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Is Kingsman Worth Dying For?

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this theme is a wip dont come for me
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HEPHAESTUS GOD OF THE FORGE in HADES II

They told me you needed a weapon or something? Bah! You already got one! Right lousy one, can spot that piss-poor workmanship from here. Though, erm… I could tune it up…
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We don’t talk about Leia killing Jabba enough. Her grandmother and father were born into slavery. Her blood was that of the desert sand and the shackles of bondage. Leia was never more a Skywalker than the day she strangled her slave master with the very chains he used to bind her. The daughter of Anakin Skywalker was the one who killed Tatooine’s most notorious slaver, and I find that really beautiful.

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In case you lost it - a link to the eSIM donation guide. Even if you feel sick and powerless, you can at least do this. And even if you really, really can't donate, you can always at least share this and remind others.

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the lowest tier, which costs 9 dollars, offers a week of connection while the very next, 16 dollars, will provide a full month of contact with the world to someone who desperately needs it. this is not some idle step. an entire month is a huge length of time for people who are displaced, terrified, and isolated.

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a man self immolated in front of the israeli embassy in washington dc yesterday. not just any man. an active member of the us air force. he live streamed his death, and said that he refused to be complicit in a genocide any longer. he said that compared to what palestinians were facing every day, setting himself alight was nothing.

let me reiterate. an active duty air force member burned himself alive because he was so disgusted by what the us government was openly supporting. he live-streamed his own suicide, so the whole world could bear witness as a man in his military uniform set himself on fire to protest his government’s complicity in the horrors that we have all been forced to watch happen in real time. he became a new horror. footage of the immolation blurs him out the moment the fire catches, but you can hear him. it is over in seconds, really, but you can hear him screaming. he shouts “free palestine” until his body physically cannot make any sounds other than guttural screams of agony. and then he falls silent. a police officer arrives and points a gun at his still burning body, shouting at him to get down on the ground. and it is over.

his name was Aaron Bushnell. he was twenty five years old. and he isn’t here anymore because the political ruling class has decided that genocide is perfectly fine as long as it preserves imperialism. in the coming days, people will try to discredit him. to say that he was mentally unstable. they will try to bury his actions to save face and defend israel’s propaganda. do not let them. aaron knew what he was doing. he knew what he was doing when he put on his military uniform, set up his twitch stream, and made his final walk up to the embassy. he knew what would happen to him when he flicked that lighter. do not let them forget. aaron’s blood is on the hands of the political ruling class.

after rereading this post, i realize that i may have implied that aaron bushnell died immediately on the pavement outside the embassy. he did not. he was still alive while the police officer pointed their gun at him as he lay burning on the ground. He was still alive. and rather than immediately put him out, the police chose to pull a weapon. they chose to threaten him. he was already on the ground. he was still burning. he went silent because he fell unconscious. but he was still alive. aaron did not die until after he made it to the hospital. and that makes the last shot that most viewers of his final act will see all the more harrowing. it is not a cop pointing a gun at a man who is already dead. it is a police officer seeing a man who is still alive after being engulfed in flames, and instead of rendering aid, treating him like a dog to be put down in the street.

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