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The person next to me in the train station is eating dicks and it smells so damn good
Wait wait fuck goddamn, dicks is a burger brand, there is not a woman giving head right next to me, she is eating fries and I’m hungry for FRIES
December 17, 1974.
The film critic from the Patterson, New Jersey News trashed Young Frankenstein.
I really fucking love the Swedish expression "intelligensbefriad" = "freed from intelligence"
Like, you've left that intelligence behind, you're free to be an idiot now
The most relatable thing anyone has ever done, in my opinion, is Chris Nolan working SO HARD to squeeze Cillian Murphy into every Dark Knight film.
Like Batman Begins? He’s the secondary antagonist, he belongs there.
Dark Knight? Kinda makes sense that he’d pop up just to tie loose ends I guess but it doesn’t totally work…
Dark Knight Rises? He’s taken over the legal system??? What’s he doing there? Why’s he there? How did he even get into this position?? I mean yass queen slay girlboss but bro??? He has like 1 minute of screentime and within that minute he disses Bane IN FRONT OF HIM?? And there are NO CONSEQUENCES???????
mutuals and followers at large I'm glad you're alive and I hope it gets easier
hey im free later if you wanna like get married or merge souls or something
Gil Evergreen - Peek a view
finally made myself a mug
the quote's from @marypsue
I enjoy the subtle wiggles of horror as though your hand shook a little bit from the strain of keeping it together while carving it
One of many pieces of information rarely discussed that has stuck with me in studying the Holocaust in a literacy class is that people who survived the death camps often did not survive starvation. It is very difficult for a severely malnourished body to recover from starvation. A severely malnourished body will struggle to process food at all, and many people die in the process of “refeeding.” This is called refeeding syndrome for this reason. Reintroducing food can and often is fatal without careful, medical guidance.
Starvation is one of the most common and effective forms of genocide. What makes it effective is that past a certain point, even if aid has been delivered, it is not enough to save someone from death by starvation. What also makes it effective is that withholding food is viewed as a passive consequence of political turmoil rather than an intentional act of violence among a people. You will see more people die from starvation in genocides across history because it is an effective way to kill many people without the use of state resources.
The starvation of Gaza is intentional. The United States and Israel may gesture that they are delivering or allowing aid into Gaza, but in reality they are active participants in the starvation of Gaza by destroying medical infrastructure, limiting the amount of aid “allowed” in, and blocking aid trucks from entering. Throwing food into Gaza by airdrop at this point in the genocide will not be enough without medical infrastructure to refeed a severely malnourished population. Many will die anyways. Many have already.
Okay because I am a goy with the time and emotional space to do so, I am going to try to calmly explain why the above post is an example of what NOT to do when advocating for Gaza.
@oneshortdamnfuse, your core argument — that hunger is an extremely dangerous consequence and/or strategy of war and that it presents an immediate threat to civilians in Gaza on par with direct military violence — is essentially correct. And I’ll assume that the motivation for posting it — concern for the lives of Gazan civilians — is benevolent. A solid logical point made in good faith. So why am I upset?
Well, the post begins with a direct reference to the holocaust. You could have started the post at the second sentence, avoiding any invocation of the holocaust, and the logical weight of your argument would have lost nothing. But you chose to include it. What that does is imply that the individuals currently directing or executing military violence in Gaza are somehow connected with the victims of the holocaust. The obvious connection, though unstated, is that both groups are, overall, disproportionately Jewish. Neither group is exclusively Jewish but both are assigned “Jewish” in common vernacular discourse.
So you’ve highlighted the Jewishness of your targeted group. Already a very dangerous move if you’re trying to avoid falling into hateful rhetoric. Furthermore, you’ve implied that the Israeli government (whose Jewishness you emphasized) are somehow more culpable because of their association with the (Jewish) victims of the holocaust. This falls into the common framing of the Holocaust as a sort of cosmic lesson. That Jews “should know better” than to do harm because of what was done to them. You are leveraging crimes against a people to make those same people uniquely morally obligated. This is both victim blaming and singling out Jews to be evaluated on a different moral rubric than everyone else. That’s a double no-no.
Then, you repeatedly frame the hunger crisis in Gaza in insidious, secretive terms. “Viewed as a passive consequence rather than an intentional act.” “Gestures” vs “reality.” The idea that Israel is conspiring with the US to starve Gaza while pretending at innocence. You are portraying Israel as conniving. As dishonest. As a devious conspirator that directs the actions of the US. All very old antisemitic stereotypes. And, as you pointed out with the first sentence, the Israeli government is disproportionately Jewish.
So Israel (Jews) is (are) historically connected to (responsible for) the holocaust, uniquely obligated to do no harm, and fundamentally dishonest. Not knowing you at all, I’d like to hope that you never would have meant for your post to be read that way. But it is an extremely predictable reading of your post, even if not the intended one. You’re knee-deep in antisemitic tropes, and that is fundamentally counterproductive to what I will continue to assume is your guiding principle — social justice and bettering the world.
I’m not insulting you. I’m not calling you an antisemite. I am reaching out a hand so you can do better because I believe you can. I am trying to help you advocate for the rights and welfare of Gazan people without endangering or alienating the Jews that share your spaces. Please take me up on the offer.
Four year old beekeeper distracted by a roly-poly.
Anyway, if you don't vote for Biden to Teach Him A Lesson and Trump wins, I'm sure all the thousands more Palestinians killed in Gaza when Trump gives Netanyahu full steam ahead and pulls all diplomatic support for a ceasefire/peace process, the Ukrainians and/or other Eastern Europeans likewise genocided when Trump gives Putin everything he wants and pulls out of NATO, the immigrants deported and put in concentration camps, the protesters detained en masse under the Insurrection Act, the women who die from being refused divorces and reproductive care, the LGBTQ+ people legislated and harassed out of public life, the people of color murdered by fully sanctioned white supremacy, and the societies around the world affected by America's collapse into a theocratic fascist dictatorship will definitely fall at your feet in thanks and give you the Gold Medal For Twitter Social Justice. So yknow, that's very important.
Typical courtyard housing, a 1920s style of architecture found everywhere in East Hollywood.
it’s almost time, folks
i feel like i'm losing my mind why has the AI debate pivoted away from material/labor concerns back to debates about Real vs Fake Art. cannot express just how little i care about relitigating Art and high art and low art and skilled vs unskilled art. what i care about is the treatment and compensation of workers, the power corporations are exerting over intellectual property and creators, the continued extraction of resources, and the omnipresent glut of spam and disinformation with few or no regulations/resources that filter out the SEO AI generated nonsense
