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"Clodius' marriage to the formidable Fulvia appears to have been an enduring model of fidelity until death cut it short."
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apas-95

It really isn't that complicated, and the entire affair is actually very simple when you lay it out as such: Israel is trying to exterminate the people of Gaza, as much as it finds practical.

You can explain the exact rhetorical game played by the White House, you can exclaim with incredulity that a hospital is attacked while messages of peace are loudly blared, and you can run around in circles forever - or you can see that, yes, they know, everyone involved knows exactly what is happening, and that is exactly why they are doing it. They bomb the hospitals and block the food because they want to depopulate the area by force. They call everyone out into the open with promises of aid and then bomb them because they want to kill as many people as possible.

Now, the economic reasons for *why* millions upon millions of generals, politicians, corporate executives, and plain settlers have all united in the shared goal of committing genocide are important, because they demonstrate clearly what moves will and will not be taken next - but sitting there politely and untangling all the statements put out to say 'look, actually, the guy who killed thousands might have said something that could be interpreted as racist' or 'inconsistently, the pilot who just bombed that school claimed there was a resistance fighter, but the picture is from the next intersection' is just willingly engaging in the game they want you to be playing against them.

I'd rather be playing a game I can beat them at, one they've demonstrated themselves to be very bad at, and one they keep on losing at whenever they're forced to play it. 🔻

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Happy birthday, Karl Marx! (May 5, 1818)

One of the most significant philosophers of all time, Karl Marx is considered the founder of modern sociology, and his ideas comprise the foundation of the modern socialist movement, with his body of work laying the foundations for the Marxist school of philosophy and economics. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx became the subject of observation by German authorities due to his political activities from a young age. Gravitating towards left-wing politics and philosophy, and formed a close friendship and partnership with fellow German socialist Friedrich Engels, who would support and collaborate with Marx on some of his most important works, including the Communist Manifesto and The German Ideology. Marx's works and activities resulted in him becoming stateless, and he moved around Europe while continuing to write and involve himself in socialist organizing. Marx's magnum opus was Capital, a comprehensive critique of political economy intended to be published in three volumes. However, Marx died in 1883 before it could be finished, with only the first volume published within his lifetime; Engels prepared the remaining volumes based on Marx's notes. Marx's contributions to philosophy, sociology, and economics are incalculable, and continue to influence socialists and philosophers today. Marxist theory comprises a distinct philosophical school of its own, and later theorists, including Lenin, Mao, De Leon, and Luxemburg, have continued to develop and adapt Marxist thought.

“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”
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When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live—forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence—knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains. — Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)
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btw by the way if we've been mutuals for a while, let me know (DM or send a message) and i'll send you a Zoom link to my PhD defense. It's thursday, 1 PM eastern standard time (5 PM GMT bc i have british mutuals as well). don't want to just post it here and get a lot of randos but if you want to learn about the molecular mechanisms of the parasite that causes malaria and you have a free hour, please show up so people know that i have online friends if not a ton of real ones.

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adrenoceptor

taylor swift fans are so scary it's like i'm in the truman show. watching taylor swift fans talk about how she soo gets neurospicy mental illness grippy sock vacation is exactly how truman felt when his wife started advertising coffee or something to nobody in particular

i'm in a heavy-handed indie game about consumerism and taylor swift fans are walking around saying "i love Food Restaurant! Food Restaurant so gets me!" meanwhile food restaurant looks like this:

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stuckinapril

Btw Israel let Palestinians celebrate not one (1) holiday in peace. They didn’t grant Christian Palestinians access to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, they actively attacked families who were already starving at Iftar during Ramadan, and now there are several reports of families being killed on Eid al-Fitr—a sacred multi-day holiday practiced by lots of Arabs. It breaks my heart imagining the Palestinian families in Gaza right now, most of whom are spending Eid mourning loved ones who were taken by Israeli strikes. Most of us will never understand the sheer magnitude of that pain.

I’m being completely serious when I say I can’t think of anything more dehumanizing than deliberately terrorizing Palestinians on their sacred holidays. It’s saying their culture is not worthy of being practiced with safety and security, it’s saying that they as human beings are not deserving of the luxury of culture and safety, it’s saying that they can do this over and over and get away with it because Arabs are invalids to the average person not directly affected by this. It should make you incredibly angry that every holiday so far has been grounds for a heightened volume of war crimes from Israel. It’s making me incredibly angry just typing this. Palestinians deserve better.

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the impersonality of drone-striking civilians for sport is one thing but there are many, many idf soldiers walking the earth who know what it's like to run over human beings with a tank and a bulldozer, to crush them dead and alive. there's a lot less distance between a tank and a human body than there is between a drone operator and a human body. but we know from breaking the silence in 2014 that they don't feel anything in the bulldozers even if they run over an empty car, so i'm sure all those people they crushed did not feel like anything. and yet just like the drone operators, even if they feel nothing physically, they do it for the excitement of it, for the joy, for the stories they will tell their eager listeners, for the same reason they make souvenirs of dead people's possessions. in my opinion these people, who have experienced the intimacy of murdering and torturing palestinians as power, cannot be rehabilitated. unlike the resistance who leave their homes with the acceptance that they will not return and the understanding that they (and their entire families) will answer for it, idf soldiers enter gaza and commit unthinkable crimes because they look forward to their return. they return to their families with a trophy of palestinian suffering and a belief that they will never answer for it.

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