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when james baldwin said “you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. it was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” I felt that big, big time
the whole thing with subtitles saying '(speaks foreign language)' is like. aside from logistical issues with outsourced transcription services, the solution is seemingly very obvious - just transcribe the foreign language itself. like, someone who hears the audio can, if they're familiar with the 'foreign' language, glean some understanding from it, even just from individual words that are loaned or widely known - and by transcribing it accurately, that isn't denied to those reading the subtitles. even if you can't understand anything, the experience of having a character respond 'Non, mais votre chien oui!' or ‘好久不见’ is better than having them respond '(speaks foreign language)'. just like when expletives are censored in subtitles but not in audio, it's a case of the richer, fuller experience being denied for a sanitised version compatible with a production pipeline that does not see subtitles as a method of genuinely conveying meaning, but as a regulatory requirement
shaking my head firmly while arrival (2016) is on in the living room to indicate that i don't agree with sinophobic messaging and shoddy depictions of linguistics
ik it’s important for boycott lists to be focused and limited in scale in order to make results more visible and avoid overwhelming consumers, but personally? i am a born hater and i’m always ready for another company to hate on. i don’t need a strategic objective i’ll do it just for the love of the game
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who are you when you are not watching tv or movies? when you aren't playing video games or reading a book or fanfiction or listening to music or whatever other kind of media that you engage with? who are you when your mind isn't in another world or story, when you are forced to sit with yourself and the only experience you have is your own sensorial life? can you define yourself outside of what you consume? who is that person? do you like them? can you bear it? can you bear it?
these are value-neutral questions and i am not inherently implying anything in them. what you read into it is for you to decide. consider why your immediate reaction to being asked who you are outside of the tv shows you watch is to become defensive or angry or uncomfortable. what might that say about how you feel about your life? why are you reading judgement into my questions? your answers are not for me, they are for you. do with them what you wish.
do u ever have one of those academic terms where you are not so much crawling to the finish line but lying down and hoping you will roll
I think one element of Israeli propaganda that a lot people are unintentionally aligning themselves with is the idea of Gaza as the main target of Israeli violence. During the "truce" even, so many people talking about how it was a "pause" even though people in the West Bank, Damascus, and Lebanon were still being killed by Israeli forces because the "truce" was only negotiated for Gaza (where it was also not adhered to). But as a Lebanese person with family in Lebanon and Palestinian loved ones, I need people to remember that Gaza is not a state. Gaza isn't a country. Israel won't destroy Gaza and call it a day as if Gaza is their main goal because it's not. It's "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free" because the free Palestine movement is about ending Israeli occupation of all Palestine and surrounding countries. It's not a reform movement about getting Israel to behave. It's an anti-colonial movement that aims to give ALL of Palestine back to Palestinians. Of course, the extreme violence Israel is enacting on Palestinians in Gaza is horrific. it's also obvious Israel is relying on the horror it's caused in Gaza to distract people from holding them to account for their ongoing violence in the rest of Palestine, as well as Lebanon, Syria and the Congo. Israel divided Palestine up so the world would forget it, don't be party to that. Talk about Gaza, the West Bank, Jenin, Hebron because it's all Palestine and all of it must be free. End the occupation. End the apartheid state of Israel.
Sigourney Weaver and the Alien Queen during filming of Aliens (1986)
Nona the Ninth reread absolutely destroyed me so here's a bunch of stuff I associate with her
@arthoesunshine / Caitlyn Siehl / @chloeinletters / "Two Earthlings" by John Brosio / Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea (2008) gif by @bunneis / @marymagdalenestan on Instagram / 20020 by Jon Bois / @yunawinter on Twitter / Vladimir Yazdovsky
What's new(ish) in the settler-colonial state of the US is that a series of bills have been passed in the House (the Baby Senate as I like to say) and are on their way to the Senate that make it harder to voice support for Palestinians while also making sure your direct taxes aid the genocide in Gaza.
These bills affirm the US's stance on the settler-colonial Zionist Entity and the implicit ties that the government has with Israel and really — just goes to show you how Israel is just one big base for American Imperialism.
Anyways, there's still time to call your senate and tell them that you don't want these bills that only further spiral the US into fascism so even if you think it might not do much — it's important that we document our dissent in official sources. And while you're at it — call your congressperson and tell them that if they voted for this you're not voting for them next election. If they voted against the bills, still call your congresspeople and tell them you support their decision to vote against these bills.
Here are the bills:
📍Resolution: HR 6126
Resolution Name: Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act Description: Gives $14.3 Billion To Israel From The IRS (Taxes You Pay). Like straight up. Just takes it from an IRS project, which used our tax dollars to begin with, to give to Israel "defense." Link to check summary: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr6126
📍Resolution: HR 798
Resolution Name: "Condemning the support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations at institutions of higher education, which may lead to the creation of a hostile environment for Jewish students, faculty, and staff." Description: Will Penalize Students On American College Campuses For Supporting Palestine. This includes "Free Palestine" Protests as according to Rep Owens who introduced the bill (Click). Link to check who voted: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/118-2023/h578
📍Resolution: HR 3266
Resolution Name: "Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act" Description: They will be examining Palestinian education materials to see if it promotes "hate" or "violence" (aka are they teaching their children to become murderers??). Will inevitably require Revision Of Text Books In Palestinian Schools To Portray The Occupation In A Positive Light. Link to summary: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr3266
📍Resolution: HR 340
Resolution Name: "The Hamas International Financing Prevent Action" Description: Claims to stop financial support for "terrorist" organizations but considering that Gaza's government is run by Hamas, then this would mean Gaza will receive absolutely no aid and donating to people in Gaza could get you in legal trouble. Link to summary: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr340
There's a button for most of these bills that allows you to contact your representative directly. Please do take the time to contact them — while many of this isn't especially new to Palestinians, the difference is now that we have a larger power in numbers than we did in the past. Please make sure to advocate for you Palestinian comrades in the US whenever possible! Help us Free Palestine one step at a time!
