in the bathroom at the Pine Street Inn women's shelter. I think the blonde woman in the new music video is a reference to me, which means that there are hidden and illegal cameras criminally victimizing everyone at that shelter. I have tried, several times, to tell the Pine Street Inn administration that the shelter needs to be investigated for hidden, illegal cameras. Because I am homeless, the administration has assumed that I am paranoid and has done nothing.
-a music video for another song, whose lyrics seem to be taken from my hacked phone
How many millions of dollars has the conglomerate made from its years of using me and its abuses of me as "inspiration," while its persecution of me has forced me to live in abject, degraded poverty?
This is a picture from today of "Dear Evan Hansen" ads on the sides of public buses in an MBTA parking lot:
As I have said before, the caption written on the cast of the arm of the person in the picture is "#You Will Be Found." For years, the conglomerate has tormented me with its jeering campaign of telling the world to look for the illegally filmed videos of me on whatever sordid websites have published them online. The entertainment industry could not be more hypocritical or disgusting about this issue. People who hack celebrity email or phones and who distribute or threaten to distribute celebrity nude pictures are quickly apprehended, sued and prosecuted. I have never even consented to having such images filmed of me, nor do I have the financial resources to stop the disgusting abuse which the same people who make public statements about their rights have mirthfully and even self-righteously inflicted on me and EVERYONE AROUND ME FOR YEARS.
The MBTA has been complicit in taking advertising money to promote crime. President Trump's election did not stop this type of harassment, which began while Barack Obama was President. There are years of my online documentation of similar, and worse, advertising. I am somewhat calloused now, and the issue is not as prevalent as it was before Me Too gained prominence. However, it was frequently emotionally debilitating to be surrounded by threatening advertising everywhere I turned for years. It is also a major test of my faith in people that I have been specifically, deliberately, self-righteously excluded from what ought to be the intelligent conclusion of everyone who knows what has happened since 2010. Nobody could deserve how I've been treated, or how I'm continuing to be treated, nor is there any plausible excuse for the criminal victimization of everyone else violated by the proliferation of voyeurism and involuntary pornography. The exclusion of these issues from the latest feminist attempts at equality has made all of the abusers feel absolved of responsibility; they are as vicious as ever, and it seems even to be worsening as time passes and my desperate requests for help continue to be ignored or even laughed at.
As I have said since 2010, the opinions of evil and/or ignorant people can't hurt my feelings or damage my self esteem. The laughter is an indication of how much the abusers enjoy their illicit power and have no thought of stopping their crimes. That's why their amusement is distressing. A fly which is having its wings torn off by smirking children isn't preoccupied by how its tormenters feel about it.
Also over the last few days:
-a car with a California license plate, 7LKC708, parked next to the Pine Street Inn
-a music video showing a woman with short, blonde hair spraying her hair from a bottle. The conglomerate has ridiculed me for my thinning hair (and my teeth, and my spider veins, and my aging skin, and my less-than-gravitationally-defying breasts, and my perversely thick body hair, and many other physical flaws) for years. I have finally started to follow conventional wisdom about hair care and no longer wash my hair every day in the shower. I use dry shampoo at night, when I'm in the bathroom at the Pine Street Inn women's shelter. I think the blonde woman in the new music video is a reference to me, which means that there are hidden and illegal cameras criminally victimizing everyone at that shelter. I have tried, several times, to tell the Pine Street Inn administration that the shelter needs to be investigated for hidden, illegal cameras. Because I am homeless, the administration has assumed that I am paranoid and has done nothing.
-a music video for another song, whose lyrics seem to be taken from my hacked phone
How many millions of dollars has the conglomerate made from its years of using me and its abuses of me as "inspiration," while its persecution of me has forced me to live in abject, degraded poverty?
So much for the Canadian meritocracy
There shouldn't have to be Syrian refugees, you My-daddy-was-prime-minister-and-I-beat-up-an-indigenous-Canadian-to-prove-I'm-not-a-wuss misogynist, elitist, smug fop. Mr. Assad should be ousted so that the Syrians can have their country back.
That's not even to mention the dismal track record of male, professional sports for domestic violence, sexual assault and other terrible behavior.
