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Released this morning by the union:
“SEIU’s almost two million members believe that wherever violence, fear and hatred thrive, working people cannot. We condemn antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism and hate in all its forms around the world. Our union includes many members and their families—Palestinian and Israeli, Jewish, Muslim and Christian—who have been impacted by the recent violence. As a union family strongly committed to justice and democracy, we believe all people across the globe deserve to live safely and free of fear, with dignity and respect for their human rights, as well as access to food, water, shelter, medicine and other necessities. SEIU members understand that working people often feel the impact of war most deeply and bear the brunt of its terrible consequences.
We condemn the horrific attacks by Hamas on October 7th, which included the killing of over 1,200 Israelis and others, unconscionable acts of sexual violence, the abduction of over 200 hostages, and other atrocities.
We also condemn the widespread attacks on innocent civilians, including the bombardment of neighborhoods, healthcare facilities, and refugee camps, by the Israeli military. Months of assaults on Gaza have killed over 20,000 Palestinians, and led to the displacement of more than 85% of the Gazan population. Palestinians face an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis, threatened by starvation and disease as well as by violence, and desperately need aid.
We call for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages, and the delivery of life-saving food, water, medicine and other resources to the people of Gaza.
Our call for a ceasefire is a call for peace, rooted in the pain that SEIU members are feeling, from the Jewish member concerned for her son’s safety in Tel Aviv, to the Muslim member who immigrated to this country from the Middle East to escape war and violence, to the hundreds of thousands of SEIU healthcare workers who see themselves in the healthcare workers in Gaza who have been killed trying to save lives.
We call on elected leaders to come together to bring an end to the violence and demand a peaceful resolution that ensures both lasting security for the Israeli people and a sustained end to decades of occupation, blockades and lack of freedom endured by the Palestinian people. This war must end, as it is expanding into a regional conflict. It is time for long-term solutions that will bring safety, peace, democracy, and justice to all in the region.”
Like my dream of being the first person to die from drinking too much Nasty Monster
i'm sure some of you heard about sweet little business baby Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus, dancing on the grave of Waypoint on bluesky alternative Twitter

i assumed he was just mad because they accurately reported the things he said and did, but against my better judgment, i wrote up a response. cuz i don't think enough people know this about Pluckeyboy:

"Creator" of Oculus VR Palmer Luckey still donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to republican candidates in the united states, including Ron Desantis, Ted Cruz, and, uh, Doctor Oz, apparently

obviously, there isn't anything by default illegal about donating to candidates who threaten college campuses to turn over teenagers with suspected gender dysphoria, weird man-children who are too angry screaming about wokeness to remember what grocery store they're in, and Ted Cruz
but hey, ANDURIL industries, eh? that's right he started another company after he sold oculus to facebook at some point, didn't he? i wonder what they're up to-

ANDURIL is a private for-profit defense company that makes war machines and virtual reality simulators for said war machines, founded by Palmer Luckey among other war profiteers. although, luckey would take issue with me calling this war profiteering according to an article he wrote for maritime-executive earlier this month

Palmer "If I was in Ukraine I woulda handled it" Luckey
incidentally, since then he stepped up to the plate and send autonomous drones to bomb people, but it's okay, since, according to Palmin' Luck...

oh cool, one person now has the power to bomb people using up to twenty four autonomous drones! specifically, these ones:

i've told you before why we shouldn't be trusting so-called "AI" with basic research tasks, let alone bombing populations, but clearly i'm just not as smart as The Incredible Mr. Luckey, am i?
how did he build up net worth so high, anyways? i mean, there was the $2,437,439 he made on kickstarter for the early version of the rift, but that's all well and good, investors paying for a product, right? before the $2 bill sale to facebook, where did the money to grow his empire of nightmares come from?

as in, doom, quake, commander fucking keen? damn, what a pull. good thing they bumped into one another, then. oculus already had a couple financers, but carmack brought along legitimacy. and, more money
john's since resigned from meta by the way, which i can't blame him for- though i will dunk on him for going all in on AGI in 2023 lmao
this aint a post about libertarian judo practitioner john carmack, though, it's about Wonderboy Luckey
on that note- there's nowhere else to include this here, but while researching i really enjoyed seeing a post on the ycombinator forums, which they apparently HAVE??, with one guy defending Luckey to absolutely nobody:

what did Luckey do that this Brave Poster is talking about here? i actually hadn't heard about this- thankfully, Palmer was happy to reply to my Tweet and fill me in:

buddy, if you're so mad about this: you should probably be talking to all the different papers who continue to report that you were making pro-trump memes using the pseudoname 'nimblerichman' on reddit
why are you taking this to the quote retweets? wait- big War Crimes fan 'nailer' on ycombinator linked a tweet explaining:

oh, i "can't get in trouble" for it, can i? alright then:
Palmer Luckey makes child-killing drones. see you round, warmonger 💋