This also suggests Epstein co-kompromat, or the ability to deep fake it now.

Well now men, consider how this is working out for you and your country and your people, and remember the WWII poem..

"First they came for them, but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for them & them & them, & when they came for me, there was no one left to speak for me..

Instead, too many men stay silent and refuse to stand up out of fear against bullies, or silently appreciate the proximity to physical power & male dominance the acceptance of such attitudes gives them, in the hope they'll too get lucky, or their chance to take advantage of women, unopposed.

And with conscription being discussed in election campaigns and defense discourse, maybe if men had have stood up sooner for women's rights & our equality as humans, we wouldn't be here.

This is just the beginning of a new global stage of attacks against women & our right to bodily integrity.

Trump & other autocrats' "Take what I want of your country against your will" is also spreading.

Men, it's about time to recognise the danger of accepting rape as a national security issue.

Cases of boys stealing girls' images & targeting school girls & acquaintances with deep faked sexual assault & rape videos are increasingly being reported across the world, in what can only be described as instantaneous, undeletable, internet-enabled industrialised mass rape at a global scale.

This war is harder & unlike many before in that it's less tangible, the damage, the victims, wins & losses less physical & visible.

But by no means less real.

We need to know that to begin to know how to deal with it.

Finding the light amidst the darkness, the calm amidst crisis, hope amidst the helplessness.

So yes, WWIII has started. Arguably it started some time ago, but the moment global communications, information & delivery giants Meta, X, Google & Amazon, gave Donald Trump $1m protection money, forming part of his alliance, gave WWIII a concrete start date.

Now more than ever, the mantra of think global, act local, matters.

Via www.seattletimes.com/author/david...

I already have the Origins of Fachism (Arendt) in Italian loaded up to start once I finish HP7, but frankly, it feels like the wanton destruction of Liberal Arts Studies was on purpose & 'It's the Economy Stupid' will turn out to be the stupidest most suicidal political slogan ever..

In a brighter aside, a French tutor informed me once that it's quite common for people to use Harry Potter books to learn languages, which oddly felt such a sweet moment of shared humanity across wildly different countries, lives & learning paths and aims...

I wish centre right, neoliberal, hell, even far right parties would maybe take a read through the most popular books globally since the Bible, since they seem intent on not reading history books either, or goddammit, even recent electoral outcomes & patterns.

Book 4 also finishes with establishment denial the Dark Lord has returned, leading to a long media campaign denying it in Bk 5. It does not end well for them, & forced disappearances, 'pure bloods only shall reign' & belated tragic acceptance of 'yeah he really is bad, this was a bad idea' follow..

Seriously, hold your loved ones tight, make your decisions & social media choices carefully, prioritise protecting your vulnerable. This is a rapidly unfolding global emergency, the speed & magnitude of which will be unlike anything that has passed before. Love where you can & defend where you must.