Thursday, June 20, 2019
President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau
Could you please try to take some time to talk about this situation? A country and a culture are being destroyed.
https://www.theguardian.com/the-guardian-foundation/2019/jun/20/syria-a-country-born-of-tolerance
https://www.theguardian.com/the-guardian-foundation/2019/jun/20/syria-a-country-born-of-tolerance
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
This page starts with a quote from a 2017 article about problems that single people in Boston have when they don't want to be single.
If the link to another article that's embedded in the text doesn't say it all, I don't know what
does.
Here's the address of the article:
https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Reasons-Why-Dating-in-Boston-Is-The-Worst-435610433.html
I am not the only person in Boston for whom trying to meet people to date is a depressing prospect. Even people who aren't:
-about to be 45
-homeless
-burdened by Google search results for their names which portray them to the public as being Crazy Internet Lady
-chronically unemployed because of said search results
-monitored from phone to toilet by the conglomerate
-victims of voyeurism and involuntary pornography
have problems meeting people.
No, Idlib shouldn't return to regime control.
Mr. Assad and all of his henchmen should be arrested and tried as war criminals.
https://www.dailysabah.com/syrian-crisis/2019/06/19/humanitarian-disaster-unfolding-in-syrias-idlib-un-aid-chief-says
Russian delegates should stop twisting things around; their distortions of reality are obvious enough to make a cynic out of anyone, particularly since the Russian government has encountered no genuine opposition from countries which could have stopped its interference in Syria.
It is unfortunate that the media was so intent on building up the idea that President Trump needed Russian subterfuge to win the election that it demanded the effective end of negotiation and even, apparently, direct communication between President Trump and President Putin. I realize that President Putin supports dictators and is unconcerned about things such as mass detainment, torture and murder if his failure to object to them serves his goals. However, the diffidence of other countries in decisively turning the Syrian war in favor of democracy has led to the present situation, in which negotiating with the Russian government about the fate of Syria is unavoidable.
Professional foreign policy writers should feel free to correct whatever I have wrong about this analysis. I don't know what there is to misinterpret about the pictures of people tortured and murdered, the accounts told by survivors, the starvation and despair of millions of refugees, the destruction of villages, towns and cities, all because one man who was born to inherit a dictatorship didn't want to relinquish this most archaic form of government and his illegimate place at its core.
https://www.dailysabah.com/syrian-crisis/2019/06/19/humanitarian-disaster-unfolding-in-syrias-idlib-un-aid-chief-says
Russian delegates should stop twisting things around; their distortions of reality are obvious enough to make a cynic out of anyone, particularly since the Russian government has encountered no genuine opposition from countries which could have stopped its interference in Syria.
It is unfortunate that the media was so intent on building up the idea that President Trump needed Russian subterfuge to win the election that it demanded the effective end of negotiation and even, apparently, direct communication between President Trump and President Putin. I realize that President Putin supports dictators and is unconcerned about things such as mass detainment, torture and murder if his failure to object to them serves his goals. However, the diffidence of other countries in decisively turning the Syrian war in favor of democracy has led to the present situation, in which negotiating with the Russian government about the fate of Syria is unavoidable.
Professional foreign policy writers should feel free to correct whatever I have wrong about this analysis. I don't know what there is to misinterpret about the pictures of people tortured and murdered, the accounts told by survivors, the starvation and despair of millions of refugees, the destruction of villages, towns and cities, all because one man who was born to inherit a dictatorship didn't want to relinquish this most archaic form of government and his illegimate place at its core.
President Trump
Stop hacking my phone.
Also, it's not as if I didn't know about your chauvinist and dominating tendencies when I started to interact with you online after your election. I wish that you'd stop living up to your reputation in that regard.
Also, it's not as if I didn't know about your chauvinist and dominating tendencies when I started to interact with you online after your election. I wish that you'd stop living up to your reputation in that regard.
I shouldn't be calling a former First Lady of the United States a lying, self-centered, poseur bitch who feels no real solidarity with other black women.
There's probably a way to say it that isn't profane.
I have never tried to dissuade a black American from a positive opinion about the Obamas. I don't need to get into that type of argument; I think I would only upset the person, and it would be impossible to explain 9 years of the conglomerate to someone who has never heard of it.
It is perhaps telling that I don't hear a lot of people talking about the Obamas in my regular life. It's pretty straightforward that homeless people are where we were 10 years ago. Not much to say.
