“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.”
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Email your MPs and elected officials and tell them that you do not support the war on Gaza and the ongoing atrocities committed by Israel against Palestinians.
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.
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