I keep posting this because it's important people see the tricks the US Empire will pull in order to ensure the occupation of Palestine doesn't end.
When Netanyahu is removed and scapegoated for the crimes Israel has committed, his more moderate replacement will go on a media tour in order to repair Israel's image in the West and a diplomatic tour in order to restore diplomatic relations with the countries that have recalled their ambassadors or cut diplomatic ties entirely. The genocide we're witnessing will be treated like a mild mistake that will never happen again (that Palestinians have brought on themselves). More money will be allocated to Zionist groups in the West to ensure that the public doesn't turn on Israel again.
Meanwhile, Palestinians will continue to get imprisoned, tortured and killed, only now without the world paying attention (just like what happened after the 2021 war). It's our duty as people who are pro Palestine to ensure that this fails. We need to make sure they don't sweep the genocide under a rug. We need to make that Western politicians and journalists don't clean the blood off their hands in the same way we've spent 45 days countering Israeli propaganda
The original poster's name is Raneem. This is her baby sister Dina. This is the link to the original video - this entire account has been dedicated to chronicling the story of her family and making videos to honour the memories of each of them. Reem (as she calls herself) is now the only surviving member of her family, as of a few days ago.
After getting over the initial shock and heartbreak of this tweet and this reply, it hit me that (and I don't know if this is a cultural thing here in the middle east or an Islamic one)
A child has to be named even if they're stillborn.
For a child to not be named, that means there's no one left to name them. They were killed along with their entire family.
I hoped I was wrong, but I checked the list of victims of Israeli attacks and found this:
Israel has ended 47 Palestinian bloodlines over the course of this genocide (or perhaps more), so you might think that this little detail isn't that important, but I don't think we should get used to cruelty of this proportion, no matter how consistently Israel commits it.
The number of victims isn't just a number. These are people with full lives and hopes and dreams.
It's enough of a disaster that these families were wiped out, but in murdering them, Israel didn't just deprive them of their lives, hopes, and dreams. It deprived them of even the dignity to name their children.
It continues to deprive the remaining Palestinians of their most basic human rights.
What did the Palestinians do to not deserve food or water or electricity?
What did their *newborns* do to not deserve lives or at the very least names?!
This is the most harrowing form of terrorism I can think of. The genocidal Israeli occupation is the most despicable terrorist organization the world has had the displeasure of knowing.
The whole world should be deeply ashamed that it's not only allowing such heinous war crimes to be committed, but in a lot of ways, it's enabling them.
I don't know how anyone can be neutral about this.
Stand with Palestine, stand against the occupation. Against genocide.
ربنا يتقبل الأطفال دول و أمهاتهم و عائلاتهم اللي الاحتلال قتلهم معاهم شهداء، و ينتقم من إسرائيل و أي حد بيمكّنهم أشد انتقام في الدنيا قبل الآخرة.
it makes me so mad people won't leave this poor kid alone but every single response he shoots off is funnier than if you gave me a week to think of one
For those that don’t know, Brock’s mom and dad both bailed on their kids to go dreamchasing for a bit and he had to look after NINE siblings on his own
Brock literally hung tight until his dad came home, gave said dad a stern shit-talking about how much of a worthless deadbeat he was to his face, refused to set one foot out of Pewter City until he was sure the dude would stay and take care of his damn kids, and then left to follow the dreams he was never allowed to follow because he was too busy cleaning up his parents goddamn mistakes.
One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands
Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double
So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him
I remember reading a study where researchers realized that female birds of a certain species preferred males with a darker breast. So they created what they literally called a “Super-Sexy Male” by catching a male and coloring his chest with a marker. They then ran dna tests on the eggs in the area.
Previously when the researchers had run these tests, they found a certain amount of infidelity was common for these birds. Somewhere around 10% of eggs were fathered by males who were not the primary mates of females.
After the advent of the Super Sexy Male, however, stuff got crazy in bird world. Infidelity skyrocketed, with upwards of 25% of ALL EGGS in the area being fathered by this specific male. Furthermore, his mate’s eggs were 100% his.
This is just insane to me. Just imagine you’re living your bird life when suddenly somebody scribbles on Dave’s chest and the ladies can’t stop throwing themselves at them. It’s stupid that we theoretically can wreck this kind of havoc on an ecosystem.
