wandering Anabaptist nun

I'm gonna need NAFO to criticize women's Russism, not their poverty or ethnicity. Russia likes people like you making women traffickable.

@DavidKrae @nxt888 Welp, Murricans are gonna call the thing they're doing "democratic socialism" whether it's socialism or not. So I hope you will have the intelligence to acknowledge when it isn't.

@nxt888 Democracy is only possible when there is open debate, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, freedom of speech. Anything less than that is a rigged system --like every Communist regime. No such thing as 'Democratic Socialism' -- because Communism is lies and propaganda.

When Eisenhower was asked why the United States did not allow the 1956 Vietnamese reunification elections agreed upon at Geneva, he answered with unusual honesty. He said that if elections were held, Hồ Chí Minh would win with approximately 80 percent of the vote. So they cancelled the elections. Think about that every time an American politician talks about "spreading democracy." They cancelled the democratic election because the "wrong" person would win. They then spent the next two decades killing people to prevent the government that would have been democratically elected from taking power. And they called the other side anti-democratic. This is not ancient history. This is the logic that still governs every "democracy promotion" operation today. Democracy is acceptable when it produces the "right" results. When it does not, you cancel the election, back a coup, fund the opposition, impose sanctions, and call the government that the people actually chose a "dictatorship." Vietnam exposed this logic completely. Not with arguments. With history. With the receipts.

@BadreNicolas I can't possibly imagine why some people in our country would be agitated..... jonathanmetzl.com/book/the-prote…

Psychiatrists should be more transparent that antipsychotics are frequently used for behavioral management rather than to treat or cure an underlying disease. By implying that an antipsychotic fundamentally “treats” psychosis rather than acknowledging that it bluntly blocks dopamine receptors, we have created a catch-22. It is not surprising that individuals are rightfully upset when these medications are prescribed in what appear to be alternative or off-label ways. I suspect that if the field had been more honest, it wouldn’t seem like such a leap to use antipsychotics to address agitation in other situations. This means acknowledging that a significant reason we use them in schizophrenia is to manage the severe agitation that often accompanies the condition, rather than to “cure” it. This transparency, however, does not negate the very real problems associated with their use. Antipsychotics are at times inappropriately prescribed merely for the convenience of overburdened staff in inadequate facilities. Yet this is not always the case. Even in well-run facilities or homes with particularly caring family members, all involved often reach the difficult conclusion that antipsychotics genuinely improve the patient’s living conditions. When accompanied by thorough informed consent, these medications can sometimes be a tool that allows a patient to safely remain at home longer. How, then, does one differentiate the well-intended use of antipsychotics as a compassionate last resort from their lazy use for convenience? Not easily. Failures such as lack of informed consent, erroneous diagnoses, chronic understaffing, and poor clinical evaluation make inappropriate use easier to identify. The WSJ is right to point out these failings. However, the broader public conversation about the role of these medications needs to be more honest and nuanced. For context, people should revisit the landmark case of Clites v. Iowa (1982). Timothy Clites, an 18-year-old with developmental delays, was committed to a state hospital. There, he was prescribed antipsychotics specifically to manage behavioral disturbances stemming from his developmental delay, rather than for psychosis. His medical care was particularly poor, exemplified by the fact that he was not seen by a physician for three entire years. After Clites developed severe and permanent side effects from the antipsychotics (tardive dyskinesia), his father sued the state. The court ultimately found that the hospital failed to meet the standard of care because it used the medications not for the patient’s benefit, but for institutional convenience.

@TinyWriterLaura @ekverstania @astronaimee This. It's as if believing in something on the diagnostic checklist is enough for diagnosis regardless of whether or not that thing is true. Even when it's something specific and possible to verify. Why aren't clinicians expected to verify that a belief is actually false?

@ekverstania @astronaimee agreed - I still can’t believe no one checked the loft with her BEFORE offering the meds though 😬

this poor woman was put on anti-psychotics because she kept saying there was a man in her loft. one problem: there actually was a man secretly living in her loft this is a plot to a horror novel i’m horrified lbc.co.uk/article/man-hi…

@EYakoby Oh no! Not grassroots democracy action!

