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lexaproletariat:

“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at the Hague next to Milošević.”

— Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour

bloglikeanegyptian:

i keep thinking about how we’re just watching the exact plan israel has outlined proceed unimpeded by anything at all and how it has rebranded ‘ethnic cleansing’ into 'humanitarian corridor’ even though there are still hundreds of thousands of disabled, homeless, elderly, brave, courageous gazans still in the north and east of gaza where the israeli military is now pointing snipers at convoys of people exiting a hospital waving white flags and even people inside an icu

i think recognizing it as a genocide made people accept that everyone in gaza is already dead and that terrifies me more than anything else. from day 1 it has been clear that israel (which has loudly proclaimed genocidal intent), zionists (who have loudly declared genocidal intent) and the united states (which is loudly suppressing everyone who calls it a genocide) have accepted this as a price

eleven thousand people have died but there are still people in gaza are still alive. there are millions in gaza still alive. we are in the midst of a genocide. its not a foregone conclusion that it ends in ethnic cleansing or mass death, it is a choice people are making every single minute and every single second, and we have to remind them of it every single minute and every single second that passes

adz:

reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now

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ayin-me-yesh:

masriyah:

gossipgurlingursht:

masriyah:

any bitch that says “you can be critical of israel but-” or “israel had racist government but-” should swallow a goddamn boot

i’m not “critical” of israel, i think it shouldn’t exist. i don’t think anyone has a right to a fascist apartheid ethnostate built on the mass graves of an indigenous population. and reducing the horror of ethnic cleansing, genocide and apartheid laws that palestinians have been enduring for decades to just “israeli government is kinda racist” makes me fucking lose my mind

@masriyah what do you think should happen to the Israeli people, if Israel were to dissolve & it all becomes free Palestine?

i don’t know and i don’t think that’s more important to think about than the dismantling of apartheid and settler colonialism under which palestinians are suffering right now

Three big points here:

  1. After the end of Apartheid in South Africa, white South Africans have continued to dominate the country economically. In fact, the richest white South Africans have only INCREASED the amount of wealth they’re hoarding since Apartheid ended. South Africa has the worst wealth gap on the planet, with race remaining the largest determining factor in a person’s socioeconomic standing. Despite white South African moral panics about “white genocide,” Black people are disproportionately at risk of violence in post-Apartheid South Africa. Based on historic precedent, Palestinians are at higher risk of socioeconomic exploitation and ongoing violence than their colonisers even if the Israeli state is abolished.
  2. If you’re genuinely concerned about Israelis, maybe consider that living in a fascist state that is arresting people for social media posts that aren’t genocidal enough is something that already exists and is happening to them right now and that not living in a genocidal fascist state would be better for anyone who isn’t fascist and genocidal.
  3. Israel is carrying out genocide. Creating moral panics about hypothetical reverse genocides to demonise resistance to an actually ongoing genocide is straight up fucked. Go fuck yourself.

cjflint:

thethief1996:

Israel has just bombed a hospital where hundreds of wounded and refugees were taking solace. Journalists in Gaza have reported there was hardly a single body whole in the aftermath (If you can stomach it, there’s a video of a father holding what remains of his child). At least 500 people killed by IOF soldiers, who planned this action, got into an airplane and dropped that bomb willingly. The deadliest attack in five wars, according to the Ministry of Health.

Israel has denied ownership of the attack and said it was a misfired Hamas rocket. Originally, they celebrated it on their social media, saying they had destroyed a Hamas target, treating the deaths like an unfortunate collateral. After international backlash, they posted videos to their social media claiming it was a Hamas rocket. The video, though, shows a second explosion 40 minutes after the airstrike, and they edited it our of their tweet in a pathetic attempt at covering up.

Israel has said multiple times that they were going to bomb hospitals. They told doctors to evacuate and leave their patients to death because they were going to bomb, namely: Al Shifa, Shuhada Al Aqsa and the Quwaiti Hospital. Al Shifa housed at least 10.000 refugees and wounded, and worked as a hub for the press because it was one of the only hospitals that still had working generators. Medical crew worked with sirens blaring to signal the hospitals were not empty. This was a purposeful massacre. These people died hungry, thirsty and in pain because of the Israeli government’s cruelty.

CNN and other media outlets already tried to pin the blame on Hamas, parroting back the pathetic propaganda being sold by the IOF. Even in death, Palestinians can’t be respected and are used to further their own oppression. These people’s deaths are not going to be in vain. Within our lifetimes, Palestine will be free.

Take action. The Labour Party in the UK had an emergency meeting today after several councilors threatened to resign if they didn’t condemn Israeli war crimes. Calling to show your complaints works.

Protests in support have already erupted in Beirut, Madrid and Rabat in response to the shelling of the hospital. Join your local protest and raise your voices. For people in the US, Israel has just asked for additional $10bi in aid on top of the annual $3.8bi already given to them. Palestinians are asking that you refuse this loudly, with their every breath.

Here’s a constantly updating list of protests:

Here are upcoming events:

Feel free to add more resources

ACTION ITEMS FOR PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA:

ATTEND A PROTEST NEAR YOU:

Check https://www.standwithpalestine.au/ for updates

fairuzfan:

There is still hope. Say it out loud. Palestine will be free. The Palestinian people will celebrate their culture and heritage with each other. We will love and be loved. Do not fall into the trap of despair.

greed-the-dorkalicious:

With the popularity of Planet of the Bass I’ve noticed a lot of people getting eurobeat and eurodance confused. This is understandable but also REALLY funny to me as a eurobeat girlie. Reigning Eurobeat queen Odyssey (you may know her as the girl behind “Discord I’m howlin at the moon”) has a good Twitter thread on the subject, but to add my own summary that’s hopefully not too jargon-y:

It’s PROBABLY EUROBEAT if:

  • Main lyrical themes are cars/driving/going Very Fast, Touhou, My Little Pony, or Japan (though the latter is more of a grey area since Japan comes up as a theme in some eurodance as well)
  • Between every verse is a synthesizer riff that sounds too fast to ever possibly be played live by human hands
  • There’s a section where all but the last word or so of every line is omitted (this is where “dancing, we wanna feel the light is flashing, I send the power to myself” becomes “dancing… flashing… to myself”)
  • There’s an electric guitar solo (may or may not be synthesized)
  • The rhythm is a straight four-on-the-floor beat, aka it sounds like WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP
  • There’s car vroom vroom sound effects

It’s PROBABLY EURODANCE (at least as opposed to eurobeat) if:

  • There’s a rapper
  • Themes include world peace or partying (there are SOME party eurobeat songs but not as many, and it’s not like eurobeat is pro-war, they’re just driving too fast to think about it)
  • It’s more downtempo
  • The rhythm is a shuffle beat, aka it sounds like WA-WOMP WA-WOMP
  • It’s in a language other than English or Japanese

It’s DEFINITELY eurobeat if:

  • The YouTube thumbnail looks like this or otherwise involves an anime character and a car
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Eurobeat songs you may know include Running in the 90s, Deja Vu, Gas Gas Gas, The Top, Night of Fire, and an honorable mention to The Living Tombstone’s remix of Odyssey’s eurobeat remix of Discord.

Eurodance songs you may know include Every Time We Touch, Butterfly, Caramelldansen, Cotton-Eye Joe (yes, really!), Dragostea Din Tei, and Blue.

HOPE THIS HELPS!!!!!!!

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