rate my chestnut man

felt compelled

is this what it was like in 9/11. trying to reason with people whose entire concept of human decency flies out the window when presented with the possibility of causing the smallest amount of harm to a "terrorist", no collateral damage is too large, no civilian too innocent, no connection too murky for people to deserve to die or be permanently crippled. people citing world war two urban warfare statistics to try to make a bad situation seem less worse and not balking at how fascist they sound

Americans are obsessed with punishment to an insane degree. people DESERVE to die if they support on hezbollah or hamas, regardless of whether their actions bring harm to anyone. if you're a nurse or a courier or a fucking security guard in a place where the only political entity in the region has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States your life is forfeited. if your child or wife or siblings happened to be mutilated it's your fault for existing. collective punishment and collective responsibility only exists for third world nations.

if you plant bombs in equipment you know with a high degree of certainty will enter civilian hands and be used around civilians, and you kill them or seriously maim them, this isn't terrorism, only Arabs commit terrorism

i'm a millennial who graduated from a texas high school in 2008. this is 100% exactly what it was like in the bush years. manufactured consent, omnipresent jingoistic nationalism, abject refusal to question the good vs evil narrative peddled by the government. i remember having conversations with friends about the unconscionable death toll of the iraq war and how we needed to get out, to which the response was often "and just abandon those citizens to the whims of violent dictators? we're there to spread democracy, this is about freedom." you'd tell someone about the unjust murders of Sikh people by riled up USAmericans and they'd be like "well obviously that's wrong, but the victim should've taken better precautions to not be viewed as a terrorist." i mean, this was the era when The Dixie Chicks, one of the most popular country bands in the states, had their entire career nuked from orbit for mildly criticizing Bush at a concert. the hysteria simply cannot be overstated.

and then obama got elected on the back of young people horrified at the war and its supporters. suddenly the critics all went quiet because The Good Guys Are In Charge, even though Obama was pretty much more of the same and in some cases worse. this was an equally impenetrable wall of ideology. any criticism of the Obama administration was met with "he's facing an immense uphill battle and anyway the GOP are putting up roadblocks everywhere." even though they dems had control of the house and senate for Obama's first two years, and wasted it. Obama's team dismantled the national infrastructure that got him elected and then he got a bunch of establishment guys in his cabinet. he increased drone strikes and all but declared war on whistle blowers. ah but it's okay because The Good Guys Are In Charge and they're trying their best despite the opposition, and anyway do you see how crazy the Other Guys are??? would you really rather have THEM in charge?!

then Trump got elected and suddenly everyone was criticizing the policies again. oh the border detention is so bad, the wall is evil, the trade war with China is stupid, he's gutting the USPS, he's given billionaires a tax break, we Have To Stop This Man....... and when Biden replaced him, all those criticisms went quiet despite the fact that he did not reverse any of those policies, and in fact made many of them worse. but you can't criticize him because at least The Good Guys Are In Charge and they're trying their best despite the opposition, and anyway do you see how crazy the Other Guys are??? would you really rather have THEM in charge?!

and here comes Kamala repeating debunked claims about why Palestinians deserve to be genocided, talking about "I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world." Biden ran on stolen Medicare For All valor and has since presided over the largest disenrollment of people from Medicaid in American history. now Medicare For All isn't even on the table. she's riding in on a wave of exhaustion and despair through a system which has over decades eradicated material policy and the needs of constituents from the equation. this cycle has been happening and will continue to happen because the two parties of this country are two sides of the same coin, both representing their primary constituency of Filthy Rich Motherfuckers. and the whole cycle is there to simply maintain the necessity of war and violence and genocide, because it's where all the money is. and it's all the American media talks about. the insanity of the Bush era has seeped into the drinking water and has become a miasma from which we have yet to escape. it's disgusting, maddening, and heartbreaking to witness year after year, as the many lied-to rationalize violence they've been deliberately taught not to understand.

these people will never change what needs changing, no matter their party affiliation, unless forced to under massive social pressure. this is why they're investing so much in cop cities and surveillance and anti-protestor measures. they'll sooner wage war against working people on their own soil than accede the merest sliver of welfare, put even the mildest check on the violence of their allies. we've been living in a fascist dystopia for a long time already, we just don't call it that because our catastrophically rigged democracy has been normalized not as a tool for representational governance, but as a moral battleground of personal expression. idk man, it's pretty fucking bleak!!

quite honestly love that this is one of the top questions on google for javert. me too. i ask myself this every day.

been using this gif a lot lately because it's equally meaningless in every single situation. universal reaction to anything. at all

It’s interesting to me when people are absolutist about perspective (I NEVER read first person etc) because for me it just has to be the right choice for what you’re trying to do.

First limits our worldview and is perfect for anything with an unreliable narrator, or where we are seeing an individual go on a growth journey.

Second is inherently complicit. It takes skill to pull off, but can create an incredible sense of claustrophobia or persuasion when done well.

Third allows scope, and allows us to decide the scope. Are we on the shoulder of the main character, allowing for correction of their limited view? Or are we far away, seeing multiple perspectives and allowing that broader sense of place and space?

