#november-9 — Public Fediverse posts

„Hannah Arendt dürfte heute in Deutschland wegen ihrer kritischen Haltung zu Israel nicht mehr sprechen.“
https://taz.de/Streit-um-Gedenken-zum-9-November/!6128718

#Stanley #Frankfurt #November9

Das est Kristallnacht
Nazi Night of Broken Glass
Never forgotten

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Seasons #Autumn #Fall #Germany #Nazi #Kristallnacht #NightOfBrokenGlass #November9 #EthnicCleansing #Palestine #Israel #Netanyahu #WestBank #Gaza #UN #World #Nation #Photography

November 9, 2025

Reading this below on the 36th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and by extension the symbolic end of the GDR, the place I grew up in... with neighbors and parents of classmates belonging to the Stasi (east German secret police), the fear my own parents might be disappeared — years later seeing the thickness of the files of surveillance materials the state/stasi had collected on my family... remembering early autumn 1989, joining friends protesting in the streets every Monday after school, every week more and more people joining, from all walks of life, slowly replacing our fear with a feeling of invincibility, then the unthinkable (positive) happening in early November... the wall falling, driving into West Berlin for the first time the day after (and getting stuck in the largest traffic jams the country has ever known). The '90s were born that day and anything seemed possible...

Reading this post by @aphyr is intensely moving, not just today, and in many ways the situation already is so, so much worse and so much more brutal, more like 1930/40s Germany and numerous other dictatorships throughout the 20th century...

I Want You to Understand Chicago

https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago

"I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help."

"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow; the boundaries of acceptable identity and speech will shrink. I want you to think about elections in this future. I want you to understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this."

(via @timbray)

#Chicago #BerlinWall #November9 #Anniversary

1918: Novemberrevolution endet mit Ausrufung der Weimarer Republik
1938: Reichspogromnacht
1989: Fall der Berliner Mauer

#November9 - was für ein Tag in der deutschen Geschichte!

Zwei Umweltthemen zum Wochenende:

➤ 9. November: Tunesiens Tree Festival Day

➤ 8./9. November: Aktionstag zur Rettung
der Kastanien in Deutschland

https://www.baldwald.de/umwelttage/Umwelttage-im-november.html#09
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#umwelttage #tunesien #treefestival #baldwald #9november #november9

And the preceding is not a joke.
Not *at all*:

First, some sort of democratic governance that is not just a rubberstamped name is clearly essential to minimize #oppression.

Second, the currently dominant form of democracy (bourgeois-liberal) has one of the WORST and probably THE worst benefits/risks ratios of ALL political systems EVER:
The guy who gave us the #Shoah was more democratically elected than the 2000 and 2016 PotUS; that is a fucken PLAIN UNDISPUTABLE FACT.

In a #democracy that actually deserves this name, such a thing should be as CATEGORICALLY IMPOSSIBLE as an Emperor ruling a Republic.
(most republics have some sort of clause that in case someone tries to set themselves up as Emperor, and all else fails, any citizen is permitted, even encouraged, to kill that "emperor" there and then with no remorse or regret or legal jeopardy.)

And even the most rank and abject utter tyrannies are incapable of achieving the amount of large-scale long-term coherence to effect this sort of singularly grotesque and world-shaking atrocity:
Stalin, possibly, and Mao, certainly, got more innocent people killed - but that was mostly due to their being genocidally callous and cold individuals. And they had decades. And while no communist system was particularly "good", things like the Holodomor were not constantly recurrent features of Communism, but extreme outliers.
Hitler was worse: he only had 12 years, and he turned THE ENTIRE STATE AND SOCIETY (and in fact most of an entire CONTINENT) into mere tools of industrialized obliteration of innocent human lives on a gargantuan scale, the likes of which were not seen before or since.
#Nazism is truly THE WORST because when anyone else just disregarded human life, the Nazi state was from top to bottom an instrument to produce death, war, oppression, and nothing else - a sociopolitical "temple" of the most horrid death cult humans have witnessed so far -; any other purpose the Nazi state had was subordinate to destruction, and that was a built-in "feature" of its very design.

Whereas the most basic and essential purpose - maybe the *only* legitimate purpose at all - a State can ever have, IMO, is the PRESERVATION of human lives and livelihood; first, of its Citizens, and then, all other members of our species, now and forever.

How can a system that freely yielded THE WORST transmutation of society and state that is theoretically and practically possible be considered "democratic"?
No matter how good it works "in the fat years": it is a FUCKING LIABILITY SECOND TO NONE.

#NeverForget #November9

In honour of the occasion, I thought I might post an actual clip of Scheidemann's proclamation of the 🇩🇪 republic 106 years ago. Then some algo reminded me that I already did this back in 2013 #november9 #germany #republic
https://bit.ly/4hJepfW

Night of Broken Glass
Nazi Kristallnacht progroms
Blind complicity

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Ohio #Akron #USA #November9 #Kristallnacht #NightOfBrokenGlass #NAZI #Hitler #WWII #Germany #Jews #Progroms

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht

November 9, 2024

9. November. Ilse Weber: Und der Regen rinnt www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE_2... Ilse Weber: Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJPu... Anne Sofie von Otter · Bengt Forsberg · Bebe Risenfors #classicalmusic #November9

Song of the Day November 9 2024

In remembrance of the birth of Dorothy Dandridge

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

Dorothy Dandridge - “The Man I Love” (from the NBC Television series "Cain's Hundred" - Season 1, Episode 21 "Blues for a Junkman")

https://youtu.be/f1ZdgkVvdxA?si=z1Ag1d0yDDwSbdPN

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #November9 #DorothyDandridge #TheManILove #Blues #Jazz #Soul #Music #TVPerformance #MusicVideo #CainsHundred #NBC #Television #BluesForAJunkman #1960s

In 2011, Dutch scientists built a nanoscopic electric car made of a single complex molecule. The world's smallest vehicle, the nanocar is capable of travelling small distances when an electric current is applied to it.

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 9 November:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/11/9-november.html

#ThisDayInHistory #onthisday #OnThisDate #otd #9November #November9

For an all-out mobilization of the working class on #November9 against the imperialist-backed genocide in #Gaza - World Socialist Web Site

#GazaProtests #GazaGenocide #CeasefireNOW! #StopArmsToIsrael!

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/11/08/pers-n08.html

#November9 by #ColleenHoover had such an incredible plot twist that I honestly didn’t see coming, but made all the things that originally didn't make sense, make sense by the end.

I stumbled across a #bookreview by Whitney Atkinson (a book influencer) on #GoodReads with a sizeable following. This wasn't just someone who read this book and didn't like it. This felt more like a smear campaign.Read my full review + response to Whitney's review here: https://thecozy.cat/blog/november-9-by-colleen-hoover-the-cozy-cat-review/

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