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#cruelty — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cruelty, aggregated by home.social.

  1. "While cows suffer on these farms, humans who drink their milk increase their chances of developing heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and many other ailments."

    My mother has always told me NOT to drink cow's milk. I don't. Like, I don't even consume beef.

    #Cow #Milk #PETA #AnimalAbuse #Cruelty #AnimalRights #Cancer #Diabetes #HeartDisease #Health

    peta.org/issues/animals-used-f

  2. “From a few comments on the internet you realize that the visitors were accompanied by a narrator to turn the visit into an experience. How many times are we in front of this situation? How many times are we told a story — by advertisements, in politics or in the media trying to convince us of what is the ‘truth,’ when in reality the truth is something different?”

    And this is how humanity has come to be ruled by dictators, scammers, and the super-rich.

    #Fake #World #News #Scam #Dictatorship #Corruption #Greed #Cruelty #Truth #Justice #Italy #History #Heritage #UNESCO

    edition.cnn.com/2026/08/24/tra

  3. 2/2

    Drilling down in the sick, twisted 'thinking' seen in a deeply #malignant #narcissist

    A final stage, aside from indifference, lack of empathy, entitlement, & grandiosity: #cruelty & #sadism

    Cartoon nailing it in 2023.
    Timely, given his decoy/sacrifice the other day, with press & staff on Air Force One, no? Believe it. #Evil and #Dangerous

    #TrumpVirus #psychopathology #truth

  4. One of the biggest hurdles in researching #history is being objective when it comes to #indigenous practices.

    How does one reconcile the #cruelty of collecting kambo (frog toxin used for as a ritual drug) with the #traditional aspect of the practice?

    Do I say neutrally: "Indigenous people of X collect Y to help with luck in hunting." and thereby omit the fact that this is a potentially questionable practice?

    Or do I write: "Y is collected through inducing a forced stress response in Z, which is, by indigenous standards, necessary for facilitating practice A"

    (FYI, I purposely used a tame subject).

    Perhaps proper #historians have an answer to this?

    #histodons #complicated

  5. One of the biggest hurdles in researching #history is being objective when it comes to #indigenous practices.

    How does one reconcile the #cruelty of collecting kambo (frog toxin used for as a ritual drug) with the #traditional aspect of the practice?

    Do I say neutrally: "Indigenous people of X collect Y to help with luck in hunting." and thereby omit the fact that this is a potentially questionable practice?

    Or do I write: "Y is collected through inducing a forced stress response in Z, which is, by indigenous standards, necessary for facilitating practice A"

    (FYI, I purposely used a tame subject).

    Perhaps proper #historians have an answer to this?

    #histodons #complicated

  6. One of the biggest hurdles in researching #history is being objective when it comes to #indigenous practices.

    How does one reconcile the #cruelty of collecting kambo (frog toxin used for as a ritual drug) with the #traditional aspect of the practice?

    Do I say neutrally: "Indigenous people of X collect Y to help with luck in hunting." and thereby omit the fact that this is a potentially questionable practice?

    Or do I write: "Y is collected through inducing a forced stress response in Z, which is, by indigenous standards, necessary for facilitating practice A"

    (FYI, I purposely used a tame subject).

    Perhaps proper #historians have an answer to this?

    #histodons #complicated

  7. One of the biggest hurdles in researching is being objective when it comes to practices.

    How does one reconcile the of collecting kambo (frog toxin used for as a ritual drug) with the aspect of the practice?

    Do I say neutrally: "Indigenous people of X collect Y to help with luck in hunting." and thereby omit the fact that this is a potentially questionable practice?

    Or do I write: "Y is collected through inducing a forced stress response in Z, which is, by indigenous standards, necessary for facilitating practice A"

    (FYI, I purposely used a tame subject).

    Perhaps proper have an answer to this?

  8. One of the biggest hurdles in researching #history is being objective when it comes to #indigenous practices.

    How does one reconcile the #cruelty of collecting kambo (frog toxin used for as a ritual drug) with the #traditional aspect of the practice?

    Do I say neutrally: "Indigenous people of X collect Y to help with luck in hunting." and thereby omit the fact that this is a potentially questionable practice?

    Or do I write: "Y is collected through inducing a forced stress response in Z, which is, by indigenous standards, necessary for facilitating practice A"

    (FYI, I purposely used a tame subject).

    Perhaps proper #historians have an answer to this?

    #histodons #complicated

  9. In today's "you all really just want autistic people to die" internet comments…

    The account this comment is on recommends making children drink their own urine to "cure autism." PLEASE REPORT "wisdom_in_motherhood" on Instagram.


    #autism #autistic #child-abuse #abuse #disability #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #bigotry #uneducated #backwoods-bullshit #anti-science #antivax #anti-intellectual #cruelty #death-threat #mockery #bullying
  10. In today's "you all really just want autistic people to die" internet comments…

    The account this comment is on recommends making children drink their own urine to "cure autism." PLEASE REPORT "wisdom_in_motherhood" on Instagram.