I have never tried to dissuade a black American from a positive opinion about the Obamas. I don't need to get into that type of argument; I think I would only upset the person, and it would be impossible to explain 9 years of the conglomerate to someone who has never heard of it.
It is perhaps telling that I don't hear a lot of people talking about the Obamas in my regular life. It's pretty straightforward that homeless people are where we were 10 years ago. Not much to say.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
I was sexually assaulted by hidden, illegal cameras today.
I'll be sexually assaulted tomorrow. So will a lot of other people in the Boston area.
It just goes on and on, while everyone who knows that I'm telling the truth decides to think about something else all day, every day, doing nothing to stop it, lying to the public, blithely living their fun lives of no accountability.
It just goes on and on, while everyone who knows that I'm telling the truth decides to think about something else all day, every day, doing nothing to stop it, lying to the public, blithely living their fun lives of no accountability.
You lying, fulltime celebrity bitch.
Marginalized women, many of them women of color, have been criminally, sexually victimized throughout the Boston area for 8 years. I am so tired of your fucking lies about what a civil rights role model you are.
Poor Gloria Vanderbilt
She never experienced the joy of being old and sick in a homeless shelter, illegally filmed by hidden cameras in the showers, bathrooms and locker room, exposed in her infirmity to her son's colleagues and anyone else who wants to watch and can hack the cameras.
Isn't that what all the privileged people who are allowing this to happen to Boston's most impoverished little old ladies want to think? That it's funny, that it's fun, that it's flattering and enviable to be treated like this?
She seemed like a nice enough lady. I'm sure she wouldn't be offended by my mentioning her in this context. The sickening hypocrisy of the world's power structure was not her fault.
Isn't that what all the privileged people who are allowing this to happen to Boston's most impoverished little old ladies want to think? That it's funny, that it's fun, that it's flattering and enviable to be treated like this?
She seemed like a nice enough lady. I'm sure she wouldn't be offended by my mentioning her in this context. The sickening hypocrisy of the world's power structure was not her fault.
Monday, June 17, 2019
The younger generation of celebrities, brought to you by the conglomerate
These spoiled brats have no idea what life is like for people who don't have millions of dollars. Some of them think they do, because they're not all from privileged backgrounds, but they don't. They personally don't know how regular people have to live. They don't know what it's like not to have every legal option at their disposal. These are people who are part of a community of amoral parasites who have spent generations basking in a bubble of no accountability. That's not even to mention their vicious and ignorant contempt for education, and the terrible influence they are on children and teenagers.
These are not people who question authority or who understand what it means to do that as part of being an active participant in society. They are perpetually selfish and immature. It's giving them excessive credit to say that they have elevated a self-absorbed lifestyle to an art form.
Stop filming me in the shower.
This is what I look like.
It was always a disgusting, misogynist excuse that my being beautiful was the cause of my being sexually assaulted by voyeurism and involuntary pornography. My aging is not making me more self-conscious and therefore less forgiving of those who have sickeningly abused me for so many years. My aging is erasing every last shred of believability for that disgusting excuse. The years that I have spent being abused have proven to me that love was never part of what has made other people treat me as if I have no rights.
I am the target of grotesque adult bullying. That's all this ever was.
Sunday, June 16, 2019
Excuse me?
That's all from the first page of Google results for "Peru." Apparently, the type of refugee that Peru prefers is not poor or in need of help.
Me running my mouth, I guess
You cannot make people stay where they are at risk of starving to death.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-migration-peru/as-peru-tightens-its-border-desperate-venezuelans-cling-to-asylum-lifeline-idUSKCN1TH0M2
If you live in Peru and you have a couch, put somebody on it, and tell your government to demand that Mr. Maduro step aside.
Stop expecting the United States to take care of everyone. We do a lot of that already; I'm not saying that we shouldn't.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-migration-peru/as-peru-tightens-its-border-desperate-venezuelans-cling-to-asylum-lifeline-idUSKCN1TH0M2
If you live in Peru and you have a couch, put somebody on it, and tell your government to demand that Mr. Maduro step aside.
Stop expecting the United States to take care of everyone. We do a lot of that already; I'm not saying that we shouldn't.
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