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@blazingxo
Biden’s State Department in a nutshell.
people are calling what happened today in gaza “the flour massacre”
the flour massacre
these people just wanted to get food for their families, something as basic as flour, one of the things that the very core of humanity is built on, and israel used it as a trap to murder them in cold blood
evil is not enough of a word. there is not a word to describe what they are doing to palestine. they are bleeding her out, they are torturing her and crushing her and hoping that nothing is left to remember her by when they are done. how can anyone stand and watch what is being done with indifference? how can you watch this level of human suffering, this crime against life and feel nothing, do nothing
Tweet by Director-General of the World Health Organization. DON'T LOOK AWAY. The carnage must stop.
a thought: the repetitive “we’ll be a fine line” lyric in fine line is almost as if harry is reminding himself of the fine lines between the love and hatred of a relationship, until the music begins to build slowly and he starts to chant “we’ll be alright” as if he is trying to convince himself that everything will be alright. if he repeats it enough, he will start to believe it. then, as the powerful and uplifting crescendo hits, he finally does. he believes he is alright. but then he begins repeating “we’ll be a fine line” again, almost as if he went backwards, but then is back to “we’ll be alright” because he knows he will be. no matter how many bad days he has, no matter the journey he took to get there, all that matters is that he will be alright.
another thought: the relationship in question isn’t his relationship with another person, it’s actually his relationship with himself. so, essentially, a fine line between versions of himself he loves and hates. like, in falling he was saying he didn’t like who he was and throughout the album there’s hints of guilt of doing the wrong thing or questioning certain things about himself. it’s a journey he has had to go through in order to love himself for who he really is, whoever that may be and in all aspects of his life. the dedication of the album itself even says all he is done, the good and the bad, that is life. he has accepted this is who he is and he is happy. he is at peace with himself, which is exactly how i felt after i listened to fine line. like i had just gone on this journey with him, only in the end to find out that he is happy and he is alright.
The Great Mosque of Gaza, bombed by the British Empire in 1917 and again today by the illegitimate settler state that empire installed
i know the quest of educating people never ends, but it does kind of bum me out that even in the year of 2023 we need to go out of our way to explain the simplest concepts to people. “you should give a fuck that a whole country is being genocided” seems like a relatively easy to understand sentiment, and yet you will still have people out there coming up w a thousand and one reasons for why it’s none of their concern. it blows my mind every fucking time. we really do need to teach people to care about other people and that is insane to me. like what basic human rights do you need to be spoon fed next??? should we also be pointing out that poor people are also people
This is an Onion article title from like. 2013, idk the exact year.
i actually really enjoy winter i don’t mind that it gets dark so early
>completely dark before 5:30
i think being alive is the worst thing that can happen to a person
While I am worried about grifters (accounts like Jackson Hinkle & uncensoredmen) and generally people with bad intentions trying to worm their way into the Pro Palestine movement, I will say a lot of this can be avoided if people just had Palestinians as their primary sources.
There are Palestinians in Gaza, Palestinians in 48, Palestinians in the West Bank, and Palestinians in the Diaspora all talking about what is happening - you actually do not need a white man who just started acting like the authority on Palestine three weeks ago to feed you information sprinkled with alt-right tweets. You will not die if you listen to Palestinians.
No you are absolutely right this too
There have also been a TON of people sharing Shaun King tweets and posts. I know a lot of non-Black people may not know who he is, but he’s a notorious grifter and fake activist. He’s known for jumping onto whatever is getting traction in the social Justice space and acting like he’s the one at the center, looking for a resolution. People who don’t know better throw money at him, and then he blocks them if they ask questions about where the money went when something doesn’t add up.
Even if you look up “Shaun King Scams” on Google, countless things will come up about him using public tragedy and social justice for financial gain. Or he’ll create business ideas, ask for funding, and then the business will mysteriously disappear.
The last I heard, he was taking credit for the release of American hostages in Palestine, even though the family said they’d never spoken to him and had no idea who he was.
KEEP EYES ON SUDAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONT LET THEIR SUFFERING GO UNSEEN OR UNHEARD OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🙃 Regular reminder that while Hozier has amazing love songs, he is ALSO very outspoken about his leftist politics, specifically anti-fascism, anti-racism, reproductive rights, Palestinian rights and more.