    #autism #autistic #child-abuse #abuse #disability #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #bigotry #uneducated #backwoods-bullshit #anti-science #antivax #anti-intellectual #cruelty #death-threat #mockery #bullying
  11. In today's "you all really just want autistic people to die" internet comments…

    The account this comment is on recommends making children drink their own urine to "cure autism." PLEASE REPORT "wisdom_in_motherhood" on Instagram.


    #autism #autistic #child-abuse #abuse #disability #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #bigotry #uneducated #backwoods-bullshit #anti-science #antivax #anti-intellectual #cruelty #death-threat #mockery #bullying
  12. In today's "you all really just want autistic people to die" internet comments…

    The account this comment is on recommends making children drink their own urine to "cure autism." PLEASE REPORT "wisdom_in_motherhood" on Instagram.


    #autism #autistic #child-abuse #abuse #disability #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #bigotry #uneducated #backwoods-bullshit #anti-science #antivax #anti-intellectual #cruelty #death-threat #mockery #bullying
  13. In today's "you all really just want autistic people to die" internet comments…

    The account this comment is on recommends making children drink their own urine to "cure autism." PLEASE REPORT "wisdom_in_motherhood" on Instagram.


    #autism #autistic #child-abuse #abuse #disability #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #bigotry #uneducated #backwoods-bullshit #anti-science #antivax #anti-intellectual #cruelty #death-threat #mockery #bullying
  14. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #afterlife #Christianity #cruelty #divinejudgment #divinejustice #divinepunishment #eternalpunishment #eternity #heaven #hell #injustice #punishment

  15. Ukraine update from Dylan Cobelick: Outstanding coverage of Ukraine and a brutally honest overview of how the US is perceived by the rest of the world.

    Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and kick Trump in the nuts: medium.com/@dylan_combellick/u

    #ukraine #journalism #war #russia #terror #warcrimes #USA #israel #cruelty #greed #billionaires #corruption #losers #fail #change #resist #standUP

  16. Begging for My Mother: Find A Grave and the Strangers Who Collect Our Dead

    This morning I signed into Find A Grave to update my mother's memorial and discovered that I no longer manage her page. No email warned me. Nothing in my account records the change. Six family memorials, five of them sponsored with my own money in the weeks after my mother died, and my name has been stripped from every one. The site that once made me beg for custody of my own dead has taken that custody back, in silence, and left me to discover the loss the way you discover a missing wallet: by reaching for something that should be there. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/07/14/begg

  17. Ukraine update from Giorgio Provinciali: less like a switch, more like a tide retreating. Careful, as tides can turn, and Russia persists in attacking civilians.

    Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and support independent journalism and media: medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali

    #ukraine #journalism #press #news #war #russia #terror #warcrimes #USA #maga #trump #china #europe #petrol #oil #gas #corruption #greed #cruelty #shame #crimea #blackout

  18. A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

    One of the worst features of the old spoils system was the ruthless cruelty and brutality it so often bred in the treatment of faithful public servants without political influence. Life is hard enough and cruel enough at best, and this is as true of public service as of private service. Under no system will it be possible to do away with all favoritism and brutality and meanness and malice. But at least we can try to minimize the exhibition of these qualities.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
    Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #civilservice #cruelty #favoritism #goodgovernment #influence #politicalinfluence #politics #spoils #spoilssystem

  19. From man's best friend to mass graves

    "California officials unearth 117 dog bodies, many with bullet fragments, at ‘no-kill’ shelter. Police say they also found more than 600 dog collars in area where they suspect animals were killed." >>
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

    Overpopulation of domestic pets
    "In some countries, there is an overpopulation of pets such as cats, dogs, and exotic animals. In the United States, six to eight million animals are brought to shelters each year, of which an estimated three to four million are subsequently euthanized, including 2.7 million considered healthy and adoptable." >>
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopu
    #pets #dogs #AbandonedPets #OwnerRelinquishment #dumping #fashion #accessories #leisure #purebred #ConspicuousConsumption #RescueOrganisations #cruelty #meat #climate #wildlife

  20. Malignant Madness on Full Display

    x.com/allenanalysis/status/206

    #Respect for #journalism and pursuit of #truth - ,as exemplified here.

    Between 'encapsulated delusions' and #dementia, #psychopathology and recreational #cruelty (especially towards women), here is Sir #TrumpVirus running wild, and in circles. Poor Kristen Walker, getting basically spat on by a madman, so despicable & mean.

    #insanity #decompensation #malignant #narcisssism #BrainWorms #TrumpEpsteinFiles #WarCrimes #Jan6 #treason

  21. Thursday, May 14, 2026

    Ukraine targets 3 more major Russian energy facilities overnight -- Russian forces ordered to behead, display bodies of 2 fallen Ukrainian soldiers -- Moscow bans publication of Ukrainian drone strike damage without official permission -- Russian lawmakers approve bill allowing Putin to invade foreign countries ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  22. "Even as President Donald Trump’s hold over the electorate wanes, his administration’s naked authoritarian tendencies intensify. If you can tell a man’s mettle by how he behaves under pressure, Trump—mired in a ludicrous standoff of his own making with Iran and cratering in the polls—is putting on a display of raw narcissism and petty cruelty unparalleled among modern democracies."

