they are! hence american college campuses being so unwilling to divest from israel. for a lot of universities, that and DARPA are the only sure ways of securing funding. the reality is that our global need to steal mineral resources to fund our comforts also cost us, and not just the foreign countries we directly harm. you are actively fed by acts of violence. our entire financial system is underpinned by the conflict minerals sitting underneath blood soaked soil. i’m not even saying if you buy groceries at the store or live on stolen land you need to change your way of living. that’s literally almost everyone on earth. what i’m saying is that you need to get on board with that the people those resources are stolen from are just like you. you need to do everything in your power to help them because all of this machinery of violence runs on blood. when any active genocide runs out of people to kill it will turn on some other demographic to focus on. eventually, it will come for you unless you resist it, fight it. not a single one of us can do anything to stop all this alone. our best bet is to band together and communicate truth in our communities
From my brief time in academics, it was my impression those types of researchers were already hamstrung for support
they are! hence american college campuses being so unwilling to divest from israel. for a lot of universities, that and DARPA are the only sure ways of securing funding. the reality is that our global need to steal mineral resources to fund our comforts also cost us, and not just the foreign countries we directly harm. you are actively fed by acts of violence. our entire financial system is underpinned by the conflict minerals sitting underneath blood soaked soil. i’m not even saying if you buy groceries at the store or live on stolen land you need to change your way of living. that’s literally almost everyone on earth. what i’m saying is that you need to get on board with that the people those resources are stolen from are just like you. you need to do everything in your power to help them because all of this machinery of violence runs on blood. when any active genocide runs out of people to kill it will turn on some other demographic to focus on. eventually, it will come for you unless you resist it, fight it. not a single one of us can do anything to stop all this alone. our best bet is to band together and communicate truth in our communities