Call scripts for calling your senator and house representative under the cut
Senator call script:
Hi, my name is [name here] and I am calling to voice my opposition to H.R. 6126: Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, H.R. 3266: Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act, and H.R. 340: Hamas International Financing Prevention Act. As my senator, I hope [Senator's name] will vote against these bills. We must make our opposition to Israel's genocidal campaign on Gaza and the West Bank as loud and clear as possible by not providing them with additional funding or engaging with efforts to further limit people's ability to legally and nonviolently pose opposition to this genocide.
House Representative call script*:
*Since the House votes have already passed, this script is meant to be modified based on how your Representative voted. See resolution list at the bottom of this to find out how your Rep. voted on each resolution.
Hi, my name is [name here] and I wanted to call to express my disappointment with how [Represent name] voted on [H.R.s that they voted yea on]. (If Representative voted nay on any H.R.s: I also wanted to thank [him/her] for [his/her] nay vote on [H.R.s that they voted nay on].) (If you overall displeased with how your Representative is voting: Overall I do not feel that [Representative name] has been doing a good job of representing my will as [his/her] constituent. I want to see my elected officials pose opposition to Israel's genocidal campaign on Gaza and the West Bank by not providing them with additional funding or engaging with efforts to further limit people's ability to legally and nonviolently pose opposition to this genocide.) (If you overall pleased with how your Representative is voting: Overall I do feel that [Representative name] has been doing a good job of representing my will as [his/her] constituent. I want to see my elected officials continue to pose opposition to Israel's genocidal campaign on Gaza and the West Bank by not providing them with additional funding or engaging with efforts to further limit people's ability to legally and nonviolently pose opposition to this genocide.)
See how your Representative voted on:
H.R. 6126: Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act
H.R. 798: Condemning the support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations at institutions of higher education
H.R. 340: Hamas International Financing Prevention Act
H.R. 888: Reaffirming the State of Israel's right to exist
(H.R. 3266: Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act was held by voice vote so there is no record of individual votes available.)
hate it when there's a book where the premise is good but the execution is limp dicked because now i have to read it and grind my teeth over how good it could have been the entire time. look what you've done to me.
yet another excerpt from ilan pappé and noam chomsky's 2015 book on palestine, and i'll have to emphasize, this is from 2015, regarding events that occured in 2014, not october of 2023:
"When the current episode of sadism is called off, Israel hopes to be free to pursue its criminal policies in the Occupied Territories without interference, and with the US support it has enjoyed in the past: military, economic, and diplomatic; and also ideological, by framing the issues in conformity to Israeli doctrines. Gazans will be free to return to the norm in their Israeli-run prison, while in the West Bank Palestinians can watch in peace as Israel dismantles what remains of their possessions. That is likely the outcome if the United States maintains its decisive and virtually unilateral support for Israeli crimes and its rejection of the long-standing international consensus on diplomatic settlement. But the future will be quite different if the United States withdraws that support."
this is what happened in 2014 and many many many many times before, and this is what they expect to repeat in 2023. the united states will waltz in with a ceasefire proposal, which israel will accept as long as they can expand their control over palestine (which you can already foresee with netanyahu's talk of "security responsibility" over gaza) and continue their joint objective, which is to take over and colonize as much of palestine with as few palestinians in it as possible through sustained ethnic cleansing, to secure the oil reserves off the coast of gaza, and to keep the middle east in constant war, which is both financially profitable for both warmongering states as well as fitting for their white supremacist ideology
anyone who opposes the ongoing genocide against palestinians needs to understand that there is no israel without the united states and that there is no possible "peace process" from the hands of the united states because they are the ones supporting and enabling the genocide in the first place
it is so fucking evil and bleak to conduct a military invasion, invite settlers to live on the land you just seized immediately afterwards, and then when the people you invaded fight back cry and whimper about the civilians they're endangering
Who up greasing they xeno?
What we do know from history is that Israel does not want to resolve the Palestinian question diplomatically, to say nothing of the Palestinian demands for decolonization. They will not integrate Palestinians as citizens, because that would disrupt the Jewish demographic majority. Nor do they do not want to recognize Palestinian sovereignty and give them their own state. Instead, the solution has been to architect a system that contains Palestinians violently in open-air prisons across 224 ghettos in the West Bank and one huge ghetto in the Gaza Strip, and to make sure that Palestinians never have the capacity to protest and to resist. Get rid of as many as possible and then put as many in cages. And now all we’re hearing them say is to put them in tighter cages. The support for decimating Palestinians and removing them en masse, in many ways, fulfills what has been the major calculus for Israel: how it can get rid of an entire population while not appearing as if it’s committing outright genocide.
Noura Erakat, “The Crimes Are Plenty”