‘British’ MP Iqbal Mohamed MP who has Pakistani heritage, calls for Islamists to take over the UK. “We must take over the whole of Birmingham, the whole of the West Midlands, the whole of the UK.”

@MykhailoRohoza Are those schoolgirls' hairnets sprang?

ℹ️🇺🇦🇨🇦 Ukrainians began массово settling in Saskatchewan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and by around 1920 entire communities had already formed there. Most of them came from Western Ukrainian lands that were then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire — particularly Galicia and Bukovina. ❔Why did they come? The main reasons were simple yet dramatic: • lack of land at home • poverty and limited opportunities • the promise of free or cheap land in Canada 🇨🇦 The Canadian government actively encouraged settlers to develop the prairies, so Ukrainians were offered plots of land (homesteads) in provinces such as Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba. ❓What was their life like? Life was very hard, especially in the early years: • they built dugouts (temporary homes dug into the ground) • worked on farms in harsh climate conditions • often did not know English Despite this, they built communities, established churches and schools, and preserved their identity. ⏺Challenges and hardships During World War I, many Ukrainians in Canada, as subjects of Austria-Hungary, were considered “enemy aliens.” Some were even interned in camps — a lesser-known but important chapter of history. 🇺🇦🇨🇦 Legacy Today, the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada is one of the largest in the world and has had a strong influence on the country’s culture: • Ukrainian festivals • traditional cuisine (perogies, borscht) • Ukrainian churches with distinctive domes ❗️Ukrainians helped transform the Canadian prairies into fertile agricultural regions and left a significant mark on the country’s history.

@WillyPete300 @OlenaRohoza Damn right. Even Canada isn't benefiting from a distance advantage with these kinds of strategies.

@OlenaRohoza Europe is already at war with Russia. It just hasn't gone kinetic yet, except in Ukraine. The sooner European leaders stop being in denial and start acting like it, the less damage will be done.

Bild is publishing a map of a potential Russian invasion — this time into the Baltic states. The first reaction: what nonsense? This can’t be real — it’s NATO, it’s Europe… But Bild released a similar map about Ukraine back in December 2021. And many people had the exact same reaction then. Putin has already realized he will never take Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, or Dnipro. But Riga, Vilnius, and Tallinn hang in front of him like ripe apples. War in Europe is not nonsense. It is a possible reality. The only hope is France’s nuclear umbrella.

@azielzer Rescued Pauline

This is harder than it looks

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Guess who works on Saturdays

@WabKinew I work on Saturdays

@AdrianP_doc "Cousinfuckers" is why I'm still on this platform

Romania answered America's call for help after 9/11 as did many other NATO members, big and small. Our soldiers were deployed there for 19 years. 27 Romanian soldiers were killed and 200 were wounded in Afghanistan. I met on of them in a hospital recently. He lost a leg to an IED and has to get treatment for the rest of his life. I have only one question for the American cousinfuckers who are now saying NATO allies are unreliable and ungrateful: How many Israeli soldiers fought and died for the US in Afghanistan?

@RasmusJarlov Let me dispel your disbelief and confirm that yes, the North Americans who don't seem to get the humour are really not getting the humour. Literacy and metacognition are pathetic out here and we're turning undemocratic.

Europe has to understand that NATO isnt a one way street. If Europe does not support the USA now, dont expect the Americans to help the next time Denmark or Canada randomly decide to invade other countries!

I have come to the realization that Tweeters preaching "interdependence" do not actually want that.

Lithuanian society fought russification very hard, in this period ruzzians found 126 underground schools operating in Kaunas governorate, 225 in Vilnius governorate, 30 in Suwalki region, and many more not discovered by authorities, only around 7% of Lithuanian children attended government schools, rest were teached at home or in underground schools.

Today Lithuania honors the Knygnešiai-the Book Smugglers. When the russian Empire banned Lithuanian press in Latin script from 1864 to 1904, brave men and women risked prison, exile to Siberia, and worse to secretly carry Lithuanian books across the border. Over this period over 5 million books were smuggled in! 🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