Take Me To Church and Foreigner’s God are scathing critiques of organized religion, specifically the Catholic Church and the colonization of Ireland.
Moment’s Silence is about oral sex but it’s ALSO about how that specific sexual act is often distorted to a show of power rather than that of love.
Nina Cried Power is an homage to various (mostly Black) civil rights activists from the US and Ireland and a call to follow their path.
Be criticizes anti-migrant policies and Trump and his ilk.
Jackboot Jump is about the global wave of fascism and about protest and resistance.
Swan Upon Leda is about reproductive rights and the violent colonial oppression of Ireland and Palestine.
Eat Your Young is about the ruinous way the 1%/capitalism and arms dealers prioritize short-term profit over everything else to the detriment of the youth/99%
Butchered Tongue is about Irish and other indigenous languages being suppressed and erased by imperial powers.
If any of the above surprised you, please, please delve deeper into Hozier’s music, you’re missing such an important part of his work.
I'm reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of 'making the desert bloom,' was done to 'de-Arabize' the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.
And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)
it goes against so much of what i stand for to share "palestinians are humans, they have hobbies, they have pets, they laugh and cry" kind of posts because i've spent so much of my life and career completely rejecting the notion that we should humanize ourselves, that we should ever be defensive, that we should entertain this racism at all
but it breaks my heart when i have to share them from people in gaza, who are using their five minutes of internet connection, their 25% of battery charge collected from a macguyvered car battery, emotionally exhausted, thirsty and hungry, sleeping in schools that have turned into refugee shelters and still making the time to say "please, i am human too, i am still alive, please fight for me" in english to appeal to the only people who have the power to help
i shared a tweet from a jjk artist in gaza i follow about a bts photocard being found in the middle of the rubble. even the love of anime and kpop and sports is no longer just a hobby, but an appeal to humanity. what was once a source of joy is now proof of life.
the worst part is that you won't find this content in arabic. palestinians don't post like this in arabic. but when they translate themselves, they recognize that they must humanize themselves first. it's an unspoken understanding of dehumanization, one that has dictated a whole region's understanding of the value of human life. in arabic they speak with dignity, with anger, with sorrow. in english, they appeal for their existence.
i share these posts not just because we have to reach everyone we can, because im being asked to and i will not refuse. but i also share them because they're evidence of how deep the racism has run. at what dehumanization leads to. of war crime after war crime. this too i will not forget.
reminder that palestinians do not need to meet certain criteria for you to care about them, i see so many posts where people are picking out the "good palestinians" we should be caring about because you believe that having something in common with them is needed to earn your sympathy. there is nothing on earth a civilian could possibly be doing to justify the actions taking place against the palestinian people, they do not have to align perfectly with your values to care. some of you are unwilling to let go of your islamophobia to care about human life
the men and boys are innocent too.
we cry "the innocent women and children" to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.
I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.
I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.
I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other's arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don't have a word for.
I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they're threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.
the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.
strap in kids for the hozier meta that nobody asked for and probably didn’t need
So the first thing you think of when you listen to Hozier’s song Run probably isn’t the colonisation of Ireland. In fact, most of you probably don’t think about Run at all- it’s an album-only bonus track with a 0 popularity score on iTunes. But I’m here today to tell you why that is WRONG and why this song is actually one of the most fascinating and complex tracks on his album.
So like a lot of Hozier’s songs, Run is overflowing with cryptic allusions and innuendo that are pretty recalcitrant to any attempts to make meaning of them. The song has a total of 2 comments on songmeanings.com, and the interpretations on genius.com are fairly basic and unfocused, which is fair enough because the lyrics aren’t even listed correctly. All of these speculations look at the song as a meditation on forbidden love. A fair interpretation…
Rare is this love, keep it covered I need you to run to me, run to me lover Run until you feel your lungs bleeding
… except that Hozier provides us with plenty of evidence that there is a much more concrete metaphor at work here. He gives us the biggest clue in this video from when he performed the song in Birmingham.