    ~ Sasha Abramsky

    #Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating #narcissism #cruelty
    /16

    thenation.com/article/politics

  23. A quotation from Thomas More

    Well, those are my objections on moral grounds. From a practical point of view, surely it’s obvious that to punish thieves and murderers in precisely the same way is not only absurd but also highly dangerous for the public.
       If a thief knows that a conviction for murder will get him into no more trouble than a conviction for theft, he’s naturally impelled to kill the person that he’d otherwise merely have robbed. It’s no worse for him if he’s caught, and it gives him a better chance of not being caught, and of concealing the crime altogether by eliminating the only witness.
       So in our efforts to terrorize thieves we’re actually encouraging them to murder innocent people.
     
       [Non licere putem. Quam uero sit absurdum, atque etiam perniciosum reipublicae furem, atque homicidam ex aequo puniri, nemo est, opinor, qui nesciat.
       Nempe quum latro conspiciat non minus imminere discriminis duntaxat furti damnato, quam si praeterea conuincatur homicidij, hac una cogitatione impellitur in caedem eius, quem alioqui fuerat tantum spoliaturus. quippe praeterquam quod deprehenso nihil sit plus periculi, est etiam in caede securitas maior, & maior caelandi spes sublato facinoris indice.
       Itaque dum fures nimis atrociter studemus perterrefacere, in bonorum incitamus perniciem.]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Turner (1965 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83554/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #penalsystem #capitalpunishment #crime #criminal #cruelty #deathpenalty #execution #hanging #killing #nothingtolose #punishment #severity #stealing #theft #thief #thievery #unintendedconsequences

  24. The Lovely War

    Donald Trump threatens Iran the way he once threatened a recalcitrant steak: same wounded, flinty, infant-king fury. A working homage to Martin Amis -- on the Epstein flights, the six-billion-dollar goon squad, the taunting of a proud civilisation, and a nine-year-old girl in Minab waiting for the water that is her birthright. The infant-king has other plans.

    urbanwronski.com/2026/04/20/th

  25. "'Whatever their immigration status, these are human beings created in the image and likeness of God, and this is a moral inflection point for our country,' he said in a Feb. 20 statement issued by the bishops' conference."

    #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #cruelty #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #solidarity #resistance #CatholicBishops
    /8

  26. "'The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American,' said Bishop Brendan Cahill of Victoria, Texas, chairman of the bishops' Committee on Migration."

    #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #cruelty #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #solidarity #resistance #CatholicBishops
    /7

  27. Loveland City votes today to make homelessness illegal. They are also closing their homeless shelters, blocking nonprofits from creating shelters, so this law change will create an encampment to prison pipeline to satisfy private prison and behavioral health center profiteers. This after ignoring a new report on homelessness that outlines steps to humanely assist getting homeless on their feet.

    #LovelandCity #Homelessness #Illegal #PunchDown #Cruelty #Costly #Sadism #Profit

  28. Israel limits entry of baby formula in Gaza as infants die of hunger

    lemonde.fr/en/international/ar

    While waiting to enter Gaza on a medical aid mission, an American doctor watched Israeli security forces confiscate the cans of powdered baby formula packed in his luggage. The vital product is desperately lacking in the Palestinian enclave, where about 50 children have died of hunger since March.

    #StarvingGaza #BabyFormula #KillingChildren #Sadism #Cruelty #WarCrimes #Israel

  29. Decided to put more work into my sign. More blue masking tape, some razor blade trimming, and a heavy shadow on the “Gestapo” make a nice difference. My previous signs were much bigger so I like this one for a while.
    #NoKings but #SCOTUS #crowned #OurPutin he’s #AnotherOrban #NYC #protest #march #fight #resist #Manhattan #PresidentMusk #StephenMiller #architect of #cruelty #USAID #congressional #spending #unlawful #courts #injunction #appeal #illegal #seizure #firings #personal #data #stolen

  30. The airline industry would have us standing upright like in a subway at rush hour for intercontinental flights if they thought they could make money on it.

    Miserable, sleepless, squashed and upright?

    It’s just #biz

    #money #greed #cruelty to #animals

    #travel #airline #spca

  31. MSNBC bought Errol Morris's new documentary about Trump's forced family separation at the border. But they won't air it until *after* the election -- because they don't want to offend Donald Trump.

    "Rebecca Blumenstein, president of editorial for NBC News, opposed airing 'Separated' before the election because the network still hopes Trump will agree to another presidential debate."

    🤬 Fucking outrageous! 🤬

    thewrap.com/nbc-msnbc-errol-mo

    #Trump #MSNBC #ErrolMorris #border #cruelty #FamilySeparation