What always gets me is when it’s the inappropriate perspective (and trust me I’m awful for it, I had to restart 30k because I realised it was the wrong one!) If you are saying something about the world around a character, first is often going to be a poor choice. Or if your lead character isn’t particularly good-getting or reflective or otherwise strongly drawn. Equally if your story is about that character navigating their perception of something, first probably is best, but remember you can’t then just pull out into viewpoints they just wouldn’t have. And finally second has to have the courage of your convictions. You have to do the narrative equivalent of holding somebody’s face in your hands for a whole book - are you ready for that?

oh sorry

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Hello, I’m Doaa, 21, and a mother of two. I was close to graduating from the Islamic University of Gaza, but the ongoing war has disrupted everything. My daughter Malak, who has Down Syndrome and heart issues, can’t get the medical care she needs. My baby, Masa, is living through a dangerous and unstable environment.

Since October 7, we’ve been displaced multiple times and are now cramped in a tent in Al-Zawaida with 10 relatives, facing severe conditions. We lack food, medicine, and basic necessities.

We need your help to leave Gaza, find safety, and restart our lives. Any donation will greatly assist us.

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I am Mahmoud's wife. Unfortunately, I wanted to inform you that my husband Mahmoud was injured in the head, which caused a skull fracture that descended onto the nerves of the brain and affected the nerves of speech, hearing, and sight.

Mahmoud's condition is very critical and he must go abroad for treatment. He was injured 3 days ago and underwent surgery to clean his head. The doctors are telling us that he needs to undergo a major operation to remove the shrapnel or fix it to the skull bone so that no nerves in the brain are cut off.

Please donate and share this post widely so that we can get my husband out and receive treatment abroad.

This is the 2nd time Mahmoud has been critically injured!!

They're #62 on this doc. By el-shab-hussein/ Nabulsi. This is their new campaign since they had to close the old one bc of issues with the bank. Please please support

wishing spiders a successful strike, may they get everything they want

I mean like the game devs from the company Spiders who are on strike right now. Not the. Not the leggy fellers. I don't think they're on strike

heading out the door

Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (2021)

oh yeah smart guy?

what's this one called?

Samsung Galaxy A30 (2019)

WRONG it's a Huawei P Smart Plus from 2018

I... was wrong? N-no.... its... impossible!

I made all the proper calculations... The dual camera, the separated flash, the fingerprint scanner!! Even the holo type backglass! My deduction was perfect-

Wh-what?!?!

The... the color..!! Whats going on here? You mean its not a trick of the light, but a gradient design?! Such an obvious tell, and I missed it?! No, that... thats impossible!!!

This can't be!!! I'll be ruined!! MY REPUTATION AS A GIMMICK BLOG!!! NO!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!

i want you all to know that today i saw someone with a tuba get into a subaru with the license plate "tubaru"

i think it's actually entire possible to be pro-piracy/anti copyright law while also thinking ai art is also bad for artists. like i think those two mindset don't contradict each other at all, and i find the belief that in order to be "pro artist" you have to be "pro-copyright" to be honestly pretty frustrating lol (and vice versa i guess it's 2am i'm tired)

like i find twitter to be "anti-ai-art" to the degree that people unironically go "i don't care if disney wins i just want ai art to lose" which i find to be a very suicidal position to have if you want to keep making art without worrying about being sued because you didn't "copyright your art style" but also i find alot of people on tumblr to be the opposite extreme where they're "pro-ai" because they believe it'll "proletarianize artists" (because most artists aren't working class i guess) which like that's just as silly as the pro copyright side, like elon musk funds several ai models for a reason, and it's not to give the freedom to create to the masses or whatever.

hi, i'd like to point to a palestinian fundraiser that's reached out to me: hadia, mother of two, has stomach issues and urgently needs surgery. her son is also suffering from malnutrition. this fundraiser has been vetted by 90-ghost here.

so far she has reached €2,945 of her €50,000 goal. this is by far not enough money to evacuate with her family and make it to egypt, where she and her son might receive treatment. please donate to her fundraiser if you have anything at all to spare, and reblog to spread the word!

Please don't look away 😢 😔

I want to introduce everyone to Abdullah. He is the younger brother of @ahmedpalestine and his short name is Aboodi he is four years old and in the picture above. Aboodi is helping his family collect scrap wood to build a fire for cooking. He likes this, trying to help his mom with chores and, love, do anything for his family. Aboodi loves animals so much, and he always feeds the neighbors' stray cats and loves to pet them and play with them, and if not for the genocide that he and his family were trying to survive it, he would have adopted a kitty 💗 and poor things he wants to go back to his house, and he misses the living room and laying on the sofa to watch TV and to watch toyor aljana (طيور الجنة) his favorite channel and sing along and dance with them and please donate to help evacuate him with his family to safety .

Vetted by bilal-salah0 here

Thanks everyone for making the campaign reach it's first goal now we need to gets to next as quickly as possible 🙌🩷❤️

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🚨🚨Urgent Help to Save My Family in Gaza🚨🚨

For the 325th day of the ongoing genocide, I am facing a suffocating crisis. My wife is suffering from hepatitis due to contaminated food and water, and my little daughter is dealing with rashes caused by extreme heat and malnutrition.

In these difficult times, no one can imagine the extent of the suffering we are going through. We are in desperate need of food, clean water, and medications that could save my family's lives.

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This campaign is vetted by association! Ahmad is the brother of @yousefjehad3 (132 on the Bees and Watermelons verified fundraiser list, shared by 90-ghost, #255 on the verified fundraiser sheet vetted by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi). See screenshot below for proof.

Only $2,848 CAD raised of $40,000 goal!