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Vive La Resistance

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mirkobloom77

🇵🇸💚 Journalists in North Gaza request water, get full meal, “This is just how we are. These are our traditions!”

🔸 Source: eye on palestine (main post), mahmoud._.shalha20 (footage) and translatingfalasteen (translation)

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I think the funniest dynamic for arranged-marriage royalty would be a queen who came here 100% prepared to murder her future husband and rule as a widow queen in her own right, only to discover that the king is autistic as hell and responds to her wish to rule with "oh thank god please do, I don't want to be bothered by these people. I can just tell them to go bother you instead, if you really want that. I've got beetles I wanted to study."

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stele3

"I'm really not good at it," the king admits with horrible, aching grief. The country is in disarray. Peasants go hungry. Nobles trade power amongst themselves with impunity.

So the queen takes over and ruthlessly sets things to rights. Fires several generals, hangs nobles, redirects wealth to the peasantry. It isn't long before the first assassination attempt, which she expected.

She did not expect her docile, beetle-obsessed husband to go absolutely feral and fling himself at the assassins wielding a pair of sharp knives.

Also, the beetles are intended to attack and kill a certain type of invasive worm that has been killing off the gourd and potato crops for decades. He’s been trying since he was a child to crossbreed several native species to be hardier and better diggers. When he finally gets it right it’s all over for you bitches (“you bitches” being mass starvation of subsistence farmers).

Mad Scientist and the Head of HR ass dynamic

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Lilo & Stitch is a great example of a story that has no villains. It has antagonists, sure, but most of them are well-meaning. The worst person in the film is that little shit Myrtle, but she’s not in the film that much anyway.

Since this post is getting traction I want to clarify how not-villainous the antagonists are:

  • The Grand Councilwoman is literally just responding to what she sees as a threat to the galaxy and is extremely reasonable.
  • Gantu is much the same. He’s a bit overzealous, yes, but he thinks he’s saving the galaxy from stitch.
  • Cobra Bubbles is literally just doing his job, he’s obviously not happy about it but he is doing what he feels is best for Lilo. And much like the Councilwoman, he is extremely reasonable.
  • Myrtle is, again, just a little shit. She’s a schoolyard bully and is truly small potatoes.
  • Jumba calls himself an “evil scientist,” but literally nothing supports that. His only onscreen crime is creating a bunch of Pokémon that have powers that will mildly inconvenience people and can be persuaded to be nice over the course of 22 - 90 minutes, to say nothing of himself seeing as he decides to change his ways at the softest bit of persuasion.
  • Pleakley is literally just gay.

The "villain" of Lilo and Stitch is, rather directly, societies and social systems that write people off and do not provide support and care.

It is obvious to the audience -- and deliberately presented this way by the film -- that it is better for Lilo to stay with her sister, even if her sister is a bit of a mess and not financially stable. Mr. Bubbles is not evil. He is there because he wants what's best for Lilo, and he is not unreasonable to think that the sister without a job who leaves the stove on and whose house nearly burned down two days later is not it. The solution is not to "defeat" Mr. Bubbles; the solution would be for society to help Nani succeed, rather than watch as she fails.

Similarly, no one provided any help to Stitch when he was created and discovered. They wrote him off as an abomination, something too dangerous to be destroyed. They weren't evil, and it wasn't unreasonable to think that the experiment created to be an agent of destruction would be better off scrapped. But what would have happened if they had at least tried?

Lilo and Stitch are two characters who were caught in systems that were cold, uncaring, and unsupportive, even if the people in them were not evil and were, in fact, just doing their best.

It's a movie about people who have been written off finding one another and building a found family where they can get and give the support and care they didn't get from the people with authority and I love it so much.

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Three years after declaring child sexual abuse in the territory had reached a crisis level, Nunavut’s Representative for Children and Youth  says nothing more has been done since then to solve the problem.
Jane Bates made that accusation Tuesday, speaking on the second day of a two-day televised hearing of the legislative assembly’s government oversight committee, reviewing her office’s annual report for 2022-23.
Bates noted that the Family Services department director’s annual report on family wellness for 2021-22 reported 518 referrals of child sexual harm that fiscal year, or about 10 per week.
In March 2020, the then-Family Services minister said her department was receiving about two calls per week regarding child sexual abuse. [...]
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lo-andbehold

I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

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xeansicemane

Yeah, we're the animal so preoccupied with petting other animals we're sort of collectively upset there are animals we never get to pet, so we make proxies to snuggle and tell their ghosts we'd have loved them if they were here.

...and tell their ghosts we'd have loved them if they were here.

Hang on i just have to cry for a minute

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papasmoke
Anonymous asked:

How likely do you think it is that cops, etc will just start mowing down protestors on college campuses soon

I do not feel like putting a percentage chance on people I know irl being murdered in police mass shootings but the more that public figures insinuate every college kid who doesn't want their university to profit from genocide and apartheid is an isis suicide bomber sleeper agent in waiting and the longer militarized heavily armed police are given carte blanche to terrorize protest sites the more danger everyone on these campuses is in.

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zanmor

Mostly the brutality will continue to be beatings and "non-lethal" weapons. Any deaths will likely be explained away as either/both unintentional and unavoidable because of something protesters did (cops felt unsafe). Any actual student shooting will draw immediate parallels to Kent State and they've gotta know that can only be a PR blow.

But this media coverage is priming reactionaries to pull a Charlottesville action and drive a car through a camp or something. Cops will get praised for dealing with the aftermath and talking will lament how our country is being torn apart (hint hint step in line and support the state position).

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