cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37049967
Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDTA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.
For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
here’s the important bit from that article:
Nadia Urbinati, a political scientist at New York’s Columbia University and the University of Bologna, said the reason why the effects of the protests were not being reflected in elections was because barely half of Italian voters go to the polls.
“And those who do, vote for the right,” she said, adding that Meloni could easily use the protests to disarm opponents.
She said every spontaneous movement of citizens was vulnerable to being infiltrated by antagonists, and alleged that this had been happening in order to “criminalise and repress” the Gaza movement.
Machiavellianism always is working to subjugate all our world.
ACTIVE-defense is the ONLY effective defense against it.
Passive-“defense” always dies/caves/fails.
Humanity needs to understand that viscerally and instinctively, not just … talking about it…
Like the Democrats who sat-out the 2024 election in the US of A, they helped create the result that is still enacting its highjacking of the US to totalitarian-dictatorship
( shouldn’t take much longer: there’s a tipping-point once the highjacking gains enough leverage to remove accountability, checks-and-balances, responsibility, etc… that tipping-point may be crossed this-year, & it’s still 2025. )
shrug
Whatever: either humankind’ll earn changing its nature, XOR it’ll earn self-extinguishment, a whole-species DarwinAward: universe’ll decide, that’s what NaturalSelection IS, right?
Stampeding off a cliff, then, lying broken at the bottom, saying
“God, WAIT: you have to obey our ENTITLEMENT, you have to put things back, so we can indulge more, consequence/accountability-free!”
won’t be obeyed by universe in our future, exactly the same as it wasn’t ever obeyed in the past.
Our unconscious-mind’s default-assumption, that IT is the lord that universe “revolves around”, is a fatal delusion.
Why, oh why, hasn’t any country got the spine to filter-out ideologues from all elections??
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