“[James Joyce] famously had a quote about Ireland in which he lovingly said […] that Ireland is the sow that eats its farrow. And so it’s the pig that eats her young, which I think he meant that in a loving way, but this next song is kind of about that, I suppose.” - Hozier 23/1/2015
So now we know the song isn’t about a woman, it’s about Ireland. Someone on songmeanings.com makes an interesting link to James Joyce’s book The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man where the quote is taken from, and its allusions to the Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell and his destructive affair.
“Parnell and Kitty O'Shea are the love that needs to be covered, because it was an adulterous affair. Which just points to the thrust of the song being the destructive nature of love, if for no other reason than because people aren’t willing to tolerate it.” -teaspill 8/2/2015
This is an interesting idea, which I can’t really comment on because I only wiki’d the book to pass my undergraduate literature class and consequently don’t know too much about it. What I DO know about is HISTORY. Lets break down the lyrics.
Oh but the farrow knows Her hungry eyes, her ancient soul It’s carried by the sneering menagerie
Know what it is to grow Beneath her sky, a punishing cold To slowly learn of her ancient misery
So we have the sow consuming her farrow (not pharaoh smh). He brings in the image of this “sneering menagerie”, and we get the sense of this brutal, unforgiving land full of savage animals. He’s setting the scene for us here. (Side note: I like the connection teaspill makes between the consuming of young and the actual disease consumption, which results in bleeding lungs. Nice.)
To be twisted by something A shame without a sin Like how she twisted the bog man After she married him
Here’s Hozier’s next clue: the bog man. People seem confused by this one- let me lay it down for you guys. Bog bodies are naturally embalmed corpses, sometimes over 3000 years old, that have been discovered in marshy and boggy areas in multiple European countries. Most notably: in Ireland.
Hozier seems to be referring to a particular bog man who was discovered in Clonycavan Ireland in 2003.
WARNING: The images of these mummies on the linked National Geographic article are graphic and sometimes very disturbing.
… he was naked, his head wrenched sharply to the left, his legs and lower arms missing, ripped away by the machine that had dug him from a bog… His head and trunk carried marks of deliberate violence, inflicted before he was cast into the mire: His nose had been broken, his skull shattered, his abdomen sliced open. While he lay in the bog, the weight of sodden sphagnum moss had flattened his crushed head, and the dark waters had tanned his skin to leather and dyed his hair orange red… - Karen E. Lange, 7/9/2007
“Twisted”, indeed. Hozier again likens love (in this case, marriage) to consumption, using the image of the bog man consumed by the earth as his metaphor. So what is the song really about? Is it using Ireland as a metaphor for love, or love as a metaphor for Ireland? Let’s dig further.
But in all the world There is one lover worthy of her With as many souls claimed as she
So now we have a new character, someone who is equally vicious towards their children. But wait- Hozier doesn’t specify just which souls this character has claimed, they might very well be other people’s children.
But for all he’s worth He still shatters always on her earth The cause of every tear she’d ever weep
Rushing ashore to meet her Foaming with loneliness White hands to fondle and beat her To give her his onliness
So this character has white hands with which he “fondle(s) and beat(s)” Ireland and is the source and cause of all of her troubles.
I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantations_of_Ireland
wonder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_Laws_(Ireland)
who this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Ireland
could possibly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Causes_and_contributing_factors
be.
There’s a whooole bunch of evidence that England is represented by the male figure in Hozier’s song. The fact that he rushes to her shore “foaming with loneliness” - another expression that likens sexual desire to England’s drive for colonial expansion, absorbing and consuming the countries of others into its empire like a cancer. “Shatter(ing) on her earth” could mean the violence of invasions and counter-rebellions, or it could refer to the policies enforced upon the Irish that had the effect, among others, of ravaging farmland and eventually contributing to the Great Famine of Ireland: literally breaking her earth. We already know Hozier is interested in colonialism, from his song Foreigner’s God which I may or may not also write a meta for at a later date. What we have now, then, is the story of Ireland’s relationship to England, which is only viewed through the prism of a destructive romantic relationship.
If this evidence isn’t enough to convince you that this song is about colonialism, then I don’t know what else to tell you, tbh.