Me trying to determine what range of months it is reasonable to feature a pregnant goat in a farm scene: gotta go to the How To Breed Goats website.
How To Breed Goats has informed me that while continuing to breed your female goat past age 10 is likely to significantly shorten her life expectancy, so maybe don't do that, the males are going to die in what's middle age for a not-overbred female regardless.
because goats have a heat/rut cycle, and apparently going into rut is really bad for the health.
a/b/o fandom i hope someone has taken notes on this and done some hilarious angst about the short lifespan of the average alpha.
Was a thing where a beta noticed how all the alphas that had been jockeying for the high positions in their business had a massive turn over rate that she at first investigated, then figured out that Alphas basically wore themselves out quickly, with the implication of dying young too.
Other than that fic though, I can't think of any other that's done this.
honestly on the long long list of logical sociological knock-on effects of the kind of bonus human instincts a/b/o likes to tack on should probably be:
'alpha-on-alpha murder rate absolutely insane.'
like you're going to create a class of people with heightened aggression and ego problems, who are naturally predisposed to dislike each other and try to dominate social situations? like i get that the idea is MenX10 but real people are not so much like that, and when they are it causes problems. it's not very compatible with living in a human community, especially one without rigid formal hierarchies.
alphas in a modern-society milieu should kill each other so much. there could be alpha-specific gun control laws to account for their statistical rate of impulse killings, though ig that's more likely the smaller a minority they are.
really it should be historically common, with these behaviors, for human communities to have kicked out either all adult alphas or all but one, and either killed the rest or made them live in exile.
the ways it's shitty to be an omega are elaborately worked out afaik because sometimes the feminization misery porn is the whole point, but alphas are so weird as a concept.
far as i can tell no one ever has enough fun with the elaborate knock-on effects of these alterations to human biology and behavior, on account of it's a porn premise that exists for porn and complicated gender feelings, and the more elaborately realistic the worldbuilding, the less it can do its job.
but i saw a post the other day that someone studied the difference between japanese and american a/b/o, and the japanese stories had heat suppressants (which are obviously desirable in a lot of situations) covered by national insurance, but in the american fics there was often great angst over being able to afford them.
so add to this mix the idea that going into rut carves down your lifespan, same as a heavy smoking habit. are those suppressants cheaper than the heat ones, the way viagra is ridiculously easy to get irl, because alpha needs are prioritized by society? or is lack of access to them one of the great, harmful indignities of poverty?
"really it should be historically common, with these behaviors, for human communities to have kicked out either all adult alphas or all but one, and either killed the rest or made them live in exile."
Old elephant bulls basically become the teacher to young bulls.
They teach them how to regulate their agression, how to be fruitfull in garnering a mate’s attention.
When rich people pay to shoot the old elephant bull because *wild life management* and *he is old and let the young healthy bulls get a chance*, the young bulls lack a teacher and instances where young bulls kill life stock, people, and generally cause destruction, do soar.
And like, lions...what about the brothers or friends who keep running a pride together? What about the lions who defy what seems *natural*? What about the lions who grow a mane despite their sex?
Let’s say gorillas compared to chimps, especially bonobos.
Also, little surprise, humans did breed *sexuality* in their domestic animals to an extreme. Wolves? The dudes are not fertil all year round and the dudettes will be able to bear offspring once a year.
Dogs? The dudes are always able to father offspring, and heat is twice a year.
Chicken...from one nest of 12 eggs to up to 300 eggs a year and the rooster is always up for it. If they have not enough chickens to bonk, the ladies will suffer the agression.
While wild cocks often are monogamous. And they do not bonk year round.
Not only have male sheep and goat been breed to need a lot more of mates to be satisfied, some breeds have a *heat* unbound to seasons.
There are heritage breeds where the male is totally fine with 2-5 ewes and even helps out during birth and keeping the kids entertained.
Modern breeds, if the dude does not have enough mates (40-50) they will get agressive, destructive.
Despite impregnating so many mates is literally sucking the life out of him.
So, what did *domestication* do to human alphas? Did it cause them to be more evened out because the agressive ones had less chance to stay alive and be kept in society?
Were ancient alphas more level headed and calm and domestication with their extreme beauty standards did cause a rise in agression and all of that?
I mean, compare the balls of wild boars and domestic ones and...yeah
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